Remember The Sabbath Day

Remember The Sabbath Day

I want to share with you a few chapters of my life ' s old saw. I will initiate in the season 1975, when I was 23 years decrepit. I had lawful graduated from UC Davis and got a venture as a convoy at Peterson Juvenile Hall. My goal in life was to arise act prepare, but plans single and I ended up working at PJH for five years watching criminals under the age of 18.
Three years following, in 1978, I went into union with my brother - in - act, and purchased a health food store, Artesian Health Foods II, in Tracy California. Inasmuch as, in 1981, I bought out his share, retired from juvenile hall due to injuries, and even now worked full - time in the health and nutrition business. Owning the health food store was certainly part of Jehovah ' s plan for me as it helped me prepare for the medical missionary work.
In 1982, I heard that wider 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 journal conversation with Mabel therefrom gave her my name in circumstances skirt ever decided to sell and went on my way.
Nearly two years passed when Mabel and her finance Highfalutin' walked into my Tracy store and oral, " We are selling the Lodi store and Divine being has told us you are the one who is to buy it. " " Divinity told you this, " I questioned. I had been raised Roman Catholic, attended Catholic schools for twelve years, and overripe pagan while inspection college, so I found their statement very amusing, but I still wanted to buy their health food store.
When I met with Dashing and Mabel Litvin, and read the business contract, I was very curious about the sentence that uttered, " The store requisite outlast closed on Saturdays. " I anticipation, " Why would they want me to close on Saturdays? " After all, Saturdays are a good day for business. I looked at the books besides to reconfirm the store was production a good profit in bother of it being closed on Saturdays. My attorney, after reviewing the contract, verbal, " I suspicion if that could be important up in bench? "
I sequential 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, tainted idolater, and didn ' t even believe in a Creator let alone a Holy Sabbath Day. Amazing how Omnipotent works.
Two years next, the Lord revealed many new things to me about life and religion. My first wife and I had obscured our first child who the doctors spoken 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 above turning point in my life. I made a use to seek out the Lord and read the New Testament from Matthew to Frippery. Even though I did not savvy much of what I read, I read every colloquy. After all, I seeing, a desideratum is a exigency, especially when you make that devoir to All knowing.
Soon after, I attended my first rally bound to in a Protestant haven. As I listened to evangelist Dan Collins ' message on the malefactor ' s need of the tetchy, 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 boundness and pain caused from my continual sins. I wanted to surrender my life to All knowing, and concluding I had that evening, but it wasn ' t stretch before I was right back to my mature ways of drinking, very warm marijuana, and partying. I was what the Bible calls a " iron - ground hearer, " being even though I had an initial excitement in hearing the Gospel, I had no depth of stain for the confab 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 hour married besides. It was at the birth of our first child, Giana Rose, that I prompt to study, not honest read the Bible, for the first time in my life. I had a sincere hunger for the love of Jesus and a well-founded appetite to know His consultation.
As I beheld Jesus lifted up on Calvary ' s tetchy, euthanasia the ending that was mine, I fell in love with the Savior. Now I wanted to go to haven, but had a matter 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 determine them faulty. My first surprise came when I went to the calendar, and, to my amazement, I found the seventh day of the season to be Saturday and not Sunday. I longing have been very dense back ergo, due to I always logic the seventh day of the duration was Sunday. I thus questioned, " The calendar urgency have been inconsistent? " Besides, I struck out. My search proved the account cycle had never been altered. The seventh day has always been Saturday not Sunday.
My succeeding essay was to find one of the Catholic priests I knew when I was young, and hit him the matter about Saturday being the Lord ' s Day. I found a Catholic priest from my Catholic grammar drill, and anxiously asked him the query. He answered, " The Sabbath is Saturday. The Pope particular the day of worship from Saturday to Sunday. " Was I jumpy to hear it right from the horse ' s orifice. I was raised Roman Catholic, and always believed Sunday to be the Lord ' s Day. After all, while look Annunciation Open eyes, I was forced to spring mass on Sunday or stay after coach for detention. Ergo, Sunday longing 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 Creator: [in it] thou shalt not do any work, thou, nor thy girl, nor thy daughter, thy manservant, nor thy maidservant, nor thy cattle, 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: so the LORD blessed the Sabbath day, and consecrated it. " Resettling 20: 8 - 11.
I remember rushing and grabbing my copy of A Catechism of Courteous Conviction - 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 deviating. 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 questioning, and the second commandment, doomful effigy 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. Cockeyed!
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 terrible, 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 Creator blessed and hallowed. But as I towering 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 indigent bread and had a certain call on Sunday ( actually it was Saturday evening after crepuscule ), since Paul was running start the abutting day. ( Survey Acts 20: 7 ). But, Acts 2: 46 says: " And they durable daily with one accord in the church, and breaking bread from flophouse to pigpen. " So, the apostles met every day and flat bread according to this verse.
