? (Theme Song) ?
? Jesus is worthy ?
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? oh yes, he's worthy
? ? worthy of all... ?
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? all the
praise... ? ? (Music) ?
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Pastor Byrd: When I
come into God's house
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on the seventh-day
Sabbath, I'm looking my best.
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I'm smelling my best.
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I'm acting my best,
because I'm worshiping the King
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of Kings and the Lord of Lords.
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If I had a date with
President Barack Obama,
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I would be together head to toe.
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But when I come into his
presence, I humble myself,
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I lift holy hands and I
begin to worship him for all
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he's done for me,
redeemed and set me free,
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just because, just
because he's my God.
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Do I have a
witness in this place?
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What will happen
when you get to heaven?
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Isaiah 66: 28: "For as
the new heavens and the
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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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And it shall come to
pass, that from one new moon
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to another, and from
one Sabbath to another,
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shall all
flesh," how much flesh?
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(Aud: All.) "Come to worship
before me, saith the Lord."
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Seven days in a week.
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Six days God created this earth.
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On the seventh day God
rested, God blessed it,
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God sanctified it.
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The ten commandments,
in commandment number four,
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he said remember the
Sabbath day to keep it holy.
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God said the
Sabbath was to be a sign
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between he and
his people forever.
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The Bible goes on
and says the Sabbath is
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a holy convocation,
a holy coming together.
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The Bible goes on and
says from sunset to sunset,
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from evening until
evening shall you celebrate
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my Sabbath.
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The Bible says that I'm not
supposed to do my own thing,
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that I'm not supposed
to seek my own pleasure,
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the I'm not supposed
to seek my own words.
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The Bible goes on to say
that when we get to heaven,
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the Bible says all
flesh shall come together on
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God's Sabbath and
they shall worship God
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on God's Sabbath.
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Pastor Byrd, that's clear.
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Even a child
can understand that.
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So did God change the Sabbath,
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because that's so
clear, Pastor, did God
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change the Sabbath and his law?
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Go to Psalm 89, verse 34:
"My covenant will I not break,
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nor alter the thing that
has gone out of my lips."
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God also says in
Malachi 3:6, the Lord says:
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"For I am the Lord,
I change not." Well,
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Pastor Byrd, if God the Father
didn't change the Sabbath,
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Jesus must have changed
the Sabbath, because we have
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all this
confusion about the Sabbath.
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Did Jesus change the Sabbath?
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Well, let me answer
that from the New Testament,
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because there are some
of you sitting up saying,
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he gave us all that Old.
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Well, in the spirit of equal
opportunity, let me give you
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some New. Matthew 5:17:
"Speak not that I am come
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to destroy the law,
or the prophets: I am
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not come to destroy
but to" what, everybody?
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(Aud: Fulfil.) "For
verily I say to 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, everybody?
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Fulfilled.
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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
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called the least in
the kingdom of heaven:
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but whosoever shall do
and teach them, the same shall
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be called great in the
kingdom of heaven." Jesus said,
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I didn't come
to change anything.
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I didn't come
to destroy the law.
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I didn't come to
destroy the prophets.
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I came to fulfill it.
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And whosoever shall teach
these things shall be great
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in God's kingdom.
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Whosoever shall not teach
these things shall be least
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in God's kingdom.
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Pastor Byrd is not here
for a popularity contest.
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Pastor Byrd is not here
to get some more friends,
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I have enough.
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Pastor Byrd is here
to preach and teach the
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unadulterated Word of
God, because there's a famine
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in the land and it's
not for bread and water,
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and if we're going to worship
God, if we're going to sing,
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if we're going to sweat,
let's not just worship him
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in spirit, but let's
worship him in truth and worship
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him the way he said
we ought to worship him.
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I didn't come to destroy,
he said, I came to fulfill.
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You asked me to give you
an answer of that fulfillment.
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I'm glad you asked.
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Go to Luke 4:16: "And he
came to Nazareth, where he
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had been brought up: and
as his custom was, he went
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into the
synagogue," that's the church,
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"on the" what day, everybody?
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(Aud: Sabbath.) "And
stood up for to read.
