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WE INVITE YOU TO SIT BACK 00:00:38.60\00:00:42.37 AND ENJOY THIS EDITION OF "AMAZING FACTS PRESENTS." 00:00:42.40\00:00:48.08 TODAY'S PRESENTATION IS AN EXCERPT FROM 00:00:48.11\00:00:49.88 "THE MOST AMAZING PROPHECIES" VIDEO SERIES. 00:00:49.91\00:00:57.89 >> HOW MANY OF YOU KNOW THAT THEY'VE CHANGED THE SPEED LIMIT 00:00:57.92\00:01:01.39 IN MICHIGAN? YOU ARE NOW ALLOWED TO DRIVE 00:01:01.42\00:01:04.19 90 MILES AN HOUR ON THE INTERSTATE. I'M JUST WONDERING. 00:01:04.23\00:01:09.06 DOES ANYONE OUT THERE BELIEVE ME? 00:01:09.10\00:01:12.27 AFTER ALL OUR TIME TOGETHER, YOU DON'T BELIEVE ME? 00:01:12.30\00:01:16.71 YOU KNOW WHY YOU DON'T BELIEVE ME? 00:01:16.74\00:01:18.37 I MEAN HOW MANY OF YOU BELIEVE OTHER THINGS I SAY. 00:01:18.41\00:01:21.28 COME ON, WE'RE GETTING AN AUDIENCE SHOT. 00:01:21.31\00:01:25.78 YOU KNOW WHY YOU DIDN'T BELIEVE THAT LAST RIDICULOUS STATEMENT 00:01:25.81\00:01:28.28 IS BECAUSE YOU KNOW THAT IF A NATION IS GOING TO CHANGE 00:01:28.32\00:01:30.89 A LAW THAT IS SO PROMINENT, THAT AFFECTS SO MANY PEOPLE, 00:01:30.92\00:01:35.59 THAT THEY HAVE TO CLEARLY ADVERTISE IT. 00:01:35.62\00:01:38.63 IT'D BE EVERYWHERE. THEY'D GIVE A LOT OF LEAD UP TO IT. 00:01:38.66\00:01:42.16 IF GOD IS GOING TO CHANGE ONE OF THE TEN COMMANDMENTS, IF GOD IS 00:01:42.20\00:01:45.67 GOING TO TELL YOU TO FORGET THE ONE COMMANDMENT THAT BEGINS WITH 00:01:45.70\00:01:48.37 THE WORD "REMEMBER," DON'T YOU THINK IT WOULD BE ALL THROUGH 00:01:48.40\00:01:51.51 THE NEW TESTAMENT? LOOK AT THE DEBATE IN THE 00:01:51.54\00:01:53.27 NEW TESTAMENT ON CIRCUMCISION. IT'S MENTIONED EVERYWHERE. 00:01:53.31\00:01:56.78 BUT THE SABBATH DAY, YOU DON'T FIND THAT ARGUMENT. 00:01:56.81\00:01:58.28 WHY? BECAUSE HE DIDN'T CHANGE IT. 00:01:58.31\00:02:01.18 IT WAS UNDERSTOOD THAT THEY WERE TO STILL KEEP THE 00:02:01.22\00:02:02.78 TEN COMMANDMENTS. THE TRAGEDY IS THAT VIRTUALLY 00:02:02.82\00:02:07.09 ALL CHRISTIAN MINISTERS ALSO STILL TAUGHT THE 00:02:07.12\00:02:09.49 TEN COMMANDMENTS 'TIL ABOUT 80--100 YEARS AGO. 00:02:09.52\00:02:12.53 THEY BEGAN TO SHIFT AWAY FROM IT. 00:02:12.56\00:02:16.06 "NOW ON THE FIRST DAY OF THE WEEK, THEY CAME EARLY UNTO 00:02:16.10\00:02:18.27 THE SEPULCHRE." LET'S JUST DO A QUICK REVIEW SO 00:02:18.30\00:02:21.07 YOU HAVE THIS IN YOUR MIND. WHAT DAY OF THE WEEK DID JESUS 00:02:21.10\00:02:23.87 DIE ON THE CROSS? FRIDAY. 00:02:23.91\00:02:26.71 BY THE WAY, FRIENDS, JESUS COMPLETED HIS WORK IN SAVING 00:02:26.74\00:02:33.38 THE HUMAN RACE FRIDAY AFTERNOON. HE SAID, "IT IS FINISHED." 00:02:33.42\00:02:37.02 HE GAVE UP HIS SPIRIT. HE THEN KEPT THE SABBATH EVEN IN 00:02:37.05\00:02:41.19 HIS DEATH. AND HE ROSE SUNDAY MORNING. 00:02:41.22\00:02:44.79 IT MEANT SO MUCH TO JESUS HE RESTED FROM HIS WORK OF 00:02:44.83\00:02:48.30 SAVING THE HUMAN RACE ON THE SABBATH DAY. 00:02:48.33\00:02:52.77 HE DIDN'T RISE SUNDAY MORNING TO INAUGURATE A NEW DAY. 00:02:52.80\00:02:55.20 HE ROSE TO GO BACK TO WORK AS OUR HIGH PRIEST IN HEAVEN. 00:02:55.24\00:03:00.51 THEN, YOU'VE GOT OUR BACK TO OUR LITTLE GRAPH HERE. 00:03:00.54\00:03:02.58 HE DIED ON FRIDAY. JESUS KEPT THE SABBATH, 00:03:02.61\00:03:05.01 SATURDAY, RESTED IN THE TOMB ON THAT DAY. 00:03:05.05\00:03:08.02 HE ROSE SUNDAY MORNING, WHAT WE WOULD CALL THE FIRST DAY 00:03:08.05\00:03:11.09 OF THE WEEK. THAT'S WHY PEOPLE CELEBRATE 00:03:11.12\00:03:12.69 EASTER WORLD OVER ON THE FIRST DAY OF THE WEEK. 00:03:12.72\00:03:15.02 NO ONE CONTENDS THAT JESUS ROSE THE FIRST DAY. 00:03:15.06\00:03:17.49 YOU KNOW WHAT IT SAYS IN THE BIBLE? 00:03:17.53\00:03:18.59 HE ROSE AFTER THE SABBATH WAS PASSED. 00:03:18.63\00:03:21.66 THAT MEANS IT WAS STILL THE SABBATH. 00:03:21.70\00:03:24.17 IT JUST WAS OVER FOR THAT NIGHT. SOME SAID, "OH, IT WAS OVER 00:03:24.20\00:03:26.90 FOR--" THEY TRY AND BUILD SOMETHING SPIRITUAL IN THERE. 00:03:26.94\00:03:29.37 IT'S JUST NOT IN THERE. THAT THAT MEANT NOW THE SABBATH 00:03:29.40\00:03:31.77 WAS OVER FOR CHRISTIANS AND WE'RE TO KEEP A NEW DAY. 00:03:31.81\00:03:33.71 WELL, THAT'S JUST ABSOLUTELY ABSTRACT, CREATIVE NONSENSE. 00:03:33.74\00:03:39.58 IT DOESN'T SAY THAT. IF THAT WAS TRUE, THEN WHY DO 00:03:39.61\00:03:42.88 THEY KEEP THE SABBATH LATER ON IN THE NEW TESTAMENT AND 00:03:42.92\00:03:47.29 THE BOOK OF ACTS? WILL THE SABBATH BE KEPT IN 00:03:47.32\00:03:49.69 HEAVEN? I GET SO WORKED OVER THIS. 00:03:49.72\00:03:52.93 LET ME TELL YOU WHY. WHEN I FIRST LEARNED THESE 00:03:52.96\00:03:55.20 THINGS, I WAS ANGRY BECAUSE I FELT LIKE I'D BEEN DECEIVED. 