The following is excerpt from a comment regarding keeping the Sabbath. Here is my reply to the assertion that the breaking of bread, the Lord’s Supper, was to be kept daily, which leads into the Lord’s Day and the Sabbath.
Acts 2:46 does say that they broke bread daily, and this is clearly a common meal “breaking bread from house to house, they ate their food with gladness and simplicity of heart.” However, the Lord’s Supper s for the assembly (1 Cor 11:17ff) and the assembly was to consist of the whole congregation (1 Cor 14:23). The Lord’s Supper was not a common meal (1 Cor 11:21-23). Be aware of the use of the article “the” inference to breaking bread. This breaking of bread in Acts 2:46 is different from “The bread which we break, is it not the communion of the body of Christ?” (1 Cor 10:16), which is clearly the Lord’s Supper of 1 Corinthians 11 that Christ instituted the night of His betrayal and He blessed this bread in Luke 24:30 which is called “the breaking of bread” in Luke 24:35, which all occurred on the first day of the week (Luke 24:1). Christ blessed the practice of the Lord’s Supper on the first day of the week. Why?
Acts 2:46 does say that they broke bread daily, and this is clearly a common meal “breaking bread from house to house, they ate their food with gladness and simplicity of heart.” However, the Lord’s Supper s for the assembly (1 Cor 11:17ff) and the assembly was to consist of the whole congregation (1 Cor 14:23). The Lord’s Supper was not a common meal (1 Cor 11:21-23). Be aware of the use of the article “the” inference to breaking bread. This breaking of bread in Acts 2:46 is different from “The bread which we break, is it not the communion of the body of Christ?” (1 Cor 10:16), which is clearly the Lord’s Supper of 1 Corinthians 11 that Christ instituted the night of His betrayal and He blessed this bread in Luke 24:30 which is called “the breaking of bread” in Luke 24:35, which all occurred on the first day of the week (Luke 24:1). Christ blessed the practice of the Lord’s Supper on the first day of the week. Why?
Back to Acts 2:46 being a common meal, Acts 2:42 speaks of the Lord’s Supper, “And they continued steadfastly in the apostles’ doctrine and fellowship, in the breaking of bread, and in prayers.”
The separation between the breaking of bread as the Lord’s Supper and breaking bread as a common meal is clear in Acts 20 too. Paul broke bread for himself and this breaking of bread is singular (Acts 20:11). This is clearly not the disciples’ breaking the bread in verse 7. This is separate from the disciples’ breaking bread which they regularly did every first day of the week according to Acts 20:7.
How do we know that the disciples (all Christians) always assembled every first day of the week to break bread together? They clearly met every first day of the week since the first day is described by the Greek word for assembling here in the participle form meaning a practice and in the perfect tense meaning that it had been previous completed before. This is not clearly seen in the common translations of Acts 20:7 where the word “when” is often used to show that this assembling was a perfect participle.
The assembly was for the Lord’s Supper in 1 Corinthians 11:17ff, and so is the Assembly of Acts 20:7 to break bread. The assembly is not to be forsaken (Heb 10:25), and the assembly was kept by Jesus and the congregations on the Lord’s Day when Jesus is in the midst of them (Rev 1:10, 13; cf. Matt 18:20). Why did the disciples assemble to break bread on the 1st day if it were not the Lord’s Day? Why did Paul support this regular practice among the disciples? He must have approved that the first day was the Lord’s Day via the Spirit, and this Lord’s Day is the day of the assembly and for the Lord’s Supper. This is what I practice. These are my premises for my conclusion that the assembly is to break the bread on the Lord’s Day, which must be every first day of the week. For Christ blessed the bread of “the breaking of bread” on the day of His resurrection, which was the first day of the week (Luke 24:1).
