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creature that moves, with which the waters swarmed after their
             kind, and every winged bird after its kind; and God saw that it
             was good.”
                    Genesis 1:25, “And God made the beasts of the earth
             after their kind, and the cattle after their kind, and everything
             that creeps on the ground after its kind; and God saw that it was
             good.” And then He created man, Genesis 1:31, “And God saw
             all that He had made, and behold, it was very good. And there
             was evening and there was morning, the sixth day.” After He
             finished, Genesis 2:1&2, “Thus the heavens and the earth were
             completed,  and  all  their  hosts.  And  by  the  seventh  day  God
             completed His work which He had done; and He rested on the
             seventh day from all His work which He had done.”
                    The key to understanding that God rested, on day one
             He  said,  “That’s  good.”  On  day  two  He  finished  and  said,
             “That’s good.” And days three, four and five He said, “Good,
             good, good.” And when He created man he said, “Very good.”
             God  was  pleased  with  His  creation.  It  was  finished.  It  was
             completed and He was happy. God was satisfied. One reason
             He made man on the sixth day is because man would say, “May
             I please help you. One grain of sand, one blade of grass; can I
             help?”
                    God created man when everything was finished. Man’s
             first day was the Sabbath so he could enter rest.  Everything was
             done and finished and complete. You couldn’t add to it and you
             couldn’t subtract from it. It was a full and complete creation.
             God’s joy and happiness and satisfaction in finished creation is
             a picture of  His  joy  and happiness in  a finished  redemption.
             John 19:30 when Jesus was on the cross, “When Jesus therefore
             had received the sour wine, He said, ‘It is finished!’ And He
             bowed His head, and gave up His spirit.” When He brought so
             great a salvation to man He said, “It is finished!”
                    That’s the work that Elijah and Moses talked to Jesus
             about  on  the  Mount  of  Transfiguration.  Luke  9:31,  “…who,
             appearing in glory, were speaking of His departure which He
             was about to accomplish at Jerusalem.” They talked about the
             work that He would accomplish. When I die I don’t
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