BULLSEYE!
ACCURATE
BIBLE
KNOWLEDGE!
QUESTION: “WHAT DO
I TEACH
ABOUT SABBATH (SATURDAY) WORSHIP? IS THERE A PROBLEM WITH IT”
ANSWER: “YES … IF YOUR
SALVATION
DEPENDS ON IT”
Unfortunately
for the Seventh Day Adventist, his salvation depends on Saturday
worship.
Yes
he did, but that was only after six days of his perfect and sinless
works
of creation.
If
they could perform perfect and sinless works for six days since they
were born, they can rightfully claim spiritual salvation with resting
on the
Saturday and then enter heaven when they die. They will have been just
like
God.
God
is a Spirit and he didn’t need to create anything as he would have
been perfectly happy without a physical universe. But God sets the
example of
sinless and perfect works in a physical universe, for physical men to
follow,
that is, six days of perfect works must be performed. God wants us to
be like
him.
God
gives us his Ten Commandments of works that must be perfectly
fulfilled in order for us to have perfect rest like him on the 7th
day.
Unfortunately
for the SDA, he separates and elevates Saturday worship
from the rest of the nine commandments. He thinks that if he worships
on
Saturday, then God will be pleased.
The
SDA is ignorant of what the Bible says in that all of the Ten
Commandments have equal weighting, such that failure on one, negates
the
others. The Bible says
For
whosoever shall keep the whole law, and yet offend in one point,
he is guilty of all. James 2:10.
There
is only one law, it’s called the …law of God … (Rom
7:25; 8:7), containing the Ten Commandments.
The
law of God is like a pearl that can’t be split into pieces. If you
try to make several pearls from one pearl, you destroy it.
Another
example is a mousetrap made up of ten parts … the wooden base,
the spring and so on. If one part is broken, the mousetrap can’t work.
Similarly,
God’s law is made up of Ten Commandments … if you break one
of them, then the whole lot are broken!
All
commandments are of equal weighting … no amount of Saturday worship
can make up for breaking any of the other nine commandments … and vice
versa.
It
means you have to do the whole lot perfectly, which Christ did, so
that God would let Christ back into heaven. That means if you can be
perfect
like Christ, you can get into heaven also.
Perfect
Sabbath rest comes after, as it were, a lifetime of sinless
performance of the other nine commandments. That is fulfilling the two
great
commandments of love your God and your neighbour (Matt 22:36-39,40).
It’s
a package deal. The Ten Commandments can’t be separated. It’s
called God’s law. All parts depend on each other. It’s like a car, if
the
starter motor won’t work, the car can’t start … no matter how perfect
the
hundreds of other parts of the car are.
As
Sabbath rest has been perfectly completed as the result of the
perfect fulfillment of the commandments, it is useless to try and
replicate it.
Christ
has done this already on our behalf. The demands of the law, the
Ten Commandments, have been completed. To attempt to keep the Sabbath,
or any
other commandment, for our salvation, is a mockery to God.
We
are wasting our time and effort trying to repeat the process.
As
we follow Paul as he follows Christ, Christians worship on a Sunday
which is the 1st day of the week (1Cor 16:1-2; Acts 20:7).
Put
it this way, the law was put to death, including Sabbath worship,
when Christ fulfilledit. Christ rose on the 1st day of the
week and
that’s why we worship him on Sunday.
Put
it this way, if a man pays your money debts, you don’t worship
the money, you worship the man. Similarly, if Christ has paid the debt
of
Sabbath worship, you don’t worship the Sabbath, you worship Christ.
You
can worship every day of the week if you like … but not for your
salvation! The demands of God’s law, the Ten Commandments, have
already
been completed.
Yes,
he does, but the 4th commandment is not mentioned. Christ
kept God’s law perfectly on our behalf. To attempt to keep any of the
commandments for salvation is a mockery and spits in the face of God.
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Harley Hitchcock
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BULLSEYE!
ACCURATE BIBLE KNOWLEDGE!
SEVENTH
DAY ADVENTIST (SDA):
“I’VE
HEARD IF YOU DON’T KEEP THE
SABBATH (SATURDAY) YOU WON’T
GO TO HEAVEN
-IS THAT
CORRECT?”
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