Tuesday, May 15, 2012

While some have justified not going to church, Christians are at rest.

The first day of the week, the day we call the Lord's Day should be, for the Christian, a day of spiritual rest reminicent of the Sabbath day of rest. The Sabbath was a day of rest that pointed to the real rest the childeren of God would have in Christ Jesus. Even though Jesus' death and resurrection fullfilled the Old Testament law of Sabbath, there still remains a symbol or sign that points to our ultimate rest we have in Christ Jesus and that is the assembling of the local church on the first day of the week. It is the Lord's Day, the first day of the week. God has ordained in his word that we come together. This coming together is more than you might have realized. In part it symbolizes, celebrates, reflect upon the rest we have and will have in Glory. We are to come together and visibly commune taking the rest of our souls in prasise prayer and thanksgiving. The Lord's Day is a kind of New Testament sign still pointing to our ultimate rest at the coming of our Lord Jesus. Rest from all of our toils, strains, labor, suffering, pain. The first day of the week is for our joy and we should assemble together and visibly proclaim the Lord Jesus until he comes. Christians should go to church. 

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