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 
Which is SUPPOSED to point you to the 10 Commandments.
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I see a big difference between love & your insults, but if the definition of Sabbatismos doesn’t say enough, hat exactly is the Royal Law if it is not the 10 Commandments?
8If ye fulfil the royal law according to the scripture, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself, ye do well:
9But if ye have respect to persons, ye commit sin, and are convinced of the law as transgressors.
10For whosoever shall keep the whole law, and yet offend in one point, he is guilty of all.
11For he that said, Do not commit adultery, said also, Do not kill. Now if thou commit no adultery, yet if thou kill, thou art become a transgressor of the law.
12So speak ye, and so do, as they that shall be judged by the law of liberty.
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The Royal Law is the Law of Liverty, which is the Law of Christ.
Romans 8:2, “For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus has made me free [liberated; liberty] from the law of sin and death.”
https://godsbreath.wordpress.com/2010/02/03/law-of-christ/
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Amen. Thanks for the comments.
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When dealing with a SDA friend of mine I have a variety of key Scriptures to counter his brain washing.
Acts 15:1-31
Romans 13:8-12
Many in the seventh day adventist organization argue from the context of Exodus 20 and so forth but neglect the text where those commandments were for the people of Moses not gentiles.
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The context? See Hebrews 4
(verse 1), “Let us therefore fear, lest, a promise being left us of entering into his rest, any of you should seem to come short of it.”
(verse 4) “For he spake in a certain place of the seventh day on this wise, ‘And God did rest the seventh day from all His works’. ”
(verse 12) “For the word of God is quick, and powerful, and sharper than any twoedged sword, piercing even to the dividing asunder of soul and spirit, and of the joints and marrow, and is a discerner of the thoughts and intents of the heart.”
(verse 14) “Seeing then that we have a great high priest, that is passed into the heavens, Jesus the Son of God, let us hold fast our profession.”
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The 10 Commandments in the New Testament
1) Thou shalt worship the Lord thy God, and him only shalt thou serve. Matthew 4:10
2) Little children keep yourselves from idols. 1 John 5:21
3) …that the name of God & His doctrine be not blasphemed. 1 Timothy 6:1
4) For if Jesus had given them rest, then would He not afterward have spoken of another day. There remaineth therefore a rest (Greek – Sabbatismos “keeping of a Sabbath”) to the people of God. For he that is entered into his rest, he also hath ceased from his own works, as God did from His. Let us labour therefore to enter into that rest, lest any man fall after the same example of disobedience.
5) Hebrews 4:8-11 Honor thy father & mother…Matthew 19:19
6) Thou shalt not kill…Romans 3:9
7) Thou shalt not commit adultery…Romans 3:9
8) Thou shalt not steal…Romans 3:9
9) Thou shalt not bear false witness…Romans 3:9
10) Thou shalt not covet…Romans 3:9
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Scott, you gave wrong info. about what you think my Mark of the beast” study will consist of, but I again offer it freely. I am confident that it will put the Sabbath/Sunday debate to rest.
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This is a shame. See Revelation 14:9-13 & compare to Daniel 7:25. The Mark of the Beast takes us symbolically from Babylon (the head of gold in Daniel 2:38), to Persia, (Daniel 5), Greece (Daniel 8) & Rome…then the Church of Rome. They are symbolized as “kingdoms”, & Rome meshed “idol-worship & “sun-worship” to Christianity.
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Alden,
You have other things to consider. Is your pastor qualified (1 Tim. 3, Titus 1)? Do your pastor(s) oversee and rule the congregation (1 Peter 5:1-3, Heb. 13:17)? Do you have only one pastor (Acts 14:23, 20:28)? Is there a hierarchy above your pastor(s) besides Jesus as the head (1 Peter 5:4, Col. 1:18)?
Do you and, or your pastors listen to Apostles and prophets outside the NT? Do you have people claiming to be prophets without having hands of Apostles laid on them (Acts 8:14-17, 19:6, more)? Do you have Apostles who have not seen Jesus and lived with Him (Acts 1:20-22)?
Do you believe that the Scriptures were complete in the words of Christ given to the Apostles and prophets in 1st century or do you listen to other “prophets” in recent centuries (2 Tim. 3:16-17)?
Do you worship God with other music besides singing (Eph. 5:19, Col. 3:16, 1 Cor. 14:15)? Do you partake the Lord’s Supper every Assembly (1 Cor. 11:17-34)? Does your preacher speak things other than the oracles of God (1 Pet. 4:11)? Do you have concerts in the middle of your Sabbath assemblies (John 4:24, 1 Cor. 14:26)? Can you worship by the traditions of men and it not be in vain (Matt. 15:9, Mark 7:6-13)?
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Alden,
I believe you’re sincere in your beliefs and that compels me speak to you in all Christian love. Though you are sincere, I do not believe that you are honest about this subject. I wish that you’d reconsider your position. I know that you’ve invested time, money, your family, and your life into these teachings. Reconsider for the cost of the blood of Jesus.
You have not given enough until you show the Sabbath as being New Testament instruction. The Scriptures in the post above stands in complete contrast to your assertions. Assertions are statements without proof, premises. You must show the premises in this post to be in error, and provide the words of Christ given to the Apostles and prophets about keeping the Sabbath. I find none in honest study.
You present church history as though it matters what happened outside of the Apostles’ teaching. There have been believers throughout the centuries from the 1st to today who have kept the Sabbath and the 1st day of the week. Look at your assertions. You show Paul evangelizing the Jews in their synagogues on the Sabbath, but there no Scripture that the Church assembled on the Sabbath. You have twisted the Sabbath of Hebrews 4, which is our eternal rest with God. You have neglected everything found in Scripture above and have not presented a better understanding. Lastly, Acts 20:7 was gathered on the first day of the week.
The House of God was built in first century on the foundation of the Apostles and prophets unto the completion of the faith (Jude 3, Eph. 2:20). I will not alter or modify the construction of the House of God for a dead Law written on stones (2 Cor. 3).
You expect me to be convinced without premises for a conclusion. How can we even agree that 12 is the answer A + B + C=12 if I don’t know what A, B, or C is?
On the other hand, I’ve shown you the words of Christ. The day of the Church began, the day of resurrection when Jesus again blessed the bread of His body, the collection in the context of the Assembly in 1 Cor. 10-16, the Greek of Acts 20:7, and the Lord’s Day is the Day of Assembly in Rev. 1:10 (Matt. 18:20). Therefore, I am convinced on these premises that the Lord’s Day is the 1st day of the week.
Please, reconsider at least how you present the basis for your conclusion.
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