What Are Your Plans for Sunday

Giving the Sabbath to God in worship

“. 9 So there is a special rest or a Sabbath rest still waiting for the people of God.  10For all who have entered into God’s rest have rested from their labors, just as God did after creating the world.  11So let us do our best to enter that rest. But if we disobey God, as the people of Israel did, we will fall.-    Hebrews 4:9–11

 

The purpose of the Sabbath is to rest from physical labor and to worship God.  On His Holy Day, we can forget our daily routine and draw closer to the Creator God in study, meditation, fellowship, and prayer, and have a foretaste of our glorious future eternal rest.

By thinking upon God, the purpose of human existence, God's revealed laws of life and God's plan for mankind, we add great strength and meaning to our life. The Sabbath is truly one of the greatest blessings God has bestowed upon mankind. When we keep the Sabbath day, we show faith and belief in God's promise of a future eternal rest with a glorified spiritual body in the Kingdom of God. By resting on the Sabbath, we are actually "acting out" the Kingdom of God and what it will be like to be Sons of God in His Kingdom

 

Throughout the history of man, man has always seemed to want to go in ways that are contradictory to God's will. We have reached the point where we all know about God but we do not know God.

In this country, we acknowledge God but we do not worship him. We call on his name at our convenience or in times of personal need. We disregard his commandment to honor the Sabbath, which is to be a Holy Convocation from sunset to sunset.

Instead, we may give it a couple of hours and totally disregard the commandment to do no work or require anyone else to work.

We have allowed our courts to remove God from the public worship and allowed a few more vocal individuals who do not acknowledge God's existence to dominate the public discourse.

We have a great deal to answer for and a lot of changes to make if we expect God to hear and answer our petitions for redress. It all starts with the individual

 

D.L. Moody: “I believe that the Sabbath question today is a vital one for the whole country. It is the burning question of the present time. If you give up the Sabbath the church goes; if you give up the church the home goes; and if the home goes the nation goes. That is the direction in which we are traveling.”

“The church of God is losing its power on account of so many people giving up the Sabbath, and using it to promote selfishness.  Show me a nation that has given up the Sabbath, and I will show you a nation that has got the seed of decay.”