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Doug Batchelor: The
devil is a counterfeiter.
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And he has a counterfeit
for every truth of God.
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He's got a counterfeit baptism,
counterfeit speaking in tongues,
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counterfeit love, and
it shouldn't surprise us
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that he's got a
counterfeit day of rest.
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Doug: Any of you ever
encountered a con artist before?
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There have been
some very creative
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con artists through history.
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One of them who wasn't quite
as dangerous is Fred Demara.
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They actually made a
movie about him with Tony Curtis
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called "The Great Pretender."
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Fred had a photographic memory,
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a very high IQ
ranked way above genius.
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He had a literal photographic
memory, and he could read
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manuals on any topic,
and pretend to be that person
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with some expertise.
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He never went by Fred Demara,
he went by just dozens of names.
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He was Martin
Goddard, a high school teacher,
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even though he'd
never trained for that.
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He talked his way into being Dr.
Robert French, a college dean.
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He talked his way into
being Dr. Cecil B. Hannon,
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a law student.
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Brother John, a Benedictine
monk, lived in a--he was a
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hospital chaplain, an assistant
prison warden, a Hollywood
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actor, and a surgeon
aboard a Canadian Navy destroyer
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with no medical training,
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and he was performing
surgeries successfully.
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And then you've
got Arthur Furguson.
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He was a smooth operator,
a Scottish fellow dressed
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impeccably, had perfect diction,
looked very sophisticated.
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And he succeeded in one
year, he sold Nelson's pillar in
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Trafalgar Square to
some American tourists.
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He began to think Americans
were gullible because he also
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sold Big Ben for $5,000.
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He accepted $10,000 down
payment for Buckingham Palace.
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When he came to the USA,
which he figured would be a lot
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easier, he did sell the
White House to a cattle rancher,
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gave him a 99-year
lease for $100,000.
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He was arrested when he tried
to sell the Statue of Liberty
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to an Australian.
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True story.
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Then you've got Victor Lustig,
Eastern European, very bright,
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spoke like five
or six languages.
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He sold the Eiffel
Tower two different times
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without being caught.
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Came to America, told
everybody that he was a count,
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and he had an accent,
he was very dignified,
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and swindled so many people.
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Eventually, he decided rather
than conning people, it'd be
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easier to just print his
own money, and he was finally
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arrested for one of the
most massive counterfeiting
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operations, and
he died in prison.
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That's Victor Lustig.
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The big swindler is the devil.
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The devil is a counterfeiter.
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And he has a counterfeit
for every truth of God.
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The devil has a counterfeit
salvation, got a counterfeit
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Holy Spirit, he's got a
counterfeit baptism, counterfeit
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speaking in tongues, counterfeit
love, and it shouldn't surprise
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us that he's got a
counterfeit day of rest.
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Now, if you look in the Bible,
this is a prophecy seminar,
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but you read
Revelation chapter 1, verse 10.
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John says, "I was in the Spirit
on the Lord's Day, and I heard
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behind me a loud
voice, as of a trumpet."
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What is this Lord's Day?
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Someone said, "Well,
it's because the vision of
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Revelation, he saw the Lord's
coming, and so he called it
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the Lord's Day."
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Others have said,
"Well, that was Sunday.
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He had that vision on
Sunday, that's the Lord's Day."
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Others have said, "Well, he was
working in the mines, he was a
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prisoner on Patmos, but he
refused to work on Sabbath,
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and God gave him the vision of
Revelation on the Sabbath day."
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So, what does the Bible say?
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And that's our first question.
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What day
biblically is the Lord's Day?
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How about we let the
Bible describe itself,
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give our answers, amen?
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So, let's look and find out.
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You look in Luke chapter
6, verse 5, and Jesus said,
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and we've read this
several times already, he said,
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"The Son of Man is
Lord also of the Sabbath."
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So, what is the Lord's Day?
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Jesus said the Son of
Man is Lord of the Sabbath.
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Look again in Isaiah
58, did you catch something
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we read the other night?
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"If you turn away your foot
from the Sabbath, from doing
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your pleasure on
the Jewish holy day."
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Is that what he says?
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He says, "On my holy
day," so what is the Lord's Day?
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God tells us.
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And right there in the command
in Exodus 20, "Six days you
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shall labor and do all
your work, but the seventh day
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is the Sabbath," of a
denomination, or of the Lord?
