When God Speaks, God Creates 

When God Creates, He Speaks

John 1:1-4

“In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God 2 He was in the beginning with God. 3 All things were made through him, and without him was not any thing made that was made. 4 In him was life…”

Introduction 

In the story of Creation, the Bible teaches us that God has not only spoken us into existence, but by His master design and divine intent, He breathed the spirit of life into us.  But what is man’s purpose in Creation?

God the Creator did not stop there. He continued to speak, and when God speaks, He creates; and when God creates, He speaks. 

In the beginning, He spoke,  and He created the heavens and the earth, and nothing created was created without the spoken Word of the Creator. We are also told in Scripture that through the authority of His eternal Word and the power of His Spirit, He continues to speak and create new life in us. He speaks His precepts and His promises, and through them, He creates His divine provision and His unimaginable ways for us; He speaks His good and perfect will over us and His plans and purposes for us; and when He does, He creates the opportunity for us to know who He is and then to learn to trust Him in all that He does.  Does this answer the profound question, “What is man’s purpose?”

By the power of the Holy Spirit, God the Creator continues to breathe the breath of life into us, and because of the breath He breathes, we live, we move, and we have our being. It is there and only there that we find the righteous meaning and true context for living a life worth living. His breath and His Spirit are the essence of life and the “why” to live. His breath is the air we breathe.

He who has a “why” to live can bear almost any “how.”

…Fredrick Nietzsche

If you have the meaning for life and the purpose of life, it is very rare that you lose hope in life – no matter how difficult or painful it gets. God speaks to purpose, creates meaning for us, and stirs our human spirit. And when the Spirit of God stirs us, He creates a deep passion and endless energy for living our lives for His Glory. It is the meaning of life – God spoke and God Created.  Yes, it answers the question, “What is man’s purpose?”.

Let’s take a few moments today and unpack a few obvious biblical truths that I believe will most certainly help make a connection for us between when God speaks, God creates, and when God creates, God speaks. The connections we make regarding God speaking and God creating can build a bridge of better understanding as to how God and why God created us in His likeness and image. We can best start by laying the Biblical groundwork for us (mankind) as the crown of His creation.

Genesis 2:7

“… then the LORD God formed the man of dust from the ground and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life, and the man became a living creature.”

Acts 17:24-25

“The God who made the world and everything in it, being Lord of heaven and earth, does not live in temples made by man, 25 nor is he served by human hands, as though he needed anything, since he himself gives to all mankind life and breath and everything.”

Acts 17:26-28

“And He (God) made from one man every nation of mankind to live on all the face of the earth, having determined allotted periods and the boundaries of their dwelling place,  27 that they should seek God, and perhaps feel their way toward him and find him. Yet he is actually not far from each one of us, 28 for In him we live and move and have our being. For we are indeed his offspring.”

Psalm 8:1-8

“O LORD, our Lord, how majestic is your name in all the earth! You have set your glory above the heavens. 2 Out of the mouth of babies and infants, you have established strength because of your foes, to still the enemy and the avenger. 3 When I look at your heavens, the work of your fingers, the moon and the stars, which you have set in place, 4 what is man that you are mindful of him, and the son of man that you care for him? 5 Yet you have made him a little lower than the heavenly beings and crowned him with glory and honor. 6 You have given him dominion over the works of your hands; you have put all things under his feet, 7 all sheep and oxen, and also the beasts of the field, 8 the birds of the heavens, and the fish of the sea, whatever passes along the paths of the seas.” 

Psalm 139:13-16

“For you formed my inward parts; you knitted me together in my mother’s womb.  14  I praise you, for I am fearfully and wonderfully made. Wonderful are your works; my soul knows it very well.  15 My frame was not hidden from you, when I was being made in secret, intricately woven in the depths of the earth. 16 Your eyes saw my unformed substance; in your book were written, every one of them, the days that were formed for me, when as yet there was none of them.”

Ephesians 2:10

“For we are his masterpiece, created in Christ Jesus (The Word) for good works, which God prepared beforehand, that we should walk in them.”