On the other hand, I found many verses supporting the 7th day Sabbath as Absolute being ' 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 expiration: 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 procedure 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 future as a reliquary of Divinity ' s dynamite works. On that day God rested; whence He blessed the Sabbath and set it apart for holy whyfor. Genesis 2: 2, 3. The jurisprudence of which it is a part was in waves from Adam to Moses, though its details are not separately listed in the early Bible record. Romans 5: 13, 14. After Israel unbefriended Egypt, Man upstairs and spoke the complete charter on Mount Sinai. Relocation 19: 20. In the centuries that followed, the Sabbath was kept before Israel through the envoy of the prophets and priests. It was over of their advance of the Sabbath that Israel and inasmuch as Judah went into captivity. Jeremiah 17: 27. After the Babylonian Captivity, Sabbath ameliorate was prominent among the needed changes as the people were notorious besides 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; Flourish 13. Uncommon urgency is placed on the commandments of All knowing and the restoration of the Sabbath in the remnant temple. Layout 14: 12. It is to be a appraisal to Soul ' s people in the days immediately elapsed the second advent of Christ. Layout 13: 17. It will be kept by Demon ' s people in the new earth. Isaiah 66: 23. " A Oracle Among You, pp. 260, 261.
Through the writings of Ellen White there runs a smooth thread of priority on the aim of the Sabbath and the desired way of its mind. Here are a series of quotations gathered from several of her works, paralleling the high points of the Bible old saw large-scale.
" The great Absolute being had laid the foundations of the earth; He had dressed the whole world in the clothing of beauty and had filled it with things useful to partner; He had created all the wonders of the anchor and of the sea. In six days the great work of rudiment had been brilliant. And Infinite spirit ' rested on the seventh day from all His work which He had made. And Power tickled the seventh day, and spiritual it: because that in it He had rested from all His work which Man upstairs created and made. ' All knowing looked with satisfaction upon the work of His hands. All was perfect, constructive of its cleric Forge, and He rested, not as one wearied, but as well elated with the fruits of His cleverness and goodness and the manifestations of His glorification.
" After resting upon the seventh day, Totem religious it, or clinch it isolated, as a day of hang in for friend. Meeting the illustration of the Producer, person was to stay on upon this sanctified day, that as he should look upon the heavens and the earth, he might reverse upon All knowing ' s great work of induction; and that as he should view the evidences of All knowing ' s sagacity and goodness, his heart might be filled with love and concern for his Father.
" In Eden, Deity buy up the reliquary of His work of preface, in placing His boon upon the seventh day. Patriarchs and Prophets, pages 47, 48.
" The Sabbath arranging, which originated in Eden, is as elderly as the world itself. It was practical by all the patriarchs, from induction down. " Ibid., p. 336
" In aftermath of continual transgression, the honest law was repeatitive in revolting grandeur from Sinai. " Notation of the Times, April 15, 1875.
" The Sabbath was tangible in the charter given from Sinai; but it was not wherefore 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 circumstance, by command of the Lord, the soothsayer took his position at one of the principal entrances to the station and there urged the priority of keeping holy the Sabbath day. The kinsmen of Jerusalem were in danger of losing sight of the laughter 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 pernicious thing is this that ye do, and profane the Sabbath day? ' he sternly demanded. ' Did not your fathers then, and did not our All knowing bring all this unpleasant upon us, and upon this field? Fundamentally ye bring more rapture upon Israel by profaning the Sabbath. ' He in consequence gave command that ' when the gates of Jerusalem began to be dark before the Sabbath, ' they should be shut, and not opened and till the Sabbath was bygone. " Ibid., p. 671.
" The rabbis virtually represented Daemon as giving laws which it was impossible for men to obey. They led the people to look upon Infinite spirit as a subjugator, and to think that the mark 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 show to conform to their requirements, but went straight forward, keeping the Sabbath according to the charter of Divinity. " The Wanting of Ages, page 284.
" The papacy has attempted to change the act of Lord. The second commandment, minatory replica worship, has been dropped from the act, and the fourth commandment has been so single as to authorize the mark 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 generation to maintain its cognizance. Though often in the midst of censure and persecution, a constant testimony has been borne to the perpetuity of the act of Man upstairs and the consecrated obligation of the creation Sabbath.
" These truths, as presented in Grandstand play 14 in connection with ' the endless gospel, ' will distinguish the refuge of Christ at the time of His appearing. " Ibid., p. 453.
" The Sabbath will be the great test of loyalty, for it is the point of truth especially controverted. " Ibid., 605.
" Almighty teaches that we should assemble in His digs to cultivate the constitution 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 altar from Sabbath to Sabbath, from one new moon to larger, to unite in loftiest strains of song, in praise and thanksgiving to Him who sits upon the sovereignty, and to the Lamb for ever and ever. " 6 Testimonies, p. 368.
Isn ' t the Sabbath a beautiful part of Lord ' s perfect plan? I love the Sabbath, and it is truly a delight. One day each chronology, on the 7th day, we rest our minds and our humankind so they can mend and renew.
While I was writing this chronology ' s Elijah Prophecy, I mutual this article with a Sunday - keeping Upstanding alter ego of mine. I assured him that Holiness only holds us chrgeable for what we know, and that recovery comes through the grace of Jesus Christ alone. But I also told him conformity to All powerful ' s Commandments is an identifying sign of All knowing ' s true refuge as the Holy Spirit sanctifies us.
He was astonished to learn about the Sabbath and how the Pope contrasting the day of worship from Saturday to Sunday. Mike also suffers with dolorous pain in his back from an auto coincidence. He told me that he has taken approximately 16, 000 pain pills and anti - inflammmatory drugs since his proceeding six years ago, and more statin drugs for his high cholesterol of 400. His triglycerides are 700 from all the sugar and scarcity of exercise, and he is 75 pounds overweight. No start 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 outcast, 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 kingdom. Thank you Lord for the health message and the truth of the Gospel.