In today's troubled
world people are wondering
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where we are headed?
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Revelation Today
presents the answers.
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Bible prophecy reveals
what the future holds in store.
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Revelation Today.
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Good evening, everyone.
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I'm sure you're enjoying
this Revelation Today seminar.
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Tonight we have
another exciting presentation.
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You know memorials
can be wonderful things.
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Every year, we
celebrate independence
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on the fourth of July.
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We like independence so much,
here that we've memorialized it
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by naming that road out
there Independence Boulevard,
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the Statue of
Liberty, the Taj Mahal,
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the monuments that you see
at the mall on Washington D.C.,
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they are memorials and
they stand for something,
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well, they stand for someone.
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God has memorials, too.
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When Israel crossed
into the Promised Land,
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a pillar of stone was erected.
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After a victory
over the philistine,
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Samuel had the people raise
something he named Ebenezer.
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The Book of Revelation
talks about a memorial, a sign.
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Be blessed
tonight as you find out
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what that is and
why it's so important.
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And now please
welcome the presenter
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of Revelation
Today, Ron Halvorsen.
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Good to see you here tonight.
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God is good all
the time, all the time.
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Tonight's subject
that we want to talk about
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"Revelation's Eternal Sign."
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But let's bow our
heads in a word of prayer
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before we begin.
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Gracious Father, we
now turn to Your word.
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We pray God that we
might understand this
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very hard subject that we
might come to grips with it,
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open our hearts to
it, open our minds.
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For some, it'll
be a new journey,
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they're taking a
journey further than
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they've ever been before as
they become pilgrims of faith.
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Bless those Father,
that as they open the word
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that they'll see that the
word is a light into our path
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to guide us and
direct us and was ever said
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and done might give unearned
glory to you Jesus Christ.
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Amen and amen.
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A blind boy stood
on a busy street corner
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waiting for his father.
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And a man noticing the
blind boy and the busy traffic,
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he went over to
offer the young man
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a way across the busy traffic
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and the young man said, no
sir, I'm waiting for my father.
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And so the man said,
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well, can you trust your
father to come and get you?
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He says, yes, my father loves me
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and you see my father
can see and I'm blind.
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I thank God we've a
father like that, amen. Amen.
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And you may be blinded, we
may be blinded by our traditions
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that we've learned
from little children,
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we may be blinded
because of our theology
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and may be that's messed up.
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And we're blind to
some truths that perhaps
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because of this
tradition or this theology
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or so as blinded by the ritual
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or overcome by our preconceived
ideas and by our culture.
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But I hope we're
like that blind boy,
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we say, we're
gonna wait for our father
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to take our hand
and get us across.
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And by the way,
He will come to you
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and He'll take your
hand and He will get you,
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He will get you, He
will get you across.
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Now, the curtain opens on
Revelation and opens to John.
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Remember John is
almost 100 years old,
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he is imprisoned for his faith.
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He is on the Isle of Patmos,
28 miles off the mainland,
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out in the agency.
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And John is
still faithful to God.
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In the worst
kind of circumstances,
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he is still faithful to God.
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And he's praying
and seeking God's faith
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and God opens the curtain to him
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and shows him many
marvelous and exciting things.
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And John there on the Isle
of Patmos, he says these words,
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"And I was on the Spirit or in
the Spirit on the Lord's day."
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He looks and he hears
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and he sees the
struggle of truth against heirs.
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The rise of false
religion and false worship,
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he sees John, he sees spiritual
Israel, the people of God
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and He says, "Come out
of Babylon, my people."
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God is calling them out
from heirs, out from tradition
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and to the Word of
God so they'll be faithful
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as they walk as pilgrims
to the kingdom of heaven.
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And that's why in
Revelation 18:4, he says,
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"Come out of
Babylon, my people,"
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and those who are true Israel
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or those who are
true spiritual Israel.
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Those who are true
to the Word of God,
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those who are
true to Jesus Christ,
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they follow with their
hand in the hand of God.
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Heirs according to
Abraham but more than that
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heirs according to the
pure faith, the line of faith,
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the Lord Jesus Christ adopted
into the family of Christ.
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What made the people
in the Old Testament,
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the Israel of God different.
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It first of all
was their calling,
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they were called out ones.
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"Come out of Babylon, my people,
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that ye be not
partakers of her sins,
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that you receive
not of her plagues."
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They were to make a
difference in the pagan world.
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They were to make a difference
honoring God in all things,
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living out the Word
of God in all things,
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loving God's
holy law in all ways.
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What made them
different in those people of God
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were not so much concerned
about space, about possessions
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and their
things and their owning
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but rather about God's time.
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Today, we are
concerned about things,
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we're concerned
about possessions,
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we're concerned
about owning and possessing
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but in that day they were
concerned more about time.
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You see serving
Jehovah was a way of life,
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it was a lifestyle, it was
not just one week for an hour,
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it was their whole life,
every moment of every day.
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They lived in the context
of serving this living God.
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And they honored him each week.
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You see, there
was a rhythm to life,
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there was a
rhythm to serving God
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and they were
fulfilling His purpose.
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The people of God in the past
learned in the very beginning
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to embrace the
time God allotted them.
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For work, six days, shall
they labor to do all thy work.
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For play at the end of
work and I know they had fun,
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they played, I don't
know if they played golf,
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there's not too much fun
to that if you play like me.
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But time was all
important to the people.
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God's people were not concerned
with their possessions,
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with their
things, with their owning.
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They were rather concerned
about God's promises to them
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and how they would serve God.
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Modern man runs against time.
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They have a new
pace, there's a new rhythm.
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I mean, it's fast moving,
this kind of time of modern man
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and while God's time
was eternity to eternity,
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they're fast
moving, their time rhythm,
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they're exhausting rhythm.
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I mean, it exhausts time,
even leisure time, it exhausts.
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We work hard all week
to work hard all weekend.
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It exhausts time even at
leisure, from week to weekend,
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weekend to
weekday, a vicious cycle.
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Man is so obsessed with earning
something to fill his space,
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he succumbs to physical
and emotional breakdowns.
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And that's why God
when He created the world,
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put within that
creation a time of rest.
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Well, modern man
speaks about his space,
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my possessions,
not God's promises.
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God is saying, I
have something for you,
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it's a promise
if you'll follow Me
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and if you will be obedient
to Me, you too will rest.
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Modern man exhausted, fast move.
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I catch up to myself sometime.
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When I heard that I
was gonna be here for this,
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15 hours every day
to get ready for this.
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I was running into
myself and another day
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before I knew
that the day was over.
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Have you ever felt like that?
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Have you ever felt,
how can I go on this way,
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I mean tied up.
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It's because you've
not managed the time
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and God wants you to manage time
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and so He put within
the cycle of creation,
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He put the management of time.
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And so we need
to understand that,
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there should be a time to relax,
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the time for family, family
time, a time to be with God.
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Both Christians
and Jews must recover
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what we've lost at the fall.
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To recover something we lost,
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we must go back in a
direction we lost it.
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If I lost a hat, I turn around
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and go back in the
direction where I've been.
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If we're going to rescue
and if we're gonna reclaim
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that which we've lost, we've
got to go back to the beginning
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to find out where we
lost it and why we lost it.
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And that's what we want
to do-- we want to go back.
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We want to go back to
Genesis, of all creation
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and discover the
rhythm of life and destiny.
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We want to
understand Adam and Eve
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and go back to Moses and Abraham
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and back to Isaiah and Elijah
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and the countless
others who found faith in time.
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And last, the other
night we spoke about creation
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and last night in the
creation account it is defended
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by inspiration everywhere
from Genesis to Revelation.
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The timeline, the time frame,
it runs throughout the Bible.
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Man says we don't
have to follow the timeline
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and that's why we are
in a predicament today.
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Man says, well that,
God really didn't mean that.
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Hey, listen to me, if
God said it, He means it.
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Amen. Come on, if
God said it, He means it.
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And so we need to find
out what God said in Genesis
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and then follow through.
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And then we take it
Revelation because John said
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I was in the spirit on
Lord's day while the rest stay.
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Every thing God
does is in order.
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The seventh day was the
final part of the rhythm of God.
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He creates, in the
beginning, every day is equal
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and God blesses that
day but then He comes last
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and it is not only
good, it's very good
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because man needs
rest, six days of labor,
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the seventh day of rest.
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Six days of
preparation making the world fit
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so that man might be
able to serve his God.
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That was the plan of
God in the very beginning.
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And because God
does everything in order,
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He doesn't create a
fish and then create water,
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He creates water
and then the fish. Amen.
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God does everything in order.
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He doesn't create a bird
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and then create a sky
for the bird to fly in.
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He creates the sky and
then puts the bird in the sky.
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God does everything in order.
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You see
everything is done in order.
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There's light, there's dark,
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there's
firmament, there's stars,
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there's water, there's fish,
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there's man, there's worship.
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You cannot create a worship day
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before you create
the worshipper. Amen.
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Fish don't worship, they
give God glory when they swim.
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Birds give glory
to God when they fly.
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Animals give glory to God when
they rush through the forest.
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But man is the only
one that can glorify God
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and also worship God.
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And so he saves
the best for last
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and He calls at the seventh day.
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Amen. Creation.
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Now Revelation
continues the theme.
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This is eternity to eternity.
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"And I saw another angel
fly in the midst of heaven,
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having the everlasting
gospel to preach unto them,
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that dwell on the
earth, to every nation,
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to every kindred, to
every tongue, to every people."
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It's for all people.
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It's not just for the
Jews or the Old Testament
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but it's for all people.
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"Saying with a
loud voice, Fear God,"
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that's awesome respect for God.
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We don't respect
God like we should.
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This world has
little respect for God.
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But he says these
three angel's message
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brings about a respect
for God, they respect God,
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"they give glory to God for
the hour of judgment has come,
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and worship him," what?
"That made heaven, and earth,
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and the sea, and
the fountains of water."
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And to understand that
we've got to go back to Eden
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and then back to Revelations.
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Genesis is the
book of beginnings.
