The New Covenant’s Ten Commandments (Video) — Zac Poonen

God’s Commandments as Expressions of Love

One of the things I would really like to do and I think the Holy Spirit would also like, it's quite a good number of people here. If everyone here could be gripped with the truth that every commandment of God that He gives us is because He loves you so much.

A commandment is an expression of His love. I don't know whether we are gripped by that. If we are gripped by that, it will change our attitude to God's Word. God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son that whoever believes in Him should not perish but have everlasting life.

God so loved the world that He gave us His commandments that whoever obeys them will never perish but will have everlasting life here on this earth. Will bring everlasting life into his home, into his marriage relationship.

Will bring up his children in everlasting life, in the ways of everlasting life. God so loved the world that He gave us His commandments. Have you seen it like that? I fear that with many people it is not they feel, Oh, God's commands are such a burden.

Imagine I have to live my life never once getting angry, never grumbling, never complaining. Really? Is that the way we look at it? As if God so burdened the world that with commandments, that's exactly how the devil wants us to look at it.

That's why I said I wish I could get everyone here convinced of one thing. God has not burdened us with His commandments. We've got to change that mindset. Until that mindset is changed, we're not going to take God's commandments seriously.

They are for our good. There's not one of us who will not take what is for our good. We all have a serious sickness. And that is our fleshly tendencies. And here is the medicine. We think the only thing is to come to the Lord and ask the blood of Jesus to cleanse us, justify us.

And we rejoice in that. But why is it our progress is so limited and our joy is so short-lived in spite of believing that the blood of Christ cleanses us? It's because we do not believe fully that God loves me so much that He gave me His commandments to keep.

We don't see them as an expression of His love. We see Calvary's cross as a clear expression of His love. I mean, you go to the worldly person and tell them that Jesus loved you so much He died for you, they can understand.

But if you go and tell them that God, Jesus loved you, God loved you so much that He gave you so many commandments to keep. He tells you to love your wife exactly as Christ loved the church. You say, oh, what a burden.

He tells you to submit to your husband as the church is to Christ. You say, what a burden. I'll tell you why we feel like that. We don't believe these are expressions of God's love. We think, okay, the expression of God's love is on the cross.

He gave Himself for me. I want to say, my dear brothers and sisters, once your mindset changes on this one issue, your progress will be something like, you know how these rockets, if you watch a rocket going up into space, it's struggling for a long time.

You don't see it, but it's struggling. But there's a point at which it crosses the realm of what we call the space around the earth where the gravity can pull. Once it crosses that, oh, the speed is unimaginable.

It's something like that. Most Christians, yeah, they're trying to go up. I believe everyone here is really seeking to obey the Lord. You wouldn't belong to this church if you had no such desire. But if you're honest, you'll say that you're like the rocket struggling against gravity.

And unlike the rocket sometimes slipping down and again, firing another rocket going up and slipping down and firing another rocket. But once you get into outer space, there's no firing another rocket.

You just speed off like anything. I want to say to you the good news, there is such a life. There is such a life. I've only begun to taste it. I know there's very much more, but even that little taste is so wonderful.

I wish for you all that taste of that life which I fear that most believers have never experienced. Because if you did, you'd never feel a single commandment of God is a burden. It'd be like a child loves chocolate or ice cream.

It'll be something like that. And not like some bitter medicine. Be honest. Very important to be honest. Ask yourself, how do I view all the commandments in the New Testament? There's so many of them.

The Fiery Law as a Blessing

Let me show you a verse now in Deuteronomy. Deuteronomy is the chapter where Moses repeated the commandments God had given. Towards the end of that chapter, it says here in chapter 33, sorry, the end of that book.

This is the blessing. Thank you. This is the blessing with which Moses, the man of God, blessed the sons of Israel before his death. It's a blessing. What is the blessing? God's going to give you the land of Canaan, defeat all his enemies?

No, no, no. That'll come. Hang on. The blessing is the Lord came from Sinai and from Mount Paran and so on with his 10 ,000 holy angels. And here's the blessing. At his right hand, you've got to read this in the margin.

People didn't have the boldness to put that in the text. But in the margin of my Bible, it says the original Hebrew says at his right hand there was a fiery law. Uh-huh. Is that the blessing? God has come with?

