50 Days of Wisdom
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Wisdom is a skill in living that begins with fearing God, then progresses to guarding your mind, choosing your companions, controlling your body, monitoring your words, pursuing your work, managing your money, and loving your neighbor. Very simple. But that’s it. And when you’ve done that, you’ve learned wisdom. It’s vital to be taught wisdom. For example, as a father, if I fail to teach my son to fear God, the devil will teach him to hate God. If I fail to teach my son to guard his mind, the devil will teach him to have an open mind. If I fail to teach my son to obey his parents, the devil will teach him to rebel and break his parents’ hearts. If I fail to teach my son to select his companions carefully, the devil will choose them for him. If I fail to teach my son to control his body, the devil will gladly teach him to give it completely over to his lusts. If I fail to teach my children to enjoy speech that is honorable to God, the devil will fill their mouths with filth. If I fail to teach my children to pursue their work, the devil will make them lazy. If I fail to teach them to manage their money, the devil will teach them to waste it on riotous living. If I fail to teach them to love their neighbor, the devil will gladly teach them to love only themselves. And the only reason I can pass any of this wisdom on to my children is because God has graciously made it all available in the Bible.
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The New Day Has Come
One of the things that we need to understand is the importance of worship. Therefore, we want to understand how Sunday, the Lord’s Day, fits into that. Well, worshiping on Sunday is a pattern for most churches in the United States and around the globe. It’s been the time-honored traditional pattern, and it goes all the way back to the New Testament time. Now, how did this happen? Why don’t they all meet on different days? And why has it always been this way across the whole of the Christian church? Well, remember, when Jesus came, he abolished the Sabbath. It’s gone. Therefore, whatever we’re talking about on Sunday, we’re not talking about the Sabbath. And when you come to the new covenant, you have a new kind of observation, not observing God as Creator and as lawgiver as they did on the Sabbath, but in the new covenant God is defining Himself as what? Savior. So, the new covenant has its own day, a day in which we focus on God as our Savior. The argument from history is that the church has taken the New Covenant very seriously and has made an issue out of Sunday since the New Testament times. So here we are, 2,000 years later, and the church is still meeting on Sunday; I would say it’s pretty deeply embedded. So why is Sunday such a very special day? Well, Jesus rose from the dead on a very special Sunday. He made two miraculous post-resurrection appearances to the disciples, both of them on a Sunday. It’s on a Sunday that they know He is alive from the dead. It’s on a Sunday that they know the Old Testament is being fulfilled. It’s on a Sunday that they know the Father has affirmed His redemptive work on the cross. It’s on a Sunday that Jesus pledges to them that they will receive the Holy Spirit to be empowered for ministry in the future. It’s on a Sunday that all the past of His ministry and His death come to make sense. He appeared on resurrection Sunday in the morning, afternoon, and evening. He showed Himself alive to the women on that Sunday. They had the first worship service on that Sunday. Jesus preached the first sermon on that Sunday. He met two disciples on that Sunday. He broke bread with them and disclosed Himself to them and then miraculously vanished. He met that night with the eleven, minus Thomas, on that Sunday, and twice pronounced peace on them and ate with them. He must have taught several times on that Sunday, not only on the road to Emmaus, as He told them that He had indeed come to fulfill all the Old Testament promises. On that Sunday, He told His disciples that forgiveness of sins was now available through what He had accomplished, and it was available to all who would repent and believe. And on that Sunday, He stated the great commission that they were to go out and proclaim the gospel to the ends of the world. Wow, what a Sunday! However, prior to that, Sunday had absolutely no significance—none. But from that Sunday on, it took on an entirely different meaning. Sundays would never be the same again. Sunday was a day to celebrate salvation and our Savior. The resurrection was the dawning of a new day, and therefore, the new covenant has a new day. The Saturday Sabbath is gone, the new day has come, and Sunday became the day to celebrate the work of Christ. Repent and believe! GTY.org (90-380) - Why Sunday Is the Lord’s Day – 90-380
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May 24, 2026
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