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Revelation is the book
of endings and beginnings.
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The ending of the old
and the creation of the new.
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The old body takes on the new.
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The corruptible
takes on the incorruption.
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The mortal takes
on the immortality.
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You see, here it is, God is
doing His thing in His rhythm,
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in His time limit.
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And so God creates,
that's His creation.
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And then God gives recreation.
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You see, Satan came to a garden
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and he turned it
into a wilderness.
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Christ came to a wilderness
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and turned it to
back into a garden. Amen.
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And what the Bible
says is war began in heaven
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but there will be
peace finally in heaven.
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And the Bible says
that you and I are gonna go
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to that kingdom
because He has promised us.
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In the Book of John, He said,
I go to prepare a place for you
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even if I go I will come
again receive you unto myself,
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that's a direct promise of
God, that's called recreation,
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He's gonna make it over again
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and I look forward
to that time, don't you.
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Notice the Phrases in
Red Genesis, God blessed,
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God made, God created,
God rested and God sanctified.
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And by the way God is not tired,
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it's not that kind of rest.
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God never gets tired.
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I get tired but
God doesn't get tired.
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Sometimes God
probably gets tired of me--
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but no, He has enough patience
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to get me through
but God never gets tired.
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You see the
tired, the rest of His
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is like the rest
note in a symphony.
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It's like the
carpenter would build a house
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and puts down the
hammer, admires the house,
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it's like the artist
who puts paint on a canvas
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and then steps back and notices
how beautiful the canvas is.
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And what it is like.
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And since I paint, you know,
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I step back after
I finish my painting
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and I step far back but I look
at it and I feel good about it.
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That's what God feels
good, that's why the--
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the seventh day was something
for God to feel good about.
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The seventh day should be
something you feel good about
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because you see, if
you are loyal to God,
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loyal to His cross,
loyal to His coming,
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you must be
loyal to His creation
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and obey the command
of God throughout history.
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Jesus in the Sermon on the Mount
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with true
wisdom Jesus said this,
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"Not every one
that saith unto me,
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Lord, Lord, shall enter
into the kingdom of heaven,
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but he that doeth the will of
my Father which is in heaven."
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The Bible says my
Father which is in heaven,
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"Therefore whosoever
heareth these sayings of mine,
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and doeth them, I
liken unto a wise man,
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which built his
house upon a rock."
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And that rock is Jesus Christ.
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You are to build
your faith on a rock,
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you are to build
your house upon a rock,
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you are to build
your experience with God
00:16:08.31\00:16:10.73
on the rock and
that's your Christ Jesus.
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He tells us there,
serious to obey God
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but He's very
serious to disobey God
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and the rhythm of
God for your life.
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In the book we find
one consistent message
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again and again.
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Revelation 22:19, "And
if any man shall take away
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the words of the
book of this prophecy,"
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what? Revelation.
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"God shall take away his
part out of the book of life,
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and out of the holy city,
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and from the things which
are written in this book."
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Listen to me, friend,
it's not how high you jump
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but it's how
straight you walk. amen.
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It's how straight you walk.
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So Revelation tells
us it's very serious
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to take away
from the Word of God.
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God's cycle of
rest, that eternal rhythm,
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I mean there's a sign
of loyalty to the Creator.
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And when we recognize it
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and we come into
that kind of restfulness
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then you're going to experience
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something even greater
in your spiritual life.
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Something greater in
your journey, something--
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it's beyond that
place where you are,
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it takes you beyond
that to a higher plane.
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That's what God is
speaking about here.
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Now, dictionary
defines a sign as this.
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To affix a signature
as a token of agreement.
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All right, what's the sign?
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It's to affix a signature
as a token of agreement.
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To sign one's name.
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Now how did God sign
His name on creation?
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What agreement did He
make forever with His children?
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What is the sign
of His authority?
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By the way, when I first
stumbled onto this message
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and stumbled into this.
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I had been born again Christian,
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I was reading the Word of God,
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I was searching, I
didn't want to find it.
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You know, there's some things
00:17:54.47\00:17:55.50
you don't want to
find out about, come on.
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And I was trying
to shield myself.
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But, listen to me,
you can't pick and choose
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once you've been born again.
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You can't pick and
choose once you have been saved.
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You can't pick and choose
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once you have given
your life over to God.
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You have to
listen to what God says
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and so when I
stumbled on this I said, whoa.
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Whoa.
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Then I began to study
and I discovered something.
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To sign one's name.
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How did God sign
His name on creation?
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What agreement did He
make forever with His children?
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Listen to me, what is the sign
of authority and of ownership.
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It would be easier
for me not to say anything
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about this and just slip over it
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and preach on the
rest of Revelation.
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But I can't do that.
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Because the Bible says
later on the antichrist
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which I'm gonna show you
will make a big issue of this.
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And so therefore you must
be prepared for the workings
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and deception of antichrist,
then you have to look at this.
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Now there's a cosmic forgery,
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and that cosmic
forgery is what is the sign?
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He says the sign is the
seventh day of the cycle.
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The rhythm, He says,
the seventh day is a sign.
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Now let's look at that
and find it in the Bible,
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don't take my for it,
what does the Bible say.
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"Moreover also I
gave them my Sabbaths,
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to be a sign between me
and them, that they might know
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that I am the Lord
that sanctified them."
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Now the question is,
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the question
that confronts us is,
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three things about our text,
first of all, who is speaking?
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It's the Lord. Who is the Lord?
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The Lord is none other
than Lord Jesus Christ.
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Because remember it,
preexistent Bethlehem,
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you see that was not
the beginning of Jesus,
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that was just the
incarnation of Jesus.
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So he was in the
beginning of all things.
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I'm gonna show you in a few
minutes that He is the creator,
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therefore He is the creator
of the seven literal days
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of creation and He is the
creator of the seventh day.
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Man didn't make it, God made it.
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And so He's
speaking, who is speaking?
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Secondly, what is He giving us?
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Well, He's
giving us the Sabbath,
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that's what the
Bible says in that text.
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For what purpose does He
give it to us? To be a sign.
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A sign between me and God,
a sign between you and God.
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A sign between the people
of God in the Old Testament,
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the people and the
apostles of the New Testament,
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and we're gonna see that
and then the people of God
00:20:22.02\00:20:24.70
in the last Book of
Revelation, the last day.
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We're going to see that.
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And by the way tomorrow night
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I'm gonna show you where
the change came in history.
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But this is what He
is saying, was creation--
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someone says, well, Ron
that was just for the Jews,
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just for the Jews.
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Let me ask you a question,
was creation just for the Jews?
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Come on. Fish only for the Jews?
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Beautiful sky above our
head just for the Jews to enjoy?
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No. Not at all.
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I mean, it's good
for Norwegians too,
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let me tell you that.
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When I'm fly fishing
in some stream in North--
00:21:01.40\00:21:03.89
in Montana, let me
tell you some thing friend,
00:21:03.92\00:21:07.01
I'm as close to
nature as you can get.
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And I enjoy it.
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God did not create a
world just for the Jews.
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In fact, he created world 2,000
before there was ever a Jew.
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That's right.
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Two thousand
years before Abraham,
00:21:19.17\00:21:20.54
there was the
creation of the world.
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I mean, God already
created long before Abraham.
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And so we see this,
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that it wasn't just
for a certain people,
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it was for all those who've
come into the rhythm of God,
00:21:29.58\00:21:32.49
all those who come
into the presence of God,
00:21:32.52\00:21:34.83
all those who come into
the experience with God,
00:21:34.86\00:21:38.14
they come into this
rhythm, this time rhythm,
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they come into that and
serve Jesus Christ for time.
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Jesus Christ was the creator.
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Let me tell you,
Jesus was the creator.
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What makes Him different?
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Buddha did not
create the heaven's earth,
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never claimed to have.
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And by the way,
Confucius never created
00:21:57.30\00:21:59.07
the heaven's earth,
never claimed to that.
00:21:59.10\00:22:01.60
Muhammad did not
make the heaven and earth,
00:22:01.63\00:22:04.49
he never claimed to.
00:22:04.52\00:22:06.18
But not so with Christian faith,
00:22:06.21\00:22:07.88
Jesus Christ
claimed it again and again.
00:22:07.91\00:22:10.58
He said this, "In the
beginning was the Word,
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and the Word was with
God, and the Word was God."
00:22:12.77\00:22:14.63
Who is that?
That's Jesus, isn't it?
00:22:14.66\00:22:16.56
If you read verse 14, it says,
00:22:16.59\00:22:18.18
redemption comes
through His blood,
00:22:18.21\00:22:19.76
that's Jesus, the
Word, the living word.
00:22:19.79\00:22:22.39
"The same was in
the beginning with God.
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All things were made by Him,
00:22:24.15\00:22:25.77
without Him was not
anything made that was made."
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All things were
made by the Word,
00:22:28.54\00:22:30.52
the Word is Jesus Christ.
00:22:30.55\00:22:32.65
But Ephesians tells
us, "To make all men see
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what is the
fellowship of the mystery,
00:22:35.19\00:22:36.61
which from the beginning of
the world hath been hid in God,
00:22:36.64\00:22:39.84
who created all things by" who?
00:22:39.87\00:22:42.33
Jesus Christ.
00:22:42.36\00:22:43.39
Come on, by who? Jesus Christ.
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Come on, by who? Jesus Christ.
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Thank you very much.
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What's wrong with you
people here in Charlotte?
00:22:49.55\00:22:53.56
You're not afraid to read that,
00:22:53.59\00:22:54.99
I mean it was
created by Jesus Christ.
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He's not only your
savior, He's your creator. Amen.
00:22:57.44\00:23:01.01
He is the Creator.
Bible tells us more than that.
00:23:01.04\00:23:03.91
The Bible says
in Colossians 1:14,
00:23:03.94\00:23:06.19
"To whom we have redemption
through his blood" there it is.
00:23:06.22\00:23:09.48
Who's that? Jesus Christ.
