Voddie Baucham - Sabbath and the 1689 Confession of Faith - Introduction

In this video, Voddie Baucham begins his explanation to his Reformed understanding of the Sabbath and the Fourth Commandment. While I do not share Voddie's doctrinal view on this, I can see how historically these views were a stepping stone for Seventh-day Baptists and therefore a stepping stone for the Seventh-day Adventist doctrinal position. I would hold that the latter rely more on scripture while the former have retained a strongly traditional confessional standpoint.

Link to Voddie Baucham 1689 confession of faith:

Voddie on the need to keep the Sabbath:

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many thanks #erichenryjnr

[EricHenryJnr]

The 1689 confession is linked in the description. I would love to here your thoughts on this Theological viewpoint.

[Monjfrum]

Voddie I always Loved hearing you preach. I always thought that you were honest. No I KNOW you are honest. May God continue to bless you.

[herbzah]

Wow! Idk this about ONE OF MY FAVE pastors "Dr Voddie Baucham"! I feel even MORE respect! IKNEW he had a big concience and diligently searches out the TRUTH to get it right and TEACH THE TRUTH the best he possibly can. I have always felt SATURDAY was THE SABBATH and have always been confused & upset(?) at why the world for the most part jus IGNORES the PLAIN BLACK & WHITE (OR RED!) that GOD PLAINLY STATES (TO FUTURE GENERATIONS) So, even though i dont really claim or proclaim a denomination, (I would say baptist) I am STRONG on the SABBATH, but theres ONE baptist church in my area that has a Saturday service but don't attend for ither reasons. I am just learning that Pastor Voddie (Dr. Voddie Baucham😌) is Reformed Baptist? I didnt even know there had even been another reformation! 😂 I've been listening all day though to some videos by him & others on this and of course Pastor Voddie always explains it BEST for me! That's why †🙏☝I thank God for him and of course a few others .

[marvincouncil]

Is his confession allowed to amend scripture. Is it esoterically written that they have some strong secret scriptures or understanding we don't have 🤔

[lawrencestanley]

Are we under Sabbath obligation under the New Covenant? No.

1) In Colossians 2:16-17, Paul refers to the Sabbath as a “shadow of Christ, ” which is no longer binding since the substance (Christ) has come. It is quite clear in those verses that the weekly Sabbath is in view. The phrase "a festival or a new moon or a Sabbath day" refers to the annual, monthly, and weekly holy days of the Jewish calendar (cf. 1 Chronicles 23:31; 2 Chronicles 2:4; 31:3; Ezekiel 45:17; Hosea 2:11). If Paul were referring to special ceremonial dates of rest in that passage, why would he have used the word "Sabbath?" He had already mentioned the ceremonial dates when he spoke of festivals and new moons.

2) The Sabbath was the sign to Israel of the Mosaic Covenant (Exodus 31:16-17; Ezekiel 20:12; Nehemiah 9:14). Since we are now under the New Covenant (Hebrews 8), we are no longer required to observe the sign of the Mosaic Covenant.

3) The New Testament never commands Christians to observe the Sabbath.

4) In our only glimpse of an early church worship service in the New Testament, the church met on the first day of the week (Acts 20:7).

5) Nowhere in the Old Testament are the Gentile nations commanded to observe the Sabbath or condemned for failing to do so. That is certainly strange if Sabbath observance were meant to be a universal, eternal moral principle.

6) There is no evidence in the Bible of anyone keeping the Sabbath before the time of Moses, nor are there any commands in the Bible to keep the Sabbath before the giving of the law at Mt. Sinai.

7) When the Apostles met at the Jerusalem council (Acts 15), they did not impose Sabbath keeping on the Gentile believers.

8) The apostle Paul warned the Gentiles about many different sins in his epistles, but breaking the Sabbath was never one of them.

9) In Galatians 4:10-11, Paul rebukes the Galatians for thinking God expected them to observe special days (including the Sabbath).

10) In Romans 14:5, Paul forbids those who observe the Sabbath (these were no doubt Jewish believers) to condemn those who do not (Gentile believers).

11) The early church fathers, from Ignatius to Augustine, taught that the Old Testament Sabbath had been abolished and that the first day of the week (Sunday) was the day when Christians should meet for worship (contrary to the claim of many seventh-day sabbatarians who claim that Sunday worship was not instituted until the fourth century).

12) Sunday has not replaced Saturday as the Sabbath. Rather the Lord's Day is a time when believers gather to commemorate His resurrection, which occurred on the first day of the week. Every day to the believer is one of Sabbath rest, since we have ceased from our spiritual labor and are resting in the salvation of the Lord (Hebrews 4:9-11).

[tony]

Sabbath in all history and in all future - for God's children.
if we don't keep It, we are living in sin - according to the Word of Truth.

[herbzah]

How do people just pick & choose?! As if you can just dissagree with GOD?! IV'E always felt alone in my little SABBATH but Baptist self! No church to attend because (well, there is ONE in my town but i won't atrend it for other reasons) People think I'm wierd for believing Saturday is SABBATH🤔and some say oh you are presbyterian?😖

[Andy-mb]

Baucham subscribes to the heresies of the 1689. Some stuff in it is spot on. But the 1689 gets into God only selecting certain individuals to go to Heaven and the rest to go to hell. A twisted confession for sure which makes those who believe it false teachers like Baucham.

[guillermodominguez]

Just give me the verse man, that’s all I ask. Where it says that Sunday is all of a sudden now the sabbath.

[Andy-mb]

The 1689 Baptist Confession of Faith is clearly wrong in areas. Throw it away!

[leebarry]

Your views about the Sabbath are rooted in the 1689's presuppositions of covenant theology not In the text of scripture. In scripture you have absolutely no basis for changing the Sabbath from Saturday to Sunday, unless we are under a totally New Covenant in Christ. Prove me wrong. I would love to debate it with you.

[MountCarmel]

Watch "Who Changed the Sabbath" by CD Brooks