The stepdaughter was going to stay with her grandmother last night. I said “see you next week”. She said “Silly! I’ll be back tomorrow”, and her mother, correctly said that Sunday is the beginning of our week.
Because of Christ and the resurrection. Because Saturday is for work and witness, while Sunday we take for rest.
For the Jews and Muslims and Hindus are wrong. Christ was God. The Jews called this blasphemy: the Muslims also. The Hindus shrug, and say that we are all Gods. The Buddhists say there is no God, but enlightenment.
They forget we are made in the image of God and any enlightenment and holiness we have comes from God.
31The Jews took up stones again to stone him. 32Jesus replied, “I have shown you many good works from the Father. For which of these are you going to stone me?” 33The Jews answered, “It is not for a good work that we are going to stone you, but for blasphemy, because you, though only a human being, are making yourself God.” 34Jesus answered, “Is it not written in your law, ‘I said, you are gods’? 35If those to whom the word of God came were called ‘gods’ — and the scripture cannot be annulled — 36can you say that the one whom the Father has sanctified and sent into the world is blaspheming because I said, ‘I am God’s Son’? 37If I am not doing the works of my Father, then do not believe me. 38But if I do them, even though you do not believe me, believe the works, so that you may know and understand that the Father is in me and I am in the Father.” 39Then they tried to arrest him again, but he escaped from their hands.
40He went away again across the Jordan to the place where John had been baptizing earlier, and he remained there. 41Many came to him, and they were saying, “John performed no sign, but everything that John said about this man was true.” 42And many believed in him there.
8Owe no one anything, except to love one another; for the one who loves another has fulfilled the law. 9The commandments, “You shall not commit adultery; You shall not murder; You shall not steal; You shall not covet”; and any other commandment, are summed up in this word, “Love your neighbor as yourself.” 10Love does no wrong to a neighbor; therefore, love is the fulfilling of the law.
11Besides this, you know what time it is, how it is now the moment for you to wake from sleep. For salvation is nearer to us now than when we became believers; 12the night is far gone, the day is near. Let us then lay aside the works of darkness and put on the armor of light; 13let us live honorably as in the day, not in reveling and drunkenness, not in debauchery and licentiousness, not in quarreling and jealousy. 14Instead, put on the Lord Jesus Christ, and make no provision for the flesh, to gratify its desires.
I’m going to get up and do my duty. I will go to church, and worship my maker. I will, today, again, confess my sins and resolve to live rightly. The time of Christ is getting closer.
Our duty in this time is to but remain. Let our lives be the witness, and let Christ be proclaimed boldy.
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