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34: Jesus answered, "Can you make the guests of the bridegroom fast while he is with
them?
35: But the time will come when the bridegroom will be taken from them; in those days
they will fast."

Did Jesus know the eternal Sabbath that God Himself inaugurated at the foundation of this
world; that Abraham, Isaac and Jacob observed on the seventh day; that Moses, after speaking di-
rectly with the Lord God, instructed Israel to "remember it and keep it holy"?

I'm sure you're way ahead of me on this one. You probably looked down the page of your
Bible to Luke 6 and discovered Jesus debating Sabbath Law with Pharisees on the Jewish Sab-
bath. Well, read on in Luke 6:5: "Then Jesus said to them, "The Son of Man is Lord of the
Sabbath.'"

Do you honestly believe that the Lord of the Sabbath wouldn't approve of the Sabbath?

Immediately after this in Luke 6:6 we read: "On another Sabbath He went into the syna-
gogue and was teaching,..." Yet another isolated incident? No, in fact in every Good News Epistle
(gospel) you'll not only find Him declaring Himself the "Lord of the Sabbath," but you will find a
statement to this effect: "...and on the Sabbath day he went into the synagogue, as was his custom.
And he stood up to read" (Luke 4:16).

Clearly, Jesus Christ was a SABBATH-KEEPER!!!

You are on the right path now. So, continue to read the Holy Bible with an open mind and,
preferably, an open Concordance and continue to discover Jesus -- the Law-Keeper. Finally, let's
read Jesus' own final word on the matter of the Law: Luke 16:16: "The Law and the Prophets were
proclaimed until John. Since that time, the good news of the Kingdom of God is being preached,
and everyone is forcing his way into it." Luke 16:17: "It is easier for heaven and earth to disappear
than for the least stroke of a pen to drop out of the Law."

The Life and Career of "an Apostle"

Commonly known as Paul, the "apostle to the gentiles" was known by his Hebrew birth-
name Saul by those closest to him. In fact, in the Acts of the Apostles, written by his close friend
Luke, he isn't referred to as Paul at all until their encounter with the Jewish sorcerer at Paphos
(Acts 13:9).

In his own words, he was "circumcised the eighth day, of the stock of Israel, of the tribe of
Benjamin, a Hebrew of the Hebrews; concerning the law, a Pharisee; concerning zeal, persecuting
the church; concerning the righteousness which is in the law, blameless" (Philippians 3:5, 6). And
he was "born in Tarsus of Cilicia [modern-day Turkey], but brought up in this city [Jerusalem] at
the feet of Gamaliel [a great teacher of the Law of God and of Jewish tradition], taught according
to the strictness of our fathers' law [Jewish tradition], and was zealous toward God as you all are
today...And I advanced in Judaism beyond many of my contemporaries in my own nation, being
more exceedingly zealous for the traditions of my fathers" (Acts 22:3; Galatians 1:14).

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