Genesis 1:1
In Christ, God created Heaven and earth.
2 Corinthians 5:17 (NKJ)
Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation
old things have passed away; behold, all things have become new.
Now let’s explore how this new creation comes about.
Genesis 1:2
Now the earth was formless and empty,
darkness was over the surface of the deep,
and the Spirit of God was hovering over the waters.
It’s hard to imagine what this might have looked like.
As I told you in the first video in this series, I see the Bible as an onion.
The top layer of that onion is visible to everyone.
When you, however, explore the deep meaning of Bible stories in relationship with the Holy Spirit, you get closer and closer to the core.
Now let’s peel off a few layers of the onion and explore the spiritual meaning of Genesis chapter 1 verse 2.
Paul had already shown us that a person in Christ is a new creation.
When there is a new creation, there must also have been an old creation.
When you are in Christ, this old creation has passed away and the new creation has come about.
How this new creation comes about we can learn when we start reading the formation of the old creation with spiritual eyes.
The earth is a picture of our heart.
In the old creation, this earth is formless and empty and there is total darkness.
Darkness is a lack of light.
Light in Scripture is always a picture of insight.
So when it is dark in your heart, there is a lack of insight.
DARKNESS = LACK OF LIGHT LIGHT = INSIGHT
The writer of Psalms 119 puts it this way:
Psalms 119:104-105 (NKJ)
Through Your precepts I get understanding.
Therefore I hate every false way.
Your word is a lamp to my feet
and a light to my path.
What God says gives you insight into the truth and enlightens your heart.
In this way, you will gain insight into your true identity, your identity in Christ, and you will grow…
Ephesians 4:13 (NKJ)
… to the measure of the stature of the fullness of Christ.
In this Christ the new heaven and the new earth is created.
Genesis 1:1
In Christ, God created the heavens and the earth.
Therefore, the Word of God must be sown in our hearts.
Now when the gospel is sown on this soil of our hearts, it does not always end up in good soil.
Jesus shows this in the parable of the sower in Matthew 13.
Of all the seed that is sown, only a small portion falls into good soil.
The rest falls by the wayside, in stony places and among the thorns.
Matthew 13:3-8 (NKJ)
Behold, a sower went out to sow.
And as he sowed, some seed fell by the wayside and the birds came and devoured them.
Some fell on stony places, where they did not have much earth
and they immediately sprang up because they had no depth of earth.
But when the sun was up they were scorched, and because they had no root they withered away.
And some fell among thorns, and the thorns sprang up and choked them.
But others fell on good ground and yielded a crop: some a hundredfold, some sixty, some thirty.
The reason the Word of God, which gives life, cannot always germinate and grow is because it does not always fall into good soil.
It is listened to with carnal ears and the thinking of the flesh rejects that Divine wisdom of the Word of God.
For…
1 Corinthians 2:14 (NIV)
The person without the Spirit
does not accept the things that come from the Spirit of God
but considers them foolishness,
and cannot understand them
because they are discerned only through the Spirit.
This is why Jesus says in the book of Revelation
Revelation 2:7 (NKJ)
He who has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the churches.
Those who have spiritual ears can hear and understand the Spirit of God.
Therefore, the Spirit of God hovers over the waters of your heart to give you insight into the meaning of what God says, the Word of God.
The Spirit of God in you hovers over the waters of the earth that is being recreated by the Word of God, just like at the beginning of creation.
Thus, through God’s Word, creation comes about of a new heaven and a new earth.
Thus, through God’s Word, creation comes about of…
Ephesians 4:24 (ESV)
…. the new man,
created after the likeness of God
in true righteousness and holiness.
The earth of the old creation is formless and empty and dark.
Therefore, listen to what the Spirit of God speaks to your heart.
Then you will grow…
Ephesians 4:13 (NKJ)
… to a perfect man, to the measure of the stature of the fullness of Christ
And…
2 Corinthians 5:17 (NKJ)
if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation
old things have passed away; behold, all things have become new!
From verse 3 in Genesis chapter 1, God begins to speak.
John 1:3 (CEV)
With this Word, God created all things.
Nothing was made without the Word.
the new creation comes into being solely through the Word of God
Find out what this means for you, in the next video, part 3 of this series.