00:03:55.23\00:03:59.47 KEEP IN MIND, I WAS GOING TO CHURCH ON SUNDAY AND I'M JEWISH. 00:03:59.50\00:04:03.57 AND I'D READ IN THE BIBLE ABOUT THE SABBATH DAY. 00:04:03.61\00:04:05.27 I THOUGHT, "SHOULDN'T THAT BE THE SEVENTH DAY?" 00:04:05.31\00:04:06.71 AND YET, THE WHOLE THING WAS JUST GOING IN ONE EAR 00:04:06.74\00:04:08.41 AND OUT THE OTHER. AND FINALLY, WHEN I SAW 00:04:08.44\00:04:09.98 WHAT WAS GOING ON, I THOUGHT, "HOW DID I MISS IT? 00:04:10.01\00:04:13.68 HOW COULD I HAVE BEEN FOOLED?" AND ONE OF THE THINGS THAT 00:04:13.72\00:04:16.99 CONVINCED ME THAT THE SEVENTH DAY OF THE WEEK IS THE SABBATH 00:04:17.02\00:04:19.79 IS I DIDN'T REALLY WANT TO BELIEVE IT. 00:04:19.82\00:04:22.09 I WAS LOOKING FOR SCRIPTURE. ALL I NEEDED WAS ONE SCRIPTURE 00:04:22.12\00:04:24.29 THAT SAID, "SUNDAY'S THE NEW SABBATH DAY." 00:04:24.33\00:04:26.53 I WOULD'VE BEEN HAPPY. AS A MATTER OF FACT, WHAT 00:04:26.56\00:04:28.96 CONVINCED ME WAS MY PASTORS. I WENT TO A NUMBER OF SUNDAY 00:04:29.00\00:04:31.57 CHURCHES THEN. I HAD A FEW DIFFERENT 00:04:31.60\00:04:33.07 FELLOWSHIPS. I COULDN'T GET ENOUGH OF 00:04:33.10\00:04:34.30 CHRISTIANITY. I'D GO TO ONE CHURCH FOR THEIR 00:04:34.34\00:04:36.17 PRAYER MEETING. I'D GO TO ANOTHER CHURCH SUNDAY. 00:04:36.20\00:04:37.77 GO TO ANOTHER CHURCH SUNDAY NIGHT. AND I WENT TO ALL MY 00:04:37.81\00:04:40.61 PASTORS AND I SAID, "WHY DO WE GO TO CHURCH SUNDAY?" 00:04:40.64\00:04:44.48 AND I WAS EAGER TO FIND A GOOD BIBLE ANSWER. 00:04:44.51\00:04:47.18 I JUST WANTED TO FOLLOW CHRIST AND HIS WORD. 00:04:47.22\00:04:50.99 THEY ALL GAVE ME DIFFERENT ANSWERS. 00:04:51.02\00:04:53.92 ONE OF THEM SAID, "BECAUSE JESUS ROSE THE FIRST DAY OF THE WEEK, 00:04:53.96\00:04:56.49 IT'S THE NEW CHRISTIAN SABBATH." 00:04:56.52\00:04:58.03 I SAID, "OKAY GREAT, WHERE'S THE SCRIPTURE THAT SAYS THAT?" 00:04:58.06\00:05:01.56 HE SAID, "WELL, THERE'S REALLY NO SCRIPTURE THAT SAYS THAT 00:05:01.60\00:05:03.80 BUT WE'VE GOT A LONG-STANDING TRADITION." 00:05:03.83\00:05:07.70 I WENT TO ANOTHER ONE AND HE SAID, "WE'RE NOT UNDER 00:05:07.74\00:05:09.80 THE LAW ANYMORE. WE'RE NOW UNDER GRACE." 00:05:09.84\00:05:13.11 I SAID, "YOU MEAN WE DON'T NEED TO KEEP THE TEN COMMANDMENTS?" 00:05:13.14\00:05:17.18 "WELL, WE KEEP THE SPIRIT OF THE LAW." 00:05:17.21\00:05:18.98 I SAID, "WHAT DOES THAT MEAN? SO, WHAT ARE WE SUPPOSED TO TELL 00:05:19.01\00:05:21.32 OUR KIDS? TO KEEP THE SPIRIT OF THE LAW? 00:05:21.35\00:05:24.62 YOU'RE NOT SUPPOSED TO STEAL YOUR BROTHER'S TOYS. 00:05:24.65\00:05:26.89 JUST KEEP THE SPIRIT OF THE LAW." 00:05:26.92\00:05:29.79 THAT WON'T GO VERY FAR. I WENT TO ANOTHER PASTOR. 00:05:29.82\00:05:34.86 I SAID, "WHY DO WE GO TO CHURCH ON SUNDAY?" 00:05:34.93\00:05:36.16 HE SAID, "BACK IN THE DAYS OF JOSHUA, HE PRAYED THE SUN STOOD 00:05:36.20\00:05:39.40 STILL. SATURDAY TURNED INTO SUNDAY." 00:05:39.43\00:05:44.07 I SAID, "THAT'S CREATIVE" BUT IT DIDN'T MAKE ANY SENSE BECAUSE 00:05:44.11\00:05:47.38 FOR ANOTHER 1,000 YEARS, THEY STILL KEPT IT ON SATURDAY. 00:05:47.41\00:05:52.51 AS A MATTER OF FACT, I WAS DOING A SEMINAR ONE TIME LIKE THIS AND 00:05:52.55\00:05:56.12 A MINISTER FROM ANOTHER CHURCH WAS COMING BECAUSE HE WAS 00:05:56.15\00:05:57.89 WORRIED HIS MEMBERS WERE COMING AND BELIEVING WHAT THEY HEARD. 00:05:57.92\00:06:01.02 AND HE STOOD UP ANGRY, VEINS STANDING OUT IN HIS FOREHEAD. 00:06:01.06\00:06:05.13 HE SAID, "PASTOR DOUG," HE KNEW ME BECAUSE IT WAS A SMALL TOWN 00:06:05.16\00:06:07.40 AND I WAS A PASTOR THERE. 00:06:07.46\00:06:08.70 HE SAID, "YOU'RE PUTTING THESE PEOPLE UNDER A BONDAGE OF LAW." 00:06:08.73\00:06:13.07 AND I SAID, "WELL BROTHER," I SAID, "DO YOU BELIEVE GOD WANTS 00:06:13.10\00:06:16.20 US TO KEEP THE TEN COMMANDMENTS OR NOT?" HE SAID, "NO." 00:06:16.24\00:06:20.08 AND HIS MEMBERS WENT, "HUH?" AND HE CAUGHT THAT AND HE SAID, 00:06:20.11\00:06:23.98 "YES." AND THEN HE REALIZED THAT WOULD 00:06:24.01\00:06:26.18 INCLUDE THE SABBATH, HENCE HE SAID, "NINE OF THEM." 00:06:26.21\00:06:30.79 AND SO I SAID, "SO YOU'RE TELLING ME THE ONE COMMANDMENT 00:06:30.82\00:06:32.99 WE'RE SUPPOSED TO FORGET IS THE ONLY ONE THAT BEGINS 00:06:33.02\00:06:34.99 WITH THE WORD 'REMEMBER.'" AND I SAID, "BY THE WAY," 00:06:35.02\00:06:39.09 I SAID, "I'M NOT PUTTING THEM UNDER WORKS. 00:06:39.13\00:06:41.86 I'M TELLING THEM TO REST. YOU'RE TELLING THEM NOT TO REST. 00:06:41.90\00:06:44.00 YOU'RE PUTTING THEM UNDER WORKS." 