Participants: Carlton P. Byrd
Series Code: BOL
Program Code: BOL000009
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00:00 (Theme Song) ♪ Jesus is worthy ♪
00:10 ♪ oh yes, he's worthy ♪ ♪ worthy of all. . . ♪ 00:20 Did God change his law? 00:25 Go with me now to the Book of Psalms. 00:28 Psalms 89. 00:32 Did God change his law and the Sabbath? 00:34 Psalm 89, verse 34. 00:39 The Word of God says, God himself speaking, 00:46 "My covenant will I not break, nor alter 00:49 the thing that is gone out of my lips." If God said it, 00:57 that settles it. 00:59 Well, God the Father, he didn't change this? 01:02 Are you sure, Pastor? 01:03 Well, let me give you some more evidence. 01:05 Go with me to the book of Malachi, chapter 3, verse 6. 01:11 Malachi 3:6. 01:17 The Word of God says, "For I am the Lord. 01:21 I change not. 01:25 Therefore, ye sons of Jacob are not consumed." God says, 01:29 I'm the Lord. 01:30 I don't change. 01:31 I'm not like you all. 01:32 One day I'm this way, next day I'm that way. 01:34 God doesn't have mood swings like we do. 01:36 Are you hearing what I'm saying? 01:37 God is the same. 01:40 God says, "I change not." 01:41 I didn't change my law. 01:43 Well, if God didn't change his law, we're clear 01:45 from the Old Testament that the seventh day 01:46 is the Sabbath. 01:47 But Pastor, maybe that's an Old Testament thing. 01:52 What does the New Testament have to say? 01:54 If the Father didn't, well, maybe the Son, 01:57 Jesus Christ, did. 02:00 Maybe Jesus changed God's law. 02:03 Well, let's see what Jesus has to say. 02:06 God with me to the book of Matthew, chapter 5. 02:10 Know what you believe, know why you believe it, 02:12 know where it's found. 02:14 Matthew 5, verse 17. 02:17 Let's get in the Word. 02:19 Matthew 5:17, the Word of God says, "Think not that I am come 02:25 to destroy the law or the prophets. 02:28 I am come not to destroy but to fulfill." To fulfill. 02:32 Go on. 02:33 "For I say unto you, till heaven and earth 02:36 pass, one jot or one tittle shall in nowise pass 02:41 from the law, till all be fulfilled." Verse 19: 02:46 "Whosoever therefore shall break one of these least 02:48 commandments, and shall teach men so, he shall be called the 02:51 least in the kingdom of heaven: but whosoever shall do 02:53 and teach them, the same shall be called great in the kingdom 02:57 of heaven." Jesus said, no, I didn't change 03:00 the Father's law. 03:02 I didn't change God's law. 03:03 I didn't change my law. 03:05 I didn't come to change it. 03:06 Jesus said, I came to fulfill it. 03:10 And then Jesus says, "Whoever preaches against 03:12 my law is going to be called least in my kingdom." 03:17 But he says, "Whosoever shall teach and 03:18 preach my law shall be called great in my kingdom." Also, 03:23 what else does the Word say about Jesus? 03:25 Go to the book of Hebrews, chapter 13, verse 8. 03:29 Jesus says, I couldn't change my law. 03:31 I couldn't change the law of God, Jesus said, 03:33 because you need to understand something about me. 03:35 Hebrews 13:8. 03:38 Jesus said, I can't change my law, because Jesus says, 03:40 "[I am] the same yesterday, and today, and forever." 03:46 I don't change. 03:47 So just like God the Father says, "I change not," 03:50 God the Son says, I'm the "same yesterday, 03:53 and today, and forever." 03:54 Now the Word of God says, "And he came to 03:57 Nazareth, where he had been brought up, and lo, as his 04:02 custom was," which means this was not an isolated Sabbath. 04:07 That suggests his custom was that every seventh-day Sabbath 04:10 Jesus went into the synagogue. 04:14 Jesus went into the church, the holy convocation, 04:19 and stood up for to read. 04:21 Verse 17: "And there was delivered until him the book 04:24 of the prophet Isaiah, and when he had opened 04:27 the book, he found the place where it was written," 04:30 in verse 18, "the spirit of the Lord is 04:34 upon me because he hath anointed me to preach the 04:38 gospel to the poor. 04:40 He has sent me to heal the brokenhearted, to preach 04:44 deliverance to the captives, to increase recovering of 04:49 sight to the blind, to set at liberty them that are" 04:52 what, everybody? 04:53 "To preach the acceptable year of the" what, everybody? 