Satan has hidden the importance of keeping God's seventh day Sabbath holy. Satan has corrupted the minds of mankind so thoroughly that the majority have completely forgotten why the seventh-day Sabbath is truly so incredibly important. God has done all He could do to bring the importance of this day to everyone, but the blind insist on remaining blind.
The Sabbath commandment was given so man would NEVER forget the POWER of our GOD. The creative power and the redemptive power of GOD.
Our eternal lives depend upon the creative and redemptive power of God. Without God's power we do not exist. Without God's power we will not exist in eternity. Created and redeemed! This is the power of the Sabbath day, the reason for the blessing and holiness of this day. We need this entire day so we can truly comprehend the blessings given to us. Is it any wonder we are told this--
"If thou turn away thy foot from the Sabbath, from doing thy pleasure on my holy day and call the Sabbath a delight, the holy of the Lord, honorable, and shalt honor him, not doing thine own ways nor finding thine own pleasure, nor speaking thine own words; then shalt thou delight thyself in the Lord." Isaiah 58:13, 14.
When we honor the Sabbath this way we are comprehending it is SOLELY the power of God to save us! We do NOT and CANNOT save ourselves! If we keep this day for ourselves and ignore God, we are claiming to have the power in ourselves to redeem, which is a lie Satan wants everyone to believe. Satan deceives! He won't let anyone catch on to the truth if he can help it. He loves when people disobey God's commandment, whether they know they are doing it or not. He revels in the breaking of the fourth royal law. He does not want anyone to believe that keeping the Sabbath is the recognition- the FULL recognition of God's power over all! We are to give up ALL our own power, any power we even remotely think we possess and wholly live in God's power!
May God bless us in this!
Excerpt- E.J. Waggoner-
'In the eleventh chapter of Hebrews, Paul brings to view the power of faith to work righteousness, but you will notice that the opening thought expressed is, "Through faith we understand that the worlds were framed by the word of God."
Then by directing the minds of the young to the power of God in creating the universe, they will understand it by faith, and their minds will grasp the thought that the same One who made all they see is a rewarder of them that diligently seek Him.
How plain it is why Satan has massed all his forces against that fourth commandment, because it is the one above all others that brings to view the power of our Lord Jesus Christ. Satan is antichrist and he does not do anything in this world that is not directed against Christ. That is why he has covered up that fourth commandment--that he may take the minds of men from God in Christ as Creator, because just so far as men lose sight of the creative power that there is vested in Christ, so will they lose sight of His power to redeem. So preach the Sabbath more and more, yet in so doing be sure that you preach Christ and Him crucified as the Saviour from sin.
"If thou turn away thy foot from the Sabbath, from doing thy pleasure on my holy day and call the Sabbath a delight, the holy of the Lord, honorable, and shalt honor him, not doing thine own ways nor finding thine own pleasure, nor speaking thine own words; then shalt thou delight thyself in the Lord." Isaiah 58:13, 14. Then the keeping of the Sabbath perfectly, as God wants it kept, is to delight ourselves in the Lord but this we cannot do, if we do not know Christ, and make Him our joy.
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