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The Da Vinci Code – Part Two
“Does The Lord Have A Day?”

The Da Vinci Code will be my subject for the next several sermons and I want you to understand why. When you sell over 45,000,000 copies of a book; when people all around you start saying, “Well, maybe Jesus was married to Mary Magdalene,” or “How do we know we can really count on the Bible?” “How do we really know the Old Testament is accurate?”—when they start saying things like that, then you know book is having an impact on people.

There are worldly people in various communities that are really against the Christian community in many ways. They are very happy to see any kind of evidence to suggest that the Bible is untrue or reliable, or that it is an old and outdated book.

Few subjects have been so hotly debated in Christian history as that of the change in the day of rest and worship from Saturday to Sunday, which is ironic because the Sabbath, according to Genesis 1-2 and John 1, was about resting in the finished work of Jesus Christ. But the Sabbath itself has received no rest! And with the first national annual Ten Commandments Day that was organized by evangelicals across the nation celebrated on May 7, 2006, a Sunday as honoring the Ten Commandments somehow, it won’t be getting rest anytime soon. They are going to keep keeping a day that God never commanded to be kept, and they’re going to keep neglecting to have a Sabbath rest on the day that God did command to be kept. In fact, more has been written about the Sabbath than all nine of the other 10 commandments put together. Long story short: there are two major views today regarding the historical origins of the Lord’s Day Sabbath.

Dan Brown in his novel The Da Vinci Code refers to the first one. On pages 232-233 he writes . . .

“Christianity honored the Jewish Sabbath on Saturday, but Constantine shifted it to coincide with the pagan’s veneration day of the sun. To this day, most churchgoers attend services on Sunday morning with no idea that they are there on account of the pagan sun god’s weekly tribute—Sunday.”

According to this traditional view, which has been held by the Catholic Church and accepted by the vast majority of Protestant churches to this day, the Sabbath was a temporary Mosaic institution given to the Jews, annulled by Christ, and unlike the other 9 commandments, no longer binding (according to them) today. This position says Christians adopted Sunday observance, not as the continuation of the biblical Sabbath, but as a new institution established by the Catholic Church to celebrate Christ’s resurrection by means of the New Covenant Lord’s Supper celebration [Communion]. Thomas Aquinas (AD 1225-1274) – whom my mother named me after; he is my patron saint, and I am named after Sir Thomas Aquinas – was regarded as one of the greatest Catholic theologians who ever lived explicitly states: “The observance of the Lord’s Day took the place of the observance of the Sabbath not by virtue of the [Biblical] precept but by the institution of the church.”

That’s why for centuries Catholic catechisms have contained statements like this: “We observe Sunday rather than Saturday because the Catholic Church by virtue of her authority has transferred the solemnity of the Sabbath to Sunday.”

Recently, however, there have been both Catholic and Protestant scholars who have argued for an apostolic origin of Sunday observance. According to these scholars, the Apostles themselves chose the first day of the week as the new Christian Sabbath at the very beginning of Christianity in order to commemorate Christ’s resurrection.

This view was defended at great length by Pope John Paul II in his Pastoral Letter, Dies Domini (The Lord’s Day), which was released on May 31, 1998. In this 54-page document (I’ve got a copy in English if you want to read it sometime), the (now deceased) Pope makes a passionate plea for a revival of Sunday observance by appealing to the moral imperative of the Sabbath commandment.

For the Pope, Sunday is to be observed not merely as an institution established by the Catholic Church but as a moral imperative of the Ten Commandments. The reason is that Sunday allegedly originated as the embodiment and “full expression” of the Sabbath and consequently should be observed as the biblical Sabbath according to him. The Ten Commandments are his reason.

Now you notice how before they used to say there is no Biblical basis for Sunday. The Catholic Church says to keep Sunday, and the whole world bows down, but now they’re saying the Biblical basis is now the Ten Commandments and everything in the Bible that applied to Sabbath should now be applied to Sunday, and this is the change that was made by this pope.

Significantly, John Paul departs from Thomas Aquinas and the traditional Catholic position presumably because he wishes to challenge Christians to respect Sunday not merely as an institution of the Catholic Church as they had previously commanded but as a divine command. Furthermore, especially interesting to Seventh-day Adventists with a keen interest in the prophecies of Revelation 13, by rooting Sunday keeping in the Sabbath commandment, the Pope offers the strongest moral reasons yet for urging all Christians . . .