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And there was
delivered unto him the book
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of the prophet Esaias.
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And when he had opened
the book, he found the place
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where it was written,
The spirit of the Lord
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is upon me, because he
hath anointed me to preach
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the gospel to the
poor; he hath sent me to heal
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the brokenhearted, to
preach deliverance to the
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captives, and recovering
of sight to the blind,
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to set at liberty
them that are bruised,
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to preach the
acceptable year of the Lord.
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And he closed the
book, and he gave it again
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to the minister, and sat down.
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And the eyes of all them
that were in the synagogue
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were fastened on him."
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On the seventh-day Sabbath
Jesus went in the church.
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That's why
Leviticus 23:3 says that it's
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a holy convocation.
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Jesus went into the
synagogue, the church,
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on the Sabbath day,
and in this instance Jesus
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was the guest preacher.
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And he got up and he
preached from the Word of God.
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The Bible says that
all the eyes of the people
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in the church were fastened
on him, and when he got through
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preaching, he sat down
and he turned the service
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back over to the home pastor.
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You all don't
hear what I'm saying.
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It was Jesus' custom
on the seventh-day Sabbath
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to go to church.
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Why?
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Because God rested on
the seventh day, God blessed
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the seventh day and God
sanctified the seventh day.
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Well, Pastor Byrd, God
the Father didn't change
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the Sabbath.
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Jesus Christ the Son
didn't change the Sabbath.
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Well, the apostles must
have changed the Sabbath.
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Take your Bibles and go
with me to the Book of Acts.
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Know what you believe,
know why you believe it,
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and know where it's found.
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Acts 13:42, and the Word of
God says: "And when the Jews
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were gone out of the
synagogue," out of the church,
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"the Gentiles,"
the what, everybody?
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(Aud: Gentiles.) "Besought
that these words might be
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preached to them
the next Sabbath.
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Now when the
congregation was broken up, many
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of the Jews and religious
proselytes followed Paul
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and Barnabas: who,
speaking to them, persuaded them
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to continue in the grace of God.
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And the next Sabbath day
came almost the whole city
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together to hear the word
of God." Now, I'm going to
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preach this and preach
this and preach this until the
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whole city of Huntsville
comes on God's Sabbath
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to hear the Word of God.
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Surely if Noah can
preach 120 years, surely I can
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stand up here and preach
the Word of God until the
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whole city comes together
to hear the Word of God.
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But what I love about
this text is three things.
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Number one, Acts
comes after Jesus' death.
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And if they kept the
Sabbath in Acts, that means
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they kept the
Sabbath after Jesus died,
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rose and got up.
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So the Sabbath was not
done away with at the cross.
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Number two from this
text, the Bible says that
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the Sabbath, the Word
was preached on the Sabbath
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to the Jews, but the Gentiles
besought that it might be
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preached to them as
well, which means the Sabbath
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is not a Jewish thing,
but the Sabbath is a Christian
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thing and because I'm a
follower of Jesus Christ,
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I keep his Sabbath.
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Number three, this text
teaches me that even though
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we're under grace, we still
have to keep God's Sabbath.
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Now all that I am or
ever will be is by the grace
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of God, but even under
grace I've got to keep what God
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says, because I
love me some Jesus.
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The Word of God says that
Paul and Barnabas persuaded
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the Jews and the Gentiles
and the whole city to continue
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in the grace of God.
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So Jesus didn't change
the Sabbath, the Father didn't
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change the Sabbath,
the apostles or disciples
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didn't change the Sabbath,
and the Sabbath was kept
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after Jesus' death.
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The Sabbath was not just
for the Jews and the Sabbath
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was kept even under grace.
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Go to Hebrews,
Chapter 4, get some more Word.
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You don't get this everywhere.
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I don't even charge you.
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I ask for a free-will offering.
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Come on, say Amen.
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Hebrews 4:4, the Word of
God says: "For he spake in
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a certain place of the
seventh day on this wise,
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and God did rest the
seventh day from all his works.
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And in this place
again, If they shall enter
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into my rest.
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Seeing therefore
it remaineth that some
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must enter therein, and they
to whom it was first preached
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entered not in
because of unbelief.
