For our scripture reading this afternoon, let us turn to Isaiah 58. Isaiah 58. And we will read the entire chapter. Isaiah chapter 58, the word of God. Cry aloud, spare not, lift up thy voice like a trumpet and show my people their transgression and the house of Jacob their sins. Yet they seek me daily and delight to know my ways as a nation that did righteousness and forsook not the ordinance of their God. They ask of me the ordinances of justice They take delight in approaching to God. Wherefore have we fasted, say they, and thou seest not? Wherefore have we afflicted our soul, and thou takest no knowledge? Behold, in the day of your fast ye find pleasure, and exact all your labours. Behold, ye fast for strife and abate, and to smite with a fist of wickedness Ye shall not fast as ye do this day, to make your voice to be heard on high. Is it such a fast that I have chosen? A day for a man to afflict his soul? Is it to bow down his head as a bulrush and to spread sackcloth and ashes under him? Wilt thou call this a fast and an acceptable day to the Lord? Is not this the fast that I have chosen, to loose the bands of wickedness, to undo the heavy burdens, and to let the oppressed go free, and that ye break every yoke? Is it not to deal thy bread to the hungry, and that thou bring the poor that are cast out to thy house? When thou seest the naked, that thou cover him, and that thou hide not thyself from thine own flesh, Then shall thy light break forth as a morning, and thine health shall spring forth speedily, and thy righteousness shall go before thee. The glory of the Lord shall be thy reward. Then shalt thou call, and the Lord shall answer. Thou shalt cry, and he shall say, Here am I. If thou take away from the midst of thee the yoke, the putting forth of the finger and speaking vanity, and if thou draw out thy soul to the hungry and satisfy the afflicted soul, then shall thy light arise in obscurity and thy darkness be as a noonday. And the Lord shall guide thee continually and satisfy thy soul in drought and make fat thy bones. And thou shalt be like a watered garden like a spring of water whose waters fail not. And they that shall be of thee shall build the old waste places. Thou shalt raise up the foundations of many generations, and thou shalt be called the repairer of the breach, the restorer of paths to dwell in. If thou turn away thy foot from the Sabbath, from doing thy pleasure on my holy day, and call the Sabbath a delight, the holy of the Lord, honorable, and shalt honor him, not doing thine own ways, nor finding thine own pleasure, nor speaking thine own words. Then shalt thou delight thyself in the Lord, and I will cause thee to ride upon the high places of the earth, and feed thee with the heritage of Jacob thy father, for the mouth of the Lord hath spoken it. Let us also turn once again in our Psalters to page 74, where we find Lord's Day 38 of our Heidelberg Catechism. And there, based on God's Word, we confess in Lord's Day 38, what does God require in the Fourth Commandment? First, that the ministry of the Gospel in the schools be maintained. and that I, especially on the Sabbath, that is on the day of rest, diligently frequent the Church of God, to hear His Word, to use the sacraments, publicly to call upon the Lord and contribute to the relief of the poor, as becomes a Christian. Secondly, that all the days of my life I cease from my evil works and yield myself to the Lord to work by His Holy Spirit in me, and thus begin in this life the eternal Sabbath. Dear congregation, the Sabbath, a delight, a delight to have a day of rest, a delight to have a day dedicated to the Lord, a delight To have a day blessed by God, a delight, is what the text we read is all about. Call the Sabbath a delight. And if the Sabbath is to be a delight, then it is clearly not a day of simply resting and doing nothing. It is a day full of what may give delight. full of activity. And that's actually the focus of the Lord's Day 38. There's many commands where it asks, what does God forbid in this commandment? That you're not to do this and you're not to do that. With regard to the fourth commandment, the only question is, what does God require in the fourth command? It's focused on positively how is that day to be filled? And that's our focus also in this afternoon. That this is a day to be positively filled with the things of God. It's such a gift. Its hours are such a precious gift, not to be wasted, but to be received for God's purpose, with God's purpose for those hours. And let us listen then to this as our theme. The Sabbath day as a day of delight. The Sabbath as a day of delight. Three things first. A delight in worship. Second, a delight in the Word. And third, a delight in God. The Sabbath as a day of delight in worship, in the Word, and in God. speaks here in the catechism that what does God require in the fourth commandment? One of the first things it speaks about is the ministry of the gospel. And then it says that I especially on the Sabbath, on the day of rest, diligently frequent or attend the church of God to hear his word, to use the sacraments, publicly to call upon the Lord and contribute to the relief of the poor as becomes a Christian. All those things that we read up there take place in our worship service. Why such an emphasis on the worship service? After all, isn't true religion a personal matter? Isn't it about that personal relation with the Lord Himself, a bond with Him? That He speaks to me and works in me, and He draws me out to Himself. It's so personal. Why