The Goal of Creation

Ultimately with R.C. Sproul

Ligonier Ministries

Christianity, Religion & Spirituality

4.9 • 1.2K Ratings

🗓️ 17 May 2023

⏱️ 5 minutes

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Summary

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

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0:00.0	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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