After six days of forming and filling, God comes to the seventh day upon which He rests.
And we need to see that this seventh day was significantly different from all the others
that had gone before.
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The basic presupposition of this passage before us
teaches that God will at times strike his servants to demonstrate unto them His great love
for them, and so to strip them of all that hinders His work in their lives. Or to use the words
of John Piper when he was here in 2010 at the Resolution Conference: “God will break your
bones if needs be, to minister to your heart.”
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We are still on the Sixth Day of creation, and we come now to the apex of God’s
creative works. God had now completed the creation of all the land creatures – and
yet there was still one more being, one for whom all the others had been made, that
was still outstanding. On Day 6 God created the first human beings, and He made them
a man and a woman, and then He crowned them as rulers over all the other creatures
that He had already made.
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