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Turn to John 1, here is an apostolic interpretation of
Genesis. John meditated,
obviously, on the text of Genesis, and he expands on it in John 1:1-2: “In the beginning was the Word, the
Word was with God, and the Word was God. He was in the beginning with
God. All things came into being through Him…”
John
is so adamant that when you read the Genesis text and when God created by
saying, God created by speaking,
God created with His mouth as it were, by saying something and suddenly
it was there, that He expands that to make language a Person, who we know
as the Lord Jesus Christ. So it’s
an expansion of God with a Trinity understanding. But what you want to notice is that
above all is language, God speaks.
We
control our interpretation of Genesis by going to these other places in
the Bible. In Psalm 33:6, it says
“By the Word of the LORD the
heavens were made,” and then in verse 9 an eloquent summary of the
mechanics of creation, “For He
spoke, and it was done; He commanded, and it stood fast.”
There’s
a stunning thing that comes out of all this, and that is that above all
in the Biblical world view there is Intelligence, with a capital “I”,
there is language, there is thought behind everything, every event, all
of the universe. That means there
is no such thing as irrationality, there is no such thing as some chaos,
that is unthinkable, there is no such thing  as ultimately something is
unknowable.
I’m
not saying that man can understand it all, but God exists who does. So,
it is His thoughts, His ideas, and His speech and His language that formulated
everything from neutrons and protons to electromagnetic fields, to all
kinds of stuff in the sub-particle structures, to the art work of forms
in the biological realm. God
has an idea in His head about a structure or an art form and structure
and form take on vast meaning because they come from God’s thought.
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 You worship God because you see how BIG He is. When you look in a few weeks at the
leaves in color, think about the colors you’re looking at. One person said about 20-30 years ago
one of Francis Schaeffer’s sons used to say God could have made
everything in grays, He could have made the fish in the depth of the
ocean all monochrome, because after all, nobody would see them, and yet
man goes down in deep diving apparatus and he sees this fantastic
beauty.
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Why is there such an aesthetic dimension to the
universe? Because we have an
aesthetic God, God likes music, He likes art. When was music first begun? It’s said the angels sang as the
foundations of the earth were created.
Music precedes civilization. Think about that. Music precedes civilization, it is not
a product of civilization, it preceded civilization.
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