MY FRIENDS WHATEVER DAY YOU KEEP, HOW DO YOU KEEP IT?

Oct. 8,2013

MY FRIENDS WHATEVER DAY YOU KEEP, HOW DO YOU KEEP IT? The 4th Commandment Exodus 20:8-10

My Friends, Today we are not here to discuss what day of the week is the Sabbath because we all have our traditions. But what I am concern about as A Child of the King is how do we keep that Special Day. We all agree that it is A holy day that God created, blessed, and hollowed so we will forever stop, and focus on the goodness of our Savior and all He has done for us.

But when His word says six days shall thou labor and then you rest from work, how do we justify working on His Holy day, except when the Word tells us “………Going on from that place, He went into their synagogue, and a man with a shriveled hand was there. Looking for a reason to bring charges against Jesus, they asked him,

“Is it lawful to heal on the Sabbath?” He said to them, “If any of you has a sheep and it falls into a pit on the Sabbath, will you not take hold of it and lift it out? How much more valuable is a person than a sheep! Therefore it is lawful to do good on the Sabbath.”Matt 12:1-12 So God’s word tells us, it is lawful to do good on the Sabbath.

But I don’t believe working at the office, or cutting your lawn, and washing your car, is doing good on the Sabbath or looking at any and everything on TV is doing good on the Sabbath. Ms. White tells us “God has given us six days wherein to labor, and He requires that our work be done in these six working days. Acts of necessity and mercy are permitted on the Sabbath,

the sick and suffering are at all times to be cared for; but unnecessary labor is to be strictly avoided. “Turn away thy foot from the Sabbath, from doing thy pleasure on My holy day; and call the Sabbath a delight, the holy of the Lord, honorable; and . . . honor Him, not doing thine own ways, nor finding thine own pleasure.” Isaiah 58:13.

Nor does the prohibition end here. “Nor speaking thine own words,” Those who discuss business matters or lay plans on the Sabbath are regarded by God as though engaged in the actual transaction of business. To keep the Sabbath holy, we should not even allow our minds to dwell upon things of a worldly character.

And the commandment includes all within our gates. The inmates of the house are to lay aside their worldly business during the sacred hours. All should unite to honor God by willing service upon His holy day.” (E,G, White Patriarchs and Prophets) My friends One day out of seven, Our God who gave His only Son to die for these Precepts, has ask His Children to honored them.

Remember In God’s pure and holy kingdom His Children who will endure till the end will praise Him Day and night For John tells us in Rev. 7:9-17 “and behold, a great multitude which no one could count, from every nation and all tribes and peoples and tongues, standing before the throne and before the Lamb, clothed in white robes,

and palm branches were in their hands; and they cry out with a loud voice, saying, “Salvation to our God who sits on the throne, and to the Lamb……“These are the ones who come out of the great tribulation, and they have washed their robes and made them white in the blood of the Lamb. In Matt. 24 it tells us “……….“But he who endures to the end shall be saved.”

Yes my friends these are the redeemed who endured until the end. They are before the throne of God. These servants are before God’s throne continually because of their faithfulness. He who sits on the throne will forever protect them with his presence. No more suffering, no more trials or tribulation no more death or sickness.

They will hunger no longer, nor thirst anymore; for in John 4:14 it tells us. But whosoever drinketh of the water that I shall give him shall never thirst; but the water that I shall give him shall be in him a well of water springing up into everlasting life. Yes His sacrifice and our redemption and salvation will forever fill us with joy and Happiness.

We have been saved My friends from the clutches of Satin by the blood of Jesus Christ. And we will forever praise His name. So as we prepare for Eternity can we as children of God obey His Holy and sanctified precepts and take His Holy Day and make it A Special Day Just for Him where you praise and honor just God,

and not the mighty dollar, or yourself in His 24 hour time period that He Blessed, sanctified and made Holy so that we would never forget that He was our Creator and Savior.

If your goal is Eternity in God’s kingdom, then Remember His Commandments my friends. You shall do no work: you, nor your son, nor your daughter, nor your male servant, nor your female servant, nor your cattle, nor your stranger who is within your gates.

So friends stay focused, remain faithful, love one another and endure till the end and never forget to STUDY&PRAY