Galatians
4:8-10 Formerly,
when you did not know God, you were enslaved to those that by nature are not
gods. But now that you have come to know God, or rather to be known by God, how
can you turn back again to the weak and worthless elementary principles of the
world, whose slaves you want to be once more? You observe days and months and
seasons and years!
Sunday is a new and joyous
day each week. It is the beginning of our week, the day we first give thanks to
God. There are some people within the Church who would try to make Sunday into
a sober and serious day that it was never intended to be. They abandon the idea
of Sunday being a day of Celebration. Their misguided efforts make Sunday a
copy of the Jewish Sabbath with all its formalities, restrictions and rules. They
call for us to Observe the rituals of a Sunday Sabbath. According to the New
Testament, this is a fall from grace into law. The slope causes us to slide
into the bondage of observing days, months, seasons that were never intended.
In Psalm 118:20-24 we read:
This is the gate of the
Lord;
the righteous shall enter through it.
I thank you that you have
answered me
and have become my salvation.
The stone that the builders
rejected
has become the cornerstone.
This is the Lord's doing;
it is marvelous in our eyes.
This is the day that the
Lord has made;
let us rejoice and be glad in it.
There is a difference
between the Saturday worship on the Jewish Sabbath and the Sunday worship by
Christians. God never intended that the observance of the Jewish Sabbath would
go on forever. It would end with the ending of the ceremonial laws of the Old Testament.
It ends with the coming of His Son, Jesus Christ, who fulfills the Law.
