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Doug Batchelor: Welcome
back to the "Prophecy Odyssey."
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In our previous episode, we
learned that God established the
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seventh day Sabbath for all
people, as a sign of His power
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as our Creator and Redeemer.
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We also discovered that
Jesus Himself kept the Sabbath.
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Today we're going to continue
our eye opening study and learn
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that Sabbath keeping was also
practiced by the apostles, and
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how God's end time people will
still be keeping the seventh
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day holy.
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Doug: What about the apostles?
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What was the practice
of Paul and the apostles?
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So we found the
example of Jesus.
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What about His followers?
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What did they do?
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Look, for instance, in Acts
chapter 17, verse 2: "Paul, as
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His custom was,"
this is His practice.
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"He went to them and for three
Sabbaths he reasoned with them
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from the Scriptures."
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And someone's going to say.
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"Well, Paul just did that
because he was trying to reach
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the Jews."
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Keep reading.
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"He [Paul] reasoned
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in the synagogue every
Sabbath, persuading both Jews
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and Greeks."
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And that means
Jews and Gentiles.
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They use that word
interchangeably there, and if
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you doubt that, then look
at Acts chapter 13, verse 42.
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"And when the Jews went out
of the synagogue, the Gentiles
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begged that these words
might be preached to them the
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next Sabbath."
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The whole city came together.
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Let me give you another verse,
in your Bible, if you look in
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Isaiah chapter 56, if you have
your Bibles, you may want to
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turn there very quickly.
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Isaiah chapter 56, I want to
read something to you, this is a
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prophecy and verse 6: "And
for the sons of the foreigner,"
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these are non-Jews.
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"Who joined themselves
to the Lord to serve Him."
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That might be some of you.
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"To love the name of the
Lord, to be His servants.
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Every one who keeps the Sabbath
from defiling it, who lays hold
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of my coven, even them I will
bring to my holy mountain," and
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make them miserable
in my house of prayer.
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No, is the Sabbath a
burden or a blessing?
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Did God curse the
day or bless the day?
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He says, "I will make them
joyful in my house of prayer."
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Anyone want joy?
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To the sons of the stranger,
He's saying anybody that wants
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to follow me, you keep My
Sabbath, I'll make you joyful.
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They will come together
in His house to worship Him.
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Jesus said, "My house should be
called the house of prayer for
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all nations," amen.
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Not just for
one group of people.
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The Jews were called to announce
this truth to the world,
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not keep it to themselves.
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Number seven, did Jesus intend
for His people to be keeping the
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Sabbath day after
He died for their sins?
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In Matthew 24 where Christ
is talking about prophecies
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regarding His return.
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About a great time of
trouble and persecution.
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He said, "Pray that
your flight," He's not
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talking about
on Delta or United.
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He's talking about
fleeing for your life.
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Pray that your flight may not
be in the winter because there
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would be no food in the fields
if you have to flee for your
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life or on the Sabbath.
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Why would he tell His people to
pray they would not have to flee
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for their lives
on the Sabbath day.
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I don't know if you heard on the
news tonight just before I got
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here as I was shaving and
getting dressed, we took in the
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news for a few minutes and
Benjamin Netanyahu finished his
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address at the United Nations
and even though Shabbat is
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beginning because it's a
time of war, he did something he
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normally does not do, he
traveled back home, isn't
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that interesting?
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They normally they don't do
that, but you know, in times of
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war, the Israelites will defend
themselves on the Sabbath.
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Jesus, you want to pray that
you don't have to do it on the
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Sabbath and miss that blessing.
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When you're supposed to
be resting, you're fretting.
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He knew God's people would
be keeping it down near the end
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of time.
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Question number eight, does the
Bible teach that God's end time
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people would also be keeping
the seventh day Sabbath holy?
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Look at the prophecy you
find here in Revelation 12:17.
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The dragon, who's the dragon?
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We've learned he's the devil.
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"Was enraged with the woman."
