Sunday is always a very special day in the life of every Christian.  Jesus, our Savior, arose from the dead on the first day of the week (Mark 16:2, 9).  We know that the church of Christ met together to worship God on Sunday (Acts 20:7).  On the “Lord’s Day” (Revelation 1:10) the church remembers the sacrifice of Jesus on the cross through the Lord’s Supper.  The unleavened bread represents Jesus’ body.  The fruit of the vine represents His blood which was shed for our sins and for the sins of all who trust and obey Him.  Paul wrote to the church at Corinth and to the churches in Galatia “orders” concerning the collection for the saints.  He directed the church to “lay something aside” on the first day of the week for the poor (1 Corinthians 16:1-2).  When we are together on Sunday, we pray.  We sing praises to God.  We open God’s word, the Bible, to learn His message for us for our lives.   Sunday is not the “Christian Sabbath.”  The Sabbath Day, Saturday, the seventh day of the week, was given by God as a day of rest to the Israelite people in the Old Testament.  Before the death of Jesus Christ the people lived under the Old Testament.  They were required to keep the Sabbath. Jesus came to set in  order an entirely new law, the law of liberty, the New Testament.  To the Hebrews God wrote concerning the supremacy of Jesus to angels, to Moses, to the  prophets, to the priesthood, and to any and all of everything else.  Hebrews 8, 9, and 10 are very good chapters to read that show that the New Testament is in force today.  The Old Testament is for our learning but not for our keeping (Hebrews 1:1-2).   Paul wrote to the Christians at Colosse concerning the fact that Jesus “nailed to the cross” the “handwriting of requirements that was against us.”  He then said, “Let no one judge you in food or in drink, or regarding a festival or a new moon or Sabbaths, which are a shadow of things to come, but the substance is of Christ” (Colossians 2:12-17).  These rituals and morals were included in the Old Testament sometimes call the Old Covenant.   In Acts 2 when the church of Christ was established on the Day of Pentecost, A.D. 33, the church “continued steadfastly in the apostle’s doctrine” (2:42).  A few years later (Acts 15:1, 5) some tried to teach that the church must follow the Law of Moses in order to be pleasing to God.  Peter, Paul, Barnabas, and James all spoke to say that salvation comes through the grace of the Lord Jesus Christ, not through circumcision and/or the Law of Moses.   Many Christians today have trouble understanding the Bible because they do not see the separation between the testaments.  In 2 Timothy 2:15 we are challenged to “study/be diligent” to be approved by God “rightly dividing” or “handling accurately” the word of truth.   On Sunday we will continue in our series “Expecting the Impossible.”  If you are not a Christian and expecting to go to heaven outside of Jesus Christ, you are expecting the impossible.   On Sunday evening we will think about “Living a Life That Counts” by living a life of SUCCESS.   We will consider God’s challenge to Moses.  Success is allowing God to cure your inadequacy.  Success is knowing your authority.  Success is watching God use your weaknesses.  Success is seeing God cure your inferiority.  If you would like to read ahead, check out Exodus 3 and 4.   I look forward to our worship and fellowship together in spirit and in truth.  May God help us to always be about doing good every day!