00:06:44.03\00:06:48.20 SO, HE JUST DIDN'T MAKE ANY SENSE TO ME. 00:06:48.24\00:06:50.41 NOW, BACK TO OUR SLIDE, THERE'S A HISTORY. 00:06:50.44\00:06:53.31 DO WE SEE ADAM KEEPING THE SABBATH BACK IN THE GARDEN 00:06:53.34\00:06:55.38 OF EDEN? DID GOD HAVE IT AS PART OF THE PLAN? 00:06:55.41\00:06:57.28 I MEAN IF GOD RESTED AND HE MAKES ADAM IN HIS IMAGE, 00:06:57.31\00:06:59.78 ADAM RESTED TOO. AMEN? DID THE CHILDREN OF ISRAEL KEEP 00:06:59.81\00:07:03.79 IT THROUGH THE WILDERNESS IN THE OLD TESTAMENT? 00:07:03.82\00:07:07.29 DID JESUS AND THE APOSTLES KEEP IT? 00:07:07.32\00:07:10.19 YOU KNOW WHAT'S EXCITING IS WE'RE GOING TO KEEP IT IN GLORY. 00:07:10.23\00:07:14.20 ISAIAH 66:22-23, "FOR AS THE NEW HEAVENS AND THE NEW EARTH, 00:07:14.20\00:07:19.27 THAT I WILL MAKE, SHALL REMAIN BEFORE ME." 00:07:19.30\00:07:21.17 WE'RE TALKING ABOUT IN THE FUTURE. 00:07:21.20\00:07:22.77 "IT SHALL COME TO PASS THAT FROM ONE SABBATH," IT GOES ON TO SAY 00:07:22.80\00:07:25.51 FROM ONE NEW MOON TO ANOTHER AND "ONE SABBATH TO ANOTHER, 00:07:25.54\00:07:28.18 SHALL ALL FLESH," DOES IT SAY ALL JEWS? 00:07:28.21\00:07:31.88 "ALL FLESH COME TO," TO WHAT? WHAT'S THAT WORD AGAIN? 00:07:31.91\00:07:36.18 "WORSHIP." WHAT IS THIS ALL ABOUT? 00:07:36.22\00:07:38.39 IF WE DON'T KNOW WHO WE WORSHIP, WE'RE GOING TO BE DECEIVED 00:07:38.42\00:07:40.89 IN THE LAST DAYS. IT'S ALL ABOUT WORSHIP. 00:07:40.92\00:07:45.29 ALL FLESH WILL COME AND WORSHIP BEFORE ME. 00:07:45.33\00:07:47.23 I'VE GOT NEWS FOR YOU FRIENDS. IF YOU WANT TO WORSHIP BEFORE 00:07:47.23\00:07:50.07 HIM THERE ON THE SABBATH, THEN WE NEED TO START DOING IT 00:07:50.10\00:07:52.70 HERE NOW. GET IN THE HABIT. IT'S ALL ABOUT WORSHIPPING 00:07:52.73\00:07:57.37 JESUS. AND YOU KNOW WHAT? 00:07:57.41\00:07:58.64 WHEN JESUS PREACHES ON THAT SABBATH DAY IN HEAVEN, NOBODY'S 00:07:58.67\00:08:00.91 GOING TO SLEEP DURING THE SERMON. 00:08:00.94\00:08:02.38 AMEN? HE'LL BE THE MINISTER. 00:08:02.41\00:08:06.31 SOME HAVE SAID THAT BUT MAYBE IT ISN'T THE RESURRECTION BUT 00:08:06.35\00:08:08.78 THE NEW TESTAMENT DOESN'T IT CALL SUNDAY THE LORD'S DAY? 00:08:08.82\00:08:11.72 IT DOES SAY IN REVELATION 1:10, JOHN SAYS, 00:08:11.75\00:08:15.12 "I WAS IN THE SPIRIT ON THE LORD'S DAY." 00:08:15.16\00:08:17.19 IT NEVER CALLS THE FIRST DAY OR SUNDAY, THE LORD'S DAY. 00:08:17.23\00:08:20.50 AS A MATTER OF FACT, IF YOU GO THROUGH THE BIBLE AND TRY TO 00:08:20.53\00:08:22.46 IDENTIFY WHAT DAY IS THE LORD'S DAY, YOU HAVE TWO OPTIONS. 00:08:22.50\00:08:26.20 ONE IS THE SECOND COMING IS CALLED "THE DAY OF THE LORD." 00:08:26.23\00:08:28.90 THE OTHER OPTION IS THE SABBATH. EXODUS 20:10, IT TELLS US THERE, 00:08:28.94\00:08:34.48 "BUT THE SEVENTH DAY IS THE SABBATH OF THE LORD," NOT 00:08:34.51\00:08:37.68 THE JEWS, "THE LORD YOUR GOD." IT'S THE LORD'S DAY. 00:08:37.71\00:08:41.62 AGAIN, ISAIAH 58:13, "IF YOU TURN AWAY YOUR FOOT FROM 00:08:41.65\00:08:45.39 THE SABBATH, FROM DOING YOUR PLEASURE," TURNING AWAY YOUR 00:08:45.42\00:08:48.02 FOOT MEANS STOP TREADING ON SOMETHING HOLY. 00:08:48.06\00:08:50.89 REMEMBER, THEY TAKE THEIR SHOES OFF BECAUSE OF HOLY GROUND. 00:08:50.93\00:08:54.20 AND WHEN WE TRAMPLE ON SOMETHING WITH OUR SHOES ON, 00:08:54.20\00:08:56.20 IT'S DESECRATING SOMETHING HOLY. AND THERE ARE A LOT OF DEAR 00:08:56.23\00:08:59.37 CHRISTIANS OUT THERE THAT DID NOT KNOW WHAT THEY'RE HEARING 00:08:59.40\00:09:01.57 NOW AND GOD HAS ACCEPTED AND BLESSED YOUR WORSHIP BECAUSE 00:09:01.60\00:09:05.97 HE'S WINKED AT OUR IGNORANCE, ACTS CHAPTER 17. WE DIDN'T KNOW. 00:09:06.01\00:09:10.48 THERE'LL BE A LOT OF PEOPLE IN HEAVEN THAT WENT TO CHURCH 00:09:10.51\00:09:11.98 ON SUNDAY, AMEN? MILLIONS OF 'EM BECAUSE THEY DIDN'T KNOW. 00:09:12.01\00:09:15.88 KING DAVID WILL BE THERE AND HE HAD TOO MANY WIVES. 00:09:15.92\00:09:19.39 BUT WE KNOW BETTER THAN THAT TODAY, DON'T WE? 00:09:19.42\00:09:22.49 HE WINKED. GOD WINKED AT THEIR IGNORANCE. 00:09:22.52\00:09:25.59 BUT NOW THAT WE SEE, HE COMMANDS MEN EVERYWHERE TO REPENT. 00:09:25.63\00:09:29.10 AND SOME HAVE BEEN DESECRATING GOD'S HOLY TIME AND MISSING 00:09:29.13\00:09:32.07 THE BLESSING THAT HE HAS. AGAIN, MARK 2:28, JESUS SAID, 00:09:32.10\00:09:37.57 "THEREFORE THE SON OF MAN IS LORD ALSO OF THE SABBATH." 00:09:37.61\00:09:40.58 SO WHAT DAY IS THE LORD'S DAY? SATURDAY, THE SABBATH DAY IS 00:09:40.61\00:09:44.28 THE LORD'S DAY. "AH, PASTOR DOUG, YOU'RE MAKING 00:09:44.31\00:09:47.38 A BIG DEAL OUT OF THIS ONE LITTLE COMMANDMENT." 