WHY NOT ASK GOD ABOUT SUNDAY AND THE SABBATH: Tell me, Lord, do You have a special day of rest for your followers? I was in the Spirit on the Lord’s day, and heard behind me a great voice, as of a trumpet, (Revelation 1:10). But which day is the Lords day? For the Son of man is Lord even of the sabbath day. (Matthew 12:8). THERE ARE SEVEN DAYS IN A WEEK, WHICH DAY IS THE SABBATH DAY? But the seventh day is the sabbath of the LORD thy God: (Exodus 20:10). WHICH DAY ACCORDING TO OUR RECKONING, IS THE SEVENTH DAY-----SATURDAY OR SUNDAY? And when the sabbath was past, Mary Magdalene, and Mary the mother of James, and Salome, had bought sweet spices, that they might come and anoint him. And very early in the morning the first day of the week, they came unto the sepulchre at the rising of the sun. (Mark 16:1-2), And he saith unto them, Be not affrighted: Ye seek Jesus of Nazareth, which was crucified: he is risen; he is not here: behold the place where they laid him. (Mark 16:6). Note: everybody knows that Sunday was the resurrection day. The Sabbath was past when the first day of the week (Sunday) dawned. Thus it is evident that the Sabbath day is Saturday, the day before Sunday. BUT LORD DID YOU NOT ABOLISH THE LAW WHICH CONTAINS THE SABBATH COMMANDMENT? Think not that I am come to destroy the law, or the prophets: I am not come to destroy, but to fulfil. (Matthew 5:17). WELL, AT LEAST DIDINT YOU YOU CHANGE ONE OF THE COMMANDMENTS SO THAT TODAY YOUR FOLLOWERS MAY KEEP ANOTHER DAY THAN THE SEVENTH DAY? For verily I say unto you, Till heaven and earth pass, one jot or one tittle shall in no wise pass from the law, till all be fulfilled. (Matthew 5:18). BUT LORD, ISNT THE SABBATH A JEWISH DAY? And he said unto them, The sabbath was made for man, and not man for the sabbath: (Mark 2:27). BUT LORD DIDINT PAUL ALWAYS MEET THE EARLY CHRISTIANS ON SUNDAY IN HONOR OF YOUR RESURRECTION? And Paul, as his manner was, went in unto them, and three sabbath days reasoned with them out of the scriptures, (Acts 17:2). DID HE MEET WITH THE GENTILE CONVERTS ON THE SABBATH, TOO? PERHAPS HE MET WITH THE JEWS ON THE SABBATH AND THE GREEKS ON SUNDAY? WHAT ABOUT THAT? And he reasoned in the synagogue every sabbath, and persuaded the Jews and the Greeks. (Acts 18:4). WHAT DIFFERENCE DOES IT MAKE WITH A DAY WHICH I KEEP? A DAY IS A DAY, IS IT NOT? Know ye not, that to whom ye yield yourselves servants to obey, his servants ye are to whom ye obey; whether of sin unto death, or of obedience unto righteousness? (Romans 6:16). THEN WHAT SHALL I DO, OBEY THE SABBATH OF THE LORDS COMMANDMENT OR KEEP THE SUNDAY OF MAN? We ought to obey God rather than men. (Acts 5:29). WELL, LORD, WHAT DO YOU THINK OF SUNDAY KEEPING? Thus have ye made the commandment of God of none effect by your tradition. (Matthew 15:6), But in vain they do worship me, teaching for doctrines the commandments of men. (Matthew 15:9). BUT SURELY MILLIONS OF PEOPLE WHO KEEP SUNDAY CANT BE WRONG, CAN THEY? Enter ye in at the strait gate: for wide is the gate, and broad is the way, that leadeth to destruction, and many there be which go in thereat: Because strait is the gate, and narrow is the way, which leadeth unto life, and few there be that find it. (Matthew 7:13-14). (only a few people obeyed God in the days of Noah and in the days of Lot. The majority were lost.) BUT PASTOR, SO AND SO IS A VERY WISE MAN, WHY DOESENT HE AND OTHER GREAT PREACHERS KEEP THE SABBATH? For ye see your calling, brethren, how that not many wise men after the flesh, not many mighty, not many noble, are called: But God hath chosen the foolish things of the world to confound the wise; and God hath chosen the weak things of the world to confound the things which are mighty; (1 Corinthians 1:26-27). BUT I HAVE ACCEPTED JESUS; I KNOW HE IS MY SAVIOUR; I KNOW HE HAS ACCEPTED ME AND I HAVE BEEN KEEPING SUNDAY. SURELY I WOULD NOT BE LOST IF I DID NOT KEEP THE SABBATH NOW, WOULD I? And the times of this ignorance God winked at; but now commandeth all men every where to repent: (Acts 17:30). I KNOW YOU, LORD; YOU WOULD NOT CONDEMN ME FOR BREAKING THE SABBATH, WOULD YOU? He that saith, I know him, and keepeth not his commandments, is a liar, and the truth is not in him. (1 John 2:4). BUT IS IT NOT SUFFICIENT THAT I LOVE THE LORD AND LIVE BY THE LAW OF LOVE? If ye love me, keep my commandments. (John 14:15). DOES THAT MEAN ALL TEN OF THEM? For whosoever shall keep the whole law, and yet offend in one point, he is guilty of all. (James 2:10). OK, LORD I BELIEVE NOW BUT MY BUSINESS WOULD SUFFER IF I CLOSED ON THE SABBATH. I MIGHT LOSE MY JOB. I WOULDNT GET AHEAD IN THE WORLD! For what shall it profit a man, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul? (Mark 8:36). DOES MY SALVATION DEPEND UPON MY OBEDIENCE TO THIS SABBATH INJUNCTION? And being made perfect, he became the author of eternal salvation unto all them that obey him; (Hebrews 5:9).
Posted on: Wed, 10 Sep 2014 22:18:11 +0000
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