God the Artist: Creation Calls Us to Worship

"Jesus is God. He shows us what the creator is like, shows us his character, shows us how much he cares for us. Jesus came in the form of a human who's fully God and fully man. Not just half God, half man like Hercules, but he's fully God and fully man. Came, lived a perfect life, and gave his life so that you and I can have a connection to the creator. See, the problem is that all of us have a connection problem with God because we saw the creation, but we didn't wanna worship the creator. [00:51:32] (32 seconds)  #JesusIsGod

"And this idea of God being beautiful is important for us because sometimes we can think about God simply just being good, which means that he's not bad, or that he's good and that he, like, gives us good things, or that he's good and that he's not, like, punishing us right now immediately, or he's good because he's generally nice. But God is not simply good, he's also beautiful, which means that God is worthy to be worshiped not because of only what he does, but because of who he is. [00:59:22] (32 seconds)  #GodIsBeautiful

"This is what you need to know is that god reveals things about himself and about the world through speaking. God reveals himself through speaking. And here's where this gets really cool. God, continues to speak. So some of us are like, man, it'd be great to have god speak. It'd be great to hear his voice, But God today continues to speak. You see, God is not a God who's, like, absent, who doesn't want you to find him. [00:48:30] (27 seconds)  #GodStillSpeaks

"And so here's where the gut check moment comes today. Do you love God because he's God or because he's given you things? Is God enough if everything else was taken? Is God worthy of worship because of who he is and because of what he's done? You know the crazy thing about creation is that God is still creating. He's creating two things right now. One, he's creating new life in the life of broken people. [01:01:55] (42 seconds)  #IsGodEnough

"But to me, the one of the biggest things that's tied up in all this is that if there's a god who can do anything, then all bets are off. Right? That's the 800 pound gorilla in the room. If you accept that there's a god, a creator, then who knows what else is behind that door? So to me, as someone who does believe in a personal creator, knowing that there is intelligent design behind anything, if you just look closely enough, you see that the world, the plant they're on, is engineered for human life. [00:39:56] (28 seconds)  #DesignedForLife

"He doesn't just speak just generically, he speaks through Jesus Christ. Hebrews chapter one verse one says this, long ago, God spoke to the ancestors through the prophets at different times and in different ways. So the scripture said, hey, in the past, God spoke to to Moses, his burning bush. It's one way. He spoke to him on on mountain another way. You got people hearing revelation from God in other ways. But here today, [00:50:28] (26 seconds)  #GodSpeaksThroughJesus

"God makes beauty because he's beautiful. God makes beauty because he's beautiful. The reason God creates beauty like this is because he himself is beautiful. And I know some of you guys are what does that even mean? Like, that seems strange. Well, here's what you find is that God creates beauty and it points to him. [00:57:31] (30 seconds)  #GodCreatesBeauty

"And so you find God creating the world. Now some might say that there is a gap between Genesis one one and one two. We have no way of knowing. That that would say, like, hey, God created everything and then created our planet, perhaps, in starting Genesis one verse two. There is a place or space for that to be a view. Then you find others saying that maybe these days, these six days, are simply periods of time or, like, millennia. We have no idea of knowing how long they are. Personally, I would hold that they are all twenty four hour days. [00:39:21] (32 seconds)  #CreationDaysDebate

"All art points to the artist. It tells us a little bit about the artist, who they are, what they're all about. And so when we look at art, it's not simply just a canvas. It's not simply just some paint. It's usually a representation of the essence of that artist. And so when you see famous art, you can just know who painted it. Right? So for example, think about this picture here. Who painted that? Does anybody know? [00:33:36] (26 seconds)  #ArtReflectsArtist

"See, some of us like we wanna worship God because what he's done for us. Like, hey, you've given me healing from being sick or hey, you've you've given me a spouse. I prayed and I prayed and I asked God to give me a spouse and you gave me one so you're good. Or hey, God's good because he's got no sin. I've got some theological background that God can't be in the presence of sin so he's good. But God is not just good and we don't just worship him only because of what he does for us, [00:59:57] (25 seconds)  #WorshipForWhoHeIs

"And the same thing is true with creation. God is an artist. He's a artist who creates great art and everything that you see around you points to the beauty and the wonder that God made. When you look at a lake like this, when you see beauty all around you, you're drawn in to the creator of everything. [00:34:53] (20 seconds)  #CreationDrawsUs

"But creation does point to the creator And you see this in your life, and I just wanna just have us focus our eyes on the the creative amazing power of God as we see it in this passage. Here's the thing. When you just look closely at creation, you see that God had a plan and a a beauty that he wants to reveal. [00:53:55] (26 seconds)  #GodsCreativePlan

"He also does with other animals. For example, I know some of us like to hunt ducks. Some of us just like ducks in general. But god's like, hey. I'm not just cool with just creating, like, just brown ducks. He also creates very colorful ducks like this. It's called the mandarin duck. This is one of the most beautiful animals in the world. In fact, if you Google most beautiful animals, mandarin duck usually, like, sits up there in the top 10. [00:55:20] (24 seconds)  #BeautyInAnimals