THE LORD'S DAY

The Sabbath Day was to the Jews only, and is done away in Christ. The first day is the Lord's day, and is given to Christians.

Act 20:7 020:007 And upon the first day of the week, when the disciples came together to break bread, Paul preached unto them, ready to depart on the morrow; and continued his speech until midnight.
1 Cor 16:2 016:002 Upon the first day of the week let every one of you lay by him in store, as God hath prospered him, that there be no gatherings when I come.

The observance of the Lord's Day as a day of worship and service to the Lord is of New Testament origin. In Old Testament days, under the Law of Moses, God's people observed the "Sabbath."  We will review some of the lesson on the passing of the old covenant and the establishing of the new.

I . THE SABBATH

A. Why Observed
      1. Because of Israel's deliverance from bondage.
Deut. 5: 15 005:015 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.
2. It was given after Jehovah delivered Israel
Deut. 5:3 005:003 The LORD made not this covenant with our fathers, but with us, even us, who are all of us here alive this day.

             ..........thus it was of the Mosaic dispensation and not observed during the                        Patriarchal Age.

Who observed it
      1. It was a sign between God and Israel .  It was not a sign between God and all nations, but a special sign between God and the Jews.
Exo. 31:13-17 031:013 Speak thou also unto the children of Israel, saying, Verily my sabbaths ye shall keep: for it is a sign between me and you throughout your generations; that ye may know that I am the LORD that doth sanctify you.

031:014 Ye shall keep the sabbath therefore; for it is holy unto you: every one that defileth it shall surely be put to death: for whosoever doeth any work therein, that soul shall be cut off from among his people.

031:015 Six days may work be done; but in the seventh is the sabbath of rest, holy to the LORD: whosoever doeth any work in the sabbath day, he shall surely be put to death.

031:016 Wherefore the children of Israel shall keep the sabbath, to observe the sabbath throughout their generations, for a perpetual covenant.

031:017 It is a sign between me and the children of Israel for ever: for in six days the LORD made heaven and earth, and on the seventh day he rested, and was refreshed.

Ezekiel 20:12, 30 020:012 Moreover also I gave them my sabbaths, to be a sign between me and them, that they might know that I am the LORD that sanctify them.

020:030 Wherefore say unto the house of Israel, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Are ye polluted after the manner of your fathers? and commit ye whoredom after their abominations?

The Sabbath ended
      Some contend "a perpetual covenant," therefore it would not end.
Exodus 31:16 031:016 Wherefore the children of Israel shall keep the sabbath, to observe the sabbath throughout their generations, for a perpetual covenant.

The Sabbath was no more perpetual than incense-animal sacrifice .
Exodus 30:8 030:008 And when Aaron lighteth the lamps at even, he shall burn incense upon it, a perpetual incense before the LORD throughout your generations.
Nu m bers 28: 1 -10 028:001 And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,

028:002 Command the children of Israel, and say unto them, My offering, and my bread for my sacrifices made by fire, for a sweet savour unto me, shall ye observe to offer unto me in their due season.

028:003 And thou shalt say unto them, This is the offering made by fire which ye shall offer unto the LORD; two lambs of the first year without spot day by day, for a continual burnt offering.

028:004 The one lamb shalt thou offer in the morning, and the other lamb shalt thou offer at even;

028:005 And a tenth part of an ephah of flour for a meat offering, mingled with the fourth part of an hin of beaten oil.

028:006 It is a continual burnt offering, which was ordained in mount Sinai for a sweet savour, a sacrifice made by fire unto the LORD.

028:007 And the drink offering thereof shall be the fourth part of an hin for the one lamb: in the holy place shalt thou cause the strong wine to be poured unto the LORD for a drink offering.

028:008 And the other lamb shalt thou offer at even: as the meat offering of the morning, and as the drink offering thereof, thou shalt offer it, a sacrifice made by fire, of a sweet savour unto the LORD.

