In today's troubled
world people are wondering
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where we're 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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welcome again to
Revelation Today.
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Tonight we have a
great subject, it's entitled,
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"History's Greatest
Religious Cover-Up."
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Now let me tell you
this, for years and years
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an island named Sandy
Island appeared on maps.
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It was west of New Caledonia,
that's a little over halfway
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between New
Zealand and Australia.
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But one day cartographers look
at satellite images of the area
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and the island wasn't there.
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So they set sail to the area
in order to locate the island
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and they found
nothing, nothing but water.
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Sandy Island didn't
really exist, it never had,
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in spite of people believing
for many years that it did.
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How many things do
you think are like that?
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You certainly don't
want that sort of thought
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creeping into your faith.
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So tonight, listen carefully
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and be blessed as Ron Halvorsen
presents tonight subject,
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"History's Greatest
Religious Cover-Up."
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And now would you welcome
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the presenter of
Revelation Today,
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Ron Halvorsen.
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Good evening, good evening.
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Good Evening.
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Let's bow our heads
now in a word of prayer
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as we seek the face of God.
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Gracious Father, we
humbly bow before You,
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right now we come
blundering into Your presence.
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There's so much we
want to ask of You,
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there is so much we
want to know about You
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and we pray tonight
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that You will give
us clear understanding.
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We know some
subjects in the Bible
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are difficult subjects
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and Lord, we want You to
give us clear understanding,
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we want it to be
to come from You.
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So I pray now
that Your Holy Spirit
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will be with us tonight
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as we open Your word may
it be light unto our feet,
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to our path in
the name of Christ.
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Amen and amen.
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Tonight our subject,
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"History's Greatest
Religious Cover-Up."
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In fact, one night I am
going to speak on the antichrist
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and I'm gonna show you
what the cover up is all about
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and I'm gonna show you
how this religious idea
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plays in the final events
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before the close of the
curtain on human history.
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And so we come here tonight,
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the question is
shall I crucify my Savior
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or should I
crown Him, Lord of all?
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Crown Him.
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Now that's the
question that every one of us
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must answer sooner or later.
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Am I going to
crucify Christ, the new
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or am I going to crown
Christ as Lord in my life?
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John the Revelator,
that wonderful man of God
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who was sent off to Patmos,
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sent off to the Alcatraz
of Asia Minor, imprisoned
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because he was faithful to God
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and because the
king could not kill him,
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the emperor could not kill
him, couldn't boil him in oil,
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could make a French fry of John
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and so he pushes
him off on the island.
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He figures, if I could get
him out of sight, out of mind.
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But there's
purpose in everything
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that happens to a believer.
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When John was shipped out,
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those 28 miles out
to that lonely island,
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when that
90-year-old-- 95-year-old man
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was shipped out to that
island to be imprisoned,
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he thought this would be the end
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that this would
be end of his life
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but it's amazing that,
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that all man under
hard labor on Patmos Island,
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that man catches
visions and the curtain is drawn
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and that man sees things
that no one else had seen.
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He sees things that
Peter the apostle never saw.
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He saw things that even Matthew
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and Mark and
Luke did not even see.
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He says, I, John
saw, and he unveils
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the history of the
world until end time.
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You see after he has
unveiled Jesus as Alpha,
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the beginning of all things
and after he's unveiled Jesus
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as the Omega the
end of all things.
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After he's unveiled Jesus
as the Savior of the world,
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the one who comes to
save the world from their sins
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after-- this is all
in the first chapter
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of the Book of Revelation.
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I mean, people say, Ron,
we don't study Revelation
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because we want to
know more about Jesus.
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How can you
know more about Jesus
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than the revelation of Jesus?
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Amen.
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And John unveils, he
pulls back the curtain
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and he reveals
Jesus the lawmaker
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who with His own
finger writes the holy law
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and then later on
through the gospel
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He writes the law
on the human heart,
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those men and
women who surrendered
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to His truth, the gospel.
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He unveils Jesus Christ as
the Creator and he will now
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unveil Jesus Christ
as Lord, Lord of all.
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John says in the first chapter
of the Book of Revelation,
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"I was in the
Spirit on the Lord's day."
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Now many interpret
the Lord's Day as Sunday.
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Some interpreted it Saturday,
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some even
interpret it as Friday.
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And so there's confusion
as to what is the Lord's Day
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and we want to
look at that tonight.
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We want to go to scripture.
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It doesn't matter what I
believe is the Lord's Day,
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doesn't matter what
my church or your church
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or your minister or your
priest believes about it,
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it only matters what
God's word believes about it.
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And by the way,
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you don't go to the
church to find the truth,
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you go to the
truth to find a church.
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Amen.
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That's the principal of
studying the Word of God.
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That's why we
study the Word of God.
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We study it not to
convenience ourselves
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that we are true
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but to convince
ourselves of our need
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to follow the truth.
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And so He is in the Holy Spirit.
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And by the way you
cannot understand the word
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without the Holy Spirit.
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You cannot come to the Bible
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and understand
its great teachings,
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the great themes
without the Holy Spirit.
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And the Bible says,
John is now in the spirit.
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Even in prison
he's in the spirit.
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I used to have a TV
program called Jesus Behind Bars
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and I used to minister in
the prisons of Californian
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and we had a television program
called Jesus Behind Bars.
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And there behind
the bars I met many men
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and later the women prisons,
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many who had found
Jesus Christ while in prison,
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had caught a vision
through Jesus Christ
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and brought them hope.
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And so there's no
confusion, there's no mistaking,
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there's no mystery about this.
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"I was in the
Spirit," he is a Hebrew,
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Shabbat, Sabbath,
he was in the spirit
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and there God revealed to him
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the Sabbath,
Saturday the seventh day.
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Now, it wasn't new to John,
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in fact John had
known about the Sabbath
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since he was a little child.
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He grew up in the Jewish faith.
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He grew up
believing the Jewish faith.
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I mean, he was
faithful to the synagogue,
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he was faithful to those things,
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people come and they often say,
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well, you know,
it so hard to leave
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when God shows me truth
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and to walkout in
faith and follow the truth.
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Well, those men had to do it.
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Peter, James and John and Jewish
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people until they
came to the gospel
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and they were called out
once and they became Christian,
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first time called
Christian in Antioch.
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And so this Hebrew meaning,
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there's no
mistaking, there's no confusion.
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In fact the Bible
is very clear about it,
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Exodus 20:10, Deuteronomy 5:14,
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Leviticus 23:3, Genesis 2:1-3,
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there could be no
confusion about it
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because this is what
God says about the Sabbath.
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And John is in the spirit.
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No error went when
one is in the spirit.
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You're not guided into
falsehood in the spirit.
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You're not guided
into error in the spirit.
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It's when we get
away from the spirit
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that we go
wandering away from truth.
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Let's look at that Lord's Day.
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Well, the Bible
tells us in Mark 2:27, 28.
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"And he said unto them,
the Sabbath was made for man."
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You remember in the
beginning that God created man.
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He didn't ever
created the day of worship
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until He created the worshipper.
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He couldn't have
created a day of worship
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any other day
than the seventh day
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because He didn't
create man until the sixth day.
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God does everything in order,
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we showed you that last
night and the night before.
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God does everything in order.
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He doesn't create fish
then run around look for water,
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He creates water
then He creates fish.
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He doesn't create stars
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and then look for the
firmament to place those stars,
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He does everything in order.
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And so He says,
now, the worshipper,
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I make this day for you.
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It's My day but I give it to you
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as a memorial of creation.
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Mark 2:27 and Mark 2:28.
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I wish you
could go back with me,
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back to the time of
Jesus 2,000 years ago
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and if you went to a
city called Nazareth,
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in fact later on
they accused Jesus said,
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You come from Nazareth?
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Can any good
come out of Nazareth?
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When people meet me they say,
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can any good
come out of Brooklyn?
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Well, I have a few
Brooklynites here all right.
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And if you could go with me
down the streets of Nazareth
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and go on a Tuesday
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you would see the
shops would be open
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and they will open
their shops in the front
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where they sold their goods.
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And you would go
and you come to a place
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a little house or little shop,
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a building white
washed and clean and walk in
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and it was a carpenter shop.
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And if you then
went there on a Tuesday
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you would find someone
working in that carpenter shop,
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none other than
the Lord Jesus Christ.
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He was the great carpenter.
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By the way the Greek
word for carpenter means
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He was a craftsman.
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He could take a block of wood
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and He could
make an angel's face
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or He could build a
bridge or He could build a house
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or He could, I
mean, he was a texture,
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He was a-- He was a craftsmen.
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And you'd go there on Tuesday,
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you'd find that
shop open and be working,
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go on a Wednesday same thing,
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there's the carpenter, Jesus.
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And it was the carpenter
Jesus that hung up on the cross,
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thou has nails in thy hand,
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build us the
temple in three days,
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come down from the
cross and we will believe You.
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Carpenter, we
have the hammer now,
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we have the hammer now.
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But you would go
there on Thursday
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and the shop would be open,
you would go there on a Friday
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and the shop would be open
and Jesus plying His trade.
