The Laborers' Podcast- Genesis

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We'll throw in some other topics, but I'm looking forward to going through the books of the Bible and hearing from these men. Tonight we're gonna be looking at Genesis. So here's my first question. I want to set it up.

God's Eternity and the Question of His Origin

Genesis 1. It says, in the beginning God created the heavens and the earth. So here's the big question, and it's a serious question because we get it. We get it from children. We get it from skeptics or atheists.

So the first question is, where does God come from or where did God come from? The Bible in verse 1 assumes his existence, that God exists, and he's the one who created everything. But where did he come from?

How would you answer a child, a skeptic, or an atheist? Anybody can jump in or we can go around. What.

Do you guys like to do? I answer the same way with all three of them. He's eternal. He always has been. And while it sounds like an oversimplification, it's because it is an oversimplification. And I don't understand the boundlessness of God, but there's a guy by the name of William Lane Craig.

I don't know if you might have ever heard of him or not, but he uses what's called the cosmological argument to explain the existence of God. And he says that God is the unmoved mover or the first calls or something like that.

He's got a plethora of ways he words these things, but the idea is that nothing can't create anything, so there has to be something powerful than everything to initiate anything. Did I say that right?

Somebody who listens to William Lane Craig more than I do, did I say that right? Yes. Okay. I knew Tyler.

Knew who he was. I should have even asked Tyler. Well, if you weren't gonna go down that road, I was prepared to take it that way. I had the same thing in my head.

With the uncaused cause. Yeah, so the idea that you can take all the contents of the universe and put them in a bucket and anything come out of them besides what you put in the bucket is just common sense, right?

You don't pick yourself up. You don't do anything. Something always has to be acted on by an outside force before anything happens to it. It's universal, right? So the thing that created everything is God, and he must, by definition, exist beyond the bounds of the things that have been made.

Amen. Eternal is the word we use to ascribe to that thing, and that's about all I got. That's why I taught it to my children, and atheists, and agnostic, and critters that don't believe. Well, speaking of.

Children, I mean, they're really not gonna... we don't understand, but of course they're not gonna understand all these big words and terminology that we're using, so would it be okay just to speak the truth, you know?

Just put it out there and say he's always existed and leave it at that with a child, or do you guys have a different approach with children? You could say.

That he's always existed, or you could, like, set up some dominoes and say that everything that's ever happened has been caused by another domino falling down, but at the beginning of that line of dominoes, there has to be something else that knocks over the first domino.

God is not a domino. God is not a domino.

I had this exact question Sunday morning. I got a sweet little girl who sits on the second row every Sunday, her Bible open, taking notes, and this is the exact question she asked me on Sunday morning.

She gave me a little note, and she has, like, eight questions on there, and that's one of her big questions. Where did God come from? Who created God? And I'm responding back to her this week, so it's kind of good.

This is helping me in developing my answers, but what I've arrived at when Moses was talking with God, and when they asked, when Moses said, Who do I tell Pharaoh that sent me? It's the I Am. The Alpha and Omega.

The one who was, the one who is, and the one who is to come. Amen. And that's really the only answer we have, you know, that God, in His sovereignty, has chosen to not reveal the beginning or the end of Him.

There is no beginning or end of Him. He was, and He is, and He is to come. And we're asking from a framework of people who are limited by time and space. And so He was before us. He is with us. He forever will be with us.

And so that's the only answer we can give. And at that point, there's no logic that we can reason with. That's right. There is faith. And so I'm thankful the Scriptures do give us a lot of things that we can logically approach, but this is one of those questions you can't.

And I think it's on purpose. It requires tremendous faith. So we can scientifically see a lot of things, and the laws that God has put in place in the earth to describe His nature and His order, just like you guys were saying, you know, the causality of things.

But beyond that, there's no logic except He is. He is the I Am. Yes. Well to me, this kind of touches on the.

Conversation that we were having prior to the video starting. Jonathan brought up the discussion about those who hold to Sola Scriptura, but also or more than more than that, or apart from that, they use creeds, confessions, statements of faith to make their arguments or to find their doctrines, even though they're claiming Sola Scriptura.

