[FONT=Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif][FONT=Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]When God created everything in six days He looked back and said it was very good. He then went on to create a seventh day of which He blessed and sanctified. Why did He bless and sanctify the seventh day day? Because He was finished and because He was finished He rested.[/FONT][/FONT]
Genesis 2:3 Then God blessed the seventh day and sanctified it, because in it He rested from all His work which God had created and made.[FONT=Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]
This rest of God was not a 24 hour rest, but rather, is was an everlasting rest. Why is that? Because looking back at what He had just created He saw that it was complete and finished, nothing was lacking or unfinished. This finished work was to continue on, in other words, there was no need for God to start working again on Sunday. There was a peaceful rest experienced in the finished work of creation until sin entered in. Sin disturbed the rest of God and moved Him into active duty to restore that rest. Sin, sickness and death became common place in the unrest of the now fallen creation. When God issued the command at Sinai to remember the seventh day rest He was not concerned so much with the literal 24hr period, but rather, His thoughts were on the fellowship of peace that came from the everlasting rest because His work was finished and it was very good. In the fourth commandment God was telling them to look back to that time when God was resting in His finished workand think what that rest was like.
Adam's sin disrupted the peace within the finished work of God and disturbed the rest of God. God holds Adam responsible for all the sin, death and unrest we find in the fallen creation today. But do not fret for God has foreseen this day and has foreordained a Messiah, a second Adam. The first Adam brought in sin, death and unrest but the second Adam brings life, peace and rest.[/FONT]
Romans 5:11-15 And not only that, but we also rejoice in God through our Lord Jesus Christ, through whom we have now received the reconciliation. Therefore, just as through one man sin entered the world, and death through sin, and thus death spread to all men, because all sinned— (For until the law sin was in the world, but sin is not imputed when there is no law. Nevertheless death reigned from Adam to Moses, even over those who had not sinned according to the likeness of the transgression of Adam, who is a type of Him who was to come. But the free gift is not like the offense. For if by the one man’s offense many died, much more the grace of God and the gift by the grace of the one Man, Jesus Christ, abounded to many.
1 Corinthians 15:21-23 For since by man came death, by Man also came the resurrection of the dead. For as in Adam all die, even so in Christ all shall be made alive. But each one in his own order: Christ the firstfruits, afterward those who are Christ’s at His coming.
1 Corinthians 15:45 And so it is written, “The first man Adam became a living being.” The last Adam became a life-giving spirit.[FONT=Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]
God, through Jesus Christ, has made a new creation, one that is spiritual in nature. The rest that God experienced in the finished work of His first creation can now be experience in the finish work of His new creationthrough Jesus Christ.[/FONT]
John 19:30 So when Jesus had received the sour wine, He said, “It is finished!” And bowing His head, He gave up His spirit.
The finished work of God, through Christ, is seen in His death. Adam represents all mankind so we reap the consequence of Adam and since Jesus is the last Adam we reap the benefit of Christ. In the death of Jesus the sin of Adam is dealt with.
When we identify ourselves with the death of Jesus, through baptism, we too become dead and when one is dead the condemning power of theLaw has not authority over them. But we are not to stay dead in Christ because Jesus did not stay dead. We, like Jesus, are to resurrect to a newness of life, spiritually.
Romans 6:13 And do not present your members as instruments of unrighteousness to sin, but present yourselves to God as being alive from the dead, and your members as instruments of righteousness to God.
Ephesians 2:1-3 And you He made alive, who were dead in trespasses and sins, in which you once walked according to the course of this world, according to the prince of the power of the air, the spirit who now works in the sons of disobedience, among whom also we all once conducted ourselves in the lusts of our flesh, fulfilling the desires of the flesh and of the mind, and were by nature children of wrath, just as the others.
Ephesians 2:4-6 But God, who is rich in mercy, because of His great love with which He loved us, even when we were dead in trespasses, made us alive together with Christ (by grace you have been saved), and raised us up together, and made us sit together in the heavenly places in Christ Jesus.
God rested on the seventh day from all His work in the first creation and Adam entered into that rest with Him. Jesus resurrected on the seventh day so that we can enter into His finished work of the new creation. The seventh day represents entering into the rest and peace of God. Those who honor the seventh day under the old covenant looked back to the rest of God and those who honor the seventh day under the new covenant see themselves entering that rest.
