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out or the world by the blood Of Christ,
our passover (Cor 1;5.7) who was
sacrificed for uB." Read with me
Nehmiah 1874. Thou earnest down
also upon Mount Sinai and spakest
with them from heaven, and gavest
them right judgments and true laws,
good statutes and commandments and
madest known unto them thy holy
Sabbath, and commandest them pre-
cepts, statutes and laws by the hand
of Moses t4ly servent.' Now If they
had never known the Sabbath before,
God could not have made it known to
them" but would have reminded them
Of it.
Read again in Deut. 5:3, "The Lord
made not this covenant with our
fathers, but with us, even us who are
all Of us here alive this day Read
ing ON down the chapter you will see
the covenant referred to was the ten
commandments. That the Sabbath
was an everlasting covenant between
God and Israel Read Elk. 31:13, II
Speak thou also unto the children OF
Israel. saying verify my Sabbaths We
shall keep; for it is a sign between
Me and you throughout your genera
tons; that We may know that am the
Lord that doth sanctify you. Where
fore the children of Israel shall keep
the Sabbath to observe the Sabbath
throughout their generation for per-
petual covenant. 1t is sign between
Me and the children of Israel forever. y
Let me say here. that the Sabbath
day is inseparable from the Jews: but
some will ask what about its observ-
ance in this dispensation when they
are nation, Scattered and pealed?"
In Hosea ga we read, For the
children of Israel shall abide many
days without king, and without a
prince, and without a sacrifice, and
with an image, and without. an ephod
and without teraphim.' Is this a true
picture of them today If so, it is also
true what the prophet said in chapter
2:11. Il will cause all her mirth to
cease, her feast days, her new moons
and her Sabbaths, and all her solemn
| feasts." But chapter 8: Is goes on to
say, "Afterward shall the children OF
Israel return and seek the Lord their
God, and David their king, and shall
fear the Lord and his goodness in the
latter days"
| w itilouI SIOppiAS, " pioNS ~, J" ~
say, this is prophecy Of the millen-
ium; and, then will be true. lisa. 66:1S-
49, Read verse 20. "And it shall come
to pass, that from one new moon to all
other, shall all flesh come to worship,
before Me, saith the Lord
And that the day was not changed
| by the early church. note the fact, that
though the early Christians wrote the
Acts and Epistles they always refer to
the seventh day as the Sabbath, but
never so of the first day. We note two
things running side by side through
the Acts. First, that the Jews always
went into their synagogues on the Sab
bath to read the law and the prophets.
! CAS- they do to this day. And the
Christian preachers. especially Paul
often, went into the synagogues' to
reason with the Jews out of the old
testament that "Jesus was the
Christ" THAT the man whom they
had crucified was none other than the
Messiah for whom they were looking
These were purely gospel meetings
and often broke up in a row. But
alongside of this, and this brings us
to the second proposition, we see the
] Christians meeting on the first day OF
the week as in Acts 20:7 and upon
the first day of the week when the dis
ciples were come together to break
bread Paul preached to them" The
preaching was mere incident of the
occasion. the purpose of the coming
together" was to "break bread -
purely worship meeting, the doctrine
of which Is fully set forth in tn,
epistles.
Now note that our friend who ha'
challenged so often for chapter ant
verse" authorizing the change Of thu
Sabbath from the seventh day to thu
first, or for calling the first day a hol.
day or Standardization Of which cal
be found; also asks for scripture
authority for the first day observance
Some one has aptly said that, ever.
heresy has some scripture to uphold il
but no heresy has all scripture to Ut
hold it," Another has said thai
, Every correct doctrine has it's root Il
, the old testament, and its fruit in tn
new" Now, | will ask you. in turr
for a plain Thus saith the Lord" TO
putting the church (Which was
mystery" in the old testament, Epf
s::3, 4, 81 under the law to keep tn
Sabbath.
And then. to get at the root Of tn
, doctrine of first day obsedvance let u
turn to Lev. 90. where the set feasts {
Lord are reviewed, each of which, i
, it's way. was a picture or type of tn
, person and work of the Lord Jesu
Christ.
}, In verses 10. II we read, Speak III
{ to the children of Israel, and say unit
| them, When We become into the Ian
} which ] give unto you, and shall rea
: the harvest thereof, then We shall brln
e q sheaf of the first fruits of the har'
2 est unto the priest: and he shall faN
r the sheaf before the Lord, to be acceD
l ed for you; on the morrow after tn
f Sabbath (Which is the first day eth
e priest shall wave it.
S Here is a beautiful picture OF Chri:
e in resurrection. THE corn of whef
e has fallen into the ground and dice
John 12:24.) And the Lord of tt
Y Sabbath" lay in the grave all that Sa
s bath day. It was the burial Temporal
a lily of the Sabbath as well as its Lor