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There is nothing in the Bible
that tells us any other day
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than the Sabbath day
is the day that the Lord
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would designate as his day.
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He rested, he
blessed it, he set it aside.
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He made a whole day not where
he created anything, but a day,
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a day of
relationship, love, and worship.
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Next question.
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If the Sabbath is the
Lord's Day, why do so many
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people observe Sunday?
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People want to know what
the Bible really teaches.
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"He said to them, 'All too
well you reject the commandment
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of God, that you may keep your
tradition.'" There's a lot of
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traditions that have
substituted for biblical truth.
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Furthermore, Ezekiel 22, they
had this problem with neglecting
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the Sabbath even
in the Old Testament.
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Ezekiel said, "Her
priests have violated my laws,
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and have
profaned my holy things."
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Profaning something
means you take something sacred
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and you treat it as common.
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And it goes on to say,
"They put no difference between
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the holy and the profane.
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They have hid their
eyes from my Sabbaths,
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and I am profaned among them."
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This is God's
people he was talking to.
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Now, before I go any farther, I
want to explain to you the word
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"Sabbath" is mentioned 60
times in the New Testament.
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I think no one questions, I
don't know, hundreds of times
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it may be mentioned
in the Old Testament,
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but it's 60 times
in the New Testament.
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Never is it said
that it is done away with
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or it has been changed.
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There were a number of
disputes about how to keep it,
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but never whether or
not you should keep it.
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The first day of the week
that we commonly call Sunday,
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you realize the days
of the week in the Bible,
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they don't call them
Wednesday and Monday.
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We get--our calendar
names and our weekly names
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we get from the Romans.
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They worshiped the sun on the
first day of the week, moon day,
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Monday, Thor's day,
Thursday, Odin's day, Wednesday,
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and so none of these
names are in the Bible.
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First day of the week was called
first day, second day, third
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day, fourth day, fifth day,
preparation day, Sabbath day.
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So, you're never going
to find the word "Wednesday"
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in the Bible.
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If you do, you
have a strange Bible.
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So, let's find out if there's
any place in the Bible where God
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has changed the Sabbath from
the seventh to the first day.
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If we look at every text
that speaks of the first day
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of the week in the Bible, we
should find out if it's there.
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That sounds fair? At
least in the New Testament.
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So, that's what
we're going to do.
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Do any of the first
five resurrection texts say
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that Sunday is a new holy day?
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Let's look at them.
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Matthew 28:1, "In the end
of the Sabbath, as it began
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to dawn towards the
first day of the week."
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Well, one thing this
verse tells us is the Sabbath
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was still the Sabbath.
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And it actually tells us
the Sabbath was just before
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the first day.
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"Now when Jesus was risen
early," and this is Mark 16:9,
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"on the first day of
the week, he appeared first
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to Mary Magdalene."
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Now, by the way, did that
past verse, did it say anything
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about it being
a new Sabbath day?
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"The first day of the
week comes Mary Magdalene early
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while it was yet still dark."
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That's John 20, verse 1.
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And it goes on to say in Mark
16, this is another verse, "Now
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when the Sabbath was past,
Mary Magdalene, Mary the mother
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of James, and Salome,
bought spices that they might
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come anoint him."
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Why were they coming to
anoint him Sunday morning?
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Because the sun was going down
Friday afternoon when he died.
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They were afraid they would not
complete a rather intensive job,
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and they wanted to do
it before the Sabbath.
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You could biblically still
anoint a person within 3 days
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of their death before
they began to decompose.
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And they said, "Let's wait,
we'll come back early Sunday
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and do it then because
Jesus wouldn't want us doing
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this on the Sabbath."
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Sabbath was that
important to the disciples.
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Now, it states, of course,
they came, the tomb was empty,
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praise the Lord,
but here's a question.
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Did that make it
a new Sabbath day?
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How important was it that
Jesus died for us on Friday?
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Very important.
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And when he had the Lord's
Supper, the communion service
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on Thursday, do we all
agree that that was important?
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He establishes a new covenant.
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Did it make it a new Sabbath?
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Did it do away with the
old Sabbath because something
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important in the gospel happened
on a certain day of the week?
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And so, trying to
use that as an argument,
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the Bible doesn't use
it. I don't think it's fair.
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>>The Bible tells
us that God is love.
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The essence of the great
commandments are to love the
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Lord and to love your neighbor.
But real love requires time.