04:57 Verse 20: "And he closed the book and he gave it again to 05:02 the ministry, sat down, and all the eyes of them that were 05:06 in the synagogue and the church were fastened on 05:09 Jesus." What do we discover from this text? 05:12 We discover from the text that Jesus, God the Son, he too 05:16 fulfilled the law, didn't change the law, but he 05:19 affirmed and kept God's seventh-day Sabbath. 05:22 He went into the synagogue, the church, on the seventh-day 05:25 Sabbath and read the scriptures. In fact, 05:30 in this text, Jesus was the guest preacher. 05:32 He preached the Word. 05:34 Read from the scriptures. 05:36 And then when he sat down, he closed the book and turned the 05:40 service back over to the host pastor. 05:42 You all hear what I'm saying? 05:44 Jesus too kept God's Sabbath. 05:51 All right, Pastor, the Father didn't, the Son couldn't, 05:58 Old Testament, New Testament, but maybe the disciples 06:03 changed God's Sabbath. 06:07 Maybe they changed this thing up. 06:08 Yeah, we understand there's seven days in the week, in six 06:10 days God created this earth, and the seventh day God 06:12 rested, blessed it, sanctified it. 06:13 But maybe the disciples changed God's law. 06:17 Go to Acts. 06:20 Know what you believe, know why you believe it, know where 06:22 it's found. 06:23 Acts, chapter 13. 06:24 Let's get some Word in you. 06:27 If you're going to shout on the Word, know what you're 06:29 shouting about. 06:30 Acts 13, verse 42. 06:44 The Word of God says to us today: "And when the Jews were 06:47 gone out of the synagogue," the church, "the Gentiles 06:53 besought that these words might be preached to them 06:56 the next sabbath. 06:58 Now when the congregation was broken up, many of the Jews 07:00 and religious proselytes followed Paul and Barnabas: 07:03 who, speaking to them, persuaded them to continue 07:05 in the grace of God. 07:07 And the next sabbath day came almost the whole city together 07:15 to hear the word of God." 07:20 Go to the book of Hebrews. 07:23 Know what you believe, know why you believe it, 07:25 know where it's found. 07:26 I told you, we're going to work all the way 07:29 up to Revelation. 07:30 Hebrews, chapter 4, verse 4. 07:33 Look it up in your Bibles. 07:33 Hebrews 4:4. 07:39 The Word of God says us today in Hebrews 4:4: "For he spake 07:49 in a certain place of the seventh day on this wise, And 07:54 God did rest the seventh day from all his works. 07:55 And in this place again, If they shall enter into my rest. 07:57 Seeing therefore it remaineth that some must enter therein, 07:59 and they to whom it was first preached entered not in 08:00 because of unbelief: Again, he limiteth a certain day, saying 08:05 in David, Today, after so long a time; as it is said, Today 08:07 if ye will hear his voice, harden not your hearts." 08:14 Verse 8, the clincher for me: "For if Jesus had 08:17 given them rest, then would he not afterward 08:18 have spoken of another day. 08:23 There remaineth therefore a rest to the people of God." 08:29 Hebrews, clearly, after Jesus' death. 08:32 If Jesus had changed the Sabbath, then would 08:37 he not have told us? 08:40 I mean, really, if God, Father, Son and Holy Spirit, 08:43 can create something out of nothing, surely if they 08:47 changed the Sabbath they would have told somebody. 08:52 Well, the argument that's out there that says, well, you 08:55 know, the Sabbath was done away with at the cross. 08:57 The Sabbath really didn't have much to do with the cross in 09:01 the sense that the Sabbath was instituted before sin. 09:06 In Genesis 2, God instituted the Sabbath. 09:12 In Genesis 3, Adam and Eve disobeyed God, ate of the 09:17 fruit of the Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil, 09:19 in essence, disobedient. 09:20 It's in Genesis 3 that Adam and Eve sinned. 09:23 Think about it. 09:24 Genesis 1, God creates this earth. 09:26 Genesis 2, God institutes the Sabbath. 09:30 Genesis 3, Adam and Eve sinned. 09:33 The reason why Jesus had to come back the second time was 09:37 he had to come to save us from sin. 09:41 Jesus had to go to Calvary so that through his shed blood 09:44 we might have everlasting life free from the penalty of sin. 09:49 If Adam and Eve had never sinned, humanity would 09:52 not have followed in our fore-parents, and we would 09:55 have not have sinned. 