Saturday or Sunday?????

Some questions were posed on the comments on The Beauty of Holiness.

One reader wrote this:

Except isn't Saturday, the TRUE Sabbath day? (See various Bible verses on THE Sabbath day, not just any Sabbath day.) Wasn't it mortal men who "changed" the Sabbath to Sunday? Perhaps we should stop shopping/working on Saturday? Food for thought...

Charis wrote this note on The Beauty of Holiness:

"Dake's is wrong! Read Isaiah 56 where the promise is made to non-jews for their keeping the Sabbath holy. And read in the Torah (first five books of the Bible) where we are told that "one law is for Israel and the stranger and the foreigner alike."

You are right. God does not changes, but man is always trying to improve on what God has said and done by taking away from it or adding to it, just as HE forbade in His Torah (instructions). Sabbath is just one example. Man made a change from 7th day Sabbath to the first day of the week, Sunday, which was a day, and still is a day, set aside to worship the sun - Mithraism. A little study on line or in a school library will bring this all to light. A read in Scripture will show you how HE feels about sun worship. It is pagan and is leaven in the professing church."

Charlotte says:

My view on this is we should not abide by what men have done. They may have changed the sabbath from Saturday to Sunday and it probably was like you said. However, we should go by what the Word of God says.

There were many restrictions for the Sabbath under the law. They could not walk but a certain distance on the Sabbath. They could not even get their horse out of a ditch on the Sabbath because it was forbidden. When Jesus came He broke the law of the Sabbath by (1)plucking ears of corn in a field and his disciples eating. (Matthew 12) The Pharisees saw it and said unto him "Behold, your disciples do that which is not lawful to do upon the sabbath day."

Jesus then reminded them how David and his men, when they were hungry, ate the shewbread from the temple. This shewbread was meant only for the priests. Jesus went on to say in verse 8 "For the Son of man is Lord even of the sabbath day."

This was the shadow of things to come - Jesus.

Paul writes in Romans 14:5

"One man esteemeth one day above another; another esteemeth every day alike, Let every man be fully persuaded in his own mind." (that is where our freedom in Christ comes in).

Verse 6 goes on to says "He that regards the day, regards it unto the Lord; and he that regards not the day, to the Lord he doth not regard it."

We are no longer under the law and observing the Sabbath the way the Torah instructs is no longer lawful for us because Jesus came to change that way of doing things. We could not survive under the law, and God saw that, and that is why God sent Jesus to make the final blood sacrifice for our sins thus fulfilling completely the law as instructed in the Torah.

We are no longer under the law, we are under grace, and I am so glad because I like my freedom to express my love of God and reverence for God on the day of my choosing whether it is Saturday or Sunday.

Paul writes in Galatians 4:9-10 "But now, after that you have known God, or rather are known of God, how turn ye again to the weak and beggarly elements, whereunto you desire again to be in bondage? You observe days, and months, and times, and years, I am afraid of you, lest I have bestowed upon you labor in vain."

As I have said before, it is a beautiful thing to give one of our days totally to God. To let go of our worldly life and think of God one day a week. Not of church, not of socials, not of timetables, to think of God and honor Him on that day.

As Isaiah 58:13 says "If you turn away your foot from the sabbath, from doing your pleasure on my holy day: (whichever day you choose) and call the sabbath a delight, the holy of the Lord, honorable; and shall honor Him, not doing your own way, nor finding your own pleasure, nor speaking your own words; then you shall delight yourself in the Lord; and I will cause you to ride upon the high places of the earth, and feed you with the heritage of Jacob thy father: for the mouth of the Lord has spoken it."

It's not the day, it's the thought. And the great thing is we are not under condemnation if we mess up.

If you have further comments on this subject, be sure and leave them at the bottom down below this.

Thank you, Lord, for giving us your freedom. Thank you, Jesus, for getting us out from under the law and putting us under your grace. We honor you, Lord, and glorify you. In Your Name we pray, Amen.

Have a great day today!

Charlotte