Welcome to 3ABN
Spring Camp Meeting 2017,
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Exposing the Counterfeit.
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Well, I want to
welcome all of you
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from around the world.
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Do you know that we have people
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watching this
service, this afternoon
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3ABN Camp Meeting
all over the world?
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And I understand
that we've even got some
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new viewers in
the United Kingdom,
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and I want to
welcome all of you.
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This is 3ABN Spring Camp Meeting
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right here from in.
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I can say beautiful
Southern Illinois, can't I?
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Have we ordered the
weather for this Camp Meeting?
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We couldn't have done any better
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than what God
has provided for us.
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So we welcome all of
you from around the world,
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from across these United States
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and also, are you all
enjoying in Camp Meeting?
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Yeah! Live right here.
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And so I just
appreciate all of you
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for being a part and
want you to continue.
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We have services tonight
and then all day tomorrow.
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So we've got a lot
more coming ahead of us.
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But right now I
want to introduce,
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I am honored to
be able to introduce,
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Pastor Edward Reid.
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You know, Pastor Edward
Reid has been coming to 3ABN.
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He and I were talking
about it, it's 24 or 25 years
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that he has been a part
of the ministry here at 3ABN.
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He had two series on 3ABN.
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The first one was By My Spirit,
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the second one
is It's Your Money.
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And I said, "It's my money."
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And he said,
"No, it's your money."
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He knew the name of
the program that he had.
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And do you know those programs
are still airing on 3ABN radio.
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So programming, that something
that we have found around here.
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It's people can be blessed
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and even come to the knowledge
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of the Lord Jesus
Christ on a reverend.
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Isn't that encouraging?
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Yeah!
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Not only is Pastor
Reid, an ordained minister,
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he's an
attorney, he's an author,
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a teacher, an evangelist
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and currently, he
serves as the assistant
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to the president
of Adventist World
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for Planned Giving.
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The topic he is going to
address this afternoon is,
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"Is Sunday the Lord's Day?"
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It's gonna be an
interesting topic
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for him to unfold.
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But before Pastor
Reid comes, my pastor,
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Pastor John
Lomacang is going to come
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and minister to us
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as only Pastor Lomacang can.
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I love the way this
minister, ministers.
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The song that he's going to sing
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is one of my
favorite songs as well,
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it's "I Give You Jesus."
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Amen.
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If the ship of your life
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Is tossing on the sea of strife
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You need someone
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If you feel so all alone
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And your house is not a home
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You need someone
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If you feel life isn't fair
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And there's no one left to share
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All those lonely days and nights
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When things just
won't turn out right
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And you want someone to share
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And someone to just be there
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You need someone
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So I give you Jesus
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He's the peace
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That passes all understanding
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I give you Jesus
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He's the perfect love
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That casteth out
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All fear
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I give you Jesus
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He's the water that we'll drink
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And never thirst again
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I give you Jesus
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My friend
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I give you Jesus
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If the pressures all around
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Keep your spirits to the ground
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You need someone
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And if your body is in pain
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And your health you can't regain
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You need someone
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If the times that you have tried
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With all the
strength you have inside
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And it seems
that you have failed
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Remember on the
cross He's nailed
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All the bitterness and grief
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To give you
peace and sweet relief
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He is that someone that we need
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So I give you Jesus
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He's the peace that passes
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All understanding
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I give you Jesus
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He's the perfect love
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that casteth out all
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Fear
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I give you Jesus
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He's the water that you'll drink
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And never thirst again
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I give you Jesus, my friend
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I give you Jesus
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He's everything,
He's the one you need
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I give you Jesus
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My friend
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Yes, I give you
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Jesus.
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Amen.
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Thank you, John.
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Good afternoon, everyone.
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Good afternoon.
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Well, I've been attending
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all of the other
presentations as well.
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The God is blessing, isn't he?
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Yes!
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It's good to know the God's word
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is true, isn't it?
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Yes!
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Well, I'm gonna ask you to
open your Bibles to Revelation.
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We're gonna have a
prayer before we get into it,
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but that's a good
place to begin, isn't it?
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Yes!
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It just happens
to that my references
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from this particular passage.
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So I'm gonna ask you
to have your Bible ready
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and we'll go ahead and
have a prayer to begin.
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Our Heavenly Father,
we thank you for your love
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for each of us.
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We thank you of the way
you've guided us in our lives
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and we know that
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you've promised to
guide us into all truth,
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so we want to claim
that promise this afternoon.
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We also know that
you're the light of the world,
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so we ask that
you light our hearts
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and light those
who are watching.
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I know that many
people have tuned in today
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that have a
question about this topic
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and I pray that I'll
be able to present it
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in a humble and
straightforward manner,
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so that people
can understand clearly
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what your word teaches
on this important subject,
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in Jesus' name, amen.
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Amen.
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I've noticed recently,
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we just began a
revelation series
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in our church
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that some of the King
James' Versions of the Bible
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talk about the
Book of Revelation
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as the book, The Revelation
of the St. John the Divine.
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Yes.
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Why don't you peek into
yours and see what it says
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right at the
beginning of the book.
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Some of you have that in there.
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But if you actually
read the Bible verse,
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it's the
Revelation of Jesus Christ,
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and this is important.
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So the text that goes along with
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what I'm gonna
share with you today
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is Revelation 1:10.
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Revelation 1:10.
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I might also tell you that John
identifies himself as the one
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who's writing it in the
first chapter verse one,
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verse four and verse nine.
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Your brother, he's
on the Isle of Patmos.
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By the way, do you like
to learn things in the Bible?
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Yes!
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Several months ago,
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when I was asked
to present this topic,
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I began studying and I actually
learned a lot of things myself.
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For example, I initially
thought early in my life
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that John was a
prisoner on the Isle of Patmos
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till he died.
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He did not die there,
are you aware of that?
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Yeah. Very interesting.
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We'll share that
with you in just a moment.
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But here is the
verse now, Revelation 1:10.
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John is speaking,
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"I was in the
Spirit on the Lord's Day,
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and I heard
behind me a loud voice,
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as of a trumpet."
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Now this is
interesting because the question
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that we're
dealing with today is,
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"Is Sunday the Lord Day?"
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Well, it doesn't say
in this verse of course,
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but we're gonna look at it.
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And I'm gonna lay
my Bible aside here
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because I have actually
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typed all of my
texts in my notes,
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but I'll tell you,
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some of them will
be up on the screen,
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but many of them will not
be, but I want you to understand
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that the phrase
of the Lord's Day
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only occurs there's one
place in the whole Bible.
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Now the Bible is a
great big book, of course,
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and you think there
would be many places,
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but it's only this one place.
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And it's interesting.
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Also, we learn from the
text if the Lord has the day,
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but it doesn't say
which day of the week it is.
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Whether it's Monday, Tuesday,
Wednesday, Thursday, Friday,
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or Saturday, or Sunday.
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And it just says
that he has the day.
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Now there's at least
four different interpretations
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of this verse
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and we're gonna getting
some really interesting things,
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so I would
suggest you have a pen
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because you won't
be able to look up
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all the verses fast enough,
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but unless you're
really, really fast.
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Some of the people in our church
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have their Bibles tab
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where they can just
pull open to Revelation
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or Matthew or
whatever if you can do that
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you can go quickly.
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There's four
different interpretations
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that have been
given over the years
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for what the Lord's
Day means in this way.
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By the way, it's interesting
when early Adventist pioneers
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and when the reformers
were studying the Bible,
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they did not have
the computer systems
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that we have today,
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but we can say clearly
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these are the only
place in the whole Bible
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where the words the Lord's Day
appeared together in that order
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because the computers
help us to understand that.
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So here's the interpretations.
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There's four
different interpretations.
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The one is, the Lord's Day
covers the whole gospel age
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or dispensation, that's
what some people believe.
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It's a minority of you
as well see in a minute.
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The second one is the Lord's Day
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is the Day of
Judgment that's frequently
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spoken of in scripture
as the Day of the Lord.
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The third view
is the Lord's Day,
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is the first day
of the week, Sunday.
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It's interesting
that James Rafferty
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mentioned earlier today that
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some of the new
paraphrases put Sunday in there.
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Are you guys aware of that?
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No real
translation of the Bible does
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because I
personally in my earlier life
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had three years of Greek study
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from Dr. Gerhard
Hasel, the late Gerhard Hasel,
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who is the
father of Michael Hasel
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which many of you know.
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At any rate, I
don't usually bring Greek
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into my presentations
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because I think even a
child should understand
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what we have to say,
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but the whole point
I'm trying to tell you is
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it's not in the Bible,
the word Sunday does not occur
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in English translations
of the Bible at all.
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The fourth one
is the Lord's Day,
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the Seventh-day of the week
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or the Seventh-day
Sabbath of the Lord.
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So we're gonna address these.
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And the first
one is the Lord's Day
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covers the whole
gospel dispensation.
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This is a minority view.
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Only a few people believe that
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because it doesn't
have a lot of support.
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Since the place that
is the Isle of Patmos,
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the day, the Lord's Day
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and the person John
have real existence.
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It couldn't be
some long period of time
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has got to be a special place
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and that's what, that one covers
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and that didn't
take too long, did it?
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Number two, Lord's
Day is the Day of Judgment
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frequently
spoken of in scriptures
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as the day of the Lord.
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Now this is
another minority position
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that lacks somewhat credibility
because John had a vision,
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he didn't say about our
concerning the Lord's Day,
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but on the Lord's Day
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and that's very easy to
see from the Greek as well.
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He did not have any
other thing in mind,
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so it never means the Greek word
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about or concerning,
it always relates to when.
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So accordingly those who
refer to the Day of Judgment
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as the Lord's Day
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contradict the language
of the scriptures itself.
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Now we're gonna get into
one that's very interesting
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and this is the third one.
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We're already into it
because it's a big deal.
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The Lord's Day is the
first day of the week, Sunday.
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Now listen carefully
what I'm gonna tell you next,
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99% of all
Christians believe that's true.
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That's over 1 billion,
almost 2 billion people
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believe it's true,
00:14:15.35\00:14:16.79
1% of people
believe it's not Sunday.
00:14:16.82\00:14:19.49
So I'm gonna
understand and tell you
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something interesting
as the majority opinion
00:14:21.22\00:14:22.99
in both
Catholics and Protestants,
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why do so many people
believe that it's Sunday?
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Well, I think we
have a graphing up,
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we'll show you
what that looks like.
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The reason so many
people believe it is
00:14:31.17\00:14:33.23
because that's
the majority opinion
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most folks accept it as true.
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Isn't that interesting? Yes.
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The second one is,
the people have been told
00:14:38.51\00:14:40.14
that Sunday is the Lord's
Day by their pastor or priest,
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who the people they've respected
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and trusted over the years.
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That's the second reason.
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A third one is
that many of the people
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who accept this
view have never actually
00:14:50.19\00:14:51.85
taken their
Bible and I concordance
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or computer instead of
the text for themselves.
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So you just carry
it on as a tradition.
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And then the last one,
number D or fourth point.
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Some folks have
looked for support
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for Sunday worship in the Bible.
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Listen carefully now.
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And finding none,
latch on Revelation 1:10,
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and since it does not tell
us which day of the week it is
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and it could be Sunday
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they reason then that's the day.