God Spoke, and all of Creation Existed – God Spoke and We Had Our Beginning 

Genesis 1

[The Creation Story: Acknowledging Who We Are – Knowing How We Were Made – Understanding Why We Were Made]

God spoke to the earth when He created the vegetation, plants, and trees – they were made for the earth and the soil.

God spoke to the waters when he created the sea creatures and every aquatic swarming animal – they were made for the seas, rivers, and lakes. 

God spoke once again to the earth when He created the animals of the earth and beasts of the field, each of the own kind – they (each kind) were made for the earth and the skies above.

However, God spoke to Himself when He created mankind – every man, woman, boy, and girl was made for God.

Who we Are: We are God’s Creation – Made in His image and likeness.

How we were Made: We were made from the dust of the earth – He breathed the breath of life into us.

Why we were Made: What is man’s purpose? We were made to love and worship our Creator – To live and dwell in Him.  

What is Man’s Purpose?

Three Creation Realities

ONE: 

We have forgotten the uncreated Creator as the greatest Creation reality: We were made BY GOD – FOR GOD. His creation manifested as man has continued to deconstruct and devolve that Creation reality into something that merely feels real. This emotive-based filter generates a force field of unsustainable, unreliable, and unrealistic feelings that pulls one into a wickedly narcissistic arrogance that ultimately tries without success to satisfy what is unsatisfiable outside the Creation reality. In this mode of living and willful display, we do nothing more than foolishly construct a “shadow or sub-reality” apart from our Creator in our attempt to create a new one. According to the spoken and eternal Word, here is what the Creation reality of humankind should look and sound like.

TWO: 

The trees and plants need the richness and nutrients of the soil of the earth for which they were created to live and grow – when separated from the habitation for which they were created, they die.

Fish need the water for which they were created to live – when they are separated from the habitation for which they were created, they die.

Creeping animals and every beast of the field need the natural habit of the earth for which they were created to live – when they are separated from the habitation for which they were created, they die.  

What is man’s purpose? Mankind needs the Holy presence of God and a righteous relationship with the Creator in whose likeness we were made – when we are separated from the habitation for which we were created, mankind dies.

THREE: 

What is man’s purpose? Unlike any of the other of God’s creation, in His supreme love and ultimate act of His sovereign perfection, God gave mankind the will to reason and to choose whether we live with Him or live without Him. This is one of the single most profound realities of God’s love for mankind. But before one can righteously unpack that reality, one must first remember that we were made to live with Him and not apart from Him. In addition, we should also know that we were the crown of God’s creation – having been given dominion over all that He spoke into existence.

Genesis 1:26

“Then God said, “Let us make man in our image, after our likeness. And let them have dominion over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the heavens and over the livestock and over all the earth and over every creeping thing that creeps on the earth.”

Genesis 1:28-29

“And God blessed them. And God said to them, “Be fruitful and multiply and fill the earth and subdue it, and have dominion over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the heavens and over every living thing that moves on the earth.” [29] And God said, “Behold, I have given you every plant yielding seed that is on the face of all the earth, and every tree with seed in its fruit. You shall have them for food.”

These are but three creation realities that must be acknowledged and understood for us to fully appreciate and benefit from what God is speaking and creating in us. Another Creation reality of significance is the reason most exist and try to live apart from the Creator. It was through the willful disobedience of one man – Adam, that sin against and separation from Creator God came into the world as well. When this happened, Man immediately hid from God his Creator, separating themselves from the presence of the Creator God. The harsh result of one man’s use of his willful choice brought about a curse and consequence upon all mankind (God’s most prized creation). All mankind after that would be born separated from the Holy presence and righteous relationship with the Creator. 

Since that time, mankind has been like an uprooted tree, a fish out of water, or a caged animal. This separation did not please the Creator, and this was not the plan He wanted for His creation. So, in His love for mankind, God has been making a way back (provision) for all men of all races, colors, and creeds. A way to live once again in the habitation of His Spirit for which we were created, the way to find the answer to “what is man’s purpose?” and to start to live it. In the merciful and loving provision of sacrifice, He has promised the way back to Him by the Word of His Covenants.