Under the old covenant the fourth commandment taught a literal rest but under the new covenant it's a spiritual rest. The day stays the same but the emphasis of how the day is honored changes therefore do not judge anyone as to how they honor the seventh day because when you do that you are returning to a rest that could never be achieved.
Genesis 2:3 Then God blessed the seventh day and sanctified it, because in it He rested from all His work which God had created and made.[FONT=Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]
This rest of God was not a 24 hour rest, but rather, is was an everlasting rest. Why is that? Because looking back at what He had just created He saw that it was complete and finished, nothing was lacking or unfinished. This finished work was to continue on, in other words, there was no need for God to start working again on Sunday. There was a peaceful rest experienced in the finished work of creation until sin entered in. Sin disturbed the rest of God and moved Him into active duty to restore that rest. Sin, sickness and death became common place in the unrest of the now fallen creation. When God issued the command at Sinai to remember the seventh day rest He was not concerned so much with the literal 24hr period, but rather, His thoughts were on the fellowship of peace that came from the everlasting rest because His work was finished and it was very good. In the fourth commandment God was telling them to look back to that time when God was resting in His finished workand think what that rest was like.
Adam's sin disrupted the peace within the finished work of God and disturbed the rest of God. God holds Adam responsible for all the sin, death and unrest we find in the fallen creation today. But do not fret for God has foreseen this day and has foreordained a Messiah, a second Adam. The first Adam brought in sin, death and unrest but the second Adam brings life, peace and rest.[/FONT]
Romans 5:11-15 And not only that, but we also rejoice in God through our Lord Jesus Christ, through whom we have now received the reconciliation. Therefore, just as through one man sin entered the world, and death through sin, and thus death spread to all men, because all sinned— (For until the law sin was in the world, but sin is not imputed when there is no law. Nevertheless death reigned from Adam to Moses, even over those who had not sinned according to the likeness of the transgression of Adam, who is a type of Him who was to come. But the free gift is not like the offense. For if by the one man’s offense many died, much more the grace of God and the gift by the grace of the one Man, Jesus Christ, abounded to many.
1 Corinthians 15:21-23 For since by man came death, by Man also came the resurrection of the dead. For as in Adam all die, even so in Christ all shall be made alive. But each one in his own order: Christ the firstfruits, afterward those who are Christ’s at His coming.
1 Corinthians 15:45 And so it is written, “The first man Adam became a living being.” The last Adam became a life-giving spirit.[FONT=Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]
God, through Jesus Christ, has made a new creation, one that is spiritual in nature. The rest that God experienced in the finished work of His first creation can now be experience in the finish work of His new creationthrough Jesus Christ.[/FONT]
John 19:30 So when Jesus had received the sour wine, He said, “It is finished!” And bowing His head, He gave up His spirit.
The finished work of God, through Christ, is seen in His death. Adam represents all mankind so we reap the consequence of Adam and since Jesus is the last Adam we reap the benefit of Christ. In the death of Jesus the sin of Adam is dealt with.
When we identify ourselves with the death of Jesus, through baptism, we too become dead and when one is dead the condemning power of theLaw has not authority over them. But we are not to stay dead in Christ because Jesus did not stay dead. We, like Jesus, are to resurrect to a newness of life, spiritually.
Romans 6:13 And do not present your members as instruments of unrighteousness to sin, but present yourselves to God as being alive from the dead, and your members as instruments of righteousness to God.
Ephesians 2:1-3 And you He made alive, who were dead in trespasses and sins, in which you once walked according to the course of this world, according to the prince of the power of the air, the spirit who now works in the sons of disobedience, among whom also we all once conducted ourselves in the lusts of our flesh, fulfilling the desires of the flesh and of the mind, and were by nature children of wrath, just as the others.
Ephesians 2:4-6 But God, who is rich in mercy, because of His great love with which He loved us, even when we were dead in trespasses, made us alive together with Christ (by grace you have been saved), and raised us up together, and made us sit together in the heavenly places in Christ Jesus.
God rested on the seventh day from all His work in the first creation and Adam entered into that rest with Him. Jesus resurrected on the seventh day so that we can enter into His finished work of the new creation. The seventh day represents entering into the rest and peace of God. Those who honor the seventh day under the old covenant looked back to the rest of God and those who honor the seventh day under the new covenant see themselves entering that rest.
Under the old covenant the fourth commandment taught a literal rest but under the new covenant it's a spiritual rest. The day stays the same but the emphasis of how the day is honored changes therefore do not judge anyone as to how they honor the seventh day because when you do that you are returning to a rest that could never be achieved.
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