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. What does it mean to set apart the Lord's Day?

Alistair Begg offers an answer today on Truth for Life to this sometimes controversial question.

We'll learn today why Sabbath observances benefit

more than just the Christian observing it. Alistair shares practical tips for how to observe the

Sabbath as a holy day and not simply as a holiday. We're in the book of Exodus, chapter 20.

Thank you. Book of Exodus, Chapter 20. I would like to affirm for us the abiding application of the Sabbath in our day.

This is very, very important because, as you know, it is a question of great confusion.

I quoted this morning from a gentleman who had passed away in 1975, and writing before his death, he said

this, it is not too much to say that we owe most, if not all the blessings we enjoy,

to the Lord's Day. That's a quite awesome statement. Without it, there is no true Christianity,

and without Christianity, there is no real lasting spiritual blessing. That we in our generation

are in danger of losing this day altogether, few serious-minded men or women will dispute. In our time, the Lord's

Day is not so much argued about anymore. People simply ignore it. We are living, he says,

in perilous times. A mock Christianity, with its vile breed of atheism, modernism, and immorality, is the religion

of the vast majority of our people. If this mock Christianity continues to advance at its present

alarming rate, the time may be near when in Britain the Lord's Day as a divine institution will be nothing but a relic of history.

Even now, literally millions of people turn their backs upon it and refuse to acknowledge it.

Many of these are, as T.S. Eliot describes them, quote,

decent, godless people, their only monument, the asphalt road,

and a thousand lost golf balls. Tens of thousands of others make a formal recognition of it,

not the whole of it, but of 45 or 60 minutes of it, the rest of it they claim as their own. So what then possible

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