And what a blessing
we have been having here
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in these services
from just hour after hour
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of being together.
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And I was talking to a
young lady the other day
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who said that she sat
through three sermons.
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And she said: "That's
the only time in my life
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I've ever sat through
three sermons in a row. "
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And she said
she never was tired.
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How many of you have sat through
4, 5, 6 sermons in one day
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like Wednesday or
Thursday or Friday?
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You did? A lot of you.
Some of you more. That's right.
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It's amazing, and who
would have thought it, right?
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And... But how can you
leave because one after another
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with the speakers and the
messages, all that's happening.
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So I guess this
really is a prelude to...
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to what heaven will be
like - Amen - because up there
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we won't get tired and our
chairs won't seem to get harder
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on us and our backs
won't be giving us trouble.
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But even with all of that,
y'all are sticking through this
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and we are so
thankful that you came
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from around the
world and America and even
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someone wanted me to
mention last night... They said:
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"But you need to tell
them specifically Alaska.
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We came all the way from
Alaska. " Yes. So we're glad
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that you're here
from Alaska, right?
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OK. So we've let that be known.
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And that's almost
in the United States.
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Alaska is. Oh wow! OK.
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Well, they brought a box and
it had some chocolates in it.
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Says it's chocolate-covered
wild berries from Alaska.
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I think it's OK to eat
the chocolate as long as it's
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covered with good wild berries.
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Yeah, some people refer
to that as carob substitute.
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Chocolate is a
carob substitute. OK.
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But we... I will get some mail
on that, I can tell you that.
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And we also want to
thank you around the world
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for your love, your prayers,
financial support of 3ABN
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as we endeavor to take
this gospel into all the world.
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I'm especially - or still -
excited about our next guest.
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Jim, if you would tell us - oh,
yes - about our next speaker.
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Yes. Pastor
C.D. Brooks for years
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the speaker for Breath of Life.
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And he is a man
that just when he stands
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to present the gospel you feel
the power of the Holy Spirit.
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Amen. You really do.
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He really needs no introduction.
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He's been a vice president
of the General Conference,
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speaker for the Breath of Life.
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He has also been a
pastor, an evangelist,
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and he is well known on
3ABN because he is no stranger
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to us. We often
have him as a speaker.
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Of course for years he spoke
on 3ABN from Breath of Life.
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And his subject today
is going to be The Sabbath.
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And before he comes,
Reggie and Ladye Love
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are going to come and sing
from the Pillars I the song -
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and I think, and Yvonne -
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another person that
was not on my sheet here.
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But Yvonne is going to join
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and they're going to sing
Remember the Sabbath. Amen.
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Amen.
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I would like to impress
everyone with the fact that
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this is no
ordinary morning. Amen.
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This is Sabbath. Amen.
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The Lord's servant
says Jesus draws near
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to His people on the Sabbath.
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Something special. And it
didn't begin this morning.
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If you were here
last night - Amen -
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as I was, as we were,
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you felt the very
presence of the Holy Spirit.
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Amen. And I don't have a
problem using the word "felt"
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or "feeling. "
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A long time ago
in homiletics class
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we were taught in presenting
the message, appeal first
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to the intellect
then to the emotions...
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and through them
both to the will.
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This is Sabbath morning.
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The Lord is here. Amen.
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And you know
something? For me and my wife
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it was special just to meet
Reggie and Ladye Love Smith.
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It's as though we've known
them well because we see them
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so much... but
they didn't know us.
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And I discovered they're
just as friendly and kind
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as they can be. Amen.
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I've been asked to talk about
this subject of The Sabbath -
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The Sabbath -
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and that's what I intend to do.
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I call it God's sweet
and precious gift. Amen.
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Sweet and precious
gift to His children.
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And you know what, dear
ones? Truth... truth is not
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complicated.
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It's only complicated when
we don't want to believe it.
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When it rubs us the wrong way.
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Truth becomes a problem
when we don't want to do it.
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We don't want to obey the Lord.
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We don't want to live it...
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then it becomes complicated.
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Lots of debates and arguments.
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My practice in evangelism
was simply to present the truth.
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You do what you
want to do with it.
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Amen.
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And I'm going to do it
and I'm going to pray for you.
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And if the Holy Spirit doesn't
win you, you're not won anyhow.
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Amen!
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This word Sabbath.
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There are certain basic
things we've always heard
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but in sort of looking
around I found a new meaning.
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And it says it
comes from a Hebrew word
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which means -
essentially - STOP.
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Maybe you have heard that, but
I had never read that before.
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STOP. Now I understand that
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and I believe you do too.
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I will not then try
to make it complicated.
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I read somewhere that wise men
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have a way of making
profound things simple
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and foolish men have a way of
making simple things profound.
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So how do we
approach this? By the way,
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when I discovered that
part 2 comes this afternoon
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then I've got to be conscious
of that and not encroach
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because he who
brings that message
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is one of my favorite
preachers and he makes it clear.
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And so, when I thought how
to begin, I thought of creation.
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It seems to me
that ought to work.
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When I was a kid I had an
older sister who was a senior
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in high school.
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And in that particular
class, I believe it was biology,
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in that particular class
they had been pouring over
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Darwin and Huxley
and all the rest of them
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having drilled into their
heads as a legitimate science
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the business of evolution.
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And eventually
examination time came.
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And that sister was troubled
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as she came home
so serious and told us
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"I know what they want
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but how can I give it? "
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There was one essay
question on the test,
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and here is what it said:
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"How did this earth
come into existence? "
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Then there was this
long sheet of blank paper
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for you to take
all the time you wanted
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to produce a lie.
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They wanted these
students through intellectual
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regurgitation to
simply tell again
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what had been told
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by Darwin and others.