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But there are several reasons
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I'm gonna give you
a bunch of reasons.
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By the way, as an attorney,
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I can tell you the more evidence
00:15:24.22\00:15:25.55
you need to prove a
point, the weaker your argument.
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Yes, it is. Is it true?
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You understand.
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I don't need to say
days and days and days.
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So I'm just gonna
give you seven reasons.
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Is that a good Bible number?
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Yes. Okay.
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Seven reasons, why
Sunday is not the Lord's Day.
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The first one
is the text itself.
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The first Revelation 1:10 says,
"Nothing about the seventh-day
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or the first day of the week,
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it simply says the Lord
has the day of worship."
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Is this true? Yes.
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Okay.
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The second one and
there is no written Biblical
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or extra Biblical record.
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Extra Biblical
means historical documents
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from the same period of time.
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The state that John was
worshipping on any other day
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than the Seventh-day Sabbath,
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the day which he
had always worshiped on.
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The third one, and
this is interesting.
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The Sunday, the
first day of the week
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is never referred to as
the Lord's Day in the Bible.
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And this is kind of interesting
because I wanted to know,
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I guess I should
actually write...
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You guys want to know
what the Bible teaches
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about this, don't you?
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Yes. That's the important thing.
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Okay.
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So it's generally understood
that John was in prison
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on the Isle of Patmos
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by the order of the
Roman Emperor Domitian
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who ruled in
Rome from AD 81 to 96.
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It was during his
banishment imprison on Patmos
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that John had this vision
00:16:37.56\00:16:39.53
and wrote the
Book of Revelation,
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which was
originally written as a letter
00:16:41.43\00:16:43.00
to the seven
churches of Asia Minor.
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While writing the
Revelation, John never mentions
00:16:45.33\00:16:47.54
anything about the
first day of the week
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being the Lord's Day.
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Now the next thing I'm
gonna tell you is amazing
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and something that I learned
00:16:53.88\00:16:55.21
and I think some
of you may know it,
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but most of you probably don't.
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John was released from Patmos
by the next Emperor of Rome,
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Emperor Nerva
and he returned to.
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John returned Ephesus,
John returned to Ephesus
00:17:03.55\00:17:05.15
where he completed his
work on the Fourth Gospel.
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Now this is interesting because,
00:17:07.92\00:17:10.16
accordingly many
Bible scholars believe that
00:17:10.19\00:17:12.13
the Gospel of John was written
after the Book of Revelation.
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Here are some references.
00:17:15.16\00:17:16.67
J.N. Anders believed that
00:17:16.70\00:17:18.30
in his History of the Sabbath
00:17:18.33\00:17:19.67
and The First Day
of the Week, page 163.
00:17:19.70\00:17:21.47
Uriah Smith
believed it and taught it
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and Daniel Revelation, page 355
00:17:23.14\00:17:25.84
and Ranko Stefanovic
who's had a series here at 3ABN,
00:17:25.87\00:17:29.01
in his book,
Revelation of Christ in page 4
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also cites that the Book of...
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The Gospel of John was written
after the Book of Revelation.
00:17:34.38\00:17:37.59
And they all
quote these sources,
00:17:37.62\00:17:40.16
historical scholars.
00:17:40.19\00:17:41.66
That is Augustine,
Jerome, and Eusebius,
00:17:41.69\00:17:43.96
early church leaders.
00:17:44.03\00:17:45.76
Now why is this
significant? Here's the reason.
00:17:45.79\00:17:48.40
It's significant to
realize of the Gospel of John
00:17:48.43\00:17:50.73
was written after
the Book of Revelation
00:17:50.77\00:17:52.13
because if John
had been shown a vision
00:17:52.17\00:17:54.80
while incarcerated
on the Island of Patmos
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that Sunday was the Lord's Day
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then when he mentioned
00:17:59.71\00:18:01.11
the first day of
the week in the Gospel,
00:18:01.14\00:18:02.48
he would've referred
to it as the Lord's Day
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and not the
first day of the week.
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Do you understand
what we're saying there?
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Yes. Now this is
interesting stuff.
00:18:07.95\00:18:10.05
In John's Gospel
that he twice mentions
00:18:10.12\00:18:13.29
the first day of the week
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and yet, in each
instance word of certainly
00:18:14.96\00:18:17.16
is talking about the
first day of the week.
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He does not
designated as the Lord's Day,
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but always only the
first day of the week.
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This is important.
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And you'll be able to
see that as we go along.
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All right, number six,
the first day of the week
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being the Lord's
Day is further disproved
00:18:31.64\00:18:33.24
by the fact that
neither God the Father,
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nor God the Son has ever claimed
00:18:35.24\00:18:36.88
the first day of
the week as his own
00:18:36.95\00:18:38.78
and any higher sense than
any other day of the week.
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Now do you
understand what we mean?
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There's no claim that God
says it's any special day.
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In fact, Ezekiel 46:1,
you want to jot this down
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because it's the
only place in the Bible
00:18:49.36\00:18:50.73
where this is mentioned,
but it's kind of interesting.
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Ezekiel 46:1, "Thus
saith the Lord God."
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Now who do you
think is speaking?
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The Lord. Lord himself, okay?
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The gate of the inner court
that looketh toward the east
00:19:01.74\00:19:04.14
shall be shut
the six working days,
00:19:04.17\00:19:06.71
but on the
Sabbath, it shall be opened.
00:19:06.74\00:19:08.84
So what is Sunday?
One of the working days.
00:19:08.88\00:19:12.55
One of the working
days. Very interesting to see.
00:19:12.58\00:19:14.82
Number seven point,
00:19:14.85\00:19:16.85
if Sunday were to be
called the Lord's Day in honor
00:19:16.92\00:19:19.12
of Christ's
resurrection on that day,
00:19:19.15\00:19:20.92
surely God would've
informed us about it.
00:19:20.99\00:19:23.46
True? Yes.
00:19:23.49\00:19:25.06
He does not, though.
00:19:25.09\00:19:27.30
God also chose
not to memorialize
00:19:27.36\00:19:29.03
or sanctify the crucifixion
day or the day of his ascension,
00:19:29.06\00:19:32.67
so now it's time for us
to consider the fourth option
00:19:32.70\00:19:35.77
and we're gonna
consider that fourth option
00:19:35.80\00:19:37.94
and then spend a good
deal of time on the reason
00:19:37.97\00:19:41.34
why people keep Sunday in honor,
00:19:41.38\00:19:43.95
that is the Lord's Day.
00:19:43.98\00:19:45.41
So the fourth
option is the Lord's Day
00:19:45.45\00:19:47.22
is the Seventh-day
Sabbath of the Lord
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and I found a number of facts.
00:19:49.82\00:19:51.62
How many you
think I'll tell you?
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Seven. Seven.
00:19:53.29\00:19:54.62
Okay, let's look at it.
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Remember, it's a
whole lot more than that,
00:19:56.22\00:19:58.03
but the more evidence you need,
the weaker your point, right?
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Yeah. Okay.
00:20:00.13\00:20:01.43
Number one is the
same one is number one
00:20:01.46\00:20:03.33
and the other one
00:20:03.37\00:20:04.70
and that is
Revelation 1:10 says,
00:20:04.73\00:20:06.13
"Nothing about the seventh-day
or the first day of the week.
00:20:06.17\00:20:08.07
It simply says
that God has a day,
00:20:08.10\00:20:10.87
presumably a day of worship."
00:20:10.91\00:20:12.81
Though this verse does not state
00:20:12.84\00:20:14.18
which day of the Lord's Day is,
00:20:14.24\00:20:15.58
we do learn
something amazing from it
00:20:15.61\00:20:17.41
and that is the
Lord does have a day,
00:20:17.45\00:20:20.18
that's important to understand.
00:20:20.22\00:20:21.92
So I think that's something
00:20:21.95\00:20:24.99
we'll look at even more
detail in just a moment.
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The second reason
that we're talking about
00:20:27.79\00:20:29.39
is the Sabbath.
00:20:29.42\00:20:30.79
The Lord himself said
he is Lord of the Sabbath.
00:20:30.83\00:20:33.50
Amen.
00:20:33.56\00:20:34.86
Now I'm gonna give
you something interesting.
00:20:34.93\00:20:36.93
Do you guys understand
00:20:37.00\00:20:38.33
what we meant by the
Three Synoptic Gospels?
00:20:38.37\00:20:40.77
Matthew, Mark, and
Luke. Matthew, Mark, and Luke.
00:20:40.80\00:20:42.34
Why do we say that?
00:20:42.37\00:20:44.14
All of them
present a similar story.
00:20:44.17\00:20:46.14
Now one of the reasons why
John is probably not considered
00:20:46.17\00:20:48.28
a synoptic gospels.
00:20:48.31\00:20:49.64
Remember, it was
written after Revelation.
00:20:49.68\00:20:51.18
It wasn't
written at the same time.
00:20:51.21\00:20:52.55
And so he had this
additional knowledge,
00:20:52.58\00:20:54.75
pretty interesting.
00:20:54.78\00:20:56.12
But during the
three and a half years
00:20:56.15\00:20:57.52
of Jesus public ministry
00:20:57.55\00:20:58.89
he was dogged
almost constantly by those
00:20:58.92\00:21:00.32
who tried to trick him.
00:21:00.36\00:21:02.29
You guys remember that,
00:21:02.32\00:21:03.66
there are always who
somebody asking the lawyers
00:21:03.73\00:21:05.06
and other people
asking him questions
00:21:05.09\00:21:06.83
and they were trying to
get him to say something
00:21:06.90\00:21:09.60
almost like the
reporters do today
00:21:09.63\00:21:11.87
that they could
criticize him over.
00:21:11.90\00:21:13.94
Everybody understand
what we're saying there?
00:21:14.00\00:21:15.60
Okay, so these paparazzi like
00:21:15.64\00:21:17.91
people seem to always be
present to criticize Jesus.
00:21:17.94\00:21:20.64
Some of them,
experts describe them
00:21:20.68\00:21:23.04
as stalkers on one such occasion
00:21:23.08\00:21:26.05
and listen that's recorded
in Matthew, Mark, and Luke,
00:21:26.08\00:21:28.32
all three synoptic gospels.
00:21:28.35\00:21:30.45
It's Matthew
12:1-8 and Mark 2:23-28
00:21:30.49\00:21:34.12
and Luke 6:1-5.
00:21:34.16\00:21:36.59
The event happened
on the Sabbath day.
00:21:36.62\00:21:39.43
Now I'm gonna tell
you something interesting.
00:21:39.46\00:21:41.56
Jesus performed
seven of his major miracles
00:21:41.60\00:21:45.37
on the Sabbath.
00:21:45.40\00:21:46.90
Healing people like the
man at the Pool of Bethesda,
00:21:46.97\00:21:48.97
the man with the
withered hand and so on,
00:21:49.00\00:21:50.44
and the reason he did
that was to show people
00:21:50.47\00:21:52.11
that it is lawful to do what.
00:21:52.14\00:21:53.51
Good.
