A first Word
The discussion concerning the Sabbath arises not
from our obedience to observe the Sabbath,
but of “when” to observe it. – Some say Saturday
and others say Sunday.
I certainly enter into this discussion “biased”
being raised a Christian and not a Jew.
But, what does the Word say?
The Fourth Commandment
- From the Hebrew word Shabbat;
to cease and desist – An abstention from work.
- The belief that
- Webster:
The Sabbath;
The Seventh day of the week (Saturday), set aside by the fourth
commandment for rest and worship and observed by Jews and some
Christian sects – with Sunday, the
first day of the week as the usual Christian day of rest and worship.
- The Sabbath began at
sunset on Friday evening and lasted till sunset on Saturday evening
- God bound Israel to
follow His law and no other; “The Law” demanded reverence,
obedience and service; to record, study, remember and obey under penalty
of being “stoned to death”. –
With that said; you could say; they took the Sabbath very seriously.
- The
Fourth Commandment: The Sabbath is a Holy
day on which man should rest
from any work and cause no one else under his authority to work. - The penalty was death
- Don’t buy anything from anyone on the
Sabbath causing them to work.
- We are commanded to work
six days and rest on the seventh.
- The Sabbath was made
for man to enjoy; a day of REST.
Ex 20:8-11 - The fourth Commandment:
8 "Remember the Sabbath day by keeping it
holy.
9 Six days you shall labor and do all your
work,
10 but the seventh day is a Sabbath to the LORD
your God. On it you shall not do any work, neither you, nor your son or
daughter, nor your manservant or maidservant, nor your animals, nor the
alien within your gates.
11 For in six days the LORD made the heavens and
the earth, the sea, and all that is in them, but he rested on the seventh
day. Therefore the LORD blessed the Sabbath day and made it holy.
Gen 2:2-3 – God rested on
the seventh day
2 By the seventh day God had finished the work he
had been doing; so on the seventh day he rested from all his work.
3 And God blessed the seventh day and made it
holy, because on it he rested from all the work of creating that he had
done. NIV
Ex 31:16-17 – The Jews are
commanded to observe the Sabbath
16 The Israelites are to observe the Sabbath,
celebrating it for the generations to come as a lasting covenant.
17 It will be a sign
between me and the Israelites forever, for in six days the LORD made the
heavens and the earth, and on the seventh day he abstained from work and
rested.'" NIV
Neh 10:31 – Don’t buy anything on the Sabbath
31 "When the
neighboring peoples bring merchandise or grain to sell on the Sabbath, we
will not buy from them on the Sabbath or on any holy day. NIV
Mark 2:27 -28 – The
Sabbath was made for man
27 Then he said to them, "The Sabbath was made for
man, not man for the Sabbath.
28 So the Son of Man is
Lord even of the Sabbath." NIV
Num 15:32-36 – Break the Sabbath - Die
32 A man was found
gathering wood on the Sabbath day. - brought him to Moses and Aaron and the whole
assembly, - "The man must die”.
– 36 So the assembly took him outside the camp and stoned him to death,
as the LORD commanded Moses. NIV
Sabbath Rest for your crops
- Sabbath means rest
even for your fields and crops. – Six years you should grow crops on your
land and the seventh year, let it lay barren. Let the land rest.
Lev 25:3-5 – Let the field
lay barren in the seventh year
3 For six years sow your fields, and for six years
prune your vineyards and gather their crops.
4 But in the seventh year the land is to have a
Sabbath of rest, a Sabbath to the LORD. Do not sow your fields or prune
your vineyards.
5 Do not reap what grows of itself or harvest the
grapes of your untended vines. The land is to have a year of rest. NIV
Sabbath Rest for your finances
- There was a set time
of seven Sabbaths of years –
Seven times Seven – Forty nine years that land could be sold and men be
made slaves.
- Because of poverty,
men would have to sell their land or even submit themselves as slaves just
to live, but in the 50th year of Jubilee, the land must be
returned, debts forgiven and slaves freed. – Obviously there were rules which I won’t cover here.
- This was a Sabbath Year of no work in the
fields’; you could eat from the fields, but not harvest it. – It was just
a year of celebration and rest.
Lev 25:8-13 - Seven Times
Seven Sabbaths – Year of Jubilee
8 "`Count off seven Sabbaths of years--seven
times seven years-- the seven Sabbaths of years amount to a period of
forty-nine years.
