DUTY IN RELATION TO TRUTH. 15 Final reward. 3. Blessed is he that readeth, and they that Rev. i. hear the words of this prophecy, and keep those things which are written therein for the time is at hand. Blessed are they that do His commandments, that they may have right to the tree of life, and may enter in through the gates into the city. MINISTER AND CONGREGATION. STANDING OR KNEELING. PETITIONS. Psalm cxix. Rev. xxii. 14. Let my heart be sound in Thy statutes, that I be not ashamed. 80. Quicken me after thy loving-kindness; so shall I keep the testimony of Thy mouth. 88. Accept, I beseech Thee, the free-will offerings of my mouth, O Lord, and teach me Thy judgments. 108. Hold Thou me up, and I shall be safe and I will have respect unto Thy statutes continually. 117. Deal with Thy servant according unto Thy mercy, and teach me Thy statutes. 124. Look Thou upon me, and be merciful unto me, as Thou usest to do unto those that love Thy name. 132. Order my steps in Thy word: and let not any iniquity have dominion over me. 133. Deliver me from the oppression of man: so will I keep Thy precepts. 134. Make Thy face to shine upon Thy servant; and teach me Thy statutes. 135. Hear my voice, according unto Thy loving-kindness. 149. Plead my cause, and deliver me. 154. Let Thine hand help me for I have chosen Thy precepts. 173. Let my soul live, and it shall praise Thee; and let Thy judgments help me. 175. THE LORD'S PRAYER. Matt. vi., 9-13. Our Father which art in heaven, Hallowed be thy name. Thy kingdom come. Thy will be done in earth, as it is in heaven. Give us this day our daily bread. And forgive us our debts, as we forgive our debtors. And lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil : For Thine is the kingdom, and the power, and the glory, for ever. CONGREGATION. Amen. Minister. CHARGE AND BENEDICTION. 1 Thess. v. 27, 28. I charge you by the Lord, that this epistle be read unto all the holy brethren. The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with you. CONGREGATION. Amen. SING HYMN. READ SCRIPTURE LESSON. EXTEMPORANEOUS PRAYER. SING HYMN. Sermon. SING HYMN. Concluding Prayer and Benediction. The Order of Congregational Service. SING. CHANT: ANTHEM or HYMN. BIBLICAL READINGS: THE THIRD SERVICE. Subject: THE HOLY DAY. Minister. God's And God spake all these words, saying, command. The sabbath instituted Made for man. Ye shall keep My sabbaths, and reverence And on the seventh day God ended His work And He said unto them, The sabbath was made for man, and not man for the sabbath. Ex. xx. 1. Lev. xix. 30. Gen. ii. 2, 3. Mark ii. 27. The day to be observed. How to keep the day. Rest. Lawful works. 8-11. Remember the sabbath day, to keep it holy. Ex. xx. Six days shalt thou labour, and do all thy work: But the seventh day is the sabbath of the Lord thy God in it thou shalt not do any work, thou, nor thy son, nor thy daughter, thy manservant, nor thy maidservant, nor thy cattle, nor thy stranger that is within thy gates: For in six days the Lord made heaven and earth, the sea, and all that in them is, and rested the seventh day: wherefore the Lord blessed the sabbath day, and hallowed it. Verily My sabbaths ye shall keep for it is a sign between Me and you throughout your generations; that ye may know that I am the Lord that doth sanctify you. Ye shall keep the sabbath therefore; for it is holy unto you. Six days shall work be done but the seventh day is the sabbath of rest, an holy convocation; ye shall do no work therein it is the sabbath of the Lord in all your dwellings. Ex. xxxi. 13. 14. Lev. xxiii. 3. xiii. 14-16. And the ruler of the synagogue answered Luke with indignation, because that Jesus had healed on the sabbath day, and said unto the people, There are six days in which men ought to work in them therefore come to be healed, and not on the sabbath day. The Lord then answered him, and said, Thou hypocrite, doth not each one of you on the sabbath loose his ox or his ass from the stall, and lead him away to watering? And ought not this woman, being a daughter of Abraham, whom Satan hath bound, lo, these eighteen years, be loosed from this bond on the sabbath day? Wherefore it is lawful to do well on sabbath days. Matt. xii. 12. To worship. Read and preach the word of God. Perpetual Likewise the people of the land shall worship Ezek. before the Lord in the sabbaths. And on the sabbath we went out of the city by a river side, where prayer was wont to be made; and we sat down, and spake unto the women which resorted thither. For Moses of old time hath in every city them that preach him, being read in the synagogues every sabbath day. xlvi. 3. Acts xvi. 13. Acts xv. 21. xvii. 2, 3. And Paul, as his manner was, went in unto Acts them, and three sabbath days reasoned with them out of the scriptures, Opening and alleging, that Christ must needs have suffered, and risen again from the dead; and that this Jesus, whom I preach unto you, is Christ. And he reasoned in the synagogue every Acts sabbath, and persuaded the Jews and the xviii.4. Greeks. Ex. Wherefore the children of Israel shall keep obligation the sabbath, to observe the sabbath through- xxxi. out their generations, for a perpetual covenant. Blessed. ness of obedience If thou turn away thy foot from the sabbath, from doing thy pleasure on My holy day, and call the sabbath a delight, the holy of the Lord, honourable; and shall honour Him, not doing thine own ways, nor finding thine own pleasure, nor speaking thine own words: Then shalt thou delight thyself in the Lord; and I will cause thee to ride upon the high places of the earth, and feed thee with the heritage of Jacob thy father: for the mouth of the Lord hath spoken it. 16. Isaiah lviii. 13, 14. lvi. 2. Blessed is the man that doeth this, and the Isaiah the son of man that layeth hold on it; that keepeth the sabbath from polluting it, and keepeth his hand from doing any evil. |