Our Father in Heaven, we claim your promise that though you oppose the proud, you give grace to the humble, and so I ask that my heart would be humble before you that you might give me grace to preach your word faithfully, joyfully and in great power, and that you might give humble hearts to all who listen, that we would receive from your hand what you have to teach us by way of explanation or exhortation, review or encouragement. We pray that we would have ears to hear in Jesus' name. Amen. There's a show on Netflix, I can't remember if I've mentioned it before. It's called The World's Most Extraordinary Homes, and a family and I watched several episodes, most of the episodes I think earlier in the pandemic in the spring. The show features a British architect and a British actress, so of course they sound very smart and refined. As they travel around the world to discover these amazing architectural designs. Some of them are places you would never want to live in, they're so odd, they are amazing and the others are just stunning. More often than not, they're set in some absolutely majestic, at least interesting physical location. In one episode, the host tour this nine bedroom house built into the side of a hill on a Greek island, which I'll wait out the pandemic there. I'll do live stream services for you. They finish the segment by overlooking the sea, facing west as they look upon a picture, perfect sunset. The hills, the mountains, the sea, crystal blue, the sun setting, and the woman says, I defy anyone to sit here and see this and tell me this isn't paradise. For a moment, I thought she was going to make a profound theological statement as she paused to say, I defy anyone to sit here and see this and tell me there isn't a God. That would be a logical conclusion. I've mentioned before that scientists have determined, however they determine these things, that there are actually more stars in the universe than there are grains of sand on the planet. That's how vast are the reaches beyond our solar system, beyond our galaxy, light years and millions and billions of light years away, and they have estimated with the most high-powered telescopes that there are, in fact, more stars than grains of sand on the sea shore. That's how vast the experience of God's creation. Surely you ought to conclude that these things did not happen by mere chance. If you were to find the classic illustration, if you were to find a watch, watched up on the beach, you would conclude what? You would conclude that there is a watchmaker, and somehow, though you were not here to see it being formed, that this did not happen by accident. If you were to find, suppose, a litter of kittens under the steps of the White House, not the White House, but our White House, where some of the pastors work, as we did last week, five of them, one now living at the Dying Household. This is not the first time, probably not the last time. We have seen stray kittens, many stray kittens. There is some sort of romantic feline ambiance there at the White House. If you were to find those kittens scurrying under the ramp there in the back, you would conclude, not that they are the product of chance, or that they are the product of some amoeba, joining with another amoeba, but that they are the product of personal feline agency. So as they looked out upon that sunset from the Greek island, should have concluded Mother Nature didn't make that sunset. There is no Mother Nature. No human engineered it. God created it. And he delights in the goodness of all that he has made. And even though we bear the effects of the curse, still we see, Romans 1 tells us, the power of God, the invisible attributes of God, his goodness, his grace, and his glory all around us. If only we have eyes to see, how many times in the history of the world has somebody raised their fist at God and said, if only you would give me a sign, if only you would let me see. God says to us, if only your eyes were opened. We come this morning to Genesis 1. We looked last week at the first two verses and now we are looking at the sixth creation days and then the seventh day of rest into the beginning of chapter 2. There are dozens of things we could talk about from this chapter. We could easily spend months on Genesis 1. We are going to spend two weeks here next week. We will focus in particular on the creation of man in God's image. So, if it seems like we are moving past day 6 rather quickly, that is why I hope to come back to that next week. But this morning our structure is very simple. Sometimes you just have to take what the text is and there are seven days and so those are going to be our seven points as we work through each day and then having worked through the explanation of what is happening in this creation week, we will finish briefly with three big themes that God wants us to see from this creation week. So we will read each day in turn and then make some comments and then move on to the next one and we will finish in by pulling out those three larger points. Follow along then in your Bibles Genesis chapter 1 beginning at verse 3 and God said let there be light and there was light and God saw that the light was good and God separated the light from the darkness and God called the light day and the darkness he called night and there was evening and there was morning the first day. We see here on this first day the sevenfold pattern that occurs in each of the six creation days with slight variation but basically the same pattern. Gordon Winham and his commentary labels it like this number one you have an announcement God said then two a command let there be three fulfillment it was so for the execution of that command lights in this case five the approval of what has been made God saw that it was good number six then there is often a subsequent word of a further fashioning of creation or often a naming of the creation and then finally number seven we have morning and evening and the day is numbered. This is obviously a stylized piece of literature people will often point out well Genesis is not