Perfect Law of Love

Exo 20:8 Remember the sabbath day, to keep it holy.
Exo 20:9 Six days shalt thou labour, and do all thy work:
Exo 20:10 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:
Exo 20:11 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.


The fourth commandment of God.
Did Jesus keep the Sabbath all 33 years He lived on earth?
Yes.
Did Jesus tell anyone that the Sabbath day would be changed from the seventh to the first day of the week?
No.
Did Jesus tell anyone to celebrate His resurrection by changing the Sabbath day from the seventh day to the first day of the week?
No.
Did Jesus institute any celebrations?
Yes.

Luk 22:19 And he took bread, and gave thanks, and brake it, and gave unto them, saying, This is my body which is given for you: this do in remembrance of me.
Luk 22:20 Likewise also the cup after supper, saying, This cup is the new testament in my blood, which is shed for you.
DO THIS- in remembrance of me.

1Co 11:24 And when he had given thanks, he brake it, and said, Take, eat: this is my body, which is broken for you: this do in remembrance of me.
1Co 11:25 After the same manner also he took the cup, when he had supped, saying, This cup is the new testament in my blood: this do ye, as oft as ye drink it, in remembrance of me.
1Co 11:26 For as often as ye eat this bread, and drink this cup, ye do shew the Lord's death till he come.

THIS DO- in remembrance of me.

As OFTEN as ye eat this…and drink this… ye show the Lord's death till He come.

This decree by our Savior had NOTHING to do with keeping the Sabbath.

As often as we take bread, give thanks, brake the bread we are to remember our Savior's body given for us.
As often as we take the cup, we are to remember our Savior's blood which was shed for us.

Feasibly this could be much more often than once a week, once a quarter, once year. Who put the restriction on how often we are to remember our Savior living and dying for us? Who? Certainly not God. The apostles broke bread wherever they went and did NOT restrict themselves to any ONE day. Some believe this is so because the first day is mentioned on once occasion, but we know for a fact they broke bread often.

Let's read this passage-

Act 20:7 And upon the first day of the week when the disciples came together to break bread, Paul preached unto them, ready to depart on the morrow; and continued his speech until midnight.
Act 20:8 And there were many lights in the upper chamber, where they were gathered together.
Act 20:9 And there sat in a window a certain young man named Eutychus, being fallen into a deep sleep: and as Paul was long preaching, he sunk down with sleep, and fell down from the third loft, and was taken up dead.
Act 20:10 And Paul went down, and fell on him, and embracing him said, Trouble not yourselves; for his life is in him.
Act 20:11 When he therefore was come up again, and had broken bread, and eaten, and talked a long while, even till break of day, so he departed.
Act 20:12 And they brought the young man alive, and were not a little comforted.


On the first day of the week the disciples gathered and broke bread with Paul who was going to leave the next day. Now Paul gave a speech with last until midnight. A young man fell from a window and Paul embraced him, and he lived. Then Paul did what… he BROKE bread again! So tell me if they broke bread TWICE in one or two days… is this placing a restriction upon the breaking of bread? NO. The whole idea behind getting together with others and breaking bread and doing so in what we call a communion, or partaking of the Lord's Supper was to do so in REMEMBRANCE of our SAVIOR'S LIFE and DEATH. Now ask yourself a very serious question- how often do you thing Jesus wanted us to remember His life and death? Once a week? Once a month? Once a quarter? Once a year? Seriously! Ask yourself that question right now! How often do you think Jesus wanted to be remembered? I'll tell you the answer…

EVERY DAY!

Jesus did NOT institute a practice with restrictions on how often we would celebrate living for Him, remembering all He'd done for us! This institution in NO WAY did away with the Sabbath day, not in any way, shape, or form! If anything the fact is pointed out that Paul did not begin his journey on the Sabbath day- but began it on the first day of the week. From sundown to sundown the days were counted back then. So that Saturday evening began the first day of the week and it continued until sundown the next day and by that time Paul was gone having left at the break of day- when the sun rose. Paul began his journey NOT on the Sabbath day but on the first day of the week. The Sabbath wasn't for long journeying- and Paul would not begin such a journey on the day He considered the Sabbath.