00:23:09.51\00:23:11.30
Whatever faith you are,
whatever church you go to,
00:23:11.33\00:23:13.48
if you're at Christian church,
00:23:13.51\00:23:14.84
they believe in
the blood of Christ.
00:23:14.87\00:23:16.45
He says, "We have
redemption through his blood,
00:23:16.48\00:23:18.09
even the forgiveness of sins."
00:23:18.12\00:23:19.30
That's Jesus Christ.
00:23:19.33\00:23:20.58
"Who is the image
of the invisible God,
00:23:20.61\00:23:22.62
the firstborn of every creature.
00:23:22.65\00:23:25.67
Thou art worthy, O Lord,
to receive glory and honor
00:23:25.70\00:23:28.29
and power, for thou
hast created all things"
00:23:28.32\00:23:30.71
that's Revelation, that's John,
00:23:30.74\00:23:32.10
that's the last
book for the last people.
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"And for thy pleasure
they are and were created."
00:23:35.22\00:23:40.23
Now if you created the heavens
and the earth, follow me.
00:23:40.26\00:23:42.91
He gave it to us, He
created the Sabbath as well
00:23:42.94\00:23:46.38
because He
created the seventh day.
00:23:46.41\00:23:50.14
Jesus created the seventh day.
Jesus wrote it into creation.
00:23:50.17\00:23:55.73
Jesus wrote it in
the beginning of the law.
00:23:55.76\00:23:58.17
Who was it? Jesus. Our Jesus.
00:23:58.20\00:24:00.67
In fact, He calls
them My commandments
00:24:00.70\00:24:03.54
and if you look at
those commandments,
00:24:03.57\00:24:05.14
it's very unusual, isn't it.
00:24:05.17\00:24:06.46
There's only one commandment
that God said remember.
00:24:06.49\00:24:10.30
Have you ever
thought about that?
00:24:10.33\00:24:11.75
I mean, when I read that
I closed my Bible and I ran.
00:24:11.78\00:24:16.36
I didn't want to hear that.
00:24:16.39\00:24:19.16
And then a few days later,
00:24:19.19\00:24:20.22
I opened up and I
felt it that again.
00:24:20.25\00:24:21.82
So I went to my pastor, I said,
pastor, look at this, remember.
00:24:21.85\00:24:24.40
Ah, forget it, it
doesn't matter, Ron.
00:24:24.43\00:24:26.80
God says, remember.
00:24:26.83\00:24:28.14
My preacher says,
it doesn't matter.
00:24:28.17\00:24:29.99
I'm gonna listen to
God first of all. Amen.
00:24:30.02\00:24:34.31
Those ain't no
preacher, there's no preacher
00:24:34.34\00:24:37.22
or priest on
earth that can give you
00:24:37.25\00:24:39.90
the kingdom of Christ
except Jesus Christ, amen.
00:24:39.93\00:24:42.54
You agree on that and give
God agreement here tonight.
00:24:42.57\00:24:46.69
And so we see, He
calls them My commandments.
00:24:46.72\00:24:49.64
According to Genesis,
00:24:49.67\00:24:50.73
He created them in
seven literal days.
00:24:50.76\00:24:52.92
God does everything in order.
00:24:52.95\00:24:54.63
Now, notice the
order which God creates.
00:24:54.66\00:24:57.48
The first day, God
created, in the first day
00:24:57.51\00:25:00.54
God created light and darkness.
00:25:00.57\00:25:02.90
The second day,
He created firmament,
00:25:02.93\00:25:05.43
the third day He, this
is an astronomical process,
00:25:05.46\00:25:09.45
the third day of the first week
00:25:09.48\00:25:11.36
of the first
month of the first year,
00:25:11.39\00:25:13.96
then He created the fourth day,
00:25:13.99\00:25:16.11
on the fourth day, He
created sun and moon and stars.
00:25:16.14\00:25:19.78
Then came the fifth day,
this is an astronomical figure.
00:25:19.81\00:25:23.61
First day of the first week
00:25:23.64\00:25:25.24
of the first
month of the first year.
00:25:25.27\00:25:28.67
Then the sixth day.
00:25:28.70\00:25:30.52
You'll notice in all six
days God is making something
00:25:30.55\00:25:33.21
and He calls and He
speaks it into existence.
00:25:33.24\00:25:36.99
But the sixth day, He
steps down and creates man.
00:25:37.02\00:25:42.10
And that's because
He wants to touch man.
00:25:42.13\00:25:44.99
I mean, as He steps down,
00:25:45.02\00:25:46.35
He stepped down to
this earth to touch you
00:25:46.38\00:25:48.42
with His grace and His love.
00:25:48.45\00:25:51.04
Notice this, you see
it's an astronomical process,
00:25:51.07\00:25:53.42
and seventh day,
00:25:53.45\00:25:54.82
the day of worship
for the worshipper,
00:25:54.85\00:25:56.91
Adam and Eve
are the worshippers.
00:25:56.94\00:25:58.36
So, what's after He
creates the worshippers,
00:25:58.39\00:26:00.00
He creates worship.
00:26:00.03\00:26:01.21
You can't have a worship day
before you have the worshipper.
00:26:01.24\00:26:05.49
God does everything in order.
00:26:05.52\00:26:07.79
Man has no right to
change the order of God,
00:26:07.82\00:26:10.82
God has the
right to do that, amen.
00:26:10.85\00:26:13.42
God alone has
the right to do that.
00:26:13.45\00:26:17.77
It's an astronomical figure.
00:26:17.80\00:26:19.61
You follow me carefully,
00:26:19.64\00:26:21.41
listen, it's
astronomical, let's look it in.
00:26:21.44\00:26:24.37
A year is 365 and a
quarter days to a year,
00:26:24.40\00:26:28.44
that's an astronomical figure.
00:26:28.47\00:26:29.84
By the way that
doesn't change with time,
00:26:29.87\00:26:31.69
doesn't change with calendars,
00:26:31.72\00:26:33.24
doesn't change with ethics,
00:26:33.27\00:26:35.16
doesn't change with cataclysms,
00:26:35.19\00:26:37.18
doesn't change with books,
00:26:37.21\00:26:39.04
doesn't change with theology,
00:26:39.07\00:26:40.38
doesn't change with ministers,
00:26:40.41\00:26:41.99
it is a year, is a year.
00:26:42.02\00:26:45.86
Come on, now.
00:26:45.89\00:26:47.59
I know I've been
through 75, almost 76 of them.
00:26:47.62\00:26:52.16
The only thing,
365 and a quarter days
00:26:52.19\00:26:55.80
goes faster than
it did when I was 16.
00:26:55.83\00:26:59.37
You get the drift, sure you do.
00:26:59.40\00:27:01.71
That's an astronomical figure.
00:27:01.74\00:27:03.00
Listen, a month is 28
to 31 days, that's a month.
00:27:03.03\00:27:06.72
It's approximately the moon
00:27:06.75\00:27:07.82
to make one complete
orbit around the earth,
00:27:07.85\00:27:09.99
that's the
science of the heavens.
00:27:10.02\00:27:13.46
A day is 24 hours on which
00:27:13.49\00:27:17.07
it makes complete
revolution on its axis.
00:27:17.10\00:27:20.05
That's the Lord of nature,
that's the Lord of creation.
00:27:20.08\00:27:23.15
That's the Lord of
God. It never changes.
00:27:23.18\00:27:25.60
That is the rhythm of
God, you can't change it.
00:27:25.63\00:27:29.12
If those laws are an integral
part of life and creation,
00:27:29.15\00:27:33.01
it's important to mine,
00:27:33.04\00:27:34.30
the seventh day must
be an eternal principle
00:27:34.33\00:27:36.81
of the law of the Sabbath.
00:27:36.84\00:27:38.72
The Sabbath was
not instituted by man,
00:27:38.75\00:27:40.91
the Sabbath was not
instituted by the laws of man.
00:27:40.94\00:27:43.56
The Sabbath was not
instituted by a calendar,
00:27:43.59\00:27:46.17
it cannot be changed.
00:27:46.20\00:27:49.63
Listen to the Word of God.
00:27:49.66\00:27:51.44
"And on the seventh
day God ended His work
00:27:51.47\00:27:53.13
which He made, and
rested on the seventh day
00:27:53.16\00:27:55.73
from all His work
which He had made."
00:27:55.76\00:27:59.65
It was a memorial, a birthday
of the creational of the world.
00:27:59.68\00:28:03.58
Let me have illustrate,
is Brother Mendenhall here,
00:28:03.61\00:28:08.35
Brother Mendenhall,
will you please come.
00:28:08.38\00:28:10.61
Oh, he is nervous
because I didn't tell him
00:28:10.64\00:28:12.59
what I was gonna
do here and I told him
00:28:12.62\00:28:14.64
I wouldn't ask
very hard questions.
00:28:14.67\00:28:20.64
I'll try to keep the
Greek and Hebrew out of this
00:28:20.67\00:28:24.02
and so I asked
Brother Mendenhall
00:28:24.05\00:28:25.08
would you please come here
00:28:25.11\00:28:26.14
and I have a few
questions to ask you.
00:28:26.17\00:28:27.99
People say, well, how do
we know which day is the day?
00:28:28.02\00:28:30.59
Come on.
00:28:30.62\00:28:32.23
Well, Brother Mendenhall,
what year were you born?
00:28:32.26\00:28:40.07
1945.
00:28:40.10\00:28:41.97
Whoa, the mind
is going right now
00:28:42.00\00:28:43.69
trying to figure
out how old the man is.
00:28:43.72\00:28:46.34
All right, 1945. Yes, 68.
00:28:46.37\00:28:49.25
What date, what
month were you born?
00:28:49.28\00:28:52.38
Eighth month, August.
00:28:52.41\00:28:53.74
August, the eighth month.
00:28:53.77\00:28:54.99
The eighth month, 1945,
00:28:55.02\00:28:58.62
and that was the end
of the war, wasn't it?
00:28:58.65\00:29:01.97
Was that the end
of the war, 1945.
00:29:02.00\00:29:03.86
When I was born, it
was the beginning of war,
00:29:03.89\00:29:05.58
you know my
mother said that, too.
