Sabbath

Jesus said, 'The Sabbath was made for man' (Mark 2:27). God didn't make the Sabbath for the earth; He made it for mankind - for you, for your neighbor, and for each person around the globe.

The fourth commandment enjoins the observance of 'the seventh day,' and all the inhabitants of our round world have a seventh day to each of their weeks. God has invited us to keep the seventh day as it comes to us and is marked off by His great time-keeper, the sun. When the sun sets on Friday night, we know that our six laboring days are past and that the Sabbath is commencing.

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While many wonderful events in the Bible occurred on certain days of the week, there is no direct command from God to keep them holy.

For instance, Jesus died for our sins on a Friday. That is arguably the most significant event in all of history, marking the moment our death sentence was commuted and our opportunity for salvation assured. But not even one Bible text hints that we should observe this day of such great significance.

However, there is indeed a memorial of the resurrection commanded in the Bible, but it is not keeping Sunday holy. Instead, the apostle Paul wrote, "We were buried with Him through baptism into death, that just as Christ was raised from the dead by the ...

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