? (Theme Song) ?
? Jesus is worthy ?
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? oh yes, he's worthy
? ? worthy of all... ?
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? (Music) ? PB: Go to Exodus 31.
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Let's work our way up the Bible.
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We're going to understand
this fourth commandment
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from the book of Genesis
all the way to Revelations.
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Go to Exodus 31:12.
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If you have it say Amen.
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The word says, "And
the Lord spake unto,"whom?
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"Moses saying, speak
thou also unto the children
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of, what?
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"Saying, Verily my
Sabbaths ye shall keep.
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For it is a," what?
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Come on, everybody.
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It is a what?
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"Between me and you
throughout your generations;
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that ye may know that I am
the Lord that doth sanctify you.
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Ye shall keep the
Sabbath therefore; for it is"
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what, everybody?
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"Holy unto you: every one
that defileth it shall surely
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be put to death; for whosoever
doeth any work therein,
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that soul shall be cut
off from among his people.
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Six days may work be
done; but in the" what?
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It's the Sabbath what?
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"Holy to the Lord.
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Whosoever doeth any work
in the Sabbath day, he shall
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surely be put to" what?
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"Wherefore the children of
Israel shall keep the Sabbath,
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to observe the Sabbath
throughout their generations,
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for a perpetual covenant.
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It is a" what?
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"Sign between me and the
children of Israel forever;
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for in six days the
Lord made heaven and" what?
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"Earth, and on the
seventh day he rested, and was,"
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what, everybody?
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"Refreshed.""And he
gave unto Moses, when he had
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made an end of the communing
with him upon mount Sinai, two
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tables of testimony, tables
of stone, written with the
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finger of" whom, everybody?
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"God." If God said
it, that settles it.
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This ain't Pastor Byrd's
word, this ain't Pastor Byrd's
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letter, this is God's
word, this is God's letter.
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God is saying, understand,
the seventh day is my Sabbath.
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God is saying, I've
given you day one, day two, day
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three, day four, day five
and day six, but the seventh
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day is my Sabbath.
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Just as I rested, just
as I blessed it, just as I
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sanctified it, I want my
people forever, throughout
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their generations,
to rest, to bless and to
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sanctify the Sabbath.
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There ain't
nothing crazy about that.
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That's what the
word of God says.
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Come on, say Amen.
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I'll say that's what
the word of God says.
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Come on, say Amen.
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And I don't make any
apologies for the word of God.
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The word of God
is the word of God.
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Let's get some more word.
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Come on, let's
get some more word.
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Tonight you're
going to know a whole lot.
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We've done
Genesis, we've done Exodus,
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let's go to Leviticus.
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Leviticus 23.
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Let's go there.
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Leviticus 23:3.
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And I want to
begin at verse number 3.
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If you have it let
me hear you say Amen.
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The word of God says to
us tonight in Leviticus 23:3,
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"Six days shall" what?
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Come on, six days shall what?
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"Work be" what?
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"Done but the" what day?
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Come on, you all, the what day?
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"The seventh day is
the Sabbath of" what?
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"An holy convocation; ye
shall do no work therein: it
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is the Sabbath of the
Lord in all your" what?
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"Dwellings."Now,
let's stop there.
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The Bible says that the
Sabbath day is to be a day
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of holy convocation.
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So you say, Pastor
Byrd, this makes sense now.
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God created this earth, we
recognize there are seven days
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in the week, but God
created this earth in six days.
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Seven minus six is one.
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On the seventh day, the
Sabbath, God rested, God
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blessed it, God sanctified
it and God said, remember the
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Sabbath day to keep it what?
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God is clear.
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God says the Sabbath
is to be a sign between me
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and my people forever.
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So somebody is sitting
there saying, all right, Pastor
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Byrd, that makes sense.
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We read it from the Bible,
the Bible is clear that on the
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seventh day it is the Sabbath.
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We have clearly read where
the Bible talks about a day
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as defined as the
evening and the what? Morning.
