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Doug Batchelor: Tonight's study,
I think, you're going to find to
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be a great blessing, but I
always like to begin with an
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amazing fact.
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You know, the world record for
many years regarding the person
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who had stayed awake the longest
under a measured experiment
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without sleep was Randy Gardner.
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In 1963, he went for 11 days
and 24 minutes without sleep.
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After several days in the
experiment, Gardner displayed
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increasing cognitive dysfunction
and problems with concentration,
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moodiness, memory,
paranoia, hallucinations.
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His record since was
broken multiple times.
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The last time it was Robert
McDonald, he went 18 days and 21
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hours without sleeping.
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He did it all at Starbucks.
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No, I made that
up, that's not true.
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But you know, since then,
in 1997, Guinness World Records
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refused to accept any
new attempts for health and
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safety reasons.
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For decades after his
first experiments, Randy Gardner
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struggled with severe insomnia,
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it permanently damaged him.
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People need rest.
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Our lesson tonight is about rest
and prophecy and how all of it
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ties together.
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Now, we're going to be talking
about one of the commandments
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tonight, in particular, the
fourth commandment dealing with
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the subject of the Sabbath.
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And you might be thinking,
"Pastor Doug, how in the world
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does that fit into
a prophecy seminar?"
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Follow me very carefully.
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If you read in Revelation
chapter 13, it tells us that
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this beast power makes a law
that whoever does not worship
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the image of the
beast should be killed.
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Although that would be a problem
for God's people because the
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Bible is pretty clear in the
Ten Commandments, it says in the
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second commandment, "You shall
not make unto you any graven
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images, the likeness of anything
in the heaven above, or the
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earth beneath, or the water
under the earth, and bow down
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yourself to them and serve them:
for I the LORD Your God am a
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jealous God, visiting the
iniquity of the fathers on the
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children unto the third and
fourth generation of them that
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hate Me; And showing mercy unto
thousands of them that love Me,
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and keep My commandments."
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Notice, "love Me and
keep My commandments."
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There's a commandment
that says don't worship images.
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You may remember in the
book of Daniel chapter 3, King
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Nebuchadnezzar told everybody to
bow down and worship the image
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that he made or be killed,
Revelation is drawing from that.
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But Shadrach, Meshach, and
Abednego, they said, "We ought
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to obey God rather than men.
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We will not break God's
commandment, even if it's a
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government commandment."
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You look in Daniel chapter 6,
the king of Persia, Darius, made
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a law that said, you're not to
pray to any God except the king
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for 30 days.
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Well, that's a problem for
God's people because the first
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commandment, who knows?
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Thou shalt not
ma--have other gods before Me.
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Actually, the first commandment
says, "And the Lord God spoke
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all these words, saying: 'I am
the LORD your God, that brought
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you out of the land of Egypt,
out of the house of bondage.
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You shall not have
other gods before Me."'
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Daniel said, "I can't have
another god before my God," and
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he went to the lions'
den and God delivered him.
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It was a government law,
worldwide law, this empire.
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Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego
went to the fiery furnace, and
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God delivered them.
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In the last days, the
devil is going to do the same
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thing again.
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Have you read
the book of Esther?
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There was a law made to
exterminate all of God's people
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because Mordecai would not bow
down and worship Haman, because
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it broke the
commandments of God.
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The devil is going
to do the same thing.
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See, does everyone here
know the devil wants you to sin?
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That's why he tempts us.
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What is sin?
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The transgression of God's law.
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But what the devil's going to do
in the last days, he's going to
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be very sneaky.
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He is going to create a law
and it's going to be requiring
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people to break the law of
God, but it's going to seem like
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they're obeying.
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And he's going to look through
the Ten Commandments and he's
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going to say, "Can I make a
law that tells everybody to lie?
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That's going to be hard to sell.
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Everybody to murder?
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That won't work.
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What if I tell everybody,
remember the Sabbath day, but
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don't do it on the seventh
day, do it a different day, just
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change it a little bit?"
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He's very clever.
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And a lot of
people are going to go,
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"What difference does it make?
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It's a little thing."
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So follow me, and I think you're
going to understand why this is
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going to be an issue in
prophecy in the last days.
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Question number 1, we're going
to our lesson, did God make the
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Sabbath only for Israelites?
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What does the Bible say?
