Published: May 14, 2023 | Speaker: Tim Freitag | Series: God as Creator - Part 1 | Scripture: Genesis 1:1
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all right I'm going to begin a new session this
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specifically focusing in on this aspect of God as we see it revealed and in fact used by the writers of scripture as we go through here
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why why would we study this why would we study it now I started thinking about some of this in relation to some of the aspects we saw in Exodus especially when we think about the order
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in which we'll say this carefully we have a order of scripture the order in which the books are arranged in our Bible which is
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roughly chronological um but we also know as we read through those scripture stories we've talked about the fact that Moses is the one through whom the pentateuch was written
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and revealed to God's people meaning sometime in that post-exodus period for the emerging nation of Israel
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was when Moses was given this to record to write down to deliver to the people and so it was in that context of the emerging nation of Israel
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moving out of captivity in Egypt into that Wilderness that it is revealed to them it is written down for them it is that timing that the creation account as
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we read it in Genesis is first recorded for them as we have it in our scriptures we did touch very briefly in our Exodus study on the idea of
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the way those very famous Miracles or judgments or plagues as they're sometimes typed in Egypt were used by God to demonstrate his
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sovereignty his authority over all of those aspects those aspects in Egypt both as a rebuke to pharaoh as a punishment for his stubbornness but
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also as a witness to Israel that their God did indeed have all of this in his hand in his control so we'll touch on that more as we go forward but
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in short in short a better understanding of God as creator gives us a better understanding of his nature in this respect and it touches many related aspects of theology
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very likely we will at least briefly talk about um some of the entailed aspects of literal creation
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because I'm sure many of you are are aware and have had opportunity to talk with folks about that literal creation does impact various other parts of theology if man is not
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literally created in the image of God Federal headship Jesus's substitutionary atonement these things are impossible these things cannot follow on from an
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evolutionary concept of the origin of man man exists in that sense only on a sliding scale as some sort of advanced Beast um this relates of course to our own
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reflection of the image of God as we look at ourselves as Christians and we examine what are our what is true about us and what is required of us we are reflections of the
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image of God and in our walk in our sanctification we are told to exercise that to be more like our father and so as we look at him as our creator
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hopefully we will see more of that impacts our our understanding of Redemptive history and narrative
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I want to talk a little bit for a moment about some of that aspect of things we look at ourselves you know when we talk about scripture and we say creation and we talk about God as Creator what are the sort of major places that come
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to mind I mean one of them is hopefully very obvious I've mentioned it several times already not a trick question hey Genesis hey Genesis all right so Genesis 1.
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yeah so Colossians is in there I'm not going to spell Colossians right off the top of my head for some reason I don't know I got all lost it's roughly correct um there is of course John one right and
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some of you were here for Chuck's study on the Theology of John and we probably won't rehash all of that but the incredible theology that John builds into John 1 as he ties the Sun the word
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the word incarnate back to that word of creation the speech as God speaks creation into being how much all that's tied together in in that short little
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section of those first couple of verses of John in that prologue Jenny when you post the question why would we study as creator that was how
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he chose to reveal himself first that's a good point it is one of the
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when you read the record of scripture chronologically it's there at the beginning in in Genesis 1. it's the first aspect of his nature that he reveals to man in that regard we think about this in relation to
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ourselves I'm sure you probably have come up with some things as we see them you know we we read about ourselves as the new creation don't we that is as Believers as those who have been born
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again or born from above as is the literal phrase the New Creation in Christ well if we're going to understand ourselves as a new creation we probably ought to understand what it means for God to create for him to be the Creator
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related to this um I was reading a book by G.K Beale this week and he had this to say in his own research into some of these things he
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said in particular I've seen more clearly than ever that the themes of Eden the temple God's glorious presence new creation and the mission of the church are ultimately facets of the same
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reality it is my hope that a Biblical theological perspective will provide greater fuel to the fire of the church's motivation to fulfill its mission in the world what is the church's mission
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what is the church's Mission what are what what is the church called to do say it again spread the word of God I would argue that the that the Church itself is for the believer right
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so if we go back to what is often thrown out is the Great Commission right but what does that specifically