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So somebody
says, that makes sense.
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But what does this
mean, the Sabbath is an holy
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convocation?
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When we say holy,
we mean set aside.
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We mean set apart.
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When we say a convocation,
if you look up the word
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convocation in the
dictionary, convocation means an
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assembly or a coming together.
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Are you hearing what I'm saying.
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So then the Sabbath, if
it's a holy convocation,
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it is a holy assembly.
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It is a holy coming together.
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The people of God on
God's Sabbath understand that
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they rest from all their work
because the Sabbath is blessed
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and the Sabbath is sanctified.
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But more than that, the
Sabbath is a holy convocation.
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It is a holy coming together.
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It is a holy assembly.
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So, understand, because
Pastor Byrd, loves him some God,
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because Pastor Byrd loves
him some Jesus, and Pastor
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Byrd is desirous of loving
the Lord not the way Pastor Byrd
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wants to love the Lord, but
I want to love the Lord the way
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the Lord wants me to love him.
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I rest on the Sabbath
because the Sabbath is blessed
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and the Sabbath is sanctified.
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And then the Bible says the
Sabbath is a holy convocation,
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which means Pastor Byrd,
becomes I'm loving God the
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way God wants to be loved,
on God's Sabbath because it's
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a holy convocation, I come
in God's house on God's Sabbath.
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I come in God's church
on God's Sabbath because
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God's Sabbath is a holy
convocation and because it's
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a holy convocation, I
can't be down watching the Hawks
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play basketball on the
Sabbath, but I come in God's
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house on God's Sabbath,
God's church, God's holy
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convocation, to lift
my hands and bless him.
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All right, let's
get some more word.
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We've done
Genesis, we've done Exodus,
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we've done Leviticus.
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Let's go now to Isaiah.
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What book did I say, everybody?
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Now I'm going to give
you everything from the word
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of God tonight.
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I'm not going to give
you Pastor Byrd's feelings,
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Pastor Byrd's opinion.
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I'm going to give
you the word of God.
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And notice, when you came in
tonight we did not pass out a
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bunch of Bibles least
somebody say, oh, that's from
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their own Bibles.
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They gave out their own Bible.
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No, no, no.
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You came in tonight
with your own Bible.
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Do I have a
witness in this place?
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All right. Isaiah.
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What book did I say, everybody?
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Let's go to Isaiah 58.
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Let's get some more word
in us tonight. Isaiah 58.
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Know what you believe,
know why you believe it and know
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where it's found.
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The word of God says to
us tonight, Isaiah 58:13.
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The word says, "If thou
turn away thy foot from the,"
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what? "Sabbath.
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From doing thy" what?
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"Pleasure."Let me
make sure you have it.
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Isaiah 58, help your
neighbors, they need it.
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It's up on the screen.
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Isaiah 58:13.
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The word of God says,
"If thou turn away they foot
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from the" what?
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"Sabbath, from doing thy,"
what? "Pleasure on my holy day;
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and call the Sabbath a," what?
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"Delight, the holy of
the," whom? "Lord, honourable;
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and shalt honour him,
not doing thine own" what?
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"Ways, nor
finding thine own" what?
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"Pleasure, nor
speaking thine own" what?
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"Words: then shalt thou
delight thyself in the Lord;
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and I will cause thee to
ride upon the high places of the
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earth, and feed thee with the
heritage of Jacob thy father:
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for the mouth of the
Lord hath" what, everybody?
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"Spoken it."Now,
let's pause here.
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The Bible says that the
Sabbath is to be a delight.
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Which means I'm not upset
or mad when the Sabbath comes.
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I'm excited when
the Sabbath comes.
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You see, God created me.
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God created you.
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God created us.
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God knew that we would need
one day a week just to rest.
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God knew that we would
need one day a week to have some
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us-and-God time.
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Are you hearing what
I'm saying, everybody?
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God knew that.
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God had to know it
because God made us.
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God knew what we would
need before we even knew
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we would need it.
