“The Lord is well pleased for His righteousness’ sake; He will magnify the law and make it honorable” (Isaiah 42:21). The prophet Isaiah had long ago prophesied that the Messiah would magnify, or promote, the law of God, making it honorable and worthy of respect. And that is exactly what Jesus did when citing the law in His sermon on the mount. He quotes the seventh commandment word-for-word, “Thou shalt not commit adultery.” (See Matthew 5:27). He then magnifies, or expands, that commandment by saying, “But I say unto you that whosoever looks on a woman to lust after her has committed adultery with her in his heart.”
When Isaiah speaks of God’s righteousness in Isaiah 42:21 he is again referring to the Ten Commandments for we read in Psalm 119:172, “All thy commandments are righteousness.” In God’s eyes a truly righteous person is someone who is keeping God”s commandments. Only a fool would call an adulterer, or liar, or killer a righteous person!
The sabbath is mentioned nine times in the book of Acts. Never is it spoken of as being abolished or changed. There are three verses in the 13th chapter of Acts that are a real eye opener if one will only read that text and accept what it so clearly reveals. Here is that text: “And when the Jews were gone out of the synagogue (of Antioch, Pisidia where Paul had at length exhorted them to accept the truth concerning Jesus), THE GENTILES BESOUGHT THAT THESE WORDS MIGHT BE PREACHED TO THEM THE NEXT SABBATH. Now when the congregation was broken up (dispersed) many of the Jews and religious proselytes followed Paul and Barnabas, who speaking to them, PERSUADED THEM TO CONTINUE IN THE GRACE OF GOD. AND THE NEXT SABBATH DAY came almost the whole city (comprised overwhelmingly of Gentiles) together to hear the word of God.” (See Acts 13:42-44).
Notice, Paul is preaching the grace of God to these Jews and Gentiles. The Gentiles ask that Paul preach these words to them the next sabbath. Since he is preaching the grace of God, why didn’t Paul tell these Gentiles, “Tomorrow is the Lord’s Day. We will meet with you then and preach to you the grace of God?” I’ll tell you why Paul didn’t do that. The next day, the first day of the week, or Sunday, was not the Lord’s Day and never shall be. “For the Son of man is Lord even of the sabbath day!” (Matthew 12:8). If Jesus is Lord of the sabbath day then it naturally follows the sabbath is the Lord’s day! No scripture calls Sunday, or the first day of the week, the Lord’s day. That is an invention of men misled by the master deceiver Satan.
Reader, I warn you again, Satan is a master of his craft – that being the art of deception. He deceived the wisest man who ever lived! (See I Kings, Chapter 11). You are no match for him whatsoever. If you are not utterly and completely surrendered to Jesus Christ, obeying Him in toto 24/7, I assure you Satan has you grossly deceived in some, if not most, of what you think the Bible says. God help you to understand. To be continued….
Christ’s Faithful Servant (Galatians 1:10-12),
Donald Wiley