Well, let me invite you to turn in your Bibles to Genesis chapter 2. Genesis chapter 2, we're making progress, right? Genesis chapter 2, we're gonna be looking at verses 12, and 3 this morning. If you want to give a title to the message, it would be God's finished work and the 7th day, God's finished work and the 7th day.
It is interesting. to me, how the creation account that we find in chapter 1, verse 1 all the way through chapter 2, verse 3, how it begins with a burst of light and it ends with a shadow. the first words we hear God saying on day one of creation is, let there be light. And there was light in obedience to his command, and the apostle Paul, cannot read those words, let there be light, without thinking.
of what God has done for us in Christ. In 2 Corinthians 4:6, Paul says, God who said, light shall shine out of darkness, is the very one who is shown in our hearts to give the light of the knowledge of the glory of God. In the face of Christ. So Paul reads those words, let there be light, and he's thinking of the gospel and how God would give that same command into the hearts of those who believe in Jesus.
But interestingly, on the final day, Of the creation week that we're going to look at today, twice we are told. That God Sabbath or he rested on this 7th day. And in Colossians chapter 2 verses 16 and 17, the apostle Paul tells us that the Sabbath is a shadow of what was to come, the substance of which is Jesus Christ and the salvation that is found in him. In other words, in the mind of the apostle Paul, the Sabbath is not simply an analogy that helps us to understand Christ....