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make disciples and I would argue that understanding making disciples making disciples encapsulates all of those things that Ely was talking about because it's got all of those stages in it right
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making disciples involves at some point conversion you're not going to be a disciple if you haven't been converted but it also very much entails the teaching of the church it involves the
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things that the pastors and teachers are called to do in the church what do we read that the pastors and teachers are called to do in the church
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like I'm going to read from Ephesians 4. he gave some as Apostles some as prophets some evangelists some as pastors and teachers there go all those things for what purpose he gave all of these for
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the equipping of the Saints to the work of Ministry for the building up of the body of Christ until we all attain to the unity of the faith and to the knowledge of the Son of
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God to a mature man to the measure of the stature which belongs to the fullness of Christ as a result we are no longer to be children tossed here and there by waves
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and carried about by every wind of Doctrine or by trickery of people by craftiness and deceitful scheming but speaking in the truth and love we are to grow up into all aspects into him who is
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the head that is Christ from whom the whole body being fitted and held together by what every joint supplies according to a proper working of every individual part causes the
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growth of the Body for the building up of itself in love so we come back here again it's an Act of Creation it's an act of building it's an act of establishing and creating and growing
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the church you see it will oftentimes we see people talk about this oh well the church's mission is to go out and convert people in spreading the word of God and yet we read from from Paul's own
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um in First Corinthians when he writes in First Corinthians 3 he says what then is Apollos what is Paul servants through whom you believed even as the lord gave
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opportunity to each one I planted Apollos watered but God was causing the growth so neither the one who plants nor the one who Waters is anything but God who causes the growth now the one who
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plants and the one who waters are one but each will receive his own reward according to his own labor for we are God's fellow workers you are God's field God's Building now sometimes this next
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piece I think people get a little bit caught up in the idea of the the Rewards or the way the work will be judged in the last day and that's in here but listen carefully to the aspect of
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building that Paul is describing here according to the grace of God which was given to me like a wise master builder I laid a foundation and another is
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building on it but each person must be careful how he builds on it each person each person in the church every member is called to this service of building
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the church each person must be careful how he builds on it for no one can lay a foundation other than the one which is laid that is Christ Jesus now if anyone
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Builds on the foundation with gold silver precious stones Uh Wood hay or straw each one's work will become evident in the day we'll show it because it is to be revealed
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with fire and the fire itself will test the quality of each one's work if anyone's work which he has built on it remains he will receive a reward or if anyone's work is burned up he will
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suffer loss but he himself will be saved yet only as Through Fire do you not know that you are a temple of God and that the spirit of God dwells in you if anyone destroys the temple of God
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God will destroy that person for the temple of God is Holy and that is what you are you are so when we come back to what it is to be the mission of the church or what it is to walk in a Christian Life each and
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every one of us is called to this every member ministry as we've said it before every one of us has a responsibility in building the church and so as we go
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through scripture and we see God creating and we see what is said about him bear in mind this mission of the
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that each of us has something to contribute to this aspect it is throughout the scripture and we're going to come back to this again I'm sort of putting the end first so that we help us understand why I'm even bothering to go down this road in the first place
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there is a calling there is a responsibility in the Christian Life to do this and it's the work of the pastors and teachers to equip the Saints to this end to do this work and so as we go
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through life um you know we have this Paul saying here in uh First Corinthians be careful how you build on it each one must be careful the way in which he builds on this Foundation you see these
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um you know Paul uses the planting metaphor and we have it in in Christ's own Parables the uh Parables of the Planters and Sowers you know putting the seed out there in the various types of fields and the way it responds
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and these days we have you know we don't need to hand broadcasting like we had in uh in his metaphors here we've got a 250 000 horsepower Lamborghini tractor with
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a mechanical hydraulic drill behind it we can sow hundreds of Acres at a time and just Heap those stones at the foundation with no shaping yeah that building will hold up in the
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last day last day okay so we go in this we see this sort of industrialized conversion process that's not being a careful Builder and so when we look at that aspect of Make
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Disciples it comes all the way back to the work of the Saints is to shape and to um carefully put the stones together in
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a way that is constructive in a way that is cohesive in a way that helps them knit together into that fullness of Christ that's not slap Dash it's not
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um you know again sort of industrialized it comes back to that care that love that patience all of those fruits of the spirit that we read are necessary to be a careful Builder
