What is the true sabbath day?!

[Randell A Hooper]

If everyone is going to church on Sunday does that make them right? Because sunday is the first day of the week. Saturday is the Seventh day.
The Bible says that "man shall not live by bread along but by every word that proceeds out of the mouth of God"

[Leonides Labja]

Isaiah 66: 22-24 (King James Version)


22For as the new heavens and the new earth, which I will make, shall remain before me, saith the LORD, so shall your seed and your name remain.

23And it shall come to pass, that from one new moon to another, and from one sabbath to another, shall all flesh come to worship before me, saith the LORD.

24And they shall go forth, and look upon the carcases of the men that have transgressed against me: for their worm shall not die, neither shall their fire be quenched; and they shall be an abhorring unto all flesh.





Leonides Labja said:

Psalm 119:7 (King James Version)

7I will praise thee with uprightness of heart, when I shall have learned thy righteous judgments.

Isaiah 58:13-14 (King James Version)

13If thou turn away thy foot from the sabbath, from doing thy pleasure on my holy day; and call the sabbath a delight, the holy of the LORD, honourable; and shalt honour him, not doing thine own ways, nor finding thine own pleasure, nor speaking thine own words:

14Then shalt thou delight thyself in the LORD; and I will cause thee to ride upon the high places of the earth, and feed thee with the heritage of Jacob thy father: for the mouth of the LORD hath spoken it.

[R Don Wright]

"This is the day the Lord has made. Let us rejoice and be glad in it."

"God's mercies are new every morning."

"Now is the acceptable time..."

To keep and honor the Sabbath is to attend to God's Word ... whatever day it is.

Traditionally, the church has met on Sunday so as to celebrate the first day of God's new creation inaugurated on the Day of Jesus' Resurrection marking God's victory over sin, death and the devil.

[R Don Wright]

"Let us hold fast to the confession of our hope without wavering, for he who has promised is faithful. And let us consider how to provoke one another to love and good deeds, not neglecting to meet together, as is the habit of some, but encouraging one another, and all the more as you see the Day approaching. Hebrews 10.23-25 NRSV

[R Don Wright]

The Third Commandment: You are to hallow the day of rest.

What is this? Answer: We are to fear and love God, so that we do not despise preaching or God’s Word, but instead keep that Word holy and gladly hear and learn it.

Luther's Small Catechism

Kolb, Robert; Wengert, Timothy J.; Arand, Charles P.: The Book of Concord: The Confessions of the Evangelical Lutheran Church. Minneapolis: Fortress Press, 2000, S. 352

[R Don Wright]

"God is not a changeable God"

While God's faithfulness, constancy and steadfast love are indispensable to my faith and hope, I cannot ignore the witness of scripture that God does indeed change his mind:

But Moses implored the Lord his God … And the Lord changed his mind about the disaster that he planned to bring on his people. Exodus 32.11, 14

I will change my mind about the disaster that I intended to bring on [this nation, Israel]... I will change my mind about the good that I had intended to do to it. Jeremiah 18.8, 10b

It may be … that I may change my mind about the disaster that I intend to bring on them because of their evil doings. Jeremiah 26.3

The Lord will change his mind about the disaster that he has pronounced against you. Jeremiah 26.13b

Did not the Lord change his mind about the disaster that he had pronounced against [King Hezekiah of Judah and all Judah]? Jeremiah 26.19b

Who knows? God may relent and change his mind; he may turn from his fierce anger, so that we do not perish.” When God saw what they did, how they turned from their evil ways, God changed his mind about the calamity that he had said he would bring upon them; and he did not do it. Jonah 3.9-10

[R Don Wright]

Luther writes:

When you are asked what “You are to hallow the day of rest” means, answer: “Hallowing the day of rest means to keep it holy.” What is meant by “keeping it holy”? Nothing else than devoting it to holy words, holy works, and holy living. The day itself does not need to be made holy, for it was created holy. But God wants it to be holy for you. So it becomes holy or unholy on your account, depending on whether you spend it doing something holy or unholy. How does such sanctifying take place? Not when we sit behind the stove and refrain from hard work, or place a garland on our head and dress up in our best clothes, but, as has been said, when we make use of God’s Word and exercise ourselves in it.

Truly, we Christians ought to make every day such a holy day and devote ourselves only to holy things, that is, to occupy ourselves daily with God’s Word and carry it in our hearts and on our lips. However, as we have said, because we all do not have the time and leisure, we must set aside several hours a week for the young people, or at least a day for the whole community, when we can concentrate only on these matters and deal especially with the Ten Commandments, the Creed, and the Lord’s Prayer, and thus regulate our entire life and being in accordance with God’s Word. Whenever this practice is in force, a holy day is truly kept. When it is not, it ought not be called a Christian holy day. For non-Christians can spend a day in rest and idleness, too, and so can the whole swarm of clerics in our time who stand day after day in the church, singing and ringing bells, but without keeping a single day holy, because they neither preach nor practice God’s Word, but rather teach and live contrary to it.

Luther's Large Catechism

Kolb, Robert; Wengert, Timothy J.; Arand, Charles P.: The Book of Concord: The Confessions of the Evangelical Lutheran Church. Minneapolis: Fortress Press, 2000, S. 397

[Curtis Griesel]

My electronic calendar lets me choose between Sunday or Monday as the first day of the week. I just changed it to Monday. Problem solved.