Do Christians have to keep the Sabbath on Saturday?

Chuck Smith, Answers for Today, chapter 11: Paul tells us in Colossians 2 that Christ blotted out the handwriting of ordinances that were against us. This, of course, is in reference to the Sabbath day law and all the other such ordinances. Jesus took them out of the way. He nailed them to His cross. He made an open display of His victory over them, triumphing over them in the cross. Because of this, Paul said, “Let no man therefore judge you in meat, or in drink, or in respect of a holyday, or of the new moon, or of the Sabbath days: which are a shadow of things to come” (Colossians 2:16, 17). These things were all just shadows in the Old Testament of that which was to come, which was Jesus Christ. The Sabbath day was a shadow of the rest we as the children of God would experience in Christ. We have the substance, Jesus Christ. Therefore, the shadows that spoke of the substance have no hold on us. I’m not required to keep the Sabbath day law any longer. Scripture, King James Version: Colossians 2:16, "Let no man therefore judge you in meat, or in drink, or in respect of an holyday, or of the new moon, or of the sabbath days:"; Colossians 2:17, "Which are a shadow of things to come; but the body is of Christ.". From Chuck Smith's books, used by permission of The Word For Today.

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