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But if you would
go around the Sabbath,
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on a Saturday the
place would to be closed.
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I mean, why?
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Because He, when you look
at Him in the carpenter shop
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you see there's
something different about Him,
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He has the look of a
prince, He has a look of a king.
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I mean, He is
the Prince of heaven,
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the King of heaven.
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But you go there, you go
there on the Sabbath on Saturday
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and He's not there, why?
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Because Jesus is
where He's supposed to be,
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Jesus is in the
synagogue on the Sabbath
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and Jesus Christ is our example.
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I don't want to be your example,
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I'm too human.
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Hey, your pastor is too human.
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Your priest is too human
but Jesus Christ is divine,
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Jesus Christ is divine
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and Jesus was there
at the carpenter shop.
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No, He was there was
closed on the Sabbath day.
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The Bible says in Luke 4:16,
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"And he came to Nazareth,
where he had been brought up
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and as his custom was
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he went into the
synagogue on the Sabbath day
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and stood up to read."
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He even read from the
first five books of Moses
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there in the
synagogue every Sabbath.
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He was trained that way
from the crib to the cross
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and even on the cross
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He didn't wanted
to defame the Sabbath.
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So He died on the
Friday, preparation day
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and He laid in the tomb
until the first day of the week
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when He rose victory over death.
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That's Jesus, no
guessing, no mystery.
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Who better knows the
day then Jesus Christ?
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Who knows better
which is the Lord's Day
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then the Lord Himself?
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Why did God give us
that? We talked about that.
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Why?
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It has to do with his Lordship,
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it has to do with His grace,
00:13:35.42\00:13:37.36
it has to do
with loyalty to God,
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that's what it has to do.
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Why the Sabbath?
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Because the law
demands us to keep it?
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No. Why the Sabbath?
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It has to do with
the Lordship of Jesus.
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It has to do with
the creation of Jesus.
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Why? Because Jesus kept it.
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When I came to rebirth,
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and came out of
the gangs in New York,
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when I came to Jesus
Christ I decided then and there
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that wherever Jesus
went I wanted to go.
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Whatever Jesus
did I wanted to do.
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And so if He said,
crawl to Chicago twice a year,
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Halvorsen, to be My follower
00:14:13.92\00:14:17.87
you would have
saw me on my knees
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crawling to Chicago.
00:14:21.26\00:14:23.20
Why? Because He's my example.
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I've been called out
of the pit of despair
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and sin to the glory of God.
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Jesus, you see, Jesus
kept it-- for the born-again
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He kept it for the regenerated,
for Bible-believing Christian.
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His example is clear and
because of the Holy Spirit
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guides us to keep it
John kept it at Patmos
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when he wrote those words,
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"I was in the
spirit on the Lord's Day."
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I'm amazed how many talk
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about the Holy Spirit
and the gifts of the spirit
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but never mentioned
a gift to the Sabbath
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which came as a
gift from the spirit.
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Now the Muslims tell us
the Lord's Day is Friday.
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Some Christians tells us
it's Sunday, many Christians.
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Some Christians and
Jews say it's Saturday.
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Listen to me friend,
00:15:12.32\00:15:13.35
Jesus was crucified
between two thieves,
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one on the left hand
and one on the right hand,
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the Sabbath was
crucified between two thieves.
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As we'll see, on
Friday the Muslim world
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and then later, in
tradition in the church
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of the Dark Ages came the Sunday
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where men and
women began to worship.
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Crucified between two thieves.
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Now, last night I
showed from scripture
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what day was the
Lord's Day, we took time.
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Now tonight I
want to look at that,
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maybe just review
some of those things
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for we can know for sure,
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"For the Son of man is
Lord even of the" what?
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"Sabbath."
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The Bible tells us,
"Also the sons of the stranger,
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that joins themselves
to the Lord, to serve Him,
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to love the name of the
Lord, to be His servant."
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Notice it goes on,
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"Everyone that keepeth
Sabbath from polluting it,
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taketh hold of my covenant
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even then will I
bring to my holy mountain,
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and make them joyful in prayer."
00:16:11.01\00:16:13.54
He goes on to say,
"Their burnt offering
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and their sacrifice
shall be accepted upon my altar
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for my house shall be
called the house of prayer,
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for all people."
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The promise He made to
Israel and now in Revelation
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He makes the
promise to spiritual Israel,
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to the people of God.
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Not of Abraham seed
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but to the seed of
Jesus Christ, Jesus Christ.
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The Bible is
the only sure guide.
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When I first came to
this, after I became a believer,
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after I became a
born-again Christian
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I turned away, I
struggle with it,
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I couldn't imagine.
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I've been brought up you know,
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I've been brought
up like most people
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and my parents told
me, my grandparents told me
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you know, you go
to church on Sun--
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I had gone there,
I've been sprinkled,
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I believe in God
the Father Almighty,
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maker of heaven, earth,
Jesus Christ, the only God,
00:17:03.02\00:17:04.67
son of Lord, to
see the holy ghost,
00:17:04.70\00:17:05.83
born of virgin
Mary, son of purge power,
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I've been
filled with all of that
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but I never knew
Jesus Christ as my Savior.
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And when I
discovered Him as my Savior
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the only thing I could
do was walk in His way.
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I tried to run from it
00:17:19.14\00:17:20.46
but I kept
running into the wall,
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I kept reading the Bible
and running into the wall
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and I said, evidence.
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You see, a text out
of context is a pretext.
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And when you see the
context you see the truth.
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How can I know the
truth, Brother Ron?
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You have a Bible.
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Why do you think
you have a Bible?
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Just to be read to you one
day a week from the pulpit?
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You have a Bible
so we can guide you
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and your family in matters,
00:17:46.77\00:17:48.30
you can guide
you in life itself.
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You have a Bible
so that you can face
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the future with
confidence and future with hope,
00:17:52.58\00:17:55.06
open your Bible.
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I'm amazed the best
seller goes unread, unread.
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But the question now is
why did there come and change?
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I mean, if God changed
it surely He would tell us,
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don't you think?
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Of course.
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You see, it matters with
Jesus Christ, it matters.
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Why comes the change?
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Well, it's not what I
say, not what you preacher says
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but why is there a change?
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What does the Bible
teach about the change?
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And noticed, Jesus Christ,
He's the one that guides us,
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Jesus Christ is
the one who says,
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in Ephesians 4:21,
00:18:35.47\00:18:37.87
"If so be that ye have heard him
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and have been taught by
him as the truth is in" Who?
00:18:40.61\00:18:45.33
"Jesus."
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We have no truth
outside of Jesus Christ.
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I can theologize,
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I can read the
language of the Bible,
00:18:51.93\00:18:54.28
the Old
Testament and New Testament
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but I can't give you truth,
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only Jesus Christ
can give you truth.
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Now truth is not
always been popular.
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Come on now, all right.
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I mean, you don't think,
00:19:06.78\00:19:07.81
you read the story of
the 1st century Christians,
00:19:07.84\00:19:11.58
truth hasn't
always been popular.
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In fact, when you follow
truth you become unpopular.
00:19:13.64\00:19:20.19
Right, come on now.
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Therefore the apostles show us
00:19:21.56\00:19:23.02
that you can't
read the New Testament
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without seeing that.
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You see, in fact it's
unpopular most of the time.
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We've seen it
here in this place,
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men and women
confronted with truth
00:19:31.73\00:19:33.50
as it is in Jesus
and they just turn away.
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I mean, they refuse to listen.
00:19:36.38\00:19:37.81
They are afraid
of the consequence.
00:19:37.84\00:19:39.38
Listen, friend,
open your heart to God,
00:19:39.41\00:19:41.70
the God that can
show you the truth
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can help you walk in the truth.
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Jesus Christ teaches
00:19:47.12\00:19:48.90
that nothing could
alter the moral law of God.
00:19:48.93\00:19:51.57
By the way listen, the
church fathers couldn't,
00:19:51.60\00:19:55.49
the church theologians couldn't,
00:19:55.52\00:19:57.72
the church councils couldn't
00:19:57.75\00:19:59.81
and the church
traditions couldn't
00:19:59.84\00:20:02.98
because He had said,
00:20:03.01\00:20:04.90
"Think not that I have come
00:20:04.93\00:20:07.05
to destroy the
law or the prophets,
00:20:07.08\00:20:08.89
I am not come to
destroy but to fulfill."
00:20:08.92\00:20:12.07
Its very interesting that word,
00:20:12.10\00:20:13.41
fulfill means to live it out.
00:20:13.44\00:20:16.17
People say, well, I don't
like to accept the Old Testament
00:20:16.20\00:20:18.81
I just want the New Testament.
00:20:18.84\00:20:20.27
How can you take
the New Testament
00:20:20.30\00:20:21.81
out the Old Testament?
00:20:21.84\00:20:23.64
In fact, there are
hundreds of references
00:20:23.67\00:20:25.65
in the Book of Revelation alone
00:20:25.68\00:20:27.55
or inferences from the
Book of the Old Testament
00:20:27.58\00:20:30.67
was we would not know Jesus
00:20:30.70\00:20:32.49
as we know Jesus without Isaiah.
