The Bible is made up of all kinds of literature. There's historical literature, there's poetic literature, there's apocalyptic literature, there's didactic literature, there's didactic literature, there's didactic literature. There's historical literature. There's poetic literature. There's apocalyptic literature. There's

didactic or teaching literature. And the particular form that Genesis 1 takes is the form of a poem.

And I don't know if you'd noticed it or not, but Genesis 1 almost has a cadence to it. Yes,

you heard me right. It's got rhythm to it. God creates something,

declares it's good, it's evening and morning the first day. God creates something,

declares it's good, it's evening and morning, the second day. God creates something,

declares it's good, it's evening and morning the third day. God creates something, declares it's good. It's evening morning the third day. God creates something, declares it's good.

It's evening morning the fourth day. You could almost wrap Genesis 1. Don't worry.

I won't try. But then when you get to about verse 26, the rhythm breaks.

Because God does something so amazing, so important, so fundamentally life-shaping,

that the rhythm has to break.

Yet what God does is at the very same time, so normal, so mundane, so totally every day,

that we can read Genesis 1 over and over again and not recognize the significance of this moment.

Without this moment, you would not believe the things you believe.

Without this moment, you would not live the way you live. Without this

moment, you probably wouldn't be listening to this program. Without this moment, life as we know it

would fundamentally be different than it is. The rhythm of this amazing passage breaks because God

is about to do something that will alter it all. That thing defines your life.

You are totally dependent on this moment.

What did God do that was this important?

Once I was waiting in fortune and fame,

everything that I dreamed of To get a starting life's game

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