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Leviticus chapter 23 verse three.

Six days work shall be done.

But on the seventh days a Sabbath of solemn rest, a holy

convocation. You shall do no work. It is a Sabbath to the Lord in all your

dwelling places. This is an obvious repetition of a command we see in the

10 Commandments in Exodus chapter 20. You shall remember, honor the Sabbath, keep it holy, all of this grounded all the way

back in the book of Genesis, when after six days of work in creation on the seventh day God rested.

Now there's a lot of discussion and even debate among Bible believing scholars, pastors, preachers, students who wonder

about how this plays out in the New Testament and the lack of specific command like this in the new testament and the lack of specific command like this in the new

testament and so my aim is not to get into that discussion and debate but it is to

point out something that I think is obvious here in the very beginning of the

Bible and all throughout scripture that work number one is good work is right

God worked in creation. God is working in a sense all the time

like right now God is working for every one of us. He is sustaining our breath, our lungs, our hearts are beating.

My mouth is speaking because God is enabling all of these things. God is sustaining the entire

universe right now, so God is is working work is a good thing and so even

here in the vidicus 23 we shouldn't gloss over like six days work shall be done like

God has designed us to work it's good for us to work hard today to

his glory at the same time it's also wise in the providence of God to rest, to have set aside time to rest.

I know that if I'm not careful in my own life, I can work and work and get so focused on all the things that need

to be done that I can fail to rest.

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