Does the day of Christ resurrections tell us to change the worship of Sabbath?

[Hobie]

..to Sunday, or the first day of the week?

Some people claim the Sabbath was changed by the resurrection or say 'I keep Sunday in honor of the Resurrection', or they are told that the Apostles began keeping Sunday as the day of worship after the resurrection, but did they? Did the resurrection somehow make the Sabbath to cease or cause a change in the day of worship?

Worship is the reason for the Sabbath from Creation and it is the only day God ever gave us to worship Him on, so we must be careful we don't change to ideas of men. Christ warned that this would happen...

Matthew 15:9
But in vain they do worship me, teaching for doctrines the commandments of men.

Mark 7:7
Howbeit in vain do they worship me, teaching for doctrines the commandments of men.

So what should we do, follow what man says and 'traditions' that man comes up with? God gives us is the truth and we find it in His Word..
John 17:17
Sanctify them through thy truth: thy word is truth.
1 Timothy 2:4
Who will have all men to be saved, and to come unto the knowledge of the truth.

If we turn from Gods truth what happens...

2 Thessalonians 2:10
And with all deceivableness of unrighteousness in them that perish; because they received not the love of the truth, that they might be saved.

It is not safe to refuse obedience to the clear and obvious truths of God’s Word.

Proverbs 28:9
He that turneth away his ear from hearing the law, even his prayer shall be abomination.

So what does it tell us clearly in the Word of God when men come up with changes to what God has given us, or bring in tradition which go against Gods Law.

Acts 5:29
Then Peter and the other apostles answered and said, We ought to obey God rather than men.

So does the resurrection change the day of the Sabbath, what do we have from Gods Word. Well the problem is that God never told anyone to keep Sunday in honor of the resurrection of Christ, or for any other reason. But He decidedly and repeatedly told us to keep holy the seventh day of the week. In Gethsemane on Thursday night and on the cross on Friday morning and afternoon, our salvation hung in the balance. By sundown Friday it was all settled. The price had been paid. The salvation of those who would accept it was assured. Then came the Sabbath day of rest, and Jesus our Lord rested in the tomb.

On Sunday morning, He rose and another work week began. Christ began working again. We see no changes made and if there was something that we should focus on, the resurrection of Christ is in no way as important as is Calvary. Those who wish to abandon a clear command of God to keep the seventh day for another day, might as well say they keep Friday holy in honor of Calvary. But we keep a day holy because God says to, not because man says to do it or we decide to.

Some say that they keep Sunday because it is the "great memorial of our redemption." This is not true. The sign or symbol or memorial of our redemption is the Bible Sabbath. Our keeping of it is the sign by which all men shall know that we belong to God our Creator and that it is He, and not we ourselves, who is saving us from sin and will ultimately redeem us from this evil world. The seventh-day Sabbath is the seal of the law and the sign that He is our Creator.

Exodus 31:16-17
16 Wherefore the children of Israel shall keep the sabbath, to observe the sabbath throughout their generations, for a perpetual covenant.
17 It is a sign between me and the children of Israel for ever: for in six days the Lord made heaven and earth, and on the seventh day he rested, and was refreshed.

And through whom we are sanctified so we may be saved by the Redeemer and stand perfect before God.

Ezekiel 20:12
Moreover also I gave them my sabbaths, to be a sign between me and them, that they might know that I am the Lord that sanctify them.

Matthew 5:48
Be ye therefore perfect, even as your Father which is in heaven is perfect.

So do we break the Law the Creator wrote with His own finger, and continue in sin..
Romans 6:1
What shall we say then? Shall we continue in sin, that grace may abound?

The answer is clear, 'God forbid.'

 

[Eleanor]

Christians are under Christ's law which sums up the Law in one rule (Ro 13:8); i. e., love of God and neighbor as self--he who loves has fulfilled the law.

 

[Mr GLee]

..to Sunday, or the first day of the week?

Some people claim the Sabbath was changed by the resurrection or say 'I keep Sunday in honor of the Resurrection', or they are told that the Apostles began keeping Sunday as the day of worship after the resurrection, but did they? Did the resurrection somehow make the Sabbath to cease or cause a change in the day of worship?

Worship is the reason for the Sabbath from Creation and it is the only day God ever gave us to worship Him on, so we must be careful we don't change to ideas of men. Christ warned that this would happen...