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Now a woman is a
symbol for a church.
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In Revelation you've got a
good woman and a bad woman.
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Don't miss tomorrow morning,
we're going to be talking
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about that.
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This is obviously a good
woman because the devil doesn't
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like her.
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Does that make sense?
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The dragon is enraged with the
woman, the bride of Christ, and
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he goes to make war with the
rest of her offspring, offspring
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means her seed
at the end of time.
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"Who do," what?
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Who talk about, who
think about or who keep?
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"Who keep the commandments
of God and have the testimony
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of Jesus."
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Revelation chapter 14.
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"Fear God and
give glory to Him."
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This three messages go
to the world, if you read in
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Revelation 14.
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It tells us in verse 14, "I
beheld, and I saw one like the
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Son of Man coming in
the clouds of heaven."
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Who is that?
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Jesus is coming, before
Jesus comes in verse 12, three
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prominent
messages go to the world.
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It's pictured under these
angels, these messages that
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are spreading.
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They're flying in heaven,
meaning it's going around
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the world.
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And what do these messages say?
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"Fear God and give glory to Him,
for the hour of His judgment
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has come."
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And do what?
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"Worship Him who made the heaven
and the earth, and the sea and
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the springs of water."
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Do you know what,
that is a quote from the
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forth commandment.
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"For in six days the Lord made
the heaven and the earth and
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the sea."
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A message is going out in
the world to return to the
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scriptures in the last days.
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Christ said, "Many sheep I
have that are not of this fold.
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Them also I must call, they will
hear My voice, there will be one
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fold and one shepherd."
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Sincere people that love
Jesus and His Word out there are
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hearing the Holy
Spirit even right now.
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Is Pastor Doug, it's
hard to argue with this logic.
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"Heaven and earth will
pass away, My Word will not
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pass away."
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God's law does not
need changing, we need
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changing, amen.
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He wants us to return.
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Jesus said, "The man who hears
My words and does them is like
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the wise man who
builds on the rock."
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The Ten Commandments
were written on the rock.
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And you know what?
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I'm not in trouble because when
I stand before the Lord and the
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Lord says, "Doug, why did
you teach people about the
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Sabbath day?"
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I'll say, "Well, for one
thing, Lord, You kept it.
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For another
thing You told me to.
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You said whoever teaches
even one of the least of these
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commandments will be
great in the kingdom of heaven.
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And You wrote it with Your
finger and You spoke it with
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Your voice."
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I didn't tell the studio I
was going to do this, I often
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surprised them.
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Get an audience shot, you're
going to be on camera, some
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of you.
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Now, the Bible says, "Remember
the Sabbath day 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."
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Seventh day of
the week is what day?
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Saturday, Sunday, the
Resurrection, first day of
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the week.
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Can you tell me where in the
Bible there's a commandment to
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keep the first day holy?
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No, I'm pretty open here.
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I mean, we're putting you on
camera if you got it, lift your
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hand, I'll call it
out in front of everybody.
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There is no commandment.
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It's coming from
traditions, all right.
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You can take them off the camera
now cause I know they're getting
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real nervous.
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I'm looking at their faces,
they're like, some people they
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were taking a nap a minute ago,
someone just woke them right up
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and they just...
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"Here is the patience of the
saints; here are those that,"
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do what?
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"Keep the commandments of God."
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Here, last chapter in the Bible.
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"Blessed are those who do His
commandments, that they might
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have a right to the tree
of life, and enter through the
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gates of the city."
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Do you think that God is saying,
well, not all of them, he's
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giving us a ten
percent discount.
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You can take one of the ten out.
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When God said Ten Commandments,
He meant Ten Commandments, amen.
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New covenant is those Ten
commandments in our heart.
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And you know
what's really interesting?
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If you go back 100 years, just
read your own Christian History.
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Baptist, Methodist, Pentecostal,
Charismatic, they all believed
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in the Sabbath day.
