1929 Young Mens Corner - page 3

YOUNG MEN’S CORNER No.

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--Tenth

Series.

January, 1929

GENESIS AND THE COVENANTS.

CONTENTS.

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The Six days’ work and the Sabbath. -- Genesis 1. 1. --2. 3. --

Papers from Armagh, Wishaw, Glasgow, Kilmarnock and Galston, Musselburgh and Edinburgh,  Cardiff, Atherton, Barrow, London, S. E

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The generations of the heaven and of the earth. --Genesis 2. 4.

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Papers from Armagh, London, S. E., Paisley, Atherton, West Riding 10

"Genesis in the New Testament, " by S. B 14

Notices

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THE six

DAYS’ WORK AND THE SABBATH.

GENESIS 1, 1 --2, 3

FROM ARMAGH. -- In commencing the book of Genesis we are taken as far back as the finite mind can possibly go. We first notice

the cause of this great work of creation was God.  The Hebrew word (Elohim) shows the plurality of Persons in the Godhead. The Son of

God, the Word and Wisdom of God, was with Him when He made the world and without Him was not anything made that was made (see John 1. 3. ; Colossians 1. 16-19). It was suggested that at the time of which the first verse speaks the world was in an orderly condition and that for some cause unknown it was brought to the state of chaos spoken of in the second verse.  The Holy Spirit is brought before us in the third verse as moving on the face of the waters. In Job 26. 13. we are told that God by His Spirit garnished the heavens, and by the same Spirit the new creation is effected in the soul.  God first created light and this by the word of His power. See 1 John 1. 5. After God created light He immediately divided light from darkness ; this has always been so with God, and to us who are His the word comes afresh : "Be not unequally yoked together with unbelievers ... what communion hath light with darkness?" (2 Corinthians 6. 14). The second day saw the waters above heaven divided from the waters under it.  How wonder-ful it is to read and see how God made provision on the third day for man and beast which were not made until three days after !  On the fourth day we see God making the lights for signs, for seasons, for days and years, and to give light upon the earth.  We who have been brought from darkness to light are to be seen as luminaries in the world (Philippians 2. 15).  The earth being now fit for habitation we see God making the first creatures, fishes and fowl after their kind.

On the sixth day God creates cattle, creeping things, beasts of the earth and man. Man was made last of all the creatures : this was both an honour and favour to him.  Man, as soon as he was made had