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They wanted these high
school students to account
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for uncounted billions of years
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as we slowly
evolved to the level
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where we are right now.
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She said to us later she
rolled it over in her mind.
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She knew what she believed.
She knew what they wanted.
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Could she do both?
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Could she handle it that way?
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She pondered the question
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and then she wrote
a terse little gem.
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Wrote it on the paper,
folded it, and passed it in.
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That little gem said:
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"In the beginning God
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created the
heavens and the earth. "
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The professor was furious.
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Singled out my nice sister
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for mockery.
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The professor hurled her
maledictions over the heads
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of the entire senior class
intending to humiliate someone
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whom she thought was
only trying to be smart.
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There were
demeaning declarations
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before the entire class.
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This was a
test... a bit of torment.
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Where do you stand now
when the chips are down?
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When the pressure is on?
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My sister died at 89
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her faith intact - Amen -
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and leaving behind a
tribe of Seventh-day Adventists
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who believe
with all their hearts
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that "in the beginning God. "
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I heard it last night -
I read it some time ago -
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that even Darwin
himself had questions.
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And when he came down
to die he wasn't as sure
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as he always appeared to be
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on the subject of evolution.
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I have in my files a
cover story from Newsweek
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on the evolution
of the evolution.
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They're not
sure... They're not sure.
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Oh, forgive this
little cute story.
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At least I thought it was cute.
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An atheist wanted
his time in court.
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The day came and he showed up.
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And the judge took his
seat and said: "Now what exactly
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is it you want us to
deal with in this court? "
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He said: "I want a holiday. "
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"What do you mean a holiday?
" He said: "Well the Jews have
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theirs... Passover and
all the rest of them... Purim.
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The Christians have
Easter and Christmas
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but we atheists
don't have anything. "
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The judge thought about
it and then pounded his gavel
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and said: "Case dismissed. "
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The atheist jumped up.
He said: "How can you? "
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"What do you mean case
dismissed? You haven't even
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heard the case yet. " He
said: "I don't need to. "
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"Why don't you? "
"Because you have a holiday. "
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"What is it? "
"April Fools Day! "
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"For the fool hath
said in his heart... "
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Amen!
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In the beginning God created.
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Now everything
human has a beginning.
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What an
appropriate way to introduce
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the Canon... the Word of God.
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Talk about Him in
the very first verse:
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the Sovereign Lord of time.
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Way back, and you can look
at me and tell I've been around
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a while... Way
back in my history
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I either read it or
heard it that Jehovah
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is simply a
conjugation of the verb to be.
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He was... He is... He shall be.
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Sometimes we who
believe what God has said
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the way He said it are
considered old-fashioned.
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I like to remind people
that God is old-fashioned.
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There never was a time
that He wasn't. That's right.
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He is and He shall be.
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Throughout the rolling
eons of the coming future
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there will be God.
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There will be God.
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But we cannot think
about the beginning.
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Jesus was there.
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John 1... It says: "In
the beginning was the Word" -
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the Logos - "and
the Word was with God
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and the Word was God.
The same was in the beginning
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with God. "
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Whatever you see was made by Him
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and without Him... nothing.
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Jesus was there in the beginning
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and in verse 14 it tells us
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this divine Logos became flesh,
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incarnated, and
dwelt amongst us.
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He therefore qualifies to
be the Author and the Finisher
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of our faith.
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I don't mind accepting
creationism as a theory
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as long as you don't
try to present evolution
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as empiric science.
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It is not! It
also is a theory...
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a theory that
almost lost credibility
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with the man who started it all.
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God is before all else.
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He is the cause of all else.
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He is dependent on nothing else.
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We are talking about God.
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There came a time
in the mind of God
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when He stepped out
into nothing and said:
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"Let there be
something... " and there was!
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Amen.
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That's the God that I
serve and believe in Him.
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Have not seen Him...
but I believe in Him. Amen.
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Will see Him...
so I believe in Him.
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All other is mere speculation.
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Empty, silly, idle,
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thought about with
high-faluting poly-syllabic,
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pseudo-scientific babble.
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I hope everybody here
has a fixed mind on this.
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But it is a fact that
on some of our campuses
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some are beginning to
give a kind of hospitality...
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They are choosing
a rather dead idea -
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theistic evolution -
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and trying to reconcile
that with the Word of God.
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It cannot be done.
You've got to make up your mind
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what you believe - Amen! -
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and why you believe
it and then stick to it!
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Amen! That shows character.
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We call it faith. Amen. Faith.
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And because of faith,
that issue is settled.
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Now you know of the
imagery of that preaching.
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I didn't read this in
the Spirit of Prophecy.
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But I had time to
contemplate Adam being created.
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And now he's finished, and
God breathes into his nostrils
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the breath of life and
Adam became a living soul.
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What happened next?
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This is not inspired but
it's what I thought about.
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I imagine Adam opened
his eyes and he is alive.
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That great heart
began pounding in his chest
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and the blood began to flow and
the brain received its oxygen
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and he looks up and he asks:
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"Who are you? "
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"Why Adam, I am God. "
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"What does that mean? "
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"Adam, I want you to look at
everything your eye can behold.
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Everything in perfection
and beauty that you see,
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everything that
you already appreciate,
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I made it
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and, Adam, I made you. "
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"How long did it take? "
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"Why, Adam, I've
been at it for six days. "
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"On the first day
light... " and He goes...
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"Well listen, why didn't
you create me on the first day
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so I could watch
you do all this making
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and then I would believe. "
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"No, my son. You
have to accept by faith.
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But you know, I've been
studying your circumstances.
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Every bull has his
cow; every boar has his sow;
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but you are all by
yourself. It's not good
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that man should be alone.
