Article 11

Pastor - Ralph E. Dale

"Shiloh Baptist Church is a Sovereign Assembly"

"We believe and preach the doctrines of God's sovereign grace"

The Lord's day

When God rested on the seventh day, this was not because He was tired. The rest of God on the seventh day is symbolic of the fact that God found complacency, a rest of soul, in His creation. In the faith of the Gospel we can enter into this rest of God, as we rest in Christ and redemption by his blood.

Paul, in the epistle to the Hebrews, couples entering into the faith of the Gospel with the true spiritual meaning of the Sabbath, as we can read in Hebrews 4:1-10.

To the christian, every day of the week belongs to Christ. The observance of the New Testament Lord's day, Sunday, stands in apostolic example. We are not only under apostolic doctrine but also under apostolic example, when those examples are consistent with apostolic doctrine. If we are legalistic in this, it is evident that we are not really observing the Lord's day.

Providences some times might prevent our attendance on public worship, but providences should never prevent us from being specially midful of Him, who died and rose for us on Sunday morning.