"Remember the Sabbath day, to keep it holy. Six days you shall labor and do all your work, but the seventh day is the Sabbath of the Lord your God. In it you shall do no work: you, nor your son, nor your daughter, nor your male servant, nor your female servant, nor your cattle, nor your stranger who is within your gates.
For in six days the Lord made the heavens and the earth, the sea, and all that is in them, and rested the seventh day. Therefore the Lord blessed the Sabbath day and hallowed it.
(Ex. 20:8–11).
The difficulties connected with this commandment, like those with any part of the Bible, are entirely in the minds of men, and not in the commandment itself.
Perverted minds pervert the word.
Whoever comes to the study of the Bible, totally free from prejudice or selfish motives, with a sincere desire that he may learn the will of God in order to do it, will never find any difficulty in it; for “If anyone wills to do His will, he shall know concerning the doctrine” (John 7:17).
It is very plain, therefore, that the fourth commandment, as given by the Lord from Mount Sinai, requires the observance of the seventh day of the week, and that the observance of the first day of the week by professed Christians is not authorized by it.
There is no revised edition of the commandment."
E.J. Waggoner
For in six days the Lord made the heavens and the earth, the sea, and all that is in them, and rested the seventh day. Therefore the Lord blessed the Sabbath day and hallowed it.
(Ex. 20:8–11).
The difficulties connected with this commandment, like those with any part of the Bible, are entirely in the minds of men, and not in the commandment itself.
Perverted minds pervert the word.
Whoever comes to the study of the Bible, totally free from prejudice or selfish motives, with a sincere desire that he may learn the will of God in order to do it, will never find any difficulty in it; for “If anyone wills to do His will, he shall know concerning the doctrine” (John 7:17).
It is very plain, therefore, that the fourth commandment, as given by the Lord from Mount Sinai, requires the observance of the seventh day of the week, and that the observance of the first day of the week by professed Christians is not authorized by it.
There is no revised edition of the commandment."
E.J. Waggoner
