Is keeping the seventh-day Sabbath ?necessary for salvation?

Is keeping the seventh-day Sabbath ?necessary for salvation?

“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. In it you shall do no work: you, nor your son, nor your daughter, nor your male servant, nor your female servant, nor your cattle, nor your stranger who is within your gates. 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” (Exodus 20:8-11).

Since the Sabbath is one of the Ten Commandments, I approach it the same way I approach the other nine. The more crucial question we should ask ourselves is this:”Am I keeping God’s commandments to be saved, or am I seeking to keep God’s commandments because I am saved.” The answer to this question will reveal your theology of salvation.

Think about it this way: If I say that I’m saved, but I steal from work and have a wife on each coast, my relationship with the Lord is questionable, isn’t it? There will be people in heaven who had several wives because they did not know the truth regarding this-consider King David, Solomon, and Abraham. That doesn’t mean God condones polygamy. In the same way, there will be people in heaven who went to church on Sunday, and maybe those who didn’t go to church at all, because they didn’t know the truth about God’s holy day.

But when a person knows God’s will in any of these areas and says, “I’m not going to obey this or that commandment for my own reasons,” then the Bible’s message is clear. If we purposefully sin when we have a clear understanding of God’s requirements, there are serious consequences. “If we sin willfully after we have received the knowledge of the truth, there no longer remains a sacrifice for sins” (Hebrews 10:26). While keeping the Sabbath won’t save you, the idea that you can willfully break God’s commandments and still be saved is just not biblical.

Dear Lord, thank you for the gift of the Sabbath, a day to remind me that I may rest in you.

For Further Study: Romans 3:28-31; Hebrews 10:7; John 14:15

Romans 3:28-31 KJV
Therefore we conclude that a man is justified by faith without the deeds of the law. [29] Is he the God of the Jews only? is he not also of the Gentiles? Yes, of the Gentiles also: [30] Seeing it is one God, which shall justify the circumcision by faith, and uncircumcision through faith. [31] Do we then make void the law through faith? God forbid: yea, we establish the law.

Hebrews 10:7 KJV
Then said I, Lo, I come (in the volume of the book it is written of me,) to do thy will, O God.

John 14:15 KJV
If ye love me, keep my commandments.