Welcome back to James Popery. I'm Joe Heschmire. And why do Christians worship on Sunday?

Is it because of something that Jesus did or because of something that Constantine did?

In other words, was Sunday chosen because of the resurrection of Jesus Christ? Or was it chosen as a way of

compromising with Roman pagans in the 4th century? You might be convinced you already know the

answer to this question. But I hope you you already know the answer to this question,

but I hope you'll give me the opportunity to share some historical evidence that you might not

already know. After all, the stakes are high. The Bible is very clear. We are to worship God on

his Sabbath, which is the seventh day of the week. So if you're worshipping on Sunday, the first day

of the week, you're worshipping on the wrong day. None of us should want to worship God on the wrong

day or in the wrong way. We should strive to worship him both when and how he calls us to worship him.

And according to sabbatarians, like the man you just heard, we are meant to worship him on

the Sabbath day, Saturday. So how, according to this view, did we end up worshiping him on the

wrong day? How did Christianity go from keeping the Sabbath to observing Sunday? After the death

of the apostles, the church maintained much of the same religious

practices, including the observance of the Seventh-day Sabbath. However, by the 300s, things

changed dramatically for Christianity in the Roman Empire. Enter Emperor Constantine. We'll take a closer look at this in a moment,

but just for now, recognize that the story is this. Allegedly, the early Christians were

sabbatarians. They worshipped on Saturday until 321 when Constantine, who's the villain of

the story, changed the day of rest and eventually the day of worship to Sunday.

Every story needs a good old-fashioned villain, and Constantine is ours.

Constantine was the Roman Emperor from 306 to 337 AD.

Constantine ended Christian persecution with the edict of Milan in 31380. But on March 7th, 321, Constantine

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