And if the question means: Why do you do it on Sunday? Why do you Christians go to church on Sunday? The answer is that Christian worship has its roots in Judaism. It was born among Jews. And the Jewish Bible is the first part of the Christian Bible. And among the Jews it was said in the Ten Commandments, “Remember the Sabbath day, to keep it holy” (Exodus 20:8). And the Sabbath day was the seventh day, Saturday, not Sunday. And so there was a one-day-in-seven rhythm as the Jews gathered.
In the first century, when the Christian church was being born through the coming of Jesus, that was the custom, because we read in the book of Acts of Paul going in on the Sabbath day to the synagogues and joining with the Jews to preach Christ. And the reason Christians switched and began to worship on the first day of the week is because Jesus was raised from the dead on the first day of the week. And that came to be called the Lord’s Day (Revelation 1:10). And we read examples of the gathering on the Lord’s Day, or the first day, in Acts 20:7: they gathered “on the first day of the week.” And in 1 Corinthians 16:2 they were to come together and give their offerings on the first day of the week. So, that is why we do it on Sunday. Jesus rose from the dead, created a new people for himself, and inaugurated a new humanity, a new creation with a new day of worship.
So let me sum it up like this: The reasons Christians go to church on Sunday is because we have been rescued from our sins, united with a risen, living Christ and with each other through faith in Jesus. And because of that union with Jesus and with each other, the Bible, God’s word, calls us to regular, weekly expressions of our corporate joy and thankfulness before God in worship — not just isolated Christian individuals scattered around but corporate gatherings praying and singing and hearing God’s word and celebrating the ordinances of Jesus.
Before I address your false Sunday worship, created by the Roman Catholic Church, not the apostles.
So answered me this question. If the Apostles were following the teaching of Jesus Christ, about three years, why did they broke their costumes without any authority of Jesus Christ? Where in the Bible can I read the apostles going on the 1st day of the week, and worship God?
Search for me, today on which day the Jews are going to worship God?
Most Christians traditionally worship on Sunday. Sunday worship is partly attributed to Sabbatarianism, the view that one day of the week should be reserved for religious observance and worship, as required by Old Testament laws regarding the Sabbath (Exodus 20:8, 31:12–18). In this view, man is to abstain from all labor except that which is necessary for the welfare of family and society. This interpretation of the law contends that only on the literal Sabbath, the seventh day of the week (Saturday), can the requirements of the law be met.
Semi-Sabbatarianism followers, as early as the fourth century AD, believed essentially as the Sabbatarians did, with the exception that they transferred its demands from Saturday to Sunday, the first day of the week (the day on which Christ arose from the dead). Theologians of that period, particularly in the Eastern Church, were teaching the practical identity of the Jewish Sabbath (Saturday) and the Christian Sunday.
Interestingly, a legend recounted in the so-called Apocalypse of Peter, which dates back to the 2nd century AD and is generally accepted as a false writing, transfers to Sunday all of the requirements of Sabbath worship. A man named Albertus Magnus added momentum to this growing movement by suggesting semi-Sabbatarianism be divided into two parts: the moral command to observe a day of rest after laboring the previous six days, and the ceremonial symbol that applied only to the Jews in a literal sense. Thomas Aquinas elevated this proposal to the status of official Roman Catholic doctrine, which in time also gained favor with many Reformed theologians.
Scripture never mentions any Sabbath (Saturday) gatherings by believers for fellowship or worship. However, there are clear passages that mention the first day of the week, Sunday. For instance, Acts 20:7 states that “on the first day of the week we came together to break bread.” Paul also urges the Corinthian believers, “On the first day of every week, each one of you should set aside a sum of money in keeping with his income” (1 Corinthians 16:2). Since Paul designates this offering as “service” in 2 Corinthians 9:12, this collection may have been linked with the Sunday worship service of the Christian assembly. Historically, Sunday, not Saturday, was the normal meeting day for Christians in the church, and its practice dates back to the first century.
Christians worship on Sundays in celebration of the resurrection of Jesus Christ. It is very important to remember, though, Sunday worship is not commanded in the Bible, and Sunday has not replaced Saturday and become the Christian Sabbath. While the New Testament describes Christians gathering and worshiping on Sundays, it nowhere states that Sunday has replaced Saturday as the Sabbath. The key point in all of this is that we are not to limit our worship to any particular day of the week. We are to rest in the Lord every day. We are to worship the Lord every day.
