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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

♪♪♪ ♪♪♪ ♪♪ ♪♪ Oh come, let us worship and bow down, let us kneel before the Lord, our Maker.

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 we thank you in Jesus' name.

The topic of this hour's study is Our Gracious Harmonizer, and we'd like to have you notice 5 words or sets of words.

We'd like you to notice first of all that the Holy Sabbath day, God has said, is the sign of His sanctifying power.

Ezekiel, the 20th chapter and the 12th verse.

He said, I gave them my Sabbath to be a sign between me and them that they might know that I am the Lord that sanctify them.

Now, sanctification comes in 2 phases in our study today.

The first is that sanctification which sets a man apart from his sins, and that brings us to the word Jesus.

Matthew 121, Thou shalt call his name Jesus, for He shall save His people from their sins." So the Sabbath sanctification of Jesus is that power which sets a man apart from the wickedness of the world, from the vices of the world, from the evil of the world.

And the next part of the word sanctification has to do with setting people together in harmony.

This text is found in Hebrews chapter 2 verse 11.

For both he that sanctifyeth and they who are sanctified are all of 1.

So our Lord Jesus not merely is able to set a man apart from the sins of the world, but he's able to set his people together in a sweet, joyful, elegant harmony.

This is the process by which Jesus is able to turn us from the sins of the world and set us apart from the world and to set us together in him.

A new heart also will I give you, and a new spirit will I put within you.

I will take away the stony heart out of your flesh and I'll give you an heart of flesh." Jesus separates us from the sins of the world and its wicked vices by giving us a new nature.

He also harmonizes us together because we have a new nature.

Otherwise, our hearts are hard and we can be cruel toward each other.

We can have a bitterness unless he gives us this heart of flesh.

For 2 individuals to harmonize in Jesus, they must certainly observe Bible rules, and these rules are found in the 10 Commandment Law of God, particularly the last 6.

How can I harmonize with an individual who is stealing from me?

Can 2 walk together except they be agreed?

Amos 3.3 How can I harmonize with an individual who breaks the ninth commandment?

Either the eighth or the ninth commandment or the tenth who steals or the seventh who commits adultery?

The sixth he steals, the seventh he commits adultery, the eighth he goes on and on into this separation of harmony.

How can I harmonize with a person who is lying about people?

How can I harmonize with an individual who is coveting that which I possess?

So there are rules in the Word of God of harmony.

1 young lady came to us from 1 of the academies where we're giving a series.

She comes in and without permission uses my dresses, my stockings, my shoes, and then she wonders why I'm cool toward her.

There's the golden rule mentioned in Matthew 7 12.

All things that you would that men do to you, do you even so to them?

Let me put myself in the place of the other individuals.

Would I want them to do to me what I'm doing to them?

It's very important in every aspect of life for us to put ourselves in the place of the other individual, for how can we have harmony if we refuse to let the Lord Jesus in us practice the golden rules?

Now there are ways by which we can help the individual who is not practicing the golden rule.

The first is the example of an individual who attacks the character of another blatantly.

The second is the individual who does not attack the individual personally, but he attacks his policies or his teaching in a very deceptive manner, thereby trying to weaken our influence in him.

The third example is that of an individual who has a new heart, and he does everything in his power to harmonize with individuals who are opposed to him.

The first is that of an individual who attacks another individual personally, blatantly.

There was a member of my church many years ago who came to me accusing an officer of our church.

It is true that he accused him wrongfully.

The man was not guilty, but he professed to have excellent evidence that this man was guilty, and I think in his own heart he actually had come to a place where he believed that the officer in the church was guilty.

You see, we can do wishful thinking unless we have new hearts.

We can hope that a man is guilty unless we have the heart that Jesus has promised us.

So he came to me very sure that this fellow officer in the church was guilty.

He was, He thought he was not merely guilty of doing wrong, but he thought that he was guilty of doing the very thing that he was preaching against, which would make him also a hypocrite.

So right away, I did what the Bible says to do when a man comes that way.

I took the statement of Jesus Christ found in Matthew 18, verses 15 to 18.

But I want to step farther since I was his pastor.

I said, brother, let's find out whether he's done this or not.

This officer's office was right across the alley from my church office, so I said let's stop over to his office and we'll ask him.

And I noticed right away this man didn't want to ask him.

He didn't want to go to him alone, for he wanted to hurt him.

He hoped he was wrong for he did not have the new heart.

I said that is what we shall do immediately.

So I almost took him by the hand to lead him over to the other gentleman's office And right away I came out cold turkey.

I said, did you do such and such a thing?

And he presented the evidence, which was very simple and very clear.

I said, thank you, and we walked right out of his office.

When we got outside of the building, I turned to this member of my church family and I said, had that man done the thing that he was preaching against, wouldn't that have been terrible?

He said, that's why I'm, that's why I came to you.

I said, no brother, since he did not do the thing you accused him of, isn't the accusation wrong?

Because He did not have the sanctifying power of the new heart that no 1 but the Creator can give, and the Creator for which the Sabbath stands.

I knew there can be no gossipers where there are no listeners.

Finally, he said, well, my wife, if you want to know.

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