male announcer: This
presentation is brought to you
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by the friends of the
Amazing Facts ministry.
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Doug Batchelor: Did you
know most baby mammals, birds,
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and even some fish instinctively
identify and bond with their
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parents in the very
early stages of their lives?
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But if the parents aren't
available, well, some strange
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things can happen.
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In the 1930s, Austrian
zoologist, Konrad Lorenz
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conducted some of the first
experiments on the imprinting of
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precocial birds, those
that leave the nest soon
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after hatching.
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When he presented himself to
a newly hatched group of mallard
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ducklings and he quacked softly
to them, they recognized him as
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their mother and consequently
followed him everywhere.
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Cross species imprinting has
been observed many times even
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among some species that are
naturally enemies, like cats and
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squirrels or lions and antelope.
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Did you know that in a spiritual
sense, we humans can also
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be imprinted?
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We tend to become
like what we look at.
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That's why it's so important
that we fix our eyes on Jesus.
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So join me today as we explore
the Bible facts about how we can
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be imprinted by our heavenly
Father and have a life-changing
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experience with Jesus.
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Doug: We've got a
verse--everything we're doing in
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this series, we're basing it
on Revelation 14, and I want to
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tell you why this fits
into our study tonight.
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You look in verse 6, and it
pictures three angels flying in
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the midst of heaven.
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Who remembers what
the word "angel" means?
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A messenger flying in heaven.
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These are good, godly
messengers, the angels on earth,
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and the beasts,
they're all down below.
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An angel flying is a symbol of a
message that goes to the world,
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and God--the messages of angels
usually go through people.
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You'll often find angels will
tell people to give messages,
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and so, it's telling about this
message that goes around the
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world, and of course,
you've got first, second, third
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angel's message.
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And then if you look in verse
14, "I behold, there was a white
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cloud, and One on the cloud
like the Son of Man, coming,"
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who is that?
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Jesus comes.
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So after these messages go
to the world just at the end of
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time, Jesus comes.
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What is in this
first angel's message?
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In verse 6, Revelation 14:6, "I
saw another angel flying in the
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midst of heaven, having the
everlasting gospel to preach to
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those who dwell on the earth--to
every nation, tribe, tongue, and
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people--saying," here it is,
"with a loud voice, 'Fear God',"
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and the loud voice here is
"megaphone" in Greek, megaphone.
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Y'all know what
that means, right?
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Megaphono.
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It's saying loud voice,
"Fear God and give glory to Him,
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glorify God, the hour of His
judgment is come," clearly near
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the end, right?
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And it says, "And worship
Him that made the heaven and the
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earth, and the sea
and the springs of water."
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This is dealing with a quote
from the Ten Commandments, "For
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in six days the Lord made the
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heaven, the earth, the sea,
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and the fountains of waters."
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And you'll see that
in Exodus 20, verse 11.
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So after God makes man,
how many days in creation?
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Six days of creation.
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But how many days in a week?
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Seven, why?
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After God created everything, He
then created a period of time,
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a dimension of time, a day for
communion, for fellowship, to
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put aside aside--aside the
distractions of work and things
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like that for focusing on
relationship, and He said this
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has to happen on a regular basis
for love and relationship to be
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strong with each
other and with God.
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We need that time, and He knew
that we'd get distracted, and
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that's why in the
Ten Commandments it
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says, "Remember."
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'Cause we're prone to forget.
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How many of you remember in the
story of the Exodus, when Moses
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comes to the Pharaoh and he
says, "God has sent me to say,
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'Let my people go,'" and the
Pharaoh said, "I'm not gonna let
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them go," and he said to Moses,
"You are causing the people to
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Shabbat from their labors."
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Do you know that's the
word that the Pharaoh used?
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See, when Moses came out of the
wilderness and God sent him, he
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first met with the elders of
Israel and said, "God is getting
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ready to act in a mighty way to
deliver you from your slavery.
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You need to
reconsecrate yourselves to God.
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Turn back. Obey him.
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Remember His Sabbath."
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And they started doing it again,
and the Pharaoh heard that.
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He said, "I've heard you're
causing the people to Shabbat."
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And then the Pharaoh said,
"I'm gonna make sure that they
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cannot rest.
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I am not gonna let
them have straw anymore.
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They're gonna have to
collect their own straw.
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I'm gonna intensify their labor
so that they work, work, work
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and they can't think
about their God anymore."
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Moses is like Jesus
saying, "Let my people go."