God Speaks a New Beginning and Creates A New Creation 

The Word of His covenant was fulfilled to all mankind through one man – the Word became flesh, and God now spoke to His creation through the love and sacrifice of the living Word. The way for man to live in His Holy presence and in a righteous relationship with Him would be fulfilled through a new covenant with mankind.

Romans 5:11

“More than that, we also rejoice in God through our Lord Jesus Christ, through whom we have now received reconciliation.”

Hebrews 10:19-22

“Therefore, brothers, since we have confidence to enter the holy places by the blood of Jesus, [20] by the new and living way that he opened for us through the curtain, that is, through his flesh, [21] and since we have a great priest over the house of God, [22] let us draw near with a true heart in full assurance of faith, with our hearts sprinkled clean from an evil conscience and our bodies washed with pure water.”

Mankind was no longer an uprooted tree, a fish out of water, or a wounded animal. Jesus proclaimed, “I am the way, and the truth, and the life. No man comes to the Father except through Me. He continued, “Come to Me, I will give you rest.” Who does that include? 

John 1:12-13

“But to all who did receive him, who believed in his name, he gave the right to become children of God, [13] who were born, not of blood nor of the will of the flesh nor of the will of man, but of God.”

Now mankind (God’s creation) can hear His Creator speaking over him. We can breathe in the breath of His Spirit – the breath of life. We can sense ourselves once again back in the garden- back in the presence of our Creator God. This is not unfamiliar to us – the soul of mankind has longed for the presence of its Creator.  What is man’s purpose?  To be in the presence of our Creator, worshipping Him as we were made to.

Isaiah 26:8-9

“In the path of your judgments, O LORD, we wait for you; your name and remembrance are the desire of our soul. 9 My soul yearns for you in the night; my spirit within me earnestly seeks you. For when your judgments are in the earth, the inhabitants of the world learn righteousness.”

The voice is not unfamiliar – we know the voice, and as God speaks over us, He is creating a new creation in us.

2 Corinthians 5:17

“Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation. The old has passed away; behold, the new has come.”

Romans 8:35; 8:37-39

Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? Shall tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or danger, or sword? 

37 No, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him who loved us. [38] For I am sure that neither death nor life, nor angels nor rulers, nor things present nor things to come, nor powers, 39 nor height nor depth, nor anything else in all creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God in Christ Jesus our Lord.

As the Creator speaks over His creation, He creates. Listen to His voice speak as He creates in us a clean heart, renews a right spirit, pulls us into His presence, fills us with His Holy Spirit, and restores to us the joy of His salvation! (Psalms 51)

Surely, we have made the case that God is our Creator, and we are His prized creation. In spite of our choice to sin and separate from our Creator God, He has continued to love us with an everlasting love. In His love for His creation, He has, through His spoken and written Word, continued to create provision for mankind to find their way back to Him – back to our designed and intended habitation/dwelling place – in His presence, in worship and adoration of the great and almighty Creator God. The curse and consequence of man’s sin and disobedience have been lifted. What is man’s purpose? We are free to live with Him.

Romans 8:1-2

“There is therefore now no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus. [2] For the law of the Spirit of life has set you free in Christ Jesus from the law of sin and death.”

Psalm 23

“The LORD is my shepherd; I shall not want. 2 He makes me lie down in green pastures. He leads me beside still waters. 3 He restores my soul. He leads me in paths of righteousness for his name’s sake. 4 Even though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil, for you are with me; your rod and your staff, they comfort me. 5 You prepare a table before me in the presence of my enemies; you anoint my head with oil; my cup overflows. 6 Surely goodness and mercy shall follow me all the days of my life, and I shall dwell in the house of the LORD forever.”

WHAT IS MAN’S PURPOSE? YOU ARE NO LONGER AN UPROOTED TREE, A FISH OUT OF WATER, A CAGED ANIMAL, OR A MAN LOST AND LIVING APART FROM HIS CREATOR.

…WHEN GOD SPEAKS GOD CREATES – WHEN GOD CREATES, GOD SPEAKS