Big Idea: God’s Creation Tells Us about Him
God made all things in the beginning of time for His pleasure. It brings Him pleasure when we enjoy His creation and know more about Him from it. Creations always tell you something about their creator. God’s creations show us that God is mighty, glorious, beautiful, good, wise, infinite, perfect and so much more.
Big Idea Discussion Questions
Understanding the Big Idea
1. What did God make in the beginning? God made all things.
2. Why did God make all things? For His pleasure.
3. What brings God pleasure? When we enjoy His creation and know more about Him from it.
4. What do creations tell you and why? Creations tell you about their creator. A creator makes things out of his own thoughts and abilities. When you see what someone makes, it tells you what they think about and what they are able to do.
5. What do God’s creations tell us about God? The greatness of the universe tell us that He is even greater. The beauty and variety of flowers show us that He loves beauty and has never ending ability to think up new ways to make things. The perfection of how movement of the sun, moon, stars and planets show how amazingly wise He is.
Life Application Questions
1. What about God do we see from His creations that help God’s people to trust His care for them? He is powerful enough to create the whole world, so He is able to take care of them. He cares that even the smallest creatures are fed, He will takes care of their needs. He makes beautiful things for them to enjoy. He
loves to delight us by giving us good things.
2. How can we become God’s people? By turning away from our sins and trusting in Jesus as our Savior.
Scripture Verse
How does our Big Idea fit in with our Scripture Verse, Psalm 19: 1-4a: “The heavens declare the glory of God; the skies proclaim the works of His hands. Day after day they pour forth speech; night after night they display knowledge. There is no speech or language where their voice is not heard. Their voice goes
out into all the earth, their words to the ends of the world.”?
God created the heavens. Creations tell us something about their creator. God created the heavens. They display some of His glory: how good and great He is. Everyone can look up in the heavens and see a picture of God’s glory in what they see.
ACTS Questions
1.What is something we can praise God for because of this Big Idea?
Praise God for His greatness, beauty, wisdom, kindness, etc. that we see when we look at His creations.
2. What are sins we can confess to God because of this Big Idea?
That though we see how good and great God through His creation, we all choose to rebel against Him and many times do not want to know Him. We deserve His punishment! We need a Savior!
3. What is something we can thank God for because of this Big Idea?
We can thank God for all the wonderful things He has created and all the pleasure we have in looking at them. We can thank God for letting us know some of what He is like as we look at His creations.
4. What is something we can ask God for because of this Big Idea?
We can ask God to work in our hearts and help us to see what He is like and praise Him, as we look at His creations.
Gospel Question
God made all things for His pleasure, but we are sinners who have chosen to disobey Him! We deserve His eternal punishment for our disobedience. Is there any hope for us? What is the gospel?
Yes, there is hope. God is the good Creator and King of the world. He made people to worship and obey Him. That is the right way to live and the best way to live. Yet all people have chosen to rebel against God. They have chosen to live life their own way. They all deserve God’s eternal punishment for their disobedience. Yet God is so rich in mercy and love! He sent His Son Jesus to earth to live a perfect life and offer up His life as the complete and perfect payment for the sins of all who would ever say no to sinning, confess their sins to God and trust in Jesus as their Savior. God raised Jesus up from the dead on the third day, showing that God had accepted Jesus’ sacrifice. Now to all who turn from their sins and trust in Jesus as their Savior, God promises to forgive them their sins and make them His very own special people who will know Him and enjoy Him forever. If we do this, then God will forgive us and make us His own special people! He will fill us with the Holy Spirit so that we know Him, love Him and live for Him more and more! And one day, He will bring us to live with Him in heaven, forever happy!
