Scripture Reading: Genesis 1:14-19
Text: Genesis 1:16
Genesis 1:16 And God made two great lights; the greater light to rule the day, and the lesser light to rule the night: he made the stars also.
Introduction: Light was created before the sun, moon, and stars in Genesis 1:3. Last week I showed how that the light of Genesis 1:3 is a type of our Lord and Savior and His great salvation, verified as such in the New Testament. This morning I want us to look at the creation on the fourth day of the sun, the moon, and the stars, and I want to show you how that once again the first chapter of the Bible bears witness to our Lord Jesus Christ, who said:
John 5:39 Search the scriptures; for in them ye think ye have eternal life: and they are they which testify of me.
God gave the lights for these purposes:
I am going to show you today how that God uses these lights, the sun, the moon, and the stars, to remind us of Jesus Christ and of those who have the responsibility of making Him known to a lost, dying, dark world.
Genesis 1:16 And God made two great lights; the greater light to rule the day ...
Psalms 19:1-6 The heavens declare the glory of God; and the firmament sheweth his handywork. 2 Day unto day uttereth speech, and night unto night sheweth knowledge. 3 There is no speech nor language, where their voice is not heard. 4 Their line is gone out through all the earth, and their words to the end of the world. In them hath he set a tabernacle for the sun, 5 Which is as a bridegroom coming out of his chamber, and rejoiceth as a strong man to run a race. 6 His going forth is from the end of the heaven, and his circuit unto the ends of it: and there is nothing hid from the heat thereof.
Malachi 4:2 But unto you that fear my name shall the Sun of righteousness arise with healing in his wings; and ye shall go forth, and grow up as calves of the stall.
Matthew 17:1-2 And after six days Jesus taketh Peter, James, and John his brother, and bringeth them up into an high mountain apart, 2 And was transfigured before them: and his face did shine as the sun, and his raiment was white as the light.
Genesis 1:16 And God made two great lights; the greater light to rule the day, and the lesser light to rule the night ...
Song of Solomon 6:10 Who is she that looketh forth as the morning, fair as the moon, clear as the sun, and terrible as an army with banners?
The moon represents the people of God as a body, the church.
When we think of the moon, we should think of the church, as we often do with the moon of
Genesis 1:16b ... he made the stars also.
Daniel 12:3 And they that be wise shall shine as the brightness of the firmament; and they that turn many to righteousness as the stars for ever and ever.
Philippians 2:15 That ye may be blameless and harmless, the sons of God, without rebuke, in the midst of a crooked and perverse nation, among whom ye shine as lights in the world;
2 Corinthians 4:3-4 But if our gospel be hid, it is hid to them that are lost: 4 In whom the god of this world hath blinded the minds of them which believe not, lest the light of the glorious gospel of Christ, who is the image of God, should shine unto them.
Sinners are:
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