Thanks for your questions. Here are my answers:
1. What day did our Lord Jesus worship on?
He worshipped on the Sabbath with other Isrealites since He lived and died under the Old
Testament law. He refused to go along with the regulations of the Sabbath made by the
religious leaders of the time, going ahead and healing the sick and doing good on that
day, declaring "The Sabbath was made for man not man the Sabbath." He also said,
"The Son of Man is Lord of the Sabbath." (Mark 2:27,28)
2. What day was the Apostle Paul
"accustommed" to worshiping on? Since he grew up under the Old law
he was certainly accustomed to worshiping on the Sabbath and used those times to meet with
those like minded to teach them the gospel. When He met with the church to take the Lord's
Supper it was on the first day of the week (Acts 20:7).
3.
Does
theWord of God ever read..."Remember the First Day to keep it
holy..?" No!
4. Did Jesus ever say any words against
keeping the commandments of God (Ten commandments)? Jesus said, "Do not
think that I came to destroy the Law or the Prophets. I did not come to destroy but to
fulfill. For assuredly, I say to you, till heaven and earth pass away, one joy or one
tittle will by no means pass from the law till all is fulfilled." (Matthew 5:17,18).
He came to fulfill the law and the prophets. Nothing was to pass until all was fulfilled.
When it was fulfilled the whole of the law was to pass as a law. Did Jesus do what He came
to do or not? If He did, the whole of the Old Law has passed. If He didn't we are still
under every aspect of the Old Testament law and not a jot or tittle has passed. Paul
wrote in Romans 7:4-7 that we are dead to the law by the body of Christ that we might be
married to another, even to Him who was raised from the dead. He then explained in verse
seven the law he was referring to was the law which said, "Thou shalt not
covet". That is one of the ten commandments and yes we are dead to that law. In
Galatians 3:19-24 he wrote the reason the law was given was to bring us to Christ, that
the law was our schoolmaster to bring us to Christ and after Christ has come we are no
longer under the schoolmaster. In 2 Corinthians 3 he referred to the law written and
engraved on stones as a ministry of death and said he was a minister of the New Covenant.
In Hebrews 9:11-18 the writer says Christ is the mediator of the New Covenant. He even
says this covenant could only become of force after He was dead. Today, we are under the
New Covenant that Christ died to bring into effect. To go back and try to live under the
Old is to sever ourselves from Christ and fall from grace (Galatians
5:4). In Colossians 2:14-16 Paul wrote, "Having wiped out the
handwriting of requirements that was against us, which was contrary to us. And He has
taken it out of the way, having nailed it to the cross, Having disarmed principalities and
powers, He made a public spectable of them, triumping over them in it. "THEREFORE LET NO ONE JUDGE YOU IN FOOD OR IN DRINK, OR REGARDING A
FESTIVAL OR A NEW MOON OR SABBATHS, WHICH ARE A SHADOW OF THINGS TO COME, BUT THE
SUBSTANCE IS OF CHRIST."
5.
Does your
church believe that we should abide by the Ten commandments (check your church
constitution)? The church I belong to only has one constitution and that is
the word of God. We are under the New Covenant and every command it has. The Ten
Commandments are not the standard of the New Covenant, yet the moral and spiritual things
in them are bound in the New Testament.
Thanks again for your questions.
Leon