Lesson 4 The Ingredients - Part 2
A. Overall Lesson Objective
•To understand that the Master Chef’s ingredients are His words.
B. Learning Competencies
•Genesis (Book of Beginnings) can be examined to assess the Master Chef’s actions to create by looking at the action verbs and objects that are recorded in the verses.
•Action verbs and objects in other parts of the Bible confirm the same thing: God created the universe by Himself. There is no other authorship or source.
•The ingredients to make all things at the beginning are God’s words, which is confirmed throughout the Bible.
C. Lesson
This is the second lesson that deals with the ingredients of the Master Chef’s actions in Genesis to create the heavens and the earth. We continue this analysis with a review of action verbs in Genesis but other books in the Bible as well that confirm the same thing: He initiates and completes each step of the creation process.
Action Verbs in Genesis (The Master Chef’s Actions)
Action verbs are plain indications of God’s work in Genesis. In a quick review of the following verses, list the action verbs in Genesis 1:1, 3, 4, 7, 16, 26, and 27.
For the sake of time, we will not go over all of them, but these verses have action verbs. Once you have listed them, consider the following questions:
🦕 CT? Is there any indication of action by any process, substance or person other than God? Is there any indication of any involvement other than His command to accomplish the actions?
Action Verbs in Other Genesis Chapters and Other Books:
Let us examine some representative action verbs associated directly with God in specific scriptures outside Genesis 1:
Note these words in Genesis 2:7-8: formed, breathed and planted
Note the action words in Proverbs 8:27 and Psalms 104:5.
Note the action words in Job 26:7 and Psalm 104:2.
In all of these references, note that God is doing the actions. There is no assistance from any other person, process, or thing. Check John 1:3 (a previously assigned scripture) to find the same thing.
🦕 CT? Locate and write out Colossians 1:15-17 on a board with plenty of room. Underline the action verbs and objects. These three verses specify that God ‘created’ and states that the starting point (see verse 17) is His command. Creation is the result.
In all the verses, His commands or His words are the ingredients. We think, within the confines of our lives, that an ingredient for anything is a process or a thing that is acted upon by someone. In the case of God’s creation, everything starts and ends with Him. Creation is the Master Chef’s result.
🦕 CT? This brings us back to our primary question in the last two lessons: What are the ingredients that He uses in Genesis 1 based on the verses that have been reviewed?
It should be plain that there are no ingredients as we normally understand them. At the beginning, there is nothing except Eternal God. Once He has created things, He does things with His creation. Apart from that which has been created at His command, however, there are no other ingredients. His words yield action and substance. Nothing happens in Genesis without His words. Creation, then, is totally dependent on Him. Nothing else is involved. This is also the statement of Hebrews 11:3.
D. Assignment
Read Genesis 1:10, 12, 18, 25, 28, and 31. Write down the definitions for ‘quality control’ and ‘oversight’ from at least two different sources. Bring them to the next class.
E. Learning Activity
Review Hebrews 1:3 and then compare to a real event where you see God change someone from near-death to health by simply giving the ‘word’ of action from a different place: Luke 7:2-10.
F. Concluding Assessment
God creates by His words. The ingredients for creation are His words. He commands; creation results.