Sabbatarian is defined as one who religiously and strictly keeps the Sabbath holy (defined as making separate or consecrating to the service of) as unto the Lord per the fourth commandment. There is no hard-and-fast rule as to what a Sabbath should be and Jesus is Lord of the Sabbath--it is His day. According to the law of Moses, breaking the Sabbath was a capital offense. Sabbath doesn't mean "seventh" but "rest." We owe our concept of a weekend to our Judeo-Christian heritage. Going to church every Sunday doesn't make you a Sabbatarian. Deciding that you need one day a week to rest is not being a Sabbatarian unless you keep it holy. Going to the ballgame or mowing your lawn on Sunday is not a violation for non-Sabbatarians.
My pastor has gone to games on Sunday. If you work on Sunday and you're taking another day off does not make you a Sabbatarian. Ministers, who work on Sunday often take Mondays off are by my definition not Sabbatarians. Taking a break is not necessarily keeping the day holy. Jews were forbidden from pursuing "pleasure" on the Sabbath (Isa. 58:13). The principle of "rest" is in effect still and God warns in Hebrews that Israel failed to enter into His rest.
The Sabbath day was given as a sign to Israel ( Neh. 9:14; Ezekiel 20:12,20). Christians are not to be judged as regards a Sabbath (Col. 2:16). The only one of the Ten Commandments or the Decalogue not repeated in the New Testament is the fourth about the Sabbath. The principle of rest still applies but "the Sabbath was made for man, not man for the Sabbath" (Mark 2:27). We owe our concept of the weekend to our Judeo-Christian heritage. Christians enter into His rest (Heb. 4:3). Rom. 14:5 makes it clear that we are to be convinced in our own mind and not to judge some who consider one day more sacred than another. To some, all days are equally holy.
Seventh-Day Adventists consider the Sabbath still in effect and insist that this implies that it should be Saturday which the Jews keep holy and that the earliest Christians actually didn't change the Sabbath from Saturday to Sunday or the Lord's Day as John calls it in Revelation. It is reported in Didache 14:1 that early Christians met on the Lord's day by the end of the first century A.D. We do have a day set aside to worship and gather together to break bread and collect offerings (Acts 20:7; 1 Cor. l6:2). This is circumstantial evidence and there is no command in the New Testament to observe the Lord's Day. In conclusion: you have the freedom to be a Sabbatarian or not one if you will, but not to judge others. Soli Deo Gloria!
My pastor has gone to games on Sunday. If you work on Sunday and you're taking another day off does not make you a Sabbatarian. Ministers, who work on Sunday often take Mondays off are by my definition not Sabbatarians. Taking a break is not necessarily keeping the day holy. Jews were forbidden from pursuing "pleasure" on the Sabbath (Isa. 58:13). The principle of "rest" is in effect still and God warns in Hebrews that Israel failed to enter into His rest.
The Sabbath day was given as a sign to Israel ( Neh. 9:14; Ezekiel 20:12,20). Christians are not to be judged as regards a Sabbath (Col. 2:16). The only one of the Ten Commandments or the Decalogue not repeated in the New Testament is the fourth about the Sabbath. The principle of rest still applies but "the Sabbath was made for man, not man for the Sabbath" (Mark 2:27). We owe our concept of the weekend to our Judeo-Christian heritage. Christians enter into His rest (Heb. 4:3). Rom. 14:5 makes it clear that we are to be convinced in our own mind and not to judge some who consider one day more sacred than another. To some, all days are equally holy.
Seventh-Day Adventists consider the Sabbath still in effect and insist that this implies that it should be Saturday which the Jews keep holy and that the earliest Christians actually didn't change the Sabbath from Saturday to Sunday or the Lord's Day as John calls it in Revelation. It is reported in Didache 14:1 that early Christians met on the Lord's day by the end of the first century A.D. We do have a day set aside to worship and gather together to break bread and collect offerings (Acts 20:7; 1 Cor. l6:2). This is circumstantial evidence and there is no command in the New Testament to observe the Lord's Day. In conclusion: you have the freedom to be a Sabbatarian or not one if you will, but not to judge others. Soli Deo Gloria!