“to ensure that civil legislation respects their duty to keep Sunday holy.”

So the papacy is now urging people to make sure that the civil laws of the world state where they live has Sunday laws in their legislation. And that is a change. Not long before 1998, many sincere pastors of Protestant churches have been saying the same thing. Namely, that the Lord’s Day is Sunday not Saturday and that the apostles kept the Sabbath on Sunday in honor of the resurrection long before Constantine.

In short, people are wondering: Does the Lord have a day?

To answer this question, one of my professors at Andrews University, Dr. Samuele Bacchiocchi, spent five years at the Pontifical Gregorian University in Rome, examining the writings of the Old and New Testaments and the earliest extra Biblical Christian documents for his doctoral dissertation. In Rome’s vaults are the oldest documents and only by permission of the pope can one go in and study them. The results of his investigations have been published in his dissertation called From Sabbath to Sunday: A Historical Investigation of the Rise of Sunday Observance in Early Christianity.

The dissertation was published in 1977 by the Pontifical Gregorian University in Rome, Italy, with the official Catholic seal of approval. Pope Paul VI even awarded Dr. Bacchiocchi a gold medal for earning the summa cum laude distinction for his research—which not only tells you that he did a good job, but more importantly that the Catholics initially agreed with what Sam wrote! That’s important. Since then the Vatican has banned his book and when the pope came out with his encyclical on Sabbath observance, much of what he wrote mirrored what Bacchiocchi wrote in his book. And I go so far as to say he plagiarized much of what Dr. Bacchiocchi had written. So the Vatican banned his book, used it for their own purposes, and removed it from circulation, but you can still purchase it by contacting Dr. Bacchiocchi directly or going to his website at www.biblicalperspectives.com, which is pretty amazing when you think about it—that Catholics would endorse an Adventist Protestant’s view of the history of the Sabbath. But they did.

What we are going to do today is try to answer three questions:

Number one: Does the Lord have a day?

Number two: Which day is The Lord’s day?

Number three: Is there any archaeological or historical proof of that day (Saturday or Sunday) being The Lord’s Day; that you don’t need faith or a belief in the Bible to confirm?

This last question is important because there are many folks who doubt the credibility and authenticity of the Scriptures. When Gnostic gospels like the Gospel of Judas get re-released the week before Easter by National Geographic, as was done this year, people naturally wonder why they should believe Matthew, Mark, Luke, or John at all.

So, for the next two presentations after today, we’re going to investigate the authenticity of the Old Testament and the credibility of the New Testament. Now all you need is a little common sense, not necessarily faith, to believe what Bible says is true. Let’s begin by seeing what the Bible writers say about the Lord’s Day.

Does the Lord have a day?

John was on the island of Patmos, which is kind of a dreary place. In Revelation 1:10 (NKJV) the aging apostle John, writing near the end of the first century in 96 AD says, “I was in the Spirit on the Lord’s Day.” He goes on to describe a heavenly vision that must have been so encouraging to him on this solitary island. No doubt about it. Before the first century AD was over, there was complete agreement that the Lord does indeed have a day.

John records that God gave him a vision on the Lord’s Day. The question is what day is it? Without reading every single verse in the Bible that mentions the Sabbath or the first day of the week, let me give you just two or three texts you might actually remember when you’re talking about The Da Vinci Code with others that help reveal which day Jesus Himself said was the Lord’s Day. We mentioned the first. Revelation 1:10. Jesus gave John that vision and told him what to write. The second is in Mark 2:27, 28. These are the exact words of Jesus. “And He said to them, ‘The Sabbath was made for man, and not man for the Sabbath. Therefore the Son of Man is also Lord of the Sabbath.’” So the Sabbath is the only day that Jesus ever claimed to be Lord of.

So the Lord has a Day (Revelation 1:10). And Jesus says that day is the Sabbath (Mark 2:27-28). Isaiah 58:13-14 also uses the words Sabbath and the Lord’s Day interchangeably. This indicates that what Jesus was saying about the Sabbath and what the Gospel writers were recording about the Sabbath in the middle to late first century AD was the same understanding that the prophet Isaiah had when he wrote hundreds of years before Jesus was even born! Namely, that the Lord’s Day is the Sabbath. It reads, “If you turn away your foot from the Sabbath, from doing your pleasure on My holy day, and call the Sabbath a delight, the holy day of the LORD…”

Notice it doesn’t say of the Jews. It doesn’t say only of Moses and his people. It says that it is the Sabbath, “…the holy day of the LORD honorable, and shall honor Him, not doing your own ways, nor finding your own pleasure, nor speaking your own words, then you shall delight yourself in the LORD.” So Isaiah calls Sabbath the Lord’s Day also.