then is it so important to gather together in a worship service. Isn't it enough just to be home with a Bible? It's true indeed that religion is a personal matter, so personal. If we can be content just to join with a group of people who join under the Word of God, and that is the sum of our religion, then it's also empty. It is personal. It must be. And yet, we see this focus in Scripture on the importance of that gathering together. Already in Leviticus 19, verse 30, we read, ye shall keep my Sabbaths and reverence my sanctuary. I am the Lord. Sabbath and sanctuary are bound together there. When it speaks of the Sabbath, it speaks of reverencing my sanctuary, showing respect and esteem for my sanctuary, where people gathered to worship the Lord, there in that temple court. That's why Sabbath days are called days of holy convocation in the scriptures. Holy gatherings, gatherings for holy purposes. Gatherings to learn the will of God, gatherings to see the gospel visibly displayed in the tabernacle and later in the temple. The Sabbath was a day of holy convocation, gathering together. Especially after the exile, then, the synagogue became very common and people would gather on the Sabbath in the synagogue. And we know that was also the custom of the Lord Jesus Christ himself. You would say if anyone did not need to go to church, it would be the Lord Jesus. He had that perfect relationship with God, with his father. Did he need to go to church? And yet we read that he went as was his custom on the Sabbath day to the synagogue. giving a pattern, showing how important it is on the Sabbath day to gather together in the worship service. Why is that so important? Let me give you two reasons. The first is that there is where God is especially pleased to work and bless. God blesses those who search his word on their own. God blesses those who enter into their closet and shut the door, and pray unto him in secret. You hear such prayers. And yet when we read the Word of God, then we find that he especially blesses through the preaching of the Word. That is what Christ himself did, and that is what Christ commissioned his disciples to do. Go into all the world, preach the gospel to every creature, and that it is in that way that sinners would be saved. We find that in Romans 10, don't we? When it says, whosoever shall call upon the Lord shall be saved. And then it says, how shall they call in him whom they have not believed? And how shall they believe him whom they have not heard? And how shall they hear, it says, without a preacher? It draws the line from calling on the Lord and being saved to the preaching. And how shall they preach except they be sent? showing that it's through the preaching especially that the Lord is pleased to work faith and save sinners. Sometimes I find that so difficult to believe. And yet it is the Word of God, and God's Word is truer than all I may think and feel. This is God's way, through the foolishness of preaching, which is wiser than men, and through the weakness of preaching, which is stronger than men, because it's God's power and God's wisdom to save them that believe. 1 Corinthians 1. What a privilege it then is to gather together in that place where the Lord is especially pleased to work. You could say our worship services are God's workshop. We come, can I say, as raw material for Him to work on, for Him to change, for Him to perform His blessed work of grace. Here He's pleased to work. He uses that preaching not only to save, he uses that preaching. It says in Ephesians 4 that he gave the preaching for the edifying of the body of Christ. Till we all come in the unity of faith and in the knowledge of the Son of God and to a perfect man. That henceforth we be no more children tossed to and fro and carried about with every wind of doctrine, but speaking the truth in love may grow up into him in all things. The Lord has been pleased to ordain the gathering and the ministry of His Word in the midst of that gathering in order to edify, in order to teach more, to give more grace. So that's one great reason why it is so important on the Lord's Day to be together in His name, is that it's there He's especially pleased to work, to give His grace. The other reason is that the gathering of the congregation is especially honoring to the Lord. In the church, God reveals His glory in a special way, and seeing that glory is what enables sinners to begin to glorify Him. There's a certain Puritan, he wrote a, or he actually preached a sermon on how public worship is to be preferred before private, And he said, it's in a public worship that you have the most visible display of the greatness of God. When people come together and together they sing unto him, together they pray unto him, together they hear God's word. And it may be so blessed that it stirs up great thoughts of God. It's there together that God is honored in that public worship. What a blessing it is when that is the spirit of public worship. Come, let it magnify the Lord with me. In a sense, that public worship is then to be the nearest resemblance of heaven, heaven which is that one grand place of public worship where all are joined together in the worship of his name. Gathering in God's name. on his day, because there he works, and there he is to receive honor and glory. That's why we read in Psalm 87, the Lord loveth the gates of Zion more than all the dwellings of Jacob. Does he not love the dwellings of those who fear his name? There his blessing rests. And yet it says, he especially loves the gates of Zion, where