00:09:47.42\00:09:53.09 DID GOD MAKE A BIG DEAL OUT OF IT? 00:09:53.12\00:09:55.49 WHEN HE SPEAKS AUDIBLY IN THE HEARING OF A WHOLE NATION AND HE 00:09:55.52\00:09:58.39 WRITES, HE ETCHES IT WITH HIS OWN FINGER, ARC WELDING IT 00:09:58.43\00:10:01.26 IN STONE, SIGNIFYING THE PERMANENCE, THE ETERNAL NATURE 00:10:01.30\00:10:05.97 OF IT, DOES IT MATTER TO GOD? SOME SAY, "WELL, WE KEEP SUNDAY 00:10:06.00\00:10:09.07 TO HONOR THE RESURRECTION." I'VE HEARD THAT, AND I THINK WE 00:10:09.10\00:10:11.71 SHOULD DO SOMETHING TO HONOR CHRIST IN THE RESURRECTION. 00:10:11.74\00:10:15.11 WHAT DOES GOD GIVE US IN THE BIBLE TO DO THAT? 00:10:15.14\00:10:18.08 ROMANS 6:4, HE DOES HAVE AN INSTITUTION FOR THE 00:10:18.11\00:10:20.92 RESURRECTION. IT'S NOT A NEW SABBATH DAY. 00:10:20.95\00:10:23.08 THERE WAS NOTHING WRONG WITH THE OLD ONE. 00:10:23.12\00:10:25.42 ROMANS 6:4, "THEREFORE WE ARE BURIED WITH HIM THROUGH BAPTISM 00:10:25.45\00:10:30.09 INTO DEATH, JUST AS CHRIST WAS RAISED," OR RESURRECTED, "FROM 00:10:30.13\00:10:34.00 THE DEAD BY THE GLORY OF THE FATHER, EVEN SO WE SHOULD WALK 00:10:34.00\00:10:36.40 IN A NEWNESS OF LIFE." SO, WHAT DID THE LORD GIVE US? 00:10:36.43\00:10:39.60 WHAT INSTITUTION DID HE GIVE US TO HONOR HIS RESURRECTION? 00:10:39.63\00:10:43.27 BAPTISM. WE'VE TALKED ABOUT THAT WITH 00:10:43.30\00:10:46.07 THIS GROUP, AND I'M HOPING THAT SOME HERE ARE STILL PRAYING 00:10:46.11\00:10:48.31 ABOUT THAT DECISION. SOME WHO ARE WATCHING, I HOPE 00:10:48.34\00:10:50.68 THAT YOU'LL MAKE YOUR DECISION TO FOLLOW CHRIST. 00:10:50.71\00:10:53.42 WELL, IF SUNDAY KEEPING ISN'T IN THE BIBLE, WHERE DID IT 00:10:53.45\00:10:58.09 COME FROM? MATTHEW 15:9, JESUS SAID, "IN VAIN THEY WORSHIP ME." 00:10:58.12\00:11:04.53 ARE THERE SOME WHO WORSHIP HIM IN VAIN? 00:11:04.56\00:11:07.23 WHAT ABOUT THOSE WHO WORSHIP THE BEAST THINKING THEY'RE 00:11:07.23\00:11:08.66 WORSHIPPING GOD? WILL THEY BE WORSHIPPING JESUS IN VAIN? 00:11:08.70\00:11:12.17 "IN VAIN THEY WORSHIP ME, TEACHING AS DOCTRINES THE 00:11:12.20\00:11:15.97 COMMANDMENTS OF," WHO? "OF MEN." 00:11:16.00\00:11:18.87 THIS IS FROM THE ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA. 00:11:18.91\00:11:21.88 THAT IS NOT WRITTEN BY MY CHURCH IN CASE YOU'RE WONDERING. 00:11:21.91\00:11:25.68 "THE EARLIEST RECOGNITION OF THE OBSERVANCE OF SUNDAY, IS 00:11:25.71\00:11:29.68 A CONSTITUTION OF CONSTANTINE IN 321 A.D., ENACTING THAT ALL 00:11:29.72\00:11:35.49 COURTS OF JUSTICE, INHABITANTS OF TOWNS, AND WORKSHOPS WERE TO 00:11:35.52\00:11:38.69 BE AT REST ON SUNDAY." IT WAS A ROMAN DAY OF REST. 00:11:38.73\00:11:43.80 IT COMES FROM PAGANISM. THAT'S WHERE WE GET THE WORD SUNDAY. 00:11:43.83\00:11:46.50 IT WAS CONNECTED WITH SUN WORSHIP. 00:11:46.53\00:11:48.27 HAD NOTHING TO DO WITH THE SON OF GOD WORSHIP. 00:11:48.30\00:11:50.91 IT HAD TO DO WITH SOLAR WORSHIP AND GRADUALLY, THE CHRISTIANS 00:11:50.94\00:11:54.61 AND ROMANS BEGAN TO GIVE UP THE SEVENTH DAY INTO EMBRACE THE DAY 00:11:54.64\00:11:58.68 OF THE ROMANS. TRUE CHRISTIANS WERE PERSECUTED. 00:11:58.71\00:12:02.08 THE JEWS WERE VERY UNPOPULAR. THEY CALLED THEM "JUDAISERS" 00:12:02.12\00:12:05.82 BECAUSE THEY STILL KEPT THE SAME DAY THE JEWS KEPT. 00:12:05.85\00:12:08.32 NOW IF YOU HAVE ANY OTHER DOUBTS, THIS IS RIGHT FROM 00:12:08.36\00:12:11.29 STEPHEN KEENAN'S "CATECHISM." IT'S A CATHOLIC CATECHISM. 00:12:11.33\00:12:13.80 I DIDN'T WRITE THIS. IF YOU WANTED TO STUDY TO BE 00:12:13.83\00:12:16.67 A GOOD CATHOLIC, HOW MANY OF YOU WERE CATHOLICS AT SOME POINT IN 00:12:16.70\00:12:19.67 YOUR LIFE AND YOU REMEMBER THE CATECHISMS? 00:12:19.70\00:12:21.27 SEE ALL THE HANDS OUT THERE? YOU REMEMBER THAT? 00:12:21.30\00:12:23.61 ALL RIGHT, QUESTION: WHICH DAY IS THE SABBATH DAY? 00:12:23.64\00:12:28.08 ANSWER: SATURDAY IS THE SABBATH DAY. 00:12:28.11\00:12:30.58 QUESTION: WHY DO WE OBSERVE SUNDAY INSTEAD OF SATURDAY? 00:12:30.61\00:12:34.28 ANSWER: WE OBSERVE SUNDAY INSTEAD OF SATURDAY BECAUSE 00:12:34.32\00:12:37.72 THE CATHOLIC CHURCH TRANSFERRED THE SOLEMNITY FROM SATURDAY 00:12:37.75\00:12:41.22 TO SUNDAY. AGAIN, STEPHEN KEENAN'S "CATECHISM," I FORGOT 00:12:41.26\00:12:44.39 TO PUT THE REFERENCE ON THE SCREEN. 00:12:44.43\00:12:46.90 THIS IS ACTUALLY FROM 1995. 00:12:46.93\00:12:49.36 IT'S AN ARTICLE THAT WAS IN A MAGAZINE OF A CATHOLIC DISTRICT, 00:12:49.40\00:12:54.80 "PERHAPS THE BOLDEST THING, THE MOST REVOLUTIONARY CHANGE 00:12:54.84\00:12:57.57 THE CHURCH EVER DID HAPPENED IN THE FIRST CENTURY." 