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Significance Of The Lord's Day
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John received his revelation on
“the Lord’s day,” an expression he used to speak of
Sunday. The fact that John calls the first day of the week
“the Lord’s day” is an indication of the significance
Sunday came to have in the minds of early Christians. We would
do well to consider the importance of the Lord’s day.
The Lord’s day is the Lord’s day. It
belongs to the Lord. Every day is the day the Lord has made,
and we should rejoice in them all, but the Lord’s day
particularly. It is the weekly celebration of His
resurrection. It is the birth date of His kingdom. It is day
that the news of forgiveness was first broadcasted to the
world. It is rightly His day. We ought not to treat
it as common or ordinary.
The Lord’s supper is a part of the Lord’s day. It
is the Lord’s supper. It is not our
supper. He does permit us to commune with Him. But
the meal is a memorial of His death, burial,
resurrection, glorification and an anticipation of His return.
What a privilege to partake at the Lord’s table.
Let us not forget whose it is, lest we slight Him at the site
His own memorial.
The Lord’s worship is a Lord’s day activity. It
is the Lord’s worship. He is the center of
attention and the object of our devotion. Men have substituted
their whims, their appetites, their interests for the Lord’s
commanded worship and offered it to Him as their sacrifice.
Let us not make the similar mistake of offering the right
sacrifices but begrudgingly or half-heartedly or with the
martyr’s spirit. Let us not gather in expectation of
receiving “a lift” rather than offering ourselves in
worship. The man who “goes to church” to “get something
out of it” always comes away disappointed. The man who goes
to worship to give himself to God cannot help but be edified.
The Lord’s assembly is a Lord’s day function. It
is the Lord’s assembly. It is comprised of the Lord’s
people. Look around you. All that you see are the Lord’s
things—the Lord’s servants, the Lord’s building, the
Lord’s book, the Lord’s offering, the Lord’s ministers.
These are not your things, nor any man’s to take
lightly. They deserve and demand your utmost respect, because
of your respect for God.
Let us honor the Lord on His day, with His supper, in His way,
in His worship, in His assembly. What a privilege is ours to
be participants, His invited guests! Act like a guest. You are
one, you know. A guest in the assembly where God is on the
throne. Let all the earth keep silent before Him.
Dee Bowman
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2008
Southside Church of Christ
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