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God knew we needed the Sabbath.
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Are you hearing what
I'm saying, everybody?
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So God says, from sunset
Friday to sunset Saturday,
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evening and the morning,
evening and the morning, God
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says, you need
some me-and-God time.
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You know what I
like to call this?
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I like to call
this a date with God.
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I like to call
it a date with God.
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Every Saturday, the
Sabbath, sunset Friday to sunset
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Saturday, I
have a date with God.
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I'm trying to love him in
the way he wants to be loved.
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So understand, I'm not
watching television, I ain't
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going to the mall,
because it's my time with God.
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I'm focusing in on God.
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I come to God's house to
meet God on God's Sabbath
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looking my best.
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Let's go to Isaiah 66:22.
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The word of God says,
"For as the new heavens and the
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new earth, which I will make,
shall remain before me, saith
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the"whom, everybody?
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"Lord, so shall
your seed and your name"
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what? "Remain.
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And it shall come to" what?
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"Pass, that from
one new moon to another,
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and from one " what?
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"Sabbath to
another, shall all" what?
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"Flesh come to worship
before me, saith the Lord.,"
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The Bible says in the new
heavens, the new earth, that
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means when we get to heaven.
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God is clear that all
flesh on his Sabbath shall come
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and do what, everybody?
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Worship him.
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Now, can God
change his Sabbath? No.
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Because in Malachi 3:6
God says, "I am the" what?
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"Lord, I change" what?
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"Not."Psalms 89:34
says, "My covenant will I not
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break, nor alter the thing
that is gone out of my lips.
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I am the Lord, I
change not."That's what is so
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simple, it's so clear.
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Well, if God the
Father didn't change his laws,
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well, because most people
don't see the seventh day as
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the Sabbath and they don't
come worship God in his church
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and from sunset Friday to
sunset Saturday keep it holy,
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Jesus must have
changed God's law.
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Let's see if Jesus did.
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Go to the book of Matthew.
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Let's get some New Testament
now, because, everybody,
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somebody's sitting
there saying, well, that's Old
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Testament, Pastor Byrd,
that's was good, you know.
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You know the scriptures,
you've given it to us, but
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that's Old Testament.
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So let me give you some New.
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Go to the book of
Matthew. Chapter 5:17.
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Did Jesus change the law?
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Matthew 5:17.
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Now remember God the Father,
God the Son, God the Holy
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Ghost, that's the Godhead.
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Thou shall have no
other gods before me.
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Thou shalt not
make any graven image.
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Thou shalt not take the name
of the Lord thy God in vain.
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Remember the
Sabbath day to keep it holy.
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Did Jesus the son
of God change the law?
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Matthew 5:17, the word of
God says to us tonight, "Think
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not that I have come to
destroy the law, or the," what?
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"Prophets: I am not
come to" do what? "Destroy,
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but to" what, everybody?
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"Fulfill. For verily I
say unto you, Till heaven
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and earth pass, one jot or
one tittle shall in no wise
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pass from the law, till
all be" what? "Fulfilled."
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So Jesus says, I didn't come to
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change the law.
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Go to 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,"
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what? "Least in
the kingdom of," ?
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"Heaven: but whosoever shall
do and teach them, the same
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shall be called" what?
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"Great in the
kingdom of," what, everybody?
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"Heaven."So Jesus is
saying, I didn't come to
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change the law.
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I came to fulfill the law.
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And whoever tells anyone
else that you don't have to keep
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this law, you shall
be called least in the
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kingdom of heaven.
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But if you tell people to keep
this law, God's love letter,
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you shall be called
great in the kingdom of heaven.
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Amen? Amen?
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All right, Jesus says in
Hebrews 13:8, I'm the same
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yesterday, today and forever.
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So Jesus did not
change his law. In fact,
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go with me to the book of Luke.
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Luke 4 and let's see what
Jesus felt about the Sabbath.