00:29:05.61\00:29:07.63
My mother said, she had no peace
00:29:07.66\00:29:08.92
until-- anyway
and so here we have,
00:29:08.95\00:29:13.66
we have brother Mendenhall here,
00:29:13.69\00:29:15.00
he tells he was born in 1945,
00:29:15.03\00:29:16.57
he was born in the
month of, the eighth month.
00:29:16.60\00:29:20.32
What day? Twenty second.
00:29:20.35\00:29:22.21
Twenty second day of
the eighth month, 1945.
00:29:22.24\00:29:29.40
Yes.
00:29:29.43\00:29:30.90
Well, you were kind
of small? Eight pounds.
00:29:30.93\00:29:35.63
What did you know
about-- yeah. Eight pounds.
00:29:35.66\00:29:38.02
Eight pounds? Yes.
00:29:38.05\00:29:39.10
This guy even knows his pounds,
I mean, what is this about?
00:29:39.13\00:29:42.95
I didn't even
ask him his pounds,
00:29:42.98\00:29:44.10
you see what happens when you
ask your preacher a question.
00:29:44.13\00:29:46.76
And he wants to
takeover. And with the pounds.
00:29:46.79\00:29:50.09
Oh, well, yeah
stay with the ounces.
00:29:50.12\00:29:51.80
All right, let's get back
00:29:51.83\00:29:53.59
to this
beautiful illustration here
00:29:53.62\00:29:56.82
and 1945, eighth
month and what day?
00:29:56.85\00:30:00.33
Twenty second. Twenty
second day, all right.
00:30:00.36\00:30:02.93
Now you were tiny and
little, how did you know that?
00:30:02.96\00:30:06.86
My mother told me. Oh, mother.
00:30:06.89\00:30:09.02
Daddy could've
been somewhere else
00:30:09.05\00:30:10.43
but mother had to be
there, right, come on.
00:30:10.46\00:30:15.06
Now if anybody knew his
date, it was his mother.
00:30:15.09\00:30:19.87
Who else? My father eventually.
00:30:19.90\00:30:22.33
Your father, he
was around somewhere.
00:30:22.36\00:30:24.15
Somewhere. Yeah.
00:30:24.18\00:30:27.12
Mamma, father, what
other thing that tells you
00:30:27.15\00:30:31.29
that you were
born twenty second?
00:30:31.32\00:30:33.82
Well, I had a great
grandmother to tell.
00:30:33.85\00:30:35.29
Oh, great
grandmother, that's good.
00:30:35.32\00:30:37.56
Don't go to the
great-great-grandpa
00:30:37.59\00:30:38.92
but what else?
00:30:38.95\00:30:39.98
My sibling celebrated.
00:30:40.01\00:30:41.17
Yeah, what else?
00:30:41.20\00:30:42.85
I have a birth certificate.
00:30:42.88\00:30:48.24
He has a birth certificate.
00:30:48.27\00:30:50.44
Who's gonna argue
with the birth certificate?
00:30:50.47\00:30:53.05
I mean we have a
birth certificate,
00:30:53.08\00:30:55.17
don't you see it?
00:30:55.20\00:30:56.51
Yeah.
00:30:56.54\00:30:57.91
Thank you very
much. That was great.
00:30:57.94\00:31:00.81
I have a birth certificate.
00:31:00.84\00:31:02.27
Well, I don't
know what day it is.
00:31:02.30\00:31:04.22
You do know, you
may not want to know
00:31:04.25\00:31:06.80
but you do know.
00:31:06.83\00:31:09.30
You wouldn't
argue with the Father,
00:31:09.33\00:31:12.34
with the Son,
with the Holy Spirit
00:31:12.37\00:31:16.06
because John said
I was in the spirit.
00:31:16.09\00:31:20.01
That's the Holy Spirit.
I want to be in the spirit.
00:31:20.04\00:31:24.96
That's the Holy
Spirit and he says
00:31:24.99\00:31:26.65
I was in the
spirit on the Lord's day.
00:31:26.68\00:31:30.65
The Sabbath cannot be a
Sabbath on any other day.
00:31:30.68\00:31:34.18
You can call it something
else but you can't call it that.
00:31:34.21\00:31:36.71
Not at all.
00:31:36.74\00:31:37.77
Let's look at some
biblical evidence, all right.
00:31:37.80\00:31:39.90
Remember what I told you,
00:31:39.93\00:31:40.96
if the Bible says it,
that settles it, right.
00:31:40.99\00:31:44.64
The Bible says
it, that settles it.
00:31:44.67\00:31:46.47
Well, let's look at it together.
00:31:46.50\00:31:47.96
From my study subject,
00:31:47.99\00:31:49.02
I want you to
notice three things,
00:31:49.05\00:31:50.77
what He did on that day,
00:31:50.80\00:31:51.87
what He didn't
do on any other day,
00:31:51.90\00:31:53.51
is that He rested.
00:31:53.54\00:31:55.18
The Bible says, He
did something else,
00:31:55.21\00:31:56.48
He blessed it.
00:31:56.51\00:31:58.22
Now it's spiritual.
00:31:58.25\00:31:59.53
What God blesses,
He blesses forever.
00:31:59.56\00:32:02.03
Amen.
00:32:02.06\00:32:03.14
What God sanctifies,
He sanctifies forever.
00:32:03.17\00:32:06.33
I want you to get
this, and God sanctified.
00:32:06.36\00:32:10.14
He made it holy,
it was made for man.
00:32:10.17\00:32:12.60
Mark 2:27,
00:32:12.63\00:32:13.93
listen what the Bible
says, it was made for man.
00:32:13.96\00:32:16.23
"He said unto them, the
Sabbath was made for man,
00:32:16.26\00:32:18.11
not man for the Sabbath."
00:32:18.14\00:32:19.39
You can't
choose, pick and choose,
00:32:19.42\00:32:21.63
he made it for you.
00:32:21.66\00:32:23.80
And he is the Son of man,
00:32:23.83\00:32:25.27
He has the right
to make it for man.
00:32:25.30\00:32:27.22
Because He is the Creator God
00:32:27.25\00:32:31.24
and He is the son
of man, Bible says,
00:32:31.27\00:32:33.90
"I was in the
spirit on the Lord's day,
00:32:33.93\00:32:35.30
and heard behind me a
great voice, as a trumpet."
00:32:35.33\00:32:37.89
Someone says, we
keep the Lord's day.
00:32:37.92\00:32:39.89
Well, if you
keep the Lord's day,
00:32:39.92\00:32:40.95
it would have to
be the seventh day
00:32:40.98\00:32:42.02
because the Bible says,
00:32:42.05\00:32:43.08
Jesus is Lord
of the Sabbath day.
00:32:43.11\00:32:45.91
He doesn't say, he's
the Lord of the first,
00:32:45.94\00:32:46.97
Lord of the
second, Lord of the third.
00:32:47.00\00:32:48.26
If He said it was the third,
00:32:48.29\00:32:49.57
If it was
Tuesday, I'd be keeping it.
00:32:49.60\00:32:51.81
Amen. Amen, come on, now.
00:32:51.84\00:32:54.28
If it was Tuesday,
God didn't say that.
00:32:54.31\00:32:58.56
He said on the seventh day.
Look at this, the Word of God.
00:32:58.59\00:33:01.90
"And the Son of man
is Lord even of" what?
00:33:01.93\00:33:04.43
"Sabbath Day."
00:33:04.46\00:33:05.50
Who is the Son of man? Jesus.
00:33:05.53\00:33:07.71
Jesus Christ and He
is Lord of that day,
00:33:07.74\00:33:11.80
only that day,
nowhere else in the scripture,
00:33:11.83\00:33:13.81
in fact tomorrow night
if you are able to come,
00:33:13.84\00:33:17.01
you're gonna hear
the history of it.
00:33:17.04\00:33:19.03
You're gonna
discover some things
00:33:19.06\00:33:20.30
perhaps you didn't know.
00:33:20.33\00:33:21.68
You're gonna see
where this first began.
00:33:21.71\00:33:23.69
And we're gonna look
at that from the Bible,
00:33:23.72\00:33:25.22
there are only eight
verses in all the New Testament
00:33:25.25\00:33:27.23
concerning the
first day of the week,
00:33:27.26\00:33:28.70
we're gonna look at that
00:33:28.73\00:33:30.47
and we're gonna
look at the history,
00:33:30.50\00:33:31.53
the change, who
changed it, why they changed it
00:33:31.56\00:33:33.31
and we're gonna
try to find the change.
00:33:33.34\00:33:36.14
But I want you to
notice what the Bible says,
00:33:36.17\00:33:37.77
I mean scripture.
00:33:37.80\00:33:39.30
Remember anything out
of context is a pretext.
00:33:39.33\00:33:42.77
"And he said unto them,
00:33:42.80\00:33:43.83
the Son of man is
Lord also of the," what?
00:33:43.86\00:33:45.78
"Sabbath."
00:33:45.81\00:33:46.84
All right, Matthew, Mark, Luke.
00:33:46.87\00:33:48.99
By the way we're
gonna keep it in heaven.
00:33:49.02\00:33:50.81
I told the man
that once you get angry,
00:33:50.84\00:33:52.40
I don't know
why did he get angry
00:33:52.43\00:33:53.46
when I preach on this, why?
00:33:53.49\00:33:56.05
I mean, you don't
have to accept it,
00:33:56.08\00:33:57.39
I'm not telling you
do what you have to do,
00:33:57.42\00:33:59.34
that's up to you.
00:33:59.37\00:34:00.53
But I'm telling you
00:34:00.56\00:34:01.63
what I found in the Word of God.
00:34:01.66\00:34:02.93
If we're gonna
faithful to Revelation,
00:34:02.96\00:34:04.15
let's be faithful to the
word and the Revelation says,
00:34:04.18\00:34:06.38
I'm the spirit on Lord's day.
00:34:06.41\00:34:07.54
Well, I want to
know what the Lord's day
00:34:07.57\00:34:08.82
doesn't say right there.
