THE KING'S BUSINESS
978
So it should be in the beginning o! every act and thought of life-GOD! "In the beginning-God." There He stands in the foreground. Your thought cannot go back of Him. Pro– ject your thought into the future, and beyond Its last reach Is God. As to who and what He is the Bible, In its unfolding, gives us all needed revelation. We shall learn to fear, re– vere, love, worship and follow Him, as we study it. We shall come to say with David, "The Lord Is my shepherd." And with Paul, "Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ. And with John, "Come, Lord Jesus, come quickly." We shall come to know Him as the same, yesterday, today and forever,-the great God and Saviour. The first verse gives us the story o! earth's earliest ages. Between the flrst and second verses of Genesis there Is ample room for any and all events which geology requires. The world when first created must have been a beautiful and blessed world, presided over, perhaps, by Satan (the chie! ex– ecutive of God.} But this fair world was plunged into ruin by Satan's a!ll· bition and his desire to be free from God's rule (Jer. 4: 23-26; Isa. 24:1; 45:18; Ezek. 28:13-19.) The scene opens with a world with· out form (v. 2) "And the earth was without fornt and void; and darkness was upon t:be fnce of the deep.' Then follows the account of the wor of re-creation, or restoration of th world. The six days (or periods o time} give us the progressive orde by which God brought the world ou of ruin and chaos into a condition ° beauty again. earth'' v. 1.
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No man has ever been able to find any dis-harmony between the Scrip– tures and real science. The first chapter of Genesis is the storm-center of the conflict between those who believe that in It Is to be found the true account of the creation of all things, and those who hold to the evolutionary theory. A careful study of this first chapt~r rf Genesis will demonstrate the perfect harmony ·between its statements and the established facts of science. 'I'he first verse explains how the crea– tion came to be planned, builded, garn– ished, watched over. The fact of crea– tion reveals God as the Creator (Psa. 19:1, 2; Isa. 40:26-28; John 1:1, 3, 10; Heb. 1:2; Col. 1:16-17) throne11, or dominions, or prlnclpalltle11, ~~m~o~~dsiorali1!~1n::d ';~r~s c~~i!~: !1~ thing&, and by him all things consist." (Eph. 3: 9) "And to n1nke nil men see what Is the fellow8hlp of the my&tery, which fro1n the J,eglnnfng of the world hath been hid In God, who created nll thlnga by Jeaua Christ." (Job 26:13) "By his Spirit he hath garnished tile heavens; hi• hands hath formed the crooked serpent." (1) THE AUTHOR OF CREATION, "In the beginning, God." It is well to stop with that much of the first sentence In the Bible. At the very beginning, our eyes are to be fixed upon Him. We have to do with Himself. There will never be any dif– ficulty In believing what Is written in the Book If we can keep that one fact before us-GOD! The Impossible things are all pos– sible when we take God into account. The greatness of the Book, its marvel– lous preservation, its wonderful revela– tions, -are all accounted for by one word-GOD!
"For by Him were nil things created, that are In heaven, and that are In earth, ( 2} THE ORDER OF CREATION, visible and Invisible, whether they be "God created the heaven and the ,,
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