Matthew 15:9
But in vain they do worship me, teaching for doctrines the commandments of men.

Mark 7:7
Howbeit in vain do they worship me, teaching for doctrines the commandments of men.

So what should we do, follow what man says and 'traditions' that man comes up with? God gives us is the truth and we find it in His Word..
John 17:17
Sanctify them through thy truth: thy word is truth.
1 Timothy 2:4
Who will have all men to be saved, and to come unto the knowledge of the truth.

If we turn from Gods truth what happens...

2 Thessalonians 2:10
And with all deceivableness of unrighteousness in them that perish; because they received not the love of the truth, that they might be saved.

It is not safe to refuse obedience to the clear and obvious truths of God’s Word.

Proverbs 28:9
He that turneth away his ear from hearing the law, even his prayer shall be abomination.

So what does it tell us clearly in the Word of God when men come up with changes to what God has given us, or bring in tradition which go against Gods Law.

Acts 5:29
Then Peter and the other apostles answered and said, We ought to obey God rather than men.

So does the resurrection change the day of the Sabbath, what do we have from Gods Word. Well the problem is that God never told anyone to keep Sunday in honor of the resurrection of Christ, or for any other reason. But He decidedly and repeatedly told us to keep holy the seventh day of the week. In Gethsemane on Thursday night and on the cross on Friday morning and afternoon, our salvation hung in the balance. By sundown Friday it was all settled. The price had been paid. The salvation of those who would accept it was assured. Then came the Sabbath day of rest, and Jesus our Lord rested in the tomb.

On Sunday morning, He rose and another work week began. Christ began working again. We see no changes made and if there was something that we should focus on, the resurrection of Christ is in no way as important as is Calvary. Those who wish to abandon a clear command of God to keep the seventh day for another day, might as well say they keep Friday holy in honor of Calvary. But we keep a day holy because God says to, not because man says to do it or we decide to.

Some say that they keep Sunday because it is the "great memorial of our redemption." This is not true. The sign or symbol or memorial of our redemption is the Bible Sabbath. Our keeping of it is the sign by which all men shall know that we belong to God our Creator and that it is He, and not we ourselves, who is saving us from sin and will ultimately redeem us from this evil world. The seventh-day Sabbath is the seal of the law and the sign that He is our Creator.

Exodus 31:16-17
16 Wherefore the children of Israel shall keep the sabbath, to observe the sabbath throughout their generations, for a perpetual covenant.
17 It is a sign between me and the children of Israel for ever: for in six days the Lord made heaven and earth, and on the seventh day he rested, and was refreshed.

And through whom we are sanctified so we may be saved by the Redeemer and stand perfect before God.

Ezekiel 20:12
Moreover also I gave them my sabbaths, to be a sign between me and them, that they might know that I am the Lord that sanctify them.

Matthew 5:48
Be ye therefore perfect, even as your Father which is in heaven is perfect.

So do we break the Law the Creator wrote with His own finger, and continue in sin..
Romans 6:1
What shall we say then? Shall we continue in sin, that grace may abound?

The answer is clear, 'God forbid.'

The word rest or the greek translation Sabbath They should of used the English less confusing is not a time sensitive we rest every time 24/7 if we do not harden our hearts and resist the gospel.

I wonder why the paraphraser's used time sensitive word like week rather than rest. . Week a word not coined in the Greek until a hundred or thousand of years later

Week is not sabbath "rest" .It is a time sensitive word. The boasting Pharisee said he only eats two meals out of three meals allotted to with the ceremonial shadow.The same times he gives his tithe not I resting twice and week and giving a tithe two times


.Luke 18:11-13King James Version11 The Pharisee stood and prayed thus with himself, God, I thank thee, that I am not as other men are, extortioners, unjust, adulterers, or even as this publican. I fast twice in the week,(rest) I give tithes of all that I possess. And the publican, standing afar off, would not lift up so much as his eyes unto heaven, but smote upon his breast, saying, God be merciful to me a sinner.

 

[Eleanor]

..to Sunday, or the first day of the week?

Some people claim the Sabbath was changed by the resurrection or say 'I keep Sunday in honor of the Resurrection', or they are told that the Apostles began keeping Sunday as the day of worship after the resurrection, but did they? Did the resurrection somehow make the Sabbath to cease or cause a change in the day of worship?

