STUDY IN GENESIS: PART 1

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A STUDY IN GENESIS

This study of Genesis 1 challenges the foundation of our faith in a secular culture. It confronts how humanism undermines God’s Word—and how the church often responds with compromise or complacency. By examining the Hebrew word yom and rejecting the gap theory, it affirms creation in six literal 24-hour days as essential to biblical truth. Genesis is presented as foundational: without understanding the first Adam, we cannot fully understand the second Adam, Jesus Christ. The call is simple and direct—stop compromising, reject the world’s wisdom, and stand firmly on the unchanging truth of God’s Word.

KEYWORDS

• Genesis

• Creation

• Gap Theory

• Evolution

• Apologetics

• Humanism

KEY POINTS

• A good foundation is essential in relationships with God, with others, and in our understanding of Scripture.

• Western culture is becoming increasingly secular, with deliberate attacks on Christian foundations

• The church is divided and ineffective, with many Christians either spiritually asleep, shooting at their own foundation, or not engaging in the spiritual battle at all

• Humanism has infiltrated public education and society, replacing Christian principles

• We cannot compromise God's Word by leaving the Bible out of conversations or adding secular ideas to Scripture

• Genesis is foundational to understanding the entire Bible and teaches that one true God sovereignly created everything

• The "gap theory" that tries to insert millions of years between Genesis 1:1 and 1:2 is biblically unsupported and represents compromise with secular thinking

• The Hebrew word "yom" (day) in Genesis, when used with numbers or "evening and morning," literally means a 24-hour day

• God created the world in six literal 24-hour days, just as Scripture plainly states

  We must stop being spiritually lazy and surrender fully to God to bring order to the chaos in our lives

• Christians need to stand firm on God's Word without compromise, even if it means being rejected by the world

BIBLE VERSES

Psalm 11:3 - "If the foundations are destroyed, what can the righteous do?" Genesis 1:1 - "In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth" Exodus 3:14 - "And God said to Moses, I am who I am"

Matthew 19:4-5 - "Have you not read that he who created them from the beginning made them male and female..."

DISCUSSION QUESTIONS

1. How does building your life on the foundation of God's Word differ from building it on human reasoning, and where do you see yourself in the illustration of the battlefield?

2. In what ways have you witnessed the church compromising biblical truth to accommodate secular ideas, and how can we stand firm without being combative?

3. Why do you think there is such resistance to accepting the literal six-day creation account in Genesis when we accept other biblical time references literally?

DEVOTIONAL

Study In Genesis Part 1: Building on the Foundation

Day 1: The Unshakeable Foundation

Reading: Genesis 1:1-5; Psalm 11:1-3

Devotional: "In the beginning, God created." These five words establish the most important foundation of our faith. Everything we believe rests on the truth that God exists, He creates, and He speaks order into chaos. When the psalmist asks, "If the foundations are destroyed, what can the righteous do?" he reminds us that our stability depends entirely on God's Word. Today's culture attacks biblical truth relentlessly, but our confidence isn't in human reasoning—it's in the eternal God who has always been. Examine your life today: Are you building on the solid rock of Scripture, or are you compromising with worldly philosophies? Surrender any area where you've allowed human wisdom to replace divine truth.

Day 2: The God Who Is

Reading: Exodus 3:13-15; John 8:56-59

Devotional: "I AM WHO I AM." God's self-revelation to Moses declares His eternal, self-sufficient existence. He owes His being to no one and needs no explanation. This same God revealed Himself fully in Jesus, who declared, "Before Abraham was, I AM." When life feels chaotic and uncertain, remember that the great I AM stands above all circumstances. He existed before your problem began, and He'll remain long after it's resolved. God doesn't just know about your situation—He is intimately involved in it. He walked with Adam and Eve in the garden, and He desires to walk with you today. Stop trying to control the chaos yourself. Fully surrender to the God who brings order from disorder, and watch Him transform your circumstances.