00:34:08.85\00:34:10.14
So I got to look in
scripture till I find
00:34:10.17\00:34:11.99
what he says is the Lord's day.
00:34:12.02\00:34:13.71
Isn't that
scriptural, isn't that the way
00:34:13.74\00:34:15.44
we should study the
Bible, come on, all right?
00:34:15.47\00:34:18.71
But he tells us we're gonna--
and I told them we can say
00:34:18.74\00:34:20.73
well, it
doesn't matter, brother,
00:34:20.76\00:34:22.36
I said when we
all get to heaven,
00:34:22.39\00:34:25.05
we're gonna keep it in heaven.
00:34:25.08\00:34:27.00
And listen to me,
you don't believe that,
00:34:27.03\00:34:28.76
look at the word of God with me,
00:34:28.79\00:34:30.59
look at the Bible.
00:34:30.62\00:34:32.35
"And it shall come to pass,
00:34:32.38\00:34:34.38
that from one
new moon to another,
00:34:34.41\00:34:35.91
from one Sabbath to another,
00:34:35.94\00:34:37.20
shall all flesh come to worship
before me, saith the Lord."
00:34:37.23\00:34:40.92
How can you avoid that text?
00:34:40.95\00:34:42.82
You can't run from it.
You can't hide from it.
00:34:42.85\00:34:47.60
We're gonna
keep whatever we are.
00:34:47.63\00:34:49.58
Whatever denomination,
whatever faith, whatever,
00:34:49.61\00:34:51.62
we're gonna move you to heaven.
00:34:51.65\00:34:52.74
I just want to get a head start,
00:34:52.77\00:34:54.00
amen, come on, that's all.
00:34:54.03\00:34:55.93
That's all, just a head start,
enjoy it, and be blessed by it.
00:34:55.96\00:34:59.60
Well, "Remember the
Sabbath day to keep it holy."
00:34:59.63\00:35:01.51
Why do you remember?
00:35:01.54\00:35:02.74
Do you know in prophecy,
00:35:02.77\00:35:03.82
I'm gonna show you in
prophecy that God prophesized
00:35:03.85\00:35:07.02
that man will think to change
to the fourth commandment,
00:35:07.05\00:35:09.53
that he would think
to change the Sabbath
00:35:09.56\00:35:11.28
from Saturday to Sunday,
it's right in your Bible,
00:35:11.31\00:35:13.50
it's right in prophecy
00:35:13.53\00:35:14.56
and He tells you that
man would change the day.
00:35:14.59\00:35:17.52
I'm gonna show you
that tomorrow night.
00:35:17.55\00:35:19.70
And so if you want
to really get the scoop,
00:35:19.73\00:35:23.79
you'll be sure to
be here tomorrow night,
00:35:23.82\00:35:25.00
don't let anything keep you
00:35:25.03\00:35:26.18
if you want to
really hear the evidence.
00:35:26.21\00:35:29.31
If you don't want to
hear the evidence, fine,
00:35:29.34\00:35:31.59
but then you're gonna have
to, you have to look at that.
00:35:31.62\00:35:35.72
But anyway, He is
the same yesterday, today
00:35:35.75\00:35:40.04
and forever, forever.
00:35:40.07\00:35:43.34
The Sabbath has mentioned
again and again in the Bible.
00:35:43.37\00:35:46.28
I think it's a 137 times,
all right, let's look at this.
00:35:46.31\00:35:51.58
"In it thou
shalt not do any work,
00:35:51.61\00:35:52.89
thou, nor thy
son, nor the daughter,
00:35:52.92\00:35:54.20
thy manservant,
nor thy maidservant,
00:35:54.23\00:35:55.63
nor thy cattle, nor thy stranger
00:35:55.66\00:35:56.77
that is within thy
gates for in the six days
00:35:56.80\00:35:58.89
the Lord made heaven and earth,
00:35:58.92\00:36:00.26
the sea, and
all that in them is,
00:36:00.29\00:36:01.55
and rested the seventh day
wherefore the Lord blessed it
00:36:01.58\00:36:04.48
and the Sabbath
day, and he hallowed it."
00:36:04.51\00:36:06.46
He made it holy.
00:36:06.49\00:36:08.53
I don't know why except to
say that He wanted Adam and Eve
00:36:08.56\00:36:11.56
to come into the
spiritual relationship with Him.
00:36:11.59\00:36:14.75
And they
worshipped in the garden.
00:36:14.78\00:36:16.79
They worshipped in perfection,
they bowed before the Lord
00:36:16.82\00:36:20.12
and then after
that when they came
00:36:20.15\00:36:21.44
through the fall
they worshipped God.
00:36:21.47\00:36:23.28
Listen to me, you
can trace the Sabbath,
00:36:23.31\00:36:27.09
you can trace the Sabbath.
00:36:27.12\00:36:28.91
In fact, in
Exodus 16, someone said,
00:36:28.94\00:36:30.69
well that's in the
Lord but before that
00:36:30.72\00:36:32.82
but you can trace the Sabbath.
00:36:32.85\00:36:34.53
Do you realize in Exodus
16, the Bible teaches us,
00:36:34.56\00:36:38.62
that they receive
manner, they were fed by God.
00:36:38.65\00:36:41.65
Remember the
story how they fed them?
00:36:41.68\00:36:44.04
And remember on the sixth day
God gave them a double portion.
00:36:44.07\00:36:47.34
Why?
00:36:47.37\00:36:48.40
Because the seventh day
we weren't supposed to gather
00:36:48.43\00:36:50.71
and so here they are on Friday,
00:36:50.74\00:36:52.00
every Friday
throughout the year,
00:36:52.03\00:36:55.15
throughout the
years, they were fed by God
00:36:55.18\00:36:57.95
and it was a miracle on
Friday they got a double portion
00:36:57.98\00:37:00.80
so that on Sabbath,
they won't have to chew
00:37:00.83\00:37:02.85
or pick the food
and eat the food.
00:37:02.88\00:37:05.68
It was there for them.
00:37:05.71\00:37:07.09
You can trace the
Sabbath from to Eden to Abraham
00:37:07.12\00:37:10.57
they kept the Sabbath.
00:37:10.60\00:37:11.89
Abraham and Moses
they kept the Sabbath.
00:37:11.92\00:37:13.83
No one denies that,
no church denies that.
00:37:13.86\00:37:16.53
Listen to me, they go on,
00:37:16.56\00:37:18.11
there was Moses
he kept the Sabbath.
00:37:18.14\00:37:20.51
Follow, "He said unto them
00:37:20.54\00:37:21.70
this is that
what's the Lord hath said,
00:37:21.73\00:37:23.56
tomorrow is the
rest of the holy Sabbath
00:37:23.59\00:37:25.34
unto the Lord, bake that
00:37:25.37\00:37:26.51
which ye will bake
to day," there it is.
00:37:26.54\00:37:29.79
That's before the 20th
Chapter, before the law.
00:37:29.82\00:37:32.26
And by the way, the law
was not given at Sinai--
00:37:32.29\00:37:34.57
the law was a need.
00:37:34.60\00:37:36.10
He said, what do you mean?
00:37:36.13\00:37:37.16
Because the Bible says
00:37:37.19\00:37:38.22
there can be no
sin without the law.
00:37:38.25\00:37:39.64
Sin did not begin at
Sinai, sin began where?
00:37:39.67\00:37:42.87
In the Garden of Eden.
00:37:42.90\00:37:46.36
I've not known
sin but by the law,
00:37:46.39\00:37:48.55
why is that under
hiding behind the tree
00:37:48.58\00:37:55.32
naked?
00:37:55.35\00:37:57.79
Because the Lord told him,
00:37:57.82\00:38:01.34
the Lord told him, you trace it.
00:38:01.37\00:38:05.47
"And seethe that ye seethe
that which remaineth over lay
00:38:05.50\00:38:08.78
up for you to be
kept until the morning.
00:38:08.81\00:38:10.76
So the people
rested on the seventh day."
00:38:10.79\00:38:12.55
All of Israel in history.
00:38:12.58\00:38:14.50
Nowhere do you find the
Jews never keeping the Sabbath.
00:38:14.53\00:38:17.66
In fact, if you
want to check up on me,
00:38:17.69\00:38:19.52
call an orthodox Jew today
and ask him what day he keeps.
00:38:19.55\00:38:24.31
And let me tell you his writing,
00:38:24.34\00:38:26.94
his understanding
goes back to Abraham.
00:38:26.97\00:38:30.05
They had been meticulous
00:38:30.08\00:38:32.92
about keeping that day holy.
00:38:32.95\00:38:40.05
He kept it, the Bible tells
us that he kept it, trace it.
00:38:40.08\00:38:45.62
Moses, Isaiah,
Isaiah to Matthew.
00:38:45.65\00:38:48.13
Listen, Jesus kept it.
00:38:48.16\00:38:50.47
Why do you keep it? Jesus kept.
00:38:50.50\00:38:53.39
That's the only important
reason, isn't it, Jesus.
00:38:53.42\00:38:56.69
And He came to Nazareth,
where he had been brought up,"
00:38:56.72\00:38:58.53
this is Jesus, your Savior.
00:38:58.56\00:39:00.61
"And, as his custom was,
00:39:00.64\00:39:01.68
he went into the
synagogue on the Sabbath day,
00:39:01.71\00:39:03.40
and stood up for to read."
00:39:03.43\00:39:04.58
He went to the
synagogue every Sabbath,
00:39:04.61\00:39:06.00
as a child He grew up there.
00:39:06.03\00:39:09.69
And by the way,
00:39:09.72\00:39:10.93
He had to keep the
Sabbath, you say, why?
00:39:10.96\00:39:12.80
Because as you
see, the Bible says
00:39:12.83\00:39:13.86
if you break one commandment,
you're guilty of them all.
00:39:13.89\00:39:16.06
Amen.
00:39:16.09\00:39:17.12
If Jesus broke that commandment,
00:39:17.15\00:39:18.45
He would be guilty of them all.