a science textbook and of course it's not a science textbook there were no science textbooks the language we can see is not meant to be technical detailed but rather selective and observational but literary refinement stylized prose is not the opposite of true sometimes people say well Genesis is not a science textbook okay I really haven't met anyone who says it is a science textbook but then the next inferences therefore we ought not to take too seriously the historical veracity of what is affirmed that conclusion does not follow we have here rather a piece of narrative which we are given several indications meant to read as historical narrative even if it is stylized we are not in the realm of make believe notice there are no potions dragons wizards if you are to read some of the other ancient near eastern myths we'll talk about some of the parallels when we get to Noah there are other flood stories in the ancient world but if you are to read them and there's we have nothing to fear to read these other sort of creation stories you will find that they sound vastly different from the one that we have here in Genesis nothing of gods and goddesses struggling and slaying one another in ancient enemies but in fact we have a dearth of metaphors symbolism or imagery but we have instead is a patterned prose to give you the technical Hebrew language we have what is called a Vav consecutive plus an imperfect verb that just means a Vav consecutive shows up in your English translation usually as and and god made and it was so and god called and there was evening and there was morning so this Vav consecutive this and plus an imperfect verb why does that matter because that is the very common normal way throughout the Old Testament for narrative to be told and then this happened and then this happened and then this happened sometimes people want to say Genesis one is poetry it actually doesn't have any of the markings of Hebrew poetry the most the most common marking of Hebrew poetry is parallelism that she's have one line and then you have the the next line stating the same thing you heard some of it when Derek was reading from Psalm 19 you have nothing like that here it is not poetry it is not myth now some people will say myth refers to any explanation of origins or a myth is a grand story that explains where we come from and how everything holds together well if that's your definition of myth then I suppose Genesis is mythic but that's not what most people on the street understand by myth they think of myth as the opposite of fable myth is the opposite of history now we have here in this patterned prose of Genesis one a historical account given by the Holy Spirit to Moses of creation we find often in the Old and the New Testament the writers harkening back to the creation account Jesus himself assumes the historicity of Adam and Eve and even quotes from Genesis 2 saying did not the creators say in Matthew 19 so throughout the Bible there is this assumption writ large that this is an accurate recording of the creation of the heavens in the earth notice in verse 6 verse 3 verse 9 11 14 20 24 26 28 29 10 times in this chapter we have recorded God said in the begins up in verse 3 at day 1 creation comes by the voice of God creation is a trinitarian act we saw in verse 2 the spirit of God hovering over the face of the waters and now we have the expression of the second person of the trinity you say where I don't see the name Jesus but you have the word in the beginning was the word and the word was with God and the word was God all things were created by means of God's word his logos his speech and so here it is God speaks and creation comes into existence if you are a Christian here this morning or watching at home you have had a miracle wrought in your life every bit is powerful as this miracle of creation second Corinthians 4 6 likeness the miracle of new birth of regeneration to God saying let there be light and there was light if you're a Christian that's what God did in your life maybe he did it when you were a kid and you don't even remember it you're not even aware of it or maybe you can pinpoint the exact sermon and moment and day and time and year but at some point God spoke into your life and when there was no faith he gave you faith when there was darkness he gave you light when there was death he gave you life he said into your heart let there be light and there was light it happens in creation and so it happens in our rebirth as his children notice in verse 4 God separates the light from the darkness this is a key theme in the chapter five times we read of separation as God's creative activity he's separating day from night in fact you could argue that as Genesis unfolds you start with the proper divine distinction or separation and then with sin you have the failure and the curse wreaking its effect and the wrong kind of distinction or separation what do I mean well in creation you have the separation day from night as we'll see waters above waters below light for the day light for the night you have the fundamental distinction of man as male and female God ordered the world with these divine pairs separating and then when sin enters the world you have man separated from God you have cane at odds with able you have Adam and Eve separated from the garden of Eden you have male and female separated from one another as Eve sins and Adam blames his wife but here in creation God is doing the good work this ordered design and he begins by separating the light from the darkness he calls the light day God names persons and things we will see and it's so significant that then later in chapter 2 we will see he gives to the man the ability to name things because man is going to be a sub-creator he is going to be a royal ruler underneath this sovereign ruler and God declares that it is good as he will throughout the creation days good meaning the object's quality and fitness is resonant with its purpose this is the way it's supposed to be look at verse 5 we ought to say something here about the word day no small amounts of