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Again, he limiteth
a certain day, saying
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in David, Today, after so
long a time; as it is said,
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Today if ye will hear
his voice, harden not your
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hearts." Verse 8 is the
clincher for me on why I
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know the Sabbath is right.
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"For if Jesus had given
them rest, then would he
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not 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 Jesus, if the Father
had changed the Sabbath don't
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you think they
would have told us?
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God is a God that dots
every "i" and crosses every
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"t." If God changed
his law, if God changed his
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Sabbath, don't you
think God would have told us?
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The Sabbath was
kept after Jesus' death,
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after his ascension.
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It was not nailed or
done away with at the cross.
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Let's expand our minds.
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Think about it, friends of mine.
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In Genesis 1, God
created this earth.
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In Genesis 2, God
instituted the Sabbath.
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In Genesis 3, we
have the fall of man.
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Adam and Eve ate of the fruit.
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Genesis 3 comes after Genesis 2.
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Before the fall of
man, the Sabbath was already
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instituted in
the Garden of Eden.
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The only reason Jesus
went to the cross is because
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Adam and Eve sinned and
so as sin entered one man,
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sin entered all men.
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If Adam and Eve had not
sinned, there would have
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been no need for
Jesus to go to the cross.
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But the fact is the
Sabbath was in place before they
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even sinned, before
Jesus even went to the cross.
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So for an individual law
to be done away with the cross
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--it has nothing
to do with the cross.
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The Sabbath was
already in place before sin,
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which was before the cross.
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And then when we get to
the kingdom all flesh will come
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together and worship
the Lord on God's Sabbath.
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All right.
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Seven days in a week.
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Six days God created this earth.
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On the seventh day
God rested, blessed it
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and sanctified it.
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Very clear that the
Bible says remember the Sabbath
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day to keep it holy.
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It's very clear that the Sabbath
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is a holy convocation.
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That it begins sunset,
ends sunset, even unto even.
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It's very clear
it's a holy convocation,
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a holy coming together.
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It's very clear we're not
supposed to honor ourselves
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but to honor God, not doing
our own pleasure, not speaking
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our own words, not doing
our own ways, but in essence,
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we have a date with God.
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That when the Lord comes
back and we go to heaven,
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all flesh will come
together and we shall worship
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God on God's Sabbath.
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It's very clear
in the Old Testament
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that God says, I
didn't change the Sabbath
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therefore I am the
Lord, I change not.
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It's very clear, Jesus
said, think not that I've
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come to destroy the
law and the prophets,
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but I came to fulfill it.
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He fulfilled it because
in Luke 4:16-20 he went into
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the synagogue, the church,
on the Sabbath day to read.
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It's very clear that
after Jesus' death the apostles
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kept the Sabbath.
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It's very clear the Sabbath
was not for Jews, but the
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Sabbath was for Jews,
Gentiles and everybody.
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It's very clear that we
should observe the Sabbath
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even under grace.
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And it's very clear that
if Jesus had changed the day
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he would have told us.
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So, Pastor, how do we
know which day is the Sabbath?
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Now before I answer
that from the Word of God,
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let me check the biblical
answer with Carlton Byrd first.
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How do we know
which day is the Sabbath.
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When an individual
asks that, somebody wants
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the Bible to say, remember
Saturday to keep it holy.
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That's what someone
wants the Bible to say.
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But, you know what?
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I've read the Bible from
cover to cover and nowhere
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in the Bible do I find
where it says, thou shalt not
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smoke crack.
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The Bible teaches that my
body is God's temple and so
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because I know my body
is God's temple and the Holy
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Spirit must abide in
me, then I know crack
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and the Holy Spirit
just don't go together.
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Do I have a
witness in this place?
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But somebody wants the
Word to say remember this day
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or that day to keep it holy.
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Go to Revelation 1:10:
"I was in the Spirit on the
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Lord's day, and heard
behind me a great voice, as
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of a trumpet."
Now, let me stop there.
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People will try to use
this text to justify what day
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the Sabbath is, but
the text does not give
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a numerical or named day,
the text just says that John
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said, "I was in the
Spirit on the Lord's day." Now,
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let's back up.
