The Eight Most Important Christian Truths – Part 2
Posted by David Wheaton | Sunday, December 6, 2009 | 8:00 am CT
S. Lewis Johnson Message of the Week
DIVINE CREATION
Dr. S. Lewis Johnson expounds the essential presupposition to the Christian faith of the creation of the world and man’s nature, given by God.
Scripture Reference: Genesis 1:1 – 2:3
Click here to listen to Part 2 of an 8-week series: Divine Creation
Transcript Excerpt:
Now if you have your Bibles with you, turn with me to Genesis chapter 1, and while the Scripture reading is listed as Genesis 1:1 through 2:3, I’m going to take the liberty of reading just a few selected portions from both of the first two chapters of the Book of Genesis. So, let me read first Genesis 1:1 through 5, and then I’ll point you to a few other places in these two chapters. …
…Now the subject this morning is “Divine Creation.” We are studying over a few Sundays the eight most important Christian truths, of course, that means as I see them. And as I’ve been thinking about these important truths, it’s very difficult to exclude so many important things that the word of God has set forth. But surely, divine creation would be one of the important truths and in the list that anyone would draw up.
Last Sunday morning we considered divine revelation. And we tried to set out the fact that the Bible lays claim to being the revelation of God and is a justifiable claim. It’s reasonable, if that be true, to think of the way in which the Scriptures unfold the plans and purposes of God as a result of his divinely ordained wisdom and decrees set out in the word of God. And then, thinking of those divinely ordained and designed decrees, to reflect upon the way in which they are carried out. And surely, thinking about the divine revelation in the Scriptures and the way in which God has informed us through his decrees as set out in the word of God, to look first to the execution of them in the creation. And so that’s what we’re doing. We’re looking at God working in the midst of his creation according to his revelation, and we turn to divine creation.
