God has always commanded his people give to him one day out of seven.
REMEMBER the sabbath day, to keep it holy. Six days shalt thou labour, and do all thy work: But the seventh day is the sabbath of the Lord thy God: in it thou shalt not do any work, thou, nor thy son, nor thy daughter, thy manservant, nor thy maidservant, nor thy cattle nor thy stranger that is within thy gates.
Exodus 20:8-10.
AND if the people of the land bring ware or any victuals on the sabbath day to sell, that we would not buy it of them on the sabbath day.
Nehemiah 10:31.
THIS is the day which the Lord hath made; we will rejoice and be glad in it.
Psalms 118:24.
How do you treat the Lords day?
THOU hast despised mine holy things, and hast profaned my sabbaths.
Ezekiel 22:8.
Have you profaned God’s holy day by going to excursions, and using it to meet your selfish ends?
Note the example of Christ and His Church.
They went to the synagogue, so let us go to Church.
AND he came to Nazareth, where he had been brought up: and, as his custom was, he went into the synagogue on the sabbath day, and stood up for to read.
Luke 4:16.
AND he reasoned in the synagogue every sabbath.
Acts 18:4.
I WAS in the Spirit on the Lord’s day.
Revelation 1:10.
LET no man therefore judge you in meat or in drink, or in respect of an holy day, or of the new moon, or of the Sabbath day which are a shadow of things to come; but the body is Christ’s.
Colossians 2:16-17, R.V.
God forbids worldly pleasure on His Day.
IF thou turn away thy foot from the sabbath, from doing thy pleasure on my holy day; and call the sabbath a delight, the holy of the Lord, honourable; and shalt honour him, not doing thine own ways, nor finding thine own pleasure, nor speaking thine own words:
Then shalt thou delight thyself in the Lord; and I will cause thee to ride upon the high places of the earth, and feed thee with the heritage of Jacob thy father: for the mouth of the Lord hath spoken it.
Isaiah 58:13-14.
Commands divine worship.
LIKEWISE the people of the land shall worship at the door of this gate be for the Lord in the sabbaths and in the new moons.
Ezekiel 46:3
Required His word to be read.
FOR they that dwell at Jerusalem, and their rulers, because they knew him not, nor yet the voices of the prophets which are read every sabbath day, they have fulfilled them in condemning him.
Acts 13:27.
The Lords Supper to be observed.
AND upon the first day of the week, when the disciples came together to break bread, Paul preached unto them, ready to depart on the morrow; and continued his speech until midnight.
Acts 20:7.
-—Carefully abstain from all but spiritual conversation “not speaking thine own words.”
Strive to be “in the Spirit on the Lord’s Day," "not doing thine own ways."
Do no work on the Sabbath Day that is not necessary.
"Have at least a Sabbath hour in every day as well as a Sabbath day in every week.”