00:20:32.52\00:20:36.21
We never would have
known Jesus as His birthplace
00:20:36.24\00:20:39.59
without those early prophets.
00:20:39.62\00:20:42.27
And so He says, I'm
not come here to change it,
00:20:42.30\00:20:44.86
I've come here to fulfill it,
to show you how to live it out.
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God wants us to live it out.
00:20:48.63\00:20:50.95
And so man couldn't change it,
00:20:50.98\00:20:53.04
man has no right
to change the law,
00:20:53.07\00:20:54.74
man has no right to a change
the teachings of the Bible.
00:20:54.77\00:20:57.70
You have no
right to-- by the way
00:20:57.73\00:20:59.97
study the Bible kind
of you know pick here
00:21:00.00\00:21:01.82
what you want and pick
there you know like they do
00:21:01.85\00:21:04.55
its, well, I accept the Genesis
00:21:04.58\00:21:06.78
but I refuse to
accept Leviticus.
00:21:06.81\00:21:11.41
Well, I know he
said that in Matthew
00:21:11.44\00:21:12.92
but I like what he said in Mark,
00:21:12.95\00:21:14.28
he said the same thing in
Mark what he said in Matthew
00:21:14.31\00:21:16.61
and he said it in
all Synoptic Gospels.
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He said it all in
the Synoptic Gospels.
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And yet tonight we find
00:21:24.04\00:21:25.13
someone been
tampering with God's law.
00:21:25.16\00:21:28.17
Someone's been tampering
00:21:28.20\00:21:29.23
with the
character of the Almighty.
00:21:29.26\00:21:31.43
You see if
Calvary is a transcript
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to the mercy of Jesus Christ
00:21:33.22\00:21:34.92
then Sinai is a transcript
of the justice of Jesus Christ.
00:21:34.95\00:21:38.83
Mercy and Justice the two arms
00:21:38.86\00:21:41.19
of the almighty
God that uphold us
00:21:41.22\00:21:43.59
but someone's been tampering
with God's holy character
00:21:43.62\00:21:46.42
as written in
the Ten Commandments.
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I'm amazed churches
you say, let's not get rid
00:21:48.57\00:21:52.12
of the Ten
Commandments from government,
00:21:52.15\00:21:54.19
let's not get rid
of the Ten Commandments
00:21:54.22\00:21:55.53
from the school,
00:21:55.56\00:21:56.59
let's not get rid--
and yet they get rid
00:21:56.62\00:21:58.26
of the Ten
Commandments in the church.
00:21:58.29\00:22:02.52
Well, yeah, yeah.
00:22:02.55\00:22:04.53
Keep that's all right
00:22:04.56\00:22:05.59
but you have to
worry about that one.
00:22:05.62\00:22:08.17
We'll decide which
one I should worry about,
00:22:08.20\00:22:10.02
come on.
00:22:10.05\00:22:11.71
I told you other night,
00:22:11.74\00:22:12.77
if I'm hanging from
the Empire State building
00:22:12.80\00:22:15.67
on a chain with 10
links, what link is important?
00:22:15.70\00:22:21.85
Get the drift.
00:22:21.88\00:22:24.41
You see if we
could change the law,
00:22:24.44\00:22:28.05
Jesus Christ would not
have had to come to Bethlehem.
00:22:28.08\00:22:31.25
If we had changed the law
00:22:31.28\00:22:32.80
Christ would
not have had to come
00:22:32.83\00:22:34.75
to Calvary shame form nakedness.
00:22:34.78\00:22:37.37
If we had not changed the law
00:22:37.40\00:22:39.37
Christ would not
have suffered on the tree,
00:22:39.40\00:22:41.74
Christ would not have
been lacerated His back,
00:22:41.77\00:22:44.06
Christ would not
have been spit upon,
00:22:44.09\00:22:46.24
Christ would not have
been nailed to the cross
00:22:46.27\00:22:52.67
if it wasn't for the
fact that the law was binding
00:22:52.70\00:22:58.85
and the law broken, breaks us.
00:22:58.88\00:23:03.32
And the Bible
tells me, again and again
00:23:03.35\00:23:04.93
that this Jesus
born of a manger,
00:23:04.96\00:23:06.88
this Jesus born in the crib,
00:23:06.91\00:23:08.19
this Jesus hanging on the cross,
00:23:08.22\00:23:10.26
this Jesus is going to
come in glory and power.
00:23:10.29\00:23:12.82
Hey listen, "Jesus
Christ the same yesterday,
00:23:12.85\00:23:15.13
today and" what?
00:23:15.16\00:23:16.19
"For ever."
00:23:16.22\00:23:17.25
Christ doesn't change.
This book does not change.
00:23:17.28\00:23:22.27
We change
00:23:22.30\00:23:25.08
and He is the only one
that can change us back.
00:23:25.11\00:23:27.12
Come on, now.
00:23:27.15\00:23:28.86
In Malachi 3:6 "For
I am the Lord," I what?
00:23:28.89\00:23:32.28
"I change not."
00:23:32.31\00:23:34.01
Then comes Matthew 5:17,
"Think not that I am come
00:23:34.04\00:23:37.11
to destroy the
law or the prophets.
00:23:37.14\00:23:38.69
I am not come to
destroy, but to fulfill.
00:23:38.72\00:23:40.97
For verily I say unto you,
Till heaven and earth pass,
00:23:41.00\00:23:43.53
one jot or one tittle"
00:23:43.56\00:23:45.09
that's the smallest mark
in the language of Jesus day.
00:23:45.12\00:23:52.31
A tittle.
00:23:52.34\00:23:55.23
You might say-- as
a small as you get.
00:23:55.26\00:24:01.60
"And shall we call the
least in the kingdom of heaven,"
00:24:01.63\00:24:03.71
I didn't make that up.
00:24:03.74\00:24:05.30
"But whosoever shall do His will
00:24:05.33\00:24:06.91
and teach them, the
same shall be called" what?
00:24:06.94\00:24:08.80
"Great in the
Kingdom of heaven."
00:24:08.83\00:24:11.37
Someone's been
trampling on the law.
00:24:11.40\00:24:13.96
I'm gonna show
you how the antichrist
00:24:13.99\00:24:15.45
fits into this whole
scene, this whole scenario
00:24:15.48\00:24:18.88
right from the
Book of Revelation.
00:24:18.91\00:24:21.07
And God said, I think
to change times and laws.
00:24:21.10\00:24:23.60
Man says I can't change
times and I can't change laws.
00:24:23.63\00:24:26.97
In fact, let me
look at Acts 5:29,
00:24:27.00\00:24:29.03
"Then Peter and the
apostles answered and said,
00:24:29.06\00:24:30.69
We ought to obey God" what?
00:24:30.72\00:24:32.42
"Rather than men."
The God rather than man.
00:24:32.45\00:24:36.65
But then Daniel the prophet
00:24:36.68\00:24:37.98
looking down the
skin of time told us
00:24:38.01\00:24:39.72
that man would change
the fourth commandment.
00:24:39.75\00:24:43.74
And that's why God
putting the fourth commandment,
00:24:43.77\00:24:45.49
the only
commandment said remember.
00:24:45.52\00:24:47.33
Why is it that if I
as a preacher tell you
00:24:47.36\00:24:49.20
to forget it you listen to me
00:24:49.23\00:24:51.20
but you don't listen to
God who says remember it?
00:24:51.23\00:24:53.38
I don't understand that.
00:24:53.41\00:24:56.40
What right do I have
to tell you forget it?
00:24:56.43\00:25:00.66
I went to my pastor
after I got saved in
00:25:00.69\00:25:04.61
and I came face
to face with this
00:25:04.64\00:25:06.78
and I said to him, I
said, pastor, I said,
00:25:06.81\00:25:09.05
what about this
fourth commandment?
00:25:09.08\00:25:10.47
And he said, oh, oh, forget it.
00:25:10.50\00:25:12.35
I said, I was
in catechism class.
00:25:12.38\00:25:16.23
You made me memorize it.
00:25:16.26\00:25:19.05
Do you know how
hard it was for me
00:25:19.08\00:25:20.46
to memorize the
Ten Commandments?
00:25:20.49\00:25:22.48
Yeah, he knew me.
00:25:22.51\00:25:24.73
Now that I'm saved, I
don't have to keep it.
00:25:24.76\00:25:32.37
Christ doesn't
called you to lawlessness,
00:25:32.40\00:25:33.94
He's called you to
lowness, lawfulness.
00:25:33.97\00:25:37.99
Christ doesn't
called you to sinfulness,
00:25:38.02\00:25:39.61
He's called you to sinless,
00:25:39.64\00:25:40.89
He's called you to
serve Him in power.
00:25:40.92\00:25:44.52
He said, listen,
00:25:44.55\00:25:45.63
"And he shall speak great
words against the most High,
00:25:45.66\00:25:48.03
shall wear out the saints,"
00:25:48.06\00:25:49.15
by the way that means
persecute the saints of God
00:25:49.18\00:25:52.52
and I'm gonna show
you that in Revelation 13
00:25:52.55\00:25:54.93
but it says "wear out
the saints of the most High,
00:25:54.96\00:25:57.28
think to change times" and what?