At his right hand, there was a fiery law. And that proves that he loves the people so much. Verse 3. What is that fiery law? It's not a weak law. What does that fiery law prove? Verse 3. That indeed he loves the people.

It's exactly what I've been trying to say. That is the blessing with which Moses blessed the people. I wish you guys would see it. Moses says that the fiery law he gave you proves that he loves you. I wish you would see it.

In my early Christian life, I never saw it. I tried to obey. It was a struggle. It's like you get your children to take some bitter medicine or some vegetable they don't like. And you've got to make them sit there, sit there, sit there, gaping at that thing on the plate.

A lot of Christians are just like that. But put some chocolate or ice cream in front of them. You don't even know how to tell them. Take it straight away. Imagine going to God's commandments like that.

You know you're liberated when you look at God's commandments as an expression of his love. God so loved me that he gave me a fiery law to set me free. It's like, you know, treatment. Sometimes we are willing to go on to an operating theater and be operated on.

It's a very painful recovery. But you know that that will deliver you. Supposing a doctor says, I can guarantee you permanent cure of your cancer. Even though your cancer is in the fourth stage, extreme case, I can guarantee total deliverance if you will submit to take this bitter medicine every day for the next one year and submit to my operating, you'll be willing to go through 10 operations to be cured of cancer for the rest of your life.

Wouldn't you do that? Wouldn't you let your children go through all that suffering for it? Yes. If you see the good that can come out of it. I believe we need to see God's law like that. So what is God's law basically?

The Great Commandments: Loving God and Neighbor

You know, once we read in Matthew chapter 22. So please don't forget this opening statement that I made. God so loved you that he gave you a fiery law so that you might have eternal life and not be lost.

So when the Pharisees did not understand it like that, they thought it was such a burden keeping the Sabbath and they would jump on others who didn't keep the Sabbath. They didn't understand it as an expression of God's love.

And I fear that I've hardly ever met Christians in my life who see all of God's commandments in the New Testament as an expression of God's love. It's an expression of God's tremendous love for me that he tells me never to lose my temper.

He tells me never to lust even once after any woman in the world. To turn my eyes away. It's a mark of God's love for me. He wants me to be free from cancer. He wants me to be free. It's like we tell your children, don't put that mud in your mouth.

Be careful. Look at us sitting with masks. What for? To protect ourselves from viruses. How careful we are. I wish we'd be as careful to be free from sin. But it has to come by an understanding that all of God's commandments are an expression of his love.

Anyway, the Pharisees couldn't understand it like that. They thought it's a burden. And that's why they only, but they wanted a good reputation before others. And so they were very careful to keep the law when other people saw them.

That's why Jesus said, you people clean the outside of your cup. Meaning you're so careful about your external testimony that you're very, very careful. Nobody should have a bad impression of me. I'm a righteous Pharisee.

Most Christians, I'd say, I'd say 99 of Christians are like that. That's probably 1 of Christians I met in my life who are much more eager to have their inner life pure before God, their home life, their private life, their thought life, their attitudes towards people, pure, more important than the external testimony.

We know that an injury on the outside of our body is not as serious as something serious inside. We know that in the physical realm. It's exactly the same in the spiritual realm. You can be clean on the outside and can be sick as anything on the inside.

That's not the way we should be. So when the Pharisees came to Jesus, one of them was a lawyer, means Matthew 22, verse 35. A lawyer means one who was steeped in studying God's law. That's the meaning of that word lawyer in this context.

An expert in the Mosaic law. He tested Jesus with a question. Teacher, which is the great commandment in the law? For them, for the Jews, it was the Sabbath. If Jesus didn't say that, they would try to question him.

So Jesus said, the great commandment is, love the Lord your God with all your heart and all your soul and all your mind. That's something like saying, I want you to be healthy from the crown of your head to the sole of your feet.

Something like that. If we heard that about our physical life, oh, that guy loves me so much. He wants me to be healthy from the crown of my head to the sole of my foot, every part of me to be healthy, heart, liver, kidneys, everything to be healthy.

That's what it means. Love the Lord your God with all your heart and all your soul and all your mind. And Jesus said, like a coin has got two sides, and if the other side of a coin is blank, it's a fake.

A currency note has got two sides. One side is blank. It's a fake. And a man who says, I love God with all my heart, that side is right, and the other side is blank, fake. There is another side, Jesus said, and I can't leave it without telling you the other side.