This has nothing to do with the Sabbath being changed. I do not believe that it has but that it is obsolete (Heb 8:13). The Sabbath is “Saturday,” the 7th day, which I am convinced to be a type for the rest that Christians will have with the Father (Heb 4:1–11). I find keeping the Sabbath day is a part of the 10 commands. Exodus says “And He wrote on the tablets the words of the covenant, the Ten Commandments” (Exod 34:28, cf. Deut 4:13; 9:9, 11). Jeremiah said “Behold, the days are coming, says the LORD, when I will make a new covenant” (Jeremiah 31:31). Furthermore, Jeremiah said, “not according to the covenant that I made with their fathers.” Not according to which covenant? Jeremiah says the covenant was “in the day that I took them by the hand to lead them out of the land of Egypt, My covenant which they broke” (31:32). Again which covenant is this? Exodus says “And He wrote on the tablets the words of the covenant, the Ten Commandments” (Exo. 34:28). Christ’s covenant is “not according to the covenant that I made with their fathers,” but “In that He says, ‘A new covenant,’ He has made the first obsolete. Now what is becoming obsolete and growing old is ready to vanish away” (Heb. 8:13). The Old Covenant of the 10 commands with the Sabbath keeping is obsolete and vanishing away when written in the 1st century. “But if the ministry of death, written and engraved on stones, was glorious, so that the children of Israel could not look steadily at the face of Moses because of the glory of his countenance, which glory was passing away, how will the ministry of the Spirit not be more glorious?” (2 Cor 3:7–8). If I kept the 7th day as the Sabbath rest, then I’d be “a debtor to keep the whole law”, and then I will “become estranged from Christ” and “fallen from grace” (Gal 5:3–4). I will not be estranged from Christ and fall from His grace nor will I teach my family nor my congregational family this.
God bless your heart for you are sincere. Teach me if I wrong and may you have the heart to receive these Scriptures if these are true.
The Breath of God 
Brothers and sisters, when Jeremiah prophesied the new covenant in Jeremiah 31:31-34
“The day is coming,” says the Lord, “when I will make a new covenant with the people of Israel and Judah. This covenant will not be like the one I made with their ancestors when I took them by the hand and brought them out of the land of Egypt. They broke that covenant, though I loved them as a husband loves his wife,” says the Lord. “But this is the new covenant I will make with the people of Israel after those days,” says the Lord. “I will put my instructions deep within them, and I will write them on their hearts. I will be their God, and they will be my people. And they will not need to teach their neighbors, nor will they need to teach their relatives, saying, ‘You should know the Lord.’ For everyone, from the least to the greatest, will know me already,” says the Lord. “And I will forgive their wickedness, and I will never again remember their sins.”
Jeremiah 31:31-34 NLT
He spoke about the change God would make between man and God…the covenant changed not the law, for the covenant is a promise or agreement…. promise man broke….the law is perfect….
So the law is holy, and the commandment is holy and righteous and good.
Romans 7:12 ESV
So I believe God would never change something he believed was Good…that would make him a liar….
“Writing the laws on our hearts” was foreshadowing the giving of the Holy Spirit whereby man would never again have external mediators between him and God….the Holy Spirit would become our guide to follow the “same law”….not for salvation, for man was destined since Genesis 3 to never save himself but to come to know and follow the one who would…
Ezekiel similarly referenced how God would change man….in Ezekiel 36:26
And I will give you a new heart, and I will put a new spirit in you. I will take out your stony, stubborn heart and give you a tender, responsive heart.
Ezekiel 36:26 NLT
Again we see God preparing man for change by the Holy Spirit, where he would remove the physical and replace with the spiritual…
Finally I believe it’s so important for us to read the Holy Scriptures in entirety to humbly receive the reproof of our Lord…..
We have been a disobedient and rebellious people since the fall…allowing pride to be our guide…
If Gods word said, then it is Good….
We should always remember that our own heart is wicked and will always seek to alter what God created and spoke….
“The human heart is the most deceitful of all things, and desperately wicked. Who really knows how bad it is? But I, the Lord, search all hearts and examine secret motives. I give all people their due rewards, according to what their actions deserve.”
Jeremiah 17:9-10 NLT
I pray that instead of us testing scripture for our own desires to prove what we think is so….we would rejoice in the perfect provision of his WORD….
Do nothing from selfish ambition or conceit, but in humility count others more significant than yourselves.
Philippians 2:3 ESV
And finally Gods word is perfect and needs no addition or deletion….just like his commandments which were given to us by love out of love for love….
God bless you….
“Likewise, my brothers, you also have died to the law through the body of Christ, so that you may belong to another, to him who has been raised from the dead, in order that we may bear fruit for God. For while we were living in the flesh, our sinful passions, aroused by the law, were at work in our members to bear fruit for death. But now we are released from the law, having died to that which held us captive, so that we serve in the new way of the Spirit and not in the old way of the written code.
