The Sabbath - a sign between God and us.
A sign between two.
If you have a sign with someone what does it mean? You've heard about secret signs that covert organizations have, handshakes, finger signals, really involved greetings, and others have simple signs done so quickly you'd never recognize them as signs. We comprehend what signs between people are. These signs mean they recognize each other on some level. Married couples may have a sign that means they love each other, others may have a sign that they belong to a brotherhood of like-minded people.
A sign between God and us…. Is the Sabbath.
This sign is given to us that WE may KNOW that GOD is the LORD OUR GOD.
A sign. Such a magnificent comprehension to realize that the Sabbath is our sign- a sign between God and us. A SIGN. This sign is given so we may KNOW that God is our LORD without any doubt!
And we know this too--
Hebrews 11:6: "But without faith it is impossible to please him, for he that cometh to God must believe that he is and that he is a rewarder of them that diligently seek him."
We must KNOW that God is through FAITH, BELIEVING that HE with REWARD us who seek HIM!
Read the following excerpt - so enlightening as the SPIRIT moves us, guiding us to TRUTH. All through the love of our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ now and forever!
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'In Ezekiel 20:20 God says that the Sabbath is to be a "sign between me and you, that ye may know that I am the Lord your God." Now mark, it is to be a sign so that we may know that the God of heaven is our God.
Now turn to Jeremiah 10:10-12, and there we read, "But the Lord is the true God, He is the living God, and an everlasting king. . . . Thus shall ye say unto them, the Gods that have not made the heavens and the earth, even they shall perish from the earth and from under these heavens. He that made the earth by his power, he hath established the earth by his wisdom and hath stretched out the heavens by his discretion." Turn to Psalm 96:5 and there we read, "For all the gods of the nations are idols: but the Lord made the heavens."
Now anything that will bring the mind of man to a knowledge of the fact or that will recall the fact that the God which we serve is the Creator, will also prove to us that all other gods are false gods.
For the power to create is the distinctive attribute, it is the sole prerogative, of the God of heaven. He can create, and everything else that pretends to be worthy of worship is shown to be a false pretender because it cannot create.
But why does God want us to remember Him as God? What particular thing does God want us to have in mind when we think of Him as God? The keynote to these questions is found in Hebrews 11:6: "But without faith it is impossible to please him, for he that cometh to God must believe that he is and that he is a rewarder of them that diligently seek him."
We must believe that God exists and from that idea of existence cannot be separated the idea of reward and help from the God that we believe exists. If we do not regard God as a rewarder as a present help in trouble, we do not know Him as God. If we do not know that He is exactly what He says He is, then we do not know Him.'
A sign between two.
If you have a sign with someone what does it mean? You've heard about secret signs that covert organizations have, handshakes, finger signals, really involved greetings, and others have simple signs done so quickly you'd never recognize them as signs. We comprehend what signs between people are. These signs mean they recognize each other on some level. Married couples may have a sign that means they love each other, others may have a sign that they belong to a brotherhood of like-minded people.
A sign between God and us…. Is the Sabbath.
This sign is given to us that WE may KNOW that GOD is the LORD OUR GOD.
A sign. Such a magnificent comprehension to realize that the Sabbath is our sign- a sign between God and us. A SIGN. This sign is given so we may KNOW that God is our LORD without any doubt!
And we know this too--
Hebrews 11:6: "But without faith it is impossible to please him, for he that cometh to God must believe that he is and that he is a rewarder of them that diligently seek him."
We must KNOW that God is through FAITH, BELIEVING that HE with REWARD us who seek HIM!
Read the following excerpt - so enlightening as the SPIRIT moves us, guiding us to TRUTH. All through the love of our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ now and forever!
*******
'In Ezekiel 20:20 God says that the Sabbath is to be a "sign between me and you, that ye may know that I am the Lord your God." Now mark, it is to be a sign so that we may know that the God of heaven is our God.
Now turn to Jeremiah 10:10-12, and there we read, "But the Lord is the true God, He is the living God, and an everlasting king. . . . Thus shall ye say unto them, the Gods that have not made the heavens and the earth, even they shall perish from the earth and from under these heavens. He that made the earth by his power, he hath established the earth by his wisdom and hath stretched out the heavens by his discretion." Turn to Psalm 96:5 and there we read, "For all the gods of the nations are idols: but the Lord made the heavens."
Now anything that will bring the mind of man to a knowledge of the fact or that will recall the fact that the God which we serve is the Creator, will also prove to us that all other gods are false gods.
For the power to create is the distinctive attribute, it is the sole prerogative, of the God of heaven. He can create, and everything else that pretends to be worthy of worship is shown to be a false pretender because it cannot create.
But why does God want us to remember Him as God? What particular thing does God want us to have in mind when we think of Him as God? The keynote to these questions is found in Hebrews 11:6: "But without faith it is impossible to please him, for he that cometh to God must believe that he is and that he is a rewarder of them that diligently seek him."
We must believe that God exists and from that idea of existence cannot be separated the idea of reward and help from the God that we believe exists. If we do not regard God as a rewarder as a present help in trouble, we do not know Him as God. If we do not know that He is exactly what He says He is, then we do not know Him.'