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And so I'm going
to make an helpmeet,
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a companion just for you. "
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"That's good! Now I
can watch you create her
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and I can believe. "
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"No. Have you ever
heard, Adam, of anesthesia?
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I'm going to put you to sleep
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and when you wake up
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the darling of your desires
will be standing right there
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by your side. "
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"In the beginning God... "
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This brief Mosaic
declaration under inspiration
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for my heart is enough.
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I am satisfied.
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And you are and millions are
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satisfied with this declaration.
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We accept it. Amen.
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Habakkuk said "the
just shall live by faith. "
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Not just have faith...
you've got to live by it.
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Amen.
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That Paul chose that as
his thesis - repeating it
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with power in
New Testament times.
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"The just shall live by
faith. " Not by logic...
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though faith is logical.
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Not by intellectualism...
though God created these brains
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to think. But "the just
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shall live by faith. "
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And it is not required of us
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that we be smarter
than or as smart as God.
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I don't even go
there in my thinking.
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God is the supreme wisdom...
the supreme intellect...
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and we couldn't handle
it if we were allowed in
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on His cogitations'.
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Now that is not to encourage
us not to use our brains.
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Inspiration does say we only use
about 10% of the brain power,
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but look how
smart some of us are.
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But the truth is
you have to have faith
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in the truth. And you do
that by not arrogating your own
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opinions to a level
where God declares...
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especially to oppose Him.
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Elohim... in the
beginning God. A plural noun.
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And in the next few
verses you find plural pronouns:
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Our, Us, etc.
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When God started it all
there was no light down here.
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And God said:
"Let there be light"
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and then He contemplated
it and announced it very good.
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And it still is.
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For when God declared -
when God spake and it was done -
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when it happened
there had been no light.
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I call light visible energy,
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and God created it.
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And so it is with
the shadows fleeing away
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that the shadows of
ignorance can be swept away.
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The shadows of dark habits,
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the shadows of gloominess,
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doubts,
high-sounding ignorance...
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when the light
comes it dissipates.
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No light... no life.
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Light is visible energy.
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I remember very well
being moved to Cleveland, Ohio,
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on January 2.
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Nobody should move on January 2
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in the north country.
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But we did...
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and it snowed every
day for three weeks.
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Now it didn't snow hard,
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but there was the spitting
of snow every day for 3 weeks.
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I decided as a new pastor
I had to be about my business
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so I was running around in it.
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And then one day I
just felt awfully good.
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So much so that I
didn't understand why.
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And then it dawned
on me... the sun was out
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and the endorphins were running.
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I was affected
physically before my mind
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caught up with
it. Light does that.
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It affects the whole
person... the whole man.
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The sun had come out.
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"Let there be light.
" God spoke His will...
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the universe
responds. There WAS light,
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and God said: "That's good. "
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Now He let Adam name
the various creatures
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but He named day and night.
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He said: "I will call the light
day and the darkness I will
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call night because I'm
going to begin measuring time. "
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And the evening and the
morning were the first day.
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The evening and the
morning... the second day.
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All the way down the line...
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Not incomprehensible ages.
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Not millennium
following millennium
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means the day,
but 24-hour segments.
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The evening and the
morning were the day.
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I read that in the
far north scientists
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have found the remains of
luxurious tropical gardens.
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What in the world?
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Today there's
nothing but extreme cold.
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Ice and snow everywhere.
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Something must have happened.
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Well something did...
it's called The Flood.
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And that's why... Dr. Justice
told me that's why every time
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you buy a globe it's tilted.
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Off kilter. Off perpendicular.
00:30:59.69\00:31:04.00
When that terrible tsunami
struck Japan, they announced
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after a day that it
had been moved 8 degrees.
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Now I didn't catch it all
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but here the
capricious act of nature
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affects an entire globe.
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Extreme. Eight
degrees off normal.
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God divided the waters
and set the bounds thereof.
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Of course, He made the
sun, the moon, and the stars.
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All of this He called good.
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And while scientists
today create conundrums
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God did His work perfectly -
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I said perfectly. Amen!
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I heard quite a scientific
argument not long ago.
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Joshua was fighting
and needed time, so God
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held up the coming
of evening for Joshua.
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"Ah, " said the
critics, "how could that be?
00:32:06.27\00:32:09.77
You can't just
drop time out of time.
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You've got to
make it up somewhere. "
00:32:13.77\00:32:15.99
Well I read later on
that there was a king
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who was told he
was going to die.
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And God heard his prayer
and extended his life 15 years.
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And like most of
us he wanted a sign.
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So the prophet told
him to go out into the yard
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and look at the sundial of Ahaz.
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And when you look at
it, God will move the shadow
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forward or
backward at your discretion.
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God is willing to
do whatever it takes
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to establish faith! Amen.
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And so when he looked at it
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he said: "Oh, no,
no, no. Optical illusion.
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If the thing moves forward,
it's headed that way anyhow.
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I might be fooled. I
want it to go backward. "
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And God moved it
backward by ten degrees,
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and ten degrees is about a day.
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So there was the time that the
critics were all upset about.
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God gave it right back
in the days of Hezekiah.
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Day six: land animals...
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created to
reproduce after their kind.
00:33:21.58\00:33:25.89
When you get into
evolution and ignorance
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you believe anything.
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There are some with
such extreme racial ideas
00:33:36.03\00:33:39.04
that you wonder is
there any hope for them...
00:33:39.34\00:33:43.10
for that person.
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I have had people
speak of certain peoples
00:33:45.61\00:33:50.70
are the result of amalgamation
between man and beast.
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God said "they will
reproduce after their kind. "
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And to suggest
anything else is to accuse God
00:33:58.20\00:34:02.05
and to suggest
biological impossibilities.
