Will you please explain this scripture? Does it mean that one can legitimately keep any day? Bear in mind in the study of this scripture these facts: (1) The epistle is not addressed to unbelievers or sinners, but "to all that are in Rome, beloved of God, called to be saints." It tells us the way they became saints and the way that all sinners may become such. It is addressed to those who found Christ Jesus their righteousness, and a change in the heart that hated God's law to one that loved the law, and upon which the law was written by God's Spirit, "that the ordinance of the law might be fulfilled in us, who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit." Rom. 8: 4. Consequently the epistle is addressed to commandment keepers, both Jews and Gentiles, who composed the church in Rome. (2) Composed as it was, partly of Jews (see chapters 2 and 3), there would be many doubtless who observed the annual sabbaths and feast-days. (3) The chapter is therefore written not to tell us what is best to do or what is wrong to do or what is right to do, but to affirm just as strongly as the apostle can that no one is a judge over his brother. "Who art thou that judgest the servant of another? to his own lord he standeth or falleth. Yea [despite this judgment], . . . the Lord hath power to make him stand." And then he comes to the question of the text, "One man esteemeth one day above another: another esteemeth every day alike." By this we are not to affirm that the Sabbath is included. The same expression is used in Ex. 16:4: "I will rain bread from heaven for you; and the people shall go out and gather a day's portion every day, that I may prove them, whether they will walk in My law, or not." And yet we know that that "every day" did not mean the Sabbath, because no manna fell on that day, and the Lord reproved the people for going out on that day. The "every day" of the text has to do with what Ezekiel calls "the six working days" of the week. Eze. 46: 1. The Sabbath is not man's, but God's. Therefore if one member of the church should keep the Passover, which was not binding, but old associations led him so to do, and if another should keep the Day of Atonement, they should not be judged by others who regarded those days like all other days. So in regard to the eating. All the things mentioned within this chapter fall within the bonds of Christian liberty; and within those, Christians should not judge each other. In fact, the great lesson of the chapter is that we must judge no man, for all must appear before the judgment-seat of Christ.