1 00:00:04,033 --> 00:00:09,366 Dear sisters, dear brothers in Christ, in 2 00:00:09,366 --> 00:00:14,600 the beginning and at the beginning. Yes, 3 00:00:14,600 --> 00:00:15,233 we 4 00:00:15,233 --> 00:00:17,633 are at the beginning of a new semester, 5 00:00:17,633 --> 00:00:19,933 and this is just for you following us 6 00:00:19,933 --> 00:00:20,966 online because 7 00:00:20,966 --> 00:00:23,600 everybody in this chapel knows this is 8 00:00:23,600 --> 00:00:26,433 the beginning of the spring semester, and 9 00:00:26,433 --> 00:00:26,900 it's 10 00:00:26,900 --> 00:00:30,800 the beginning of a new series of sermons 11 00:00:30,800 --> 00:00:33,633 or homilies in this chapel. 12 00:00:34,766 --> 00:00:37,400 This comes from an email by Dr. Vieker, 13 00:00:37,400 --> 00:00:38,833 our dean of chapel. 14 00:00:39,733 --> 00:00:42,233 There are two sermon series this 15 00:00:42,233 --> 00:00:43,100 semester. 16 00:00:44,000 --> 00:00:46,466 The first falls on Mondays and is based 17 00:00:46,466 --> 00:00:49,066 on the great narratives of the first part 18 00:00:49,066 --> 00:00:49,366 of 19 00:00:49,366 --> 00:00:49,833 Genesis. 20 00:00:49,833 --> 00:00:52,800 The second sermon series occurs on 21 00:00:52,800 --> 00:00:56,166 Fridays and covers the Ten Commandments 22 00:00:56,166 --> 00:00:57,900 and the Sacrament 23 00:00:57,900 --> 00:00:59,533 of Holy Baptism. 24 00:01:01,066 --> 00:01:05,366 I checked it out, and yes, it's a series 25 00:01:05,366 --> 00:01:09,233 of 12 Mondays, which will take us to 26 00:01:09,233 --> 00:01:10,333 Genesis 27 00:01:10,333 --> 00:01:13,766 18, only to Genesis 18. 28 00:01:13,766 --> 00:01:18,266 Great scholars and preachers will come 29 00:01:18,266 --> 00:01:19,566 after me. 30 00:01:20,033 --> 00:01:21,833 I'm a New Testament guy. 31 00:01:21,933 --> 00:01:23,533 I'm a poor forerunner. 32 00:01:24,100 --> 00:01:27,933 So you will hear scholars, and where else 33 00:01:27,933 --> 00:01:31,100 in the world will you have this? 34 00:01:31,833 --> 00:01:34,266 Six Old Testament professors. 35 00:01:35,566 --> 00:01:37,566 We're searching for one in Brazil. 36 00:01:37,566 --> 00:01:41,133 You have six, so it will be Penhallegon, 37 00:01:41,133 --> 00:01:44,333 Egger, Fritsche, Saleska, Mudge, and 38 00:01:44,333 --> 00:01:46,066 Golden, and then 39 00:01:46,066 --> 00:01:50,266 homiliticians like Schmitt and Tinetti. 40 00:01:51,033 --> 00:01:54,733 And here again I quote Dr. Vieker, I am 41 00:01:54,733 --> 00:01:58,633 delighted that this semester we have some 42 00:01:58,633 --> 00:01:59,766 15 fourth 43 00:01:59,766 --> 00:02:03,433 year men who have volunteered to preach. 44 00:02:04,333 --> 00:02:07,533 Blessings to these promising preachers. 45 00:02:07,533 --> 00:02:10,566 Well, you are preachers, and may their 46 00:02:10,566 --> 00:02:13,166 tribe increase in future years. 47 00:02:14,266 --> 00:02:18,000 Gentlemen, you'll be in good company, and 48 00:02:18,000 --> 00:02:21,466 you will be standing on holy ground. 49 00:02:22,900 --> 00:02:27,966 So I've been assigned Genesis 1. 