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They just believed you
kept it on another day.
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They were very careful, they
did not go shopping, they had
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special Sunday clothes, there
were things they could not do.
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How many of you know that?
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All you've got to do
is read the writings.
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Read what Charles Spurgeon
says about Sabbath keepings.
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Read what Moody
says, great preacher.
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Read what Billy Graham
used to say or Billy Sunday.
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What you're hearing
from me is nothing new.
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It just has been forgotten by
much of the church because we're
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preoccupied with doing our own
ways and our own pleasure in the
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cares of life,
isn't that the truth?
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And we're suffering the
consequences with our stress
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from that.
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Number 9, will all of the
saved who are in heaven keep
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the Sabbath?
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All right, now we talked about,
we know Moses, we know Adam in
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the Garden of
Eden, kept the Sabbath.
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Some people say, Well, no, no,
no, no, Pastor Doug, they did
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not keep the Sabbath
until the Ten Commandments.
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Yes, God talked about it,
but there's no example of anyone
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keeping the
Sabbath before Exodus 20.
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Wrong.
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Look at Exodus 16, when
God reigned the manna down from
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heaven, you know what He said,
you're going to get it six days
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a week, you get twice as much on
Friday because I'm not going to
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give you any on the Sabbath
because I don't want you out
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gathering, cook twice as
much Friday so you can rest
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on Sabbath.
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And when some of the people went
out Sabbath looking for manna,
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God said to Moses, "How
long will you cease to keep
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My commandments?"
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He called it a commandment
even before He wrote the
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Ten Commandments.
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Don't fall for I hear
pastors say some stuff that is
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just foolishness.
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They say God didn't have the Ten
Commandments before Exodus 20.
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When Joseph, who lived long
before Moses, told Potiphar's
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wife, I am not going to commit
adultery because how can I sin
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against God?
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Did Joseph know
adultery was a sin?
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When God told Cain, that's going
pretty far back, Cain and Abel.
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Sin lies at your door because
you want to murder your brother.
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Was murder a sin
back in the beginning?
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The Sabbath goes all the way
back to creation, friends, so
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don't fall for these things.
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I hear people say just
ridiculous things trying to get
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rid of one of
God's commandments, why?
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Will we keep it in heaven?
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Moses kept it, Jesus kept it,
the apostles kept it what about
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in heaven?
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Isaiah 66:22 and verse 23, "For
as the new heavens and the new
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earth which I will make
will remain before Me,' says the
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Lord, 'So shall your descendants
and your name remain.
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And it will come to pass that
from one new moon to another."
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That means from month to
month, "And from one Sabbath to
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another, all flesh."
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Does it say all Jews there?
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"All flesh will come
and worship before Me."
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Now here's a question.
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If they kept it back in the Old
Testament and they kept it in
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the New Testament and we're
going to keep it in heaven and
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who do you think the preacher's
going to be in heaven?
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Will anybody
sleep during the sermon?
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Then does it make sense maybe
God's people should still be
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coming together to worship
before the Lord on His holy
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day now?
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Bible Christians, yes.
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Can we be certain the
present seventh day of the week,
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Saturday is the same
Sabbath, same seventh day that
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Jesus kept.
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Now this always kind of cracks
me up, because people never have
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a problem figuring out what the
days are until they learn the
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Sabbath truth.
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People never had a problem
knowing what day was Sunday
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until they
learned the Sabbath truth.
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They say, "Well, we're not sure,
maybe Sunday is the Sabbath day
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and it's the seventh day."
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Bible is very clear about that.
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Jesus rose the
first day of the week.
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And it tells you that
even right in the dictionary.
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And they said, well,
haven't there been changes in
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the calendar?
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There have been
changes in the calendar.
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We changed from the
Julian calendar to the
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Gregorian calendar.
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No change to the calendar
ever affects the weekly cycle.
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It is a mind myth because we
see the days of the week on the
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calendar we think
one affects the other.