00:25:57.31\00:25:59.41
"Laws."
00:25:59.44\00:26:00.47
Any Christ he is speaking about,
00:26:00.50\00:26:02.35
he will think to
change times and laws.
00:26:02.38\00:26:04.73
Now, what
commandment deals with time?
00:26:04.76\00:26:06.78
There's only one commandment
00:26:06.81\00:26:07.90
in a Decalogue
that deals with time
00:26:07.93\00:26:09.98
and that is the
commandment that says,
00:26:10.01\00:26:12.34
remember the
Sabbath day to keep it holy.
00:26:12.37\00:26:17.78
In the Bible,
the Bible teaches us,
00:26:17.81\00:26:20.37
"Because the carnal mind"
00:26:20.40\00:26:21.53
what is that the sinful
mind "is enmity against God,
00:26:21.56\00:26:24.83
it is not subject
to the Lord of God,
00:26:24.86\00:26:26.68
neither indeed can be."
00:26:26.71\00:26:29.11
To the prophets it
was unthinkable to change,
00:26:29.14\00:26:31.81
you see to the
apostles it was unthinkable.
00:26:31.84\00:26:34.44
To the early church
branded in suffering
00:26:34.47\00:26:36.69
burning at the
stake it was unthinkable
00:26:36.72\00:26:39.53
but in man but man
it became thinkable
00:26:39.56\00:26:45.23
and He mentions the change.
00:26:45.26\00:26:47.97
And He says, "Think to
change times and laws."
00:26:48.00\00:26:53.58
Look at Exodus please.
00:26:53.61\00:26:56.05
The commandment time and law,
00:26:56.08\00:26:57.52
let's look at the
commandment that says it,
00:26:57.55\00:26:59.79
"Remember the
Sabbath day, to keep it holy.
00:26:59.82\00:27:03.93
Six days shalt thou labor,"
00:27:03.96\00:27:06.58
that's time
"and do all thy work.
00:27:06.61\00:27:09.60
But the seventh
day is the Sabbath
00:27:09.63\00:27:11.59
of the Lord thy God."
00:27:11.62\00:27:14.12
He then goes on to embellish it.
00:27:14.15\00:27:16.47
"In it thou shalt not do
thy work, thou, nor thy son,
00:27:16.50\00:27:19.15
nor thy
daughter, thy manservant,
00:27:19.18\00:27:20.46
nor thy maid
it's all includes it.
00:27:20.49\00:27:23.75
It's the memorial of creation.
00:27:23.78\00:27:25.67
You can't say creation
was just given to the Jews.
00:27:25.70\00:27:29.84
I'm a Norwegian.
00:27:29.87\00:27:32.93
Isn't that nice, come on
you should say amen at least.
00:27:32.96\00:27:35.30
Amen.
00:27:35.33\00:27:36.36
Come on.
00:27:36.39\00:27:37.99
I mean we stumbled on America
00:27:38.02\00:27:39.49
long before
Columbus even sailed.
00:27:39.52\00:27:45.69
Don't you think creation
was given to the Norwegians?
00:27:45.72\00:27:50.43
Don't you think the
blessing that God wanted to give
00:27:50.46\00:27:52.57
the three fold
blessing on the Sabbath
00:27:52.60\00:27:54.80
was given to
people of all racists,
00:27:54.83\00:27:56.86
of all
nationalities, of all religions?
00:27:56.89\00:28:03.30
"Nor thy strange
within thy gates."
00:28:03.33\00:28:06.38
And yet the antichrist
would come along in time
00:28:06.41\00:28:09.03
and he would think to change
00:28:09.06\00:28:10.60
and we must look
at that together.
00:28:10.63\00:28:12.25
Genesis 2, the Bible tells us,
00:28:12.28\00:28:15.33
"Thus the heavens and
the earth were finished,
00:28:15.36\00:28:16.58
and all the host of them.
00:28:16.61\00:28:17.64
And on the seventh
day God ended His work
00:28:17.67\00:28:19.23
which He had" what?
00:28:19.26\00:28:20.58
"Which He had made.
00:28:20.61\00:28:22.89
And he rested on the seventh day
00:28:22.92\00:28:24.31
from His work which he had made.
00:28:24.34\00:28:25.44
And God blessed the seventh day,
00:28:25.47\00:28:26.94
and He sanctified it."
00:28:26.97\00:28:28.00
By the way the
word sanctity means
00:28:28.03\00:28:29.62
He puts it aside forever.
00:28:29.65\00:28:31.73
When He sanctifies you
He set you apart forever.
00:28:31.76\00:28:37.03
"Because that
in it He had rested
00:28:37.06\00:28:38.29
from all His
work which God" what?
00:28:38.32\00:28:39.80
"Created and God made."
00:28:39.83\00:28:40.90
He rested, He blessed,
00:28:40.93\00:28:42.85
He sanctified
that's what He did.
00:28:42.88\00:28:45.31
You see the Sabbath
has always been with us.
00:28:45.34\00:28:48.33
It was a creation day,
its always been a symbol.
00:28:48.36\00:28:53.31
The Bible Old
Testament Sabbath keepers,
00:28:53.34\00:28:55.15
look at them Adam
was a Sabbath keeper,
00:28:55.18\00:28:57.16
Abraham was a Sabbath keeper,
Moses was a Sabbath keeper,
00:28:57.19\00:29:00.64
Isaiah was a Sabbath keeper
there is no one in this city
00:29:00.67\00:29:03.13
that would tell you differently
00:29:03.16\00:29:04.67
Jeremiah was a Sabbath keeper,
Daniel was a Sabbath keeper,
00:29:04.70\00:29:08.33
Joel was a Sabbath keeper,
Malachi was a Sabbath keeper.
00:29:08.36\00:29:11.88
Do you need more proof
come to the New Testament,
00:29:11.91\00:29:14.70
Peter the apostle,
00:29:14.73\00:29:16.03
the man of Pentecost
was a Sabbath keeper,
00:29:16.06\00:29:18.71
John the apostle on Patmos
00:29:18.74\00:29:20.60
and throughout his
life was a Sabbath keeper.
00:29:20.63\00:29:22.88
James, Matthew,
Mark, Luke, Paul, Barnabas
00:29:22.91\00:29:27.94
I could go on and on
and on the first church.
00:29:27.97\00:29:32.58
The apostolic church
were Sabbath keepers,
00:29:32.61\00:29:38.42
were Sabbath keepers.
00:29:38.45\00:29:41.50
Break the law for
anyone, for anything?
00:29:41.53\00:29:45.32
No friend, He is our example.
00:29:45.35\00:29:48.26
"Jesus kept it
that's good enough for me!"
00:29:48.29\00:29:51.50
When I came to that I
was running towards it.
00:29:51.53\00:29:57.25
I was running towards it.
00:29:57.28\00:29:59.58
"He came to Nazareth,
00:29:59.61\00:30:00.72
where he had been brought
up and, as his custom was,
00:30:00.75\00:30:02.08
he went into the
synagogue on the Sabbath day,
00:30:02.11\00:30:03.79
and stood up to read.
00:30:03.82\00:30:05.11
And he said to them, The
Sabbath was made for man,"
00:30:05.14\00:30:07.04
we read that text
you've seen it again and again.
00:30:07.07\00:30:10.82
Why the change?
00:30:10.85\00:30:12.65
When did the change
come? That's a good question.
00:30:12.68\00:30:15.50
By the way there
were only eight verses
00:30:15.53\00:30:16.93
in the whole New Testament
00:30:16.96\00:30:18.31
concerning the
first day of the week
00:30:18.34\00:30:20.41
and I'm gonna just
move through them fast,
00:30:20.44\00:30:22.13
you can go home and look them up
00:30:22.16\00:30:23.57
but there are
eight first day texts
00:30:23.60\00:30:25.02
in the New Testament only
00:30:25.05\00:30:27.29
and yet there are 87 Sabbaths
kept alone in the Book of Acts.
00:30:27.32\00:30:30.35
Well, anyway here we go
and there's the first one
00:30:30.38\00:30:32.89
here is the change
that's what they tell me.
00:30:32.92\00:30:34.74
"In the end of the Sabbath,
00:30:34.77\00:30:35.80
as it began to dawn toward
the first day of the week,
00:30:35.83\00:30:37.85
came Mary Magdalene
00:30:37.88\00:30:39.05
and the other Mary
to see the sepulcher."
00:30:39.08\00:30:40.83
Do you see a change here?
00:30:40.86\00:30:42.23
Oh, the Bible says
is the Sabbath ended
00:30:42.26\00:30:44.30
now they come to
anoint the body of Jesus.
00:30:44.33\00:30:47.03
You don't find the
change in Matthew 28.
00:30:47.06\00:30:49.22
The sepulcher, the
stone has rolled away.
