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Genesis 1:31-55
JACOB AND LABAN SEPARATE - Mar 24, 2020 -
Genesis 1:1-2
IN THE BEGINNING - Jan 01, 2000 -
Genesis 1:6-13
THE SECOND AND THIRD DAYS OF CREATION - Jan 01, 2000 -
Genesis 1:14-25
GOD FILLS THE EMPTINESS - Jan 01, 2000 -
Genesis 1:26-27
GOD CREATED MAN IN HIS OWN IMAGE - Jan 01, 2000 -
Genesis 1:28
GOD BLESSED THEM AND SAID, 'BE FRUITFUL' - Jan 01, 2000 -
Genesis 1:29-31
IT WAS VERY GOOD - Jan 01, 2000
LET THERE BE LIGHT
Passage:
Genesis 1:3-5
Key verse: 3
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Cross references
- Genesis 1:3 : ver 6; Ps 33:6, 9; 148:5; Heb 11:3
- Genesis 1:3 : 2Co 4:6*; 1Jn 1:5-7
- Genesis 1:4 : ver 10, 12, 18, 21, 25, 31; Ps 104:31; 119:68; Jer 31:35
- Genesis 1:4 : ver 14; Ex 10:21-23; Job 26:10; 38:19; Ps 18:28; 104:20; 105:28; Isa 42:16; 45:7
- Genesis 1:5 : ver 8, 10; Ge 2:19, 23
- Genesis 1:5 : Ps 74:16
- Genesis 1:5 : ver 8, 13, 19, 23, 31
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ESV
3 And God said, (A)“Let there be light,” and there was light. 4 And God saw that the light was good. And God separated the light from the darkness. 5 God called the light Day, and the darkness he called Night. And there was evening and there was morning, the first day.
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The Holy Bible, English Standard Version. ESV® Text Edition: 2016. Copyright © 2001 by Crossway Bibles, a publishing ministry of Good News Publishers.
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1. 'And God said...and it was so' (3)
God created all things by his word: 'And God said...' He reveals himself in his works of creation. He is personal. He feels and thinks and communicates with his creatures. We can know him. His first word on the first day of creation was, ''Let there be light,' and there was light.' God's word has absolute authority. We must obey him.
2. God saw that the light was good (4-5)
The light which God called into being was good because it was just as God wanted it to be. It fit into his creation plan. Light is mysterious. It is the source of all energy. Without light, there can be no life. Jn 1:4 says that 'In him was life, and that life was the light of men.' 1Jn 1:5 says that God is light and in him there is no darkness. Darkness is the absence of light. God separated the night from the day, and set the stage for the work of the 4th day.
Prayer: Lord of light, shine into this dark world today; shine your holy light into my soul, that I may walk in the light of life.
One Word: God said, 'Let there be light.'
