HE answered and said, Every plant, which My heavenly
Father hath not planted, shall be rooted up. Matthew 15:13
"In vain do they worship Me,-teaching for doctrines the
commandments of men. And finally He added the words quoted above, Every plant, which My heavenly Father hath not planted, shall be rooted up.
Let the principles be applied to the question of Sabbath observance.
Is the Seventh-day Sabbath a Plant of Our Heavenly Father's Planting?
From the Beginning.
When the Creator made the earth and man upon it, He made the seventh day of the weekly cycle His holy Sabbath.
"Thus the heavens and the earth were finished, and all the host of them. . . . And God blessed the seventh day, and sanctified it: because that in it He had rested from all His work which God created and made." Gen. 2:1-3. To sanctify is "to set apart," and so the day made holy and blessed by God was set apart for man.
Then it was, as Jesus said, that "the Sabbath was made for man." Mark 2:27. Here the Sabbath institution was planted at the be- ginning of the world."
W.A.Spicer
Father hath not planted, shall be rooted up. Matthew 15:13
"In vain do they worship Me,-teaching for doctrines the
Let the principles be applied to the question of Sabbath observance.
Is the Seventh-day Sabbath a Plant of Our Heavenly Father's Planting?
From the Beginning.
When the Creator made the earth and man upon it, He made the seventh day of the weekly cycle His holy Sabbath.
Then it was, as Jesus said, that "the Sabbath was made for man." Mark 2:27. Here the Sabbath institution was planted at the be- ginning of the world."
W.A.Spicer