Well, that game was hard to watch! I am praying that everything they NEED to work on gets done this week! YIKES! The word for this week is "creation". This is found in only 6 verses in the New Testament. Here are the verses:
Mark 10:6 But from the beginning of the creation God made them male and female. KJV
Mark 13:19 For in those days shall be affliction, such as was not from the beginning of the creation which God created unto this time, neither shall be. KJV
Romans 1:20 For the invisible things of him from the creation of the world are clearly seen, being understood by the things that are made, even his eternal power and Godhead; so that they are without excuse: KJV
Romans 8:22 For we know that the whole creation groaneth and travaileth in pain together until now. KJV
2 Peter 3:4 And saying, Where is the promise of his coming? for since the fathers fell asleep, all things continue as they were from the beginning of the creation.KJV
Revelation 3:14 And unto the angel of the church of the Laodiceans write; These things saith the Amen, the faithful and true witness, the beginning of the creation of God; KJV
These are all the Greek word "ktisis". Strong's Concordance says: original formation. Thayer's Greek Lexicon says: the act of founding, establishing, building, creating. All of these verses are speaking of what God did in creating the entire universe, and of what He created. Many unbelievers like to come up with various ideas, theories and hypotheses of how everything came to be. I LOVE this Dictionary definition of hypothesis: a supposition or proposed explanation made on the basis of limited evidence as a starting point for further investigation. Kenneth E. Hagin used to say it this way: A theory is a supposition based on ignorance of the subject at hand! THAT is a better explanation of the completely baseless ideas that many scientists come up with. The reason that I say that is, whatever explanation they may try to come up with to try and explain this completely supernatural event, when they carry it back, they still come up with something that apparently came from NOTHING! They just cannot explain away GOD! This wonderful, glorious, powerful and supernatural event that happened "in the beginning", is also what happened at our New Birth! 2 Corinthians 5:17 says this:
17 Therefore if any man be in Christ, he is a new creature: old things are passed away; behold, all things are become new. KJV
"Creature" here is exactly the same Greek word, "ktisis"! We are completely supernatural beings, designed and created by the CREATOR of all that is! We are unique and special children of the Most High God! Satan would love nothing better than for us to forget this, or never to have learned it in the first place! TOO BAD! We know, and nothing can take away the knowledge of the Word of God that has been sown in our hearts! Thank You, JESUS! Here is Hillsong UNITED with "So Will I", which is all about God's creation!
Love and Shalom from the Swoveys!
