Feeding the Lambs - The Spirit of God

"In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth. The earth was unformed and void, darkness was on the face of the deep, and the Spirit of God hovered over the surface of the water. Then God said, “Let there be light”; and there was light. 
Genesis 1:1-3

[25th message of the New Believer Series]

In the preceding message we have discussed that new believers should know and acknowledge where their strength is coming from (this is wisdom), they should show appreciation and gratitude (this is acceptable worship) and teach this to others (this is work or ministry).

And all these are possible through the Spirit of God.

Holy Spirit

Earlier in this series we have introduced the Holy Spirit. And we said that the Holy Spirit is a person. He is our Comforter, Counselor, Advocate, Intercessor and ever present Help.

Most of us may have no idea what an 'ever present help' may mean. Let us try to shine a little light on this.

Creation

For a very long time humankind have wondered and have tried to find an explanation as to how all things came about. The most plausible reason waa a big bang. Boom, and the universe came to be. (Like magic).

But people are still divided over was it a case of something coming from something or the opposite, something out of nothing.

So in simple terms, there is a 50-50 chance that everything had to come from something; meaning there was a Source and not just an unknown cosmic hallelujah.

Old Testament

Throughout this series we have taken our Scripture passages from the New Testament bible (the Christian Scriptures), the one written about 2,000 years ago -- after the arrival and because of Jesus of Nazareth.

Today, we read a passage from the Old Testament, the Jewish Scriptures.

Genesis - The First Book of the Old Covenant

In the book of Genesis, the Holy Spirit or the Spirit of God was recorded to have been there from the very beginning -- before creation. With this revelation, 'ever present help' then takes on a whole new meaning.

From the Jewish Scriptures we get that God the Holy Spirit, God the Father and God the Son was the beginning, the Prime Mover, the Intelligent Designer  --  the Source and the Maker of all things, the explanation to everything coming out of "something" (the Alpha and the Omega). 

Big Bang

So it is generally accepted that everything came from a single event -- like the first domino that fell into the second and started the chain reaction, we call the domino effect.

Cosmologists agree on an event, something that they call as the Big Bang Theory (not the TV series).

This cosmological model describes how the universe came to be, expanded from an initial state to our present state and offers an explanation for a broad range of observed phenomena, including the abundance of light and radiation.

Light

In Genesis 1, God said: "Let there be light."

Kaboom!

Yes and the big bang (that no one heard) occured.  But we all can see the effect of. 

The Holy Spirit was there, observing and causing this to happen -- for creation to take place.

Logically, everything has to have a cause or everything was born out of something. And that something is what believers call God. Harder to believe and even harder to justify that everything just came out of nothing. I mean someone still has to stack up the dominos in just the right way and flick the first one.

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