Thurs.-Sabbath, 8/29-9/1/24 Devotion

Thank God—Sunday is only a few days away. In order to help get us ready for the church’s worship of the Triune God, Here are some really great words from Jonathan Edwards, found in his, “Praise One of the Chief Employments of Heaven” sermon. . . .

“Let it be considered that the Church on earth is the same society with those saints who are praising God in heaven. There is not one church of Christ in heaven and another here upon earth. Though the one is sometimes called ‘the church triumphant,’ and the other ‘the church militant,’ yet they are not in-deed two churches. By ‘the church triumphant’ is meant the triumphant part of the Church, and by ‘the church militant’ the militant part of it; for there is but one universal or catholic Church. . . . Christ is not two mystical bodies. 1 Cor. 12:12: ‘The body is one, and has many members.’ The glorious assembly and the saints on earth make but one family. . . . Though some are in heaven and some on earth, in very different circumstances, yet they are all united; for there is ‘but one body and one spirit, and one Lord Jesus Christ. One God and Father of all, who is above all, and through all, and in all.’ God has in Christ united the inhabitants of heaven and the holy inhabitants of this earth, and has made them one. . . . "