This is John Collins at the Bible Project, and we're working through a biblical theme

about the Seventh Day Rest.

God created, and six days, and on the Seventh Day, he stopped.

He rested in his creation to rule it with humanity.

And to remember this, and to anticipate happening, once again, God gave Israel a weekly practice

called the Sabbath.

From the Sabbath, you acknowledge Seventh Day Rest by stopping from your work.

But does that mean that work is bad?

And if so, why did God put Adam and Eve in the garden to work it?

Humanity here is being put into a garden, whereas we're going to see, you know, they're

taking strolls with God.

Is this image where this is an environment designed and cultivated for God and humans to

exist together, where humans can be fruitful and multiply?

So humans have to work the garden, but they're in a place where it's a different kind

of work.

For most of us, work is work.

It feels like two steps forward, three steps back.

But what if the problem isn't the work is bad?

The problem is the way we work and the things we have to work with are fundamentally broken.

And if that's the case, what if work doesn't have to be work?

You're a piece with your environment and your environment just provides for you because

that's how God is designed to be.

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