Day 3: Let There Be Light

Reading: Genesis 1:3-5; 2 Corinthians 4:6

Devotional: God's first creative command was "Let there be light," bringing illumination to darkness. This wasn't just physical light—it represents God's presence, truth, and revelation breaking into chaos. Paul connects this to our salvation: the same God who commanded light to shine out of darkness has shone in our hearts. Are there dark areas in your life where you need God's light? Perhaps compromises you've made, spiritual laziness you've tolerated, or truths you've avoided? God specializes in bringing light to darkness, but you must invite Him into those shadowed places. Today, ask the Holy Spirit to illuminate any area where you've been walking in darkness. Confess it, repent, and let His light transform you from the inside out.

Day 4: The Literal Truth

Reading: Genesis 1:1-2:3; Matthew 19:3-6

Devotional: Jesus quoted Genesis as literal history. When questioned about marriage, He pointed back to "the beginning" when God created them male and female. If we compromise on Genesis, we undermine everything that follows—including Jesus' own words. The world pressures us to accommodate "millions of years" and evolutionary theory, but this requires adding to Scripture what God never said. When we stand firm on God's Word, even when mocked, we demonstrate that our foundation is unshakeable. The same God who created everything in six literal days can handle whatever you're facing today. Don't be lazy in studying His Word or ashamed of its truth. Your confidence in Scripture directly impacts your effectiveness in reaching the lost.

Day 5: Intimately Involved

Reading: Genesis 2:7-9, 15-25; Psalm 139:1-18

Devotional: God didn't create the world and walk away—He formed Adam with His own hands, breathed life into him, planted a garden, and walked with him in the cool of the day. The Creator of the universe is intimately involved with His creation, especially with you. He knows when you sit and when you rise. He perceives your thoughts from afar. This isn't a distant deity who wound up the universe like a clock; this is a loving Father who numbers the hairs on your head. Today, recognize that God isn't just aware of your life—He's actively involved in it. He wants relationship, not religious duty. Stop going through spiritual motions and truly engage with Him. Surrender your chaos, your questions, your doubts. He's been waiting to bring His order, purpose, and peace into every area of your life.

SERMON TRANSCRIPT

Good morning.

Praise the Lord.

All right.

So beginning this new year, I feel that is important for us to build a foundation.

And a good foundation is important and is a must in relationships, in our relationship with God, in our relationship with one another, but also physically to a building.

If you don't have a good sturdy foundation, what's gonna happen to the building?

It's going to crumble.

It's going to fall down.

It's not going to be able to uphold itself with the weight.

And so today I begin this series on a study in Genesis.

Now, this is the third time that I have given this teaching or this series over the course of the last probably eight years.

Many of you sitting here have not even heard it.

all right and some of you it's going to be a review and we're going to be going through it and i like reviews but i also like learning something new and if you've ever watched a movie before has anybody ever watched a movie more than once so that you can understand the movie better

Okay, God's word is like that.

Studying God's word helps us to better understand God.

And so I wanna begin today building this foundation and giving you some insights into the book of Genesis that maybe you have never thought about or seen before.

And so I want to encourage you over this time that we have together to take notes.

to take notes.

So if you have a notebook or on the back of your bulletin, if you can take some notes and jot some things down.

My prayer and desire is to have this on YouTube, this teaching on YouTube, so that you will be able to share it with other people that maybe you have been witnessing to or other people that have had questions about carbon dating, about gap theory, about some of the things and hopefully all the things that

uh cover in the in the book of genesis that maybe you've been asked before and you didn't have an answer to i want to be able to cover those things and give you an answer so we know what's happening in our culture in our nation in our world america and the western world are becoming less christian and more secular with each passing moment in fact if you a lot of times look at the church there's not much difference between the church and the world

And that's not biblical.

That is not biblical.

We are to be different and set apart.

God is holy and he's asked us to be holy as well and the world is not holy.

So we have to be set apart and be different.

Our nation was founded on biblical principles and yet we have seen those principles attacked and marginalized.

We see that in politics, we see that in general.

