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Where are we told to keep the Sabbath day in the New Testament?
If someone tells me that they reject the Sabbath, and won't go to the OT for proof, where do I point them in the NT?
...Presume continuity unless the NT otherwise says. Of course, too much thinking along those lines will make you a paedobaptist.
Where are we told to keep the Sabbath day in the New Testament?
...Where are we told to keep the Sabbath day in the New Testament?
I would also go to James 2:10-11,
10 For whoever shall keep the whole law, and yet stumble in one point, he is guilty of all. 11 For He who said, “Do not commit adultery,” also said, “Do not murder.” Now if you do not commit adultery, but you do murder, you have become a transgressor of the law.
To this I would add that the same one who said, "Do not commit adultery," also said, "Remember the sabbath day, to keep it holy."
I would point out how James puts all of the Ten Commandments on the very same footing. All the commands are founded upon God's character. While the civil and ceremonial laws can be abrogated as it is fulfilled in Christ and thereby abrogated, the moral law can never be abrogated because God's moral character can never be abrogated. He is the same yesterday, today, and forever. Therefore, the Ten Words are forever binding.
...May that God might use this vessel and the instrumentality of this reasoning to tear down strongholds!
Where are we told to keep the Sabbath day in the New Testament?
Hebrews 4:9
9 There remains therefore a rest for the people of God.
rest, σαββατισμός: sabbatismós (G4520)
One tendency against this verse is an over-realized sabbath fulfillment in Christ during this present age, but Christ does not become our sabbath rest completely until we get to heaven (an already & not yet kind of thing).
I would also go to James 2:10-11,
10 For whoever shall keep the whole law, and yet stumble in one point, he is guilty of all. 11 For He who said, “Do not commit adultery,” also said, “Do not murder.” Now if you do not commit adultery, but you do murder, you have become a transgressor of the law.
To this I would add that the same one who said, "Do not commit adultery," also said, "Remember the sabbath day, to keep it holy."
I would point out how James puts all of the Ten Commandments on the very same footing. All the commands are founded upon God's character. While the civil and ceremonial laws can be abrogated as it is fulfilled in Christ and thereby abrogated, the moral law can never be abrogated because God's moral character can never be abrogated. He is the same yesterday, today, and forever. Therefore, the Ten Words are forever binding.