Title: Earth and Sea/Genesis 1:9-10
Content Source: Gwangju Eunpyeong Church Student Council
◎Genesis 1:9-10 ◎Earth and sea
What God did on the third day was to cause the water that covered the earth's surface to be drawn to one place so that dry land was exposed.
The fundamental thing we need to know about the earth is that it came from water. Even after the heavens were created, the earth was covered with water. The whole world was water and there was not a single pyeong of land. What happened when God said, “Let the waters under the heavens be gathered into one place”? As the land rises and falls, the sea is created and the land is exposed.
At one word, “Let the waters under the heavens be gathered into one place,” the mountains went up and the valleys went down, and the water flowed to one place and the earth was exposed.
There is a lot of evidence that the land came out of water.
The land was essentially made out of water. The earth would not have existed if the bottom of the sea had not gone down and the earth had not risen. The land we live in is like the Netherlands. In the Netherlands, the land is lower than the sea. So, on the day the dam bursts, it becomes a sea of water in an instant. God used the sand as a limit to keep water from overflowing the land, so that the sea could never enter beyond that limit.
What does the fact that the earth was made of water tell us? That is, this land is unstable. When the land becomes flat again, the entire land is bound to sink again into the water.
Fortunately, the land is being preserved because God set the boundaries of the sea and prevented the sea from attacking the land. However, if God loosens this boundary line, the land is bound to be covered by the sea.
What is preventing the sea from flooding the land? What is holding the sea in a glass jar, preventing it from crawling to the ground?
The word of God is blocking it. God's Word commanded the sea, "You must never cross over the sand, as the sand is the limit."
The reason we can live like this and say, “Let's go to the sea where the waves are crashing,” is because God holds the sea with His Word. Also, God is holding on to the word with the word so that the water in heaven does not pour out. Yet, the Israelites are not afraid of God's word.
It is not the force of the air or the gravity of the Earth that is blocking the oceans and holding up the waters of the sky. It is the word of God. You may hear me say, “Evangelist, you are ignorant,” but it is God who made the law of gravity and everything. A person's life is in the nose. If you cover your nose, you die. How weak are they?
God stretched out the sky and gathered the water in one place so that we could not climb onto the earth so that we could realize how small we are before God and how vast God is on the contrary.
People go to the sea countless times, but they do not understand the reason why the sea only comes here, but it is because they do not read the Bible.
The world we live in is a very small greenhouse and a greenhouse. Can you guys build up water? Water is not a brick. Water is meant to flow. But the Israelites saw water piled up on both sides like bricks. What made this water build up like bricks into a wall? It was the word of God. And when God spoke, the waters fell apart, and all the Egyptians who were testing them, following along the way, drowned and died. The Word builds up water, makes it flow, locks it up, and makes it pour out. Also, the disciples of Jesus saw that the wind and storm that had been raging like that had calmed down with just one word of Jesus. This is the power of God's Word.
Today we are hearing the word of this power, and it is making us new people. These words we are hearing are the words of the power that holds the sea, holds the waters of the air, and builds the sea like bricks. These words create the parts that are not in us and change the parts that are in us. These words make a new person, no matter how depraved, no matter how unlikely.
Ladies and gentlemen, the gospel does not only change young people with potential. It is not the gospel to select only good and potential people and teach the Word to make them more capable and visionary. The gospel is to create a new person who is impossible. People who have hardened hair as they get older are made fresher than young people. But we change slowly. Why? It is because we cannot receive the word of this power by faith.
Even now, God is changing us. In the Word, you are invited. We just have to accept it.
Conclusion.
God created the sea today. And he set the boundary between land and sea. The fact that the land and the sea do not invade each other is the power of the Word. Especially the sea is wide. We hope that you will develop our vision and thoughts while looking at the sea.