CREATION
DAY 3 - DRY LAND & PLANTS
Genesis 1:9-13
DAY 3 - DRY LAND & PLANTS
Genesis 1:9-13
"Designed for the children of men to inhabit and to maintain"
I.. HABITATION FOR MAN. ( vv. 9, 10 )
A. What was confusion...( v2 )...is now order and both made useful.
1. Waters gathered in one place. ( Seas )
a. Above or below ground, they communicate with one another. ( Ecc. 1:7 )
2. Waters/Seas many times picture "troubles and afflictions". ( Ps. 42:7; 69:2, 14, 15 )
3. The waters bound by the Almighty hand of God. ( Ps. 104:6-9; Job 38:10, 11 )
B. Separation of Water and Land. ( Earth )
1. God forms the dry land. ( Ps. 95:5; Jonah 1:9 )
II. FURNISHED FOR MAN TO MAINTAIN. ( vv. 11, 12 )
A. Earth becomes fruitful upon its spoken existence for a perpetual time.
1. Grass for cattle.
2. Herb for man.
3. Vegetables.
B. The Earth is the Lord's AND the fullness thereof.
1. Earth was empty and void...v. 2...yet through the spoken word of God is now full and useful.
( Hosea 2:9 )
2. Matthew Henry comments that "Though the use of them is allowed to us, the property still
remains in him, and to his service and honour they must be used."
3. Providence...continued creation. ( MH )
4. Fruits normally are influenced by the sun and moon ( Deut. 33;14 ), here are fruit BEFORE
they ( sun/moon ) are created...."what a Mighty God we serve."
5. Matthew Henry comments that "it is good to provide things necessary before we have occasion to
use them."
6. "God must have the glory of all the benefit we receive from the products of the earth, either for
food or physic."
7. God hears....( Hosea 2:21, 22 )
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