00:30:49.25\00:30:51.53
They come on the
first day of the week,
00:30:51.56\00:30:53.32
they run back to
tell the apostles.
00:30:53.35\00:30:54.80
The apostles come and you know
00:30:54.83\00:30:56.35
there was one apostle
didn't believe and he says
00:30:56.38\00:30:58.36
until I put my finger--
listen to me that's a fact.
00:30:58.39\00:31:03.93
There is it "And
very early in the morning
00:31:03.96\00:31:05.13
the first day of the week,
00:31:05.16\00:31:06.21
they came unto the sepulcher
at the rising of the sun."
00:31:06.24\00:31:08.96
It doesn't say no change,
00:31:08.99\00:31:10.23
it doesn't talk about a
change not here then it goes on.
00:31:10.26\00:31:13.80
Mark 16:9
00:31:13.83\00:31:15.13
"Now When Jesus risen early
on the first day of the week,
00:31:15.16\00:31:17.31
He appeared first
to Mary Magdalene,
00:31:17.34\00:31:18.66
out of whom he had
driven seven devils."
00:31:18.69\00:31:21.33
There is no change here.
00:31:21.36\00:31:22.83
We go to Luke and
we look at Luke in 24:1
00:31:22.86\00:31:26.29
"Now upon the
first day of the week,
00:31:26.32\00:31:27.65
very early in the morning,
they came unto the sepulcher,"
00:31:27.68\00:31:29.82
all the gospel
writers tell the same story
00:31:29.85\00:31:32.65
the Sabbath is
passed, the first day starts
00:31:32.68\00:31:37.00
and it's a work day for
the anoint body of Jesus.
00:31:37.03\00:31:41.07
No change, you can't find
the change in the gospels.
00:31:41.10\00:31:44.55
Luke 23:52, 54,
00:31:44.58\00:31:46.82
"This man went to Pilate,
begged the body of Jesus.
00:31:46.85\00:31:49.15
And he took it down,
and wrapped it in linen,"
00:31:49.18\00:31:50.90
how do we know
which day is the Sabbath?
00:31:50.93\00:31:52.66
Well, the same day you
know which day is Sunday.
00:31:52.69\00:31:55.52
Because they go by the position
they don't go by a calendar
00:31:55.55\00:31:58.99
but he comes, he
takes the body of Jesus
00:31:59.02\00:32:01.11
down from the
Cross that's Friday.
00:32:01.14\00:32:02.53
Here is he calls it what?
The preparation day for what?
00:32:02.56\00:32:06.59
Come on for what? Sabbath.
00:32:06.62\00:32:08.74
All right, don't get me
to keep you late tonight.
00:32:08.77\00:32:12.49
He died on Friday,
He rested on Sabbath,
00:32:12.52\00:32:14.39
He rose again on Sunday.
00:32:14.42\00:32:16.87
And then John 20:1,
00:32:16.90\00:32:18.45
"The first day of the week
cometh Mary Magdelene early,
00:32:18.48\00:32:20.55
when it was yet
dark, unto the sepulcher,
00:32:20.58\00:32:22.84
and seeth the stone taken away."
00:32:22.87\00:32:24.29
There it is
again, there is no change
00:32:24.32\00:32:26.18
even in the gospel of John.
00:32:26.21\00:32:28.22
Even in the gospel of John.
00:32:28.25\00:32:29.81
Bible tells us John
20:19, "The same day at evening,
00:32:29.84\00:32:32.82
being the first day of the week,
00:32:32.85\00:32:34.19
when the doors were shut
00:32:34.22\00:32:35.38
where the disciples were
assembled for fear of Jews."
00:32:35.41\00:32:37.57
Someone said this is
the first worship service.
00:32:37.60\00:32:41.12
Were they worshipping?
00:32:41.15\00:32:43.74
Come on, they were
afraid that they were gonna
00:32:43.77\00:32:45.78
receive the same
thing Jesus did at cross.
00:32:45.81\00:32:49.56
They were the ones
that ran from the Cross.
00:32:49.59\00:32:51.43
It's very interesting, I
want to talk about the women.
00:32:51.46\00:32:54.11
It's very interesting
00:32:54.14\00:32:55.23
that it was a woman at the crib,
00:32:55.26\00:32:56.93
a woman at the cross
and a woman at the tomb,
00:32:56.96\00:32:59.61
the crept.
00:32:59.64\00:33:00.93
So whatever you want to say.
00:33:00.96\00:33:04.03
Okay, I won't say
anymore but that's enough.
00:33:04.06\00:33:09.69
Pardon me.
00:33:09.72\00:33:11.61
Then He goes on, 20 verse19,
"came Jesus stood in the midst
00:33:11.64\00:33:15.87
and said unto them,
Peace beyond to you."
00:33:15.90\00:33:17.95
Remember one
apostle didn't even believe.
00:33:17.98\00:33:20.34
And then Acts 20:7,
00:33:20.37\00:33:21.64
"Upon the first day of the week,
00:33:21.67\00:33:22.82
when the disciples came
together to break bread,"
00:33:22.85\00:33:24.59
they said, there is
the communion service.
00:33:24.62\00:33:26.51
Not at all, in fact,
Paul preached even unto them
00:33:26.54\00:33:29.77
into the night
which was the next day.
00:33:29.80\00:33:32.30
He preached unto them
00:33:32.33\00:33:33.48
and the breaking a
bread was not because you see,
00:33:33.51\00:33:36.40
the Bible tells us
they broke bread daily.
00:33:36.43\00:33:43.57
It's not a change.
00:33:43.60\00:33:46.10
"Upon the first day of the week
00:33:46.13\00:33:47.17
very early in the
morning lay up in store,
00:33:47.20\00:33:49.31
God hath prospered him,
00:33:49.34\00:33:50.47
that there be no
gathering when He come."
00:33:50.50\00:33:51.85
They symbolic
took up a collection
00:33:51.88\00:33:53.09
on the first day of the
week, that's their argument.
00:33:53.12\00:33:55.97
Do you know how they did?
00:33:56.00\00:33:57.16
They didn't take offerings
in a church like we do.
00:33:57.19\00:34:00.68
What they used to do
is go on Sunday morning,
00:34:00.71\00:34:02.78
because they were working,
00:34:02.81\00:34:03.95
they count it their
profits for the week before
00:34:03.98\00:34:06.68
and the apostles
would come around
00:34:06.71\00:34:08.29
and collect the tithe
and then they would go out
00:34:08.32\00:34:11.56
and help the poor, the needy
00:34:11.59\00:34:13.54
and build the
church of Jesus Christ.
00:34:13.57\00:34:15.83
There's no room for
compromise, no room.
00:34:15.86\00:34:19.89
Acts 17:2, Acts 16:13,
00:34:19.92\00:34:22.05
Acts 13:14, 42,
I mean, there it is
00:34:22.08\00:34:24.94
"87 Sabbaths
kept by the apostles."
00:34:24.97\00:34:26.69
What more proof.
00:34:26.72\00:34:27.75
"For we which have
believed enter into rest,
00:34:27.78\00:34:30.18
as I have sworn in my wrath,
00:34:30.21\00:34:31.58
if they shall enter into my rest
00:34:31.61\00:34:33.31
although the works were finished
00:34:33.34\00:34:34.50
from the
foundation of the world."
00:34:34.53\00:34:35.91
And then he talks
about this place of rest.
00:34:35.94\00:34:38.02
And by the way, its two
rest, it's a spiritual rest,
00:34:38.05\00:34:42.38
see that's what Joshua's saying,
00:34:42.41\00:34:43.59
it's a spiritual but
its also a Sabbath rest
00:34:43.62\00:34:46.46
because the creation, He
says, the creation of the world.
00:34:46.49\00:34:49.69
"Seeing therefore
it means remaineth
00:34:49.72\00:34:50.77
that some must enter therein,
00:34:50.80\00:34:52.70
and to whom it
was first preached
00:34:52.73\00:34:53.93
entered not
because of their unbelief."
00:34:53.96\00:34:55.51
The gentiles rejected
00:34:55.54\00:34:57.55
and they had to
bring the gospel to them
00:34:57.58\00:34:59.67
and that's how we got
this wonderful Sabbath
00:34:59.70\00:35:05.92
to the first
church to early church.
00:35:05.95\00:35:08.77
Now let's look at
this, there are two rests
00:35:08.80\00:35:10.94
I talked about it,
salvation rest, Sabbath rest.
00:35:10.97\00:35:14.10
Sabbath as in the
Hebrew is seventh day.
00:35:14.13\00:35:18.36
Babylon.
00:35:18.39\00:35:20.27
Now notice confusion
00:35:20.30\00:35:22.67
and now let's
notice the subtle changes.
00:35:22.70\00:35:25.10
Grace became license.
00:35:25.13\00:35:27.20
Hey listen, law
became an option.
00:35:27.23\00:35:29.97
Listen to the change.
Obey became convenient.
00:35:30.00\00:35:32.88
If it's convenient obey, if
its not don't worry about it
00:35:32.91\00:35:35.76
subtle changes
it took centuries.
