My dear friend, wherever you are I greet you in the name of our Lord and our Savior,
Jesus Christ. We are all very familiar with the wording of the Fourth Commandment and the
details of creation. What we are familiar with is that God worked six days and he rested
on the seventh. In Genesis 2 reading from verse 1, we are told thus the heavens and the earth
were finished, and all the hosts of them. Yes, they were finished from the perspective
of creation. God was finished bringing them into existence. But the God who creates is also
the God who sustains, on maintains. So while the Bible says thus the heavens and the earth
were finished, that word finished applies to creation, not to the maintenance or the
sustaining of that which was created God cannot rest from that. The word that created is
the word that preserves, omente, and creation. I say again God cannot rest from preserving
creation if he did that creation would collapse. There is a spiritual parallel to this.
The Bible informs us in a Philippians chapter 1 verse 6, being confident of this very thing,
that he which have begun a good work in you will perform it out of the day of Jesus Christ.
God has performed or is performing a good work spiritually in those whom he has recreated
through the power of the gospel. Observe the Bible tells us he will perform it, he will continue
that work until the coming of Jesus Christ. If God ceased to maintain those whom he has created
spiritually, they would be no hope of salvation. What I am trying to say, Philippians 2 verse 13,
for it is God which worketh in you both the will and to do of his good pleasure. And this work
as also mentioned in Philippians 1 6, God will continue until Jesus comes, when Christ comes,
and this model puts on immortality, and this corruptible puts on incorruption, then God can
cease that work because we will be brought to the point where sin will rise no more, we will be forever,
immortal beyond corruption, we will live a life eternally. And so as you keep the Sabbath holy,
I want you to keep in mind that while you and I rest from six days of work.
Copying the pattern of our Creator who rested from six days of creation,
he does not rest from preserving what he has created. And every saved person is the result of
the spiritual creation of God. He creates this through salvation and he has to do the work of
maintaining us of course that work is done with our cooperation. God will not rest from that work
until Christ comes and this model puts on immortality, this corruptible puts on incorruption.
My dear friend, as you keep the Sabbath holy, remember your creation, or rested from
creation, but he still does the work of maintaining physically and spiritually.
May Lord bless you as you rest in the confidence that your Creator is maintaining you right now,
happy Sabbath and God bless you.