Sunday, April 18, 2004

A Song of degrees of David>Psalms 133:1 Behold, how good and how pleasant it is for brethren to dwell together in unity!
2 It is like the precious ointment upon the head, that ran down upon the beard, even Aaron's beard: that went down to the skirts of his garments;
3 As the dew of Hermon, and as the dew that descended upon the mountains of Zion: for there the LORD commanded the blessing, even life for evermore.

Had a good sermon by John Calvin, read by Mike Grounds. It was the first part to a series he preached on Micah

The Lord's day, it indeed makes the whole week sweet. I get the feeling that a lot of Christians really don't know what they're missing out on. As for Canada the Lord's Day Observance Act was passed by Canadian government forbidding Sunday work, travel commercial entertainments in 1906 and between 1980 and 1997 each province gave it up for the Charter of Rights and Freedoms, although it hadn't been strictly kept for at least a few years before those dates. Of course with the coming of the Charter of Rights and Freedoms in came yet more tolerance (the anti-tolerance of Christians) and out with God's law.

Isaiah 58:13 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, honourable; and shalt honour him, not doing thine own ways, nor finding thine own pleasure, nor speaking thine own words:

Matthew 28:1 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.

1 Corinthians 16:2 Upon the first day of the week let every one of you lay by him in store, as God hath prospered him, that there be no gatherings when I come.

Acts 20:7 And upon the first day of the week, when the disciples came together to break bread, Paul preached unto them, ready to depart on the morrow; and continued his speech until midnight.

So this morning did some reading on the crc and rfw yahoo groups and still wondering when people will stop misrepresenting our positions on covenanting, head covering, psalm and everything else we hold to.
There were some great responses to those misrepresentations by Mr. Suden as well has Elder Dohms (who was banned from the list for a post that wasn't at all offensive) Anyhow, good reading none the less, always gets us thinking and remembering why we do hold to these things and what would happen if we didn't.

Well anyhow, I shan't go on any rants, but I'll end with saying that God is truly gracious to us, to me.

Hope your Lord's day was as blessed as mine. :)

Jode

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