028:009 And on the sabbath day two lambs of the first year without spot, and two tenth deals of flour for a meat offering, mingled with oil, and the drink offering thereof:

028:010 This is the burnt offering of every sabbath, beside the continual burnt offering, and his drink offering.

2. .
The end of the Sabbath prophesied Hos. 2:11 002:011 I will also cause all her mirth to cease, her feast days, her new moons, and her sabbaths, and all her solemn feasts.
Fulfilled Col. 2:14-17 002:014 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;

002:015 And having spoiled principalities and powers, he made a shew of them openly, triumphing over them in it.

002:016 Let no man therefore judge you in meat, or in drink, or in respect of an holyday, or of the new moon, or of the sabbath days:

002:017 Which are a shadow of things to come; but the body is of Christ.

3. The covenant with Israel including the Ten Commandments has been fulfilled and replaced by the new covenant
Heb. 8:6-13 008:006 But now hath he obtained a more excellent ministry, by how much also he is the mediator of a better covenant, which was established upon better promises.

008:007 For if that first covenant had been faultless, then should no place have been sought for the second.

008:008 For finding fault with them, he saith, Behold, the days come, saith the Lord, when I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel and with the house of Judah:

008:009 Not according to the covenant that I made with their fathers in the day when I took them by the hand to lead them out of the land of Egypt; because they continued not in my covenant, and I regarded them not, saith the Lord.

008:010 For this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel after those days, saith the Lord; I will put my laws into their mind, and write them in their hearts: and I will be to them a God, and they shall be to me a people:

008:011 And they shall not teach every man his neighbour, and every man his brother, saying, Know the Lord: for all shall know me, from the least to the greatest.

008:012 For I will be merciful to their unrighteousness, and their sins and their iniquities will I remember no more.

008:013 In that he saith, A new covenant, he hath made the first old. Now that which decayeth and waxeth old is ready to vanish away.

Rom. 7:1-7 007:001 Know ye not, brethren, (for I speak to them that know the law,) how that the law hath dominion over a man as long as he liveth?

007:002 For the woman which hath an husband is bound by the law to her husband so long as he liveth; but if the husband be dead, she is loosed from the law of her husband.

007:003 So then if, while her husband liveth, she be married to another man, she shall be called an adulteress: but if her husband be dead, she is free from that law; so that she is no adulteress, though she be married to another man.

007:004 Wherefore, my brethren, ye also are become dead to the law by the body of Christ; that ye should be married to another, even to him who is raised from the dead, that we should bring forth fruit unto God.

007:005 For when we were in the flesh, the motions of sins, which were by the law, did work in our members to bring forth fruit unto death.

007:006 But now we are delivered from the law, that being dead wherein we were held; that we should serve in newness of spirit, and not in the oldness of the letter.

007:007 What shall we say then? Is the law sin? God forbid. Nay, I had not known sin, but by the law: for I had not known lust, except the law had said, Thou shalt not covet.

2 Cor. 3:7-13 003:007 But if the ministration of death, written and engraven in stones, was glorious, so that the children of Israel could not stedfastly behold the face of Moses for the glory of his countenance; which glory was to be done away:

003:008 How shall not the ministration of the spirit be rather glorious?

003:009 For if the ministration of condemnation be glory, much more doth the ministration of righteousness exceed in glory.

003:010 For even that which was made glorious had no glory in this respect, by reason of the glory that excelleth.

003:011 For if that which is done away was glorious, much more that which remaineth is glorious.

003:012 Seeing then that we have such hope, we use great plainness of speech:

003:013 And not as Moses, which put a vail over his face, that the children of Israel could not stedfastly look to the end of that which is abolished:

Matt. 5:21-22 005:021 Ye have heard that it was said of them of old time, Thou shalt not kill; and whosoever shall kill shall be in danger of the judgment:

005:022 But I say unto you, That whosoever is angry with his brother without a cause shall be in danger of the judgment: and whosoever shall say to his brother, Raca, shall be in danger of the council: but whosoever shall say, Thou fool, shall be in danger of hell fire.