9 ...The tenth day of the seventh month; on the
Day of Atonement sound the trumpet throughout your land.
10 Consecrate the fiftieth year and
proclaim liberty throughout the land to all its inhabitants. It shall be a
jubilee for you; each one of you is to return to his family property and
each to his own clan.
11 The fiftieth year shall be a jubilee for
you; do not sow and do not reap what grows of itself or harvest the untended
vines.
12 For it is a jubilee and is to be holy
for you; eat only what is taken directly from the fields.
13 "`In this Year of Jubilee everyone
is to return to his own property. NIV
Many Sabbaths
- The Israelites
observed other Sabbath days as directed by God; The seventh day of the week; the first, Tenth
and fifteenth day of
the seventh month. Plus the first
and eighth day of the
celebration week.
Lev 23:23 -24 –
Sabbath the 1st day of the seventh month
23 The LORD said to Moses,
24 "Say to the
Israelites: `On the first day of the seventh month you are to
have a day of rest, a sacred assembly NIV
Lev 16:29 -31 – Sabbath
of Rest - 10th day – Day of Atonement
29 This is to be a lasting
ordinance for you: On the tenth day of the seventh month you must
deny yourselves and not do any work--whether native-born or an alien living
among you—
30 because on this day
atonement will be made for you, to cleanse you. Then, before the LORD, you will
be clean from all your sins.
31 It is a Sabbath of
rest, and you must deny yourselves; it is a lasting ordinance. NIV
Lev 23:39 – Sabbath
the 15th day of the seventh month
39 "`So beginning
with the fifteenth day of the seventh month, after you have gathered the
crops of the land, celebrate the festival to the LORD for seven days; the first
day is a day of rest, and the eighth day also is a day of rest. NIV
Sabbath
Observance – The
reason why
- The Sabbath is a
memorial to the completion of God’s
creation in six day and resting on the seventh; not of weariness, but
of reflection. – By this action God ordained a pattern for living.
– This would be a shadow of the observance of the Sabbath some 2000
years later.
- The Sabbath is a
sign, a memorial of an everlasting
covenant between God and Israel.
- The keeping of the
Sabbath is the most sacred of observances. - The Sabbath was given to
Gen 2:2-3 – Remember God finished creation in six day
2 By the seventh day God
had finished the work he had been doing; so on the seventh day he rested from
all his work.
3 And God blessed the seventh
day and made it holy, because on it he rested from all the work
of creating that he had done. NIV
Deut 5:15 – Remember
you were once in bondage.
15 Remember that
you were slaves in Egypt
Ezek 20:12 – The
Sabbaths were a sign between God and Israel
12 Also I gave them my Sabbaths
as a sign between us, so they would know that I the LORD made them holy.
NIV
Ex 31:13 – The Sabbath is a sign for generations to come
13 "Say to the Israelites,
`You must observe my Sabbaths. This will be a sign between me and you
for the generations to come, so you may know that I am the LORD, who makes you
holy. NIV
Ex 31:16-17 - The Sabbath is a celebration
16 The Israelites are to
observe the Sabbath, celebrating it for the generations to come as a lasting
covenant.
17 It will be a sign
between me and the Israelites forever, for in six days the LORD made the
heavens and the earth, and on the seventh day he abstained from work and
rested.'" NIV
Deut 5:12 – Keep the
Sabbath Holy
12 "Observe the
Sabbath day by keeping it holy, as the LORD your God has commanded you.
NIV
Birth of the Christian Church
- The early Christian
Church was known as “The Way”,
and the followers of Christ were called Christians.
- The Jews considered
the followers of The Way to be “a party within Judaism” and were
allowed to worship side by side at the synagogue and temple on the
Sabbath.
- The Pharisees and
others added to the law with far more specifics than it was
intended. – The law became a burden instead of a rest.
- A conflict arose over
the nature of worship; i.e.; Salvation
and Righteousness did not come from offerings and sacrifices, but in
obeying God in Spirit and in Truth
- Doing the Word. This forced them
to worship separately. – We see many examples that they gathered in the followers
homes. – The temple and synagogues were still considered sacred.
- Paul pretty well told
them that they did not have to observe both the Jew’s Sabbath on
Saturday and The Lord’s Day on Sunday. – But many did, clinging to
“Tradition”.
John 14:6 – Jesus said, “I
am The Way”.
