Sermons on Genesis (III) - No More Chaos, Void or Darkness Now (I)

1. God Shapes Us into The Stars of the Heavens (Genesis 1:14-19)

The New Life Mission — Fri, 04 Nov 2022 06:21:00 +0000

Although we may be powerless and because the Word of God has power, when the Word falls to the ground it bears fruit without fail. Further, because the Word of God is alive, we can see for ourselves that it is the same today and tomorrow, and forever unchanging. Unlike the words of man, God’s Word never changes, for it is ever faithful. When God speaks, He fulfills exactly according to His Words. For the Word of God has power, so when God said, “Let there be light,” there was light, and when He said, “Let there be a greater light and a lesser light,” it was fulfilled just as He had commanded.

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2. The Sabbath Day Signifies The Blessing That God Has Blotted Out All of Our Sins (Genesis 2:1-3)

The New Life Mission — Fri, 04 Nov 2022 06:07:00 +0000

In six days, God created the universe and everything in it. And on the seventh day, He rested for He had completed all His works of creation. God blessed and sanctified this day, the seventh day. Today’s Scripture passage is speaking of the seventh day of the Creation. After finishing His works, God rested on the seventh day. We are told that this day does not belong to the days of creation but is separated as God’s own day.
God created us humans in His image so that He may adopt us as His own children. The fact that God created us humans in His exact image implies the salvation through Jesus Christ. God accomplished salvation by completing us humans in Jesus Christ. That God rested on the seventh day means that God had finished His works of salvation. How then did God complete all His works of salvation?

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3. The Seventh Day, When God Rested after Creating the Universe and All Things in It (Genesis 2:1-3)

The New Life Mission — Fri, 04 Nov 2022 06:06:00 +0000

I give thanks to our God for delivering us from all our sins through His endless Grace and Mercy. Today I would like to share with you about ‘the spiritual meaning of God’s rest on the seventh day’ after He had finished all things in the heavens and the earth. Today’s Scripture passage tell us that God rested on the seventh day after He had completed all things in all their vast array including us humans in six days. This tells us that God the Father had accomplished all of His plans through His Son, Jesus Christ.

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4. God Blessed and Sanctified The Sabbath (Genesis 2:1-3)

The New Life Mission — Fri, 04 Nov 2022 06:02:00 +0000

God worked on His creation until the sixth day, and after having completed it all, He rested on the seventh day. He rested because He had fulfilled everything He had wished. So, He blessed this day and sanctified it. When the day’s work is all done, we also rest in peace in the evening. Likewise, God rested after making the whole universe and mankind, because He had fulfilled all His plans.
God made all things until the sixth day and rested on the seventh day. Based on evolutionist interpretation of geologic strata, some people deny that God made the heavens and the earth in six days, but these six days are according to God’s time, different from six days as conceived by mankind based on the earth’s rotation. We have to always interpret the Word of the Bible from God’s perspective.

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5. God Has Given True Rest to Mankind (Genesis 2:1-3)

The New Life Mission — Fri, 04 Nov 2022 06:01:00 +0000

From the first day of creation to the sixth day, God made the heavens and the earth, and the universe and its entire array; every plant, every fish, every beast, every animal that creeps on the earth, and lastly mankind. God created everything in the heavens and the earth. And on the seventh day when He completed His work, He rested and blessed this day. This means that God finished everything on the seventh day. Today’s Scripture passage tells us that God created all the realms of both Heaven and the earth, and fulfilled His every intention.
What is important here is not just knowing that God created the universe like this, but to believe so. While many people know that God created the world, they do not necessarily believe in it. Knowing and believing are entirely different to each other. What we need, and what gives us life, is faith, not knowledge.

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6. How Did God Make Us? (Genesis 2:1-3)

The New Life Mission — Fri, 04 Nov 2022 06:00:00 +0000

After making us all (you and me), creating the universe, and completing all His work of creation, God then rested on the seventh day. When God created us, did He make us as perfect human beings from the beginning? How did God form us? Genesis 2:7 says, “The LORD God formed man of the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living being.” God made man out of dust. This means that God made him a weak being. We have to latch onto this. As a pile of dust before God, we are so weak, so worthless, so full of sinful nature, and therefore so prone to fall into sin and follow the flesh—we have to realize that God made us as beings like this, but has saved us to be glorified as His children.

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7. What Are We Deceived by? (Genesis 3:1-7)

The New Life Mission — Fri, 04 Nov 2022 05:56:00 +0000

The sister who gave her testimony at this evening’s gathering said, “No one can take away the peace God has given me through the gospel of the water and the Spirit, nor can I ever lose this peace given by the Lord, no matter what hardship should befall me.” We go through many trials while living in this world. I too have gone through many tribulations in my life. Obviously, many of these tribulations were physical, but they were nothing compared to the spiritual agony I suffered because of my heart’s sins.

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8. We Can Never Be Saved From Sin by Any Man-made Religious Faith (Genesis 4:1-4)

The New Life Mission — Fri, 04 Nov 2022 05:41:00 +0000

In Genesis chapter two, the Lord God commanded the first man Adam, saying, “Of every tree of the garden you may freely eat; but of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil you shall not eat, for in the day that you eat of it you shall surely die.” In the middle of the garden, there also was a tree of life, and it is of this tree of life that God wanted mankind to eat and live forever.
However, in Genesis chapter three, the serpent came to Eve and tempted her to eat the fruit of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, saying, “If you eat from that forbidden tree of the knowledge of good and evil, you will become like God.” It was Satan’s trick trying to destroy God’s justice and love. Adam and Eve had been living in the Garden of Eden, but, in the end, as they were deceived by the serpent and ate the fruit forbidden by God, they were driven out of God’s garden.

