Must New Testament Christians Keep The Traditional Sabbath? No.
Isaiah prophesied (in Isaiah 28) that the Baptism of the Holy Ghost
would be the REST wherewith ye may cause the weary to rest.
The original purpose of Sabbath was REST. Everyone who receives the gift of the Holy Spirit, speaking in unknown tongues, enters into God’s rest. There is no record that the Early Church in the Book of Acts preached or practiced the observation of the Sabbath by Old Testament guidelines.
People who today teach that you must observe the Sabbath DO NOT observe it correctly. If they really observed the Sabbath, they would keep all the rules that the Jews did.
I do not know of ANY Christian group that accurately observes the Sabbath, including the Seventh Day Adventists. If you do not observe the Sabbath according to ALL the Old Testament rules, then you are breaking it.
According to Exodus 31, “every one that profaneth it shall surely be put to death.”
That would require you to be put to death for anything as minor as tying your shoe laces (work)
or starting your car (igniting a fire) or traveling more than a “Sabbath’s Day Journey” (less than one mile).
I have been in Israel on numerous Sabbath days, and can tell you that I have never known any Christian group to observe such stringent guidelines for the Sabbath as Orthodox Jews. The Christian observance of Sabbath is a farce.
Jesus did not keep Sabbath. The Apostles did not keep Sabbath.
I am not going to keep Sabbath.
It is futile to attempt to satisfy that requirement without extremely stringent guidelines.
God does NOT require Christians to keep the Old Testament Sabbath.
“The LAW made nothing perfect, but the bringing in of a better hope did, by the which we draw nigh unto God,” Hebrews 7:19.
“But when the Pharisees saw it, they said unto him, Behold, thy disciples do that which is not lawful to do upon the sabbath day,” Matthew 12:2.
“And he saith unto them, Is it lawful to do good on the sabbath days, or to do evil? to save life, or to kill? But they held their peace,” Mark 3:4.
“And the ruler of the synagogue answered with indignation, because that Jesus had healed on the sabbath day,
and said unto the people, There are six days in which men ought to work:
in them therefore come and be healed, and not on the sabbath day.
The Lord then answered him, and said, Thou hypocrite,
doth not each one of you on the sabbath loose his ox or his ass from the stall, and lead him away to watering?" Luke 13:14-15.
"Jesus saith unto him, Rise, take up thy bed, and walk. And immediately the man was made whole, and took up his bed, and walked: and on the same day was the sabbath.
The Jews therefore said unto him that was cured, It is the sabbath day: it is not lawful for thee to carry thy bed. He answered them, He that made me whole, the same said unto me, Take up thy bed, and walk," John 5:8-11.
"Let no man therefore judge you in meat, or in drink, or
in respect of an holyday, or of the new moon, or of
the sabbath days:
Which are a shadow of things to come; but the body is of Christ.
Let no man beguile you of your reward in a voluntary humility and worshipping of angels,
intruding into those things which he hath not seen, vainly puffed up by his fleshly mind,
And not holding the Head, from which all the body by joints and bands having nourishment ministered,
and knit together, increaseth with the increase of God.
Wherefore if ye be dead with Christ from the rudiments of the world,
why, as though living in the world, are ye subject to ordinances?" Colossians 2:16-20.
THIS COMES FROM “Lessons from the Book Of Exodus” on my website:
Fourth Commandment - Sabbath
What a brilliant idea! One day off every week! God thought of it first. Rest! Every person needs rest. This is the only one of the ten commandments not taught in the New Testament, because God gives believers rest every day when the Comforter comes in - the baptism of the Holy Spirit. (Isaiah 28:11-12.)
Exodus 20:8-11 - "Remember the sabbath day, to keep it holy. Six days shalt thou labour, and do all thy work: But the seventh day is the sabbath of the LORD thy God: in it thou shalt not do any work."
THIS COMES FROM “Lessons from the Book of Isaiah” on my website:
Stammering Lips And Another Tongue
Paul referred to Isaiah's prophecy when he taught the Corinthians, "With men of other tongues and other lips will I speak unto this people; and yet for all that will they not hear me, saith the Lord." Since the day of Pentecost in Acts 2, the baptism of the Holy Ghost, speaking in unknown tongues, fulfills Isaiah's prophecy.
Isaiah 28:11 - "For with stammering lips and another tongue will he speak to this people. To whom he said, This is the rest wherewith ye may cause the weary to rest; and this is the refreshing: yet they would not hear."
Why should anybody want to practice ONE DAY OF REST per week? Receive the Baptism of the Holy Ghost, as the Early Church did on the Day of Pentecost, according to Act 2, and you can have REST SEVEN DAYS A WEEK!
What day of the week should you worship on? EVERY DAY!
Should the church have services on Saturday or Sunday?
Consider this. The Early Church was first comprised of converted Jews. All their unconverted Jewish families continued to observe Saturday Sabbath (the LAST DAY - SEVENTH DAY of the week.) Therefore, the CHURCH worshipped on the FIRST DAY of the week - SUNDAY! It was not for LEGAL purposes, but for PRACTICAL purposes.
They would not be able to invite their Jewish family members to their Christian worship on the Seventh Day. The practicing Jews would not do that. So the Church met on SUNDAY. Furthermore, IF YOU CONDUCT WORSHIP SERVICE ON YOUR SO-CALLED "SABBATH," you are not keeping Sabbath! It is a self-contradiction.
It is NOT a sin to have Church on Sunday. There is NO LAW requiring you to have Church on Saturday.
The more you love Jesus Christ, the more you will want to go to Church, whether it is on Sunday, Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday or Saturday.
"And upon
the first day of the week, [SUNDAY] when the disciples came together to break bread,
Paul preached unto them, ready to depart on the morrow; and continued his speech until midnight," Acts 20:7.
NOTICE: I will not argue this topic with anyone. Don't waste your time trying to argue with me. It is a closed case.
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