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Speaker 1
Is asking would it be wrong to worship on Sunday?
Speaker 2
I like to say first, what does it mean to worship? And it’s become so corrupted over time that we think worship is just like throwing your hands up and dancing to the music and singing. And that might be a form of it, but at its core, what does it really mean to worship? And if we look at it, for example, in the New Testament, the common word for worship is froske neil. If you look at it, meanings of it means like to kiss the hand of one as a token of reverence, to fall on your knees and touch the ground with a forehead as an expression of profound reverence and then kneeling and prostration to make oba sense whether to order, to express respect or make supplication. If we go through this, it’s very much about obeying and submitting. That’s the essence of worship. And that’s what would make God happier, that you would keep his laws or that you will sing, praise music and dance and do this stuff that most people associate with worship. We need to go back and talk about, okay, so what does God want us to do when we worship Him?
Speaker 2
And then what does that look like throughout the week? And of course, we should obey Him and do his will seven days a week. I think we can all agree and we should praise God seven days a week. We should always do these things. But as we’ve been talking about, there is a special law which God says on the 7th day I want you to rest, on the 7th day I want you to take a break from your labors and come into my presence and just be present with me so that we can have a better, deeper relationship. And associated in withsab is also often was a convocation coming together. And then this is where then we’ve had later on that developed for the Jews. What was it called when they would come together, the Jewish people during Jesus’s time, just blinking on the word convocation every Sabbath, like Jesus would go to the.
Speaker 3
Speaker 2
No, was it the temple? Sorry, okay, blinking on it. But you know, so the Jews had their congregating that they would do on Saturdays. And in the Christian church we have the churches, we go to church now, that’s what we do. Oh, great, our producer gave me the word. The synagogue. Yes, the theme. That’s right, synagogue. So while we don’t necessarily need to do it in the exact way they were doing it, the idea of coming together during the Sabbath time, so we experience fellowship and also through fellowship experience the oneness and love that God also has for us becomes important. And it’s important to also note that Sabbath is always Sabbath, whether we recognize it or not from creation. God, as a matter of natural law, made Sabbath the 7th day, the sabbath and blessed it and set it apart, made it holy. So God doesn’t need the Fourth Commandment even to do it. The Fourth Commandment is just for us to honor that day by keeping it.
Speaker 3
Amen.
Speaker 1
We have a comment here that I think is on point. It says you can worship the Lord any day of the week, but worshipping Him on those days doesn’t make them holy. The Sabbath remains holy whether you worship on it or not.
Speaker 3
That’s very true. And I’m thinking, going back to the original question, would it be wrong to worship on Sunday? Well, again, we’re going back to the issue of worship. And so what did Jesus say about worship? In John, chapter four, he’s speaking to the woman at the well in Samaria. And he says in verse John 424, he says, God is spirit, and those who worship Him must worship him in spirit and in truth. So it’s one thing to worship God in spirit. I have all these spiritual feelings and those are good. It’s good to have the right spirit, you know, the spirit of love, spirit of kindness. However, it must also be in truth. And what is the truth? God’s law? God’s word is the truth. Jesus is the truth. Jesus says, I am the way, the truth and the life. And so also in His Word is truth, thy Word is truth.
Speaker 2
And he also is a lord. He’s also the Lord of the Sabbath.
Speaker 3
Yeah, exactly. And in Mark 228, and so again, we see, you know, Jesus is the truth and Jesus is Lord of the Sabbath and Jesus is the law. His word that he wrote, this only piece of the Bible, he wrote with his own finger in Exodus 20, in verses eight through eleven is remember the Sabbath day to keep it holy, 6th day, shoutout labor and do all the work. But the 7th day is a Sabbath unto the Lord thy God. So again, can you worship on Sunday? It’s your choice to worship on Sunday. However, are you obeying God’s word by remembering the 7th day Sabbath that he spelled out in his Ten Commandment Law, which he sanctified at creation? You see in Genesis two, two and three, that on the 7th day God rested. And that was the example he gave to us. And so, as a parent, when I tell my daughter, can you please put your blocks away in this bag? And she does it, I am so happy. However, when I say, can you please put your blocks away in this bag? And she starts doing other chores or other things, it frustrates me.
Speaker 3
I still love her, I still am happy she’s doing something, but it’s not what I asked. And when she does what I ask, that makes a huge world of difference. But when she doesn’t, let me tell you, it puts a block in a relationship. Because I’m like, why don’t you listen to me? Why don’t you do what I’m asking you to do, what I’ve clearly and explicitly laid out as my guideline or rule. And so I’m just saying, as a parent, when my child obeys, I am very happy because I feel like, wow, they really took to heart what I should matter to them enough for them to actually follow through. And when they don’t, it really hurts me because it’s like they don’t care and it just puts a breach in the relationship. So again, I think that’s why worshiping keeping the 7th day Sabbath is so important, because it’s what God explicitly said to do. And because we love God, we obey Him. Just as Jesus said, if you love me, keep my commandments. And so it’s not a matter of, oh, I’m trying to earn my salvation, or something like that. No, it’s I love God enough to obey exactly what he said.
Speaker 3
So go ahead. I’m sorry.
Speaker 1
Oh, yeah, no, I completely agree. And then the thing I just wanted to add is we kind of touched on it, but I wanted to flesh out a little more is that the 7th day was blessed so that we could keep it so that we can rest from our labors. The first day, Sunday has not been blessed for that purpose. So if we worship on Sunday, well, we’re worshiping on Sunday, we live to worship God, but that day hasn’t been blessed to ensure that we can keep it the way Sabbath has been blessed.
