The Everlasting Covenant

The Sabbath Not a Work

There is no room for the objection that we ought not to keep the seventh-day Sabbath because we are not saved by works; for the Sabbath is not a work, it is a rest—God’s rest. “He that is entered into his rest, he also hath ceased from his own works, as God did from His.” ¹ True Sabbath-keeping is not justification by works, and is utterly disconnected from any idea of such a thing; it is, on the contrary, justification by faith—it is the absolute rest that comes from perfect faith in the power of God to create a new man and to keep the soul from falling into sin. EVCO 441.3