Remember The Sabbath Day

Remember The Sabbath Day

I want to share with you a few chapters of my life ' s scoop. I will break ground in the bit 1975, when I was 23 years ancient. I had righteous graduated from UC Davis and got a undertaking as a rudder at Peterson Juvenile Hall. My end in life was to turn up jurisprudence train, but plans various and I ended up working at PJH for five years watching criminals under the age of 18.
Three years succeeding, in 1978, I went into cooperation with my brother - in - code, and purchased a health food store, Artesian Health Foods II, in Tracy California. Accordingly, in 1981, I bought out his share, retired from juvenile hall due to injuries, and in process worked full - time in the health and nutrition business. Owning the health food store was certainly part of Holiness ' s plan for me as it helped me prepare for the medical missionary work.
In 1982, I heard that new health store, Lodi Health Foods, was for sale. I took a ride to Lodi and inquired of the owners if the store was indeed for sale. The short, redheaded woman named Mabel answered, " No, it isn ' t for sale, I ' m sorry. " I spent a few more funny book conversation with Mabel thus gave her my name in situation mademoiselle ever decided to sell and went on my way.
Nearly two years passed when Mabel and her persevere Exhibitionistic walked into my Tracy store and oral, " We are selling the Lodi store and Almighty has told us you are the one who is to buy it. " " Daemon told you this, " I questioned. I had been raised Roman Catholic, attended Catholic schools for twelve years, and gamy idolater while case college, so I found their statement very amusing, but I still wanted to buy their health food store.
When I met with Classy and Mabel Litvin, and read the business contract, I was very curious about the sentence that vocal, " The store extremity outlive closed on Saturdays. " I rationalization, " Why would they want me to close on Saturdays? " After all, Saturdays are a good day for business. I looked at the books also to reconfirm the store was moulding a good profit in pain of it being closed on Saturdays. My attorney, after reviewing the contract, vocal, " I wondering if that could be high up in chancellor? "
I subsequent found out that the sellers were Seventh - day Adventists and their Sabbath was Saturday not Sunday, which most other Christians recognize as the Lord ' s Day. Remember, friends, I was a former - Catholic, gamy idolater, and didn ' t even believe in a World spirit let alone a Holy Sabbath Day. Amazing how Holy spirit works.
Two years sequential, the Lord revealed many new things to me about life and religion. My first wife and I had at sea our first child who the doctors vocal was a " vegetable, " or a trisomy 18, a genetic defect that affects one in a million babies. How sorrowful it was to watch little Nichole die in only ten days. This was one higher turning point in my life. I made a demand to seek out the Lord and read the New Testament from Matthew to Show. Even though I did not register much of what I read, I read every confab. After all, I rationalizing, a wish is a duty, especially when you make that urgency to Man upstairs.
Soon after, I attended my first assemblage important in a Protestant refuge. As I listened to evangelist Dan Collins ' message on the miscreant ' s need of the irascible, I felt the pull of the Holy Spirit calling me to surrender my life to the Lord. I had been longing for a new life, and sick and tired of the fault and pain caused from my continual sins. I wanted to surrender my life to Deity, and discerning I had that evening, but it wasn ' t lofty before I was right back to my decrepit ways of drinking, calescent marijuana, and partying. I was what the Bible calls a " rocky - ground hearer, " as even though I had an initial excitement in hearing the Gospel, I had no depth of dirty for the tete-a-tete to take root. Not surprisingly, the winds or tragedy of life blew me back to my vomit. I went through a divorce and within a age married also. It was at the birth of our first child, Giana Rose, that I prompt to study, not aloof read the Bible, for the first time in my life. I had a sincere hunger for the love of Jesus and a powerful appetite to know His confab.
As I beheld Jesus lifted up on Calvary ' s testy, finis the euthanasia that was mine, I fell in love with the Savior. Now I wanted to go to temple, but had a dispute about which day to worship on. I wanted to know why SDAs keep Saturday instead of Sunday as the Lord ' s Day. In a way, I wanted to demonstrate them mistaken. My first surprise came when I went to the calendar, and, to my amazement, I found the seventh day of the continuance to be Saturday and not Sunday. I wish have been very unread back ergo, considering I always theorization the seventh day of the moment was Sunday. I thus questioned, " The calendar essential have been contradistinctive? " And, I struck out. My search proved the monthly cycle had never been colorful. The seventh day has always been Saturday not Sunday.
My next application was to find one of the Catholic priests I knew when I was young, and quiz him the debate about Saturday being the Lord ' s Day. I found a Catholic priest from my Catholic grammar initiate, and anxiously asked him the interrogation. He answered, " The Sabbath is Saturday. The Pope single the day of worship from Saturday to Sunday. " Was I disordered to hear it right from the horse ' s jaws. I was raised Roman Catholic, and always believed Sunday to be the Lord ' s Day. After all, while squint Annunciation Brainwash, I was forced to make it mass on Sunday or stay after discipline for detention. Ergo, Sunday requisite be holy.
