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There is a mistaken notion - preached from many pulpits - that to be under grace means that the Law of God has no claim upon you any longer.  This is a lie.

"For sin shall not have dominion over you, for you are not under law but under grace."  Romans 6.14

"Christ was sinless; the law was in his heart. As the Son of God his life was worth more than those of all created beings, whether in Heaven or on earth. He saw the hopeless condition of the world, and came “to seek and to save that which was lost.” Luke 19.10. To do this he took upon himself our nature, Hebrews 2.16, 17."

Even so today, our Laodicean paralysis stems from the same issue faced by Eve at the tree of the knowledge of good and evil - will we do the ‘simple thing’ and hold firmly to the Word of our Creator and thus be kept from sinning, or will we fall for the interpretations, explanations and ‘enlightenment's’ from the theologians in the trees? 

The Sabbath is the memorial of creation, but redemption is creation. “If any man is in Christ, he is a new creature.” 2 Corinthians 5:17. The gospel “is the power of God unto salvation,” (Romans 1:16), and the power of God is seen only in the things that he has made. Verse 29. So the power of the gospel is the power that created the worlds.

Therefore, the Sabbath, in commemoration of creation, makes known to man the power of God to save from sin.

In this article, Dr. Munhall makes a sound argument for Sabbath observance, then identifies himself with 2 characters from Pilgrim's Progress. 

"It was not by accident that Bunyan made ‘Mr. By-ends’ a relative of ‘Mr. Facing-both-ways’; for when a man acknowledges a certain obligation, and then says that circumstances will not allow him to regard it, he faces both ways, and advertises himself as a man who has ends of his own to serve."

Dr. Munhall’s only “reason” for keeping Sunday. It is this: — “I believe that the apostles kept Sunday, though I don’t know of any reason why they did so. The seventh day of the week is the Sabbath, but it isn’t convenient to keep it.”

*(Antinomianism is a term used to describe the view of some professed Christians who believe that being saved by grace means that grace has saved them from anything to do with God’s law.)

We are not saved from God's law; we are saved from sin which is the transgression of God's law.  If God's law was done away with, then there would be no sin to save us from and Christ died in vain.

The Gospel is the power of God unto salvation. Romans 1.16. The power of God is known by the things that are made. Verse 20. The Sabbath is for the purpose of directing our thoughts to the things that God has made, so that through them we may know His power to save; for redemption is creation.

It is not how men have regarded the Sabbath, but who gave it, that determines its sacredness.

The cross of Christ brings those who accept it into the condition in which man was at the close of the sixth day of creation, when God saw everything that He had made, “and behold it was very good.” Therefore, since the Sabbath is the mark or seal of a perfect new creation, it is the seal of the Gospel, the sign of the cross, the pledge of the complete redemption of all things.

So it is that the Gospel has to do with eternal things, but eternal things in the present time. The trouble with people is that they regard eternity as only future, whereas eternity is past, present, and future. It has been, is, and is to be. Especially is it now, for God “inhabits eternity” (Isaiah 57.15), and His name is “I AM”. Eternity with Him is always present. Likewise He desires us to live the life eternal, but always in the present. He, who truly believes in Christ, passes from death unto life, from the temporal to the eternal, from the unreal to the real.