Try as people might they cannot find anywhere in the Bible stating that the Sabbath was changed from the seventh day to the first day- people have offered thousands of dollars for someone to prove the change and they can't because it's not there.

So if God did not institute a change in His law, who did? Who would think to change God's times and laws?

Dan 7:19 Then I would know the truth of the fourth beast, which was diverse from all the others, exceeding dreadful, whose teeth were of iron, and his nails of brass; which devoured, brake in pieces, and stamped the residue with his feet;
Dan 7:20 And of the ten horns that were in his head, and of the other which came up, and before whom three fell; even of that horn that had eyes, and a mouth that spake very great things, whose look was more stout than his fellows.
Dan 7:21 I beheld, and the same horn made war with the saints, and prevailed against them;
Dan 7:22 Until the Ancient of days came, and judgment was given to the saints of the most High; and the time came that the saints possessed the kingdom.
Dan 7:23 Thus he said, The fourth beast shall be the fourth kingdom upon earth, which shall be diverse from all kingdoms, and shall devour the whole earth, and shall tread it down, and break it in pieces.
Dan 7:24 And the ten horns out of this kingdom are ten kings that shall arise: and another shall rise after them; and he shall be diverse from the first, and he shall subdue three kings.
Dan 7:25 AND HE SHALL SPEAK GREAT WORDS AGAINST THE MOST HIGH AND SHALL WEAR OUT THE SAINTS OF THE MOST HIGH AND THINK TO CHANGE TIMES AND LAWS and they shall be given into his hand until a time and times and the dividing of time.
Dan 7:26 But the judgment shall sit, and they shall take away his dominion, to consume and to destroy it unto the end.
Dan 7:27 And the kingdom and dominion, and the greatness of the kingdom under the whole heaven, shall be given to the people of the saints of the most High, whose kingdom is an everlasting kingdom, and all dominions shall serve and obey him.


We've studied this in our prophecy studies in the recent past and know that this power would be the Papacy power (If you want more information on that please don't hesitate to read past blogs on prophecy it's truly enlightening!).


Read a few of these excerpts from various websites-

"The Pope has the power to change times, to abrogate laws, and to dispense with all things, even the precepts of Christ." "The Pope has the authority and often exercised it, to dispense with the command of Christ." -Decretal, de Tranlatic Episcop. Cap. (The Pope can modify divine law.) Ferraris' Ecclesiastical Dictionary.

"You may read the Bible from Genesis to Revelation, and you will not find a single line authorizing the sanctification of Sunday. The Scriptures enforce the religious observance of Saturday, a day which we never sanctified." James Cardinal Gibbons, The Faith of Our Fathers (1917 ed.), pp.72,73

"If protestants would follow the Bible, they should worship God on the Sabbath Day, that is Saturday. In keeping Sunday they are following a law of the Catholic Church." Albert Smith, chancellor of the Archdiocese of Baltimore, replying for the cardinal in a letter of Feb. 10, 1920.

"Have you not any other way of proving that the Church has power to institute festivals of precept?"
"Had she not such power, she could not have done that in which all modern religionists agree with her, she could not have substituted the observance of Sunday, the first day of the week, for the observance of Saturday, the Seventh day, a change for which there is no Scriptural authority" Stephen Keenan, A Doctrinal Catechism 3rd ed. p. 174

"The Catholic Church,... by virtue of her divine mission, changed the day from Saturday to Sunday." The Catholic Mirror, official organ of Cardinal Gibbons, Sept. 23, 1893.

"Is Saturday the 7th day according to the Bible and the 10 Commandments?"
"I answer yes".
"Is Sunday the first day of the week and did the Church change the 7th day, Saturday, for Sunday, the 1st day?"
"I answer yes".
"Did Christ change the day?"
"I answer no!" Faithfully yours, "J. Cardinal Gibbons" Gibbons' autograph letter.

Which is the Sabbath day?
Saturday is the Sabbath day.
Why do we observe Sunday instead of Saturday?
We observe Sunday instead of Saturday because the Catholic Church transferred the solemity from Saturday to Sunday."
Peter Geiermann, The Convert's Catechism of Catholic Doctrine (1946 ed.), p.50. Geiermann received the "apostolic blessing" of Pope Pius X on his labors, January 25, 1910.