6 Jesus answered, "I am the way and
the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me. NIV
Acts 9:1-2 – Paul wanted
to kill those who followed “The Way”
1 Meanwhile, Saul was still breathing out
murderous threats against the Lord's disciples. He went to the high priest
2 and asked him for letters to the synagogues in
Damascus, so that if he found any there who belonged to “the Way”,
whether men or women, he might take them as prisoners to Jerusalem. NIV
Acts 19:9 – Some maligned “The
Way”
9 But some of them became obstinate; they refused
to believe and publicly maligned “the Way”. So Paul left them
Acts 19:23 – Many disturbed about “The Way.
23 About that time there arose a great
disturbance about “the Way”
Acts 24:14 – “The Way”
called a sect
14 However, I admit that I worship the God of our
fathers as a follower of “the Way”, which they call a sect. NIV
Acts 24:22 – “The Way” was
well known
22 Then Felix, who was well acquainted with
“the Way”, adjourned the proceedings. NIV
Acts 11:26 – They were called Christians.
26 The disciples were called Christians first at Antioch
John 4:24 – Worship God in Spirit and in Truth
24 God is spirit, and his worshipers must worship
in spirit and in truth." NIV
Philem 2 – Apphia and
Archippus – Church meets in your home
2 to Apphia our sister, to Archippus
our fellow soldier and to the church that meets in your home: NIV
Rom 16:3-5 Priscilla and Aquila – Church at
their house
3 Greet Priscilla and Aquila , my fellow workers in
Christ Jesus.
4 They risked their lives for me. Not only I but
all the churches of the Gentiles are grateful to them.
5 Greet also the church that meets at their
house. NIV
15 Give my greetings to the brothers at Laodicea
16 Therefore do not let anyone judge you by
what you eat or drink, or with regard to a religious festival, a New
Moon celebration or a Sabbath day. NIV
Gal 4:10 -11 – Don’t add Tradition – The Jewish Sabbath rituals
10 You are observing special days and months
and seasons and years!
11 I fear for you, that somehow I have wasted my
efforts on you. NIV
Sabbath Worship
- Each Sabbath the
Rabbi read Scriptures from the book of the Law; and explained
the Law – The Muslims referred to them as “The people of the Book”. – Christians should be known for that
same reason. – The Synagogue was known as “The House of the Book”.
- During the week they
would have “
- On the “The Lord’s Day” we should imitate
the early church as they gathered to hear the word of God and worship; and
have “Sunday School” to teach
our children.
Acts 13:44 – Gather on the Sabbath to hear the word of God
44 On the next Sabbath almost the whole
city gathered to hear the word of the Lord. NIV
Acts 13:14 -15 – Read the Word on the Sabbath
14 On the Sabbath they entered the
synagogue and sat down.
15 After the reading from the Law and the
Prophets, the synagogue rulers sent word to them, saying, "Brothers,
if you have a message of encouragement for the people, please speak." NIV
Acts 13:27 – The Word is read EVERY Sabbath
27 The people of Jerusalem
Deut 6:6-7 – Home
Schooling
6 These commandments that I give you today are to
be upon your hearts.
7 Impress them on your children. Talk
about them when you sit at home and when you walk along the road, when
you lie down and when you get up. NIV
Far Out Stuff
- All male Jews were expected
to wear two phylacteries at morning prayers – One on their forehead and
one on their left arm – These were small leather cases containing four
scriptures from the Torah. – Oddly enough, they did not wear it on the
Sabbath.
- While I see it as
symbolic of keeping the Word of God in your mind and in your actions, they
take it literally.
- What the Jews deem as
being obedient, the world deems as being weird.
- I include the FOUR SCRIPTURES for you to
understand their devotion.
Ex 13:1-10 –
FIRST Scripture
1 The LORD said to Moses,
2 "Consecrate to me
every firstborn male. The first offspring of every womb among the Israelites
belongs to me, whether man or animal."
3 Moses said to the
people, "Commemorate this day, the day you came out of Egypt
4 Today, in the month of
Abib, you are leaving.
5 When the LORD brings you
into the land of the Canaanites, Hittites, Amorites, Hivites and Jebusites--the
land he swore to your forefathers to give you, a land flowing with milk and
honey--you are to observe this ceremony in this month:
6 For seven days eat bread
made without yeast and on the seventh day hold a festival to the LORD.