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The Pharaoh is saying, "Work,
work, work and don't think
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about God."
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Jesus said, "Beware.
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Be careful that your hearts are
not overcharged with eating, and
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drinking, and the
cares of this life."
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So that day, whether it's your
death or the Second Coming, that
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day overtakes you as a thief.
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Some people plan on changing one
of these days and they never do.
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God says, "We need to pause, and
keep recalibrating, and making
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sure that God is our priority."
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So, question number 1, we
got a lot to cover: When did God
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establish the Sabbath?
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Genesis 2, verse 1 through 3:
"Thus the heavens and the earth,
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and all the host of
them, were FINISHED.
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And on the seventh day He ended
his work which He had done, and
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He rested on the seventh day."
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Now, what chapter
of the Bible is this?
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Fir--book of Genesis,
first book, second chapter.
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How far back
does the Sabbath go?
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This is why Jesus said the
Sabbath was made for man way
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back in the beginning.
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Question number 2: What
day of the week is the Sabbath?
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What does the Bible say?
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Exodus 20,
verse 10: "The," what?
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"SEVENTH DAY is the Sabbath
of the Jews," Sabbath of who?
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"The Lord thy God."
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And then you look
again in Genesis chapter 2.
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Let's read the rest of that:
"And on the," what's it say?
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"SEVENTH DAY God ended His work
which He had done, and He rested
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on the SEVENTH DAY from all the
h--the work that He had done.
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And then God blessed the SEVENTH
DAY and sanctified it, because
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He rested from all His work
which He had created and made."
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Now, did God say, "I want
you to remember a seventh day?"
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Did God say “a” seventh day is
the Sabbath, or did he say "the"
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seventh day?
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If I were to say to you, "Now,
can you please bring me a book?"
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You could grab the hymnal
in the back of the seat there.
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You could grab a Bible.
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You could grab Harry Potter.
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You can grab anything.
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Hopefully, there's no
Harry Potter books here.
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Right, a book is a book.
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It could be your phone
book in your top pocket.
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I--but if I said, "Bring me 'the
book,'" you'd want--look around,
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you go, "Wonder
who has 'the book.'"
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It's a definite article.
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It's talking about a
specific book, isn't that right?
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So when God says that "the
seventh day is the Sabbath of
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the Lord," it's as definite
as the language can make it.
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He's talking about
something specific.
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Now, if you're wondering, "Well,
what day is the seventh day?"
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We don't really know anymore.
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Calendar has been changed.
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You've probably heard that.
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No, no calendar change has
ever affected the weekly cycle.
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The
"Merriam-Webster Dictionary,"
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I typed in the word "Saturday."
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The definition: "the
seventh day of the week."
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So we know what day is the
seventh day, and if you doubt
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that, there's about 16 million
Jews in the world that still
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know what day it is.
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Has the calendar
ever been changed?
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Yes, about 500 years ago,
we transferred from the Julian
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calendar that goes way back
before Christ to Julius Caesar
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to the Gregorian calendar.
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Thursday the 4th
became Friday the 15th.
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But here's a question.
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What day followed Thursday?
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Friday.
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No change in the calendar has
ever affected the weekly cycle.
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So, there's no question
about the days of the week.
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People have no problem
with that until they learn the
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Sabbath truth.
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Number 3: How are we to
memorialize the Sabbath?
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God tells us, says in Isaiah 66,
verse 23, "And it will come to
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pass that from one New Moon to
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another, and from one Sabbath to
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another, shall
all flesh come to?"
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congregation: "WORSHIP."
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Doug: Or does it say "all Jews?"
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Says "all flesh,"
it's all people, "'Come to
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WORSHIP before
Me,' says the Lord."
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It's talking about in the new
earth, from month to month, from
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week to week, all flesh
will come to worship before Me.
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Again, Exodus 20, verse
8: "Remember the Sabbath day,
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to KEEP it HOLY.
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Six days you should labor
and do all of your work, but the
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seventh day is the
Sabbath of the Lord your God.
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In it you shall do NO WORK: you,
or your son, or your daughter,
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or your male servant, your
family servants," even animals
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were given time off.
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God's a loving God, "Your
cattle, nor the stranger within
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your gates."
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Again, you read in Isaiah 58:13,
"If you TURN AWAY your foot from
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the Sabbath, from doing YOUR
pleasure on My holy day, and
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call the Sabbath a delight,"
is it a burden or a delight?