they gather together in the worship of his name. And there, in a special way, he is pleased to be present. He loves those gatherings. Could be something which is so hard to understand also, because you think, who gather? It's sinful people like you and me. It's ones who dishonor and you can even say, why would he even want anyone in his presence who's like that? And it says he loves the gates of Zion. And if the Lord loves the gates of Zion, and if the Lord delights to see people gather in his name, then who are we to think that's not so important, not so valuable, not so delightful. If that's what we think, then it shows our heart is out of tune with God. And our will is contrary to God's will. And there's every reason to bow before the Lord and confess that it is not our delight. And then it's all the more reason to be where He takes ones who have no delight in the worship of His name and works that delight by His Spirit. It's all the more reason to gather that he would so change us to the glory of his name. What a blessing it is when that is indeed a delight. When you say with the psalmist, one thing have I desired, that I may dwell in the house of the Lord to behold the beauty of the Lord and to inquire in his temple. What a blessing. that the Lord delights especially in the gatherings in his name also is to guide and shape the content of our worship services, what's done in it. We see the catechism mentioned several things, doesn't it? That I diligently frequent or attend the church of God to hear his word, to use the sacraments publicly to call on the name of the Lord, to contribute to the relief of the poor. It says, we come to hear the word of God. It's the first thing mentioned. Is that how you came to church this afternoon? I can ask myself, is that how I came? That we would hear the word of God. Lord, speak. Lord, give me ears to hear, that I would hear the voice of God himself. Like Cornelius, when he sent for Peter, And Peter came to his house. And when Peter came to his house, Cornelius was there together with others who had gathered in his house. And he said, we are all here present before God to hear all things that are commanded thee of God. Isn't that beautiful? They had one desire, to hear whatever God commanded him to speak. It also speaks of the sacraments. God gives baptism in the Lord's Supper to be used. Baptismal service is a message not just for the parents of the one whose baby is baptized, but also for the whole congregation, a reminder of our baptism, and that's why it's so valuable to be there. Also the Lord's Supper. Sometimes there can be ones who fear that they're not to be there and then it's easier just to stay away from the service altogether. But that's not the way. But to be present with a prayerful heart to God. And that the Lord himself would give his grace and draw to his table in his way. Another element is to publicly call on the name of the Lord. It's a day devoted to God, and what better way to be devoted to God than to call upon His name? Then you're focused on God. Prayer is a chief expression of devotion to God, because prayer is your heart going out to the living God. How important that our gatherings are ones of prayer. Before the service, in that moment of quiet, prayer to God. As we pray together as a congregation, prayer to God. As we even hear that benediction with a prayerful heart, calling on the name of the Lord. It also speaks of contributing to the relief of the poor, may be poor in the congregation, may be poor in our land, may be poor in the cold in Siberia, may be poor in the midst of the famines in Africa, whatever it be, what a privilege it is to be able to contribute to those in need. Worship and the worship service is such a gift that the Lord gives us every Lord's Day again. And that's why it speaks here of diligently frequenting or attending the worship of God. I, especially on the Sabbath, that is a day of rest, diligently attend the church of God. That we never have to wake up in the morning and think, well, should I go to church or not? And that we should never have to think in the afternoon, well, I went once, do I have to go again? to diligently attend the worship of God. That's an issue that some of us may need to take home with us. Am I diligently or am I so easily finding excuses not to be present? Do I diligently make that effort to attend? And if that's lacking, why is it lacking? I know there can be all different reasons, but don't we have to begin with ourselves? Is it because of a lack also in us? And if that's so, then doesn't it only show how much more I need the grace of God and all the more reason to come prayerfully to the house of God. diligently attend, but it doesn't only say only on the Sabbath, but it says that I especially on the Sabbath. There could also be that sense, well, I go to church twice on Sunday, so I do my duty, I have satisfied the requirements, and anything during the week, never there. A midweek service, never there. And I know there can be lawful reasons why a person is not able to come on a particular midweek service. But if that's just a pattern, of course we don't go there. Then also, isn't there something wrong? Something lacking? It says that I especially on the Sabbath day, but not only on the Sabbath day, Delight in God. A desire for public worship because that is the place where God works and God is honored. Isn't that to give a desire to be there? A desire to be there. But also a desire, it says, to support the ministry of the Word. to have public worship, we also need