Creation | Material Reality

The Kingdom of God
Lesson #5 & Video #5
Creation of Material Reality

Then sometime within the spiritual reality of God’s Kingdom, the Almighty Creator God did an extraordinary thing: He created a material reality with limitation of time and space.
God created the Universe, the Earth, humans, living things, non-living things, and all this material reality exists within His everlasting spiritual Kingdom.
It had a Beginning :
- Genesis 1:1 — In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth.
- Psalm 102:25 — Of old You laid the foundation of the earth, and the heavens are the work of Your hands.
- Psalm 96:5 — For all the gods of the peoples are idols, but the LORD made the heavens.
Through Jesus Christ all things were made:

John 1:1-3 — “In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. He was in the beginning with God. All things were made through Him, and without Him nothing was made that was made.”
Hebrew 1:1-2 — “God, who at various times and in various ways spoke in time past to the fathers by the prophets, has in these last days spoken to us by His Son, whom He has appointed heir of all things, through whom also He made the worlds.”
Colossians 1:16-17 — “For by Him all things were created that are in heaven and that are on earth, visible and invisible, whether thrones or dominions or principalities or powers. All things were created through Him and for Him. And He is before all things, and in Him all things consist.”
1 Corinthians 8:6 — “Yet for us there is one God, the Father, of whom are all things, and we for Him; and one Lord Jesus Christ, through whom are all things, and through whom we live.”

Proverbs 8:22-30 — “The LORD possessed me at the beginning of His way before His works of old. I have been established from everlasting, from the beginning, before there was ever an earth. When there were no depths I was brought forth, When there were no fountains abounding with water. Before the mountains were settled, before the hills, I was brought forth; while as yet He had not made the earth or the fields, or the primal dust of the world. When He prepared the heavens, I was there, when He drew a circle on the face of the deep, when He established the clouds above, when He strengthened the fountains of the deep, when He assigned to the sea its limit, so that the waters would not transgress His command, when He marked out the foundations of the earth, then I was beside Him as a master craftsman; and I was daily His delight, rejoicing always before Him.”

Important:Humans created as spiritual/material beings in the image of God — Genesis 1:26-27
Important:Adam was given charge of the Garden and he was given dominion over all living things. He was given only one commandment and he broke it! — Genesis 2:15-17

God created the Universe, the Earth, humans, living things, non-living things, and all this material reality exists within His everlasting spiritual Kingdom.