But this is one of those doctrines. We kind of lean on our creeds and confessions to kind of put it all together. Yeah. We rely on reason and logic to make sense of the eternality of God. Yeah. So I didn't know if any of you guys wanted to touch on that.

Is there evidence from Scripture to speak to this eternality of God, or is it just... the Bible says it and explains God in that way, so that's just... and that's our.

Authority, so therefore that's where we stand. Well, I think going to the Scripture, number one, is the key, right? And to define these terms, right? We're not like when we're talking to children or to adults, that we talk in the exact same way, that we use the exact same terminology, and that we get our terminology from, like Jonathan was mentioning earlier, from the Scriptures, right?

So concerning God, how do you explain God to a child? Well, the same way we explain God to a 45-year-old, to an 85-year-old, an atheist, whatever the case may be, whoever they may be, male or female, it's still going to be the same.

We go back to the eternality of God, right? And to what it means when God says, like what Jonathan said, I am that I am, or when we read capital L-O-R-D, right? We're talking about Yahweh, which is the Eternal Self-Existent One.

So that's... when you read capital L-O-R-D, that's what we are... that's what's being spoken of, who is being spoken of, the Eternal Self Incomprehensible, as S .M. Lockridge says about Jesus, right?

He's incomprehensible. He's beyond our comprehension. I wonder if you know him. Yeah, exactly. I quoted part of that at the Open Air Theology Conference, exactly. He's... I mean, the infinite... and this probably leads into the next part, but it's about God's character and nature, right?

I'm not trying to jump ahead, but it logically flows to that, right? The character and the nature of God, that He is, number one, infinite. So He's... before the beginning, He just was the Eternal Self-Existent God.

What does this tell us about God? It tells us that God is at the... and we use these terms. Children need to know these terms. Omniscient, that He knows all, right? That He's omnipresent. He's everywhere, but we're not talking about pantheism, right?

And it just... it opens all kinds of opportunities when we start... and God's the beginning place. When we start talking about theology, if we.

Start anywhere other than God, we're off base. That's right. I mean, Job 38 is where my mind immediately went when Job is questioning God's goodness, His sovereignty, and it says that God answers him from the whirlwind.

He says, where were you when I established the earth? Tell me if you have understanding, which is exactly what Jonathan was just saying, that we can't wrap our heads around this. We can't fully grasp this, that God is not me.

He is not like me, and so I'm limited in my ability to comprehend the Almighty that was there in the beginning and yet has no beginning and no end. That He just is. That that name, Yahweh, is I Am. That He.

Simply is. Right. Which, again, I know it takes us into other theological terms, but man, if we will teach our children these theological terms, like at church, Jonathan, and there's a seven-year-old girl at our church, man, I'll be honest with you, I'll take her into theological war with me over most 50-year-old Christians.

This little girl knows her stuff. I mean, she'll argue with me every Sunday when we go to class for catechism. I mean, she will get with...if I don't say it exactly like the old catechism says, right?

I mean, she knows her stuff, but what Tyler just said is the aseity of God. The absolute otherness of God. The absolute separateness of God. There's not a fine line between God and man. There's a stinking chasm.

One of the things I was.

Gonna say is, I don't have a problem at all with Sola Scriptura. One of the things to consider is that this isn't the first and last time that you see, or this isn't the last time in Scripture that you see this exact same language in Genesis 1 and 1.

You see this over again, over again in the Old Testament, New Testament, so I think that it's totally useful to use the divine revelation of Scripture in conjunction with the general revelation that God's given us with the thing that I rest my hat on, right?

With our minds that He's given us, and take the rest of Scripture to back up your point. I mean, I think the point, at least the way I understand it, the point of Sola Scriptura is that Scripture has final say.

We use Scripture to interpret Scripture, right? We don't use confessions to interpret Scripture, but Scripture is interpreted, rather, in life Scripture as we're led by the Holy Spirit.

So, yeah. I like Psalm chapter 90, verse 2. Before the mountains were born, you gave birth to the earth and the world. We've been from everlasting to everlasting, and that context is a pre-earth everlasting, so everlasting from our perspective looking back, everlasting, to everlasting from our perspective looking forward, to everlasting, it says, and you are God.

