According to Scripture, God created the universe over six days' time and rested on the seventh day. But why six days? Not because he needed that much time to create, and certainly not because He needed to rest on the seventh. Rather, He was establishing a pattern for the cycle of work and rest—a permanent pattern for the good of humanity.
That pattern is reflected in the calendar the entire world depends on to measure time. There is no cosmic reason, no philosophical reason, no mathematical reason, and no scientific reason for seven-day weeks. There is only one reason: God. He established that order in Genesis.
Every week we go through a cycle that God established as a perpetual reminder that He created the world in six days. The seventh day is a memorial to His completed creation.
To reject a literal, six-day interpretation is to confound that memorial. Furthermore, it is a denial of the completeness of God's creation. How? If everything evolved from nothing, or if creation was spread over eons of time, then there was no seventh day. So, according to evolution, creation is not only incomplete, it's going on right now! John explains . . .
Now that you've heard John's case—if you don't agree—how do you explain six days?
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“ Great Sermon! ” Great Sermon! You opened my mind to the trues of this passage
Lynwood F. Mundy (1/26/2011)
from FL
“ Great Sermon! ” Genesis 1:1 says it all to the subject of "Creation."
It behooves me to see and read of the scientific and secular communities saying "There isn't no God." Scientist, philosophers and others of higher learning spent and write books on their beliefs trying to mislead those of the Christian community. This is why Christians must read, pray and commune with God in a private and personal way daily for strength to fight a good fight against the wiles of the devil.
Widely known for his thorough, candid approach to teaching God’s Word, John MacArthur is a fifth-generation pastor, a popular author and conference speaker, and has served as pastor-teacher of Grace Community Church in Sun Valley, California since 1969. John and his wife,...
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