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That's why, after God made the
world in six days, he made one
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more day for a special love
relationship between God the
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Creator and His creatures -
it's called the Sabbath day.
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Many people misunderstand
whether it's still applicable
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today for Christians or
which day the Sabbath is.
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Would you like to better
understand what is meant by
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Jesus wanting to
give us that rest?
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He says, 'Come unto Me and
I'll give you rest.' We have a
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special study guide and it's
called The Lost Day of History .
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In this lesson we explain
how you can enjoy that rest that
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Jesus promises to those that
come unto Him who are weary and
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heavy laden. You can
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going to the web address on your
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call the phone number there and,
when you do, ask for offer #113.
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I can promise you, you'll never
be the same and you will be
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encouraged and
comforted by this study.
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And that's why we do what
we do here at Amazing Facts,
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because God's
message is our mission.
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If Sunday's not there
to honor the resurrection,
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what does the Lord have?
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How do Christians
remember Jesus' death,
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burial, and resurrection?
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Romans 6, verse 3, "Or do
you not know that as many of us
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as have been
baptized into Christ Jesus
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were baptized into his death?"
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And it goes on to say,
"Therefore we are buried with
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him through baptism into death,
that just as Christ was raised
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from the dead by the glory
of the Father, even so we should
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walk in a newness of life."
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So, did God establish something
to memorialize his death,
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burial, and resurrection?
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Yes, but it wasn't a new Sabbath
because there was nothing
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wrong with the old Sabbath.
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Think about it, did
God establish the Sabbath
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before or after sin?
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Before sin.
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So, was it part
of his perfect plan?
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Yes. Why would he change it?
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He says, "I am the
Lord, I don't change."
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There is nothing wrong with it.
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And then you have a similar
verse in Colossians 2:12,
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"Buried with him in baptism,
in which you were also raised
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with him through faith in the
working of God, who raised him
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from the dead."
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Baptism again is
connected with the resurrection.
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So, every time a
person is baptized, it's like
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they have been
raised from the dead.
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He didn't create a new
Sabbath day to memorialize that.
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Luke 24, verse 1, and this is
the fifth of the first 8 verses
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where the first
day is mentioned.
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"Now upon the first day of the
week, very early in the morning,
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they came upon the sepulcher."
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That's a tomb.
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It's just stating
a historical fact.
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Now, we just went through them.
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All those verses that
mention the first day are simply
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giving the record
that the Sabbath was over.
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They came back, why does
it mention the first day?
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Because now they
can resume their work.
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Jesus even kept the
Sabbath in his death.
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He went to sleep Friday
afternoon, he woke up Sunday
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morning to continue his
work as our high priest,
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mediator,
intercessor before the Father.
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Amen?
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Now, we're going to
jump to the sixth text.
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And it talks about what I
think is a regular meeting.
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You'll find this
in John 20, verse 19.
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Then it says that same day, the
day of the resurrection, "Being
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the first day of the week,
when the doors were shut, the
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disciples were assembled,"
to celebrate and inaugurate
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the new holy day
of the Christian era.
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No, they got
together for fear of the Jews.
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They are trembling.
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They've just killed Jesus.
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They tried to arrest
Mark, who was following Christ,
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and he fled naked.
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And now the body has
disappeared, in spite
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of the fact Roman
soldiers were there guarding it,
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put there by Pilate.
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They're going to be blamed.
00:15:02.53\00:15:04.13
The religious leaders
had paid the guard to say
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the disciples stole the body.
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They're terrified.
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And so, Jesus--they're
not gathered to celebrate
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a new Sabbath.
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It's telling you that they were
trembling, and then Jesus shows
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up, made them jump
3 feet off the ground.
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Does the seventh
passage say that Sunday is holy?
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Let's take a look at it.
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Now, I'm going to
read this one with you.
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And you read in 1 Corinthians
chapter 16, "On the first day of
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the week let each one of you
lay something aside, storing up
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that he may prosper--as
he may prosper, that there be
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no collections when I come."
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Now, why is Paul telling them
on the first--some will argue
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that's because this was
the new Christian Sabbath,
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and they're taking an offering.
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Anything says you can only
give an offering on Sabbath?
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Paul was actually telling
them--when he says lay by you
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in store, what does
it mean, "lay by you"?
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Does that mean a
church or at home?
