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The first day of the week is the Lord's Day. It is a Christian institution
for regular observance. It commemorates the resurrection of Christ from the
dead and should be employed in exercises of worship and spiritual devotion,
both public and private, and by refraining from worldly amusements, and
resting from secular employments, work of necessity and mercy only being
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the kingdom |
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The Kingdom of God includes both His general sovereignty over the
universe and His particular kingship over men who willfully
acknowledge Him as King. Particularly the Kingdom is the realm of
salvation into which men enter by trustful, childlike commitment to
Jesus Christ. Christians ought to pray and to labor that the Kingdom
may come and God's will be done on earth. The full consummation of
the Kingdom awaits the return of Jesus Christ and the end of this
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last things |
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God, in His own time and in His own way, will bring the world to its appropriate
end. According to His promise, Jesus Christ will return personally and visibly
in glory to the earth; the dead will be raised; and Christ will judge all men in
righteousness. The unrighteous will be consigned to Hell, the place of
everlasting punishment. The righteous in their resurrected and glorified bodies
will receive their reward and will dwell forever in Heaven with the Lord.
Courtesy of LifeWay Christian Resources of the Southern Baptist Convention
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