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so the mission of the church then is to make disciples to glorify Christ by doing this to build up the Saints to
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encourage and comfort its members there should be no division in the body its parts should have equal concern for each other Paul tells us again in First
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um Jesus as our Chief Cornerstone um you know we see all of those things again in Ephesians in him we're being built together into a dwelling in which
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God Lives by his spirit that Christ designed his church to Showcase his glory and his family on this Earth as a witness
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we read here I have a quote from WC Robinson in his dictionary of theology he says our our Lord Jesus Christ is the Son about which
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the whole mission of the church result revolves public worship is the encounter of the Risen Redeemer with his people evangelism is calling men to the Savior
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publishing abroad the law of God is proclaiming his lordship Christian nurture is feeding his lambs and disciplining his flock ministering to the needs of men is continuing the work
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of the great physician the church's mission is to present Christ to the world while he presents the same to the same world his rescuing work in and through his church
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so this this rounded complex aspect of all of those things
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again let's talk briefly about our sort of way we're approaching these things unless there's a question or comment and cut anybody off if there was
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Okay so we're looking ahead to the end of the study the mission of the church and how we fit into this but we also want to do these things we always approach theology from the Lesser to the greater right
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there are things like Parables there are life experiences there are things that God gives us where we can see in our own experience and recognize truths about God in them but we were always very careful not to
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sit for the portrait we paint of God not to recreate God in our image but to work from what he has revealed of himself down to our level yes that's how
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we approach our our Theology and our understanding of it first we look at God and what is true of him what he says about himself and we work our way down to what is true about our our life and
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our situation and place in which we are providentially established
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we also recognize I hope in um examining various parts of scripture I did it wrong I did it backwards I wrote it backwards I said it right I
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wrote it backwards and then we go from the greater to the Lesser I'm sorry thank you for catching
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you would think I know by now not to talk and write at the same time but I still haven't figured it out so yes examining our hermeneutic how we're approaching various parts of
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scripture as we do this and I talked about this a little bit I think when we we did job at one point but we recognize of course as we're told in in the New Testament that all things
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were written for our instruction right the entirety of scripture is there has some basis of instruction for us it is partly our responsibility When
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approaching them to figure out what that part of that instruction part of that investigation is understanding their time their place their context we
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already talked this morning about the the revelation of the pentateuch to the emerging nation of Israel when it was at its very sort of infancy its founding coming out of Egypt and it is
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established and and I think I will hopefully demonstrate as we go forward in the study part of what we read in Genesis is actually sort of polemical for the children of Israel to understand
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in contrast in contrast to those gods that were over them in Egypt and it's to stand for them throughout their history as a bulwark
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against idolatry unfortunately they're really good at idolatry throughout their history up until the Babylonian exile but um nevertheless that is part of its place
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in its context we recognize also that books and various passages have and in some cases had
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a primary purpose so there are certain aspects for an example I'm sure you can think many off the top of your head I'm not going to list them
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for you for you prophecies concerning the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ well their primary purpose in prophesying the coming Messiah has been
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fulfilled because the Messiah came and yet they continue to have a secondary purpose in our instruction for seeing those things seeing God's Providence for understanding better
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about our savior all those things are entailed on them and good and worthy for us to investigate but we're not going to read them and say boy I can't wait to see the Messiah that is prophesied here
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because as the writer of Hebrews tells us he came in the fullness of Revelation am I making sense you following me there's some furrowed eyebrows here so I'm trying to make sure
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everybody's following my hermeneutics Okay so Okay so that said no book of the Bible no passage is entirely closed to us and
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without instruction because we read all of these things are for our instruction it contains everything that we need for life and health and godliness right and so some of those books and passages
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have fulfilled their primary reason but all of them have things to say all of them have instruction for us and what I'd like us to do as we work through this is is talk a little bit
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about the order or ways of seeing Redemptive history Redemptive history so one of the things we've talked about before is covenant theology
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covenant theology is a particular way of looking at the timeline of Redemptive history so if you go you know and put up a timeline on the board