Amen. Drop the mic. That's right. So from everlasting to everlasting, you're God, and that's it. That's all we can say, guys. You know what I mean as far as trying to explain those kind of things. I mean, He's God.

There is no other. There's plenty of evidence to prove His existence, but we have nothing to compare that would share His beginning or end, because there is nothing. So all creation points to His existence, His power, His order, His character, His law, His divine attributes.

All the creation is pointing to that. That man ought to read Romans. Yeah, let's go to Romans 1. You know, there is no beginning or end. It's the Alpha, the Omega of the earth, and then everlasting before the Alpha, He was God, and everlasting after the Omega, He'll still be God.

He is who was, He is, and is to come.

I've been auditing a class online on physics because I'm a glutton for punishments, so I've been listening to lectures on Einstein and the concept of time, and did you know we have been arguing about what time is for 2 ,000.

Years? Absolutely. Time's not measurable. Yeah, so... Time cannot be measured. It is 2 ,000 years and we.

Still don't have the ability to understand time. How can we understand the.

One who is Lord of Time? Yeah, that's right. No, you're right. Time is funny. Time is measurable. When you start clocking into work, that's when you start measuring it. Other than that, you don't care.

Time is always measured in conjunction with something else. There's time where you don't care, and there's work.

Time where you have to clock in, and you're like, giving the money. Well, I wanted to make these questions in such a way that it's not just a simple overview, something more than what you can just, you know, open up your Bible and read an introduction to these books.

So as we call this the laborer's overview of Genesis or Leviticus, that's how I'm going to pose these questions, hopefully in a unique way. And so I want to look at these first four sections of Genesis in this way.

What can we learn about God's character? And that first section, of course, is creation. Through the creation story at the beginning of Genesis, what are some characteristics of God that we can learn.

Through that event? I think His omniscience, the special calculated, I mean, perfectly organized structure of everything shows a supremely intelligent, the prophets were right, His ways are so much higher than our ways.

Yeah. You know, things that are so consistent that they have to be upheld by something, right? And I don't know, I like the subject of physics. I spent a lot of time in the field of engineering and mechanics, and I understand some of these things better than I understand theology.

And, you know, acceleration of gravity is consistent no matter where you're at in the universe. It doesn't make any sense how it works, but it's thoroughly consistent, right? You can measure almost everything by it.

And nobody seems to draw into question how in the world something that happened by some cosmic accident, according to physicists, is so consistent everywhere that you can set your time by it. You set your days.

It's incredible, the intricacies and the precision of creation. Next. Well, if we compare this,.

We put the book of Genesis in context and look at some of the other myths from the time, when you look at like the Mesopotamian myths, they saw man as just a plaything of the gods. They were almost like an accident, and they were just kind of there.

And the reason the happened, according to the Mesopotamians, is because the sound of people living on the earth was too noisy and the gods couldn't sleep. And so the idea of man in the Mesopotamian worldview is that they were just like the toys of the gods, and oftentimes they were a nuisance.

They were an annoyance. But Genesis says God created man in his own image. In the image of God, he created them. He doesn't just make them. He crafts them. He creates them. There is a certain craftsmanship to how he does things.

There are very specific Hebrew words here for creating, for making, that are not just like how we make things, like a potter, that he takes something else and turns it into something else. And that sounds weird, but there is a different substance here in comparison with all these other myths, that this is a different book.

There's a secular intellectual that I've listened to from time to time. He is not a believer, but he's looked at this and said, this is not like any other book. Any civilization that dispenses themselves from this book does so at its own peril.

And he's not exactly arrived at what that is yet, obviously, but the reality is, this isn't like any other book. This is not just a book. This is the God of the universe. This is the God who created us, not to be his plaything, not to be cast aside because we're too noisy, but to share in his character, to bring glory to himself.

I would argue that Genesis chapter 1 and chapter 2, there's probably not any other two chapters in the Bible that more explicitly have a revelation of the character and attributes of God in cross reference with other scriptures.

Notice I'm saying in cross reference. For example, God said, let there be light, but the earth was void and darkness and without form. And then God said, let there be light, and it was so. So then light shone, and God is light, and in him there is no darkness at all.

