Scriptures to Help You

There will not be any direct words from scriptures to my knowledge which would cause anyone to believe that Christ changed the Sabbath to "The Lord's Day". This is"purely a creation of the Roman Catholic Church"circa 364 AD. In fact, many of those accused of heresy in the history of the Church, and the Protestant movements and reformation kept the Sabbath according to the Holy Bible. They were tortured and killed as Constantine had given the Holy Roman Empire the authority over the civil authority.

In the Holy Bible, God directly instructed man to do many things. He gave prophecies which foretold of many things as well. Since the beginning of time as we know it, God gave man the Sabbath, which was a memorial for us to appreciate God, and His creation (Genesis2:1-3). A few thousand years later, he wrote the 10 Commandments on two stone tablets with his finger, and gave them to Moses to give to those people who follow God. The 10 commandments included the Sabbath. When Jesus Christ was on this planet, he observed the Sabbath as it was meant to be observed, by helping people, and communing with God the Father.

Today, many Christian organizations observe Sunday, according to the Catholic Church. However, most of them do not keep that day holy at all, they go about their shopping before and after church. Many even work before or after church. Like the claim the Catholic Church has been using since it's beginnings, the 10 Commandments were done away with at the cross.

However, Jesus gave us the 10 commandments in a format which summarized the first four and the last six into two commandments. Those were to"...love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul, and with all your mind...You shall love your neighbor as yourself." Matthew22:37-39. In Matthew 22:40, Jesus further stated that "On these two commandments hang all the Law and the Prophets." What does that mean?

The Ten Commandments

Exodus 20:3-17

The First and Great Commandment	The Second Commandment
You Shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul, and with all your mind.	You shall love your neighbor as your self.
You shall have no other gods before Me. You shall not make for yourself any carved image, or any likeness of anything that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth; you shall not bow down to them nor serve them. For I, the Lord your God, am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers on the children to the third and fourth generations of those who hate Me, but showing mercy to thousands, to those who love Me and keep My commandments. You shall not take the name of the Lord your God in vain, for the Lord will not hold him guiltless who takes His name in vain. Remember the Sabbath day, to keep it holy. Six days you shall labor and do all your work, but the seventh day is the Sabbath of the Lord your God. In it you shall do no work: you, nor your son, nor your daughter, nor your manservant, nor your maidservant, nor your cattle, nor your stranger who is within your gates. For in six days the Lord made the heavens and the earth, the sea, and all that is in them, and rested the seventh day. Therefore the Lord blessed the Sabbath day and hallowed it.	Honor your father and your mother, that your days may be long upon the land which the Lord your God gives you. You shall not murder. You shall not commit adultery You shall not steal You shall not bear false witness against your neighbor. You shall not covet your neighbor's house; you shall not covet your neighbor's wife, nor his manservant, nor his maidservant, nor his ox, nor his donkey, nor anything that is your neighbor's.

Please notice that the one commandment that everyone tries to forget is the one which starts with the word "Remember"!

So maybe you belong to the kind of church which teaches you that you can disregard the Old Testament. Many make the claim that the Old Testament was just for the Jews, and that the New Testament is for the Christians.

With that in mind, try also to remember this...Jesus said, "Do not think that I came to destroy the Law or the Prophets. I did not come to destroy but to fulfill (he came to fulfill prophecy).For assuredly, I say to you, till heaven and earth pass away, one jot or one tittle will by no means pass from the law till all (prophecy)is fulfilled. Whoever therefore breaks one of the least of these commandments, and teaches men so, shall be called least in the kingdom of heaven; but whoever does and teaches them, he shall be called great in the kingdom of heaven." Matthew 5:17-19. Jesus also quoted from the old testament, and he kept the Sabbath. One of the books he often quoted was from the Prophet Isaiah. According to Isaiah 58:13-14

¹³If thou turn away thy foot from the Sabbath, from doing thy pleasure on my
holy day; and call the Sabbath a delight, the holy of the LORD, honorable; and
shalt honor him, not doing thine own ways, nor finding thine own pleasure, nor
speaking thine own words: ¹⁴Then shalt thou delight thyself in the LORD; and I
will cause thee to ride upon the high places of the earth, and feed thee with the
heritage of Jacob thy father: for the mouth of the LORD hath spoken it.

Remember what the heritage of Jacob was? Jacob's name was changed to Israel by God. When we accept Christ, we are adopted by Jesus with the price of His blood...we are adopted into the spiritual family of Israel, God's Chosen People. That means we are going to be saved from the final death--ETERNAL SEPARATION from GOD.

According to Matthew 12:8, and Luke 6:5, the Son of Man is Lord even of the Sabbath. Now if Jesus is the Lord of the Sabbath, why would he do away with it?

Look up Hebrews 4:4-5, 8-11.

Challenge

I challenge you to email a scripture to me which says that God commanded his people to break his original commandments, and to keep the first day holy.