00:21:53.54\00:21:54.88
Good on the Sabbath,
00:21:54.91\00:21:56.24
because the people had
put these all of these laws
00:21:56.28\00:21:57.61
around the Sabbath
making it very difficult
00:21:57.65\00:21:59.21
to have the Sabbath as a delight
00:21:59.25\00:22:00.75
or the worship in
reference to it in anyway.
00:22:00.82\00:22:03.59
So in this particular occasion,
00:22:03.62\00:22:04.95
it also happened on the Sabbath.
00:22:04.99\00:22:06.86
These references
record that Jesus
00:22:06.89\00:22:08.42
and his disciples were walking
through some grain fields.
00:22:08.46\00:22:11.09
Now I've
actually done this myself,
00:22:11.13\00:22:12.49
some of you here
probably have done that
00:22:12.53\00:22:14.20
and you can take your hand
and your thumb and your fingers
00:22:14.20\00:22:16.23
and strip off the grain seeds
00:22:16.26\00:22:18.30
and then you rub
them in your hand
00:22:18.33\00:22:19.67
and blow off the chaff
and you can chew those up
00:22:19.70\00:22:21.64
and it kind of
gets gluten in like,
00:22:21.67\00:22:23.04
gum almost that sweet.
00:22:23.07\00:22:25.64
The disciples were doing that,
00:22:25.67\00:22:27.91
but the religious
paparazzi criticized Jesus
00:22:27.94\00:22:30.21
and His
disciples for "harvesting"
00:22:30.25\00:22:32.61
on the Sabbath.
00:22:32.65\00:22:34.62
So Jesus response to the critics
00:22:34.65\00:22:36.22
was profound and enlightening.
00:22:36.25\00:22:38.99
And I want you to understand
this is very, very important
00:22:39.02\00:22:41.42
that I'm telling you now.
00:22:41.46\00:22:42.96
So open your Bibles to Mark 2
00:22:42.99\00:22:45.03
and we're gonna
look at verses 27 and 28.
00:22:45.06\00:22:47.00
This is the setting
now when the disciples
00:22:47.03\00:22:49.13
are stripped off the
wheat and eaten that.
00:22:49.16\00:22:51.00
Mark 2:27-28. And
there's a word there.
00:22:51.03\00:22:55.60
There are two words
that you should probably note
00:22:55.64\00:22:57.34
and maybe
underline, Mark 2:27-28.
00:22:57.37\00:23:00.78
It's in the setting of
being criticized of harvesting
00:23:00.81\00:23:03.11
on the Sabbath that Jesus says.
00:23:03.14\00:23:05.18
Now it's really
amazing what they're saying
00:23:05.21\00:23:07.88
because they don't realize
what they're doing, of course.
00:23:07.92\00:23:10.39
But I have it
written in my notes here,
00:23:10.42\00:23:11.82
so I'll just read
it from the notes.
00:23:11.85\00:23:13.22
And he said to
them "The Sabbath,"
00:23:13.25\00:23:14.79
what's the next two words?
00:23:14.82\00:23:16.16
Was made.
00:23:16.19\00:23:17.53
"...was made for a man
and not man for the Sabbath.
00:23:17.56\00:23:21.00
Therefore, the Son of Man
is also Lord of the Sabbath."
00:23:21.03\00:23:25.10
Now this, to me,
is very significant.
00:23:25.13\00:23:27.40
What did Jesus mean
by the fact that he said,
00:23:27.44\00:23:29.77
"The Sabbath was made for man."
00:23:29.80\00:23:33.44
Was made for man.
00:23:33.48\00:23:35.08
Well, how could he say
that he was Lord of the Sabbath?
00:23:35.11\00:23:37.35
Well, here's the real
interesting statement.
00:23:37.41\00:23:39.41
The true God is
revealed in scriptures
00:23:39.45\00:23:41.82
the one who made the
heavens and the earth.
00:23:41.85\00:23:43.75
Amen.
00:23:43.79\00:23:45.12
So Kathy and I few years ago
00:23:45.15\00:23:47.52
were able to go
on a mission trip
00:23:47.56\00:23:49.79
over
evangelistic meeting to India
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and we knew that
many of the people
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where we were speaking
would be from Hindu backgrounds,
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so we decided to study a
little bit about Hinduism
00:23:55.96\00:23:57.80
and we found that they
had, somebody said 300 million,
00:23:57.83\00:24:00.34
but I believe it's
closer to 300,000 gods,
00:24:00.37\00:24:02.84
still the big number.
00:24:02.87\00:24:04.21
Right. So I
tell him about Jesus.
00:24:04.24\00:24:05.71
and say thanks,
we got 300,001 now.
00:24:05.74\00:24:07.88
What's next?
00:24:07.91\00:24:10.28
But when you tell
him, he made everything.
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That makes a
big difference. Yes.
00:24:12.45\00:24:14.32
He's the king of
kings, and lord of lords.
00:24:14.35\00:24:15.75
He created
everything, he made everything.
00:24:15.78\00:24:17.32
So I'm gonna tell you
about three verses in the Bible
00:24:17.39\00:24:21.19
that tell us in
the New Testament
00:24:21.22\00:24:23.73
that Jesus Christ,
the incarnate savior
00:24:23.76\00:24:25.73
of the world was the
creator of everything.
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So we're gonna look
at one in the Bible.
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You can open your
Bibles to the Gospel of John,
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which John, the Revelator
of course, wrote that also.
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John 1:1, most of you can
find that very interesting
00:24:36.10\00:24:39.94
and very easily.
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So while you're turning there,
00:24:42.11\00:24:43.65
I must tell you
that it's John 1,
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Colossians 1, and Hebrews 1,
00:24:46.18\00:24:49.38
that all say that
Jesus Christ, the Son of God
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was the creator of...
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What's the next word?
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Everything.
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Okay, so let's go to John 1:1-3.
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In the beginning was the
word, and the word was with God
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and the word was God.
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He was in the
beginning with God.
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All things, what's
the nest two words?
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Were made by him or through him
00:25:07.54\00:25:10.01
and without him
nothing was made that was made.
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So if everything that
was made was made by him.
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Who created the
Sabbath? Jesus Christ did.
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And this is interesting.
Now how do we know it's Jesus?
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Because we're talking
about the word primarily
00:25:22.02\00:25:24.35
because it says in verse 14,
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"And the Word became
flesh and dwelt among us,
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would be all his glory,
the glory is the only begotten
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of the Father full
of grace and truth."
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So we're gonna look at
something very interesting.
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Go back to
Genesis now, Chapter 2,
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it's quite interesting.
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We have the clear testimony
of the New Testament writers
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from John and Colossians
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and Paul's writings to
the Colossians and Hebrews,
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that's the writers...
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The Son of God,
the Savior from sin,
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the Creator of Heaven was
also the Creator of Heaven
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and Earth, and its sustainer.
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So I'm just gonna tell
you how could Jesus say
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that he was the
Sabbath was made for man
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and that he was
Lord of the Sabbath.
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Listen carefully
because he created man
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on the sixth-day of creation
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and the Sabbath
on the seventh-day
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and he also blessed it there.
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He made it.
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So let's take a
look again at the Bible.
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The Bible begins with
perhaps the most famous line
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in the history of literature.
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In the beginning, God created
the heaven and the earth,
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but the rest of
creation story follows.
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God created light, the
atmosphere, the dry land,
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the vegetation, the seas,
the sun, the moon, the stars,
00:26:31.35\00:26:34.36
creatures of
the water in the air
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and on the
sixth-day, God created
00:26:35.76\00:26:37.73
land dwelling animals and
finally, on the sixth-day,
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God created human being,
man and woman in his own image.
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And we of course,
know them as Adam and Eve.
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Many people mistakenly believe
00:26:47.60\00:26:50.61
the creation
occurred over six days.
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Now we're gonna
look at Genesis 2
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and we're gonna see
something very amazing.
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He wasn't finished
yet at the end of six days
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because it says in Chapter
2:2, what does it say there?
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And on the seventh-day,
00:27:07.12\00:27:09.26
God ended his
work, not the sixth-day.
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Isn't that interesting?
00:27:12.63\00:27:14.10
Which he had made and he
rested on the Sabbath Day,
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seventh-day from all
his work which he had made.
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You get the "had made" in
there again, had made everything
00:27:18.50\00:27:21.07
that was made was made.
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He made the Sabbath for man.
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The Bible tells us
that on the seventh-day
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of creation week God
created and made the Sabbath day
00:27:26.41\00:27:29.41
as the capstone of all creation.
00:27:29.44\00:27:32.01
It is the day for
humanity to rest from work
00:27:32.05\00:27:34.12
and commune with God as
on no other day of the week.
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The Sabbath was blessed
and made holy for that purpose.
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Jesus could say that the
Sabbath was made for a man
00:27:40.49\00:27:43.02
that he was Lord
of the Sabbath because
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he created both of them.
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Who could argue with that?
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Is this incredible
or not? You understand?
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Now the third one
of why the Lord's Day
00:27:52.33\00:27:55.60
is the Sabbath is the
Fourth Commandment itself.
00:27:55.64\00:27:59.77
Now this is
very, very interesting.
00:27:59.81\00:28:02.51
Most of you here
are computer literate,
00:28:02.54\00:28:04.65
at least as much as me.
00:28:04.68\00:28:07.45
I need help from young
people a lot, but, you know,
00:28:07.48\00:28:09.38
I've written my books and so on
00:28:09.42\00:28:10.75
using the word
program and so on.
00:28:10.82\00:28:12.79
But anyway, I can
just tell you that.
00:28:12.82\00:28:14.82
If you were to go
on the Vatican website,
00:28:14.86\00:28:16.86
which is vatican.ca and
look for Ten Commandments,
00:28:16.89\00:28:20.73
you're gonna find
something very amazing.
00:28:20.76\00:28:24.07
When the Ten
Commandments come up,
00:28:24.10\00:28:25.70
they're gonna
have from Exodus 20,
00:28:25.73\00:28:28.57
the first commandment,
00:28:28.60\00:28:30.11
the second commandment
verses 4, 5, and 6 is deleted.
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You'll be okay with that part?
00:28:35.54\00:28:37.05
No. No.
00:28:37.08\00:28:38.61
The Bible says in
Revelation 22:18-19,
00:28:38.65\00:28:41.95
"If you add anything to
it or take anything away,
00:28:41.98\00:28:44.85
you're gonna get the Plagues
and the Mark of the Beast."
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Yes.
00:28:46.76\00:28:48.09
That's some we
don't want, isn't it?
00:28:48.12\00:28:49.46
Okay.
00:28:49.49\00:28:50.83
Well, at any
rate, I'm gonna tell you
00:28:50.86\00:28:52.19
something interesting.
00:28:52.23\00:28:53.56
Since the Second
Commandment is totally removed,
00:28:53.60\00:28:56.20
everything has to
move up a little bit
00:28:56.23\00:28:58.27
so the Third
Commandment is the one
00:28:58.30\00:29:00.47
that's about the Sabbath.
00:29:00.50\00:29:02.04
And it does not say,
00:29:02.07\00:29:03.44
"Remember the
Sabbath day, to keep it holy.
00:29:03.47\00:29:04.81
Six days shall you labor and
do all your work, et cetera."
00:29:04.84\00:29:06.57
It says, "Remember to
keep holy the Lord's Day."
