Lovely Lord of the Lord's Day

Glenn Coon

ABC Prayer Crusade

1 - Significance of Sabbath Worship

The topic of our study of this hour is the significance of Sabbath worship.

And I'd like you to notice the meaning of 5 words.

In Revelation, the 14th chapter, verses 6 and 7, we read the marvelous message of God to a world just before the return of our Lord Jesus Christ.

And it goes like this, I saw another angel fly in the midst of heaven, having the everlasting gospel to preach unto them that dwell on the earth, to every nation, kindred, tongue, and people, saying with a loud voice, Fear God, and give glory to him, for the hour of his judgment is come.

And worship him that made heaven and earth, the sea and the fountains of waters.

You'll notice the 1 that we're to worship, Him who made heaven and earth.

It sounds, as we read this, as though we're reading part of the fourth commandment that tells us to keep the Holy Seventh-day because God made the heaven and the earth.

What is the significance of the word worship in its relationship to him who made the heaven and the earth?

This word worship found in Revelation 14 7 is found 59 times in the New Testament, where it is translated from an original word, meaning according to Dr.

So Sabbath worship is a love relationship.

In Exodus, the 31st chapter, we read in the 15th to the 17th verses that the Lord made heaven and earth and He rested on the seventh day.

The word sign can be a mark, an ensign, a banner, or a flag.

But the word sign comes from an original word that is translated twice as miracle.

And many times when the word sign itself is used, it means miracle.

From the same text of Scripture, Exodus 31, 15 to 17, it says, it is a sign between me and Israel.

We find its first use in Genesis chapter 32 verse 28.

Jacob was wrestling with the angel and the day was breaking and the angel said I must go for the day breaking.

And Jacob said, oh, don't, please don't leave me.

I cannot, I will not let you go except you bless me." And the angel said, what is your name?

Ah, Jacob hated to say, my name is Jacob, signifying deceiver, supplanter, the shrewd 1 who knows how to pull sharp deals.

I'm now going to make you into a new man, the idea, and your new name is Israel, Prevailer, Overcomer.

So now we have 3 words, worship, sign, Israel.

Sign, a miracle, so a miracle love relationship.

Israel, putting Israel together with worship and sign we have this.

God's miracle of relationship changes an individual from his first birth to his second birth and makes him a new creature in Christ Jesus.

In Colossians, the first chapter, verses 14 and 15, it says, we have redemption through Christ's blood, even the forgiveness of sin.

And then 2 verses beyond says why we have redemption, on what basis we have redemption.

It says for or because by him were all things created in heaven and earth.

In other words, the basis of our new birth, The basis of our redemption, it says, is the creative power of our Redeemer.

Israel, a miracle love relationship that changes a person from the old nature to the new nature.

Redemption means placing it as the fourth of the 4 words.

A love, a miracle love relationship that changes an individual from the old nature to the new relationship, this is the redemption that we have because he alone can create in us new creatures.

Because of this, the fifth word displayed.

Before presenting to you this fifth word, let me sort of summarize these 4 words in the text of Scripture, Song of Solomon, chapter 2, verse 4.

This is what it says, He brought me into his banqueting house, that's He, that's our Creator, And His banner over me was love.

The Sabbath banner represents this love relationship, this miraculous love relationship that changes us from what we were to what we shall be.

This is the redemptive creative power of God.

Now we are enjoying this banqueting house relationship with the Lord.

As the Holy Sabbath closes, we go forth to display this miracle relationship, and this is found in the 60th Psalm and the fourth verse.

Thou hast given a banner to them that fear thee, that it may be displayed because of the truth.

Now here's this Sabbath sign, the Sabbath banner, this love relationship, this miraculous love relationship that changes a person from what he is, that he deplores in himself perhaps, and brings to him this redemptive new birth.

And as he goes forth from this wonderful relationship with his Lord, he displays this banner.

The word displayed comes from an original word, which may surprise you as it did me when I first found it.

Friends, is not this the creative power of God that changes a person from his selfish ways, from wanting to shove his weight around, to the place where Jesus dwells in him and self fades away into the background.

What a wonderful Savior is Jesus, my Lord.

No wonder that the psalmist said, come let us worship, let us bow down before the Lord our Maker.

For it is he that hath made us, not we ourselves.

It is his Holy Spirit that changes us from carnality to a spiritual individual.

It is a definite working of the Holy Spirit, a wonderful Creator, working in us both to will and to do of his good pleasure.

May I share with you an example of how this takes place.

We were conducting a series of meetings in a certain place several years ago, and we were endeavoring to really give a picture of Jesus Christ as our nail prayer indicates at the beginning of each of our services.

And as we tried to present a little bit of the love of Jesus Christ, we realized that it was impossible to really picture it as it is.

Said John, behold what manner of love the Father hath bestowed upon us, that we should be called the sons of God." He said, behold what manner of love, I can't describe it, for it's indescribable.

Behold His love that He's bestowed upon us.

It buys description, It challenges description.