Pipiripi says: “Before I address your false Sunday worship, created by the Roman Catholic Church, not the apostles.”
LittleDavid says: HP, let me help. Acts, Revelation and the rest of the New Testament were written LONG before the Roman Catholic Church was started. You no only need to reject SDA’s false teachings but their false history as well.
Pipiripi asks: “So answered me this question. If the Apostles were following the teaching of Jesus Christ, about three years, why did they broke their costumes without any authority of Jesus Christ? Where in the Bible can I read the apostles going on the 1st day of the week, and worship God?”
LittleDavid answers: HP, again let me help you. Not only is your biblical chronology outa sinc but so is you biblical knowledge. First of all, the Apostle John wrote the Book of Revelation which includes the verse about Sunday worship quoted in the thread above. Luke wrote the Book of Acts of the Apostles which also includes the other verse about Sunday worship as quoted above also in the above thread.
Pipiripi says: “Search for me, today on which day the Jews are going to worship God?”
LittleDavid says: let me help. Many of the first Christians were Jews and began to worship on the First Day of the week‼️ Rebel Jews, who had Jesus crucified, continued to worship of the sabbath.
Any other questions, feel free to ask. Let’s see if we can rescue you from the SDA‼️‼️
THE LYING WORD TWISTING TINYDAVID is at it again readers, for he says - let me help. Acts, Revelation and the rest of the New Testament were written LONG before the Roman Catholic Church was started' GEESH! REALLY BONE HEAD? GOSH,what would we do without him readers??? Pipiripi NEVER said it ORIGINATED with the >>>ROMAN<<< cathoholic 'church' you IDIOT because he made it CLEAR from a modern perspective and did not intend to spell it all out yet in his posts, when he put the FULL name of that CULT with ROMAN or ROME (got it now tinybraindavid?) that existed LONG BEFORE the RCC came about by the first POOP of constantine in about 300AD you slandering slime bag! So its RECREATED today in the ROMAN (get it goofy - its ROME!!! GEESH!) cathoholic so called 'church' in SUN worship, which is also a world POWER you 'blind guide' and NO OTHER 'church' has that kind of POWER then and even today and >>>all the world wonders after that beast<<< says John in Revelations'
So all you 'helped' with is your slandering of him because he was not finished yet explaining and your PUFFING yourself up by your claimed to be 'teacher of the forum' EGO laddy boy!
False teacher tinydavid states - 'Luke wrote the Book of Acts of the Apostles which also includes the other verse about Sunday worship'
YOUR A LIAR WICKEDDAVID, Luke says NOTHING ABOUT YOUR CULT INFESTED ROMAN PAPER CALENDAR ABOUT >>>SUNday<<< and the worship of your PAGAN 'god", BAAL you PAGAN FOOL!!!
POST THE SCRIPTURE YOU LIAR!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
YEAH THE TITLE of the thread 'REASONS THE EARLY MET ON SUNDAY' and the FACT is THEY DID NOT MEET for 'Church' in the sense of a TOTAL resting day but for travel, gathering money and supplies etc etc on the first day of the week..... But one thing is for sure THE REASONS WHY EARLY 'church' did decide to be their own 'gods' in new self made commandments of men was FOR NEW >>>TRADITIONS<<< and you know what the Bible has to say about >>>TRADITIONS<<< of sinful men and how in VAIN do they worship says Father YHWH! Right?
WELL said Pipiripi but you should know that the RCC just adopted the ROMAN 'calendar' from ROMAN Caesar that first instituted that CULT PAGAN 'calendar' (but not for REAL Jews/Christians/Messanics to observe then or today!) in about 45BC and before that was the 10 day market 'calendar' that most claiming to be 'christians' refuse to study history to know where these CULT teachings originated from!!! So it is today, STRANGELY, so called 'christians' obey ROME and keep a WORTHLESS PAPER 'calendar' invented originally by caesar ROME (hanging on their walls, on desks, phones LOL! ). claiming it for the worship APPOINTED (Genesis 1:14!) TIMES from >>>creation<<< of Father YHWH that never made a PAPER 'calendar' to be kept!
