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PSALM #100

1(A Psalm of praise) Make a joyful noise unto the LORD, all ye lands.

2Serve the LORD with gladness: come before his presence with singing.

3Know ye that the LORD he is God: it is he that hath made us, and not we ourselves; we are his people, and the sheep of his pasture.

4Enter into his gates with thanksgiving, and into his courts with praise: be thankful unto him, and bless his name.

5For the LORD is good; his mercy is everlasting; and his truth endureth to all generations.

 

    God created us all and in His love redeemed us through the sacrifice of Jesus Christ our Lord. Therefore, honor, praise and worship are due to Him.

    There are many worlds in the universe that serve the Lord, and this is their happiness, as well as for a sinful person who turned to God. But we in our world must know what it is - real praise and real worship.

    God does not force anyone to do this, a person has freedom of choice. There are different religions on earth, many believers. But what is their faith? Is it real, as it is written, in spirit and in truth? Many people pray, they say to God: “You are Great and Holy”, but God does not consider most of them His own, more than that, He closes his ears and does not listen to their prayers.

    This means that we must understand and tell other people what real worship is, acceptable to God.

    God is the Shepherd of the sheep, but only those of His sheep that really follow Him. They go - that means they do what He said to do. It is important to understand three things about our life in God:

- It should be based on the Word of God - the Old and New Testaments. Only such a person has a real God, and if someone has a fictional god (or cruel, or looking through his fingers endlessly at sins without any responsibility), then it's like idolatry.

- It's real life without a mask. You can deceive people, church members, but you cannot deceive God, because He knows everything, and our destiny, our future is the result of our deeds. A true believer does not keep the commandment in order to receive salvation. The reason is that it is unnatural and impossible for him to live a different life.

- She should not be blind, as some people in false churches do something, because everyone around them does it, such faith does not give salvation at all. For a true believer, his mind tells him what to do, therefore he will receive the seal of God only on his forehead (not on his hand, like some wicked people, the seal of the beast).

    He who follows the Shepherd, who is Jesus Christ, does what He Himself did and taught:

- Prayers and singing of psalms are only a small part of what must be observed.

- Just as constant prayer is needed, so is constant reading of the Word of God and, of course, participating in meetings and telling people about God.

- Faith and works - we receive salvation through faith, without payment for it, but there must be works (our part, not what God Himself does). It is impossible to be sure of a person who has no business, and he only talks about it a lot.

- Some people think: it doesn't matter what church you go to and what doctrine it has. But this is deception. False doctrines destroy relationship with God. As well as the so-called "traditions", additions to the Scriptures, which are among the Jews, and the Orthodox, and the Catholics, and the Muslims. But if one thing is written in the Holy Scriptures, then there, in the legends, it is completely different, everything is the other way around.

- A real believer has only one most important authority - this is God and His word. We must also obey the laws of the state, but only if the state does not force us to disregard God's commandment. This means that the Ten Commandments are the law of our lives, including the fourth one about the Sabbath, which is not changed or abolished.

- An important part of worship is tithe and donation, so that in the house of God there will always be money for the temple and for the salary for the servants of God. This commandment is found in both the Old and New Testaments.

- Do not forget about the laws of health.

- And the last - rituals. We Adventists have few of them, but we must carry out these rites as written (baptism with repentance in water and the Lord's Supper with unleavened bread and non-alcoholic grape juice, and before that - the washing of the feet).

    God has repeatedly proven that He is kind and full of mercy for the righteous and even for the unrighteous. And those of them who have real praise and real worship, He will bless many times and bring into His kingdom.