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Romans 14: 15 One person esteems one day above another;
another esteems every day alike. Let each be fully convinced in his own mind.
Designated
Holiday (Holy Day)
VII (7). As it is the law of nature, that, in general, a due proportion of time
be set apart for the worship of God; so, in His Word, by a positive, moral, and
perpetual commandment binding all men in all ages, He has particularly
appointed one day in seven, for a Sabbath, to be kept holy unto him:[34]
which, from the beginning of the world to the resurrection of Christ, was the
last day of the week: and, from the resurrection of Christ, was changed into
the first day of the week,[35] which, in Scripture, is called the Lord's
Day,[36] and is to be continued to the end of the world, as the
Christian Sabbath.[37]
VIII (8). This Sabbath is to be kept holy unto the Lord when men, after a due
preparing of their hearts, and ordering of their common affairs beforehand, do
not only observe an holy rest all the day from their own works, words, and
thoughts about their wordly employments and recreations,[38] but also
are taken up the whole time in the public and private exercises of His worship,
and in the duties of necessity and mercy.[39]
Scripture
Proofs:
[34] Exodus
20 :8 "Remember the Sabbath day, to keep it holy. 9 Six days you shall labor and do all your
work, 10 but the seventh day is the
Sabbath of the Lord your God. In it you shall do no work: you, nor your son,
nor your daughter, nor your male servant, nor your female servant, nor your
cattle, nor your stranger who is within your gates. 11 For in six days the Lord made the heavens and the earth, the
sea, and all that is in them, and rested the seventh day. Therefore the Lord
blessed the Sabbath day and hallowed it..
Isaiah 56: 2 Blessed is the man who does this, And the son of
man who lays hold on it; Who keeps from defiling the Sabbath, And keeps his
hand from doing any evil." 3 Do not let the son of the foreigner Who has
joined himself to the Lord Speak, saying, "The Lord has utterly separated
me from His people"; Nor let the eunuch say, "Here I am, a dry
tree." 4 For thus says the Lord: "To the eunuchs who keep My
Sabbaths, And choose what pleases Me, And hold fast My covenant, 5 Even to them
I will give in My house And within My walls a place and a name Better than that
of sons and daughters; I will give them an everlasting name That shall not be
cut off. 6 "Also the sons of the foreigner Who join themselves to the
Lord, to serve Him, And to love the name of the Lord, to be His servants--
Everyone who keeps from defiling the Sabbath, And holds fast My covenant-- 7
Even them I will bring to My holy mountain, And make them joyful in My house of
prayer. Their burnt offerings and their sacrifices Will be accepted on My
altar; For My house shall be called a house of prayer for all nations."
[35] Genesis 2:2 And on the seventh day God ended His work which He
had done, and He rested on the seventh day from all His work which He had done.
3 Then God blessed the seventh day and sanctified it, because in it He rested
from all His work which God had created and made.
1 Corinthians 16:1 Now
concerning the collection for the saints, as I have given orders to the
churches of Galatia, so you must do also: 2 On the first day of the week let
each one of you lay something aside, storing up as he may prosper, that there
be no collections when I come.
Acts 20:7 Now on the first day of the week, when the
disciples came together to break bread, Paul, ready to depart the next day,
spoke to them and continued his message until midnight.
[36] Revelation
1:10 I was in the Spirit on the Lord's day, and heard behind me a great
voice, as of a trumpet.
[37] Exodus
20 :8
Matthew 5:17 17 "Do not think that I came to
destroy the Law or the Prophets. I did not come to destroy but to fulfill. 18
For assuredly, I say to you, till heaven and earth pass away, one jot or one
tittle will by no means pass from the law till all is fulfilled.
[38] Exodus
20 :8
Exodus 16:23 Then he said to them, "This is what the
Lord has said: 'Tomorrow is a Sabbath rest, a holy Sabbath to the Lord. Bake
what you will bake today, and boil what you will boil; and lay up for
yourselves all that remains, to be kept until morning.' "
25 Then Moses said, "Eat that today, for today
is a Sabbath to the Lord; today you will not find it in the field. 26 Six days you shall gather it, but on the
seventh day, which is the Sabbath, there will be none."
29 See! For the Lord has given you the Sabbath;
therefore He gives you on the sixth day bread for two days. Let every man
remain in his place; let no man go out of his place on the seventh
day." 30 So the people rested on
the seventh day.
31:15 Work shall be done for six days, but the
seventh is the Sabbath of rest, holy to the Lord. Whoever does any work on the
Sabbath day, he shall surely be put to death.
16 Therefore the children of Israel shall keep the Sabbath, to observe
the Sabbath throughout their generations as a perpetual covenant. 17 It is a sign between Me and the children
of Israel forever; for in six days the Lord made the heavens and the earth, and
on the seventh day He rested and was refreshed.' "
Isaiah 63:13 Who led them through the deep, As a horse in the
wilderness, That they might not stumble?"
Nehemiah 13:15 In those days I saw people in Judah treading
wine presses on the Sabbath, and bringing in sheaves, and loading donkeys with
wine, grapes, figs, and all kinds of burdens, which they brought into Jerusalem
on the Sabbath day. And I warned them about the day on which they were selling
provisions. 16 Men of Tyre dwelt there
also, who brought in fish and all kinds of goods, and sold them on the Sabbath
to the children of Judah, and in Jerusalem.
17 Then I contended with the nobles of Judah, and said to them,
"What evil thing is this that you do, by which you profane the Sabbath
day? 18 Did not your fathers do thus,
and did not our God bring all this disaster on us and on this city? Yet you
bring added wrath on Israel by profaning the Sabbath." 19 So it was, at the gates of Jerusalem, as
it began to be dark before the Sabbath, that I commanded the gates to be shut,
and charged that they must not be opened till after the Sabbath. Then I posted
some of my servants at the gates, so that no burdens would be brought in on the
Sabbath day.
13:21 Then I warned them, and said to them,
"Why do you spend the night around the wall? If you do so again, I will
lay hands on you!" From that time on they came no more on the
Sabbath. 22 And I commanded the Levites
that they should cleanse themselves, and that they should go and guard the
gates, to sanctify the Sabbath day. Remember me, O my God, concerning this
also, and spare me according to the greatness of Your mercy!
[39] Isaiah
63:13
Matthew 12:1 At that time Jesus went through the grainfields
on the Sabbath. And His disciples were hungry, and began to pluck heads of
grain and to eat. 2 And when the
Pharisees saw it, they said to Him, "Look, Your disciples are doing what
is not lawful to do on the Sabbath!"
3 But He said to them, "Have you not read what David did when he
was hungry, he and those who were with him:
4 how he entered the house of God and ate the showbread which was not
lawful for him to eat, nor for those who were with him, but only for the priests? 5 Or have you not read in the law that on
the Sabbath the priests in the temple profane the Sabbath, and are
blameless? 6 Yet I say to you that in
this place there is One greater than the temple. 7 But if you had known what this means, 'I desire mercy and not
sacrifice,' F51 you would not have condemned the guiltless. 8 For the Son of Man is Lord even F52 of the
Sabbath." 9 Now when He had
departed from there, He went into their synagogue. 10 And behold, there was a man who had a withered hand. And they
asked Him, saying, "Is it lawful to heal on the Sabbath?"--that they
might accuse Him. 11 Then He said to
them, "What man is there among you who has one sheep, and if it falls into
a pit on the Sabbath, will not lay hold of it and lift it out? 12 Of how much more value then is a man than
a sheep? Therefore it is lawful to do good on the Sabbath." 13 Then He said to the man, "Stretch
out your hand." And he stretched it out, and it was restored as whole as
the other.