Jesus’ custom was to worship on the Sabbath.

A little detective work is needed. Many believe the Sabbath is the first day of the week, Sunday, but the Bible says the Sabbath is the day that comes just before the first day of the week. According to Scripture, the Sabbath is the seventh day of the week — that is, Saturday.

God made the Sabbath at Creation, when He made the world. He rested on the Sabbath, blessed it, and sanctified it — that is, He set it apart for a holy use.

In the fourth of the Ten Commandments, God says we are to observe the seventh-day Sabbath as His holy day. It seems God knew people would be prone to forget His Sabbath, so He began this commandment with the word “remember.”

No, indeed! No part of God’s moral law can change. All Ten Commandments are still binding today. Just as the other nine commandments haven’t changed, neither has the fourth.

Yes. The book of Acts makes it clear that Paul and the early church kept the Sabbath.

The apostles in the early church not only obeyed God’s Sabbath command, but they also taught the converted Gentiles to worship on the Sabbath.

No. Nowhere in Scripture is there any suggestion that Jesus, His Father, or the apostles ever, under any circumstance, changed the holy seventh-day Sabbath to another day. The Bible teaches the opposite: God blessed the Sabbath; Christ expected His people to still keep the Sabbath in A.D. 70 when Jerusalem fell (Matthew 24:20); the women who came to anoint Christ’s body rested on the Sabbath according to the commandment (Luke 23:56) and only after the Sabbath came on the first day of the week; and Luke, the author of Acts, never mentions any change of the day of worship.

Yes. The Bible says the saved of all ages will keep the Sabbath in the new earth.

The Bible speaks of the Lord’s Day (Revelation 1:10), so the Lord does have a special day. But no verse of Scripture calls Sunday the Lord’s Day. Rather, the Bible plainly identifies the seventh-day Sabbath as the Lord’s Day. The only day the Lord has ever blessed and claimed as His own is the seventh-day Sabbath.

No! The Bible never suggests keeping Sunday holy in honor of the resurrection or for any other reason. We honor Christ by obeying His direct commandments (John 14:15), not by substituting man-made traditions for His eternal law.

About 300 years after Jesus’ resurrection, partly because of hostility toward the Jews, misguided men suggested that God’s holy day of worship be changed from Saturday to Sunday. God predicted it would happen, and it did. This error was passed on to our unsuspecting generation as fact. But Sunday-keeping is a tradition of mere men, and it breaks God’s law, which commands Sabbath-keeping. Only God can make a day holy, and when God blesses, no one can reverse it (Numbers 23:20).

God has forbidden people to change His law, either by deletions or additions. Tampering with God’s law is one of the most dangerous things a person can do, because God’s law is perfect and is designed to protect us from evil.

God gave the Sabbath as a twofold sign: (1) a sign that He created the world in six literal days, and (2) a sign of God’s power to redeem and sanctify people. It is natural for a Christian to love the seventh-day Sabbath as God’s precious sign of Creation and redemption. It is very disrespectful to trample upon God’s Sabbath.

It is a matter of life and death. The Sabbath is protected and upheld by the fourth commandment of God’s law. The deliberate breaking of any one of the Ten Commandments is sin. Christians will gladly follow Christ’s example of Sabbath keeping.

Though some leaders keep Sunday sacred simply because they don’t know any better, those who do so deliberately profane what God has called holy. By hiding their eyes from God’s true Sabbath, many religious leaders have caused others to profane it. Jesus rebuked the Pharisees for pretending to love God while making void one of the Ten Commandments by their tradition.

Yes! The Sabbath is a gift from God, who made it for you as a respite from the world! It’s natural that those who love Him would want to keep His Sabbath commandment. On the Sabbath you can guilt-free set aside your regular daily activities — work and shopping — and instead spend time with the Creator of the universe: worshipping God with other believers, being with family, walking in nature, reading uplifting materials, and visiting and encouraging the sick. After six days of work, God has given you the gift of the Sabbath to rest and feed your soul.