00:35:35.79\00:35:37.97
Do you think they
woke up one morning said
00:35:38.00\00:35:39.61
let's change the day?
00:35:39.64\00:35:40.89
Not at all.
00:35:40.92\00:35:41.95
And I didn't
think, I don't even think
00:35:41.98\00:35:43.89
that they tried
to do it maliciously.
00:35:43.92\00:35:47.63
They just thought
this is the best way
00:35:47.66\00:35:48.90
to reach the gentile world
00:35:48.93\00:35:50.09
because the gentile world
was already keeping Sunday
00:35:50.12\00:35:53.10
and Jesus rose on Sunday
00:35:53.13\00:35:54.77
so they kind of
tried the reason,
00:35:54.80\00:35:56.27
they tried to do
the work of God for God.
00:35:56.30\00:35:58.34
Don't ever try to do
the work of God for God.
00:35:58.37\00:36:03.06
And when did that change
come? 130 A.D. check up me.
00:36:03.09\00:36:07.44
When Barnabas, by the
way Barnabas of Alexandria
00:36:07.47\00:36:11.98
then came 165 A.D.
Sixtus, Bishop of Rome.
00:36:12.01\00:36:16.09
And he proposed an annual
Easter festival one day a year
00:36:16.12\00:36:20.16
and that was
the Easter festival.
00:36:20.19\00:36:21.82
That's the first time
ever they kept it as a holiday.
00:36:21.85\00:36:24.98
That was in
160-- check up on it.
00:36:25.01\00:36:28.00
200 A.D. Rictor,
Rictor was bishop of Rome.
00:36:28.03\00:36:32.17
He proposed this
idea of this law,
00:36:32.20\00:36:35.15
he made it a law in 200 A.D.
00:36:35.18\00:36:38.00
Then came 314 A.D. Constantine.
00:36:38.03\00:36:40.76
He made the first Sunday
law. That was Constantine.
00:36:40.79\00:36:44.05
Then 321, not
until 321 was it law.
00:36:44.08\00:36:47.20
Not until 321 that the
church ever totally change over.
00:36:47.23\00:36:53.38
It wasn't the command of Jesus.
00:36:53.41\00:36:56.33
It wasn't the command of Jesus.
00:36:56.36\00:36:58.74
And then came
1563, the council Trent.
00:36:58.77\00:37:03.11
And in large of Sunday law
00:37:03.14\00:37:04.51
to include all
people except farmers.
00:37:04.54\00:37:07.45
And so now if you didn't
keep Sunday you are punished.
00:37:07.48\00:37:11.81
It was gonna come a time
00:37:11.84\00:37:12.87
when you won't be
over the buy yourself,
00:37:12.90\00:37:14.11
say if he that
the mark of the beast
00:37:14.14\00:37:15.50
and number of his
name, hey that day is coming.
00:37:15.53\00:37:19.18
That day is coming.
00:37:19.21\00:37:20.76
What is with this?
00:37:20.79\00:37:23.31
"On the
venerable day of the Sun,"
00:37:23.34\00:37:25.96
Constantine 321,
00:37:25.99\00:37:28.43
"Let the magistrates and people
residing in the cities rest,
00:37:28.46\00:37:31.34
and let all workshops be closed.
00:37:31.37\00:37:34.56
The sun was
foremost god with heathendom.
00:37:34.59\00:37:37.33
There is a
truth, something royal,
00:37:37.36\00:37:38.95
kingly about the
sun making it fit emblem
00:37:38.98\00:37:41.36
Jesus, Sun of justice."
00:37:41.39\00:37:43.00
Catholic World,
that was in 1894.
00:37:43.03\00:37:46.56
"Hence the church
in these countries
00:37:46.59\00:37:48.79
would seem to have said,
'Keep the old pagan name.
00:37:48.82\00:37:51.23
It shall remain consecrated,
00:37:51.26\00:37:52.79
and it shall remain sanctified.'
00:37:52.82\00:37:54.71
And thus the pagan
Sunday, dedicated to Balder,
00:37:54.74\00:37:58.82
became the Christian
Sunday, sacred to Jesus."
00:37:58.85\00:38:02.14
Catholic World,
page 809, in March 1894.
00:38:02.17\00:38:06.19
How did the change
happen through the centuries?
00:38:06.22\00:38:08.77
"Christian shall not
Judaize and be idle on Saturday,
00:38:08.80\00:38:11.60
but shall work on
that day but the Lord's Day
00:38:11.63\00:38:13.52
they shall
especially honor him."
00:38:13.55\00:38:15.06
That was in 325,
they never called
00:38:15.09\00:38:17.33
Sunday the Lord's day until 325
00:38:17.36\00:38:19.96
and it wasn't
through words of apostles,
00:38:19.99\00:38:21.73
it wasn't through word of Jesus,
00:38:21.76\00:38:23.09
it was the word of
the council of Laodicea,
00:38:23.12\00:38:25.90
Roman Catholic Church.
00:38:25.93\00:38:29.60
"As being
Christians, shall, if possible,
00:38:29.63\00:38:31.54
do not work on that day.
00:38:31.57\00:38:33.30
If, however, they
are found Judaizing,
00:38:33.33\00:38:35.48
they shall be
shut out from Christ."
00:38:35.51\00:38:36.85
They would cast
out of the church.
00:38:36.88\00:38:39.30
"After all, fundamentalists
meet for worship on Sunday,
00:38:39.33\00:38:41.51
yet there is no
evidence in the Bible
00:38:41.54\00:38:43.27
that corporate worship
was to be made on Sundays.
00:38:43.30\00:38:46.33
The Jewish
Sabbath, or day of rest,
00:38:46.36\00:38:48.24
was, of course, Saturday."
00:38:48.27\00:38:50.19
Catholicism, Fundamentalism.
00:38:50.22\00:38:53.24
"It was the
catholic church that decided
00:38:53.27\00:38:55.09
Sunday should be the day
of worship for Christians,
00:38:55.12\00:38:57.55
in honor of the resurrection."
00:38:57.58\00:39:00.01
In vein do they worship me
00:39:00.04\00:39:01.27
teaching for doctrines
the commandments of man?
00:39:01.30\00:39:04.61
Listen, the word history.
00:39:04.64\00:39:06.63
"You may read the Bible
from Genesis to Revelation
00:39:06.66\00:39:09.01
and you will not
find one single line
00:39:09.04\00:39:10.67
authorizing the
sanctification of Sunday.
00:39:10.70\00:39:13.04
The Scripture enforce
the religious observance
00:39:13.07\00:39:15.60
of Saturday."
00:39:15.63\00:39:16.71
That's the Faith of our Fathers.
00:39:16.74\00:39:18.00
At least they admitted.
00:39:18.03\00:39:20.22
"My covenant will I not
break, nor alter the thing
00:39:20.25\00:39:22.80
that is gone out from my lips.
00:39:22.83\00:39:25.19
Moreover also I
gave them my Sabbaths,
00:39:25.22\00:39:26.88
to be assigned
between me and them,
00:39:26.91\00:39:28.89
that they might
know that I am the Lord
00:39:28.92\00:39:30.68
that sanctified them."
00:39:30.71\00:39:32.62
That's what the Bible says.
Now where do we get Sunday?
00:39:32.65\00:39:35.41
Listen, not from the Bible,
00:39:35.44\00:39:37.19
we didn't get it
from the prophets,
00:39:37.22\00:39:38.79
we didn't get it
from the apostles,
00:39:38.82\00:39:40.50
we got it not
from Jesus, not at all.
00:39:40.53\00:39:43.99
"Moreover also I
gave them my Sabbaths,
00:39:44.02\00:39:45.70
to be a sign
between me and them,
00:39:45.73\00:39:47.36
that they might
know that I am the Lord
00:39:47.39\00:39:48.69
that sanctified them."
00:39:48.72\00:39:50.24
I'm giving you these texts
00:39:50.27\00:39:51.30
because I want you
to see the evidence.
00:39:51.33\00:39:54.27
The evidence.
00:39:54.30\00:39:56.56
"Here is the
patience of the saints,
00:39:56.59\00:39:58.57
here are they that keep
the commandments of God,
00:39:58.60\00:40:01.16
and have faith in Jesus Christ."
00:40:01.19\00:40:03.04
It's a matter of loyalty
to Christ that's what it is.
00:40:03.07\00:40:09.09
You see its
compromise to the church.
00:40:09.12\00:40:12.06
Later on infant baptism,
purgatory, confessional booths
00:40:12.09\00:40:15.21
I could go on,
peoples decision born
00:40:15.24\00:40:17.77
again Christian we require of it
00:40:17.80\00:40:19.16
such, a such doctrine
and yet it's the same church
00:40:19.19\00:40:21.93
that change the day of
worship for the believer.
00:40:21.96\00:40:26.02
What right does anybody have
to change what God has written?
00:40:26.05\00:40:31.08
So we find that
loyalty to Christ.
00:40:31.11\00:40:33.69
Are you loyal? Are
you loyal to Jesus Christ?
00:40:33.72\00:40:37.90
That's the point. Let
me tell you personal story.