the ministry of the Gospel. And that's why the Catechism says first that the ministry of the Gospel and the schools be maintained. And here the schools may refer especially to the schooling which prepares for the ministry. It's also why it's fitting that on this Lord's Day we have a collection for the seminary, which is a school to train men for the ministry. But seminaries in turn are dependent on the education of children and young people. And so you could say it's all education and especially the training for the ministry, which is in view here. And so that we support, not only financially, but that we support also with our prayers. That we aren't just content that we've given our money and now we're set, but with our desire to see God raise up men. to serve our churches and to serve churches throughout this world so that the gospel may be proclaimed and that churches may continue and churches may be formed so that there would be more who come to know the delight of what it is to come into the house of God and to there receive the work of God that stirs them up to exalt the living God and be humbled before Him. Let the ministry and the schools be maintained. When you think of that, you can think not only of ministers, you can also think of other office bearers and the desire that the Lord would provide them as well. What a reason there is for us to pray also for that, even as a small congregation, that the Lord would provide us office bearers that would be a means of blessing for the congregation. What a calling this gives. The Sabbath. Highlight of the Sabbath is the gathering together in the worship service, and that our focus would also be upon that, and that our desire would be for that, and that their God would work and their God would be exalted. Sabbath day, especially the worship of God. And yet the Sabbath is not just a Sabbath hour or a Sabbath hour and a half times two. It's a Sabbath day. And let's say even if we're very generous and we say that you sleep nine hours and you're in church three hours, that's still only half the day. What about the rest of the day? That leads us to our second point, the Sabbath as a day of delight in the Word. For those remaining hours of the day, we all tend to have our routine, right? Things we do, things we don't do, or a list of options of what we might do on a Sunday. And there's nothing wrong with a routine. There can be a very healthy thing to have a routine in life during the week and also on the Lord's Day. The question that challenges us this afternoon is what fills our routine? Do we see these Sabbath days as filled with golden hours of opportunity? Opportunities which we would love to have other days but don't and now we have these special opportunities on this day. That's why Isaiah 58 is so relevant. It says, if thou turn away thy foot from the Sabbath, verse 13, from doing thy pleasure on my holy day, and call the Sabbath a delight, the holy of the Lord, honorable, and shalt honor him, not doing thine own ways, nor finding thine own pleasure, nor speaking thine own words. It gives us several guidelines here, doesn't it, in this text. It speaks, first of all, of not your own pleasures. Last week we focused on it's six days of work and a day of rest. Here it also speaks of not filling the day with your own pleasures. What does that mean? We're to call it a delight and yet not be filled with our own pleasures. Seems a contradiction, but it's not. Our own pleasures are things that we may enjoy doing, which are not sinful in themselves. Things that may be enjoyed on a Saturday or on a Wednesday evening. Some people may enjoy fishing. Some people may enjoy sports. Some people may enjoy woodworking. Some people may enjoy fixing things up. Some people may enjoy a lot of different hobbies and things. He says, on the Sabbath day, set aside your own hobbies, your own pleasures, because so easily they distract from the real riches of this day. Because there's something so much richer to be focused on in this day, let go of your own pleasures that would distract you from God. Because how much are you focused on God when you're chasing a little black disc on ice or whatever else? Just set it aside, not your own pleasures, because there's something more valuable. Turn away thy foot from doing thy pleasure on my holy day. It also says it's not a day for our own ways. Our own ways may involve our daily work, as we heard last time. Those things that are focused on ourselves rather than God. It also goes further and says, nor speaking your own words. And maybe this is where it comes closest to home, doesn't it? Our own words. We can sit in our chairs and do nothing in terms of our daily work or we're not out fishing or whatever. But what do we speak of? Is it about all the work that we've done and all the work that we're going to do and all the things that we enjoyed and all the things that we are going to enjoy of our own pleasures and so with our words we fill the day with our own work, with our own pleasures, with ourselves? The Lord says, not speaking thine own words. And maybe by now you say, well, then what is left to do? Then there's nothing to do on a Lord's day. No, again, the Lord says, set aside these things because there are so much more important things to be focused on in this day. That's why it says, call the Sabbath a delight, the holy of the Lord, honorable, holy of the Lord, dedicated to the Lord. It's the things that are holy, which are to fill us on this holy day. That's why when we wake up in the morning, we realize this is