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9. Eternal Salvation Foreshadowed in the Sacrifice of Atonement (Genesis 4:1-4)

The New Life Mission — Fri, 04 Nov 2022 05:39:00 +0000

Today, focusing on the passage that says, “Abel also brought of the firstborn of his flock and of their fat,” I would like to speak to you about our eternal salvation that was foreshadowed in the sacrifice of atonement. Of the offerings that Cain and Abel brought, God only accepted the offering of Abel. Why did He do so? Had Abel not offered the firstborn of his flock and their fat, God would not have accepted his offering. This means that when we want to come out to God, we shouldn’t just come out with only the rituals of worship, but we must bring our faith in what God has done for us. In other words, we must bring our faith in the salvation of atonement, in the love of the remission of sins. Only then can God accept this offering and pour the Holy Spirit on us.

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10. Spiritual Offering versus Carnal Offering (Genesis 4:1-5)

The New Life Mission — Fri, 04 Nov 2022 05:37:00 +0000

Through the offerings of Abel and Cain, in today’s Scripture passage we learn in detail about spiritual faith and carnal faith. In other words, God is explaining to us in exact terms who among today’s Christians are the ones that have the true spiritual faith before God, and who are the ones that have carnal faith.
While Cain worshiped God with an offering of the fruit of the ground, Abel offered the firstborn of his flock and their fat. That Abel here offered the firstborn of his flock and their fat means that Abel worshiped God by placing his faith in God’s Word and His righteousness. The offering that God wants from us is the offering that is given by believing in the baptism of Jesus Christ, who is the firstborn of the flock and in His blood of sacrifice. In the Old Testament, we consistently discover the sacrifice of atonement that was offered with a lamb.

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11. We Must Believe in God Based on His Word (Genesis 4:1-5)

The New Life Mission — Fri, 04 Nov 2022 05:36:00 +0000

Genesis chapter four describes the very first sacrifice that mankind offered to God. Adam and Eve, the first ancestors of mankind, were driven out of the Garden of Eden after sinning against God, and they gave birth to two children, one named Cain and the other Abel. Eventually, these two sons came to have occupations, and one became a farmer, while the other became a shepherd.
It then came to pass that these two men brought offerings to God. Cain, a farmer, brought the fruit of the ground as his offering, while Abel, a stockman, sacrificed the firstborn of the flock and their fat as his offering to God. However, while God accepted Abel’s offering, He rejected Cain’s offering. As a result, the Bible says that Cain got very angry and his countenance fell.

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12. Let Us Live as Shepherds (Genesis 4:1-5)

The New Life Mission — Fri, 04 Nov 2022 05:32:00 +0000

After being driven out of the Garden of Eden, Adam slept with his wife Eve, and she conceived a baby. It is written, “She conceived and bore Cain, and said, ‘I have acquired a man from the LORD.’ Then she bore again, this time his brother Abel. Now Abel was a keeper of sheep, but Cain was a tiller of the ground.” What did Eve say after giving birth to Cain? She said, “I have acquired a man from the LORD.” Eve was very happy to give birth to Cain and see how healthy the baby was. The name Cain means “attainment” or “possession.”

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13. Only Jesus Christ Was The Perfect Propitiation That Could Blot out The Sins of the World (Genesis 4:1-7)

The New Life Mission — Fri, 04 Nov 2022 05:30:00 +0000

God had given Adam and Eve two children named Cain and Abel, and as these children grew up, Cain became a farmer and Abel became a shepherd. And it came to pass that these two men brought offerings to God: Abel offered the firstborn of his flock and their fat, and Cain offered the fruit of the ground. However, while God accepted Abel’s offering, He did not accept Cain and his offering. Why then did God accept Abel’s offering but reject Cain’s offering?

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14. We Must Unite Our Hearts with the Righteousness of God (Genesis 4:1-7)

The New Life Mission — Fri, 04 Nov 2022 05:29:00 +0000

Adam and Eve, the first ancestors of humankind, shared bed and bore a child of the flesh, and the name of their first son was Cain. After the birth of the first son, Adam showed his faith by saying, “I have acquired a man from the Lord,” and naming that son, Cain. We are able to see that Adam acknowledged God and believed in the fact that God had given him the child.
Then, they had another child, and the child’s name was Abel. And so, after a long period of time, each of them came to hold jobs: Abel was a keeper of sheep, and Cain was a tiller of the ground. And as it came to pass, they came to offer sacrifice to God. Cain gathered and offered the fruit of the ground to the Lord, but Abel offered the firstborn of his flock and of their fat. These two people had offered sacrifice to God, and we shall look and see which of these two sacrificial offerings was proper to God.

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15. Who Is Abel and Who Is Cain before God? (Genesis 4:1-24)

The New Life Mission — Fri, 04 Nov 2022 05:17:00 +0000

First of all, God taught Adam and Eve the gospel of righteousness by clothing them with tunics made of skin. This gospel is the Truth in which Adam and Eve would be granted salvation from all their sins by faith. Abel was a man who had inherited his parents’ true faith. Therefore, Abel’s faith also was approved by God when he offered the firstborn of his flock and their fat as sacrifice of faith to Him. Then, what sort of people are the seeds of Abel from a spiritual perspective? Descendants of Abel are those who offer sacrifice of faith, the faith of believing in the righteousness of God. These are the people whose faiths have been accepted by God and are those who have received the spiritual blessings of Heaven.

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