“The works of his hands are verity (truth) and judgment; ALL his commandments are sure (Hebrew, “firm, permanent). They stand fast forever and ever, and are done in truth and uprightness.” (Psalm 111:7-8). ALL his commandments are sure, including the fourth commandment. It will stand fast forever and ever not merely until Calvary or the moment of Christ’s resurrection. The Psalmist leaves no doubt that he is speaking of the Ten Commandments in this passage as He clearly states that these commandments are the work of God’s hands, and in Exodus 31:18 it is written, “And He gave unto Moses, when He had made an end of communing with him upon Mount Sinai, the tables of testimony, tables of stone, written with the finger of God” – the works of His own hands! “And the writing was the writing of God, graven upon the tables” (Exodus 32:16). And, when in anger over Israel’s worshiping the golden calf, Moses threw down those tablets and broke them, “the Lord said unto Moses, ‘Hew thee two tables of stone like unto the first, and I will write upon those tables the words that were in the first tables, which thou brakest'” (See Exodus 34:1). The only time the people of Israel heard the voice of the Lord was when He thundered the Ten Commandments from the heights of Mount Sinai. (See Deuteronomy 4:12).
Had you been a teacher in God’s church a year or two after its founding on the feast day of Pentecost, what could possibly have caused you to think “the sabbath commandment has been abolished and Sunday is the New Covenant holy day of rest?” Would you argue, “Well, the feast day of Pentecost that year happened to fall on a Sunday.” So what! What does that prove? Nothing, nothing at all! What could you possibly have said to the Jew that would convince him the fourth commandment had been abolished by Christ’s resurrection? Any learned Jew, would have quoted Psalm 111, verses 7 and 8 to you. How would you counter that argument? What if he quoted Isaiah 66, verses 22 and 23 to you, “For as the new heavens and new earth, which I will make, shall remain before me, saith the Lord, so shall your seed and your name remain. AND IT SHALL COME TO PASS THAT FROM ONE NEW MOON TO ANOTHER (MONTH AFTER MONTH), AND FROM ONE SABBATH TO ANOTHER, SHALL ALL FLESH (JEW AND GENTILE) COME TO WORSHIP BEFORE ME” Yes, every Baptist, every New Testament preacher, every Sunday school teacher – ALL FLESH – will finally and forever honor God’s sacred and holy eternal sabbath day! They might ridicule it today. They won’t ridicule it then. Satan’s deceptive powers are staggering and formidable. He can deceive ten thousand times ten thousand preachers and a thousand theologians in whom they place their trust. Never forget that. You do so at your own peril.
Those who think Paul himself sets aside the fourth commandment in Romans 14, I Corinthians 16, and Colossians 2 had better beseech the Lord to open their eyes as to what Paul is actually saying in those texts. They might want to look at Acts chapter 20 a bit more closely, too. They might read the Sermon on the Mount more carefully, especially Matthew Chapter 5. The central theme of the Sermon on the Mount is that not a tiny bit of the Ten Commandments can be changed or altered in the slightest degree! Heaven and earth will have to pass away before such a thing could occur. The sermon is addressed to those who profess to know God, who think of themselves as part of the kingdom, but whose lives do not reveal the character of the King – who have been fathered by God. God help you to understand is my prayer.
Christ’s Aged Servant (Galatians 1:10-12),
Donald Wiley