In Psalm 111, verses 7 and 8, it says: “ALL His commandments are sure. THEY STAND FAST FOR EVER AND EVER.” And then in the 10th verse of that Psalm, it says: “A good understanding have all they that do His commandments.”
I believe that goes a long way in explaining why Sunday observing assemblies have so much error in the doctrines they believe and teach! Having tossed out one of God’s eternal commandments, they do not have a good understanding of God’s Word. It’s that simple.
Psalm 119:142 says “Thy righteousness is an everlasting righteousness.” And the 172nd verse of that same Psalm says, “ALL thy commandments are righteousness.” All ten, not nine!
There’s not one verse anywhere in the New Testament that says the fourth commandment was changed, altered, substituted, abolished or nullified – NOT ONE VERSE!
Some of the most scathing words of denunciation spoken by Jesus Christ were spoken to a group of religious men who had set aside one of the Ten Commandments: “Well has Isaiah prophesied of you hypocrites, as it is written, ‘This people honors me with their lips, but their heart is far from me. Howbeit in vain do they worship me, teaching for doctrines the commandments of men,’ for laying aside the commandment of God, you hold the tradition of men…..And He said unto them, ‘Full well you reject the commandment of God that you may keep your own tradition!'” (See Mark 7:6-9).
Sunday worship is a tradition of men based upon a faulty interpretation of Acts 20, Romans 14, I Corinthians 16 Colossians 2 and a couple of other texts. It’s a Catch 22 with them. Spurning God’s eternal seventh day sabbath, they have no correct understanding of the scriptures as a whole. They think the scriptures themselves set aside the fourth commandment, or change it drastically, when such is not the case at all!
They think, “All these great preachers of the present and past can’t be wrong. If they say the fourth commandment has been changed, then it must have been changed!” Yes, and if they say one’s “soul” flits off to heaven or hell the moment one dies, that must be true, too. And if they say, “once saved, always saved,” that must be true, too.
Don’t limit Satan’s deceptive powers, friend. It is one of the worst mistakes you’ll ever make in this life!
In the very closing chapter of the Bible, we read these words: “Blessed are they that do His commandments, that they may have right to the tree of life, and may enter in through the gates into the city (of God)” (See Revelation 22:14). Are you sure you will have the right to reach forth your hand, take of the fruit of the tree of life, and eat? Something to think about, folks.
Christ’s Faithful Servant (Galatians 1:10-12),
Donald Wiley