controversy I'm not going to get into this very long or get into the science you can read all the books you want to read but of course there is a long standing controversy at least for the last 150 years but in some senses back farther than that what is meant by the day is this a 24 hour day the Hebrew word is Yom and it normally means a regular 24 hour day and I think there are good reasons to take Yom here referring to a normal 24 hour day four quick reasons number one dimension of morning and evening certainly we are put into the realm of cycles of darkness and light this suggests very strongly we are talking with a normal day a day that has darkness a day that has light morning and evening second reason whenever you have in the Old Testament numbered days they always refer to a regular day so when you can say well that's the first day that's the second day that those are not the sort of metaphorical days like a thousand years but rather they refer to a normal day third reason the seven days of the week are the pattern for our seven days of the week we don't have seven ages we have literal seven days of the week and there is a pattern ingrained in the Bible of having one day and seven for rest and worship and so these literal 24 hour days that we inhabit in our week are a pattern of these regular 24 hour days and then a final reason from the fourth day on and we'll say something when we get to the fourth day about well then if these are normal days how come the sun and the moon are created until the fourth day how can they really be normal days we'll come back to that but from the fourth day on we read that these are for signs and for seasons and for days and years that's not the language of metaphor or epochs but that's the language you see it there in verse 14 of normal seasons cycles days years just like we experience creation so the day is a normal day look at day two and we'll move through these more quickly you're doing the math and thinking oh boy and we still have communion I'm aware I'm aware verse six and God said let there be an expanse in the midst of the waters and let it separate the waters from the waters and God made the expanse and separated the waters that were under the expanse from the waters that were above the expanse and it was so and God called the expanse heaven and there was evening and there was morning the second day you may notice there's no appreciation formula here in the second day and that God declared it to be good not because it wasn't good but perhaps because the waters are not fully separated until the next day and so perhaps there's a two-day execution here and so he'll declare it very good or good on day three this word in verse six expanse is also occasion no small amount of discussion what is this expanse or sky or firmament some people take it to be almost a technical sort of word for a canopy or a glass dome that covered the earth a sort of likening to a metal work separating waters from water I take it in a more ordinary observational sense the idea that the firmament is a ceiling or a vault that is or a dome seems overly mechanical overly precise I think verse 20 gives us an indication of how we're supposed to understand the expanse look at God said let the water swarm with swarms of living creatures and let birds fly above the earth across the expanse of the heavens now where do you see birds flying not in some glass domed vaults firmament but rather the sky I think very simply and observationally that the expanse which God calls heaven which could also be translated as sky is a way of saying that there were waters that have been separated so now that there's waters here on earth in lakes and rivers and oceans and there are waters up in the heavens what are those well the rain that comes from the clouds and separating those rain coming from the clouds and water here on earth is the expanse the heavens the sky where birds fly look at day three and God said let the waters under the heavens be gathered together in one place and let the dry land appear and it was so God called the dry land earth and the waters that were gathered together he called seas and God saw that it was good and God said let the earth sprout vegetation plants yielding seed and fruit trees bearing fruit in which is their seed each according to its kind on the earth and it was so the earth brought forth vegetation plants yielding seed according to their own kinds and trees bearing fruit in which is their seed each according to its kind and God saw that it was good and there was evening and there was morning the third day so God has given to created living things and here we're just dealing with plants the ability to reproduce according to their own kind again that may not sound very interesting to you but if you knew the sort of creation stories that were around in the ancient Near East you would see how different this is there's no magic the created things are not some other sort of deity to be worshiped but rather the created things that are living things here plants later animals and fish and birds and then the crown of creation men and women they are given creative power by their creator so there is power that God has given resonant within us to reproduce to multiply according to its kind now there are limits pine trees don't produce bananas goats don't produce lemurs zucchini plants remember I told you the zucchini plant story turns out they were watermelons
