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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

♪♪ ♪♪ Come on, come on, Come on, Horsey.

If a goat, a horse, a pony, and a coon can get along together, shouldn't Christians of differing beliefs love 1 another?

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, amen.

The title of the study of this hour is Our Sunday-keeping Christians, Second-class Christians, and Our Sabbath-keeping Christians, First-class Christians.

I'd like to have you notice 7 points in this study.

Number 1, clusters around the word unprofitable.

Luke 17 verse 10 Jesus said if we do everything that he commands us we're to still say we are unprofitable servants.

The second point clusters around the word accepted, and the text of Scripture is Acts 1035.

Peter at the home of Cornelius said that people of every nation are accepted of the Lord if they fear him and do righteousness.

The third point clusters around the words, no answers, and the text is Isaiah 58 verses 1 to 4.

In these verses we're told that Sabbath keepers have no guarantee of answers to prayer as long as we're sanctimonious, looking down our noses, so to speak, at others.

0.4 clusters around the words, continual guidance, and the text is found in Isaiah 58, 9 and 10.

It says that the same group of individuals who have been sanctimonious, who have taken on the attitude that I am holier than thou, when they change, when they repent, they may be guided continually and have marvelous answers to prayer.

The fifth point clusters around the words, my people, and the text is Revelation chapter 18, verses 1 to 4.

Here we are told, and this is for those who understand the prophecy, that people of various faiths are called by the Lord, quote, my people, unquote.

0.6 clusters around the words, the body of Christ.

The Sabbath-keeping Church, In our authoritative statements, declare that the great majority of the followers of Christ are not in the Sabbath-keeping church, they are in other churches.

That's found in our own work entitled The Great Controversy, pages 383 and 390.

The greater part of the body of Christ is in the various churches that keep Sunday.

Number 7, this point clusters around the words more and more, and the text of Scripture is Proverbs 4, 18.

It says the path of the just is like a shining light, it shines more and more unto the perfect day.

This is saying, in effect, that the Christian can expect a new development of truth.

It is God's method of commending him, for it is because he's already God's child that he receives more light.

And so the individual who may be the vehicle of bringing more light to 1 Christian should not in any sense consider that he is more of a child of God than the other.

1 Christian may not understand 1 certain Bible doctrine as well as another.

On the other hand, the individual who brought in that specific doctrine may be weak in another area in which the other Christian is stronger.

With these 7 great Bible facts before us, I'd like to share with you something that thrills my heart very much.

It happened in Eola Park, Orlando, Florida.

I was pastor of what is now called the Central Orlando Church of Seventh-day Adventists.

I often drove past this park and I noticed that they had a daily meeting.

A war veteran, one-legged war veteran, mastered the ceremonies.

There was not a large crowd that gathered, perhaps 25 or 30, rarely 50, but they invited men of learning, largely, to be their speakers.

Astronomers, medical doctors, doctors of divinity, various professors and educators and so forth.

The speaker spoke first for half an hour, approximately.

Then the people were permitted to ply him with questions.

I have been astonished to see some of these learned speakers come in and in great dignity and poise present for the half hour their message.

But when the individuals began to ask them questions, I noticed the same individual would sometimes sort of lose his cool as we speak.

In fact, these questioners would become somewhat irritating.

And finally, many times, they would heckle the speaker.

And I would see him walking out of that park with his head down, 1 person after another saying, what do you have to say about this, and what about this, and what about this?

And I said to myself, I'm so happy that I have never been invited to speak there.

Little did I realize that they would come when I would be invited and they would insist that I come.

1 Sabbath morning, as I finished my sermon and stepped out at the exit to shake hands with my church members as they were leaving, a stranger stepped up to me.

He said, Pastor, They want you to speak at Eola Park next Friday afternoon.

You know, friends, all that I had seen in that park came to me and it didn't appeal to me.

And then I was just about ready to say no sir, and he said they have told you The topic they want you to speak on the Sabbath.

I said oh He said they've even told you how to word it they have How have they told me to word it?

Well, they have told you to word it this way, why I am right and the whole world is wrong.

I said, now I know I'm not going to be there, for I don't believe in controversy.

You just tell them to count me out and I've brushed him aside quickly.

It was only perhaps a week or 2 before he was back again.

At the close of the service, there he was, he said, they really want you to come next Friday afternoon.

I'm not interested in any controversy, and he was gone.

I don't know how many times that man came to see me.

But 1 Sabbath morning at the close of the service, As he approached me, and I was just ready to brush him aside as always, he said, Brother Kuhn, you should be there.

Doesn't the Bible say in 1 Peter 3 15 that you should be ready to give a reason of the hope that's within you?" I said, you're right, brother.

Later I learned that 5 or 6 ministers, I think all of whom had been retired, circulated the message all over the town, all over the city, that a Sabbath-keeping minister would be there the next Friday at 03:00.

As I thought of the controversy in which they had engaged on various occasions, I gave myself to a great deal of prayer for those several days.

And I asked the Lord in particular to help me to represent Jesus.

If my arguments didn't seem to be good, there's 1 thing I would like them to see.

I'd like them to see Christ and his love and his kindness in me.

I have found that we're all human beings and we can become irritated, even as we present the gospel.

So I pleaded earnestly with the Lord to, above all things, to reveal the spirit of the Sabbath-keeping Christ, which is a loving personality.

No matter what they said, no matter how they heckled, I said, Lord, help me to be kind.

Friday afternoon when my wife and I walked into the park, we expected to see 25 or 30 individuals there.

Imagine our surprise when we saw sitting there up to 600 individuals.

And as I scanned over that audience, I realized that there were probably not a dozen Sabbath-keeping Christians.

There were all Sunday-keeping Christians sitting there awaiting my arrival.

I thought, how in the world did they get 600 people when usually they're only 25 or 30 or so?

In fact, I didn't know until after the meeting was over that these 5 or 6 ministers had circulated the news that I would be there this way.

They said, the Sabbath-keeping pastor is going to speak Friday afternoon and you're going to see something very interesting.

His name is Kuhn and if you people come, you're going to see us skin the Kuhn.

So there are 600 people there, curiously waiting to see what would take place.

As the Master of Ceremonies was about to introduce me, 1 of these retired ministers, a rather tall beanpole type man, retired, stepped over to the master of ceremonies and he said, I would be happy to introduce the speaker.

And the master of ceremonies innocently permitted, not knowing that this man would be standing up with the idea of prejudicing the people before I ever said a word.

So he stood up before that audience of about 600 individuals and he said, ladies and gentlemen, I want to tell you In introducing this young man, for I was only about 37 and he must have been 70, he said, I want to tell you that his church has done a wonderful community service throughout our land in their hospital and sanitarium program.

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5 - Are Sunday-Keepers Second-Class Christians?

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