Caller:  If it’s a sin to work on the Sabbath, wouldn’t that be a sin also not to work on the first day?  I think it, you know, would be kind of hard to work on the first day (unintelligible) this day and age.  If you work more than 40 hours a week then you get overtime and –

Pastor Doug:  Well let me give you a Bible definition.  You know I don’t mind people’s short questions.  What I worry about is Manuel is my long answers ?

Caller:  I didn’t really give you a chance to answer.

Pastor Doug:  That’s ok.  The Bible says sin is the transgression of the Law.  There’s no law that tells us not to work on the first day and so obviously, it’s not a sin.  See what I’m saying?

Caller:  We’re not commanded to?

Pastor Doug:  There’s no commandment in the Bible to honor or worship on the first day.  A lot of lovely people do it – and you can worship God every day of the week – but there is nowhere in the Bible the first day is called the Sabbath.

Caller:  My thing is, you know, if I’m required to work on that day.  That’s my question basically.

Pastor Doug:  If you’re required to work on the first day?

Caller:  Yeah – if it’s not a sin.

Pastor Doug:  Well it’s certainly not a sin, because like I said, there’s no Bible injunction.

Caller:  But if I don’t work, am I under condemnation?

Pastor Doug:  No, No.  If you decide to take off two days because you need a day for the family, that doesn’t mean it’s a sin either.  It’s just not a Bible issue is what I’m saying.

Caller:  It’s the way businesses operate you understand; where they give you two days off and….

Pastor Doug:  Yeah.  You know, we have a lesson that deals with that a little bit.  If you’d like it, we’d be happy to send it to you for free.

Caller:  All right – could you give me the name of it because I probably already have it.

Pastor Doug:  Well it’s called “Things Are Not As They Appear”.

Caller:  If it’s one of the study guides, I have them all.  I have all 27 of them.

Pastor Doug:  Yes.  You have them all?  Ah then if you read those, you’ll be smarter than me, ok?

Caller:  All right.

Pastor Doug:  Ok.

Caller:  God bless.

Pastor Doug:  God bless you.

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