Wherever you are, I choose to believe that you are well by the grace of God, and I am
happy for that.
In Genesis chapter 2, reading 16 and 17, the Bible tells us, and the Lord God commanded
the man saying of every tree of the garden thou mist freely eat, but of the tree of the
knowledge of good and evil thou shalt not eat of it.
But in the day thou eatest thereof thou shalt surely die.
In that statement, we find obey and disobey.
Eat or don't eat.
Condense to one word, we find choices.
Listen to the familiar wording of the forth commandment.
Remember the Sabbath day to keep it holy
Remember carries with it the possibility of forgetting.
So again we have two choices.
A person can remember at the request of God or a person can forget at his or her own impetus
or leaning or preference.
When the Bible says remember the Sabbath day to keep it holy.
The choice is left to the believer, the individual to decide, will I obey or will I
disobey?
Obedience you see my listening friend is not something that happens automatically.
Obedience must be a conscious process of choosing, choosing God's way as opposed to my
way or your way.
And anyway, opposed to God's way is really the devil's way, even though it may be expressed
through us.
There is a very powerful psychological principle.
It's not everyone virtually.
The more you do something, the better you become doing it, good or bad.
This is how habits are formed.
The more you observe the Sabbath from your heart.
The more likely you are to continue doing that.
The more you disobey by forgetting the forthcoming amendment, by forgetting the Sabbath.
And when I say forget, Biblically to forget is to not act upon.
Biblically to remember is to act upon.
So God remembered Abraham and he sent Lot out of the fiery furnace of Sodom and Gomorrah.
God remembered the sins of Babylon and God sent judgment Revelation 18.
To remember, Biblically means to act upon.
To forget then is to not act upon.
Although you may know that the Sabbath is the Sabbath, by choosing not to observe
it, you are simply choosing to forget it.
My listening friend, obedience and disobedience are choices.
So when God told Adam, you may eat of those trees, do not eat of this one.
God presented Adam with choices and not even God could decide what choice Adam would
made, not even Lucifer or Satan could decide or could have decided what choice Adam should
make.
Not even God my listening friend can decide for you or for me whether or not we will keep
his Holy Sabbath Holy
He presents the command to us.
He tells us Remember.
You and I now have to choose between remember by acting upon it, or forget by not acting
upon it.
As you keep the Sabbath holy today, as you contemplate keeping the Sabbath, if
you're not a Sabbath keeper, remember, the more you choose to disobey God's command,
whereas the fourth or the eighth or the sixth, the more difficult it will be for you somewhere
down the lane to make a decision to turn around.
It will not be impossible, just difficult and the challenge.
On the other side, the bright side, the side that puts a smile on the face of God,
the more you obey from your heart, the more likely you are to continue in that pathway
of obedience.
And so remember the Sabbath day to keep it holy, make a choice to remember to act
upon it. As verily as God gave Adam an Eve choices.
So very he gives you an me a choice when he tells us, remember the Sabbath day to keep
it holy.
Choose! obedience, I say again, is a choice.
An obedient life is a life of constant choices to obey God to please God.
May Lord smile upon you as he sees you obeying his seventh-day Sabbath, obeying his
commandment, which was ordained to life.
Happy Sabbath and God bless you.