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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
creative power. “All the gods of the nations are idols; but the Lord
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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 Jehovah; and there is none else.” [
Isaiah 40:25, 26
;
45:18
.] Says
the psalmist, “Know ye that Jehovah, 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 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
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day merely, but of all worship, is found in the distinction between the
Creator and his creatures. This great fact can never become obsolete,