10 Concise Reasons to Remember the Sabbath

Jesus kept the Sabbath. As the New Testament opens up with the gospel accounts, we see that our Lord Jesus observed the Sabbath himself (Luke 4:16),

I’ll stick with the NASB.

Do you have the scripture for that? That the Disciples established Sunday as the day of rest.

16 So He came to Nazareth, where He had been brought up. And as His custom was, He went into the synagogue on the Sabbath day, and stood up to read. Luke 4:16


How is reading in a synagogue "keeping the Sabbath"?


That would mean for us to keep the Sabbath we must go to a synagogue and read some scriptures?


Nonsense!
JPT

There are many scriptures indicating that the disciples meet every Sunday for worship, breaking bred and collection of money for the lords work. This would suggest that they didn't go to work on that day, so it was a day of worship and reflection.

The Seventh-day Adventists do not believe that there is any scriptural support for worship on Sunday. Though there is no explicit NT statement authenticating Sunday worship, there are plenty of verses dealing with Sunday, the first day of the week, as being special, a day of breaking bread, and of gathering collections.

1. Jesus rose from the dead on the first day of the week (Matt. 28:1-7; Mark 16:2, 9; Luke 24:1; John 20:1).
2. Jesus appeared to the disciples on the first day of the week (John 20:19).
3. Jesus appeared inside the room to the eleven disciples eight days after the first day of the week. The Jewish way of measuring days meant that it was again Sunday
   (John 20:26).
4. The Holy Spirit came on Pentecost, the first day of the week (Lev. 23:16; Acts 2:1).
5. The first sermon was preached by Peter on the first day of the week (Acts 2:14).
6. Three thousand converts joined the church on the first day of the week (Acts 2:41).
7. The three thousand were baptized on the first day of the week (Acts 2:41).
8. The Christians assembled broke bread on the first day of the week.
9. The Christians also heard a message from Paul on the first day of the week (Acts 20:7). Note: the reference is until midnight which is not the Jewish method of measuring days, but the Roman system.
10. Paul instructed the churches to put aside contributions on the first day of the week
    (1 Cor. 16:2).
11. Jesus gave the apostle John the vision of Revelation on the first day of the week
    (Rev. 1:10)

While scripture would support some of your listed events happening the first day of the week - others are not. But in any case they are not GOD-given instructions for sunday worship....which is entirely from people's OWN actions and decisions, in other words HUMAN TRADITIONS. .Even the Jews had their oiwn ideas of doing things and christians are no different. People are people and all are under satans influence, him being the 'god of this world (for now). 2 Cor 4v4.
All original Disciples handpicked by the REAL Jesus were obviously Sabbath-keepers and fully 'in tune with their Leader who also observed Sabbath and would never change !

While scripture would support some of your listed events happening the first day of the week - others are not. But in any case they are not GOD-given instructions for sunday worship....which is entirely from people's OWN actions and decisions, in other words HUMAN TRADITIONS. .Even the Jews had their oiwn ideas of doing things and christians are no different. People are people and all are under satans influence, him being the 'god of this world (for now). 2 Cor 4v4.
All original Disciples handpicked by the REAL Jesus were obviously Sabbath-keepers and fully 'in tune with their Leader who also observed Sabbath and would never change !

Do you have the scripture for that? That the Disciples established Sunday as the day of rest.

Are you DELIBERATELY missing 'the SABBATH DAY ?

If Jesus was the Lord of the Sabbath and He wanted His followers to continue setting aside Saturday as the day of rest and worship, wouldn't He have told His disciples not to do it on a Sunday as they had been doing with His knowledge?

And what about those scriptures which say, one man esteems one day above another. There are many arguments to support Biblical Sunday worship and at the same time there are no clear New Testament scriptures commanding us to worship on either of those particular days.

There is no scripture that implies JESUS told His Disciples to 0bserve sunday...none whatever, nor His Followers. Rather we are told to ''follow his steps'1Pt 2v21.

