The Lord’s Day: New Creation Day - All The LORD is near Daily Devotionals for 2025

I was in the Spirit on the Lord's Day.
Revelation 1:10

The Lord's Day: New Creation Day
John does not merely intimate that he had the Spirit as every Christian has, nor that he was filled with the Spirit as the Christian should be, but that he became as completely characterized by His power for the divine purpose of seeing and writing these visions. It was on the "Lord's Day," or first day of the week. For the "Lord's Day" is not at all the same thing as the "day of the Lord." The same expression in the Greek was used with regard to the Lord's Supper, because it was not a common meal, but a holy and divinely instituted memorial of the Lord. So the Lord's Day is not a common day, but one specially set apart, not as a command, but as the expression of the highest privilege, for the worship of the Lord.

The Sabbath was the last day, which Jehovah claimed out of man's week; the Lord's Day is the first day of God's week, and in a sense, we may say, of His eternity. The Christian begins with the Lord's Day, that this may as it were give a character to all the days of the week. In spirit the Christian is risen, and every day belongs to the Lord. Therefore he is to bring up the standard of each day that follows in the week to that blessed beginning, the Lord's Day.

To bring down the Lord's Day to the level of another day only shows how gladly the heart drinks in anything that takes away somewhat from Christ. The man who only obeys Christ because he must do so has not the spirit of obedience at all. We are sanctified to the obedience of Jesus Christ—to the obedience of sons under grace, not to that of mere servants under law. The lawlessness which despises the Lord's Day is hateful; but that is no reason why Christians should destroy its character by confounding the Lord's Day, the new creation day, with the Sabbath of nature or of the law.

W. Kelly