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The following was condenesed from a book by Jimmy Swaggart entitled Straight Answers to Tough Questions.
No!
First of all, the Christian should understand that Sunday is not the Sabbath. Saturday is the Sabbath. Second, the old Jewish Sabbath was a day of rest and not necessarily of worship as it regarded the Lord. The people were supposed to rest on this day, and even the animals were supposed to rest on this particular day. The Fourth Commandment stated:
“Six days you shall labor, and do all your work:
“But the seventh Day is the Sabbath of the Lord your God: in it you shall not do any work, you, nor your son, nor your daughter, your man servant, nor your maidservant, nor your cattle, nor your stranger that is within your gates:
“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” (Ex. 20:8-11).
The Sabbath, and in fact, every single thing that pertained to the Law, and in every capacity, spoke of Christ in some manner, whether in His Intercessory Work, His Atoning Work, or His Meditorial Work. In fact, the Jewish Sabbath was one of the greatest types of all, in that it symbolized the “rest” that would be incumbent in Christ. That’s what Jesus was talking about when He said:
“Come unto Me (is meant by Jesus to reveal Himself as the Giver of Salvation), all you who labor and are heavy laden (trying to earn Salvation by works), and I will give you rest (this “rest” can only be found by placing one’s Faith in Christ and what He has done for us at the Cross [Gal. 5:1-6]).
“Take My yoke upon you (the “yoke” of the “Cross” [Lk. 9:23]), and learn of Me (learn of His Sacrifice [Rom. 6:3-5]); for I am meek and lowly in heart (the only thing that our Lord Personally said of Himself): and ye shall find rest unto your souls (the soul can find rest only in the Cross).
“For My yoke is easy, and My burden is light (what He requires of us is very little, just to have Faith in Him, and His Sacrificial Atoning work)” (Mat. 11:28-30).
In the Law of Moses, everything was “doing,” “doing,” “doing!” In Christ, it is “believing,” “believing,” “believing,” and because Christ has already done all the work so to speak. That is what the Sabbath was supposed to represent, the “rest” that would come in Christ.
