I like the list of practical benefits/by products that DJ highlights in the message. The greater end DJ exhorts us to is to recognize that God is holy. He describes holiness as unique, other than, and different!
In John, Jesus says, that God actually doesn't rest. This got him in a lot of hot water with the institutional church --
16 So, because Jesus was doing these things on the Sabbath, the Jewish leaders began to persecute him. 17 In his defense Jesus said to them, “My Father is always at his work to this very day, and I too am working.” 18 For this reason they tried all the more to kill him; not only was he breaking the Sabbath, but he was even calling God his own Father, making himself equal with God.
I mention this fact (that up to Christ's ministry God has been working in the 6th day) because it highlights the magnitude of Christ's invasion from calvary. It highlights as DJ says, the new creation. I welcome the vision of the cross as a new creation but I also believe that through the blood of the lamb on calvary Jesus ushers in the 7th day as a culmination of the original creation account. The creation is finally completed through Christ's good act and "it is good."
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