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.
The Hebrew word "rest" means to cease or desist. STOP. Webster’s 1828 Dictionary says it means, “Quiet; repose; a state free from motion or disturbance; a state of reconciliation to God.”
The Jewish people were to observe the seventh day to commemorate the day that God ended His creation. He rested; He stopped, because He was finished.
This is exactly the reason Christians observe the first day of the week as our day of worship. Three days and three nights after His death and burial, very early on the morning of the first day of the week, Jesus rose from the grave. This completed, ended, and finished the work of redemption. We worship and serve the Lord on the first day of the week in remembrance that Jesus Christ has finished the work of our salvation. We “rest in the Lord” on the first day of the week, knowing that there is nothing we could have done to earn “a state of reconciliation to God” nor is there anything we must do. Jesus has done it all.
Check the doctrine of those who insist today on keeping the Sabbath. None of them believe they are secure in Christ. All of them believe they must work out their own salvation.
They believe they must keep the seventh day of the week because they do not believe Jesus finished His work on the first.
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