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ABC Prayer Crusade

Lovely Lord of the Lord's Day

Glenn Coon

1 - Significance of Sabbath Worship

2 - Our Generous Lord

3 - Our Gracious Harmonizer

5 - Are Sunday-Keepers Second-Class Christians?

6 - May’s New Heart

7 - The Mark of the Beast Principle

8 - Seal of Love

9 - Our Impartial Christ

10 - The New Covenant Christ

So, Lord Jesus, ruler of all nature, O Thou of God and man the Son, Thee will I honor, thee will I cherish.

Dear Lord, Make me a nail upon the wall, fasten securely in its place.

Then from this thing so common and so small, hang a bright picture of thy face, And I thank you in Jesus' name, Amen.

The topic of this hour's study is The Generous Lord of the Lord's Day.

And I would like you to notice 5 expressions.

Our opening text of Scripture is John 17, verse 3, Jesus speaking, and this is life eternal, that they might know thee, the only true God, and Jesus Christ, whom thou hast sent.

Life eternal, then, consists not of knowing a lot of good things, not even knowing many biblical things.

The Bible tells us many things to do, but the doing in themselves does not constitute salvation.

For instance, the Bible tells us that we should tithe, and it says that If a man does not tithe, he robs the Lord.

The Bible also tells us that the ministers of the Lord should tell people the difference between clean things and unclean.

That's found in the 44th chapter of Ezekiel.

But though I should eat no unclean thing, that isn't salvation.

That is Christ's formula, and I believe it, don't you?

Not even knowing which days the Sabbath constitutes salvation.

There was a group of religious people 1, 900 years ago.

They knew which day was the true Sabbath, but they didn't know the Lord.

And so they raised their voices against Jesus Christ, the Lord of the Lord's day, that he should be crucified.

Eternal life consists of knowing the Lord.

Someone said, well, if eternal life does not consist of knowing which day is the Sabbath, then why are you giving this series on the Sabbath?

It is because the Lord says that a proper understanding of his Holy Sabbath leads us to a knowledge of him.

In Ezekiel the 20th chapter and the 20th verse we read, and I gave them my Sabbath that they might know that I am the Lord, your God.

To know the Lord in his Sabbath is God's plan.

To know which days the Sabbath is not his plan, except as we go into the depths of it, the significance of it, the understanding of it, and we reach right out and find the Lord.

That's why we call the Sabbath doctrine a telescope, as are all the doctrines of the Bible.

Paul said in the ninth chapter of Romans, I speak the truth, I say the truth in Christ.

Now to understand Jesus in all the doctrines means that the doctrines of the Bible are a telescope through which we see Jesus.

This is in a special way true of his Holy Sabbath day.

He said, I gave them my Sabbath that they might know that I am the Lord, that I am the Lord your God.

You might be surprised, friends, to know that in my study during the last 25 years, I have found between 40 and 50 pictures of Jesus Christ as I've looked through this Sabbath telescope.

That was the purpose of the telescope, to show us the Lord.

What does he mean to me individually and personally?

Now as I behold him in his doctrine, this is what the Bible says will happen.

In 2nd Corinthians chapter 3 verse 18 it says, by beholding, we're changed in the same image.

As we look at the Lord in the Holy Sabbath, we're changed in the image of the Lord.

If we're merely talking about things and theories and doctrines, instead of talking about the Lord, there's no power to change us.

By beholding him we're changed in the same image.

No wonder the Apostle John says in this first epistle, the third chapter, verses 1 to 3, when he shall appear we shall be like him, for we shall see him as he is.

To be like him means that we're beholding him, we're emulating him, we're following him, we're looking at his image, We're asking the Lord by the Holy Spirit to make us like him.

That is the purpose of the Bible doctrine.

This is the purpose of the Sabbath truth.

So the Sabbath becomes a telescope through which we see various characteristics of our lovely Lord.

Of the 40 or 50 pictures of the Lord Jesus that are connected with the Sabbath in the Bible, We want to only mention 3 in this study.

In Genesis chapter 1 verse 1, it says, In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth.

Now remember that our topic has to do with him being our generous lover.

My friends, if we could step into the Garden of Eden before sins, blight, had ever rested upon this earth, we would see a love displayed as he prepared the home for our first parents by creation.

Someone said, but where does a Sabbath come in?

Just verses after it says, that is why he gave his Holy Sabbath, Genesis 2, 1 to 3, because he is Creator.

The next picture of our Lord is that of the maker of man, Genesis 126.

So he is Creator, he created the beautiful home for man, then he made man to enjoy the beauties of his handiwork.

Genesis 2, 1 to 3, just verses after this, it says the Holy Sabbath is because of what he created, what he created for man, and it is for man whom he made.

So we have the Sabbath as a sign of knowing him.

We have the Sabbath as a telescope through which we observe his lovely character.

He is the 1 who provided for all of man's needs before he made man.

Then next, we have him making man in his own image.

All of these, the Sabbath being the sign of Genesis 2, 1 to 3.

And then we have him as our generous lover.

In Ezekiel chapter 20, verse 20, we have a wonderful series of statements.

He said, I gave them my Sabbath that they might know that I am the Lord your God.

Y-O-U-R is a possessive pronoun as you know.

The Sabbath is saying to Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden, I belong to you.

I'm not merely your God with emphasis on the word God.

Not merely do you belong to me as my creatures.

I am the minister to you as well as your God." And there we find the beautiful plan of salvation.

Jesus Christ was a Lamb slain from the foundation of the world and as the Lord revealed to Adam and Eve this wonderful gift of Jesus Christ, they could see that He, God Himself, belonged to them for God so loved the world that he gave his only begotten son.

Jesus Christ is a gift to the human race.

Years ago when I was a little boy I didn't like dogs.

Of us 5 preacher ministers, all of us preached against dogs.

I did too, until 1 day I met a Pomeranian.

A man had lost his wife and he was looking for a home for this Pomeranian dog and he offered this dog to us as a gift.

I fell in love with that little Pomeranian dog and ever since I've loved dogs.

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