God’s Law Immutable
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the law, even his prayer shall be abomination.”
1 John 5:3
;
Proverbs
28:9
.
The duty to worship God is based upon the fact that He is the
Creator and that to Him all other beings owe their existence. And
wherever, in the Bible, His claim to reverence and worship, above the
gods of the heathen, is presented, there is cited the evidence of His
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creative power. “All the gods of the nations are idols: but the Lord
made the heavens.”
Psalm 96:5
. “To whom then will ye liken Me,
or shall I be equal? saith the Holy One. Lift up your eyes on high,
and behold who hath created these things.” “Thus saith the Lord that
created the heavens; God Himself that formed the earth and made it:
... I am the Lord; and there is none else.”
Isaiah 40:25, 26
;
45:18
.
Says the psalmist: “Know ye that the Lord He is God: it is He that
hath made us, and not we ourselves.” “O come, let us worship and
bow down: let us kneel before the Lord our Maker.”
Psalm 100:3
;
95:6
. And the holy beings who worship God in heaven state, as the
reason why their homage is due to Him: “Thou art worthy, O Lord, to
receive glory and honor and power: for Thou hast created all things.”
Revelation 4:11
.
In
Revelation 14
, men are called upon to worship the Creator;
and the prophecy brings to view a class that, as the result of the
threefold message, are keeping the commandments of God. One of
these commandments points directly to God as the Creator. The fourth
precept declares: “The seventh day is the Sabbath of the Lord thy God:
... for in six days the Lord made heaven and earth, the sea, and all that
in them is, and rested the seventh day: wherefore the Lord blessed
the Sabbath day, and hallowed it.”
Exodus 20:10, 11
. Concerning the
Sabbath, the Lord says, further, that it is “a sign, ... that ye may know
that I am the Lord your God.”
Ezekiel 20:20
. And the reason given is:
“For in six days the Lord made heaven and earth, and on the seventh
day He rested, and was refreshed.”
Exodus 31:17
.
“The importance of the Sabbath as the memorial of creation is that
it keeps ever present the true reason why worship is due to God”—
because He is the Creator, and we are His creatures. “The Sabbath
therefore lies at the very foundation of divine worship, for it teaches
this great truth in the most impressive manner, and no other institution
does this. The true ground of divine worship, not of that on the seventh
day merely, but of all worship, is found in the distinction between the
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