Was the Sabbath abolished or done away with? Was the Sabbath changed to Sunday? Is the Sabbath any day we choose? Is Jesus our Sabbath now? Is the Sabbath only for the Jews? It's time to UNLEARN the lies. UNLEARN Hey, welcome to UNLEARN. My name is Lex, and I'd like to invite you
to join us each week as we UNLEARN the lies and dig deeper into the truth of God's Word. Now, let's get started. We see in Genesis that God created the world
in six days and rested on the seventh, and when the 10 Commandments were given on Mount
Sinai, God said, “Remember the Sabbath day by keeping it
holy. Six days you shall labor and do all your work,
but the seventh day is a sabbath to the LORD your God. On it you shall not do any work, neither you,
nor your son or daughter, nor your male or female servant, nor your animals, nor any
foreigner residing in your towns. For in six days the LORD made the heavens
and the earth, the sea, and all that is in them, but he rested on the seventh day. Therefore the LORD blessed the Sabbath day
and made it holy.” - Exodus 20:9-11 God said, “remember the Sabbath” and then
He reminded us of Creation saying that He created the heavens and earth in six days
and rested on the seventh. I think it’s very interesting that God explained
the Sabbath in this way by linking the Sabbath to creation. What this tells me is that when we remember
the Sabbath and keep it holy, we are identifying with the God of creation. I heard someone once say, “don’t tell
me which God you serve, show me by which commandments you keep.” For example, the Babylonians celebrated their
holy days on the 7th, 14th, 21st, and 28th days of the month based on the new moon. This Lunar Sabbath system is different from
the Biblical Sabbath, because it doesn’t follow a continuous seven day cycle. Each lunar month would have 29 or 30 days,
which allowed for three seven-day weeks, and a final week of nine or ten days, which breaks
the continuous seven-day cycle. Likewise, Buddhism follows a similar cycle
that’s based on the new moon, but is slightly different. They celebrate on the new moon, full moon,
and the two quarter moons in between. Muslims also have a weekly set-apart day,
and they gather together on Friday for congregational prayers. I find it interesting that God said “remember
the Sabbath”, but out of the Ten Commandments that’s the one most Christians have forgotten
about. They say things like, “the Sabbath was abolished”,
or “it was changed to Sunday”, or “we can keep any day we want as long as we keep
a Sabbath”, and some say “Jesus is our Sabbath now”, or “the Sabbath is only
for the Jews.” I want to look at these common objections
that people give concerning the Sabbath and see if they line up with the Bible. 1. Was the Sabbath abolished or done away with? Listen to what Yeshua said about thinking
that He came to abolish the Law. "Do not think that I came to abolish the Law
or the Prophets. I did not come to abolish but to make full. 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. Whoever therefore breaks one of the least
of these commandments, and teaches men so, shall be called least in the kingdom of heaven;
but whoever does and teaches them, he shall be called great in the kingdom of heaven.” - Matthew 5:17-19 Our Messiah told us not to even think that
He came to abolish the Law, then He went on to explain that if we break even the least
important commandment in the Law and teach others to do the same, we will be considered
the least in the kingdom of God. I would argue that the Sabbath is not the
least important commandment. In fact, it’s one of the most important
commandments concerning our worship of God, and breaking the Sabbath was punishable by
death. “You shall keep the Sabbath, therefore,
for it is holy to you. Everyone who profanes it shall surely be put
to death; for whoever does any work on it, that person shall be cut off from among his
people. 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.” - Exodus 31:14-15 Yeshua said not to even think that He came
to abolish the Law, not even the least important commandment. If we want to obey our Messiah, then we can’t
even think that the Sabbath was abolished. 2. Was the Sabbath changed to Sunday? There is not even a single verse in the entire
Bible that tells us the Sabbath was changed from the seventh day of the week to the first
day of the week. However, some Christians cite Acts 20 verse
7 when Paul spoke to the disciples on the first day of the week. “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.“ - Acts 20:7 Notice this says nothing about changing the
Sabbath to Sunday, and also notice that it’s not commanded that we have gatherings on the