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give myself plenty of Running Room here okay we're gonna put I'm going to put a cross here by the way this is to scale so if you want to figure out this distance and
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then extrapolate I've figured it out now
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okay so there is covenant theology in some versions of covenant theology you actually get an adamic Covenant that's sketched out for you
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some people like to argue about whether or not that's truly a covenant I'm not getting into that this morning you have Noah somewhere in here I'm going to run out of room real quick on a
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you have the abrahamic Covenant and that one actually probably goes a lot further than that than that in terms of its covering of what IT
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right you understand what I'm getting at we we see the various covenants until we get what then is called the New Covenant
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and you know fill in the blank with the other covenants according to your preferred numerology um that's a way of approaching understanding the timeline of Redemptive history right covenantal theology looks
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at the timeline of God's Redemptive history through the various covenants it's not invalid to look for his covenants and look at it that way we've presented here a number of times
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what I think is a slightly preferable alternative to understanding those which is promissory which is we have the promise of the seed of woman made way back in Genesis and that promise
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goes right on through building an intensity as it goes until it becomes this sort of major Crescendo
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here of course at the cross and then you work into that New Covenant is the outflow of that promise right so there's another I'm going to actually write it on the board here
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and we will probably talk about that a little bit as we go through because there are parts of creation that very much impact that there's another way of looking at Redemptive history we've talked about this one a little bit and we talked about it in relation to Exodus
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which is the movements of people so you don't get a lot of movement in this early part but then boy After the flood we move around a lot and then we have Abraham's travels
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and then we have you know we talk about it politically we have the Exodus
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we have the Kings we have exile right so we can see a bunch of political movements in the people of God as God providentially shuffles them around and
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moves them around towards his own end I left out the wandering in the wilderness and you put that into the Exodus right there's another way of seeing looking at the timeline and saying okay and now of course we come to here and we have
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oh the Earth
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Nation right and in some versions of looking at this it's not until you can put a big check mark by this do we get to bring this down
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that is one of the ways that way of looking at the Timeline is deployed as a theory of eschatology I'm not saying it's mine I'm just saying you see this when so I'm trying to talk about framing
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how we frame Redemptive history and what are we doing with it because of it what I'm proposing to do in this study is look at this same timeline of Redemptive history
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but talk about it through the lens of God as creator and so there's a bunch of pieces of that and you say well what you know okay we have creation and we have the
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consummation those are your two points
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but clever among you which is all of you we'll probably have noticed by now I've already brought up Exodus a couple of times this morning what happens at the end of Exodus or really the
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beginning of Leviticus God dwells with his people so time and again throughout the timeline of Redemptive history we have a concern of
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we see in Eden him walking with man in the garden the garden he's there he's there and yet we've immediately find this Rifts we have this issue right up until this time this time at which point we get the Tabernacle
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comes in here
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and I really didn't leave myself enough I said it was to scale and then I drew it all wrong because now you need to put in
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Temple you need to put in a second oh it's not that bad actually
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okay then we get over here somewhere 80 70 with the destruction of the Temple okay but we also had this moment of which 80 70 is sort of a an entailed or related aspect because
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the new creation actually begins here
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morning out of out of um First Corinthians what did he say there that God now dwells with his people by his Spirit or through his Spirit right and so we have
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spirit and yet we are still looking for this
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Theology of God as a Creator we're taking for granted that we're not talking about
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that's a very good point because actually this is one of the reasons I want to address this as a whole because I think there's a again be careful how I say things I have seen evidence not here so much but
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evidence of people sometimes thinking about it in just that way oh God created in the beginning now we're done with God as the Creator right he created in the beginning and now the creation exists and not until there do we have to worry
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about that again but the point is that God is constantly intervening among his people and he is constantly seeking where to dwell where
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his name will dwell and he is constantly building that and so as we read Paul and his assertion of our responsibility to build that Holy edifice that church
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wherein God will dwell we're an extension of all of these things that we're going to look at through the study here and frankly