50 00:02:29,433 --> 00:02:32,666 How do you preach this text? 51 00:02:34,400 --> 00:02:36,966 Quite frankly, I have spoken about it. 52 00:02:38,033 --> 00:02:42,566 I have taken a class, I had a class, 53 00:02:42,566 --> 00:02:44,866 Genesis 1 to 11. 54 00:02:46,166 --> 00:02:48,766 I remember parts of the Hebrew. 55 00:02:49,766 --> 00:02:56,000 I quoted the opening sentence dozens of 56 00:02:56,000 --> 00:02:57,266 times, 57 00:02:57,566 --> 00:02:59,733 B'reshit bara Elohim et hashamayim 58 00:02:59,733 --> 00:03:02,066 v'et ha'aretz, to illustrate the difference 59 00:03:02,066 --> 00:03:03,233 between languages, 60 00:03:03,666 --> 00:03:06,633 word order, created God. 61 00:03:06,700 --> 00:03:08,066 No, God created. 62 00:03:08,766 --> 00:03:10,733 I confess it daily. 63 00:03:11,366 --> 00:03:15,933 I believe in God the Father, maker of 64 00:03:15,933 --> 00:03:18,266 heaven and earth. 65 00:03:19,966 --> 00:03:21,866 But how do you preach it? 66 00:03:23,066 --> 00:03:24,133 Not a short text. 67 00:03:25,233 --> 00:03:27,833 Do you have a class before 1 p.m.? 68 00:03:30,766 --> 00:03:32,533 Maybe Dr. Luther can help us. 69 00:03:33,833 --> 00:03:36,966 So Luther says, he has, well, he has a 70 00:03:36,966 --> 00:03:38,466 long commentary. 71 00:03:38,466 --> 00:03:42,166 He lectured on this book for 10 years 72 00:03:42,166 --> 00:03:45,766 with many interruptions, for sure. 73 00:03:46,566 --> 00:03:49,433 So I thought maybe Luther can help me. 74 00:03:50,200 --> 00:03:52,866 So he writes, he begins this way. 75 00:03:53,466 --> 00:03:56,333 The first chapter of our Holy Bible is 76 00:03:56,333 --> 00:03:59,066 written in the simplest and plainest 77 00:03:59,066 --> 00:03:59,966 language. 78 00:04:00,733 --> 00:04:04,166 And yet, this is Luther, it's simple, and 79 00:04:04,166 --> 00:04:06,833 yet, it contains the greatest, 80 00:04:06,833 --> 00:04:09,500 and at the same time, the most difficult 81 00:04:09,500 --> 00:04:10,100 themes. 82 00:04:11,333 --> 00:04:13,266 Well, I'm in for trouble. 83 00:04:14,800 --> 00:04:18,566 Therefore, the Jews, as Jerome testifies, 84 00:04:18,566 --> 00:04:22,533 were forbidden to read it or hear it read 85 00:04:22,533 --> 00:04:26,500 before they were 30 years of age. 86 00:04:27,733 --> 00:04:30,100 Well, if you're under 30, you have heard 87 00:04:30,100 --> 00:04:30,866 it already. 88 00:04:32,033 --> 00:04:33,466 But we are in a Christian church. 89 00:04:33,900 --> 00:04:35,166 That makes a difference. 90 00:04:36,166 --> 00:04:38,300 And then Luther goes on, the Jews 91 00:04:38,300 --> 00:04:40,966 required that all the other scriptures be 92 00:04:40,966 --> 00:04:41,800 well known 93 00:04:41,800 --> 00:04:45,300 by everyone before they were permitted to 94 00:04:45,300 --> 00:04:47,333 approach this chapter. 