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He's coming through, making
haste on his way to Jerusalem to
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bring a special offering
to the Jews because there's a
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famine there, in the
Christian Jews, and he's saying,
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"Set something aside at home.
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After you get your accounts in
order, you've done your giving
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on Sabbath, at home on the first
of the week, when you get your
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books in order, put something
else aside not for your local
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church needs, but that
I can take an emergency
00:16:27.62\00:16:29.98
relief offering to
the people struggling from
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the famine in Jerusalem."
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It had nothing to do with there
was a church meeting and they
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took an offering, or that
this is a new Sabbath day.
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This is not the substitute
for the Ten Commandments.
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Does the eighth and final
New Testament text command us
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to observe Sunday as a holy day?
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This is the last one, go
to Acts chapter 20, verse 7.
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And it says, "Now the first day
of the week, when the disciples
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came together to break bread."
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And people go, "Ah, there
you have it, they came together
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on the first of the
week to break bread.
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That's because they were
having a communion service,
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and this is the new
Sabbath, and this indicates this
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is when they
would normally meet."
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I'm going to read this
to you right from the Bible.
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Look in Acts
chapter 2, verse 46.
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It says when the Holy Spirit
was poured out, they continued,
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"Daily with one accord in
the temple, and breaking bread
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from house to house, they
ate their meat with gladness."
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What does breaking bread mean?
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Does it always mean a
communion service biblically,
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breaking bread
from house to house?
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When Jesus on the
road to Emmaus, he ate
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with two disciples, it
wasn't a communion service.
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They asked him
to bless the bread.
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They were eating. You
ever use the expression,
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"Let's get
together and break bread"?
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Does it mean have
a communion service?
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Not all the time.
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It would mean, "Let's eat."
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And so, to say in Acts chapter
20 that this was evidence that
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it was a religious meeting on
Sunday, it doesn't hold water,
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friends, not if you're going
to, in my opinion, be biblically
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honest about what
the text is saying.
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It's telling you there was a
resurrection, Paul's leaving,
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he's beginning a journey, they'd
finished the Sabbath together,
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and it's a wonderful miracle.
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Do you see what I'm saying?
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So, we've just looked at all
the texts in the New Testament
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that talk about the
first day of the week.
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Do any of them say that God
has now changed the holiness
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and the reverence of the
seventh day to the first day?
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They're not saying that.
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And so, we've got
to be very careful
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about building that argument.
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Well, if Sunday keeping
isn't in the Bible, here's where
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we all bring it together,
where did it come from?
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Matthew 15, verse 9, Jesus said,
"And in vain they worship me,
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teaching as doctrines
the commandments of men."
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They're manmade
commandments that sort of became
00:18:45.32\00:18:48.02
doctrines that they teach.
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You can look in the Encyclopedia
Britannica, you can look
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in a lot of history
books, it is pretty clear.
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"The earliest recognition
of the observance of Sunday,
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it's a
constitution of Constantine."
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He established it in 321 AD.
00:19:01.24\00:19:04.21
They called it
the edict of Milan.
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It wasn't the
Son-day, Son of God, S-O-N,
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it was the Sunday, S-U-N.
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And here's where you
find an excerpt of that law,
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"Enacting that courts of
justice, and inhabitants of
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towns, and workshops
were to rest on Sunday."
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Notice the spelling.
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And again, you can read
here from the Codex Justinianus.
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And it says, "On the venerable
day of the sun, let the
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magistrates and the people
residing in the cities rest,
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and let all of the
workshops be closed."
00:19:34.77\00:19:38.74
And all these pagans came
into the church, and they said,
00:19:38.77\00:19:40.81
"Well, we want to keep
our idols," and the church
00:19:40.84\00:19:42.64
leaders said, "Well,
you'd better rename them.
00:19:42.68\00:19:45.25
Better take, you know,
Jupiter, Mercury, and Apollos,
00:19:45.28\00:19:47.58
and call them
Peter, James and John."
00:19:47.62\00:19:50.02
And they had statues of Diana,
they said, "Call her Mary."
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And all of a sudden, the
church that used to be settled
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in Jerusalem, the
capital now came to Rome,
00:19:57.33\00:20:00.13
went through a dramatic change.
00:20:00.16\00:20:02.40
One of those changes,
the Jews were very unpopular
00:20:02.43\00:20:05.70
during that time.
00:20:05.73\00:20:07.34
Anything connected with Judaism
they wanted to get away from.