7 Eat unleavened bread
during those seven days; nothing with yeast in it is to be seen among you, nor
shall any yeast be seen anywhere within your borders.
8 On that day tell your
son, `I do this because of what the LORD did for me when I came out of Egypt
9 This observance will be
for you “like” a sign on your hand and a reminder on your forehead
that the law of the LORD is to be on your lips. For the LORD brought you out of
Egypt
10 You must keep this
ordinance at the appointed time year after year. NIV
Ex 13:11 -16 – SECOND Scripture
11 "After the LORD brings you into the land
of the Canaanites and gives it to you, as he promised on oath to you and your
forefathers,
12 you are to give over to the LORD the first offspring
of every womb. All the firstborn males of your livestock belong to the LORD. 13
Redeem with a lamb every firstborn donkey, but if you do not redeem it, break
its neck. Redeem every firstborn among your sons.
14 "In days to come, when your son asks you,
`What does this mean?' say to him, `With a mighty hand the LORD brought us out
of Egypt
15 When Pharaoh stubbornly refused to let us go,
the LORD killed every firstborn in Egypt
16 And it will be “like” a sign on your hand
and a symbol on your forehead that the LORD brought us out of Egypt
Deut 6:4-9 – THIRD Scripture
4 Hear, O Israel: The LORD our God, the LORD is
one.
5 Love the LORD your God with all your heart and
with all your soul and with all your strength.
6 These commandments that I give you today are to
be upon your hearts.
7 Impress them on your children. Talk
about them when you sit at home and when you walk along the road, when you
lie down and when you get up.
8 Tie them as symbols on your hands and bind
them on your foreheads.
9 Write them on the doorframes of your houses
and on your gates.
NIV
Deut 11:3-21 – FOURTH
Scripture
3 the signs he performed and the things he did in
the heart of Egypt Egypt
4 what he did to the Egyptian army, to its horses
and chariots, how he overwhelmed them with the waters of the Red Sea as they
were pursuing you, and how the LORD brought lasting ruin on them.
5 It was not your children who saw what he did for
you in the desert until you arrived at this place,
6 and what he did to Dathan and Abiram, sons of
Eliab the Reubenite, when the earth opened its mouth right in the middle of all
Israel
7 But it was your own eyes that saw all these
great things the LORD has done.
8 Observe therefore all the commands I am giving
you today, so that you may have the strength to go in and take over the land
that you are crossing the Jordan to possess,
9 and so that you may live long in the land that
the LORD swore to your forefathers to give to them and their descendants, a
land flowing with milk and honey.
10 The land you are entering to take over is not
like the land of Egypt
11 But the land you are crossing the Jordan
12 It is a land the LORD your God cares for; the
eyes of the LORD your God are continually on it from the beginning of the year
to its end.
13 So if you faithfully obey the commands I am
giving you today--to love the LORD your God and to serve him with all your
heart and with all your soul—
14 then I will send rain on your land in its
season, both autumn and spring rains, so that you may gather in your grain, new
wine and oil.
15 I will provide grass in the fields for your
cattle, and you will eat and be satisfied.
16 Be careful, or you will be enticed to turn away
and worship other gods and bow down to them.
17 Then the LORD's anger will burn against you,
and he will shut the heavens so that it will not rain and the ground will yield
no produce, and you will soon perish from the good land the LORD is giving you.
18 Fix these words of mine in your hearts and
minds; tie them as symbols on your hands and bind them on your foreheads.
19 Teach them to your children, talking
about them when you sit at home and when you walk along the road, when you
lie down and when you get up.
20 Write them on the doorframes of your houses
and on your gates, 21 so that your days and the days of your children may
be many in the land that the LORD swore to give your forefathers, as many as
the days that the heavens are above the earth. NIV
Here’s where we are
·
NOTE: The people of Israel ALL the tribes
of Israel
- The Sabbath is a gift to enjoy and is a
time of REST for man,
animals and the land.
- It is also a Holy Day set aside to remember God – Hearing His
Word, Worship and Praise.
Seventh Day Adventist
- The Seventh Day
Adventist
say; that The Lord’s Day or the
Sabbath is on Saturday.
- This is THE doctrine their Church
hangs their hat on. If you
celebrate the Lord’s Day on Sunday, you are doomed to spend eternity in
Hell. - This doctrine “yokes” the believer in the bondage of legalism - Before Adventist there was also Seventh Day Baptist.
