W. Robert Godfrey

That's what we are.

That's what we do.

That's who we are.

I think that's what's going on here, and so I think what the Reformed community saw in

That New Testament is precisely testimony to that being the calling on our lives.

Now, we're not restricted from worshiping other days, but we are called to worship on the Lord's Day by apostolic example.

And we are called to remember that this is a day that belongs to the Lord, not just an hour.

and that that reality that the day belongs to the Lord needs to shape our whole attitude towards it, our whole reflection on it.

Now, part of what I think has confused some people is Jesus' criticism of Pharisaical attitudes toward the Sabbath.

But he's not rejecting anything about the Sabbath taught in the Old Testament.

He's rejecting the Pharisaical abuse of the Sabbath.

The Pharisees had come to a point where they said, you can't do good on the Sabbath.

You can't love people on the Sabbath.

You can't help people on the Sabbath.

You can't heal people on the Sabbath.

You can't feed people on the Sabbath.

Jesus is saying that was never what the Sabbath was about.

The Sabbath is not about an endless list of do's and don'ts.

Rather, I think Jesus is resurrecting for us what the prophet Isaiah in Isaiah 58 talked about.

Call the Sabbath a delight.