And as we're presenting this beautiful Sabbath love, this love relationship, That is based on the miracle of his creating in us this new birth This new experience there was a lady that Asked for an interview She came into the pastor study where we were And she took an hour explaining the awful situation in her home.

We'll call her name Beth, and we'll call her husband's name Dirk.

Beth spent an hour telling about how Dirk had fallen in love with another woman.

He had left Beth, he'd left the children destitute, He'd gone off to New York City, 1, 500 miles away, to live with this wicked woman.

And Beth had some little children, and so she felt she couldn't work out.

She would have to be a mother to the home.

And so she became the charge of the state.

After a few weeks passed, an officer of the state came to see her.

He said, Beth, We think we know where Dirk is.

And if you'll initial this document, it will authorize us to go locate him, extradite him.

We shall bring him back to his home state.

And if necessary, we shall jail him until he learns his lesson to be a providing father and a respectable husband." So she said, I initialed the document, They found Dirk in New York City, they extradited him, they returned him to his home state and tried him, and he was jailed for 3 months.

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The person was once interested, but not now.

Is there something we could do that the Lord would use to bring that backslider back?

The fourth class is for those that we know who are in deep habits of sin.

Smoking, drinking, on drugs, sex, what have you.

How are we going to ask God to help us to save these dear ones in each of these 4 categories?

Number 1, here's the son or daughter, and I want to share with you the experience and the text of scripture is Matthew chapter 18 verses 19 and 20.

If 2 of you shall agree as touching anything that they shall ask, it shall be done for them of my Father which is in heaven for 2 or 3 of your gathered my name there am I in the midst amen Matthew 18 verses 19 and 20 and beside that you'll place the text the quotation from medical ministry page 244 and here it says we're to claim God's promise and say, Lord, I must have this soul converted to you.

Lord, I must have this soul converted to you.

You see, the devil will use all kinds of arguments as to why we shouldn't claim God's promises.

You'd be surprised how many thousands of people, when we say let's claim a promise for this backslider, you'd be surprised how many thousands of people tilt their ear a little bit and hear the devil say, wait a minute, How can you claim a promise that that 1 will be saved?

Is God going to compel him not to be lost?

Here this man Coon and others are going around saying, you say, Lord, I must have this soul converted to you.

Wait a minute aren't you working against their will?

Is God going to compel them not to be lost?

Unless God wanted us to say Lord I must have this soul converted to you.

Would he put it in the inspired volume for us to say it?

In the inspired volume, he says, we're to say, Lord, I must have this soul converted to you.

If God has sent that message to you and me to say, I must have this soul converted to you, doesn't he mean it?

There's a reason why God inspired his prophet to tell us to pray that way, and it is this, follow me carefully.

Yes, a backslider does have the power of choice.

In my more than 50 years in the ministry, I've never yet seen a backslider or heard a backslider come to me and say, Elder Kuhn, I have chosen to get into hell fire, and I can hardly wait to get into hell fire.

Backsliders don't choose to go to hell fire.

There's no conscious choice on the part of a backslider choosing to be lost.

Backsliders don't choose, consciously choose to be lost.

And the devil says they can't find happiness in the church.

The devil says, don't you see, look at all these church members.

Their faces look like they've been weaned out of pickle.

And then the devil says to the backslider, look at the TV, look at these worldly actors and actresses, see how happy they are.

And the devil doesn't tell us that many of them can hardly wait to get off the air to commit suicide.

They're only doing this because they're paid $1, 000 a minute.

I'd smile for $100 a minute, wouldn't you?

But some of them are getting more than $1, 000 a minute.

They aren't smiling because they're happy, they're smiling because it's their profession to smile.

And he looks at them and he looks at the Christian and he said, the Christian is unhappy and the worldling is happy, let me be happy.

So the backslider does not consciously choose to be lost.

So God is not working against his conscious will.

So God says, we have a right to say, Lord, you promised me if any man see his brother sin a sin that is not unto death, 1 John 5, 16, I may ask you will give him life.

Lord I must have this soul converted to you.

Let me give the first illustration that of Malcolm, a teenage boy.

His father and mother were accepting the quote truth unquote.

They were taking lessons preparatory to baptism uniting with the remnant church.

Malcolm was studying also, but as the weeks came and went, Malcolm seemed to be getting a little more lukewarm and finally cool and finally cooled off.

And when dad and mother were baptized, much to their disappointment, Malcolm was not with them.

His little gang of friends had persuaded him that he'd be much happier out in the world than he would with Jesus.

They went to the elder of the little church, just a little church.

They said, brother, would you be willing at the next prayer meeting, we didn't do any preaching at all, we just pray for Malcolm around the circle, around the circle, around the circle, around the circle.

And he said, I had a sermon prepared, but well, yeah, yes.

Their prayer meeting was about the size of an ordinary prayer group.

Malcolm went to the theater with his buddies, walked in the theater and sat down with them very happy.

Father and mother in the prayer group were praying around the circle, Lord, I must have this soul converted to me, to you.

Probably they used Isaiah 49 and 25, I will save thy children.