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again humanly speaking nothing is difficult for God but humanly speaking it sure looks like God goes to a lot of trouble to make sure he can dwell among his
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people I mean you look at how much he goes through with Israel and we talked about it in the Exodus he went through all of this stuff to draw out his people to this place where then he can have them build the Tabernacle so his name can
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dwell with his people we see his instructions for that we see his inspiration for the temple we see even his encouragement of the prophets right as they look at their sort of puny
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beginnings of a second temple and how terrible it is in relation to this and God says what do you care what the temple looks like if God dwells among you that's what we're going for is God
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dwelling with his people I'm sorry you had your hand up and I went off on a
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uh who sustains everything and is completely in all places his persistent objective is to dwell particularly with his pinky yes yes and so there is a interesting
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question of theology that probably comes up more next week than in the last 10 minutes of this week but it does relate to that question because
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we think about God as omnipresent we think about him as everywhere in fact we read the psalmist sort of back to back with describing God as a Creator basically saying you know
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where where will he go where can I go that he doesn't see me that he's not there and and aware of everything that's happening in fact we even read in the dedication of the first temple don't we where he
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says shall God dwell on Earth with man shall he I mean you're there the heavens can't even continue and you're going to dwell here with us and yet the answer
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from God is emphatically yes that particularly I will make my name to dwell there with you with my people and so we want to come back to this aspect
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of of the reality of his um creation I want to look at it a little bit unless there's another question or comment here
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comment here I'm going to erase my very messy timeline of narrative Biblical history
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I thought about one time trying to actually put all of this in some sort of spreadsheet and figure out where they all line up but I haven't got there yet maybe when I'm retired
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and build one of those giant charts and I can get back to October 27th at nine in the morning when God created line everything up anyhow um I'm going to draw it
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the way I can draw it I tried to draw this in my own notes as a spiral and it got really confusing so I'm going to draw it as a circle but I'm not proposing that it's strictly a circle all right stick with me here
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the reason I want to draw it as a circle and you see this when we get it lined up we have we have a nice Blue Marble here I don't know what Pangea looked like we're going to call this Pangea here ready
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creation God created the heavens and the Earth and if we draw a nice ovoid it was going to be a circle
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right we get the
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we get first temple I probably shouldn't have done illustrations for all these
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the cross oh nobody's going to be able to see that through the podium are they should have gone over there we have then
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and we will come to this is the reason I draw it because there's a there's a there's a subsuming here right
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subsuming there is a bringing under that the the the the old Creation in which we dwell is superseded then replaced is probably the right word to use replaced by the new
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drawing it as a circle does not properly imply its Forward Motion but it's the only way I can actually draw this over that so bear with me please in brief this is what we propose to look
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at through the study but also as we go through here look at the way that the various writers of scripture are seeing this and what they say about God because of it of it right so we see Solomon even as he's
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looking at this admittedly glorious and God inspired and in fact aided construction of his Temple he's recognizing this is basically a Hut compared to the
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glory of God how could God dwell here on Earth we look at um you know we talked about it a little bit with Joe but you see in job what is Job's big gripe as he's struggling with
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all of this with God he looks at all these things around him he looks at the objections of his friend and he says God created all of this God created all
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of this that I see around me God can created the the foundations that hold the oceans up he created the pillars of the heavens he controls the Leviathan he does all of these things and he decided
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to do this to me it's clearly the sovereignty of God that's overarching through all of that by his creation and by his um his uh control of it as again to go back
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to Abigail's Point his his constant Hands-On with his creation that he does not suspend it in The Ether and let go that it is in his hand the whole time we
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saw it in Exodus and we'll look at that again we see it in um the the Psalms greatly so many times how many Psalms start with the glories of God's creation
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the wonders of the heavens we even have that great Psalm right that the heavens are telling of the glory of God you see all those things and yet they're so often and we probably won't
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be able to do all of them hopefully some of them of them how many of your Bibles you flip to those psalms and you'll get that section about God as creator and then he goes on to something else
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and we're like well we'll just leave a paragraph break here because we don't actually know how that connects and he was talking about the Creator over here and now he's talking about my enemies over here and we're just we're going to