the Lord's day. This is a special day. This is a day set apart from all the other days. That maybe even before you get out of bed, that prayer rises to God, O Lord, bless me on this day. And that already at the very beginning we pray, O Lord, work with thy spirit in me this day. This is a day for thee. O let this day be spent for thee. But before we go to church, we pray for the minister, for the congregation, for others. And in that way, we prepare. We prepare for work, we prepare for vacations, we prepare for many things, but to prepare to go to church. Not only in the sense that we make sure we're clean and we're wearing our Sunday best, but also our hearts, that prayer to God. That we don't just rush into church, last moment, still filled with all the things that occupied us, that we prepare, realize we're coming to the presence of God. And after the service is over, we walk out of church, we talk, or we go home and we talk. There could be a place for sharing one another's happinesses or burdens or different things in life, but is it just our own words that we talk about ourselves and about other people? Or is it also about the Lord himself? If this is a day about the Lord, is he not also to be upon our lips? Him. So that our tongues would not invite Satan to come and pick the seed away, but our tongues would be as it were that stick that drives the birds away so that the seed may enter in. It's so important, even as families, that we have time together. We don't all just go to our rooms and do our own thing. We have time together, and that as families, we're able to talk about the passage we heard in church or about something else relating to the Word of God. It's such an opportunity, so valuable to talk together. about the things of God. Is that also what we do? Whether our children are so young, maybe they just remember one thing. Maybe their memory has to be prodded, but then discuss with them. And as they're older, discuss with them. And as couples to speak together, to speak together of Him. Sometimes that can be difficult and can also be so good to not only speak together, but also to sing together. Some of us may not be able to sing so well, but that doesn't matter. It's to still sing together. Because then we are singing of the Lord and we are singing to the Lord also as families together. And what a valuable thing that is and what impression that can give even upon children. As you sing together, these things that they sense, these things are so important to sing about. It could be with accompaniment, it could be without accompaniment. Maybe there's someone that's alone and you can turn on a CD and you can sing along. to sing. Doesn't the psalm for the Sabbath, Psalm 92 sing, yea it is good it is thy praise to sing and all our sweetest music bring. Another good activity which is so valuable on the Lord's Day is reading. There's so many good books to read. You only Look at, you go to the bookstore in Brantford and you will find more books that you can read than you have time for in all the Lord's days of this year. But to pick something and to read. And let also children do read something. Maybe it's a biography, maybe it's about a missionary, maybe it's about, but something which has a message to you about the Lord. It's so good. That's why it's also so good for parents to read out loud to their children. Often they listen much better when you read out loud. Read. Maybe as mothers, you're reading Pilgrim's Progress. Find a simpler version or Even read the one that's standard, but read aloud. It gives opportunity also to discuss. Maybe someone says, I'm not a reader. Well, there's only one way to become a reader, and that's to start, to start today. It doesn't have to be for an hour, but to start to read. And not just a novel that has a little sauce of Christianity, but to read something that can profit your soul. This is a day where God has given to be focused upon him. And this is a means that God also uses. We can continue on of different aspects or different activities that can be done, which keeps our focus upon the Lord. You can say, does that mean that you have to be reading and singing and speaking the whole day? There can also be a place of refreshment. Refreshment can even be in the form of having a nap. It's much better to have a nap before church than a nap in church. It could be a place for that. It could be a place also for being alone in your room. Maybe a nap, but maybe they're awake. So that alone you may reflect on these things, and alone you may seek the Lord in prayer. It can also be a place for being together with others. It speaks in the scriptures of being given to hospitality, doesn't it? And to, in that way, show and establish and strengthen bonds that there are within the congregation or among loved ones. That could be very good, could be edifying, could be profitable to be together. Much more could be said, but when we survey these various activities involved in calling the Sabbath a delight, the holy of the Lord and honorable will soon realize that the issue is not that there is nothing to do, but actually that the Lord's day goes too fast. And certainly there's no time to waste on things that do not profit. I read one of John Bunyan's dying sayings, it was this, make the Lord's Day the market of thy soul, for thy soul, the market day, where there's so much to receive. Right? When they had those markets once a week in those towns in England, then that was the day to go and to get what you needed for the week. He says, let the Lord's Day be a market