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Why do
people not keep the Sabbath Day?
Why does the world hate keeping God's sabbath and
His ten commandments? And if it's done away with why does the Bible not say so?
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I cannot answer why anyone would hate
Saturday. Saturday is the seventh day of the week, the Sabbath. As far as a commandment to
worship on Saturday, the Sabbath day, the Bible has clearly stated that we are no longer
under that command. Colossians 2:14 says, "BLOTTING OUT THE HANDWRITING OF ORDINANCES
THAT WAS AGAINST US, which was contrary to us, and TOOK IT OUT OF THE WAY, NAILING IT TO
HIS CROSS." What ordinances does this include? Certain ones, or the whole Bible? Read
on it that passage to find the answer.
Colossians 2:15-17 says, "And having spoiled principalities and
powers, he made a show of them openly, triumphing over them in it. LET NO MAN THEREFORE
JUDGE YOU in meat, or in drink, or in respect of an holyday, or of the new moon, OR OF THE
SABBATH DAYS: Which are a shadow of things to come; but the body is of Christ." This
clearly shows that the meat restrictions and all of the rites of the Tabernacle worship
— along with the holy days and Sabbath days, ended at the cross. Jesus fulfilled them
when He died for our sins.
We are still commanded to assemble together and worship the Lord, but
it does not have to be on the Sabbath day. Hebrews 10:25 says, "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."
The problem with the Sabbath ordinance that made it contrary to man was
that man did not use it as a free day from work to serve and worship the Lord. Man turned
it into a day in which man had to meet a multitude of requirements. Thus, man became a
servant unto a day, rather than a day serving man and making him free from other
obligations so he could worship the Lord. Mark 2:23-27 says, "And it came to pass,
that he went through the corn fields on the sabbath day; and his disciples began, as they
went, to pluck the ears of corn. And the Pharisees said unto him, Behold, why do they on
the sabbath day that which is not lawful? And he said unto them, Have ye never read what
David did, when he had need, and was an hungred, he, and they that were with him? How he
went into the house of God in the days of Abiathar the high priest, and did eat the
showbread, which is not lawful to eat but for the priests, and gave also to them which
were with him? And he said unto them, THE SABBATH WAS MADE FOR MAN, AND NOT MAN FOR THE
SABBATH."
The
early church began to meet on Sunday, the first day of the week. I Corinthians 16:1,2
says, "Now concerning the collection for the saints, as I have given order to the
churches of Galatia, even so do ye. UPON THE FIRST DAY OF THE WEEK let every one of you
lay by him in store, as God hath prospered him, that there be no gatherings when I
come." Acts 20:7 says, "And UPON THE FIRST DAY OF THE WEEK, when the disciples
came together to break bread, Paul preached unto them, ready to depart on the morrow; and
continued his speech until midnight." But some people go to the same extreme with
Sunday, making it a day that man has to serve, instead of a day which frees him up to
serve the Lord.
In our family, we try and do all of our business on other days of the
week, other than Sunday, for the simple reason that if we are buying something in a store
on Sunday, then someone had to miss church because they were working. We try not to eat
out on Sundays for the same reason. If we rush from church to the restaurant, then someone
had to miss church to be there preparing the food that we would go there to buy. It is
hard to invite people to church, when they are missing church because they are there to
feed us. I would rather go home and eat a cold sandwich, than to be an excuse for someone
to miss church. We try to make it clear that the day, Sunday, is not our master, but
rather a free day to put aside our other work and go to worship the Lord.
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