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It doesn't work that way.
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Your birthday falls on a
different day of the week
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every year.
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They're two complete different
separate distinct cycles
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of time.
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When they changed from the
Julian calendar to the Gregorian
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calendar, and that was not a bad
thing, they needed to make an
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adjustment for leap year because
they kept getting off a quarter
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day every year and the
seasons were out of sync.
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So what they did is they took
Thursday, October 4, 1582, and
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they said tomorrow is going to
be the 15 they added ten days.
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But it's going to be Friday.
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Thursday was followed by
Friday, the way it always is.
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There has been no change in the
calendar as far back as anyone
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can measure history that
has in in any way affected the
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continuity of the weekly cycle.
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The greatest proof for that
is you've got 16 million Jews
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around the world, and you might
convince me that some of them
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got stranded on a deserted
island and lost track of time.
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But for the whole nation
to forget, and then you've got
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Muslims, Friday is their holy
day, and there are 1.7 billion
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of them, they have not forgotten
what the days of the week are.
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And then you've got Christians
who every Easter celebrate the
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Resurrection and once a week
they celebrate the Resurrection
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on the first day of the week,
they have no problem knowing
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what day that was, Sunday.
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We know what day
the seventh day is.
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Let's look at
what the Bible says.
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"That day was the
preparation [Friday]"
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They call that
the preparation day.
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"The Sabbath drew near."
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This is the
Crucifixion of Christ.
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"They returned and prepared
spices and fragrant oils."
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By the way, Luke
23:54, and they did what?
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"They rested on the Sabbath,
these the apostles according to
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the Jewish law."
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No, according to
the commandments.
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Do you know Luke was
written by a Gentile.
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What a good time for him
to say the old Jewish law.
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He says it's a
self-evident commandment.
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Now on the what day?
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"First day they came to the
tomb," and of course praised God
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Jesus rose.
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Now, it's interesting, one
of the reasons, and I remember,
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forgive me if I'm a little
strong with this because when I
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first learned
this, it shook me up.
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And I hope I'm presenting this
with the right measure of grace,
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and I want to say right
here, I know they're going to be
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millions of Christians from all
different backgrounds that will
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be in heaven that did not
know this, are you listening?
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Isn't that right?
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Sin is knowing to do
good and not doing it.
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Do you know there will be
people in heaven that had too
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many wives.
00:16:26.61\00:16:29.22
Will King David be in heaven?
00:16:29.25\00:16:31.82
And Solomon?
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What about Jacob?
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They had four wives at one time.
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Sounds like a reality program.
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And he had a lot of trouble
too if you ever read the story.
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They did not know the
times of this ignorance.
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God says I he winked at, but
if Pastor Doug gets another wife
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will I go to heaven?
00:16:53.24\00:16:55.31
Not if Karen's
still alive, I won't no.
00:16:55.34\00:16:59.95
And she will go
to jail for murder.
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No, because sin is knowing to
do good and not doing it, right?
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But don't miss this, friends.
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If Jesus ever taught the
disciples, the Sabbath didn't
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really matter or I've come to do
away with the Sabbath, then why
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was it that when He was
crucified, and they took His
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body off the cross, and it was
Friday afternoon and the sun is
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going down and they're going,
"We don't have time before the
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Sabbath to finish
embalming His body.
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Jesus would not
want us to do that.
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Let's put the body in the tomb,
we'll put the stone in place,
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we'll come back
Sunday, we'll finish."
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How important was this act
of love to the apostles, and yet
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they would not even
finish embalming His body on the
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Sabbath day.
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And are you aware that
Jesus even kept the Sabbath in
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His death?
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On Friday afternoon, He said,
"It is finished," and then He
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went to sleep and He rested in
the tomb on the Sabbath, and He
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rose Sunday morning to continue
His work as our High Priest in
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heaven, where He is now.
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God has not
changed, it still matters.