005:023 Therefore if thou bring thy gift to the altar, and there rememberest that thy brother hath ought against thee;

The prophet speaks of a new covenant between God and man. Man would know God before he was a participant in the covenant. Jer. 31:31-34 031:031 Behold, the days come, saith the LORD, that I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel, and with the house of Judah:

031:032 Not according to the covenant that I made with their fathers in the day that I took them by the hand to bring them out of the land of Egypt; which my covenant they brake, although I was an husband unto them, saith the LORD:

031:033 But this shall be the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel; After those days, saith the LORD, I will put my law in their inward parts, and write it in their hearts; and will be their God, and they shall be my people.

031:034 And they shall teach no more every man his neighbour, and every man his brother, saying, Know the LORD: for they shall all know me, from the least of them unto the greatest of them, saith the LORD: for I will forgive their iniquity, and I will remember their sin no more.

The writer of Hebrews Heb. 8:10-12 008:010 For this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel after those days, saith the Lord; I will put my laws into their mind, and write them in their hearts: and I will be to them a God, and they shall be to me a people:

008:011 And they shall not teach every man his neighbour, and every man his brother, saying, Know the Lord: for all shall know me, from the least to the greatest.

008:012 For I will be merciful to their unrighteousness, and their sins and their iniquities will I remember no more.

quotes and declares the existence of the new covenant and declares this new covenant faultless. Jer. 31:31-34 031:031 Behold, the days come, saith the LORD, that I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel, and with the house of Judah:

031:032 Not according to the covenant that I made with their fathers in the day that I took them by the hand to bring them out of the land of Egypt; which my covenant they brake, although I was an husband unto them, saith the LORD:

031:033 But this shall be the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel; After those days, saith the LORD, I will put my law in their inward parts, and write it in their hearts; and will be their God, and they shall be my people.

031:034 And they shall teach no more every man his neighbour, and every man his brother, saying, Know the LORD: for they shall all know me, from the least of them unto the greatest of them, saith the LORD: for I will forgive their iniquity, and I will remember their sin no more.

Those trying to justify themselves in Sabbath keeping or anything else by the law are fallen from grace and severed from Christ Gal. 5:4 005:004 Christ is become of no effect unto you, whosoever of you are justified by the law; ye are fallen from grace.

Lord's Day..........The First Day of the Week...........

Jesus arose from the dead on the first day of the week Mark 16:1-9 016:001 And when the sabbath was past, Mary Magdalene, and Mary the mother of James, and Salome, had bought sweet spices, that they might come and anoint him.

016:002 And very early in the morning the first day of the week, they came unto the sepulchre at the rising of the sun.

016:003 And they said among themselves, Who shall roll us away the stone from the door of the sepulchre?

016:004 And when they looked, they saw that the stone was rolled away: for it was very great.

016:005 And entering into the sepulchre, they saw a young man sitting on the right side, clothed in a long white garment; and they were affrighted.

016:006 And he saith unto them, Be not affrighted: Ye seek Jesus of Nazareth, which was crucified: he is risen; he is not here: behold the place where they laid him.

016:007 But go your way, tell his disciples and Peter that he goeth before you into Galilee: there shall ye see him, as he said unto you.

016:008 And they went out quickly, and fled from the sepulchre; for they trembled and were amazed: neither said they any thing to any man; for they were afraid.

016:009 Now when Jesus was risen early the first day of the week, he appeared first to Mary Magdalene, out of whom he had cast seven devils.

On the first day of the week, He was declared to be the Son of God Rom. 1:3-4 001:003 Concerning his Son Jesus Christ our Lord, which was made of the seed of David according to the flesh;

001:004 And declared to be the Son of God with power, according to the spirit of holiness, by the resurrection from the dead:

Jesus met with the disciples on the first day of the week Jno. 20:19, 26 020:019 Then the same day at evening, being the first day of the week, when the doors were shut where the disciples were assembled for fear of the Jews, came Jesus and stood in the midst, and saith unto them, Peace be unto you.