09:56 If Adam and Eve had not sinned, there would have 09:58 been no sin. 10:02 If Adam and Eve had not disobeyed God in sin, there 10:05 would have been no need for Jesus, our Saviour, to come 10:09 and die for us on Calvary. 10:12 But before Adam and Even sinned, the Sabbath 10:16 was already in place. 10:22 All right, Pastor Byrd, that makes sense. 10:25 The seventh-day Sabbath is good, Old Testament, 10:27 New Testament. 10:27 Good for the Father, good for the Son, 10:29 good for the apostles. 10:31 Pastor Byrd, how do we know which day is the seventh-day 10:38 Sabbath? 10:39 Now read Revelation. 10:41 Go to Revelation, chapter 1, verse 10. 10:47 Know what you believe, know why you believe it, know where 10:50 it's found. 10:52 Revelation 1:10. 10:56 John the Revelator, on the Isle of Patmos, says, "I was 10:59 in the Spirit on the Lord's day, and heard behind me a 11:05 great voice, as of a trumpet." 11:08 Now, nowhere in the text does it read that John said, "I was 11:12 in the Spirit on the Lord's day, be it the first day, the 11:15 second day, third, fourth, fifth, sixth or seventh day. 11:17 It just says, "I was in the Spirit on the Lord's day." 11:21 Now, there are many in the Christian community who try to 11:23 suggest that by John saying he was in the Spirit on the 11:26 Lord's day that he was in the Spirit on a specific day. 11:29 But the Bible does not say that. 11:31 The Bible just says that John said, "I was in the Spirit on 11:34 the Lord's day." Now go back to Mark, chapter 2, 11:40 and we're going to go to verse 27 and 28. 11:46 Mark 2:27-28. 11:50 Jesus himself speaking, "And he said unto them, 11:52 The sabbath was made for man, and not man 11:59 for the sabbath." Come on, the Sabbath was made 12:02 for whom, everybody? 12:03 And not man for the what? 12:05 Sabbath. 12:07 "Therefore the Son of man," and the Son of man is Jesus, 12:10 "is Lord also of the sabbath." 12:15 So if Jesus is Lord of the Sabbath day, then the Sabbath 12:20 must be the Lord's day. 12:22 When John was in the Spirit on the Lord's day, John was in 12:26 the Spirit on the Sabbath day, because the Sabbath was made 12:30 for man and not man for the Sabbath, and the Sabbath day 12:33 is the Lord's day. 12:34 Because Jesus, the Son of man, is Lord of the what, 12:37 everybody? Sabbath. 12:40 Pastor Byrd, well, what about, what do you mean? 12:43 How do we know? 12:44 Seventh-day Sabbath? 12:45 How do we know? 12:46 I mean, well, I could tell you, let's go to the calendar. 12:50 And you go to a calendar, you'll see Sunday's the first 12:52 day, Monday's the second day, Tuesday's the third day, 12:54 Wednesday's the fourth day, Thursday's the fifth day, 12:56 Friday's the sixth day, Saturday, the Sabbath, 12:58 is the seventh day. 12:59 I could tell you that. 13:00 But then you'll say, oh, well, Pastor, you know, sometimes 13:03 they change calendars up, and I just don't know, 13:04 Pastor Byrd. 13:05 I really just don't know. 13:06 And I say, well, maybe we can go to speak to persons who 13:08 speak the Spanish language. 13:10 Because the people who speak the Spanish language will tell 13:12 you that the Spanish term for Saturday is Sabado, which is a 13:16 transliteration of the word Sabbath. Well, Pastor Byrd, 13:21 I don't know. 13:22 We've got all this different language around. 13:24 Are you sure about that? 13:25 Are you sure? 13:26 I say, well, we can go talk to an authentic Jew, and they 13:30 will tell you that Saturday, the seventh day, 13:32 is the Sabbath. 13:35 But consistent with our teaching and preaching, let's 13:39 go to the Word. 13:40 Now, let's go to Luke 23, verse 50. 13:45 Know what you believe, know why you believe it, 13:46 know where it's found. 13:47 Luke 23:50, let's go there. 13:49 Now, remember, somebody is seated out there today, 13:52 somebody's watching this on television, and they're 13:54 saying, Pastor Byrd, I want the Bible to say, Remember 13:57 Saturday, to keep it holy. 14:04 Someone out there today is saying, Pastor Byrd, I want 14:06 the Bible to say, Remember Saturday to keep it holy. 14:10 Now, the Bible says remember the what day? 14:12 Seventh day. 14:13 To keep it what? Holy. 14:14 But you want it to say, Remember Saturday, 14:17 to keep it holy. 14:17 You want it to literally say the term. 14:20 Well, let me say this to you. 14:21 The Bible does not say, as I say all the time, 14:24 Thou shalt not smoke crack. 