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Learning Authority from Genesis 1:3-5
“Then God said, ‘Let there be light light’, and there was light. God saw the light was good and God separated the light from the darkness. God called the light “day,” and the darkness he called “night.” There was an evening, and there was a morning: one day.” (Genesis 1:3-5).
Hermeneutical Lessons on authority:
1. God’s speech authorizes action – “Let there be”.
2. God’s speech authorizes what God intends – “and there was light”.
3. God’s speech authorizes what pleases God – “God saw the light was good”.
4. God’s speech authorizes God’s intended purposes – “God separated the light from the darkness”.
5. God’s speech creates order – “There was evening, there was morning. One day”.
Now apply God’s speech to God’s silence:
1. God’s silence did not authorize before God spoke.
2. God’s silence did not authorize what intended to happen.
3. God’s silence did not authorize anything that pleased God.
4. God’s silence did not authorize purpose.
5. God’s silence did not create order.
When God spoke, everything.
When God was silent, nothing.
Creation is based upon what God authorizes by speech, not by silence. So unless God says, “Let there be” whether by specific or generic authority, whether by an approved example, or whether by a necessary implication; let there be silence on our part. God says, God shows, and by these God helps us conclude.
We learn from God speech, and from God’s example, and what that implies. So until God says, “let there be”, from us, from His creation, let there be silence.
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