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"on My holy day, call it a
delight, the holy of the Lord
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honorable, and shall honor
Him, not doing YOUR own ways, or
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finding YOUR own pleasure, or
speak," it doesn't mean you're
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not supposed to
have any pleasure.
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You should enjoy
your food on the Sabbath.
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It means it's doing your
own thing or speaking your
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own words.
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We should be talking
about spiritual things.
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The Bible also tells us
it's a holy convocation.
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"Six days shall work be
done, but the seventh day is
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a Sabbath, a solemn
rest, a holy CONVOCATION.
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You shall not do any work in it;
it's a Sabbath of the Lord in
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all of your dwellings."
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Wherever you happen to be
in your homes, you keep the
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Sabbath, and your son and
daughter that are with you, if
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anyone's in your gates, you
invite them to keep the Sabbath.
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But it calls it a holy what?
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Convocation.
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This is a convocation.
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Convocation means assembly,
a convening, a coming together.
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It's not only a day where
you rest, but we should come
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together to worship the
Lord, and this was the habit and
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pattern of our Savior as well.
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Number 4: When does
the Sabbath begin and end?
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And some people have been
confused about this, but the
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Bible's pretty clear.
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It says, "From EVENING to
EVENING, shall you celebrate
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your sabbath."
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Sabbath begins Friday sundown
and ends Saturday sundown, and
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you probably have some
Jewish friends and you already
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knew that.
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Number 5: Does the
Sabbath matter to God?
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The Sabbath truth.
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What does the Bible say?
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"Observe the Sabbath day to keep
it holy, as the Lord your God
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COMMANDED you."
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Moses said it there in
Exodus and again before he
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dies in Deuteronomy 5.
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He says to remember
it. God's commanded you.
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Does God make--this is question
6: Did God make the Sabbath only
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for Israelites?
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What does it say?
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"And He [Jesus]
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said to them, 'The
Sabbath was made for MAN, and
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not MAN for the Sabbath.'"
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What does that mean?
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By the way, the word that Jesus
uses here, and I put it on the
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screen, when He said, "The
Sabbath was made for man," Jesus
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easily could have said "Jew."
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The word He uses is the
word anthropos, and you probably
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recognize anthropology.
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It's the study of man, and
the word there means humanity.
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The Sabbath was
made for humanity.
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Why in the world would God
eliminate this one law from the
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Ten Commandments?
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Do only Jews need rest,
or does everybody need rest?
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Did Jesus keep the Sabbath?
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Let's look at the
example of our Savior.
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"So He," Jesus,
"came to Nazareth,
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where He had been brought up.
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And as His custom
was," what's a custom?
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Something you do
once or twice, or it's
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a way of life?
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"As His custom
was, He went into the
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synagogue on the SABBATH day,
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and He stood up to read,"
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He read the scriptures.
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And you have the story.
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He read Isaiah 61 that day.
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He read the
scriptures on the Sabbath day.
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It was His pattern.
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You can also read here in
Mark 1:21, "Immediately on the
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SABBATH day He entered
the synagogue and He taught."
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If you're doing what
Jesus did, you're safe.
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"But Pastor Doug, didn't
Jesus break the Sabbath?"
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No.
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"Was He accused of it?"
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Yes.
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His enemies accused
Him of being a drunk.
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Was He a drunk?
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They accused Him
of being a Samaritan.
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Was He a Samaritan?
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They accused Him of
being a wine bibber.
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They accused Him of being
demon-possessed and Beelzebub
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and--yeah, they accused
Him of all kinds of things that
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weren't true.
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Jesus said, "I have kept my
Father's commandments," John
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chapter 15, "I have kept my
Father's commandments, and I
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abide in His love."
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What is sin?
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Transgression of the law.
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Did Jesus ever sin?
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No.
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Did Jesus have arguments
about the Sabbath with the
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religious leaders?
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Yes.
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Was the argument ever whether or
not it should be kept, or how it
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should be kept?
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All the disputes Jesus ever
had about the Sabbath were never
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disputes about
whether it should be kept.
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There were disputes
about how it should be kept.
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They were attaching all these
man-made burdens to the law that
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God didn't attach, saying
that He couldn't heal somebody.
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You could get your donkey out
of the ditch on the Sabbath day,
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but you couldn't
heal an old woman.
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And so, Jesus said--and matter
of fact, it says He was angry
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with them because of the
hardness of their hearts.
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So that was never the issue.