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"He said unto them, 'The Sabbath
was made for the Jew,'" that's
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not what it says.
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This is on the
seventh day of creation.
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God made man in six days--on
the sixth day, made the world in
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six days.
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Then after He made man,
and the word here in Greek is
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"anthropos," you've heard
of anthropology, talking about
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humanity, not just
one race of people.
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Jesus said the
Sabbath was made for humans.
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How many here
are related to Adam?
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Then you fit, the Sabbath was
made for mankind, humanity, not
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man for the Sabbath.
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God did not make the Sabbath
and then make man to serve the
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Sabbath, He made man and then
made Sabbath to be a blessing to
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man.
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See how that works?
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And you read in Exodus 23, verse
12: "Six days you shall do your
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work, and on the seventh day
you shall rest, that your ox and
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your donkey may rest," and He
says, "and your servant also and
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the son of your female servant
and that your stranger may be,"
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what's the word?
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"Refreshed."
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Now, do only Jews need
refreshment, or did the Lord
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also include even
animals in this commandment?
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Does God even
care about creatures?
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So, do people need rest?
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Yeah, when the Lord said
the Sabbath was made for man, He
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meant for the human
race, people need rest.
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How many people are struggling
with stress-related disease?
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Some of you out there,
struggling with stress.
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When did God
establish the Sabbath?
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Answer, "Thus the heavens and
the earth, and all the host of
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them, were finished.
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And on the seventh day God ended
His work which He had done, and
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He rested."
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Man is made in the image of God,
we follow His example, He rested
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as an example for us.
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He rested on what day?
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"The seventh day from all
His work which He had done."
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And I'm going to continue, it
goes on to say, "and God blessed
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the seventh day."
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You know, right here in the
beginning of the Bible, a number
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is mentioned three times,
seven, seven, seven, first book
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of the Bible.
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Go to Revelation, the end of the
Bible, there's another number
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mentioned three
times, six, six, six.
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Seven is the perfect number
of God and worship of God.
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Six is the day that man was
created, it's the number of man
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and man-made worship, and this
is a battle for worship that
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you're going to see
going on all through the Bible.
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Question number three, how has
God demonstrated the importance
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of the holy Sabbath?
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If you have your Bible, you'll
not only find this in Exodus
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chapter 20, verse 8, it's
also in Deuteronomy chapter 5.
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You can find the Ten
Commandments and you'll find
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them in partial
places, several places.
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In Exodus chapter 20 verse
8, it is the longest of the Ten
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Commandments, it's the only
commandment that begins with the
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word remember, and it is
in the middle of God's law.
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"Remember the
Sabbath day, to keep it holy.
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Six days you shall labor
and do all of your work, but the
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seventh day is the
Sabbath of the" Jews.
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That's not what it says,
"seventh day is the Sabbath of
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the LORD your God.
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In it you shall not do any work:
you, nor your son, nor your
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daughter, nor your male servant,
nor your female servant, nor
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your cattle, nor the
stranger within your gates.
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For in six days the LORD made
the heavens and the earth, and
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the sea, and all that is
in them, and He rested the
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seventh day.
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Therefore the LORD blessed the
Sabbath day and hallowed it."
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This is what you call
the fourth commandment.
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Now, when God writes something
in stone, how important is it?
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I want you to think about
what God did when He created the
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Sabbath commandment.
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Matter of fact, we're going
to put it up here on the screen
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here just as a little visual
so that you can all see this.
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God had the Ten Commandments,
were they written on paper,
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Silly Putty, or stone?
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You want a little amazing fact,
you know that old movie "The Ten
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Commandments" by
Cecil B. DeMille?
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My mother was in that
movie, it's a very small part.
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When I watched it with the kids,
I'd say, "There goes grandma,"
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but she was in the movie.
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And he said, "If you will not
live by the law, you will die by
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the law," and he
throws the commandments down.
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It's true that he
threw it down and broke it.
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You know what God said, "Come
back up, I'm going to give it to
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you again."
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He spoke it with His own voice,
He wrote it with His own finger
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to indicate the
permanence of it.
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And as I mentioned, it's the
longest of the Ten Commandments.
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Now, it's amazing to me that
I can go to almost any church in
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New York City--and I want
to reiterate, there are good
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Christian people in many
denominations, y'all listening?