And there is a method

to their madness, being led by Satan himself, they want to demoralize you and take out of its structure anything that is Christ.

It's not about separation of religion, it's about separation of Christianity.

Because you can go into different cities, and I'll give an example, Dearborn, Michigan.

You can go to Dearborn, Michigan, and they have loudspeakers on top of these mosques in Dearborn, Michigan, and five times a day, there's a call to prayer, and they will play the call to prayer out loud, no matter who you are.

But I guarantee you that if you go into Dearborn, Michigan or any city in this country and put on the top of a church a loudspeaker and begin to proclaim and pray a prayer out loud on that speaker, you're going to get shut down.

Because it's not about separation of religion, it's separation of Christ.

Get Christianity out.

And you gotta know that there's a basis for that.

There's a reason for that.

Satan is the reason.

Because the truth of Jesus Christ makes Satan cringe.

And so they don't want anything to do with Christianity.

And it's amazing that this is happening in a nation that has the most churches, the most Christian radio and TV stations, bookstores and universities, Christian universities in the entire world.

You see this happening.

Psalm chapter 11, verse three says this.

If the foundations are destroyed, what can the righteous do?

So I want to begin this morning by showing you this slide.

And this is a slide that is pretty relevant for today.

On one side, you have human reasoning, and on the other side, you have God's Word.

And if you notice anything here, you can see that there is unity under the flag of humanism.

Humanism includes things like gay marriage and abortion, euthanasia, moral relativism.

These things collectively, the people are pretty much together.

And they're shooting at the foundation of God's word.

They are doing everything they can to take out from under us our foundation, our foundation personally as a belief and our foundation as a nation.

They are doing these things.

So it is purposefully done.

This is not accidental.

This is something that is being done purposely

At the foundation of God's word.

But if you notice something over here, there's something going on in the realm of Christianity.

You got this fellow over here.

There's so many of God's people that aren't paying attention to nothing.

They're shooting off into who knows where.

They're just shooting off their cannons anywhere.

Spouting off their mouth on social media and all these things.

There's no direction whatsoever.

The Holy Spirit is not leading these people.

And they're in our churches.

You're in this church.

Okay, I won't call you out because the Holy Spirit hasn't revealed that much to me.

You better pray he doesn't.

You know who you are, all right?

You're shooting off into no man's land.

Excuse me, let's go back to that slide.

Can you go back to that slide?

We ain't passing that thing up, please, thank you.

And then you have people that are shooting at our own foundation.

We have wars between churches going on.

Well, you have drums on your platform we can't associate with you because that's of the devil.

You have that modern music and you're not singing hymnals, that's of the devil.

You know what I'm saying?

They're shooting at our own foundation.

Now, I gotta tell you, if a church is doing something that is not biblical, and when I say not biblical, I'm talking about...

I can't even think of anything.

Okay, I'll say this.

They have ministers that are outwardly speaking and people know they're homosexuals and yet they are preaching the word of God.

Sorry, that is against God's word.

That is against God's word.

And yes, I'll speak out against that.

I'm against that type of church.

Yes.

But if the man of God is preaching the word of God and you just don't like what he has to say because he's preaching the truth,

You're the one that's in the wrong.

Stop shooting at the foundation of God and God's word.

And then you have people that are, they're like, you know what?

We're not gonna aim at the foundation of human reasoning.

We're gonna aim at these little balloons up here of things that like gay marriage and euthanasia, these things are important.

We don't want these things as part of our society, but let's aim for something that's a bigger target.

And that's all of them.

Let's aim at humanism.

You see, in our school system, they'll say we don't want religion, but what, again, they're saying is we don't want Christianity.

Because there is religion in our public schools.

It's called humanism.

Humanism.

Come on, y'all.

It includes evolution, everything.

It includes all those things.

And then you have other people up here that are like, question mark right here on top of his head.

I think I'm gonna shoot this guy.

Then you got these people here, and many of you guys are like this.

You're like sleeping at the wheel.

You're not doing anything.

You're lazy in the things of God.

