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Baptism and the Passion of Christ, October 24
Buried with him in baptism, wherein also ye are risen with him
through the faith of the operation of God, who hath raised him
from the dead.
Colossians 2:12
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Christ rested in the tomb on the Sabbath day, and when holy beings
of both heaven and earth were astir on the morning of the first day of
the week, He rose from the grave to renew His work of teaching His
disciples. But this fact does not consecrate the first day of the week, and
make it a Sabbath. Jesus, prior to His death, established a memorial of
the breaking of His body and the spilling of His blood for the sins of the
world, in the ordinance of the Lord’s Supper, saying, “For as often as
ye eat this bread, and drink this cup, ye do shew the Lord’s death till he
come.”
1 Corinthians 11:26
. And the repentant believer, who takes the
steps required in conversion, commemorates in his baptism the death,
burial, and resurrection of Christ. He goes down into the water in the
likeness of Christ’s death and burial, and he is raised out of the water in
the likeness of His resurrection...to live a new life in Christ Jesus.
The angelic host were filled with amazement as they beheld the
sufferings and death of the King of glory. But...it was no marvel to them
that the Lord of life and glory...should break the bands of death, and
walk forth from His prison house, a triumphant conqueror. Therefore, if
either of these events should be commemorated by a day of rest, it is the
crucifixion. But I saw that neither of these events was designed to alter
or abrogate God’s law; on the contrary, they give the strongest proof of
its immutability....
The Sabbath was instituted in Eden before the Fall, and was observed
by Adam and Eve, and all the heavenly host. God rested on the seventh
day, and blessed and hallowed it. I saw that the Sabbath never will be
done away; but that the redeemed saints, and all the angelic host, will
observe it in honor of the great Creator to all eternity.
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