Worship is the reason for the Sabbath from Creation and it is the only day God ever gave us to worship Him on, so we must be careful we don't change to ideas of men. Christ warned that this would happen...

The Sabbath was made for man, not man for the Sabbath (Mk 2:27).
The reason for the Sabbath was rest for man (Lev 23:3, Dt 5:13), a sign forever (Ex 31:17) of our rest forever in Christ's finished work which saves.

The NT Sabbath is Christ in whom we rest from our own works to save and in his completed work which saves (Heb 3:7-4:11).

 

[Hobie]

The Sabbath was made for man, not man for the Sabbath (Mk 2:27).
The reason for the Sabbath was rest for man (Lev 23:3, Dt 5:13), a sign forever (Ex 31:17) of our rest forever in Christ's finished work which saves.

The NT Sabbath is Christ in whom we rest from our own works to save and in his completed work which saves (Heb 3:7-4:11).

But Christ Himself says...
Matthew 5:19
Whosoever therefore shall break one of these least commandments, and shall teach men so, he shall be called the least in the kingdom of heaven: but whosoever shall do and teach them, the same shall be called great in the kingdom of heaven.

Matthew 19:17
And he said unto him, Why callest thou me good? there is none good but one, that is, God: but if thou wilt enter into life, keep the commandments.

 

[Fred]

But Christ Himself says...
Matthew 5:19
Whosoever therefore shall break one of these least commandments, and shall teach men so, he shall be called the least in the kingdom of heaven: but whosoever shall do and teach them, the same shall be called great in the kingdom of heaven.

This would include physical circumcision.
That isn't required for a Christian. Paul affirms it is nothing but what is important is keeping the commandments of God (1 Corinthians 7:19) - The New Covenant commandments.

Matthew 19:17
And he said unto him, Why callest thou me good? there is none good but one, that is, God: but if thou wilt enter into life, keep the commandments.

Which ones did Christ say to keep (Matthew 19:18. 19)?

 

[eclipseEventSigns]

On Sunday morning, He rose and another work week began. Christ began working again.

Only the women came to the tomb BEFORE the sun was up. The stone had already been rolled away. There is no indication at all of exactly when the resurrection happened. But according to the very words of Jesus, he would be in the tomb exactly 3 days and 3 nights - the sign of Jonah. That means he was placed in the tomb at the start of the festival Sabbath (the first day of the Feast of Unleavened Bread). This was Wednesday evening. 3 days and 3 nights later would be at the end of the weekly Sabbath and the beginning of the 1st day of the week. Jewish days ALWAYS begin when the sun goes below the horizon. Jesus most likely arose around 6:30pm on Saturday, April 28, 31 AD.

 

[eclipseEventSigns]

But Christ Himself says...
Matthew 5:19
Whosoever therefore shall break one of these least commandments, and shall teach men so, he shall be called the least in the kingdom of heaven: but whosoever shall do and teach them, the same shall be called great in the kingdom of heaven.

Matthew 19:17
And he said unto him, Why callest thou me good? there is none good but one, that is, God: but if thou wilt enter into life, keep the commandments.

Very important verse that this topic needs to address:

[Col 2:16-17 LSB] 16 Therefore, no one is to judge you in food and drink, or in respect to a festival or a new moon or a Sabbath day-- 17 things which are [only] a shadow of what is to come; but the substance belongs to Christ.

 

[Josheb]

Does the day of Christ's resurrection tell us to change the worship of sabbath to Sunday, or the first day of the week?

Curiously worded question.

First, we do not worship the sabbath.
Second, yes, the resurrection of Christ does tell us to change the day of sabbath worship, but it is not the day he arose that does this.
Third, no, the day resurrection of Christ does not tell us to change the day of sabbath to Sunday.