Speaker 2
Yeah. And then it comes back to what is the essence of Sabbath. And if we see in Revelation or sorry, essence of worship revelation 1312 and 15 in Revelation 14, like all these verses talking about, look at Revelation 1312. It says, and he exercises all the authority of the first beast in his presence and causes the earth and those who dwell in it to worship the first beast whose deadly moon was healed. And then we see again Revelation 1315, powers granted. And you have the image of the beast that should speak and cause as many as who would not worship the image of the beast to be killed. When we see this, this worship is not a singing and praise music. And that a lot of people think this is submission, this is listening to obeying and doing what this authority wants as opposed to what God wants. And this is a big message and takeaway from the book of Revelation. God is trying to warn you a time is going to come, there’s going to be a testing where God’s people will worship God by obeying Him. And, and and Satan is trying to use a false system, a false way of worship to have us worship actually Satan indirectly.
Speaker 2
And what do you think might be that test? What’s the seal? What’s? The mark of God. What does God say? Identify as his true people. And we’ll see throughout the Bible again and again, he associates that with Sabbath keeping.
Speaker 3
And the thing is to like you’re saying, you know, God’s people in the end times. In Revelation chapter 14, verse twelve, it’s saying here is the patience of the saints, here are they that keep the commandments of God and the faith of Jesus and have the faith of Jesus. And so, in order for us to be those last day people, to be part of this end time people that are ready for the Lord to return, we have to return to true worship. Because again, in Revelation 14, it goes into this message of fear God and worship Him who made heaven and earth, the sea, and all that in them is. And when you look at those passages in Revelation 14, six through twelve, talking about worship Him who made heaven and earth, the scene, all of it’s quoting the fourth commandment, it’s quoting the fact that God is Creator. And that fourth commandment of 7th day Sabbath keeping is a stamp of saying that my God created the world in six literal days, and the 7th day he rested. And I am commanded by his word, by his authority to obey that commandment explicitly, as it says.
Speaker 3
And so when we’re saying, oh, well, whatever we can do, whatever things are nailed to the cross that was never nailed to the cross, and we can try to change it in any which way we like, but at the end of the day, it comes down to will you obey God’s word or not?
Speaker 2
We respect the authority of the person who claims to have changed it even.
Speaker 3
Exactly. And there’s so many verses that say this is a test that will happen. You look in the Book of Daniel in chapter seven, verse 25, saying that this endtime beast power, it seeks to change times and laws, and the only law of God that’s associated with time is the Sabbath. And it’s really just a very unique commandment that God has. I mean, the other ones are very make sense, don’t kill, don’t steal, don’t lie. But to keep the 7th day Sabbath as he commands, to do so in the law of God, it’s very specific and it makes God’s people very unique. And I think that that’s why it’s there to set people apart. As I don’t just keep some, I keep them all, regardless of what world may say, regardless of whatever, we are going to obey God and keep all of his commandments.
Speaker 1
Amen. I just wanted to add one little thing here that kind of ties into what we were to the first couple of questions we had about sin. We’re just talking about submission and it really is a question of who are we submitting to all of sin or righteousness is who are we submitting our will to? Are we submitting our will to God in his ways? Or are we submitting our will to Satan and his ways? That’s what it comes down to we are submitting one or the other all the time. And so to overcome any kind of sin, it’s recognizing whose path we’re submitting to and making the conscious decision to shift to submit to Christ in his ways.
Speaker 2
Thank you very much, Athena, for that question.
Speaker 1
Athena also. Thank you. And then she says, I didn’t know Sunday was the first day, thought it was the 7th.
Speaker 3
And it’s kind of crazy because a lot of people actually think that. I know some calendars try to even make Sunday the the 7th day. And I’m like, Come on. If you go to any other country besides, you know, United States, where you speak like Spanish, for example, like in Mexico, the 7th day is Sabodo, which literally means Sabbath. Like Saturday the word we would say Saturday say Sabado, which is the same word as Sabbath. Same thing in French, same thing in all tons of other language, Arabic. And so you see that the 7th day is always identified.
Speaker 2
And the US military did a study to see if the days ever got changed at one time. And they came back saying, no, it looks like Saturday has always been the 7th day. Or the weeks have always been steady throughout.
Speaker 3
Yeah, the weekly cycle hasn’t ever changed. I know people have tried to change it. During the French Revolution, they tried to make a ten day week. Did not work, couldn’t keep it happening, didn’t last. So, yeah, people, man can try to do whatever they want, but the Lord is still Lord. And Jesus, like you said in Mark 228, he is the Lord of the Sabbath. And if you want to keep the Lord’s day, like it talks about revelation, that’s the 7th day Sabbath. So I hope, I encourage you, if you haven’t studied this out, study it more and come to your own conclusion and by faith continue to keep the Lord in true worship, spirit and truth.
Speaker 2
And the producer is a good point. That Luke 24 one. It says that Jesus rose on the first day and then talks about how the day before he was in the grave during Sabbath time. So that’s another example where even biblically we could see that Sabbath was the 7th and then the next day was Sunday.
Speaker 3
Yeah, it calls Friday the preparation day. And it says till the dawning of the Sabbath. And again, it says on the first day that Jesus was resurrected. And you can again see that in Matthew 28, verse one even it says now after the Sabbath, as the first day of the week began to dawn. So yeah.
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