FESTIVAL OFFERINGS: Good Works are what Paul calls the Service of Giving and Receiving that is the outgrowth of God’s work of agape love in us. Many are destitute or in need of help but often they are reluctant to reveal it to anyone. This is why all need to pray for the means and opportunities to serve (Giving) and for our needs to be supplied (Receiving). This is pleasing to God because it comes from hearts of meekness and love.

The Festival seasons are a special time for both Giving and Receiving. While many send gifts to organizations, the intent of Good Works is for the Body of Christ to directly help others. If you have a heartfelt desire to help others, first seek out those whom you can personally aid. As an alternative, Sabbath Reflections accepts offerings and gifts in which all of it (100%) go to those in need, first to the household of God and then to those who have demonstrated the humility to be thankful for your generosities. Click here for more information.

The coming Kingdom of God is the ultimate hope and desire of every Christian and God’s plan of salvation is revealed through keeping His holydays, which includes the weekly seventh-day Sabbath. It is a day to rest from labors and worship our Creator:

“And also I [God] gave them My Sabbaths to be a sign between Me and them, that they might know that I am the LORD who sanctifies them.” (Ezek. 20:12).

“Sabbaths” is plural because it also includes the holydays mentioned in Leviticus 23, which consists of three festival seasons: the Feast of Unleavened Bread, the Feast of Weeks, and the Feast of Ingathering (the Day of Trumpets, Day of Atonement, and the Feast of Tabernacles).

God is love and the saints are to become like He is—agape love. While trials play a major role in perfecting agape love, Jesus Christ is living in the children of God to aid them in victory over sin and death. But sufferings are also opportunities for Good Works among the ekklesia—the Service of Giving and Receiving (2 Cor. 9:6-15; Eph. 4:15-16). In fact, the purpose for keeping God’s Law, embodied in the two Great Love Commandments (Mark 12:29-31), is to teach The Way of agape love (1 Tim. 1:5) and The Life of Good Works. These things are fundamental for salvation to eternal life in the Kingdom of God!

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