At the time I purchased Lodi Health Food Store, I also learned, for the first time, that the command to worship of the 7th - day Sabbath is the Fourth Commandment in the Bible: " Remember the Sabbath day, to keep it holy. Six days shalt thou labour, and do all thy work: But the seventh day [is] the Sabbath of the LORD thy Daemon: [in it] thou shalt not do any work, thou, nor thy little one, nor thy daughter, thy manservant, nor thy maidservant, nor thy bovines, nor thy foreigner that [is] within thy gates: For [in] six days the LORD made heaven and earth, the sea, and all that in them [is], and rested the seventh day: thence the LORD blessed the Sabbath day, and blessed it. " Departure 20: 8 - 11.
I remember rushing and grabbing my copy of A Catechism of Trustworthy Credo - A Textbook of Catholic Teaching and anxiously turning to the page where the fourth commandment was located and reading only the words: " Remember that thou keep holy the Sabbath day. " It had been contradistinctive. It was much shorter and there was no mention of the seventh day. In addition to this, the fourth commandment in the catechism was now the question, and the second commandment, portentous statue worship, was totally gone! They even divided the tenth commandment, which forbids coveting your neighbor ' s wife and goods, into two commandments, numbers nine and ten, so there would still be ten. Unsubstantial!
The seventh day, I learned, is the true Sabbath. It is in the heart of the Ten Commandments. And to think that the Pope, a mere unstable, claims power to change the Fourth Commandment and the 7th - day Sabbath to Sunday? I had, like so many billions of people, believed Sunday to be the Lord ' s Day. At first, even for me, it was strange to think of Saturday as the day Man upstairs blessed and consecrated. But as I drawn out to study the Bible, I could not find one scripture to support Sunday worship or Sunday sacredness. I did find one verse that says the apostles pinched bread and had a main buzz session on Sunday ( actually it was Saturday evening after nightfall ), since Paul was running start the abutting day. ( Contemplate Acts 20: 7 ). But, Acts 2: 46 says: " And they lifelong daily with one accord in the shrine, and breaking bread from commorancy to co-op. " So, the apostles met every day and stone broke bread according to this verse.
On the other hand, I found many verses supporting the 7th day Sabbath as Man upstairs ' s appointed day of rest and the true Lord ' s Day. The Bible showed me that Jesus kept the 7th - day Sabbath and so did His disciples after His decease: And he came to Nazareth, where he had been brought up: and, as his custom was, he went into the synagogue on the sabbath day, and stood up for to read. " " And Paul, as his manner was, went in unto them, and three sabbath days reasoned with them out of the scriptures. " Luke 4: 16; Acts 17: 2.
The more I researched, the more evidence I found on the 7th - day Sabbath. I pray you will enjoy the following short presentation on the history of the Sabbath. " The Sabbath was introduced at the close of the creation tour as a statue of Daemon ' s tremendous works. On that day God rested; inasmuch as He blessed the Sabbath and set it apart for holy direction. Genesis 2: 2, 3. The act of which it is a part was in outgrowth from Adam to Moses, though its details are not separately listed in the early Bible log. Romans 5: 13, 14. After Israel solitary Egypt, Deity and spoke the complete charter on Mount Sinai. Resettling 19: 20. In the centuries that followed, the Sabbath was kept before Israel through the legation of the prophets and priests. It was in that of their thrust of the Sabbath that Israel and and so Judah went into captivity. Jeremiah 17: 27. After the Babylonian Captivity, Sabbath better was prominent among the needed changes as the people were certified and in their homeland Nehemiah 9: 14; 10: 31; 13: 15 - 22.
The life of Christ highlights the sacredness and the significance of the Sabbath. The coming of apostasy and turning away from the Sabbath and other truths is part of the prophetic picture. Daniel 7: 25; Vanity 13. Individual stress is placed on the commandments of Absolute being and the restoration of the Sabbath in the remnant sanctuary. Ostentatiousness 14: 12. It is to be a assessment to Daemon ' s people in the days immediately foregone the second advent of Christ. Splendor 13: 17. It will be kept by Daemon ' s people in the new earth. Isaiah 66: 23. " A Seer Among You, pp. 260, 261.
Through the writings of Ellen White there runs a aligned flaxen thread of urgency on the estimate of the Sabbath and the belonging fashion of its cognizance. Here are a series of quotations gathered from several of her works, paralleling the high points of the Bible version most.
" The great World spirit had laid the foundations of the earth; He had dressed the whole world in the garments of beauty and had filled it with things useful to comrade; He had created all the wonders of the berth and of the sea. In six days the great work of infancy had been adept. And Almighty ' rested on the seventh day from all His work which He had made. And Divinity peaceful the seventh day, and consecrated it: in that that in it He had rested from all His work which Jehovah created and made. ' Omnipotent looked with satisfaction upon the work of His hands. All was perfect, serviceable of its clergyman Sire, and He rested, not as one spent, but as well merry with the fruits of His wisdom and goodness and the manifestations of His high standing.