020:026 And after eight days again his disciples were within, and Thomas with them: then came Jesus, the doors being shut, and stood in the midst, and said, Peace be unto you.

The church was established on Pentecost Acts 2 Please read this entire chapter.
Pentecost was always on the first day Lev. 23:15-16 023:015 And ye shall count unto you from the morrow after the sabbath, from the day that ye brought the sheaf of the wave offering; seven sabbaths shall be complete:

023:016 Even unto the morrow after the seventh sabbath shall ye number fifty days; and ye shall offer a new meat offering unto the LORD.

The Holy Spirit came on the first day Acts 2:1-4 002:001 And when the day of Pentecost was fully come, they were all with one accord in one place.

002:002 And suddenly there came a sound from heaven as of a rushing mighty wind, and it filled all the house where they were sitting.

002:003 And there appeared unto them cloven tongues like as of fire, and it sat upon each of them.

002:004 And they were all filled with the Holy Ghost, and began to speak with other tongues, as the Spirit gave them utterance.

The gospel began to be preached on this day Acts 2:22-36 002:022 Ye men of Israel, hear these words; Jesus of Nazareth, a man approved of God among you by miracles and wonders and signs, which God did by him in the midst of you, as ye yourselves also know:

002:023 Him, being delivered by the determinate counsel and foreknowledge of God, ye have taken, and by wicked hands have crucified and slain:

002:024 Whom God hath raised up, having loosed the pains of death: because it was not possible that he should be holden of it.

002:025 For David speaketh concerning him, I foresaw the Lord always before my face, for he is on my right hand, that I should not be moved:

002:026 Therefore did my heart rejoice, and my tongue was glad; moreover also my flesh shall rest in hope:

002:027 Because thou wilt not leave my soul in hell, neither wilt thou suffer thine Holy One to see corruption.

002:028 Thou hast made known to me the ways of life; thou shalt make me full of joy with thy countenance.

002:029 Men and brethren, let me freely speak unto you of the patriarch David, that he is both dead and buried, and his sepulchre is with us unto this day.

002:030 Therefore being a prophet, and knowing that God had sworn with an oath to him, that of the fruit of his loins, according to the flesh, he would raise up Christ to sit on his throne;

002:031 He seeing this before spake of the resurrection of Christ, that his soul was not left in hell, neither his flesh did see corruption.

002:032 This Jesus hath God raised up, whereof we all are witnesses.

002:033 Therefore being by the right hand of God exalted, and having received of the Father the promise of the Holy Ghost, he hath shed forth this, which ye now see and hear.

002:034 For David is not ascended into the heavens: but he saith himself, The Lord said unto my Lord, Sit thou on my right hand,

002:035 Until I make thy foes thy footstool.

002:036 Therefore let all the house of Israel know assuredly, that God hath made the same Jesus, whom ye have crucified, both Lord and Christ.

It is called the "Lord's Day" Rev. 1: 10 001:010 I was in the Spirit on the Lord's day, and heard behind me a great voice, as of a trumpet,

The Observance of it
The New Testament Church assembled for worship Acts 20:7 020:007 And upon the first day of the week, when the disciples came together to break bread, Paul preached unto them, ready to depart on the morrow; and continued his speech until midnight.
Met to break bread (chief purpose) 1 Cor. 16:1-2 016:001 Now concerning the collection for the saints, as I have given order to the churches of Galatia, even so do ye.

016:002 Upon the first day of the week let every one of you lay by him in store, as God hath prospered him, that there be no gatherings when I come.

This assembly is not to be forsaken.
"The first day of the week" means every first day just as "the Sabbath Day to keep it holy" meant every Sabbath

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