This blog is to anonymous who asked about keeping the Sabbath or worshiping on Sunday.

It is not dangerous to keep the 10 commandments as God's moral law. it is dangerous to keep them for salvation or to be righteous before God (Rom. 10:4).

You do not use the grace of God to indulge the flesh. That is out of balance the other way. Legalism is not right. Licentiousness is not right. Both are condemned in Scripture.

Gal. 4:9-10 references the weekly sabbath of Numbers 28 and 29. Days and months, and seasons and years matches the Septuagint translation of which all sabbaths are a principal part. Sabbath keepers like to insist that Paul meant ceremonial feasts and yearly sabbaths, not the weekly sabbath. Paul's language and the Septuagint translation of Numbers 28 and 29 refutes their objections. The Judaizers of Paul's day were zealous for the entire law. Paul was arguing against them and he used strong words to refute them.

There are zero references to not working on Sunday, and there are zero references by Paul warning Gentile Christians to keep the Sabbath. Where are Gentile Christians commanded to keep the Sabbath in the New Testament?

I believe if you pick God's moral laws and ask Christians to keep them, they would agree with you. If you ask a Christian to keep the feasts, or the dietary laws, or the Sabbath, sparks will fly. Why? Because they have been fulfilled in Christ and are not applicable to us as N.T. Christians.

Did the early church worship on Sunday? Yes!

Ignatius said, The early Christians no longer observed the Sabbath but fashioned their lives after the Lord's day on which our life also rose through Him, that we may be found to be the disciples of Christ." 110 A.D.

Justin Martyr said, "And on the day called Sunday, all who live in cities or in the country gather together in one place and memoirs of the apostles or prophets are read. Sunday is the day on which we all hold our common assembly because it is the first day on which God, having wrought a change in the darkness in matter, made the world; and Jesus Christ our Saviour on the same day rose from the dead." 100-165 A.D.

Irenaeus said, The mystery of the Lord's resurrection may not be celebrated on any other day than the Lord's day." 178 A.D.

Didache of the Apostles said, "On the Lord's day, gather yourselves together and break bread and give thanks." 70-75 A.D.

Bardaisan said, "Wherever we be, all of us are called by the one name of the Messiah, namely Christians and upon one day which is the first day of the week we assemble ourselves together." 154 A.D.

Peter the bishop of Alexandria said, "We keep the Lord's day as a day of joy because of him who rose thereon." 300 A.D.

It is obvious from the church fathers that the Lord's Day was the first day of the week, and the church met to worship God on the first day of the week.

The slippery slope is very real. Most Sabbath keepers do not stop with the Sabbath. They include other O.T. laws that were done away in Christ. Perhaps you can honor the Sabbath and not include these other areas, but it is my observation that most do not. Even the 7th Day Adventists keep the dietary laws.

Isaiah 58:13 is not a compelling verse to refer to the Lord's Day as the Sabbath. I have quoted the church Fathers to prove the point that the N.T. Lord's Day is the first day of the week in honor of the Lord's Resurrection.

I am hopeful that all who read the blogs will be totally persuaded of "Standing Fast in the liberty where Christ has made us free." Gal. 5:1

Blessings, Pastor Tim