The Sabbath Verses Sunday Part 2

INTRODUCTION: Last Sunday was Pentecost Sunday. We continued our study of the doctrine of the Church and were on the topic of the relationship of the Church to Israel. In this section I am taking time to do two messages on Sunday verses the Sabbath. Since I did not want to wait until next year to do this second message on this topic, we are finishing it today.

We began last Sunday by answering the question: What is the Sabbath. We said it is the seventh day of the week set out as a sign between God and Israel, in which Israel was to remember that God had given them rest from their bondage in Egypt. Sabbath keeping, as I understand it, was instituted in the time of Moses, when God first began to feed them Manna from heaven in the wilderness. And the Sabbath was to be kept holy, that is it was not to be defiled by doing any slightest bit of work. Those who even picked up sticks on the Sabbath, were stoned to death.

Then we asked who changed the Sabbath to Sunday, and it is my conclusion that the Sabbath was never changed to Sunday. The Sabbath is still Saturday. However, in the NT, the Sabbath is never commanded for the Church. Nor did the Catholic Church change the Sabbath to Sunday. We will see that in today's message. We also pointed out that Sunday keeping does not make one guilty of worshipping the sun God of the Teutonics.