As they were going around that prayer circle, maybe for 10 minutes, Malcolm sitting there in the theater suddenly became very uneasy, extremely uneasy.

He asked his buddies to please excuse him.

He got right up, left all his buddies, walked out on the sidewalk, and began to cry.

And his prayer and his cry went something like this, I could have given my heart to the Lord.

Why in the world didn't I take my stand when I could have taken my stand?

And he walked briskly along the sidewalk crying, sobbing.

And then a sweet voice, thought voice from glory land came through something like this.

Whosoever will may take of the water of life freely.

And the boy said, yes, something like this, though your sins, What?

Be as scarlet, they shall be as white as snow.

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You know, a lot of people think that's a joke, but it isn't.

The Bible says, taste and see that the Lord is good.

God is sweet, he is wholesome, he is wonderful.

It is the devil that raises Hob, not the Lord.

It's the devil that brings sickness, not the Lord.

It's the devil that brings death, not the Lord.

The Lord is life and healing and health and he's good.

Let's tell men and women, I know the Lord is good.

Dear Lord, make me a nail upon the wall to show your picture of joy and happiness and health and we thank you in Jesus' name, amen.

My, for how many decades we've been teaching it.

Peter taught we're living in the last days.

God wants his people always to think in terms of Jesus coming soon.

Don't get the impression that God is forgotten.

God is coming and the signs that we had when I was a boy have multiplied by the thousands.

And God's people are getting ready, ready to be sealed, eternally sealed, so We can go through that great time of trouble without an intercessor.

Oh, so many people are scared about the time when we'll be without an intercessor.

I was telling young people this afternoon, you don't have to worry about that time when there's no intercessor because Philippians 4.19 says, my God shall supply all your need.

If during that time I needed an intercessor, I'd have 1.

But God's true obedient children will not need 1 then.

We will need a comforter, and he'll be a comforter.

We'll need a protector and he'll be a protector.

We need 1 who will strengthen us and he'll strengthen us.

We need 1 who will give us his continued hope and he'll do it in his love.

But we shall not need an intercessor if now we've yielded our lives to him, if we're walking with him now, if we're acquainted with him now.

Acquaint now thyself with him and be at peace.

My friends, the devil would like to have us get bogged down regarding the days ahead, but the Lord Jesus said, when these things shall come to pass, look up and lift up your heads.

Your redemption draweth nigh, not your destruction.

We trust the Lamb of God that takes away the sin of the world.

We say, Lord, though my sins be as scarlet, you have made them white as snow through the precious blood of Jesus.

As the waitress was listening in that restaurant to a Christian minister who was telling her of the way of life, oh, she said, I see.

She said, Christ's red blood over My red sin makes it white as snow.

Let's go out and let the world know we have good news.

The glory of the Lord is risen upon thee.

But the Lord shall rise upon thee, his glory shall be seen upon thee, brother, sister.

May God help you and me to go and let the world know we found a good Savior.

Let them know that God loves us and He loves them.

Let's not be groping around saying, I don't know, I'm afraid.

Perfect love casteth out fear, 1 John 4, 17.

With the mouth confession is made unto salvation.

Oh, so many people have the impression that they should go out and share doctrines, doctrines, doctrines.

The greatest doctrine in the world is the love of Jesus Christ.

And there's no doctrine in the Bible that has a right to preclude that beautiful picture of a God of love.

I know it because he loved me when I'm naughty.

I know it because he loves me when I sin.

Let the boys and girls know that God is love, so they'll not be frightened like cattle and figure the only way to find peace is to go on to LSD.

The way of peace is Jesus, in his beauty, in his loveliness, in his grandeur, in his winsomeness.

Let's get out of this rot of negatives and negatives that would scare people until they're frightened.

And when people are frightened, they freeze.

They conducted an experiment some time ago.

The difference between the fear complex, scary complex, and the purely scientific method, They used dental hygiene on 2 groups.

1 group, to 1 group they gave all gruesome pictures of gums that were decaying.

And all of that, to the other group they gave scientific positive principles of dental hygiene.

After a long period of time, they checked on the 2 groups.

They found that those that had attended the negative method of that group, not 1 had improved.

Fear has torment, and he that feareth is not made perfect.

For men who grow in grace, they must grow in the atmosphere of a God that loves.

He's not coming for the purpose of hurting people.

He's coming for the purpose of taking us to glory land.

In John the 17th chapter and the 24th verse, he was praying to his father and he said, Father, I will that they whom thou hast given me be with me that they may behold my glory.

He wants us through the eternal ages to grow and grow in our ability to love and to know him.

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We want men and women to know that if they accept Jesus Christ and fix their eyes on him, we can be safe.

I heard read as a little boy again and again, Daniel 12, verse 1.

There shall be a time of trouble such as never was since there was a nation and that's true.

But somehow before they got to the next part I went into jitters and the next part is and at that time thy people shall be delivered, everyone whose name is written in the book of life.

And so our opening text is Psalm 125 verse 2 as The mountains are round about Jerusalem So is the Lord round about his people from henceforth even forever how long?

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