“Is Sunday The New Sabbath?”

Saturday, February 02, 2013

Is it a sin to work on Sundays?  I think it may be Saturdays that are the 7th day of the week.  I am thinking that this is an older requirement before Jesus, but I am not sure.  As always, thanks for the help, and I hope you all are doing well!  God Bless!

Sincerely,
Hard Worker

Dear Hard Worker,

You are thinking of Saturdays, and it is an older requirement.  The Jews were not allowed to work on the Sabbath (Ex 20:10).  This rule was so strict that a man was once stoned for collecting firewood on Saturday (Num 15:32-36).  However, this was a Jewish command, not a Christian one.  In the New Testament, we are not required to keep the Sabbath holy (Col 2:16).  Christians do not have a particular day that they must abstain from work.  It is important that the church congregate on Sundays to take the Lord’s Supper (Acts 20:7), worship, and take up a collection (1 Cor 16:1-2).  We are warned against forsaking the assembly (Heb 10:24-25), but that doesn’t mean that it is a sin for christians to work on Sunday.  Sunday is the Lord's day (Rev 1:10), a day dedicated to worship, but it isn't necessary to forgo all physical labor.

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