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Open your Bibles to Revelation 1:10.
•We’ll be considering just the first half of that verse to
begin today as we continue our study of the Christian
Sabbath.
•This morning we our theme will be the change of the
Sabbath Day from the seventh day of the week to the
first day of the week, also called the Lord’s Day.
So far we’ve been considering the doctrine of the
Sabbath mainly from the OT Scriptures.
•But today we will turn forward to the NT.
•By considering the OT Scriptures, I’ve been arguing
for the perpetuity/continual nature of the command to
keep a Sabbath holy to the Lord.
•But now we will move on to consider the
Christianization of the Sabbath Day under the New
Covenant.
As most of you know, something major has
happened since the days of the OT: The New
Covenant in Christ has come.
•And with that Covenant, a new day of worship has
been instituted.
•And you already know this because we are meeting
today instead of yesterday.
•We are gathered on the first day of the week
(Sunday), according to divine institution and Apostolic
example, instead of the the last day of the week
(Saturday).
•Our day of religious observance is the Lord’s Day.
•Therefore, we say that we observe the Christian
Sabbath day and not the Jewish Sabbath day.
•With a change of covenants has come a change in the
Law.
And with that change, comes a change in the day.
But some people claim that there is no biblical
command to worship on the First Day of the week.
•They and others will also claim that there is no
Sabbath to be kept for Christians.
•Even more, some extreme people will claim that there
is no appointed regularity for Christian worship.
(No
Sabbath, no particular day to meet, and no pattern of
reoccurrence for worship.)
But the NT teaches something different.
•Though it does not explicitly tell us that the Sabbath
day changed, there are indicators that tell us so:
•We have the example of the Apostles, the language
the Apostles used about the first day of the week, the
nature of Apostolic authority, the Resurrection of Christ,
and the background of the OT that all point to there
being a Sabbath for us under the New Covenant.
•All that is to say, there is a lot of stuff for us to consider
about a day for worship, a day belonging to the Lord
Jesus, a Sabbath day under the New Covenant.
•And I intend to show you some of it this morning.
NOTE: To those who demand an explicit text saying
that the Sabbath day has changed to Sunday, this
sermon will NOT give you what you want.
•There is no such text in the Scriptures.
•BUT such a demand is UNBIBLICAL.
•We do not need explicit statements in Scripture for
everything that we believe or do.
•Implications of texts, good and necessary
consequence, necessary deductions from texts are valid
to establish doctrine and practice.
•And we know that because, in Mark 12, Jesus argued
from Exodus 3:6 to establish the resurrection of the
dead.
•And guess what?
Exodus 3:6 is not explicitly talking
about the resurrection of the dead.
•Our Lord Himself argues from inferences and
implications of Exodus 3:6 to establish the resurrection.
•So then, we can do the same.
Jesus teaches us how
to use and interpret Scripture.
Furthermore, there are many central doctrines in
our Faith that we must get from implications and
good and necessary consequence of texts:
•Doctrines like the Trinity and the Hypostatic Union of
Christ’s Divine and Human Natures are not explicitly
stated in Scripture.
•We get those by deduction.
We get them by looking at
all Scripture says about God and Christ and then
connecting the dots and harmonizing it all.
•So then, to say, “I demand an explicit text for the
Christian Sabbath or I won’t believe it,” will lead you to
heresy and a denial of the Faith if you apply that same
standard to other doctrines.
•Don’t do that.
Please, don’t do that.
Brothers and sisters, we must THINK THROUGH
the Scriptures.
•We must think deeply on ALL that the Bible says about
everything.
•And the doctrine of the Christian Sabbath is no
different.
Hear me: God is not bound by your demand to spoon
feed you everything that He wants you to know.
•He is free to make you think hard about what He has
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