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So many come to us in order to show us that the Seventh-day Sabbath is no longer binding for the Christian. Their stated agenda is to lift up Christ, so they tell us that the works of the law do not save a man. We have already gone to great lengths in order to show that we know that fact. We have also shown that we already know how the whole process works. But then, the same people who accused us of being legalists would then vouch for Sunday-keeping. What therefore is going on?

Well, there are certain points they would throw into their propositions, and we hope to explain and expound upon what they're trying to do and where they can be caught in error here.

They remark about the "complete" silence in the New Testament about any obligation about the Sabbath command. We show that there is relative silence, but it is not complete. What is mentioned about the Sabbath is even more strong than anything mentioned about keeping Sunday, but the issue is not being right here. The issue is despotism: whether or not people can rant fables into enforced reality as had happened during the Dark Ages and Protestant Reformation.

There was relative silence in the New Testament on the practice of Sabbath-keeping to be handed down to us as Christians. That was because of conditions and situations during those times. The Pharisees, among others, made sure that everyone knew about everything there was to do about the Sabbath AND MUCH, MUCH MORE. Scripturally, that was practically all the complaint that the Jews could make against Christ during His life: that He broke the Sabbath, but then found it impossible to accuse Him of Sabbath-breaking at His trial and condemnation. Christ healed on the Sabbath. The Pharisees made that out to be a crime, but the scriptures did not. The Apostles therefore found that they not only didn't have to expound upon the Sabbath at that time, but often spent time trying to tune down the extra regulations that were put upon it by the Scribes and Pharisees.

Still, Protestant principle dictates that silence proves nothing if commands were already set forth before. If the Lord asked that something be done, the Christian will keep doing that thing until clear instruction is given stopping the practice. There will be and can be no guesswork here. But we have already shown that there was a solid command to keep the Sabbath, and the command was never annulled.

We pointed out Matthew 5:17-19, where Christ told us that not one jot or tittle shall pass from the law till all be fulfilled. He said, "Till heaven and earth pass." Again, in predicting the destruction of the temple at Jerusalem and also His imminent coming, Christ told His disciples in Matthew 24 that they should pray that their flight be not in the Winter, nor upon the Sabbath day.

"But the Disciples were Jews! Those instructions were not for us Christians!"

And so our enemies, when it suits their purposes, work to make classifications and separation in order to evade their sacred duties. These would later be found quoting this scripture:

Galatians 3:28 There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither bond nor free, there is neither male nor female: for ye are all one in Christ Jesus.

Our response to the idea that Christ was talking to the Disciples and was therefore talking to Jews comes from the Gospel commission to all his followers. Christ gave this instruction to His Disciples who were Jews:

Matt. 28:19 Go ye therefore, and teach all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost: 20 Teaching them to observe all things whatsoever I have commanded you: and, lo, I am with you alway, even unto the end of the world. Amen.

So here we see that Christ's instructions applied to the Christians also. That was why, during the destruction of the Temple at Jerusalem that Christ was specifically talking about in that chapter, not one Christian perished in the conflagration. The Christians heeded this instruction of Christ.

"I'm sorry, but the commandments were all done away with at the cross. The Apostles then gave us back nine of the Ten Commandments for the Christian, but the Sabbath simply is not mentioned!"

This statement is just not true. When the Ten Commandments were proclaimed upon Mt. Sinai, it was done with awful grandeur and display. It was done so where most all the specially appointed people of God were so that they can all witness the event. It was done very ceremoniously, and this display was all done TO ELIMINATE ALL CONFUSION about the duties that were already imposed upon Christ's servants. All were to witness it so that there were no questions about what took place. Even the honor of Moses and the fact that had to be embraced that he was a servant of God and is to be implicitly obeyed was shown and demonstrated at Mt. Sinai. All this was done to eliminate confusion.

What is being told us by those who hate the Sabbath is that Peter in the New Testament mentioned one principle of the Ten Commandments to be still obeyed for the Christian therefore giving us back one commandment for the New Testament, while Paul would mention another. Collectively the Apostles would mention one and then another until all of the commandments are mentioned EXCEPT THE SABBATH given back to us in the New Testament for the Christian. But still Sunday gets in there somewhere and somehow.

When Peter spoke and re-emphasized one of the commandments, neither Paul nor any of the other thousands of Christians were there. Paul probably didn't even know that Peter spoke, and the same is true the other way around. On this vital issue we cannot blame the God of heaven for the confusion that exists around these issues today.

What is being done here is the taking of statements made by the Apostles in casual conversation where they were showing that the commandments were still valid. One would expound upon one, while another will expound upon another in casual conversation. Clearly the statements that were made were not some awesome moment to change the course of any history.

"But the Disciples met in Acts 15 in order to show that the Sabbath and those other laws of the Jews were no longer valid. They even concluded that there were no further duties for the Christian but to refrain from eating strangled meats and meats offered to idols!"

Acts 15:28 For it seemed good to the Holy Ghost, and to us, to lay upon you no greater burden than these necessary things; 29 That ye abstain from meats offered to idols, and from blood, and from things strangled, and from fornication: from which if ye keep yourselves, ye shall do well. Fare ye well.

Yes, that is what that scripture says, but to conclude that all the duty for a Christian is what is said here is stretching things way out of proportion. The beginning of the chapter tells us that there was a controversy because certain Jews were preaching that if all did not keep the law after the manner of Moses, they could not be saved. That was therefore the controversy that was dealt with in that famous meeting of Acts 15. The scripture above is telling us that concerning those issues, Christians are to make sure that they stay away from meats strangled, offered to idols and from fornication. The scripture above is not telling Christians that it is now all right to lie, cheat or steal. Christ already made His statement clear about all the principles of the Law in Matthew 5:17-19.

As the need arises we will more update these contentions.

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