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I used to teach Sunday school
in a Methodist church, I used to
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attend Pentecostal
Church, Church of God, Four
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Square, Baptist.
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I--I've been in many different
churches, John and I can tell
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you some interesting stories of
churches that we've been in and
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visited, and there
are good people in many
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different churches.
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I'm not here to
condemn, is that clear?
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I want to find out,
what does the Bible say?
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I could go to virtually any
church in town and the pastor
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would say, "Well,
preach what's on your heart."
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I could preach on marriage
and not committing adultery, and
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people would squirm,
but they'd say amen, right?
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And I could preach on honoring
your father and mother, amen.
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I could preach on do not
steal, amen, do not covet.
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I--you go through the
Ten Commandments, amen, amen.
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You preached on idolatry, some
people in some churches would be
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a little uncomfortable with
that because there's idols in
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some churches.
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But then I say, "And remember
the Sabbath day, to keep it
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holy" and people say, "Pastor
Doug, you're putting these
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people under
bondage, that is legalism."
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What happened?
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I was doing a seminar like this
one time, I talked about this
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subject, and a pastor was in
the audience and he stood up and
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interrupted me.
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And I could tell he was rather
agitated because his ears were
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red, and he said, "Brother
Doug--" small town, he knew who
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I was.
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He said, "You're putting
these people under a bondage
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of works."
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I said, "Wait a second, Pastor."
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I said, "I'm telling
them to keep the Sabbath, I'm
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encouraging them to rest.
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You're telling them don't keep
the Sabbath, you're encouraging
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them to work."
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And he said--I said, "Do you
think God wants us to keep the
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Ten Commandments?"
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He said, "No," and then some of
his members were there and they
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said, "Huh?"
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And he said, "Well, yes," but
he knew that would include the
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fourth commandment,
he said, "Nine of them."
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That's what he said.
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I said, "So you're telling me
the one commandment that we're
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supposed to forget is the only
commandment that begins with the
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word remember."
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Maybe God said remember because
He knew there was a risk that we
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would forget that commandment.
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God's Word is eternal.
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Jesus said, "Heaven and earth
will pass away, My word will not
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pass away."
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Jesus said, "Think not that
I have come to destroy the law.
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I have not come to
destroy, but to fulfill."
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He said, "Whosoever therefore
will break one of the least of
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these commandments," these are
the words of Jesus, "and teach
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men so, he will be spoken of as
least in the kingdom of heaven:
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but whoever will do and
teach them will be great in the
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kingdom of heaven."
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So why am I teaching it?
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Because Jesus told me to,
you take that up with Him.
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This is His law, Christ kept
the law of God, and the devil's
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going to use this as a
special test and attack in the
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last days.
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Now, just use common sense,
do people need rest today?
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Do you realize that we
are living at the time in the
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history of humanity where more
people are dying from stress
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than all of history combined?
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The five top selling
medications are stress-related.
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Chronic stress is linked to
the six leading causes of death,
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including heart disease, cancer,
lung ailments, accidents,
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cirrhosis of the liver, suicide,
according to the American
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Psychological Association.
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And you know, things started
changing back when Thomas Edison
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installed electric
lights in New York City.
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People used to go to
sleep when the sun went down.
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I mean, they might have the
kerosene lamp, but, you know,
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that was expensive.
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And now because of artificial
light, people are up all the
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time and they don't rest and
they work and they work, and now
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we got our work devices in front
of us all the time and it is a
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stressed out world.
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God said if we would take time
every week and rest during the
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time he's blessed, it
would lengthen your life.
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Let me tell you something
in case you didn't know this.
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How many of you have heard of
something called the blue zones?
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Let me see your hands.
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National Geographic did
a study--and they are not a
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religious organization.
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National Geographic did a study,
and then there have been several
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programs on it.
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Individuals went around the
world, they studied--there were
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pockets of people around
the world that lived longer.
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It was very common for them
to live to be over 100 years of
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age, places like Okinawa, Japan,
Sardinia in the Mediterranean,
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and you know what
the third place was?
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Loma Linda, California,
and they thought, why Loma
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Linda, California?
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They said, oh, they got a
Seventh Day Adventist hospital
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there, and it's a Seventh
Day Adventist community and the
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people are keeping the Sabbath,
and they are often living to
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over 100 years of age
because they rest every week.
