“In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth.” This passage from Genesis 1:1 is the very first verse that we come across when we open the Bible. God said, “In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth. The earth was without form, and void; and darkness was on the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God was hovering over the face of the waters.” When it says here, “The earth was without form, and void; and darkness was on the face of the deep,” this describes the condition of the hearts of those who are not born again.   https://www.bjnewlife.org/ https://youtube.com/@TheNewLifeMission https://www.facebook.com/shin.john.35 

By creating the universe and all creatures in it, God revealed His great and majestic plan through Jesus Christ. Chapter 1 of the Book of Genesis shows us the majestic plan that God has prepared for mankind. In other words, the creation of the heavens and the earth and of all creatures, the making of mankind in the likeness of the image of God, the fall of mankind deceived by Satan, salvation through Jesus Christ, our becoming God’s children in His providence, and the blessings of the everlasting grace of God—all these things are shown in this first chapter of Genesis.   https://www.bjnewlife.org/ https://youtube.com/@TheNewLifeMission https://www.facebook.com/shin.john.35 

If you and I have committed even the smallest of all sins, we must be condemned for this sin and die before God. That is the Law of God. However, to avoid condemning us like this, God sent His only begotten Son Jesus Christ to this earth, and had Him receive baptism from John the Baptist. So, by passing all the sins of mankind onto His Son, and by crucifying Him to the Cross, God had His Son die vicariously for everyone. And God resurrected Him from the dead. All these things were done so that everyone would be saved by believing in the gospel of the water and the Spirit.Jesus said, “I am the way, the truth, and the life” (John 14:6). If this is the case, then the gospel of the water and the Spirit of which our Lord spoke must be true.   https://www.bjnewlife.org/ https://youtube.com/@TheNewLifeMission https://www.facebook.com/shin.john.35 

In the Book of Genesis, the purpose for which God created us is explained. When architects design a building or artists draw a painting, they first conceive the work that would be completed in their minds before they actually begin working on their project. Just like this, our God also had our salvation of mankind in His mind even before He created the heavens and the earth, and He made Adam and Eve with this purpose in mind. And God needed to explain to us the domain of Heaven, which is not seen by our eyes in the flesh, by drawing an analogy to the domain of the earth that we can all see and understand.   https://www.bjnewlife.org/ https://youtube.com/@TheNewLifeMission https://www.facebook.com/shin.john.35 

On the first day of His creation, God did the work of saving souls. In other words, on the first day God made sinners righteous, and He also clearly separated the righteous from the sinners. And on the second day of the creation of the heavens and the earth, God divided the water above the firmament from the water below it. Put differently, this means that God divided His Word from the words of Satan.   https://www.bjnewlife.org/ https://youtube.com/@TheNewLifeMission https://www.facebook.com/shin.john.35 

As God commanded to let there be a firmament in the midst of the waters to separate water from water, it was done according to His Word. God called this firmament Heaven. In today’s Scripture passage, God is explaining how on the second day of creation He divided the water that was under the firmament from the water that was above it. Originally, there was a single body of water that covered the planet earth, but God made a firmament and separated the water above the firmament from the water on the earth. Today, I would like to explain what is meant by this Scripture passage, and share God’s blessings with you.   https://www.bjnewlife.org/ https://youtube.com/@TheNewLifeMission https://www.facebook.com/shin.john.35 

Today, I would like to share with you what our Lord did on the third day of creation. On the second day, God had divided the water above the firmament from the water below it, but even after this, the surface of the earth was still covered with water. When the third day came, God said, “Let the waters under the heavens be gathered together into one place, and let the dry land appear,” and it was so. He also said, “Let the earth bring forth grass, the herb that yields seed, and the fruit tree that yields fruit according to its kind, whose seed is in itself, on the earth,” and this, too, came about as God commanded.   https://www.bjnewlife.org/ https://youtube.com/@TheNewLifeMission https://www.facebook.com/shin.john.35 

In the beginning, God created all the creations of the universe, and then created mankind. He had people be born again by the gospel of the water and the Spirit. Then on the third day, God said, “Let the earth bring forth grass, the herb that yields seed, and the fruit tree that yields fruit according to its kind, whose seed is in itself, on the earth,” (Genesis 1:11); and as it became so, God saw that it was good. Among these works that God did on the third day, what does the earth refer to? It refers to our hearts. Therefore, this passage means that by sowing God’s Word in the hearts of people, God had His Word bud, blossom, and bear fruit inside our hearts. It is telling us the fact that God is speaking to and working in our hearts.   https://www.bjnewlife.org/ https://youtube.com/@TheNewLifeMission https://www.facebook.com/shin.john.35 

The message from today’s Scripture passage is that everyone should know his wickedness and bear the fruit of salvation. Everyone was born with sin from the very moment he was born into this world, and therefore all human beings cannot avoid but commit countless transgressions throughout their lives. God therefore wanted us to realize and know our own wickedness, and to grasp the gospel Truth of the water and the Spirit that He has given us. Now, for us to reach faith in the gospel of the water and the Spirit given by Jesus Christ, we must first realize our own wickedness.   https://www.bjnewlife.org/ https://youtube.com/@TheNewLifeMission https://www.facebook.com/shin.john.35 