Which day is The Lord’s Day?

So if the Lord has a day, and that day has always been Sabbath, which day is the Sabbath day? I suppose if you’re skeptical, you could ask NASA. There is a letter from the Naval Observatory that tells you that the weekly cycle has never been broken and that the same Sabbath you keep today is the same one Jesus kept and that Moses kept. But we could also learn it in a very simple way simply by speaking a different language.

In every language just about on the face of the earth, the word for “Saturday” is known as the “Sabbath” or “Sabbath Day.” We have the Roman names for days in our culture but in Spanish, it’s Feliz Sábado: “Happy Sabbath.” In Polish: “Sabuto.” In Italian: “Sabbato.”

And in every other language almost, the Sabbath means ‘Sabbath rest,’ and it is very easy to understand that Saturday, the seventh day, is the biblical Sabbath. But you can also learn it from Exodus 20:10, beginning in verse 8 says, “Remember the Sabbath day, to keep it holy. Six days you shall labor and do all your work, but the seventh day is the Sabbath of the LORD your God.”

Why, you may ask, did God choose to the seventh day to be the Lord’s Sabbath Day? The rest of the commandment actually tells you. “For in six days the LORD made the heavens and the earth, the sea, and all that is in them, and rested the seventh day. Therefore the LORD blessed the Sabbath day and hallowed it.”

Loron Wade, in his book, The Ten Commandments: What If We Did It God’s Way? Writes on page 46-47 referring to this Creation account in Genesis he says . . .

“Seven times this brief passage reminds us that Creation was a finished work. This means that God ‘rested’—that is, He ceased and stopped what He was doing, because He had completed His divine task. The observance of the Sabbath was from the beginning, is now, and always will be a celebration of God’s work and not ours.”

So do you see why Isaiah, Jesus, Mark, and John called the seventh day Sabbath the Lord’s Day? Long before Father Abraham had many sons, long before the Jewish nation even existed, and long before the calendars experienced their minor technical difficulties with the cumulative effects of the extra quarter rotation of the earth around the sun each year, the weekly cycle of days remained unaltered. You don’t even have to be Christian to recognize that! Just “Google” the origins of the weekly 7-day cycle and you’ll get plenty of information that will confirm what I’m saying.

The bottom line is that the seventh day has always been God’s special day. That is why it’s called “sanctified” and “hallowed.” That’s what sanctified, hallowed, and holy mean: special and it remains the Lord’s Day in the same way my wedding took place on June 7 and remains our special anniversary. If I forget my wedding anniversary, which hasn’t happened yet (knock on wood), Debbie would be sure to let me know about it right? This one coming up will be 25 years for us! That’s a really big deal! We are going to Hawaii to celebrate it. But what if I forgot the date of my wedding anniversary and arbitrarily decided I think I’ll celebrate my wedding anniversary on my birthday June 25th. It’ll be so much more convenient for me to remember it that way.

Could I do that? Wives, would you let your husbands do that? Would you let him just pick any day that he felt like to remember your anniversary? How about your birthday? What if he just decided to make it April Fools Day instead? Of course not! You wouldn’t want him to do that! And it’s the same way with the Lord’s Day. It’s the same way with the Sabbath. If you get your concordance out and read every single verse that has to do with the Sabbath or the first day of the week, you will see that not one verse, not one of them, changes the day from Saturday to Sunday. We have specific commands in the Bible for baptism, for the Lord’s Supper, and God even gives us specific commands about foot washing, but not one commandment anywhere in the Bible about Sunday observance. Biblically, it’s not there.

Simply stated, the change of the Sabbath from Saturday to Sunday did not come about in the first century, at the very beginning of Christianity. It is not Biblical. It is not based on the Bible, and therefore we must reject it as Christians today. I’d like to thank my fellow pastor Mike Fortune from the Wooster, Ohio (SDA) Church who has done a lot of research on the first and second century and he was kind enough to share that research with me. I’m going to share with you some things that are important for you to understand.

