Sabbath

7th Day Adventists. 7th Day Baptists. Some forms of Replacement Theology. Many groups consider Sunday the “Christian Sabbath.”

Others of us believe the Sabbath is Saturday, but rest on the Sabbath is not a required practice for the church. We might argue that we meet on the Lord’s Day, Sunday, which is distinct from the Sabbath.

Still others would take the Hebrews argument that the reason we do not observe the Sabbath is because the entire church age is an age of entering into that Sabbath rest of God, and thus the command is fulfilled in the church.

Exodus 20:8-11 reads:

8 “Remember the Sabbath day, to keep it holy. 9 Six days you shall labor, and do all your work, 10 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. 11 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.