The Blessing Series Part 1 : Why the Blessing Precedes the Mandate

The Light's House Podcast · Aug 2, 2026 · 58m

I want to start today not with a verse. I want to start with a question most of us have never thought to ask: why does God bless you before He ever tells you what to do?We're going to answer that from two words in Genesis 1 — two Hebrew words most people who have read the Bible many times have never stopped to examine. Words that sit side by side in the opening chapter of Scripture and contain between them the entire theology of what God has done for you and what He expects of you as a result.Don't worry about memorizing the Hebrew today. Just hold onto the idea: one word means "God created."…