Monday, October 12, 2026
We have to ask this question, why did God create man in the first place? Why are we here? Why does God bother to set man on this planet? Well, we notice in Genesis 3:2 the following words, “Then God blessed the seventh day and sanctified it because in it he rested from all his work which he had created and made.”
Now, you would think that if the sixth day is the pinnacle of this seven-day period of creation; that if the sixth day is the ultimate day of creation, the day where the crowning act of glory is brought to pass with the creation of man in God’s own image, that that would be the day that God would bless and hallow and sanctify. But that’s not where the Old Testament places the accent. The blessing, the consecration, the hallowing takes place on the seventh day.
Now, what does that mean? …
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Excerpt from “Destined for Holiness” (Ultimately, R.C. Sproul). © Ligonier Ministries. All rights reserved by the copyright holder; shown here as a brief excerpt with a link to the original.