00:34:02.15\00:34:06.05
It cannot be.
00:34:06.35\00:34:08.86
And then God said:
00:34:10.33\00:34:12.31
"Let Us make man
00:34:12.61\00:34:17.27
in Our image.
00:34:17.57\00:34:20.48
Let's give him preeminence
over everything else.
00:34:20.78\00:34:26.07
We'll make him life Us. "
00:34:26.37\00:34:28.07
The Lord's servant
says: "Akin to his Maker. "
00:34:28.27\00:34:31.69
And when God had fashioned him
He breathed into his nostrils
00:34:31.99\00:34:36.85
the breath of life and
man became... became. "
00:34:37.05\00:34:41.78
Didn't say man
was given or man had.
00:34:41.98\00:34:43.87
He became. The soul
wasn't a little extra being
00:34:43.98\00:34:48.29
sitting on his shoulder
00:34:48.39\00:34:49.50
dictating the
course he should take.
00:34:49.70\00:34:51.95
He became a
soul... that's what he was.
00:34:52.25\00:34:55.00
He became a living
soul by the will of God.
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Male and female... denoting
not just difference in sex
00:35:01.19\00:35:06.13
but duality of sex.
00:35:06.33\00:35:08.06
God's plan. And He said to Adam:
00:35:09.37\00:35:12.60
"You may utilize
for food and aesthetics
00:35:12.80\00:35:15.98
everything that you see.
00:35:16.18\00:35:18.10
The beautiful trees
of the garden, the fruits
00:35:18.30\00:35:22.31
of the trees. " I
find it amazing that Satan
00:35:22.51\00:35:27.01
got Eve so easily off kilter.
00:35:27.21\00:35:32.29
He began to
talk about that tree.
00:35:32.69\00:35:35.92
"Hath not God said
you shouldn't eat? "
00:35:36.22\00:35:38.63
I'm going to stop
there deliberately
00:35:38.93\00:35:41.11
because that's the way Satan
comes with his extreme ideas.
00:35:41.31\00:35:44.75
"Didn't God say you shouldn't
eat of these? " "Oh, no"
00:35:45.05\00:35:48.13
said Eve,
running to God's defense.
00:35:48.33\00:35:50.12
I want to tell you God
doesn't need a defense.
00:35:50.42\00:35:52.66
He needs a witness.
00:35:52.96\00:35:54.24
Amen.
00:35:54.34\00:35:55.48
"God never said that.
00:35:55.79\00:35:57.38
What He did say was there
is one tree in the midst of
00:35:57.68\00:36:00.55
the garden is forbidden
00:36:00.65\00:36:02.11
and the day we eat
thereof we'll surely die. "
00:36:02.21\00:36:04.73
"Ah-ha, " said the devil.
00:36:04.83\00:36:06.38
"Well if God had
forbidden it because He knows
00:36:06.68\00:36:10.42
the day you eat of
it you'll be like Him
00:36:10.62\00:36:13.55
knowing good and evil.
00:36:13.85\00:36:15.95
You're going to be
little gods down here
00:36:16.25\00:36:19.14
in the Garden of Eden. "
00:36:19.34\00:36:20.87
You read the sad
story, and the Bible says
00:36:21.17\00:36:24.11
when Eve saw that the
fruit was pleasant to the eyes.
00:36:24.31\00:36:29.28
Now let me say
something profound.
00:36:29.48\00:36:32.11
And remember...
profundity is simplicity...
00:36:32.41\00:36:36.82
let me tell you
something profound.
00:36:37.22\00:36:40.55
That tree not only bore fruit
that was pleasant to the eyes
00:36:40.85\00:36:46.53
but every other tree had
fruit pleasant to the eyes.
00:36:46.73\00:36:51.80
We have to be determined
Satan is not going to take us
00:36:53.08\00:36:56.72
so easily.
00:36:56.92\00:36:59.50
And the sadness that
emanates from that mistake
00:37:01.03\00:37:05.69
is with us to this very day.
00:37:05.89\00:37:08.48
But way back on day six
00:37:08.78\00:37:11.78
God looked at all that He
had made including Adam and Eve
00:37:12.28\00:37:17.03
and pronounced it very good.
00:37:17.34\00:37:20.67
And the shadows were
bending hard toward the east
00:37:21.57\00:37:27.37
and the sun was westerning
00:37:27.58\00:37:31.28
on the first sixth
day of creation week.
00:37:31.48\00:37:36.31
Chapter 2 verse 1.
00:37:38.50\00:37:43.81
"Thus the heavens and
the earth were finished
00:37:44.04\00:37:48.44
and all the host of them
00:37:48.74\00:37:52.13
and on the seventh day... "
00:37:52.43\00:37:55.08
I always like to look at words.
00:37:55.28\00:37:58.52
You don't have an
indefinite article
00:37:58.92\00:38:02.80
"a, " you have a
definite article "the. "
00:38:03.00\00:38:06.56
"And on THE seventh
day... " Not "a" seventh day
00:38:06.86\00:38:12.71
of your... any day
of your choosing...
00:38:12.91\00:38:14.95
but on "THE seventh
day God ended His work
00:38:15.15\00:38:18.75
which He had created and made. "
00:38:18.95\00:38:20.98
Remember that
definition of Sabbath? STOP!
00:38:21.29\00:38:24.08
God has finished
it now and He stops.
00:38:25.28\00:38:28.49
"And on the seventh
day God ended His work. "
00:38:28.79\00:38:34.21
And God rested,
and God blessed it,
00:38:34.41\00:38:39.60
and God sanctified
it or hallowed it...
00:38:39.80\00:38:43.88
which means He set it apart
00:38:44.18\00:38:46.72
for special sacred use.
00:38:46.75\00:38:50.93
That was the
beginning of the Sabbath.