00:12:57.61\00:13:00.38 IT'S NOT ACTUALLY THE FIRST CENTURY. 00:13:00.41\00:13:01.68 IT'S THE THIRD CENTURY. "THE HOLY DAY, THE SABBATH, 00:13:01.71\00:13:04.78 WAS CHANGED FROM SATURDAY TO SUNDAY... 00:13:04.81\00:13:07.68 NOT FROM ANY DIRECTIONS NOTED IN THE SCRIPTURES," THE BIBLE, 00:13:07.72\00:13:12.39 "BUT FROM THE CHURCH'S SENSE OF ITS OWN POWER. 00:13:12.42\00:13:15.22 PEOPLE WHO THINK THAT THE SCRIPTURES SHOULD BE THE SOLE 00:13:15.26\00:13:17.49 AUTHORITY, SHOULD LOGICALLY BECOME 7TH DAY ADVENTISTS, 00:13:17.53\00:13:19.93 AND KEEP SATURDAY HOLY." BLESS THEIR HEARTS. 00:13:19.96\00:13:23.10 APPLAUDING THANK YOU VERY MUCH 00:13:23.13\00:13:26.47 SAINT CATHERINE'S FOR THAT ARTICLE. 00:13:26.50\00:13:30.77 I WANT TO BE A BIBLE CHRISTIAN. HOW ABOUT YOU, FRIENDS? 00:13:30.81\00:13:33.68 ISN'T IT VERY DANGEROUS TO TAMPER WITH GOD'S LAW? 00:13:33.71\00:13:38.91 THERE WAS ONE PRIEST WHO JUST TOUCHED THE ARK. 00:13:38.95\00:13:42.48 THEY WERE NOT EVEN SUPPOSED TO TOUCH IT BECAUSE ANYONE WHO WAS 00:13:42.52\00:13:44.49 TOUCHING IT, THERE COULD BE A RISK THAT THEY WOULD HARM OR 00:13:44.52\00:13:47.09 CHANGE OR ALTER IT IN SOME WAY. THEY COULDN'T EVEN TOUCH IT. 00:13:47.12\00:13:50.93 AND UZZAH REACHED OUT AND TOUCHED THE ARK AND HE DROPPED 00:13:50.96\00:13:53.23 DEAD BECAUSE GOD DIDN'T WANT ANYONE CHANGING HIS LAW. 00:13:53.26\00:13:58.07 MATTHEW 5:19, JESUS SAID, "WHOSEVER THEREFORE SHALL BREAK 00:13:58.10\00:14:02.90 ONE OF THE LEAST OF THESE COMMANDMENTS, AND TEACH MEN SO, 00:14:02.94\00:14:05.97 HE SHALL BE CALLED LEAST IN THE KINGDOM OF HEAVEN: BUT WHOSOEVER 00:14:06.01\00:14:09.48 SHALL DO AND TEACH THEM, THE SAME WILL BE CALLED GREAT IN 00:14:09.51\00:14:12.91 THE KINGDOM OF HEAVEN." IN OTHER WORDS, JESUS IS SAYING 00:14:12.95\00:14:15.62 YOU LOOK OVER THE TEN COMMANDMENTS AND YOU FIND 00:14:15.65\00:14:17.52 OUT WHICHEVER ONE YOU THINK IS THE LEAST IMPORTANT. 00:14:17.55\00:14:19.72 AND IF YOU WERE TO EVEN TRY AND CHANGE THE LEAST, 00:14:19.75\00:14:21.99 YOU'LL BE SPOKEN OF IN HEAVEN AS THE LEAST. 00:14:22.02\00:14:25.33 IT DOESN'T MEAN YOU'LL BE THERE. SOME PEOPLE THINK THAT MEANS 00:14:25.36\00:14:27.20 YOU'RE JUST GOING TO HAVE A LOW POSITION IN HEAVEN, BUT YOU'LL 00:14:27.23\00:14:28.86 STILL BE THERE. NO, THOSE IN HEAVEN REFER TO YOU 00:14:28.90\00:14:30.37 AS THE LOWEST KIND OF PERSON WHO TRIES TO CHANGE GOD'S LAW. 00:14:30.40\00:14:34.57 NOTHING WRONG WITH THE LAW. LAW DOESN'T NEED CHANGING. 00:14:34.60\00:14:36.97 WE NEED CHANGING. THAT'S WHY JESUS CAME. 00:14:37.01\00:14:39.57 SAVE US FROM OUR SINS, WHICH IS TRANSGRESSION OF THE LAW. 00:14:39.61\00:14:43.48 WHY DID GOD MAKE THE SABBATH ANYWAY? 00:14:43.51\00:14:46.48 IT SAYS IN EZEKIEL 20:12, "I GAVE THEM MY SABBATHS, TO BE 00:14:46.51\00:14:50.49 A SIGN BETWEEN ME AND THEM, THAT THEY MIGHT KNOW THAT I AM THE 00:14:50.52\00:14:54.59 LORD THAT SANCTIFIES THEM." "I'M THE ONE WHO MAKES THEM HOLY." 00:14:54.62\00:14:59.03 SEE, GOD MADE THAT DAY HOLY AND EVERY HOLY SABBATH DAY, WE 00:14:59.06\00:15:01.76 REMEMBER THAT IF HE CAN MAKE A DAY HOLY, HE CAN MAKE US HOLY. 00:15:01.80\00:15:05.10 NOT ONLY THAT, IT'S A DAY THAT REMINDS US OF CREATION AND EVERY 00:15:05.13\00:15:08.87 SABBATH DAY, WE REALIZE THAT HE COULD CREATE ALL THINGS. 00:15:08.90\00:15:11.77 HE COULD RECREATE ME. SALVATION IS ALL ABOUT LOVING 00:15:11.81\00:15:15.01 GOD. IT'S ABOUT LOVING JESUS. 00:15:15.04\00:15:18.41 ALL LOVE RELATIONSHIPS ARE DEVELOPED IN THE CRUCIBLE OF 00:15:18.45\00:15:23.22 TIME. IT'S TIME. GOD WANTS TO HAVE QUALITY TIME WITH US. 00:15:23.25\00:15:31.99 ONE OF THE PRINCIPLE THINGS THAT KAREN TALKS TO ME ABOUT, 00:15:32.03\00:15:33.73 I'M SO BUSY. SHE SAYS, "DOUG, WE NEED TIME TOGETHER." 00:15:33.76\00:15:37.87 AND SHE DOESN'T JUST MEAN THAT WE HAPPEN TO BE IN THE SAME 00:15:37.90\00:15:40.00 HOUSE BECAUSE I'M OFTEN IN THE OFFICE WORKING ON SERMONS. 00:15:40.04\00:15:42.77 SHE'S NOT TALKING ABOUT THAT KIND OF TIME. 00:15:42.80\00:15:44.81 SHE'S TALKING ABOUT TIME WHERE YOU REALLY COME--YOU'RE 00:15:44.84\00:15:47.58 INTERACTING. YOU'RE MESHING. YOU'RE COMMUNICATING, QUALITY 00:15:47.61\00:15:49.98 TIME, GETTING TO KNOW EACH OTHER. 