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Luke 4:16, the word of
God says, "And he came to,"
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where? "Nazareth,
where he had been brought up:
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and, as his custom
was, he went into the" what?
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"Synagogue,"which is the church.
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Are you hearing what I'm saying?
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"He went into the
synagogue on the" what day?
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"Sabbath day."He went
into church. Holy convocation.
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Jesus went into church on
the Sabbath day, and "stood up
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for to"do what? "Read.
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And there was delivered
unto him the book of the
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prophet Isaiah.
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And when he opened the book,
he found the place where it
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was written, the
Spirit of the" what? "Lord
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is upon me, because he
hath anointed me to preach
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the" what? "Gospel to
the poor; he hath sent me
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to heal the brokenhearted,
to preach deliverance to
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the captives, and recovering
of sight to the blind,
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to set at liberty them
that are bruised, to preach
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the acceptable year of
the Lord."Verse 20, "And he
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closed the book, and he
gave it again to the minister,
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and sat down.
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And the eyes of all them
that were in the synagogue were
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fastened on him."
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what's going on here?
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Jesus, the Bible says, it
was his custom to go into the
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synagogue, the church,
holy convocation, on the
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Sabbath day.
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He stood up for to read.
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He preached.
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He did what, everybody?
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He preached.
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How do I know he preached?
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Because the Bible says
he opened the book, read the
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book, read the Bible,
read from the prophet Isaiah,
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because remember this is
the New Testament, so the Bible
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in that day was
the Old Testament.
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He reads the word of God.
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Finishes reading and preaching
the word of God, sits down;
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gives the Bible back to
the minister and sits down.
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Why give it to the minister?
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Because he's the guest
preacher on that Sabbath day.
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That's like me saying on
the Sabbath day, guess who our
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guest preacher is going to be?
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Jesus. It was Jesus'
custom on the seventh day,
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Sabbath, to go to church.
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Pastor Byrd, that makes sense.
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The word of God
says, Acts 13:42.
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If you have it let
me hear you say Amen.
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The word says, "And when
the Jews were gone out of the,"
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what? "Synagogue, the"
what? The what, everybody?
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"Gentiles besought that
these words might be preached
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to them 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 in
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the grace of", whom, everybody?
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"God."Verse 44, "And
the next Sabbath day came,"
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hallelujah, "almost the
whole city together to hear
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the word of God."You do
know that's my dream, that
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the day where every knee
must bow and tongue confess that
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Jesus is Lord, and that the
entire city of Atlanta comes
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together on God's Sabbath
to hear the word of the Lord.
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Hallelujah, somebody.
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Now, what are we getting from
this text. Look at it again,
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verse 42. "When the Jews
were gone out of the synagogue,
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the Gentiles besought
that these words might
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be preached to them the
next Sabbath." what do we
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get from that text?
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Number one we get that the
Sabbath was not just for the
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Jews. But the Sabbath
was for the Gentiles too.
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The Gentiles wanted the
word to be preached to them
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on the Sabbath too.
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Look at verse 43, "Now
when the congregation was broken
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up, many of the Jews and
religious proselytes followed
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Paul and Barnabas.
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"Paul and Barnabas.
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Paul came after Jesus' death.
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Which means then that
Paul came after Jesus' death,
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even after Jesus died on
Calvary and was resurrected,
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the Sabbath was still kept.
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Who speaking to them persuaded
them to continue in the grace
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of God, which means then that
the Sabbath was not just for
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Jews, the Sabbath
was for what? Gentiles.
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The Sabbath was kept
even after Jesus' what? Death.
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And then, number three,
even under grace. The Sabbath
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was kept, because the
Bible says, Paul and Barnabas
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persuaded them to
continue in the grace of God.
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So, even under grace,
because some folks say, we don't
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have to observe Sabbath,
we don't have to keep the
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Sabbath because
we're under grace.
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Paul and Barnabas say,
even under grace the Sabbath
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was to be kept.
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And the next Sabbath they came
with the whole city together
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to hear the word of God.
