The Creative Mind of God
Pastor Erickson contrasts human inventors with God, who creates from nothing and always creates with the intention to fill what he has made. He teaches that people are made with a void that only the Creator can fill, and he calls them to be filled with the Holy Ghost, which restores a relationship with God as Abba Father.
The message in 6 points
Creative minds keep creating
He recalls Edison, Franklin, Bell and the Wright brothers, and says creative minds see a need and create to meet it. Yet an inventor only uses what already exists, while to create means to bring something into existence from nothing.
6:47God created, then rested to enjoy it
God started with nothing and made a world able to reproduce itself. From Exodus 31 he shows that God rested on the seventh day, not because he was worn out but to enjoy what he made, and he says people made in his image need rest and refreshing too.
11:55God never stopped creating
Some think God is still in the seventh day and no longer creates, but he made a burning bush just for Moses, and creation includes making new what has become old. God always creates with the intention to fill, as each day of creation fills what an earlier day made.
14:57A void that hungers for the Creator
Man too was made to be filled, with a void that hungers after the Creator, as Psalm 42 cries out. Adam's sin left that void, so God created a way back: he was manifest in the flesh in Jesus, who died for our sins and was raised by the Spirit.
18:40Only his Spirit fills the void
The same Spirit that raised Jesus will quicken our mortal bodies. People try to fill the emptiness with alcohol, drugs or endless entertainment, and some who leave church do the same, but only the Spirit of God lifts us out of depression and loneliness.
22:23We cry Abba Father
From Galatians 4 and Romans 8 he explains that Abba is a close word like daddy. Like a fatherless child who feels complete when adopted, the Holy Ghost gives power but, more importantly, restores our relationship with our Creator.
25:48
In his words
“The difference between our God and these famous inventors is our God started with nothing and created something.”
“Creation is a whole lot more than just the six days of creation. Creation is somehow making things new that have become old.”
“The Holy Ghost fills the void and gives us a relationship with our Creator, whereby we could cry Abba Father.”
Taken word for word from the video, with punctuation added.
Scripture
He reads
Exodus 31:15-17
15Six days may work be done; but in the seventh is the sabbath of rest, holy to the LORD: whosoever doeth any work in the sabbath day, he shall surely be put to death. 16Wherefore the children of Israel shall keep the sabbath, to observe the sabbath throughout their generations, for a perpetual covenant. 17It is a sign between me and the children of Israel for ever: for in six days the LORD made heaven and earth, and on the seventh day he rested, and was refreshed.
King James Version.
Nehemiah 9:6
6Thou, even thou, art LORD alone; thou hast made heaven, the heaven of heavens, with all their host, the earth, and all things that are therein, the seas, and all that is therein, and thou preservest them all; and the host of heaven worshippeth thee.
King James Version.
Psalms 42:1
1As the hart panteth after the water brooks, so panteth my soul after thee, O God.
King James Version.
1 Timothy 3:16
16And without controversy great is the mystery of godliness: God was manifest in the flesh, justified in the Spirit, seen of angels, preached unto the Gentiles, believed on in the world, received up into glory.
King James Version.
John 1:18
18No man hath seen God at any time, the only begotten Son, which is in the bosom of the Father, he hath declared him.
King James Version.
Romans 8:11
11But if the Spirit of him that raised up Jesus from the dead dwell in you, he that raised up Christ from the dead shall also quicken your mortal bodies by his Spirit that dwelleth in you.
King James Version.
Galatians 4:6
6And because ye are sons, God hath sent forth the Spirit of his Son into your hearts, crying, Abba, Father.
King James Version.
Romans 8:14-15
14For as many as are led by the Spirit of God, they are the sons of God. 15For ye have not received the spirit of bondage again to fear; but ye have received the Spirit of adoption, whereby we cry, Abba, Father.
King James Version.
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