first day of the week. To conclude that they had replaced the Sabbath
with Sunday based on this verse is a very weak argument, because the disciples gathered
together regularly to break bread. In fact, the Bible tells us they met daily
to break bread. “So continuing daily with one accord in
the temple, and breaking bread from house to house, they ate their food with gladness
and simplicity of heart” - Acts 2:26 So, if the disciples met daily to break bread,
that means this meeting on the first day of the week was just their regular daily fellowship
time and has nothing to do with the Sabbath. If the Bible never mentions a change from
Sabbath to Sunday, then who commanded this change? The Catholic Convert’s Catechism says, “Which is the Sabbath day? Saturday is the Sabbath day. Why do we observe Sunday instead of Saturday? We observe Sunday instead of Saturday because
the Catholic Church, in the Council of Laodicea (A.D. 336), transferred the solemnity from
Saturday to Sunday. By what authority did the Church substitute
Sunday for Saturday? The Church substituted Sunday for Saturday
by the plenitude of that divine power which Jesus Christ bestowed upon her.” The Catholic Church says they changed the
Sabbath to Sunday at the Council of Laodicea in the fourth-century. So, let’s take a look at what they said
at that council. Canon 29 of the Council of Laodicea says, “Christians must not judaize by resting
on the Sabbath, but must work on that day, rather honouring the Lord's Day; and, if they
can, resting then as Christians. But if any shall be found to be judaizers,
let them be anathema from Christ.” - Council of Laodicea, canon 29 The Catholics cite this as the moment when
the Sabbath was officially changed to Sunday. So, you can say the Sabbath was changed to
Sunday, but not under Biblical authority. That change was instituted by the Catholic
Church, not God. This explains why Catholics keep Sunday, but
why do Protestant Christians keep Sunday? Ultimately it comes down to tradition. The Catholic Church kept Sunday for so long
that when the Protestant Reformers broke away from the Catholic Church, they retained many
of the deeply embedded traditions such as Sunday worship. 3. Is the Sabbath any day we choose? Some people say we can choose any day we want
to be our Sabbath. This idea goes along with the previous one. The reasoning behind this is if the Sabbath
is any day we choose, then we can choose to keep it on Sunday. However, the Sabbath can’t be any day, it
must be the seventh day. We see in Creation that God blessed the seventh
day: “Then God blessed the seventh day and sanctified
it, because in it He rested from all His work which God had created and made.” - Genesis 2:3 God gave them manna for six days but none
on the seventh day because it was the Sabbath. “Six days you shall gather it, but on the
seventh day, which is the Sabbath, there will be none." - Exodus 16:26 “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." - Exodus 16:29 The Ten Commandments remind us that the Sabbath
is the seventh day. “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.” - Exodus 20:10 And we are also told that this seventh day
Sabbath is a day of assembly, a “holy convocation.” “Six days shall work be done, but the seventh
day is a Sabbath of solemn rest, a holy convocation. You shall do no work on it; it is the Sabbath
of the Lord in all your dwellings.” - Leviticus 23:3 The Bible consistently tells us the Sabbath
is the seventh day, and never even once does it tell us we can choose which day we want
to observe as the Sabbath. God chose the seventh day to be the Sabbath,
and who are we to think we can change it? 4. Is Jesus our Sabbath now? I’ve heard many people say that Jesus replaced
the Sabbath and He is our Sabbath now, so we don’t have to keep it anymore. The Bible tells us that all things were created
by Yeshua. The Gospel of John says that Yeshua is the
Word of God who created all things: “In the beginning was the Word, and the
Word was with God, and the Word was God. He was in the beginning with God. All things were made through Him, and without
Him nothing was made that was made.” - John 1:1-3 Paul also confirms that Yeshua created all
things: “For by Him all things were created that
are in heaven and that are on earth, visible and invisible, whether thrones or dominions
or principalities or powers. All things were created through Him and for
Him.” - Colossians 1:16 If Yeshua created all things that means He
is God, and if Yeshua is God then He is the one who gave the Sabbath commandment. “Remember the Sabbath day, to keep it holy… 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.” - Exodus 20:8,11 Now this is where the logic gets a little
