(Theme Song) ? Jesus is worthy ?
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? oh yes, he's worthy
? ? worthy of all. . . ?
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Did God change his law?
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Go with me now to
the Book of Psalms.
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Psalms 89.
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Did God change his
law and the Sabbath?
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Psalm 89, verse 34.
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The Word of God
says, God himself speaking,
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"My covenant will I
not break, nor alter
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the thing that is gone out
of my lips." If God said it,
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that settles it.
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Well, God the Father,
he didn't change this?
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Are you sure, Pastor?
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Well, let me give
you some more evidence.
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Go with me to the book of
Malachi, chapter 3, verse 6.
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Malachi 3:6.
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The Word of God
says, "For I am the Lord.
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I change not.
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Therefore, ye sons of Jacob
are not consumed." God says,
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I'm the Lord.
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I don't change.
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I'm not like you all.
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One day I'm this way,
next day I'm that way.
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God doesn't have
mood swings like we do.
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Are you hearing what I'm saying?
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God is the same.
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God says, "I change not."
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I didn't change my law.
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Well, if God didn't
change his law, we're clear
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from the Old
Testament that the seventh day
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is the Sabbath.
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But Pastor, maybe
that's an Old Testament thing.
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What does the New
Testament have to say?
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If the Father
didn't, well, maybe the Son,
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Jesus Christ, did.
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Maybe Jesus changed God's law.
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Well, let's see
what Jesus has to say.
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God with me to the
book of Matthew, chapter 5.
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Know what you believe,
know why you believe it,
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know where it's found.
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Matthew 5, verse 17.
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Let's get in the Word.
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Matthew 5:17, the Word of God
says, "Think not that I am come
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to destroy the
law or the prophets.
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I am come not to destroy
but to fulfill." To fulfill.
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Go on.
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"For I say unto you,
till heaven and earth
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pass, one jot or one
tittle shall in nowise pass
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from the law, till all
be fulfilled." Verse 19:
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"Whosoever therefore
shall break one of these least
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commandments, and shall teach
men so, he shall be called the
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least in the kingdom of
heaven: but whosoever shall do
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and teach them, the same shall
be called great in the kingdom
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of heaven." Jesus
said, no, I didn't change
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the Father's law.
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I didn't change God's law.
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I didn't change my law.
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I didn't come to change it.
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Jesus said, I
came to fulfill it.
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And then Jesus says,
"Whoever preaches against
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my law is going to be
called least in my kingdom."
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But he says,
"Whosoever shall teach and
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preach my law shall be called
great in my kingdom." Also,
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what else does the
Word say about Jesus?
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Go to the book of
Hebrews, chapter 13, verse 8.
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Jesus says, I
couldn't change my law.
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I couldn't change the
law of God, Jesus said,
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because you need to
understand something about me.
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Hebrews 13:8.
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Jesus said, I can't change
my law, because Jesus says,
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"[I am] the same yesterday,
and today, and forever."
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I don't change.
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So just like God the
Father says, "I change not,"
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God the Son says,
I'm the "same yesterday,
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and today, and forever."
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Now the Word of God
says, "And he came to
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Nazareth, where he had
been brought up, and lo, as his
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custom was," which means this
was not an isolated Sabbath.
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That suggests his custom was
that every seventh-day Sabbath
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Jesus went into the synagogue.
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Jesus went into the
church, the holy convocation,
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and stood up for to read.
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Verse 17: "And there was
delivered until him the book
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of the prophet
Isaiah, and when he had opened
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the book, he found the
place where it was written,"
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in verse 18, "the
spirit of the Lord is
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upon me because he hath
anointed me to preach the
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gospel to the poor.
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He has sent me to heal
the brokenhearted, to preach
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deliverance to the captives,
to increase recovering of
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sight to the blind, to
set at liberty them that are"
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what, everybody?
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"To preach the acceptable
year of the" what, everybody?
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Verse 20: "And he closed
the book and he gave it again to
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the ministry, sat down, and
all the eyes of them that were
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in the synagogue and
the church were fastened on
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Jesus." What do we
discover from this text?
