Welcome to Anchors of Truth,
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live from the Community
Adventist Fellowship Church.
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Present Truth with John Carter.
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Well, we're so happy
to be with you tonight.
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We're in Los Angeles California,
the suburb of Arcadia.
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Beautiful, beautiful place.
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I drove up and down
some streets here today.
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And Danny, there wasn't a single
house here I could afford.
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I can tell you that.
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I'm not surprised about that.
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But it's a beautiful city and
very clean, a wonderful place.
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And what a beautiful
headquarters here for
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The Carter Report.
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And this is what we have
dubbed, at least C.A. Murray
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is calling, Anchors Away.
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And usually we're back
in West Frankfort Illinois.
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But now we are on the road.
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This month, we are here.
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The next Anchors is going
to come from Fresno California.
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And then the next
from Sacramento California.
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We came from a town of 600.
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The biggest town around
West Frankfort is 10,000.
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And people say, "When you get
on those California highways,
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people are rude.
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Be careful, they're rude."
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But you know what?
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I found them the most
friendly people I've ever seen.
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Everybody was honking at me.
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Yea, alright.
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At home, you honk and wave.
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They wave a little
differently out here.
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They wave like this, but hey.
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So I assume that they
were, you know, I said,
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"Man, these people
are friendly out here."
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I had a lady
waving at me yesterday.
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And Camille said, "You
pulled out in front of her."
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Well, I didn't realize I had.
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But she was very friendly.
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And it was nice to be greeted.
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But you know, Danny, we
just are having a wonderful time
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here with Pastor John.
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And you and Pastor
John go back a long way.
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And in a few minutes,
we're going to ask you to
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introduce him tonight.
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And so maybe you can talk
about some of those things
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and some of the great
times that you've had together.
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I count it a privilege to have
known Elder Carter and Beverly
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since the
beginning almost of 3ABN.
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They were one of the first
people when the station was
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being built that called
and said, "Look, I want to be
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on 3ABN and I'm
already developing programs."
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And we've been
great friends ever since.
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Well listen, why don't you
lead us in a word of prayer,
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would you.
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Heavenly Father, we
thank You for Your many
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wonderful blessings.
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We thank You for life and
for health and for strength.
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We thank You for the
opportunity of being here
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in the LA area tonight.
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We're thankful for the viewers
from literally around the world
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that are watching this program.
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We now invite Your Holy Spirit
to rule and reign in everything
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that is said and done.
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The end result, we will
all be drawn closer to You.
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Thank You for being here.
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And heavenly Father, thank You
for this Sabbath that will be
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beginning here in just a little
bit here on the west coast.
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And to think that once a
week, especially once a week,
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that You draw so close
to us and allow us a time
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to get apart from the
world to remember our Creator.
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Thank You again for loving us.
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Thank You for Your
great plan of salvation.
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We ask and pray
in Jesus' name, amen.
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You know Danny, tomorrow is
going to be a really big day.
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And I hope that our viewers
are planning to be with us.
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At 9:00 am Pacific Daylight
Time, that'll be 11:00 o'clock
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Central Daylight Time,
and of course noon Eastern,
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I'm just trying to bring
some of our folks up to date,
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we will have a worship service
right here from this auditorium.
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And then again at 11:00
am Pacific Daylight Time.
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And then in the
evening, the afternoon at 6:00,
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tell us about the concert.
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Well, we're going to do
what we call a Pillars concert.
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Not all of the singers are here.
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We're missing
Reggie and Ladye Love.
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But we have quite a
few of the rest of us.
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We did a Pillars 1 last year,
now we've done what we call
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a Pillars Hymns, taking
hymns that some of them are
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150 years old that may be
kind of forgotten along the way
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and revisited those.
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We brought in
together, musicians and singers,
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and strings orchestra, and
put together what we believe
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is a very spiritual, and I
believe, an album that brings
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honor and glory to God,
and brings us back to the
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pillars, the roots or
the pillars of our faith.
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Amen, so we'll
look forward to that
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at 6:00 pm
Pacific Daylight Time.
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And we have
some music right now.
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Who do we have?
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I'd like to
introduce my sister, Tammy.
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And newly added to this
tonight, Tammy was going to sing
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More Than Wonderful,
and Pastor John Lomacang,
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that's a song that just
requires a duet just about.
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So John is a minuteman.
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He came up and I guess you
got to practice it once, so you
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get to practice it again now
on worldwide television, John.
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Praise the Lord.
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God bless.
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He promised us that
He would be a counselor,
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a Mighty God and
the Prince of Peace.
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He promised us that
He would be a Father,
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and love us with a
love that would not cease.
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I tried Him and I
found His promises are true,
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He's everything He
said that He would be.
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The finest words I
know could not begin to tell
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just what Jesus
really means to me.
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For He's more wonderful
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than my mind can conceive,
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He's more wonderful
than my heart can believe.
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He goes beyond my highest hopes
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and fondest dreams.
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He's everything that
my soul ever longed for,
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everything He's
promised and so much more.
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He's more than
amazing, more than marvelous,
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more than
miraculous could ever be.
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He's more than wonderful,
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that's what Jesus is to me.
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I stand amazed when I
think the King of glory
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would come to live
within the heart of man.
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And I marvel just to
know He really loves me,
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when I think of who
He is, and who I am.
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For He's more wonderful
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than my mind can conceive,
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He's more wonderful
than my heart can believe.
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He goes beyond my highest hopes
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and fondest dreams.
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He's everything that
my soul ever longed for,
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everything He's
promised and so much more.
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He's more than
amazing, more than marvelous,
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more than
miraculous could ever be.
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He's more than wonderful,
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that's what Jesus is to me.
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He's everything that
my soul ever longed for,
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everything He's
promised and so much more.
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He's more than
amazing, more than marvelous,
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more than
miraculous could ever be.
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He's more than wonderful,
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more than wonderful,
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that's what Jesus is to me,
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to me.
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Amen.
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Thank you Tammy
and thank you John.
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It's my privilege tonight to
introduce to the world audience
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of 3ABN, Elder John Carter.
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Elder Carter has been
a friend for a long time.
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He and Beverly and
David and the children,
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I've known them
for many, many years.
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And it's a privilege
tonight to have Brother Carter.
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And I'd like to
ask him to come up.
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And before he speaks, I
want to talk to him just
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a little bit about Russia.
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And now it's been
actually 20 years ago
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since I got a phone call.
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Oh, we're hugging?
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Just a little.
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No kissing, just hugging.
