Today’s Passage: Genesis 2:1-3
Today’s Message: God created you to a habit of .
1. You are created to . (Genesis 2:1)
a. What does our passage today follow? According to Genesis 1:
- what God says is made complete.
- of the goodness of God.
- we are to embrace and to experience as a new reality.
b. Complementary days (Compare Genesis 1:1 and 2:1)
c. Finished work of Creation. In the Hebrew, finished means .
d. God created the world to the good character of God and His glory.
e. What is the problem with this picture?
2. The result of God’s work in . (Genesis 2:2)
a. God is not but . God doesn’t tire or abandon His creation.
b. God gave us an example to follow – . He started and finished the work for us:
- In
- In
c. God by respecting how He us. We need to rest.
3. The result of God’s work to bless. (Genesis 2:3)
a. is too busy to rest. But is disobedient if they don’t set a time to rest.
b. What do believers today learn from the creation account (Allen P. Ross)?
- God is a God who changes the darkness to , death to , and chaos to .
- That God is sovereign over all life and all pagan ideas that would contend for our .
- That God works by His powerful Word – to , to , and to .
Conclusion:
As we close our time in Genesis 2:1-3, let us remember the theological significance it bore on the nation of Israel when they were taken from slavery to freedom, as they were taken from the world of pagans and their worship to idols who were living in a life in chaos then being transferred to God’s kingdom of light, even the Lord Himself commissions the newly redeemed nation to represent Him to have dominion, fruitfulness, and rest in the Land of Promise. So also, we as Christians learn the theological significance that we to are to witness and experience the same power of God’s word in creation to impact our very lives and to obey Him. Believer’s today can enter a place of rest, the Lord’s Day/Sabbath, and help you become better sojourners to live a life set apart by God. The challenge is to trust not in our own works or skills but to find contentment and confidence in the work of God alone, in particular, the person and work of Christ alone is what is sufficient and satisfies us.The truth that God created us to allow margins in our lives to rest should empower us not give us more excuses. Rest does not necessarily mean no work or the absence, but moreover that we can rely on God’s daily provision to help us through. God does provide for our needs. Knowing that God provides means we lack nothing and are fit to serve God in the spirit of contentment. Remember to message from the message today:
God created you to cultivate a habit of rest.