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We discover from the text
that Jesus, God the Son, he too
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fulfilled the law,
didn't change the law, but he
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affirmed and kept
God's seventh-day Sabbath.
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He went into the synagogue,
the church, on the seventh-day
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Sabbath and read
the scriptures. In fact,
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in this text, Jesus
was the guest preacher.
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He preached the Word.
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Read from the scriptures.
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And then when he sat down, he
closed the book and turned the
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service back over
to the host pastor.
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You all hear what I'm saying?
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Jesus too kept God's Sabbath.
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All right, Pastor, the
Father didn't, the Son couldn't,
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Old Testament, New Testament,
but maybe the disciples
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changed God's Sabbath.
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Maybe they
changed this thing up.
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Yeah, we understand there's
seven days in the week, in six
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days God created this
earth, and the seventh day God
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rested, blessed
it, sanctified it.
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But maybe the
disciples changed God's law.
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Go to Acts.
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Know what you believe, know
why you believe it, know where
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it's found.
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Acts, chapter 13.
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Let's get some Word in you.
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If you're going to shout
on the Word, know what you're
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shouting about.
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Acts 13, verse 42.
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The Word of God says to us
today: "And when the Jews were
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gone out of the synagogue,"
the church, "the Gentiles
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besought that these
words might be preached to them
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the next sabbath.
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Now when the congregation
was broken up, many of the Jews
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and religious proselytes
followed Paul and Barnabas:
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who, speaking to them,
persuaded them to continue
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in the grace of God.
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And the next sabbath day came
almost the whole city together
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to hear the word of God."
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Go to the book of Hebrews.
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Know what you believe,
know why you believe it,
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know where it's found.
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I told you, we're
going to work all the way
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up to Revelation.
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Hebrews, chapter 4, verse 4.
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Look it up in your Bibles.
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Hebrews 4:4.
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The Word of God says us today
in Hebrews 4:4: "For he spake
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in a certain place of the
seventh day on this wise, And
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God did rest the
seventh day from all his works.
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And in this place again, If
they shall enter into my rest.
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Seeing therefore it remaineth
that some must enter therein,
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and they to whom it was
first preached entered not in
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because of unbelief: Again, he
limiteth a certain day, saying
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in David, Today, after so long
a time; as it is said, Today
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if ye will hear his
voice, harden not your hearts."
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Verse 8, the clincher
for me: "For if Jesus had
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given them rest, then
would he not afterward
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have spoken of another day.
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There remaineth therefore
a rest to the people of God."
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Hebrews, clearly,
after Jesus' death.
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If Jesus had changed
the Sabbath, then would
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he not have told us?
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I mean, really, if God,
Father, Son and Holy Spirit,
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can create something out
of nothing, surely if they
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changed the Sabbath they
would have told somebody.
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Well, the argument that's
out there that says, well, you
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know, the Sabbath was
done away with at the cross.
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The Sabbath really didn't have
much to do with the cross in
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the sense that the Sabbath
was instituted before sin.
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In Genesis 2, God
instituted the Sabbath.
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In Genesis 3, Adam and
Eve disobeyed God, ate of the
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fruit of the Tree of
Knowledge of Good and Evil,
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in essence, disobedient.
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It's in Genesis 3
that Adam and Eve sinned.
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Think about it.
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Genesis 1, God
creates this earth.
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Genesis 2, God
institutes the Sabbath.
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Genesis 3, Adam and Eve sinned.
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The reason why Jesus had to
come back the second time was
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he had to come
to save us from sin.
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Jesus had to go to Calvary
so that through his shed blood
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we might have everlasting life
free from the penalty of sin.
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If Adam and Eve had
never sinned, humanity would
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not have followed in our
fore-parents, and we would
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have not have sinned.
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If Adam and Eve had not
sinned, there would have
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been no sin.
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If Adam and Eve had not
disobeyed God in sin, there
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would have been no need
for Jesus, our Saviour, to come
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and die for us on Calvary.
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But before Adam and
Even sinned, the Sabbath
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was already in place.
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All right, Pastor
Byrd, that makes sense.
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The seventh-day
Sabbath is good, Old Testament,
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New Testament.
