Why Not Ask God About The Sabbath?
George Burnside
“One man esteems one day above another: another esteems every day alike. Let every man be fully persuaded in his own mind” (Romans 14:5).
“I was in the Spirit on THE LORD’S DAY” (Revelation 1: 10).
“The Son of man Is Lord even of the Sabbath day” (Matthew 12:8).
“The SEVENTH DAY is the Sabbath of the Lord thy God: in it thou shall not do any work” (Fourth Commandment-Exodus 20:10).
“And when the Sabbath was past, Mary Magdalene, and Mary the mother of lames, very early in the morning the first day of the week, came unto the sepulchre at the rising of the sun. And entering into the sepulchre, they saw a young man. And he said unto them, Be not frightened. You seek Jesus of Nazareth, which was crucified: he is risen” (Mark 16:1-6).
(Note: everybody knows that Sunday was the resurrection day. The Sabbath was past when it dawned. Thus it is evident that the Sabbath is Saturday, the day before Sunday.)
“God BLESSED the seventh day, and SANCTIFIED it: because that in it he had rested from all his work which God created and made” (Genesis 2:3).
“Remember the Sabbath day, to KEEP IT HOLY. Six days shall thou labor, and do all thy work: but the seventh day is the Sabbath of the Lord thy God: in it thou shall not do any work” (Fourth Commandment, Exodus 20:8-10).
“Do not suppose that I have come to do away with the law or the prophets. I have not come to do away with (hem, but to enforce them” (Matthew 5.17, Goodspeed.)
“Do we then make void the law through faith? God forbid; yes, we establish the law” (Romans 3:31).
“Shall we continue in sin, that grace may abound? God forbid. How shall we, that are dead to sin, live any longer therein?” (Romans 6:1, 2).
“Sin is the transgression of the law” (1 John 3:4). “Sin is not imputed when there is no law” (Romans 5:13).
“I had not known sin, but by the law: for I had not known lust, except the law had said, Thou shall not covet” (Romans 7:7) Note: the Law which reveals sin is the Ten Commandment Law.
“To him that knows to do good, and does it not, to him it is sin.” (James 4:17).
“I tell you, as long as heaven and earth endure, not one dotting of an I or crossing of a T will he dropped from the law until it is all observed” (Matthew 5:18, Goodspeed).
“The Gentiles besought that these words might he preached to them the next Sabbath. Many of the Jews and religious proselytes followed Paul and Barnabas: who, speaking to them, persuaded them to continue in the grace of God. And the next Sabbath day came almost the whole city together to bear the word of God” (Acts 13:42-44).
“It you love me, keep my commandments” (John 14:15).
“For whosoever keep the whole law, and yet offend in one point, he is guilty of all” (James 2:10).
“For this is the love of God, that we keep his commandments: and his commandments are not grievous.” (1 John 5:3).
“The Sabbath was made for man” (Mark 2:27). (The Sabbath was made and given to man hundreds of years before the existence of a Jew.)
“And he came to Nazareth where he had been brought up: and, as his custom was he went into the synagogue on the Sabbath day, and stood up for to read” (Luke 4:16).
“I am the Lord, I change not” (Malachi 3:6). “Jesus Christ the same yesterday, and today, and forever.” (Hebrews 13:8).
“And that day was the preparation, [when Christ was crucified] and the Sabbath drew on. And the women also, which came with him from Gallilee, followed after, and beheld the sepulchre, and how his body was laid. And they returned, and prepared spices and ointments; and rested the Sabbath day ACCORDING TO THE COMMANDMENT” (Luke 23:54-56).
“And Paul, as his manner was, went in unto them, and three Sabbath days reasoned with them out of the scriptures” (Acts 17:2).
“And he reasoned in the synagogue every Sabbath, and persuaded the Jews and the Greeks” (Acts 18:41).
“There remains therefore a rest keeping of Sabbath, [margin] to the people of God. For he that is entered into his rest, he also bath ceased from his own works, as God did from his” (Hebrews 4:9, 10).
“For I have not shunned to declare unto you ALL THE COUNSEL OF GOD.” (Acts 20:27). (If God had intended His people to observe Sunday in the place of the seventh day, Paul or one of the apostles surely would have told us so. In the New Testament there are no less than 59 references to the Sabbath. The book of Acts records 84 Sabbaths on which the Apostle Paul and his associates held religious services. Yet there is not one word in the entire Bible authorizing Sunday keeping. The observance of the seventh day is taught repeatedly and emphatically as a work of grace whereby the Christian shows his respect and love for God. He does not try to earn salvation by keeping the Commandments, but he keeps them because they are right.)
“And being made perfect, he became the author of eternal salvation unto all them that obey Him” (Hebrews 5:9).
“Blessed are they that do his commandments, that they may have right to the tree of life, and may enter in through the gates into the city.” (Revelation 22:14).