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Pastor Byrd, I thought
the Sabbath was for Jews. No.
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The Sabbath is for me,
the Sabbath is for you.
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We're Christians.
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We're followers of Christ.
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We're a Christian community
that celebrates Christ but we
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keep God's commandments.
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The Lord says, love me in
the way I want to be loved.
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Now, God says, this
day or that day may be most
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convenient for you, but
it's not about your convenience.
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This day or that day may be
what the world and everybody
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else is doing, but it's not
about what the world is doing.
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God is saying, love me in
the way that I want to be loved.
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I said, remember the Sabbath
day, for keep it what? Holy.
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Go to the book of Hebrews.
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Let's get some more.
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Hebrews 4:4.
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This is the clincher for me.
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This is clearly in the
New Testament, this is clearly
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after Jesus' death.
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Hebrews 4:4 is
the clincher for me.
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The word of God says, "For
he spake in a certain place of
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the seventh day on this
wise, and God did" what,
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everybody?
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"Rest the seventh
day from all his" what?
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"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" what?
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"Unbelief."Verse 7,
"Again, he limiteth a
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certain day, saying in David,
Today, after so long a time;
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as it is said, Today
if ye will" what? Come on.
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"Hear his" what?
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"Voice, harden not
your," what? "Hearts."Somebody,
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you're hearing God's
voice right now. God is opening
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his mouth to somebody
whose ears are opening
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and you're hearing
the word of God right now.
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Verse 8 is the one.
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"For if Jesus had given
them rest, then would he not
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afterward have
spoken of another day.
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There remaineth therefore
a rest to the people of God."
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If the Lord had given another
day, if God had changed his
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Sabbath, don't you
think he would have told us?
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If Jesus had given them rest,
then would he not afterwards
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have spoken of another day?
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What I don't understand is
when people say, well, Pastor
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Byrd, we don't have
to observe the Sabbath.
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We don't have to
keep the Sabbath.
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That's done away with.
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Well yet you tell us
to keep the remaining nine
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commandments.
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So, let's be logical now.
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The rule of common sense.
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If the Sabbath was done away
with, why would the thou shalt
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have no other gods before me,
why would thou shalt not make
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unto thee any graven image,
why would thou shalt not take
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the name of the Lord thy God
in vain, why would thou shalt
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not kill, thou shalt
not steal, thou shalt not
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commit adultery?
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If the Sabbath commandment
was done away with, why
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weren't all the other nine
commandments done away with?
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If Adam and Eve had never
sinned, there would have been
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no reason for Jesus to
come and die on the cross.
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But the reality is before
Adam and Eve ever sinned, the
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Sabbath was already instituted
in the Garden of Eden.
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So whether or not Adam and Eve
sinned or not, the Sabbath was
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already in place.
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So then, that makes no sense
to say that because Jesus died
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and he rose, the Sabbath
was done away with because if we
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had never sinned Jesus
would have never had to come.
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The only reason why Jesus
came is because we sinned.
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And before we ever sinned, the
Sabbath was already in place.
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If you look at any dictionary
and you look up Saturday,
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it's going to say Saturday
is the seventh day of the
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week. Amen.
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If you talk to an orthodox
Jew--because some people say,
00:21:35.33\00:21:39.66
well, the calendar was
changed--if you talk to an
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orthodox Jew, any orthodox Jew
will tell you that Saturday is
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the Sabbath. Right?
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If you speak to somebody in
the Spanish language, the word
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Saturday in Spanish is Sabado.
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Sabado is a derivative
from the root word Sabbath.
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So if we talk to somebody
in Spanish and say today is
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Sabado, they're saying
Saturday, the Sabbath, because
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Sabado is a derivative
of the root word Sabbath.
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But remember, we
can't preach opinion.
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We can't preach and
teach what we think.
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We've got to preach
what thus sayest the Lord.
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Go to the book of Luke 23.
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Give me five minutes
extra tonight. Luke 23.
