In Genesis 2.18-25, we find the creation of the first marriage. Marriage is the union of one man and one woman in a lifetime covenant. In the garden we find the goodness, beauty, and truthfulness of God’s design for marriage. And Marriage must be upheld in honor by all people, but especially, the church. There are three foundational truths that we consider to help us with that: 1) The Necessity of Marriage, 2) The Celebration of Marriage, and 3) The Union of Marriage.

In Genesis 2.1-3, God rests from his work of creation and by doing so, he sets an example and pattern for all people to follow. Here we learn that we must sanctify the sabbath, devoting a special day in our weeks for worship and to rest. If we’re going to do that, there are four important themes we need to understand concerning God’s rest: 1) The completion of the cosmic temple, 2) the coronation of the cosmic king, 3) the consecration of the sabbath day, and 4) the consummation of the sabbath rest.

This is our second sermon in Genesis. Here we cover all of chapter one and the main goal is not jsut to better understand the work of creation but to increase of our worship of the God of creation. There three big ideas highlighted in this sermon: 1) The theories of creation, 2) the days of creation, and 3) the God of creation.

Genesis 1 gives us the definitive, inspired, inerrant, authoritative word from God on creation and the origin of the cosmos. In this sermon, we considered four introductory points to the book of Genesis, including 7 important interpretative lenses that we must use to be faithful interpreters of Genesis: 1) we interpret Genesis historically, 2) we interpret Genesis canonically, 3) we interpret Genesis theo-centrically, 4) we interpret Genesis redemptively, 5) we interpret Genesis typologically, 6) we interpret Genesis covenantally, and 7) we interpret Genesis worshipfully.