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Okay, alright.
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And about 20 years
ago, I got a phone call
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from Elder Carter and he said,
"I going to be going to Russia
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this coming year.
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Would you like
to be a part of it?"
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I had no idea what
we were getting into.
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But praise the Lord we
did, because Russia has changed
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my life and many millions
of people, I'm convinced.
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We saw the power of God.
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We have.
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And today, because of the
faith of Danny and his team,
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they have a marvelous production
center in Nizhny Novgorod,
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the old city of Gorky.
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And Julia Outkina is right there
and you know she's the director.
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And I think she's on, what,
about 165 television stations.
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All across Russia.
So glory be to God.
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And Danny, it's been a
terrific experience knowing you.
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Well, it has been
for you and Beverly too.
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And I say that from
the bottom of my heart.
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That's a very courageous man.
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We appreciate you, we
love you, we respect you.
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Not only do we love
you though, we like you.
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Well thank you.
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I can take that
right back to you.
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Elder Carter has gone to places
that many people wouldn't go.
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And he goes in the time
of the year when a lot of
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people wouldn't go.
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But he goes around the world.
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But I have seen firsthand.
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And folks, thank you for
your love and your prayers and
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financial support
towards The Carter Report
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to go, and literally not
only to Russia, but around the
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ex-Soviet Union
and around the world.
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I have been there and I've seen
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20,000 people a
night, Elder Carter,
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a building that
will hold 7,000 people,
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I've seen 20,000
people fighting to get in and
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you having to do
meeting after meeting.
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Yes, when the KGB served
as the deacons and the ushers.
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Remember that?
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Yeah.
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It's 20 years next year.
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We ought to go back.
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Well, let's do it and
we'll talk to Elder Gilley.
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And I think we ought to
have a great anniversary there
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with Sister Julia
Outkina, the whole crew.
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We have a facility there, it's
probably a million square feet.
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But this facility has
been home to many, many people;
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training Bible workers
and pastors and teachers from
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around all the ex-Soviet
Union, producing programming.
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Hundreds, and in
fact, thousands of programs
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in the last many years.
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And literally
reaching multitudes of people.
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And great quality,
outstanding quality.
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They are doing
an incredible job.
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Thank you for
inviting 3ABN over there.
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Thank you for
accepting the invitation.
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It's been my privilege.
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Alright, God bless you tonight.
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God bless you, Danny.
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Thank you for coming.
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You're a welcomed
guest in our church.
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The 3ABN people are about the
nicest people you're going to
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meet anywhere on
the face of the earth.
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And as you get to know these
people, as I said to Danny,
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you don't just love them,
but you get to really like them.
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The topic tonight, the
title at least, somebody said
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make the title short so we
can put it on the DVD covers.
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It's one word.
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The word is, Remember.
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What's the word?
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It's Remember.
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It is a human
frailty, it's a human failing,
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that most of seem to remember
the things we should forget,
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and we forget the
things we should remember.
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Many years ago when I
was a boy out of college,
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I was pastoring a
little church north of Sidney,
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south of Avondale College.
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And a couple in their
80's came to the meetings.
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80, you know pretty old folks.
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And they asked
this boy out of college,
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I was just a skinny boy,
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they asked for
marriage counseling from me.
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And you know what
they were planning to do?
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They were
planning to get a divorce.
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I said, "Folks, you've held
on this long, you might as well
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hold on a bit longer."
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But they had this big problem
because, I got them together
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and she said, "He made a
pass at a woman 60 years ago
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and I've never forgiven him,
and I've never forgotten it."
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That's a long grudge.
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And it's a
frailty of the human race.
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It's a failing that we
have a tendency to hold onto the
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things that we ought to
forget, and we forget the things
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that we ought to remember.
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And the topic
tonight is, Remember.
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You know, we all need
to forgive and forget.
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When we've had things
happen to us, bad things,
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we need just to put it
under the blood of Jesus.
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Don't you think?
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There are some
things to remember that are
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truly worth remembering.
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When I was in Westminster Abbey,
and I just love that church.
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People have been
worshiping there for more
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than a thousand years.
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There's a great slab of
stone on which are the words,
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"Remember Winston Churchill."
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Remember this man who
saved the world from the Nazi's
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and saved the
world for democracy.
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Down in the state of Texas...
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And Elder James
Gilley is a Texan, folks.
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He's not an
American, he's a Texan.
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No, he's an
American through and through.
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And he's a Texan to
the top of his boots
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up to the top of his head.
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Now down in the state of
Texas, they have a saying,
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and I've been down
there, "Remember..."
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What is it?
"Remember the Alamo."
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In Australia, the 25th of
April is a very important date.
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It's called, Anzac Day.
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You know what that
stands for, don't you.
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Of course, all
Americans will know it stand for
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the Australian and
New Zealand Army Corp.
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And it's the memorial
of the deaths of thousands
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and thousands of young
Australians and New Zealanders
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as they stormed into
the Dardanelles and were
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mown down by the machine guns.
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And so before sunrise, on
the 25th of April in Australia,
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thousands, tens of thousands of
people in little country towns
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and big cities, maybe
millions of people, march.
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They come to a memorial place.
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And then they have a chaplain
there, a military chaplain,
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it's like a church service.
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And then they sing a hymn, "God
of our far flung battlefield,"
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lest we forget.
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There are some things we
should never, never forget.
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The dying thief said
to Jesus, "Remember me."
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The last night Jesus spent
with His disciples, He said,
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"Do this in
remembrance of Me. Remember Me."
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And so the title of this
talk tonight, my dear friends
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watching around
the world, is Remember.
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That's the
title, and the topic is,
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The Creator and
His Forgotten Day.
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I want you to take your
Bibles, please, and turn to
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Exodus chapter 20
and verses 8 and onwards.
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We're going to go back
to the Ten Commandments.
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And I'm so glad
to be here tonight.
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And I'm so glad to see
all of you dear folks here
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in the great
city of Los Angeles.
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It's a miracle that
you folks got here tonight
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at seven o'clock.
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One of my team
members, to get to this meeting,
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took two and a half
hours in the traffic.
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You know, so I just think
you folks have done very well.
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And please look at
Exodus 20 verses 8 and onwards,
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dear hearts and gentle people.
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What does it say?
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God says it, "Remember..."
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Well, He says
"remember" because we forget.
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"Remember the Sabbath
day by keeping it holy.
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Six days you shall
labor and do all your work,
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but the seventh day is a
Sabbath to the Lord your God.