- A Sabbaths days’ journey was a distance of only
2000 cubits. - With 20 inches being a cubic they could only walk about
3,333 feet or .63 miles. - If you are under
- The “Sabbath”
originated with the Ten Commandments and Moses on
- We are not made holy
by keeping man made rules that somehow make us righteous.
- Since a 24 hour day
was not made till the 4th day of creation, I’m not sure how
anyone can accurately tell which day is which. Just saying
- Those observing
Sunday should not judge or impose their opinions on those that observe Saturday. There behavior is guided by their reverence
and fear of God and are at Christian liberty to do so as long as the
observation is not deemed “necessary for salvation”.
- All sins can be
forgiven except the sin of blasphemy against the Holy Spirit; known as the
unpardonable sin. – This would include worshiping God on a different
day and having to work on the “Sabbath” or walking more than .63 miles. –
We have been redeemed.
Rom 14:5-6 – It’s OK to observe the day you consider sacred
5 One man considers one
day more sacred than another; another man considers every day alike. Each one
should be fully convinced in his own mind.
6 He who regards one
day as special, does so to the Lord. He who eats meat, eats to the
Lord, for he gives thanks to God; and he who abstains, does so to the Lord
and gives thanks to God. NIV
16 Therefore do not let
anyone judge you … with regard to a religious festival, a New Moon
celebration or a Sabbath day. NIV
Mark 3:28 -29 – All
sin will be forgiven-except against the Spirit
28 I tell you the truth, all
the sins and blasphemies of men will be forgiven them.
29 But whoever blasphemes against
the Holy Spirit will never be forgiven; he is guilty of an eternal
sin." NIV
Rom 8:1-2 – We are no longer condemned by the Law.
1 Therefore, there is now no
condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus, 2 because through Christ
Jesus the law of the Spirit of life set me free from the law of sin and
death. NIV
After the Resurrection
- After the
Resurrection of Christ, the early Christians began to observe the day that
Jesus was resurrected from the grave as the new covenant; the new
way. They observed the Sabbath or “Lords Day” on “Resurrection Sunday”
which was the first day of the week. – A new beginning.
- The Jews continued to
observe Saturday as the Sabbath and the Christians set apart Sunday to be observed
as “The Lord’s Day” which we also
commonly call our Sabbath. The Sabbath
actually refers to the Jews; “The Lord’s Day” refers to the Christians (I understand many will disagree with this.)
- The Lord’s Day is a weekly memorial
to Christ’s resurrection from the dead; a celebration of a new creation –
God making all things new - A day of triumph and glory – The tomb is empty
– Rejoice in “The Lord’s Day”. – He is risen; He is risen indeed.
- Christ honored the
disciples by manifesting Himself multiple times on the first day of the
week.
- The feast of harvest
was seven weeks long; 49 days – the 50th day was Pentecost;
Sunday, the first day. - The Holy
Spirit descended on the day of Pentecost, the first day of the week.
- Some scholars have
calculated that Jesus ascended on the first day of the week.
- No OT Sabbath regulation
or observances were transferred to the Lord’s Day to make it a “Christian
Sabbath” – It was not - The “Sabbath” relates to the Old Covenant and the “Lord’s Day” relates to the New Covenant.
- NOTE: The
day of rest became “most noted” for Christians when Emperor Constantine
in the fourth century A.D. designated Sunday as a Holy Day for the entire
Roman Empire.
Matt 28:1 – He rose on the first day of the week
1 After the Sabbath, at
dawn on the first day of the week, Mary Magdalene and the other
Mary went to look at the tomb. NIV
Mark 16:9 – Jesus appeared on the first day of the week
9 When Jesus rose early on
the first day of the week, he appeared first to Mary Magdalene,
NIV
Matt 28:1-9 - Appeared to the Disciples on the first day
1 After the Sabbath, at
dawn on the first day of the week,
9 Suddenly Jesus met
them. "Greetings," he said. NIV
Luke 24:13-31 - Appeared to two on the first day of the week
13 Now that same day
two of them were going to a village called Emmaus, about seven miles from Jerusalem
15 As they talked and
discussed these things with each other, Jesus himself came up and walked
along with them;
31 Then their eyes were
opened and they recognized him, and he disappeared from their sight. NIV
Luke 24:34 – Appeared to Simon on the first day of the week
34 and saying, "It is
true! The Lord has risen and has appeared to Simon." NIV
Luke 24:36 – Appeared to the Eleven on the first day
36 While they were still
talking about this, Jesus himself stood among them and said to them,
"Peace be with you." NIV
John 20:26 –Appeared
to the Eleven - the first day of the week
26 And after (Saturday) eight days (Sunday) His disciples were again
inside, and Thomas with them. Jesus came, the doors being shut, and stood in
the midst, and said, "Peace to you!" NKJV
Cor 16:2 – Paul instructs tithes to be gathered on the first
day.
