THE CROWN OF CREATION

GENESIS 2

Pastor Rick Jackson

VII. THE SEVENTH DAY- GENESIS 2:1-3

1. Six 24 hour days of creation [v. 1]

2. God rested though He was not tired [v. 2]. Only here do we know of that God rested. Since sin entered the world God has not rested.

John 5:16-18 And therefore did the Jews persecute Jesus, and sought to slay him, because he had done these things on the sabbath day. But Jesus answered them, My Father worketh hitherto, and I work. Therefore the Jews sought the more to kill him, because he not only had broken the sabbath, but said also that God was his Father, making himself equal with God

3. God established the 7th day on Saturday (2500 years later He would establish the Sabbath with the nation of Israel on this basis). Here He establishes a 7 day week, explained no where else in the universe to our knowledge.

Dr. John R. Rice pointed out 3 Bible facts about the Sabbath that every person should know.

[1] "...though God sanctified the Sabbath day, He did not let it be known to mankind for hundreds of years! He did not tell Adam... Noah... Abraham or Isaac or Jacob!"

[2] "...this was a particular covenant between God and Israel and nobody else." [Ex. 20:1-3; 31:12-13, 16-17]

[3] "No Christian is to be judged... in respect of an holyday, or of the new moon or the Sabbath days in those things which were commanded in the ceremonial law to Israel," [Col. 2:16-17]

The first week, approximately 6000 years ago. Those were the days!

I. REVISITING CREATION (Not a 2nd account, more details given like 1:20-21)

1. Titled [v. 4a] (10 times this occurs in Genesis-here, 5:1, 6:9, 10:1, etc.)

2. Temperate [v.4b-6]

3. Tenderness [v. 7]

II. REMARKABLE CREATION [v. 8-17]

1. Loving care [v. 8-9]

2. Local conditions [v. 10-14] Doubtless all changed since the flood of Noah's day.

3. Land caregiver [v. 15-17]

III. REMARKABLE CREATOR [V. 18-25]

1. Causing Adam to consider [v. 18-20]

2. Causing Adam to contribute [v.21]

3. Causing Adam to comment [v. 22-25]