SDAs are free, therefore, to observe the Sabbath if they want to open a door to witness to Jews.
You are instructing 25 million Christians how and why they ought to observe Sabbath?
And they're free to worship on Saturdays, if they wish.
Cool, thank you. Do we have your permission to worship on other days as well?
It is only wrong, according to Paul, to teach that all Christians *must* observe Sabbath as a *law.*
In many places Paul taught that the Law has been supplanted by following Christ
It is true that in matters of morality and attitudinal behavior toward God and neighbor, the NT teaches that the law is fulfilled by love. A love that can come only through one person... Jesus. You have that right. The Sabbath however isn't a matter of morals. It isn't a Commandment that any community would invent or create or establish in order to operate a just and fair society. Such a Commandment comes only by Divine Revelation and authority.
It isn't something that comes through a regenerated heart. The Sabbath doesn't belong to the Jews. It didn't belong to Seventh Day Adventists. Nor Seventh Day Baptists. It behind to God. It is His day... The Lord's day. Jesus Himself established it at creation... The seventh day. It was Jesus who placed a blessing on that day... At creation. It was Jesus who set aside that seventh day and made it holy... At creation. Hence why Jesus told His listeners that He was the Lord of the Sabbath day. He became the Lord of that day at creation. It was then, at creation, the Sabbath became the Lord's day. 1500-2000 years before there was ever a Jew or a written law.
There is no record, anywhere in scripture, either old testament or new, of Jesus removing the blessing of the sanctity from the seventh day. It was a holy day all the time from Adam to Moses. When the Commandment came, Jesus included in that law a reminder that Israel keep it holy. In other words,
don't remove the holiness from My day.
That still stands.
Remember the Sabbath day to keep it holy.
It is still a holy day unless man profanes it by removing the holiness from it. Which is what Christians advocate by honoring another day, or not honoring any day: they profane God's day. A day which ought to be kept holy seeing Jesus still hasn't removed the blessing and the sanctity from that seventh day.
KJV Isaiah 58:13-14
13 If thou turn away thy foot from the sabbath, from doing thy pleasure on
my holy day; and call the sabbath a delight, the
holy of the LORD, honourable; and shalt honour him, not doing thine own ways, nor finding thine own pleasure, nor speaking thine own words:
14 Then shalt thou delight thyself in the LORD; and I will cause thee to ride upon the high places of the earth, and feed thee with the heritage of Jacob thy father: for the mouth of the LORD hath spoken it.
The Sabbath is still a holy day. It hasn't changed. What we do with it is more than a doctrinal debate. It's a matter of us recognizing authority. And obeying that authority.
And following Christ requires no observance of the Old Covenant.
The weekly seventh holy day of the Lord remains holy throughout the old and the new. Calvary make no impact whatsoever on the sanctity of the Sabbath day. Calvary did however have an impact on the message of good news that Israel sought to covet exclusively for themselves. It took the gospel worldwide... And a knowledge of God's holy day with it. Hence why in dozens of languages through out the world, the seventh day is known as "Sabbath".