00:38:51.52\00:38:55.03
And I thought it
important to start right there
00:38:55.33\00:38:59.10
and answer some questions.
00:38:59.50\00:39:02.17
Did God rest
because He was tired?
00:39:02.37\00:39:06.29
No, no. The Bible tells us
He neither slumbers nor sleeps.
00:39:06.59\00:39:11.16
To suggest exhaustion, fatigue,
would be incredible on our part.
00:39:11.36\00:39:17.13
It was simply a rhythm being
established in the beginning.
00:39:17.33\00:39:21.97
One, two, three,
four, five, six, STOP!
00:39:22.27\00:39:26.58
One, two, three,
four, five, six, STOP!
00:39:26.98\00:39:32.47
A rhythm of life.
00:39:32.77\00:39:35.72
A rhythm for life.
00:39:36.02\00:39:39.88
And if man had always
remembered the Sabbath
00:39:41.60\00:39:46.83
there would never
be an atheist. Amen.
00:39:47.13\00:39:50.40
Never an idol worshiper. Amen.
00:39:51.12\00:39:53.54
Never an agnostic.
00:39:54.37\00:39:56.53
Never a deist.
00:39:56.93\00:39:59.57
Never a Communist.
00:39:59.87\00:40:02.99
Not one in all the
earth if man had remembered
00:40:03.29\00:40:08.53
one, two, three,
four, five, six, STOP!
00:40:08.73\00:40:13.66
I can't go too much
further in that direction.
00:40:18.60\00:40:21.69
Don't want to preempt anything
that I expect this afternoon,
00:40:21.89\00:40:25.26
but the point is if
man had remembered that
00:40:25.36\00:40:29.11
we'd all be one.
00:40:30.85\00:40:32.89
Amen.
00:40:33.19\00:40:34.55
And we'd all
worship God in the same way.
00:40:34.85\00:40:39.22
Once every week we
celebrate His creatorship
00:40:39.52\00:40:45.46
and His deity.
00:40:45.66\00:40:48.63
His God-hood.
00:40:48.94\00:40:51.16
Every week.
00:40:51.26\00:40:53.45
One, two, three,
four, five, six, STOP!
00:40:53.75\00:40:57.93
and consider God.
00:40:59.29\00:41:01.43
Wise man said:
"Remember now thy Creator
00:41:03.03\00:41:06.78
in the days of thy youth. "
00:41:06.98\00:41:08.25
I have a translation that says
00:41:08.45\00:41:10.20
"Remember now thy
Creator before you get any older
00:41:10.40\00:41:13.49
or while you are
as young as you are. "
00:41:15.59\00:41:19.54
It's time to line up with
God and stop looking for excuses
00:41:20.83\00:41:26.82
to live in disobedience.
00:41:27.02\00:41:29.59
God set this up
when? In the beginning.
00:41:29.89\00:41:33.87
Who did it?
God... and not Moses.
00:41:34.17\00:41:37.65
Amen.
00:41:37.86\00:41:38.92
Isn't that clear? Amen.
00:41:41.06\00:41:43.07
That's so clear
even I understand it.
00:41:43.27\00:41:45.61
God did it. Why did He do it?
00:41:46.88\00:41:49.64
As a sign between
Himself and His creatures
00:41:49.94\00:41:54.63
that He is recognized
as the God who in six days
00:41:54.83\00:41:59.09
created the
heavens and the earth.
00:41:59.29\00:42:01.22
He is, therefore,
the only true God.
00:42:01.42\00:42:04.21
There is no God beside Him!
00:42:04.42\00:42:07.91
And Sabbath keeping is
to store that in our heads
00:42:08.11\00:42:12.47
and keep it front and center
00:42:12.67\00:42:14.85
as we go through life's
six days shalt thou labor
00:42:15.06\00:42:19.72
but on the seventh day STOP!
00:42:19.92\00:42:22.43
while you're as young as you are
00:42:22.73\00:42:25.56
and contemplate God.
00:42:25.86\00:42:29.95
He gives us a
reason for observance.
00:42:30.25\00:42:32.96
The reason is found in
the commandment itself.
00:42:33.26\00:42:37.17
When you read it, it
goes into these words:
00:42:37.47\00:42:41.18
"Remember the Sabbath
day to keep it holy. "
00:42:41.28\00:42:42.57
But then it goes
into these words:
00:42:42.77\00:42:44.37
"For... " Here's why.
00:42:44.67\00:42:46.31
"For in six days
00:42:46.51\00:42:49.43
the Lord created the heavens
and the earth, the sea, and
00:42:49.63\00:42:52.31
all that in them
is AND RESTED... "
00:42:52.51\00:42:55.16
He wasn't tired.
00:42:55.36\00:42:56.74
He was setting a
divine precedent.
00:42:57.04\00:42:59.32
"He rested on the seventh day. "
00:42:59.52\00:43:02.47
He blessed it -
not just the rest -
00:43:02.67\00:43:05.94
and set an example for mankind.
00:43:06.24\00:43:08.56
But He blessed it.
00:43:08.76\00:43:11.08
Nowhere do read He ever
did that to another day.
00:43:11.38\00:43:16.85
Nowhere.
00:43:17.15\00:43:18.83
It never happened.
00:43:19.13\00:43:21.74
And then He sanctified it
00:43:22.04\00:43:24.12
meaning He took it and
set it apart for sacred use.
00:43:24.42\00:43:28.75
That's why we keep the Sabbath.
00:43:28.99\00:43:32.16
It is a sign
between our souls and God
00:43:32.46\00:43:35.74
that He is the true God
00:43:36.04\00:43:38.63
and we are willing to
listen to Him above all others.
