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“What I believe about God is the most important thing about me.”

A. W. Tozer, a modern day prophet, was a key figure in The Christian and Missionary Alliance. His legacy reaches through time and has impacted countless millions. A prolific author and pastor, Tozer was known for his emphasis on the deeper life movement. His message, informed as it was by A.B. Simpson the founder of The Alliance, brought the missionary call to a massive audience. A series of his sermons are available as audio files.

His books have been published around the world and in many languages.

bookThe Warfare of the Spirit

Chapter 15 - Lift Your Glad Voices

That First Day

In a great and loved hymn by Christopher Wordsworth this idea is set forth with great beauty and unanswerable logic. After praising the first day as a "day of rest and gladness" and a "day of joy and light . . . Most beautiful, most bright," he gives three sound reasons for celebrating it:


On thee, at the creation, The light first had its birth; On thee, for our salvation, Christ rose from depths of earth;

On thee, our Lord, victorious, The Spirit sent from heaven; And thus on thee, most glorious, A triple light was given.

On the first day light had its birth; on the first day Christ arose; on the first day the Holy Spirit descended. Though there is much other truth to support this, for a true follower of Christ no stronger argument is needed. On the first day he will love to remember Christ's triumph; and each first day will be to him a reminder that Christ rose from depths of earth.

Thank God for the Easter season that serves in some measure to focus the attention of Christians upon that great rock of their historic faith, "Christ is risen!" We can hardly make too much of it. So we shout with the hymnist,


Lift your glad voices in triumph on high, For Jesus hath risen, and man shall not die!

Verse

When the day of Pentecost came, they were all together in one place. . . . All of them were filled with the Holy Spirit and began to speak in other tongues as the Spirit enabled them. Acts 2:1, 4

Thought

The day of Pentecost fell on the first day of the week. On that day the Holy Spirit came in fulfillment of Christ's promise. Distinctive, then, is the first day, Sunday. Christ arose! The Spirit came! All of which brings eternal light to us as believers.

Prayer

Father, may I make Sunday a special day of worship—not the only day of the week for worship but a special day.

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