W. Robert Godfrey

I would say perhaps it's a little like the matter of infant baptism.

The New Testament does not say in any single verse, baptize infants, nor does it say in any verse, do not baptize infants, and so we have to look at the totality of the revelation of the Bible to try to answer that question.

And I think it's somewhat similar when we come to the relationship of Sunday to the Sabbath.

We have to take the pieces, since there's no one verse that tells us exactly how to think about these things, we have to take the pieces and put them together.

And the first piece I want us to think about that I think is very important is Revelation chapter 1 verse 10.

I think this is such a crucial verse and is not often sufficiently talked about and thought about.

And there we read that John was in the Spirit on the Lord's day.

John was in the Spirit on the Lord's day.

Now, being in the Spirit, if we compare that with Revelation 4, verse 2, for example, it's pretty clear he's worshiping.

That's what's going on.

Now, I don't think we want to try to make an argument from the New Testament that Christians can only worship on the Sabbath day or on the Lord's day.

We can worship other days.

So, the fact that John's worshiping by itself doesn't prove anything about the day, but it says he's in the Spirit on the Lord's day.

Now, that formulation in Greek is quite distinctive.

It's actually an adjectival form.

So if we wanted to try to capture that in English, we'd have to say, he was in the spirit on the dominical day.

In other words, he doesn't say he was in the spirit on the day of the Lord, that phrase we often hear in the prophets of the Old Testament, that eschatological day.

But he's in the Spirit on the Lord's Day, on the Domenical Day, and that adjective, kyriakos, that adjective is only used one other place in the New Testament.

And that's in 1 Corinthians 11, where Paul writes about the Lord's Supper.

Now, that's very important, because you have ordinary suppers,