95 00:04:48,900 --> 00:04:50,866 Well, do I know all the other scriptures 96 00:04:50,866 --> 00:04:51,233 well? 97 00:04:51,866 --> 00:04:52,866 Not so sure. 98 00:04:53,833 --> 00:04:57,100 The rabbis, however, accomplished little 99 00:04:57,100 --> 00:05:00,400 good by this for even many of the rabbis 100 00:05:00,400 --> 00:05:01,466 themselves 101 00:05:01,466 --> 00:05:04,800 whose years were more than twice 30, I 102 00:05:04,800 --> 00:05:07,866 could be one of them, give in their 103 00:05:07,866 --> 00:05:09,200 commentaries 104 00:05:09,200 --> 00:05:12,566 and Talmud the most childish and foolish 105 00:05:12,566 --> 00:05:15,766 explanations of these, the greatest of 106 00:05:15,766 --> 00:05:17,466 all the subjects. 107 00:05:19,133 --> 00:05:22,266 So I cannot say that I have not been 108 00:05:22,266 --> 00:05:23,066 warned. 109 00:05:25,233 --> 00:05:30,800 So what do you say, what do you preach 110 00:05:30,800 --> 00:05:33,433 about this text? 111 00:05:34,600 --> 00:05:37,666 The details are not unimportant. 112 00:05:40,300 --> 00:05:43,600 Nicholas of Lyra, for instance, to whom 113 00:05:43,600 --> 00:05:47,033 Luther refers time and again, observed, 114 00:05:47,033 --> 00:05:49,966 for instance, that it does not say, in 115 00:05:49,966 --> 00:05:52,800 the beginning, God said, let there be 116 00:05:52,800 --> 00:05:53,566 heavens 117 00:05:53,566 --> 00:05:54,600 and earth. 118 00:05:55,000 --> 00:05:59,100 He said, let there be light and light was 119 00:05:59,100 --> 00:05:59,800 made. 120 00:06:01,133 --> 00:06:03,866 If Luther is right, Lyra may be 121 00:06:03,866 --> 00:06:07,433 responding to people like Augustine, who 122 00:06:07,433 --> 00:06:09,200 as Luther writes, 123 00:06:09,766 --> 00:06:13,266 believed that the world was made on a 124 00:06:13,266 --> 00:06:17,066 sudden and all at once, not successively 125 00:06:17,066 --> 00:06:18,300 during the 126 00:06:18,300 --> 00:06:20,366 space of six days. 127 00:06:21,500 --> 00:06:24,233 Today, people think six days, you cannot 128 00:06:24,233 --> 00:06:26,700 make the heaven and the earth in six 129 00:06:26,700 --> 00:06:27,233 days. 130 00:06:27,766 --> 00:06:29,700 And people in the early church believe, 131 00:06:29,700 --> 00:06:31,533 well, God would not take six days. 132 00:06:31,533 --> 00:06:33,866 He could have done it all at once. 133 00:06:35,066 --> 00:06:37,633 And still speaking of St. Augustine, 134 00:06:37,633 --> 00:06:40,466 Luther says that Augustine considers the 135 00:06:40,466 --> 00:06:41,266 six days 136 00:06:41,266 --> 00:06:45,000 to be mystical days of knowledge in the 137 00:06:45,000 --> 00:06:47,900 angels and not natural days. 138 00:06:48,966 --> 00:06:51,466 And Luther responds, Moses spoke 139 00:06:51,466 --> 00:06:53,933 literally and plainly in neither 140 00:06:53,933 --> 00:06:56,600 allegorically nor figuratively. 141 00:06:57,833 --> 00:07:00,266 And I was under the impression that this 142 00:07:00,266 --> 00:07:02,733 discussion about the genre of Genesis was 143 00:07:02,733 --> 00:07:03,833 a modern thing. 144 00:07:03,833 --> 00:07:05,733 They were discussing this in the early 145 00:07:05,733 --> 00:07:06,200 church. 146 00:07:06,766 --> 00:07:07,900 Is it poetry? 147 00:07:08,266 --> 00:07:10,000 I've seen it printed as poetry. 148 00:07:10,166 --> 00:07:11,833 Well, it doesn't look like poetry. 149 00:07:13,366 --> 00:07:13,866 Elevated prose. 