My christian childhood was in the presbyterian church and then there was a gap in my teens untill I came to a place where I asked God to show me and I would follow. There were a progression of churches as I moved around but I kept finding fault with some of the non biblical teaching that was being offered by the various ministers/pastors etc. I studied a great deal about and came to the conclusion that there was a difference between saturay and sunday and have kept the Biblical Sabbath ever since.
I have a communion service here on Sabbath morning after we listen to a sermon from this preacher
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My communion service lays out clearly as we worship WHY we hold to the Biblical Sabbath so it may be expedient to C&P the service. Why I speak about the bread ingredients is because of the difference between the various recipies that the churches use with most adopting a small crisp wafer of some sort but at the last supper it was the flat bread and so I make our offering bread as a small bun that is broken for the service. and it has leven for the reasons spoken of in the service.
Sabbath prayer and Blessing of Bread and Wine
Open with prayer
John 1
1 In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.
2 The same was in the beginning with God.
3 All things were made by him; and without him was not any thing made that was made.
Genesis 2
1 Thus the heavens and the earth were finished, and all the host of them.
2 And on the seventh day God ended his work which he had made; and he rested on the seventh day from all his work.
3 And God blessed the seventh day, and sanctified it: because that in it he had rested from all his work which God created and made.
Our Gracious Father has set this day of the week aside for us to gather together in His Presence and reinforced its importance for us with a reverence for it in the everlasting 10 Commandments as
Exodus chapter 20 tells us to
8 Remember the sabbath day, to keep it holy.
11 For
in six days the LORD made heaven and earth, the sea, and all that in them
is, and rested the seventh day: wherefore the LORD blessed the sabbath day, and hallowed it.
So from the first Sabbath day of Creation week, this day has been sanctified and set asside by God as the Holy day of rest and communion with him. As it has always been, so will it always be, on into the future when God will remake the heaven and earth after the end of days as we read in the Revelation of Jesus.
Revelation 21
1 And I saw a new heaven and a new earth: for the first heaven and the first earth were passed away; and there was no more sea.
Isiah 66 tells us,
22 For as the new heavens and the new earth, which I will make, shall remain before me, saith the LORD, so shall your seed and your name remain.
23 And it shall come to pass,
that from one new moon to another, and from one sabbath to another, shall all flesh come to worship before me, saith the LORD.
And further in the book of
Malachi 1
11 For from the rising of the sun even unto the going down of the same my name
shall be great among the Gentiles; and in every place incense
shall be offered unto my name, and a pure offering: for my name
shall be great among the heathen, saith the LORD of hosts.
And so on this Holy day we come to worship and to celebrate this pure offering of Jesus Christ’s redemptive sacrifice when He gave his body and blood for our sins that we may come before God clothed in Christ’s righteousness and are now adopted into his family as it tells us in
Galations 3
26 For ye are all the children of God by faith in Christ Jesus.
27 For as many of you as have been baptized into Christ have put on Christ.
28 There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither bond nor free, there is neither male nor female: for ye are all one in Christ Jesus.
29 And if ye
be Christ's, then are ye Abraham's seed, and heirs according to the promise.
When Jesus was teaching in various places during His ministry, he was often asked to clarify his teaching or a point of scripture as shown in
John 6
28 Then said they unto him, What shall we do, that we might work the works of God?
29 Jesus answered and said unto them, This is the work of God, that ye believe on him whom he hath sent.
Further to that we are told plainly in the book of
Acts 4
12 Neither is there salvation in any other: for there is none other name under heaven given among men, whereby we must be saved.
And in
John 1
12 But as many as received him, to them gave he power to become the sons of God,
even to them that believe on his name:
As we read in the book of Malachi, there would be a pure offering given, that the gentiles may be reconciled to God, and today we give thanks that we can celebrate Gods offering of His only son, with Christs body and blood represented by the bread and wine of this communion service as we remember that the Lord Jesus, the same night in which he was betrayed took bread
1 Corrinthians 11
24 And when he had given thanks, he brake
it, and said, Take, eat: this is my body, which is broken for you: this do in remembrance of me.
25 After the same manner also
he took the cup, when he had supped, saying, This cup is the new testament in my blood: this do ye, as oft as ye drink
it, in remembrance of me.
26 For as often as ye eat this bread, and drink this cup, ye do shew the Lord's death till he come.
And so this bread we share is special above all other bread as it reminds us that we are like the coarse grain that Christ will refine like pure flour.
The oil tells us of the Holy Spirit who is our comforter and teacher.
The water is like that which God made flow in the wilderness to sustain life.
The salt reminds us to be a flavour to all those arround us.
The milk and honey is in rememberence of the promise of abundance to Abraham.
The work of the yeast shows us how the sin that entered in at the garden has risen through all mankind and then that Christ Jesus, sacrificing himself unto death to redeem us from that sin, of himself rose to Glory from the sleep of death, as the firstfruits of the resurection to life everlasting that he holds for us who believe.
1Corinthians 10 tells us that
16 The cup of blessing which we bless, is it not the communion of the blood of Christ? The bread which we break, is it not the communion of the body of Christ?
And so we pray
Heavenly Father we are thankfull you have given us this Sanctified and Blessed day that we may come before you in Holy Communion with Christ Jesus.
We ask that you Bless those that do eat and drink in memory of your redeeming sacrifice for us.
We pray that our worship may be exceptable in your sight as our prayers rise with the incense, that your word would always be the guiding light of our life as we come to you at the foot of the cross that you bore for us.
Straighten our footsteps Lord and guard our faith as we wait upon your sure and certain return very soon, when your sovereignty will be established forever among all mankind.
We pray this in Jesus Holy Name.
Amen.
The facts are that the Sabbath day was kept by all christians untill Constantine made it a legal duty to observe the sunday worship in 321 AD. and it was the persecution of those who would not that bought about the early saying that when in Rome, do as the romans do but it quickly spread throughout the whole empire and as christianity spread sunday worship became entrenched but there is nowhere in scripture that shows there was or is a change. We each worship as our spiritual understanding urges us and we are all at our own individual place in our walk so I would offer a blessing to all those who would study this question.