Whoa, yeah, I'm gonna get real during this series.

I may see my crowd dwindle a little bit, but that's okay.

The truth may hurt, but the truth sets you free.

Stop being lazy in the things of God.

Step up.

Step out.

Do something, man.

I say this a lot.

Do something while you're doing nothing.

Some of you are doing nothing.

You need to do something while you're doing nothing.

All right?

Praise God.

Praise the Lord.

There's been a shift away from God's Word, and it has shifted to man's Word.

Well, I think...

Well, my God wouldn't do that.

Well, I don't think God would be that way.

Well, I, the problem is, is the word I. Because what does God's word say?

We have to build our foundation on God's word.

If we don't build our foundation on God's word and we build it on man's word, guess what's gonna happen?

It's gonna cause those things that are foundational things

to biblical principles to fall.

And that's why, sorry I'm keeping you up sis.

That is why humanism is aiming at the foundation of God's word because they wanna see the things of God crumble.

They wanna see traditional marriage crumble.

So that's why they have gay marriage.

And I'm telling you right now, if the Lord tarries, and you're going to think this is crazy and off the wall, but I'm telling you probably 50, 100 years ago, they thought gay marriage was off the wall.

There's going to come a day when people are going to marry their animals.

Hello, somebody.

Some of y'all love your animals more than you love your own families.

So if you as a person of God loves your animal more than you love your family, how many of you think that people out there won't do bestiality and marry their own animals?

pets you think that's crazy but i'm telling you that's where this world is going if man's word continues to be the foundation of this world it's going to cause other things to crumble many within the church have conceded biblical truth and have allowed the infiltration of secular ideas within themselves and within the body of christ

When we are sharing biblical truth with someone who does not believe the Bible, if we give up the Bible, they have just won.

That's because we have agreed with them that there is a source greater than God's word and that we don't need God's word for truth.

It is explained here.

So if I come in contact with someone and they say, hey, let's talk, but leave the Bible out of it.

Because I don't believe it.

And we say, okay, I'll leave the Bible out of it.

We've just agreed with them and they have won.

It's no different than a soldier saying, before we begin, throw down your sword.

Oh, okay.

Whack, you're dead.

And that's what happens as a spiritual sense, maybe even physical as well, emotional to us when we don't fight our battles with the word of God.

I don't care whether you believe the word of God or not.

It is my foundation and it is where I'm going to come from.

It's my sword.

I'm fighting in this war and I'm using my sword to fight this war.

It may offend you.

It may cause you to not like me, but that's okay because I only need to impress an audience of one.

And I'm not here to impress you.

I'm here to impress him and to do his work.

So we can't agree with them.

We must use the word of God.

This infiltration has also happened through the compromise of origins as outlined in the book of Genesis.

Genesis speaks of beginnings and I'm thankful for beginnings.

Praise God.

And the list goes on and on and on.

You find this in the book of Genesis, the foundation.

of God's word.

The book of Genesis is foundational to the understanding of the rest of the entire Bible.

If you have not studied the book of Genesis, if you have not dove in and read the book of Genesis, you are missing out.

How can you understand the second Adam if you don't even know who the first Adam is or understand what was even being talked about when the second Adam, Jesus Christ, was mentioned that way?

If you have not read or studied the book of Genesis, that's why I'm doing this series, is so that you have an understanding.

It is monotheistic.

It's monotheistic, taking for granted that there is only one God and opposing the ideas that there are many gods, which is called polytheism.

Genesis opposes the idea of there being no God at all, which is called atheism.

Historically, Jews and Christians alike have held that God through Moses is the author and compiler of the first five books of the Old Testament, which includes the book of Genesis.

The book of Genesis clearly teaches that the one true God is sovereign over all that exists.

Almighty God is, he exists.

There never was a time when he didn't exist.

And out of his sovereignty and divine prerogative, he created.

Genesis 1, 1, let's begin there.

In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth, period.

God is the one that created.

It didn't just happen.

God created the heavens and the earth.

