God created man with the appetite, the aspi
God created man with the appetite, the aspi ration, for rest and enjoyment. God created man with such an aspiration because God's intention was that man would continually seek after Him. Therefore, every human being is seeking rest and enjoyment.
Rest requires satisfaction. If a person does not have satisfaction, he cannot have rest. From expe rience we know that we can rest only when we are satisfied. Furthermore, satisfaction comes from enjoyment. Hence, if we do not have enjoyment, we do not have satisfaction; and if we do not have satisfaction, we do not have rest. To be without rest and enjoyment is to suffer.
Because fallen man has lost God and is in bondage, he does not have the real rest or enjoy ment. This is the result, the issue, of man's fall.
THE FEAST OF THE PASSOVER
When the children of Israel were in Egypt, they were in bondage. They had no rest, no sat isfaction, and no enjoyment. But God came in to rescue them, to save them from their fallen situ ation. God saved His people by the Passover.
The feast of the Passover was the first of the seven annual feasts observed by the children of Israel (Lev. 23). The word "feast" implies a holiday,