00:15:50.01\00:15:52.18 GOD WANTS A RELATIONSHIP WITH YOU, NOT JUST A--HAVE YOU SAY, 00:15:52.21\00:15:55.08 "YEP, YOU'RE GOD" AND THEN GO YOUR MERRY WAY. 00:15:55.12\00:15:57.82 HE WANTS AN ONGOING RELATIONSHIP WITH YOU AND IT TAKES TIME. 00:15:57.85\00:16:00.92 AND BECAUSE OF THE CARES OF LIFE, WE CAN GET SO BUSY. 00:16:00.96\00:16:03.53 GOD TO PROTECT THAT LOVE RELATIONSHIP SAYS, "I HAVE SET 00:16:03.56\00:16:06.93 ASIDE HOLY TIME. IT'S A DAY I'M GOING TO BE 00:16:06.96\00:16:09.56 THERE. I'M RESTING THAT DAY. 00:16:09.60\00:16:10.77 I BLESS THAT DAY. I WANT YOU THERE WITH ME." 00:16:10.80\00:16:13.50 IT'S ALL ABOUT LOVE. THE DEVIL HATES THAT. 00:16:13.54\00:16:16.91 AND SO, YOU'RE GOING TO FIND EVEN THOSE WHO CLAIM TO BE 00:16:16.94\00:16:18.47 CHRISTIANS FIGHTING THE SABBATH TRUTH. 00:16:18.51\00:16:21.98 HOW IMPORTANT IS SABBATH KEEPING? 00:16:22.01\00:16:25.81 JAMES 2:10, HE TELLS US, "FOR WHOSOEVER SHALL KEEP THE WHOLE 00:16:25.85\00:16:30.59 LAW, AND YET OFFEND IN ONE POINT, HE IS GUILTY OF ALL." 00:16:30.62\00:16:35.79 "PASTOR DOUG, ARE YOU TELLING ME THAT IF I KEEP 90% OF THE 00:16:35.82\00:16:41.56 TEN COMMANDMENTS PERFECTLY, JUST BECAUSE I BREAK THE SABBATH 00:16:41.60\00:16:44.87 BECAUSE I GO A DIFFERENT DAY, GOD'S GOING TO PUNISH ME FOR 00:16:44.90\00:16:47.70 THAT?" WELL, IT'S LIKE SOMEBODY 00:16:47.74\00:16:51.37 STANDING BEFORE A JUDGE. THEY'RE GUILTY OF MURDER. 00:16:51.41\00:16:54.18 THAT'S ONE OF THE TEN COMMANDMENTS BY THE WAY, 00:16:54.21\00:16:55.98 "THOU SHALL NOT KILL." 00:16:56.01\00:16:57.21 AND THEY SAY, "WELL, YOU LOOK, YOUR HONOR, I REALIZE I DID 00:16:57.25\00:16:59.88 MURDER ONE PERSON BUT I KEPT ALL THE OTHER LAWS OF THE LAND 00:16:59.91\00:17:04.82 PERFECTLY. YOU SHOULD JUST WINK AT THIS ONE." 00:17:04.85\00:17:08.12 ANY JUDGE GOING TO BUY THAT? WHAT IS THE PENALTY FOR SIN? 00:17:08.16\00:17:11.93 DEATH. IS THE SABBATH ONE OF THE TEN COMMANDMENTS? 00:17:11.96\00:17:16.77 MIGHT I SUBMIT TO YOU THAT THE PENALTY IS THE SAME AS THE OTHER 00:17:16.80\00:17:19.27 NINE. GOD MEANS WHAT HE SAYS. 00:17:19.30\00:17:21.87 AND YOU NOTICE, HE DOESN'T SAY, "REMEMBER A SABBATH DAY TO KEEP 00:17:21.90\00:17:25.07 IT HOLY?" HE SAYS, "REMEMBER 00:17:25.11\00:17:26.78 THE SABBATH DAY," THE SEVENTH DAY IS THE SABBATH OF THE LORD. 00:17:26.81\00:17:32.21 HE'S VERY DEFINITE ABOUT IT, AMEN? 00:17:32.25\00:17:34.62 JESUS SAID, JOHN 13:7, "IF YOU KNOW THESE THINGS, HAPPY ARE YE 00:17:34.65\00:17:41.52 IF YOU DO THEM." GOD ISN'T CALLING THE SABBATH 00:17:41.56\00:17:43.79 DAY A DAY OF CURSING. IT'S A DAY OF BLESSING. 00:17:43.83\00:17:46.70 THAT'S WHY WE'RE SHARING THESE THINGS WITH YOU, FRIENDS. 00:17:46.73\00:17:48.56 WE WANT YOU TO HAVE THAT BLESSING. 00:17:48.60\00:17:50.77 NOW, I KNOW WHAT SOME OF YOU ARE THINKING NOW. 00:17:50.80\00:17:52.37 I REMEMBER WHEN I FIRST LEARNED THIS. 00:17:52.40\00:17:53.97 IT MEANT A CHANGE IN MY WORK SCHEDULE. 00:17:54.00\00:17:56.27 SOME PEOPLE SAY, "HEY, I MIGHT LOSE MY JOB." 00:17:56.30\00:17:59.11 SHADRACH, MESHACH, ABEDNEGO, THEY REALIZED IF THEY DIDN'T 00:17:59.14\00:18:02.11 OBEY THE KING'S LAW, THEY'D LOSE THEIR JOBS AND THEIR LIVES. 00:18:02.14\00:18:07.48 MIGHT I SUBMIT TO YOU IN THE LAST DAYS, GOD IS LOOKING FOR 00:18:07.52\00:18:10.69 PEOPLE TO TRUST HIM ENOUGH TO STEP OUT IN FAITH AND HE WILL GO 00:18:10.72\00:18:14.32 THROUGH THE FURNACE WITH THEM. AND THEY'LL BE MORE BLESSED IN 00:18:14.36\00:18:17.73 THE LATTER END THAN IN THE BEGINNING. 00:18:17.76\00:18:19.29 I LOST JOBS BECAUSE I WOULDN'T WORK ON GOD'S HOLY SABBATH 00:18:19.33\00:18:21.86 AND HE GAVE ME BETTER JOBS. HE'LL TEST YOU. 00:18:21.90\00:18:25.67 I CAN PROMISE YOU. WHENEVER YOU TAKE UP YOUR CROSS 00:18:25.70\00:18:27.47 TO FOLLOW JESUS, THERE WILL BE TRIALS. 00:18:27.50\00:18:29.70 THERE WILL BE TESTS. "PROVE ME," GOD SAYS, "TEST ME." 00:18:29.74\00:18:33.78 SEE IF HE'S STILL ON THE THORNE, FRIENDS, I'LL PROMISE YOU HE IS. 00:18:33.81\00:18:37.31 HOW DOES GOD FEEL ABOUT RELIGIOUS LEADERS WHO IGNORE 00:18:37.35\00:18:40.62 THE SABBATH DAY? EZEKIEL 22:26,31, I'M READING 00:18:40.65\00:18:45.29 THE BIBLE, DON'T GET UPSET WITH ME, "HER PRIESTS HAVE VIOLATED 00:18:45.32\00:18:48.99 MY LAW, AND PROFANED MY HOLY THINGS: THEY PUT NO DIFFERENCE 00:18:49.02\00:18:53.70 BETWEEN THE HOLY AND THE PROFANE. 00:18:53.73\00:18:56.30 AND THEY'VE HID THEIR EYES FROM MY SABBATHS." 00:18:56.33\00:19:01.40 THAT'S WHY JESUS SAID, "WHY DO YOU CALL ME 'LORD LORD' AND YOU 00:19:01.44\00:19:05.47 DO NOT THE THINGS THAT I SAY?" JESUS SAYS, "IF YOU'RE GOING TO 00:19:05.51\00:19:09.58 CALL ME 'LORD LORD,' THEN WORSHIP ME THE WAY AND THE DAY 00:19:09.61\00:19:14.52 THAT I SAY." HE'S GOD. WHAT WOULD HAPPEN TO THE CHURCH 00:19:14.55\00:19:19.89 ANYWAY IF EVERYBODY SORT OF PICKED THEIR OWN SABBATH DAY? 00:19:19.92\00:19:22.39 YOU SAY, "I'LL SEE YOU IN CHURCH NEXT SABBATH." 