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When you're preaching
it gets quiet in church and
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nobody's moving you know
that people are listening.
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Come on, say Amen.
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Luke 23:50. Do you have
it, everybody? Luke 23:50.
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Help your neighbor find it.
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The word of God says,
"And, behold, there was a man
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named", whom, everybody?
00:23:01.16\00:23:01.80
"Joseph, a counsellor; and
he was a", what kind of man?
00:23:01.80\00:23:05.20
A good man and a just man.
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"(The same had not consented
to the counsel and deed of
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them;) he was of Arimathea,
a city of the Jews: who also
00:23:09.40\00:23:13.86
himself waited for
the kingdom of God.
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This man went unto Pilate,
and begged the body of Jesus.
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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.
00:23:20.73\00:23:22.43
And that day was
the" what, everybody?
00:23:22.43\00:23:24.06
"Preparation, and
the Sabbath drew on.
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And the women also, which
came with him from Galilee,
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followed after, and beheld
the sepulchre, and how his body
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was laid.
00:23:30.36\00:23:31.03
And they returned, and
prepared spices and ointments:
00:23:31.03\00:23:33.16
and rested the" what day?
00:23:33.16\00:23:35.00
This was after Jesus' death.
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Rested the what day?
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"Sabbath day
according to the commandment."
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Chapter 24:1, "Now upon
the first day of the week,
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very early in the morning,
they came unto the sepulchre,
00:23:43.56\00:23:45.20
bringing the spices
which they had prepared,
00:23:45.20\00:23:47.03
and certain 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
00:23:50.53\00:23:54.46
of the Lord Jesus.
00:23:54.46\00:23:56.30
And it came to pass, as
they were much perplexed
00:23:56.30\00:23:57.70
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
00:24:02.56\00:24:04.80
living among the" what?
00:24:04.80\00:24:05.90
"Dead? He is not
here, but is risen: remember
00:24:05.90\00:24:08.96
how he spake unto you
when he was yet in Galilee,
00:24:08.96\00:24:10.66
saying, The Son of man must
be delivered into the hands of
00:24:10.66\00:24:13.90
sinful men, and be crucified,
and the third day rise again.
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And they remembered his
words."How do we know which
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day is the seventh day?
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All day long.
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He died on the cross
on Friday, the sixth day.
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The preparation day.
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The Bible then says, the
Sabbath drew on, which means
00:24:32.46\00:24:35.90
the Sabbath came
after the sixth day.
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His body laid resting in
the grave according to the
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commandment.
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Then the Bible says that very
early, Luke 24:1, very early
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the first day of the
week he rose. Easter Sunday.
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Which means they spent the
preparation day, Good Friday,
00:24:50.93\00:24:54.96
he died. Day seven,
Saturday, the Sabbath,
00:24:54.96\00:25:00.90
according to the
word, he rested in the grave
00:25:00.90\00:25:03.53
according to the commandment.
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Day one, because after you
have seven days in a week you
00:25:05.70\00:25:09.16
had to start back over to
day one, you know, we don't have
00:25:09.16\00:25:12.53
a day seven and a half.
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Day one, very early in the
week, Easter Sunday, he rose.
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The Bible is clear.
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"Remember the Sabbath
day to keep it" what? "Holy."
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Six days shall thou labor and
do all thy work but the seventh
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day is the" what? "Sabbath."
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Seventh day is Saturday.
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Sixth day, Friday.
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Good Friday.
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Seventh day is
Saturday, Sabbath.
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First day of the
week, Sunday, Easter Sunday.
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The seventh day is
Sabbath, holy convocation, holy
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assembly, holy coming together.
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God's people are to
worship God on God's
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seventh-day Sabbath.
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Evening and the
morning were the sixth day.
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Sunset Friday, sunset
Saturday is the Sabbath.
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God rested, God blessed
it and God sanctified it.
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Pastor Byrd, what
difference does a day make?
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It's just a day.
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I can worship God every day.
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It's just a day.
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