00:40:37.93\00:40:42.32
My dad was an
alcoholic. He was a mean drunk.
00:40:42.35\00:40:49.44
Before he knew
Christ we feared him.
00:40:49.47\00:40:55.32
My dad from Friday night
00:40:55.35\00:40:56.66
to Monday morning was drunk.
00:40:56.69\00:41:00.50
We knew a little physical abuse,
00:41:00.53\00:41:02.01
we knew emotional abuse
and we feared our father
00:41:02.04\00:41:08.23
because of alcohol.
00:41:08.26\00:41:11.06
And I prayed for my father.
00:41:11.09\00:41:13.05
When I first became a
Christian I wanted my father,
00:41:13.08\00:41:15.69
I wanted to lead him to Christ,
00:41:15.72\00:41:17.43
I was set free and I
wanted my father to know Jesus.
00:41:17.46\00:41:21.11
I had the privilege of
leading my mother to Christ
00:41:21.14\00:41:23.11
and she became a Christian
and then I had the privilege
00:41:23.14\00:41:25.32
of leading my
brothers to Jesus Christ,
00:41:25.35\00:41:27.36
they became Christians
and now just my father.
00:41:27.39\00:41:33.57
And I prayed for my father.
00:41:33.60\00:41:37.16
One day at college I
received a letter from my father
00:41:37.19\00:41:39.40
and he told me that he had just
given his life to Jesus Christ.
00:41:39.43\00:41:41.95
Amen.
00:41:41.98\00:41:44.68
And my father, I mean, my father
00:41:44.71\00:41:46.69
was so determine
to live for Christ
00:41:46.72\00:41:48.47
and then he was
studying the Bible,
00:41:48.50\00:41:49.70
he said son, you have been
telling me about the Sabbath.
00:41:49.73\00:41:52.04
I have been reading it,
and its there in the Bible.
00:41:52.07\00:41:54.44
I'm going to keep the Sabbath.
I said that just wonderful.
00:41:54.47\00:41:59.49
And then my father said,
00:41:59.52\00:42:00.55
but you know I
have a little problem
00:42:00.58\00:42:02.20
because I work every
Saturday and for 20 some years
00:42:02.23\00:42:05.14
every Saturday I had to work
because I'm a maintenance man.
00:42:05.17\00:42:07.74
He was a
maintenance man in a factory.
00:42:07.77\00:42:09.50
He had to fix the
machines on Saturday
00:42:09.53\00:42:11.44
so Monday they would
come in and they could work.
00:42:11.47\00:42:15.62
But my dad said I'm determined.
00:42:15.65\00:42:16.85
He went to the boss and he said,
00:42:16.88\00:42:18.22
boss, I need Saturday off.
00:42:18.25\00:42:19.80
And the boss said, you
can't have Saturday off
00:42:19.83\00:42:21.82
while you have
to fix the machines.
00:42:21.85\00:42:24.98
And that's it well,
00:42:25.01\00:42:26.04
I want to go to church
and worship with my family
00:42:26.07\00:42:28.13
and I want to follow
the command of Jesus Christ
00:42:28.16\00:42:30.69
and he said oh, no, you can't.
00:42:30.72\00:42:32.29
Now here's my father,
00:42:32.32\00:42:33.38
my father was a honest
working man I have ever known,
00:42:33.41\00:42:35.88
I mean, but he didn't make much.
00:42:35.91\00:42:42.62
But he still had some
children home and a job,
00:42:42.65\00:42:45.39
is a job and the boss said,
00:42:45.42\00:42:47.63
no you're gonna
come in Saturday Bill.
00:42:47.66\00:42:49.36
He says, no.
00:42:49.39\00:42:50.42
He said I can't, I got
to keep this day for Jesus.
00:42:50.45\00:42:54.76
And so he came in on
Monday and the boss was waiting
00:42:54.79\00:42:56.66
as he punched in the boss
said I'll see you next Saturday.
00:42:56.69\00:43:01.30
My father said, no. He
said I'm gonna go to church.
00:43:01.33\00:43:03.85
He said, well, then if
you go to church Saturday
00:43:03.88\00:43:05.78
don't come in Monday.
00:43:05.81\00:43:09.69
All week long my
dad would come punch in,
00:43:09.72\00:43:11.91
the boss would be
there, see you Saturday,
00:43:11.94\00:43:14.48
see you Saturday
and that's the test.
00:43:14.51\00:43:20.84
Do you think that's legalism?
00:43:20.87\00:43:23.95
Why isn't it
legalism if you keep Sunday
00:43:23.98\00:43:26.87
but if I keep Saturday
you tell me that's legalism?
00:43:26.90\00:43:30.44
I can't fight on that.
I can't understand that.
00:43:30.47\00:43:35.24
My dad wanted to do
what God told him to do.
00:43:35.27\00:43:38.09
What's wrong with that?
00:43:38.12\00:43:40.54
And so he came in on Friday
and the boss took his card
00:43:40.57\00:43:42.73
and said, see
you tomorrow, Bill.
00:43:42.76\00:43:44.26
My dad said, no I've got to,
00:43:44.29\00:43:45.88
I've got to be in
church with my family.
00:43:45.91\00:43:49.89
And so he went to punch out
00:43:49.92\00:43:52.43
boss took his card and
said, see you tomorrow, Bill.
00:43:52.46\00:43:55.31
He said, no.
00:43:55.34\00:43:56.37
He said, don't
come in on Monday.
00:43:56.40\00:43:58.37
You're fired.
00:43:58.40\00:44:00.28
My dad had to
walk about six blocks
00:44:00.31\00:44:01.89
from little Brooklyn Bridge.
00:44:01.92\00:44:02.95
He walked up to
the train station
00:44:02.98\00:44:05.09
and took a train
down to Coney Island.
00:44:05.12\00:44:07.76
He said, son, I was walking up
00:44:07.79\00:44:09.18
and I was
praying and I was crying
00:44:09.21\00:44:11.54
and I was
thinking about my family
00:44:11.57\00:44:13.00
and I thought about how
much they depended on me
00:44:13.03\00:44:15.34
and but then I
remembered what God had said,
00:44:15.37\00:44:18.72
that He would provide.
00:44:18.75\00:44:20.35
Amen. Amen.
00:44:20.38\00:44:22.11
And he says, I was-- he says,
00:44:22.14\00:44:23.54
I was walking up
and all of a sudden
00:44:23.57\00:44:27.57
I heard the boss
calling, Bill, Bill.
00:44:27.60\00:44:32.29
He turned around and the
boss was running up the hill.
00:44:32.32\00:44:36.04
And the boss said,
are you that crazy?
00:44:36.07\00:44:39.61
He said, yeah.
00:44:39.64\00:44:41.48
He so then you
come in on Sunday.
00:44:41.51\00:44:44.27
Now, hey wait, no, no, no.
00:44:44.30\00:44:46.79
You see on Saturday
he got time in a half,
00:44:46.82\00:44:50.13
on Sunday he got double time
00:44:50.16\00:44:52.30
and for the rest of his life
until he retired double time.
00:44:52.33\00:44:56.71
Don't you ever think that
God can't provide for you?
00:44:56.74\00:45:02.71
Don't you ever think
that God is not able to do
00:45:02.74\00:45:07.40
far beyond what you can expect,
00:45:07.43\00:45:09.46
far beyond what
you can ever know.
00:45:09.49\00:45:11.63
And he came into a
commitment with my father.
00:45:11.66\00:45:14.16
God saved him from alcohol.
00:45:14.19\00:45:16.02
My father sobered up,
00:45:16.05\00:45:17.51
my father got so
involved with Jesus,
00:45:17.54\00:45:20.27
I mean, he was a different man.
00:45:20.30\00:45:22.23
We loved our father
00:45:22.26\00:45:24.18
and I still to
this day my father rests
00:45:24.21\00:45:27.61
in a grave in
Brooklyn with my mother.
00:45:27.64\00:45:31.21
Listen to me, I
hope I'm in Brooklyn
00:45:31.24\00:45:33.39
when Jesus comes
so I can see my father
00:45:33.42\00:45:36.64
made sober by the grace of God,
00:45:36.67\00:45:38.87
my father that
was faithful to God
00:45:38.90\00:45:40.84
in the keeping of the Sabbath,
00:45:40.87\00:45:42.32
my father which was
faithful to God in all ways
00:45:42.35\00:45:45.55
became a deacon of his church.
00:45:45.58\00:45:47.33
He was the first
one there in the morning
00:45:47.36\00:45:49.26
and the last one to go at night
00:45:49.29\00:45:51.14
because he loved Jesus Christ.
00:45:51.17\00:45:52.80
You call that
legalism, I call it loyalty.
00:45:52.83\00:45:59.48
Amen. Amen.
00:45:59.51\00:46:00.87
And love and the
Bible says, if he love Me,
00:46:00.90\00:46:08.50
if he love Me
keep My commandments.
00:46:08.53\00:46:16.20
Keep My commandments.
