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The Bondage of the Sabbath Day

The Bondage of the Sabbath Day

It is folly for a Christian to try to live under a law or
laws which no longer exist. This situation is like stopping
at a corner after the stop sign has been removed. You can
stop, but you don’t have to. This is similar to Christians
who adhere to keeping the Sabbath. Tradition must not
blind us and keep us unaware of changes which occur as
the Word of God progresses from one age to the next.

The laws of the Sabbath were given to Israel and,
therefore, apply to Israel. Since these laws were never
given to the Church, their interpretation cannot be for
it. The Sabbath laws were applied to and for Israel and
as such were never altered, changed or transferred to
any other period.

The Scriptures clearly state that we as born-again sons
of God are not under law, but grace.

Romans 7:4:
Wherefore, my brethren, ye also are become dead to
the law by [on account of] the body of Christ. . . .

How could the law possibly have power over us when
the law is dead?

People trying to live under a law which does not
pertain to them is not new in the Christian age. Paul had
such in the church at Galatia.

Galatians 4:31:
So then, brethren, we are not children of the bondwoman,
but of the free.

Galatians 5:1:
Stand fast therefore in the liberty wherewith Christ
hath made us free, and be not entangled again with
the yoke of bondage.

Galatians 4:9-11:
But now, after that ye have known God, or rather
are known of God, how turn ye again to the weak
and beggarly elements [including the law], whereunto
ye desire again to be in bondage?
Ye observe days, and months, and times, and years.
I am afraid of you, lest I have bestowed upon you
labour in vain.

Romans 14:5, 6:
One man esteemeth one day above another: another
esteemeth every day alike. Let every man be fully
persuaded in his own mind.
He that regardeth the day, regardeth it unto the Lord;
and he that regardeth not the day, to the Lord he
doth not regard it. He that eateth, eateth to the Lord,
for he giveth God thanks; and he that eateth not, to
the Lord he eateth not, and giveth God thanks.

Colossians 2:16:
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.

The vast majority of born-again believers assemble
to worship on Sunday, on which day Jesus was first
seen in His resurrected body. Simply because most of
us observe Sunday does not mean we keep it under the
compulsion of the law; we keep it because we are under
grace and wish to do so. In our age, during the Church
Administration, every day is sacred according to the
Word of God and not one day more so than any other
day. Each day should be lived unto the Lord, though in
our tradition most Christians have set aside Sunday especially
as a day of rest and special worship.
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Besides the Sabbath, other days spoken of in the
Bible also need clarification, specifically “man’s day,”
“Christ’s day,” and the “Lord’s day.”

Man’s day pertains to now, the age of Grace. Man
today passes judgment and sentence; he directs the policy.

I Corinthians 4:3:
But with me it is a very small thing that I should be
judged of you, or of man’s judgment: yea, I judge
not mine own self.

In the King James Version the word “day” is translated
“judgment” In essence this word “judgment” expresses
the truth that in man’s day man does sit in judgment but
only for a brief period.

Christ’s Day is coming. In that day Christ will come
for His Church; He will gather the dead in Christ and
those believers who are yet alive.

Philippians 1:6, 10:
Being confident of this very thing, that he which
hath begun a good work in you will perform it until
the day of Jesus Christ.
That ye may approve things that are excellent; that
ye may be sincere and without offence till the day
of Christ.

Philippians 2:16:
Holding forth the word of life; that I may rejoice in
the day of Christ, that I have not run in vain, neither
laboured in vain.

The Lord’s Day (or the Day of the Lord) is not a day
of the week as has been commonly believed. It is not
Sunday. But, the Lord’s Day is His Day on earth, when
the Lord Himself shall rule in righteousness and power
and glory. The Apostle John was shown this Day in the
distant future.

Revelation 1:10:
I was in the Spirit on the Lord’s day, and heard
behind me a great voice, as of a trumpet.

As I Thessalonians informs us, that Day will not overtake
us born-again believers as a thief, for we are not in
darkness but we are the children of light.

I Thessalonians 5:2-5:
For yourselves know perfectly that the day of the
Lord so cometh as a thief in the night
For when they shall say, Peace and safety; then sudden
destruction cometh upon them, as travail upon
a woman with child, and they shall not escape.
But ye, brethren, are not in darkness, that that day
should overtake you as a thief.
Ye are all the children of light, and the children of
the day: we are not of the night, nor of darkness.

When we rightly divide the Word of Truth, we clear
the atmosphere of the wrong teaching regarding the Sabbath
and the other days mentioned in the Bible. We are
not believers tied to one legalistic day of worship. We
worship God daily in spirit and in truth. Tradition dare
not blind us to the truth of the light of God’s Word.