Part 1:

The seventh day was the day God "rested" after His six days of creating creation (Gen. 2:2) and the text states He rested from His work and then blessed the day and sanctified it (v.3). This rest should not be interpreted to mean the almighty infinite God was tired, fatigued, exhausted, or otherwise in need of rest. The word simply means to stop working, to cease, desist, or rest whatever is being done. This rest (Heb. = wayyisibot) is much, much different then the rest of verses like Psalm 95:11 where we read God telling those practicing the seventh day sabbath they would never enter His rest. That word (Heb. = menuchah) is translated as "rest," but that word means resting place or place of relaxation, respite, leisure and/or repose. Verses like Psalm 95:11 are integrally important to understanding the sabbath and the Sabbaths because the people were expected to stop working and take rest and stop working and take rest specifically to worship God on that one day. Six days you work, one you worship. In other words, the word "shabath" does not mean to a time of rest or leisure. It means stop working. When the Law of Moses was provided the Jews were commanded "work six days, but on the seventh day you shall rest," and this rest is, in Hebrew, "tisbot," which is a blunt command to stop working. They were told to stop working even during the planting and harvest seasons. A separate command was given to use that day for worship. The hassabath of the Decalogue is still another derivation of the word "stop."

The four salient points are 1) God spoke quite diversely of stopping work on one day, 2) God also spoke about a place of respite, and 3) stopping and finding respite are two completely different conditions, but 4) our English translations of the Hebrew have seriously mucked it up. The Tanakh uses several words (more than four) for the two conditions just described but they are all rendered in English as "rest," and that creates a problem of conflation. English readers think all those passages (241 of them in the OT) mean the exact same thing when the simplest examination of Hebrew readily shows that is not the case.

 

[Josheb]

Part 2:

Returning to Psalm 95:11, not the words are spoken to a people who keep the seventh day of cessation of work. It is spoken to a people who dedicate that day of cessation to worship, but they are NOT permitted to enter God's place of respite!!! How can that be? How can those obedient to the letter of the Law not be permitted God's respite? I'll leave the answer to that question for the ensuing discussion but I will suggest the rest of Psalm 95 is directly related to something Daniel prophesied.

Daniel 12:9-13
He said, "Go your way, Daniel, for these words are concealed and sealed up until the end time. Many will be purged, purified and refined, but the wicked will act wickedly; and none of the wicked will understand, but those who have insight will understand. From the time that the regular sacrifice is abolished and the abomination of desolation is set up, there will be 1,290 days. How blessed is he who keeps waiting and attains to the 1,335 days! But as for you, go your way to the end; then you will enter into rest and rise again for your allotted portion at the end of the age."

That this is an eschatological matter should be clear.

I will not quote the entirety of the next relevant text because it covers two entire chapters in the book of Hebrews, but chapters 3 and 4 explain how entering God's rest is a product of believing the gospel. The narrative begins with a comparison between Moses and Jesus. Moses is the only prophet to have routinely spoken with God directly. No other prophet had to wear a veil because the exchange with God changed him so much others could not look upon him. Moses is said to be faithful in the house of God. Hebrews 3 reports Jesus is the builder of that house. Moses served in the house Jesus built. For that reason Jesus is a higher priest than both Moses and the Levitical order. As the author of Hebrews puts it, he is the "High Priest of our confession." He is NOT the High Priest of the Jew or the Jewish confession, or the confession of Judaism because they do not believe in Jesus, they do not accept him as the Messiah , they do not worship him as Lord and Savior. They do not, therefore, believe their own prophecies . The author of Hebrews continues on to say the Jews were excluded from God's respite because of His anger or wrath (Heb. 3:11) and their disobedience (v. 3:18). Again, I remind the reader that exclusion was said to those holding to the seventh day sabbath. There were times in OT Jewish history when they neglected that day but Psalm 95 is not one of them. Notice also that psalm makes a connection between disobedience and unbelief. Logically, this all means a person can abide by the seventh day to stop working and even do so setting aside the day to worship God but if he is not doing so in Christ then s/he will nt enter God's respite.

It is just dead works.

The Hebrews 3 and 4 text reiterates all these points so I encourage and exhort anyone reading this post to stop reading and read Hebrews chapters 3 and 4 and come back to this post afterwards because the entire book of Hebrews is about changes that occur as a consequence of Christ's resurrection (notice this op does not attend to ANY of that content in the Bible), and for the sake of space I am going to move on to another relevant text; Romans 14.

 

[Josheb]

Part 3:

In Romans 14 Paul is addressing the condition of debate and division that occurred in the early Church and speaks to two specific matters: dietary restrictions and special days of the week. He does this by opening with an exhortation to accept those whose faith is week. In other words, the weak in faith had difficulty with what to eat and what days to honor.

