BORN AGAIN BELIEVERS WORSHIP EVERYDAY

For centuries, perhaps even a couple of millennia, there has been much debate over the Church worshipping on Sunday, instead of on the Sabbath.  I suspect that those who insist on worshipping on the Sabbath, first century Jewish converts to Christianity, many of the "Christian" cults, and today, the Hebrew Roots Movement, feel they are spiritually superior to the vast majority of Christendom, and that God has changed His mission for them from winning lost souls, to defending a doctrine that they believe pre-dated the Ten Commandments, having its beginning "in the beginning!:  the "seventh day of creation!"  After all, didn't God initiate Sabbath worship on the day "He rested from His work?"  Moses wrote in Genesis 2:1-3:

"Thus the heavens and the earth were finished, and all the host of them.  And on the seventh day God ended His work which He had made; and He rested on the seventh day from all His work which He had made.  And God blessed the seventh day, and sanctified it: because that in it He had rested from all His work which God created and made." 

Surprising to some, the answer is no.  Notice there is no reference to man worshipping God in the text.  He did "sanctify" it, that is, He set it apart as being holy, but again, there is no reference to worship.  And, prior to the Lord giving Moses the Ten Commandments, there is no reference to worshipping on the Sabbath.  And, if one reads the "fourth commandment," he will notice the idea of it being a day of worship is missing.  Exodus 20:8-11 says:

"Remember the Sabbath day, to keep it holy.  Six days shalt thou labour, and do all thy work:  but the seventh day is the Sabbath of the LORD thy God: in it thou shalt not do any work, thou, nor thy son, nor thy daughter, thy manservant, nor thy maidservant, nor thy cattle, nor thy stranger that is within thy gates:  for in six days the LORD made heaven and earth, the sea, and all that in them is, and rested the seventh day: wherefore the LORD blessed the Sabbath day, and hallowed it." 

In other words, by "hollowing it," God was declaring it as being unique from the other six days, in that, it is to be a day of rest.  It is for rest to the benefit of man; Jesus stated this very clearly:  "And He said unto them, The Sabbath was made for man, and not man for the Sabbath."  Should one read the Bible from cover to cover, he will find that worship occurs on all the days of the week, not just on the seventh, or Sabbath day.  Isaiah 66:23 says:  "And it shall come to pass, that from one new moon to another, and from one Sabbath to another, shall all flesh come to worship before Me, saith the LORD."  I don't believe God meant we were only to worship on "new moons" or Sabbaths - it is my view that we are to worship continually - daily, from one to another!

Ironically, the "birthday of the Church" fell on the feast of Pentecost, the FIRST DAY of the week (Acts 2:1-47)!  The Apostle Paul warned against setting up religious days in Colossians 2:16-17:  "Let no man therefore judge you in meat, or in drink, or in respect of an holy day, or of the new moon, or of the Sabbath days:  which are a shadow of things to come; but the body is of Christ."