00:20:07.37\00:20:10.61
So, to distance
themselves--for a while,
00:20:10.64\00:20:12.51
Christians kept both days.
00:20:12.54\00:20:14.71
But since the Sabbath
day, the church leaders
00:20:14.74\00:20:17.58
would say it's a day of fasting.
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Well, the Bible
doesn't say that.
00:20:19.25\00:20:20.62
But the Sunday
was a day of feasting.
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Which would you prefer, a day
of fasting or a day of feasting?
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Gradually, over time,
people started to abolish the
00:20:26.12\00:20:29.89
seventh-day biblical Sabbath in
preference for the more popular
00:20:29.92\00:20:33.66
celebration of the Sunday.
00:20:33.70\00:20:37.13
And that's how it made
its way into the church.
00:20:37.17\00:20:39.97
It wasn't because
of a command of God.
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It was because of a compromise.
00:20:42.44\00:20:45.07
Again, Arthur Weigall in his
book "Paganism in Christianity,"
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"The church made a sacred day of
Sunday, largely because it was a
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festival, and it was a weekly
festival of the sun, and for it
00:20:52.35\00:20:58.92
was the definite Christian
policy to take over the pagan
00:20:58.95\00:21:01.82
festivals to endear themselves
to the people by tradition,
00:21:01.86\00:21:06.83
and to give them
Christian significance."
00:21:06.86\00:21:09.03
They just began to say,
"Well, let's just attach
00:21:09.06\00:21:10.67
a Christian name to
it, and bring it all in."
00:21:10.70\00:21:13.77
"The church after changing
the day of rest from the Jewish
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Sabbath or the seventh day of
the week to the first, and made
00:21:16.34\00:21:19.27
the third commandment refer
to Sunday as the day to be kept
00:21:19.31\00:21:22.78
as the Lord's day."
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Matter of fact, I've got a copy
here of the Ten Commandments.
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I stopped at a local Catholic
church, and I snapped a picture.
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You probably can't see it blown
up, but they've reorganized
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the Ten Commandments.
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How do you get the
Sabbath to go from the fourth
00:21:35.49\00:21:37.19
to the third commandment?
00:21:37.23\00:21:39.13
You eliminate the second
commandment about idolatry.
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And that's what happened here.
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You'll notice the commandment
about idolatry is missing.
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Well, how do you
keep the number ten?
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Split the tenth commandment
about covetousness and say
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don't covet your
neighbor's wife, that's one.
00:21:50.44\00:21:52.34
Don't covet your neighbor's
house, that's the other one.
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And so, they
changed the times and laws.
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Baptist manual written
by Dr. Edward T. Hitchcock.
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"There is no scriptural evidence
of the change of the Sabbath
00:22:02.28\00:22:05.32
institution from the seventh
to the first day of the week."
00:22:05.35\00:22:10.29
If you read from Alexander
Campbell, Church of Christ,
00:22:10.33\00:22:13.86
"I do not believe that
the Lord's day was changed
00:22:13.90\00:22:16.97
from the seventh
to the first day."
00:22:17.00\00:22:19.93
Catholic, this is James Cardinal
Gibbons, "You may read the Bible
00:22:19.97\00:22:23.91
from Genesis to Revelation, and
you'll not find a single line,"
00:22:23.94\00:22:28.71
that's why I opened it
up to you, "authorizing
00:22:28.74\00:22:31.78
the sanctification of Sunday.
00:22:31.81\00:22:34.42
The Catholic Church for over
one thousand years before the
00:22:34.45\00:22:36.95
existence of a Protestant,
by virtue of her divine mission,
00:22:36.99\00:22:40.72
changed the day
from Saturday to Sunday."
00:22:40.76\00:22:44.69
It was done through
edicts of the church,
00:22:44.73\00:22:46.56
not through the
commandments of Christ.
00:22:46.59\00:22:48.63
It is a manmade tradition
that started as a practice
00:22:48.66\00:22:53.00
that was popular, and
they finally made it official.
00:22:53.03\00:22:56.81
Episcopal, "Is there any
command in the New Testament to
00:22:56.84\00:23:01.71
change the day of the weekly
rest from Saturday to Sunday?
00:23:01.74\00:23:05.51
None!"
00:23:05.55\00:23:07.72
This is not
written by my church.
00:23:07.75\00:23:09.18
This is an Episcopal
manual of Christian doctrine.