God through Moses says nothing of God's origin because there is nothing to say.

He has always been.

God had no origin, he's always been.

There has never been a time when he was not.

And why is this such a big deal?

Because he owes his existence to no one and to nothing.

He owes no explanation to any of us, but he has given us explanation through his word.

God introduced himself to Moses in Exodus chapter 3 and verse 14.

And God said to Moses, I am who I am.

And he said, thus you shall say to the children of Israel, I am has sent me to you.

To translate God's response into proper or improper, I should say, English, God said, I be, that is, I am, or I exist.

I'm the man.

He's not a man.

But that's what he was saying.

You know, that's kind of a thing in our culture.

We'll say, I'm the man.

What does that mean?

What does it mean when you say that I'm the man?

I'm the one in charge.

I'm the one that's taking ownership.

Who better than God to say, I am the man?

Because he is.

He therefore, as the only divine, eternal, supreme being, stands above everything else.

Here in verse one, there is a word created.

That word created in the Hebrew is balra, balra.

It means to create shape or form.

As God's written revelation to us begins, we see that he is central in all things.

He is the one who alone existed before the world was created.

He is the one who acted to create.

He is the one who will continue to work until the culmination of his great plan has been fulfilled.

Genesis 1, 2, let's go to the second verse.

The earth was without form, it says, and void, and darkness was on the face of the deep, and the Spirit of God was hovering over the face of the waters.

A pretty chaotic beginning.

As will be demonstrated, God is the author of bringing order out of chaos.

If your life is chaotic, God can bring order to your life if you allow him.

There's a big if there.

There's a big if there because you had to relinquish control of your life in order for that chaos to get under control.

I'm sorry, but you can't buy a book to get your chaos under control.

It can help, but it will not get it under control.

You can go to meeting after meeting after meeting and counselor after counselor after counselor.

But until you fully surrender to God, your chaos is not gonna get under control.

Because a lot of times people go these places and read these books and do these things.

in order to transfer the responsibility of them being able to work it out themselves or the work.

Notice I said the word work and many of us are lazy and don't want to work.

Oh boy, I told you it was going to get real.

This is real stuff and this is the truth though.

We're lazy spiritually.

We may not be lazy physically.

We work hard at our job.

We do a lot.

We go out of our way and we do it.

And that's wonderful and that's great.

But when it comes to the word of God, when it comes to the things of God, when it comes to ministry and it comes to all the things that God has called us to do, we're lazy.

We need to come awake, church.

Praise God.

Let the chaos get under control.

Surrender your life to God.

Surrender your all to Jesus.

That's all it takes.

You say, that's all I got to do?

Yeah.

Now there's going to be some work that has to be done along the way.

Yes, but you have to fully surrender to him first and then begin to work out those other things.

I'd like to highlight a belief within the body of Christ that I believe is very, very, very wrong and has been very hurtful to the body of Christ.

It's not even biblically supported, and that is the gap theory.

According to the gap theory, there's a very long gap of time between Genesis 1-1 and 1-2, or somewhere, they try to put it somewhere, fit into Scripture, add to Scripture,

Anybody know where I'm going with that?

We're not supposed to add to or take away.

Okay, you either believe the entire book or none at all.

You can't pick and choose.

Well, I believe you shouldn't add to the book.

You know, you shouldn't have the Book of Mormon, but I'm gonna add millions of years, millions of years to the Word of God.

No, you can't do that.

It's wrong, totally wrong.

The belief is that the world that existed during this gap was destroyed and God recreated it

in the six days described in Genesis.

So there was a world before and it was destroyed and it got created again in the six days.

This idea fails because it puts death before sin when scripture describes death as the consequence for sin.

Several gap models have been proposed over the years.

For one reason, to add secular ideas of long ages to the Bible.

It's compromise.

It is total and complete compromise to say, well, how do we know the planets weren't out there for millions of years before God had Moses write the Bible?

Because the Bible doesn't say that.

The Bible doesn't say that.

Stop adding to God's word.

