We have been asked by a friend, “What do you think of the observance of days?” We answer in the language of the Apostle, “Ye observe days, and months, and times, and years. I am afraid of you.” But let it not be supposed that “the Lord’s Day” is here referred to. That day stands upon its own divine and independent foundation, and must be honored and loved by every Christian.
“If any man be in Christ, he is a new creation” (2 Cor. 5). If this passage were understood, it would settle a thousand questions as to days, ordinances, rites and ceremonies, legal righteousness, and all questions as to law. All these things belong to man in the old creation, and have no place in the new at all. But the believer is not in the old creation, but in the new. He is united to Christ, the Head of the new creation. Christ is his life, his righteousness, his object, his hope, his all. In the old creation, man belongs to death; in the new creation, death belongs to man. All things are become new, and all things are of God.