ADDRESSES ON ROMANS
"Christ our passover is sacrificed for us" (I Cor. 5: 7). And He Himself has said, "Come unto me, all ye that labour and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest" (Matt. 11 :.Z8). These are some of the "shadows," to which Paul referred in Col. 2: 16, 17. 3. WE Couw NoT KEEP THE SABBATH IF WE WOULD. To those of you who argue for the observance of the Jewish, or seventh-day, Sabbath let me remind you that the regulations on this day were very strict. I have never known anyone who kept them. The Israelites were com- manded strictly to stay inside on the Sabbath. (See Ex. 16:29.) It was not a day of worship, but one of enforced idle- ness. They were not to kindle a fire (Ex. 35 :3). They were to bear no burdens (Jer. 17:21). The man who defied God and gathered sticks on the Sabbath was stoned (Num. 15:32-36). The law shows no mercy, my friend. Do you ever kindle a fire on the Sabbath? You may not need to here in Southern California. but in Chicago you would. The law says you must not. If you do: and yet are seeking righteousness by the works of the law, then, according to the law, you should be stoned to death. Do you ride street cars on the seventh day? Do you turn on the electricity? The fourth commandment says that those who obeyed it could neither work themselves nor cause others to work. When you use electricity or ride street cars, you are causing others to work-the motormen, and the men in the power house. I met one legalist who went to Long Beach on the street car on the Sabbath, and yet he felt that he was keeping the seventh day. Do you lift a chair? The law says. "Bear no burdens." I have never known a legalist who really kept the law. It is one thing to say you keep it, and another thing to keep it. Do not say, "Times have changed. They could do those things in Palestine, but we can't in Los An.. geles." God's holy law does not change. The Sabbath was from sunset to sunset. I wonder ·how · the people in the northern countries who have no sun ·six.· [Page 129
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