W. Robert Godfrey

They knew they weren't supposed to have idols.

They were only told that occasionally, but they knew that.

I think that's sort of what's going on here, too.

We're meeting every day on the Lord's Day.

We're worshiping on the Lord's Day.

We're fellowshipping with the Lord on the Lord's Day.

How often do we need to say that?

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.