Stop taking your ideas and your thoughts and compromising with the world because they say millions and billions of years, which they can't prove any of.

Who was there?

Only God was there.

And God doesn't go back a million years.

He doesn't put a gap anywhere.

He says six days, and I'm gonna show you the Hebrew word for day and show you how it fits in to prove this point this morning.

To add millions and billions of years to scripture is wrong.

Genesis chapter one and verse three.

Then God said, let there be light, and there was light.

God's first divine command begins the process of transforming the chaos that was upon the earth.

God took that which was without form and empty and gave it both form and he gave it substance.

It's important to remember, however, that God is distinct from what he has made.

Contrary to the pantheists,

Everything is not God.

Trees are not God.

Rocks are not God.

Your chair that you're sitting in is not God.

They'll say God's in everything.

God's in it all.

No, God created everything.

But God is separate from his creation.

Oh, can I get an amen right now?

Come on, y'all.

God created that chair.

Now, he didn't go to the manufacturing company and actually put that chair together, but every material that's in that chair, God created.

And somebody put together, took those ingredients, those materials, and made that chair.

Though God is distinct from what he has made, he is intimately involved with his creation.

Intimately involved.

Contrary to the deist, God did not simply create the world, wind it up, start it spinning, and then walk away.

Again, God is intimately involved with his creation as we will clearly see in the relationship with the first man and first woman, walking with them in the garden.

God walked with them.

The term God said

occurs 10 times in chapter one.

It is used as the means of bringing about life and order.

That word light in the Hebrew is or.

It means the presence of illumination in general.

In Genesis 1-4, and God saw the light.

that it was good and God divided the light from the darkness was good.

It's divine.

It's his divine approval to emphasize creation's quality and aptness for his purpose.

Genesis 1.5, God called the light day and the darkness he called night, so the evening and the morning were the first day.

The words day here mean yom.

And Hebrew scholars, both Christian and secular, point out that based on the context and the language, the book of Genesis is a literal historical narrative.

Jesus quoted it as literal history in Matthew chapter 19 verses four and five.

He answered, have you not read that he who created them from the beginning made them male and female and said therefore a man shall leave his father and his mother and hold fast to his wife and the two shall become one flesh?

Mark 10, 6, but from the beginning of creation, God made them male and female.

Yom, like its English counterpart, day, has a different meaning dependent on the context.

And that's what's so important.

We have to leave scripture in context and understand what the word actually means that we are reading.

In the Old Testament, when the word yom is accompanied by a number, he words evening or morning, or by the word night, it literally means a 24-hour day.

Let me show you what I mean here.

So the uses of day outside of Genesis chapter one.

The word day with number, with a number beside it,

appears 410 times, whether it be in the plural or the singular.

The words evening and morning together without day appears 38 times in God's word.

The words evening or morning together with day appears 23 times.

And the word night and day appear 52 times.

Now that's important.

Anybody remember the account of Jonah, as Jesus spoke about Jonah in the belly of the whale?

All right?

How long, oh Lord?

If it wasn't 24 hours, three days, then it could be 3,000 years that he's in the belly of the whale, or the belly of the great fish.

I said whale, that's okay, because that comes from my childhood, they used to say whale.

Three days he was in the belly.

But if we don't, you know, I want you to understand something.

In certain parts of the Bible, when they fit our narrative, this happens in a political and media world as well.

When it fits our narrative, we'll use it.

But when it doesn't fit our narrative, so if I believe in putting millions of years into God's word, then I gotta know that this is wrong.

Then that's wrong.

No, it's not wrong.

Jesus even confirmed it, said three days.

He even said it was three days.

Well, if you believe that was three days, then why don't you believe that God literally created the world and everything else in six?

Why do you have to compromise with the world and say millions or billions and add that?

Because we don't have to.

Because poor Joshua, what was it, seven days?

And on that seventh day, they marched around seven times?

No, maybe it was a thousand years he marched around that wall.

Because how do we know what a day?

We know what a day is.

