The first Christian settlers in Connecticut, brought the observance of the Sabbath into an even higher pitch of absurdity than it ever was among the Jews. Their governing laws said, No one shall run on the Sabbath, or walk in his garden or elsewhere, except reverently to and from church. No one shall travel, cook victuals, or make beds, sweep houses, cut hair, or shave on the Sabbath. No husband shall kiss his wife and no mother her child upon the Sabbath-day. These Christian Settlers were the Puritans, nonconformist English dissenters, whom I passionately love, but they did not last long. Why? Because they took their eyes of the pure goodness of the Gospel, put and their focus onto a strict keeping of the law, fell in to legalism, which morphed into moralism, which spiraled into today’s modern relative morality. Don’t believe me? Look at the liberal Northeast US today! There is a lesson here. Seventh-day Adventism quickly lost their grasp of the Gospel, made her focus upon the Sabbath, even betraying their own brethren in Germany during WWII to keep it. But what else has happened in the intervening years? ...a drifting by the church, a loss of focus, the spawning of a number of other splinter cults, a high and rapid turnover of new members, and inroads by the modernist liberals who have not invaded the church from the outside, but from inside her own ranks and schools. More than ever, does she need the Gospel! More than ever, does she need a clear vision of her Savior and Lord. What will happen if she doesn’t? Just exactly what happen to the Puritans… dissolution and loss. But remember this, what happened and will happen on a macro scale, occurred because it happened first in a micro scale. That’s you… think about it.
Posted on: Tue, 27 Jan 2015 05:17:31 +0000
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