Verse 39, you have to love your neighbor as yourself. That's what proves that currency note is genuine. That's what proves your understanding of God's commandment is correct. Both sides are there, and you can't have one without the other.

He said, the second is like it. Verse 39, it's exactly like it. On these two commandments hang the whole law and the prophets. The law is an expression for the five books of Moses, first five books, and the prophets is referring to the rest of the Old Testament.

34 books. Some of it is history, and some of it is prophecies. But the expression, the law and the prophets, is what we today would call the Old Testament. In those days, it was the full Bible. And he says, the whole Bible hangs on two commandments.

If you obey those two, you've kept it. The whole Bible. Love God with all your heart, soul, strength, and mind. Love your neighbor as yourself. And that is an expression of God's love for us. When God teaches me to love my neighbor as myself, it's an expression of God's tremendous love for me that I don't get a cancer inside me.

That the laws we, you know, when they tell people, don't eat junk food. Be careful about the food you eat. We are so careful of the food we give to our children. This is exactly like that. God wants us to be healthy spiritually to keep his commandments.

The First Commandment: Christ Above Every Other Voice

So when God, when Moses said that to the Israelites, he had already given them what we know as the Ten Commandments. Now, I don't know whether all of you know the Ten Commandments, but I thought I would go through them with you today so that we get educated.

The Ten Commandments are listed in Exodus chapter 20. That's the first thing all of you should know. Your children should know Exodus chapter 20. It's a round figure, 20. Ten Commandments. And the first commandment is, verse 2 and 3, I am the Lord your God.

You shall have no other gods but me. I'm the Lord your God who brought you out of sin. For us, it is like that. Out of slavery to the devil, verse 2. I'm interpreting this in terms of the New Testament.

You shall have no other gods but me. That's the number one commandment. How is it in the New Covenant? It's exactly what Jesus said. Luke 14. If you come back to Exodus 20. Luke 14. Jesus is telling us how to be his disciple.

Number one commandment. You shall love me more than everybody else. You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, soul, and strength. There's no place, no competition for that love. Luke 14, 26.

From father, mother, wife, children, brothers, sisters, or your own life. That is the first commandment that the Lord Jesus must be absolutely supreme in my life where the voice of my father, the voice of my mother does not influence me.

The voice of my wife does not influence me. The voice of my husband will not influence me. The voice of my children, brothers, sisters, and not even the voices I hear within me will not influence me. I'm going to put Jesus first in every area of my life.

I will not listen to any other voice. You know, there are many times we hear other voices. Sometimes those voices are from outside where loved ones will say to us, go on, be reasonable. Don't be so extreme.

I've heard that said to me. Many people will say that, you're too radical, too extreme. You can't live like that in this world. Just be sensible. Yeah, yeah. I see what happens to Christians who live by those principles.

And I've seen what happens to Christians who live by saying, I will not listen to those voices. I shall love the Lord with all my heart, soul, strength, and mind. And no one will take the place that Christ has in my life.

Nobody, not even my father, however much he may have sacrificed for me, mother, brothers, sisters, wife, and children. And I wonder whether all of you sitting here can go through verse 26 step-by-step-by-step-by-step and say, Lord, none of these people will influence me.

I will not love my children so much that I will consider their earthly comfort above their being disciples of Christ. No. I shall not do that. That is loving your children more than you love Christ. I will not do that.

There's so many ways in which in schools and all children are taught to compromise. Many children cheat in their examinations, give false statements when they want to get admission to a college or something like that.

What all wrong goes on even among Christians? No, God's blessing cannot be there if you got into some situation by telling a lie. Impossible. If you think that a lie will open a door for me into a particular job, which Almighty God cannot, but the lie is more almighty than God, how do you expect God to bless you in that job?

Did any of you get into a college by telling a lie? I hope not. I don't know what your future will be. No, you can't go back on it, but I don't know. Somewhere along the path you took a wrong path and your parents didn't protect you from that.

I don't know whether you got a job by telling a lie. I don't know whether you got a visa to come here by telling a lie. I don't know. What would have been the future if you had told the truth? Have you missed God's will somewhere?

Was it God's will that at some point in your life you should have told a lie in order to get something? Because a lie was more almighty than God? Well, you can't do anything about it now. There are many things you've done in the past we can't do anything about.

What should we do? Live in regret for the rest of our lives? No. God forgives us, but certain things even Almighty God cannot set right. I remember in one of our churches in India a man came, was unconverted.

