Keeping the Sabbath Today?
Digital Logos Edition
Overview
Keeping the Sabbath today? As you consider this issue, if you are like me, you may be overwhelmed and perplexed by a myriad of questions. What is Sunday? Is it the Christian Sabbath? Is it the Lord’s Day? Is it different from the other six days? After much Bible study and encouragement from friends, I send forth Keeping the Sabbath Today? addressing many questions. As you read it, I hope that the light of God's Word will make clear the path before you as you seek to honor Him seven days a week.
- Examines the theoligical and practical issues related to the Sabbath
- Explores the theme of rest in Scripture
- Addresses common questions
- Introduction
- Why Some Do Not Observe the Sabbath
- Wasn’t the Day Changed?
- A Code Disassembled?
- But a Sabbath Remains: Christians Must Keep the Sabbath
- The Sabbath and the Ten Commandments
- The Ark of the Testimony
- What was Abolished?
- Jesus and the Sabbath
- Rest from Labor among the Thorns
- Sign Language
- The Change of Symbolism
- The First Day – A Sabbath?
- Can the Sabbath be Kept Today?
- What of the Lord’s Day?
- That Passage in James
- Matthew 5:17–20
- Living Like a Gentile
- Was the Sabbath Set Aside for Corporate Worship?
- What About Antinomianism?
- Rest Isn’t Optional
- Conclusion
Top Highlights
“there isn’t the slightest indication that the Sabbath was ever changed from one day to another” (Page 5)
“God no more requires us to keep the Sabbath than He required the Patriarchs to do so” (Page 9)
“During the entire patriarchal period, there is no record of Sabbath-keeping” (Page 9)
“The Mosaic Covenant was ‘added’ to the Abrahamic Covenant—for a time.” (Page 8)
“but because they had no command to observe the day” (Page 9)