00:43:38.93\00:43:43.24
We are willing to pay attention
when He wants our attention.
00:43:43.54\00:43:47.76
We are willing to go
where He wants us to go
00:43:49.11\00:43:51.55
and do what He wants us to do.
00:43:51.65\00:43:55.02
And it's a sign between us.
00:43:55.32\00:43:58.69
Now, I was once young,
00:43:58.99\00:44:02.42
and in my late 20's I
got an invitation to speak
00:44:02.72\00:44:08.68
at General Conference session.
00:44:08.88\00:44:11.31
What? General
Conference session.
00:44:11.61\00:44:15.30
Now I pastored a big church
00:44:15.60\00:44:18.55
and I have
spoken to large crowds,
00:44:18.85\00:44:21.85
but they told me then to expect
between 35 and 40 thousand
00:44:22.15\00:44:27.64
in the audience.
00:44:27.84\00:44:29.24
Now that's heavy
00:44:29.54\00:44:31.55
and unless you are made of steel
00:44:32.05\00:44:34.41
it's going to
affect you a little.
00:44:34.91\00:44:37.64
And that precious
wife of mine came back
00:44:37.94\00:44:41.68
to bring assurance.
And she said to me: "Honey,
00:44:41.88\00:44:46.36
when you come out on the rostrum
00:44:46.66\00:44:49.31
and this host is
seated before you
00:44:49.61\00:44:52.53
I want you to find me. I'm going
to try to be in the front area.
00:44:52.84\00:44:55.63
When you do and our eyes meet
00:44:55.93\00:45:01.09
I'm going to wink like that.
00:45:01.39\00:45:03.73
That means I'm praying for you,
00:45:05.20\00:45:08.32
God is here, and
everything will be all right. "
00:45:08.62\00:45:12.35
Amen.
00:45:12.66\00:45:13.72
So I walked out on that stage
00:45:14.02\00:45:16.30
and it had its
effect... they were everywhere.
00:45:16.60\00:45:19.24
All of these people...
but I'm not looking for them.
00:45:19.54\00:45:23.42
I sat in my chair and I
tried to be real cool about it.
00:45:23.72\00:45:27.52
I turned this way and I
looked and then I cast my eyes
00:45:27.73\00:45:32.80
into the center and then another
center row, and I saw her!
00:45:33.00\00:45:37.42
And she saw me and she winked.
00:45:37.83\00:45:41.72
Now that was a sign
between herself and me.
00:45:41.92\00:45:47.68
Amen! Didn't mean a
thing to anybody else.
00:45:47.98\00:45:51.85
Another person watching her wink
would have thought she simply
00:45:53.17\00:45:56.24
got something in her eye.
00:45:56.35\00:45:58.41
Or even worse,
maybe she was flirting.
00:45:59.51\00:46:02.53
But I want to tell you,
it meant something to me
00:46:05.77\00:46:07.83
and it had the effect
of settling me right down.
00:46:08.13\00:46:11.59
And the Lord was
there that night.
00:46:11.89\00:46:15.16
It's a sign between Me and thee.
00:46:16.45\00:46:20.43
If you want to seek some
good company in Sabbath keeping,
00:46:20.73\00:46:23.86
start with Adam and Eve.
00:46:24.17\00:46:25.88
They lived almost 1,000 years.
00:46:26.18\00:46:30.22
Then you've got Abel and Seth.
Methuselah lived the longest.
00:46:30.52\00:46:35.62
He kept Sabbath.
00:46:39.93\00:46:42.40
Then there was Noah.
00:46:42.71\00:46:45.09
Abraham. I made a mistake.
00:46:45.39\00:46:48.14
I don't know if you caught
it or not, but I just made it
00:46:48.34\00:46:50.67
and immediately I
became conscious of it.
00:46:50.97\00:46:52.61
I said Methuselah
lived the longest.
00:46:52.81\00:46:54.84
Isn't that what you thought?
00:46:55.04\00:46:56.82
That's not true.
00:46:57.12\00:46:58.82
Methuselah was the
oldest man that ever died.
00:47:00.20\00:47:03.83
His Daddy was the
oldest man that ever lived
00:47:04.33\00:47:06.92
'cause he's still living! Amen.
00:47:07.12\00:47:08.86
He was translated
without seeing death.
00:47:09.73\00:47:12.77
But that isn't my point.
These men kept the Sabbath,
00:47:13.08\00:47:16.42
and every Sabbath day
they contemplated the true
00:47:16.62\00:47:20.40
and living God who in six days
00:47:20.60\00:47:23.19
created the heavens
and the earth. Amen!
00:47:23.39\00:47:25.60
Abraham and Isaac
00:47:28.60\00:47:31.76
and Jacob.
00:47:33.06\00:47:34.85
And Jacob's sons
were slaves in Egypt.
00:47:35.95\00:47:40.86
I know something about slavery,
00:47:41.16\00:47:43.95
and I like to see
people's foreheads wrinkle
00:47:44.25\00:47:46.96
when I tell them my
people were never slaves...
00:47:47.06\00:47:50.67
they were enslaved.
00:47:51.07\00:47:54.85
And that is a comment on
the wicked people who did it.
00:47:55.16\00:47:59.46
Four hundred years
enslaved... in bondage.
00:48:02.18\00:48:06.48
And while they were there in
bondage, bondage became cruel.
00:48:06.78\00:48:12.78
No respect; no love.
00:48:14.68\00:48:17.13
Especially no
respect for your religion.
00:48:17.43\00:48:20.55
As a matter of fact,
the Egyptians thought
00:48:20.75\00:48:22.56
that's part of what tees us off.
00:48:22.76\00:48:25.80
And so they forbade the Jews
00:48:27.24\00:48:30.39
to keep Sabbath.