my sister-in-law said I said you want this odd shape zucchini she said I bet that's going to be pink when you open it up I said is it spoiled no it's a watermelon so there's a backstory behind all of that but we have wild watermelon growing outside which is in my book better than zucchini so other than that you do produce according to its kind now obviously Moses is not giving us everything he's only dealing with seed bearing plants fruit trees are mentioned verse 10 the cosmos the earth the sky in the sea are established and then verses 11 through 13 God begins to fill the creation with the created things first these trees and plants become the day four verse 14 and God said let there be lights in the expanse of the heavens to separate the day from the night and let them be for signs and for seasons and for days and years and let them be lights in the expanse of the heavens to give light upon the earth and it was so and God made the two great lights the greater light to rule the day and the lesser light to rule the night and the stars and God set them in the expanse of the heavens to give light on the earth to rule over the day and over the night and to separate the light from the darkness and God saw that it was good and there was evening and there was morning the fourth day so what were the days like before the creation of the sun and the moon some that that's maybe the most obvious argument why yom why the days wouldn't be regular days because we don't have sun and moon as we understand it until day four well there are a couple of explanations one can simply say that the universe prior to day four was illuminated by the special supernatural presence of God like you see in Revelation that the God and the Lamb will be its light so you don't need I mean you have God speaking creation into existence so he can find a way to keep things light or dark before the sun and moon are created another explanation is to suggest that they already were created but not had not yet been separated and put into place you can actually make a good case for that verse one in the beginning God created the heavens and the earth if that's a figure of speech to say that God had created the totality of the universe which then needs to be shaped and fashioned and separated and filled with living things but he has created the heavens and the earth stands to reason that there already would be a sun and a moon notice verse three and four and five day one we already have light separated from darkness you already have morning and evening so there's already something creating light something giving a time of darkness and so several commentators argue that there is a difference in the syntax in verse six versus verse 14 it's hard to see in the ESV but it is there look at verse six God said let there be an expense let it be separated and it's there for the same thing earlier in verse three let there be light and there was light different syntax in verse 14 God said and the ESV says let there be lights in the expanse of the heavens to separate the day from the night you could justifiably translate it something like let there be separated in other words the work that's going on here is the work of separating the lights from the darkness the light that will govern the day and then the light that will govern the night in other words the sun and the moon created already as the heavens and the earth were created light already in existence darkness already in existence but now hung into place as it were even if that's not the case and you go with the first argument that there's simply illuminated by the special supernatural presence of God there's nothing to say that the days cannot be ordinary days lit in extraordinary measure day five verse 20 and God said let the water swarm with swarms of living creatures and let birds fly above the earth across the expanse of the heavens so God created the great sea creatures and every living creature that moves with which the water swarm according to their kinds and every winged bird according to its kind and God saw that it was good and God blessed them saying be fruitful and multiply and fill the waters in the seas and let birds multiply on the earth and there was evening and there was morning the fifth day this is the first mention in Genesis of one of the most significant themes blessing verse 22 and notice in what does blessing consist and God blessed them saying be fruitful and multiply we're going to see the same thing we'll spend more time with it next week verse 28 and God blessed them male and female and said be fruitful and multiply blessing throughout the book of Genesis is far and away most obviously associated with the gift of offspring God blesses the animals that they may reproduce he blesses mankind blesses Adam and Noah he blesses the patriarchs on numerous occasions that they might have children usually against extraordinary odds we talk about achievement we talk about accomplishment we talk about privilege we talk about success we talk about legacy the bible talks about blessing it's not that there is an occasion to use all of those terms but it re-orients us how do you how do you experience good things in life what you accomplish what you achieved your success or do you experience it as blessing the story of God's blessing in your life we see the first instance of it on day five day six verse 24 and God said that the earth bring forth living creatures according to their kinds livestock and creeping things in beasts of the earth according to their kinds and it was so and God made the beast of the earth according to their kinds and the livestock according to their kinds and everything that creeps on the ground according to its kind and God saw that it was good then God said let us make man in our image after our likeness and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the heavens and over the livestock and over all the earth and over every creeping thing that creeps on the earth so God created man in his own image in the image of God he created him male and female he created him and God blessed them and God said to them be fruitful and multiply and fill the earth and subdue it and have dominion over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the heavens and over every living thing that moves on the earth and God said behold I have given you every plant yielding seed that is on the face of all the earth and every tree with seed in its fruits you shall have them for food and to every beast of the earth and to every bird of the heavens and to everything that creeps on the earth everything that has the breath of life I have given every green plant for food and it was so and God saw everything that he had made and behold