John 5:15-17 ESV
The man went away and told the Jews that it was Jesus who had healed him. And this was why the Jews were persecuting Jesus, because he was doing these things on the Sabbath. But Jesus answered them, “My Father is working until now, and I am working.”
God has not rested from His work. The creation account in Genesis is a roadmap of the creation of man from a dark formless state into man made in the image of God.
In this passage Jesus tells us both He and the Father are working. Jesus has begun the final phase of the creation of man. The Sabbath rest is something that lies ahead of us. God is not finished with us or the world.
We find rest from the world, though we remain in the world, because we have entered the kingdom of heaven, or more accurately, the kingdom of heaven has entered us.
The Sabbath rest of God will begin when He dwells with man in the New Jerusalem.
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