to reflect. God wired us this way. This is why
He drew us aside that very first seventh day
of creation for special time with Him. Second,
God packed a spiritual blessing into the seventh
day that He didn’t put into the other six. Lastly,
God drew a boundary around this 24-hour
period and designated it as a day to be wholly
dedicated to pursuing a relationship with Him.
If one takes every verse in the Bible on the
Sabbath they discover some amazing things:
all the Old Testament people of God enjoyed
its blessing—remember, that until Abraham
they were not Jewish (Genesis 11:26), Jesus
honored the Sabbath by keeping it every week
(Luke 4:16), the disciples kept it (Acts 18:4, 11;
16:13), and it will be kept in heaven and the
new earth (Isaiah 66:22, 23). The Bible presents
an unbroken cycle of Sabbath observance
from man’s creation to the earth made new.
So why do most Christian churches worship on
Sunday? The answer—tradition. You see, the Bible
never records God changing the Sabbath from the
seventh day to the first. The only change of God’s
law mentioned in Scripture is attempted by a
clever inside attack on the church (See Daniel 7:25).
This change came in long after the disciples