What then shall we say? That the law is sin? By no means! Yet if it had not been for the law, I would not have known sin. For I would not have known what it is to covet if the law had not said, ‘You shall not covet.’ But sin, seizing an opportunity through the commandment, produced in me all kinds of covetousness. For apart from the law, sin lies dead. I was once alive apart from the law, but when the commandment came, sin came alive and I died. The very commandment that promised life proved to be death to me. For sin, seizing an opportunity through the commandment, deceived me and through it killed me. So the law is holy, and the commandment is holy and righteous and good.
Did that which is good, then, bring death to me? By no means! It was sin, producing death in me through what is good, in order that sin might be shown to be sin, and through the commandment might become sinful beyond measure” (Romans 7:4-13).
You r so right in your thinking. We are too keep ALL 10 not j just 9.
AMEN!!! Yah’s feast days, passover He is our Passover lamb, Day of Atonement,(the day He died to keep us from dying for our sins),Feast of 1st fruits (when He went up to heaven He took with Him all thoes who lived awaiting This great day! feast of trumpet,(The real day He was born! And the day no man can know only Yah because only Yah knows when the moon shall appear ! Feast of tabernacles (is the wedding feast when we shall be married to the groom! Last great day the 8th will be the day of judgement.
If I kept the 7th day as the Sabbath rest, then I’d be “a debtor to keep the whole law”, and then I will “become estranged from Christ” and “fallen from grace” (Gal. 5:3-4).
The 7th-day Sabbath is the 4th in the list of commandments. If observing the 4th commandment makes one “a debtor to keep the whole law”, and then [one] will “become estranged from Christ” and “fallen from grace,” why does observing any of the other nine not have the same effect?
Amen brother/sister….he came to fulfill (plerios) which is to be the fulfilment, the representation….he is the embodiment of the law….
Yes we are not saved “because” we are obedient, we are obedient “because” we are saved
In other words….we do not produce good fruit “because” we are a good tree…..we are a good tree “because” we produce good fruit…..for if a tree claims to be good and never produces good fruit….then is it not just a tree
In other words obedience does not cause salvation, salvation causes obedience….this is the power of salvation through through Christ and sanctification (purification) by the HOLY SPIRIT…..
And the fact our God has never and will never change….means if he said it….it is so.
May Gods provision be always sufficient to you….
Al that verse does not say that, you are adding to the Word. I pray you pray and ask The Holy Spirit to guide you thru the writings of Paul.,for far be it for Paul to say Torah is no longer viable. His Shabbat is His mark .
Dear brother Gal: 5:3-4 does not talk of a sabbath one of the supreme instructions of God to us believers, but it talks of ceremonial law of circumcission . if keeping the commandments of God is evil why did Christ summarise them into two. Which in a sense are elastic meaning you can expand them to the original ten.
Why then when warning his disciples about the end in Math :24:20 ,say ,” I pray that,yourflight does be in winter or sabbath . it means Jesus has regard and respect for the true Lord’s day ,the Sabbath. For your information , the Lord’s day is not Sunday the first day of the week but Saturday the 7th day. Isaiah: 58:13 . True we can commune on Sunday for the Lords supper and so even on the Sabbath what is wrong with that after all they two days are both honorable days of assembly. Lev 23
I understand what your saying but I do wonder why Jesus said this during his sermon on the mount, especially verse 19; Matt. 5:17“Do not think that I came to abolish the Law or the Prophets; I did not come to abolish but to fulfill. 18“For truly I say to you, until heaven and earth pass away, not the smallest letter or stroke shall pass from the Law until all is accomplished. 19“Whoever then annuls one of the least of these commandments, and teaches others to do the same, shall be called least in the kingdom of heaven; but whoever keeps and teaches them, he shall be called great in the kingdom of heaven.
I see that Jesus fulfilled the Law and the Prophets, so the Sabbath rest that remains is eternal rest of eternal life (Heb 4:1–11). Because of the New Covenant as Jeremiah prophesied, there is a change of the law (Heb 7–8; cf. Jer 31:31–34).
Yes, the law has changed, it is written on the hearts of man. We have been set free from the curse of the law. As children of God we are to walk in righteousness and die to the desires of the flesh. But recently I starting questioning why many Christian churches worship on the first day of the week rather than the Sabbath day. I do not believe this is a salvation issue or a falling from grace. But the word teaches ~ Rom 14:5 One man esteemeth one day above another: another esteemeth every day `alike’. Let each man be fully assured in his own mind.
