Man is unique. God makes this abundantly clear in His creation of the first man. He made him in His likeness and as a ruler. Much of this has been marred due to the fall, but in Christ we gain the likeness to God in His communicable attributes and we will reign with Him forever. We were also specially created for the unique oneness of marriage.

God is the author of the seasons, the days and the years. He gave us the heavenly bodies as time-markers in the sky. In this sermon, we also take an excursus to address the question regarding what is sometimes falsely called “the second creation account” of Gen. 2.

God’s spoken words on day three are at odds with Darwinian evolution. God directly called for the kinds to come out of the ground. What’s more? God made the world fully mature with the appearance of age! As for day four, God illuminated the earth with the sun, moon and stars. With the two great lights, He made the canonical day cycle visible on the earth.

Where does human language come from? Who populated its vocabulary? God sets the pattern for human language in the naming of the first five features of the world and then He creates man with the full capacity for language. God also creates vegetation from the ground and each after its own kind for the nourishment of His creatures.

The sky, land and seas have all been created by our creator God. What we experience every day didn’t come into existence out of billions of years of random chance, but by the logical and intelligent design of the creator God. Genesis 1 continues to amaze us with truths that the God of the Bible is the creator of the universe and the earth and all that they contain.