Sabbath: Worship That Never Ends
Daily Lesson for Sabbath 16th of March 2024
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Read for This Week’s Study
Psalms 134:1-3; Isaiah 42:10-12; Revelation 14:3; Psalms 15:1-5; Psalms 101:1-3; Psalms 96:1-13; Revelation 14:6-12; John 4:23-24.
Memory Text:
“I will sing to the Lord as long as I live; I will sing praise to my God while I have my being” (Psalms 104:33, NKJV).
As our experience of God’s grace and power increases, we are prompted to ask with the psalmist: “What shall I render to the Lord for all His benefits toward me?” (Psalms 116:12, NKJV). The inevitable reply is to devote one’s life to being faithful to God.
In the Psalms, Israel is not simply a nation but “the great assembly” (Psalms 22:22,25, NKJV; Psalms 35:18). This reveals Israel’s primary calling to praise God and to bear witness about Him to other nations because the Lord wants all the world to join His people in worship. The Lord’s people are identified with the righteous, who worship the Lord and whose hope is in Him and in His love.
Praising the Lord in the congregation is perceived as ideal worship. This does not mean that the prayer and praise of the individual in Israel assume a secondary meaning. By contrast, the individual’s worship of God feeds the communal worship with renewed praise (Psalms 22:22,25) while in turn individual worship develops its fullest potential in close relationship with the community. The worshiping community also is called the “assembly of the upright” (Psalms 111:1). The upright know God (Psalms 36:10) and are known by God (Psalms 37:18), and this experience permeates every aspect of their existence.
*Study this week’s lesson to prepare for Sabbath, March 23.
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In some areas of the Pacific, Seventh-day Adventosts were known as the "Seven Day People" in Pidgin English. I hope it is a good descriptor. True worship lasts for seven days a week. It is not just a "seventh-day" experience.
Yes, Adventists should be known as "Seven Days People."
In all that can be observed regarding God’s living Word, I can see, like a red thread, the working out of His Plan to reclaim man and earth as He removes the spirit of darkness. As His heavenly Light increases, earth's darkness deminishes. He continuously works to preserve life, and this delibered act is worthy to be praised by all wo love God with all their heart - Psalm 96:1-13!
The evidence of God’s Word being restorative for man is found in man becoming aware that he has a Creator Father who loves Him and reaches out to him to give him good gifts; all His gifts promote life. The fruit of the Spirit becomes the observable evidence of God’s work in the life of those who love their God – Gal.5:22-26.
1 Cor.13 further shows that, without first accepting the love of God, man is still tethered to this earth. No matter how hard he tries, he is unable to worship Him in Spirit and in Truth as this requires to love ones fellow man selflessly. But once rescued from the spiritual darkness of this world, we are able to live life by His Light in ‘worship that never ends’.
Praise and worship are inseparable, practical aspects of the new life lived by faith in the living Word of God given to us by our Father in heaven. Accepting the call means that we are now able to worship Him with 'who we are' – born-again, and living our new life in Christ Jesus by faith in perpetual worship.
I love that we should render our life to the savior for all his benefits towards us. I don’t take that lightly! And the best part about that is when we do that, not only are we blessed from it but that blessing is also passed to others as they see Christ living in us. And that’s the realness of a worship that never ends
Worship that never ends.
Until to our lasts breath, we should worship God, the creator of heaven and earth.
How wonderful ❤️ Job, to let his life be a great example as christian. Even to the extreme pain, sorrows, sadness of his life he continues praising God, how I wish all people, should do the same, not only in time of comfortable but in time of trials we worship the creator God ❤️.
We are alive, and the miracle of life exists to worship the Creator. There is perfection in the acceptance of God's offer of Love. We are alive to be a constant praise to Him.
As long as I live,I shall praise my redeemer who went through all just for me to live