CONCERNING ROMAN 14:5 ,6 These passage can only be understood when the CONTEXT of the reading is in force. IT IS TALKING ABOUT FOODS SACRIFICED TO IDOLS. He repeats this message in full in 1 Cor. 8. Study that. The health laws as found in Deut. 14 and Lev. 11 stands; in fact the council in Jerusalem in the book of Acts also enforced that the Gentiles should not eat meat that is strangled, to abstain from eating meat with the blood CONCERNING COLOSSIANS 2:14-17 These passages are actually talking about the CEREMONIAL LAW—NOT THE TEN COMMANDMENT. THE CEREMONIAL SABBATH which was observed by months not the WEEKLY Sabbath Leviticus 23:37-38 These [are] the FEASTS of the LORD, which ye shall proclaim [to be] holy convocations, to offer an offering made by fire unto the LORD, a burnt offering, and a MEAT offering, a sacrifice, and DRINK offerings, everything upon his day: BESIDE (apart from) the Sabbaths of the LORD, (Which is the Sabbath of the Lord? Ex. 20:10 says it is the seveth-day of the week). Ezekiel 45:17 And it shall be the princes part [to give] burnt offerings, and MEAT offerings, and DRINK offerings, in the FEAST, and in the new moons, and in the sabbaths, in all solemnities of the house of Israel: he shall prepare the sin offering, and the meat offering, and the burnt offering, and the peace offerings, to make reconciliation for the house of Israel. CONCERNING Acts 20:4 Paul once broke bread upon the first day of the week. Therefore the first day of the week is the Christian Sabbath. Acts 20: 7. {1858 JNA, RCSK 9.1} We answer, that at one period the apostolic church at Jerusalem broke bread every day. Acts ii, 42-46. Hence, according to this view, every day of the week is a Christian Sabbath! If a single instance of breaking bread at Troas, upon the first day of the week, was quite sufficient to constitute it a Sabbath, would not the continued practice of the apostolic church in breaking bread every day, be amply sufficient to make every day a Sabbath? Moreover, as the act of the Great head of the church in breaking bread must be quite as important as that of his servant Paul, must not the day of the crucifixion be pre-eminently the Christian Sabbath, as Christ instituted, and performed this ordinance on the evening with which that day commenced? 1 Cor. xi, 23-36. And as the breaking of bread commemorates the crucifixion of our Lord, and not his resurrection, would not the crucifixion day be as appropriate for the breaking of bread, as the resurrection day? {1858 JNA, RCSK 9.2} But on what day of the week did this act of Paul occur? For if it is of sufficient importance to make the day of its occurrence the future Sabbath of the Church, the day is worth determining. The act of breaking bread was after midnight. For Paul preached to the disciples until midnight; then healed Eutychus; then attended to breaking the bread. Verses 7-11. If, as time is reckoned at the present day, the first day of the week terminated at midnight, then Pauls act of breaking bread took place upon the second day of the week, which should henceforth be regarded as the Christian Sabbath, if breaking bread on a day makes it a Sabbath. But if the Bible method of commencing the day, viz: from six oclock P.M. was followed, it would appear that the disciples came together at the close of the Sabbath for an evening meeting, as the Apostle was to depart in the morning. Paul preached until midnight, and then broke bread with the disciples early in the morning of the first day of the week. Did this constitute that day the Sabbath! If so, then why did Paul, as soon as it was light, start on his long journey to Jerusalem? If Paul believed it to be the Christian Sabbath, why did he violate it? If he did not believe it to be sacred time, why should you? This text affords direct proof that the first day of the week is not the Sabbath. And it is indeed quite remarkable that this single instance of religious worship on the first day, should be urged as proof that the Sabbath of the Lord has been changed, while this same book gives the account of religious worship on at least eighty-four Sabbaths. Acts xiii, 14, 44; xvi, 13; xvii, 2; xviii, 4, 11. {1858 JNA, RCSK 10.1} CONCERNING 1 Corinthians 16:1, 2 For the claim that Paul commanded the church at Corinth to take up a collection on the first day of the week. Therefore the Sabbath must have been changed to that day. 1 Cor. xvi, 2. {1858 JNA, RCSK 10.2} The readiness with which men grasp at everything that can be made to support this first-day Sabbath, may be seen in the use made of this text. It is first claimed that Paul commanded a public collection on that day, and then it is inferred that He, who once commanded that we remember and keep holy the day of his rest, had now changed his mind and would have us remember and keep holy the day on which he began to labor. But it is a remarkable fact that Paul enjoins exactly the reverse of a public collection. He does not say Place your alms in the public treasury on the first day of the week; but he says, Upon the first day of the week let every one of you lay by him in store. The text, therefore, does not prove that the Corinthian church was assembled for public worship on that day, but on the contrary, it does prove that each must be AT HIS OWN HOME, where he could examine his worldly affairs, and lay by himself in store as God has prospered him. If each one should thus, from week to week, collect of his earnings, when the Apostle should come, their bounty would be ready, and each would be able to present to him what they had gathered. The method of giving, enjoined in the New Testament, is the reverse of a public contribution. But when thou doest alms, let not thy left hand know what thy right hand doeth; that thine alms may be in secret; and thy Father which seeth in secret, himself shall reward thee openly. Matt. vi, 3, 4. This humble, unostentatious method of giving alms in secret, was what Paul enjoined upon the Corinthians. So that if the first-day Sabbath has no better foundation than the inference drawn from this text, it truly rests upon sand.
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