Hawaii holomua = Progress. [volume] (Honolulu) 1893-1895, 1894-06-13


nv sabbaths; and there shsll be
sign between me and you. that
We may know hat / am the Lord
thy God. "-Ize. 1920. So the
force of the Scripture Is this:
That ye may know Jesus Christ,
that thus knoSing him We may
know the Father. So the Sab
bath institution is for the pur-
posse of revealing Jesus Christ.of
teaching as-of his power. of his
divinity. And it follows, there
fore that be who observes the
seventh day, the day upon which
God in Jesus Christ rested, the
day upon which God in Jesus
Christ let his blessings rest, the
day which Wis thus hallowed
and sanctifed the one who OBJ
serves the seventh day thus bless
ed. halIowed, and sanctified, ac-
knowledges b. this act before
heaven and earth that he believes
in the divinity of Jesus Christ.
A blessing was placed upon the
! seventh DAY. What is the pur-
pose of the blessing of Godl" Unto
You first God, having raised up
his son Jesus, sent him to bless
you, in turning away every one of
you from his iniquities. Acts
1926. The Bile sing of God is not
put upon man because he is
good, but the blessing of God is
put upon him % make him good.
1t is to turn him away from his
iniqnities And it is the power
/ Of God in Chr st that saves from
sin. So the Sabbath blessing is
the blessing of being turned away
from our iniquities as we are re-
minded of the great power of God
in Jesus Christ to save from sin.
That is to say, the Sabbath bless
ing is the blessing of sanctifc
alton. Can ally one truly keep
the Sabbath Of our Lord Jesus
Christ unless he is a converted
persona He cannot. 1t is only
a converted person who can keep
the Sabbath, because the Sabbath
is the blessing of conversion. the
blessing of reCeeming power. the
blessing of sancti6cation; and
only that man can keep the Sab
bath of our Lord and Saviour
Jesus Christ. in whom creative
power is wrought. So that the
Sabbath becomes to him sign,
a memorial of the great power OF
God working in him to turn him
away from lis impurities. the
sign of the great power of God
working through Jesus Christ t.
save him from sin. Not only is
it stated that he rested on that
day, and bies sed that day. and
made it rest day for man, time
for spiritual refreshing, but it is
said that be hallowed the day
} shat is he made that day holy,
The very thing that made it Sab
bath. hallowed it, made it holy
And two or three very familiar
passages of Scriptures will show
this plainly. Refer again to the
experience of Moses at the burn
ing bush; when the Lore
called to him out of the bush
he said, "Dr, W not nigh bither
: put off thy shoes from off TIL,
feet. for the place whereon tho,
standest is holy ground Tbs
day before that time the grount
: around that bash was not parti
: cularly holy ground. 1t is true
God is everywhere, and it is tru
I in that general sence, that every
: thing is holy IS belonging to tn
Lord; but tha particular portion
l of the earth was no mere boil
: the day before that oecuranc
than any other particular portion
but Just as soc as Christ reveale,
himself thers,-that place be
7 came holy. because of his pres
| ence. So in the FIFTH chapter
. when the Prince of the hart c
the Lord ap reared to Joshua
. he said, "loose thy shoe from o
q thy foot; for the place xhereo
9 thou standess is holy" Chris
T himself was there. The presenc
$ of Christ made that ground boil,
: so the command to loose the sho
S from of the foot. was because
: was holy or hallowed GROUND
! The Mount OF Transfgurstio
Q Was called holy. because Chri:
> in divinity We manifested Their,