150 00:07:14,366 --> 00:07:17,166 Well, maybe, but it's still prose. 151 00:07:18,633 --> 00:07:18,866 Okay. 152 00:07:19,533 --> 00:07:22,566 So what do you do? 153 00:07:23,333 --> 00:07:26,233 Luther points us in the right direction. 154 00:07:27,033 --> 00:07:30,933 When he says we have to look at the 155 00:07:30,933 --> 00:07:32,833 bigger picture. 156 00:07:33,533 --> 00:07:37,400 He writes, interpreters have confused and 157 00:07:37,400 --> 00:07:41,500 entangled everything with such a variety, 158 00:07:41,700 --> 00:07:45,966 diversity, and infinity of questions that 159 00:07:45,966 --> 00:07:49,800 it is very clear that God reserved to 160 00:07:49,800 --> 00:07:50,833 Himself 161 00:07:50,833 --> 00:07:54,233 the majesty of this wisdom and the 162 00:07:54,233 --> 00:07:58,033 correct understanding of this chapter, 163 00:07:58,033 --> 00:07:59,333 leaving to 164 00:07:59,633 --> 00:08:05,766 us only the general ideas that the world 165 00:08:05,766 --> 00:08:11,600 had a beginning and was created by God 166 00:08:11,600 --> 00:08:14,366 out of nothing. 167 00:08:16,633 --> 00:08:20,433 So you could focus on the details and 168 00:08:20,433 --> 00:08:23,833 maybe not even get to the text. 169 00:08:26,733 --> 00:08:31,366 There is a book about why does the Torah 170 00:08:31,366 --> 00:08:34,733 begin with the letter Beit? 171 00:08:37,133 --> 00:08:39,366 Yeah, so you can discuss this text even 172 00:08:39,366 --> 00:08:40,633 before you begin it. 173 00:08:40,700 --> 00:08:43,433 Why is the first letter the second letter 174 00:08:43,433 --> 00:08:44,633 of the alphabet? 175 00:08:45,733 --> 00:08:48,933 But it's much more important and helpful 176 00:08:48,933 --> 00:08:52,166 to see the big picture because we cannot 177 00:08:52,166 --> 00:08:52,733 deal 178 00:08:52,733 --> 00:08:53,933 with the details. 179 00:08:54,633 --> 00:08:58,633 The big picture, the stained glass 180 00:08:58,633 --> 00:08:59,666 window. 181 00:09:01,733 --> 00:09:04,966 Luther mentions those who divide these 182 00:09:04,966 --> 00:09:08,466 sacred matters into the work of creation, 183 00:09:08,466 --> 00:09:09,733 distinction, 184 00:09:10,566 --> 00:09:12,933 and or nation or decoration. 185 00:09:13,333 --> 00:09:16,333 He is not fond of it, but I think it 186 00:09:16,333 --> 00:09:16,966 helps. 187 00:09:17,733 --> 00:09:21,466 God prepares, God creates, and then he 188 00:09:21,466 --> 00:09:25,266 prepares the settings and then he fills 189 00:09:25,266 --> 00:09:26,633 the spaces. 190 00:09:27,166 --> 00:09:30,933 So he has the sea and the dry land and 191 00:09:30,933 --> 00:09:34,666 now he puts the creatures in and on. 192 00:09:36,433 --> 00:09:42,433 So there is this big picture. 193 00:09:44,366 --> 00:09:47,433 Narrative analysis can help us to see the 194 00:09:47,433 --> 00:09:48,500 big picture. 195 00:09:50,333 --> 00:09:53,000 And I've checked a few authors dealing 196 00:09:53,000 --> 00:09:55,633 with this passage and it's helpful. 197 00:09:55,933 --> 00:09:57,833 They show us the big picture. 