MIDWEEK BIBLE STUDY
THE BIBLE STUDY SERIES
Tuesday in the Truth
July 24, 2012
The Creation Stage III
(Genesis Chapter 1 Completion)
Wednesday in the Word
July 25, 2012
The Creation Stage III
(Genesis Chapter 1 Completion)
- The importance of sanctification
- St. John 17:17
- Sanctification – to be set aside; reserved for the use of another.
- Sanctification is to have the mind of Christ.
- After salvation, your next step is the sanctification of your mind. (Romans 12:1-2)
- The more Word you are exposed to the more of His mind you will embrace.
- In other words, the more you hear the Word the more sanctified (in your thinking) you become to distance yourself from the last unsanctified move or thought.
- The truth separates.
- St. John 17:17
- I. Genesis 1
- Day 1 – the creation of light
- Genesis 1:1
- God is timeless. In other words, there is not a beginning or an end with God.
- God operated by what He said [not time]. Time is only a marker of natural order.
- God’s system of operating is dictated by His words (what you say). We study the Bible to know how God operates (how to become adaptable to another system).
- St. Matthew 6:33 KJV, AMP
- Genesis 1:2
- The earth was not initially void and dark. (Scripture references – Isaiah 14:12-14; Ezekiel 28:11-17)
- When Satan was cast out of heaven, he corrupted the established order of the earth. (Scripture reference – Isaiah 45:18)
- The Holy Spirit‘s first appearance in the earth was not the day of Pentecost.
- God hovers or vibrates over the earth by the Holy Spirit to charge the atmosphere with energy consequently breathing life in the earth; so that now your words can hear you and respond.
- By God’s spirit being in the earth, when the Word is spoken there is power in it (the Word) to produce itself.
- Genesis 1:3-5
- This is not sun, moon, and stars light but the thought or possibility of light.
- God, without a source of light, became the source of light. In other words, God is the source of all things.
- The natural order that we know is really the “new phenomenon”. Before the natural order, God spoke and the object of His word was manifested.
- The order of God was to create by speaking without limitations – that’s supernatural.
- Limitations are something new that the enemy has introduced.
- St. John 1:3-5
- Genesis 1:1
- Day 2 – God separates the waters
- Genesis 1: 6-8
- Land base water (oceans, lakes, and river beds)
- Atmospheric water (vapors)
- God is specific and detailed. He can separate even the minutest of detail.
- Genesis 1: 6-8
- Day 3 – creation of plant life
- Genesis 1:9-13
- Day 4 – the creation of sun, moon and stars
- Genesis 1:14-19
- Sun, moon and stars function as:
- Signs – teach and remind men of God’s creative work (Psalm 8:3; Romans 1:19-20)
- Seasons – the constellation function as a calendar
- Light
- Sun, moon and stars function as:
- Genesis 1:14-19
- Day 5 – the creation of fish and fowls
- Genesis 1:20-23
- God allows the water to make the first fish and birds.
- On the one hand, the water creates a delicate hummingbird; and the same water creates a vast creature like the whale. This implies that the word of God is capable of meeting any need of the believer.
- This also establishes that God has no limitations [and there are no ceilings for the believer].
- God’s word is loaded with inherit power. It’s anointed to perform itself.
- Genesis 1:20-23
- Day 6 – the creation of land creature and man
- Genesis 1:24-31
- Man becomes the highlight of God’s creative works.
- God created man last to teach him how to use His word to create (how to operate by faith).
- Man was made in the image of God which means whatever he imagines he can bring it into the natural realm by speaking the word of God.
- Other observations about man:
- Mankind possesses the highest kind of life.
- Plant life possesses unconscious life.
- Animal life possesses conscious life.
- Man is self-conscious (an awareness of who he is and an appreciation of God).
- Man was given 5 directives in Genesis 1:28. One directive was to subdue – to enslave, to bring under one’s control for one’s advantage.
- Genesis 1:24-31
- Day 1 – the creation of light
© 2012 George Matthews Ministries