SCRIPTURE: Genesis 1:1-2:4 (Page1); 2 Timothy 2:19-3:17 (Page 1415)
SERMON: Reform and Refill!								11 November 2001

  I. TEXT: THE EARTH AS CONCEIVED (1:2; see Ps.139:13-16)

A. EARTH WAS FORMLESS & VOID (1:2a)

B. DARKNESS 		UPON THE FACE OF DEEP (1:2b)

C. SPIRIT HOVERING	UPON THE FACE OF THE WATERS (1:2c)

 II. TRUTH: THE EARTH AS RAW MATERIAL (1:2)

A. THE PRODUCT OF INITIAL CREATION (1:11:2; not Is.14:12f,4 (see Rev.12:9; Jn.12:31; 2Th.2:4f))

B. FOCUS ON THE EARTH (1:1d2a; see 2:4&following)

C. FORM & FILL FOR FUNCTION (1:2; see 3f&14f; 2:7; see Is.45:18)
1. unformed & unfilled: non-functional (1:2a)

2. dark & deep: inert (1:2b)

3. Spirit hovering: omnipotence in action (1:2c; see Deut.32:10,11; Ps.104:29,30)

4. waters: unformed & unfilled; deep darkness (1:2a,b,c; see Ps.139:15,16)

D. MADE FOR MAN (1:2; see 1:26f; 2:7f; see Ps.115:16; see Mk.2:27 with Gen.2:1-3; Ex.20:8-11)

III. TELOS: THE END OF THE BEGINNING (1:2&following; see Is.46:10; Rev.21:6)

A. NO GOOD WITHOUT GOD (1:2; see Eccl.2:25; 5:19&6:2; Jn.15:1; i.e., inert)

B. VESSEL: FORMED & FILLED FOR FUNCTION (1:2f; Rom.9:21-23; 2Tim.2:19,21)
1. unusable; inert (1:2a,b; see Lev.11:33,34; Jer.18:4; 19:11; 22:48; 48:38(Hos.8:8); 51:34; see Eph.2:1-5; 2Tim.2:21)
2. gracious power toward the powerless (1:2c; see Is.64:8; 63:15,16(29:16; 45:9); Lam.4:2; 2Cor.4:7; 1Pt.3:7)

3. refreshed for use (2Tim.2:19,21f; Is.66:20; see Ps.51:2f; Mt.23:25f; 1Cor.6:9-11; 1Jn.1:9; see Mk.4:19; Prv.25:4)

4. reformed for use (Gen1:3f; 2:7a; 2Tim3:16,17(2:19,21f); Rom8:29; 12:2; Eph4:24f; Phil3:10f; Col3:10,5f; see Jer18:4)

5. refilled for use (Gen.1:14f; 2:7b; Mt.12:43-45; Acts 9:15,17; Rom8:9f; 1Cor.3:16; 2Cor.4:7; 2Tm.1:14; 4:6(2:21; 3:16,17))

6. the Spirit of God hovering over the inert (1:2; Job 33:4; Rom.8:9f; Eph.3:16-19; 4:13-16,24; 5:18; Jn.6:63; see Ex.31:3; Dt.34:9; Acts 4:8,31; 6:3,5; 9:15,17; 2Pt.1:20,21)

7. the preeminent example (Heb.10:5(Ps.139:15,16); Mt.3:16; 12:28)

C. NEW EARTH: REFORMED & REFILLED FOR REFUNCTION (1:2c; Mt.6:10; Rom.8:19-22; Rev.21,22)

D. HOPE FOR THE HOPELESS (1:2c; see Lk.11:13; Eph.2:1f,5f)