00:23:09.22\00:23:11.19
Methodist Harris
Franklin Rall wrote,
00:23:11.22\00:23:13.79
"Take the matter of Sunday.
00:23:13.82\00:23:15.56
There is no
passage telling Christians
00:23:15.59\00:23:17.43
to keep the day holy."
00:23:17.46\00:23:20.20
You can look at the
Augsburg Confession, Lutheran.
00:23:20.23\00:23:24.20
"The observance of the Lord's
Day, Sunday, is not founded
00:23:24.23\00:23:27.14
on any command of God."
00:23:27.17\00:23:30.21
Presbyterian, "The
Christian Sabbath, Sunday,
00:23:30.24\00:23:33.07
is not in the Scriptures."
00:23:33.11\00:23:36.04
This is widely known.
00:23:36.08\00:23:38.38
This is why it's just amazing to
me--and I remember I got to be
00:23:38.41\00:23:41.25
gentle with you because I
remember when I first heard
00:23:41.28\00:23:43.45
this, I thought, "I
feel like I've been fooled."
00:23:43.49\00:23:46.82
And you know, some people,
all their life they've believed
00:23:46.86\00:23:50.53
a certain thing, and you
hear something different,
00:23:50.56\00:23:52.53
and it shakes, it
rocks your foundation.
00:23:52.56\00:23:55.63
And so, I want to--I want to
pray for you because some of you
00:23:55.66\00:23:58.10
are hearing this for the
first time, and you're thinking,
00:23:58.13\00:24:00.14
"What would this mean
if I step out in faith
00:24:00.17\00:24:01.80
and do something about this?
00:24:01.84\00:24:03.64
I didn't know this
before, but now I know it.
00:24:03.67\00:24:06.74
Now what do I do?"
00:24:06.78\00:24:09.14
You know, I heard years ago
about a man that, in England,
00:24:09.18\00:24:12.48
this is like a couple of hundred
years ago, he had a yardage shop
00:24:12.51\00:24:15.52
where they sold fabric.
00:24:15.55\00:24:17.49
And in his shop, he had a
table where he would unfold
00:24:17.52\00:24:19.85
the fabric, and he'd measure
it, and then he'd cut it,
00:24:19.89\00:24:22.22
and sell it to the customers.
00:24:22.26\00:24:24.69
And after--and he inherited
this shop from his father
00:24:24.73\00:24:26.76
and his grandfather.
00:24:26.80\00:24:28.16
One day, a customer came
back in and said, "You know,
00:24:28.20\00:24:29.90
I was very precise
in how much I ordered.
00:24:29.93\00:24:32.33
I got back to make
my pillows and curtains,
00:24:32.37\00:24:34.84
and I realized that you
actually sold me short."
00:24:34.87\00:24:39.17
Well, this man who
owned the yardage shop was
00:24:39.21\00:24:41.04
an honest
Christian, a very honest man.
00:24:41.08\00:24:43.01
He'd never been accused of that.
00:24:43.04\00:24:44.41
He said, "Well, let's check it."
00:24:44.45\00:24:45.75
And he took the fabric, he laid
it out, and it was--he said,
00:24:45.78\00:24:48.52
"Look, it's right--it's
right where it's supposed to be.
00:24:48.55\00:24:50.95
You ordered 3
yards, here they are."
00:24:50.99\00:24:53.72
And the guy said, "Let me
get a national tape measure
00:24:53.76\00:24:56.83
and bring it in."
00:24:56.86\00:24:58.46
He brought and he measured
it, it was 3 inches short.
00:24:58.49\00:25:01.46
And the man checked and he
looked at his table, his table
00:25:01.50\00:25:03.47
was 3 inches short.
00:25:03.50\00:25:05.27
And he'd been selling
people 3 inches short for years.
00:25:05.30\00:25:08.64
Now, you've got to understand,
many years ago in England,
00:25:08.67\00:25:11.64
the measurements would change.
00:25:11.67\00:25:14.91
The inch was the
distance on the king's thumb.
00:25:14.94\00:25:18.71
The foot was the
length of the king's foot.
00:25:18.75\00:25:21.58
And as they went from one
monarchy to another, sometimes
00:25:21.62\00:25:23.92
these standards--the knuckle,
the knuckle, Karen's correcting
00:25:23.95\00:25:29.02
me, not the whole
thumb, the knuckle, yeah.
