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God is the Creator. What does that have to do with your business? Everything.
Join us today as we look at God as the root cause of all good in this world and as the foundational truth in a Christian Worldview.
God being the Creator impacts your business because you are made in His image.
When you create, you are mirroring God’s creativeness.
When you operate your business and put systems in place for its growth, you are mirroring God’s creation.
When you operate out of a purpose, you are mirroring God’s design. He created this world for a purpose, for His pleasure.
But it’s not just that we can pat ourselves on the back for mirroring our Creator, it is our duty to acknowledge God and not take all the credit for success on ourselves.
Join me in a practical talk about how God as our Creator is the foundation for a Christian Worldview and how that impacts your business today.
In This Episode:
- God Created Everything
- God Created Out of Nothing
- God Created By Design
- God Created for a Purpose
Redeem Your Business Today by the Following:
One Challenge from Today.
Remember that it is God who has given you the power to create wealth and operate a profitable business. Live accordingly and give God the glory.
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Transcripts
[0:00] As an engineer, I love to find out the root cause of problems, of issues. Because if you can find out the root cause, then you can truly take care of a problem and not manage the problem. And the problem won't come back. I love doing things once and not have to continue to revisit the same problem again and again. That being said, did you know that God is the root cause of every good thing? James 1.17 says that every good gift, every perfect gift comes down from above, coming down from the Father of lights with whom there's no variableness, neither shadow of turning. God does not change, and He is the root cause of every good thing that we have.
[0:41] Today, we're going to look at the Christian worldview and the one truth in it that is the root cause of every good thing in this world, in that God is the Creator.
[0:53] God is the creator of everything. And you may ask, what does God being the creator have to do with my business? I'm glad you asked. We're going to talk about that. But what the answer to that question? Everything. God being the creator has everything to do with your business. And we're going to find that out here shortly. So first of all, I want you to understand that God created everything. Genesis 1.1 says, in the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth. God created everything in six days. Created the sun. Started off day one, he created the world. Then he created light. Then he created the sky. Then he created the earth or the firmament, the land. Then he created the plants. Then he created the sun, moon, and stars to keep track of time. Then he created and put in place the earth.
[1:41] The fish, the birds, the land animals. And on day six, he created man. It's very interesting that God created everything on six days and rested on the seventh day. That's a pattern for you and for me. And if you ever wonder where our seven-day work week came from, this is where it came from. And if you've ever tried to buck the system and go against God, you find out the consequences. You know, you can work hard five days a week, and if you take two days off, you're good. Work six days a week, take one day off for rest, you're good. But if you want to work seven days a week, continually, day after day, week after week, you're going to end up lowering your production and destroying yourself. And you can't get around it because God made the work week for seven days. And also God made man in God's image on day six. And that's a very, very key point, which we'll come back to towards the end.
[2:37] So number one, God created everything. Number two, a really cool thing is that God created everything from nothing. Hebrews 11.3 said, Through faith we understand that the worlds were framed by the word of God, so that that which was seen was not made by things which do appear. I don't know if you realize this, but God made everything from nothing.
[3:02] And repeat that, God made everything from nothing. You and I, when we create things, we have resources, we have tools, we have raw materials, and we create things. God created everything from nothing, from nothing, and that sets him apart as the creator, and we are just the creatures. He's the creator, not us.
[3:25] Number three, God created by design. God created everything by design. He had to design for doing what he was doing. Look at the uniformity of nature. God was very uniform in all that he did. The ancient, not ancient, but the scientists of old were Christians, were theologians, and they realized that God is a uniform, orderly God. And if he is, then we can actually study and understand God's creation and learn from it.
[3:56] God's laws are not random. If you go back to high school or look at the periodic table, all those elements on there are very orderly. Look at oxygen. Oxygen has an atomic mass of 16. There's eight protons in there. If there's seven protons in there, it would change to nitrogen. If there's nine protons, it changes to fluorine. Every eight proton element, atom, is oxygen. God is very orderly. You can't change that. So if you go down to very small orderliness, there's atoms and elements and subatomic particles. Everything has its place. Everything works together. It's very orderly. Nothing is random. You cruise off into the universe. You look at our solar system, about all the planets, how they revolve around the sun. They don't crash into one another, even when they all line up. Nothing bad happens because God has created all this in order for his purpose and his design.
[5:06] It's interesting when you look at the days of creation. They were not random either. Days one through three established the biomes, you might say, for man's creation, God's creation. Day one, the world was created. Day two, God separated the waters from above the earth and waters from below the earth, created the sky. Day three, he made dry land appear and he created all the bushes and the plants. Basically, God was creating the three main mediums for which everything lives. The sky, the land, and the water. And he created the food for them.
[5:49] Day four, he created the sun, moon, and stars. Basically, all the lights to light the world and give order in time and help us to be able to keep track of time. Day five, he created the birds and fish. Day six, the land animals. He created everything in order. He didn't create all the animals and manna day one and then have to scramble to try to get them fed and get them orderly and things like that. No, everything was in order. When you look at God's created design, it's not that God's created design. There's something unique about that.
[6:27] I categorized everything into four big categories. And I know I'm not being very scientific here, but that's fine. But essentially, we have rocks, plants, animals, and mankind, just for easy understanding. Rocks mean all the inanimate objects that don't grow. You take a rock and you split it in half, it's broken. and it will never grow another half of a rock back. It's just, it's done, it's broke. But when you go to plants, it's very interesting. If you cut a limb off a tree, the tree grows around there and heals itself up and continues to grow. You cut your grass and what happens? Well, it grows again because God made his world, his earth to heal itself, to sustain itself, to grow. Look at animals. Animals, they're alive, they have personality. If you ever had a dog or a cat in a house, you know that animals have personalities. But they're also different from mankind. Because animals, even though they're born or they're hatched and they grow into a mature size, they are different from mankind. Because mankind is made in God's image. God's image is what sets mankind apart.
[7:52] One of the things I want you to get, understand from God's creation is that God's creation heals itself. It sustains itself. If there's a system here in God's creation in this whole world of the solar system, down to the different ecosystems of the earth, God has systems together to sustain life. And by design, God's creation is meant to grow. He blessed it and said, be fruitful, multiply, and fill the earth. God's creation is meant to grow. It has an innate desire to grow. A baby doesn't stay as small as a baby. They grow and they become as tall and as big as you are. God's system is designed to grow, sustain life. That is God's creative power. That's God's creative design. So God is your creator. God's created everything out of nothing. And God created by design. There's orderliness in God's creation.
[8:55] Number four, we see God created for a purpose. And this is so cool. God created for a purpose. If you look at the scriptures in Revelation chapter 3, 4, verse 11, it says, Thou art worthy, O Lord, to receive glory and honor and power. For thou hast created all things, and for thy pleasure they are and were created. God created everything for his pleasure. God created everything for his pleasure because he wanted to. He didn't need us. He didn't need this world to give him fulfillment. He didn't need us. He did it because he wanted to. God created us for a purpose.
[9:45] It's interesting, we look at the difference between man and animals. Animals have instinct. They know how to live. There's no school that teaches a fish to learn how to swim. They just do it. Birds, when they grow, they grow up so far, there's no lesson teaching school that they go to for a few years to teach them how to fly. They grow up so far, mom kicks them out of the nest, and they fly. No, animals aren't taught how to hunt for food or forage for food or however they get food. God has put that instinct within them. But yet man, creating God's image is different. When we are born, we don't know how to do any of those things. Those are all things we have to learn.
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