The Sabbath Day

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The Sabbath Day

• Does God require Christians to observe the
  Sabbath day?

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Introduction

• Many Jews today, according to their traditions,
  keep the Sabbath, worshipping and resting on the
  seventh day of the week, Saturday
• Even some so-called Christian groups such as
  Seventh-day Adventists also claim to observe the
  Sabbath today as Gods required day of worship

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Introduction

• They insist all Christians must observe the
  Sabbath, seventh day of rest, today in order to
  please God
• Why do they believe this teaching?
• Why do we reject their teaching and worship on
  Sunday, the first day of the week?
• May we all humbly and reverently search the
  Scriptures together

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No Evidence Of Anyone Keeping The Sabbath Before
God Spoke To Israel

• Common misleading teaching is the Sabbath, rest
  on the 7th day of week, was universally
  commanded by God from the beginning
• Truth Moses speaks of what God did after 6 days
  of Creation, He rested on 7th day
• Nothing revealed about what humanity should do to
  observe the Sabbath

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No Evidence Of Anyone Keeping The Sabbath Before
God Spoke To Israel

• Nothing revealed about penalties for not
  observing Sabbath
• First mention of God commanding humanity
  regarding Sabbath was to Israel after the exodus
• No evidence that anyone before Exodus 16 ever
  observed the Sabbath in any way

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After Creation, God rests On The Seventh Day

• Gen 21 Thus the heavens and the earth were
  completed, and all their hosts.
• Gen 22 By the seventh day God completed His
  work which He had done, and He rested on the
  seventh day from all His work which He had done.
• Gen 23 Then God blessed the seventh day and
  sanctified it, because in it He rested from all
  His work which God had created and made.

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God First Gave Sabbath Commandment To Israel

• Exo 1622 Now on the sixth day they gathered
  twice as much bread, two omers for each one. When
  all the leaders of the congregation came and told
  Moses,
• Exo 1623 then he said to them, "This is what
  the LORD meant Tomorrow is a sabbath observance,
  a holy sabbath to the LORD. Bake what you will
  bake and boil what you will boil, and all that is
  left over put aside to be kept until morning."

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The Sabbath, Part Of The Law Of Moses, Old
Covenant, Given Only To Israel

• Law of Moses, including the Sabbath, given to
  Israel only at Mount Sinai
• The Sabbath was a sign of the covenant God had
  made with Israel
• Violators of the Sabbath were to be put to death
• The Sabbath was also to remind Israel that God
  had rescued them from Egyptian slavery

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Sabbath, Part of Law of Moses, Given To Israel
Only

• Exo 208 "Remember the sabbath day, to keep it
  holy.
• Exo 209 "Six days you shall labor and do all
  your work,
• Exo 2010 but the seventh day is a sabbath of
  the LORD your God in it you shall not do any
  work, you or your son or your daughter, your male
  or your female servant or your cattle or your
  sojourner who stays with you.

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Sabbath, Part of Law of Moses, Given To Israel
Only

• Exo 2011 "For in six days the LORD made the
  heavens and the earth, the sea and all that is in
  them, and rested on the seventh day therefore
  the LORD blessed the sabbath day and made it
  holy.

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Sabbath, Part of Law of Moses, Given To Israel
Only

• Neh 913 "Then You came down on Mount Sinai, And
  spoke with them from heaven You gave them just
  ordinances and true laws, Good statutes and
  commandments.
• Neh 914 "So You made known to them Your holy
  sabbath, And laid down for them commandments,
  statutes and law, Through Your servant Moses.

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The Sabbath A Sign of Gods Covenant With Israel

• Exo 3112 The LORD spoke to Moses, saying,
• Exo 3113 "But as for you, speak to the sons of
  Israel, saying, 'You shall surely observe My
  sabbaths for this is a sign between Me and you
  throughout your generations, that you may know
  that I am the LORD who sanctifies you.

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The Sabbath A Sign of Gods Covenant With Israel

• Exo 3114 'Therefore you are to observe the
  sabbath, for it is holy to you. Everyone who
  profanes it shall surely be put to death for
  whoever does any work on it, that person shall be
  cut off from among his people.
• Exo 3115 'For six days work may be done, but on
  the seventh day there is a sabbath of complete
  rest, holy to the LORD whoever does any work on
  the sabbath day shall surely be put to death.

