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Genesis 2:1
Doing a series about how everything began.
Where we’ve been so far:
3,400 years ago, that’s 1400ish BC an Israelite, Moses, is writing the stories of their people.
Where they come from.
So he started at “the beginning”, the Genesis.
He’s writing about God (Elohim) the only and only God, creating everything by speaking it into being.
Intentionally, lovingly, out of chaos and into order.
Such a better story than the stories being told by others at that time, and so much better than the story being told today.
God he made everything very, very good.
Nothing to complain about.
The last couple of weeks we’ve been looking at that, in terms of how we are made in His image, to represent Him, manage His good world, and how we treat each other.
Last week we looked at the gift of work, and how God has given us the ability to provide, serve each other, and be godly by working in and for the place God has put us.
Work is good.
But so is rest.
Sometimes you have to stop.
Even God does.
Check Genesis 2:1-2
Thus the heavens and the earth were finished, and all the host of them. 2 And on the seventh day God finished his work that he had done, and he rested on the seventh day from all his work that he had done.
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After six days of creating, God rested.
a. Rested: I use the word because that’s what the ESV translation uses.
b.
But… does God need rest?
The mighty one?
c.
What does rest mean?
שָׁבַת Shabbat
ii.
Literally “stopped” or “ceased”.
Stopped.
iii.
The word “rest” can be used because we use that word to basically say a plane came to rest on the ground.
Stopped flying.
Landed.
Arrived.
iv.
Doesn’t mean he’s tired, worn out, etc.
Just stopped what He’s doing.
d.
So a basic understanding of this can be that God created the universe and everything in it in 6 days and stopped, doing no creating on the 7th day.
e.
But that would be wrong to only see it as saying that.
Because look at what God does next….
We get the word “sabbath” from this, and that name is applied to the 7th day.
3 So God blessed the seventh day and made it holy, because on it God rested from all his work that he had done in creation.
God blessed the 7th day… First use of the word blessed.
What does it mean:
בָּרַךְ Barak to kneel or bless.
A good definition: A condition or state of being in God’s favor.
God’s saying “this day has my favor!!!” So much so that he…
i.
He “made it holy”
ii.
First use of that word in the Bible too!
iii.
What does holy mean?
קָדַשׁ Qadosh.
Set apart.
Different from the rest.
Special in its uniqueness.
v. God is holy in/from creation.
He created it all and nothing created Him.
He’s the only one- there’s nothing here completely like him (we’re an image of him but that’s it) therefore there’s nothing holier than him.
vi.
How is a day holy?
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The first 6 days were work days for God, “creating”.
He doesn’t just go into the next week with whatever is next to do.
God pauses and says “let’s have a day of not doing things.
And do that weekly.
2. And this must have been the plan all along.
a.
We understand the cycle of trips around the sun, a year, to correlate to approximately 52 weeks (52 sets of 7 days).
Which correlate also to the moon’s cycles, 12 months.
b.
The cycles of nature were set up for this cycle of 7 days in repetition.
c.
Weeks aren’t random, God designed them.
And His design is for their to be 6 days of work, and a day of rest.
2. God made the week to end with a day of rest.
a. Work is good.
It’s something God gave.
Everything God does is good.
i. Why?
Because being active, working with what is here in the way you can, is Godly.
He’s a creator.
Create something.
Provide something.
ii.
There’s a time for it.
A lot actually.
Over 80 percent of the week!
b.
But rest is also good.
God gave us that too.
Everything God does is good.
i.
If you’re tired, you need rest.
1.
What happens when you don’t rest?
2. According to Forbes: “The research found that working 55 hours or more a week was associated with a 35% higher risk of stroke and a 17% higher risk of dying from heart disease than a workweek of 35 to 40 hours.
” “Why Taking Vacation Time Could Save Your Life.” Caroline Castrillon, Forbes Magazine, May 23, 2021
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