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The Seventh Day - The Finalization Of Creation
Gen 2.1-3
- 1. The state of the creation to this point
- a. Day 1: heaven & earth, light and darkness, day & night
- b. Day 2: firmament, waters above and below divided
- c. Day 3: land & seas divided, earth bring forth grass & trees
- d. Day 4: greater & lesser lights to rule day and night, the stars
- e. Day 5: Waters bring forth life abundantly, fowls of the air
- f. Day 6: animals and insects created, man created in God’s image
- 2. The Wholeness Of Creation
- a. Gen 2.1 - the heavens and earth were finished
- b. John 4.34 - to do the will of him that sent me and to finish his work
- c. Luke 14.28-30 - this man began to build and was not able to finish
- d. John 5.36 - the works which the father hath given me to finish
- e. John 19.30 - It is finished
- 3. The Ability Of God
- a. Gen 2.2 - God ended his work
- b. Jer 32.17 - thou hast made the heaven and the earth ... nothing too hard for thee
- c. Jer 32.27 - is there any thing too hard for me
- d. Eph 3.20 - unto him that able to do exceeding abundantly
- e. 1 Pet 5.10 - stablish, strengthen, settle you
- 4. Sanctification Of Days
- a. Gen 2.3 - And God blessed the seventh day and sanctified it
- b. Ex 20.8-11 - remember the Sabbath day to keep it holy
- c. Isa 58.13-14 - if thou turn thy foot from the Sabbath from doing thy pleasure
- d. Heb 10.24-27 - not the forsaking the assembling of the saints as the manner of some is
- 5. The Cessation of Creation
- a. Isa:51:6 - heavens shall vanish away like smoke, ...earth shall wax old like a garment
- b. 2 Pet 3.7-14- seeing that all these things are to be burned up