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On it you shall not do any
work, neither you, nor your son
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or your daughter, nor
your manservant or maidservant,
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nor your animals, nor
the alien within your gates."
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Now why?
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"For in six days the Lord
made the heavens and the earth,
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the sea, and all that
is in them, but He rested
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on the seventh day.
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Therefore the Lord blessed the
Sabbath day and made it holy."
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God says, "Remember."
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Some folks come
along and they say,
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"That's the
Sabbath of your church."
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I want you to know, this is
not the Sabbath of my church.
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It is the Sabbath
of the Lord our God.
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And the Lord our
God says, "Remember."
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Did you know this, that
back in the days of the Bible,
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the very center of the
world, the center of the earth,
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was a land by the name of, what?
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Israel.
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The very center
of the ancient world.
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The crossroads of civilization.
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And in the center of
Israel, there was a city.
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What was it called?
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Jerusalem.
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And in the center of
Jerusalem, there was a building.
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What was the building?
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It was a temple.
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And in the center of the temple,
there was the Most Holy Place.
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And in the center
of the Most Holy Place,
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there was the ark of God.
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And right inside the ark of God,
God placed the Ten Commandments.
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Right in the very
center of the ark.
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And so right in the
very midst of the world,
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you have the Ten Commandments.
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And right in the very
center of the Ten Commandments,
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right in the very center,
you have the word "remember".
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Remember.
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God placed the Sabbath at
the very center of everything,
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because He wants to be
the center of our lives,
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because He is the
Creator of the universe.
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But some people will say,
"Which day is the seventh day?"
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I want you to come over
here to Luke chapter 23, please.
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Matthew, Mark, Luke.
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Chapter 23 and
verse 50 and onwards.
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"Now there was a man named
Joseph, a member of the Council,
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a good and upright man,
who had not consented to
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their decision and action."
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That was to put Jesus to death.
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Verse 52, "Going to Pilate,
he asked for Jesus' body.
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Then he took it down,
wrapped it in linen cloth
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and placed it in a tomb
cut in the rock, one in which
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no one had yet been laid.
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It was Preparation Day."
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Jesus died on
the Preparation Day.
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And the Bible says,
this is the new Testament.
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We're not talking here
now out of the Old Testament.
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It says that Jesus
died on the Preparation Day.
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"And the Sabbath
was about to begin.
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The women who had come
with Jesus from Galilee
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followed Joseph and saw
the tomb and how His body
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was laid in it.
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Then they went home and
prepared spices and perfumes."
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Now what does your Bible say?
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"But they
rested..." Can you tell me?
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"But they rested on
the Sabbath in obedience
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to the commandment."
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This is talking about
the commandment of God,
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not the
commandment of the church.
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Chapter 24 and verse 1 says,
"On the first day of the week,
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very early in the morning,
the women took the spices
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they had prepared
and went to the tomb."
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And glory hallelujah, Jesus
had been raised from the dead.
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Now I want to come over once
again to my hi-tech blackboards.
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Folks, I want to confess
something to the world tonight.
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Here's the confession.
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I don't own a computer.
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I work with folks who do
that sort of stuff for me.
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But this is about
as hi-tech as I get.
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This is special
black light chalk.
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Now here we've got three days.
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I like these blackboards.
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It is true, if
you're old fashioned enough,
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long enough, soon
you're going to be modern.
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I notice on American
television that people are
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copying my blackboards.
00:24:01.73\00:24:03.47
Some politicians,
they're writing stuff
00:24:04.82\00:24:08.67
up on the blackboard.
00:24:08.70\00:24:09.71
The Bible tells me that Jesus
died on the Preparation Day.
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And we call that day,
everybody calls it Good Friday.
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And the Bible tells me
that Jesus rose from the dead
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on the first day of the week.
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And we call that day, Sunday.
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And the Holy Bible tells me
that the day between Good Friday
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and Sunday is the
Sabbath of the Lord our God.
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It is the holy Sabbath.
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An all mighty God, the
Creator of the universe,
00:24:44.57\00:24:48.07
came down in fire and
splendor upon Mount Sinai.
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And God said...
The word, what was it?
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Remember.
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"Remember the
Sabbath day to keep it holy."
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Folks say to me, and
they say it kindly, they say,
00:25:04.53\00:25:09.16
"But it's Jewish."
00:25:09.19\00:25:10.89
I say to them, "Even
if it were, and it's not,
00:25:12.77\00:25:17.45
remember, Jesus is Jewish.
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And the Bible is a Jewish book.
00:25:22.16\00:25:24.52
And the blessed
virgin Mary was Jewish.
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And all of the
apostles were Jewish."
00:25:29.00\00:25:32.61
But did you know, and I
want to say this tonight to my
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beloved Roman Catholic friends,
I want to say tonight to my
00:25:37.81\00:25:42.99
beloved Baptist friends,
I want to say to all of my
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brothers and sisters in
the great Christian churches,
00:25:47.60\00:25:51.88
we want you to know
this; as Adventist Christians,
00:25:52.86\00:25:58.27
we believe in Christ and
salvation through Christ,
00:25:58.30\00:26:01.97
and Christ alone.
00:26:02.00\00:26:03.79
We do not believe
that we're saved by the
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commandments of God.
00:26:06.30\00:26:07.77
We believe, as I preached
last night, that we are saved
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by the blood atonement
of Christ on the cross.
00:26:12.86\00:26:15.92
I want you all to know this.
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We believe that we are saved by
grace alone through faith alone.
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But listen carefully
because this is important.
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And maybe you just
haven't thought about that.
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And I'm going to tell you this.
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The Sabbath commandment...
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And I want to say this to
all of my brothers and sisters
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in my church.
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The Sabbath commandment
is the only commandment,
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it's the only one of
the ten that points us
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to the gospel of Christ.
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Did you know that?
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I want to say that
to the Baptist tonight.
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You want Christ?
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Then let me tell you
folks something tonight.
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The Sabbath
commandment is the only one
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of the ten commandments,
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it's the only one that points
us to the gospel of Christ.
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You say, "How do you know?"
00:27:15.05\00:27:17.49
Because the New
Testament tells me so.
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I want you to come over
here to Hebrews chapter 4.
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Hebrews chapter 4 and verse 4.
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The Bible says, "For somewhere
He has spoken about the
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seventh day in these
words; 'And on the seventh day
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God rested from all His work.'"
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Now this is talking plainly
about the seventh day Sabbath.
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Now come down to
verse, let me see now,
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verse 9 and onwards.
