I just knew it was preparation day there too. The next day, Sabbath, the same sister came quietly into church and knelt and prayed in her place as she entered the house of God.
The Sabbath is a golden clasp that unites God and His people. But the Sabbath command has been broken. God’s holy day has been desecrated. The Sabbath has been torn from its place by the man of sin, and a common working day has been exalted in its stead.
The Sabbath is not to be a day of useless idleness. Both in the home and in the church a spirit of service is to be manifested. He who gave us six days for our temporal work has blessed and sanctified the seventh day and set it apart for Himself.
They had neglected the needful preparation; therefore they could not receive the refreshing that all must have to fit them to live in the sight of a holy God.
May 8, 2005 – May 14, 2005 – What alone is of worth in the final preparation for the latter rain? For biblical principles and examples, see Titus 3:2, last part; Philippians 2:5–8;…
The year of 1997 has slipped into the annuls of history. What’s on the record? What have we done for Jesus? Have we strengthened the feeble knees that hang?
A backslidden church is the sure result of a selfish church,—a church that does not use her talents in cooperating with Jesus to restore the image of God in men.