The Lord's Day as Sabbath

Renewing Your Mind

Ligonier Ministries

Religion & Spirituality, Christianity

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🗓️ 21 November 2025

⏱️ 26 minutes

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Summary

The Lord's Day is the day on which Christians have historically gathered to worship the resurrected Christ. Today, W. Robert Godfrey examines Scripture's proof of this day's uniqueness and enduring relevance for Christians.

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Meet Today's Teacher:

W. Robert Godfrey is a Ligonier Ministries teaching fellow and chairman of Ligonier Ministries. He is president emeritus and professor emeritus of church history at Westminster Seminary California.

Meet the Host:

Nathan W. Bingham is vice president of media for Ligonier Ministries, executive producer and host of Renewing Your Mind, and host of the Ask Ligonier podcast.

Renewing Your Mind is a donor-supported outreach of Ligonier Ministries. Explore all of our podcasts: https://www.ligonier.org/podcasts

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0:00.0	Revelation chapter 1, verse 10. There we read that John was in the spirit on the Lord's day. There are lots of days, but there's a special day, that in a special way belongs to the Lord, just as the Lord's supper in a special way belongs to the Lord. If all days are alike, no one day can be a Lord's Day.
0:25.6	The Lord's Day, the Sabbath, Sunday. Are these all the same day? Why historically, has the church gathered together on Sunday, the first day of the week, and not on Saturday?
0:40.8	These are important questions, and today's featured teacher on renewing your mind will look to the New Testament
0:47.0	to see what it says about the Lord's Day as Sabbath.
0:52.1	W. Robert Godfrey, the chairman of Ligeneer Ministries, is teaching today from his
0:57.2	series The Lord's Day, Sabbath worship and rest. If you'd like to dig into this subject more,
1:03.7	you can request the entire series on DVD, digital access to the messages and study guide,
1:10.0	plus a copy of the scriptures that take with you
1:12.9	to Lord's Day worship when you give a donation in support of renewing your mind at Renewingermind.org
1:19.2	before midnight tonight. I'll be sure to remind you again at the end of today's episode.
1:25.2	Well, here's Dr. Godfrey on the Lord's Day.
1:30.3	What positively does the New Testament say that bears on the question of the day of Christian
1:38.2	worship and the relationship of Sunday to the Fourth Commandment? And obviously, if this were an easy issue, we wouldn't be having this discussion.
1:51.8	I would say perhaps it's a little like the matter of infant baptism.
1:56.5	The New Testament does not say in any single verse, baptize infants, nor does it say in any verse,
2:04.3	do not baptize infants.
2:06.8	And so we have to look at the totality of the revelation of the Bible to try to answer that
2:13.9	question.
2:15.7	And I think it's somewhat similar when we come to the relationship of Sunday to the Sabbath.
2:21.1	We have to take the pieces, since there's no one verse that tells us exactly how to think about
2:27.2	these things, we have to take the pieces and put them together.
2:30.1	And the first piece I want us to think about that I think is very important is Revelation
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