00:48:30.49\00:48:32.26
Had to keep on working.
00:48:32.56\00:48:35.29
One, two, three,
four, five, six, seven.
00:48:35.59\00:48:38.35
One, two... And it
went on for so long
00:48:38.65\00:48:41.21
that when God sent Moses down...
00:48:42.54\00:48:44.66
I want you to catch this.
Moses went in before Pharaoh
00:48:44.96\00:48:47.02
and said: "Thus saith the Lord:
00:48:47.32\00:48:49.08
let My people go
00:48:49.38\00:48:50.71
that they might
worship Me in the desert. "
00:48:51.01\00:48:52.50
And Pharaoh looked
at Moses incredulously
00:48:52.80\00:48:56.80
and said: "Who is God?
00:48:57.00\00:48:59.30
Or who does He think He is? "
00:49:00.69\00:49:02.86
But you know what? The
Jews asked the same question.
00:49:03.16\00:49:07.11
When Moses went to
them they wanted to know
00:49:08.53\00:49:10.74
"Well who is the God that said
you were going to deliver us? "
00:49:10.94\00:49:13.65
And Moses had to unload: "I AM
00:49:15.02\00:49:19.29
is the God who
sent me for you. "
00:49:19.59\00:49:22.15
If you stop keeping the
Sabbath, you forget God.
00:49:22.45\00:49:27.14
You might call on His name;
00:49:29.39\00:49:30.73
you might put up a front;
you might do a lot of things...
00:49:30.93\00:49:33.92
but you forget God. And
that's why Sabbath is important.
00:49:34.12\00:49:39.35
That's why I teach
the Sabbath the way I do.
00:49:39.65\00:49:44.22
And one of the
main excuses you get is:
00:49:44.52\00:49:47.98
"the Sabbath is Jewish. "
00:49:48.18\00:49:50.48
I just told you:
00:49:51.90\00:49:53.77
one, two, three,
four, five, six...
00:49:54.07\00:49:59.70
and He made man and woman.
00:50:00.00\00:50:04.53
If you understand
that, say "Amen. "
00:50:04.74\00:50:06.45
Amen! Now that's
simple, isn't it?
00:50:06.75\00:50:08.39
Amen. And I want to
ask you a serious question:
00:50:08.70\00:50:11.69
when God the next
day created the Sabbath
00:50:11.99\00:50:17.67
how many Jews were in the Garden
of Eden with Adam and Eve?
00:50:17.97\00:50:23.63
There were only two
people alive: Adam and Eve!
00:50:26.99\00:50:31.12
2,300 years later
00:50:31.23\00:50:34.60
would come Abraham and
Isaac and Jacob and Jews.
00:50:34.90\00:50:38.15
Two thousand plus years!
00:50:39.27\00:50:42.02
You've got to get
past the patriarchal age.
00:50:42.43\00:50:45.17
You've got to get past Noah
00:50:45.37\00:50:46.82
and the
re-population of the earth.
00:50:47.22\00:50:49.26
You've got to get all
the way down to Abraham...
00:50:49.46\00:50:54.01
sometimes called a Jew.
00:50:54.21\00:50:56.39
But Israel was a
name given to Jacob,
00:50:56.69\00:51:00.27
and his sons became the Jews.
00:51:00.67\00:51:06.66
Confusion?
00:51:07.06\00:51:09.06
A famous television
personality said the other day
00:51:10.55\00:51:14.89
to everybody listening:
"There are those who say
00:51:15.00\00:51:18.56
that we should
keep Saturday holy. "
00:51:18.76\00:51:22.06
Now he's talking to
his own congregation.
00:51:22.26\00:51:24.83
And he said: "I want
to make an announcement. "
00:51:25.13\00:51:27.37
Not the same words, but then...
00:51:27.67\00:51:29.34
He said: "I
keep Saturday holy. "
00:51:29.54\00:51:32.88
And everything got quiet.
00:51:33.18\00:51:35.68
Now they're shaking. Wonder?
00:51:35.98\00:51:39.14
He said: "I keep Saturday holy"
00:51:39.44\00:51:42.38
and he paused
00:51:42.59\00:51:45.26
"and Sunday and Monday
00:51:45.56\00:51:50.17
and Tuesday. "
When he got to Wednesday
00:51:51.53\00:51:56.21
everybody relaxed.
00:51:56.31\00:51:57.94
That isn't what
God told us to do.
00:52:00.33\00:52:03.12
Amen. He said:
"Remember THE seventh day.
00:52:03.43\00:52:07.84
Keep IT... " Just
one... "Keep IT holy.
00:52:08.14\00:52:13.68
That'll be a sign
between us that I am your God. "
00:52:13.98\00:52:18.58
He was not at all
interested in confusing us.
00:52:18.88\00:52:24.71
Now there are some lazy
people who would have loved
00:52:25.01\00:52:27.65
what the minister said on TV.
00:52:27.76\00:52:29.22
They don't want to work any day.
00:52:29.52\00:52:31.23
What they'd rather do
is live off somebody else
00:52:34.47\00:52:38.84
or steal or rob or sell drugs.
00:52:39.14\00:52:42.09
There are people who
have an aversion to working.
00:52:42.39\00:52:46.01
God finished His work.
00:52:46.21\00:52:49.07
Work is good for us. Amen.
00:52:49.27\00:52:52.37
He did it in six days
00:52:52.40\00:52:54.81
and then on the seventh
He told us to keep it holy.
00:52:54.91\00:52:58.45
Now I need to add a thing or two
00:52:58.75\00:53:00.57
and I'm watching my time.
00:53:00.87\00:53:02.04
And the thing I
want to add right now is
00:53:02.24\00:53:04.72
you don't keep Sabbath
the way people keep Sunday.
