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Your Sabbath Questions Answered

Wasn't the Sabbath made only for the Jews?
Multitudes of Christians refer to the seventh-day Sabbath as the "Jewish Sabbath," but there is no such expression in the Bible.

It is called "the Sabbath of the Lord" (Exodus 20:10), for instance, but never "the Sabbath of the Jews." Luke was a Gentile writer of the New Testament and often made reference to things that were peculiarly Jewish - he wrote of the "nation of the Jews," the people of the Jews, the "land of the Jews," and the "synagogue of the Jews" (Acts 10:22; 12:11; 10:39; 14:1). However, Luke never referred to the "Sabbath of the Jews" although he mentioned ...
Is it possible to obey the law?
The vast majority of Christians have been taught that since the "law is spiritual" and we are carnal, no human will ever be able to meet the requirements of the perfect law in his or her lifetime. Is this true?

Has God really given us a law that is a great idealistic but impossible goal toward which converted souls should struggle to meet but never expect to attain? Is there some hidden reservation or secret meaning in the many commands to obey the law God wrote on stone? Or did God mean what He said and say what He meant?

Many teach that only Christ could have obeyed that law and only because He had special powers that have not been made available to anyone else. Certainly it is true ...
Wasn't the Sabbath just a reminder of freedom from Egypt?
Here is the Old Testament text from which this common question arises: "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 ox, nor your donkey, nor any of your cattle, nor your stranger who is within your gates, that your male servant and your female servant may rest as well as you. And remember that you were a slave in the land of Egypt, and the LORD your God brought you out from there by a mighty hand and an outstretched arm; therefore the LORD your God commanded you to keep the Sabbath day" (Deuteronomy 5:14, 15).

The key to understanding this passage as it relates to Sabbath keeping ...

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The Lost Day of History
Though the Jews were indeed entrusted with God's memorial of Creation, the Sabbath was not made for the Jews alone...
Sabbath Observance Honors the Creator
Couldn't we rest on the Sabbath but worship on Sunday?
The evidence that the early church switched the Sabbath is, at best, circumstantial and, ultimately, unsubstantiated. See why...
New Jersey Megamall Defies Sunday Laws
The Sabbath Through History
Isn't obedience legalism?
Denominal Statements on the Sabbath

Denominational Statements on the Sabbath

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No Christian whatsoever is free from the obedience of the commandments which are called moral.
Methodist Church Discipline, (I904), page 23.