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.
Seeing God's Breath 
So, I think that you have deliberately ignored plain texts while twisted texts that are far less plain. For example, compare Acts 20:7 to texts that all the other proof that the Sabbath was obesrved by Paul, Jews, AND GREEKS. See Acts 18:4; 13:14-44; Acts 15:21; Acts 16: & if that’s not enough Acts 17:2 & if that’s not enough…
was the Sabbath observed 500 years after Jesus Ascended? Well, in the 5th century, Socrates Scholasticus Church History book 5 states:[28]
“Nor is there less variation in regard to religious assemblies. For although almost all churches throughout the world celebrate the sacred mysteries on the sabbath of every week, yet the Christians of Alexandria and at Rome, on account of some ancient tradition, have ceased to do this.
”Also in the 5th century, Sozomen Church History book 7 states:[29]
“Assemblies are not held in all churches on the same time or manner. The people of Constantinople, and almost everywhere, assemble together on the Sabbath, as well as on the first day of the week, which custom is never observed at Rome or at Alexandria.”
How much is enough?
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You also said that Abraham didn’t keep the Sabbath, but Genesis 26:5 is only understand if we define a “statute”, which is a written law by definition.
Lastly, God had agreements or “covenants” with Bible characters other than Abraham & Israel…like Noah in Genesis 9:13. We should aim to be Spiritual Jew, included in the Abraham’s Covenant, who kept God’s Law anyway.
I understand how we can read Colossians 2:14-16 compared to Hebrews 4:4-11 & be torn…until we find that the word used for rest in Hebrews 4:9 is “Sabbatismos”. Meaning, , “There remains therefore a keeping of a Sabbath to the people of God. Are you people of God?
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Scott, you said “Christ blessed the practice of the Lord’s Supper on the first day of the week.” But Jesus never mentioned the 1st day of the week at all. The assembly in John 20:19 was for 1 reason written within the verse…”for fear of the Jews”. Acts 20:7 is a Sabbath meeting that carried over the 1st day, & 1 Corinthians 16:1 was a collection for (not from) the saints who needed hand-me-downs….not tithe.
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Which Law? There are 2. Law of Moses/Ordinances/ Sacrifices – pointed to Jesus & ended at the Cross. Jesus…said unto them, “These are the words which I spake unto you, while I was yet with you, that all things must be fulfilled, which were written in the law of Moses, and in the prophets, and in the psalms, concerning me.”
Royal Law/Law of God/Law of Christ/10 Commandments – were not shadows of Jesus, did not foreshadow Jesus, & are forever.
Jesus says, “Think not that I am come to destroy the law, or the prophets: I am not come to destroy, but to fulfil. For verily I say unto you, Till heaven and earth pass, one jot or one tittle shall in no wise pass from the law, till all be fulfilled. ”
Compare Luke 24:44 with Matthew 5:17 &18, then notice in verse 21 how Jesus goes on to a Commandment contained in the Law that He is referring too in Matthew 5:21.
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Hebrews 7:12, “For the priesthood being changed, of necessity there is also a change of the law.”
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Br. Knot, the promise to Abraham extends beyond Jews to those who are Jew…spiritually. See Romans 3:25-31, “But he is a Jew, which is one inwardly; and circumcision is that of the heart, in the spirit, and not in the letter; whose praise is not of men, but of God.” Meaning, spiritually, I’m Jewish, spiritual Jew, & a Gentile who is an heir of Abraham. So, we should be careful to know what it means to dispel things so carelessly as if…THAT was for the Jews. Especially, when the Sabbath existed before Abraham in Genesis 2:2,3.
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There are uses of the word law that pertain to the Law of Moses, & others to the Law of God. Now, which of these 2 laws did Jesus abolish?
Ephesians 2:15…having abolished in his flesh the enmity, even the law of commandments contained in ordinances…I repeat contained IN ORDINANCES.
Colossians 2:14-16 says these ordinances were handwritten…by God? No, God wrote with His finger, but Moses wrote with his hand. Deuteronomy 31;24-26, “And it came to pass, when Moses had made an end of writing the words of this law in a book, until they were finished, 25That Moses commanded the Levites…26Take this book of the law, and put it in the side of the ark of the covenant of the LORD your God, that it may be there for a witness against thee. ” Meaning, outside the veil, outside the ark, but the 10 Commandments went behind the veil where God Himself as fire by day & a cloud by night.
Deuteronomy 10:4-5, “And He wrote on the tables, according to the first writing, the 10 Commandments, which the Lord spake unto you in the mount out of the midst of the fire in the day of the assembly: and the Lord gave them unto me. 5And I turned myself and came down from the mount, and put the tables IN THE ARK which I had made; and there they be, as the Lord commanded me. ”
Hebrews 9:1 & 10″Then verily the first covenant had also ordinances of divine service, and a worldly sanctuary… 10Which stood only in meats and drinks, and divers washings, and carnal ordinances, imposed on them until the time of reformation.”…all of this pointed to Jesus.
