For Christians, the fourth commandment, to “remember the Sabbath day, to keep it holy” (Exodus 20:8) is perhaps the most misunderstood and debated command. The questions about the Sabbath’s application are endless. Do Christians today need to keep the Sabbath holy? Did Jesus keep the Sabbath because He was Jewish, or did He actually break the Sabbath command? Did the apostle Paul show that the Sabbath is no longer necessary for Christians, or did he uphold it?
Actually, Christ gave a warning to those who might think the Sabbath law and other commandments were done away with: “Whoever therefore breaks one of the least of these commandments, and teaches men so, shall be called least [by those] in the kingdom of heaven; but whoever does and teaches them, he shall be called great [by those] in the kingdom of heaven” (Matthew 5: 19).
“For assuredly, I say to you, till heaven and earth pass away, one jot or one tittle will by no means pass from the law till all is fulfilled” (verse 18). The Greek word for “fulfilled” denotes, “to become, to come into existence, to come to pass.”