00:39:18.48\00:39:19.69
He would be a sinful Savior.
00:39:19.72\00:39:22.29
But He is a sinless Savior
00:39:22.32\00:39:24.62
because He kept
the fourth commandment
00:39:24.65\00:39:25.83
as He did the
other commandments.
00:39:25.86\00:39:27.98
That's our Lord,
that's our blessed Christ.
00:39:28.01\00:39:30.15
That's my Savior, the
One who brought me to rebirth
00:39:30.18\00:39:32.92
and brought me
into the kingdom of God.
00:39:32.95\00:39:34.97
You say well how
do we know what day?
00:39:35.00\00:39:36.18
Well, let's look at this,
00:39:36.21\00:39:37.39
"And he took it down,
and wrapped it in linen,
00:39:37.42\00:39:39.14
and laid it in a sepulcher
that was hewn in stone,
00:39:39.17\00:39:41.48
wherein never be
man before was laid.
00:39:41.51\00:39:43.62
And that day was
the preparation."
00:39:43.65\00:39:45.23
Jesus died on the Friday,
00:39:45.26\00:39:46.50
listen, you,
there is no mistake.
00:39:46.53\00:39:47.94
How can they go back to
all the way to Easter Sunday
00:39:47.97\00:39:50.42
and tell me we can
understand when first day is
00:39:50.45\00:39:52.66
but we can't understand
what the seventh day is.
00:39:52.69\00:39:54.69
Amen. Amen.
00:39:54.72\00:39:56.22
If Jesus died on the
Friday, He rose on the Sunday,
00:39:56.25\00:39:58.83
the day between Friday
and Sunday is the Sabbath
00:39:58.86\00:40:01.92
and the Creator
rests on the Sabbath
00:40:01.95\00:40:04.25
and then the
re-creator rests on the Sabbath
00:40:04.28\00:40:06.87
to tell us for
all time in eternity
00:40:06.90\00:40:09.21
that He is the
Lord of the Sabbath day.
00:40:09.24\00:40:10.91
Amen, amen.
00:40:10.94\00:40:12.46
There it is right
there in black and white.
00:40:12.49\00:40:16.28
No question, no question.
00:40:16.31\00:40:19.79
What day is the Sabbath,
people ask me all the time.
00:40:19.82\00:40:22.78
Well, Jesus kept
it even in His death.
00:40:22.81\00:40:26.46
Remember they came
according to the commandment,
00:40:26.49\00:40:28.45
what commandment,
the fourth commandment.
00:40:28.48\00:40:30.65
Mary the mother
of Jesus kept it.
00:40:30.68\00:40:33.10
Good enough for that
woman, wonderful woman Mary.
00:40:33.13\00:40:35.80
Listen to me, if you
pre-existed your mother
00:40:35.83\00:40:38.26
what kind of
mother would you choose?
00:40:38.29\00:40:41.03
That was Mary, she kept it.
00:40:41.06\00:40:44.66
Mary Magdalene kept it.
00:40:44.69\00:40:46.95
Peter, James, John kept it.
00:40:46.98\00:40:52.48
So it's not too
hard when Jesus says,
00:40:52.51\00:40:53.96
Ron, keep it, it's nothing.
00:40:53.99\00:40:55.72
No problem, no problem.
00:40:55.75\00:40:58.47
Listen to the Word of
God, please, this is evidence.
00:40:58.50\00:41:00.93
Friday preparation
day, Saturday Sabbath,
00:41:00.96\00:41:04.33
then come Sunday
first day the resurrection.
00:41:04.36\00:41:06.59
We'll look at text tomorrow
and we'll look at the history.
00:41:06.62\00:41:09.14
There Jesus died,
00:41:09.17\00:41:10.44
hung on the cross
for your sins and mine.
00:41:10.47\00:41:12.66
Listen to me, that scripture
00:41:12.69\00:41:14.52
that's what the Bible says,
that's what the Bible teaches.
00:41:14.55\00:41:17.29
There are 87 Sabbaths, listen,
write it down, check up on me.
00:41:17.32\00:41:21.05
There are 87 Sabbaths
kept in the Book of Acts alone
00:41:21.08\00:41:25.11
by the apostles of Jesus Christ.
00:41:25.14\00:41:28.66
Well, my preacher says,
00:41:28.69\00:41:29.79
brother, yeah,
but my apostles say.
00:41:29.82\00:41:32.24
Amen.
00:41:32.27\00:41:35.18
My Jesus says, it won't
easy for me to accept I--
00:41:35.21\00:41:39.66
I grew up in a
traditional church,
00:41:39.69\00:41:41.54
I had my catechism I
mean-- I had all that.
00:41:41.57\00:41:47.09
I was-- well anyway.
00:41:47.12\00:41:50.60
I wasn't saved and
momma made me go to church,
00:41:50.63\00:41:55.53
she never went
herself until she got saved.
00:41:55.56\00:42:00.67
eighty seven, seven day
00:42:00.70\00:42:01.94
Sabbaths were kept
in the Book of Acts.
00:42:01.97\00:42:04.51
By the way, Acts
13:14, that's Acts 14:42,
00:42:04.54\00:42:08.12
that's Acts
16:13, that's Acts 17:2,
00:42:08.15\00:42:11.71
check up on me, look
it up in the Book of Acts.
00:42:11.74\00:42:15.24
That's the rhythm, you see,
00:42:15.27\00:42:17.72
that's the rhythm of a believer
even in the first century.
00:42:17.75\00:42:21.11
And then we come to
Hebrews and God tells us this,
00:42:21.14\00:42:23.48
"For we which have
believed," who are they?
00:42:23.51\00:42:25.13
That's the Christians.
00:42:25.16\00:42:26.26
"We which
believed enter into rest,
00:42:26.29\00:42:29.18
as he said, as I
have sworn in my wrath,
00:42:29.21\00:42:30.79
if they shall
enter into my rest."
00:42:30.82\00:42:33.60
Whose rest,
Christ's rest, he says,
00:42:33.63\00:42:36.36
"If they enter into my rest,
00:42:36.39\00:42:37.63
although the works were finished
00:42:37.66\00:42:38.72
from the
foundation of the earth.,"
00:42:38.75\00:42:40.11
What rest is that?
00:42:40.14\00:42:41.37
That's the
seventh day Sabbath rest.
00:42:41.40\00:42:43.64
He says, here the
apostle are, this is 40 years
00:42:43.67\00:42:46.48
after the death of
Jesus on the cross.
00:42:46.51\00:42:49.22
This is 40 years
after the curtain
00:42:49.25\00:42:50.99
was ripped in the temple.
00:42:51.02\00:42:52.42
By the way, God never did
away with the law at Calvary.
00:42:52.45\00:42:55.57
God did away with the
ceremonial laws at Calvary
00:42:55.60\00:42:58.56
because the curtain was ripped--
00:42:58.59\00:42:59.67
we don't have to
bring the lamb anymore.
00:42:59.70\00:43:01.82
Jesus is the Lamb of God's slain
00:43:01.85\00:43:03.83
from the
foundation of the earth.
00:43:03.86\00:43:05.87
But which believe do into
rest and then He goes on to say,
00:43:10.12\00:43:13.55
"If they shall
enter into my rest,
00:43:13.58\00:43:14.97
although the works were finish
00:43:15.00\00:43:16.09
from the
foundation of the world."
00:43:16.12\00:43:17.55
Listen to what he says,
00:43:17.58\00:43:19.20
"For he spake in a certain place
00:43:19.23\00:43:20.56
of the seventh day on this wise,
00:43:20.59\00:43:22.53
and God did rest the seventh day
00:43:22.56\00:43:24.04
from all His works.
00:43:24.07\00:43:25.10
And in this place again,
00:43:25.13\00:43:26.21
if they shall
enter into my rest".
00:43:26.24\00:43:28.08
Again He says, "Seeing therefore
00:43:28.11\00:43:30.17
it remaineth that
some must enter therein,
00:43:30.20\00:43:32.53
and they to whom
it was first preached
00:43:32.56\00:43:34.23
entered not
because of their unbelief."
00:43:34.26\00:43:36.39
You see, when the apostles came
to preach to the gentile world,
00:43:36.42\00:43:39.66
they've already keeping
Sun day in honor of the Sun god
00:43:39.69\00:43:44.31
and when they came
to preach the gospel
00:43:44.34\00:43:46.64
and talk about Jesus
they rebelled against it.
00:43:46.67\00:43:50.63
They wouldn't accept
it until they've accepted
00:43:50.66\00:43:54.01
the Lord Jesus Christ
and then they accepted it.
00:43:54.04\00:43:58.22
"To day, after so
long a time, as it is said,
00:43:58.25\00:44:00.78
To day if ye will hear his voice
00:44:00.81\00:44:03.45
harden not your hearts.
00:44:03.48\00:44:06.93
For if Jesus had
given them rest,"
00:44:06.96\00:44:08.75
or another rest,
00:44:08.78\00:44:10.33
"then would he not afterward
have spoken of such a day."
00:44:10.36\00:44:14.43
And we're gonna look
at that from the Bible.
00:44:14.46\00:44:17.42
It doesn't matter what
I believe or what I say.
00:44:17.45\00:44:19.84
It doesn't matter at all
00:44:19.87\00:44:21.95
but let me
illustrate, all right.
00:44:21.98\00:44:23.47
Tuesday what's the difference
you know first day so--
00:44:23.50\00:44:25.55
one man told me
I keep every day.
00:44:25.58\00:44:29.51
That was during the
Johnson administration.
00:44:29.54\00:44:31.10
So what are you on
Johnson's Poverty Program?
00:44:31.13\00:44:32.85
I mean, everyday,
you got to work sometime.
00:44:32.88\00:44:37.57
Anyway, people say to me
00:44:37.60\00:44:38.94
all the time
what's the difference?
00:44:38.97\00:44:40.79
First child come please,
00:44:40.82\00:44:42.17
would you just
come out here, honey?
00:44:42.20\00:44:43.80
Look at this, there
you come right out here.
