Dr Paul Allen

It is the most important thing you can ever do. It is what you were made to do. If you are a Christian, it is what you will spend eternity—age upon endless age—doing. I am thinking, of course, of the worship of the true God. One of the most important questions a person can ever ask is “Whom or what am I worshipping?” In Romans 1:21–23, Paul says that to worship anything or anyone other than the true God is evidence of futile thinking, a darkened heart, and the abandonment of wisdom. When fallen man—apart from Christ—is most religious, he is most rebellious. One of God’s purposes in redeeming sinners is the recovery of His true worship (see John 4:21–24). As Christians, we count it both our duty and delight to worship the God who has saved us from our sins. But who is this God? He is the triune God—Father, Son, and Holy Spirit.  This is the God into whose name we are baptized (Matt. 28:18–20) and by whose name we are blessed (2 Cor. 13:14). We do not worship three gods. We wo...

The first four commandments of the law teach us how to love God, even how to love Him in worship on the day of His choosing. It is important for us to understand the fourth commandment, in which God gives His command for the day of His worship: "Remember the Sabbath day, to keep it holy" (Ex. 20:8). How are we as Christians to observe this commandment? From Creation to Re-Creation From creation until Christ, the people of God worked six days and then rested on the seventh day. This was a picture of their looking forward to eternal rest; the seventh day of creation was not structured with an "evening and morning" as the previous six days (Gen. 2:1–3), which signified that the seventh day had no end and was thus a foretaste of eternity itself. On the other hand, from the work of Christ until the consummation, the people of God rest on the first day and work the next six, looking back on the finished work of Christ. Yet we too look forward to the full consu...