Bible Questions Answered: Sabbath Or Sunday

Bible Questions Answered:
Just how are we to approach the Sabbath, and what day is the Sabbath?
Helen/ Shelby, North Carolina

Bible Answers:

Genesis 2:2,3 KJV
[2] And on the seventh day God ended His work which He had made; and He rested on the seventh day from all His work which He had made.
[3] And God blessed the seventh day, and sanctified it: because that in it He had rested from all His work which God created and made.

The Sabbath, was observed by God, in creation. On the seventh day, He rested (ceased creating) from all His works.

The Sabbath, was not a decree from Mount Sinai, or some Levitical decree.

Seeing how we as Christian people are under God's Grace, should we observe the day of rest, now properly called "The Lord's Day?"

Revelation 1:10 KJV John
I was in the Spirit on the Lord's day,...

Yes.

As been already seen above, this ordinance of God, came at creation, has creation ceased? No.

Not only that but the Apostle Paul wrote the Hebrews saying....

Hebrews 10:25 KJV
Not forsaking the assembling of ourselves together, as the manner of some is; but exhorting one another: and so much the more, as ye see the day approaching.

What day is the "Lord's Day?"
The early church, worshiped on Sunday, the first day of the week, because that was the day of
Christ's resurrection! Every Sunday, is a celebration of that fact!

Is a person lost or saved by their observance of which day they observe the day of rest?
Absolutely Not!
This kind of "False Thinking,” verges on "legalism," and we are not under the law, but grace!

Ephesians 2:8,9 KJV
[8] For by grace are ye saved through faith; and that not of yourselves (religious works included!): it is the gift of God:
[9] Not of works (religious, humanitarian, academic, etc), lest any man should boast.

II Corinthians 3:4-18 NLT
4 We are confident of all this because of our great trust in God through Christ.
5 It is not that we think we are qualified to do anything on our own. Our qualification comes from God.
6 He has enabled us to be ministers of His new covenant. This is a covenant not of written laws, but of the Spirit. The old written covenant ends in death; but under the new covenant, the Spirit gives life.
The Glory of the New Covenant
7 The old way, with laws etched in stone, led to death, though it began with such glory that the people of Israel could not bear to look at Moses’ face. For his face shone with the glory of God, even though the brightness was already fading away.
8 Shouldn’t we expect far greater glory under the new way, now that the Holy Spirit is giving life?
9 If the old way, which brings condemnation, was glorious, how much more glorious is the new way, which makes us right with God!
10 In fact, that first glory was not glorious at all compared with the overwhelming glory of the new way.
11 So if the old way, which has been replaced, was glorious, how much more glorious is the new, which remains forever!
12 Since this new way gives us such confidence, we can be very bold.
13 We are not like Moses, who put a veil over his face so the people of Israel would not see the glory, even though it was destined to fade away.
14 But the people’s minds were hardened, and to this day whenever the old covenant is being read, the same veil covers their minds so they cannot understand the truth. And this veil can be removed only by believing in Christ.
15 Yes, even today when they read Moses’ writings, their hearts are covered with that veil, and they do not understand.
16 But whenever someone turns to the Lord, the veil is taken away.
17 For the Lord is the Spirit, and wherever the Spirit of the Lord is, there is freedom.
18 So all of us who have had that veil removed can see and reflect the Glory of the Lord. And the Lord—who is the Spirit—makes us more and more like Him as we are changed into His Glorious image.

Galatians 3:19-26 NLT
19 Why, then, was the law given? It was given alongside the promise to show people their sins. But the law was designed to last only until the coming of the child (Isaiah 9:6 the Lord Jesus Christ) who was promised. God gave His law through angels to Moses, who was the mediator between God and the people.
20 Now a mediator is helpful if more than one party must reach an agreement. But God, who is one, did not use a mediator when He gave His promise to Abraham.
21 Is there a conflict, then, between God’s law and God’s promises? Absolutely not! If the law could give us new life, we could be made right with God by obeying it.
22 But the Scriptures declare that we are all prisoners of sin, so we receive God’s promise of freedom only by believing in Jesus Christ.
23 Before the way of faith in Christ was available to us, we were placed under guard by the law. We were kept in protective custody, so to speak, until the way of faith was revealed.
24 Let me put it another way. The law was our guardian until Christ came; it protected us until we could be made right with God through faith.
25 And now that the way of faith has come, we no longer need the law as our guardian.
26 For you are all children of God through faith in Christ Jesus.

Romans 6:14 KJV
For sin shall not have dominion over you: for ye are not under the law, but under grace.

Romans 7:1-4 KJV
[1] Know ye not, brethren, (for I speak to them that know the law,) how that the law hath dominion over a man as long as he liveth?
[2] For the woman which hath an husband is bound by the law to her husband so long as he liveth; but if the husband be dead, she is loosed from the law of her husband.
[3] So then if, while her husband liveth, she be married to another man, she shall be called an adulteress: but if her husband be dead, she is free from that law; so that she is no adulteress, though she be married to another man.
[4] Wherefore, my brethren, ye also are become dead to the law by the body of Christ; that ye should be married to another, even to Him who is raised from the dead, that we should bring forth fruit unto God.

The Sabbath, was not changed, it was abolished.

Colossians 2:16,17 NLT
16 So don’t let anyone condemn you for what you eat or drink, or for not celebrating certain holy days or new moon ceremonies or Sabbaths.
17 For these rules are only shadows of the reality yet to come. And Christ Himself is that reality.