First published at 00:30 UTC on January 4th, 2020.
Church Sunday & Sabbath Saturday?
Do we have to still keep the Sabbath? Are Christians required to observe the Sabbath on Saturday? Does that not conflict with attending church on Sunday? Does Colossians 2:16 destroy the necessity to observe th…
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Church Sunday & Sabbath Saturday?
Do we have to still keep the Sabbath? Are Christians required to observe the Sabbath on Saturday? Does that not conflict with attending church on Sunday? Does Colossians 2:16 destroy the necessity to observe the Sabbath?
The confusion is over keeping the Sabbath holy and going to church. They are not the same thing. For in Acts 2:46-47 we find "46 And they, continuing daily with one accord in the temple, and breaking bread from house to house, did eat their meat with gladness and singleness of heart,
47 Praising God, and having favour with all the people. And the Lord added to the church daily such as should be saved." They went to church daily. In which Protestant church can you go daily? None. You can in the Catholic church, for they have Mass daily. But you can also preach the Gospel and those God adds to your number will be able to meet with you in a house. Then you can meet daily. It is a shocking counter-cultural request for believers to meet daily in one accord. Imagine if we did, though.
Hebrews chapter 4 is perhaps the most important chapter in the Bible on the Sabbath. For it speaks of it quite differently than any Church does, even SDA, who are the advocates of the Sabbath in the Church (if they are truly in the Church belonging to Christ). This chapter starts off by claiming that the promise of the Sabbath still exists today, but the author does not name it at the start. Instead he refers to what that promise is: "enter His rest". But he juxtaposes a warning to fear that promise by measuring ourselves according to that promise. For the rest from all of our work on the Sabbath was given as a blessing for man, not a burden. "Let us therefore fear, lest, a promise being left us of entering into his rest, any of you should seem to come short of it."
Then in verse 2 the author makes a fascinating statement that the Gospel that has been preached to us was also preached to the Hebrews in the desert. For if you read the e..
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