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"There remains then, a Sabbath
rest for the people of God;
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for anyone who enters God's rest
also rests from his own work,
00:28:05.64\00:28:10.99
just as God did from His.
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Let us, therefore, make
every effort to enter that rest,
00:28:13.05\00:28:19.05
so that no one will
fall by following their
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example of disobedience."
00:28:22.48\00:28:25.70
Now this is not
my private theology.
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The Bible makes it plain
that the seventh day Sabbath,
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as God gave it to us in the
bliss of the garden of Eden,
00:28:37.20\00:28:43.86
is a type of the rest
that we have in Christ
00:28:44.73\00:28:50.02
through the gospel.
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Now when I was a poor
boy at Avondale College
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a few years ago, I was
working on a big printing press
00:28:56.50\00:29:02.00
in this great factory
that is owned by our church.
00:29:02.97\00:29:06.35
And the nights
were long and cold.
00:29:07.71\00:29:10.52
And I was just a brand new
Christian, a boy from the bush.
00:29:10.72\00:29:15.19
I'd just come to know Christ.
00:29:16.28\00:29:18.30
And I started to
memorize scripture.
00:29:19.45\00:29:22.12
And I will never the
text that I memorized,
00:29:22.15\00:29:25.73
possibly for the first time,
when our blessed Lord said,
00:29:25.76\00:29:29.49
"Come unto me
all you who labor..."
00:29:29.52\00:29:32.52
In my King James
version, "...all ye who labor
00:29:32.55\00:29:36.05
and are heavy laden,
and I will give you rest.
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Take My yoke upon
you and learn from Me,
00:29:40.46\00:29:43.25
for I am meek and lowly
in heart: and ye shall find
00:29:43.28\00:29:46.76
rest unto your souls.
00:29:46.79\00:29:49.20
For My yoke is easy
and My burden is light."
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I've never gotten
those words out of my mind.
00:29:53.31\00:29:56.02
And when I came to
Christ as a boy of seventeen,
00:29:58.43\00:30:04.13
I discovered that only Christ
could fill the void in my soul.
00:30:04.16\00:30:08.85
And He continues to fill it.
00:30:09.81\00:30:11.68
Saint Augustine, the great
Roman Catholic theologian, said:
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And the seventh day Sabbath,
the Bible says, is a type
00:30:24.55\00:30:30.78
of the rest that
we have in Christ.
00:30:30.79\00:30:33.93
It is full of Christ.
00:30:33.96\00:30:35.81
And that is why it is called
in scripture, the Lord's Day.
00:30:37.43\00:30:41.99
The Sabbath tells me you cannot
be saved by your own works.
00:30:42.83\00:30:47.02
Christ has redeemed
you with His own blood.
00:30:48.19\00:30:51.58
Come to Christ and
enter into God's rest.
00:30:51.61\00:30:55.22
And I would remind all of
my wonderful Christian friends
00:30:55.25\00:30:59.07
who do not see the
significance of the Sabbath,
00:30:59.10\00:31:02.09
Jesus kept the
Sabbath in life and in death.
00:31:02.12\00:31:08.23
He rested on the Sabbath.
00:31:09.32\00:31:11.11
The holy Sabbath
breathes the spirit of the
00:31:12.75\00:31:15.95
gospel of grace alone.
00:31:15.98\00:31:18.77
I do not believe in legalism.
00:31:18.80\00:31:22.73
What is legalism?
00:31:22.76\00:31:23.80
Man's attempt to earn
salvation by his own good works.
00:31:24.43\00:31:28.66
Christ has saved
me by His good works.
00:31:29.93\00:31:33.42
I am saved by works; His works.
00:31:33.45\00:31:36.88
The works He did
for me on the cross.
00:31:37.59\00:31:39.82
You say, "How do you know?"
00:31:39.85\00:31:41.02
Because the Bible says so.
00:31:41.03\00:31:43.03
When the Son of God hung
up on the cross, He cried out,
00:31:43.59\00:31:47.54
"It is finished."
00:31:47.57\00:31:49.38
And when I come to Christ,
I enter into the gospel rest.
00:31:52.04\00:31:57.81
And the Bible says
that the Sabbath, remember,
00:31:57.84\00:32:03.40
the Sabbath is the
only commandment of the ten
00:32:03.43\00:32:07.30
that points me
to the gospel rest.
00:32:07.33\00:32:10.73
It is full of Christ.
00:32:10.76\00:32:12.22
Did you know the Sabbath
is of such great significance
00:32:14.89\00:32:19.99
that Jesus, our blessed Lord,
risked His life and mission
00:32:20.59\00:32:26.11
to rescue the
gospel commandment from the
00:32:26.14\00:32:30.65
legalistic
traditions of the Jews.
00:32:30.68\00:32:33.93
This is a truth
that is overlooked.
00:32:37.58\00:32:39.73
Seven miracles are recorded that
our Lord worked on the Sabbath.
00:32:40.85\00:32:46.26
Seven.
00:32:46.29\00:32:47.58
And if you read
the New Testament,
00:32:49.62\00:32:51.47
you will find that when
Jesus worked these miracles
00:32:51.86\00:32:55.19
on the Sabbath, He
brought upon Himself the wrath
00:32:55.22\00:32:59.35
of the Pharisees.
00:32:59.38\00:33:01.34
Did you know that?
00:33:01.42\00:33:02.49
Come to a text.
00:33:02.59\00:33:03.99
Look at Matthew
12 verses 13 and 14.
00:33:04.02\00:33:06.71
In the sovereignty of God, He
risked His life and His mission
00:33:10.42\00:33:14.28
to rescue the Sabbath
from bondage, to restore it.
00:33:14.91\00:33:19.47
He did not abolish
it, He restored it.
00:33:19.48\00:33:22.98
The Bible says,
"Then He said to the man,
00:33:26.51\00:33:29.30
'Stretch out your hand.'
00:33:29.33\00:33:30.86
So he stretched it out and
it was completely restored,
00:33:32.03\00:33:35.30
just as sound as the other.
00:33:35.50\00:33:37.65
But the Pharisees
went out and plotted how
00:33:37.68\00:33:41.39
they might kill Jesus."
00:33:41.42\00:33:43.20
Listen to me.
00:33:43.21\00:33:44.31
Jesus did not come
and abolish the Sabbath.
00:33:45.29\00:33:49.24
Jesus came to rescue the
Sabbath from the bondage of man.