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Abraham’s covenant was specific to him and his descendants:
And he gave him the covenant of circumcision. And so Abraham became the father of Isaac, and circumcised him on the eighth day, and Isaac became the father of Jacob, and Jacob of the twelve patriarchs. (Acts 7:8 ESV)
The old covenant was made between God and Israel:
So he was there with the LORD forty days and forty nights. He neither ate bread nor drank water. And he wrote on the tablets the words of the covenant, the Ten Commandments.
(Exodus 34:28 ESV)
There was nothing in the ark except the two tablets of stone that Moses put there at Horeb, where the LORD made a covenant with the people of Israel, when they came out of the land of Egypt.
Therefore the people of Israel shall keep the Sabbath, observing the Sabbath throughout their generations, as a covenant forever. It is a sign forever between me and the people of Israel that in six days the LORD made heaven and earth, and on the seventh day he rested and was refreshed.'” (Exodus 31:16-17 ESV)
We are under a new covenant, Christ having fulfilled the old one for us (Matt 5:15):
For if that first covenant had been faultless, there would have been no occasion to look for a second. For he finds fault with them when he says: “Behold, the days are coming, declares the Lord, when I will establish a new covenant with the house of Israel and with the house of Judah, not like the covenant that I made with their fathers on the day when I took them by the hand to bring them out of the land of Egypt. For they did not continue in my covenant, and so I showed no concern for them, declares the Lord. For this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel after those days, declares the Lord: I will put my laws into their minds, and write them on their hearts, and I will be their God, and they shall be my people.
(1 Kings 8:9 ESV) (Hebrews 8:7-10 ESV)
And you show that you are a letter from Christ delivered by us, written not with ink but with the Spirit of the living God, not on tablets of stone but on tablets of human hearts.
(2 Corinthians 3:3 ESV)
So then, there remains a Sabbath rest for the people of God, for whoever has entered God’s rest has also rested from his works as God did from his. Let us therefore strive to enter that rest, so that no one may fall by the same sort of disobedience. (Hebrews 4:9-11 ESV)
Paul is not talking about a specific day here~
As for a covenant that applies to everyone, there is:
And God said, “This is the sign of the covenant that I make between me and you and every living creature that is with you, for all future generations: I have set my bow in the cloud, and it shall be a sign of the covenant between me and the earth. (Genesis 9:12-113 ESV)
and
And just as it is appointed for man to die once, and after that comes judgment,
(Hebrews 9:27 ESV)
As for Col 2:12 let’s not ignore verse 16! And how about “Now before faith came, we were held captive under the law, imprisoned until the coming faith would be revealed. So then, the law was our guardian until Christ came, in order that we might be justified by faith. But now that faith has come, we are no longer under a guardian, for in Christ Jesus you are all sons of God, through faith. For as many of you as were baptized into Christ have put on Christ. (Galatians 3:23-27 ESV)
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So, establish the law then! Haha, I wish it was that simple. Scott, the mark has to do with “remembrance”, & Strong’s Concordance lists a few words that help define what a mark is. A mark in the hand is works or what we do, & a mark in the forehead has to do with remembrance or what we think. What-we-think to-do- on-the-Sabbath.
The the law of Moses was kept in the side, but not IN (Exodus 25:16, 21). The Law of God was put INTO, THEREIN, INSIDE the ark (Exodus 40:2,20) with God Himself in the Most Holy Place (Exodus 26:34).
Which law was done away with & abolished? Which law did Jesus nil to His cross? Well, Colossians 2:14-16 answers this clearly, but feel free to ignore it…notice HANDwriting. Now, which law was hand written?
Well, the 10 Commandment were written by God’s finger, & Moses HANDwrote his law. MHP! MHP! Meaning, Most Holy Place! The veil separated the Law of Moses from the Law of God? Why? The Law of Moses was not perfect nor made anything perfect.
Is the info. a curse or a blessing? Well, I beg you to revisit Exodus 20:5,6 to find the difference btwn what God wrote with His own finger, & what ideas He gave Moses that inspired Moses to write. God gives us free-will, & some of our loved ones suffer as a result of the choices of relatives long before us SO…will you choose curses or blessings?
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For starters, it may be hard to imagine being disqualified for jobs that require us to work 1 Saturday a month…maybe not. M co-workers still make a big to do about my days off, & the Sabbath has become the “new” preparation day, as most people run their errands on the Lord’s Day.
I don’t know what exactly the point Joel was trying to make, Sandy didn’t give any Biblical proof, & Corey should’ve let me know if our issue has been resolved. All of you, even Scott, I don’t exactly know what you want to express, but I really want to clearly understand what you’re saying.
Folks, I wanna worship in Spirit & in Truth, & these words appear cold in black & white, but they are written so that we can have the Fellowship spoken of the the Epistles of John. If you were in danger of breaking a law that you thought was abolished, would you want someone to tell you? Ideally, people would welcome the news, but the reality is that selfishness & pride prove that we were born & shaped in iniquity.
Do we then make void the law through faith? God forbid: yea, we establish the law. That’s Romans 3:31, meaning, the law is not void. I said earlier, the law brings the need for grace…& in this text…faith.
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