This isn't some widely kept secret- it's out there, it's known to those who want to know the truth.

Some say it doesn't matter which day is kept as long as you keep one out of the seven.

Well answer me this.. If that were true then why did God after instituting this law have His people gather twice as much manna on the sixth day and none on the seventh? Seriously? Why?

God was teaching His people that it DOES matter! They couldn't go out and gather double manna on any other day. If they gathered double manna on any other day it went bad- it became rotten, but on the seventh day it remained fresh. This is by the divine hand of God! This was God teaching the importance of His law and the day it's kept.

Exo 20:11 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.

A memorial of CREATION!

Who created all things?

Col 1:12 Giving thanks unto the Father, which hath made us meet to be partakers of the inheritance of the saints in light:
Col 1:13 Who hath delivered us from the power of darkness, and hath translated us into the kingdom of his dear Son:
Col 1:14 In whom we have redemption through his blood, even the forgiveness of sins:
Col 1:15 Who is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn of every creature:
Col 1:16 For by him were all things created, that are in heaven, and that are in earth, visible and invisible, whether they be thrones, or dominions, or principalities, or powers: all things were created by him, and for him:
Col 1:17 And he is before all things, and by him all things consist.

For by JESUS were ALL things created.

The Son of God before He even became the Son of God taking on human flesh was right there in the beginning WITH God when all things were created.

The Sabbath is a memorial of Creation- of our Creator. The Sabbath even holds the distinction of being the seal of God. Seriously. What makes up a seal? The Name, the title, the territory, this is what makes it official. The fourth commandment has all three of those things.

Exo 20:8 Remember the sabbath day, to keep it holy.
Exo 20:9 Six days shalt thou labour, and do all thy work:
Exo 20:10 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:
Exo 20:11 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.

The LORD made heaven and earth, the sea --

Name (LORD), and title (Creator), heaven, earth, and sea (Territory).


AMAZING!

This most amazing fourth commandment will NEVER be done away with, never. There will never come a time when this will be something obsolete, never. As long as we exist we will forever be the creatures and God our Creator- way too many people have forgotten this fact! There will NEVER come a time that we won't have to remember our CREATOR, never! There will NEVER come a time when we will not have to obey this commandment, NEVER!

Isa 66:22 For as the new heavens and the new earth, which I will make, shall remain before me, saith the LORD, so shall your seed and your name remain.
Isa 66:23 And it shall come to pass, that from one new moon to another, and from one sabbath to another, shall all flesh come to worship before me, saith the LORD.

Every month and every Sabbath we will worship before the LORD!

Why every month as well as every Sabbath?

Rev 22:2 In the midst of the street of it, and on either side of the river, was there the tree of life, which bare twelve manner of fruits, and yielded her fruit every month: and the leaves of the tree were for the healing of the nations.

The tree of life- we will eat from the tree every month!

Why every Sabbath?

Because forever will our Creator be worthy of our worship on the seventh day when He finished creation.

Gen 2:2 And on the seventh day God ended his work which he had made; and he rested on the seventh day from all his work which he had made.
Gen 2:3 And God blessed the seventh day, and sanctified it: because that in it he had rested from all his work which God created and made.

Our creation will perpetually be recalled, never forgotten, never! The Sabbath was made for us! It was a GIFT to us! Yet way too many just view is as a restriction, a duty, a chore. This beautiful gift will protect us.

At Bible study tonight we were discussing the image of the beast and how those who are not saved will worship the image of the beast. When we worship on God's true day of worship we are being given a protection from this sort of false worship. We are truly, truly blessed beyond anything we can fully comprehend. Is it any wonder God made the Sabbath for us? He wanted to protect us! He was giving us an amazing gift, so incredibly amazing and yet the majority of people would much rather ignore this gift or change this gift as if it weren't perfectly given to us by God in His immutable law!

By the grace and will of God may we forever keep His Sabbath day holy, following His law of love. Protect us with thy love, with thy law. Forgive us please Lord for all the sins we commit. Wash us Lord, make us whiter than snow in YOUR righteousness!


All in Your love!

Amen.