19. The Old and New Sabbaths Contrasted
The shadowy Sabbath was the observance of every seventh day. “The seventh day is the Sabbath” (Exod. 20:10). The new-covenant Sabbath is not the observance of this particular day. “One […]
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18. The Gospel Rest
“Sabbath” means “rest.” Sabbatarians admit this. Hear Uriah Smith (leading Adventist), “The word ‘sabbath’ means ‘rest.’ That is the one sole idea it conveys, first, last, and all the […]
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17. The Christian’s Law
Sabbatarians are constantly crying, “We must keep God’s commandments.” This is true. But where they err is in applying the term “commandments” exclusively to the ten written on stone. […]
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16. The Law of Christ
“For the law was given by Moses, but grace and truth came by Jesus Christ” (John 1:17). “Jesus the mediator of the new covenant testament, margin “ (Heb. 12:24). […]
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15. The New Covenant
“Behold, I make all things new.” This is the message of the gospel. Christ came to inaugurate a new creation, an entire new order of things. The seers of […]
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14. The Jewish Sabbath Abolished
“Blotting out the handwriting of ordinances that was against us, which was contrary to us, and took it out of the way, nailing it to his cross.…Let […]
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13. The Old Sabbath Repealed
By reading Rom. 2:12, 14-16, it is seen that there are two kinds of precepts: those that exist in man’s consciousness, independent of law to enforce them, […]
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12. The Seventh-Day Sabbath as Mentioned in the New Testament
Since the “first” or “old” covenant—the law—that enjoined the observance of the seventh day, was abolished and ended at the cross, and the “new” and “better” covenant has taken […]
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11. The Decalog
The Seventh-day Adventists point the people to the Decalog as God’s eternal law, superior to all else, that which governs angels in heaven governed Adam in Eden, and will […]
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10. Moses the Mediator of the Law
“Mediate. — To interpose; to intercede.” — Webster. Then, a mediator is one who interposes or mediates between parties, one who stands in the middle between two. Mesites is […]
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Chapter 9: The Abolition of the Law
Adventists are continually crying, “God’s law [meaning the Sinaitic code] is unchangeable.” But Paul contradicts them, boldly stating “that there is made of necessity a change also of the […]
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Chapter 8: The Law
Sabbatarians are continually preaching, talking, writing, and arguing about “the law.” Yet in all the New Testament, while we have “preach the kingdom” eight times, “preach […]
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Chapter 7: Smith’s Two Covenants
“The very first transaction we find taking place between God and the Israelites after they left Egypt which answers to the definition of the word ‘covenant,’ must […]
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Chapter 6: The Covenant From Sinai Abolished
“Tell me, ye that desire to be under the law, do ye not hear the law? For it is written, that Abraham had two sons, the one by a […]
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Chapter 5: The Covenant From Sinai
We now come to the Sabbath as instituted in the Ten-Commandment law given on Sinai. With this law the Sabbath either stands or falls. A covenant was made […]
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