Hi teagranny,
So nice to meet you. Your very welcome here and thanks for adding your thoughts.
I know this is a long thread and someone may have already answered this, but where does it say we are to keep Saturday as Sabbath?
Good question. The Sabbath commandment is the 4th Commandment of God's 10 Commandments. It is found in Exodus 20:8-11 along with all the other 10 Commandments that were spoken and written by God himself (Exodus 20:1-17). It is the 10 commandments that give us a KNOWLEDGE of what sin is (Romans 3:20; 7:7; James 2:8-11; 1 John 3:4)
The 7th day of the week has been called various things in history and in different cultures. Our current english calendar appears to start the week with Sunday as the first day but our culture, (I can only speak to NA and some European, Australia and NZ), consider M-F the workweek, Saturday and Sunday are considered the weekend, with Sunday being the last day of the week. Just do a simple survey, ask people on the street, or I guess the new way is FB, what day is the first day of the week, I would bet most people would say Monday. My point is today Sunday is considered the last day of the week.
Like your saying it depends what country your in and what calander your following but God's WORD makes it very clear that it is the SEVENTH DAY OF THE WEEK that is the Sabbath of the LORD thy God (Exodus 20:8-11; Genesis 2:1-3). The EU calander is a recent calander change to put Sunday as the seventh day of the week but this is not biblical. In most places around the world Saturday is the SEVENTH day of the week. This being said however God's time according to the bible in Genesis 1 is that an of evening and morning making a day. This means that God's Sabbath started from Friday evening to Saturday evening.
Why are you judging, initiating a confrontational discussion, regarding a day of worship? Do you so perfectly keep the rest of the law that you feel qualified to judge? I suggest a better use of your obvious knowledge would be to use it to lift, encourage,exhort, evangelize others rather than tearing down because others worship the same God, have the same Jesus as Savior but go to church on a different day.
Why do you think it is judging and conforntational discussion by asking the question in this OP? Where in God's WORD does it say God's 4th commandment is abolished and we are now commanded to keep Sunday as a Holy day? If we KNOWINGLY break any of God's commandments God's WORD says we commit sin (James 2:8-11; Romans 7:7; Romans 3:20; 1 John 3:4). No one who continues in KNOWN unrepentant sin will enter into God's Kingdom (Hebrews 10:26-27; Hebrews 6:4-8; 1 John 3:3-9; 1 John 2:3-4). Sharing God's Word is not juding another. It is God's WORD and we should believe and follow it. If you feel convicted by the Word of God then praise God. Jesus is calling you to have a closer walk with him. If you hear his voice do not hearden your heart. Be like the faithful Bareans and see if these things are so.
Col 2:16 Therefore, don’t let anyone judge you in regard to food and drink or in the matter of a festival or a new moon or a Sabbath day.
The CONTEXT of Colossians 2 is discussing the laws in "ORDINANCES" from the MOSAIC BOOK of the Covenant. This is not talking about the 10 commandments as being a shadow. Also the topic of discussion in v16 is not Sabbath vs Sunday as it was never an issues during this time period. v11 is talking about the shadow law of CIRCUMCISION moving into v14 Blotting out the hand writting in "ORDINANCES" (GREEK here is "dogma" meaning is civil, ceremonial and ecclesiastical laws) v16 is talking about the Jewish annual festivals and "special Sabbath" connected to Leviticus 23 which were NOT God's 4th commandment. These "special Sabbath" were all attached some of the annual festivals under the OLD COVENANT and unlike God's 4th Commandment could fall on ANY day of the week depending on the yearly cycle.
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Of course we should point all to the Word of God. Only God's WORD is true and we should BELIEVE and FOLLOW it over the teachings or men that break the commandments of God.
All who continue in KNOWN unrepentant sin will not enter into God's kingdom.
1 Cor 10:23 all things are lawful for me, but all things are not helpful. Apparently if I worship God on Sunday it is quite lawful.
If you are a murderer is it lawful for you to go out and murder? God's WORD says if we break any of God's Commandments we stand guilty before God of committing sin (James 2:8-11). Those who continue in KNOWN unrepentant sin will not enter into God's Kingdom (Hebrews 10:26-27; Hebrews 6:4-8; 1 John 3:3-9; 1 John 2:3-4)
REVELATION 22:14-15 [14],
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. [15],
For outside are dogs, and sorcerers, and fornicators, and
murderers, and idolaters, and whosoever loves and makes a lie.
Col 3:17 and whatever you do, in word or deed, do all in the name of the Lord Jesus, giving thanks to God the Father through Him. If I worship God on Sunday, in the name of the Lord Jesus-giving thanks to God, how is this wrong?
Great question. We should worship God everyday of the week. However God has set aside a specific day for his people to be a HOLY DAY that no work is to be done. It is a day dedicated to God for his people as a memorial of creation showing that we worship the only true God of that created all things by the power of his Word.
4th COMMANDMENT OF THE 10 COMMANDMENTS.
EXODUS 20:8-11 [8], Remember the SABBATH DAY, to KEEP IT HOLY. <Why?> Because God made it Holy for mankind and commands us to keep it as a Holy day) [9], Six days shalt thou labor, and do all thy work: [10], But the SEVENTH DAY IS THE SABBATH of the LORD thy God: in it thou shalt not do any work, thou, nor thy son, nor thy daughter, thy manservant, nor thy maidservant, nor thy cattle, nor thy stranger that is within thy gates: <WHY> [11], For in six days the LORD made heaven and earth, the sea, and all that in them is, and rested the SEVENTH DAY: wherefore the LORD BLESSED THE SABBATH, and HALLOWED IT.
Where is all of God's WORD does it say God's 4th Commandment has been abolished and we are now commanded to keep Sunday as a Holy day?
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SIN is the breaking of God's Commandments (
James 2:9-11;
Romans 7:7;
1 John 3:4)
Those who CONTINUE in UNREPENTANT SIN will NOT enter into the KINGDOM of HEAVEN.
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God's 4th commandment is one of the ten (
Exodus 20:8-11) If we knowingly break it when God asks us not to we stand guilty before God of committing sin (
James 2:8-12). If we do not seek him in repentance and forgiveness we are in danger of the Judgement (
Hebrews 10:26-27)
Sunday worship is a tradition and teaching of man that has led many to break the commandments of God. Jesus says that if we follow the traditions of man that break the commandments of God we are not following God (
Matthew 15:3-9)
There is not one scripture in all of God's Word that says that God's 4th Commandment is now ABOLISHED and we are now commanded to KEEP Sunday as a Holy day.
Who should we follow the teachings and traditions of men or the Word of God? Who should we believe the Words of men or the Word of God?
In times of ignorance God winks at but now ,<when a KNOWLEDGE of the truth has come> calls all men everywhere to REPENT (FOLLOW) (Acts 17:30-31).