W. Robert Godfrey

So that's the first point I would like to make relative to this point, that the New Testament does teach a special day.

Well, what day could it be?

Well, the Seventh-day Adventist scholar that I read says, well, it's Saturday.

Well, in an abstract world, that's possible, but it seems to me that runs into trouble with Colossians 2, verse 16, as I just argued.

Some scholars have said, well, it's Easter.

Well, I suppose that's possible.

It doesn't solve the problem of there being a special day in the new covenant, nor does it solve the problem that Easter as a special holiday was really not celebrated widely in the church until later.

So does the New Testament itself give us any suggestion as to what day might be in mind?

And you'll be delighted to learn that it does.

It does point several times to the first day of the week.

Now, of course, it begins that by the references to the resurrection of our Lord on the first day of the week.

That's repeated several times in the New Testament, Matthew 28, 1, Mark 16, 2, Luke 24, 1, John 20, verse 1 and 19.

So all of the Gospels talk about the first day of the week as the day of the resurrection.

And then there are other indications in the New Testament of a church resurrection.

honoring that first day, meeting on that first day, doing something special on that first day.

We see that in John 20, verse 26, one week after the resurrection, the disciples meet with Jesus on the first day of the week.

Acts 2, verse 1, we read that the disciples were gathered on the upper room on the first day of the week.

We read that also in Acts 20, verse 7,

And there's the reference to taking the collection on the first day of the week in 1 Corinthians 16 verse 2.

Now, any one of those verses taken in isolation