Some have said that the issue of the fourth Commandment is not really clear in the Bible or that the Commandment is not repeated in the New Testament as clearly as it was in the Old Testament and so therefore must be irrelevant. But it was man who divided the Bible into the Old and New Testaments and God put no such division between them. So just because the Translators divided the Bible into two books called the Old and New Testaments does not mean everything starts again in the New. Everything from the Old Testament continues into the New just as if it was one book not divided. The only changes between the Old and the New Testaments are what we are specifically told has changed. So you also do not establish if one of the Ten Commandments still exists in the New Testament by looking for it being repeated. To the contrary, you have to look to see if there is an unmistakable instruction that says a Commandment is gone or changed and if scripture is silent then it still exists. God does not work on assumptions and especially on something as important as His Moral law such as His Sabbath. If a Commandment of God was changed then the Bible would be screaming the change at us.
The Sabbath is what is called the test Commandment by many which comes from Exodus 16 where God says He would test the people to see if they would keep His law or not. How did God test the people? He tested to see if they would keep the fourth Commandment on the specific day He blessed and sanctified. See can the Sabbath be any day. When they did not keep the fourth Commandment on the Seventh day as instructed, God accused them of breaking all His law. James was no doubt referring to this when he said the following in James 2:10-12.
The mark of the beast or the mark of the Catholic Church also revolves around the fourth Commandment. See what is the mark of the beast and the Sabbath. And God knew that Satan would attack this Commandment and that many would fight to bury it, and this is why He made it an end time issue which will be the final climactic event where God is going to see who loves Him enough to obey Him even if it means persecution. Hence once again it will be the test Commandment to see who truly loves God. So what if the issue on the fourth Commandment was made extremely clear? No one could debate or argue it, right? This is undoubtedly not what God wanted. God knows that only the truth seekers who truly love Him will see the obvious about the fourth Commandment and they are the ones that do truly love and belong to Him and only they will pass the final test.
Besides the multitude of Old Testament scriptures that still apply in the New Testament unless told otherwise, we have Luke using very unmistakable words that say “they rested the Sabbath day according to the Commandment” and this was after the cross where the New Covenant had been sealed by the blood of Jesus and hence cannot be changed. See is the Sabbath in the New Covenant. And we have the witness of everyone in the New Testament Church since all Church meetings are on the Sabbath only. Acts 20:7 is not in a Church and was in fact Saturday evening. Place you mouse over the previous tooltip for two other bible translations that even state Saturday evening. Remember that in Biblical times a new day started at sunset and not at midnight as it is today. See Acts 20:7. And we are also told that a Sabbath rest belongs for the children of God in Hebrews. See Hebrews 4:9. There is a lot more and none of the evidence is assumptions, misunderstandings or abused scripture like the above forty plus excuses and reasons.
So where is that one crystal clear scripture that says the Sabbath of the Lord thy God has been removed and no longer has to be kept? And if this supposed one unmistakable scripture did exist, then why isn't it the same reason everyone gives? Instead we have loads of excuses and abuse of any scripture that can be used to try and make scripture say what it does not and this alone makes it very obvious that Satan is at work here.
Jesus said, “If you love Me, keep My Commandments.” John 14:15 Do you truly love Him? Then enjoy the blessings of an uninterrupted day of fellowship, rest and worship on the day He blessed and made holy just for you even if it means enduring tribulation. Shadrach, Meshach and Abednego were prepared to die rather than break a Commandment of God and they were triumphant as a result of their stand. See also how to keep the Sabbath holy.
