#246 – In the Beginning, God (Genesis 1:1)

Pray the Word with David Platt

David Platt

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🗓️ 13 April 2018

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God is from everlasting to everlasting, the Creator and Sustainer of all things.

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0:00.0	Pray the word with David Platt is a resource from radical.net.
0:05.8	Genesis chapter 1 verse 1.
0:08.6	In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth.
0:13.0	From the very beginning of the Bible,
0:17.0	we have a picture of a God who has existed forever.
0:23.0	So in the beginning, God, there was no one, nothing before him.
0:29.0	He has always existed.
0:31.0	So the question, who created God or how old is God is wholly
0:38.7	inappropriate because no one created him. He infinitely old he has always existed and he is the
0:47.4	creator of all everything that exists exists because he made it, because he fashioned it. He formed it.
0:57.2	The rest of this chapter just flows into this is one with a picture of God speaking and a world coming into being.
1:06.8	It's nothing short of awesome.
1:09.5	He speaks and an earth forms. He speaks and there's an earth forms. He speaks and there's land, he speaks and there's water, he speaks and there's light, there's darkness, there's animals. God is the self-existent authoritative creator of all and you and I are
1:32.1	included in the all which means he is our Creator.
1:36.4	Like you just think about your body right now that's that's breathing your
1:40.9	ears that are listening your your the parts of your body that are moving like it's all happening because
1:47.8	he made your body he knit you together in a Psalm 139 kind of way. He made you, he breathed life into you, and not just at the beginning, like when you were born, he's breathing life into you now. He's not just our Creator, he's our sustainer. I mean the only reason you and I are breathing right now,
2:06.7	like our lungs are working is because he is causing them to work and were he to stop working for us in that way we would stop in an instant.
2:18.8	He is our Creator which means he is the one who has authority over us.
2:26.0	Our lives belong to Him, the one who created us, owns us, us and and so that just changes the way we view our lives
2:36.8	and it certainly affects the way we pray so we pray oh god we praise you as
2:42.2	our Creator we praise you as our Creator. We thank you. We praise you for the breath you're giving us right now.
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