00:29:06.61\00:29:09.34
One little sentence.
00:29:09.38\00:29:10.71
"Remember to keep
only the Lord's Day,"
00:29:10.78\00:29:12.21
which is not Biblical at all.
00:29:12.25\00:29:14.38
He is thinking to
change times and laws.
00:29:14.42\00:29:18.05
Do you understand?
00:29:18.09\00:29:19.42
Now this is interesting
because I'll just read to it.
00:29:19.45\00:29:22.12
The sanctity of the
Sabbath was so important to God
00:29:22.16\00:29:24.43
that he placed it in
shrine in the Ten Commandments,
00:29:24.46\00:29:27.56
written on stone
with the finger of God.
00:29:27.60\00:29:30.97
So it says,
remember the Sabbath day,
00:29:31.00\00:29:32.63
this is Exodus
20:8-11 to keep it holy.
00:29:32.67\00:29:37.34
Now listen carefully,
00:29:37.41\00:29:38.84
none of us could
make anything holy
00:29:38.87\00:29:40.78
no matter how great
we are, isn't it true?
00:29:40.81\00:29:42.94
Only God can
make something holy.
00:29:42.98\00:29:44.61
We can keep it holy,
00:29:44.65\00:29:46.08
but we can't make anything holy.
00:29:46.11\00:29:48.02
So it's interesting,
six days you shall labor.
00:29:48.05\00:29:50.39
Remember what we
just read in Ezekiel 46:1?
00:29:50.42\00:29:52.79
Yes. Yes.
00:29:52.82\00:29:54.16
The six working days
and then the Sabbath,
00:29:54.19\00:29:56.96
six days you shall
labor and do all thy word.
00:29:57.03\00:29:59.13
If you ever wondered what
it means to do all your work?
00:29:59.16\00:30:02.73
Well, most of us have
that jobs through our lives
00:30:02.76\00:30:04.57
and some of us
work five days a week,
00:30:04.60\00:30:06.07
some work six days,
00:30:06.10\00:30:07.44
but in addition to
what you do for your income
00:30:07.50\00:30:09.34
you've got stuff, you've
got to do around the house,
00:30:09.37\00:30:11.47
that's your labor.
00:30:11.51\00:30:12.84
Who's gonna mow the
yard if you don't do it?
00:30:12.87\00:30:14.58
You understand
those kind of things.
00:30:14.61\00:30:15.94
Who's gonna wash your
car if you don't do it?
00:30:15.98\00:30:17.35
Who's gonna change
the oil? You understand.
00:30:17.41\00:30:19.31
That's your work,
00:30:19.35\00:30:20.68
but some of you
don't get paid for,
00:30:20.72\00:30:22.05
but it's part of your
life, all the housework
00:30:22.08\00:30:23.45
and all those kind of things.
00:30:23.49\00:30:24.82
So you have six days to do that,
00:30:24.85\00:30:26.39
even things that
we typically think
00:30:26.42\00:30:28.82
of our ladies work or whatever,
00:30:28.86\00:30:30.39
should they
rest on Sabbath, too?
00:30:30.43\00:30:31.79
Yes. You get the point. Okay.
00:30:31.83\00:30:33.96
So but the seventh-day
00:30:34.00\00:30:35.30
is the Sabbath
of the Lord thy God.
00:30:35.33\00:30:37.13
So he claims the Sabbath.
00:30:37.20\00:30:38.53
I say, "It's the
Sabbath of the Lord thy God,
00:30:38.57\00:30:40.10
in it thou shalt not
do any work and so on."
00:30:40.17\00:30:42.24
Now here's something amazing.
00:30:42.27\00:30:44.87
Most of the
references in the Bible
00:30:44.91\00:30:47.31
including the
First Angels' Message
00:30:47.34\00:30:49.64
refer back to
creation, isn't this true?
00:30:49.68\00:30:53.08
Yes. So notice this one.
00:30:53.11\00:30:54.52
It's very interesting.
00:30:54.55\00:30:55.88
This is the reason...
00:30:55.92\00:30:57.72
This is verse 11.
00:30:57.75\00:31:00.46
Excuse me, Exodus 20:11.
00:31:00.49\00:31:02.32
Four or because in six days,
the Lord made heaven and earth,
00:31:02.36\00:31:05.06
the sea, and all lives in
them, rested the seventh-day,
00:31:05.09\00:31:07.60
wherefore the Lord
blessed the Sabbath day
00:31:07.66\00:31:09.76
and hallowed it.
00:31:09.80\00:31:11.30
By the way, it's also
interesting to understand
00:31:11.33\00:31:13.54
that the Ten Commandments
are actually given twice
00:31:13.60\00:31:15.87
in the Bible,
most of you know that.
00:31:15.90\00:31:17.74
Exodus 20, the second place is
Deuteronomy 5:4-5 in that area.
00:31:17.77\00:31:23.45
The most
interesting part about it
00:31:23.51\00:31:25.28
is that they're
almost always the same,
00:31:25.31\00:31:28.18
but in the Deuteronomy account,
00:31:28.22\00:31:30.75
it says something interesting,
not because the Lord created,
00:31:30.79\00:31:33.92
but the Lord brought you
out of the Land of Egypt.
00:31:33.96\00:31:37.76
Are you glad that God
has found you in your life
00:31:37.79\00:31:39.73
and brought you out of
darkness and the bondage?
00:31:39.76\00:31:42.26
I know I am, you
can just think about it.
00:31:42.30\00:31:44.87
Okay, now let's go
to our fourth point.
00:31:44.90\00:31:48.87
God speaking
through the Prophet Isaiah
00:31:48.90\00:31:50.67
calls the
Sabbath, "My Holy Day."
00:31:50.74\00:31:54.04
He never ever
says that about Sunday.
00:31:54.11\00:31:56.88
Is this true? Yes.
00:31:56.91\00:31:58.58
You understand.
00:31:58.61\00:31:59.95
So if you want to
look at Isaiah 58:13-14,
00:32:00.05\00:32:01.88
I'm gonna read it from my notes,
00:32:01.92\00:32:03.25
but you can jot it down.
00:32:03.28\00:32:04.79
Isaiah 58:13-14,
00:32:04.82\00:32:06.15
if you turn away your
foot from the Sabbath,
00:32:06.19\00:32:07.96
from doing your
pleasure on my holy day,
00:32:07.99\00:32:11.66
and call the Sabbath a
delight, the Holy of the Lord,
00:32:11.69\00:32:13.43
honorable and shall honor
him, not doing thine own ways,
00:32:13.50\00:32:15.83
you're finding
thine own pleasure,
00:32:15.86\00:32:17.23
speaking your own words.
00:32:17.27\00:32:18.60
Then you shall
delight yourself in the Lord,
00:32:18.63\00:32:20.10
and I will cause thee to ride
00:32:20.14\00:32:21.47
on the high places of the earth,
00:32:21.50\00:32:22.84
and feed you with the
heritage of Jacob thy father,
00:32:22.87\00:32:24.37
for the mouth of
the Lord has spoken it."
00:32:24.41\00:32:26.34
Now I want to tell you
one other interesting thing.
00:32:26.37\00:32:28.44
Did anybody
remember the three verses
00:32:28.48\00:32:30.05
I just told you were dropped out
00:32:30.11\00:32:31.45
by the Catholic Church
out of the Ten Commandments?
00:32:31.48\00:32:33.88
Exodus 20:4, 5, 6.
00:32:33.92\00:32:38.85
Now listen to what
I want to tell you.
00:32:38.89\00:32:41.29
Verse six says, that God shows
mercy to those who love him
00:32:41.32\00:32:45.26
and keep his commandments.
00:32:45.29\00:32:46.70
Is that amazing or not?
00:32:46.76\00:32:48.63
It also says the
same thing in Deuteronomy
00:32:48.66\00:32:51.60
when you look at
it in Deuteronomy.
00:32:51.63\00:32:53.40
It's amazing.
00:32:53.47\00:32:56.67
Which brings us to something
that's a very favorite verse
00:32:56.74\00:32:59.87
of Seventh-day Adventist,
John 14:15, Jesus said,
00:32:59.91\00:33:02.71
"If you love me,
keep my commandments."
00:33:02.74\00:33:05.58
He is quoting the
Second Commandment.
00:33:05.61\00:33:08.48
Is this incredible or not? Yes.
00:33:08.52\00:33:10.39
If you love me,
keep my commandments.
00:33:10.42\00:33:12.29
And that's the
one people dropped
00:33:12.32\00:33:13.66
out of the
commandments, very amazing.
00:33:13.69\00:33:15.89
So he calls it my holy day.
00:33:15.92\00:33:18.56
This passage is a
direct quote from God
00:33:18.59\00:33:20.60
in which he calls
the Sabbath My Holy Day.
00:33:20.63\00:33:22.16
Throughout the Old
Testament and New Testament,
00:33:22.20\00:33:23.63
lot of faithful people
have been Sunday-keeper.
00:33:23.67\00:33:26.60
Unfortunately,
00:33:26.63\00:33:28.87
once written with the
finger of God on stone
00:33:28.90\00:33:30.71
the Biblical Sabbath is
gone the way of the dodo bird.
00:33:30.77\00:33:33.68
It's almost extinct.
00:33:33.74\00:33:35.21
Is this true? Yes.
00:33:35.24\00:33:37.11
Now it's not here at
3ABN, you understand.
00:33:37.15\00:33:39.91
But if you're in a
group of a hundred people
00:33:39.98\00:33:41.35
that are calling
themselves Christian,
00:33:41.38\00:33:42.72
you're gonna be the only
one that keeps the Sabbath.
00:33:42.75\00:33:44.09
Amen.
00:33:44.15\00:33:45.49
So how in a world
could you ever be right?
00:33:45.52\00:33:47.62
I'm gonna show you
how in just a few minutes.
00:33:47.66\00:33:50.19
Number five, God in His word
00:33:50.23\00:33:52.83
frequently refers to the Sabbath
00:33:52.86\00:33:54.20
in a possessive way
calling it My Sabbath.
00:33:54.23\00:33:57.73
He never refers to
Sunday the first day of the week
00:33:57.77\00:33:59.83
as my Sunday or my first day.
00:33:59.87\00:34:02.90
I know this is true
00:34:02.94\00:34:04.31
because we researched
it in computers and so on.
00:34:04.34\00:34:07.11
There are 15
references in the Bible
00:34:07.18\00:34:09.38
in which God claims the Sabbath.
00:34:09.41\00:34:11.15
He says the Sabbath is his day.
00:34:11.18\00:34:13.62
These three texts
are represented in
00:34:13.65\00:34:15.48
and the ones I'll tell
you is Exodus 31:12-13.
00:34:15.52\00:34:19.25
The Lord spoke to Moses, saying,
00:34:19.29\00:34:21.06
"Speak unto the
children of Israel, saying,
00:34:21.09\00:34:22.62
Verily my
Sabbaths ye shall keep,
00:34:22.66\00:34:25.19
for it is a sign
between me an you
00:34:25.23\00:34:27.00
throughout your
generations, that ye may know
00:34:27.03\00:34:28.33
that I am the Lord
that doth sanctify you.