198 00:09:59,266 --> 00:10:01,733 One author wrote the following, 199 00:10:01,733 --> 00:10:04,566 everything is numerically ordered. 200 00:10:05,133 --> 00:10:07,400 You cannot miss that, first day, second 201 00:10:07,400 --> 00:10:07,733 day. 202 00:10:07,733 --> 00:10:10,833 Creation proceeds through a rhythmic 203 00:10:10,833 --> 00:10:13,933 process of incremental repetition. 204 00:10:16,433 --> 00:10:18,833 The verbs, God is the subject of the 205 00:10:18,833 --> 00:10:19,366 verbs. 206 00:10:19,466 --> 00:10:20,833 Who else could it be? 207 00:10:21,566 --> 00:10:25,666 God created, said, He saw, separated, 208 00:10:25,666 --> 00:10:30,366 called, made, blessed, finished his work. 209 00:10:31,633 --> 00:10:35,766 For the first four days, the governing 210 00:10:35,766 --> 00:10:37,933 verb is to divide. 211 00:10:39,533 --> 00:10:43,500 Each moment of creation is conceived as a 212 00:10:43,500 --> 00:10:47,466 balancing of opposites of a bifurcation 213 00:10:47,466 --> 00:10:50,700 producing difference in some particular 214 00:10:50,700 --> 00:10:52,666 category of existence. 215 00:10:53,500 --> 00:10:56,266 So you have darkness and light, night and 216 00:10:56,266 --> 00:10:59,133 day, evening and morning, water and sky, 217 00:10:59,966 --> 00:11:03,266 water and dry land, sun and moon, grass 218 00:11:03,266 --> 00:11:06,300 and trees, bird and sea creatures, 219 00:11:06,933 --> 00:11:10,833 beast of the field and creeping thing of 220 00:11:10,833 --> 00:11:14,333 the earth, human, male and female. 221 00:11:16,766 --> 00:11:20,133 So that's what you have, coherence, 222 00:11:20,133 --> 00:11:20,900 order. 223 00:11:21,833 --> 00:11:23,933 And then this author has a word that 224 00:11:23,933 --> 00:11:24,633 struck me. 225 00:11:24,933 --> 00:11:27,066 He mentions law. 226 00:11:27,066 --> 00:11:31,333 Law is the underlying characteristic of 227 00:11:31,333 --> 00:11:34,433 the world as God makes it. 228 00:11:35,433 --> 00:11:38,933 As Albert Einstein would put it, God does 229 00:11:38,933 --> 00:11:41,866 not play dice with the universe. 230 00:11:42,833 --> 00:11:45,866 And man entering the picture climatically 231 00:11:45,866 --> 00:11:48,900 just before it's declared complete on the 232 00:11:48,900 --> 00:11:49,933 seventh day 233 00:11:49,933 --> 00:11:53,833 is a sign they clearly demarcated role of 234 00:11:53,833 --> 00:11:56,966 dominance in a great hierarchy. 235 00:11:58,066 --> 00:12:01,066 So we live in an ordered universe. 236 00:12:01,533 --> 00:12:03,666 We affirm creation. 237 00:12:05,333 --> 00:12:08,566 So we say no to pantheism. 238 00:12:09,766 --> 00:12:12,666 Creation is not an extension of God. 239 00:12:13,733 --> 00:12:16,433 We say no to Gnosticism. 240 00:12:18,066 --> 00:12:22,066 Matter, created stuff is not evil in 241 00:12:22,066 --> 00:12:23,066 itself. 242 00:12:24,066 --> 00:12:27,033 We affirm creation. 243 00:12:28,300 --> 00:12:31,900 It's not Mother Earth, but it's God the 244 00:12:31,900 --> 00:12:35,800 Father and brother, son and sister moon. 245 00:12:37,233 --> 00:12:38,700 We affirm creation. 