The Lord's Day

1. When God blesses something, how long will it be blessed?

"It shall be blessed for ever" 1 Chronicles 17:27

2. He hath blessed; and I cannot do what?

"I cannot reverse it" Numbers 23:20

3. Why did the Lord bless the seventh day?

"For in six days the Lord made heaven and earth, the sea, and all that in them is, and rested the seventh day" Exodus 20:11

4. By whom did God make the worlds?

"By his Son" Hebrews 1:2

5. How involved was Jesus in the work of creation?

"All things were made by him; and without him was not any thing made that was made" John 1:3

"All things were created by him and for him" Colossians 1:16

6. What then is Jesus’ relation to the Sabbath?

"The Son of man is Lord even of the Sabbath day" Matthew 12:8

7. What do we know about our Lord?

"Jesus Christ the same yesterday, and to day, and for ever" Hebrews 13:8

8. Looking to the destruction of Jerusalem nearly forty years after the crucifixion, what day was Jesus concerned about?

"The sabbath day" Matthew 24:20

The seventh-day Sabbath is mentioned 59 times in the New Testament. And in no instance does the Bible say that God ever removed its sacredness. By contrast, the first day of the week is mentioned only 8 times in the New Testament. And in not a single case does the Bible attach sacredness to it.

9. According to Paul, what is the basis of Sabbath rest?

"God did rest the seventh day from all this works" Hebrews 4:4

10. Paul confessed that he believed all things written where?

"In the law and in the prophets" Acts 24:14

11. On what day did he go to the house of worship?

"On the sabbath day" Acts 13:14

12. Gentiles wanted him to preach to them when?

"The next sabbath" Acts 13:42

13. Who came the next Sabbath to hear God’s Word?

"Almost the whole city" Acts 13:44

14. On what day was prayer wont to be made?

"On the sabbath" Acts 16:13

15. How does the Bible tell us that gathering for public worship on the Sabbath was Paul’s regular practice?

"Paul, as his manner was, went in unto them, and three sabbath days reasoned with them out of the scriptures" Acts 17:2

16. How often did Paul present the Scriptures to both Jews and Greeks?

"Every sabbath" Acts 18:4

17. How thoroughly did Paul instruct his converts?

"I have not shunned to declare unto you all the counsel of God" Acts 20:27

Paul shared all the counsel of God. And he never mentioned anything about Sunday sacredness.

18. Of whom would men arise, speaking perverse things?

"Of your own selves" Acts 20:30

19. To what class of people was he speaking?

"The elders of the church" Acts 20:17

20. When would these errors come in?

"After my departing" Acts 20:29

21. How did Peter warn of the same thing?

"There shall be false teachers among you, who privily shall bring in damnable heresies" 2 Peter 2:1

22. In vision, Daniel was shown a power that would arise, which would think to change what?

"Times and laws" Daniel 7:25

23. Paul told the early believers not to expect the end of the world except there come what first?

"A falling away" 2 Thessalonians 2:3

24. What did he call the one who would lead out in this falling away?

"That man of sin…, the son of perdition" 2 Thessalonians 2:3

25. God wants all men to be saved and to come to what?

"The knowledge of the truth" 1 Timothy 2:4

26. For what weak reason do some reject God’s commandments?

"That ye may keep your own tradition" Mark 7:9

27. The times of our ignorance God winked at; but now He commands men everywhere to do what?

"Repent" Acts 17:30

28. How should I respond when I learn the truth?

"I made haste, and delayed not to keep thy commandments" Psalm 119:60