Romans 14:5-14
One person regards one day above another, another regards every day alike. Each person must be fully convinced in his own mind. He who observes the day, observes it for the Lord, and he who eats, does so for the Lord, for he gives thanks to God; and he who eats not, for the Lord he does not eat, and gives thanks to God. For not one of us lives for himself, and not one dies for himself; for if we live, we live for the Lord, or if we die, we die for the Lord; therefore, whether we live or die, we are the Lord's. For to this end Christ died and lived again, that He might be Lord both of the dead and of the living. But you, why do you judge your brother? Or you again, why do you regard your brother with contempt? For we will all stand before the judgment seat of God.......... So then, each one of us will give an account of himself to God. Therefore, let us not judge one another anymore, but rather determine this—not to put an obstacle or a stumbling block in a brother's way. I know and am convinced in the Lord Jesus that nothing is unclean in itself; but to him who thinks anything to be unclean, to him it is unclean.


Many argue this is about pagan converts honoring pagan holy days but that is reading into the text. We know from other places in the epistolary one of the biggest problems in the early Church was the inappropriate Judaization of life in Christ and that was typically characterized by a legalistic adherence to the Law of Moses. In other words, the problem of Judaization was much more common than that of paganism. So we cannot automatically dismiss the Jewish holy days from Paul's commentary. There's another avenue of approach here that gets us to the same conclusion. When Paul and Barnabas first went to the council of apostle in Jerusalem in Acts 15 they were exhorted to tell people not to eat meat with blood still in it, as was stipulated in the Law of Moses. Paul and the rest of those sent out agreed. Yet later we find Paul telling others meat offered to idols is not a concern because and idol is nothing (1 Cor. 8).

The point being is that Paul has said we, the saints, are free to honor one day above another AND free to honor all days alike but he stipulates two requirements: 1) we do so in honor of God, the Creator of the day, not worshiping the day. We worship the creator, not the created. 2) We do so without judging those who do differently. Where there is liberty, someone would enslave. The reason this liberty exists is because the resurrection of Christ changed things. The seventh day sabbath and the Jewish special Sabbaths were all foreshadows of and testimonies to Jesus (something else left out of the op).

Notice the op cites verse like Mt. 15:9 and Mk. 7:7 but nowhere mentions those words were spoken to and about those who religiously, legalistically adhered to the seventh day cessation and worship! Notice also this op contains only two verses that specifically, explicitly mention the sabbath. Notice also the selectivity of the op: there are not scriptures on the sabbath prior to the Law and or after the resurrection. In the absence of those scriptures the op would have us judge others as deceived and unrighteous. In comparison, this post surveys scripture from beginning to end and emphasizes scripture specifically pertaining to the Christian without forcing the Christian to act like a Christ-denying Jew.

Revelation 14:13
And I heard a voice from heaven, saying, "Write, 'Blessed are the dead who die in the Lord from now on!'" "Yes," says the Spirit, "so that they may rest from their labors, for their deeds follow with them."

That verse will never apply to the Christ-denying Jew. No one denying Christ will ever enter God's respite no matter how uniformly they keep a seven-day schedule. It is possible for those in Christ to adhere to the seventh-day sabbath, a first-day sabbath, and an every-day sabbath. All days are Gods and all days should be honored as such and God given the glory.

One last verse:

Matthew 12:12
How much more valuable then is a person than a sheep! So then, it is lawful to do good on the Sabbath.

Keep in mind the example Jesus gave was pulling an ox out of a ditch (work) and the actions for which he was accused of breaking the sabbath was heling others and preaching the gospel.

 

[Hobie]

This would include physical circumcision.
That isn't required for a Christian. Paul affirms it is nothing but what is important is keeping the commandments of God (1 Corinthians 7:19) - The New Covenant commandments.



Which ones did Christ say to keep (Matthew 19:18. 19)?

No, this was not in the Ten Commandments which is Gods Moral law clearly written out and shows us what sin is. The Ten Commandments are the only thing that the Creator of Heaven and Earth, and the Sabbath, personally spoke and then personally etched His Law into stone tablets with His own finger, here stands the commandments of God given on the two tablets as everlasting.
Exodus 31:18
And he gave unto Moses, when he had made an end of communing with him upon mount Sinai, two tables of testimony, tables of stone, written with the finger of God.