246 00:12:39,800 --> 00:12:45,400 But creation can easily bracketed out or 247 00:12:45,400 --> 00:12:48,366 ignored, forgotten. 248 00:12:49,200 --> 00:12:50,233 It can be overlooked. 249 00:12:50,233 --> 00:12:55,266 We pay our weekly visit to the Garden of 250 00:12:55,266 --> 00:12:57,800 Eden in Genesis 3, 251 00:12:58,433 --> 00:13:01,733 but maybe we should go beyond that or 252 00:13:01,733 --> 00:13:04,533 back to Genesis 1 more often. 253 00:13:06,733 --> 00:13:10,733 Because the second article easily 254 00:13:10,733 --> 00:13:14,600 swallows up the first article. 255 00:13:16,433 --> 00:13:19,466 And this should not be so. 256 00:13:21,133 --> 00:13:24,033 Now, how about us? 257 00:13:25,366 --> 00:13:28,966 What about the frame we are in here in 258 00:13:28,966 --> 00:13:31,266 this beautiful chapel? 259 00:13:32,666 --> 00:13:35,700 And what I'm about to say now, I can say 260 00:13:35,700 --> 00:13:36,600 only here, 261 00:13:36,866 --> 00:13:39,533 which is a good example of the 262 00:13:39,533 --> 00:13:41,933 locatedness of preaching. 263 00:13:42,300 --> 00:13:44,433 I cannot say it anywhere else. 264 00:13:44,633 --> 00:13:49,266 None of the windows here is a direct 265 00:13:49,266 --> 00:13:52,333 depiction of creation. 266 00:13:54,100 --> 00:13:57,100 The stained glass windows are inspired in 267 00:13:57,100 --> 00:13:58,033 the Te deum, 268 00:13:58,233 --> 00:14:01,366 which is a hymn of praise to God for 269 00:14:01,366 --> 00:14:04,100 Christ's incarnation, death and 270 00:14:04,100 --> 00:14:05,466 resurrection. 271 00:14:06,666 --> 00:14:09,866 But then comes the master stroke of the 272 00:14:09,866 --> 00:14:13,133 committee in charge of these beautiful 273 00:14:13,133 --> 00:14:15,300 stained glass windows. 274 00:14:16,033 --> 00:14:19,533 They do not block out creation. 275 00:14:20,566 --> 00:14:23,766 The clear glass is transparent. 276 00:14:24,433 --> 00:14:28,533 So you see creation in all of them. 277 00:14:30,766 --> 00:14:32,566 But there is more. 278 00:14:34,700 --> 00:14:38,300 Going to the New Testament, God speaks 279 00:14:38,300 --> 00:14:41,600 about new creation, new creation. 280 00:14:42,633 --> 00:14:46,433 It's new, but it's still creation. 281 00:14:47,666 --> 00:14:50,933 There would be no new creation apart from 282 00:14:50,933 --> 00:14:51,833 creation. 283 00:14:52,200 --> 00:14:54,466 And there is no creation apart from the 284 00:14:54,466 --> 00:14:56,533 logos, apart from the Son of God. 285 00:14:56,866 --> 00:14:59,733 All things were made through Him. 286 00:15:00,566 --> 00:15:03,333 And there is no creation apart from Jesus 287 00:15:03,333 --> 00:15:05,833 and no new creation apart from Him. 288 00:15:05,833 --> 00:15:09,633 Jesus in his death and resurrection is 289 00:15:09,633 --> 00:15:13,733 the first fruits of God's new creation. 290 00:15:14,566 --> 00:15:15,933 The first fruits. 291 00:15:16,966 --> 00:15:21,266 The glorified humanity of the risen Lord 292 00:15:21,266 --> 00:15:24,700 Jesus affirms the materiality of 293 00:15:24,700 --> 00:15:26,066 salvation. 