Session 1: Genesis 1:1-2:2

Session 1: Genesis 1:1-2:2

Summarize:

• Before everything God was(1)
• Everything that exists was created by God(1-2)
• God is a Spirit, not bound by matter, space or time(1-2)
• God created light and separated it from darkness naming it day and night on the first day(3-5)
• Second day God created the sky and separated the water in the atmosphere from water on earth (6-8)
• God created dry land then vegetation on the third day(9-13)
• God creates the sun, moon and measurement for time on the fourth day(14-19)
• God creates living things in the waters and in the air on the fifth day(20-23)
• God creates land animals and man on the sixth day(24-31)
• God creates man in His image and bestows His authority to man(28-30)
• God calls everything He creates good
• God commands the creatures He creates to be fruitful and multiply(22,28)
• God rests on the seventh day and sanctifies the seventh day

Analyze:

1. According to the text what comes before God?(1)

1. Why is it important to know that there was nothing before God and that God has always been?
2. What is significant about the text telling us that the “Spirit of God” was hovering over the surface of the waters?

2. How did God create the heavens and the earth?(3-19)

1. What do we learn about God when we look at the order in which He created?
2. What does God call light and dark?(5)
3. What is significant about God creating and instituting night and day?
4. What is different about what God creates in vs 4-5 and 14-19?
5. What was the impact of what God created on the fourth day?
6. How does knowing that God is the one that created the measurement of time affect your understanding of how God fits into time?

3. What does the text say about what God thinks about what He has created?

1. What is significant about knowing that what God creates is good?

4. What command does God give to the living creatures he makes?(22, 28)
5. What does the text say about the seeds that were produced by the plants that grew?(12)

1. What does it say about how God created the animals of the earth, air, and water?(21-22, 24-25)
2. What is the significance of knowing that all created things were created after “their own kind” and that God commanded each “kind” to be fruitful and multiply?
3. How does knowing this, "each kind made after its own and producing their own kind," relevant to today?

6. What commands does God give to mankind that are specific to him?(28-30)

1. What is the connection between being man made in the image of God and the responsibility/authority God gives man?
2. What did God give to man for food?(29)
3. Why is it important to know what God gave to man for food?
4. What does God give all the living creatures for food?(30)
5. What is the significance of knowing that all living creatures were originally given plants for food?

7. What does God say about his work on the 6th day?(31)
8. What does God do on the seventh day?(2:2)

1. What is the significance of God choosing to rest on the seventh day?
2. How does God choosing to rest after completing His work bear any relevance to modern man?

Contextualize:

1. God is the Creator and Master over all things.
2. God created man to glorify Him
3. God endows man with His authority and gives him responsibility to care for God’s creation

Actualize:

I will commit to thanking God for all He’s created and ask Him to help me understand the responsibility of caring for what God has created everyday this week.