Question: Dear Greg,

Let me ask you as plain as possible, if it does not matter which day of the week we worship, why is it wrong to keep the Sabbath? As for being a slave to the old covenant, what about being made a spiritual Jew, which is part of the new contract or covenant with Christ?

Thank you,

Sam

Answer: Dear Sam,

No one can change the Sabbath. The Sabbath is the Sabbath. The issue is whether there is a requirement, necessity or obligation to “keep” or avoid “breaking” the Sabbath? Answer: no, there is none. Jesus is our Sabbath. He is our Rest.

Next step: why then insist on Saturday when Sunday is the day of worship preferred by Christians for almost 2000 years? Answer: there is no need to insist on Saturday because it is not any kind of sign, it is not holy, etc. Christians are free to worship God on any day, but no day is holy intrinsically. God is holy. Jesus, Lord and Savior is holy—not days, months and seasons. So we are free to meet on any day, but we are not free to insist upon one that is “holy” and tell others that they must meet on this day or that they will be condemned. There is no Christian warrant for doing so.

“Spiritual” Jew? What passages tell us that? What passages tell us that Christians are not really Christians, but that they are “spiritual” Jews? Do you mean that “spiritual” Jews need to observe the Sabbath, Jewish Holy Days, dietary laws and the old covenant? Accepting Jesus Christ has nothing to do with becoming a “spiritual” Jew. Accepting Jesus Christ means becoming a child of God. It is all about grace not race. There is neither Jew nor Greek, bond nor free, male nor female. We are all one in Christ (Galatians 3:28). Jesus is our peace, he has destroyed the barrier between Gentile and Jew, breaking down the dividing wall of hostility, “abolishing in his flesh the law with its commandments and regulations” (Ephesians 2:15). This is the plain truth of the gospel.

In Christ,

Greg Albrecht