day where there is the Word of God in different forms and it comes in these different stands and it says, make use of those different stands so that you may receive that Word of God and that the Lord may bless it to your soul. Make the Lord's Day a market day for thy soul. Let the whole day be spent in prayer and meditations and lay aside the affairs of the other part of the week. that the sermon you have heard be converted to prayer. Shall God give you six days and you not give him one? Such a view of the Sabbath as a day in which the worship services are the highlight and the word of God is also what sheds light in our homes, is crowned with God's blessing. It says here, if thou call the Sabbath a delight, the holy of the Lord, and shalt honor him, then shalt thou delight thyself in the Lord. holy Sabbath and delight in the Lord go together. That's why our final point is a Sabbath as a day of delight in God. When we listen to these things and say this is a day which God has given to be dedicated to him to also receive his word in so many different ways. A day to be focused upon him. Is that attractive to you? Is that attractive to you? That you say, ah, now I don't have to worry about my own work, and now I don't have to worry about my own pleasures, and now I can be focused upon the Lord. Or as you have been listening, has it been coming as a heavier and heavier burden to you? What is it? Desirable or a burden? Maybe someone says, I'm just not that type of person. If you're not that type of person to desire such a day, what type of person are you then? What type of heart do you have then? If in your heart is what was in the heart of people in the days of Amos, when will the new moon be gone that we may sell corn and the Sabbath that we may set forth wheat? For them, the Sabbath was a It was a burden. They wanted it to be over so that they could go on with what they really enjoyed, and that was during the week. If that's how it is, then something is wrong with your heart. If your delight is not in the Lord and your grief is that you do not honor the Lord enough and that you do not delight in the Lord enough, if that is your grief because you know there is nothing better than when the Lord blesses His word also on this day, then isn't there something wrong? Imagine there's a young man and a young woman And that young man said to the young woman, next week I'm taking a day off and we're going to spend the day together. So we're going to be all together the whole day. And that young woman said, well, I'll come for an hour and a half and then I'll leave again. and maybe I'll come another hour and a half, but then that's enough. No more time with you. For the rest, I'll be with my friends and I'll do my own thing. Does that young woman love that young man? But if the young woman said, that is exactly what she delights. and she looks forward to that day because it's a day when she doesn't have to be with her friends, and she doesn't have to be at her work, and she may be with that one, then you know that young woman loves that young man because she wants to be with him, and she wants to speak with him, and she wants to hear him. You see the point? Something of a test of our hearts, isn't it? where our hearts are in relation to the Lord. How to call the Sabbath a delight. That's exactly why we need a new heart, a heart that delights in God. And if your heart doesn't delight in God, you will not delight in the worship of God, and you will not delight in the word of God. But then that's something to confess before God. and something to plead for Him to change, because that is exactly what He does. He takes hearts that are so cold towards Him and so alive to their work and their own pleasures, and He changes those hearts. By His Holy Spirit, He makes them new. And isn't that something that you need also every time again? Even when you know the grace of God, you can still find your heart so dull too often, so dull even in the church, and dull after church, and dull before church. And then so easily we can find so many other reasons. But isn't that also something to come before the Lord with? Every time again, O Lord, revive me. O Lord, enliven me. O Lord, clear away what comes between me and Thee, so that I would indeed hunger and thirst for Thee and for Thy courts, and to be blessed by Thee, and to delight in Thee, and that so I would call the Sabbath a delight. That's what the text is about. To call the Sabbath a delight. Notice that it begins there, doesn't it? To call the Sabbath a delight. And maybe you're here, and maybe you say your heart is not filled with delight, and yet you know this is true delight. This is worth more than anything else. What God reveals in His Word and what God gives by His Spirit is true delight. You call it a delight. He says, then there's a promise. When you call it a delight, then shalt thou delight thyself in the Lord. That's His promise. He will make it a delight. to those who know it is a delight, to sing on his day of hymn, to hear of hymn, this Lord's Day, every Lord's Day. Thomas Watson, he said, the Sabbath is a market day of the soul, just like John Bunyan. Then he said, it's the cream of time. It's the richest of times. all the other days, this is the richest, because on his day he especially blesses and works and gives his grace and says it may be for me. O congregation, let us then call it a delight. Let us then seek to redeem its hours, its precious hours, in God's house, in our homes, in our rooms. Set your desire, your prayer, your delight. Amen.