Here's the thing about the Sabbath day.
If you study the Bible, not the internet, not your pagan encyclopedia, but if you study
the Bible, all throughout the Old Testament the Bible talks about the Sabbath and observing
the Sabbath.
Now let me ask you this, when did they start observing the Sabbath?
When did God command them to observe the Sabbath?
Well it was with the Mosaic law, it was with Moses.
Now before that, you don't see the command to observe the Sabbath.
Now you can say, well, but in the beginning God created the earth and after six days He
rested.
Yeah, but that doesn't matter.
That wasn't a commandment that was taught or observed until the Mosaic law, okay?
And when the Mosaic law came, the Sabbath was instituted, turn to Colossians chapter
2 if you would.
When the Mosaic law came, the Sabbath was instituted that they were to work six days
and to rest on the seventh day, okay?
Now we in America don't even usually work a six day work week, do we?
I mean the vast majority of people, they don't even work the six days.
I mean they're observing both.
I mean they take Saturday and Sunday off.
I mean that's the vast majority of people, right?
But look what Colossians says because it's clear that we are living in the New Testament.
Now I'm not one that believes that just because we're living in the New Testament we throw
out the Old Testament.
We shouldn't throw out the Old Testament.
And here's a good rule of thumb, anything that God did not specifically change we should
still observe, okay?
So basically if God said something in the Old Testament, if God told us, hey do this
or don't do this, unless He tells us that He changed on that, shouldn't we just stick
with it?
Okay, so if the New Testament just said absolutely nothing about the Sabbath, let's say the New
Testament just said nothing about the Sabbath, then shouldn't we just keep doing the Sabbath?
If the Old Testament said to do the Sabbath and if the New Testament just said nothing
about it, then I'll stick with it, okay?
But here's the truth, okay?
The New Testament, not only does the New Testament not one time tell us to observe the Sabbath,
not once, in the whole 260 chapters of the New Testament, not one time does God tell
us observe the Sabbath, okay?
But you say, but wait a minute Pastor Anderson, you said as long as He doesn't tell us anything,
we shouldn't change it.
Okay, but look what the Bible does say in the New Testament in Colossians 2 verse 14.
It says, blotting out the handwriting of ordinances that was against us, which was contrary to
us and took it out of the way, nailing it to His cross and having spoiled principalities
and powers, He made a show of them openly, triumphing over them in it.
Let no man therefore judge you in meat, or in drink, or in respect of an holy day, or
of the new moon, or of the Sabbath days, which are a shadow of things to come, but the body
is of Christ.
So here, God gives us a list of things that we should not let anybody judge us about,
that were just a shadow of things to come, that are ordinances that have been blotted
out.
These ordinances have been blotted out, therefore don't let anybody trouble you concerning what?
Any list.
Meat, drink, holiday, or that would be like our word, holiday, meat, drink, holidays,
new moons, and Sabbath days, okay?
So isn't that telling us right there, don't worry about the Sabbath days?
But yet somebody's going to judge us for not respecting the Sabbath days.
The Bible says here that that ordinance has been blotted out because it was a shadow of
things to come.
Go to Hebrews 9, because you see there's a certain classification of laws in the Old
Testament that were temporary laws.
They were not permanent, they were temporary, okay?
Now there are a lot of laws of God that never change, that are permanent, that are always
in place, that have always been in place, and always will be in place, but then there
were other temporary ordinances that were put in place at the time of Moses only for
a temporary period that would end.
And the Bible teaches this in Hebrews chapter 9.
And by the way, the Bible also says, I believe in chapter 8, now the priesthood being changed,
there is made of necessity a change also of the law.
So to just say, well the law never changes, then why did he say that there is made of
necessity a change of the law?
And look if you would at Hebrews chapter 9, he talks about this.
He says in verse 9, which was a figure for the time then present.
So it was something that was just for back then, he says, in which were offered both
gifts and sacrifices that could not make him that did the service perfect as pertaining
to the conscience.
Verse 10, which stood only in meats and drinks and divers' washings and carnal ordinances
imposed on them forever.
Is that what it says?
Impose on them till doomsday?
No.
Impose on them until the time of reformation.
And the Bible then defines what that time of reformation is in the next phrase.
He says, until the time of reformation, but Christ being come, an eye-priest of good things
to come, by a greater and more perfect table, not make with hands, but that is to say not
of this building.
So right there he defines that the time of reformation is the coming of Christ.
Now doesn't this list match up with the list that we saw over in Colossians?
Because the other list was, remember, meats, drinks, and then it was the new moons, the
Sabbath days, okay?
The holidays.
Well here we see meats and drinks, same thing.
And then we also see the word ordinances, which is the same word that he used in Colossians
2.
The blotting out the handwriting of ordinances, which was against us.
But these lists include a few different things also.
The other list talked about holidays, new moons, and Sabbath days.
This one talks about the meats, drinks, and the divers, washings, and carnal ordinances.
So basically, anything that doesn't fall under these categories, we should still do.
So like when God said that a man should not put on women's clothing, and a woman should
not put on man's clothing, let's keep doing that, okay?
And the law that said, you know, don't marry your sister, hey, that was a pretty good law
too.
Let's stick with that.
This one about meat, drink, new moons, because what was the new moon?
On the new moon they're supposed to blow a trumpet on the new moon and have a feast.
Do we do that?
Do we observe that?
In fact, we're told not to.