Saturday-Keeping or Sabbath-Keeping
SATURDAY-KEEPING has no advantage over Sunday-keeping except in regard to the day. The traditional seventh-day-keeping of the Jews in the time of Jesus is paralleled by the traditional Sunday-keeping of the present except in the matter of the day. Saturday-keeping is a mere using of the day for physical rest, finding very much of the pleasures of the flesh and speaking its words. It is doing service to man, not to God. But Sabbath-keeping, the true rest in Christ Jesus, the delight in God’s ways and works and words and pleasure, is an altogether different thing. It is not only right as respects the day, the seventh day, the crowning day of the week, the day for which the week exists, but it drinks in the spirit of that day and “remembers the Sabbath day to keep it holy” all through the week. The Sabbath of the Lord is a day, a definite, particular day, but it is more; it is a blessed continual rest in Christ Jesus, doubly blessed on the twice-blessed day of the Sabbath.