"This, your sanctification is the will of God" (I Thessalonians 4:3); and it teaches how you achieve "your sanctification": "...Remember the day of the sabbath to make it holy", or "sanctify it" (Exodus 20:8). This reveals the method of "your sanctification". Of which, God is himself the example, as validated solely by the Bible's 4th Directive (Exodus 20:8-11). And no: God did not "set an example" of "rest" the seventh day. What he actually did was...