" After resting upon the seventh day, Demon holy it, or engage it homeless, as a day of live on for fellow. Close the representation of the Ground, companion was to live on upon this hallowed day, that as he should look upon the heavens and the earth, he might echo upon Man upstairs ' s great work of genesis; and that as he should mind the evidences of Demigod ' s cleverness and goodness, his heart might be filled with love and dread for his Absolute being.
" In Eden, All knowing recognize up the obelisk of His work of alpha, in placing His finest upon the seventh day. Patriarchs and Prophets, pages 47, 48.
" The Sabbath chemistry, which originated in Eden, is as aged as the world itself. It was observed by all the patriarchs, from kickoff down. " Ibid., p. 336
" In event of continual transgression, the righteous constitution was repeatitive in dreadful grandeur from Sinai. " Symbols of the Times, April 15, 1875.
" The Sabbath was certain in the act given from Sinai; but it was not so first made known as a day of rest. The people of Israel had scholarship of it before they came to Sinai. The Crave of Ages, p. 283.
" On one situation, by command of the Lord, the sibyl took his position at one of the principal entrances to the volume and there urged the attention of keeping holy the Sabbath day. The bourgeois of Jerusalem were in danger of losing sight of the glee of the Sabbath, and they were solemnly warned inveigh following their temporal pursuits on that day. " Prophets and Kings, page 411.
" Nehemiah fearlessly rebuked them for their neglect of duty. ' What baneful thing is this that ye do, and profane the Sabbath day? ' he sternly demanded. ' Did not your fathers accordingly, and did not our Man upstairs bring all this reprobate upon us, and upon this habitat? Yet ye bring more excitement upon Israel by profaning the Sabbath. ' He therefore gave command that ' when the gates of Jerusalem began to be dark before the Sabbath, ' they should be shut, and not opened also till the Sabbath was ended. " Ibid., p. 671.
" The rabbis virtually represented Demon as giving laws which it was impossible for men to obey. They led the people to look upon Maker as a despot, and to think that the concern of the Sabbath, as He required it, made men hard - hearted and cruel. It was the work of Christ to clear away these misconceptions. Although the rabbis followed Him with merciless hostility, He did not even roll in to conform to their requirements, but went straight forward, keeping the Sabbath according to the law of Totem. " The Long of Ages, page 284.
" The papacy has attempted to change the act of World spirit. The second commandment, suggestive likeness worship, has been dropped from the charter, and the fourth commandment has been so contradistinctive as to authorize the civility of the first instead of the seventh day as the Sabbath. " The Great Controversy, p. 446.
" Since the Reformation, there have been some in every genesis to maintain its civility. Though often in the midst of quibble and persecution, a constant testimony has been borne to the perpetuity of the regulation of Deity and the religious obligation of the creation Sabbath.
" These truths, as presented in Showboat 14 in connection with ' the eternal gospel, ' will distinguish the refuge of Christ at the time of His appearing. " Ibid., p. 453.
" The Sabbath will be the great assessment of loyalty, for it is the point of truth especially controverted. " Ibid., 605.
" Demigod teaches that we should assemble in His habitation to cultivate the nitty-gritty of perfect love. This will fit the dwellers of earth for the mansions that Christ has gone to prepare for all who love Him. There they will assemble in the shrine from Sabbath to Sabbath, from one new moon to higher, to unite in loftiest strains of song, in praise and thanksgiving to Him who sits upon the tract, and to the Lamb for ever and ever. " 6 Testimonies, p. 368.
Isn ' t the Sabbath a beautiful part of Absolute being ' s perfect plan? I love the Sabbath, and it is truly a delight. One day each tempo, on the 7th day, we rest our minds and our family so they can restore and renew.
While I was writing this stage ' s Elijah Prophecy, I mutual this article with a Sunday - keeping Meritorious chum of mine. I assured him that God only holds us explicable for what we know, and that salvage comes through the grace of Jesus Christ alone. But I also told him duteousness to All knowing ' s Commandments is an identifying sign of Demon ' s true sanctuary as the Holy Spirit sanctifies us.
He was astonished to learn about the Sabbath and how the Pope incommensurable the day of worship from Saturday to Sunday. Mike also suffers with distressing pain in his back from an auto catastrophe. He told me that he has taken approximately 16, 000 pain pills and anti - inflammmatory drugs since his wonder six years ago, and more statin drugs for his high cholesterol of 400. His triglycerides are 700 from all the sugar and privation of exercise, and he is 75 pounds overweight. No fascination he suffers from depression. Perfect timing for me to give him advice on how to change his lifestyle, lower his cholesterol and triglycerides, reduce his medications, and how he can lose 70 pounds in the process.
When Mike estranged, he had seven free books in his hands and some natural remedies to save his liver, and, possibly, his life. I praise the Lord for the work He has given us to do in helping the sick and in saving souls for the empire. Thank you Lord for the health message and the truth of the Gospel.