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The Sabbath A Sign of Gods Covenant With Israel

• Exo 3116 'So the sons of Israel shall observe
  the sabbath, to celebrate the sabbath throughout
  their generations as a perpetual covenant.'
• Exo 3117 "It is a sign between Me and the sons
  of Israel forever for in six days the LORD made
  heaven and earth, but on the seventh day He
  ceased from labor, and was refreshed."

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Death Was The Penalty For Violating The Sabbath

• Exo 3114 'Therefore you are to observe the
  sabbath, for it is holy to you. Everyone who
  profanes it shall surely be put to death for
  whoever does any work on it, that person shall be
  cut off from among his people.
• Exo 3115 'For six days work may be done, but on
  the seventh day there is a sabbath of complete
  rest, holy to the LORD whoever does any work on
  the sabbath day shall surely be put to death.

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The Sabbath A Reminder To Israel of Their Rescue
From Slavery

• Deu 51 Then Moses summoned all Israel and said
  to them "Hear, O Israel, the statutes and the
  ordinances which I am speaking today in your
  hearing, that you may learn them and observe them
  carefully.
• Deu 52 "The LORD our God made a covenant with
  us at Horeb.
• Deu 53 "The LORD did not make this covenant
  with our fathers, but with us, with all those of
  us alive here today.

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The Sabbath A Reminder To Israel of Their Rescue
From Slavery

• Deu 512 'Observe the sabbath day to keep it
  holy, as the LORD your God commanded you.
• Deu 513 'Six days you shall labor and do all
  your work,

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The Sabbath A Reminder To Israel of Their Rescue
From Slavery

• Deu 514 but the seventh day is a sabbath of the
  LORD your God in it you shall not do any work,
  you or your son or your daughter or your male
  servant or your female servant or your ox or your
  donkey or any of your cattle or your sojourner
  who stays with you, so that your male servant and
  your female servant may rest as well as you.

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The Sabbath A Reminder To Israel of Their Rescue
From Slavery

• Deu 515 'You shall remember that you were a
  slave in the land of Egypt, and the LORD your God
  brought you out of there by a mighty hand and by
  an outstretched arm therefore the LORD your God
  commanded you to observe the sabbath day.

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Jesus Kept The Sabbath Because He Lived Under The
Law Of Moses

• Many will say we should keep the Sabbath today as
  Jesus did
• Jesus kept not only the Sabbath but all the Law
  of Moses without sin
• He also commanded others to keep the Law of Moses
• But, His apostles nowhere command Christians to
  keep the Sabbath or the Law of Moses

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Jesus Lived Under The Law of Moses

• Gal 44 But when the fullness of the time came,
  God sent forth His Son, born of a woman, born
  under the Law,
• Gal 45 so that He might redeem those who were
  under the Law, that we might receive the adoption
  as sons.

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Jesus Perfectly Kept The Law of Moses Including
The Sabbath

• 1Pe 222 WHO COMMITTED NO SIN, NOR WAS ANY
  DECEIT FOUND IN HIS MOUTH
• Heb 415 For we do not have a high priest who
  cannot sympathize with our weaknesses, but One
  who has been tempted in all things as we are, yet
  without sin.

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While On Earth, Jesus Commanded Other Jews To
Keep The Law of Moses

• Mar 141 Moved with compassion, Jesus stretched
  out His hand and touched him, and said to him,
  "I am willing be cleansed."
• Mar 142 Immediately the leprosy left him and he
  was cleansed.

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While On Earth, Jesus Commanded Other Jews To
Keep The Law of Moses

• Mar 143 And He sternly warned him and
  immediately sent him away,
• Mar 144 and He said to him, "See that you say
  nothing to anyone but go, show yourself to the
  priest and offer for your cleansing what Moses
  commanded, as a testimony to them."

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The Sabbath Day

1. No evidence of anyone keeping the Sabbath before
   God spoke to Israel
2. The Sabbath, part of the Law of Moses, old
   covenant, given only to Israel
3. Jesus kept the Sabbath because He lived under the
   Law of Moses
4. Jesus ended the Law of Moses including the
   Sabbath and established His new covenant

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Jesus Ended The Law Of Moses Including The
Sabbath And Established His New Covenant

• In His death, after living a sinless life on
  earth, Jesus fulfilled and ended the old covenant
• In His blood, perfect sacrifice, He established
  the new covenant by which both Jews and Gentiles
  must be saved
• The old covenant including the Sabbath was
  intended to be temporary, replaced by the gospel

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In Jesus Death, He Ended Old Covenant and
Established New Covenant

• Col 213 When you were dead in your
  transgressions and the uncircumcision of your
  flesh, He made you alive together with Him,
  having forgiven us all our transgressions,
• Col 214 having canceled out the certificate of
  debt consisting of decrees against us, which was
  hostile to us and He has taken it out of the
  way, having nailed it to the cross.