00:25:29.06\00:25:32.06
And so--and so,
all these measurements,
00:25:32.09\00:25:34.46
the span and--you know, in
the Bible, it says a cubit.
00:25:34.50\00:25:36.93
That was a measurement here.
00:25:36.97\00:25:38.97
And so, these things
would change from one monarchy
00:25:39.00\00:25:41.17
to the other, and he was
going by an old standard.
00:25:41.20\00:25:44.61
Any of you ever gone from
the metric to the standard
00:25:44.64\00:25:46.44
and messed it up?
00:25:46.47\00:25:49.98
Now, that man was an honest man.
00:25:50.01\00:25:51.61
He had no idea that, for years,
00:25:51.65\00:25:53.15
he had been
selling people short.
00:25:53.18\00:25:55.82
No one had ever
called him on it because
00:25:55.85\00:25:57.19
it was just a little bit.
00:25:57.22\00:25:58.92
Now, here's the question.
00:25:58.95\00:26:00.52
If he continues to use
that table measurement,
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is he still an honest man?
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There's a lot of godly people
that go to church on Sunday,
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they don't know.
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God winks at their ignorance.
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They love the Lord,
they're Spirit-filled,
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they're doing wonderful things.
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Karen and I today to the Billy
Graham library, and just saw
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tremendous ministry happening.
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And so, we don't question that.
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We believe we have
brothers and sisters in Christ
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that maybe don't
know these things.
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Sin is knowing to do
good and not doing it.
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The Bible says if we continue
to sin willfully, Hebrews 10:26,
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if we continue to sin
willfully after we've received
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the knowledge of the truth,
there remains no sacrifice
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for sin, but a certain
fearful looking forward
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to of judgment
and fiery indignation.
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So, sin is when you
know God's will, and you say,
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"I don't want to do your will.
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I'd rather do my own thing.
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I want to do what's convenient,
I want to do what's popular."
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And I know, friends,
some of you are hearing this
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for the first time.
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And if there is a struggle going
on in your heart, I want to just
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plead with you, and
I'm going to pray for you.
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Do you want to know
what the Bible says?
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You find it in the Word.
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Do you want to please Jesus?
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If you're waiting to please
your friends, your family,
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your tradition, your
church, you're never going
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to make anyone happy.
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You've got to make God first,
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"Seek ye first
the kingdom of God."
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And just be honest.
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Say, "Lord, first and
foremost, I want to know,
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what do you want me to do?"
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female: Amazing
Facts has impacted my life.
00:27:30.95\00:27:33.11
male: I just praise
God for Amazing Facts.
00:27:33.15\00:27:35.28
male: Amazing Facts actually
did have an impact on my life.
00:27:35.32\00:27:37.92
male: This whole process of
getting to where I am today.
00:27:37.95\00:27:42.99
female: I began
reading the Bible--
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female: I got baptized.
00:27:45.09\00:27:47.03
male: I realized that
there had to be more to life.
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female: God is
really doing this.
00:27:49.56\00:27:51.50
male: The life
that he's given me.
00:27:51.53\00:27:53.27
male: This
message was so powerful.
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announcer: Amazing
Facts, more than 45 years
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of proclaiming God's
message around the world.
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male: And then
the logo pops across,
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"Amazing Facts Presents."
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I've listened to a lot of
different ministers, but this
00:28:06.38\00:28:08.62
was the first time that
he's actually saying something
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where I had to grab my
Bible and actually pick it up,
00:28:11.55\00:28:14.76
and, "I never heard this before.
00:28:14.79\00:28:16.99
Let me look
through and find this."
00:28:17.03\00:28:18.76
Then I just couldn't get enough.
00:28:18.79\00:28:20.36
male: And so, I
started doing Bible studies.
00:28:20.40\00:28:22.16
Every single one of these
guys started being changed,
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including myself.
00:28:25.70\00:28:27.37
female: My question was,
why did that happen to me, God?
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The Lord was able to reach
out, and I actually saw him
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as a Father.
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female: I lost everything.
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And that was when I
realized that it was
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God missing in my life.
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male: I went to a prophecy
seminar, which knocked me out.
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This message was so
powerful and so irrefutable,
00:28:44.09\00:28:47.82
and I just went, "This is
real. This is--this is amazing."
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announcer: This
presentation was brought to you
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by the friends of the
Amazing Facts Ministry.
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