GENESIS: FACT OR FAIRYTALE? Part 2

The Beginning – A Very Good Place to Start – Week 2

Steve Gallimore | pastorsteve@tvcc.us

January 12, 2020

Cite Ken Ham – The Creation Museum & The Ark Encounter

But in your hearts honor Christ the Lord as holy, always being prepared to make a defense to anyone who asks you for a reason for the hope that is in you; yet do it with gentleness and respect, 1 Peter 3:15 (ESV)

If the foundations are destroyed, what can the righteous do?” Psalm 11:3 (ESV)

“Did God really say?” Genesis 3:1

But I am afraid that as the serpent deceived Eve by his cunning, your thoughts will be led astray from a sincere and pure devotion to Christ. 2 Corinthians 11:3 (ESV)

And God saw everything that he had made, and behold, it was very good. And there was evening and there was morning, the sixth day. Genesis 1:31 (ESV)

16 And the LORD God commanded the man, “You are free to eat from any tree of the garden, 17 but you must not eat from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, for on the day you eat from it, you will certainly die.” Genesis 2:16-17 (CSB)

The LORD God made clothing from skins for the man and his wife, and he clothed them. Genesis 3:21 (CSB)

According to the law almost everything is purified with blood, and without the shedding of blood there is no forgiveness. Hebrews 9:22 (CSB)

For the life of the flesh is in the blood, and I have given it to you upon the altar to make atonement for your souls; for it is the blood that makes atonement for the soul.’ Leviticus 17:11 (NKJV)

For it is impossible for the blood of bulls and goats to take away sins. Hebrews 10:4 (ESV)

29 And God said, “Behold, I have given you every plant yielding seed that is on the face of all the earth, and every tree with seed in its fruit. You shall have them for food. 30 And to every beast of the earth and to every bird of the heavens and to everything that creeps on the earth, everything that has the breath of life, I have given every green plant for food.” And it was so. Genesis 1:29-30 (ESV)

Every moving thing that lives shall be food for you. And as I gave you the green plants, I give you everything. Genesis 9:3 (ESV)

It will produce thorns and thistles for you, and you will eat the plants of the field. Genesis 3:18 (CSB)

If you confess with your mouth, “Jesus is Lord,” and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved. Romans 10:9 (CSB)

For you are saved by grace through faith, and this is not from yourselves; it is God’s gift? Ephesians 2:8 (CSB)

“Direction, not intention, determines our destination.”
~ Andy Stanley ~

Life is on a path (direction) headed to a destination.
• What I am doing today was shaped by what I did yesterday.
• Who I become tomorrow will be informed by what I do today.
• I am writing a scene now that will influence the final scene.

Train up a child in the way he should go; even when he is old he will not depart from it. Proverbs 22:6 (ESV)

So God can point to us in all future ages as examples of the incredible wealth of his grace and kindness toward us, as shown in all he has done for us who are united with Christ Jesus. Ephesians 2:7 (NLT)