00:34:28.36\00:34:30.97
Now listen carefully,
00:34:31.00\00:34:32.33
if somebody drives by
your local church on Sabbath
00:34:32.37\00:34:34.84
and sees a bunch of cars
there, what could they think?
00:34:34.87\00:34:39.64
There are those goofy people
00:34:39.67\00:34:41.01
that trying to work
their way to heaven, right?
00:34:41.04\00:34:43.41
Yeah. Yeah.
00:34:43.45\00:34:44.78
But the Bible says
00:34:44.81\00:34:46.15
they are the ones that
trust God to sanctify them.
00:34:46.18\00:34:48.65
Amen.
00:34:48.68\00:34:50.05
Does it say that,
what I just read to you?
00:34:50.09\00:34:51.79
Exodus 31:12-13,
00:34:51.82\00:34:54.36
"That you may
know that I am the Lord
00:34:54.39\00:34:55.72
that sanctify you."
00:34:55.76\00:34:57.09
So what they should
really say they are the people
00:34:57.13\00:34:58.53
that are trusting
God to take care of them.
00:34:58.56\00:34:59.89
By the grace of Almighty
God, they're honoring him.
00:34:59.96\00:35:02.50
Do you
understand? That's the point.
00:35:02.53\00:35:04.30
And then there's
another one Leviticus...
00:35:04.33\00:35:08.04
There are 15 of them, I
was just gonna mention three,
00:35:08.07\00:35:10.04
Leviticus 26:2, "You
shall keep my Sabbaths,
00:35:10.11\00:35:13.14
and reverence my
sanctuary, I am the Lord."
00:35:13.17\00:35:16.21
And Ezekiel 12 says
something interesting.
00:35:16.24\00:35:18.31
"Moreover I gave them
my Sabbaths to be a sign."
00:35:18.35\00:35:21.35
What's the sign?
What's that mean?
00:35:21.38\00:35:23.62
Some indication to people.
00:35:23.69\00:35:25.35
They may know that I am
the Lord that sanctified them.
00:35:25.39\00:35:27.86
So we're gonna point number six
00:35:27.89\00:35:29.89
and then when we're gonna
get into this big conclusion.
00:35:29.92\00:35:33.53
"John the Revelator,
00:35:33.60\00:35:35.90
the author of
Revelation was a Jewish writer
00:35:35.93\00:35:38.07
who had been nourished
by the Hebrew Scriptures
00:35:38.10\00:35:40.30
and steeped in the good habit
00:35:40.34\00:35:41.67
of honoring the
Lord on his day."
00:35:41.70\00:35:45.21
So I think in
addition to the history
00:35:45.24\00:35:48.01
it does not refer to
the Lord's Day, Sunday
00:35:48.04\00:35:49.84
until the second
century AD near the end.
00:35:49.88\00:35:52.55
It's 190 AD until
00:35:52.58\00:35:54.52
anybody ever writes
anything about Sunday
00:35:54.55\00:35:56.32
being the Lord's Day.
00:35:56.35\00:35:57.69
This is interesting.
00:35:57.72\00:35:59.05
By the way, some early scholars
00:35:59.09\00:36:00.59
like, J. N. Anders
studied the Ante-Nicene fathers,
00:36:00.62\00:36:03.49
you know, the
writings of the people
00:36:03.56\00:36:04.89
after the
disciples that passed away
00:36:04.93\00:36:07.30
up until the Council of Nicaea.
00:36:07.36\00:36:09.70
So what we're
gonna look at is this,
00:36:09.73\00:36:12.40
as God spent the first Sabbath
00:36:12.43\00:36:13.94
with Adam and
Eve in the beginning,
00:36:13.97\00:36:15.37
Genesis 2:1-3,
00:36:15.40\00:36:17.14
"So God comes close
to the aging Apostle John
00:36:17.21\00:36:19.37
on the lonely Island of Patmos."
00:36:19.41\00:36:21.38
You understand, my friends,
00:36:21.41\00:36:22.78
that John was
not there on holiday.
00:36:22.81\00:36:26.35
He was working in the
rock quarries through the week.
00:36:26.38\00:36:29.05
Apparently took Sabbath of
whether they liked it or not
00:36:29.08\00:36:31.79
and he was in the
spirit on the Lord's Day,
00:36:31.82\00:36:34.42
which I say is Sabbath.
00:36:34.46\00:36:36.26
He had a vision
concerning the conclusion
00:36:36.29\00:36:38.26
of the plan of salvation
and the great controversy.
00:36:38.29\00:36:41.06
The Sabbath of the
Lord was bless to made holy
00:36:41.10\00:36:42.96
on the seventh-day of
creation and set in motion,
00:36:43.00\00:36:45.33
a weekly cycle
that does not depend
00:36:45.37\00:36:48.37
on any celestial body at all.
00:36:48.40\00:36:52.71
Most of your likely were
that tonight is the full moon.
00:36:52.74\00:36:55.51
The reason that I
mention that is because
00:36:55.54\00:36:57.31
it's not based
on the lunar cycle,
00:36:57.35\00:36:59.51
on the sun cycle
00:36:59.55\00:37:01.18
or on the rotation of the Earth.
00:37:01.22\00:37:02.78
Is this true?
00:37:02.82\00:37:04.15
It's based on the creation
week and that's the end of it.
00:37:04.22\00:37:07.82
Okay, we're gonna
look at another one
00:37:07.86\00:37:11.96
and that is from
our brief and yet,
00:37:11.99\00:37:13.83
thorough study it's quite
clear from the Bible record
00:37:13.86\00:37:16.40
that the Lord's
Day is not Sunday,
00:37:16.43\00:37:17.97
the first day of the
week, it is equally clear
00:37:18.00\00:37:19.93
that the Lord's
Day is the Sabbath
00:37:19.97\00:37:21.30
of the seventh-day of the week.
00:37:21.34\00:37:23.34
Now the big
question is, if this is true,
00:37:23.41\00:37:26.04
why this is the
majority question,
00:37:26.07\00:37:28.31
what a majority of
Christians think that
00:37:28.34\00:37:29.74
Sunday as the Lord's Day?
00:37:29.78\00:37:31.51
Why do many sincere believers
come to this conclusion?
00:37:31.55\00:37:35.15
So that's what we're
gonna look at right now.
00:37:35.18\00:37:38.82
The answer to these
questions is found in the Bible
00:37:38.85\00:37:41.29
and in history,
study of history.
00:37:41.32\00:37:43.43
There's a strange pattern
of apostasy in the Bible,
00:37:43.46\00:37:46.59
well, turning away
from God and Bible truth
00:37:46.63\00:37:48.93
and both the old in
the New Testament records.
00:37:48.96\00:37:51.33
It is so amazing how many people
00:37:51.37\00:37:53.34
when they were
talking to the Israelites
00:37:53.40\00:37:55.24
God's leader's talk of
them when you fall away,
00:37:55.27\00:37:57.57
you can look back
toward Jerusalem and pray
00:37:57.61\00:37:58.97
and God will try to rescue you.
00:37:59.01\00:38:00.41
You remember that?
00:38:00.44\00:38:01.78
Solomon, we dedicate
the temple, said that.
00:38:01.81\00:38:03.71
So here's a strange truth.
00:38:03.78\00:38:05.51
The Bible records
even predicts that
00:38:05.55\00:38:06.98
God's people will
fall away from his will.
00:38:07.05\00:38:09.08
Judges 21:25 says,
00:38:09.12\00:38:11.62
"In those days there
was no king in Israel
00:38:11.65\00:38:14.56
and every man did what
was right in his own eyes."
00:38:14.59\00:38:17.26
They were doing their own thing.
00:38:17.29\00:38:18.63
This is like extreme tolerance.
00:38:18.66\00:38:20.46
I'm okay, you're
okay, that kind of thing.
00:38:20.53\00:38:22.73
So listen to this and
see if you agree with it.
00:38:22.76\00:38:24.93
You don't agree with
it, but you know it's true.
00:38:24.97\00:38:27.87
When Moses and
Joshua passed away
00:38:27.90\00:38:30.21
and just a few short years,
00:38:30.24\00:38:31.84
God's people who had
been led across the Red Sea
00:38:31.87\00:38:36.44
and the Jordan
River on dry ground,
00:38:36.48\00:38:39.05
the ones that had
been fed manna from heaven
00:38:39.08\00:38:40.82
six days a week for 40 years.
00:38:40.85\00:38:43.59
Yes, that group
began to worship idols
00:38:43.62\00:38:46.65
and even came to
the point of sacrificing
00:38:46.69\00:38:48.29
their own
children to the false gods.
00:38:48.32\00:38:50.63
This is incredible.
00:38:50.66\00:38:52.33
Is there a falling
away you understand
00:38:52.36\00:38:53.80
that we're talking about?
00:38:53.83\00:38:55.13
Okay.
00:38:55.16\00:38:56.50
It's interesting that in 605 BC,
00:38:56.53\00:38:58.80
the armies of Nebuchadnezzar,
00:38:58.83\00:39:00.27
the King of
Babylon beseech Jerusalem.
00:39:00.30\00:39:02.44
Well, I would just tell
you something interesting.
00:39:02.47\00:39:04.77
First, I'll mention this one.
00:39:04.81\00:39:06.31
It's hard to imagine this,
00:39:06.34\00:39:07.71
but happening as you can
recall from your Bible reading
00:39:07.74\00:39:10.78
that things got
so bad in Israel.
00:39:10.81\00:39:12.88
Remember, they were
divided kingdom of ten tribes
00:39:12.91\00:39:14.62
and the two
tribes due to Benjamin.
00:39:14.65\00:39:16.75
The two tribes
down in Jerusalem,
00:39:16.82\00:39:19.35
but the ten tribes were
overthrown by the Assyrians
00:39:19.39\00:39:22.42
and they were taken captive
00:39:22.46\00:39:23.89
assimilated into
the pagan society
00:39:23.96\00:39:26.09
and listened carefully,
were never heard from again.
00:39:26.13\00:39:31.07
We called the ten
lost tribes of Israel
00:39:31.10\00:39:33.13
religion never came back,
00:39:33.17\00:39:34.97
never ever heard from again.
00:39:35.00\00:39:36.81
So in 605 BC,
about 100 years later
00:39:36.84\00:39:39.41
Nebuchadnezzar, King of
Babylon beseech Jerusalem,
00:39:39.44\00:39:41.58
conquered the Kingdom of Judah
00:39:41.61\00:39:43.04
and took many
captives back to Babylon
00:39:43.08\00:39:45.08
and among the
captives were Daniel
00:39:45.11\00:39:46.72
and his three friends.
00:39:46.75\00:39:48.45
Now this is interesting.
00:39:48.48\00:39:49.82
You could think about
00:39:49.85\00:39:51.19
what happened to your relatives
up in the northern kingdom.
00:39:51.22\00:39:52.65
Is this gonna happen to us?
00:39:52.69\00:39:54.06
And they had only one hope
00:39:54.09\00:39:56.59
and that was that
Jeremiah said in 70 years,
00:39:56.62\00:39:58.93
you're gonna come back.
00:39:58.96\00:40:01.50
You understand
Bible prophecy? Yes.
00:40:01.53\00:40:03.43
This is pretty
amazing stuff. Yes.
