April 3, 2015
MY FRIENDS, WHATEVER DAY YOU KEEP HOLY, HOW DO YOU KEEP IT?
How do we keep that special and unique day God has given His children? We all have our traditions that have been handed down to us from generation to generation. I have friends that honor Saturday as their holy and special day, and friends that honor Sunday as their holy and special day and I have some friends who treats all seven days the same, work, work and more work.
But where I need us to focus today, as a child of God how should we honor that sacred day God has given us to rest on. We all agree that it is a holy day that God created, a blessed, and hollow day that we must focus on the goodness of our Creator and Savior, and all He has done for us. But when His word says my Children shall rest from work, how do we justify all that we do on the day God has told us to keep holy and rest on.
It is lawful to do good on His holy day. But I don’t believe working at the office, or cutting your lawn, and washing your car, is doing good on His special day, for this day is holy and honored, unique and special above all other days of the week. Acts of necessity and mercy are permitted. “Going on from that place, He went into the 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 God’s holy day.” Matt 12:1-12 (KJV)
The sick and suffering, are to be cared for at all times, “but unnecessary labor we should avoid. “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 (KJV)
God’s precepts also tells us, all within our gates should “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, our God who gave His only Son to die for these Precepts, has ask His Children to make this day special.
Remember In God’s pure and holy kingdom His Children who through their faith have endured till the end will praise His name Day and night, every day will be special at that time, John tells us in Rev. 7:9-17 (KJV) “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 and we will forever praise His name. So as we prepare for Eternity, His children must obey His Holy and sanctified precepts and take that one Special day God has given us and make it special and rest and only focus on our creator and His love grace and mercy on that day.
God is so good to us He only requires one day out of six. And what is also so awesome about our God, the only thing He requires all of from his Children is, our mind and body.
So friends stay focused, remain faithful, love one another and endure till the end and never forget to STUDY&PRAY
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