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FROM: 9/1/02 Radio Program
Question:
The Sabbath Day is the 4th commandment, how is this false? Where does God make Sunday false?
Answer:
(Note to readers: This question was asked based upon some comments made during our radio program on 9/1).
There are two parts to this question, and I will try to answer them as best I can.
1) God's 4th commandment to remember the Sabbath day is not false. This was not said nor implied by us. What was said was that the teaching which demands men today keep the 4th commandment is false. Please remember that the 4th commandment was given to the Jews in Exodus 20:8. Moses would later tell them before they entered Canaan that what was said to them at Horeb was not a covenant applicable to all people, nor was it for past generations of Jews, but began being applicable with that current generation. Moses said, "The LORD made not this covenant with our fathers, but with us, even us, who are all of us here alive this day." (Deut. 5:3). The reason the Sabbath day was commanded was explained by Moses, too. "And remember that thou wast a servant in the land of Egypt, and that the LORD thy God brought thee out thence through a mighty hand and by a stretched out arm: therefore the LORD thy God commanded thee to keep the sabbath day." (Deut. 5:15). This commandment was for a specific group of people at a specific time. Therefore, the doctrine which says that men and women today who are not even Jews must keep the Sabbath day, is false.
2) I don't know what this one means in asking, "Where does God make Sunday false?" God never did. I'm not sure how anyone could make a day false. What I do know is that in the New Testament, we find God's people meeting and worshipping Him on the 1st day of the week. This began in Acts 2:42. Later, we find Paul intentionally waiting for the "first day of the week" (not the Sabbath) in order to worship with the saints (Acts 20:7). In I Corinthians 16:1-2, he told them to be laying by in store "upon the first day of the week." Why do this, if they were expected to worship on the Sabbath still? Incidentally, Paul's command for giving on the 1st day of the week was to be practiced in Corinth, in the churches of Galatia (I Cor. 16:1), and everywhere he taught (I Cor. 4:17). Obviously, it was the practice of the 1st century Christians to be gathered for worship on the 1st day of the week.
While the Jews were expected to worship God on the Sabbath day under that economy, we live under a new covenant today (Heb. 8:13), which applies not to one race or another, but to "every creature" (Mk. 16:15). Therefore, we follow apostolic example to worship Him on the first day of the week.
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