And so you can go all the way through those creation statements, and you can find an attribute of God that is developed from each specific step of creation that is revealing his divine nature and ability and who he is.

And at the end of every one of those creative moments, it is good. Every single one of them. It is good. God is good. It is good. And then he creates man, and man is very good. The only thing that was created in the image of God is very good.

And so that's the first thing I'll say. The second thing I'll say in that first portion of creation, I love this psalm. I looked it up real quick because I did not pre-screen the questions, and so I'm flying as we go.

So I love this psalm. Psalm 33 says, By the word of the Lord, the heavens were made, and by the breath of his mouth all their hosts. In other words, by the breath, stars were made. Just by him speaking, by his breath, our sun began to shine.

And by the way, according to our scientists, our sun is really not that impressive when compared to other stars throughout the universe. So just by his breath, stars are created. The host of the heavens are created.

And then he goes on to say, He gathers the waters of the sea as a heap. He puts the deeps in his storehouse. Let all the earth fear the Lord. Let all the inhabitants of the world stand in awe of him. For he spoke, and it came to be.

He commanded, and it stood firm. So the results of this, you can see all of these attributes, all of the order, all of the beauty, all of the authority, all of the power. And then our response really should be, Let all the earth fear the Lord, and let all the inhabitants of the world stand in awe of him.

There's nobody can do that except our God.

That's right.

So I get really excited about Genesis 1 and 2, and I get really frustrated with Genesis 3. We have such a disappointing result as man's decisions in the earth versus what God had created. But there's so much packed into Genesis 1 and 2 that we could spend the next year just unpacking and unpacking and all those kind of things.

But that's two of my most favorite books of the Bible, chapters of the Bible, and two of my favorite to preach, especially when you're.

Dealing with the attributes of God. Amen. I'm just going to squeeze this in. Isn't it.

An amazing thing that we don't have to have. All the things that we think we need to have to have a worship service? Amen. I mean, this conversation just puts a smile on my face. To hear you guys exalt God and glorify him, just pondering on his character and nature.

I mean, we're having a worship service. I've got chills.

Amen. I mean, how many of those psalms go back to creation?

Amen. Let's go to the fall of man. Brother Jesse, chime in whenever you're ready, brother. The fall of man, what can we learn about God and his character through this event, the fall of man?

The Fall of Man, Original Sin, and the Gospel in Genesis 3

Well, yeah, a lot of you guys are saying really good stuff. The fall of man is where it all began for us in sin. Man, if the fall of man didn't happen, you would not have Romans chapter five. You would not have Romans chapter one.

You won't have like 88 of the Bible if Romans chapter three didn't happen. So yeah, Romans chapter three is definitely a huge chapter. I think it's an umbrella chapter. It's the paradigm we all live in, right?

The fall of man. Man is disobedient to God, listens to the serpent, and it is cursed to die. And now it has a broken relationship with God. And he is driven out immediately from the presence of God, from the communion of God, from the favor of God, all these different graces and blessings that Adam enjoyed.

Think about it. God visited Adam in the cool part of the day, pretty much every day. We don't know for how long, but they had a communion with him. And this is historical. Genesis three, Genesis one, Genesis two, Genesis three is very historical.

There's nothing allegorical. There's nothing metaphorical about it. Now, there's a lot of metaphors that you could draw from if you want to read Jesus on every page, right? But when you want to take Sola Scriptura to its full extent, it's historical.

And you see how Genesis three is used throughout Scripture. Paul the Apostle uses it as a huge reference point for Romans chapter five, for example, when he's talking about the fall of Adam and Adam being the representative of mankind.

Adam was like technically the first human, right? The first man. He was the patriarch of all humanity, him and his posterity. He represented everybody. So when he fell, he represented everybody. We all fall.

So original sin comes in and death comes in. And Paul uses that. He uses Adam to say, hey, through one man, sin comes to the world and destroys everything. And he's like, well, it's the same way with one man with Christ.

Righteousness comes to many. So so that language is being drawn from Genesis chapter three. Genesis chapter three is also a gospel point. We see the gospel, the earliest prototype of the gospel is found in Genesis chapter three, where God shows mercy to them.

