The Lord's Day (10/11/2023)
Pastor Joseph Campbell
What We Believe • Sermon • Submitted • Presented • 35:58
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Compel Them to Come In
Compel Them to Come In
Turn to and read Luke 14:15-24.
Luke 14:23 (KJV 1900)
...Go out into the highways and hedges, and compel them to come in, that my house may be filled.
We had a wonderful day this past Sunday!
119 were counted in attendance
Another 9 watched by way of livestream
Many others simply were not here
Several guests came, not because of any invitation, but simply because the Lord prompted them to come.
1 responded to the Gospel invitation
Complaint: Those who were invited didn’t come!
None of the individuals that my wife and I invited came. 1 of those that we invited, on Sunday morning sent a text to let us know they wouldn’t be coming. “Another time they said.”
That can be disappointing and discouraging.
Never stop giving the Gospel; never stop inviting individuals to come to church with you.
Never stop giving the Gospel; never stop inviting individuals to come to church with you.
Illustration: One particular weekend, I spent a lot of time, on Saturday, inviting teens to come to church on Sunday. Not a single one of those that I invited came. However, it was the largest teen attendance that we had had up to that point in our ministry. Our teen room was packed. When I talked with my pastor about it, he said this, “God blesses faithfulness. God sends those who need to be in there.”
God is faithful; we must stay faithful!
God is faithful; we must stay faithful!
Luke 14:23 (KJV 1900)
...Go out into the highways and hedges, and compel them to come in, that my house may be filled.
We Stand With Israel!
We Stand With Israel!
Now the Lord had said unto Abram, Get thee out of thy country, and from thy kindred, and from thy father’s house, unto a land that I will shew thee:
And I will make of thee a great nation, and I will bless thee, and make thy name great; and thou shalt be a blessing:
And I will bless them that bless thee, and curse him that curseth thee: and in thee shall all families of the earth be blessed.
As we see these things happening in Israel, what are we compelled to do? If we truly see these things as “signs” of soon coming of our Lord, how should we be reacting?
Knowing therefore the terror of the Lord, we persuade men; but we are made manifest unto God; and I trust also are made manifest in your consciences.
I believe that we should be driven to be more faithful and urgent in giving the Gospel.
We Stand With Israel!
We Stand With Israel!
What We Believe About the Lord’s Day
What We Believe About the Lord’s Day
Turn to and read Matthew 11:25-12:8.
I am not, by reading these verses, trying to equate the Old Testament Sabbath (or sabbaths, as there were more than one sabbaths - days of rest - given to the Jews in the Law of Moses other than the fifth commandment in the Ten Commandments) with the New Testament Lord’s Day - the first day of the week - Sunday.
I would point out to you, again, Matthew 11:28-30:
Matthew 11:28–30 (KJV 1900)
Come unto me, all ye that labour and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest.
Take my yoke upon you, and learn of me; for I am meek and lowly in heart: and ye shall find rest unto your souls.
For my yoke is easy, and my burden is light.
We believe that the Lord's Day, which is the first day of the week, the day of our Lord's resurrection, is the proper day for regular Christian worship and service, and that it should be kept sacred to spiritual purposes by abstinence from unnecessary secular labor and activities not becoming to the Lord's Day.
In the end of the sabbath, as it began to dawn toward the first day of the week, came Mary Magdalene and the other Mary to see the sepulchre.
I love how Matthew 28:1 begins...
Matthew 28:1 (KJV 1900)
In the end of the sabbath, as it began to dawn toward the first day of the week...
Please allow me to share with you some insights into the importance of this verse and these phrases:
Exploring the Gospel of Matthew: An Expository Commentary a. In the National Order of Things (28:1)
It is an eloquent, profound, and startling commentary on a change in the national order of things. Judaism was finished. The Jewish sabbath was rendered obsolete by the Lord’s resurrection, just as the temple was made obsolete by the tearing of the veil, and the priesthood by the rending of the high priest’s robe.
Let no man therefore judge you in meat, or in drink, or in respect of an holyday, or of the new moon, or of the sabbath days:
Which are a shadow of things to come; but the body is of Christ.
For the law having a shadow of good things to come, and not the very image of the things, can never with those sacrifices which they offered year by year continually make the comers thereunto perfect.