fuzzy. They imply that Jesus died so that we don’t
have to keep His Commandment - to keep the Sabbath. Others say when we trust in Him, He is our
Sabbath, so we don’t have to keep His commandment - to keep the Sabbath. Do you see how confusing this logic is? He gave us the Sabbath, and He even said “the
Sabbath was made for man”, indicating that it is a gift to us. So, why would He take that gift away from
us? On top of that, there’s not even a single
verse in the Bible that tells us that Jesus replaced the Sabbath or became the Sabbath. However, the Bible does tell us that He is
“the Lord of the Sabbath,” which means the Sabbath belongs to Him. This should be obvious, since He is the Creator,
and the Creator is the one who established the Sabbath. As a side note, I have also heard people say
we are supposed to worship every day, so every day is a Sabbath. However, we are told that God sanctified the
seventh day, which means it is set-apart from the other six days. It’s impossible for every day to be set-apart,
because by definition to be set-apart means it must be separate from the others. Plus, the premise is flawed, because we have
always been expected to worship every day but we are also expected to rest on the Sabbath
day and keep it holy. 5. Is the Sabbath only for the Jews? Many people claim the Sabbath is only for
the Jews and not for the Gentiles. This is probably one of the most popular arguments
I’ve heard for not keeping the Sabbath. They often point to Exodus 31, where it says
the Sabbath is a sign between God and the children of Israel. “Therefore the children of Israel shall
keep the Sabbath, to observe the Sabbath throughout their generations as a perpetual covenant. 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.'“ - Exodus 31:16 This verse does indeed indicate that the Sabbath
is an everlasting sign and covenant between God and Israel. But who is Israel? If you believe in the Messiah are you not
also part of Israel? The Bible says we were once Gentiles when
we did not know God, but now because of the Messiah we have become fellow citizens of
Israel. “Therefore remember that you, once Gentiles
in the flesh - who are called Uncircumcision by what is called the Circumcision made in
the flesh by hands - that at that time you were without Christ, being aliens from the
commonwealth of Israel and strangers from the covenants of promise, having no hope and
without God in the world. But now in Christ Jesus you who once were
far off have been brought near by the blood of Christ… Now, therefore, you are no longer strangers
and foreigners, but fellow citizens with the saints and members of the household of God”
- Ephesians 2:11-13, 19 The Bible also says we have been grafted in
by faith through Yeshua, and we are children of Abraham because of our faith. Don’t you see the Bible is telling us that
we are Israel. We are fellow citizens and heirs of the promises. We are adopted, we are grafted in, we are
born again as a new person. Our ancestry doesn’t matter because we have
become a new creation. We are no longer Gentiles, we have become
part of God’s people. We have become citizens of Israel. Also, listen to what Isaiah prophesied concerning
Gentiles keeping the Sabbath. “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 - 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." - Isaiah 56:6-7 He’s saying that Gentiles who want to join
themselves with the Lord, to serve Him, and to love him, should keep the Sabbath. This is the verse that Yeshua quoted when
He drove out the money changers with a whip and said, “my house shall be called a house
of prayer to the nations.” This verse is talking about foreigners, Gentiles
being grafted in and keeping the Sabbath. So, saying the Sabbath is only for the Jews
is actually an unbiblical statement. Now, at this point I want to point out something
that Ezekiel said concerning the priests ignoring the Sabbath. “Her priests have violated My law and profaned
My holy things; they have not distinguished between the holy and unholy, nor have they
made known the difference between the unclean and the clean; and they have hidden their
eyes from My Sabbaths, so that I am profaned among them.” - Ezekiel 22:26 God said the Sabbath is a holy day. In Genesis God rested on the Sabbath and sanctified
it, and in Exodus He said “Remember the Sabbath day by keeping it holy.” We don’t want to be like those priests that
Ezekiel rebuked for hiding their eyes from God’s Sabbath. We should be people who obey God and hallow
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