And he could have just killed them being holy and just. But he did it. He showed him mercy. He provides a sacrifice. So everything, all the elements of covenant are there. Right. If you really want to get covenant, theologies are there.

There's so many elements in Genesis chapter three. Well, one of my favorite elements is the gospel. You could find the gospel saturated all over the.

Place in Genesis chapter three. That's what's going on. Genesis three, twenty one. And they.

Made a sacrifice and clothed them with the skin of an animal. Praise God, we're clothed in the.

Righteousness of God. Amen and amen. Amen. Amen. Yep. What can we see in the third section of Genesis? We're talking about the flood. And Tyler brought that up a little bit earlier. What can we learn from the character in nature?

Maybe some of the some similar things. Yeah. That we see in the fall of man and in the flood, some of the similar characteristics of God. But what can we learn about God in the flood account? One of the things that I see right off the bat.

With with the fall and with the flood is that God isn't going to God isn't going to skirt whatever he says because you mess up. Right. And whatever he says is authoritative and absolute. So if if God says, don't eat of the fruit of this tree and the day that you eat of it, you'll die.

That's precisely what it means. Right. And whenever he looks and sees that his creation is constantly just completely obsessed with violence and all their thoughts. And the Bible says he repented that he made man.

He was he was he was sorrowful that he that he made him. He's I'm not going to settle. Now, I guess that's what I'm looking for. I'm not going to settle for something less than what out than what I want.

God's not the kind that settles for anything. This is this is it. And there's going to be a standard. And like Jesse said, the standard is going to be Christ and the gospel is going to be the flag that is flown on.

And you see a remnant, a very small amount of people survive this flood. And there's only one avenue of salvation. And that's the avenue in which God allows salvation to happen. And by that way and then later, there will be an entire ordinances and covenants that God would that God would set up.

That man were lived by and that God would would honor for the rest of our days, you know, and I think that when I see that, I see that it's man's desire most of the time to go with the majority rule and to settle for whatever is good enough, not God's way.

God's ways had to be yes and amen and perfect. And and I know that sounds very, you know, exclusive, and that's because it is it's his way or no way. And I see that at the same time, I also see grace, I also see favor.

I see a God who is who is kind when he doesn't have to be merciful whenever he's completely justified in the eradication of everybody. So you got to you have to weigh this out, right? He's absolutely unapologetically not going to slide on this standard at the same time.

He doesn't desire to see anyone perish. So he makes a way of salvation, but it's his way and it will always be that way.

Go ahead. I think one. I'm sorry. Go ahead. You go ahead, sir. I would like to call you a footnote when it comes to the flood section. I think it's very interesting. Christians, all of all kinds, we we sometimes do it to who are closer to the reform side, but not so often.

And it's very easily to get swept up, if I could use flood language, swept up into the to the to the to the fashion trends of Herman of hermeneutics and and the fashion trends of sci fi when it comes to the flood, because there's a lot of potential dangers and distractions when it comes to the flood.

For example, there's a lot of interesting things in the flood, like was the world all one giant piece of land? Yeah, perhaps it doesn't say that. But yeah, there's scientific data, blah, blah, blah. But is that what the text is trying to drive home?

Probably not. If you really want to stick if you really want to stick with Sola Scriptura as your main principle, like a flag on a ship, you ride it to the sinks. Sola Scriptura will demand of us that we read Jesus on every page and take it home.

Now, if it doesn't hurt to say science says all the earth was one, that's fine. But Genesis six is not about the world being one. The Genesis six is about God's God's judgment on the whole world now. And then, you know, the Nephilim and the UFOs and the pyramids were on the water.

We like to get into these things that are like tertiary rabbit holes, huge distractions, billboards that says buy now, save later, stuff like that, that are distractions that are that are either scientific data, extracurricular afterschool activities that has nothing to do with your geometry class.

You know what I mean? So it's like you need to pass geometry, but you're staying after school for extracurricular stuff that has nothing to do with your geometry class, but you fail geometry. Does that make sense?

So a lot of Christians get caught up with these these interesting things that are legitimate in their own way. Elsewhere, but we lose sight when it comes to the to the text of Scripture, Genesis chapter six, and it's like, what is Jesus doing in Genesis chapter six?

