On the Lord's Day

(Mt18:19-20)



God is the Lord (Ps16:2; Rev1:8).

He made the heavens and the earth, and all things in them and He is their Lord.

Furthermore, He gives life and He is the Lord of life (Ac3:15).



Faith is acknowledging Him as the Lord and

The life of this faith is putting effort to be inspired by the Holy Spirit in order to be judged as the living

On that day (2Ti4:16).



People in the world work hard many days for that one special day in their life,

But Christians toil and put effort for the Lord's Day for

Remembering the Creator and keeping Sabbath provides them all things,

While remembering the Lord of life on the Lord's Day provides them life.



In the Ten Commandments,

God commanded the Israelites to remember the Sabbath and keep it holy (Ex20:8-11), since

God made all things in six days in the beginning and

The day He finished His work and entered rest was the Sabbath (Ge2:1-2).



They put all their effort to keep the commandments because

They wanted to increase the length of their days

On the land that God promised their ancestors, as

Abraham, Isaac and Jacob all died full of days (Ex20:12; Dt30:20).



The sanctuary where the stone tablets were placed in the Testimony

Reminded them this.



Jesus said, "Destroy this temple and I will raise it in three days (Jn2:19), because

Through the death and the resurrection of the temple of His body,

He would give the life of God to all souls for

He is the incarnate Word in whom was life (Jn1:1, 4, 14),

The life and the way to the Father's house (Jn14:1-6).



As He died prematurely (Is53:4), Jesus commended His spirit to the Father (Lk23:46), and

Said, "It is finished (Jn19:30), declaring that He:

Acknowledged that the Father is the Lord of life;

Condemned the ruler of death (He2:15; 1Jn3:8); and

Gave Himself as a ransom for all people and through His blood sowed the seed of life in them (1Ti2:6; 1Pe1:19, 23).

His resurrection was a new thing, which was

Not there during the six days of creation for

It is life that has no beginning or end (He7:3).



Jesus ascended to heaven, and sat on the heavenly throne as

The Lord of life who reigns with life (Ac3:15).



The Holy Spirit is the Spirit of life who

Testifies His resurrection and testifies that He is the Lord of life.



For the Christian is he who longs for the life of Jesus,

When he is full of the Spirit on the Lord's Day,

He sees heaven open and

Sees someone who looks like the Son of Man, He who lives (Rev1:9-20)!

Therefore, for the Lord's Day

He toils six days of the week through prayer, preaching and service etc. so that

He would be found as the living on the day the Lord returns (1Th4:16; 2Ti4:1-6).



O Lord,

We admire John who was on the Island of Patmos

On the Lord's Day in the Spirit, looking up to heaven.

Thank You for giving us

The church, the space isolated from the world, and

Worship, the time isolated from the world.

On the Lord's Day

Let us all be inspired by the Spirit and see heaven open!

Amen.