Episode Transcript
All right, good afternoon everyone.
Last week we stopped in the book of Genesis in chapter 2 and verse 1.
So we will start our reading there and continue on through verse 2 where we will start our study for the day.
Genesis 2:1 and Genesis 2:2.
Thus the heavens and the earth were finished And all the host of them.
And on the seventh day, God ended his work which he had made, and he rested.
On the seventh day from all his work which he had made.
Let's pray.
Heavenly Father, we thank you so much, Lord, for each and every person that's come here today, Lord, to hear your word, Father.
I pray, Lord, as we get into your study today that you blessed us with, Lord, that you'll just allow your spirit here to teach us here today, Lord.
I pray that each and every ear will be attended, Father, and that you will teach us here today, Lord.
We thank you so much, Lord, for your precious word.
Thank you for your Holy Spirit.
And, Lord, we sure thank you for Jesus.
Father and in his name Lord we pray amen all right so we have made it to the seventh Day now of God's creation.
And we have been going first by first, starting with Genesis chapter 1 and verse 1.
And we have made it to chapter 2 and verse 2 of Genesis now.
And in chapter 2, verse 2 in Genesis, it says that God ended his work.
And on the seventh day God ended his work.
The word ended is translated from the Hebrew word kahla.
Kahla.
And if we were to look back at verse 1, in this same chapter we would see the word finished.
You remember last week we read, thus the heavens and the earth were finished.
And all the host of them.
The word finished and the word ended come from the same Hebrew word kahla.
Kahla.
Now they are the same Hebrew word, kahla, but they are slightly different in meaning.
Depending on how the Hebrew word kahla is used, it can either be transitive or intransitive.
So today, folks, y'all are going to give a little bit of an English lesson.
One way to tell the difference between a transitive verb action verb and an entrance action verb.
One way to tell difference is to ask yourself if there is a whom W-H-O-M Or what?
W-H-A-T after the word call or any action.
You can do that in any action verb.
In our case back in verse 1 with the word finished, which is the Hebrew word ka law.
We read no, whom, or what after this active verb.
So we have to look at that meaning from an intransitive definition.
Which is to cease or come to an end.
Now, here in verse 2 of chapter 2 in the book of Genesis, we read, and God ended.
His work which he hath made.
Now the word ended is our Hebrew word kafla as well.
The same as our previous word finished.
But if we were to look at this word ended used here, we see that there is a whom or what.
Used after it and on the seventh day God ended what his word His work is the whom.
And in this case, I'm comfortable in saying the what as well.
Now from what I read you do not have to have both but at least a whom Or a what after the action verb in order to make it a transitive word.
So in this case, the word ended is going to be transitive.
Which gives us the meaning of complete or finish or bring to an end an object.
So in verse 1, the heavens and the earth were finished, or you could say God ceased working on them.
And in verse 2, God ended his work, or you could say God completed them.
Or finche is work which he and make.
Now Now I went through all of that in order to show you that the same Hebrew word In our case here, the Hebrew word kahla can have different meanings depending upon how it is used in our English vernacular.
Which the word vernacular is a word I've learned from our associate pastor at the church where I attended Same word used differently with different meanings.
They are very similar in meaning, but they are not exactly the same.
So my point is that when you are reading your Bible, Or I guess you could apply this to anything you read, really.
When you come across words that are similar.
Be sure you know the meanings before you draw a conclusion.
So on the seventh day, God Ended his work which he had made, or you could say God completed or finished his work which he had made.
Now let's look at these words.
His work which he had made.
If you read a little further here in verse 2, you will read those same words again.
His work which he had made.
Now look at verse 3 and read, His work which God created and made.
Now if we were to look it back at Genesis chapter 1 And verse 1, we would read, in the beginning God created the heaven and the earth.
God wants us to know that He is the Creator And He is the one who deserves our praise for blessing us with a life and a place to live and food and clothing and everything that we have been given.
Given there is no room here for any other explanation for how the world and all of creation was made and to think anything other than God alone has created it is wrong.
Throughout God's word, we are appointed to Him as our Creator and the Creator of all things.
And to look toward anything else other than God alone is wrong.
Genesis 2. 2, and on the seventh day God ended his work which he had made.
And he rested on the seventh day from all his work which he had made.
Our text says, and he rested.
On the seventh day from all his work which he had made.
Whose work?
His work.
Who had made?
He had made.
Now I don't want to get too deep in the weeds about the Big Bang theory or any other way other than God being the Creator.
But I will say this about the Big Bang Theory.
How many people here are watching on the internet have ever seen an explosion bring things together?
When I was a young man, I used to like blowing things up.
A few of my childhood friends and I couldn't wait for the fourth July.
So we could get those black cat firecrackers and back in those days those things were very lethal.
We used to take those firecrackers and put our Hot Wheels cars on top of them.
Now, when we lit those firecrackers and they blew up those little Hot Wheels cars.
