Today on Summit Life with J.D. Greer.

God brings order to the chaos of creation.

Why did God do it that way?

To show us in the same way, our lives are a formless, dark void

until God's word comes in to bring life and peace and beauty and order.

And when His word departs from our lives, our lives descend back into chaos.

We're going to be. word departs from our lives, our lives descend back into chaos.

Happy Monday, happy New Year, and happy everything. Thanks for joining us today for Summit Life with Pastor J.D. Greer. As always, I'm your host, Molly

Vitovich. Okay, if you grew up in the Western world, you've no doubt heard the Genesis

account of creation, God's speaking the world into existence, creating animals, trees, and of course

his masterpiece, human beings. But have you ever asked why this story is in the Bible?

Is it simply to satisfy our curiosity about where we came from?

Surely it's more than that.

Well, today, Pastor J.D. dives into the deeper purpose of Genesis

showing what creation reveals about God's design for us.

It's part of our new teaching series titled

The Whole Story. So let's get started. Pastor J.D. titled this message in the beginning.

Genesis 1, verse 1. In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth. The earth was without

form and void and darkness was over the face of the deep and the spirit of God was hovering over the face of the heavens and the earth. The earth was without form and void and darkness was over the face of the deep, and the spirit

of God was hovering over the face of the waters, and God said, let there be light, and there

was light.

Tim Keller says that in these three verses, you can see three things that were present before

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