What did God do through His servants on the fourth day of the creation of the heavens and the earth? He had them separate His people from the rest. God the Father sent Jesus Christ to this earth in order to save everyone from all sins. God raises His servants to use them as His instrument to blot out people’s sins. It is to save souls that God gives the gospel of the water and the Spirit and raises His servants who would preach this gospel. To this end, God nurtures His servants and molds them properly, and then uses them.   https://www.bjnewlife.org/ https://youtube.com/@TheNewLifeMission https://www.facebook.com/shin.john.35 

God created the stars and placed them in the heavens to give light to this earth. Today, I would like to speak to you about the role of the God-made stars. That God made the stars means that God made His workers on this earth.In the Old Testament, the people of Israel brought gold and offered it to God to build the Tabernacle, and some of this gold was hammered into a lampstand, others into golden vessels and spoons. Just as the people of God made the articles used in the Tabernacle with gold, God has given true faith to you and me who now believe in the gospel of the water and the Spirit, and He has refined our hearts, so that we may lack nothing to be used as His servants. As we are now trained with the Word of God, we are being shaped into the people of faith, into God’s workers.   https://www.bjnewlife.org/ https://youtube.com/@TheNewLifeMission https://www.facebook.com/shin.john.35 

Through the work of creation that God did on the fifth day, He is telling us about how the righteous are to live by their faith in God and in His Word. Why did God say, “Let the waters abound with an abundance of living creatures, and let birds fly above the earth”? Is this just about fish and birds? As we ponder upon this passage, we need to first keep in mind for whom the Bible was given. We can then realize that this passage was spoken to those who have received the remission of sin to live by faith.   https://www.bjnewlife.org/ https://youtube.com/@TheNewLifeMission https://www.facebook.com/shin.john.35 

God commanded to let there be birds flying in the firmament of the heavens and fish abounding in the water, and the birds and fish to be fruitful and multiply. This implies that the righteous should live by faith to bear an abundance of spiritual fruits. Accordingly, the righteous should naturally believe in God and His Word, in His Church, and in the fact that God leads them through His Church. They should have faith in the promise that they can triumph in body and spirit when they realize and believe that to preach the gospel of the water and the Spirit is God’s will.Put differently, the righteous must set their hearts on God. We must set our minds before God to live according to His will in obedience, and we must live by placing our faith in God. God commanded the fish to multiply in the water. God told us to set our minds to live by faith, and the reason why He said this is because it is according to God’s will that we should live.   https://www.bjnewlife.org/ https://youtube.com/@TheNewLifeMission https://www.facebook.com/shin.john.35 

In today’s Scripture passage, God said, “Let the waters abound with an abundance of living creatures.” Just as the water abounded with fish, even now, countless righteous people who believe in God’s Word continue to carry out His work faithfully. Even at this very moment, the Word of God is alive and works with the righteous who walk by faith. It is my sincere hope that the righteous would keep on preaching the gospel of the water and the Spirit to sinners, as long as the Word of God exists on this earth. The Word of God is nurturing our souls to grow and prosper in faith. God’s Word continues to nurture the believers in the gospel of the water and the Spirit. This world is abounding with more and more believers in the gospel Word of the water and the Spirit. At the same time, however, Satan is also trying to trouble us. Yet we must stand firmly on our faith. Despite Satan’s obstruction, we cannot stop spreading the gospel of the water and the Spirit.   https://www.bjnewlife.org/ https://youtube.com/@TheNewLifeMission https://www.facebook.com/shin.john.35 

After creating everything in this world, the very last thing that God created was mankind. The Bible says that when God created mankind, He created him according to His image and in His likeness. From today’s Scripture passage in Genesis, we can discover the God of Trinity. The God whom we believe is God the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit. When God created the heavens and the earth, these three Persons of God—the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit—created mankind according to God’s image. From what God said here, “Let Us make man in Our image, according to Our likeness,” we should be able to discover the Triune God. God created mankind according to His image. And the One who created this world and mankind was the Triune God: God the Father, Jesus Christ His Son, and the Holy Spirit. It is this God who created the heavens and the earth, everything between them, and mankind itself.   https://www.bjnewlife.org/ https://youtube.com/@TheNewLifeMission https://www.facebook.com/shin.john.35 

Today’s Scripture passage describes the sixth day of the creation of the heavens and the earth. Chapter one of the Book of Genesis provides a broad blueprint for God’s plan that allows us to see the plan in its entirety. And it foretells God’s completion of this design. Our God created mankind for His glory, so that we should be to the praise of His glory. As Genesis 2:1 says, “Thus the heavens and the earth, and all the host of them, were finished,” with His work on the sixth day, God completed everything He sought to do.   https://www.bjnewlife.org/ https://youtube.com/@TheNewLifeMission https://www.facebook.com/shin.john.35