Exploring the Gospel of Matthew: An Expository Commentary a. In the National Order of Things (28:1)
The sabbath was rooted and grounded in a law that could not save, a law that at best was a schoolmaster to bring people to Christ.
Galatians 3:19 (KJV 1900)
Wherefore then serveth the law? It was added because of transgressions, till the seed should come to whom the promise was made; and it was ordained by angels in the hand of a mediator.
In the little booklet, Who Changed The Sabbath?, written by Dr. M.R. DeHaan, we read:
…God gave first the law to show how weak they were, and how wholly incapable of keeping it they were in their own strength, in order that they might flee for mercy to the grace of God...
When Moses, therefore, brought down the law from Sinai, he also brought down something else.
Question: What was that something else?
Dr. DeHaan writes:
…Moses did receive something else from God in the mountain.
It was the pattern of the tabernacle with its sacrifices, its blood, and its atonement, the perfect picture of the Redeemer, the Lord Jesus Christ.
Back to Dr. John Phillips’ commentary on Matthew 28 verse 1:
Exploring the Gospel of Matthew: An Expository Commentary a. In the National Order of Things (28:1)
In creation God rested on the seventh day (Genesis 2:1–2). In revelation God set apart the seventh day for His people’s rest (Exodus 20:8–11). In resurrection all that is changed. Thus the Lord Jesus replied to His critics who accused Him of breaking the sabbath, “My Father worketh … and I work” (John 5:17). In the Old Testament God’s rest was in a day, but His sabbath rest was broken by the entrance of sin. Now His rest is in a person. God rests in the person of Christ and in His finished work, and so do we. The resurrection spelled “the end of the sabbath” and all that it represented.
Come unto me, all ye that labour and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest.
Take my yoke upon you, and learn of me; for I am meek and lowly in heart: and ye shall find rest unto your souls.
For my yoke is easy, and my burden is light.
By far, the most frequent charge brought against Christ by the Pharisees was that He broke their sabbath.
Dr. DeHaan wrote:
They [the Pharisees] crowded all of their religion into one day, and that gave them an indulgence for all the rest of the week.
That is the same tendency that Bible-believing Christians have today.
They attempt to crowd all of their “religion” into one day a week and then “live like the devil” the rest of the week!
Dr. DeHaan wrote:
…the true, enlightened believer recognizes under grace, that every day belongs to God, and is equally sacred, and while in obedience to the principle of one day in seven is observed by us, and we do set that day aside to special Christian fellowship, breaking bread, praying, testifying, and listening to the Word of God, we do not consider one day more sacred than any other day of the week.
Though not in the same way, yet each day is a day of worship, prayer and feeding on the Word, while one day a week is dedicated to all day, all out activity in spiritual matters.
This is the day which the Lord hath made; We will rejoice and be glad in it.
Every day belongs to God - not just the first day of the week!
Every day belongs to God - not just the first day of the week!
Every day should be a day in which we live to show our “worth” ship of God - not just on the first day of the week!
Every day should be a day in which we live to show our “worth” ship of God - not just on the first day of the week!
Let your light so shine before men, that they may see your good works, and glorify your Father which is in heaven.
Whether therefore ye eat, or drink, or whatsoever ye do, do all to the glory of God.
Every day we should pray and feed on God’s Word - not just on the first day of the week!
Every day we should pray and feed on God’s Word - not just on the first day of the week!
Pray without ceasing.
But his delight is in the law of the Lord; And in his law doth he meditate day and night.
We must not neglect, though, the corporate gathering and worship of our local church!
We must not neglect, though, the corporate gathering and worship of our local church!
Not forsaking the assembling of ourselves together, as the manner of some is; but exhorting one another: and so much the more, as ye see the day approaching.
Ryrie’s Basic Theology D. The Contemporary Neglect of the Lord’s Day
To neglect the Lord’s Day is to slight Him, to blunt the testimony to His resurrection, and to miss the benefits of the ministry and protection of corporate worship.
I’ll end with this warning: If we neglect the Lord’s Day, we may soon find that Sunday - the first day of the week - will be treated like every other day of the week, requiring normal work hours, etc. and we will be back in the first century trying to find early morning or late evening hours for corporate worship. (Oh! Wait a minute…we’re already there!)
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