What day are we supposed to worship on?

What day are we supposed to worship on?

Let us allow the Bible to answer the question: what day are we supposed to worship on? The Lord sanctified the seventh day Sabbath (Saturday) and blessed it as a day of worship at the creation of the world.  “And on the seventh day God ended His work which He had done, and He rested on the seventh day from all His work which He had done. Then God blessed the seventh day and sanctified it, because in it He rested from all His work which God had created and made” (Genesis 2:2-3).

God blessed the seventh day because He had created the world in six days and rested on the seventh. It was the birthday of the world, a memorial of His great work. Some teach that the seventh day Sabbath was just for the Jews. But the Sabbath was made and given to man over 2000 years before the existence of the Jews. God made the Sabbath for the benefit of mankind (Mark 2: 27).

Here is a brief Bible history on the seventh day Sabbath:

1. Abraham and his descendants kept all of God’s commandments (Genesis 26:4-5).
2. The Bible shows that God’s children kept the Sabbath day before He handed down the Ten Commandments (Exodus 16:4, 26-30).
3. God reinforced His Ten Commandments- in stone, with His own finger and placed special emphasis on remembering His seventh day Sabbath. “Remember the Sabbath day, to keep it holy. Six days you shall labor and do all your work, 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. For in six days the Lord made the heavens and the earth, the sea, and all that is in them, and rested the seventh day. Therefore the Lord blessed the Sabbath day and hallowed it” (Exodus 20:8-11).
4. Jesus provided a pattern for us. While on earth as “Son of Man”, He made it His custom to keep each seventh day Sabbath by attending worship services (Luke 4:16).
5. When a rich young ruler asked Jesus “what good thing shall I do, that I may have eternal life? Jesus answered,… if thou wilt enter into life, keep the commandments.” And when the ruler asked which commandments, Jesus said, ” “‘You shall not murder,’ ‘You shall not commit adultery,’ ‘You shall not steal,’ ‘You shall not bear false witness,’ ‘Honor your father and your mother,’ and, ‘You shall love your neighbor as yourself’” (Matthew 19:17-19). Jesus referred to the ten commandments, which included the Sabbath.
6. Jesus said He did not come to destroy the Law, but to fill it to the fullest spiritual meaning (Matthew 5:17-18).
7. When Jesus prophesied about events that would take place forty years after His death (A.D. 70, the destruction of Jerusalem), He underscored the fact that His followers would still be observing His sacred seventh day Sabbath (Matthew 24:20).
8. Christ’s disciples kept the seventh day Sabbath after the Crucifixion and the Resurrection (Luke 23:56; Acts 13:14, 42-44; 16:13; 17:2; 18:4). There’s no mention in the New Testament (written up to sixty years after Christ’s death) of changing or eliminating the seventh day Sabbath.
9. Paul did away with the Mosaic Law with its feasts and annual sabbath holidays (Colossians 2:16; Ephesians 2:15; Galatians 4:9, 20) but he didn’t do away with the the weekly Sabbath of the Ten Commandments.
10. Paul taught that the the seventh day Sabbath observance remains (Hebrews 4:4, 9, 10).
11. God’s redeemed people will celebrate the Sabbath day in the new heavens and new earth for all of eternity (Isaiah 66:22-23).
12. Finally, it is important to keep God’s true Sabbath for the believers will be judged by the law of God (James 2:10, 12).

In His service,
BibleAsk Team