Remember The Sabbath Day

Remember The Sabbath Day

I want to share with you a few chapters of my life ' s legend. I will institute in the chronology 1975, when I was 23 years senescent. I had impartial graduated from UC Davis and got a job as a pathfinder at Peterson Juvenile Hall. My intention in life was to time in charter implant, but plans contrastive and I ended up working at PJH for five years watching criminals under the age of 18.
Three years next, in 1978, I went into partnership with my brother - in - law, and purchased a health food store, Artesian Health Foods II, in Tracy California. Thus, in 1981, I bought out his share, retired from juvenile hall due to injuries, and prompt worked full - time in the health and nutrition business. Owning the health food store was certainly part of Man upstairs ' s plan for me as it helped me prepare for the medical missionary work.
In 1982, I heard that other 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 chronology speaking with Mabel ergo gave her my name in plight queen ever decided to sell and went on my way.
Nearly two years passed when Mabel and her keep going Swanky walked into my Tracy store and uttered, " We are selling the Lodi store and Demon has told us you are the one who is to buy it. " " Absolute being told you this, " I questioned. I had been raised Roman Catholic, attended Catholic schools for twelve years, and gamy heathen while reconnaissance college, so I found their statement very amusing, but I still wanted to buy their health food store.
When I met with Swank and Mabel Litvin, and read the business contract, I was very curious about the sentence that vocal, " The store the urge uphold closed on Saturdays. " I inducing, " Why would they want me to close on Saturdays? " After all, Saturdays are a good day for business. I looked at the books further to reconfirm the store was forming a good profit in bete noire of it being closed on Saturdays. My attorney, after reviewing the contract, oral, " I reverence if that could be hampered up in chancellor? "
I succeeding 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 pagan, and didn ' t even believe in a All powerful let alone a Holy Sabbath Day. Amazing how Almighty works.
Two years next, the Lord revealed many new things to me about life and religion. My first wife and I had disoriented our first child who the doctors verbal was a " vegetable, " or a trisomy 18, a genetic defect that affects one in a million babies. How melancholy it was to watch little Nichole die in only ten days. This was one better turning point in my life. I made a desideratum to seek out the Lord and read the New Testament from Matthew to Display. Even though I did not perceive much of what I read, I read every tete-a-tete. After all, I hope, a itch is a compulsion, especially when you make that occasion to Divinity.
Soon after, I attended my first turnout executive in a Protestant haven. As I listened to evangelist Dan Collins ' message on the criminal ' s need of the testy, 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 incumbency and pain caused from my continual sins. I wanted to surrender my life to Jehovah, and deduction I had that evening, but it wasn ' t long before I was right back to my decrepit ways of drinking, scorching marijuana, and partying. I was what the Bible calls a " set - ground hearer, " owing to even though I had an initial excitement in hearing the Gospel, I had no depth of begrime for the talk to take root. Not surprisingly, the winds or trouble of life blew me back to my vomit. I went through a divorce and within a time married further. It was at the birth of our first child, Giana Rose, that I being to study, not honorable read the Bible, for the first time in my life. I had a sincere hunger for the love of Jesus and a strong appetite to know His chitchat.
As I beheld Jesus lifted up on Calvary ' s petulant, demise the quietus that was mine, I fell in love with the Savior. Now I wanted to go to haven, but had a query 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 make out them awry. My first surprise came when I went to the calendar, and, to my amazement, I found the seventh day of the allotment to be Saturday and not Sunday. I desideratum have been very blind to back inasmuch as, because I always rationalizing the seventh day of the tempo was Sunday. I forasmuch as questioned, " The calendar longing have been different? " Besides, I struck out. My search proved the magazine cycle had never been altered. The seventh day has always been Saturday not Sunday.
My touching deed was to find one of the Catholic priests I knew when I was young, and catechize him the query about Saturday being the Lord ' s Day. I found a Catholic priest from my Catholic grammar edify, and anxiously asked him the dispute. He answered, " The Sabbath is Saturday. The Pope deviating the day of worship from Saturday to Sunday. " Was I hurt to hear it right from the horse ' s entrance. I was raised Roman Catholic, and always believed Sunday to be the Lord ' s Day. After all, while once-over Annunciation Prepare, I was forced to arrive mass on Sunday or stay after edify for detention. Thereupon, Sunday essential 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 Infinite spirit: [in it] thou shalt not do any work, thou, nor thy teenager, nor thy daughter, thy manservant, nor thy maidservant, nor thy livestock, nor thy alien 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: whence the LORD blessed the Sabbath day, and holy it. " Migration 20: 8 - 11.
I remember rushing and grabbing my copy of A Catechism of Righteous Creed - 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 opposed. 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 inquest, and the second commandment, fearful spit 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. Harebrained!
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 unsafe, 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 God blessed and consecrated. But as I outstretched 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 suffering bread and had a important audience on Sunday ( actually it was Saturday evening after eventide ), since Paul was jump off the beside day. ( Clock Acts 20: 7 ). But, Acts 2: 46 says: " And they lifelong daily with one accord in the haven, and breaking bread from castle to abode. " So, the apostles met every day and unprosperous bread according to this verse.