00:53:04.92\00:53:07.59
You can go to church on Sunday
00:53:07.89\00:53:09.61
and you can sit there watching
your watch while the preacher
00:53:09.92\00:53:13.05
preaches too long.
And as soon as you get out
00:53:13.25\00:53:15.65
you can go watch
the NFL or baseball
00:53:15.85\00:53:19.63
or you can watch
soccer or you can go swimming
00:53:19.83\00:53:23.75
or you can cook dinner.
00:53:23.95\00:53:26.54
When God was trying to
get His people into rhythm
00:53:30.63\00:53:34.52
with the manna metronome,
00:53:34.82\00:53:37.29
when God was trying
to get them into sync,
00:53:37.69\00:53:41.31
He told them: "On
Friday gather enough manna
00:53:41.61\00:53:44.75
for Sabbath. It will not spoil.
00:53:44.95\00:53:47.12
And seethe that
which you... or boil
00:53:47.32\00:53:50.03
that which you must
boil. Stew... but do it on the
00:53:50.23\00:53:54.07
Preparation Day. "
00:53:54.18\00:53:55.74
Sabbath is not kept
the way people keep Sunday.
00:53:57.16\00:54:00.63
And I want to tell you something
00:54:00.93\00:54:02.43
and I hope you
will understand me,
00:54:02.63\00:54:04.26
Sabbath is not a holiday.
00:54:04.56\00:54:07.59
Amen. It is a HOLY DAY!
00:54:07.89\00:54:09.79
And the Bible says it is
to be a day of convocation.
00:54:10.09\00:54:15.37
What does that mean? It
means a day to gather together
00:54:15.67\00:54:19.36
with those of like precious
faith and worship together.
00:54:19.56\00:54:23.57
And the Bible
says: "So much the more
00:54:23.77\00:54:26.76
as you see the day
approaching. " Amen.
00:54:26.96\00:54:31.22
Sabbath is a day of assembly.
00:54:31.42\00:54:34.02
Sabbath to me is not a problem
00:54:36.03\00:54:39.73
it's a privilege.
00:54:40.60\00:54:42.10
Amen. Sabbath to
me is not a burden.
00:54:42.40\00:54:46.27
It's a blessing.
Amen. Always has been.
00:54:46.57\00:54:50.92
What? Have you thought of this?
00:54:51.32\00:54:54.22
They did a study on the
West Coast and discovered
00:54:54.46\00:54:56.81
that Sabbath
keepers and vegetarians
00:54:57.01\00:54:59.80
live an average of 6-10
years longer than the average
00:55:00.00\00:55:03.95
other American.
00:55:04.15\00:55:05.62
You mean Sabbath
keeping helps that? Yes!
00:55:05.92\00:55:09.48
It releases tension.
00:55:09.78\00:55:10.98
You don't have to worry
about those bills you don't have
00:55:11.18\00:55:13.36
enough money to pay. You
can at least have a day off!
00:55:13.46\00:55:16.70
And when the tension goes
out your health is improved.
00:55:19.28\00:55:25.20
And now I want to just
tell you something wonderful.
00:55:25.50\00:55:30.92
It will not interfere with
he who shall come after me.
00:55:31.22\00:55:34.87
And that is:
00:55:35.17\00:55:37.59
God's going to
create a new heaven
00:55:37.89\00:55:41.90
and a new earth
00:55:42.20\00:55:44.55
wherein dwelleth righteousness.
00:55:44.85\00:55:48.03
We are candidates. We
can live in God's new earth.
00:55:48.33\00:55:53.34
Now when we get to
heaven there's no night there.
00:55:53.64\00:55:56.42
We've got a thousand
years. And Ellen White says
00:55:56.62\00:55:59.09
you will neither
desire nor require repose.
00:55:59.29\00:56:03.05
Won't even get
sleepy up in glory.
00:56:03.46\00:56:07.20
But when the new earth comes
down, there is a "resumation"
00:56:08.07\00:56:11.92
of God's original plan.
And the Bible says in Isaiah
00:56:12.12\00:56:15.83
chapter 66 that "from
one new moon to another... "
00:56:16.04\00:56:19.64
Moon... month...
"From one new moon
00:56:19.84\00:56:23.20
to another and from
one Sabbath to another
00:56:23.40\00:56:27.01
shall all flesh come to worship
before Me saith the Lord. "
00:56:27.21\00:56:32.83
Amen! Somebody said to me
00:56:33.13\00:56:35.02
"How on earth can you keep
the Sabbath on a round world? "
00:56:35.22\00:56:38.75
And I thought about that just
as I was coming to church today.
00:56:39.05\00:56:42.56
And I thought in
order to get out here
00:56:42.87\00:56:45.98
I had to leave
Chicago on a train
00:56:46.18\00:56:49.02
at 4 something PM.
00:56:49.22\00:56:51.92
Now when I got aboard that
train I wasn't worried about
00:56:52.22\00:56:55.88
those in Homewood and Kankakee
00:56:56.09\00:56:59.59
and Gilman and Rantoul
00:56:59.80\00:57:03.12
and Champaign and Mattoon.
00:57:03.42\00:57:06.74
If they're coming this
way, they get on the train
00:57:07.04\00:57:10.11
when it reaches them.
00:57:10.31\00:57:11.66
But for me, it was Chicago.
00:57:11.96\00:57:14.50
Isn't that clear?
00:57:18.22\00:57:19.74
Let us pray.
Oh, Heavenly Father,
00:57:20.04\00:57:23.48
thank you for a
sweet and precious gift:
00:57:23.78\00:57:28.32
the gift of the Sabbath
00:57:28.35\00:57:30.10
and for those who
accept and believe...
00:57:30.24\00:57:31.66