So it was not a law from Moses but from God, and He and His law do not change.

 

[Hobie]

Now on the question on what is lawful to do on the Sabbath if we look in scripture we find it was answered by Christ Himself..
Mark 3:4
And he saith unto them, Is it lawful to do good on the sabbath days, or to do evil? to save life, or to kill? But they held their peace.

Luke 6:9
Then said Jesus unto them, I will ask you one thing; Is it lawful on the sabbath days to do good, or to do evil? to save life, or to destroy it?

Notice what the answer of the ones accusing Him of breaking the Sabbath was. nothing. The Pharisees had made the Sabbath a burnden with all their little rabbinical traditions and petty rules and Christ laid out the true principles and purpose behind it. I posted this in one of the threads on this...

Jesus was without sin. He needed to be a spotless lamb with no sin, and he was a spotless lamb. In being accused of breaking the Law by the Pharisee, Jesus made this clear in His challenge basically asking them who can charge me of any sin?
Mark 3:1-5
1And he entered again into the synagogue; and there was a man there which had a withered hand.
2 And they watched him, whether he would heal him on the sabbath day; that they might accuse him.
3 And he saith unto the man which had the withered hand, Stand forth.
4 And he saith unto them, Is it lawful to do good on the sabbath days, or to do evil? to save life, or to kill? But they held their peace.
5 And when he had looked round about on them with anger, being grieved for the hardness of their hearts, he saith unto the man, Stretch forth thine hand. And he stretched it out: and his hand was restored whole as the other.

And they're not able to bring any charge against him, because to love God and your fellowman and do good for your fellowman is in essence of the Law. And we see who really were the Law Breakers...

Mark 3:6
And the Pharisees went forth, and straightway took counsel with the Herodians against him, how they might destroy him.

And we see it in more context in Matthew 12...
Matthew 12:1-14
1 At that time Jesus went on the sabbath day through the corn; and his disciples were an hungred, and began to pluck the ears of corn and to eat.
2 But when the Pharisees saw it, they said unto him, Behold, thy disciples do that which is not lawful to do upon the sabbath day.
3 But he said unto them, Have ye not read what David did, when he was an hungred, and they that were with him;
4 How he entered into the house of God, and did eat the shewbread, which was not lawful for him to eat, neither for them which were with him, but only for the priests?
5 Or have ye not read in the law, how that on the sabbath days the priests in the temple profane the sabbath, and are blameless?
6 But I say unto you, That in this place is one greater than the temple.
7 But if ye had known what this meaneth, I will have mercy, and not sacrifice, ye would not have condemned the guiltless.
8 For the Son of man is Lord even of the sabbath day.
9 And when he was departed thence, he went into their synagogue:
10 And, behold, there was a man which had his hand withered. And they asked him, saying, Is it lawful to heal on the sabbath days? that they might accuse him.
11 And he said unto them, What man shall there be among you, that shall have one sheep, and if it fall into a pit on the sabbath day, will he not lay hold on it, and lift it out?
12 How much then is a man better than a sheep? Wherefore it is lawful to do well on the sabbath days.
13 Then saith he to the man, Stretch forth thine hand. And he stretched it forth; and it was restored whole, like as the other.
14 Then the Pharisees went out, and held a council against him, how they might destroy him.

 

[Hobie]

Now on the confusion of the 'Lords Day', lets look at scripture and see what day it truly was...

Exodus 20:8-11
8 Remember the sabbath day, to keep it holy. 9 Six days shalt thou labour, and do all thy work: 10 But the seventh day is the sabbath of the LORD thy God: in it thou shalt not do any work, thou, nor thy son, nor thy daughter, thy manservant, nor thy maidservant, nor thy cattle, nor thy stranger that is within thy gates: 11 For in six days the LORD made heaven and earth, the sea, and all that in them is, and rested the seventh day: wherefore the LORD blessed the sabbath day, and hallowed it.

It is the Sabbath of the Lord thy God, not Moses' sabbath, or the Jews sabbath, or anyone Else's sabbath.

Leviticus 23:3 Six days shall work be done: but the seventh day is the sabbath of rest, an holy convocation; ye shall do no work therein: it is the sabbath of the LORD in all your dwellings.

We see the same.