They did not land with an extra wheel attached.
And in many cases, when they landed, they would be missing a wheel.
When we blew those things up, they flew apart and did not come together when we blew them up.
God said in Genesis 1:1, In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth.
2 Corinthians 5, 7 says, For we walk by faith, not by sight.
I choose to believe in God and those who choose otherwise are foolish because they didn't see the big bang happen.
And they are believing in something they never saw to begin with.
Why not use God as the Creator?
Why not?
Instead of choosing to believe in the big bang theory that you never saw to begin with, why not choose in God's theory and God's word and what God says?
Psalms 92, 5 and 6.
O Lord, how great are thy works, and thy thoughts are very deep.
A brutish man knoweth not, neither doth a fool understand this.
1 Samuel 12, 24.
Only fear the Lord and serve him in truth with all your heart.
For consider how great things he hath done for you.
A fool does not fear the Lord.
That word fear means reverence.
They do not recognize Lord as the Creator.
They do not recognize Lord as the sovereign King over all.
And a fool would rather seek other ways than the Lord's ways.
They would rather believe a lie than believe the truth.
How foolish.
How foolish.
Psalms 146, 5 and 6.
Happy is he that hath the God of Jacob for his help, whose hope is in the Lord his God, which made heaven.
And earth, the sea, and all that therein is, which keepeth truth forever.
That's good right there.
Our verse back in chapter 2 of Genesis says, And on the seventh day God ended his work which he had made, and he rested on the seventh day from all his work which he had made.
As we look at the word rested, there are several definitions that we could look at, but let's start with something that we know that it does not mean.
It does not mean tired.
Throughout all of these verses, starting out in chapter 1, verse 1 of Genesis.
And all the way to this verse here in chapter 2, everyone of y'all that have been with us since the beginning, have you heard me say or have you read anywhere in God's word where it said God got tired and had to sleep?
Stop.
No.
God doesn't get tired, folks.
Our God doesn't get tired.
He does not slumber.
Throughout all God had created, we never read anywhere where God got tired and needed a break.
We know that God did not rest because He was tired.
God is constantly working and He requires no rest in that manner.
Isaiah 40, 28, Hast thou not known, hast thou not heard that the everlasting God, the Lord, The Creator of the ends of the earth fainteth not, neither is weary.
There is no searching of his understanding.
Psalms 121, 2 through 4.
My help cometh from the Lord, which made heaven and earth.
He will not suffer thy foot to be moved.
He that keepeth thee will not slumber.
Behold, he that keepeth Israel shall neither slumber nor sleep.
God never sleeps and God never gets tired.
The word rested used in verse 2 back in Genesis chapter 2 gives us the idea of to repose.
R-E-P-O-S-E, to repose.
Now there are several different definitions for the word repose.
But the one I thought may help us to understand as the idea of to pause, to pause.
When we look at the book of Psalms.
We are reading songs that were meant to be sung in many cases and sometimes you will come across the word sila.
S-E-L-A-H.
See la.
Psalm 62. 8 as we start winding down here, trust in him at all times, ye people.
Pour out your heart before him.
God is a refuge for us.
See La.
See La.
Now this silah is just a pause here in this song.
And I think that is what God basically did back in our verse in Genesis.
He just paused from his work.
Because as we read before in verse 1, Genesis 2:1, it says, Thus the heavens and the earth were what?
Finished.
They were finished.
God finished them and God paused.
And all the host of them finished.
God paused or rested here because his work was finished, not because he was tired.
God willing, we will start verse 3 next Sunday.
Heavenly Father, we thank you.
You so much, Lord, for each and every person who's come to hear your prayer, Father.
I pray, Lord, that they were pointed to you, Father.
I pray, Lord, that they were pointed to Jesus.
Lord, for those who don't know Christ as their Savior, Father, I pray that you're drawn to the cross and shown that Christ is the way, the truth, and the life, Lord.
Draw them to the cross and show them Christ with the Savior.
We thank you for each and every person that comes faithfully, Lord.
We thank you for those visitors.
Who come, Lord?
Lord, we just pray that you'll send the ones that you want to come in here, Lord.
And you hear your word, Father.
Thank you, Lord, so much for the song leader, Lord, standing in for Brother Larry.
We thank you for the camera lady, Lord, faithfully coming, Lord, and operating the camera, Lord.
Thank you for these people, Lord.
They're such an encouragement, Father.
We pray that you'll pour out a blessing on each and every one of them, Lord.
Lord, we want to pray for the caregivers that are here, Father.
We pray, Lord, that they'll care for these folks.
Just care for them the way you want them to be cared for, Lord.
I pray that they'll show them your love, your kindness, and your mercy, Father, as they help each other.
Father, we're so thankful for those who come, Lord.
Love you, Lord.
Thank you so much for your precious word.
Thank you for your Holy Spirit, Lord.
And thank you for Jesus so much, Lord.
And in his name, Lord, we pray, Amen.
