No Controversy Over the Day
The Bible student knows that there was never in New Testament times any controversy over the day of the Sabbath. The Decalogue settled that question for all time, and the early disciples found no Bible ground for controversy. “The Seventh day is the Sabbath of Jehovah thy God,” the law declares, and on this our Lord and the Pharisees were agreed, as were the apostles. Never once in all our Lord’s ministry did He intimate that the Sabbath day was to be changed or modified in any way, or that it was to be observed less sacredly. He expressly declared that He came not to change the law; on the contrary, He came to fulfil the law, and to show how it should be observed. As one writer remarks: “His works of love and mercy, never performed for His own profit or benefit, but only for the good of others, even to His own loss, were done, not to show disregard of the Sabbath day, but were, on the contrary, the highest possible honor that could be shown it, in that they presented it as the sign of the greatest blessing that God has in His power to bestow.”
Such is God’s Sabbath to-day. Why not accept it as He has given it, a memorial of His creative power, a sign of His redeeming love?