HOLINESS REVIVAL MOVEMENT WORLDWIDE HOREMOW
DAILY DEVOTIONAL BY PASTOR PAUL RIKA INTERNATIONAL DIRECTOR.
DATE: THURSDAY JULY 30, 2026.
TOPIC: ACCEPTABLE DAY OF WORSHIP
TEXT: JOHN 4:22-24
22. Ye worship ye know not what: we know what we worship: for salvation is of the Jews.
23. But the hour cometh, and now is, when the true worshippers shall worship the Father in spirit and in truth: for the Father seeketh such to worship Him.
24. God is a Spirit: and they that worship Him must worship Him in spirit and in truth.
KEY VERSE: JOHN 4:24 “God is a spirit and they that worship Him must worship Him in spirit and in truth”.
Jesus showed us the nature of God and how to worship Him acceptably. The life quality required to give God delight is righteousness and holiness. In 1 Peter 1:14-16 “As obedient children, not fashioning yourselves according to the former lusts in your ignorance: But as He which hath called you is holy; so be ye holy in all manner of conversation; Because it is written, be ye holy for I am holy.
Holiness is obedience and conformity to the scripture in moral standard. The true worship of God does not lay emphasis on a place, a day and time. God sanctified the seventh day and rested on it, but did not tell Adam or the Old Testament saints to worship Him on that day.
The righteousness of Enoch, Noah, Abraham and other Old Testament saints, before the law, was complete and heaven worthy with out observance of the sabbath. It was the righteousness of faith. Believers today are after the faith of Abraham who are being justified by faith in Christ, without observing the sabbath day given in the law.
In Galatians 3:6-9 “Even as Abraham believed God and it was accounted to him for righteousness. Know ye therefore that they which are of faith, the same are the children of Abraham. And the scripture foreseeing that God would justify the heathen through faith, preached before the gospel unto Abraham, saying, in thee shall all nations be blessed. So, then they which be of faith are blessed with faithful Abraham.”
The observance of the sabbath is not a moral law but ceremonial. All such law given to Moses were abolished in Christ. To continue to observe the sabbath day because it was commanded in the laws of Moses shows the ignorance of the observers of righteousness through grace in Christ. Such are compelled by the scripture to obey all other requirement of the law of Moses in order to live, which they cannot do.
Thought for the day: Observance of the sabbath is not a moral law but ceremonial.
Song for the day: Praise the Lord my spirit soul and body, praise the Lord....
Bible reading for the day: Isaiah 53-56
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