Equally surprising, especially to Dan Brown and to some of you I’m sure (who are) Seventh-day Adventists, is that the Lord’s Day and its supposed change from Sabbath to Sunday did not come about because of Constantine in the fourth century. Sometimes evangelists have actually preached that. But contrary to popular opinion, he (Constantine) did not introduce Sunday observance. He simply made the Day of the Sun a civil holiday by making the famous Sunday Law in 321 AD.

The reason Constantine made Sunday a civil holiday is because by that time the Day of the Sun had already become popular both among the pagans and Christians. This is indicated by the very wording of the legislation: “On the venerable Day of the Sun.” It is evident that at that time the Day of the Sun was already “venerable,” that is, popular, respected and observed. Constantine was a new convert to the church and I can tell you this right now he would not have done that except at the urging of the Christian leaders of his day. They were already keeping and honoring Sunday as a holy day.

So if the change occurred after the first century AD and before the fourth century, common sense would say there has to be some extra biblical proof. And there is. And that is what we want to spend some of our time on today.

Archaeological / Historical Proof?

There are at least four historically documented reasons for the change of the Lord’s Day from Saturday to Sunday all pointing toward the century after Christ’s death during the reign of the Roman Emperor Hadrian—not Constantine. Now this is new probably to many of you who have been Adventists for years and heard the traditional Adventist teachings about the third century and assuming that Sunday keeping had not come into play until the third century. There is evidence that it did come into play as early as 135 AD. Please note: The Lord’s Day, Sabbath, was supposedly changed to Sunday around 135 AD as a result of political, social, pagan, and religious factors. Constantine merely put the “icing on the cake.”


Publius Aelius Hadrianus
(AD 76 - AD 138)

First, let’s note that the most decisive political factor which influenced the change of the day of worship from Sabbath to Sunday is the anti-Jewish, anti-Sabbath legislation promulgated by the Emperor Hadrian in 135 AD. Hadrian went as far as to outlaw the practice of Jewish religion in general and of Sabbath keeping in particular.

This repressive anti-Jewish legislation was promulgated by Hadrian after three years of bloody fighting from 132 to 135 AD to crush the Jewish revolt, and his Roman legions suffered many casualties. When the Emperor finally captured Jerusalem, he decided to deal with the Jewish problem in a radical way. He slaughtered thousands of Jews, and took thousands of them as slaves to Rome. He made Jerusalem into a Roman colony. He forbade Jews and Jewish Christians from ever entering the city. More important still for our investigation, Hadrian outlawed the practice of the Jewish religion in general and he outlawed Sabbath keeping in particular throughout the empire. You can read all about that in an article by Dr. Bacchiocchi in the journal called the Biblical Archaeology Review.


Social Reasons

The second reason the Lord’s Day, Saturday, was changed to Sunday was for social reasons. I tell my family that “Sabbath kept right is a Sabbath that’s a delight.” Pope Sylvester wanted to take out the delight. He tried to transform Sabbath observance from a day of feasting and joy into a day of fasting and sadness. As emphatically stated in the papal decretal of Pope Sylvester (AD 314-335), the Sabbath fasting was designed to show “contempt for the Jews” (exsecratione Judaeorum) and for their Sabbath “feasting” (destructione ciborum). You see in Judaism, the Sabbath is the day when you have a feast. The Sabbath is the day when you have special desserts. The Sabbath is the day when you indulge in joy and happiness. The Sabbath is a day that is a festival. It is not a doom and gloom day of self-denial which some try to make it.

One third century document, even before Pope Sylvester’s, was known as The Teachings of the Apostles (Didascalia Apostolorum – around 250 A.D.) encourages Christians to fast on Easter-Friday and Easter-Saturday . . .

“on account of the disobedience of our brethren [i.e., the Jews]...because thereon the people killed themselves in crucifying our Savior.”

The sadness and hunger resulting from the fast would enable Christians to avoid “appearing to observe the Sabbath with the Jews” and would encourage them to enter more eagerly and joyfully into the observance of Sunday.

So, basically, they thought that they would make Sabbath such a day of doom and gloom that nobody would want to keep it. And there are some folks still today who take the delight out of Sabbath. Instead of making it a special feast day of joy, they want to make it a sad fasting day.