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Good for the
Father, good for the Son,
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good for the apostles.
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Pastor Byrd, how do we know
which day is the seventh-day
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Sabbath?
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Now read Revelation.
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Go to Revelation,
chapter 1, verse 10.
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Know what you believe, know
why you believe it, know where
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it's found.
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Revelation 1:10.
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John the Revelator, on the
Isle of Patmos, says, "I was
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in the Spirit on the Lord's
day, and heard behind me a
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great voice, as of a trumpet."
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Now, nowhere in the text does
it read that John said, "I was
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in the Spirit on the Lord's
day, be it the first day, the
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second day, third, fourth,
fifth, sixth or seventh day.
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It just says, "I was in
the Spirit on the Lord's day."
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Now, there are many in the
Christian community who try to
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suggest that by John saying
he was in the Spirit on the
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Lord's day that he was in
the Spirit on a specific day.
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But the Bible does not say that.
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The Bible just says that John
said, "I was in the Spirit on
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the Lord's day." Now go
back to Mark, chapter 2,
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and we're going to
go to verse 27 and 28.
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Mark 2:27-28.
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Jesus himself speaking,
"And he said unto them,
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The sabbath was
made for man, and not man
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for the sabbath." Come
on, the Sabbath was made
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for whom, everybody?
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And not man for the what?
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Sabbath.
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"Therefore the Son of man,"
and the Son of man is Jesus,
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"is Lord also of the sabbath."
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So if Jesus is Lord of the
Sabbath day, then the Sabbath
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must be the Lord's day.
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When John was in the Spirit
on the Lord's day, John was in
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the Spirit on the Sabbath day,
because the Sabbath was made
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for man and not man for the
Sabbath, and the Sabbath day
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is the Lord's day.
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Because Jesus, the Son
of man, is Lord of the what,
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everybody? Sabbath.
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Pastor Byrd, well, what
about, what do you mean?
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How do we know?
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Seventh-day Sabbath?
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How do we know?
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I mean, well, I could tell
you, let's go to the calendar.
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And you go to a calendar,
you'll see Sunday's the first
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day, Monday's the second
day, Tuesday's the third day,
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Wednesday's the fourth
day, Thursday's the fifth day,
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Friday's the sixth
day, Saturday, the Sabbath,
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is the seventh day.
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I could tell you that.
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But then you'll say, oh, well,
Pastor, you know, sometimes
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they change calendars
up, and I just don't know,
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Pastor Byrd.
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I really just don't know.
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And I say, well, maybe we
can go to speak to persons who
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speak the Spanish language.
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Because the people who speak
the Spanish language will tell
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you that the Spanish term for
Saturday is Sabado, which is a
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transliteration of the
word Sabbath. Well, Pastor Byrd,
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I don't know.
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We've got all this
different language around.
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Are you sure about that?
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Are you sure?
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I say, well, we can go talk
to an authentic Jew, and they
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will tell you that
Saturday, the seventh day,
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is the Sabbath.
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But consistent with our
teaching and preaching, let's
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go to the Word.
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Now, let's go to
Luke 23, verse 50.
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Know what you believe,
know why you believe it,
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know where it's found.
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Luke 23:50, let's go there.
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Now, remember, somebody
is seated out there today,
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somebody's watching this
on television, and they're
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saying, Pastor Byrd, I
want the Bible to say, Remember
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Saturday, to keep it holy.
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Someone out there today is
saying, Pastor Byrd, I want
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the Bible to say, Remember
Saturday to keep it holy.
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Now, the Bible says
remember the what day?
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Seventh day.
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To keep it what? Holy.
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But you want it to
say, Remember Saturday,
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to keep it holy.
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You want it to
literally say the term.
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Well, let me say this to you.
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The Bible does not
say, as I say all the time,
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Thou shalt not smoke crack.
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The Bible teaches a principle,
and the Bible says that your
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body is the temple of whom?
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God. So you know,
because your body's
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the temple of God,
you know that crack
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doesn't belong in your body.
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Come on, say Amen.
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The Bible says,
Remember the Sabbath day,
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to keep it what? Holy.
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And that the seventh
day is the what? Sabbath.