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Not to mention a lot of them are
vegetarians, but the Sabbath had
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a lot to do
with their longevity.
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Jesus said, "Come unto
Me," Matthew 11, "and I'll give
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you" what?
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"Rest," Jesus wants us to
experience that rest, and the
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devil is robbing the
culture of that peace and rest.
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By the way, when Moses came
and he told the Pharaoh, "Let My
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people go," before Moses and
Aaron went to Pharaoh, it says
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he met--Moses came,
he met with the elders.
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You find this in
Exodus chapter 5, I believe.
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He met with the
elders of Israel.
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He says, "The LORD Jehovah
has met with us and told us He's
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going to deliver us, but we need
to return to God, we need to
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recommit ourselves, we're
wandering from the commandments
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of God.
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The Israelites are worshiping
Egyptian idols, and we're
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forgetting to rest
on the Sabbath day."
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That's why when Moses goes
to the Pharaoh, Pharaoh said to
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Moses, "I've heard what you're
up to, you are making the people
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to rest."
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You know what the
word is in Hebrew?
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Moses says, "You are causing the
people to Shabbat," that's what
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it says.
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He said, "I'm not
going to let you rest.
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In fact, I'm going to
stop giving you straw for your
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bricks, you're going to have to
gather your own straw, and I'm
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going to
increase your workload."
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Moses is Christ, He
says, "Let My people go."
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The Pharaoh is the devil,
he says, "Work, work, work."
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The devil wants us to be so busy
with the cares of this life,
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even good things,
you can work too much.
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Jesus said, "Beware lest
your heart be overcharged with
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eating and drinking and the
cares of this life, so that the
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Second Coming
overtakes you unaware."
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The devil
doesn't want us to rest.
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Do you know what it says
about those who have the mark of
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the beast?
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They have no rest.
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This is a Bible prophecy
subject, friends, can you
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see that?
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On what two precious things does
God say the Sabbath is a sign?
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Answer, Exodus
31:17: "It [the Sabbath]
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is a sign between Me and the
children of Israel forever; for
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in six days the LORD
made," what's it say?
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"The LORD made the
heavens and the earth."
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Now, did He just do that for the
Jewish people or is that a sign
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for all people to believe
the Word of God that He is
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the Creator?
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Would you agree with me that
a lot of people in the world no
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longer believe that God created?
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They think we've all evolved
from lower forms of life.
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I used to believe that,
now I can't believe I used to
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believe that.
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Because life is so complex, the
idea that the complexity of life
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happened by
accident is really absurd.
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You don't get organization and
design and interworking system
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that I--did you know that
they've studied one cell of a
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human being, one single cell
of a human being now with an
00:18:52.96\00:18:57.33
electron microscope?
00:18:57.37\00:18:59.03
And they've come to the
conclusion there are more
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machines and more activity and
more interworking systems in a
00:19:02.40\00:19:05.97
single cell of life than--this
is the illustration, I did not
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invent it--the doctors are
saying there is more activity in
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a single cell of life than
New York City at rush hour.
00:19:13.82\00:19:19.99
How could that
ever happen by accident?
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We are fearfully
and wonderfully made.
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Every Sabbath day we are
remembering that we are a
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creation of God,
made in the image of God.
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And you know, one reason I think
that so many young people are
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misbehaving and destroying
themselves, when we started
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teaching that we all evolved
from monkeys, the suicide rate
00:19:38.74\00:19:41.84
shot up, they lost
the purpose of life.
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When you tell young
people there's a God, He's got a
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purpose for you, you are created
in His image, that's a whole
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different
destiny for young people.
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So God says one reason for
the Sabbath is we remember He
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created us, amen?
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It's a miracle, it's a marvel.
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Every Sabbath day we
remind ourselves that He is our
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Creator, and you
know what else that means?
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He's the boss.
00:20:09.70\00:20:11.97
He is the Creator,
we are the creation.
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He makes the rules, we follow.
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What else does the Bible
say the Sabbath is a sign of?
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Ezekiel 20, verse 12: "Moreover
I gave them My Sabbaths, to be
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a sign."
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Now, I want to stop
before I even finish this.
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You know, in Revelation, what
do people get in the forehead?
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Mark, what's it called?
00:20:38.30\00:20:42.77
Some are saying
mark, some are saying seal.