That is the question. Jesus is the question who what is Jesus doing in Genesis chapter six that applies to us, right? It's not the Nephilim. It's not UFOs and underwater 600 feet, whatever. Those things are interesting, but that's not the text.

So Christians, I'm saying this to Christians of all types and shapes, colors and creeds. We need to be real careful when we handle Scripture, because just like the just like the Bible, they're a thin page.

And if you turn too hard, you can rip it. If you if you if you like to twist Scripture, that's on you. Here's my last.

My last sentence. Twist churros, not Scripture. So to add to on on the flood specific to to name specific. Attributes of God's character, holiness, righteousness, those these are these are. Really in the big picture, noncommunicable attributes of God.

So when you talk about the character and nature of God, right, we got to talk about it. We're talking about his attributes. And these are things that are unique to God. Like what what John was saying, our big John was saying there, what he was explaining was the righteousness of God.

That right. True righteousness means that, like John said, you're not going to you're not going to get slide on it. And like Jesse said, the whole point of the Scriptures, when we look at them, is to see Jesus on every page.

Right. And that's what we see. That's what we see. We see the holiness and the righteousness of God, that God, though though he made man in his image, man, sinned and fail. Right. And then in six, the heart of man was only said on only evil continuously.

And so God sent the flood judgment. He sends judgment. Right. But he provides an arc. Again, Jesus, he provides the arc of his grace, you know, that that that is the only way a man will be carried through the flood right of sin, the only way.

And then God opens the door. God closes door. We see all that. But we see that in God's character and God's nature. And we see it all pointing to Christ because God is righteous. And he told and he told man this was going to happen.

Like John said, he did it. And because God is righteous, he could not let sin go. Right. The scriptures of the apostle Paul and preaching to the guys on Mars Hill and act 17. Right. For the times of this, for the times, many men's ignorance, God winked at.

Right. But he didn't let it slide because he sent his son, the one man who would judge the world in righteousness. Do it, bro. Yes. Yes. Yeah. We send the one man, his son that would judge the world in righteousness and that that Jesus was the picture of that arc that bore the weight of the storm, that bore the weight of the sin, that bore the weight of death and hell itself.

And he arose victorious over death, hell and he arose. That's exactly right. It's one of my favorite. I'm about to get happy.

There on that. Go ahead. Go ahead. I'm glad you guys brought in the fact that it's all pointing to Jesus. And I also I think that speaks of the character and person of God in the fact that he's his perfect genius, his brilliance and his power to be able to to weave a story of millions and millions of people.

Where you've got you've got these events happening. Yeah. For a purpose. And they're pointing to Jesus. That's right. And he works all those things out because of his power and his genius and his brilliance that we can't comprehend that you.

Spoke of earlier. Yeah, it's amazing. One more thing in there real quick. Yeah. I mean, like, shoot, nobody's. I've been waiting for somebody to bring up the other part of the covenant because we talk about the rainbow in this as well.

Yeah. Yeah. And in the reality is this, I love this study and I challenge you guys to go study it. The Hebrew word is not rainbow. It's just both both. But we know we know rainbow because we think it's in the sky.

And it's really the weapon that's used for hunting or battle is the Hebrew word.

And if we draw it as a bow, it's pointed up. It's not pointed down.

Exactly. So who is going to take who's going to take the affliction? Yeah. And it's shot. And so there's a point, there's a directional aspect of it, that God's wrath when he says, now, never pour my wrath out in this way ever again.

That's right. Where is his wrath going to be shot to? Where is the wrath of God that this flood and the bow is now turned the opposite direction? It's pointed. So it's a foreshadowing of Christ. It's a point to the future covenant.

I don't have an air horn button, but. Wait a second. I got to bring in the keys here.

Here we go. Oh, yes.

When the covenants of the gospel are in every one of these chapters.

Absolutely.

And so so discovering that, you know, in every single one of these stories, it seems tremendously horrible that this wrath was poured out the way it was. And you think about.

And what a tragedy, bro. What a tragedy when when when preachers and practitioners of scripture of all types and shapes come along and they take that passage, those passages. And there's a certain group that steal the rainbow, by the way.