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In Jesus Death, He Ended Old Covenant and
Established New Covenant

• Col 215 When He had disarmed the rulers and
  authorities, He made a public display of them,
  having triumphed over them through Him.
• Col 216 Therefore no one is to act as your
  judge in regard to food or drink or in respect to
  a festival or a new moon or a Sabbath day--

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In Jesus Death, He Ended Old Covenant and
Established New Covenant

• Col 217 things which are a mere shadow of what
  is to come but the substance belongs to Christ.

30
In Jesus Death, He Ended Old Covenant and
Established New Covenant

• Rom 74 Therefore, my brethren, you also were
  made to die to the Law through the body of
  Christ, so that you might be joined to another,
  to Him who was raised from the dead, in order
  that we might bear fruit for God.
• Rom 75 For while we were in the flesh, the
  sinful passions, which were aroused by the Law,
  were at work in the members of our body to bear
  fruit for death.

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In Jesus Death, He Ended Old Covenant and
Established New Covenant

• Rom 76 But now we have been released from the
  Law, having died to that by which we were bound,
  so that we serve in newness of the Spirit and not
  in oldness of the letter.

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In Jesus Death, He Ended Old Covenant and
Established New Covenant

• Eph 213 But now in Christ Jesus you who
  formerly were far off have been brought near by
  the blood of Christ.
• Eph 214 For He Himself is our peace, who made
  both groups into one and broke down the barrier
  of the dividing wall,

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In Jesus Death, He Ended Old Covenant and
Established New Covenant

• Eph 215 by abolishing in His flesh the enmity,
  which is the Law of commandments contained in
  ordinances, so that in Himself He might make the
  two into one new man, thus establishing peace,
• Eph 216 and might reconcile them both in one
  body to God through the cross, by it having put
  to death the enmity.

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In Jesus Death, He Ended Old Covenant and
Established New Covenant

• Heb 86 But now He has obtained a more excellent
  ministry, by as much as He is also the mediator
  of a better covenant, which has been enacted on
  better promises.
• Heb 87 For if that first covenant had been
  faultless, there would have been no occasion
  sought for a second.

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In Jesus Death, He Ended Old Covenant and
Established New Covenant

• Heb 88 For finding fault with them, He says,
  "BEHOLD, DAYS ARE COMING, SAYS THE LORD, WHEN I
  WILL EFFECT A NEW COVENANT WITH THE HOUSE OF
  ISRAEL AND WITH THE HOUSE OF JUDAH

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In Jesus Death, He Ended Old Covenant and
Established New Covenant

• Heb 89 NOT LIKE THE COVENANT WHICH I MADE WITH
  THEIR FATHERS ON THE DAY WHEN I TOOK THEM BY THE
  HAND TO LEAD THEM OUT OF THE LAND OF EGYPT FOR
  THEY DID NOT CONTINUE IN MY COVENANT, AND I DID
  NOT CARE FOR THEM, SAYS THE LORD.

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In Jesus Death, He Ended Old Covenant and
Established New Covenant

• Heb 813 When He said, "A new covenant," He has
  made the first obsolete. But whatever is becoming
  obsolete and growing old is ready to disappear.

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Sabbath, Circumcision, Levitical Priesthood and
Law of Moses All Temporary

• Exo 3116 'So the sons of Israel shall observe
  the sabbath, to celebrate the sabbath throughout
  their generations as a perpetual covenant.'
• Gen 179 God said further to Abraham, "Now as
  for you, you shall keep My covenant, you and your
  descendants after you throughout their
  generations.

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Sabbath, Circumcision, Levitical Priesthood and
Law of Moses All Temporary

• Gen 1710 "This is My covenant, which you shall
  keep, between Me and you and your descendants
  after you every male among you shall be
  circumcised.
• Exo 4015 and you shall anoint them even as you
  have anointed their father, that they may
  minister as priests to Me and their anointing
  will qualify them for a perpetual priesthood
  throughout their generations."

