It’s “IMPORTANT” To “REST” & To “WORSHIP” On The “SABBATH”, NOT On “SUNDAY”!

By Jovantee R. Blair
05/18/2012, F

Everyday is the Lord’s day?

Well, YES, everyday is the Lord’s day & everyday BELONGS to the Lord, since he “CREATED” the 1st day, 2nd day, 3rd day, 4th day, 5th day, 6th day, & 7th day, but “ACCORDING” to Genesis 2, the 7th day is the LORD’S “DAY”!

So with that being said, the 1st day of the week, “SUNDAY” isn’t the “LORD’s “”DAY”.

READ ON!

HAVING “REST’ on the “SABBATH” is VERY “IMPORTANT”, because WITHOUT “HAVING” any “REST” from the past 6 days of work that person has done, then that person WILL END UP NATURALLY “DYING” from him/her NOT HAVING that “REST” & “ALLOWING” his/her “BODY” to “REST” & “WORSHIP” in GOD that he/she NEEDS to TAKE on the “SABBATH”.

Take this for example, when a person ISN’T “SAVED” in GOD & CHRIST, & that person “CONTINUES” IN “SIN”, then that person that’s “CONTINUING” to “SIN”, will eventually, & “SPIRITUALLY” “KILL” his/herself.

“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.“-Genesis 2:2 (KJV),

So “WHY” isn’t “SUNDAY” the LORD’s “DAY”?

Well, “ACCORDING” to the article entitled “What the Bible Says about the First Day of the Week”, there are 30 “HOLY BIBLE” FACTS “CONCERNING” the day of “SUNDAY”, & the 30 “FACTS” are;

1. The very first thing recorded in the Bible is work done on Sunday, the first day of the week. If God worked on this day, how can it be wicked for us to work on Sunday?
2. God commands men to work upon the first day of the week (Exodus 20:8-11). Is it wrong to obey God?
3. None of the Patriarchs ever kept it holy.
4. None of the holy Prophets ever kept it holy.
5. By the express command of God, His people used the first day of the week as a common working day.
6. God himself calls it a working day (Ezekiel 46:1).
7. God did not rest upon it.
8. God never blessed it.
9. Jesus Christ did not rest upon it.
10. Jesus was a carpenter (Mark 6:3), and worked at his trade until he was 30 years old. He worked 6 days a week, and kept the sabbath day holy.
11. The apostles worked during the same time, and kept the sabbath day holy (Paul was a tentmaker, Acts 18:3).
12. The Apostles never rested upon it.
13. Jesus Christ never blessed it.
14. It has never been blessed by any divine authority.
15. It has never been sanctified.
16. No law was ever given to enforce the keeping of it, hence it is no transgression to work upon it. "Where no law is, there is no transgression" (Romans 4:15).
17. The New Testament nowhere forbids work to be done on it.
18. No penalty is provided for its violation.
19. No blessing is promised for its observance.
20. No regulation is given as to how it ought to be observed. Would this be so if the Lord wished us to keep it?
21. It is never called the Christian Sabbath.
22. It is never called the sabbath day at all.
23. It is never called the Lord's Day.
24. It is never called even a rest day.
25. No sacred title whatever is applied to it. Then why should we call it holy?
26. It was simply called the "first day of the week".
27. Jesus never mentioned it in any way, never took its name upon his lips, so far as the record shows.
28. Neither God, Christ, nor inspired men ever said one word in favor of Sunday as a Holy day.
29. The Bible nowhere says that the first day of the week commemorates the resurrection of Christ. Baptism commemorates the burial and resurrection of Jesus! (Romans 6:3-5).
30. Finally, the New Testament is totally silent with regard to any change of the sabbath day or any sacredness for the first day.

“ACCORDING” to the article entitled “What the Bible Says about the First Day of the Week”, “SUNDAY was “SUBSTITUDED” for “SATURDAY”, was;

Q: What is the Third Commandment?
A: The Third Commandment is: “Remember the sabbath day, to keep it holy.”-Exodus 20:8 (KJV)

Q: Which is the Sabbath day?
A: Saturday is the Sabbath day.

Q: Why do we observe Sunday instead of Saturday?
A: We observe Sunday instead of Saturday, because the Catholic Church transferred the solemnity from Saturday to Sunday.

Q: By what authority did the Church substitute Sunday for Saturday?
A: The Church substituted Sunday for Saturday by the plenitude of that divine power which Jesus Christ bestowed upon her.

Q: What does the Third Commandment command?
A: The Third Commandment commands us to sanctify Sunday as the Lord's Day.

The Catholic Church fully admits that the establishment of Sunday as a "Holy Day" is completely their act! Here is further proof:

"Christians shall not Judaize and be idle on Saturday, but shall work on that day; but the Lord’s Day they shall especially honor, and, as being Christians, shall, if possible, do no work on that day. If, however, they are found Judaizing, they shall be shut out from Christ." Catholic Church Council in Laodicea, 364AD, Canon 29.

The only thing that can be said in favor of Sunday is post-apostolic church tradition! But one who truly loves God, who has accepted Jesus Christ as His Savior and Lord, will push aside tradition in order to seek his heavenly Father's will in all things. The Scriptures- Old and New Testaments alike - clearly reveal that God's will for all His children includes the liberty and refreshment of the seventh-day Sabbath.

So “ACCORDING” to Mark 2:27 (KJV);

“And he said unto them, The sabbath was made for man, and not man for the sabbath:”

so;

“Remember the sabbath day, to keep it holy.”-Exodus 20:8 (KJV)

PEACE:)

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