00:40:03.47\00:40:05.27
Now why did the Lord
allow this to happen?
00:40:05.30\00:40:07.50
Kathy and I read the Bible
00:40:07.54\00:40:08.87
throughout loud
together every year.
00:40:08.90\00:40:10.24
We've done that
for probably 20 years.
00:40:10.27\00:40:12.47
And we remember
reading in the Old Testament
00:40:12.51\00:40:14.41
where one time army
came to beseech Israel
00:40:14.44\00:40:18.01
and there were
more than a million men.
00:40:18.05\00:40:20.18
Most people would be afraid
00:40:20.22\00:40:21.55
because you're way outnumbered,
00:40:21.58\00:40:22.92
but were they
able to conquer Israel?
00:40:22.95\00:40:25.72
No way. God thought for them.
00:40:25.75\00:40:27.46
This is interesting.
00:40:27.52\00:40:28.86
And when Sennacherib
came and said to Hezekiah
00:40:28.89\00:40:31.36
and the people inside Jerusalem,
00:40:31.39\00:40:33.26
none of the
other gods around you
00:40:33.29\00:40:34.60
have been able to
protect their people.
00:40:34.63\00:40:36.06
How you think
you're gonna do it?
00:40:36.10\00:40:37.43
Don't listen to Hezekiah.
00:40:37.50\00:40:38.83
At anyway, they
prayed to the Lord
00:40:38.87\00:40:40.47
and God sent one angel
00:40:40.50\00:40:41.84
of the enemy soldiers
00:40:41.87\00:40:43.84
in one night.
00:40:43.87\00:40:45.67
So this is incredible
when you think about it.
00:40:45.71\00:40:48.04
At anyway,
00:40:48.08\00:40:50.08
what I want to tell you is
00:40:50.11\00:40:51.45
they're on their way to Babylon,
00:40:51.48\00:40:52.81
but God gave two reasons
00:40:52.85\00:40:54.95
why they were taken to Babylon.
00:40:54.98\00:40:57.42
And I want you to
see what they are.
00:40:57.45\00:40:58.95
It's really interesting.
00:40:58.99\00:41:00.39
One is, they were
worshipping other gods like Dale
00:41:00.46\00:41:02.62
and Ashtoreth
00:41:02.66\00:41:04.03
and the other one is they were
failing to honor the Sabbath
00:41:04.06\00:41:06.06
and to keep it holy.
00:41:06.09\00:41:07.40
So if you want that
Biblical record for that,
00:41:07.50\00:41:10.03
it's Ezekiel 20:16.
00:41:10.07\00:41:12.90
God allowed them
to be taken captive.
00:41:12.93\00:41:15.67
Could God have
protected them? Yes.
00:41:15.70\00:41:17.81
Of course. But
why did he allow it?
00:41:17.84\00:41:19.64
For two reasons,
because this is Ezekiel 20:16,
00:41:19.67\00:41:22.88
because they
despised my judgments,
00:41:22.91\00:41:25.15
did not walk in my statutes,
but profaned my Sabbaths,
00:41:25.18\00:41:28.22
for their heart
went after their idols.
00:41:28.25\00:41:30.45
So it's very significant
00:41:30.49\00:41:31.82
also to see that
the early Christian era,
00:41:31.85\00:41:33.52
the same two
points were involved
00:41:33.56\00:41:35.79
in the apostasy of
the Christian Church.
00:41:35.82\00:41:38.16
In fact, just
like the following way
00:41:38.19\00:41:39.69
from God's will happened
after the death of Moses
00:41:39.73\00:41:41.63
and Joshua in the years
00:41:41.66\00:41:43.16
following the
death of the Apostles,
00:41:43.20\00:41:44.77
the Bible writers,
00:41:44.80\00:41:46.13
Satan again
brought into the church
00:41:46.17\00:41:48.40
a falling away from Bible truth,
00:41:48.44\00:41:50.27
just like he did
in the Old Testament.
00:41:50.34\00:41:52.17
So interesting
of the Book of Acts,
00:41:52.21\00:41:56.18
Paul records the warning
00:41:56.21\00:41:57.58
to the elders of
the church of emphasis
00:41:57.61\00:41:59.35
and I'm just gonna tell
you where this has found.
00:41:59.38\00:42:01.05
You can jot it down, look at it.
00:42:01.08\00:42:02.82
Acts 20:29-30,
00:42:02.85\00:42:06.39
"Know this after my departure
00:42:06.42\00:42:08.69
grievous wolves
shall enter and among you,
00:42:08.72\00:42:10.93
not sparing the flock.
00:42:10.96\00:42:12.49
Also of your own
selves men shall arise,
00:42:12.53\00:42:14.36
speaking perverse things,
00:42:14.36\00:42:15.70
to draw away
disciples after them."
00:42:15.73\00:42:17.37
And this is interesting.
00:42:17.43\00:42:18.77
We must understand
from Paul's warning
00:42:18.80\00:42:20.14
that we're not authorized
00:42:20.20\00:42:21.54
to receive a
teaching of any person simply
00:42:21.57\00:42:23.47
because they lived immediately
close to the apostles
00:42:23.51\00:42:26.51
because they have to
agree with the Bible,
00:42:26.54\00:42:28.48
as you know.
00:42:28.51\00:42:29.91
So how are the
true servants of God
00:42:29.94\00:42:32.95
to be distinguished?
00:42:32.98\00:42:34.32
They follow the
Word of God alone
00:42:34.35\00:42:36.15
and not deviations of men.
00:42:36.18\00:42:37.72
This is important.
00:42:37.75\00:42:39.09
Paul who sent a
warning to the Thessalonians
00:42:39.12\00:42:40.82
and 2
Thessalonians 2 and following,
00:42:40.86\00:42:43.32
where he says in verse 7,
00:42:43.39\00:42:45.16
"The mystery of
iniquity death already work,
00:42:45.19\00:42:47.76
the wicked shall be
revealed and so on."
00:42:47.83\00:42:49.76
This is amazing stuff.
00:42:49.80\00:42:51.40
And then he says to
Timothy in 2 Timothy 4:2.
00:42:51.43\00:42:56.30
Kathy and I just two
weeks ago were in Rome,
00:42:56.34\00:42:58.47
we saw the Mamertine
Prison where Paul was kept
00:42:58.51\00:43:01.28
in solitary confinement
till he was beheaded.
00:43:01.31\00:43:03.85
He wrote this from there.
00:43:03.88\00:43:06.41
Very interesting.
00:43:06.45\00:43:07.78
His last book 2
Timothy 4:2, to young Timothy.
00:43:07.82\00:43:11.65
"Preach the word,
be instant in season,
00:43:11.69\00:43:13.39
out of season, reprove,
00:43:13.46\00:43:14.79
rebuke, exhort
with all long suffering.
00:43:14.82\00:43:16.59
For the time will come,
00:43:16.62\00:43:18.33
will they will not
endure sound doctrine,
00:43:18.36\00:43:20.10
but after their own
lest I should keep themselves
00:43:20.13\00:43:22.36
teachers having itching ears.
00:43:22.40\00:43:24.67
And they shall turn away
their ears from the truth
00:43:24.70\00:43:26.47
and should be turned to fables."
00:43:26.50\00:43:28.27
Well, it's really interesting.
00:43:28.30\00:43:29.64
I want to tell you
something interesting.
00:43:29.67\00:43:31.27
The falsehood is
not rendered and true,
00:43:31.31\00:43:33.48
simply because we introduced
near the time of the Apostles.
00:43:33.54\00:43:36.58
Everything had its beginning
00:43:36.61\00:43:37.95
either it was right
or wrong at the time.
00:43:37.98\00:43:39.85
Two of the most glaring errors
00:43:39.88\00:43:41.72
that came into
the Christian Church
00:43:41.75\00:43:43.18
are the same two things
00:43:43.22\00:43:44.55
that involve the Ten
Commandments earlier.
00:43:44.59\00:43:46.65
God's great moral law
00:43:46.72\00:43:48.39
and the changes
came about with pagans.
00:43:48.42\00:43:50.59
The pagans worship the
idols in their churches
00:43:50.63\00:43:53.19
simply drop the
Second Commandment,
00:43:53.23\00:43:54.76
now the Decalogue and
begin to worship idols.
00:43:54.83\00:43:57.23
Now this is interesting.
00:43:57.30\00:43:58.63
I mention to you if you look
at the Fourth Commandment...
00:43:58.67\00:44:00.07
The Ten Commandments
in Exodus 20:4, 5, 6
00:44:00.14\00:44:03.00
are just dropped out.
00:44:03.04\00:44:04.37
And then in order
to keep a total of 10,
00:44:04.41\00:44:06.04
how do they do that?
00:44:06.07\00:44:07.74
Divide...
00:44:07.78\00:44:09.11
Divide the tenth
one, the coveting one
00:44:09.14\00:44:10.48
and to make two
covering Commandments,
00:44:10.55\00:44:11.88
so you still have 10,
00:44:11.91\00:44:13.25
but everything's
got to move forward.
00:44:13.28\00:44:14.62
Now this is interesting.
00:44:14.65\00:44:16.38
And by the way, we were
just on a great controversy tour
00:44:16.42\00:44:19.32
and I can just
tell you we visited
00:44:19.35\00:44:21.09
probably two dozen
Roman Catholic cathedrals.
00:44:21.12\00:44:23.46
Every one of them had
images and idols in them.
00:44:23.53\00:44:26.83
Is this true? Yeah.
00:44:26.90\00:44:28.20
You've been there. You've seen.
00:44:28.23\00:44:29.56
When you go to the
Protestant cathedrals,
00:44:29.60\00:44:30.93
you don't see images and idols.
00:44:30.97\00:44:32.63
It's very interesting.
00:44:32.67\00:44:34.14
Another
interesting thing is that
00:44:34.20\00:44:35.54
the centerpiece for
the catholic cathedrals
00:44:35.57\00:44:38.31
is the altar where
the mass is produced.
00:44:38.34\00:44:40.98
And when you go
into a Protestant Church,
00:44:41.01\00:44:44.05
the centerpiece is the pulpit
00:44:44.11\00:44:45.45
and the Bible is
open before the pulpit.
00:44:45.48\00:44:47.62
This is amazing to me.
00:44:47.65\00:44:48.98
As a very visible,
something you can see,
00:44:49.02\00:44:50.69
but the second...
00:44:50.75\00:44:52.09
And remember the...
00:44:52.12\00:44:53.92
In order to make a
compromise with the pagans,
00:44:53.96\00:44:56.22
they let images into the church,
00:44:56.26\00:44:58.63
but the second error
involve the Ten Commandments
00:44:58.66\00:45:00.76
was the change by the
church of the Sabbath.
00:45:00.83\00:45:03.23
From the Sabbath to
the first day of the week.
00:45:03.26\00:45:05.20
So the current
commandment, number three,
00:45:05.23\00:45:07.27
simply states in theirs.
00:45:07.34\00:45:08.67
Remember, this to
keep holy the Lord's Day.
00:45:08.70\00:45:10.71
There's no mention of the Lord
being a greater heaven on earth
00:45:10.74\00:45:13.48
or out Sunday was ever made.