14:27 The Bible teaches a principle, and the Bible says that your 14:34 body is the temple of whom? 14:36 God. So you know, because your body's 14:38 the temple of God, you know that crack 14:41 doesn't belong in your body. 14:42 Come on, say Amen. 14:43 The Bible says, Remember the Sabbath day, 14:47 to keep it what? Holy. 14:49 And that the seventh day is the what? Sabbath. 14:51 But let's see what the Word says in Luke 23:50. 14:55 "And, behold, there was a man named Joseph, a counsellor; 15:01 and he was a good man, and a just man: (The same had not 15:04 consented to the counsel and deed of them;) he was of 15:08 Arimathaea, a city of the Jews: who also himself waited 15:16 for the kingdom of God. 15:19 This man went unto Pilate, and begged the body of Jesus." 15:25 Why? Because this man, Joseph, was the undertaker. 15:28 He was the funeral director. 15:29 Let's keep reading from the Word of God. 15:31 "And he took it down, and wrapped it in linen, and laid 15:34 it in a sepulchre that was hewn in stone, wherein never 15:36 man before was laid. 15:39 And that day was the preparation, and the sabbath 15:42 drew on." Which suggests to me the day that Jesus' body was 15:45 taken down from the cross was the day before the Sabbath. 15:49 Verse 55: And the women also, which came with him from 15:53 Galilee, followed after, and beheld the sepulchre, and how 15:55 his body was laid. 15:57 And they returned, and prepared spices and ointments; 15:58 and rested the" what day? 16:00 "Sabbath day according to the commandment." Chapter 24, 16:04 verse 1: "Now upon the first day of the week, very early in 16:09 the morning, they came unto the sepulchre, bringing the 16:11 spices which they had prepared, and certain 16:13 others with them. 16:13 And they found the stone rolled away from the sepulchre. 16:18 And they entered in, and found not the body of the Lord Jesus. 16:21 And it came to pass, as they were much perplexed 16:23 thereabout, behold, two men stood by them in shining 16:25 garments: And as they were afraid, and bowed down their 16:27 faces to the earth, they said unto them, Why seek ye the 16:29 living among the dead? 16:30 He is not here, but is risen: remember how he spake unto you 16:35 when he was yet in Galilee, saying, The Son of man must be 16:37 delivered into the hands of sinful men, and be crucified, 16:39 and the third day rise again. 16:42 And they remembered his words." This text is clear. 16:48 On the sixth day, the preparation day, known in the 16:56 Christian community as Good Friday, Jesus' body was taken 17:01 down from the cross. 17:03 Jesus had died on the cross and his body was taken down 17:06 from the cross. 17:07 The Bible says that the Sabbath drew on, which means 17:10 that after the preparation day, day six, Good Friday, now 17:14 the seventh-day Sabbath, Saturday, his body lay 17:17 resting in the grave. 17:19 The Bible says--if God said it, that settles it--according 17:21 to the commandment. 17:23 Then the Bible says early the first day of the week, his 17:28 body was not there. 17:29 Christian community calls it Easter Sunday. 17:31 His body was not there, but Jesus rose. 17:36 Any math teacher will tell you, after day six comes day 17:39 seven, and since there are seven days in a week, you now 17:43 start back with day number one. 17:45 Day six, Good Friday, Jesus died, body taken from the 17:50 grave. 17:50 Day seven, Saturday, the Sabbath, his body lay resting 17:54 in the grave. 17:55 Day one, Sunday, known in the Christian community as Easter, 17:58 Jesus rose. 18:04 It's tight, but it's right. 18:12 Pastor Byrd, all right, the Word is clear. 18:20 The seventh-day Saturday, the Sabbath, holy convocation. 18:23 Sunset to sunset, evening to morning sunset Friday, sunset 18:27 Saturday, not speaking my own words, doing my own thing. 18:29 God did it, Jesus did it, the apostles did it, 18:33 we ought to do it. 18:34 Pastor Byrd, what difference does a day make? 18:45 God is a God of specifics. 18:47 God means what he says. 18:49 Pastor Byrd, what difference does a day make? 18:51 I don't need to know what difference a day makes. 