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My dear friend, wherever you are I greet you in the name of our Lord and our Savior,

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Jesus Christ. We are all very familiar with the wording of the Fourth Commandment and the

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details of creation. What we are familiar with is that God worked six days and he rested

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on the seventh. In Genesis 2 reading from verse 1, we are told thus the heavens and the earth

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were finished, and all the hosts of them. Yes, they were finished from the perspective

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of creation. God was finished bringing them into existence. But the God who creates is also

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the God who sustains, on maintains. So while the Bible says thus the heavens and the earth

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were finished, that word finished applies to creation, not to the maintenance or the

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sustaining of that which was created God cannot rest from that. The word that created is

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the word that preserves, omente, and creation. I say again God cannot rest from preserving

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creation if he did that creation would collapse. There is a spiritual parallel to this.

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The Bible informs us in a Philippians chapter 1 verse 6, being confident of this very thing,

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that he which have begun a good work in you will perform it out of the day of Jesus Christ.

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God has performed or is performing a good work spiritually in those whom he has recreated

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through the power of the gospel. Observe the Bible tells us he will perform it, he will continue

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that work until the coming of Jesus Christ. If God ceased to maintain those whom he has created

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spiritually, they would be no hope of salvation. What I am trying to say, Philippians 2 verse 13,

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for it is God which worketh in you both the will and to do of his good pleasure. And this work

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as also mentioned in Philippians 1 6, God will continue until Jesus comes, when Christ comes,

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and this model puts on immortality, and this corruptible puts on incorruption, then God can

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cease that work because we will be brought to the point where sin will rise no more, we will be forever,

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immortal beyond corruption, we will live a life eternally. And so as you keep the Sabbath holy,

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I want you to keep in mind that while you and I rest from six days of work.

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Copying the pattern of our Creator who rested from six days of creation,

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he does not rest from preserving what he has created. And every saved person is the result of

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the spiritual creation of God. He creates this through salvation and he has to do the work of

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maintaining us of course that work is done with our cooperation. God will not rest from that work

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until Christ comes and this model puts on immortality, this corruptible puts on incorruption.

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My dear friend, as you keep the Sabbath holy, remember your creation, or rested from

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creation, but he still does the work of maintaining physically and spiritually.

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May Lord bless you as you rest in the confidence that your Creator is maintaining you right now,

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happy Sabbath and God bless you.