Rev 14:12  Here is the patience of the saints: here are they that keep the commandments of God, and the faith of Jesus.

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“Everybody that I know that goes to church goes on Sunday.
Why are you so weird?”

Salvation
For by grace are ye saved through faith; and that not of yourselves: it is the gift of God: Not of works, lest any man should boast.  Ephesians 2:18-19. We are not saved because we enter into a weekly Sabbath (Friday sundown to Saturday sundown) rest.  We are saved through the blood of Christ. The Sabbath is a great blessing that allows us to share our salvation in a special way. Our love for our Lord also directs us to be obedient to all God directs in the Bible, even if the road is narrow.

Creation
In Jesus’s day a discussion came up regarding divorce.  Jesus didn’t base his answer on “majority rules” or “what was politically correct”.  For His answer He went back to the beginning.  Have ye not read, that he which made them at the beginning made them male and female… see Matthew 19:4-6  Most biblical based Christians reject evolution by going to the beginning explanation of the world in Genesis.  Isn’t it interesting that by the seventh day of Creation God “rested from all his work” and then blessed the day and sanctified it (made it holy, set it apart)?  Why did He do this?  Who did He do this for? What would it take to change such a mandate?

Remember
The 10 commandments are the base of God’s holy law.  They do not change with man’s whim.  The first four call for our obedience to God.  The last six deal with our relationship to man.  God’s desire is that these commandments be written on our heart.  Isn’t it ironic (or tragic) that of the 10 commandments only the one that God starts with “Remember” is forgotten or ignored by most of the Christian world? See Exodus 20.

Jesus
Jesus is supposed to be our example.  He taught against the incorrect rules of the Jews of his day regarding the Sabbath.  He made it clear that He was Lord over the Sabbath and that the Sabbath was made for man (not just the Jews).  Many of His recorded healings were on the Sabbath.

Apostles
If God intended for Sunday to replace the Sabbath then when we study the New Testament books you would expect this to be a very clear theme (especially after what was recorded for us from Creation).  However, the strong pattern by the early Christians is clearly directed toward continuing Sabbath observance.  Check out the book of Acts and do your own study.

Warning
Hebrews 4 tells us that “there remains a Sabbath rest for the people of God”. If you study scripture with an open mind regarding the Sabbath you will come up with many warnings or red flags for any replacement of Sabbath with Sunday.  Does being saved by grace give us a license to violate a command of God?  Would intentionally violating any other of the 10 commandments be acceptable to God just because everyone else does it?  God blessed it, sanctified it and said to remember it.  Be very careful about saying every day is the same when God has said otherwise.

Tradition
Many churches and denominations strongly emphasize their tradition, their creeds, their founder or “prophet”.  They may say they do things based on the Bible, but in reality it isn’t so.  Jesus spoke harshly against the traditions of the religious leaders of his day.  Perhaps it is time to look at all we do, the day we set aside for worship and rest included, through primarily the light of Holy Scripture? Think about it. 
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And, behold, I come quickly; and my reward is with me, to give every man according as his work shall be. I am Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the end, the first and the last. Blessed are they that do his commandments, that they may have right to the tree of life, and may enter in through the gates into the city.  Revelation 22:12-14

A couple of points/concerns without going into too big of a rant… hopefully.

1. Who do you think wrote and gave the Ten Commandments on the mountain?  When the tablets were broke, who wrote them on our hearts? 
2. Jesus professed that He was about His Father’s business.  Many times, Jesus made it clear that Him and the Father were in absolute agreement.

Continue study and prayer… and make no excuse for not keeping His commandments.

Here are two links to a presentation put together by a dear friend, the late Brother Gary Amick about 6 years ago.  Brother David Schwendemann uses this presentation to preach from… he was so impressed with it.  If you have any trouble accessing the information, please feel free to email me at todd@mmcg.org.

PowerPoint Show Version - POWERPOINT SHOW LINK – (2.2MB download)
may require PowerPoint Viewer software

Flash Version –  FLASH SHOW LINK – (823K download)
requires Flash, please click to advance animations and slides

We are working on offering Live Internet streaming of our Sabbath services.  Look for that in the future.  Meanwhile, here are a few links to friends offering live feeds of their Sabbath services:

Tulsa Church of God - Sabbath 1PM CST

Ron Dart and CEM - Sabbath 2PM CST

CGI in Nanaimo – Sabbath 11:30AM PST

This sounds logical, but what does Jesus say about keeping man-made traditions?

• Matthew 15:3 Why do ye also transgress the commandment of God by your tradition?
• Matthew 15:6 Thus have ye made the commandment of God of none effect by your tradition.
• Colossians 2:8 Beware lest any man spoil you through philosophy and vain deceit, after the tradition of men, after the rudiments of the world, and not after Christ.

Finally, we are exhorted not to learn the way of the heathen when it comes to observing “signs of heaven” by use of astrology:

• Jeremiah 10:2 Thus saith the LORD, Learn not the way of the heathen, and be not dismayed at the signs of heaven; for the heathen are dismayed at them.

Valentine’s Day is certainly a day which Christians should not celebrate.  Although it is celebrated in the pretense that it is all about LOVE, as is Christmas, that’s not so.  It is actually another Pagan holiday giving honor to Nimrod. Before you give your sweetie candy this coming Valentine’s Day, consider that to do so you are paying homage to this creature.

This creature which is half goat and half man is none other than Satan. Satan transforms himself as “an angel of light” as well as many of these other creatures who are objects of worship:

Nimrod, Baal, Valentine, the Mighty Hunter, Faunus, Lupercus.

I’ve found these articles to be a blessing:

http://www.sightedmoon.com/files/Valentines%20and%20Nimrod.pdf

http://www.lasttrumpetministries.org/tracts/tract6.html

Thank you for hearing me… my wife Terry and I were married on August 13th and have always kept a tradition of going out on Valentine’s or near as a “half-year” thing to do.  I’ve just over time have been learning more and more about the origins of these traditions and how they are not in line with God’s teachings.

Peace be with you…