Thank GOD it's Friday!
No pun or slur intended. I am very thankful to God it is Friday. I have had a very interesting week. I hope next week is better. I am looking forward to the week-end, especially Sabbath, when I can clear my mind of the work week and just rest.
Tonight I took part in the Lord Supper Service at the church. The church everywhere takes part in this service once a year, on the 14th day of the Jewish month Nisan, in rememberance of Christ's death on the Cross. We do not celebrate Easter. We do not believe Christ arose on Sunday. He came out of the tumb at the end of the Sabbath, or Seventh Day. When the women came to prepare his body, early the first day of the week, Christ was already gone. Matthew 28. As most of you know, I attend the Church of God (Seventh Day) in Claremore. I live in a small town about 15 miles north of Claremore. I am not Adventist. The church didn't come out of Catholicism like most Protestants. So we aren't Protestants, Adventist, Baptist, or Mormon or whatever denomination you can name. We are just the Church of God. The words in parenthesis, Seventh Day, were added to show people we keep the Seventh Day Sabbath, which is Saturday. For our day of worship.
On the Sabbath, what we call the Lord's Day, we do not do any work. At jobs, in the house or yard. It is to be a day of rest and a day of worship. People try to say that we keep the Jewish Sabbath. The Sabbath wasn't made for the Jews or any man. The Sabbath was made by God, for God and He rested on the Seventh day from all His work. In the 4th Commandment, of The Ten Commandments, it says for us to keep the Sabbath day Holy. Six days you should labor and do all your work, but the Seventh Day is the Sabbath of the Lord your God. In it you should not do any work. You nor your sons, nor your daughters, nor your servants or any stranger that is within your gates. Check out Exodus 20. This is where you will find the Ten Commandments. These Commandments were not part of the Law of Moses that were done away with at the death of Christ on the cross. God had Moses write up his laws, because of the wickedness of the Jews in the wilderness. The Ten Commandments, the unclean meats and such were not part of the Mosaical Law.
Check out the Church of God (Seventh Day) Headquarters website at the following address: http://cog7.org/. You can see what the church doctrines are and see what tracts are available from the church publishing house in Denver, Colorado, on most of our doctrines. There is also a website of the church in Claremore at http://www.geocities.com/cog7cok. Please feel free to check it out.
The church believes in using the Bible, and the Bible alone as our guide. The church does not use the writings of past leaders or any such books. We are to study to show ourselves approved, rightly dividing the Word of Truth. Before really studying the Bible, you should always pray for guidance from God. Pray that He will show you the way. The church uses both the Old and the New Testiment.
I am not a scholar of religion. I just know what I have been taught through my church, my parents, and my grandpa, Elder Ross Johnston, Evanglist, now deceased. Eventhough Papa (as I called him) has been gone since 1996, I still think of him often and miss him. In the later years of my teens, I traveled with him many miles. He liked someone to travel with him and keep him awake. We traveled most of the time at night. His wife could no longer travel with him, because she had to take care of her mother, who lived next door. Granny Gough, as everyone called her, lived to be 98 years old. She wanted to live to be a 100, but didn't make it. In February of 1984, she died just after turning 98 in January of that year. She had a long life. A very devout Christian. She was a Jehovah Witness before becoming a member of the Church of God (Seventh Day). If I remember right, she joined the church at the same time her daughter and son-in-law did. (this was my grandparents).
I guess I have said enough for one night. It is getting very late. The morning is going to come sooner than I want it to. It's Sabbath and time for worship and praise. I will pray that all of you, out there in blogger land, have a wonderful Sabbath. God Bless.
Starlight
Tonight I took part in the Lord Supper Service at the church. The church everywhere takes part in this service once a year, on the 14th day of the Jewish month Nisan, in rememberance of Christ's death on the Cross. We do not celebrate Easter. We do not believe Christ arose on Sunday. He came out of the tumb at the end of the Sabbath, or Seventh Day. When the women came to prepare his body, early the first day of the week, Christ was already gone. Matthew 28. As most of you know, I attend the Church of God (Seventh Day) in Claremore. I live in a small town about 15 miles north of Claremore. I am not Adventist. The church didn't come out of Catholicism like most Protestants. So we aren't Protestants, Adventist, Baptist, or Mormon or whatever denomination you can name. We are just the Church of God. The words in parenthesis, Seventh Day, were added to show people we keep the Seventh Day Sabbath, which is Saturday. For our day of worship.
On the Sabbath, what we call the Lord's Day, we do not do any work. At jobs, in the house or yard. It is to be a day of rest and a day of worship. People try to say that we keep the Jewish Sabbath. The Sabbath wasn't made for the Jews or any man. The Sabbath was made by God, for God and He rested on the Seventh day from all His work. In the 4th Commandment, of The Ten Commandments, it says for us to keep the Sabbath day Holy. Six days you should labor and do all your work, but the Seventh Day is the Sabbath of the Lord your God. In it you should not do any work. You nor your sons, nor your daughters, nor your servants or any stranger that is within your gates. Check out Exodus 20. This is where you will find the Ten Commandments. These Commandments were not part of the Law of Moses that were done away with at the death of Christ on the cross. God had Moses write up his laws, because of the wickedness of the Jews in the wilderness. The Ten Commandments, the unclean meats and such were not part of the Mosaical Law.
Check out the Church of God (Seventh Day) Headquarters website at the following address: http://cog7.org/. You can see what the church doctrines are and see what tracts are available from the church publishing house in Denver, Colorado, on most of our doctrines. There is also a website of the church in Claremore at http://www.geocities.com/cog7cok. Please feel free to check it out.
The church believes in using the Bible, and the Bible alone as our guide. The church does not use the writings of past leaders or any such books. We are to study to show ourselves approved, rightly dividing the Word of Truth. Before really studying the Bible, you should always pray for guidance from God. Pray that He will show you the way. The church uses both the Old and the New Testiment.
I am not a scholar of religion. I just know what I have been taught through my church, my parents, and my grandpa, Elder Ross Johnston, Evanglist, now deceased. Eventhough Papa (as I called him) has been gone since 1996, I still think of him often and miss him. In the later years of my teens, I traveled with him many miles. He liked someone to travel with him and keep him awake. We traveled most of the time at night. His wife could no longer travel with him, because she had to take care of her mother, who lived next door. Granny Gough, as everyone called her, lived to be 98 years old. She wanted to live to be a 100, but didn't make it. In February of 1984, she died just after turning 98 in January of that year. She had a long life. A very devout Christian. She was a Jehovah Witness before becoming a member of the Church of God (Seventh Day). If I remember right, she joined the church at the same time her daughter and son-in-law did. (this was my grandparents).
I guess I have said enough for one night. It is getting very late. The morning is going to come sooner than I want it to. It's Sabbath and time for worship and praise. I will pray that all of you, out there in blogger land, have a wonderful Sabbath. God Bless.
Starlight
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