He Can Not Do It | AdventAI

Pacific Press Publishing Association · Mountain View, California · May 31, 1910

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 37, No. 21.

He Can Not Do It.

In a little tract sent to us the writer says:

“If it is the will of God, and I believe it is, that I should observe the Sabbath on the first day of the week, I am going to do it. It is not written that no Sabbath-breaker shall enter the kingdom of God.”

Now God has clearly, unchangeably, and consistently identified the Sabbath—His Sabbath—with the seventh day of the week. It can not be changed. That is the day upon which He rested, which He blessed, which He sanctified, or set apart, holy to Himself. Gen. 2:2, 3; Ex. 20:8-11. It can therefore be observed only on the day of God’s appointment. To seek to observe it on any other day in the light of God’s law is to exalt one’s self as higher authority than God. God is one, unchangeable. “I am Jehovah; I change not,” are His own words. He has made the Sabbath a part of His law; and the transgression of His law is sin; and “the wages of sin is death.” Rom. 7:7; 1 John 3:4; Rom. 6:23; Ex. 31:14, 15. From that sin Christ will save the honest, the obedient. “If ye be willing and obedient, ye shall eat the good of the land.” Isa. 1:19.