Now, we come to day four, and God
said, Let the earth bring forth grass, the
herb yielding seed, the fruit tree yielding fruit
after its kind, whose seeding is itself upon
the earth.
It was so.
Now, God is putting plant life here, because
man, until the flood, was apparently a vegetarian.
He's going to eat nothing but fruits and
nuts.
And we could make a comment about that,
I guess, but we shouldn't, so we should
move on.
And we read here, And the earth brought
forth grass and herb, yielding seed after its
kind, the tree yielding fruit, whose seed was
in itself after its kind.
And God saw that it was good.
Now, that was the evening and morning of
the third day.
Now, we have, and God said, Let there
be lights in the firmament of the heaven
to divide the day from the night.
Now, God didn't create the sun and the
moon at this time.
They were already up there.
God just brought them around in position, one
of them to take charge of the day,
and the sun does it pretty well, and
the moon by night, and the moon does
a good job by night.
I do not know about you, but I
propose to my wife by moonlight, friends.
That moon has a lot of influence over
the night, I can assure you.
And then it just says here in a
clause at the end, He made the stars
also.
That was a pretty big job, by the
way, but not for God.
It was John Wesley who said that God
created the heavens and the earth and didn't
even half try.
He made the stars also.
And then it says, God set them in
the firmament of the heaven to give light
upon the earth, and to rule over the
day and over the night, and to divide
the light from the darkness.
And God saw that it was good.
And if you'll notice, it's God that does
the dividing here.
You know, He still does that.
There are those that say today, what's the
difference between right and wrong?
What God says, friends, God's drawn all the
line.
Somebody says, how do you know what's right?
What God says is right.
God has put down certain principles.
God divides the light from the darkness.
And it's just that much distinction between the
two, by the way.
He is the one that makes the difference,
and He still does it.