2 Upon the first day
of the week let every one of you lay by him in store, as God hath
prospered him, that there be no gatherings when I come. KJV
Acts 20:7 – They came together on the first day. (Sunday)
7 On the first day of the week we
came together to break bread Paul spoke to the people and, because he intended
to leave the next day, kept on talking until midnight . NIV
Rev 21:5 – God says he
makes all things new.
5 Then He who sat on the throne said, "Behold,
I make all things new." NKJV
Ps 118:24 – Rejoice in the
Lord’s Day
24 This is the day the
LORD has made; We will rejoice and be glad in it.
Acts 2:1-4 – The Day of Pentecost
– The first day of the week.
1 When the day of Pentecost came, they were all
together in one place.
2 Suddenly a sound like the blowing of a violent
wind came from heaven and filled the whole house where they were sitting.
4 All of them were filled with the Holy NIV
The
Day of The Lord
- The Lord’s Day is only mentioned once
in scripture and that is in the Revelation, and since Revelation is about
end times, I don’t believe John was talking about Saturday or Sunday, but
“the day of the Lord”; when Jesus Christ would return for His Bride; the
Church.
- The Day of the Lord is mentioned 24
times in scripture and all point to the end of times and for sure not
the Sabbath.
- It was the early
church that began to use the phrase “The Lords Day” for Sunday.
10 On the Lord's Day I was in the Spirit,
and I heard behind me a loud voice like a trumpet, NIV
Jesus Comments
- We have a new covenant in Jesus Christ and
He is the mediator and Lord of the Sabbath.
- We as Christians
believe that the Ten Commandments are a good thing to govern our life by,
including the fourth commandment, remembering the Sabbath Day. In fact we would do well to live by all
of them; but now we have just two commandments spoken from the
mouth of our Lord Jesus Christ.
- Love
the Lord with all your heart, soul and mind
- Love
your neighbor as your self
- All the law and the
prophets hang on this. - If we do these two things, we will certainly honor
all the rest.
Mark 2:28 – Jesus is Lord of the Sabbath.
28 So the Son of Man is Lord even of the
Sabbath." NIV
Matt 22:37-40 – Just Two
Commandments
37 Jesus replied: "`Love the Lord your
God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind.'
38 This is the first and greatest commandment.
39 And the second is like it: `Love your
neighbor as yourself.'
40 All the Law and the Prophets hang on these two
commandments."
2 Cor 3:6 – Christ gave us
a new covenant
6 He has made us competent as ministers of a
new covenant-not of the letter but of the Spirit; for the letter
kills, but the Spirit gives life. NIV
Heb 7:22 – A better covenant
22 Because of this oath, Jesus has become the
guarantee of a better covenant. NIV
Heb 9:15 – Christ is the Mediator of the new covenant
15 For this reason Christ is the mediator of a
new covenant, that those who are called may receive the promised eternal
inheritance-now that he has died as a ransom to set them free from the sins
committed under the first covenant. NIV
Paul’s Comments
- Many thought it
blasphemy to worship God on Sunday instead of Saturday, believing that
those that did were deceived and would go to hell.
- Paul had some
thoughts on this when he wrote; that we were once in bondage to hundreds
of laws of legalism that had been added to God’s word. That we were now free; out of bondage to
the weak and beggarly elements of legalism. – Why would we go back
into bondage?
- He said; don’t let
anyone judge you (impose their
opinion on you) concerning the celebration of the Sabbath.
- Peter said to respect
others positions and not use our freedom to hurt these people.
Col 2:16 – Don’t let anyone judge you concerning the Sabbath
16 Therefore do not let
anyone judge you by what you eat or drink, or with regard to a religious
festival, a New Moon celebration or a Sabbath day. NIV
Gal 4:9-12 – Legalism puts you in bondage
9 But now, after that
ye have known God, or rather are known of God, how turn ye again to the
weak and beggarly elements, whereunto ye desire again to be in bondage?
