Fri.-Sabbath, 9/27-29/24 Devotion

Bless God—Sunday is almost here (again). We get to go back to church. In order for us to better prepare for our Sabbath worship services, here is the great Jonathan Edwards, from his, “Christians a Chosen Generation, a Royal Priesthood” sermon. . . .

“The first beginnings of the church were from God, the great Founder of the church. Jesus Christ is the Son of God, and those men, who under Him have been founders, were of God, were of Him. God chose them, called them, and created them for this purpose. Since which, God’s people are descended one from another; the church is continued and propagated, as it were, by genera-tion. If there were no ordinary and stated means made use of for the continu-ing and propagating the church, it would not be so; but God’s people are made the instruments of one another’s conversion, by begetting one anoth-er’s souls. The church is continued by itself instrumentally through all genera-tions, the people of God are begotten through the education, instruction, and endeavors of those who were God’s people before. Therefore the church is represented in Scripture as being the mother of its members. . . . Believers are the children of the church, as they are often called."