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But let's see what the
Word says in Luke 23:50.
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"And, behold, there was a
man named Joseph, a counsellor;
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and he was a good man, and
a just man: (The same had not
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consented to the counsel
and deed of them;) he was of
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Arimathaea, a city of the
Jews: who also himself waited
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for the kingdom of God.
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This man went unto Pilate,
and begged the body of Jesus."
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Why? Because this man,
Joseph, was the undertaker.
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He was the funeral director.
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Let's keep reading
from the Word of God.
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"And he took it down, and
wrapped it in linen, and laid
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it in a sepulchre that was
hewn in stone, wherein never
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man before was laid.
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And that day was the
preparation, and the sabbath
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drew on." Which suggests to
me the day that Jesus' body was
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taken down from the cross
was the day before the Sabbath.
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Verse 55: And the women
also, which came with him from
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Galilee, followed after, and
beheld the sepulchre, and how
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his body was laid.
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And they returned, and
prepared spices and ointments;
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and rested the" what day?
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"Sabbath day according to
the commandment." Chapter 24,
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verse 1: "Now upon the first
day of the week, very early in
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the morning, they came
unto the sepulchre, bringing the
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spices which they
had prepared, and certain
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others with them.
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And they found the stone
rolled away from the sepulchre.
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And they entered in, and found
not the body of the Lord Jesus.
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And it came to pass, as
they were much perplexed
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thereabout, behold, two
men stood by them in shining
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garments: And as they were
afraid, and bowed down their
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faces to the earth, they
said unto them, Why seek ye the
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living among the dead?
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He is not here, but is risen:
remember how he spake unto you
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when he was yet in Galilee,
saying, The Son of man must be
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delivered into the hands of
sinful men, and be crucified,
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and the third day rise again.
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And they remembered his
words." This text is clear.
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On the sixth day, the
preparation day, known in the
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Christian community as Good
Friday, Jesus' body was taken
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down from the cross.
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Jesus had died on the cross
and his body was taken down
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from the cross.
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The Bible says that the
Sabbath drew on, which means
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that after the preparation
day, day six, Good Friday, now
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the seventh-day
Sabbath, Saturday, his body lay
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resting in the grave.
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The Bible says--if God said
it, that settles it--according
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to the commandment.
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Then the Bible says early
the first day of the week, his
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body was not there.
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Christian community
calls it Easter Sunday.
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His body was not
there, but Jesus rose.
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Any math teacher will tell
you, after day six comes day
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seven, and since there are
seven days in a week, you now
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start back with day number one.
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Day six, Good Friday,
Jesus died, body taken from the
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grave.
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Day seven, Saturday, the
Sabbath, his body lay resting
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in the grave.
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Day one, Sunday, known in the
Christian community as Easter,
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Jesus rose.
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It's tight, but it's right.
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Pastor Byrd, all
right, the Word is clear.
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The seventh-day Saturday,
the Sabbath, holy convocation.
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Sunset to sunset, evening to
morning sunset Friday, sunset
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Saturday, not speaking my
own words, doing my own thing.
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God did it, Jesus did
it, the apostles did it,
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we ought to do it.
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Pastor Byrd, what
difference does a day make?
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God is a God of specifics.
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God means what he says.
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Pastor Byrd, what
difference does a day make?
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I don't need to know
what difference a day makes.
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All I need to know is, God
says, remember the seventh-day
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Sabbath, to keep it
holy, and if God said it,
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that settles it.
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Isaiah 66:22, 23.
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This is why this is
so pivotal for us today.
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Isaiah 66:22, 23.
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A couple more texts.
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This is why it's so important:
"For as the new heavens and
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the new earth, which I will
make, shall remain before me,
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saith the Lord, so shall
your seed and your name remain."
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Verse 23: "And it shall
come to pass, that from one new
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moon to another, and from one
sabbath to another, shall all
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flesh come to worship
before me, saith the Lord.
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The day is going to come that
not just here on planet Earth,
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but when we get to heaven,
when we sing and never get
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tired, when we put on our long
white robes, when I fly from
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my mansion to your mansion,
the time is going to come that
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though we have a good time
with each other and with the
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Lord, that when the Sabbath
rolls in, that the Bible is
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clear that in the new heavens
and the new earth, God says,
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my people are going to
come together and worship before
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me, saith the Lord.