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Sabbath, Circumcision, Levitical Priesthood and
Law of Moses All Temporary

• Gal 319 Why the Law then? It was added because
  of transgressions, having been ordained through
  angels by the agency of a mediator, until the
  seed would come to whom the promise had been
  made.
• Gal 324 Therefore the Law has become our tutor
  to lead us to Christ, so that we may be justified
  by faith.
• Gal 325 But now that faith has come, we are no
  longer under a tutor.

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Sabbath, Circumcision, Levitical Priesthood and
Law of Moses All Temporary

• Gal 53 And I testify again to every man who
  receives circumcision, that he is under
  obligation to keep the whole Law.
• Gal 54 You have been severed from Christ, you
  who are seeking to be justified by law you have
  fallen from grace.

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No Positive New Testament Authority For
Christians To Observe The Sabbath

• As Christians, we are concerned with having
  Divine authority for whatever we do in serving
  Christ
• Authority expressed in commands, promises,
  apostolic approved examples and necessary
  conclusions

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No Positive New Testament Authority For
Christians To Observe The Sabbath

• 9 of the 10 Commandments repeated in New
  Testament
• Observing the Sabbath Day is nowhere mentioned in
  the New Testament
• Divine authority informs us that Christians met
  and worshipped on the first day of the week

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Must Have Divine Authority For All We Do In
Serving Christ

• Mat 2125 "The baptism of John was from what
  source, from heaven or from men?" And they began
  reasoning among themselves, saying, "If we say,
  'From heaven,' He will say to us, 'Then why did
  you not believe him?'
• Col 317 Whatever you do in word or deed, do all
  in the name of the Lord Jesus, giving thanks
  through Him to God the Father.

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Some of The 9 of 10 Commandments Repeated In New
Covenant

• Rom 138 Owe nothing to anyone except to love
  one another for he who loves his neighbor has
  fulfilled the law.
• Rom 139 For this, "YOU SHALL NOT COMMIT
  ADULTERY, YOU SHALL NOT MURDER, YOU SHALL NOT
  STEAL, YOU SHALL NOT COVET," and if there is any
  other commandment, it is summed up in this
  saying, "YOU SHALL LOVE YOUR NEIGHBOR AS
  YOURSELF."

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Some of The 9 of 10 Commandments Repeated In New
Covenant

• Rom 1310 Love does no wrong to a neighbor
  therefore love is the fulfillment of the law.

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Divine Authority For Christians To Worship On
First Day of The Week

• Act 207 On the first day of the week, when we
  were gathered together to break bread, Paul began
  talking to them, intending to leave the next day,
  and he prolonged his message until midnight.

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Divine Authority For Christians To Worship On
First Day of The Week

• 1Co 161 Now concerning the collection for the
  saints, as I directed the churches of Galatia, so
  do you also.
• 1Co 162 On the first day of every week each one
  of you is to put aside and save, as he may
  prosper, so that no collections be made when I
  come.

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The Christian Sabbath Is In Heaven

• Gal 410 You observe days and months and seasons
  and years.
• Gal 411 I fear for you, that perhaps I have
  labored over you in vain.

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The Christian Sabbath Is In Heaven

• Heb 46 Therefore, since it remains for some to
  enter it, and those who formerly had good news
  preached to them failed to enter because of
  disobedience,
• Heb 47 He again fixes a certain day, "Today,"
  saying through David after so long a time just as
  has been said before, "TODAY IF YOU HEAR HIS
  VOICE, DO NOT HARDEN YOUR HEARTS."

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The Christian Sabbath Is In Heaven

• Heb 48 For if Joshua had given them rest, He
  would not have spoken of another day after that.
• Heb 49 So there remains a Sabbath rest for the
  people of God.

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The Christian Sabbath Is In Heaven

• Heb 410 For the one who has entered His rest
  has himself also rested from his works, as God
  did from His.
• Heb 411 Therefore let us be diligent to enter
  that rest, so that no one will fall, through
  following the same example of disobedience.

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The Sabbath Day

1. No evidence of anyone keeping the Sabbath before
   God spoke to Israel
2. The Sabbath, part of the Law of Moses, old
   covenant, given only to Israel
3. Jesus kept the Sabbath because He lived under the
   Law of Moses
4. Jesus ended the Law of Moses including the
   Sabbath and established His new covenant

54
The Sabbath Day

1. Those seeking to observe the Law of Moses have
   fallen from grace
2. No positive New Testament authority for
   Christians to observe the Sabbath
3. The Christian Sabbath is in heaven