THE LORD’S DAY

THE LORD’S DAY• The 10th study in the series.

• Studies written by William Carey.

• Presentation by Michael Salzman.

• All texts are from the New King James version.

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1LD THE LORD’S DAY

• Does God have a day set to worship?

• Revelation 1:10

• I was in the SpiritSpirit on the Lord’s Day, and I heard behind me a loud voice, as of a trumpet,

1LD THE LORD’S DAY

Those who say that there is no particular day for Christians to keep are not recognizing that God has a holy day that He says is His. This text does not sate the day of the week, but it does very definitely show that God does have a particular day that is His.

2LD THE LORD’S DAY

• Does Jesus speak of a day?

• Matthew 12:8

• “For the Son of man is Lord even of the Sabbath.”

• The Lord’s day must of necessity be the day of which Jesus Christ is Lord. As Jesus is Lord of the Sabbath day, the Sabbath day must be the Lord’s day.

3LD THE LORD’S DAY

• Which day is the Sabbath?• Exodus 20:10• but the seventh day is the Sabbath of

the Lord your God. In it you shall do no work: you, nor your son, nor your daughter, nor your male servant, nor your female servant, nor your cattle, nor your stranger who is within your gates.

3LD THE LORD’S DAY

As the seventh day is the Sabbath of the Lord, the seventh day (Saturday) is the Lord’s day for us to keep. Since Sunday is the first day of the week, it cannot be the Sabbath or the Lord’s day, because God says that the seventh day is the Sabbath of the Lord.

4LD THE LORD’S DAY

• What is required to make the Lord’s holy day?

• Exodus 20:11

• For in six days the LORDLORD mademade the heavens and earth, the sea, and all that is in them, and rested the seventh day. Therefore the LORDLORD blessed the Sabbath day and hallowed ithallowed it.

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The seventh day is the Lord’s holy day for man to keep because of four facts:

(1) The Lord make the world in six days.

(2) On the seventh day, or the last day of the week, He rested.

(3) The Lord blessed the seventh day for man.

(4) He sanctified or set apart, the seventh day for man.

5LD THE LORD’S DAY

• Who created the earth and rested on the seventh day?

• Ephesians 3:9

• and to make all see what is the fellowship of the mystery, which from the beginning of the ages has been hidden in God who created all who created all things things throughthrough Jesus Christ Jesus Christ;

5LD THE LORD’S DAY

The Lord who made, rested, blessed, and sanctified the seventh day was the Lord Jesus Christ, God the Son. Since Jesus is the One who rested on the seventh day and blessed and sanctified that day for man, the seventh day is Christ’s day, the Lord’s day, the Sabbath of Christ. If we belong to Christ, then it is our sacred duty to keep holy the day that He blessed and made holy for us.

6LD THE LORD’S DAY

• Which day did Jesus worship on when he was here on earth?

• Luke 4:16

• So HeHe came to Nazareth, where HeHe had been brought up. And as HisHis custom was, HeHe went into the synagogue on the Sabbath day, and stood up to read.

6LD THE LORD’S DAY

When Christ lived here on earth, He kept the seventh day, Saturday, as God’s holy day. If we follow Christ in the matter of the day we keep, then we will keep the seventh day.

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• Is Jesus consistent?

• Hebrews 13:8

• Jesus Christ is the same yesterday, today, and forever.

• Christ is the same today. So if He were here on earth now as we are, He would keep the same day.

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• Did Moses institute the Sabbath day?

• Genesis 2:1-3

Thus the heavens and the earth, and all the host of them, were finished.

2- And on the seventh day God God ended His work which He had donedone, and HeHe rested on the seventh day from all His work which He had done.

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3- Then God blessed the seventh day and sanctified itsanctified it: because in it He rested from all His work which God had created and created and mademade.

8LD THE LORD’S DAY

Christ the Creator blessed and set apart the seventh day as a holy day at the very beginning when He made the world for man. Hence the keeping holy of the seventh day is not some ordinance that was instituted by Moses and later abolished at the cross.

9LD THE LORD’S DAY

• Is the Sabbath just for the Jews?

• Mark 2:27

• And He said to them, “The Sabbath was mademade for man, and not man for the Sabbath.

• The Sabbath was not intended for the Jews only, but for all mankind just the same as the other 9 precepts of the Ten Commandments.

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• How do we know which is the seventh day?

• Mark 16:9

• Now when HeHe rose early on the first day of the week, HeHe appeared first to Mary Magdalene, out of whom HeHe had cast seven devils.

11LD THE LORD’S DAY

• Jesus arose on EASTER SUNDAY, the first day of the week.

• Mark 16:1,2

• And when the Sabbath was past, Mary Magdalene, and Mary the mother of James, and Salome bought spices, that they might come and anoint Him.

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2- Very early in the morning, on the first day of the week, they came to the tomb when the sun had risen.

• The Sabbath was past when the women came to the tomb early in the morning on the first day of the week. The morning that Christ arose.

12LD THE LORD’S DAY

• What day was Jesus crucified?

• Mark 15:42-44

Now when evening had come, because it was the Preparation Day, that is, the day before the Sabbath,

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43- Joseph of Arimathaea, a prominent council member, who was himself waiting for the kingdom of God, coming and taking courage, went in to Pilate and asked for the body of Jesus.

44- Pilate marveled that He was already dead; and summoning the centurion, he asked him if He had been dead for some time.

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• Jesus was crucified on the cross the day before the Sabbath, Friday.

• Luke 23:54-56 & 24:1

• That day was the Preparation, and the Sabbath drew near.

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55- And the women who had come with HimHim from Galilee followed after, and they observed the tomb and how HisHis body was laid.

56- Then they returned and prepared spices and fragrant oils. And they rested on the Sabbath according to the commandment.

13LD THE LORD’S DAY

1- Now on the first day of the week, very early in the morning, they and certain other women with them, came to the tomb bringing the spices which they had prepared.

13LD THE LORD’S DAY

The Sabbath, according to God’s commandment, came between the crucifixion on Friday, and the resurrection on Sunday. So the fourth of the Ten Commandments requires us to keep the seventh day, or Saturday, which comes between Friday and Sunday.

13LD THE LORD’S DAY

The seventh-day Sabbath of the fourth commandment was not abolished at the cross because in Luke 23:56 we read how the faithful disciples kept the Sabbath of the commandment after the crucifixion of Christ.

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• What is the sign between God and man?

• Ezekiel 20:12

• Moreover I also gave them My Sabbaths, to be a signsign between them and Me, that they might know that I am the LORD who sanctifies sanctifies them.

14LD THE LORD’S DAY

The Sabbath was given to be a two-fold sign of Jesus Christ as Creator and Redeemer. The Sabbath is a sign that Christ made the world in six days (Ex. 31:16,17), and by keeping it we show we accept Christ as our Creator. It is also a sign that Christ has the power to re-create us and sanctify us (Ezek. 20,12). It is a sign of His saving grace.

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• How long will the Sabbath be kept?

• Isaiah 66:22,23

• “For as the new heavens new heavens and the and the new new earthearth Which I will make shall remain before Me,” says the LORD, “So shall your descendants and your name remain.

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23- And it shall come to pass That from one New Moon to another, And from one SabbathSabbath to another, All flesh shall come to worshipworship before Me,” says the LORD.

• The seventh-day Sabbath will be kept forever in the new earth. The seventh-day Sabbath reaches from Eden lost to Eden restored, and is to be kept for eternity.

THE LORD’S DAY Do you understand which day is truly

the LORD’s Day?

The End