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Sacred Rhythm

by Whaid Guscott Rose

“God is a Sabbath-keeper. On the seventh day of Creation week, He rested from His labors (Genesis 2:2, 3). God did not rest because He was tired. The work of creation caused Him little sweat; He simply spoke, and it was done. Rather, God kept Sabbath to highlight the weekly rhythm of work and rest.

Looking down through history, He saw a restless twenty-first century culture in desperate need of pause at the end of a busy week, so He rested as our example.

But more than just for physical benefits, God set the seventh day apart as a memorial of creation. The Sabbath says no to evolution and atheism. It reminds us that everything began with God and that out of love, not necessity, He created us. The Sabbath provides a weekly twenty-four hour time completely set aside to focus on our Creator…”

(This article is an excerpt from the Sept-Oct 2008 edition of The Sabbath Sentinel)

To read the rest of this article, which starts on page 5, click the link below:

http://biblesabbath.org/tss/533/tss_533.pdf

How I Learned About the Sabbath

By Sister Willis

The Lord stared dealing with me right after I was filled with His Spirit about the Sabbath. He also showed me about the pagan holidays.  Of course I went to my pastor and talked with him about it.  He said that I was falling into false doctrine and that I needed to forget about it.  I had been taught to obey those who have rule over you, so I tried to forget it. However, the Lord kept bringing it to my mind and I would study some more.  It was so plain; I could not see why they did not want to believe it.

Well, one day I prayed, “Lord, if this is really true, you show me a church that keeps the Sabbath, Baptism in Jesus Name, the Holiness Standards, and no Pagan Holidays and I will go.” Guess what?  He did on March 9^th l985.

Sister Patsy who went to the Peru, Indiana church with me asked if I would like to go meet her mother and family up by Knox. I said I would.  We went up to her family’s home and spent the day.  Late in the afternoon she asked me if I would like to go to the church where she was filled with the Holy Ghost.  Of course I did, so we went.

Sister Grace Irwin (the Pastor’s daughter) testified, and when she did, she mentioned the Sabbath. I do not know what she said about it only my ears shot up when she said, “Sabbath.”  I poked Sister Pasty and she grinned at me, for we had studied about the Sabbath together, she also had a good friend that used to go to church at Peru who believed in the Sabbath.  She had moved before I started going there.

After the service, we were in the car to go home when Pastor Cleda was coming down the steps. I pulled up and rolled down the window. “Sister Cleda, what do you believe about the Sabbath?”  “It’s Saturday; we keep it!” was her reply.

“Praise the Lord, what about the holidays?” I quickly asked. “They are pagan!” she replied. Well, I already knew they Baptized in Jesus Name and kept the Holiness Standards. I could not believe it! God had answered my prayer, now it was up to me to keep my word to Him, but it took me from March to September to go.

I went to Knox Indiana, in September 1985, and started attending the Church of the Lord Jesus Christ, it was a Jesus Name, Holiness, Sabbath keeping Church. Sister Cleda Fahlgren was my Pastor; there are seven United Pentecostal Jesus Name Churches that came out of her church in that area. It was like going to Bible School; we would sit up all night talking about the Word of God.

The Lord had called me into the Ministry October 10th 1984. I had told Sis. Cleda about that, and she started letting me Preach and teach Bible Study, then July 8th 1990 Pastor Cleda Fahlgren and Pastor Jimmy Whitfield Ordained me. I Praise the Lord that my mother got to be there with me.

I do not take this lightly for I am a Servant of the Lord Jesus Christ and He has seen fit for me to be an Ordained Minister used of Him.

Isaiah 61:1 – “The Spirit of the Lord God (is) upon me; because the LORD hath anointed me to preach good tidings unto the meek; he hath sent me to bind up the brokenhearted, to proclaim liberty to the captives, and the opening of the prison to (them that are) bound;”

This testimony was given by Sis Willis of the Apostolic Revival Center in Peru, Indiana. It is an excerpt from a book that she is presently working on, but not yet published.

http://www.revivalcenterperu.com/

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Hope in the Face of Loss

by Brian Knowles

“Recently a couple we knew many years ago lost their daughter to illness. She was only 47. The loss was devastating to the parents. The father’s health was affected. Stress of such an enormous magnitude can directly affect the immune system, making one susceptible to illness.

