September 30

TODAY'S BIBLE VERSE

And God blessed the seventh day, and sanctified it: because that in it He had rested from all His work which God created and made. Genesis 2:3
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​Memorize this Verse:
3. A G B T S D A S I B T I I H H R F A H W W G C A M

Notes on verse:

“Sanctified”: that is, He set it apart from the other days (Exodus 20:11).

God blessed that seventh day for mankind, to give mankind rest. Jesus said “The Sabbath was made for man and not man for the Sabbath” (in Mark 2:27). You see, even in the day of rest that God set up; He still had the needs of mankind at heart. He knew our bodies would wear out, if we did not have 1 day in 7 for rest.

“Seven”, as we have mentioned over and over again, means spiritually complete.

Sanctified means that God Himself made it holy. He set the seventh day aside and declared it holy. When we are sanctified, it means we have been set aside by God and made holy by Him. We are not made holy by what we have done, but by what He has done.

When we see the example that God did not rest until His work was finished, we see what He expects from us, when He returns. He expects to find us working, trying to get one more saved before the trumpet blows.

In verses 2:4 – 4:26, we see the history of the heavens and the earth (verse 4).

“Verses 4-25”: This section fills in the details of man’s creation on day six. How did Moses obtain this account, so different from the absurd fictions of the pagans? Not from any human source, for man was not in existence to witness it. Not from the light of reason, for though intellect can know the eternal power of the Godhead (Rom. 1:18-20), and that God made all things, it cannot know how.

None but the Creator Himself could give this data and, therefore, it is through faith that one understands that the worlds were formed by the Word of God (Heb. 11:3). Genesis 5:1 indicates there may have been a “book” (or table) of the histories relating to Adam, to which Moses had access under inspiration.

Verses 4-7 “Generations” is the first of 10 section-headings in Genesis (5:2; 6:9; 10:1; 11:10, 27; 25:12, 19; 36:1; 37:2), which may be better understood as narrating the “histories” or “stories” of various people or events. Nowhere in Genesis does the word include the birth of the individual of various people or events. Nowhere in Genesis does the word include the birth of the individual (except in 25:19, where Isaac is mentioned as the son of Abraham).

TODAY'S BIBLE READING

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