10 Ye observe days, and
months, and times, and years.
11 I am afraid of you,
lest I have bestowed upon you labor in vain.
12 Brethren, I beseech
you, be as I am; for I am as ye are: KJV
John 8:32 – We are
free in Christ to worship
32 Then you will know the
truth, the truth will set you free."
John 8:36 – Jesus has
set us free
36 So if the Son sets
you free, you will be free indeed. NIV
Rom 8:1-2 – We are not condemned – We have been set free
1 Therefore, there is
now no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus,
2 because through Christ
Jesus the law of the Spirit of life set me free from the law of sin and
death. NIV
Gal 5:1 – Don’t go back to the bondage of legalism
1 It is for freedom that
Christ has set us free. Stand firm, then, and do not let yourselves be
burdened again by a yoke of slavery.
1 Peter 2:16-17 – Live as servants of God
16 Live as free men,
but do not use your freedom as a cover-up for evil; live as servants of God.
17 Show proper respect
to everyone.
SABBATH SUMMARY
- God set a pattern
of rest when he created the world in six day and rested on the
seventh.
- God did not name the
seventh day, the Sabbath. - The Hebrew Word Sabbath means; to cease from
work, to desist – To REST - The
Sabbath was made for man - Man was not made for the Sabbath
- God gave
- It is a time for
- It is a sign between
God and
- It was not a sign
to the Gentiles or other nationalities. – It belonged only to
- It is an observance
of rest on Saturday for
the people, their workers, beast of burden and their land -
- The Lord’s Day is the Observance of
rest and worship by Christians on Sunday
- It is a memorial to
the resurrection of Jesus Christ on Sunday,
the first day of the week.
- Many in the
- We are not to impose
our opinion on those who choose to worship on a different day unless it is
made a “requirement for salvation”.
- The Jew’s are under the Old
Covenant; to break one of the OT laws, is to break all of them.
- The Christian is under the New
Covenant and is free from condemnation.
- The Jew’s Sabbath is on Saturday and
the Christians Lord’s day is on
Sunday
- Seventh Day
Adventist: Embrace
Saturday as their day of Worship. – They also make it a requirement for
Salvation.
- If it is deemed a
sin to worship on a different day than your neighbor; it is a sin that
can be forgiven. – If you belong to the Lord, nothing can separate you
from His love.
- Today the term
Sabbath and The Lord’s Day has become synonymous, although they are not.
- The Christian joins
the Jew in keeping “The day of Rest”
Holy.
- Pray for the peace of
In the multitude of counselors,
there is wisdom.
Prov 11:14
I
am grateful for those that went before me providing concepts, ideas, historical
information, and scripture verses.
Because of them I can stand on their shoulders and see further than I
otherwise ever could have.
A Commentary; Critical, Experimental and Practical
– Eerdmans
A Survey of Israel’s History - Wood
Arithmetic of God; The – Don Iistler
Baptism Commentary – John Harvey
Bible Almanac; The – Packer Tenney White
Bible Commentary – F.B. Meyer
Bible Dictionary – Harper & Row
Bible on the life hereafter; The – William Hendriksen
CARM – Christian Apologetics
and Research Ministry – M.J. Slick
Commentary on the Bible - Baker
Expositor’s Bible Commentary Vol 2; The – Gaebelein
Great Doctrines of the Bible Vol 6 - W. A. Criswell
Illustrated Bible Dictionary – Nelson’s
Illustrated Manners & Customs of the Bible – Packer/Tenney
International Version Bible – NIV
Invisible
War; The – Donald Grey Barnhouse
Matthew Henry’s Commentary - Zondervan
New International Dictionary of the Bible; The –
Douglas /Tenny New
Today’s Dictionary of the Bible:
Readers Digest
Victor Journey through the Bible; The - Beers
Who’s Who in the Bible – Paul D. Gardner
Wikipedia Encyclopedia
Wycliffe Bible Commentary; The – Pfeiffer & Harrison
- Along with the
Apocrypha, I have also enjoyed “The
lost books of the Bible” and “The
forgotten books of
- Writings outside of
the Bible
should be viewed as “informational”, but not authoritative. They give
insight to customs, manners and thoughts of a
particular culture at a particular time in history. – Many of these will include
folklore, superstition and “embellishments”.
- Prove scripture with
scripture, line upon line, and precept upon precept.
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