Daniel T. Bourdeau - The Eternal Gospel Church
Daniel T. Bourdeau - The Eternal Gospel Church
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spend it in the service of the Lord? p. 130, Para. 1,<br />
[HOLINESS].<br />
To illustrate: A man who is engaged in the service of<br />
another person says with propriety that his time is not his<br />
own, but belongs to him for whom he works; and in order<br />
that a servant may show that his time belongs to his<br />
master, he must cease to labor for himself, and employ his<br />
time in laboring for his master. p. 130, Para. 2,<br />
[HOLINESS].<br />
To further illustrate this point we would refer to the<br />
ancient sanctuary. When this sanctuary had been sanctified<br />
unto the Lord, the priests could not use it as they could<br />
their own houses; yet they had a work or service to perform<br />
in it. So it is in regard to the Sabbath. It belongs to the<br />
Lord, and we must consecrate it unto him by employing it in<br />
a special manner in his service. Thus we see that the<br />
Sabbath is a rest from our own work to be employed in the<br />
nobler work of our Creator. p. 130, Para. 3, [HOLINESS].<br />
But says the objector, "<strong>The</strong> commandment plainly declares<br />
that in it (the seventh day) thou shalt not do any work."<br />
We answer, <strong>The</strong> work specified is "thy work." Says the<br />
commandment, "Six days shalt thou labor and do all thy<br />
work, but the seventh day is the Sabbath of the Lord thy<br />
God: in it thou shalt not do any work" (any of thy work).<br />
p. 130, Para. 4, [HOLINESS].<br />
This view harmonizes the Sabbath law with those laws which<br />
required the priests to labor on the Sabbath-day in<br />
attending to duties connected with the sanctuary. God does<br />
not under any age give laws conflicting with each other. If<br />
God required his to keep laws clashing with each other,<br />
they could not obey him; in trying to obey him they would<br />
disobey him, and he would be the author of sin. p. 131,<br />
Para. 1, [HOLINESS].<br />
Those who claim that the fourth commandment prohibits all<br />
kinds of labor on the seventh day, must adopt the position<br />
(as an able opponent once did) that the Sabbath law did not<br />
regulate the priests. Hence, according to this view, the<br />
Sabbath was not binding on all Israel. But those who urge<br />
this objection would do well to remember that the<br />
Israelites had to go to, and return from, the synagogues on<br />
the Sabbath. p. 131, Para. 2, [HOLINESS].