00:33:49.27\00:33:54.51
Now listen, you don't
restore a house to burn it down.
00:33:55.40\00:34:00.85
You get it?
00:34:02.27\00:34:03.28
People tell me, when Jesus
died, he burned the house down.
00:34:03.31\00:34:08.92
People tell me, when Jesus
died, he abolished the Sabbath.
00:34:09.57\00:34:13.91
He risked His life
to restore the Sabbath.
00:34:13.94\00:34:17.42
You do not restore a
house and then burn it down.
00:34:17.45\00:34:21.23
It is the Lord's Day.
00:34:23.25\00:34:24.75
And that is why the Bible
says, God says, "Remember."
00:34:24.78\00:34:30.01
Quickly, I've
got so much material.
00:34:30.04\00:34:34.14
The miracles He performed on
that day show us the spiritual
00:34:35.44\00:34:39.90
significance of the Sabbath.
00:34:39.93\00:34:41.55
I want you to think
of this as you've never
00:34:41.58\00:34:43.40
thought of it before.
00:34:43.41\00:34:44.69
There are seven miracles
recorded that our blessed Lord
00:34:46.44\00:34:50.17
did on the Sabbath.
00:34:50.18\00:34:51.41
Don't look up these texts
because we don't have time.
00:34:53.50\00:34:57.00
But the first miracle
was the one when He healed
00:34:57.03\00:35:00.30
the man who had demons.
00:35:00.33\00:35:02.55
Then there was the
woman with a fever.
00:35:03.22\00:35:05.85
Then there was a man
with a withered hand.
00:35:05.88\00:35:09.57
Then there was a bent
over woman in the church.
00:35:09.60\00:35:14.21
Then there was the man with
dropsy, fluid in the tissue,
00:35:14.24\00:35:19.58
most likely caused by
heart failure or even cancer.
00:35:19.61\00:35:25.23
Then there was the crippled man.
00:35:25.26\00:35:27.96
Then there was the blind man.
00:35:27.99\00:35:29.86
All of these physical
maladies that our blessed Lord
00:35:31.54\00:35:36.44
healed on the
Sabbath were symptomatic
00:35:36.47\00:35:41.25
of the sins of the world.
00:35:41.28\00:35:43.93
Demon possession,
00:35:46.98\00:35:48.68
withered hands, crippled souls,
00:35:51.24\00:35:55.73
people with the cancer of sin.
00:35:56.67\00:35:59.91
And so, when Jesus
was doing these miracles
00:36:02.31\00:36:05.33
on the Sabbath day, He
was trying to teach people
00:36:05.36\00:36:08.68
that the Sabbath was
given for the restoration
00:36:08.71\00:36:12.37
of the human race.
00:36:12.40\00:36:14.24
We need the Sabbath.
00:36:15.90\00:36:17.37
We need the Sabbath because
God has given us the Lord's Day,
00:36:20.74\00:36:25.45
and it is different
from the Lord's hour.
00:36:25.48\00:36:28.10
It doesn't say, remember
the Lord's hour and then
00:36:31.18\00:36:34.20
go and play golf.
00:36:34.23\00:36:35.76
God has given us 24 hours
of holy time for God to heal us
00:36:37.37\00:36:41.91
from the results of sin as
typified by these diseases.
00:36:41.94\00:36:46.20
The gospel of Christ
heals every day, but the Sabbath
00:36:47.05\00:36:50.30
is a 24 hour period when we
come apart from the mad rush
00:36:50.33\00:36:55.07
of the world and
commune with our Maker.
00:36:55.10\00:36:57.84
The Sabbath is a
holiday with God.
00:36:57.87\00:37:01.48
The world and the church
desperately need the Sabbath.
00:37:02.01\00:37:08.12
That is the only commandment
that points to the gospel.
00:37:08.70\00:37:12.98
And only a person,
I want to remind you,
00:37:15.12\00:37:17.31
only a person who
knows Christ and has the rest
00:37:17.34\00:37:21.90
of the gospel in his
soul can keep the Sabbath.
00:37:21.93\00:37:26.09
You've got to be saved.
00:37:27.37\00:37:29.19
The bell of the church steeple
must ring out every Sabbath,
00:37:31.39\00:37:35.70
"Come to church, come to
worship, come hear the gospel,
00:37:36.10\00:37:43.65
come enter into
rest, come and be healed."
00:37:43.68\00:37:47.42
What society needs today
is the rest of the gospel
00:37:47.83\00:37:52.80
as found in the Sabbath.
00:37:52.83\00:37:54.92
Never say, never say
it is a yoke of bondage.
00:37:55.49\00:37:59.84
It is a yoke of
bondage to the person
00:37:59.87\00:38:02.12
who doesn't have the gospel.
00:38:02.15\00:38:03.78
Karl Barth, who most people
say was the greatest theologian
00:38:06.29\00:38:10.16
of the 20th century,
quotes another theologian.
00:38:10.19\00:38:14.37
And if my memory is
working at all tonight,
00:38:14.40\00:38:16.78
I think the other
theologian was De Quervain.
00:38:16.81\00:38:20.64
I said it fast in
case I was saying it wrong.
00:38:21.80\00:38:25.36
And De Quervain, quoted
by Karl Barth, said this,
00:38:27.33\00:38:32.40
and Karl Barth has
quoted him in his dogmatics:
00:38:32.41\00:38:36.19
Here it is again, "When the
holy day becomes the day of man,
00:38:47.17\00:38:51.18
society and humanity wither
away and the demons rule."
00:38:51.21\00:38:55.85
Let me tell you folks something.
00:38:56.63\00:38:58.16
May it sink down into
the molecules of your mind.
00:38:58.19\00:39:01.90
The demons are
ruling in society today.
00:39:01.93\00:39:06.18
The world is
becoming a crazy place.
00:39:07.39\00:39:12.47
Not becoming. It is.
00:39:12.87\00:39:14.78
Every crime you
see on television,
00:39:14.81\00:39:17.62
every sexual perversion.
00:39:17.65\00:39:20.45
The Spirit of God
is leaving the earth.
00:39:22.71\00:39:26.49
And one of the reasons we
have for the collapse of society
00:39:27.17\00:39:31.54
is because men and women
have forgotten the words,
00:39:31.57\00:39:34.69
the word, "Remember."
00:39:34.72\00:39:38.67
The Sabbath day was
made by a loving Creator
00:39:40.34\00:39:43.28
to recreate us in His own image.
00:39:43.31\00:39:46.65
It is the day of
healing and restoration.