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And the Lord wants this truth
to go to His people, and if you
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don't believe Pastor Doug,
believe "Webster's Dictionary."
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Saturday, noun, the
seventh day of the week.
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It'll say Sunday, noun,
the first day of the week.
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And if you look at a normal
calendar, you'll see that.
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Number 11, does God allow
anyone to change His holy day?
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The Bible says Proverbs 30:5 to
6, "Every word of God is pure.
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Do not add to His words lest
He rebuke you, and you be found
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a liar."
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Do you know that the prophet
Ezekiel said, "In the last days,
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the priests have hidden
their eyes from My Sabbath."
00:18:53.23\00:18:57.77
As still true
today in some circles.
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Number 12, when
does the Sabbath begin?
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And when does it end?
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The Bible says, "From evening
unto evening you will celebrate
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your Sabbath."
00:19:14.18\00:19:15.48
And again you look at Mark
chapter 1, verse 32, "And at
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evening when the sun had set."
00:19:18.25\00:19:19.99
The people wanted to bring
their sick to Jesus to heal.
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He would have healed them on
the Sabbath, He had no problem
00:19:22.69\00:19:24.63
with that.
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It's okay, you know, did
doctors stop healing people on
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the Sabbath?
00:19:29.33\00:19:30.63
Of course not.
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There are certain required
necessary jobs that must be done
00:19:32.00\00:19:36.40
on the Sabbath day
where you're relieving human
00:19:36.44\00:19:38.87
suffering, right?
00:19:38.91\00:19:41.68
I've driven down the road on
the Sabbath day and I've seen
00:19:41.71\00:19:44.75
someone that their battery
died and I'll stop and jump
00:19:44.78\00:19:47.52
their car.
00:19:47.55\00:19:48.85
The Bible calls it the
ox in the ditch, right?
00:19:48.88\00:19:51.99
And so there's some things that
are obviously necessary but our
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regular work, did you ever see
Jesus in the carpenter shop on
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the Sabbath day?
00:19:58.43\00:20:00.13
No, He taught, He preached, He
healed on the Sabbath day, and
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there's nothing wrong with
that, but it begins sundown.
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The idea of the days beginning
and ending at midnight that's
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Roman timing and Bible times,
you know, didn't even have these
00:20:14.14\00:20:17.88
devices to keep time like that.
00:20:17.91\00:20:19.88
The days begin
and end with sundown.
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Someone's going to write in a
question, how do they keep the
00:20:22.88\00:20:25.09
Sabbath on the space shuttle?
00:20:25.12\00:20:28.22
Write it down, come
tomorrow and I'll answer.
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Number 13, What day is the
Lord's Day of Revelation 1?
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Now some people
say, "Well, Pastor Doug.
00:20:37.43\00:20:39.67
You guys keep the Sabbath day.
00:20:39.70\00:20:42.94
But we keep the Lord's
day, and they say that's the
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Resurrection day."
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Does the Bible say that?
00:20:48.68\00:20:51.71
No, when John writes in
Revelation chapter 1 in verse 7,
00:20:51.75\00:20:55.62
he says, "I was in the
Spirit on the Lord's Day."
00:20:55.65\00:20:57.79
What's he talking about?
00:20:57.82\00:20:59.72
John was a prisoner there by the
Romans, they had mines on the
00:20:59.75\00:21:03.99
Isle of Patmos where they would
force the prisoners to work, but
00:21:04.03\00:21:06.80
John said, I'm not
working on the Sabbath.
00:21:06.83\00:21:09.86
And he was in the
Spirit on the Lord's day.
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And God came to him, the vision
of Revelation may have come to
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John on the Sabbath day.
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Let's find out what does
the Bible say the Lord's Day is.
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Exodus 20:10, "But the
seventh day is the Sabbath of
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the," Jews?
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"The Lord," look
again in Isaiah 58:13.
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"If you turn away your foot from
the Sabbath," you know, when you
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disrespect something,
you wipe your feet on it.
