4. The Sabbaths were designated as a time to worship the Lord in the
beauty of holiness
So, what does to
worship the Lord in the beauty of holiness denotes? To worship the Lord in the
beauty of holiness denotes that, we are to be free from sin when having
fellowship with one another and with the Father and the Son. And the way that
this is possible it is by heeding the message which we have heard from the
beginning which states; “This is the message which we have heard from Him and
declare to you, that God is light and in Him is no darkness at all. If we say
that we have fellowship with Him, and walk in darkness, we lie and do not
practice the truth.”
“But if we walk in the
light as He is in the light, we have fellowship with one another, and the blood
of Jesus Christ His Son cleanses us from all sin. If we
say that we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in us. If
we confess our sins, He is faithful and just to forgive us our sins and to
cleanse us from all unrighteousness. If we say that we have not sinned, we make
Him a liar, and His word is not in us” (1John 1:
5-10).
It is imperative that
we understand the prerequisites for having fellowship with one another and with
the Father and the Son otherwise, our fellowship will be vain and useless
therefore, we are to be mindful of the following:
·
We are not to walk in darkness which is synonymous to lies and sin
but rather we should be walking in the light which is synonymous to truth and
obedience to the laws of God.
And so, we have been
duly admonished saying; “Do not be unequally yoked together with unbelievers.
For what fellowship has righteousness with lawlessness? And what communion has
light with darkness? And what accord has Christ with Belial? Or what part has a
believer with an unbeliever? And what agreement has the temple of God with
idols?”
“For you are the temple
of the living God. As God has said: " I will dwell in them and walk among
them. I will be their God, and they shall be My people." Therefore "
Come out from among them and be separate, says the Lord. Do not touch what is
unclean, and I will receive you. I will be a Father to you, and you shall be My
sons and daughters, says the LORD Almighty" (2
Corinthians 6:14-18).
We have also been duly admonished
saying; “I wrote to you in my epistle not to keep company with sexually immoral
people. Yet I certainly did not mean with the sexually immoral people of this
world, or with the covetous, or extortioners, or idolaters, since then you
would need to go out of the world. But now I have written to you not to keep
company with anyone named a brother, who is sexually immoral, or covetous, or
an idolater, or a reviler, or a drunkard, or an extortioner --- not even to eat
with such a person” (1Corinthians 5:9-11).
The eating that we are
forbidden to eat with anyone named a brother who is sexually immoral or an
idolater is not the ordinary physical food but the spiritual food for we have
been duly admonished saying; “Your glorying is not good. Do you not know that a
little leaven leavens the whole lump? Therefore, purge out the old leaven, that
you may be a new lump, since you truly are unleavened” (1Corinthians 5:6-7; Galatians 5:9).
To be continued
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With brotherly love
Lucius Joseph
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