WHATEVER HAPPENED TO THE SABBATH?

Search the Scriptures! Can you find one passage that says...

1. The Ten Commandments are abolished?
2. The Fourth Commandment is abolished?
3. The Sabbath was changed form the seventh to the first day of the week?
4. That either Jesus or the apostles kept the first day as the Sabbath?
5. That either Jesus or the apostles taught new believers to keep the first day of the week as the Sabbath of God?
6. That it was customary for the early church to observe the first day of the week?
7. That we are to keep the first day in honor of the resurrection of our Savior?
8. That the first day of the week was sanctified and hallowed as a day of rest?
9. That the first day of the week is called a holy day or given any sacred title?

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   Can you find one verse ...

10. Where the first day of the week is called the Lord's Day?
11. Where we are told not to work on the first day of the week?
12. Where any punishment is threatened for working on the first day of the week?
13. Where any blessings are promised for observing the first day of the week?
14. That says the Father or the Son rested on the first day of the week?
15. That says the seventh day is not now God's Sabbath day?
16. That calls the seventh day the "Jewish Sabbath" or that calls the first day the "Christian Sabbath"?
17. That authorizes anyone to set aside God's Sabbath and observe any other day?

On the other hand, the Bible clearly proclaims that...

1. The seventh day, made holy by God at Creation, is the Sabbath for all mankind.
   
   • Genesis 2:2-3 And on the seventh day God ended His work which He had done, and He rested on the seventh day from all His work which He had done. {3} Then God blessed the seventh day and sanctified it, because in it He rested from all His work which God had created and made.
     
   • Exodus 20:11 For in six days the LORD made the heavens and the earth, the sea, and all that is in them, and rested the seventh day. Therefore the LORD blessed the Sabbath day and hallowed it.
     
   • Mark 2:27 And He said to them, "The Sabbath was made for man, and not man for the Sabbath.
   
   
2. Observance of the Sabbath was commanded in the Ten Commandments by the voice of God Himself.
   
   • Exodus 20:8-10 "Remember the Sabbath day, to keep it holy. {9} Six days you shall labor and do all your work, {10} but the seventh day is the Sabbath of the LORD your God. In it you shall do no work: you, nor your son, nor your daughter, nor your male servant, nor your female servant, nor your cattle, nor your stranger who is within your gates.
     
   • Deuteronomy 5:12-15 'Observe the Sabbath day, to keep it holy, as the LORD your God commanded you. {13} Six days you shall labor and do all your work, {14} but the seventh day is the Sabbath of the LORD your God. In it you shall do no work: you, nor your son, nor your daughter, nor your male servant, nor your female servant, nor your ox, nor your donkey, nor any of your cattle, nor your stranger who is within your gates, that your male servant and your female servant may rest as well as you. {15} And remember that you were a slave in the land of Egypt, and the LORD your God brought you out from there by a mighty hand and by an outstretched arm; therefore the LORD your God commanded you to keep the Sabbath day.
   
   
3. Jesus affirmed that the Sabbath was made for mankind and that He was Lord ot it.
   
   • Mark 2:27-28 And He said to them, "The Sabbath was made for man, and not man for the Sabbath. {28} "Therefore the Son of Man is also Lord of the Sabbath."
   
   
4. The apostles consistently observed the seventh-day Sabbath and upheld the Ten Commandments as expressing the will of God for His children.
   
   • Acts 13:14-15 But when they departed from Perga, they came to Antioch in Pisidia, and went into the synagogue on the Sabbath day and sat down. {15} And after the reading of the Law and the Prophets, the rulers of the synagogue sent to them, saying, "Men and brethren, if you have any word of exhortation for the people, say on."
     
   • Acts 13:44 On the next Sabbath almost the whole city came together to hear the word of God.
     
   • Acts 16:13 And on the Sabbath day we went out of the city to the riverside, where prayer was customarily made; and we sat down and spoke to the women who met there.
     
   • Acts 17:2 Then Paul, as his custom was, went in to them, and for three Sabbaths reasoned with them from the Scriptures,
     
   • Acts 18:4 And he reasoned in the synagogue every Sabbath, and persuaded both Jews and Greeks.
     
   • Acts 18:11 And he continued there a year and six months, teaching the word of God among them.
     
   • Romans 2:13 (for not the hearers of the law are just in the sight of God, but the doers of the law will be justified;
     
   • Romans 2:21-22 You, therefore, who teach another, do you not teach yourself? You who preach that a man should not steal, do you steal? {22} You who say, "Do not commit adultery," do you commit adultery? You who abhor idols, do you rob temples?
     
   • Romans 7:7-12 What shall we say then? Is the law sin? Certainly not! On the contrary, I would not have known sin except through the law. For I would not have known covetousness unless the law had said, "You shall not covet." {8} But sin, taking opportunity by the commandment, produced in me all manner of evil desire. For apart from the law sin was dead. {9} I was alive once without the law, but when the commandment came, sin revived and I died. {10} And the commandment, which was to bring life, I found to bring death. {11} For sin, taking occasion by the commandment, deceived me, and by it killed me. {12} Therefore the law is holy, and the commandment holy and just and good.
     
   • Romans 7:22 For I delight in the law of God according to the inward man.
     
   • James 2:8-12 If you really fulfill the royal law according to the Scripture, "You shall love your neighbor as yourself," you do well; {9} but if you show partiality, you commit sin, and are convicted by the law as transgressors. {10} For whoever shall keep the whole law, and yet stumble in one point, he is guilty of all. {11} For He who said, "Do not commit adultery," also said, "Do not murder." Now if you do not commit adultery, but you do murder, you have become a transgressor of the law. {12} So speak and so do as those who will be judged by the law of liberty.
   
   
5. Throughout the centuries, dedicated followers of Jesus, redeemed by His precious blood, have shown their love for Him by observing the day made holy by God at Creation.

How about you?

Will you show your love for Him by observing the day He made holy?

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