Observing the Sabbath

                                                      

Seventh-Day Adventists and others who attempt to make observing a 7th day (Saturday) sabbath some sort of  “proof test” … please take heed:

 

The 7th day (Saturday) sabbath applied ONLY to Israel. NEVER to the Christian Church!

Exodus 31:16  Therefore the people of Israel shall keep the sabbath, observing the sabbath throughout their generations, as a perpetual covenant.

Exodus 31:17  It is a sign forever between me and the people of Israel that in six days the LORD made heaven and earth, and on the seventh day he rested, and was refreshed.

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Nowhere in scripture is the Church EVER obligated to observe a Saturday sabbath. In fact, just the opposite is true:

 

Col 2:8

Beware lest any man cheat you by philosophy and vain deceit: according to the tradition of men according to the elements of the world and not according to Christ.

 

 

Col 2:9

For in him dwelleth all the fulness of the Godhead corporeally.

 

 

 

 Col 2:10

And you are filled in him, who is the head of all principality and power.

 

 

 

Col 2:11

In whom also you are circumcised with circumcision not made by hand in despoiling of the body of the flesh: but in the circumcision of Christ.

 

 

 

Col 2:12

Buried with him in baptism: in whom also you are risen again by the faith of the operation of God who hath raised him up from the dead.

 

 

 

Col 2:13

And you, when you were dead in your sins and the uncircumcision of your flesh, he hath quickened together with him, forgiving you all offences:

 

 

 

Col 2:14

Blotting out the handwriting of the decree that was against us, which was contrary to us. And he hath taken the same out of the way, fastening it to the cross.

 

 

 

 Col 2:15

And despoiling the principalities and powers, he hath exposed them confidently in open shew, triumphing over them in himself.

 

 

Col 2:16
Let no man therefore judge you in meat or in drink or in respect of a festival day or of the new moon or of the sabbaths,

Col 2:17
Which are a shadow of things to come: but the body is of Christ.

 

Col 2:18

Let no man seduce you, willing in humility and religion of angels, walking in the things which he hath not seen, in vain puffed up by the sense of his flesh:

 

 

Col 2:19

And not holding the head, from which the whole body, by joints and bands, being supplied with nourishment and compacted, groweth into the increase of God.

 

 

Col 2:20

If then you be dead with Christ from the elements of this world, why do you yet decree as though living in the world?

 

 

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The 7th day sabbath applied ONLY to the Jews … NEVER to Christians, who are under the grace and peace of the New Covenant … and who find constant rest and peace in the Lord Jesus Christ … NOT in any jot or tittle of the old law … the law which was definitively and perfectly fulfilled, then respectfully and perpetually set aside by Christ … in favor of the new and better covenant, which Jesus paid for with his own blood.

 

If you’re authentically Christian, then your primary “Feast Day” and the day officially set aside by the Church to worship God and to fellowship with his people is SUNDAY!

 

From the Catechism of the Catholic Church: 

Sunday – fulfillment of the sabbath

2175 Sunday is expressly distinguished from the sabbath which it follows chronologically every week; for Christians its ceremonial observance replaces that of the sabbath. In Christ’s Passover, Sunday fulfills the spiritual truth of the Jewish sabbath and announces man’s eternal rest in God. For worship under the Law prepared for the mystery of Christ, and what was done there prefigured some aspects of Christ:107 

Those who lived according to the old order of things have come to a new hope, no longer keeping the sabbath, but the Lord’s Day, in which our life is blessed by him and by his death.108

2176 The celebration of Sunday observes the moral commandment inscribed by nature in the human heart to render to God an outward, visible, public, and regular worship “as a sign of his universal beneficence to all.”109 Sunday worship fulfills the moral command of the Old Covenant, taking up its rhythm and spirit in the weekly celebration of the Creator and Redeemer of his people.

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