00:46:16.23\00:46:18.85
Till his death and I stood there
00:46:18.88\00:46:22.74
at that grave
laying my father to rest
00:46:22.77\00:46:28.64
knowing that he fell
asleep in Jesus Christ.
00:46:28.67\00:46:33.79
That's with me and my
house, we will serve the Lord.
00:46:33.82\00:46:39.40
Now, he did not say it was easy.
00:46:45.98\00:46:50.24
By the way, it's not
easy to be a Christian
00:46:50.27\00:46:53.54
but its right, it's not easy
00:46:53.57\00:46:58.31
to be loyal to
Christ in a Christless world
00:46:58.34\00:47:03.38
but it's right and so the church
00:47:03.41\00:47:06.09
in the last days in Revelation
00:47:06.12\00:47:09.09
will have people
like that, faithful.
00:47:09.12\00:47:12.58
We called it the remnant.
00:47:12.61\00:47:14.67
The remnant from all the church,
00:47:14.70\00:47:15.80
he calls it the remnant,
00:47:15.83\00:47:16.86
we are trying to be
loyal to God in every way.
00:47:16.89\00:47:21.83
He talks about those remnant
00:47:21.86\00:47:24.46
who keep the commandments of God
00:47:24.49\00:47:27.86
and have faith in Jesus Christ.
00:47:27.89\00:47:33.26
And I want to be
that kind of follower.
00:47:33.29\00:47:36.82
I want to be that
kind of man of God,
00:47:36.85\00:47:40.36
that I will be
faithful to Him or the heavens.
00:47:40.39\00:47:46.48
You may take the
world but give me Jesus.
00:47:46.51\00:47:50.67
Consider it with the
carpenter of Nazareth
00:47:50.70\00:47:56.41
who won the Sabbath day went
to His church on the synagogue
00:47:56.44\00:47:59.27
and He prayed and
so may God help us
00:47:59.30\00:48:02.65
to be faithful
always and everywhere.
00:48:02.68\00:48:06.82
Here's a good Bible question,
00:48:42.36\00:48:44.47
"Does the Bible
make clear which day
00:48:44.50\00:48:46.28
is the actual Sabbath day?"
00:48:46.31\00:48:49.09
Well, it does.
00:48:49.12\00:48:50.28
We don't need to
guess about this,
00:48:50.31\00:48:51.63
we can go to the Word of God
00:48:51.66\00:48:52.80
and find out what
God has actually said.
00:48:52.83\00:48:54.94
And what I would
do is turn to my Bible
00:48:54.97\00:48:57.59
and invite you to do the same
00:48:57.62\00:48:58.96
to turn in your
Bible to the Book of Luke,
00:48:58.99\00:49:02.09
the Gospel of Luke Chapter 23.
00:49:02.12\00:49:05.96
What if God makes
it very, very clear?
00:49:05.99\00:49:08.31
You don't want to go
on through life, guessing.
00:49:08.34\00:49:11.29
You don't want to go
on through life thinking
00:49:11.32\00:49:12.86
that something's rights
when actually it is not.
00:49:12.89\00:49:17.71
I remember hearing some--
00:49:17.74\00:49:19.27
just a few
years ago about people
00:49:19.30\00:49:21.92
who had spent their
lives living in Rhode Island
00:49:21.95\00:49:25.88
yet when the
authorities actually checked
00:49:25.91\00:49:28.10
where the State line was,
00:49:28.13\00:49:30.20
it was found that these people
00:49:30.23\00:49:31.28
were really
living in Connecticut.
00:49:31.31\00:49:33.44
All their lives,
Rhode Island phone number,
00:49:33.47\00:49:35.60
Rhode Island zip
code, Rhode Island taxes
00:49:35.63\00:49:37.80
and so on and they discovered
that the line had been wrong
00:49:37.83\00:49:41.34
and they had been in
oversight all these years.
00:49:41.37\00:49:43.29
They were really
citizens of Connecticut
00:49:43.32\00:49:45.55
and they
weren't Rhode Islanders.
00:49:45.58\00:49:47.31
What a surprise to find out.
00:49:47.34\00:49:49.22
Now let's ask our
self the question,
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what day is the
Bible Sabbath day
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according to the Bible?
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You want to be right
about this, sure you do.
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We're in Luke Chapter 23
and the Bible tells us this.
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Towards the end of the chapter,
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this is where Jesus is
being taken down from the cross,
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Verse 52,
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"This man went to
Pilot, beg the body of Jesus,
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took it down,
wrapped it in linen,
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laid in a
sepulcher Jesus was buried."
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Verse 54, "And that
day was the preparation
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and the Sabbath drew on."
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It was the preparation day.
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Now what day was that?
What day of the week was that?
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We know that Jesus died
on Good Friday, that's right.
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Now I know there's
always somebody who says,
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I know Jesus died on a Wednesday
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because three
days and three nights
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means he could
rise on Sunday morning.
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If you read in Luke Chapter 24,
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it will tell you that
Sunday was the third day
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since Jesus died.
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Sunday, Saturday, Friday,
Jesus died on Good Friday.
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Jesus died on Good
Friday, the preparation day
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and it says here
"The Sabbath drew on."
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So the women saw
Jesus' body in the sepulcher.
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Verse 56, "They returned
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and prepared
spices, and ointments,
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and rested the Sabbath day
according to the commandment."
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Now, chapter 24 and verse 1,
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"Upon the first day of the week,
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very early in the morning
they came to the sepulcher,
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bringing the
spices which they prepared
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and certain others with them
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and they found the
sepulcher stone rolled away
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from the sepulcher and swivel.
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Jesus died on
the preparation day,
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the next day was the Sabbath
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and He rose on the
first day of the week.
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And we call the
resurrection day,
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Easter-- Easter
Sunday, that's right.
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So now, very
easy, imagine this was
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written on a
whiteboard in front of you.
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Jesus died on preparation
day, He rose on Easter Sunday,
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the day in between
was the Sabbath day,
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the day between Good
Friday and Easter Sunday
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had to have been a Saturday
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and it was, it
was the Sabbath day.
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You understand that Jews
kept the Sabbath day on Saturday
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and you also understand
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that the Sabbath
was given to everybody
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to keep on the
seventh day of the week.
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Just in case
that's not enough for you,
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let me take you back to
the time of the Israelites
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wandering in the wilderness.
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And as they did that
God fed them miraculously.
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Manna came down from
heaven and coated the ground.
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What day of the
week did that happen?
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Well, everyday of the week
except for the Sabbath day.
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So, everyday God
allowed manna to come down,
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on the Sabbath day
He worked a miracle
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to prevent it from coming down.
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He also worked
a miracle to cause
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that if they gather it on Friday
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enough manna for two
days it wouldn't spoil.
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Typically, if they took enough
two days the excess would spoil
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but if you're on
Friday, the preparation day
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and you grab
enough manna for two days
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God would work a miracle
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to allow to last
across the Sabbath
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and onto the
first day of the week,
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the day that
today we call Sunday.
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All the way around
God was working miracles
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every week for 40
years in the desert
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and the focal point if
you like of those miracles
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was a certain day on
which the manna never fell.
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God worked miracle
after miracle after miracle
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to show which day
the Sabbath day was.
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So from then till now you've
had an entire race of people,
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whole people group
and Christians besides
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keeping that same seventh day.
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The only way we could
have gone off track is
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if all of the Jews
went to bed Friday night
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and overslept by 24
hours and got up Sunday morning
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and say it's the
Sabbath day today.
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It's just not
possible it could be that way.
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So the Bible makes clear
which day the Sabbath day is.
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The question is how
does that sit with you?
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Maybe the better question is,
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when you know
what the Bible teaches
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are you willing
to surrender to Jesus
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and let Him work His
will out in your life?
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I hope the answer is that,
yes, you're willing to do that.
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And now another Bible question,
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"I have a friend
who keeps everyday holy.
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Is that possible?"
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Let me read you
from Exodus Chapter 20.
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Exodus Chapter 20,
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this is where God
gave the Ten Commandments.
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He said,
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"Remember the
Sabbath day to keep it holy.
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Six days you shall
labor and do all your work
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but the seventh day
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is the Sabbath
of the Lord thy God.
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In it you shall not do any work,
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you, your son, your
daughter and so on."
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Part of the command to
rest on the seventh day
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is the command that says that
other six days are workdays.
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God has declared clearly.
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The Prophet Ezekiel
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even referred to
the six working days.
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So God has specifically
said, Sunday, Monday, Tuesday,
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Wednesday, Thursday and
Friday are not holy days.
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He's been very, very clear.
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So we don't really
have the liberty to say,
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well, I'm gonna choose Monday
or I'm gonna choose Thursday
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or I'll choose them all.
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Remember the
word Sabbath is rest.
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If you are resting
seven days out of seven,
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under most circumstances
that wouldn't be right
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and when would
you get anything done?
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God is clear about this,
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He didn't ask anybody
to keep everyday holy.
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It's not possible
to keep everyday holy.
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God did ask us to
keep the Sabbath day holy
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and doing that it
is definitely possible.
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the day that today we commonly
referred to as Saturday.
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