Yom is 24 hours.

So when God speaks of a day, here in the book of Genesis, he's using that word yom, the Hebrew word is yom, and yom means day, and that day is 24 hours.

So why do people have a problem with the book of Genesis?

They don't have a problem anywhere else.

Jonah was in the belly of the great fish for three days.

Okay, we agree with that.

Joshua and the people of Israel marched around the city walls of Jericho for seven days.

We all agree with that.

How come in the book of Genesis we have a problem with six days?

Why is that?

Because people want to compromise with the world to be liked.

to not be laughed at, not to be thought crazy or foolish.

Didn't Jesus say, they hated me, they will hate you.

That which the world thinks is foolish is bright in the eyes of God.

I'm paraphrasing a little bit, but you understand what I'm saying.

The world is not wise, God is wise.

And we would be wise to follow him and to read his word in context, not add anything to it and not take anything out.

In the book of 2 Peter, it talks about how a day is a thousand years and a thousand years is a day.

I don't believe that means literally a thousand years.

I think there's a point being made there that with God, there is no time.

There's 24 hours to us, but there's no time with God.

When we get to heaven, the cool thing is, is whether it be by way of the grave or by way of the trumpet blowing, when I get to heaven, there's gonna be no time.

So when I get there and I walk into the realm of heaven, the beauty and the splendor of heaven, I won't miss my loved ones because I won't remember them at that point.

I won't remember them until I see them in heaven.

Amen.

And then it will be like, hey, you were right behind me?

Cool.

It may have been 100 years.

It may be 50 years.

I don't know.

It could have been a long time before I saw him.

But to me, it means nothing because with God, there is no time.

Exodus chapter 20, verse 11.

For in six days the Lord made the heavens and the earth, the sea, and all that is in them.

I'm going to get a little deeper as we go further into the study.

I'm just touching the surface today.

I, that was just the surface.

That's just, that's the introduction.

That's all that was is the brief introduction.

If you ever read a book, you open it up and you have the introduction that kind of sets it up for the rest of the book.

Well, guess what?

It just got set up.

It's going to get deep.

If you ever had questions about carbon dating,

And some of the other things, dinosaurs.

If you've ever had questions about dinosaurs, you know, where are they mentioned in the Bible?

Where do they fit into creation?

I'm gonna talk about that.

as we move on in this study.

Some people question, where did Cain get his wife?

If we only had two people and we only read about two brothers, where in the world did his wife come from?

I'm gonna talk about that.

I'm gonna hit that and cover that.

So you won't wanna miss these next,

I will say several weeks because I'm going to dive real, real, real deep in these things.

And I hope and pray that this will speak to you and help give you a good foundation to go out into the world and to share your faith, that it will strengthen what you believe about God so that you are more confident in the things of God to go out and speak to this lost world.

because this foundation is wonderful and it's firm.

God has built a firm foundation.

Amen.

And we need to build our life on that same firm foundation, Christ Jesus.

Amen.

Would you stand this morning?

Praise God.

Praise God.

Let's pray.

Dear Heavenly Father, God, we thank you for the privilege and opportunity to have been assembled in this house today.

And Father, I pray that God, the words that have been spoken, the teaching that has been given God, that it has taken deep root into our hearts and that it will help us grow deep roots so that we may produce a great harvest of the fruits of the Spirit in our lives.

And maybe we've been questioned on certain things as it pertains to our foundation, to God's word.

Well, God, I pray that over these next few weeks that you would open our eyes, open our hearts to receive your teaching, your words.

That God, we would become stronger in you, stronger in our faith, not to be argumentative with the world, not to be combative with the world, but to be confident in what we believe, in what we stand for, so as to not be pushed around or pushed over or walked on.

but to stand firm and through that standing firm, may we see lost souls born again.

May we see the lost come to Jesus through our strength in you, God.

Have your way in our life, oh God.

We love you, we praise you, we adore you, God.

And we are thankful for all of your blessings.

In Jesus' name we pray.

Amen.

Amen.