Our Bible Reading

Pacific Press Publishing Association · Mountain View, California · Jan 30, 1912

Our Bible Reading

Christ and the Sabbath

1. Proposition: Christ and His word are unimpeachable and eternal. Proof: Jesus Christ the same YESTERDAY, and TO-DAY, and FOREVER. Heb. 13: 8. Heaven and earth shall pass away, but MY WORDS SHALL NOT PASS AWAY. Matt. 24: 35. 2. Proposition: God made all things THROUGH CHRIST. Proof: For by Him [Christ] were all things created: . . . all things were created BY HIM, and for Him: and He is before all things, and by Him all things consist. Col. 1: 16, 17. He that built all things is God. Heb. 3: 4. 3. Proposition: The SABBATH was MADE BY CHRIST for ALL MEN. Proof: And He [Christ] said unto them, The Sabbath was made for man. Mark 2: 27. NOTE. — The Sabbath was made for man, whether white, black, brown, red, or of whatsoever nationality. 4. Proposition: Christ made the Sabbath, by HIS REST, OUT OF THE SEVENTH DAY of the creation week. Proof: And on the seventh day God ended His work; . . . and He rested [sabbatized] on the seventh day. . . . And God blessed the seventh day, and sanctified it [made holy for religious use]: because

that in it HE HAD RESTED from all His work. Gen. 2: 2, 3.

5. Proposition: The Father and the Son were ONE in creation, and Christ is CALLED GOD. Proof: I and My Father are one. John 10: 30. But unto the Son He [the Father] saith, Thy throne, O GOD, is forever and ever. Heb. 1: 8. 6. Proposition: When Christ the Lord, the AUTHOR of CHRISTIANITY, made the SABBATH FOR MAN, IT was THEN, and is NOW, the CHRISTIAN SABBATH, and He its Lord. Proof: The seventh day is the Sabbath of the Lord thy God: in it thou shalt not do any work. Ex. 20: 10. Therefore the Son of Man is LORD ALSO OF THE SABBATH. Mark 2: 28. 7. Proposition: Christ in His earthly life honored the HOLY SABBATH AS AN EXAMPLE TO US. Proof: And when the Sabbath day was come, He began to teach in the synagogue. Mark 6: 2. He that saith he abideth in Him ought himself also so to walk, even as He walked. 1 John 2: 6. 8. Proposition: Christ never worked at His carpenter's trade on the Sabbath. "Is not this the carpenter?" Mark 6: 3. Proof: And 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 for to read. Luke 4: 16.

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