it was very good and there was evening and there was morning the sixth day we have four divine speeches in day six every other day has only one or two speeches but here we have four times God says something we will talk next week about that plural in verse 26 let us make man just notice that different from the other acts of creation this is not an impersonal let there be but let us make and instead of making things with the ability to reproduce according to their kind now man is made according to God's image we see here that man is a creature but he is not like the other creatures humanity is never considered part of the animal world created on the same day but not of the same kind God speaks about the other acts of creation but he speaks to man he will be a royal ruler and he will be designated not by species but by sexuality the distinction will be not each according to its kind but that this unified man is given in a plurality male and female and notice in verses 29 and 30 God is the one to provide food for them why is this significant because in all the pagan mythologies man is created that he might provide food for the gods that's cheaply what the gods are cranky temperamental interested in sex and they're always hungry that's what the pagan gods are like and so man is created to bring sacrifices and bring food but here in the biblical account God is the one who spreads the table as it were and provides a feast that he might supply richly for men and women here on the sixth day the seventh day chapter two verse one thus the heavens and the earth were finished and all the host of them 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 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 we sometimes think of day six as the pinnacle of creation in a way it is the culmination of his creative activity with male and female and yet clearly we are meant to read the creation week together and we see in fact a perfect bookend look at chapter one one in the beginning God created the heavens and the earth and in chapter two verse one thus the heavens and the earth were finished what was begun in verse one has now come to its glorious conclusion and chapter two verse one which tells us the focal points in a way is on the creation of man that's where most of the verses are but the conclusion importantly is on the seventh day it is repeated three times that God did not work on the seventh day this is not rest like recuperation oh God's exhausted it's not wearing this from the week you could translate the word he ceased he ceased on the seventh day the work was finished and now God is going to step back look at his handy work enjoy a job well done you've encountered those memes before and there's a TV show by this name nailed it where somebody you know puts on Pinterest a immaculate you know cookie monster cake or a spider man cake that has spider man shooting webs out of the cake and just make this your five year old will love it and then you try to make it and it's a blob of blue and red with some confetti falling off the side nailed it well God actually nailed it you know some of you work with your hands I'm amazed at people who can do things put things together make things I have none of those abilities I'll tell you my proudest moment recently my son and I Jacob and actually he was really the brains behind it and I was helping him we made it we made a PVC pipe towel rack okay this is the extent of my handy work we went to the store we bought out he had measured out what we needed and we bought PVC piping and it has four racks to it you can fit 10 towels if you're ever in the area I mean just come by look at it's in the backyard we had to get out a table saw we're sawing things we're we're pounding things with a mallet we're measuring things sometimes I just look out on the back porch it's a kid's just just take a look at that PVC towel rack that's a fine piece of handy work I just I just look at and think of all the minutes I spent on that you know some of you actually you know it's gardening or it's construction or it's architecture it's your cars you just or baking you know how to do things and you step back that's the moment where it's worth it to look and say that's it here it is and so you have got not resting because he's tired crashing say this is good good good good good good day six very good striking thing about the Sabbath is that the week of creation ends not by consecrating space not by consecrating a location that would have been common you you you you set apart a place where the God lives a temple and altar the very first thing to be consecrated in the scriptures to be set apart as holy as God is holy is not a place or a person but a time this day shall be consecrated and it shall be set apart and made holy belonging to God the number seven you probably know in the Bible represents completion perfection fullness you've heard that maybe a long time pastors tell you that Bible study so yeah seven represents perfection completion well why who just decided what why do we just say that well it's because those sevens come from this first seven the creation day the creation week rather which represents completion perfection fullness so seven becomes that number that hollowed number so what themes ought we to draw very quickly from this creation week number one we ought to see the greatness of God John courage says in his commentary that the opening chapters of Genesis reject atheism pantheism polytheism humanism and evolution we could add to his list they also reject materialism and dualism think of it just what we've seen so far in Genesis is a rejection of atheism because there is a God it's a rejection of polytheism because there's only one God it's a rejection of pantheism because the creation is not God it's a rejection of humanism because man is not God it's a rejection of macro evolution because the world and its creatures come into being by intelligent design still allows for adaptation and micro evolution but on the macro Darwinian scale it's disallowed Genesis one rejects materialism that is that