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Trinitarian Bible Society – Quarterly Recordfor His gracious love and nearness. Shewas needy and Christ alone could meet herneed and give her peace. Only the livingRedeemer can satisfy the heart of God’schildren. Christ is so precious, not only asthe suffering Servant of the Lord, but also inHis resurrection glory. How deep is His loveand compassion; He understands a needysoul. If you and I need help, there is one helpand one only. It is Christ Who has a love forthe needy, for the weary, and for the undone.He applies salvation by revealing Himself tothe heart of the lost.So the Lord’s Day is a memorial ofredemption. The great work of redemptionthat only Christ could do was completed atCalvary. The Lamb of God wrought salvationby His substitutionary atonement. Thissalvation satisfies the neediest of sinners.Everything is complete in the crucified andrisen Redeemer. Each Lord’s Day we mayremember Him: and is there not a need forthis? Are we not needy sinners? Are we nothelpless without the Saviour? Do we notneed His presence and nearness? Do we notneed His love and pardon? Do we not needHis renewing grace? Are we not altogetherdependent on Him? Where is any hope for asinner, if it is not in Christ?Christ came to seek and to save that which islost. He did not come for any other purpose.Oh sinners, flee to Him. Make known toHim all your troubles. Do not hide the worst;do not hide the greatness of your sins. Somedo not go to Christ because they think thatthere is no help for them. But Christ cansave the worst of sinners. How blessed is itto have the Lord’s Day as a memorial of aredemption that is complete in Christ. Pray,Oh Lord, open my eyes for the preciousredemption that is in Christ; let me see itby faith. I am so blind and often neglectthe things I should be busy with. Oh letme be active at the Throne of Grace withmy need of Christ’s redeeming love.How blessed is the Lord’s Day!How can and must we observe andsanctify the Lord’s Day? It seems best thatwe follow the divine instruction givenunto us in God’s own Word. The Bibleteaches us first of all what we ought not todo and secondly what we ought to do. Inthe fourth commandment God forbids usto work and to do business on the day ofrest. Only works of necessity and mercyare permitted. Unnecessary travel andworldly pleasures are not allowed on theLord’s Day. Everything is forbidden thatis not in harmony with the design of theday, which is to worship God in privateand in public and to promote our own,our family’s and other’s spiritual interests.Public worship is a divine ordinanceof the utmost importance. Sincereworshippers have always come togetheron the Sabbath Day to pray to God, topraise His holy name and to be instructedin the truths relating to God and Hisservice. In the book of the Psalms we findmany references to the public worship ofGod. The Psalms abound with expressionsdeclaring a warm and wholeheartedinterest in visiting the house of God. InPsalm 122.1 we read, ‘I was glad whenthey said unto me, Let us go into thehouse of the LORD’. The poet of Psalm 84esteemed one day in the house of theLord better than a thousand elsewhere (cf.Psalm 84.10).‘This is the day which the LORD hathmade; we will rejoice and be glad in it’(Psalm 118.24).8