Old Testament - Genesis 2:1-3 (Day of Rest)
Channel: Calvary Chapel Windward
Date: 2016-01-26

Old Testament - Genesis 2:1-3 (Day of Rest)

Old Testament - Genesis 2:1-3 - Day of Rest - CC Windward - Pastor Tim

Old Testament - Genesis 2:1-3 - Day of Rest - Calvary Chapel Windward - OAHU, HAWAII - Pastor Tim Newman - From Local Olelo / Oceanic / Time Warner Cable show "A View from Calvary" - Episode #274: - Original Air Date: 07/03/2011 A.D.

PASTOR TIM's NOTES:

Genesis 2:1-3
“The Day of Rest”
1. God RESTED from the work of creation.
1a. The day of God’s REST was unique.
This seventh day was significantly different from the first six days of creation, as Kenneth
Mathews has so clearly noted:
1) There was no creation formula—“And God said”—because his creative word
was not required.
2) The seventh day did not have the usual closing refrain—“and there was evening
and there was morning”—to indicate the day’s end.
3) The seventh day was the only day to be “blessed” and “made … holy” by God.
4) The seventh day stood outside the paired days of creation because there was no
corresponding day to it in the preceding six.
5) unlike the six creative days, the number of the day (the seventh day) is repeated
three times.2
1b. God RESTED on the 7th day.
Verses 2 and 3 each state that God rested:
Verse 2 says, “he rested … from all his work,”
and verse 3 adds, “[he] rested from all his work that he had done in creation.”
1c. God blessed the 7th day.
“So God blessed the seventh day”
—which means that he made it spiritually fruitful.
1d. God made the 7th day holy.
The seventh day was the first thing to be hallowed in Scripture.
It was therefore elevated above the other days and set apart for God himself.
2. There would be a SABBATH REST that would come.
—the seventh day was given preeminence in Israel by becoming the text for the fourth
commandment: Ex 20:8-11
2a. The Sabbath REST remembers creation.

2 Kenneth A. Mathews, Genesis 1–11:26 (Nashville: Broadman & Holman, 1996), p. 176.
The seventh day pointed the Hebrew worshiper to a day of rejoicing over the
created work of God. Isa 58:13-14
2b. The Sabbath REST remembers redemption Deut 5:15
2c. The Sabbath REST becomes the sign of the covenant.
The Sabbath and its ritual observance became the preeminent sign of God’s
covenant with Israel.9
Ex 31:12-14, Ex 31:16-17
3. The REST of the Messiah.
It was only when Jesus rested from his great work on the cross and created salvation and
the possibility of entering his rest.
3a. There is a present REST.
Heb 4:1-12
Mere intellectual belief will not bring rest to any soul.
Acknowledging that Jesus Christ is the Son of God and Savior of the world will not
bring rest.
Trust in him is what gives rest to our souls.
What was the good news that was preached to them in the wilderness?
It was the promise of the land of milk and honey that God had for them.

Num 14:7-9
Why did not enter in?
They did not combine the promise with faith.
In the same way the promise of salvation is of no benefit to us if we do not
combine it with faith.
Matt 7:21-23
Now back to our text in Genesis.
Vs. 2 And on the seventh day God ended His work which He had done, and
He rested on the seventh day from all His work which He had done.
What the point for them and for us
Faith must be combined with the promise.
Faith here means a commitment and not merely intellectually assent.
Because God rested on the 7th day- the work of creation was finished.
We can rest in Christ- the work of redemption was finished on the cross.
3b. There is a future REST in Heaven—

Matt 11:28-30

9 Ibid., p. 177.
You will never find rest apart from redemption in Christ.


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