Sand Mountain Sermonette 79
Genesis 1:26-28; I Samuel 2:8; 2 Corinthians 5:17
Revolution 100-Evolution 0
“Then God said, “Let us make man (humankind) in Our image according to Our likeness; and let them rule over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the sky and over the cattle and over all the earth and over every creeping thing that creeps on the earth.” And God created man in His own image, in the image of God He created him; male and female He created them. And God blessed them; and God said to them, “Be fruitful and multiply, and fill the earth, and subdue it; and rule over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the sky, and over every living thing that moves on the earth.” Genesis 1:26-28
“For the pillars of the earth are the Lord’s, and He set the world on them.”
I Samuel 2:8
When I was attending Junior College in Alabama in the 1970’s, I was blessed to know a man who not only went to my hometown church but who was a professor at that same college. (Interestingly, unknown to me at the time, he would become my brother-in-law in the future)! So, when I began to work on an assignment in one of my classes on “The Theory of Evolution,” I chose to take the easy road out on writing my paper by having my mom call my friend-professor whom I had known for a while and ask him if he could give me some materials in which to begin my work on my paper. And I will never forget what he said to my mother. He said, “Tell Louie to do his own work!” Which I did!
Now, even before I wrote a paper on Evolution, a theory I do not believe, in support of God as creator according to His word, I have often looked back on my brother-in-law’s response with gratitude for his boldness. Therefore, I believe God is calling each of us to go to His word and see for ourselves what it has to say on the subjects of creation and the origin of life, on God, Jesus, and the Holy Spirit; on forgiveness, the afterlife, etc.
Christianity is a “revolutionary” and transformational reality which always runs contrary to the popular lure of the world system which always opposes the totality of truth contained in the word of God. The same sovereign God reflected in Hannah’s Song of Praise and Thanksgiving over the birth of her son, Samuel, as found in I Samuel 2:8, speaks of the one true God who placed planet earth on its foundation and who created man and woman as well as creating the animals (etc.) after their own kind.
We live in a world today in which young people are asking the right questions-questions which we Christians need to be prepared to answer such as, “How did the world come into existence?” “Did man descend from apes?” and “Why am I here?” For you see, when we deal with these issues, we are prepared to address the New Testament issues of grace, salvation, and eternal life as eager minds are open to the truth and the movement of God.
2 Corinthians 5:17!
Pastor Louie