00:19:22.42\00:19:24.89 "WHEN'S THAT?" "WELL, I GO THURSDAY. WHEN DO YOU GO?" 00:19:24.93\00:19:29.46 ONE MORE THOUGHT, SOMETIMES PEOPLE HAVE SAID, 00:19:29.50\00:19:32.47 "WELL PASTOR DOUG, YOU'RE DOWNPLAYING THE IMPORTANCE OF 00:19:32.50\00:19:34.77 THE RESURRECTION. THAT'S WHEN EVERYTHING--IT WAS SO IMPORTANT. 00:19:34.80\00:19:37.47 THAT'S WHAT MADE IT A NEW SABBATH DAY." 00:19:37.51\00:19:39.11 WHAT DAY OF THE WEEK DID JESUS INSTITUTE THE NEW COVENANT? 00:19:39.14\00:19:42.88 LAST SUPPER. THURSDAY NIGHT. HOW IMPORTANT WAS THAT? 00:19:42.91\00:19:48.62 WHAT DAY DID HE DIE FOR OUR SINS? FRIDAY. 00:19:48.65\00:19:52.09 HE SAID, "IT IS FINISHED" FRIDAY. 00:19:52.12\00:19:53.39 THAT WOULD'VE BEEN A GOOD DAY TO SWITCH IT TO. 00:19:53.42\00:19:54.66 THAT'S THE DAY THE MUSLIMS KEEP. I MEAN IF YOU'RE GOING TO CHANGE 00:19:54.69\00:19:57.09 IT. JESUS DID A LOT OF IMPORTANT 00:19:57.13\00:20:00.43 THINGS A LOT OF DIFFERENT DAYS, BUT HE NEVER SAID THAT MADE IT 00:20:00.46\00:20:03.37 A NEW SABBATH DAY. DOES SABBATH KEEPING REALLY 00:20:03.40\00:20:07.37 AFFECT ME PERSONALLY? YES, IT DOES. 00:20:07.40\00:20:12.57 JESUS SAYS IN MATTHEW 11:28, "COME UNTO ME, ALL YOU THAT 00:20:12.61\00:20:17.48 LABOUR AND ARE HEAVY LADEN, AND I WILL DO," WHAT? 00:20:17.51\00:20:21.38 "I'LL GIVE YOU REST." IT'S ALL ABOUT WORSHIP, FRIENDS. 00:20:21.42\00:20:25.59 AGAIN, HEBREWS 4:5, "THEY WILL ENTER INTO MY REST." 00:20:25.62\00:20:33.93 IN THE LAST DAYS, REMEMBER WHEN WE STUDIED REVELATION CHAPTER 12 00:20:33.96\00:20:36.56 ABOUT THAT WOMAN? THE DRAGON IS ESPECIALLY 00:20:36.60\00:20:40.47 INFURIATED WITH THE WOMAN, REVELATION 12:17, AND THE SEED 00:20:40.50\00:20:46.11 OF THE WOMAN WHO KEEP THE COMMANDMENTS OF GOD AND HAVE THE 00:20:46.14\00:20:50.51 TESTIMONY OF JESUS CHRIST. THAT'S REVELATION CHAPTER 12. 00:20:50.55\00:20:53.92 REVELATION CHAPTER 14, "HERE ARE THOSE WHO KEEP THE COMMANDMENTS 00:20:53.95\00:20:57.09 OF GOD AND HAVE THE FAITH OF JESUS." 00:20:57.12\00:20:59.82 REVELATION CHAPTER 22, LAST CHAPTER OF THE BIBLE, "BLESSED 00:20:59.85\00:21:03.89 ARE THOSE THAT KEEP HIS COMMANDMENTS, THAT THEY MIGHT 00:21:03.93\00:21:07.13 HAVE A RIGHT TO ENTER THROUGH THE GATES OF THE CITY AND EAT 00:21:07.13\00:21:09.66 FROM THE TREE OF LIFE." IT'S IN PROPHECY, FRIENDS. 00:21:09.70\00:21:13.47 IT'S TALKING OVER AND OVER THROUGH DANIEL AND REVELATION 00:21:13.50\00:21:15.97 ABOUT WHO DO WE WORSHIP? HOW CAN WE STUDY THAT SUBJECT 00:21:16.00\00:21:18.27 AND NOT TALK ABOUT THE SABBATH? TURN TO ISAIAH CHAPTER 58. 00:21:18.31\00:21:23.31 THIS IS A PROPHECY ABOUT THE LAST DAYS, "THOSE WHO ARE FROM 00:21:23.35\00:21:29.38 YOU SHALL BUILD UP THE OLD WASTE PLACES, THAT WHICH WAS BROKEN 00:21:29.42\00:21:33.29 DOWN WILL BE BUILT UP. YOU WILL RAISE UP THE FOUNDATION 00:21:33.32\00:21:36.42 OF MANY GENERATIONS," SOMETHING THAT HAD BEEN THERE FOR MANY 00:21:36.46\00:21:38.79 GENERATIONS, A FOUNDATION IS STILL THERE, BUT IT'S BEING 00:21:38.83\00:21:41.46 BUILT UP AGAIN. "YOU'LL BE CALLED THE REPAIRER 00:21:41.50\00:21:44.37 OF THE BREACH," A BREACH HAS BEEN MADE IN GOD'S LAW 00:21:44.40\00:21:47.37 IN HIS WALL. IT'S GOING TO BE REPAIRED. 00:21:47.40\00:21:50.91 "AND THE RESTORER OF PATHS TO DWELL IN," A PATH WHERE GOD'S 00:21:50.94\00:21:55.28 PEOPLE USED TO WALK HAS BEEN LOST. 00:21:55.31\00:21:57.28 IT'S BEEN GROWN OVER BUT IT'S GOING TO BE CLEANED OUT AGAIN. 00:21:57.31\00:22:00.38 NOW, LISTEN TO WHAT HE IDENTIFIES AFTER HE TALKS ABOUT 00:22:00.42\00:22:02.48 THIS GREAT REVIVAL AND RESTORATION OF TRUTH, "IF YOU 00:22:02.52\00:22:05.72 TURN AWAY YOUR FOOT FROM THE SABBATH, FROM DOING YOUR 00:22:05.75\00:22:08.32 PLEASURE ON MY HOLY DAY." IT'S NOT THE DAY OF THE JEWS. 00:22:08.36\00:22:13.83 THEN, CALL THE SABBATH A DELIGHT. 00:22:13.86\00:22:15.70 FRIENDS, IT'S A BLESSING. IT'S A DELIGHT. 00:22:15.73\00:22:20.07 THE HOLY DAY OF THE LORD, NOT OF THE JEWS. 00:22:20.10\00:22:24.41 HONORABLE AND SHALL HONOR HIM, NOT DOING YOUR OWN WAYS 00:22:24.44\00:22:27.81 OR FINDING YOUR OWN PLEASURE. YOU KNOW WHY WE ALL GOT INTO 00:22:27.84\00:22:29.88 TROUBLE? ISAIAH SAYS, "ALL WE LIKE 00:22:29.91\00:22:31.38 SHEEP WENT OUR OWN WAY," DOING OUR OWN THING. 