3/24/2009 9:43 AM
SPIRITUAL DIARY
My Worship Time Focus: The Law of God Part 3
Bible Reading &
Meditation Reference: Deut. 5:12-15
Message of the verses: “12
‘Observe the sabbath day to keep it holy, as the LORD your God commanded
you. 13 ‘Six days you shall labor and do
all your work, 14 but the seventh day is
a sabbath of the LORD your God; in it you shall not do any work, you or your
son or your daughter or your male servant or your female servant or your ox or
your donkey or any of your cattle or your sojourner who stays with you, so that
your male servant and your female servant may rest as well as you. 15 ‘You shall remember that you were a slave in
the land of Egypt, and the LORD your God brought you out of there by a mighty
hand and by an outstretched arm; therefore the LORD your God commanded you to
observe the sabbath day.”
In the book
of Exodus the Lord adds this to this forth commandment, “ ‘For in six days the LORD made the heavens
and the earth, the sea and all that is in them, and rested on the seventh day;
therefore the LORD blessed the sabbath day and made it holy.’”
Nine of the
Ten Commandments in the OT are repeated in the NT, and this is the one that is
not repeated in the NT. The Sabbath day
to the Jews was a special day given to them to rest after they had labored for
the first six days of the week, it was a day that they went to the Temple or to
the Synagogue to worship the Lord. In
the New Testament times the Church is to meet on the first day of the week
because that is the day that the Lord was raised from the dead. “The Lord’s Day commemorates the New Covenant
of grace: it opens the week with rest in
Christ and the works follow. Both the
Sabbath and the Lord’s Day emphasize the importance of devoting one day in
seven to the Lord in worship and service.
Every day belongs to the Lord and it’s unbiblical to make the observance
of days a test of spirituality or orthodoxy (Col. 2:16-17; Rom.
Spiritual meaning for my life today: I think that there is a principle here to
follow and that is that one should rest at least one day of the week from the
labors of a job and that as a believer I am to attend the services of my church
on Sunday because that is the day that the Lord was raised from the dead. I also think that our nation was much better
off when the stores and factories were closed on Sunday and that if I had to do
it over again I probably would make sure that I had a day off on Sunday to
spend with my family and attend church services.
My Steps of Faith for
Today:
- Give myself to the Lord for service and worship today.
- Trust the Lord to guide my path today.
- To continue to learn contentment.
Memory verses for the week: Ephesians
1:1-4
- Paul,
an apostle of Christ Jesus by the will of God, To the saints who are at
- Grace to you and peace from peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.
- Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has blessed us with every spiritual blessing in the heavenly places in Christ,
- just as He chose us in Him before the foundation of the world, that we would be holy and blameless before Him. In love
3/24/2009 10:36 AM
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