Dr. Bacchiocchi used to say in his class “If ever there was a day for pizza and lasagna, it is Sabbath! Momma mia!” Now I say, “If ever there was a day for ice cream and cake at potluck it is Sabbath!” You should have all kinds of special treats, traditions, and routines that you do on that day instead of any other. There used to be a special Sabbath cake that some families have had, special desserts that they would have on that day. And if you want to watch your waistline and walk the line all the other days, but on the Sabbath, you should be able to have a special treat.

In Isaiah 58 it says, “If you will call the sabbath a delight…” If you or your kids are not looking forward to the Sabbath – and many Seventh-day Adventist kids have told me, “Pastor, on the Sabbath, my parents come home, they eat a huge meal. Then they go in their bedroom or on the couch; then they fall asleep, and we sit around all day long bored out of our minds.” Now if the kids don’t look forward to Sabbath, you’re keeping it wrong. It is a special day, but that doesn’t mean boring! Some of us are too holy to be happy! Whatever your age make Sabbath a delight! Don Pate has a great book called 52 Sabbath Activities for Teens to help make it a delight if you’re interested.
So Dan Brown is wrong about the Sabbath being only for the Jews. The Bible clearly says it originates with God in Creation. But Dan Brown actually is right when he says, “most churchgoers attend services on Sunday morning with no idea that they are there on account of the pagan sun god’s weekly tribute—Sunday.”

Pagan Factors

A third reason the Lord’s Day Sabbath was changed to Sunday beginning in 135 AD was a result of pagan factors. Think about it. Why did Christians not adopt another day such as Friday, to commemorate the Lord dying on Calvary and his atoning sacrifice for our redemption? The answer is, we already alluded to in the language of Constantine and what he used to describe his Sunday law in 321 AD, it is because Sunday was already venerable!

History confirms that initially the Romans made Dies Saturni (the day of Saturn) the first day of the week, followed by Dies Solis (Day of the Sun), which was the second day. The reason is that during the first century the Saturn god was viewed as being more important than the Sun god. Consequently, the Day of Saturn was made the first and most important day of the week. The situation changed by the beginning of the second century, when the Sun god became the most important Roman god. The popularity of the Sun god caused the advancement of the Day of the Sun (Sunday) from the position of second day of the week to that of first and most important day of the week. This required each of the other days to be advanced one day, and Saturn’s day thereby became the seventh day of the week for the Romans, as it had been for the Jews and Christians. This development influenced Christians with a pagan background to adopt and adapt the sun’s day for their Christian worship in order to show separation from the Jews and identification with the Romans at the time when Sabbath keeping was prohibited by Roman law.



Religious Factors

The fourth and final reason the Lord’s Day Sabbath was supposedly changed to Sunday beginning in 135 AD was a result of religious factors.

If Constantine merely put the “icing on the cake,” Hadrian started baking that cake about 135 AD when he outlawed Sabbath keeping. Early Christian writers picked up on the anti-Jewish contempt and within this septic religious environment, we find documents describing the first Sunday observance in the writings of Barnabas as early as 135 AD. In addition to Barnabas in 135 AD, Sunday references can be found in the writings of Justin Martyr about 150 AD. Justin Martyr was a leader of the Church of Rome who wrote Dialogue with Trypho. In that document, he writes the observance of the Sabbath was a temporary Mosaic ordinance, which God imposed exclusively on the Jews as:

“a mark to single them out for punishment they so well deserve for their infidelities.”

Can you imagine Justin Martyr in 150 AD saying the Sabbath was actually a curse a mark of Cain that God used to single out the Jews so he could punish them! This was unfair since Romans 3:23 states that we all fall and continue to fall short of the glory of God. And because Romans 6:23 says the wages of sin is death. Jesus died for all our sins not just for the Jews. But acknowledging the existence of these extra biblical documents early in the second century describing Sunday worship in no way undermines the validity and continuation of the Lord’s seventh-day Sabbath. Why not? Because it only goes to show that the Devil understands the importance of Sabbath observance in the religious life of God’s people! After all, Sabbath keeping in Scripture was always equated with faithfulness to God, and Sabbath abandonment with apostasy. Through the prophet Ezekiel, God laments in chapter 20 verse 13: “Yet the house of Israel rebelled against me. They greatly defiled My Sabbaths.”

In view of the vital importance that the Sabbath plays in the religious experience of God's people, it would have been surprising if the Evil One had not tampered with the Sabbath as early as the second century AD.