00:39:46.68\00:39:50.90
Come with me to Genesis 2:1-3.
00:39:51.43\00:39:53.76
Genesis chapter 2 verses 1-3.
00:39:54.42\00:39:58.58
I want to follow Christ
in this matter, don't you.
00:39:58.61\00:40:03.00
Can you say, amen?
00:40:03.71\00:40:04.95
I want to follow
Christ in this matter.
00:40:05.32\00:40:07.91
I don't want to
follow some church.
00:40:08.90\00:40:10.74
I don't want to
follow some preacher.
00:40:10.77\00:40:12.84
I want to follow the
Christ of the Sabbath.
00:40:12.87\00:40:15.85
"Thus the heavens and
the earth were completed
00:40:16.69\00:40:18.87
in all their vast array.
00:40:18.88\00:40:20.77
By the seventh day
God had finished the work
00:40:21.46\00:40:24.02
He had been doing;
00:40:24.05\00:40:25.29
so on the seventh day He
rested from all His work.
00:40:25.32\00:40:28.99
And God blessed the
seventh day and made it holy,
00:40:29.02\00:40:33.81
because on it He rested
from all the work of creating
00:40:33.84\00:40:38.46
that He had done."
00:40:38.49\00:40:39.67
The Sabbath day...
00:40:39.68\00:40:40.67
Let me put it up here
on the hi-tech blackboards
00:40:40.97\00:40:44.38
with the hi-tech chalk.
00:40:44.41\00:40:47.67
The Sabbath is the rest day.
00:40:51.39\00:40:55.36
God rested as an example.
00:40:57.17\00:40:59.12
It's the rest day.
00:40:59.15\00:41:00.64
It is also, pardon the
spelling, it is the blessed day.
00:41:01.15\00:41:07.48
And that makes it the best day.
00:41:08.82\00:41:14.77
You see, it is the rest
day, it is the blessed day,
00:41:15.20\00:41:18.58
it is the best day.
00:41:18.61\00:41:20.14
Now these glasses here
contain Los Angeles water.
00:41:20.59\00:41:27.04
And this is the first day,
there is no blessing in it.
00:41:29.78\00:41:34.05
You may say, "But I will
have my Sabbath on any day."
00:41:34.42\00:41:39.17
You have the right to
choose what you want to do.
00:41:39.20\00:41:42.65
But the blessing was
not placed in the first day,
00:41:44.47\00:41:48.29
or the second or the
third or the fourth or the fifth
00:41:48.32\00:41:51.17
or the Preparation Day.
00:41:51.20\00:41:52.85
It was placed in the Sabbath.
00:41:52.88\00:41:56.67
You think I'm going
to drink some, don't you.
00:41:59.87\00:42:01.64
I will not disappoint you.
00:42:02.55\00:42:04.10
There is a
blessing in the Sabbath.
00:42:06.60\00:42:09.30
The church can say, "I'm
going to put a blessing there."
00:42:10.14\00:42:13.90
It doesn't count for anything.
00:42:13.93\00:42:15.33
Only God can bless.
00:42:16.00\00:42:17.74
You see?
00:42:18.59\00:42:19.59
And what God has
blessed, you cannot take
00:42:19.70\00:42:22.87
the blessing out of it.
00:42:22.88\00:42:24.29
And so God says it is the
rest day, it is the blessed day,
00:42:24.83\00:42:29.26
it is the best day.
00:42:29.29\00:42:32.18
Therefore,
remember the Sabbath day.
00:42:32.58\00:42:37.65
Not only is it the rest day, the
blessed day, and the best day,
00:42:38.31\00:42:42.14
it is also the test day.
00:42:42.17\00:42:47.11
Would you come over
here to Ezekiel chapter 20.
00:42:47.14\00:42:50.65
Come over here to Ezekiel.
00:42:50.68\00:42:52.08
I've still got a lot
of stuff to give you.
00:42:52.11\00:42:54.75
I've got too much
stuff, but that's okay.
00:42:54.78\00:42:57.14
Ezekiel 20.
00:42:57.64\00:42:58.66
I'm going to be preaching to you
at 9:00 o'clock in the morning.
00:42:58.69\00:43:01.52
I hope you folks are out of bed.
00:43:01.55\00:43:03.96
Anybody watching the telecast,
just remember to be here
00:43:03.99\00:43:08.04
at 9:00 o'clock in the morning.
00:43:08.05\00:43:09.85
Don't be late.
00:43:09.88\00:43:10.94
Ezekiel 20 verse 12.
00:43:11.24\00:43:13.65
"Also I gave them My
Sabbaths as a sign between us,
00:43:15.73\00:43:22.36
so they would know that
I, the Lord, made them holy."
00:43:22.39\00:43:25.95
Verse 20, "Keep My
Sabbaths holy, that they may be
00:43:25.98\00:43:29.71
a sign between us.
00:43:29.74\00:43:31.89
Then you will know that
I am the Lord your God."
00:43:31.92\00:43:35.98
And so, my
friend, the Bible tells me
00:43:36.01\00:43:39.03
it is the rest day, it is the
blessed day, it is the best day.
00:43:39.06\00:43:44.34
And the Bible says
it is the test day,
00:43:44.37\00:43:48.56
because the Bible
says it is the sign.
00:43:48.59\00:43:52.14
It's like the little old
lady in the American Civil war
00:43:54.37\00:43:57.98
who started out with a
broom stick to the front.
00:43:58.01\00:44:02.82
And they said, "Granny,
you're not going to do any good
00:44:03.20\00:44:06.48
with a broom stick."
00:44:06.51\00:44:07.86
She said, "They'll
know what side I'm on."
00:44:07.89\00:44:10.34
I want people to
know what side I'm on.
00:44:13.00\00:44:17.11
And when a person
saved by the grace of God
00:44:18.33\00:44:21.62
under the blood of
Jesus, justified by the precious
00:44:21.63\00:44:26.15
blood of Christ, when
that person enters into rest
00:44:26.18\00:44:29.17
and keeps the Sabbath,
he shows he's on God's side.
00:44:29.20\00:44:35.08
And the Bible talks about...
00:44:36.27\00:44:37.55
We don't have
time to look it up.
00:44:37.58\00:44:38.75
In Revelation, it
talks about the Lord's Day.
00:44:38.78\00:44:42.44
John says, "I was in the
Spirit on the Lord's Day."
00:44:42.96\00:44:46.69
People say, "Well,
every day is the Lord's Day."