There is no Bible verse that says Messiah Yah'shua was raised from hell the grave on SUNday but ONLY the Biblical calendar says He was brought to life early on the first day of the BIBLICAL week, not on a ROMAN CULT PAGAN PAPER 'calendar' everyone observes today for claimed worship times oddly enough in all organized CRIME religions! Sooooo its ASSUMED today that SUNday is the first day of a BIBLICAL WEEK but nothing of SUNday >>>NOR<<< the keeping of the first day of the week is ever mentioned in the Bible as being kept for a replacement of the HOLY, BLESSED an SANCTIFIED 7th Sabbath Day because the first day of the week is THE START OF A NEW WORK WEEK, not a NEW RESTING DAY, as the 7th Day Sabbath is COMMANDED (not suggested!) to be THE TOTAL REST day and will always be so, said in Isaiah 66:23!
Isaiah 66:23 - ' 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 MASTER CREATOR.'
So obviously there is NO CHANGE! Why would there be, Father YHWH does not EVER change the Bible says, so when did He change His REAL CALENDER (He didn't!!!) written in the heavens above where EVEN satan cannot modify or change the motions of the sun, moon and stars!? Right?
Please not readers I said the SUN moves and the earth does NOT, the Bible clearly tells us so! Once again PAGAN sun worship goes way back and modern science and nasa is supporting it since the 50's and now with modern CGI pics of a >>>sun<<<centered so called 'solar system' and littledavid BUYS into it hook line and sinker as a part time evilutionist in 'orbiting planets' around a supposedly stationary sun!!! The cathoholic 'church first did not accept the 'copernican system' model but changed their minds later when they realized it was SUN centered because they are SUN WORSHIPPERS today obviously, THUS SUNday worship today authorized by them, adopted from ROME (get it? Thus the name RCC!?) and ALL THE WORLD WONDERS AFTER THE BEAST OF ROME, the RCC!!! YICKS!
Note how at one point mooncake says - the Messiah is the Sabbath Everyday we rest in Him Alone.' Obviously claiming in her own words 'we rest in Him' when we feel like it and then she says - 'Christians can worship on Sunday or any Day of the week Saturday, Friday, Thursday, Wednesday, Tuesday, Monday.' but she never says anything about resting on any of those days from our labors like the Bible does on ONE particular DAY - singular, for she says also MANKIND can decide what a >>>worship<<< day is yo rest on! That is a contradiction of Scripture and its direct commandments for every man to decide on his own what days to rest on and to set aside worship times! If this was true then in heaven everybody would decide what day they want to rest and worship on and make themselves 'LORD' over their own lives as self 'gods'! Right? (See above Isaiah given above AGAIN) so according to mooncakes there will many 'gods' in heaven, imagine the confusion!!???
You lack knowledge and need deliverance of your Self Pride!
You're a very foolish Man !
How is Jesus our Sabbath Rest?
The key to understanding how Jesus is our Sabbath rest is the Hebrew word sabat, which means "to rest or stop or cease from work." The origin of the Sabbath goes back to Creation. After creating the heavens and the earth in six days, God "rested on the seventh day from all His work which He had made" (Genesis 2:2). This doesn’t mean that God was tired and needed a rest. We know that God is omnipotent, literally "all-powerful." He has all the power in the universe, He never tires, and His most arduous expenditure of energy does not diminish His power one bit. So, what does it mean that God rested on the seventh day? Simply that He stopped what He was doing. He ceased from His labors. This is important in understanding the establishment of the Sabbath day and the role of Christ as our Sabbath rest.
God used the example of His resting on the seventh day of Creation to establish the principle of the Sabbath day rest for His people. In Exodus 20:8-11 and Deuteronomy 5:12-15, God gave the Israelites the fourth of His Ten Commandments. They were to "remember" the Sabbath day and "keep it holy." One day out of every seven, they were to rest from their labors and give the same day of rest to their servants and animals. This was not just a physical rest, but a cessation of laboring. Whatever work they were engaged in was to stop for a full day each week. (Please read our other articles on the Sabbath day, Saturday vs. Sunday and Sabbath keeping to explore this issue further.) The Sabbath day was established so the people would rest from their labors, only to begin again after a one-day rest.