00:45:13.51\00:45:15.18
This is interesting,
never made holy by God.
00:45:15.21\00:45:18.25
The pagans had a special holiday
00:45:18.28\00:45:20.12
which was called
The Day of the Sun
00:45:20.15\00:45:22.65
and partly...
00:45:22.68\00:45:25.32
In my book, Sunday is coming.
00:45:25.35\00:45:26.69
I've a whole chapter on
the change of the Sabbath
00:45:26.76\00:45:28.09
and we're not gonna taking out
00:45:28.12\00:45:29.46
and present, but
I'll just tell you.
00:45:29.49\00:45:30.83
There's two things, two reasons
00:45:30.86\00:45:32.19
why Sunday came into the church.
00:45:32.23\00:45:33.70
The first one, here's
that pagans at a holiday
00:45:33.73\00:45:35.73
called The Day
of the Sun or Sunday
00:45:35.76\00:45:37.73
and partly as a
compromise with Pagans
00:45:37.77\00:45:40.00
and also in an effort
to distance themselves
00:45:40.04\00:45:42.20
from the Jews
00:45:42.24\00:45:43.57
who were despised by the Romans
and they were Sabbath keepers,
00:45:43.61\00:45:46.84
they began to worship gradually
began to worship on Sunday,
00:45:46.88\00:45:50.61
the first day of the week.
00:45:50.65\00:45:52.21
You guys understand
what gradually means?
00:45:52.25\00:45:53.98
Yep.
00:45:54.02\00:45:55.42
We just recently saw some kids
we hadn't seen in a long time.
00:45:55.45\00:45:57.69
The last time we saw
there are little guys,
00:45:57.72\00:45:59.12
now they're tall as me.
00:45:59.15\00:46:00.99
So their parents would
hardly even notice their growth
00:46:01.02\00:46:02.96
because they were with him
this whole time, but to us,
00:46:02.99\00:46:04.76
it's a big difference.
00:46:04.79\00:46:06.13
You understand?
00:46:06.16\00:46:07.50
So that's what happened.
00:46:07.56\00:46:08.86
There's much historical evidence
00:46:08.90\00:46:10.27
for what I've presented here,
00:46:10.30\00:46:11.63
but the constraints of our time,
00:46:11.67\00:46:13.00
of course, one allow us to go...
00:46:13.03\00:46:14.37
Just this overview.
00:46:14.40\00:46:15.74
These two errors crept
into the Christian Church,
00:46:15.77\00:46:17.94
the worship idol, to
perforating of the Sabbath
00:46:17.97\00:46:20.11
are the exact two problems
00:46:20.18\00:46:21.51
that led to the
Babylonian captivity of Judah
00:46:21.54\00:46:23.65
and this gives us a clear idea
00:46:23.68\00:46:25.11
of what God thinks
about these two changes.
00:46:25.15\00:46:27.78
Those Christians who
like me govern their lives
00:46:27.82\00:46:30.39
by the inspired Word of God,
00:46:30.42\00:46:31.92
do not recognize
any point of scripture,
00:46:31.95\00:46:34.19
that's changed,
omitted or modified by men.
00:46:34.26\00:46:37.96
Now I have a little statement
from Great Congress 595
00:46:37.99\00:46:41.06
that I want to read because
00:46:41.10\00:46:42.43
I think it's
important that we know it.
00:46:42.46\00:46:44.43
"But God will have
a people on the earth
00:46:44.47\00:46:46.00
to maintain the
Bible in the Bible only
00:46:46.03\00:46:48.14
as the standard of all doctrines
00:46:48.17\00:46:49.77
and the basis of all reforms.
00:46:49.80\00:46:51.14
The opinions of learned
man, the deductions of science,
00:46:51.17\00:46:54.24
the creeds are
decision to release
00:46:54.28\00:46:55.61
the ecclesiastical
councils as numerous
00:46:55.64\00:46:58.41
or discordant as the
church is what they represent.
00:46:58.45\00:47:01.28
The voice of the majority,
00:47:01.32\00:47:02.85
not one or all of these
should be regarded as evidence
00:47:02.88\00:47:04.75
for or against any
point of religious faith.
00:47:04.79\00:47:06.65
Before accepting
any doctrine or precept,
00:47:06.69\00:47:08.62
we should demand a
plane, thus saith the Lord.
00:47:08.66\00:47:11.89
Amen. So that's
important to know.
00:47:11.93\00:47:14.00
And I mentioned this earlier,
00:47:14.03\00:47:15.36
but I'll go ahead
and mention it again,
00:47:15.40\00:47:16.77
Revelation 22:18-19,
00:47:16.80\00:47:18.93
"Testify unto
every man that heareth
00:47:18.97\00:47:20.44
the words of this
prophecy of this book,
00:47:20.47\00:47:22.14
this revelation.
00:47:22.17\00:47:23.51
If anyone shall
add to these things..."
00:47:23.54\00:47:25.21
That can be add Sunday
00:47:25.24\00:47:26.57
or Sunday is not
supposed to be there.
00:47:26.61\00:47:28.84
"God shall add
to him the plagues
00:47:28.88\00:47:30.25
that are written in this book."
00:47:30.28\00:47:31.61
By the way, tomorrow afternoon
00:47:31.65\00:47:32.98
I'm gonna talk
you about the plagues
00:47:33.01\00:47:34.35
and it's very very interesting
00:47:34.38\00:47:35.72
that the plagues are poured out
00:47:35.75\00:47:37.09
on those who have
the Mark of the Beast.
00:47:37.12\00:47:38.45
In the side of those who don't.
00:47:38.49\00:47:39.95
Very interesting. Okay.
00:47:39.99\00:47:42.56
"Then if any man takes
away from the book prophecy
00:47:42.59\00:47:45.49
and God will take his
part out of the book of life
00:47:45.53\00:47:49.26
and out of the
holy city and so on.
00:47:49.30\00:47:51.93
So very interesting.
00:47:51.97\00:47:54.70
I'm gonna give you a
little bit of a review here
00:47:54.74\00:47:58.77
to give you a little idea
on what we're talking about.
00:47:58.81\00:48:01.38
From the time of the
return of the Jews to Jerusalem,
00:48:01.41\00:48:03.38
from the Babylonian captivity...
00:48:03.41\00:48:04.75
Remember, they
were gone 70 years.
00:48:04.78\00:48:06.61
Until the time that Jews
has came some 500 years later,
00:48:06.65\00:48:09.38
they never again
worshiped idols like, Baal.
00:48:09.42\00:48:13.72
They had learned their lesson.
00:48:13.79\00:48:15.29
Unfortunately,
in order to rectify
00:48:15.32\00:48:16.79
the other problem with
not keeping the Sabbath,
00:48:16.86\00:48:18.46
they overreacted and
set up very stringent
00:48:18.49\00:48:20.93
and manmade laws to keep
from breaking the Sabbath.
00:48:20.96\00:48:23.67
Then instead of
resting on the Sabbath
00:48:23.70\00:48:25.30
as God intended this set
of these legalistic rules
00:48:25.33\00:48:27.24
about how to
keep the Sabbath holy?
00:48:27.27\00:48:28.87
How far you could walk?
00:48:28.90\00:48:30.24
You know, whether
you could start a fire
00:48:30.31\00:48:31.64
and there are all
these different things.
00:48:31.67\00:48:33.01
And then comes Jesus,
he was a Sabbath-keeper,
00:48:33.04\00:48:35.11
but he said,
00:48:35.14\00:48:36.48
"Howbeit in vain
do they worship me,
00:48:36.51\00:48:37.85
teaching for doctrines
the commandments of men,
00:48:37.88\00:48:40.45
not in the Bible.
00:48:40.52\00:48:41.85
For laying aside
the commandments of God,
00:48:41.88\00:48:43.22
you hold the tradition of men
00:48:43.25\00:48:44.59
as the washing
of pots, the cups,
00:48:44.62\00:48:45.95
and many other
things like that."
00:48:45.99\00:48:48.19
Now I'm gonna
mention two other things
00:48:48.22\00:48:49.56
then I'll give you a
couple of illustrations.
00:48:49.59\00:48:52.16
Revelation 14:6-12
and Revelation 18:1-3,
00:48:52.19\00:48:57.03
are God's last warning messages
00:48:57.07\00:48:59.23
to all of the
inhabitants of the earth.
00:48:59.27\00:49:01.37
Not just for
Seventh-day Adventist,
00:49:01.40\00:49:02.74
for every creature on earth.
00:49:02.77\00:49:04.14
Isn't that right?
00:49:04.17\00:49:05.51
Every language,
tongue, people and so on.
00:49:05.54\00:49:06.88
So here's all
this revelation begins.
00:49:06.91\00:49:08.74
Revelation 14:6-7,
00:49:08.78\00:49:11.25
then I saw another
angel flying in mid to heaven,
00:49:11.28\00:49:14.28
having the everlasting
gospel to preach to those
00:49:14.35\00:49:16.22
who dwell on the
earth to every nation tribe,
00:49:16.25\00:49:18.55
tongue and people,
00:49:18.59\00:49:19.92
saying with a loud voice
fear God and give glory to him
00:49:19.95\00:49:22.32
for the hour of
his judgment is come
00:49:22.36\00:49:23.96
and worship him who made
the heaven and the earth,
00:49:23.99\00:49:28.00
the sea and the
springs of water."
00:49:28.03\00:49:29.83
So it harks back
to creation again,
00:49:29.86\00:49:31.20
just like the
Fourth Commandment does.
00:49:31.23\00:49:32.57
Very, very interesting.
00:49:32.60\00:49:35.97
I remember talking with people
over the course of my life
00:49:36.00\00:49:39.11
and I've never
had anybody tell me.
00:49:39.14\00:49:42.41
Well, now that I'm getting older
00:49:42.44\00:49:43.78
and one of those senior guys,
00:49:43.85\00:49:45.18
I wish I'd spent
more time with the office.
00:49:45.21\00:49:48.15
Guess what they always say.
00:49:48.18\00:49:50.32
I wish I'd spent more
time with my kids or my spouse.
00:49:50.39\00:49:52.49
Amen.
00:49:52.52\00:49:53.86
When you really
think what's important.
00:49:53.89\00:49:55.22
Amen.
00:49:55.26\00:49:56.59
But thank God, he's
made provision for a life
00:49:56.62\00:49:57.96
without regrets.
00:49:57.99\00:49:59.33
He has given us a full 24
hours each week of our lives
00:49:59.36\00:50:01.30
to lay aside our earthly cares,
00:50:01.33\00:50:03.00
concentrate on
what really matters,
00:50:03.03\00:50:04.70
God and family
and friends of those
00:50:04.73\00:50:06.30
who could use
your encouragement.
00:50:06.33\00:50:07.70
And that day is the Sabbath.
00:50:07.74\00:50:09.77
The day of which he has Lord,
00:50:09.80\00:50:11.14
the Sabbath of the Lord thy God,
00:50:11.17\00:50:12.51
my holy day, the Sabbath.
00:50:12.54\00:50:14.48
Now it's interesting also
00:50:14.51\00:50:15.84
the Sabbath is an oasis in time.
