The Seventh Day

^"Six days you shall labor and do all your work,  but the seventh day is a sabbath to the Lord your God. On it you shall not do any work, neither you, nor your son or daughter, nor your male or female servant, nor your animals, nor any foreigner residing in your towns.  For in six days the Lord made the heavens and the earth, the sea, and all that is in them, but he rested on the seventh day. Therefore the Lord blessed the Sabbath day and made it holy." — Exodus 20:9-11

I used to think that doing business on the Lord's Day was okay.  The day wasn't important, only that you try to take a day off to honor the Lord and recharge your batteries.  What I didn't realize then, was that the recharging facility was the church and the juice was corporate worship.  Try finding a worship service on Monday or Tuesday.

I also used to think that "Sabbath Laws" were state mechanisms for kowtowing the people into state submission.  Although I still believe that, I do believe that Christians should abstain from buying or selling on Sunday.

The reason that Christians should "keep the Sabbath" — and "Sabbath" means rest, not seventh
— is that it is required for healthy living.  Most Christians have corporate worship services on Sunday.  Corporate worship is vital to spiritual health.  Buying on the Lord's Day encourages commerce on the Lord's Day.  Jesus said, "Don't make my house a house of merchandise.  We are the Lord's house.  Shopping and working on the Lord's day discourages church attendance and worship.  Worship is responsible for better spiritual, mental and consequently, physical health.  Working and buying on the Lord's Day is anti-Christian and anti-human.

Imagine, if you will, a world where Christians abstained and encouraged the abstinence of Sunday business?  Imagine the lost, with little to do, but wonder if Jesus loved them?  Imagine the lost going to Bible believing churches for social interaction on Sunday.  What a day of rejoicing that would be!