Lukewarm Lord's Day

It is impossible for someone to be lukewarm and be at the same time zealous for corporate worship of God. If we are lukewarm, symptoms will appear in how we regard the Lord's Day. We live in a day of great lukewarmness toward God and toward corporate worship. Multitudes of professing Christians believe that there is no command and no obligation to attend to Lord's Day worship. If they aren't busy, if they aren't working, if their child doesn't have a ballgame ... then they might come to church. A further contribution to the problem is that the church has no power or authority to rebuke this. Why? Because we have dispensed with the Sabbath. Due to the influences of Dispensationalism and New Covenant Theology, the Sabbath has been jettisoned. Consequently, we have no positive commands or imperatives to invoke. Having rid ourselves of the fourth commandment, we have nothing in our arsenal. Now everyone does what is right in their own eyes.

"Lukewarm Lord's Day" – Is. 58:13-14

I. The attack on the Sabbath

II. No power to exhort the church
(Exod. 20:8-11; Rev. 1:10; Heb. 10:24-25)

III. Delighting in the Sabbath
(Is. 58:13-14; Ps. 26:6-8; Ps. 27:4; Ps. 42:1-4; Ps. 65:4; Ps. 84:1-4, 10)