He had AIDS, but then he got converted and he came to our church and he was really born again. But he never got cured of AIDS. Very soon he died, but he went to heaven. He was forgiven, but he died. There is forgiveness, there is also the reaping of what we have sown.

Both go together. Going to heaven is not everything. I'll tell you this, and that's another thing which I want to convince everybody about. It's an absolute lie that if you go to heaven, everything is solved.

Then it doesn't matter how we really lived on the earth. That guy was wholehearted and sacrificed and gave his life for the Lord and then died as a missionary. And I lived a sort of a comfortable life and sailed my way into heaven.

We're all going to be equal in eternity. Absolutely false. And you say, what's going to be the difference in eternity? I'll tell you. In three words, I have the answers to many of these questions. I don't know.

But I do know there will be a difference. Because Jesus said so many times, my reward is with me to give to every man according to what he has done and lived. Is that a lie? Heaven and earth will pass away.

That word will not pass away. That's why I do not believe that everybody will be equal in heaven. I do not believe that no believer will have any regret in heaven. That every believer is going to live in heaven without regret.

I don't believe it one bit. Because if it were true, I'd have to say Jesus is a liar. It's like when some non-Christians come to me and say, why do you say Jesus Christ is the only way? I ask them this question.

I say, do you believe, do you respect Jesus Christ at least? Forget about me. Do you respect Jesus Christ? Oh, yes. I say, let me read to you what Jesus himself said. John 14, 6. No one comes to the Father but by me.

Now tell me, you said you respect Jesus Christ. Is he speaking the truth or not? You say he's a liar, that you say that you can come to the Father some other way. I say no. I say that because I respect Jesus Christ as one who speaks the truth.

The same Jesus Christ says, I will give to every man according as his work shall be. So how in the world can everybody be equal in heaven? Jesus has got to be an outright liar if it's going to be like that.

I'm not saying we work for reward. Anyone who works for reward will probably get zero in heaven. No, we don't work for reward. I always say, Lord, you've already rewarded me more than enough by dying on the cross for me.

I'm not expecting anything more than that. I don't work for reward. No, I don't do a single thing for reward. I don't make any sacrifice in my life for a reward. No, I sacrifice and do things and I will do, keep on doing.

Even if I live to 100 years old, I will live 100 sacrificially for the Lord because he already did so much for me. It's like a person who's given me billions of dollars to meet my need and much more than my need.

And then you think I'm going to go and ask him for more? Do you think if I do a little service for him, I'll go to him and say, now, can you give me $100 for that work I did? Impossible. He's already gifted me billions of dollars.

How will I go and ask him for $100 for the work I did for him? That's how I look at it. I cannot think of looking at Jesus in eternity and saying, where's my reward? I hope you're not. He's already done so much for you.

Everything we do is an expression of gratitude to the Lord. I put it like this. I say my whole life is writing a note saying, thank you, Lord Jesus. And when I'm finished saying that, I'll die. I think I've come up to T-H-A-N.

I haven't come. I've still got a long way to write the rest of the sentence. Thank you, Lord Jesus. That's why he saves us from accidents. Because we haven't finished the sentence. I hope you look at your whole life as writing one sentence.

Thank you, Lord Jesus. So don't let anyone come take the place of the Lord in your life. That's the first commandment. Nobody. Not your job. Not your father and mother. The second commandment is back to Exodus 20.

The Second Commandment: Idolatry and the Love of Money

Verse 4. You shall not make any idol or anything like that or worship that. And serve that. Exodus 20, verse 5. Because I'm a jealous God. Because if you do that, your iniquity will go down on your children.

And on a third and fourth generation. How does that apply to us? We don't worship physical idols. Some Christians in some denominations have what they call icons. Icons are pictures of saints. It's a form of an idol.

You call it an icon or an idol or call it whatever you like. You have a picture of someone you worship. The point is not a picture. You can keep a picture of a loved one. But you're not worshiping it.

But if you keep a picture of some saint that doesn't even look like that. And you worship it. Ask that person to pray for you. That's a lot of garbage. Nobody can pray for you. Not even Mary. It's only Jesus Christ is the only one who is the intercessor for us.

So an idol is not just these physical things. We don't have that. But anything that takes the place of God in our life. Like the main thing Jesus said was money. He said in Luke 16, 13. You cannot love God and money.