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And when I get to heaven, and
I see my Jesus, and I see the
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one who died for me, and
it becomes that first Sabbath
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that I see my Jesus,
I'm going to say hallelujah,
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home at last.
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The redeemed are home at last.
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The Lord is in his holy temple.
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Let all the earth
keep silence before him.
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Oh come and
magnify the Lord with me.
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And let us on his
Sabbath exalt his name together.
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It's clear.
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The Word of God says it.
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And let me say this.
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I've got two more texts for you.
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But let me say this to you.
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I don't stand here, preach
and teach the Sabbath, because I
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feel that if I don't do this,
if I don't preach this, if I
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don't teach this, if I don't
observe God's Sabbath, I don't
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do it because I'm
afraid of going to hell.
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Some of us do right because
we're afraid to go to hell.
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That's our motivation.
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We want to do right.
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We don't want to go to
hell, we don't to burn.
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No, no, no.
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I observe God's Sabbath,
I keep God's Sabbath because
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I love the Lord.
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And if loving the
Lord is wrong, I don't want
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to be right.
00:22:13.13\00:22:14.03
Jesus said, If ye love
me, keep my commandments.
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Heaven is not a
fire escape from hell.
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Because if you don't really
want to be there, if you don't
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really love the Lord
Jesus, you're not going
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to be happy there.
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But I preach this and
teach this because I love Jesus.
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And I love Jesus, I want his
Word, I want his truth, I want
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to know what I believe, I
want to know why I believe it, I
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want to know where it's found.
00:22:47.73\00:22:48.93
There's too much
false doctrine out there.
00:22:48.93\00:22:51.80
People preach and
teach whatever they want
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the Bible to say.
00:22:54.06\00:22:55.13
If you're not careful,
the devil will use the Bible
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to justify some horrible stuff.
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But you've got to let the
Word of God speak for itself.
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So, Pastor Byrd, it's so
easy, so simply, you made it so
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plain, the Word of God.
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Yeah, but, Pastor
Byrd, what's the problem?
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Go to the book of
Mark, chapter 7, verse 6.
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Mark 7:6.
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The Word of God
says, "He answered and said
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unto them, Well hath Esaias
prophesied of you hypocrites,
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as it is written,
This people honoreth
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me with their lips, but
their heart is far from me.
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Howbeit in vain do they worship
me, teaching for doctrines
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the commandments of men.
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For laying aside the
commandment of God, ye hold
00:24:03.30\00:24:05.20
the tradition of men, as
the washing of pots and cups:
00:24:05.20\00:24:09.76
and many other
such like things ye do.
00:24:09.76\00:24:11.33
And he said unto them, Full
well ye reject the commandment
00:24:11.33\00:24:17.00
of God, that ye may keep
your own tradition." Last text,
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Hebrews 10:26.
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Now, we know, as we
turn there, that sin is the
00:24:44.33\00:24:46.70
transgression of God's law.
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Sin is when you
disobey God's law.
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Let's see what the Word says.
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Hebrews 10:26: "For if we
sin wilfully after that we have
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received the knowledge of the
truth, there remaineth no more
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sacrifice for sins." God is
going to hold everyone in this
00:25:10.56\00:25:19.03
church, everyone over the
Internet, everyone over the
00:25:19.03\00:25:21.76
television, he's going to hold
us all accountable for what we
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read from his Word today.
00:25:24.56\00:25:28.00
If we sin willfully, after we
have received the knowledge of
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the truth, there remaineth
no more sacrifice for our sins.
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God loves you.
00:25:41.36\00:25:45.23
God loves you.
00:25:45.23\00:25:47.13
God loves you.
00:25:47.13\00:25:49.16
God died to save you.
00:25:49.16\00:25:52.36
God has given us his
Word, the roadmap on how
00:25:52.36\00:25:55.76
we get to heaven.
00:25:55.76\00:25:56.90
The question now is, do we
love God enough to follow what
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his Word says?
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