Wed., 1/24/18 Devotion (Acts 24:14)

Today's encouragement comes from Acts 24:14, which finds Paul saying this:

"But this I confess to you, that according to the Way which they call a sect, so I worship the God of my fathers, believing all things which are written in the Law and in the Prophets."

This is a pretty bold statement by a former super-strict pharisee, regarding the comprehensive primacy of the New Covenant church's worship and life. Whatever Paul still did in those pre-70 AD days, in reference to the old temple and the old forms, it was done, not out of the vitals of true worship, but as a civil nod to a passe, eclipsed system. The apostle viewed the New Covenant church’s Sunday worship of and in Christ as the genuine fulfillment of all the law and the prophets.

May we do the same as Paul; and have his gracious attitude. To lose God's worship, is to lose everything.

[Puritan quote of the day: "[God] calls upon us from time to time in HIs Word. He is calling us by His written Word and by His preached Word from Sabbath to Sabbath.” —Jonathan Edwards, in his sermon entitled, "It is Well for us that God is Not as we are"]