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Everybody thinks
about the mark of the beast
00:20:45.21\00:20:47.08
in the last
days in the forehead.
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That's true, there is a mark of
the beast in the hand or in the
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forehead, but they forget
that the righteous also gets
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something in the forehead, it's
the seal of God, and that word
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is a sign, God places a sign.
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Look what it says here,
"Moreover I gave them my
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Sabbaths, to be a sign
between Me and them, that they
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might know."
00:21:08.70\00:21:10.00
The Bible says eternal life is
knowing Jesus, "that they might
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know that I am
the one who," what?
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"I sanctify them,"
that means I make them holy.
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Now think about this, friends,
if I were to ask you right now,
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where on the planet is the
Holy Land, what would you say?
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Israel, sure, right answer,
that's what most people would
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say, right?
00:21:34.42\00:21:35.72
Muslims, Jews, Christians,
we call it the Holy Land.
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If I were to say, where in the
Holy Land--what do you call the
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holy city?
00:21:42.40\00:21:44.60
Jerusalem, right answer.
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It gets a little
harder, stay with me.
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If I were to say, where in
Jerusalem is the Holy Mount,
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what's it called?
00:21:53.34\00:21:55.58
Mount Moriah,
sometimes called Mount Zion.
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And what is on the Holy Mount?
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The holy temple.
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And in the holy temple, when you
first enter the first apartment,
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it's called the what?
00:22:09.42\00:22:11.46
The holy place, and then after
you leave the holy place, you go
00:22:11.49\00:22:16.83
into the inner
sanctum, it is called the what?
00:22:16.87\00:22:20.40
The holy of holies or the most
holy place, and why is it called
00:22:20.44\00:22:25.87
the most holy place, there's
only one thing in the room?
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The holy ark of
the covenant, right?
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And what is in the
holy ark of the covenant?
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The holy law of God, written
by a holy God with His finger.
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And in the holy law, you
find the word holy one time,
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"Remember the Sabbath day,
to keep it holy," you know why?
00:22:49.10\00:22:55.34
Because God is love.
00:22:55.37\00:22:59.54
How do you
experience love without time?
00:22:59.57\00:23:06.28
You show me a couple
that's having problems in their
00:23:06.31\00:23:08.35
relationship and someone's going
to say, "We don't spend any
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time together."
00:23:10.82\00:23:12.42
And they're not talking about
being in the same house, Karen
00:23:12.45\00:23:15.02
will sometimes say to me--I
know you've never had these
00:23:15.06\00:23:17.76
conversations in your family.
00:23:17.79\00:23:20.03
She'll say, "Doug, we're
not spending time together."
00:23:20.06\00:23:22.20
I'll say, "I was
home all day yesterday."
00:23:22.23\00:23:23.63
She says, "Yeah, you
were in your office."
00:23:23.67\00:23:25.13
I'll say, "Yeah,
but I texted you."
00:23:25.17\00:23:29.24
She's, "No!
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What about our
date nights, you know?
00:23:30.87\00:23:33.54
What about quality time?"
00:23:33.58\00:23:35.98
You ever heard that?
00:23:36.01\00:23:37.85
God says, "I love you, I want
to walk and talk with you in
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the garden."
00:23:42.22\00:23:43.55
God came looking for Adam and
Eve in the garden, they ran from
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God because they were
naked and they sinned.
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God didn't run from us,
He wants holy time with us.
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The devil does not want us
to have a holy time with God
00:23:53.19\00:23:56.06
because then you'll know
Him, then you'll love Him, then
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you'll serve Him, so he attacks
this commandment because if you
00:23:57.77\00:24:03.17
destroy the time, you
destroy the relationship.
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Does that make sense?
00:24:06.51\00:24:08.44
That's why it is very important
to God and to His people.
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And in the last days, God's
people are going to return to
00:24:11.71\00:24:15.28
the faith that was once
delivered to the saints, we're
00:24:15.32\00:24:19.02
going to all come back
to Bible religion, amen?
00:24:19.05\00:24:23.12
The Bible says it's a sign, it's
a seal, a mark of His authority.
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Number five, the bottom line
is if you are a Christian, you
00:24:28.23\00:24:32.13
follow who?
00:24:32.17\00:24:33.54
You follow Christ.
00:24:33.57\00:24:35.10
What day did Jesus keep holy?