Deuteronomy 5:12-13
12 Keep the sabbath day to sanctify it, as the LORD thy God hath commanded thee. 13 Six days thou shalt labour, and do all thy work: 14 But the seventh day is the sabbath of the LORD thy God: in it thou shalt not do any work, thou, nor thy son, nor thy daughter, nor thy manservant, nor thy maidservant, nor thine ox, nor thine ass, nor any of thy cattle, nor thy stranger that is within thy gates; that thy manservant and thy maidservant may rest as well as thou.

Again the same.

Exodus 31:13 Speak thou also unto the children of Israel, saying, Verily my sabbaths ye shall keep: for it is a sign between me and you throughout your generations; that ye may know that I am the LORD that doth sanctify you.

It was not 'Moses' sabbath.

Leviticus 19:1-2
1And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying, 2 Speak unto all the congregation of the children of Israel, and say unto them, Ye shall be holy: for I the LORD your God am holy. 3 Ye shall fear every man his mother, and his father, and keep my sabbaths: I am the LORD your God.

Leviticus 19:30 Ye shall keep my sabbaths, and reverence my sanctuary: I am the LORD.

Leviticus 26:2 Ye shall keep my sabbaths, and reverence my sanctuary: I am the LORD.

Isaiah 56:4-6
4 For thus saith the LORD unto the eunuchs that keep my sabbaths, and choose the things that please me, and take hold of my covenant; 5 Even unto them will I give in mine house and within my walls a place and a name better than of sons and of daughters: I will give them an everlasting name, that shall not be cut off. 6 Also the sons of the stranger, that join themselves to the LORD, to serve him, and to love the name of the LORD, to be his servants, every one that keepeth the sabbath from polluting it, and taketh hold of my covenant;

Ezekiel 20:12-13
12Moreover also I gave them my sabbaths, to be a sign between me and them, that they might know that I am the LORD that sanctify them. 13 But the house of Israel rebelled against me in the wilderness: they walked not in my statutes, and they despised my judgments, which if a man do, he shall even live in them; and my sabbaths they greatly polluted: then I said, I would pour out my fury upon them in the wilderness, to consume them.

Ezekiel 20:16 Because they despised my judgments, and walked not in my statutes, but polluted my sabbaths: for their heart went after their idols.

Ezek 20:19-24
19I am the LORD your God; walk in my statutes, and keep my judgments, and do them;
20 And hallow my sabbaths; and they shall be a sign between me and you, that ye may know that I am the LORD your God. 21 Notwithstanding the children rebelled against me: they walked not in my statutes, neither kept my judgments to do them, which if a man do, he shall even live in them; they polluted my sabbaths: then I said, I would pour out my fury upon them, to accomplish my anger against them in the wilderness. 22 Nevertheless I withdrew mine hand, and wrought for my name's sake, that it should not be polluted in the sight of the heathen, in whose sight I brought them forth. 23 I lifted up mine hand unto them also in the wilderness, that I would scatter them among the heathen, and disperse them through the countries; 24 Because they had not executed my judgments, but had despised my statutes, and had polluted my sabbaths, and their eyes were after their fathers' idols.

Ezekiel 22:8 Thou hast despised mine holy things, and hast profaned my sabbaths.

Ezekiel 22:26 Her priests have violated my law, and have profaned mine holy things: they have put no difference between the holy and profane, neither have they shewed difference between the unclean and the clean, and have hid their eyes from my sabbaths, and I am profaned among them.

Ezekiel 23:38 Moreover this they have done unto me: they have defiled my sanctuary in the same day, and have profaned my sabbaths.

The Lord claims the sabbath as His very own. It is a day, therefore it is literally, the Lord's day. This clear so how many times must the Lord call the sabbath His day to understand that there is only one day in the scriptures that would be referred to as the Lord's day? Other than the seventh day sabbath, the Lord's day can also refer to the day on which He will return to this earth. That is all. Sunday, or the first day of the week is never referred to as the Lord's day in the scriptures.

This title was only applied to Sunday later on, to cover their deception. It was applied by those who began the apostasy and abomination which was the result of the amalgamation of apostate Christianity and pagan sun worship.

