Hello Everyone,

I was witnessing a discussion on a mailing list recently, about which day
should be observed as the Lord's sabbath.  Is it Saturday or is it
Sunday.?  I'll share with you a portion of a post, and then copy and paste
my reply to it.
For your edification in the Lord.
Helen

[Tom writes]
Resting in the arms of the Lord is easy, yet the most difficult thing to
do. Many cannot grasp the "simplicity" of Christ, so we go around
establishing our "own" righteousness which has to do with OUR "personal"
performance. So I see the observance of any Law in terms
of obligation to "specifically" obey in order to achieve or maintain
"right" standing with God as the incorrect way to approach God.

[Helen replies]
It is my understanding that the word "sabbath" means "rest".  To those of
us who believe in Jesus Christ and His finished work at Calvary, that
sabbath rest is the Lord Himself!!  If we are entered into Him by faith,
then we are entered into that Sabbath.

Heb. 4:3 For we which have believed do enter into rest, as he said, As I
have sworn in my wrath, if they shall enter into my rest: although the
works were finished from the foundation of the world.

Heb 4:9  There remaineth therefore a rest to the people of God.

Heb 4:10  For he that is entered into his rest, he also hath ceased from
his own works, as God did from his.

It is also my understanding that the observance of a sabbath day was
instituted under the Hebraic Law, given to the Jews to observe as obedience
to God.

We who are Gentile believers in Christ were *never* under that Law!

Ga 3:23  But before faith came, we (Jews) were kept under the law, shut up
unto the faith which should afterwards be revealed.
Ga 4:4  But when the fulness of the time was come, God sent forth his Son,
made of a woman, made under the law,
Ga 4:5  To redeem them (Jews) that were under the law, that we (gentiles)
might receive the adoption of sons.
Ga 4:21  Tell me, ye that desire to be under the law, do ye not hear the law?
Ga 5:18  But if ye be led of the Spirit, ye are not under the law.

So we who by faith have entered into that Sabbath rest who is Christ Jesus
(the One who fulfilled all the Law:  Mt 5:17  Think not that I am come to
destroy the law, or the prophets: I am not come to destroy, but to
fulfil.)  we have ceased from our works to become righteous or to be
pleasing to God, for Christ is our righteousness. Ro 10:4  For Christ is
the end of the law for righteousness to every one that believeth.
       1Co 1:30  But of him are ye in Christ Jesus, who of God is made unto
us wisdom, and righteousness, and sanctification, and redemption:

So if a believer in Christ Jesus understands that "keeping the Sabbath" is
on the first day of the week and it is observed as "unto the Lord", and
another believer understands that "keeping the Sabbath" is on the seventh
day of the week and it is observed as "unto the Lord",  and believe that
their observance is a symbol of the Sabbath rest which is Christ Jesus
Himself, then may there be Peace amongst them as they continue in their
search for Truth, is my prayer.