00:44:46.72\00:44:49.68
No, no, no.
00:44:49.71\00:44:50.75
It talks about
the Lord's supper.
00:44:51.98\00:44:54.05
Every supper is
not the Lord's supper.
00:44:54.51\00:44:56.71
Every house is
not the Lord's house.
00:44:57.27\00:45:00.22
It is the day that
the Lord has blessed.
00:45:00.87\00:45:03.85
It's the Lord's Day.
00:45:05.08\00:45:06.42
It says in the gospel prophet
Isaiah, "Keep the Sabbath.
00:45:06.93\00:45:11.61
And if you keep the
Sabbath, My holy day."
00:45:11.64\00:45:16.07
It says, "If you keep
My day holy, honorable,
00:45:16.10\00:45:21.84
don't do your own things,
then I'm going to bless you."
00:45:21.87\00:45:25.15
I want every person watching
this telecast around the world
00:45:26.17\00:45:30.06
to know that we're talking
here about the commandment
00:45:30.09\00:45:34.57
that represents the gospel.
00:45:34.60\00:45:36.90
We're talking here
about the Day of Christ.
00:45:36.93\00:45:40.55
That's why God said...
00:45:42.64\00:45:44.32
What did He say?
00:45:45.03\00:45:46.24
Remember.
00:45:46.52\00:45:47.88
Are you going to remember?
00:45:47.91\00:45:50.02
Remember.
00:45:50.25\00:45:51.93
De Quervain says, "When the
holy day becomes the day of man,
00:45:53.24\00:45:59.30
society and humanity wither
away and the demons rule."
00:45:59.33\00:46:05.20
When people give up
the Sabbath, marriage goes,
00:46:07.17\00:46:11.98
society goes downhill.
00:46:12.01\00:46:15.00
Everything falls apart.
00:46:15.83\00:46:18.41
The center cannot
hold and people are
00:46:18.44\00:46:21.19
driven to desperation.
00:46:21.22\00:46:22.64
And they ask the
question, "What's happened
00:46:22.68\00:46:24.90
to the human race?"
00:46:24.93\00:46:26.48
It's because they
forgot the Lord their God.
00:46:28.83\00:46:31.91
Remember.
00:46:33.37\00:46:34.62
It is a test day,
because the apostate church
00:46:34.65\00:46:39.02
hundreds of years after
Christ, changed the day.
00:46:39.03\00:46:43.65
Now I love the Baptists.
00:46:43.90\00:46:46.12
Some of my best
friends are Baptists.
00:46:46.15\00:46:49.79
But I'm going to
quote, now, a Baptist.
00:46:49.82\00:46:53.12
So my Baptist
friends who are watching,
00:46:53.15\00:46:55.47
don't get mad with
me over this point.
00:46:55.50\00:46:57.67
You can get mad with
me over some other point.
00:46:57.70\00:46:59.64
But not this one.
00:47:00.15\00:47:01.57
Because I'm going to
quote to you the author
00:47:01.92\00:47:05.45
of the Baptist Manual.
00:47:05.48\00:47:07.20
He says:
00:47:08.29\00:47:09.36
So my friends,
he's telling the truth.
00:47:38.38\00:47:41.64
If this is true,
and it is the truth,
00:48:18.40\00:48:22.44
then this issue is
not a trivial issue.
00:48:23.14\00:48:26.12
It is the rest day, the
blessed day, the best day.
00:48:26.15\00:48:30.44
But the test day,
00:48:30.47\00:48:33.46
because the day was
changed as a mark of impiety.
00:48:34.81\00:48:39.44
My beloved friends in
the Roman Catholic Church,
00:48:41.28\00:48:44.42
let me quote you.
00:48:44.45\00:48:45.67
Stephen Keenan.
00:48:46.21\00:48:47.54
Now I love Roman Catholics.
00:48:48.31\00:48:50.57
My father was a Roman Catholic.
00:48:50.60\00:48:53.31
If it hadn't been for
the sovereign will of God,
00:48:53.32\00:48:56.02
I could have ended
up a Catholic Priest.
00:48:56.05\00:48:58.71
Maybe a Bishop even.
00:48:59.30\00:49:01.13
Though I would have had
my eye on being a Cardinal.
00:49:02.28\00:49:05.04
Certainly not the Pope.
00:49:05.37\00:49:06.78
I don't think I would
have gotten that high.
00:49:06.81\00:49:08.49
Okay, let me read to you from
my beloved Catholic friends.
00:49:08.52\00:49:13.20
Stephen Keenan, A
Doctrinal Catechism.
00:49:47.68\00:49:50.02
I've got the book.
00:49:50.05\00:49:51.07
Therefore, on the basis
of the truth of the Bible,
00:50:16.27\00:50:20.14
and the basis of
these great statements,
00:50:20.17\00:50:23.68
I say to you tonight, remember.
00:50:23.71\00:50:27.11
Remember the
Sabbath day to keep it holy.
00:50:28.90\00:50:33.49
Do not make light
of this, my friend.
00:50:33.52\00:50:37.20
Do not turn off the television.
00:50:38.21\00:50:40.93
Do not walk away
and say, "Nobody cares."
00:50:40.96\00:50:44.41
Because God does.
00:50:45.11\00:50:46.93
The God who made
you in His own image,
00:50:47.88\00:50:51.12
who made you
with His own fingers,
00:50:51.15\00:50:53.62
and breathed into your
nostrils the breath of life,
00:50:53.65\00:50:56.96
this God says, not the
Adventist Church and not some
00:50:56.99\00:51:01.69
poor preacher,
God says, "Remember."
00:51:01.72\00:51:05.83
It is the test day
because during the last days,
00:51:11.67\00:51:14.62
it assumes special significance.
00:51:14.65\00:51:18.74
Let me say that again.
00:51:18.77\00:51:20.26
I sometimes get
my words mixed up.
00:51:20.29\00:51:22.84
Do you know why?
00:51:22.87\00:51:23.99
Oh, I get excited.
00:51:24.31\00:51:25.82
When I was up to 8 years of
age, I couldn't talk at all.
00:51:27.01\00:51:30.97
So my parents took me
along to a place in Australia
00:51:31.81\00:51:35.51
because they
thought I would never speak.
00:51:35.54\00:51:38.22
They didn't have
much to worry about.
00:51:39.19\00:51:41.21
But they said, they
checked me out and they said,
00:51:41.24\00:51:45.17
"No, he's got everything
that he needs to speak.
00:51:45.57\00:51:49.62
He is a lazy boy."