Another friend has already lost two brothers and a parent to cancer. Others have lost children to disease, accidents and even warfare. Thousands of American and Iraqi parents are living with the loss of sons and daughters due to warfare in the region. Countless millions have been slaughtered by their own governments in the last century and the beginning of this one. In much of the world, life is cheap indeed. They call it “democide” – death by government.

Governments kill. Armies kill. Disease, accidents and old age kill. None of us gets through this life alive. As the writer of Hebrews says, “It is appointed unto men once to die…” (Hebrews 9:27). How we will die is known only to God…”

(This article is an excerpt from the July August 2007 edition of The Sabbath Sentinel)

To read the rest of this article, which starts on page 10, click the link below:

http://biblesabbath.org/tss/526/tss_526.pdf

What does “Under the Law” Mean?

By Kelly McDonald, Jr.

In Romans 6:14, Paul wrote: “For sin shall not have dominion over you: for ye are not under the law, but under grace.” This verse is used by many to say that the requirements of God’s Law, especially the Ten Commandments, are no longer necessary. The key with this verse, as with all verses, is the context.

In the following two verses, Paul wrote, “What then? shall we sin, because we are not under the law, but under grace? God forbid. Know ye not, that to whom ye yield yourselves servants to obey, his servants ye are to whom ye obey; whether of sin unto death, or of obedience unto righteousness?” One definition of sin in the Bible is transgression of God’s Law (I John 3:4). To clarify the phrase “under the law” in Romans 6:14, we must go to the other letters of Paul.

In Galatians 4:4-5, Paul wrote: “But when the fulness of the time was come, God sent forth his Son, made of a woman, made under the law, To redeem them that were under the law, that we might receive the adoption of sons” (KJV). If the phrase “under the law” in Romans 6:14 means obeying the Law, then Paul said in Galatians 4:4-5 that Christ only came to redeem those that were obeying the Law. We know that is not true! Christ came to redeem all mankind (John 1:29, 3:16).

The phrase “under the law” refers to being in an inferior position to the law. It must be something that is applicable to all humans who are not converted. All have sinned and fallen short of the glory of God (Romans 3:23).  “Cursed is anyone who does not uphold the words of this law by carrying them out” (Deuteronomy 27:26).

In Galatians 3:13-14, Paul also wrote: ¹³ Christ redeemed us from the curse of the law by becoming a curse for us, for it is written: “Cursed is everyone who is hung on a pole.” ¹⁴ He redeemed us in order that the blessing given to Abraham might come to the Gentiles through Christ Jesus, so that by faith we might receive the promise of the Spirit.”

When Paul said that we are not under the law, he is obviously referring to the curse of the law. Christ died so that we would not be slaves to sin and lawlessness.

In Romans 6:18, he wrote: “Just as you used to offer yourselves as slaves to impurity and to ever-increasing wickedness, so now offer yourselves as slaves to righteousness leading to holiness” (NIV). The Greek word translated as “ever-increasing wickedness” is anomia, and it means lawlessness. After salvation, lawlessness is supposed to be apart of our past, not our future. 

What does being under grace mean? Being under grace means that when we make a mistake, God is not going to stone us or strike us dead. We have a grace period to learn right from wrong. We are not under the law’s penalty, but we are not free from its requirements because grace is not a license to sin or transgress God’s Law.

Later in Romans, Paul wrote that the Law is holy, righteous and good (Romans 7:12-14). In Romans 8:7, Paul explains that the sinful mind is hostile to God’s Law and refuses to submit to it. Our goal and aim is to let the Holy Spirit guide us in obedience to the commandments of God. Since we are under grace, we are alive in Christ and enabled to obey the Law of Life (see also Deut. 30:11-15, I John 5:1-5).

Kelly McDonald, Jr. is the BSA President. You can visit his website here: kellymcdonaldjr.com