00:50:15.88\00:50:18.55
I remember in Law School,
00:50:18.58\00:50:22.08
I study labor
law, just one question,
00:50:22.12\00:50:24.95
but there are things
what when you go to a job,
00:50:24.99\00:50:27.22
I'll just give you
a little illustration,
00:50:27.26\00:50:28.86
just pretend like
you're going to a job interview
00:50:28.89\00:50:31.29
and you've never
worked out like that before.
00:50:31.33\00:50:33.86
So the HR person
is interviewing you
00:50:33.90\00:50:35.63
and they say to you that,
00:50:35.66\00:50:37.57
"If you've got to work for
us, you get paid vacations."
00:50:37.60\00:50:40.90
Really what's that like?
00:50:40.94\00:50:42.27
Well, that means like,
00:50:42.30\00:50:43.64
you could be at
the beach, you know,
00:50:43.67\00:50:45.01
or you could be
at the mountains,
00:50:45.04\00:50:46.37
you know, with your
family on vacation or something
00:50:46.41\00:50:47.74
and we're gonna pay you
just like you were at work."
00:50:47.78\00:50:50.58
That sounds good? Yeah.
00:50:50.61\00:50:51.95
You know, we call
these fringe benefits.
00:50:51.98\00:50:53.35
It's not just good wage,
just good working conditions,
00:50:53.38\00:50:54.95
but also fringe benefits.
00:50:54.98\00:50:56.82
And then there's another
one called paid holidays.
00:50:56.85\00:50:58.72
There's four or five
times maybe six times a year
00:50:58.75\00:51:00.66
when there's a
holiday in the calendar,
00:51:00.69\00:51:02.36
you don't have to
come into work that day,
00:51:02.39\00:51:03.73
we're gonna pay
just like you were here.
00:51:03.76\00:51:05.09
Yep.
00:51:05.13\00:51:06.46
Then there's the sick days,
whether you're sick or not,
00:51:06.49\00:51:08.33
you can accumulate six
days and you can get time off,
00:51:08.36\00:51:10.77
you get paid.
00:51:10.83\00:51:12.17
By the way, we'll cover
you with health insurance
00:51:12.20\00:51:13.54
for you and your family,
00:51:13.57\00:51:14.90
life insurance, profit sharing.
00:51:14.94\00:51:16.71
You'll be a rare person indeed
00:51:16.77\00:51:18.34
who would tell his employer
the HR person, "No, thanks.
00:51:18.37\00:51:20.68
I don't need the benefits.
00:51:20.74\00:51:22.08
I'd like to opt out
of the benefits package."
00:51:22.11\00:51:24.85
That's not gonna happen, is it?
00:51:24.88\00:51:26.82
But God has given us as
his workers, his Sabbath,
00:51:26.88\00:51:28.98
sunset Friday
to sunset Saturday,
00:51:29.02\00:51:30.65
a day of rest and reflection
of worship and fellowship
00:51:30.69\00:51:33.62
and that's the
great benefit plan.
00:51:33.66\00:51:35.29
The real
interesting thing about it is,
00:51:35.32\00:51:36.69
God has given us
real tangible benefits
00:51:36.73\00:51:39.43
for keeping the Sabbath.
00:51:39.46\00:51:40.80
I know that I have
been greatly blessed
00:51:40.86\00:51:42.26
by keeping the
Sabbath, our family has.
00:51:42.30\00:51:44.57
Well, Jesus said, "The
Sabbath was made for man."
00:51:44.60\00:51:47.17
He was telling us all that
00:51:47.20\00:51:48.54
the Sabbath was made to
help us and be a blessing to us
00:51:48.57\00:51:51.21
and the Sabbath is a
benefit program to everyone.
00:51:51.24\00:51:54.14
And I hope that
we will all opt in.
00:51:54.21\00:51:56.44
He set an example.
00:51:56.48\00:51:57.98
And this is important.
Do we understand that?
00:51:58.01\00:52:00.52
Every week to avoid, I
like this part especially.
00:52:00.55\00:52:04.75
In addition to
having to avoid work
00:52:04.79\00:52:06.62
and get out of household chores
00:52:06.65\00:52:08.26
and not worrying
about to-do lists
00:52:08.29\00:52:10.76
and tell your
spouse it's Sabbath.
00:52:10.83\00:52:15.23
Of all this without any guilt,
00:52:15.26\00:52:17.57
picture a day that you can spend
00:52:17.60\00:52:18.93
with family and
friends, a day in nature,
00:52:18.97\00:52:20.90
a day with doing something
with God's family as well,
00:52:20.94\00:52:23.97
something nice for someone else.
00:52:24.01\00:52:25.34
It's not a
dream, it's a reality,
00:52:25.37\00:52:27.64
it's all because God
designed the Sabbath as his day,
00:52:27.68\00:52:30.35
made it for us.
00:52:30.41\00:52:33.78
God gave us the Sabbath, a
way to push the reset button.
00:52:33.82\00:52:37.45
If you like me,
00:52:37.49\00:52:38.82
you really like to
get distracted sometimes
00:52:38.85\00:52:40.76
or you do get
distracted from the things
00:52:40.82\00:52:42.96
and people that really
matter the most to you.
00:52:42.99\00:52:45.49
So we can stop
chasing our material goals
00:52:45.53\00:52:47.76
in our usual work
for one day every week
00:52:47.83\00:52:49.90
and effectively say,
"God, you're in control."
00:52:49.93\00:52:52.53
I'm honoring you,
00:52:52.57\00:52:53.90
I'm focusing on you on your day,
00:52:53.97\00:52:55.30
even though I'm
only working six days,
00:52:55.34\00:52:56.84
I trust for you to
provide for me all seven.
00:52:56.87\00:52:59.44
It doesn't matter how much money
00:52:59.47\00:53:00.88
I could be making.
00:53:00.91\00:53:02.28
Now this is interesting.
00:53:02.31\00:53:03.65
I told you I just saw
the Mamertine Prison in Rome.
00:53:03.68\00:53:06.11
Paul died there alone.
00:53:06.15\00:53:10.02
Did you hear
that what I just said?
00:53:10.09\00:53:11.42
Yes. Alone.
00:53:11.45\00:53:13.12
And he wrote
back, and says, Demas
00:53:13.15\00:53:14.76
who had been sent to be with him
00:53:14.79\00:53:16.12
has forsaken me having
love in this present world,
00:53:16.16\00:53:18.73
isn't that incredible?
00:53:18.76\00:53:20.10
Demas was thinking, "You
know, I'm sitting around,
00:53:20.13\00:53:21.53
watching this all old guy,
he's gonna head chopped off
00:53:21.56\00:53:23.33
and I could be out
making a little money."
00:53:23.37\00:53:25.27
Demas has forsaken me
00:53:25.30\00:53:26.63
having loving
this present world.
00:53:26.70\00:53:28.04
Well, that's
just very interesting.
00:53:28.07\00:53:29.40
So I'll would just tell you.
00:53:29.44\00:53:30.77
The Sabbath is the day
00:53:30.81\00:53:32.14
when we opt into God's time.
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We want to enjoy his rest,
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reset our thinking
and reset our body,
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and worship and honor God.
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Now I want to make
a little conclusion
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and I think it's important
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that we think of
these things together.
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We have looked at several
tax, many tax that predicted
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a great apostasy would
grow in the Christian Church.
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Even starting the apostasy
at the time of the Apostles
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that had already begun.
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It is true that
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sincere Christians have believed
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that the Lord's Day was Sunday
for over a thousand years.
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But as we have seen,
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this is not taught in the Bible.
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Is the Bible our guide? Yes.
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You understand.
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So the passage
of time, no matter,
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how long does not
change error into truth.
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So I would suggest if
you've not already done,
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so I appeal to you to lay
aside the traditions of men
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except the teachings of Jesus
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as taught by
the Holy Scriptures.
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Make the Word of God your guide
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and the only rule
of faith and practice
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and there's really no
reason for us to read the Bible
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if we're not gonna
follow its teachings.
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Amen. Isn't that true?
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Yes.
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Kathy and I give
quite a bit of Bible studies
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and we've got to tell
people, we go through,
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we got to check them out,
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once you've understood this,
do you understand it clearly,
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do you plan to practice it.
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If not, we might just
stop the Bible studies, right?
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This is important.
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So the decision to follow Christ
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and his teachings will give you
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a greater desire
to grow spiritually,
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bring peace to
your heart and so on.
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There's a lot we
can talk about in this,
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but I will just tell
you that God is great
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and I would just give you
another little indication.
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That from sundown,
Friday to sundown, Saturday
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is the Biblical Sabbath.
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During that time
period, God's faith
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people come
together to worship him
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collectively as his people.
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And I know for sure
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and the reason this
is in this program here
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is there's people watching today
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that have tuned in to find
out the answer to this question.
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Amen.
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We have people
coming into our church
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almost on a regular basis,
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we just have a
little small church plan
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and people are
coming in and saying,
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I've been reading in my
Bible, I've been watching 3ABN,
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I've been watching
Hope channel or something.
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And I've become
convicted of the Sabbath.
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Could I worship with you?
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Could you
worship? Yes, of course.
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The bottom line is
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there's convicting
power of the Holy Spirit
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in God's word
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and we want to have
that word in our lives
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and in our hearts.
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The Sabbath is not a
burden, it's a blessing,
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God made it for us.
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So we're looking
forward to Sabbath.
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Tomorrow would be a great day
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for all of us to
fellowship together,
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but it's not a
burden, it's a blessing.
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And let's help our children
and our other family members
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to understand that as well.
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"So thus saith the Lord, God,
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'Let not the wise
man glory in his wisdom,
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neither let the mighty
man glory in his might,
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but let the rich man,
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nor let the rich
man glory in his riches,
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but let him
glory who glory in this
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that he understands and knows me
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that I am the
Lord who exercising,
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loving kindness, judgment
and righteousness in the earth.
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For those things, in
these things I delight,"
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says the Lord, this
is Jeremiah 9:23-24.
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So I want to make a short appeal
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to those who are watching.
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My presumption is that
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many of you here in the audience
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have already
made that commitment,
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but if God's Holy
Spirit is working on your heart
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to understand
and clearly see that
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the Seventh-day Sabbath
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is the day of the
Lord, the Lord's Day,
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then why not honor it
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and begin to
change your life in a way
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that can honor God.
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I encourage you to do
that because God is great,
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God is good and he created
it, he made the Sabbath for us
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and he made us in
the beginning as well.
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So we thank God for
the wisdom of his word
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and we thank you each one of you
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for your kind
attention and we want to pray
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and ask God to bless
the reading of his word
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that we've had today.
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Our Heavenly
Father, I want to thank you
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for the privilege we've
had in worshipping you today.
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We thank you for your
word is the guide to us.
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We thank you that
there's really no question about
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what day the Lord's day is
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because we know it's not Sunday,
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we know it is the Sabbath,
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so we pray that
you will guide those
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who have been
watching and viewing,
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have them to
come to a conclusion
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as we have that
this is your day.
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That your word is true
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and you're the
true guide for us.
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We don't want to be among those
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who take away or
add to the commandments,
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we pray that you will
guide each of us in our lives,
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help us to be faithful to you
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and to be ready
when you come again.
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In Jesus' name, amen.
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Amen.
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