It's like telling a woman. You can't marry both these men. You have to choose. But you say he's so nice and he's also so nice. That's fine. But you still got to choose one of them. What would you think of a woman who says I like both.

They're so good. Both of them are so good. You'd think there's something wrong with a Christian sister. Who wants to marry two men. You wouldn't think that such a sister is spiritual. What do you think of a Christian who wants to love Jesus and love money?

There's absolutely no difference. Between that Christian. And a woman who wants to marry two men. But a Christian woman. Can marry a man. And have a male servant. Who works. I mean if she was an official in an office.

She has a secretary or someone who could be a male secretary serving her. That's fine. Or a servant like a driver of a car or something like that. You can have that but you can't be a husband. That's the point.

So you can have other things as your servants. Many luxuries, comforts, a house, money. But not as a husband. Not as one you love. Not as one you're devoted to. Not as one you live for. What do you think of a woman who lives for a car driver?

Or a secretary in the office? That's crazy. That's exactly how it is when a man says I love Jesus Christ. And most of the time he's living for money, money, money, money. And if he loses a little bit of money he gets so worried about it.

We need to know the difference between having money and loving money. To have money, money is a gift of God. Let me tell you that. It's not the devil who invented money. All the gold in the world was not placed there by the devil.

The devil did not create one gram of gold. God created all the tons of gold there are in the world. He created all the diamonds and the pearls and every single thing. But like the tree of knowledge of good and evil, God says don't get attached to it.

Make that serve you. If you have a driver in the car don't get attached to him. Let him serve you. So money is a very good servant but a terrible master. It's like fire. Fire is a wonderful servant. Look how we cook food with it.

But it's a terrible master. If you let your house catch fire it will destroy it. Money is like that. Keep it under control. Know when to turn off the stove before the house catches fire. Keep that fire under control.

Use it. Use it every day. Money. Have many pots burning on your stoves. That's fine. Many fires lit but don't let the fire take over the house. God is not against our having good things. We read in Luke 1 Timothy 6.

Sometimes Christians give the impression that God doesn't want us to enjoy anything. He wants us to be so disciplined. We must not enjoy an ice cream. We must not enjoy a chocolate. It's always very difficult things.

Let me surprise you by something God's word says. 1 Timothy 6 .17. This is especially written to the rich. The poor cannot afford many things in the world. But rich people can afford many things. What should they do?

Instruct those who are rich in the world. 1 Timothy 6 .17. Not to be conceited. It's a tremendous temptation for rich people to become proud. To look down on poor people. To look down on others who could be rich in education.

To look down on those who are not so educated. Not to be conceited. And not to fix their hope on uncertainty of riches. It's very uncertain. I tell you, it's more uncertain than the stock market. You think if the stock market goes down one day, you know it's going to go up another day.

Riches are not like that. It's absolutely uncertain. But fix your hope on God. Who gives you all this money. Richly. Does God give money richly? Yes, He certainly does to some people. Why does He give it to them?

He gives us things to enjoy. Have you read that word? Have you read that God gives you material things to enjoy? Yeah, I enjoy many material things. You have a comfortable house, enjoy it. You can afford good food, enjoy it.

You can afford a car or two cars, enjoy it. And don't feel guilty about it. But God has given us richly all things to enjoy. Don't get conceited. Don't depend on it. Don't make it an idol. Keep it in its proper place.

Like a servant. Not your husband. Christ alone is our husband. That is a servant. And I'm always going to keep money as my servant. That's how I try to live. I'm not preaching what I don't practice. And it has made my life extremely happy.

I'll tell you that. I will never allow money to sit on my head. However much God gives me, I'm going to keep it under my feet. And I'm going to enjoy it. I don't feel guilty about enjoying what God gives me.

But it also says, verse 18, be good and be generous to those who are in need. That's also a privilege God gives us when He gives us money. That way we have an eternal treasure in heaven. So that's the second commandment.

Don't make, worship any idol. And then it goes on to say in the third commandment, you shall not take the name, verse 7, Exodus 20, verse 7. No, let me, before I go there. It says here, if you worship this idol, the iniquity will fall even upon your children.

Exodus 20, verse 5. Do you know that if you worship money, you can destroy your children? Yes. There are umpteen examples in the world around us of rich people's children who have not been brought up to be grateful to God for every gift.