00:22:31.41\00:22:35.18 ONE OF THE THINGS THAT HAPPENS EVERY SABBATH DAY IS WE ARE 00:22:35.22\00:22:37.42 TELLING GOD, "YOU'RE GOD, YOU'RE THE CREATOR, YOU'RE 00:22:37.45\00:22:40.22 THE REDEEMER, WE WORSHIP YOU." 00:22:40.26\00:22:42.39 EVERY SABBATH, WE'RE SAYING, "YOU'RE IN CHARGE. 00:22:42.42\00:22:45.19 YOU'RE ON THE THRONE OF MY HEART." 00:22:45.23\00:22:46.46 YOU KNOW SOMETIMES, IT'S EASIER FOR PEOPLE TO SAY, "LORD, I 00:22:46.49\00:22:50.17 DON'T HAVE A PROBLEM GIVING YOU MONEY, BUT I DON'T HAVE TIME." 00:22:50.20\00:22:55.87 "TIME IS THE STUFF LIFE IS MADE OF." THAT'S NOT THE BIBLE. 00:22:55.90\00:22:58.07 THAT'S BEN FRANKLIN, BUT IT'S A GOOD QUOTE. 00:22:58.11\00:23:00.48 "TIME IS THE STUFF THAT LIFE IS MADE OF." 00:23:00.51\00:23:02.78 MY FATHER, MILLIONS OF DOLLARS, I HAD ALMOST NO RELATIONSHIP 00:23:02.81\00:23:07.68 WITH MY FATHER BECAUSE HE NEVER HAD TIME. 00:23:07.72\00:23:10.52 OH YEAH, HE'D BUY US TOYS AND JUNK. 00:23:10.55\00:23:13.32 WE HAD BOATS AND SKIS AND YACHTS AND CARS AND ALL THE JUNK. 00:23:13.36\00:23:20.23 BUT I NEVER HAD ANY TIME. YOU KNOW WHAT I WANTED? 00:23:20.26\00:23:21.96 I WANTED TIME WITH HIM. GOD LOVES YOU INFINITELY MORE 00:23:22.00\00:23:25.77 THAN ANY EARTHLY PARENT LOVES THEIR CHILDREN OR SPOUSE LOVES 00:23:25.80\00:23:29.47 THEIR SPOUSE OR CHILDREN LOVE THEIR PARENTS. AND HE SAYS, 00:23:29.50\00:23:35.38 "I WANT TIME WITH YOU, AND I KNOW THE DEVIL WANTS 00:23:35.41\00:23:38.38 TO DISTRACT YOU. THAT'S WHY I WROTE IT IN MY LAW, 00:23:38.41\00:23:40.58 IN THE MIDDLE OF MY LAW. AND I SAID, 'REMEMBER TO KEEP IT 00:23:40.62\00:23:42.58 HOLY.'" BUT WHEN GOD SAYS, "REMEMBER 00:23:42.62\00:23:44.32 THE SABBATH DAY, TO KEEP IT HOLY." 00:23:44.35\00:23:45.59 WHAT GOD IS SAYING IS, "IT IS HOLY. 00:23:45.62\00:23:47.62 I WANT YOU TO KEEP IT THE WAY IT IS." 00:23:47.66\00:23:51.73 HE'S INVITING YOU TO DO THAT TODAY. 00:23:51.76\00:23:53.40 HE'S BROUGHT YOU TO THIS SEMINAR. 00:23:53.43\00:23:54.60 HE'S HAD YOU FIND THIS FREQUENCY. 00:23:54.63\00:23:56.60 HE'S BROUGHT YOU TO YOUR VENUE. YOU'RE WATCHING BECAUSE GOD 00:23:56.63\00:23:59.17 WANTS TO BLESS YOU WITH A BLESSED DAY. 00:23:59.20\00:24:03.61 WOULD YOU LIKE TO RECEIVE THAT BLESSING? 00:24:03.64\00:24:06.47 LAST QUESTION: ARE YOU WILLING TO FOLLOW JESUS' COMMAND AND HIS 00:24:06.51\00:24:11.68 EXAMPLE OF SABBATH KEEPING? A CHRISTIAN IS A FOLLOWER 00:24:11.71\00:24:14.78 OF CHRIST. IT WAS HIS CUSTOM. 00:24:14.82\00:24:17.39 AND I WANT YOU TO BE PRAYING IN YOUR HEARTS ABOUT WHAT 00:24:17.42\00:24:19.79 YOU'VE HEARD. THIS IS A VERY IMPORTANT SUBJECT 00:24:19.82\00:24:22.22 BECAUSE NOW WE'RE NOT TALKING ABOUT INTELLECTUAL ASCENT. 00:24:22.26\00:24:25.89 WHEN PEOPLE HEAR THIS PROPHETIC MESSAGE, THEY GO, "WOW, THAT'S 00:24:25.93\00:24:28.70 NOT JUST ABOUT WHAT I BELIEVE ABOUT THIS OR WHAT I BELIEVE 00:24:28.73\00:24:31.17 ABOUT THIS--THAT IT'S ABOUT MY TIME, MY LIFE." 00:24:31.20\00:24:36.20 WE WOULD BE DOING YOU A DISSERVICE IF WE DIDN'T CALL YOU 00:24:36.24\00:24:38.57 TO A BIBLICAL COMMITMENT OF YOUR HEART TO WORSHIP GOD, AMEN? 00:24:38.61\00:24:44.68 >> STAY TUNED, PASTOR DOUG WILL BE RIGHT BACK WITH 00:24:44.71\00:24:46.78 THIS WEEK'S SPECIAL FREE OFFER. 00:24:46.82\00:24:50.52 >>IN SIX DAYS GOD CREATED THE HEAVENS AND THE EARTH. 00:24:50.55\00:24:54.92 FOR THOUSANDS OF YEARS MAN HAS WORSHIPED GOD ON THE SEVENTH DAY 00:24:54.96\00:24:58.39 OF THE WEEK. NOW, EACH WEEK MILLIONS OF PEOPLE WORSHIP ON 00:24:58.43\00:25:02.36 THE FIRST DAY. WHAT HAPPENED? WHY DID GOD CREATE A DAY OF 00:25:02.40\00:25:06.67 REST? DOES IT REALLY MATTER WHAT DAY WE WORSHIP? WHO IS BEHIND 00:25:06.70\00:25:10.97 THIS GREAT SHIFT? DISCOVER THE TRUTH BEHIND GOD'S LAW AND HOW 00:25:11.01\00:25:14.78 IT WAS CHANGED. 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I JUST COULDN'T GET ENOUGH. 00:26:07.86\00:26:09.40 >> AND SO I STARTED DOING BIBLE STUDIES. 00:26:09.43\00:26:11.57 EVERY SINGLE ONE OF THESE GUYS STARTED BEING CHANGED - 00:26:11.60\00:26:15.27 INCLUDING MYSELF. 00:26:15.30\00:26:16.77 >> MY QUESTION WAS 'WHY DID THAT HAPPEN TO ME, GOD?' THE LOD WAS 00:26:16.81\00:26:20.51 ABLE TO REACH OUT AND - AND I ACTUALLY SAW HIM AS A FATHER. 00:26:20.54\00:26:24.41 >> I LOST EVERYTHING AND THAT WAS WHEN I REALIZED THAT 00:26:24.45\00:26:27.88 IT WAS GOD MISSING IN MY LIFE. 00:26:27.92\00:26:30.09 >> I WENT TO A PROPHECY SEMINAR WHICH KNOCKED ME OUT. 00:26:30.12\00:26:33.59 THIS MESSAGE WAS SO POWERFUL AND SO IRREFUTABLE AND I JUST WENT 00:26:33.62\00:26:38.09 'THIS IS REAL. 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