00:21:36.49\00:21:39.16
Says if you turn away your foot,
it means you're going your own
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direction with your foot.
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You're not doing God's will,
you're walking your own walk.
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"If you turn away your foot
from the Sabbath from doing your
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pleasure on My holy day,"
Sabbath is not a day for worldly
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entertainment and shopping
and--it's a holy day, it's
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a time for fellowship, it's a
time for witnessing, it's a time
00:21:56.14\00:21:59.18
for study, time for rest.
00:21:59.21\00:22:02.75
Again, "Therefore the Son of
Man is also Lord of the," what?
00:22:02.78\00:22:08.26
The Sabbath, so what day does
the Bible say is the Lord's Day?
00:22:08.29\00:22:12.23
Sabbath day.
00:22:12.26\00:22:13.60
You know, one reason Pastor Doug
became convinced is when I first
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learned these things, you think
I would know better because my
00:22:18.57\00:22:22.00
mother is Jewish, my
grandparents are Jewish.
00:22:22.04\00:22:25.87
And as I'm reading the Bible
and I'm accepting Jesus and I'm
00:22:25.91\00:22:28.61
going to church on Sunday, I'm
going something's not matching
00:22:28.64\00:22:32.21
here, so I go to the pastor I'd
say, "Pastor, why do we go to
00:22:32.25\00:22:36.18
church on Sunday?"
00:22:36.22\00:22:37.99
One of them would say, "Well
Doug, Jesus rose on the first
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day of the week, and it is
the new Sabbath for Christians."
00:22:41.82\00:22:45.19
I said that's beautiful.
00:22:45.23\00:22:46.53
I said, "Now where's
the scripture for that?"
00:22:46.56\00:22:49.10
He said, "Well, we don't have a
scripture, but we've got a long
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standing tradition."
00:22:51.93\00:22:53.80
And then I read where Jesus
said, "You have a fine way of
00:22:53.84\00:22:56.47
setting aside the
commandments of God to observe
00:22:56.50\00:22:58.64
your tradition."
00:22:58.67\00:23:00.48
So I went to another pastor and
I said, "Pastor, why do we go to
00:23:00.51\00:23:04.95
church on Sunday?"
00:23:04.98\00:23:06.31
He said, "Well Doug, we're no
longer under the law now we're
00:23:06.35\00:23:09.92
under grace.
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We don't need to
keep the Jewish Sabbath."
00:23:11.32\00:23:12.85
I said, "Yeah, but why Sunday?"
00:23:12.89\00:23:15.76
He said, "Well, because they
took a collection on Sunday and
00:23:15.79\00:23:20.83
you read that in 1 Corinthians
chapter 16," I said, "Well, they
00:23:20.86\00:23:25.30
took a collection
several days of the week.
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Did that make it?"
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"Well, but they also had
a Communion service, they
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broke bread."
00:23:31.74\00:23:33.48
I said, "Is there a command?"
00:23:33.51\00:23:34.98
I said, "I got a
command for the seventh day."
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And I read where it says
they broke bread from house to
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house daily.
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What day of the
week did Jesus die?
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Friday, is it a new Sabbath?
00:23:46.22\00:23:48.99
No, when was the
Lord's Supper? Thursday night?
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Is that a new Sabbath?
00:23:54.00\00:23:56.40
Was there something wrong with
the seventh day where God had to
00:23:56.43\00:23:59.20
change it, He made a mistake?
00:23:59.23\00:24:02.24
Then I went to another pastor,
they all had different answers,
00:24:02.27\00:24:04.87
they all
disagreed with each other.
00:24:04.91\00:24:07.11
I went to another pastor.
00:24:07.14\00:24:08.44
I said, "Why do we go to
church on the first day and not
00:24:08.48\00:24:11.25
the seventh?"
00:24:11.28\00:24:12.58
Ah, "Pastor Doug, you read
in the book of Joshua, Joshua
00:24:12.61\00:24:14.88
prayed, sun stood still.