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Did Paul and the other
apostles honor the Sabbath day?
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Paul, after being converted,
"He reasoned in the synagogue,"
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one Sabbath?
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"Every SABBATH,
persuading," just the Jews.
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No, persuading who?
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"Jews and Greeks," Greeks was
a word it meant anyone non-Jew
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Gentile, "Persuading the Jews
and the Greeks about Jesus on
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the Sabbath day."
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"Then Paul, as his
custom was, he went to them for
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three SABBATHS.
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He reasoned with
them from the Scriptures."
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Some said, "Well, he was
just doing that because he was
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accommodating the Jews."
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No, keep reading.
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Look at what it says
in Acts 13, verse 42:
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"When the Jews went out
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of the synagogue,
the Gentiles begged him
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that these words
might be preached
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to them," when?
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"The next SABBATH."
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So, you have Moses keeping it.
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You have Jesus
keeping the Sabbath day.
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You have the apostles
keeping the Sabbath day.
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You go to Isaiah 66, and it
says, "'For as the new heavens
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and the new earth That I will
make will remain before Me,'
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says the LORD, 'shall--So shall
your seed in your name remain.
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And it shall come to pass That
from one New Moon to another,
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And one Sabbath to
another, Shall all flesh
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come and worship before Me.'"
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Adam and Eve
kept it in the garden.
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Moses kept it. Jesus kept it.
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We know the old
Testament prophets.
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Read Nehemiah. Read Jeremiah.
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They all kept
it. Apostles kept it.
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We're gonna keep it in heaven.
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Can you think of a compelling
reason why the church should not
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be keeping that one
Commandment right now?
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Maybe that's why the angel
is seen flying in the midst of
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heaven before the Second Coming,
calling God's people back to
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worship him that made the
heavens and the earth, and the
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sea, and the
fountains of waters.
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'Cause the Sabbath is
a memorial of creation.
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Number 9: Did Jesus's
resurrection change God's holy
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day from Saturday to Sunday?
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Some people say, "Well, if
He rose the first day and that
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became a new Sabbath because
the Bible says that they got
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together on the first day of
the week and they broke bread."
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Well, there's one occasion it
says where they got together and
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they broke bread, but you also
read they broke bread, you can
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read in Acts chapter 2,
from house to house daily.
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Breaking bread didn't
mean a Communion service.
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It meant eating.
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Now, there are times they
did have Communion services.
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But it tells us what day
of the week did Jesus have the
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Last Supper?
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Thursday, right?
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Yeah.
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Did that become a new Sabbath?
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How important was that, when
he instituted the New Covenant?
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It's important.
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What day of the
week did Jesus die?
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Friday.
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Was that important?
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Did it become a new Sabbath?
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What day did He rise?
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Sunday.
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Was that important?
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Does the Bible say
it became a new Sabbath?
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Show me one verse in the Bible
that commands us to keep the
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first day of the
week as the Sabbath.
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Only reason I can do
that is I know it's not there.
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And yet, what day does most
of the Christian world keep?
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Is there a command that tells
us to keep the seventh day?
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Yes, and you know
what you're gonna hear?
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I'm just telling you
what you're gonna hear.
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People are gonna say
we're only supposed to keep the
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commandments that are repeated
in the New Testament, and the
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Sabbath's not repeated.
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Pastors say things and they
figure people won't look it up
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for themselves, but
that is an absolute myth.
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Show me where in the
New Testament you find the
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commandment, "Thou shalt not
take the name of the LORD God in
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vain; for the LORD will not hold
him guiltless who takes his name
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in vain."
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Where is that in
the New Testament?
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Not there.
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I think we're still supposed
to keep that commandment, would
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you agree?
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But do you find the
Sabbath in the New Testament?
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Several times.
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Hebrews chapter 4, "He spake in
a certain place of the seventh
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day on this wise.
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God did rest from His works.”
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And so, it's all
through the New Testament.
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So I hear all kinds of
myths that people just buy into.
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He rose, and it
became the new Sabbath.
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That sounds beautiful,
but where is it in the Word?
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It's not there.
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And so God is calling his people
back to the Word in the last
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days, friends.
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Why else would Jesus say,
warning his disciples about the
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end of the world and the
destruction of Jerusalem,
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"And pray?"
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He's looking ahead in prophecy,
"Pray that your flight will not
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be in the winter
or on the," what?
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"The SABBATH day."
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Jesus, looking down in time,
knew his people would still be
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recognizing the Sabbath.