00:51:49.65\00:51:51.40
But even today, I have
to struggle with some words
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because I have a lazy tongue.
00:51:58.83\00:52:04.90
Never the less, I
tell you tonight, remember.
00:52:06.59\00:52:10.70
And the Bible says, in the last
days the Sabbath is going to
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have particular significance.
00:52:15.17\00:52:18.49
Now come to the
last book in the Bible,
00:52:18.52\00:52:20.53
and now I'm flying,
Revelation chapter 14.
00:52:20.56\00:52:23.83
And I'm not going to
prove all these points now,
00:52:23.86\00:52:26.36
I'm just going to fly through.
00:52:26.39\00:52:28.36
Revelation 14, this
is the last message,
00:52:29.16\00:52:32.47
the last message
to a dying world.
00:52:32.50\00:52:35.99
Revelation 14 verse 6,
"Then I saw another angel
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flying in midair, and he
had the eternal gospel..."
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We preached on it last night.
00:52:43.37\00:52:45.01
"...to proclaim to
those who live on the earth;
00:52:45.04\00:52:47.32
to every nation,
tribe, language and people.
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He said in a loud voice,
'Fear God and give Him glory,
00:52:49.90\00:52:53.21
because the hour of
His judgment has come.
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Worship Him who made the
heavens, the earth, the sea,
00:52:55.31\00:52:58.21
and the springs of water.'"
00:52:58.24\00:52:59.85
This is a quotation
from the fourth commandment.
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And God says in the last message
to the world, "Remember."
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Then if you come down
to verse 9, "A third angel
00:53:08.73\00:53:11.14
followed them and said in a
loud voice; 'If anyone worships
00:53:11.17\00:53:14.33
the beast and his image
and receives his mark on the
00:53:14.36\00:53:18.64
forehead or on the
hand, he too will drink of the
00:53:18.67\00:53:21.32
wine of God's fury.'"
00:53:21.35\00:53:22.70
Some people tell
me, "Don't preach that."
00:53:22.73\00:53:25.00
The devil
doesn't want it preached.
00:53:26.22\00:53:28.09
But God says it
will be preached.
00:53:29.12\00:53:31.14
In stark contrast to the mark
of the beast, you have verse 12.
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"This calls for
patient endurance on the
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part of the saints who
obey God's commandments
00:53:41.61\00:53:45.27
and remain faithful to Jesus."
00:53:45.28\00:53:48.76
In the last days...
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I do not have
time to talk about it.
00:53:51.20\00:53:52.93
...you're going to
have the mark of the beast
00:53:52.96\00:53:57.06
and creature worship.
00:53:57.09\00:53:58.91
And on the other side of the
spectrum, you are going to have
00:53:58.94\00:54:03.01
the commandments of God.
00:54:03.04\00:54:05.35
And the only commandment
that points to the holy gospel;
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the Sabbath.
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Therefore, remember.
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In the last days,
there is going to come a
00:54:17.07\00:54:22.23
polarization in the world.
00:54:22.26\00:54:24.77
The world is going to
be divided into two camps;
00:54:26.98\00:54:29.95
those who follow human tradition
and go the way of the crowd,
00:54:29.98\00:54:35.78
and those who say,
"As for me and my house,
00:54:35.98\00:54:39.43
we will serve the Lord."
00:54:39.46\00:54:40.89
Now listen to me.
00:54:41.96\00:54:43.20
We are now in the
United States of America,
00:54:43.23\00:54:45.85
and God bless America.
00:54:45.88\00:54:47.86
She needs all the blessing
she can get at this time.
00:54:48.19\00:54:50.91
Here is the American flag.
00:54:51.33\00:54:54.02
We call her, Old Glory.
00:54:54.55\00:54:58.13
I'm proud to
stand beside the flag.
00:54:58.68\00:55:02.29
The flag, in
itself, has no significance.
00:55:04.46\00:55:07.54
It is only made of cloth.
00:55:07.57\00:55:09.45
It is what it stands for.
00:55:10.23\00:55:12.42
And what does
the flag stand for?
00:55:13.96\00:55:16.71
I will tell you what the
American flag stands for.
00:55:17.08\00:55:20.43
It stands for decency, honesty,
the American Constitution,
00:55:20.46\00:55:27.12
and liberty for all men.
00:55:27.15\00:55:29.56
It stands for freedom to worship
God and freedom of speech.
00:55:29.59\00:55:34.61
The flag is a symbol.
00:55:39.38\00:55:41.48
And the seventh day
Sabbath which is the rest day,
00:55:43.37\00:55:47.86
the blessed day, the
best day, the test day,
00:55:47.87\00:55:50.35
the only one of the
commandments that points
00:55:50.38\00:55:52.76
to the gospel, is a symbol.
00:55:52.79\00:55:55.69
The Sabbath
stands for the Creator.
00:56:00.01\00:56:02.80
When people have given up
on Him, and they curse Him,
00:56:03.73\00:56:07.05
and they blaspheme His
name, the Sabbath says,
00:56:07.08\00:56:09.94
"I believe in the Creator."
00:56:09.97\00:56:12.01
And the Sabbath
stands for Christ.
00:56:13.19\00:56:16.71
Because it was He who
flung the stars in space,
00:56:20.53\00:56:25.73
who made us and who
gave us the Sabbath,
00:56:27.40\00:56:31.05
who risked His life
to keep the Sabbath,
00:56:31.06\00:56:35.37
and to show us how
it ought to be kept.
00:56:35.40\00:56:38.04
Therefore, my message
to you tonight is summed up
00:56:38.79\00:56:43.18
in one word, remember.
00:56:43.21\00:56:47.26
Remember the
Sabbath to keep it holy.
00:56:47.95\00:56:54.00
And I say with
the man in the Bible,
00:56:54.41\00:56:56.88
"As for me and my house, we will
serve the Lord and be obedient."
00:56:57.28\00:57:06.15
Amen, and amen.
00:57:06.85\00:57:10.27
Who will raise their
hand tonight and say,
00:57:10.37\00:57:12.65
"I will follow my Christ."
00:57:12.68\00:57:15.41
I will follow...
00:57:15.72\00:57:16.77
Lift up your
hands and say tonight,
00:57:16.80\00:57:18.95
"I will follow my Christ."
00:57:18.98\00:57:21.45
And I appeal to those watching
on the television screen,
00:57:21.48\00:57:25.14
say tonight, "I
will follow my Christ."
00:57:25.17\00:57:29.31