The various elements of the Sabbath symbolized the coming of the Messiah, who would provide a permanent rest for His people. Once again the example of resting from our labors comes into play. With the establishment of the Old Testament Law, the Jews were constantly "laboring" to make themselves acceptable to God. Their labors included trying to obey a myriad of do’s and don’ts of the ceremonial law, the Temple law, the civil law, etc. Of course they couldn’t possibly keep all those laws, so God provided an array of sin offerings and sacrifices so they could come to Him for forgiveness and restore fellowship with Him, but only temporarily. Just as they began their physical labors after a one-day rest, so, too, did they have to continue to offer sacrifices. Hebrews 10:1 tells us that the law "can never, by the same sacrifices repeated endlessly year after year, make perfect those who draw near to worship." But these sacrifices were offered in anticipation of the ultimate sacrifice of Christ on the cross, who "after He had offered one sacrifice for sins forever, sat down on the right of God" (Hebrews 10:12). Just as He rested after performing the ultimate sacrifice, He sat down and rested—ceased from His labor of atonement because there was nothing more to be done, ever. Because of what He did, we no longer have to "labor" in law-keeping in order to be justified in the sight of God. Jesus was sent so that we might rest in God and in what He has provided.
Another element of the Sabbath day rest which God instituted as a foreshadowing of our complete rest in Christ is that He blessed it, sanctified it, and made it holy. Here again we see the symbol of Christ as our Sabbath rest—the holy, perfect Son of God who sanctifies and makes holy all who believe in Him. God sanctified Christ, just as He sanctified the Sabbath day, and sent Him into the world (John 10:36) to be our sacrifice for sin. In Him we find complete rest from the labors of our self-effort, because He alone is holy and righteous. "God made him who had no sin to be sin for us, so that in him we might become the righteousness of God" (2 Corinthians 5:21). We can now cease from our spiritual labors and rest in Him, not just one day a week, but always.
Jesus can be our Sabbath rest in part because He is "Lord of the Sabbath" (Matthew 12:8). As God incarnate, He decides the true meaning of the Sabbath because He created it, and He is our Sabbath rest in the flesh. When the Pharisees criticized Him for healing on the Sabbath, Jesus reminded them that even they, sinful as they were, would not hesitate to pull a sheep out of a pit on the Sabbath. Because He came to seek and save His sheep who would hear His voice (John 10:3,27) and enter into the Sabbath rest He provided by paying for their sins, He could break the Sabbath rules. He told the Pharisees that people are more important than sheep and the salvation He provided was more important than rules. By saying, "The Sabbath was made for man, not man for the Sabbath" (Mark 2:27), Jesus was restating the principle that the Sabbath rest was instituted to relieve man of his labors, just as He came to relieve us of our attempting to achieve salvation by our works. We no longer rest for only one day, but forever cease our laboring to attain God’s favor. Jesus is our rest from works now, just as He is the door to heaven, where we will rest in Him forever.
Hebrews 4 is the definitive passage regarding Jesus as our Sabbath rest. The writer to the Hebrews exhorts his readers to “enter in” to the Sabbath rest provided by Christ. After three chapters of telling them that Jesus is superior to the angels and that He is our Apostle and High Priest, he pleads with them to not harden their hearts against Him, as their fathers hardened their hearts against the Lord in the wilderness. Because of their unbelief, God denied that generation access to the holy land, saying, “They shall not enter into My rest” (Hebrews 3:11). In the same way, the writer to the Hebrews begs his readers not to make the same mistake by rejecting God’s Sabbath rest in Jesus Christ. “There remains, then, a Sabbath-rest for the people of God; for anyone who enters God’s rest also rests from his own work, just as God did from his. Let us, therefore, make every effort to enter that rest, so that no one will fall by following their example of disobedience” (Hebrews 4:9–11).
There is no other Sabbath rest besides Jesus. He alone satisfies the requirements of the Law, and He alone provides the sacrifice that atones for sin. He is God’s plan for us to cease from the labor of our own works. We dare not reject this one-and-only Way of salvation (John 14:6). God’s reaction to those who choose to reject His plan is seen in Numbers 15. A man was found gathering sticks on the Sabbath day, in spite of God’s plain commandment to cease from all labor on the Sabbath. This transgression was a known and willful sin, done with unblushing boldness in broad daylight, in open defiance of the divine authority. “Then the LORD said to Moses, ‘The man must die. The whole assembly must stone him outside the camp’” (verse 35). So it will be to all who reject God’s provision for our Sabbath rest in Christ. “How shall we escape if we neglect so great a salvation?” (Hebrews 2:3).