00:44:43.83\00:44:46.60
Oh, isn't she beautiful?
00:44:46.63\00:44:47.68
You come, come
here to Pastor Ron,
00:44:47.71\00:44:49.68
he'll take good care of you.
00:44:49.71\00:44:51.09
Look at this,
isn't she beautiful?
00:44:51.12\00:44:53.40
This is the first
day, of the first week,
00:44:53.43\00:44:58.48
of the first
month, of the first year.
00:44:58.51\00:45:01.56
Second child,
would you please come?
00:45:01.59\00:45:03.36
Notice, here
comes the second child.
00:45:03.39\00:45:04.61
Come here, honey.
00:45:04.64\00:45:05.67
Just come, there's
a little bash for you,
00:45:05.70\00:45:07.74
come on right out here.
00:45:07.77\00:45:09.02
Oh, I love your shoes,
00:45:09.05\00:45:10.48
look at those
little orange shoes.
00:45:10.51\00:45:12.20
You come right here, baby.
00:45:12.23\00:45:13.92
Look at this and
that is the second day.
00:45:13.95\00:45:17.72
And God made the first
day, God made the second day.
00:45:17.75\00:45:19.88
I couldn't get them 24 hours.
00:45:19.91\00:45:21.53
You know, one is
little shorter than the other.
00:45:21.56\00:45:23.28
But we're trying,
we're doing our best.
00:45:23.31\00:45:25.34
Would the third
child please come?
00:45:25.37\00:45:27.05
People say to me all the
time, what's the difference,
00:45:27.08\00:45:28.66
first day, seventh
day, doesn't really matter.
00:45:28.69\00:45:30.73
But here's the third
child, got a beautiful smile
00:45:30.76\00:45:33.54
and she is 38
hours, no, she is 24 hours.
00:45:33.57\00:45:38.64
The third day, first
day, second day, third day
00:45:38.67\00:45:40.54
what's the
difference, fourth day,
00:45:40.57\00:45:41.86
would the
fourth day please come?
00:45:41.89\00:45:43.34
And she is
coming, come on, honey.
00:45:43.37\00:45:45.08
Oh, isn't she beautiful?
00:45:45.11\00:45:47.55
You have some of the
most beautiful children
00:45:47.58\00:45:50.27
in Charlotte, North
Carolina that I've ever seen.
00:45:50.30\00:45:53.48
All right, the fifth
child and God-- by the way
00:45:53.51\00:45:55.79
God made the first day,
God made the second day,
00:45:55.82\00:45:57.78
God made the third
day, the fourth day.
00:45:57.81\00:45:59.54
It was all in the
plan of God, God came--
00:45:59.57\00:46:01.47
oh, look at this,
honey, isn't she sweet?
00:46:01.50\00:46:04.11
And that's the fifth day.
00:46:04.14\00:46:05.69
Beautiful children
and the sixth day--
00:46:05.72\00:46:08.53
And by the way, he
names only two days,
00:46:08.56\00:46:10.16
did you notice that?
00:46:10.19\00:46:11.22
He calls the sixth
day preparation day.
00:46:11.25\00:46:13.79
Preparation for
what? For the Sabbath.
00:46:13.82\00:46:17.12
And there she is,
she is preparation day,
00:46:17.15\00:46:18.71
isn't she beautiful?
00:46:18.74\00:46:19.98
God bless you, oh, I
love that little pigtail.
00:46:20.01\00:46:22.94
If I was in school
00:46:22.97\00:46:24.17
you would have a lot
of problem with that,
00:46:24.20\00:46:27.18
and the seventh day.
00:46:27.21\00:46:29.31
And God said He
blessed the seventh day.
00:46:29.34\00:46:31.32
People say to me all the time
00:46:31.35\00:46:32.38
what's the
difference, Ron Halverson?
00:46:32.41\00:46:33.93
Well, it's the
seventh day parent here?
00:46:33.96\00:46:36.67
Is the seventh day parent here?
00:46:36.70\00:46:39.18
Is she here anywhere?
00:46:39.21\00:46:41.04
Come on, stand
up, don't be bashful.
00:46:41.07\00:46:43.43
Would you please come down?
00:46:43.46\00:46:44.79
Okay, come down here miss,
would you come down here, sir?
00:46:44.82\00:46:48.12
So nice to have you.
00:46:48.15\00:46:50.02
And she is
listening on the translation.
00:46:50.05\00:46:52.27
We've have
translation for Spanish people.
00:46:52.30\00:46:54.59
You just-- would
you please come--
00:46:54.62\00:46:55.86
I know, you are not
gonna like me after this but--
00:46:55.89\00:47:00.99
but you come on up here.
00:47:01.02\00:47:03.47
This is wonderful.
00:47:03.50\00:47:04.91
Is this your mommy? Oh, wow.
00:47:04.94\00:47:08.38
You can tell she is her mommy.
00:47:08.41\00:47:11.08
Look at that,
can't you? Come on.
00:47:11.11\00:47:13.83
Mommy, you got some
one translating for me.
00:47:17.39\00:47:20.28
They're translating, okay.
00:47:20.31\00:47:23.08
Mommy, this is
your-- that's your child.
00:47:23.11\00:47:27.48
Oh, what if I-- took this child,
00:47:27.51\00:47:34.53
brought home to
mommy with this child
00:47:34.56\00:47:38.13
and gave you this
child and took this child?
00:47:38.16\00:47:41.16
What would you say?
00:47:41.19\00:47:43.45
Why, why? She is mine.
00:47:43.48\00:47:48.32
Don't you get the
drift, he said, it's mine.
00:47:48.35\00:47:51.88
It belongs to Jesus Christ,
00:47:51.91\00:47:54.00
come on, give God
glory, thank you, children.
00:47:54.03\00:47:56.16
Thank you, mother,
00:47:56.19\00:47:57.50
thank you so much for
coming, God bless you.
00:47:57.53\00:48:00.11
You're a blessing to us.
00:48:00.14\00:48:01.69
All right, you can
go now, you can go.
00:48:01.72\00:48:04.44
I'm gonna miss you.
00:48:04.47\00:48:05.52
All right, there
we go, there we go,
00:48:05.55\00:48:07.85
you can go right out of here.
00:48:07.88\00:48:09.40
Right, aren't they beautiful?
00:48:09.43\00:48:14.07
Wow.
00:48:14.10\00:48:16.26
That makes a
difference, doesn't it?
00:48:16.29\00:48:17.88
Come on, seventh day,
well, that makes a difference.
00:48:17.91\00:48:22.02
What's the difference?
00:48:22.05\00:48:24.66
You see, God
took an ordinary day
00:48:24.69\00:48:28.28
and he hammered into
His life and His love.
00:48:28.31\00:48:31.55
And He gave it to us.
00:48:31.58\00:48:33.41
He didn't try to force it on
us but in the rhythm of life,
00:48:33.44\00:48:37.58
He said, come into
that experience spiritually.
00:48:37.61\00:48:41.87
Find out that rest in
God. God made it for us.
00:48:41.90\00:48:48.06
Many years ago, I
grew up in the ghetto,
00:48:48.09\00:48:49.88
I grew up in New York City.
00:48:49.91\00:48:52.08
I mean, my parents were poor
and but even kids in the ghetto
00:48:52.11\00:48:57.60
look forward to
Christmas, right?
00:48:57.63\00:48:58.97
Come on, now.
00:48:59.00\00:49:00.10
We never got much, I
mean I didn't get fancy toy--
00:49:00.13\00:49:02.73
you know today, you know, yeah--
00:49:02.76\00:49:04.40
you have to be a banker--
00:49:04.43\00:49:06.14
you know, buy toys
for kids nowadays you know
00:49:06.17\00:49:10.47
but we didn't have
much but every Christmas
00:49:10.50\00:49:12.22
we'd get something.
00:49:12.25\00:49:14.05
You know, maybe a
comic book or little toy car
00:49:14.08\00:49:17.64
we could play with
but it wasn't much.
00:49:17.67\00:49:20.81
I lived in the-- I
lived in an apartment
00:49:20.84\00:49:22.45
that had cold
water in the winter
00:49:22.48\00:49:24.43
and hot water in the summer.
00:49:24.46\00:49:27.70
I mean, our attendant was so bad
00:49:27.73\00:49:29.24
they put it behind
all the other tenements
00:49:29.27\00:49:30.90
because even the
ghetto was embarrassed by it.
00:49:30.93\00:49:35.49
My momma had five boys
00:49:35.52\00:49:36.65
and then later
she had a little girl.
00:49:36.68\00:49:39.26
My dad wanted the girl first
00:49:39.29\00:49:40.51
but we went through
five boys to get to it.
00:49:40.54\00:49:43.33
We were sure glad when
that girl finally came,
00:49:43.36\00:49:45.67
let me tell you.
00:49:45.70\00:49:47.07
But even boys growing up in
the Christmas look forward--
00:49:47.10\00:49:49.45
in the ghetto looked
forward to Christmas.
00:49:49.48\00:49:51.22
But that Christmas
my dad was at work.
00:49:51.25\00:49:52.91
He was one of the hardest
working person I ever met.
00:49:52.94\00:49:55.21
And he would go out in
the day looking for a job
00:49:55.24\00:49:57.08
come back home,
one night he came back,
00:49:57.11\00:49:58.84
it was getting close
to Christmas, he says,
00:49:58.87\00:50:00.37
I guess we can't have
Christmas for the boys.
00:50:00.40\00:50:03.90
We were heartbroken.
00:50:03.93\00:50:06.93
Two nights later, he came back
00:50:06.96\00:50:08.00
and he says, honey,
I'm gonna make Christmas.
00:50:08.03\00:50:09.98
Now my father was a pipe-fitter,
00:50:10.01\00:50:11.94
with his pipes he can
make anything, wood, forget it,
00:50:11.97\00:50:14.57
but anyway he's gonna
make Christmas for the boys,
00:50:14.60\00:50:16.97
that's love, mind that.