 

[Hobie]

Now the word for the seventh day of the week still means rest or Sabbath in many languages. This gives evidence that the weekly Sabbath was given at Creation to all mankind. Here are a few:

Hebrew (ancient and modern) - Shab-bath = Sabbath
Ancient Syriac - Shab-ba-tho = Sabbath
Babylonian - Sa-ba-tu = Sabbath
Assyrian - Sa-ba-tu = Sabbath
Arabic (ancient and modern) - as-Sabt = The Sabbath
Maltese - Is-sibt = The Sabbath
Ge-ez or Ethiopic - San-bat = The Sabbath
Coptic (Egypt, a dead language for 200 years) - pi sabbaton = The
Sabbath
Tamashek or Towarek - a-hal es-sabt = The Sabbath day
(from ancient Lybian or Numidian, Atlas Mountains, Africa)
Hausa (Central Africa) - assebatu = The Sabbath
Greek - Savvato
Portuguese - Sabado
Romanian - Sambata
Russian - Subbota
Gothic (oldest Germanic language) - Sabbato dags
Italian - Sabato
Spanish - Sabado

Check and I am sure you will find many more as some arent even spoken anymore of have been lost or taken over.

 

[Fred]

No, this was not in the Ten Commandments

It was still a command.

here stands the commandments of God given on the two tablets as everlasting.

They would have been, but the New Covenant invalidated the commands of the Old Covenant (Hebrews 8:13).

https://christcentered.community.forum/threads/sabbath-or-sunday-what-did-jesus-teach-show-in-scripture.1309/#post-51152

 

[Hobie]

It was still a command.




They would have been, but the New Covenant invalidated the commands of the Old Covenant (Hebrews 8:13).

https://christcentered.community.forum/threads/sabbath-or-sunday-what-did-jesus-teach-show-in-scripture.1309/#post-51152

The Old and New Covenant were the same, to have the Law written in our hearts and mind, need to see what God Word gives us.

 

[Fred]

The Old and New Covenant were the same, to have the Law written in our hearts and mind, need to see what God Word gives us.

Same in some respects. To murder someone in the American colonies was a crime. It was still a crime when these colonies became states.
However, not all the laws living under British rule were carried over to these new American states.

The same holds true with the Old and New Covenants. Some laws are the same, but others are not.

 

[Josheb]

The Old and New Covenant were the same, to have the Law written in our hearts and mind, need to see what God Word gives us.

Same in some respects. To murder someone in the American colonies was a crime. It was still a crime when these colonies became states.
However, not all the laws living under British rule were carried over to these new American states.

The same holds true with the Old and New Covenants. Some laws are the same, but others are not.

Scripture does speak of God's laws on the human heart multiple times, and it does so in differing ways. To conflate them as a single condition is a mistake. @Fred's analogy is correct and conclusion is correct. However, conclusion, while correct, does not mean ALL continuity between Old and New or the Law's purpose and use in the Old and New is lost. The fact is every single New Testament writer used and applied the Law, prophets and psalms to converts to Christ both Jewish and Gentile, but they never did so as a means of obtaining righteousness, justification or perfection, and they generally did so in principle and not the letter of the Law.

That means the Christian standard, the New Testament standard, is to treat the Law as the New Testament writers did. Where they treated it literally, we should do the same. Where they treated it conceptually, we should do the same. Where they practiced the letter of the Law e should do the same. Where they taught the underlying principle and not the letter, we should do the same. Where they discarded it because it was fulfilled by Jesus in a manner empowering its annulment, abrogation or other discontinuation, we should do the same. Where they upheld the Law, either in letter or principle, we should, likewise, do the same.


In the case of this op's title and the New Testament treatment of the Sabbath Laws, those Laws were treated differently in the New than they were the Old. We have liberty to find our rest eternally, not temporally, because of Jesus' work on Calvary and at Pentecost. As a consequence, we also have liberty to honor one day above another exactly as they did in the OT, or differently than they did in the OT, or honor all days or no days above another as long as we 1) do so unto God and 2) do not judge others choosing to do it differently. The Law of the Spirit transcends both the Law of sin and death and the Law of Moses. Neither was wholly eradicated (people still die from sin) but they are small parts of a much greater Law found in Christ through his work and Spirit.

 

[Hobie]

Same in some respects. To murder someone in the American colonies was a crime. It was still a crime when these colonies became states.
However, not all the laws living under British rule were carried over to these new American states.

The same holds true with the Old and New Covenants. Some laws are the same, but others are not.

But the basis of it were the same..