Ten Commandments (1972)_b.pdf - Herbert W. Armstrong
Ten Commandments (1972)_b.pdf - Herbert W. Armstrong
Ten Commandments (1972)_b.pdf - Herbert W. Armstrong
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The Fourth Commandment 65<br />
with complete confidence that God will bless and prosper<br />
us because we have done this!<br />
A Paid Vacation<br />
Normally speaking, if you would quit working every<br />
few days to take a needed rest, you might naturally expect<br />
to get behind with your work and finances. But God Himself<br />
has set in motion a great LAW. God's <strong>Ten</strong> <strong>Commandments</strong><br />
are living, active laws - just like the law of gravity.<br />
They are in operation - they work automatically.<br />
The law of the Sabbath - backed up by the very<br />
POWER of the Creator - says that if you will pause to rest<br />
and worship Almighty God on the seventh day every week,<br />
you will be so blessed during the work of the six days that<br />
this will more than make up for what you might have<br />
accomplished by laboring on God's Sabbath! Do you realize<br />
what this amounts to?<br />
In one way of looking at it, God is giving us a paid<br />
vacation every seventh day!<br />
But this vacation is not only for the purpose of physical<br />
rest, it is also a time for worship, for spiritual rededication,<br />
for the contemplation and exercise of the spiritual<br />
purposes and laws of life which God has set. In the observance<br />
of the seventh day which God has made holy - and<br />
which alone points to creation - man is brought into<br />
close communion with his Maker and his God. For God's<br />
very presence as well as His divine blessing are especially<br />
evident in this day which He has set apart and sanctified.<br />
These are the busiest days that humanity has ever<br />
seen. These are days in which most men seem to have little<br />
or no time for the contemplation of the spiritual purposes<br />
and goals of life - the most IMPORTANT questions which<br />
man ought to be considering.<br />
The tremendous blessing of God's true Sabbath is<br />
that it enables man to take TIME to fully consider and<br />
weigh these most important of all questions in life - and<br />
to commune with his God and Creator in a way in which<br />
few men in this age have ever experienced. The true observance<br />
of the Sabbath would keep man in CONTACT with<br />
God! Without that contact, he is cut off from the very
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