18:53 All I need to know is, God says, remember the seventh-day 18:57 Sabbath, to keep it holy, and if God said it, 19:02 that settles it. 19:09 Isaiah 66:22, 23. 19:16 This is why this is so pivotal for us today. 19:20 Isaiah 66:22, 23. 19:29 A couple more texts. 19:31 This is why it's so important: "For as the new heavens and 19:40 the new earth, which I will make, shall remain before me, 19:44 saith the Lord, so shall your seed and your name remain." 19:48 Verse 23: "And it shall come to pass, that from one new 19:52 moon to another, and from one sabbath to another, shall all 19:59 flesh come to worship before me, saith the Lord. 20:10 The day is going to come that not just here on planet Earth, 20:13 but when we get to heaven, when we sing and never get 20:18 tired, when we put on our long white robes, when I fly from 20:23 my mansion to your mansion, the time is going to come that 20:28 though we have a good time with each other and with the 20:31 Lord, that when the Sabbath rolls in, that the Bible is 20:34 clear that in the new heavens and the new earth, God says, 20:37 my people are going to come together and worship before 20:41 me, saith the Lord. 20:44 And when I get to heaven, and I see my Jesus, and I see the 20:49 one who died for me, and it becomes that first Sabbath 20:53 that I see my Jesus, I'm going to say hallelujah, 20:58 home at last. 21:00 The redeemed are home at last. 21:03 The Lord is in his holy temple. 21:06 Let all the earth keep silence before him. 21:09 Oh come and magnify the Lord with me. 21:14 And let us on his Sabbath exalt his name together. 21:18 It's clear. 21:24 The Word of God says it. 21:29 And let me say this. 21:31 I've got two more texts for you. 21:33 But let me say this to you. 21:35 I don't stand here, preach and teach the Sabbath, because I 21:43 feel that if I don't do this, if I don't preach this, if I 21:45 don't teach this, if I don't observe God's Sabbath, I don't 21:48 do it because I'm afraid of going to hell. 21:54 Some of us do right because we're afraid to go to hell. 22:01 That's our motivation. 22:01 We want to do right. 22:02 We don't want to go to hell, we don't to burn. 22:03 No, no, no. 22:04 I observe God's Sabbath, I keep God's Sabbath because 22:06 I love the Lord. 22:11 And if loving the Lord is wrong, I don't want 22:13 to be right. 22:14 Jesus said, If ye love me, keep my commandments. 22:17 Heaven is not a fire escape from hell. 22:24 Because if you don't really want to be there, if you don't 22:26 really love the Lord Jesus, you're not going 22:29 to be happy there. 22:30 But I preach this and teach this because I love Jesus. 22:39 And I love Jesus, I want his Word, I want his truth, I want 22:45 to know what I believe, I want to know why I believe it, I 22:47 want to know where it's found. 22:48 There's too much false doctrine out there. 22:51 People preach and teach whatever they want 22:54 the Bible to say. 22:55 If you're not careful, the devil will use the Bible 22:57 to justify some horrible stuff. 23:02 But you've got to let the Word of God speak for itself. 23:11 So, Pastor Byrd, it's so easy, so simply, you made it so 23:15 plain, the Word of God. 23:16 Yeah, but, Pastor Byrd, what's the problem? 23:19 Go to the book of Mark, chapter 7, verse 6. 23:27 Mark 7:6. 23:36 The Word of God says, "He answered and said 23:43 unto them, Well hath Esaias prophesied of you hypocrites, 23:46 as it is written, This people honoreth 23:50 me with their lips, but their heart is far from me. 23:57 Howbeit in vain do they worship me, teaching for doctrines 24:00 the commandments of men. 24:03 For laying aside the commandment of God, ye hold 24:05 the tradition of men, as the washing of pots and cups: 24:09 and many other such like things ye do. 24:11 And he said unto them, Full well ye reject the commandment 24:17 of God, that ye may keep your own tradition." Last text, 24:30 Hebrews 10:26. 24:44 Now, we know, as we turn there, that sin is the 24:46 transgression of God's law. 24:50 Sin is when you disobey God's law. 24:54 Let's see what the Word says. 24:55 Hebrews 10:26: "For if we sin wilfully after that we have 25:05 received the knowledge of the truth, there remaineth no more 25:10 sacrifice for sins." 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