00:24:14.92\00:24:16.75
Saturday turned into Sunday."
00:24:16.79\00:24:19.89
I said, "Well, that's creative,
but why did they still keep it
00:24:19.92\00:24:23.89
for the seventh day
for another 1000 years?"
00:24:23.93\00:24:27.66
I asked 11 pastors and I
got 12 different answers.
00:24:27.66\00:24:32.03
I said something's wrong,
they don't even agree with
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each other.
00:24:33.94\00:24:35.60
There's information you can look
at a website, you might make
00:24:35.64\00:24:38.37
a note of this,
sabbathtruth.com.
00:24:38.41\00:24:41.91
It's the number one website on
this subject, sabbathtruth.com.
00:24:41.94\00:24:45.48
Don't go to Black
Sabbath, that's something else.
00:24:45.51\00:24:48.92
sabbathtruth.com.
00:24:48.95\00:24:50.49
You will see a list of Christian
theologians that freely admit
00:24:50.52\00:24:54.16
there is no scripture in the
Bible that orders us to keep the
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first day as a Sabbath,
that it is purely tradition.
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Number 14, what precious
blessing comes through keeping
00:25:02.83\00:25:07.50
the Sabbath commandment?
00:25:07.54\00:25:09.24
Is God wanting us to be
cursed or is He wanting us to
00:25:09.27\00:25:11.77
be blessed?
00:25:11.81\00:25:13.17
Answer, "My presence will
go with you, and I will give
00:25:13.21\00:25:18.68
you," what?
00:25:18.71\00:25:20.02
I'll give you rest.
00:25:20.05\00:25:22.22
You can read again where Jesus
says, "Come unto Me, all you who
00:25:22.25\00:25:26.59
are weary, you labor, you're
heavy laden, and I will give
00:25:26.62\00:25:30.93
you rest."
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Hebrews chapter 4, it says,
"For we who believed do enter
00:25:33.86\00:25:38.33
that rest."
00:25:38.37\00:25:40.20
When God saved the children
of Israel for their slavery and
00:25:40.24\00:25:43.54
their bondage and their labor
in Egypt, He says, "I'm bringing
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you to a land of milk and honey,
and you will enter my rest."
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Heaven is
compared to God's rest.
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Jesus entering
Christ is compared to rest.
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Someone's going to say, "Well,
Pastor Doug we don't need to
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keep the letter of the law
anymore, we just keep the spirit
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of the law."
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Have you heard that one?
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All right, the letter of the
law says, "Thou shalt not commit
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adultery," right?
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Ten Commandments.
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Spirit of the law says,
do not think it in your mind.
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If I say, well, I'm not going
to think it in my mind, but I'm
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literally going to
commit adultery, is that okay?
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Or does God want us to
keep the letter and the spirit?
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The letter of the
law says don't murder.
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The spirit of the law says, do
not be angry with your brother
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without a cause or
you're guilty of murder.
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If I say, "Oh Lord, I'm going to
murder this person, but I won't
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think it in my heart, I'll keep
the spirit but not the letter."
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Or does God want us to
keep the spirit and the letter?
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Doug: Friends, I hope
you've been blessed by today's
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presentation, but the
most important thing is not the
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information and the
details, it's the relationship.
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Do you have a personal
relationship with Jesus?
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You're watching because He's
planned that, and He wants to
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come into your heart
and change your life.
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He wants to forgive
you of all of your sins.
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He died for your sins,
but you need to ask Him.
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He won't force His way in.
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You can ask Him now.
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He loves you, He'll
accept you, do it right now.
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Doug: Hi friends, I
trust you being blessed by what
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you're watching.
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They're beautifully illustrated,
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Doug: The book of
Revelation describes a final war
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over worship.
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So perhaps it really does matter
how and when we worship God.
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To learn more about this, you're
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This Amazing Facts study guide
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the war over
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