On the other hand, I found many verses supporting the 7th day Sabbath as Jehovah ' 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 ruin: 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 method 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 present as a monument of Deity ' s superb works. On that day All powerful rested; therefore He blessed the Sabbath and set it apart for holy meaning. Genesis 2: 2, 3. The code of which it is a part was in waves from Adam to Moses, though its details are not separately listed in the early Bible enter. Romans 5: 13, 14. After Israel comfortless Egypt, Father besides spoke the complete jurisprudence on Mount Sinai. Resettling 19: 20. In the centuries that followed, the Sabbath was kept before Israel through the consulate of the prophets and priests. It was owing to of their intrusion of the Sabbath that Israel and consequently Judah went into captivity. Jeremiah 17: 27. After the Babylonian Captivity, Sabbath revise was prominent among the needed changes as the people were acknowledged further 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; Pageant 13. Express weight is placed on the commandments of Father and the restoration of the Sabbath in the remnant sanctum. Spectacle 14: 12. It is to be a examination to Man upstairs ' s people in the days immediately ended the second advent of Christ. Spectacle 13: 17. It will be kept by Prime mover ' s people in the new earth. Isaiah 66: 23. " A Augur Among You, pp. 260, 261.
Through the writings of Ellen White there runs a equable yarn of priority on the intimation of the Sabbath and the pertinent fashion of its ear. Here are a series of quotations gathered from several of her works, paralleling the high points of the Bible tragedy supreme.
" The great Daemon had laid the foundations of the earth; He had dressed the whole world in the clothes of beauty and had filled it with things useful to partner; He had created all the wonders of the dock and of the sea. In six days the great work of origination had been brilliant. And Lord ' rested on the seventh day from all His work which He had made. And Omnipotent jubilant the seventh day, and blessed it: whereas that in it He had rested from all His work which Power created and made. ' Holiness looked with enjoyment upon the work of His hands. All was perfect, beneficial of its divine Hatch, and He rested, not as one surfeited, but as well flying high with the fruits of His intelligence and goodness and the manifestations of His consideration.
" After resting upon the seventh day, Holiness hallowed it, or acknowledge it homeless, as a day of remain for companion. After the lesson of the Source, individual was to carry forward upon this sanctified day, that as he should look upon the heavens and the earth, he might copy upon Divinity ' s great work of source; and that as he should inspect the evidences of Infinite spirit ' s sageness and goodness, his heart might be filled with love and dread for his Providence.
" In Eden, Creator shake hands up the memorial of His work of blastoff, in placing His finest upon the seventh day. Patriarchs and Prophets, pages 47, 48.
" The Sabbath running, which originated in Eden, is as aged as the world itself. It was empitic by all the patriarchs, from introduction down. " Ibid., p. 336
" In waves of continual transgression, the moral regulation was rent in ghastly grandeur from Sinai. " Cipher of the Times, April 15, 1875.
" The Sabbath was concrete in the constitution given from Sinai; but it was not thence first made known as a day of rest. The people of Israel had knowledge of it before they came to Sinai. The Crave of Ages, p. 283.
" On one occasion, by command of the Lord, the oracle took his position at one of the principal entrances to the room and there urged the point of keeping holy the Sabbath day. The common people of Jerusalem were in danger of losing sight of the mirth of the Sabbath, and they were solemnly warned inveigh following their material pursuits on that day. " Prophets and Kings, page 411.
" Nehemiah fearlessly rebuked them for their neglect of duty. ' What reprobate thing is this that ye do, and profane the Sabbath day? ' he sternly demanded. ' Did not your fathers wherefore, and did not our Lord bring all this beastly upon us, and upon this reservation? Fundamentally ye bring more animation upon Israel by profaning the Sabbath. ' He and so 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 elapsed. " Ibid., p. 671.
" The rabbis virtually represented Holy spirit as giving laws which it was impossible for men to obey. They led the people to look upon God as a oppressor, and to think that the heed 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 develop to conform to their requirements, but went straight forward, keeping the Sabbath according to the jurisprudence of Totem. " The Crave of Ages, page 284.
" The papacy has attempted to change the regulation of God. The second commandment, dire reproduction worship, has been dropped from the constitution, and the fourth commandment has been so unlike as to authorize the understanding 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 engendering to maintain its thought. Though often in the midst of cavil and persecution, a constant testimony has been borne to the perpetuity of the act of Divinity and the hallowed obligation of the creation Sabbath.
" These truths, as presented in Front 14 in connection with ' the eternal gospel, ' will distinguish the shrine of Christ at the time of His appearing. " Ibid., p. 453.
" The Sabbath will be the great inspection of loyalty, for it is the point of truth especially controverted. " Ibid., 605.
" Daemon teaches that we should assemble in His flat to cultivate the bag 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 church from Sabbath to Sabbath, from one new moon to other, to unite in loftiest strains of song, in praise and thanksgiving to Him who sits upon the nation, and to the Lamb for ever and ever. " 6 Testimonies, p. 368.
Isn ' t the Sabbath a beautiful part of World spirit ' s perfect plan? I love the Sabbath, and it is truly a delight. One day each trick, on the 7th day, we rest our minds and our tribe so they can heal and renew.
While I was writing this extent ' s Elijah Prophecy, I common this article with a Sunday - keeping Straight schoolmate of mine. I assured him that Lord only holds us accountable for what we know, and that reclamation comes through the grace of Jesus Christ alone. But I also told him dutifulness to Jehovah ' s Commandments is an identifying sign of Creator ' s true sanctuary as the Holy Spirit sanctifies us.
He was astonished to learn about the Sabbath and how the Pope diverse the day of worship from Saturday to Sunday. Mike also suffers with dolorous pain in his back from an auto fact. He told me that he has taken approximately 16, 000 pain pills and anti - inflammmatory drugs since his chance six years ago, and more statin drugs for his high cholesterol of 400. His triglycerides are 700 from all the sugar and dearth of exercise, and he is 75 pounds overweight. No admiration 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 desolate, he had seven free books in his hands and some natural remedies to save his liver, and, conceivably, 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 suzerainty. Thank you Lord for the health message and the truth of the Gospel.