Yes. If keeping the Sabbath means going to a Synagogue where people who reject Jesus as Messiah gather on Saturday to convince each other that the “messiah” is coming soon, then yes I’m missing the Sabbath on purpose.
JPT

But if you suffer for doing good and you endure it, this is commendable before God.
To this you were called, because Christ suffered for you, leaving you an example, that you should follow in his steps.
When they hurled their insults at him, he did not retaliate; when he suffered, he made no threats. Instead, he entrusted himself to him who judges justly.

1 Pt 2:20-21,23

His steps the first church was to follow was not keeping the weekly Sabbath, but to suffer and to take suffering as Christ did.

If Jesus was the Lord of the Sabbath and He wanted His followers to continue setting aside Saturday as the day of rest and worship, wouldn't He have told His disciples not to do it on a Sunday as they had been doing with His knowledge?

And what about those scriptures which say, one man esteems one day above another. There are many arguments to support Biblical Sunday worship and at the same time there are no clear New Testament scriptures commanding us to worship on either of those particular days.

So you are making a difference between HOW persons are made to suffer ? You think Sabbath-Keepers suffer LESS when they are insulted and called names and falsly accused ?
Jesus was 'railed against for speaking the truth and is no different for us today !

the good news is they simply bring the same type of judgement upon

There is no scripture that implies JESUS told His Disciples to 0bserve sunday...none whatever, nor His Followers. Rather we are told to ''follow his steps'1Pt 2v21. JesusALways kept His Fathers Commands and did not come to abolish. He was obedient unto death and never changed. All that is seen from scripture.
When we read about BELIEVERS gathering and starting to do their own thing it was much later...after Jesus and the original Disciples had been persecuted and killed and UNGODLY men had infiltrated the church/body of Converts, that sunday became the worship day....instigated by the RCC under threat of death if people continued in the ''jewish ways'.....still called so today by all who hate the Sabbath.
When it comes to Rom 14 there is massive MISunderstanding which also results in Sabbath-breaking. Paul never told people to choose their own day...rather he said ''that it was something SOME were doing. He never instructed any to follow them. Paul did say 'to follow HIM as he FOLLOWED CHRIST, which was obviously Sabbath-keeping 1Cor 11v1.
It is true in the NT we have no command specifically to keep Sabbath holy because we are now in the era of 'Grace .that needs not to be COMMANDED but obeyed through LOVE ! We should have matured to a BETTER way and relationship with God and Christ ...but it will never be without law and order. OBEDience to GOD will always remain or we will NOT be in His Kingdom Mat 7v21.

The first day of the week is to commemorate a finished redemption. (Spiritual)

I spent around 6 months in a SDA Church, they convinced me that they were a truly Biblical Church.

It wasn't until I found out about their founder Ellen White and her extra Biblical revelation, that caused loud alarm bells to ring in my head and I got out of there like a bat out of hell. I have been shy about this issue since then, but I have to revisit the issue and put it to bed once and for all.

There is no scripture that implies JESUS told His Disciples to 0bserve sunday...none whatever, nor His Followers. Rather we are told to ''follow his steps'1Pt 2v21. JesusALways kept His Fathers Commands and did not come to abolish. He was obedient unto death and never changed. All that is seen from scripture.
When we read about BELIEVERS gathering and starting to do their own thing it was much later...after Jesus and the original Disciples had been persecuted and killed and UNGODLY men had infiltrated the church/body of Converts, that sunday became the worship day....instigated by the RCC under threat of death if people continued in the ''jewish ways'.....still called so today by all who hate the Sabbath.
When it comes to Rom 14 there is massive MISunderstanding which also results in Sabbath-breaking. Paul never told people to choose their own day...rather he said ''that it was something SOME were doing. He never instructed any to follow them. Paul did say 'to follow HIM as he FOLLOWED CHRIST, which was obviously Sabbath-keeping 1Cor 11v1.
It is true in the NT we have no command specifically to keep Sabbath holy because we are now in the era of 'Grace .that needs not to be COMMANDED but obeyed through LOVE ! We should have matured to a BETTER way and relationship with God and Christ ...but it will never be without law and order. OBEDience to GOD will always remain or we will NOT be in His Kingdom Mat 7v21.