00:50:17.00\00:50:18.88
In fact, we had a
big room in the winter,
00:50:18.91\00:50:20.53
you know the room,
you shut off in the winter
00:50:20.56\00:50:22.36
you put racks around the door
00:50:22.39\00:50:23.59
so you know-- you
know, you don't live there
00:50:23.62\00:50:25.41
you just kind of live
in a few-- warm rooms in.
00:50:25.44\00:50:28.23
And my dad, he came home
and he would go in there,
00:50:28.26\00:50:31.53
he had a great sense of humor,
00:50:31.56\00:50:32.61
he wrote a little
sign, Santa's workshop.
00:50:32.64\00:50:37.25
Santa's workshop,
you know what he did,
00:50:37.28\00:50:40.94
he would work
sawing and hammering,
00:50:40.97\00:50:42.61
we would look
through the key hole.
00:50:42.64\00:50:44.93
And then
Christmas Eve, why is it,
00:50:44.96\00:50:46.45
364 days a year you
can't get the kids to bed--
00:50:46.48\00:50:49.27
Christmas Eve,
they go to bed early.
00:50:49.30\00:50:52.16
And my bed was Billy's
bed, it was Warren's bed,
00:50:52.19\00:50:55.59
it was one of
these day beds you know
00:50:55.62\00:50:56.85
kind of separate in
the middle of the night
00:50:56.88\00:50:59.22
and one if the middle
falls to the ground you know
00:50:59.25\00:51:01.76
and then you fight
over space, come on.
00:51:01.79\00:51:04.27
You draw the invisible line,
00:51:04.30\00:51:05.63
don't you come over
here, this is my bed.
00:51:05.66\00:51:08.45
And then my
father in the morning,
00:51:08.48\00:51:10.82
he called us out, we ran out.
00:51:10.85\00:51:12.31
There it was by
the old barrack stove
00:51:12.34\00:51:14.77
and there is a scrawny.
00:51:14.80\00:51:16.31
Hey, listen, this
was a scrawny tree
00:51:16.34\00:51:18.65
if you ever see, a
scrawny tree in your life.
00:51:18.68\00:51:22.14
We didn't have
that fancy ornaments
00:51:22.17\00:51:23.50
and fancy, you know,
it was just a naked tree.
00:51:23.53\00:51:27.44
But you know, I never saw
00:51:27.47\00:51:28.50
a more
beautiful tree in my life.
00:51:28.53\00:51:30.04
In fact even
now, I love Christmas,
00:51:30.07\00:51:32.23
I love the tree.
00:51:32.26\00:51:33.92
But I haven't found one like it.
00:51:33.95\00:51:36.34
My dad found it in
the-lots near the home.
00:51:36.37\00:51:38.31
But we ran and there were
five gifts for the five boys,
00:51:38.34\00:51:40.78
girl hadn't come along yet.
00:51:40.81\00:51:42.15
Five gifts, my
brother opened his,
00:51:42.18\00:51:44.68
it was a bow and
a homemade arrow.
00:51:44.71\00:51:49.20
He'd shoot it on third street,
00:51:49.23\00:51:50.39
turn the corner
on Neptune Abbey,
00:51:50.42\00:51:51.68
hit someone on six.
00:51:51.71\00:51:54.88
But when I opened my
gift, when I opened my gift,
00:51:54.91\00:51:59.26
there it was, a
little Red Wagon,
00:51:59.29\00:52:00.78
homemade, different size wheels.
00:52:00.81\00:52:05.73
Orange clay
through the red paint.
00:52:05.76\00:52:10.26
I was-- I got more fights
over that little red wagon.
00:52:10.29\00:52:13.88
Hey, boys had better wagons.
00:52:13.91\00:52:16.28
I mean right off
the assembly line.
00:52:16.31\00:52:20.33
But I loved that
because my father
00:52:20.36\00:52:21.76
hammered into every
crooked nail his love.
00:52:21.79\00:52:25.19
He put into every
drop of paint his love
00:52:25.22\00:52:28.41
and he gave it to me.
00:52:28.44\00:52:30.58
And he said,
merry Christmas, son.
00:52:30.61\00:52:34.88
Don't you understand?
00:52:34.91\00:52:37.65
God after He
fashioned a beautiful world,
00:52:37.68\00:52:41.23
God after He created
all these great things.
00:52:41.26\00:52:44.59
God gave it to us.
00:52:44.62\00:52:46.90
And He said, Adam, I
made this just for you.
00:52:46.93\00:52:53.74
And Eve, I made
this just for you.
00:52:53.77\00:53:01.27
And they took that day
and it became a day of joy,
00:53:01.30\00:53:07.23
a day of worshipping,
a day of serving God.
00:53:07.26\00:53:13.38
I think that's a
spiritual blessing, don't you?
00:53:13.41\00:53:16.93
Amen.
00:53:16.96\00:53:18.17
Don't you think
that's a spiritual blessing?
00:53:18.20\00:53:21.24
Now the Bible
question that we're gonna
00:53:57.84\00:53:59.03
take a look at
right now, and this is it.
00:53:59.06\00:54:02.10
"What's the
truth about dinosaurs,
00:54:02.13\00:54:03.53
did they ever really exist?"
00:54:03.56\00:54:06.29
Yes, they did.
They really existed.
00:54:06.32\00:54:09.63
The fossils that you see today
00:54:09.66\00:54:15.05
give evidence that
there were dinosaurs.
00:54:15.08\00:54:17.70
Now, is everything that is said
00:54:17.73\00:54:19.90
about dinosaurs
necessarily true?
00:54:19.93\00:54:23.26
No, it's not.
00:54:23.29\00:54:24.44
Do we know
everything about dinosaurs?
00:54:24.47\00:54:25.97
I don't, I'm not
a dinosaurologist
00:54:26.00\00:54:27.84
and I don't know if you
are but we know they lived.
00:54:27.87\00:54:30.43
We know some of
them were very, very big
00:54:30.46\00:54:32.90
and some of them were not.
00:54:32.93\00:54:35.45
You know, when I
was told by a gentleman,
00:54:35.48\00:54:37.37
you know, some stuff about this,
00:54:37.40\00:54:39.59
I was told that the
average dinosaur was small.
00:54:39.62\00:54:45.55
He may have told me,
no bigger than a chicken.
00:54:45.58\00:54:47.93
The average dinosaur, if
you would average it out,
00:54:47.96\00:54:50.69
many of them were very small
00:54:50.72\00:54:51.78
and I suppose when you
take into account lizards
00:54:51.81\00:54:53.55
and that sort of thing
and number of them were small,
00:54:53.58\00:54:55.55
some of them were big
00:54:55.58\00:54:56.86
and even today
you'll find farmers
00:54:56.89\00:54:58.19
in the Midwest
digging in the ground,
00:54:58.22\00:54:59.62
they dig up dinosaur bones.
00:54:59.65\00:55:03.12
I've met people who have said
00:55:03.15\00:55:04.18
that when they
dig up dinosaur bones,
00:55:04.21\00:55:05.51
they put them back in the ground
00:55:05.54\00:55:06.57
and tell nobody
because it's gonna create
00:55:06.60\00:55:08.12
such a hullabaloo on their farm,
00:55:08.15\00:55:09.94
they just don't
want to put up with it.
00:55:09.97\00:55:11.88
So there are
dinosaur bones around,
00:55:11.91\00:55:13.36
you can see them,
some of the fossils
00:55:13.39\00:55:15.56
and the recreations of dinosaurs
00:55:15.59\00:55:16.97
and some of them it
seems are pretty accurate.
00:55:17.00\00:55:19.75
So what's the truth about them?
00:55:19.78\00:55:20.81
The truth is I don't know.
00:55:20.84\00:55:22.58
Were they all
destroyed at the flood?
00:55:22.61\00:55:24.62
May be.
00:55:24.65\00:55:25.68
Did they live through the flood
00:55:25.71\00:55:26.92
and then were they
destroyed during the ice age
00:55:26.95\00:55:29.88
when planet earth
got very, very cold?
00:55:29.91\00:55:32.50
May be. Did they just die out?
00:55:32.53\00:55:35.70
You know, some animals
become extinct even today,
00:55:35.73\00:55:37.95
the woolly man, I don't
think we call that a dinosaur
00:55:37.98\00:55:39.95
but that was a great big thing.
00:55:39.98\00:55:41.63
That just became extinct.
00:55:41.66\00:55:43.04
Why do you suppose
that became extinct?
00:55:43.07\00:55:45.16
I don't know.
00:55:45.19\00:55:46.22
The dodo became
extinct, you know,
00:55:46.25\00:55:48.37
all kinds of creatures
that lived disappeared.
00:55:48.40\00:55:51.40
So it could've been the flood,
it could've been the ice age,
00:55:51.43\00:55:53.71
it could've been
that some of these things
00:55:53.74\00:55:55.61
just petered out
and ceased to be.
00:55:55.64\00:55:59.54
I'm going to admit to you
that I do not know definitively.
00:55:59.57\00:56:03.91
Science doesn't give us, I
believe, a conclusive answer,
00:56:03.94\00:56:05.98
science gives us scientists
00:56:06.01\00:56:09.04
who give us a variety
of conclusive answers.
00:56:09.07\00:56:11.37
I think in this subject,
00:56:11.40\00:56:12.43
it's not for me to
tell you definitively,
00:56:12.46\00:56:14.22
you can find that as you
read, study, research, Google.
00:56:14.25\00:56:18.48
The fact is though they did live
00:56:18.51\00:56:20.66
and there aren't
many of them today.
00:56:20.69\00:56:22.46
I had a teacher
once in grade school
00:56:22.49\00:56:25.00
who we thought was evidence
that dinosaurs still existed.
00:56:25.03\00:56:28.82
But that's a
story for another time.
00:56:28.85\00:56:30.69
In Matthew 4:4
the Word of God says
00:56:39.33\00:56:41.99
"It is written, 'Man
shall not live by bread alone,
00:56:42.02\00:56:45.14
but by every word
00:56:45.17\00:56:46.80
that proceeds
from the mouth of God.'
00:56:46.83\00:56:48.89
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