THE SABBATH DAY
The word Sabbath means rest.
Christians cannot say, “We must be allowed to have a day in the week to
ourselves which we use to praise God. It is our right and we all need a day
every week to ourselves. We choose Sunday. If Muslims want Friday let them have
Friday. If Jews want Saturday let them have Saturday.” First of all, the Sabbath
is not about human rights. It is about God’s rights and God commanded that the
Sabbath day be kept holy. Second, what about those of us who do not need a day
to ourselves. Many singletons would love to work every day in the week. Third,
the fact that Sabbath keeping is made a Christian commandment certainly proves
it is about law not about people. Jesus might have said that man is not made for
the Sabbath but the Sabbath for man but he was responding to people who were too
strict about resting on the Sabbath. The context is about how his apostles were
passing through a field and plucked the corn on a Sabbath. To condemn them for
something they were doing just as they journeyed through the field would mean
you should also condemn those who get out of bed at all on the Sabbath.