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 Sabbath: A Weekly Thanksgiving

Sabbath: A Weekly Thanksgiving

Thanksgiving Day comes once a year, but God has given Christians a weekly thanksgiving. It comes to us every seventh day, and it’s far superior to Turkey Day.
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While many wonderful events in the Bible occurred on certain days of the week, there is no direct command from God to keep them holy.

For instance, Jesus died for our sins on a Friday. That is arguably the most significant event in all of history, marking the moment our death sentence was commuted and our opportunity for salvation assured. But not even one Bible text hints that we should observe this day of such great significance.

However, there is indeed a memorial of the resurrection commanded in the Bible, but it is not keeping Sunday holy. Instead, the apostle Paul wrote, "We were buried with Him through baptism into death, that just as Christ was raised from the dead by the ...

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Jesus said, 'The Sabbath was made for man' (Mark 2:27). God didn't make the Sabbath for the earth; He made it for mankind - for you, for your neighbor, and for each person around the globe.

The fourth commandment enjoins the observance of 'the seventh day,' and all the inhabitants of our round world have a seventh day to each of their weeks. God has invited us to keep the seventh day as it comes to us and is marked off by His great time-keeper, the sun. When the sun sets on Friday night, we know that our six laboring days are past and that the Sabbath is commencing.

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We should keep the Sabbath because it is one of the precepts of the eternal, unchangeable moral law of God, which Paul declares to be 'holy,' 'just,' and 'good' (Romans 7:12); but we do not practice circumcision because it was one of the national rites of the Jews and part of the ceremonial law that was nailed to the cross (Colossians 2:14). 'Was anyone called while circumcised? Let him not become uncircumcised. Was anyone called while uncircumcised? Let him not be circumcised. Circumcision is nothing and uncircumcision is nothing, but keeping the commandments of God is what matters' (1 Corinthians 7:18, 19).

Circumcision was part of the law of Moses, ...

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Denominational Statements on the Sabbath

Denominational Statements on the Sabbath

CHURCH OF ENGLAND
Take which you will, either of the Fathers or the moderns, and we shall find no Lord's day instituted by any apostolical man­date; no Sabbath set on foot by them upon the first day of the week.
PETER HEYLYN, History of the Sabbath, page 410.
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