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Why else would He say that?
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He knew they'd be keeping it.
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Number 10: What day
is the "Lord's Day?"
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Exodus 20, verse 10: "But the
seventh day is the Sabbath of
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the LORD your God."
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What day is the Lord's Day?
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Sabbath Day.
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Let's give you another one:
"If you turn away your foot from
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doing your pleasure on MY holy
day," what day does God call
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His day?
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The Sabbath day.
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And again, Jesus says,
"Therefore the Son of Man is
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LORD also of the Sabbath."
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There's no question
about what day it is.
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Number 11: Why does so much of
the world believe that Sunday is
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a holy day?
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Or that God's holy day
is Sunday, I should say.
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You know, this was
foretold in prophecy.
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You can see it in Daniel.
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It's also in Revelation.
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If you look in Daniel 7:25,
"He the beast power will speak
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pompous words against the Most
High, and persecute the saints
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of the Most High, and
think to CHANGE times and laws."
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Which one of the Ten
Commandments is a time
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and a law?
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Fourth Commandment.
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This is Encyclopedia Britannica:
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"The Roman emperor Constantine,
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a convert to Christianity,
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introduced the first civil
00:19:50.39\00:19:52.99
legislation concerning SUNDAY in
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321, when He decreed that all
00:19:54.36\00:19:55.82
should cease work on that day,"
00:19:55.86\00:19:58.36
unless you are
working on a farm.
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You have to know what happened.
00:20:00.33\00:20:02.26
The Jews had
become very unpopular.
00:20:02.30\00:20:04.73
Christians, not wanting to be
associated with Jews, began to
00:20:04.77\00:20:08.00
compromise with the state.
00:20:08.04\00:20:10.27
They began to commingle
the government religion with
00:20:10.31\00:20:13.31
Christianity, and it just
all kind of got shmurgled up
00:20:13.34\00:20:17.28
together, where they
took some of the pagan things.
00:20:17.31\00:20:19.58
The Romans were
worshiping the sun on the first
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day of the week.
00:20:21.75\00:20:23.05
They said, "You know,
if we just change the day,
00:20:23.08\00:20:24.42
we can reach more pagans.
00:20:24.45\00:20:25.75
We'll accommodate them."
00:20:25.79\00:20:27.12
And so, little by little, they
began to change and get away
00:20:27.16\00:20:30.33
trying to distance themselves
from the Jews, even though the
00:20:30.36\00:20:33.56
Bible was very clear
what day was the Sabbath Day.
00:20:33.60\00:20:36.03
And it eventually became
universal in the Catholic
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Church, and the Protestant
churches that came out of the
00:20:39.40\00:20:41.57
Catholic Church still
kind of retained some of that.
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So, that's the
history in just a nutshell.
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A little more proof: did you
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know that out of 108 languages
00:20:49.31\00:20:51.61
of the world, the word for
00:20:51.65\00:20:52.95
Saturday is Sabbath?
00:20:52.98\00:20:55.42
How do you say
Saturday in Spanish?
00:20:55.45\00:20:57.72
Sabado.
00:20:57.75\00:20:59.09
Any Russians here? Russkis?
00:20:59.12\00:21:01.59
[speaking foreign language]
00:21:01.62\00:21:02.99
No Russki?
00:21:03.02\00:21:04.39
Subbota, right?
00:21:04.43\00:21:06.46
There you got it,
Arabic and Indonesian.
00:21:06.49\00:21:08.76
We don't have room
to put all 108 up there.
00:21:08.80\00:21:10.60
Isn't that interesting?
00:21:10.63\00:21:11.93
Their word for Saturday is
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Sabbath because it goes all the
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way back to the Tower of
Babel, friends, when they
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all scattered.
00:21:18.31\00:21:19.61
Will the saved keep the
Sabbath in the new earth?
00:21:19.64\00:21:22.64
I quoted this to you a moment
ago: "'For as the new heavens
00:21:22.68\00:21:25.88
and the new earth which I will
make shall remain before Me,
00:21:25.91\00:21:28.25
says the Lord, 'So shall your
descendants in your name remain.
00:21:28.28\00:21:31.89
And it'll come to pass it from
one New Moon to another, and one
00:21:31.92\00:21:35.36
SABBATH to another, ALL flesh
will come to worship before
00:21:35.39\00:21:39.29
Me.'" What was this all about?
00:21:39.33\00:21:41.30
A memorial of
worship that God has made.
