Creation and the Sabbath

1.Who was the direct agent in the creation of the earth?
2.State briefly what was done on each of the first four days?
3.What was made on the fifth day? .
4.What upon the sixth day? .
5.How did God regard his work when it was done? .
6.How did he spend the seventh day? .
7.After he had rested on the seventh day, what did he do? .
8.What is the meaning of "sanctify"? Ans. "To set apart for a holy or religious use."—Webster.
9.What is the name of the seventh day? .
10.For whom was the Sabbath made? .
11.What is necessarily implied in the statement that after God had rested upon the seventh day he sanctified or set it apart? Ans. That he told man what he had done, and commanded him to keep it holy.
12.Give two instances of the use of the word "sanctify," which confirm this. ; , margin.
13.What is the great object of the Sabbath? .
14.How does the Sabbath serve as a "sign" to make us know the true God? .
15.What is God's distinguishing characteristic? ; .
16.What is the difference between God and men? ; .
17.Then what was the Sabbath designed to do for men? Ans. To be a continual reminder of God's greatness, and of their dependence upon him, and of their duty to serve him with humility.
18.If Christ created the heavens and the earth, who must have made the Sabbath?
19.Then what relation does he sustain to it? .
20.Then in keeping the Sabbath, whom do we honor?
21.And when the Sabbath is not kept, who is dishonored?

Notes

The same one who in six days created the heavens and the earth, also "rested the seventh day," and blessed and sanctified it "because that in it he had rested." We have already learned of Christ that "all things were created by him and for him;" therefore he must have made the Sabbath. Therefore he "is Lord even of the Sabbath day." This does not exclude the Father from the creation and the making of the Sabbath, for the two are one. God made the worlds by his Son. Both were united in the creation, as they are in everything; and so men "should honor the Son even as they honor the Father." When the Sabbath is not kept, both the Father and the Son are dishonored.

Bible texts in this lesson

Genesis 1:20-23 · Genesis 1:25-27 · Genesis 1:31 · Genesis 2:1 · Genesis 2:2 · Genesis 2:3 · Exodus 20:10 · Mark 2:27 · Exodus 19:12 · Exodus 19:23 · Joshua 20:7 · Ezekiel 20:12 · Exodus 31:15 · Exodus 31:17 · Psalms 96:4 · Psalms 96:5 · Jeremiah 10:10-12 · Psalms 100:3 · Isaiah 40:15 · Isaiah 40:17 · Isaiah 55:9 · Mark 2:28

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