13 “If you keep your feet from breaking the Sabbath and from doing as you please on my holy day, if you call the Sabbath a delight and the LORD’s holy day honorable, and if you honor it by not going your own way and not doing as you please or speaking idle words, 14 then you will find your joy in the LORD, and I will cause you to ride in triumph on the heights of the land and to feast on the in­heritance of your father Jacob.” For the mouth of the LORD has spoken. Isaiah 58:13, 14

When I arrived here in Cana­da, I could not understand why people were wearing red plastic flowers in November. I heard chil­dren memorizing a poem called “In Flanders Fields”, and soon I saw the parades featuring old sol­diers in their uniforms, some of them sporting decorations. I read of soldiers winning the Victoria Cross which is a sign of bravery in battles at Vimy Ridge and Juno Beach during the World War I and II to name a few battlefields...

I asked the people why those red flowers meant. They told me that they were remembering the val‑ iant efforts of Canadian soldiers in World War I, and that the Ger‑ mans surrendered to the allies on the eleventh hour of the eleventh day of the eleventh month of 1918. The red poppies are told in the poem “In Flanders Fields” somewhere in Europe where many of the soldiers died in battles that took place there. At the beginning of this year, there were only two men left of the many thousands of soldiers that went to fight the Huns (Germans). Soldiers from the First Nations, Japanese, Chinese, and other ethnic groups all fought for Canada, and even when the Japanese-Canadians were put in concentration camps in World War Two, there were still soldiers with Japanese ancestry who were in the Canadian army. God also has a Remembrance Day that He has instituted at Creation. After six days of creating, He ended his work and rested on the seventh day. He blessed and hallowed that day. It was the Lord’s day which He “made for made and not man for the Sab‑ bath.” This was why when God proclaimed His law in Mount Sinai He said, “Remember the Sabbath day to keep it holy.” Exodus 20:8 He did not bless the first day till the sixth day although he said they were good but on the seventh day He rested and blessed it. Some people say that the seventh day Sabbath is only for the Jews, but when He created man there were only Adam and Eve. There were no Jews then.

Look at Isaiah 58: 13, 14 again.

13 “If you keep your feet from break­ing the Sabbath and from doing as you please on my holy day, if you call the Sabbath a delight and the LORD’S holy day honorable, and if you honor it by not going your own way and not doing as you please or speaking idle words, 14 then you will find your joy in the LORD, and I will cause you to ride in triumph on the heights of the land and to feast on the inheritance of your fa­ther Jacob.” For the mouth of the LORD has spoken. Isaiah 58:13, 14

God is very particular with His Sabbath day that is why He put it at the heart of the Ten Com­mandments. In James 2: 10-12 we read, .10 “A person who follows all of God’s law but fails to obey even one command is guilty of breaking all the commands in that law.11 The same God who said, “You must not be guilty of adultery,” [b] also said, “You must not murder anyone.”[c] So if you do not take part in adul­tery but you murder someone, you are guilty of breaking all of God’s law.” In these texts, God said that if we don’t break the Sabbath, and instead, make it a delight and honor it not doing what pleases us on that day, we will find joy in the Lord and He will bless us and exult us and make us feast on the inheri­tance of Jacob. By breaking the Sabbath, the Fourth Command­ment, we are guilty of breaking the whole law. In Isaiah 66: 22-24 God said, 22 “As the new heavens and the new earth that I make will endure before me,” declares the LORD, “so will your name and descendants endure. 23 From one New Moon to an­other and from one Sabbath to another, all mankind will come and bow down before me,” says the LORD”, Jesus was accused by the clergy of breaking the law, be­cause he was healing the sick on the Sabbath. He said it was okay to do good on the Sabbath. Then He said they were honoring Him with their lips but their hearts were far from Him. Quoting Isaiah He told the clergy He answered and said to them,(Mark 7: 6,7) “Well did Isaiah prophesy of you hypocrites, as it is written: ‘ This people honors Me with their lips, But their heart is far from Me. And in vain they worship Me, Teaching as doctrines the commandments of men.'[b]

Jesus did not change the day of rest as some people say. Man did it and admitted so. So if we keep Sunday as the rest day then we are worshipping God in vain for we are keeping a man-made command­ment. We must obey God rather than men. Revelation 14: 12-This calls for patient endurance on the part of the people of God who keep his commands and remain faithful to Jesus. 13 Then I heard a voice from heaven say, “Write this: Blessed are the dead who die in the Lord from now on.” “Yes,” says the Spirit, “they will rest from their labor, for their deeds will follow them.”

We are slaves of those whom we obey says God. Who would we obey? God or man? It’s our choice.