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put a paragraph break we'll just there's two thoughts here happening when I would argue that the psalm is of course one continuous that he's doing something with this with God as creator
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um you know we see it in John 1 right as he's coming to his account of what happened on the cross well John 1 takes us right back to the origin the beginning of the creation he says in
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John 1 that glorious phrase nothing came into being apart from him nothing all being owes its Allegiance and it's its very existence back to the word who
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is now incarnate who is now our savior who who has all of this for us you know again we talked this morning for the most part about this Mission and that's probably where we're gonna wrap up
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things as we look at the mission of the church and all of those things we're going to talk about what creation actually means what it looks like and and part of that with
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um the contrast again of giving that Revelation to Moses at that particular time of The Exodus there was a concept in Egypt there was a concept in the ancient world about a god
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dwelling in his Temple a god being there with the people in fact I was just listening to something completely not from the basis of Biblical history
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just a historian talking about these things and he was saying you know in the ancient world there was often a habit and we see it happen to the Israelites occasionally with the stealing of the Ark of the Covenant Covenant he said
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when they would conquer in other people you'd take their Idol and you'd bring it back to your city as I ha I got your God how good can he be I took him back to my city right so there's a there's a
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prestige in this idea of the god dwelling among his people and we see that when they take the Ark of the Covenant what is described as merely God's footstool what happens those Gods fall down in front of it but again the
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creation the whole creation the entire Cosmos is that temple of God and we're going to look at that beginning next week how that relates because I think it helps us
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helps us and this is the argument that G.K Beale makes in his book if we understand the entirety of the cosmos of that creation as being God's Temple his dwelling place at Eden it will make a lot more sense
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when we get down to Revelation 21 that new creation is in fact a blueprint of a cosmic dwelling of God as he inhabits that perfected final form of
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these things these things I hope that's enough to entice you to come back next Sunday and listen to the rest of the study um are there any particular questions or comments before we close this morning
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I think it touches a lot of what you just said sure Paul is defending his ministry but he basically gave your Sunday school
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lesson but we do not preach ourselves but Christ Jesus is Lord and ourselves as your bond servants for Jesus sake that's that's the force for God who said Life
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shall shine out of darkness is the one who has shown in our hearts to give the light and the knowledge and the glory of God in the face of Christ and then he calls that this great verse
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we have this treasure in Earth and Festival that the power suppressing greatness of the power may be of God and not for
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yeah now Paul is ever very good at putting into a few words what I spent all morning saying thank you thank you um so yes that is the goal as we go
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forward is to look at the surpassing power of God but also again I hope for us to see where that thread is woven all the way down through scripture I was telling I
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read you the quote from Beale at the beginning of his book where he says how much all of the the mission of the church the reality of Eden and of Revelation and of God as Creator all
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these things are part and parcel of one reality I was telling Jenny as I was trying to put this study together I have so many things that relate to this it feels like one of those baby toys where
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every time you turn it it makes a new shape and yet it's still somehow cohesive I was like I couldn't figure out where to start from because every time I turned something they all still fit together and so you're gonna have to
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bear with this child as I twist the toy back and forth in front of you and look at the shiny colors we'll see how all of these parts and Parcels of theology relate but frankly it does all relate back because
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back because our God is one and his scripture his Revelation is cohesive coherent and unified in the same way that he is in the same way that we ought to be with
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him and so I hope you can see the glory in these things as we move forward and God willing I'll be able to paint them a little brighter for us as we see them out of scripture let's close in a word of Prayer
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Our Father we do thank you that we serve such a great God we are reminded of the verse that calls out the out the power that dwells within us is the same power that raised the Lord Jesus Christ
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from the dead and yet it is also the same power that founded the heavens and the Earth the firmament and all that it contains it is the same power that has
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established your sovereignty sure and fast over all things and so father we ask that you would help us to know this in our very heart of hearts that it would suffuse us with that peace
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that passes all understanding recognizing that it is in that power that we rest that there is nothing beyond your control nothing came into being apart from you
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nothing ceases without your say so and there is no circumstance through which we travel that is not appointed by your perfect will perfect will so father we submit ourselves to you
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this morning we ask that you would be with us and among us as we go before you in worship this morning to glorify your name that you would truly be glorified lifted up magnified before the Nations
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and in our hearts and mind