Jon Collins

Next week, we look at command number six, do not murder, or as Tim translates it, do not kill.

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Remember the day of Shabbat to treat it as holy.

Six days you will labor and you will make all of your work.

But the seventh day is a Shabbat of Yahweh your Elohim.

The seven-day creation narrative is clearly being hyperlinked here.

God generates out of generous love something that is wholly contained within and sustained by God.

But that thing needs to then go on a journey of sharing in God's own rest to become one with God.

The Genesis 1 narrative is trying to teach us to think about all of history as being on this journey of we're laboring towards this great day of unity and rest and completeness and blessing and sharing in the harmony and shalom that is God's own essence.

Our work is not ultimate.

It's not actually what has the final word about where this universe is going.

There's a purpose and a worker that transcends us all.

God's purpose.

Your slave is not your slave on the Shabbat.

You will remember that you all were slaves in the land of Egypt, and Yahweh your Elohim brought you out with a strong hand and with an outstretched arm.

And so now the weekly Shabbat, every seventh day, is a liberation day.

Hello, John Collins.