In the "New Covenant" made by our Creator God with humanity (Jeremiah 31:31-34) every person can know God from within - because the Holy Spirit is revealing our Creator to all who are willing to know the Lord and trust in Him. We can still help each other along the way; so may you be pleased to find here a variety of helps to the life of faith in God through Jesus Christ. G.S.
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Dr. James Merritt - Description - Any individual home or
nation that will not honor God one day out of the week has no reason to expect
the blessing of God on any day of the week.
It was an ad in Newsweek Magazine that caught my attention
because of the first two words in bold print that said, Sunday Morning;
but listen to the ad in its entirety:
“Sunday Morning: Time to kick back, get comfortable, and perfect
the art of doing absolutely nothing. The ideal companion? Pioneers new PD-M710,
6-Disc CD player. Now you can enjoy up to six hours of your favorite music
without lifting a finger… all of which means you can spend less time changing
your music, and more time enjoying it, but don’t wait for the weekend.”
Is that all Sunday is for? Is it just another day to fire up the grill, pop the
top off a cold one, kick back and catch the game on the couch? Is Sunday just
another fun day?
The first four commandments all deal with our relationship to God, and
specifically with our worship of God. The first commandment says we are to
worship God singularly. He is the only God to be worshiped; besides
Him there is no other. The second commandment tells us we are to worship
God spiritually. God is never to be worshiped through an idol,
through something that is inanimate and dead, for He is the God of the living.
The third commandment tells us we are to worship God sincerely. We
are never to take God’s name in a filthy or a flippant way.
This
commandment tells us we are to worship God steadfastly. There
is a day a week we are to set aside specifically to rest our bodies and to
rejuvenate our spirits in worshiping God. This is one of only two commandments
given in a positive form. This commandment deals with two concerns of everyday
life – labor and leisure. More specifically, it deals with our work and our
worship. On the one hand, work, in the will of God, is a form of worship. One
the other hand, worship is the highest work we can ever do.
As we
will see in this message, we no longer keep the Sabbath Day, technically
speaking, for that day is Saturday. It was a day given specifically to the
Jewish people in a special covenant between them and God. The principle of one
day of the week being given exclusively to the Lord, is still valid, and we
ignore it to our peril.
Benjamin
Disraeli was once the Prime Minister of England under Queen Victoria. He was a
Jewish Christian. He said, “Of all divine institutions, I maintain the most
divine is that which secures a day of rest for man; I hold Sunday to be the
most valuable blessing conceded to man; it is the cornerstone of all
civilization.”
William
Blackstone, the incomparable legal mind, who wrote the Standard Law Book, which
is still the foundation of all modern day jurisprudence, said, "A
corruption of morals usually follows a profanation of the Lord’s Day."
General
George Washington issued the following order in 1776: "That the troops may
have an opportunity of attending public worship, the General excuses them from
fatigue duty on Sundays. We can have little hope of the blessings of
heaven on our arms if we insult Sunday by our impiety and folly."
Abraham
Lincoln said, "The President, who is Commander in Chief of the Army
and Navy, desires and enjoins the orderly observance of Sunday, the Lord’s
Day."
This
commandment was given to the individual, to the family, and to the nation. Any
individual home or nation that will not honor God one day out of the week, has
no reason to expect the blessing of God on any day of the week. William
Gladstone, who was once the Prime Minister of England, said, "You tell me
what the young men of England are doing on Sunday, and I will tell you what the
future of England will be." Today 2% of England attends church on
Sunday, and she is a shell and a shadow of her former self.
https://www.idisciple.org/post/is-sunday-just-another-day
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In the "New Covenant" made by our Creator God with humanity (Jeremiah 31:31-34) every person can know God from within - because the Holy Spirit is revealing our Creator to all who are willing to know the Lord and trust in Him. We can still help each other along the way; so may you be pleased to find here a variety of helps to the life of faith in God through Jesus Christ. G.S.
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