What is the Sabbath and when should it be observed?
Sabbath refers to a day set aside for rest and worship, traditionally observed on the seventh day of the week, which is Saturday for Jews and Sunday for many Christians. The Sabbath begins Friday at sundown and ends Saturday at sundown.
When did it begin? Read Exodus 16:15-26
God Included it as a command, (4th) in the Ten Commandments:
Exodus 20:9-11 Six days shalt thou labour, and do all thy work: But the seventh day is the sabbath of the LORD thy God: in it thou shalt not do any work, thou, nor thy son, nor thy daughter, thy manservant, nor thy maidservant, nor thy cattle, nor thy stranger that is within thy gates: For in six days the LORD made heaven and earth, the sea, and all that in them is, and rested the seventh day: wherefore the LORD blessed the sabbath day, and hallowed it.
The word Sunday is not mentioned in Scripture BUT the 1st day of the week is, and it always follows the Sabbath. The Sabbath is the seventh day of the week.
After the resurrection, Believing Jews honored the Sabbath (Acts 2:46) and then met on the first day of the week to fellowship. The first day, Sunday was for the Church:
Acts 20:7 And upon the first day of the week, when the disciples came together to break bread, Paul preached unto them, ready to depart on the morrow; and continued his speech until midnight.
Paul instructs the Corinthians — 1 Corinthians 16:2 Upon the first day of the week let every one of you lay by him in store, as God hath prospered him, that there be no gatherings when I come.
Paul instructs the Colossians — Colossians 2:16 Let no man therefore judge you in meat, or in drink, or in respect of an holyday, or of the new moon, or of the sabbath days:
Should the Church meet on the Sabbath, which is Saturday or should it meet on the First day of the week? Are you under the Law?
The apostle Paul, the apostle to the Gentiles, Romans 11:13, 1 Timothy 2:7, and 2 Timothy 1:11, teaches who is under the Law.
Romans 3:19 Now we know that what things soever the law saith, it saith to them who are under the law: that every mouth may be stopped, and all the world may become guilty before God.
Romans 6:14-15 For sin shall not have dominion over you: for ye are not under the law, but under grace. What then? shall we sin, because we are not under the law, but under grace? God forbid.
1 Corinthians 9:20-21 And unto the Jews I became as a Jew, that I might gain the Jews; to them that are under the law, as under the law, that I might gain them that are under the law; To them that are without law, as without law, (being not without law to God, but under the law to Christ,) that I might gain them that are without law.
Galatians 3:23 But before faith came, we were kept under the law, shut up unto the faith which should afterwards be revealed.
Galatians 4:4-5 But when the fulness of the time was come, God sent forth his Son, made of a woman, made under the law, To redeem them that were under the law, that we might receive the adoption of sons.
Galatians 4:21 Tell me, ye that desire to be under the law, do ye not hear the law?
Galatians 5:18 But if ye be led of the Spirit, ye are not under the law.
Are you under the Law? Yes? Honor the Sabbath!
And obey all the rest of the Law!