00:21:41.33\00:21:44.13
It's gonna be the issue in the
last days, and this particular
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Commandment is gonna be
an issue in the last days.
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Number 13: Of what two precious
things does God say the Sabbath
00:21:50.47\00:21:56.14
is a sign?
00:21:56.18\00:21:58.58
Now, when you see in a
Revelation study like this the
00:21:58.61\00:22:01.58
word "sign," that
should mean something.
00:22:01.62\00:22:06.45
You got people who are gonna
have the seal of God, and then
00:22:06.49\00:22:08.79
others have the
mark of the beast.
00:22:08.82\00:22:10.16
What is the Sabbath the sign of?
00:22:10.19\00:22:12.49
Read in Exodus 31:17, "It is a
sign between Me and the children
00:22:12.53\00:22:17.07
of Israel forever; for in six
days the Lord MADE the heaven,
00:22:17.10\00:22:20.87
the earth, and on the seventh
day He rested," it is a sign
00:22:20.90\00:22:24.67
that you are His children.
00:22:24.71\00:22:26.01
You say, "Well,
that's for the Israelites."
00:22:26.04\00:22:27.38
Don't forget, friends, the New
Covenant is made only with the
00:22:27.41\00:22:29.41
house of Israel.
00:22:29.44\00:22:30.75
You are grafted
into that promise.
00:22:30.78\00:22:32.71
It's a sign that He's Creator
and that He can recreate you.
00:22:32.75\00:22:37.02
How many need a
new heart created?
00:22:37.05\00:22:38.85
You pray, "Create in
me a new heart, oh God."
00:22:38.89\00:22:41.46
Sabbath reminds us He can create
out of nothing, and we need that
00:22:41.49\00:22:46.06
new creation.
00:22:46.09\00:22:47.40
What else is the
Sabbath a sign of?
00:22:47.40\00:22:49.20
You can read in Exodus 20, verse
12: "Moreover I gave them My
00:22:49.23\00:22:53.03
Sabbaths, to be a sign between
Me and them, that they might
00:22:53.07\00:22:55.87
know that I am the
Lord who," does what?
00:22:55.90\00:22:58.91
"SANCTIFIES them," that
means "makes them holy."
00:22:58.94\00:23:01.81
You realize that the
pure in heart will see God.
00:23:01.84\00:23:04.98
He needs to make us holy.
00:23:05.01\00:23:06.55
The Sabbath is a holy day, and
whenever we remember that holy
00:23:06.58\00:23:10.25
day, we believe He can make
us holy if He can make a day
00:23:10.29\00:23:12.39
holy, amen?
00:23:12.42\00:23:14.12
And we need to remember
that it's a memorial that He can
00:23:14.16\00:23:17.63
recreate us and make us holy.
00:23:17.66\00:23:20.70
Some will argue, "Well,
Pastor, that keeping the Sabbath
00:23:20.73\00:23:23.26
is legalism."
00:23:23.30\00:23:25.20
How can God calling
us into rest be legalism?
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Don't fall for
these arguments, friends.
00:23:30.91\00:23:33.17
It is as clear as day.
00:23:33.21\00:23:34.84
If you believe the Bible
and the Ten Commandments, the
00:23:34.88\00:23:37.95
Sabbath--practically,
we need it.
00:23:37.98\00:23:39.48
Spiritually, we need it.
00:23:39.51\00:23:40.85
And for every reason.
00:23:40.88\00:23:42.18
Do you know why
the people fight it?
00:23:42.22\00:23:44.15
Because it doesn't
follow the popular tradition.
00:23:44.19\00:23:48.02
Jesus said, "You have a
fine way of putting aside the
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commandments of God that
you might observe the traditions
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of men."
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What is more important,
commandments of God or
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traditions of men?
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"There remains," New Testament,
Hebrews 4 and 9, "There remains
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therefore a REST for the people
of God," that word "rest" there
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in the original is
"sabbatismos," Sabbath, "There
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remains a Sabbath
for the people of God.
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For he has entered His REST has
himself ceased from his works as
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God did."
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And then Jesus, in that
great invitation, "Come unto Me,
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all you who are weary and
heavy laden," and what will He
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give us?
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"I will give you rest."
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The Lord wants you to
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You know who has
no rest in Revelation?
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Those that worship the beast
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Notice the contrast, friends.
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Those that rest in Jesus,
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The beast
power, they don't rest.
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How many of you would like
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