Rejoicing In the Sabbath:

[Scott Hutchinson]

In my opinion this explains it pretty well.
http://www.gnbcbible.com/sabbath.htm

[Aquila]

Originally Posted by Scott Hutchinson

My question would be where in the NT. do we have the Apostles teaching the sabbath as binding for New Covenant believers ?

The truth is...if you perform a search on the word "Sabbath" in the book of Acts, you'll see plenty of gathering and preaching on the Sabbath among both Jew and Gentile. We DO NOT see Sunday worship instituted once. Also note, Sunday worship was admittedly instituted by the Catholic church. Sabbath keepers were severely persecuted.

The Apostles would find our gathering on Sunday rather curious, even if they chose not to condemn the practice.

[Scott Hutchinson]

But I never find the apostles saying if you are apart of the body of Christ,you must keep the sabbath,I find them gathering on different days including the first day of the week.

[Aquila]

Originally Posted by Scott Hutchinson

But I never find the apostles saying if you are apart of the body of Christ,you must keep the sabbath,I find them gathering on different days including the first day of the week.

You seem to be demanding a verse commanding you keep the Sabbath in the NT. Take into consideration that the Apostles only had the OT.

We don't see Sunday worship at all. We do see gatherings and the Gospel preached on the Sabbath throughout Acts. The writer, Luke, even calls it "the sabbath"...not "their sabbath".

Also, some thoughts...

Matthew 5:17-19 ESV
"Do not think that I have come to abolish the Law or the Prophets; I have not come to abolish them but to fulfill them. For truly, I say to you, until heaven and earth pass away, not an iota, not a dot, will pass from the Law until all is accomplished. Therefore whoever relaxes one of the least of these commandments and teaches others to do the same will be called least in the kingdom of heaven, but whoever does them and teaches them will be called great in the kingdom of heaven.

The Law of God hasn't been abolished...only the Law of Moses. Concerning the Sabbath, the Law of God states:

Exodus 20:8-11 ESV
"Remember the Sabbath day, to keep it holy. Six days you shall labor, and do all your work, but the seventh day is a Sabbath to the Lord your God. On it you shall not do any work, you, or your son, or your daughter, your male servant, or your female servant, or your livestock, or the sojourner who is within your gates. For in six days the Lord made heaven and earth, the sea, and all that is in them, and rested on the seventh day. Therefore the Lord blessed the Sabbath day and made it holy.

[Aquila]

The REAL challenge is to find Sunday set aside for worship in the NT.

[Aquila]

Originally Posted by Scott Hutchinson

But I never find the apostles saying if you are apart of the body of Christ,you must keep the sabbath,I find them gathering on different days including the first day of the week.

We know that Paul preached until midnight on the first day of the week. Consider that their day began at sunset. This means that if Paul preached until midnight on the first day of the week, they gathered shortly after sunset on Saturday night.

[KeptByTheWord]

Originally Posted by bbyrd009

Or in other words, "You are going to be observing the Sabbath," is what I'm getting here.

That's what I kind of get from this verse. To me, it seems that it angers the Lord also about some of the other stuff they were doing, and they were killed by the sword of the Lord for eating "mouse" ... anyone know what that could mean? I don't know if it is literally mouse or something else?

Isaiah 66:17 They that sanctify themselves, and purify themselves in the gardens behind one [tree] in the midst, eating swine's flesh, and the abomination, and the mouse, shall be consumed together, saith the LORD.

[KeptByTheWord]

Originally Posted by Aquila

The REAL challenge is to find Sunday set aside for worship in the NT.

It's not there

Constantine changed the day of worship, to his day of worship of the sun god - hence Sunday 300 years later.

[Scott Hutchinson]

In the NT. where do we find any day set aside for worship,I thought we are to worship The Lord everyday ? Yes the apostles had the OT.,but aren't we to be founded upon the Apostles's doctrine ?

[bbyrd009]

You can see that apparently Gentiles' worship sans Sabbath seems to have been at least identified, and we are told that there are "those who would think to change times, and days" if I remember correctly. But also that it shouldn't become an occasion for Sunday-bashing, either, imo.