Declare His glory and wonders among all nations

 

When it comes to the worship of God, not only must He be worshiped in spirit and in truth, but there is also a protocol or a prescribed manner by which He is to be worshiped. Saints should no longer be like children who are being tossed to and fro and carried about with every wind of doctrine, by the trickery of men, in the cunning craftiness of deceitful plotting.

Saints should no longer walk as the rest of the Gentiles, walking in the futility of their mind, having their understanding darkened, being alienated from the life of God, because of the ignorance that is in them, because of the blindness of their heart; who, being past feeling, have given themselves over to lewdness, to work all uncleanness with greediness. Saints should be able to differentiate the gospel of truth from the gospel of error. Not because one is charismatic and attracts many followers that they should be followed blindly.

Now, the protocol for true worship in conjunction with the worship of God in spirit and in truth consists of the following procedures:

1. Declare the glory and the wonders of God among all nations

True spiritual act of worship is illustrated by the Psalmist David as follows; “sing to the LORD a new song! Sing to the LORD, all the earth. Sing to the LORD, bless His name; proclaim the good news of His salvation from day to day. Declare His glory among the nations, His wonders among all peoples. For the LORD is great and greatly to be praised; He is to be feared above all gods. For all the gods of the peoples are idols, But the LORD made the heavens. Honor and majesty are before Him; Strength and beauty are in His sanctuary” (1 Chronicles 16: 16-23; Psalms 96: 1-6).

Please note carefully the clear unambiguous distinction between the great God who is greatly to be praised and to be feared above all gods and thus making all the gods of the people’s idols is that, He is the One who made the heavens. And the only sign He gave to identify Himself as the one who made the heavens is the seventh day Sabbath.

For thus says the Lord who created the heavens and the earth; “Remember the Sabbath day, to keep it holy. Six days you shall labor and do all your work, but the seventh day is the Sabbath of the LORD your God. In it you shall do no work: you, or your son, or your daughter, or your male servant, or your female servant, or your cattle, or your stranger who is within your gates. For in six days the LORD made the heavens and the earth, the sea, and all that is in them, and rested the seventh day. Therefore the LORD blessed the Sabbath day and hallowed it” (Exodus 20:8-11).

Now, to those who may have been misled in believing that the only sign the Lord gave to differentiate Himself from the other false gods is no longer in effect let us hear what the apostle Paul had to say in this regard. The apostle Paul wrote: “Therefore, since a promise remains of entering His rest, let us fear lest any of you seem to have come short of it. For indeed the gospel was preached to us as well as to them; but the word which they heard did not profit them, not being mixed with faith in those who heard it. For we who have believed do enter that rest, as He has said: "So I swore in My wrath, ' They shall not enter My rest,' " although the works were finished from the foundation of the world.

For He has spoken in a certain place of the seventh day in this way: "And God rested on the seventh day from all His works"; and again in this place: "They shall not enter My rest. “Since therefore it remains that some must enter it, and those to whom it was first preached did not enter because of disobedience, again He designates a certain day, saying in David, "Today," after such a long time, as it has been said: “Today, if you will hear His voice, Do not harden your hearts."

For if Joshua had given them rest, then He would not afterward have spoken of another day. There remains therefore a rest for the people of God. For he who has entered His rest has himself also ceased from his works as God did from His. Let us therefore be diligent to enter that rest, lest anyone fall according to the same example of disobedience. For the word of God is living and powerful, and sharper than any two-edged sword, piercing even to the division of soul and spirit, and of joints and marrow, and is a discerner of the thoughts and intents of the heart” (Hebrews 4:1-12).

Please note carefully that the only sign God gave to distinguish Him-self as the One and only true God is His Sabbaths; for thus says the Lord; “Moreover I also gave them My Sabbaths, to be a sign between them and Me, that they might know that I am the LORD who sanctifies them…hallow My Sabbaths, and they will be a sign between Me and you, that you may know that I am the LORD your God” (Ezekiel 20: 12, 20).

The Sabbaths therefore, is the sign that differentiates the One and only true God from all other false gods when it comes to worship and regardless of how much and well one sings, dances and praise God, if it is not at the appointed time it is all useless and vain.

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To be continued

With brotherly love

Lucius Joseph