294 00:15:26,766 --> 00:15:29,766 And we have a foretaste of this in the 295 00:15:29,766 --> 00:15:32,466 materiality of water in baptism, 296 00:15:32,466 --> 00:15:35,766 the materiality of bread and wine in the 297 00:15:35,766 --> 00:15:37,100 Lord's supper. 298 00:15:39,233 --> 00:15:44,233 So in seeing the image of the risen 299 00:15:44,233 --> 00:15:49,966 Christ, you see new creation and you see 300 00:15:49,966 --> 00:15:52,400 yourself in it 301 00:15:52,400 --> 00:15:53,900 as a new creature. 302 00:15:55,333 --> 00:16:00,166 If this is so, the window depicting 303 00:16:00,166 --> 00:16:05,466 creation, new creation that is, is the 304 00:16:05,466 --> 00:16:08,233 window behind me. 305 00:16:10,266 --> 00:16:14,500 Can you see the life that's emerging from 306 00:16:14,500 --> 00:16:16,266 the empty tomb? 307 00:16:17,366 --> 00:16:20,333 Can you see this spiral of life? 308 00:16:20,866 --> 00:16:24,966 Can you see the sword of the Spirit and 309 00:16:24,966 --> 00:16:27,833 the Spirit in this image? 310 00:16:29,500 --> 00:16:33,966 So there is the image of creation, new 311 00:16:33,966 --> 00:16:35,266 creation. 312 00:16:36,366 --> 00:16:38,833 So when at the end of the creed, I 313 00:16:38,833 --> 00:16:41,800 confess, I believe in the resurrection of 314 00:16:41,800 --> 00:16:42,566 the body 315 00:16:42,566 --> 00:16:44,733 and the life everlasting, I'm 316 00:16:44,733 --> 00:16:47,233 reconnecting with the beginning. 317 00:16:48,000 --> 00:16:50,500 I believe in the maker of heaven and 318 00:16:50,500 --> 00:16:51,066 earth. 319 00:16:52,400 --> 00:16:54,866 I believe in the creator. 320 00:16:55,100 --> 00:16:58,133 I believe in the Spirit, the Lord and 321 00:16:58,133 --> 00:16:59,433 giver of life. 322 00:17:00,100 --> 00:17:04,766 So the creed is in a sense not only based 323 00:17:04,766 --> 00:17:09,233 on creation, but it's also unfolding, 324 00:17:10,400 --> 00:17:12,733 it's expansion so to speak. 325 00:17:13,266 --> 00:17:16,733 The creed reaches its goal at the end. 326 00:17:17,966 --> 00:17:21,866 Creation, new creation, Jesus, Alpha and 327 00:17:21,866 --> 00:17:22,666 Omega. 328 00:17:23,599 --> 00:17:26,400 I believe in God, the Father, maker of 329 00:17:26,400 --> 00:17:27,766 heaven and earth. 330 00:17:28,466 --> 00:17:31,666 I believe that God has made me and all 331 00:17:31,666 --> 00:17:32,666 creatures. 332 00:17:33,466 --> 00:17:35,833 I believe in the resurrection of the body 333 00:17:35,833 --> 00:17:37,433 and the life everlasting. 334 00:17:38,266 --> 00:17:41,900 On the last day, he will raise me and 335 00:17:41,900 --> 00:17:45,600 give eternal life to me and to all the 336 00:17:45,600 --> 00:17:46,866 believers. 337 00:17:47,233 --> 00:17:50,666 In Christ to you. 338 00:17:51,966 --> 00:17:55,333 So it's creation and new creation. 339 00:17:56,266 --> 00:17:59,933 The doctrine of creation reaches its goal 340 00:17:59,933 --> 00:18:03,533 in the new creation in which we live and 341 00:18:03,533 --> 00:18:04,433 rejoice 342 00:18:05,266 --> 00:18:09,133 and praise God, Father, Son and Holy 343 00:18:09,133 --> 00:18:10,066 Spirit. 344 00:18:11,166 --> 00:18:11,366 Amen.