the physical world what we can see is all that is really there Genesis one on the other hand rejects dualism the dualism that says spiritual stuff is good and physical stuff is bad or intrinsically dirty and evil Genesis one is opposed to all pagan mythology the pagan mythology that worship great creatures or worship the sun gods or worship the moon or the various astrological deities or worship the gods of life and fertility or death Genesis one is opposed to all of that God creates ex nihilo out of nothing in the beginning there was God he has no competitor he has no rival he is the law giver the world reflects the creator as he subdues the chaos and brings about an ordered warhold we see here the greatness of God second we ought to see the goodness of creation of course we live on the other side of the curse so not everything is as it ought to be but yet we can recognize good good good good good good very good we believe has Christian incarnation God took on human flesh and he was still God that the the act of taking on flesh of being joined a human nature and a divine nature did not render the divine nature less divine to air is human well to air to earth to make a mistake to sin it is not human it's fallen humanity Christ shows us what humanity was meant to be what infreshment was meant to be we believe in the resurrection that's why loved ones I'm going out of limb here I did not clear this with with our finance people or with our deacons but I'm gonna say it if you are considering cremation out of sheer financial it's just cheaper you can't afford burial you don't think would you talk to us as the church because there is something rich and creation and body affirming is the reason why Christians have always practiced burial to say that the body is a gift from God and this body that is laid into the earth this body will be resurrected creation physical matter is good so we see whether it's in the mountains the lakes the streams the ocean the grass the trees your garden your children in food we are meant to enjoy and delight in the beauty of this creation of course we can enjoy it in the wrong ways we can enjoy it in the wrong proportions but ask yourself do you have eyes do you have eyes to see beauty wonder enchantment G. K. Chesterton has that famous paragraph where he says maybe we are the ones who have grown old and it's children who have the wonder to delight in monotony you know your kid it will throw you the ball forever who will push you the toy car along the ground do it again do it again do it again never grows tired of the monotony and chesterton says maybe God and his creation is like that maybe we are the ones who have grown old and every night with the moon and every morning with the sun God says do it again do it again he never gets tired of it beholding the beauty and some of us our eyes have grown dim to the wonder to the enchantment to the beauty to the goodness of all that God has given us and here's a final theme the greatness of God the goodness of creation and the grace of rest have you ever noticed mankind's first full day on the earth is spent in rest the first day is not to work but to enjoy all that God has made and worked on his behalf you ever thought why do we have seven days a week we have 24 hour day because of the earth's rotation we have months roughly corresponding to with the phases of the moon we have years based on how long it takes the earth to travel around the sun all of these have natural phenomena but there is no natural reason why we ought to have weeks why not just have months but I just have years or or in inless days but we have weeks precisely because God shaped the earth six days and on the seventh he rested you notice the seventh day does not have the refrain evening and morning because in a way it has no end the Sabbath rest of God continues now this I'm not going to finish here two minutes not going to finish where you think I might finish with a little two-minute sermon about resting and worship on the Sabbath could do that but that's not what Hebrews 4 does when Hebrews 4 goes back we don't have time to go there and quotes from Genesis that God rested on the seventh day do you know the connection that Hebrews makes therefore you ought to rest from your labors and find your identity in Christ so here's the Sabbath rest that we are meant to enjoy remember I said that it's God saying nailed it it's God stepping back not because he's exhausted but to step back and look and say that's it I love that that's good and Hebrews tells us there remains a Sabbath rest for the people of God now however important it is to honor the Lord's day I'm telling you that Sabbath rest is even more important do you ever imagine God stepping back looking at you his beloved child and saying very good I like I like what I see there some of you some of us maybe me we never relate to God that way there remains a Sabbath rest because at first when I was finishing the sermon I thought okay rest and Sabbath and take a break because it's finished but then I look at my life maybe you look at the same I think it never feels like it's finished a house is never clean I never have my to-do list done you know the kids are literally never all in bed at our house okay there's a few moments there it never feels done but that's not what Hebrews says Hebrews doesn't say sit back because you'll be able to say to do list is done housework is done but you will have to say everything that ought to be done to make God love me nailed it to the cross because you didn't do it I didn't do it God rested on the seventh day and said that's enough it's done I like what I see and so we are meant to rest in all that God has done for us as he looks upon your life in Christ and says that's very good let's pray father in heaven we give thanks for your word so much here pray that you would make sense of a lot of information and you would take to our hearts to give us this rest which we are so desperately in need of pray that you to give it to us now as we partake of the feet you have prepared for us in Jesus we pray amen