LESSONS FROM GENESIS

Musick-al note # 256
Paul referred to the Old Testament when he stated in Romans 15:4 that whatever was written in former days was written for our learning. There are so many things that we should know from that source, I am going to mention some from just the first chapters of Genesis.
God is eternal – He existed before anything was created! The eternal triune God created heaven, earth.
God is omnific – He created everything (John 1:3). .
God is omnipotent – (all powerful). He spoke and there came: light, expanse (heavens), plants, sun, moon,
stars, seasons, nights, birds, fish, animals, livestock, beasts, creeping things, each able to reproduce, God is omniscient (all knowing). Prepared for each succeeding thing created, all that they would need.
Putting into every atom, secret powers which can benefit man, even now scientists continue to unveil
secrets that He has built into the atoms that make up the world. His knowledge included all future events
from the beginning (Isaiah 46:10) and knowing all men both their good and evil deeds.
God formed man in His likeness, breathed into the form life and man became a living being (soul) able to
reproduce – each new birth also has a soul (Ezekiel 18:4).
God is love – giving for the benefit of all people all they need: life, home, companionship, wife, work, food,
drink, dominion and even freedom of choice in obeying Him or failure to do so and a savior to redeem
them because he knew they would all sin.
God is omnipresent (being present everywhere during all times at the same time).
Thus we know the beginning of man, his disobedience, his separation from God and from the tree of
life, that God hates sin and predicts the victory by His son (Genesis 3:15).
Gordon Musick