00:24:35.14\00:24:37.77
It says, "He came to Nazareth,"
Luke chapter 4, verse 16: "He
00:24:37.81\00:24:42.34
came to Nazareth,
where He had been brought up.
00:24:42.38\00:24:44.38
And as His custom was, He
went into the synagogue on
00:24:44.41\00:24:49.78
the," when?
00:24:49.82\00:24:51.12
"The Sabbath day."
00:24:51.15\00:24:52.45
What was Jesus's
pattern, His custom?
00:24:52.49\00:24:55.02
"And He stood up to
read," He used to go to
00:24:55.06\00:24:57.19
church and He
read and they knew Him.
00:24:57.23\00:24:58.53
Sometimes they'd have
Him do the Scripture reading.
00:24:58.56\00:25:01.83
When Christ began His ministry,
He went to Nazareth, He went
00:25:01.86\00:25:04.83
into the temple, He stood up to
read the Scriptures, He gives an
00:25:04.87\00:25:07.40
example of it.
00:25:07.44\00:25:08.74
He even read from the prophecy,
so even Jesus did pro--taught
00:25:08.77\00:25:11.67
Bible prophecy.
00:25:11.71\00:25:14.24
So Jesus, He went to
church every Sabbath.
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By the way, someone is going to
write down a question, but I'll
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preempt it right now and you can
still ask, "I thought Jesus came
00:25:21.68\00:25:25.35
to do away with the Sabbath.
00:25:25.39\00:25:26.69
Didn't He say that it
doesn't matter anymore because
00:25:26.72\00:25:28.72
He healed people
on the Sabbath day?"
00:25:28.76\00:25:31.03
You know, Jesus never ever
said the Sabbath didn't matter.
00:25:31.06\00:25:34.56
Jesus never had a dispute
on whether or not the Sabbath
00:25:34.56\00:25:38.30
should be kept.
00:25:38.33\00:25:39.63
Every Sabbath dispute that Jesus
had with the religious leaders
00:25:39.67\00:25:42.90
was on how to keep it, not
whether or not it should be
00:25:42.94\00:25:47.98
kept, because you realize
the Ten Commandments are written
00:25:48.01\00:25:51.05
by Christ.
00:25:51.08\00:25:54.18
Did the Sabbath
come before or after sin?
00:25:54.22\00:25:58.92
Before sin, it wasn't part of
the ceremonial law, it was part
00:25:58.95\00:26:02.26
of God's perfect plan.
00:26:02.29\00:26:03.83
Do only Jews need rest, or
does the human race needs a time
00:26:03.86\00:26:10.27
of rest?
00:26:10.30\00:26:11.60
And by the way, the Lord calls
the Sabbath a holy convocation,
00:26:11.63\00:26:17.04
Leviticus chapter 23.
00:26:17.07\00:26:19.47
Convocation means convene,
assembly, He wants us to come
00:26:19.51\00:26:22.64
together and worship Him
because we need each other.
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Doug: Friends, I hope you've
been blessed by today's message,
00:26:25.81\00:26:28.55
but really the reason we do
this is so that people might
00:26:28.58\00:26:31.35
know Christ.
00:26:31.39\00:26:32.69
You know, information is
not going to save us, it's a
00:26:32.72\00:26:35.22
relationship with Jesus, the
One who died on the cross for
00:26:35.26\00:26:37.96
your sins.
00:26:37.99\00:26:39.29
You must personally accept Him,
and that's the most important
00:26:39.33\00:26:42.10
thing and why we
do these programs.
00:26:42.13\00:26:44.23
If you've not asked Him
into your heart before, then I'd
00:26:44.27\00:26:46.94
encourage you
to do it right now.
00:26:46.97\00:26:48.64
His arms are open wide,
just come to Him as you are and
00:26:48.67\00:26:51.94
ask Him.
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Doug: Hi, friends, I
trust you being blessed by what
00:26:53.71\00:26:55.81
you're watching.
00:26:55.84\00:26:57.15
If you want to be doubly
blessed, then you're going to
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want to get the "Prophecy
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Doug: The book of Revelation
describes a final war over
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worship, so perhaps it really
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Doug: What you've seen
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this presentation.
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Make sure and join us for part
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some of the most important
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complete the
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Until then, God bless.
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