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Focus On The Fundamentals Of The Faith

By W. Douglass Harris

Suppose This Should Be Your Last Lord’s Day

If this should be your last Lord’s day, would you lie in bed and sleep while other saints were meeting for Bible study and worship? Would you plan to use it for a pleasure trip and forsake the worship altogether? Would you use it as a rest day rather than in special service to the Lord — visiting the sick, etc.? Would you forsake the worship to attend a decoration day celebration, showing more respect for the memory of departed relatives than for the memory of the Lord who died for us? Would you miss the worship to entertain relatives or friends? Would you be envious, angry, and unforgiving toward your brethren? Would you be liberal in your giving? Would you be ready to die and be prepared to meet God in judgment?

Some Lord’s day is going to be the last one for all of us. If this should be your last one, where would you be a million years from now (Matthew 25:46; Amos 4:12)? If we should be so stranded or isolated from other Christians as to be unable to worship with them on the Lord’s day, would we be in the spirit, as was John banished on the Isle of Patmos (Revelation 1:10)? Just how much esteem do we have for the Lord’s day? Our esteem for it, or lack of it, is exactly the esteem we have for the resurrection of our Lord, because it was the day He was raised for our justification (Mark 16:9; Romans 4:25). Knowing this, how can we allow trivial matters to keep us from celebrating His resurrection every Lord’s day?

Here are a few of the things good men have said in appreciation of the Lord’s day:

1. “The mount of God where man may view the promised land.”

2. “A flower in Eden’s garden which still blooms amid the universal blight of sin.”

3. “Heaven’s milestone on the highway of time.”

4. “The pause in time which indicates eternity.”

5. “The shadow of Christ on the hot highway of time.”

This is the day we spread the Lord’s Supper in His memory. How much does it mean to you?