GENESIS Weekly

God has created creators. This part of what it means to be built in God's image is that we are to create. So when it comes to ruling the world, God has given us the opportunity to create, to create beauty, to create art, to create music, to invent, to discover things scientifically, to learn about the mysteries of God through discovering his creation. God is creating creators. And when you're creative, you look like Jesus. Isn't that wonderful? When you create a home, when you create bread, when you create a child, all those things are tied up in this beauty that God, the creator of the universe, created creators. [00:59:03] (41 seconds)  #CreatedToCreate

but he created male and female in his image, which means that men and women are equal in value, dignity, and worth. There's not like a a varsity human and JV human. So, like, men and women are equal in god's sight. And I know that we should be like, yeah, of course. But, like, listen, let me just say, to be clear, the bible says men and women are are equal in value, dignity, and worth. Oh, we're different. We're not identical. [00:55:23] (38 seconds)  #EqualDignityInGod

This is racism. It is evil, and it is denying the imago dei, the image of God stamped on the face of a person. This is where Darwinian theology and ideology takes you. It dehumanizes people. It is opposed to the teaching of scriptures. And the reason why people still teach it today, even knowing this evil history within it, right, the reason why is because people are looking for an alternative reason for why we're here without God. That's it. That's it. They're just like, can we have a different way of looking at the world without giving God decision rights on how we should live? [00:53:52] (45 seconds)  #RejectRacialDehumanization

But I know that a lot of us have brokenness in this house and you're limping in, you're hurting today. I just want you to hear this, God has not abandoned you and he wants to create a new thing in your life. He wants to make you look like Jesus. And the way you get there is simply by saying, Jesus, it's not about me, it's about you. I'm gonna give my life to you. I know that I am so good at saying that it's not about me, it's about you, and then just making it about me again. So before we go, if you're a follower of Jesus, I just want you to tell Jesus, it's really about you. [01:04:54] (47 seconds)  #MakeItAboutJesus

From waist up, he glows like amber. From his waist down, it looks like it's fire. And all around him, there's a rainbow because his very presence refracts light around him and this is what God looks like. So what does that mean for us? Well, one, God is someone who created us in his image and he's not like us. He's worthy of worship and he is beautiful because of the way he looks, appears, and acts. But what you also find here is that there's a reason why Satan doesn't like people. [00:45:07] (36 seconds)  #WorthyOfWorship

And that God is worthy of all worship. And so Ezekiel responds just viscerally falling on a space before a holy God, realizing that there is a God and that he is not it. And then he describes God on his throne. He says, looks like a human, which is why we look the way we look. God doesn't look like a human. Humans look like God. Now, this being God is not the same as all the rest of us. It seems that he is infused with light. [00:44:30] (37 seconds)  #HumansReflectGod

Not just make him, but we're gonna make him in our image according to our likeness. These two words, image and likeness, are critical in understanding the Imago Dei. So image, let's talk about that. What is the image? Well, the image means that you, are almost like a little model that you represent, something far bigger. Like, it's hard to translate it, but it's it's almost the idea of like a small working model of a bigger object, almost like a like a model airplane compared to a seven forty seven. [00:36:58] (30 seconds)  #ImageAndLikenessExplained

Now you may go, how what do you what do you mean? This is this is something you may not hear in school, but the version that you hear about Darwinian ideology is highly sanitized and is is something that's been redacted because they don't want you to understand the deep roots of racism that are tied into the the the theory of evolution. Okay? So most of us know that Darwin, when he like started working on his idea of evolution, went on the HMS Beagle and wrote The Origin of Species, which was received and kinda like catapulted this idea into the general public. [00:50:35] (39 seconds)  #UnmaskDarwinianHistory

And what we've been seeing is we've been seeing God create the world and he's been creating it by simply speaking it into existence. So he says, let there be light and there was light. And then he says, let there be, a separation between the waters. Then he creates animals and plants and the sun and the moon and stars. But here we find something different. God creates Adam different than any other person or any other thing that's ever existed. [00:34:52] (28 seconds)  #AdamWasUnique

Now before we talk about what God looks like, I think it's important for us to realize that this isn't something for us to just be a tourist about. This is something that should respond create a response within us of all wonder and worship. That's what Ezekiel does every time people see the presence of God from Isaiah. Ezekiel, John, and book of Revelation, what happens? They fall flat on their face and worship God. And they realize that they are not worthy, but God is. [00:44:02] (27 seconds)  #RespondInWorship

And the reason why is because most of the conversation you see from classrooms to social media is based on questions that arise from the study of what it means to be human. You know, so across the board, people are asking the question, when does life start? When does it end? Can there be assisted suicide? Can we, you know, start new life like AI? What does it mean really to be human when technology and humans integrate and morph and meld and there's all these things that are tied up in this concept that we find in Genesis chapter one. [00:31:51] (41 seconds)  #WhatDoesItMeanToBeHuman

So today, we're gonna be talking through some heavy things. And I hope that this is first in conversation to challenge you. There's some things that may make us uncomfortable. I just wanted to just acknowledge that before we go any further because there are some challenges to the narratives that we see in school and other places as we look at what the bible actually tells us about the creation of mankind. [00:32:33] (18 seconds)  #ChallengeTheNarrative