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Ultimately with R.C. Sproul

The Goal of Creation

Ultimately with R.C. Sproul

Ligonier Ministries

Christianity, Religion & Spirituality

4.91.3K Ratings

🗓️ 17 May 2023

⏱️ 5 minutes

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Summary

Why has God made man? Today, R.C. Sproul reminds us of our highest purpose, duty, and privilege as God's image bearers.

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God extends His holiness to a day.

0:05.0

Sanctifies, concentrates, a Sabbath day.

0:13.0

Sabbath day is to remind us that we are called to holiness.

0:23.0

The end of the crescendo, a completion, the goal of creation,

0:29.0

is seen on the seventh day, on the Sabbath day.

0:34.0

What does that mean? Let's look at the text,

0:37.0

refresh our memories of the record.

0:41.0

We read in chapter 2 of Genesis,

0:44.0

thus the heavens and the earth were completed,

0:47.0

and all of their hosts, all of their compliments.

0:53.0

And by the seventh day, God completed His work which He had done.

0:59.0

And He rested on the seventh day,

1:02.0

from all of His work which He had done.

1:06.0

So we tend to see to read the creation account as

1:08.0

where the work was done in six days,

1:10.0

and the seventh day is anti-climactic.

1:13.0

It's the day where God takes it easy.

1:16.0

But what do we read in verse 3 of chapter 2?

1:20.0

Then God blessed the sixth day,

1:26.0

and sanctified it.

1:29.0

Because in it He rested from all His work which God had created,

1:33.0

and made no.

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