Teach your children to be grateful to God for the house they live in, for the car they have, for an education they can get. Teach them to be grateful to God and not to worship those things. Otherwise the iniquity will go to their children and they'll grow up wayward and wild.

And I've seen umpteen examples of that in the world around. Then the next thing is, don't take the name of the Lord your God, verse 7, in vain. We have to be very respectful to the name of the Lord Jesus.

We pray in the name of the Lord Jesus. And I'll tell you, you know, Jesus taught us to pray. We pray in the name of the Lord Jesus because he's the one mediator between us and our Father. I cannot go to the Father directly.

There's one mediator God has put between me and him. Otherwise I cannot go. I have to come in the name of Jesus, clothed in his righteousness. Otherwise God is too holy. God is so holy that even the angels hide their faces, we read in Isaiah 6.

Holy angels cover their faces. Where are we? Isaiah saw that and he said, oh, what a sinner I am. And so we can only come in the name of Jesus to the Father. And even when you sometimes we pray Lord Jesus, that's all right.

Praying to the Lord Jesus is all right. We are actually coming to him and saying actually, Lord take my petition to the Father. It's perfectly okay whichever way you pray. There's no rules on this matter of prayer.

But we essentially pray to our Heavenly Father in the name of the Lord Jesus. But we should not take the name of the Lord in vain. You know, when people get into a situation and say, oh, my God. What do you mean?

And some people change it to, oh, my gosh. And some people just change it to OMG. And some people say, oh, G. Oh, G what? What does G stand for? It's all various ways in which, what are they saying? I haven't understood what is the meaning behind it.

Are you saying, why did God allow this? I assume that's what they're saying. Why in the world, oh, God, did you allow this? Oh, my God. Why in the world did you allow this to happen? Or did you allow this to happen there?

My brothers and sisters, you may think this is all extreme. I learned one thing in my life. If I respect the commands of God and honor him, the word of the Lord is, I will honor those who honor me. I have experienced in my life God honoring me in all types of situations.

I decided long ago in my life, I will honor God. Even other people think I'm a bit extreme. You're welcome. You don't have to do what you think are the extreme things in your life. But I'll tell you my testimony, it has gone well with me in all my life.

In all the 82 years of my life, it has gone well. Because I have tried to honor God. And where I've slipped up here and there, I've repented and come back to God and he's forgiven me. So take that seriously.

Sabbath Rest and Beginning Each Day with God

Don't take the name of the Lord in vain. Next is, remember the Sabbath day, verse 8, to keep it holy. That's number four. And that is a day of rest. And that's another thing that we need to, the New Testament, the equivalent of that rest is, take some time to read Hebrews chapter 4.

That's the chapter on the rest of God. He says there, he compares it to the Sabbath. I don't have time to go there right now. That's the rest that Jesus said, come to me all you who labor and are heavy laden, I will give you rest.

The opposite of rest is, you know, struggling and heavy laden and worried and anxious and which makes you tense and irritable. The Lord says all of you who are tense and easily irritable, you need a Sabbath.

You need to enter into God's Sabbath rest. You need to enter into believing that all things work together for good to those who love God and who are called according to his purpose. That will bring rest into your life.

And that good is to make you a little more Christ-like, not to give you more money, not to give you a promotion. If some guy wanted to marry a girl and it didn't work out, if he's a wholehearted Christian, it doesn't mean God will give him a prettier girl.

It means God will give him a more spiritual girl who may not be so pretty, but with whom his life will be so blessed. Yeah. That is what brings us to rest. He who believes, it says in Hebrews 4, enters into rest.

So anytime there's unrest in your heart, you're not in the Sabbath. The Sabbath was a picture of the inner Sabbath God wants his children to have. You know, when God made man on the sixth day, tell me, did he set him to work?

No. He told Adam, before you go and work in the garden, I want you to spend 24 hours with me. And that is the origin of the Sabbath. The seventh day, God rested. For what? God is not tired. What is the meaning of God rested?

It's for the sake of Adam who was created on the sixth day. Hey, Adam, I'm not going to do anything today. That's the meaning of God rested. I'm not going to do any work today because I want to spend time with you.

I want the whole day to be with you, Adam and Eve. That's the meaning of God rested. And the wonderful thing about us in the new covenant is that my life can be a perpetual Sabbath. I don't rest on the seventh day.