10月23日是创造安息日。

泰德·威尔逊牧师邀请你来浏览在网址creationsabbath.net.中的相关材料。

创造是贯穿《圣经》的重要主题。诗篇95:1-7，“来阿，我们要向耶和华歌唱，向拯救我们的磐石欢呼。我们要来感谢祂，用诗歌向祂欢呼。”

诗篇继续写道：“因耶和华为大 神，为大王，超乎万神之上。地的深处在祂手中。山的高峰也属祂。海洋属祂。是祂造的。旱地也是祂手造成的。”

“来阿，我们要屈身敬拜，在造我们的耶和华面前跪下。因为祂是我们的 神。我们是祂草场的羊，是祂手下的民。惟愿你们今天听祂的话。”

上帝想要我们记住祂是我们的创造者，我们是属于祂的。这信息在启示录中14章6-7节的三天使核心信息中更为明显。

经上记着说：“我又看见另有一位天使飞在空中，有永远的福音要传给住在地上的人，就是各国各族各方各民。祂大声说，应当敬畏神，将荣耀归给祂。因祂施行审判的时候已经到了。应当敬拜那创造天地海和众水泉源的。”

注意，在这两节中把创造和敬拜联系在一起了——我们要敬拜我们的创造者——上帝。

这对应了出埃及记20:11中的第四条诫命，经上记着说：“因为六日之内，耶和华造天，地，海，和其中的万物，第七日便安息，所以耶和华赐福与安息日，定为圣日。”

确实，创造和敬拜是紧密相连的，是上帝创造和救赎的印记——安息日里汇聚了。

正如怀爱伦在《给管家的勉言》一书中第66页的评论一样：“第七日是向耶和华你上帝当守的安息日”（出20:10）。人无权用第一日代替第七日。他虽可伪称这么做，“然而上帝坚固的根基立住了”（提后2:19）。人的习惯和教训不能减低上帝律法的要求。上帝已将第七日分别为圣。祂亲自划出这段时间作为宗教礼拜之用，至今仍是神圣的日子，与创造主第一次将它分别为圣时一样。”

愿上帝在这个创造安息日赐福你们，使你们在祂里面寻得安息。

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Creation and Worship [Why Are They Tied Together?] – Pastor Ted Wilson

Tomorrow, October 23, is Creation Sabbath Day.

With this, Pastor Ted Wilson invites you to look into our materials available at creationsabbath.net.

Creation is a crucial topic found in various passages throughout the Bible. Psalm 95:1-7, “Oh come, let us sing to the Lord! Let us shout joyfully to the Rock of our salvation. Let us come before His presence with thanksgiving; let us shout joyfully to Him with psalms.”

It continues, “For the Lord is the great God and the great King above all gods. In His hand are the deep places of the earth; the heights of the hills are His also. The sea is His, for He made it; and His hands formed the dry land.”

“Oh come, let us worship and bow down; let us kneel before the Lord, our Maker. For He is our God, and we are the people of His pasture, and the sheep of His hand.”

God wants us to remember that He is our Creator and that we belong to Him. This message is evident in the heart of the three angels’ messages found in Revelation 14:6-7.

It says, “Then I saw another angel flying in the midst of heaven, having the everlasting gospel to preach to those who dwell on the earth – to every nation, tribe, tongue, and people – saying with a loud voice, ‘Fear God and give glory to Him, for the hour of His judgment has come; and worship Him Who made heaven and earth, the sea and springs of water.“

Notice that creation and worship are tied together in these two verses – we are to worship God our Creator.

It echoes the fourth commandment in Exodus 20:11, which says, “For in six days the Lord made the heavens and the earth, the sea, and all that is in them, and rested the seventh day. Therefore the Lord blessed the Sabbath day and hallowed it.”

Indeed, creation and worship are intimately related. They come together in God’s seal of creation and redemption, the Sabbath.

As Ellen White comments in Christian Stewardship, p. 66,  “The seventh day is the Sabbath of the Lord thy God.” Man has no right nor power to substitute the first day for the seventh. He may pretend to do this; “nevertheless the foundation of God standeth sure.” The customs and teachings of men will not lessen the claims of the divine law. God has sanctified the seventh day. That specified portion of time, set apart by God Himself for religious worship, continues as sacred today as when first hallowed by our Creator.”

May God bless you this Creation Sabbath as you find rest in Him.