There are 56 verses that mention the Sabbath while there are only 3 verses that mention the first day of the week in the New Testament, other than the scriptures of Jesus resurrection.
Jn 20:19 When therefore it was evening, on that day, the first
day' of the week, and when the doors were shut where the disciples were, for fear of the Jews, Jesus came and stood in the midst, and saith unto them, Peacebe’ unto you.Acts 20:7 And upon the first day of the week, when we were gathered together to break bread, Paul discoursed with them, intending to depart on the morrow; and prolonged his speech until midnight.
1 Cor 16:2 Upon the first day of the week let each one of you lay by him in store, as he may prosper, that no collections be made when I come.
Jesus kept the Sabbath day and he was our perfect example. Jesus demonstrated his Love on the Sabbath day by healing the sick, doing good while the Pharisees condemned him. Jesus said whoever annuls one of the least of these commandments, and teaches others to do the same, shall be called least in the kingdom of heaven. So my question is, was Jesus saying if we teach others that keeping the sabbath day holy is obsolete today, will that make us least in the Kingdom of heaven?
This is a great site for looking things up in the bible.
webnet77.net/cgi-bin/bible/bible.cgi?BIBLE=48&BOOK=48&CHAP=2&SEARCH=jesus%20king%20lord&Read=Read&FIRST=OK&HV=16
Brothers and sisters, when Jeremiah prophesied the new covenant in Jeremiah 31:31-34
“The day is coming,” says the Lord, “when I will make a new covenant with the people of Israel and Judah. This covenant will not be like the one I made with their ancestors when I took them by the hand and brought them out of the land of Egypt. They broke that covenant, though I loved them as a husband loves his wife,” says the Lord. “But this is the new covenant I will make with the people of Israel after those days,” says the Lord. “I will put my instructions deep within them, and I will write them on their hearts. I will be their God, and they will be my people. And they will not need to teach their neighbors, nor will they need to teach their relatives, saying, ‘You should know the Lord.’ For everyone, from the least to the greatest, will know me already,” says the Lord. “And I will forgive their wickedness, and I will never again remember their sins.”
Jeremiah 31:31-34 NLT
He spoke about the change God would make between man and God…the covenant changed not the law, for the covenant is a promise or agreement…. promise man broke….the law is perfect….
So the law is holy, and the commandment is holy and righteous and good.
Romans 7:12 ESV
So I believe God would never change something he believed was Good…that would make him a liar….
“Writing the laws on our hearts” was foreshadowing the giving of the Holy Spirit whereby man would never again have external mediators between him and God….the Holy Spirit would become our guide to follow the “same law”….not for salvation, for man was destined since Genesis 3 to never save himself but to come to know and follow the one who would…
Ezekiel similarly referenced how God would change man….in Ezekiel 36:26
And I will give you a new heart, and I will put a new spirit in you. I will take out your stony, stubborn heart and give you a tender, responsive heart.
Ezekiel 36:26 NLT
Again we see God preparing man for change by the Holy Spirit, where he would remove the physical and replace with the spiritual…
Finally I believe it’s so important for us to read the Holy Scriptures in entirety to humbly receive the reproof of our Lord…..
We have been a disobedient and rebellious people since the fall…allowing pride to be our guide…
If Gods word said, then it is Good….
We should always remember that our own heart is wicked and will always seek to alter what God created and spoke….
“The human heart is the most deceitful of all things, and desperately wicked. Who really knows how bad it is? But I, the Lord, search all hearts and examine secret motives. I give all people their due rewards, according to what their actions deserve.”
Jeremiah 17:9-10 NLT
I pray that instead of us testing scripture for our own desires to prove what we think is so….
Do nothing from selfish ambition or conceit, but in humility count others more significant than yourselves.
Philippians 2:3 ESV
And finally Gods word is perfect and needs no addition or deletion….just like his commandments which were given to us by love out of love for love….
God bless you….
You missed Mark 16:2
I have but one point to make in response to your statement above about keeping the Sabbath being obsolete and vanishing away. Jesus himself would not have made the following comment if he thought his people were going to quit keeping Sabbath:
Matthew 24: “But pray ye that your flight be not in the winter, neither on the sabbath day:”
Matthew 24:20 KJV
And in Revelations these are the patience of the saints who keep the commandments of God.
Amen brother
He fulfilled, meaning he kept the law. The law bc he was. Jew. Being Jew meant keeping the law. Gentiles we everyone else. Jews kept the law of moses.