But the good news is faithful Christians have been worshiping on the Lord’s Sabbath Day for thousands of years. Acts 15:21 and Acts 21:20 describe a zeal for the law in the new Christian believers in Jerusalem around 50 AD, which would be expected less than 20 years after Jesus’ death. But what’s not expected were the testimonies in documents written by Eusebius and Epiphanius, fourth century historians, who wrote that the Jerusalem Church after 70 AD and until Hadrian’s siege of Jerusalem in 135 AD was composed of and administered by Jewish converts whom they characterize as “zealous to insist on the literal observance of the (God’s) Law.” Epiphanius says in his book,

“The continuity in the observance of the Sabbath among Palestinian Christians was preserved by a group of Christian believers known as Nazarenes…”

Now I am certain very few of you as Seventh-day Adventists have ever heard of this before and this is very important information for you to have. The Nazarenes were “the very direct descendants of the primitive community” the Christian community from Jerusalem. And perhaps even some of them were Jesus’ brothers and sisters, and family from Nazareth. They had fled before the destruction of Jerusalem in 70 AD and they went 70 miles north to Pella where they “insisted and persisted” in the observance of seventh-day Sabbath keeping until his own time until about 350 AD. So these Nazarenes kept the seventh-day Sabbath, they were 70 miles north of Jerusalem, and they kept it until 350 AD; thus showing that God’s Sabbath day was preserved by his true people.
Another church historian, Sozomen, living around 440 writes that while . . .

“the people of Constantinople, and almost everywhere, assemble together on the Sabbath, as well as on the first day of the week, such custom is never observed at Rome and Alexandria.”

So in spite of the confusion, God preserved the Lord’s Day Sabbath through the Nazarenes, the Waldensian Christians in the Middle Ages, the Seventh-day Baptists during the Reformation, and through modern Christian believers—including Seventh-day Adventists.



So does the Lord have a day? Yes He does. It is the Sabbath, the Seventh-day of the week. Loron Wade is right. He says,

“In nearly every false religion, including false Christianity, worship is a matter of doing. Only in the Bible are we instructed to worship by leaving off our own doing, laying aside our effort and struggles, to cease our labor and rest in the serene confidence that the work on our behalf is all done” (Ibid. 48).

Adam had nothing to do with finishing creation. We have nothing to do with finishing our salvation either. That’s why Jesus cried out on the cross, “It is finished” (John 19:30). Jesus does it all by His grace. He saves and sanctifies us (Philippians 1:6; 2:13). Our job, as it was for Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden, is to abide in Christ, to maintain our relationship with Him, and to proclaim by faith His already finished work. The Sabbath helps us stay connected to Jesus. And it reminds us of His already finished work. And that is not fiction. The Da Vinci Code is fiction, but the Sabbath is based on the Word of God and it is reality.

Let us pray.

Our Father in heaven, we have asked the question: Does the Lord have a day? We got your answer loud and clear. The Sabbath is the seventh-day of the week. It is your sacred and holy day that you have set apart to be worshiped on. We come here today to worship you on that Sabbath and carry on this long Biblical tradition of Sabbath observance.

While our heads are bowed and our eyes are closed, if you perhaps have not worshiped on the Sabbath before, or you knew that the Sabbath was God’s day but you have not been keeping it; if you would like to say to God this morning, “I’m interested in your Sabbath day, God. I want to learn how keep it. I want to begin keeping your Sabbath in the right way from now on.” —Would you just raise your hand this morning?

Father in heaven, please write their names down in the book of remembrance. For those who are honestly keeping Sunday who didn’t know these facts; they’re just making a mistake and it’s an innocent one, but I pray that you will open their eyes. In John 7:17 it says if any man will do His will they shall know the doctrine. Please teach them the truthfulness of the Sabbath and give them courage and, through your Spirit, inspire them to begin to keep it. Thank you for giving us that day, Lord, as a symbol of your rest. Please help us to remember your Sabbath to keep it holy; to not accept the heresies of the day like The Da Vinci Code, to remember that you have commanded us to keep your Sabbath holy and to remember it even though the whole world and all the religious world forgets it. May we call the Sabbath a delight, make it a day of joy and may we honor your holy day is my prayer in Jesus name. Amen.

*Special thanks to Pastor Mike Fortune for sharing his research with me and giving me permission to use the information in this message.

 

Free Sermon by Pastor Tom Hughes

All Scriptural References: New King James Version

Transcription: Wendy J. Riebel

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