Milford chronicle., 1944-06-23
MEETING THE CHALLENGE
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very wise offer for the fact that i
m once aroused the public to searcl
m the word of God, but in failing Il
=, find the missing text" had to la,
e down the Book in despair, for th'
reason that the money can not b.
had. Shame unto us; if we searcl
the Bible only for the price O
- money. For the love of money il
the root of all evil" We are per
= haps too ignorant in the study ol
It the word of God to even know this
: before the offer was made. Many
! good people have made grievous
mistakes by contending that the
= seventh day has been changed to
the first day of the week, and then
the Adventist boldly challenges us
to show them one verse in the
scripture to prove it and then we
can not do it. Others give lectures
on the Christian Sabbath pointing
to the first day of the week and
use history to prove it, again to be
challenged and Overthrown by
these groups. This is all a total
blunder, the seventh day still re-
mains the seventh or Sabbath and
not the Lords Day. True, God new
er changed it. The orthodox Jews
still keep it, and the seventh day
friends sail in the same boat But
let me ask our hoy preacher
friend why he does not turn the
offer around and give $1,000 to the
person who will find a text in the
New Testament which commands
the Gentle Church to keep the sew
enth day? He would be just as
safe in this offer as the other.
My Bible tells me in II COrin-
thians, 3rd chapter, verses Z, II,
/ 13, IA, that the law engraven in
stones WAS DONE AWAY. CThe
law engraven in stones were the
| Ten Commandments. For proof of
this see Exc. 34:2S-also Deut.
/ 4:13-5:22-10:4-w without question
or argument, this law and the Ten
/ Commandments are ONE and the
same thing.)
My Bible also tells me this
For Christ is the end of the law
! for righteousness to everyone that
believeth." Rom. 1914.
We are just as safe to offer ST.
/ 900 for a missing text to any sew
enth-dayist who could produce a
verse of scripture that would prove
that the law of the Jewish Sabbith
which was done away" or abolish
ed in Christ has ever been brought
back by divine authority and plac-
ed upon the church of the Gentiles. !
When, and where did any Patri-
arch, Prophet. Apostle or Christ
Himself, command any Gentle
Church to keep the Jewish law?
If the seventh-day keeping were
so important as the boy preacher
makes it appear, why did Jesus fail
to mention this all important sub
ject of Saturday keeping to the
young ruler when he enumerated
the commandments to him? See .
Matt. 19:16-20-Mark 1O:17-22-i
Luke 1T:1S-24.
Again, why did not Jesus refer
to the Sabbath commandment (if
this is the greatest) when the law
yer asked him: (Which is the
GREATEST commandment in the
law" Jesus did not even point to
the Ten, in fact he did not quote
anything from the tables of stone.
He quoted two % love the Lord
thy God with all thy heart .
soul and . mind; (2) thy neigh
Dor on these two command
ments hang ALL THE LAW and
the prophets. See Matt. 22:35 to
40.
So, once more we conclude by
this statement that the Jewish
Sabbath theory falls to the ground
Again, why did the early dis
ciples break bread on the first day
of the week, if the day before was
the only correct one?
Now we think of the numerous
commands in the New Testament
to preach the wore" preach
Christ preach the Kingdom
preach the gospel''-and NOT
ONE command TO preach the Sab
bath. or to preach the law.
Paul bodily declares that those
who desired to be teachers of the
law understand, neither what they
say, nor whereof they affirm" /.
Tim. IL.
The Adventists like to hang
around Mt. Sinai for their support.
when God came down and delivered
the law-"The first covenant
"old covenant" faulty which de-
cayeth and waxeth old and is ready
to vanish away" Heb. S:1-13. That
ends the old covenant. the one from
Sinai.
We like to hand around Mt. Zion
Heb. 1922, 23) "the city of the
living God. the heavenly Jerusal-
EN- to the general assembly
and church of the first born" The I
second covenant" new cove
nant," better covenant" mot ac- I
cording to the covenant with the
fathers" Listen! the first or old
covenant is dead, and the new COW
enant is in force. See Heb. 9:16, II.
The law was shadow of good
things to come, and not the very
image of the things. Heb. 10:1. We
are not living in the shadow today,
but in the very image of the things.
like to live in the shad-
ow of good things. There is not a
support in the new covenant with
which to hang on the Jewish Sab
bath. We agree with the hoy !
preacher" that the Sabbath Day d,
was never changed, and that the |,
keeping of the first day is not
change of days-but we do contend !.
when the new covenant, the dis !
pensation of grace (under Christi
was introduced, Judaism was set :
aside, with all its holy days holi- I
days, feast days, new moons, Sab :
bath days and the like, and an en- +
tirely new dispensation was in