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We're in Revelation.
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Go to Mark 2:27.
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Trying to help somebody.
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Not trying to offend,
but trying to defend the Word
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of God.
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Jesus said, "and he
said unto them the Sabbath
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was made for" whom, everybody?
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Man.
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"And not man for the" what?
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(Aud: Sabbath.) "Therefore
the Son of man is Lord also
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of the" what?
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Sabbath.
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In other words, the Sabbath
was made for man, not man
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for the Sabbath.
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Jesus is Lord of the Sabbath.
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If Jesus is Lord of the
Sabbath day, would not then
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the Lord's day be the Sabbath?
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But someone wants to
know still, which day
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is the Sabbath.
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Pastor, you've been clear
on all this, but which day
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is the Sabbath?
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All right.
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Now, if I were to go to a
dictionary and I would look
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up Saturday, it
would say Saturday is the
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seventh day of the week.
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If I go to an unaltered
calendar, if I go to the
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seventh day of the week,
the seventh day is Saturday.
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If I were fluent in the
Spanish language, I would
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go to Sabado, which is
translated in the English,
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Saturday the Sabbath.
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If I go to an orthodox
Jew and I ask him which day
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is Sabbath, they will tell
me Saturday, the seventh day,
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is the Sabbath.
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But our rule at
the revival has been,
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don't go to the
calendar, don't go to a language
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dictionary, don't
go to an orthodox Jew,
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but our creed at the
revival has been, go to
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the Word of God.
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Let's go to Luke
23:50: "And, behold, there was
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a man named Joseph, a
counsellor, and he was
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a good man, a just: (The
same had not consented to the
00:19:26.26\00:19:29.16
counsel and deed of
them;) he was of Arimathaea,
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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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He was the undertaker.
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"And he took it down,
and wrapped it in linen,
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and laid it in a sepulchre
that was hewn in stone, wherein
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never man before was laid.
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And that day was
the preparation."
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Preparation, sixth day.
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Good Friday.
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"And the Sabbath drew on."
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Which means, the
seventh-day Sabbath
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followed the
sixth day, Good Friday.
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Verse 55: "And the women
also, which came with him
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from Galilee, followed
after, and beheld the sepulchre,
00:20:09.13\00:20:10.83
and how his body was laid.
00:20:10.83\00:20:11.63
And they returned,
and prepared spices
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and ointments: and
rested the Sabbath day according
00:20:13.83\00:20:18.23
to the" what, everybody?
00:20:18.23\00:20:19.26
(Aud: Commandment.) Even
in death Jesus was obedient
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to his commandment.
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All right, so, day six,
Good Friday, preparation
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day, his body was
taken down from the cross.
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On day seven, the
seventh-day Sabbath,
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Saturday, his body
lay resting in the grave.
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Luke 24:1, the Bible
says: "Now upon the first day
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of the week, very early in
the morning, they came unto
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the sepulchre,
bringing the spices, which they
00:20:47.63\00:20:49.83
had prepared, and
certain others with them.
00:20:49.83\00:20:51.66
And they found the stone
rolled away from the sepulchre.
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And they entered in,
and found not the body
00:20:53.46\00:20:57.26
of the Lord Jesus.
00:20:57.26\00:20:58.23
And it came to pass, as
they were much perplexed
00:20:58.23\00:21:00.96
thereabout, behold, two
men stood by them in shining
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garments: And as they
were afraid, and bowed down
00:21:04.86\00:21:07.06
their faces to the
earth, they said unto them,
00:21:07.06\00:21:09.16
Why seek ye the
living among the dead?
00:21:09.16\00:21:11.43
He is not here, but is
risen: remember how he spake
00:21:11.43\00:21:16.50
unto you when he was
yet in Galilee, saying,
00:21:16.50\00:21:18.06
The Son of man must be
delivered into the hands
00:21:18.06\00:21:19.96
of sinful men, and be
crucified, and the third
00:21:19.96\00:21:22.36
day rise again.
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And they remembered
his words." Day six,
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according to the Bible,
the preparation day, Good
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Friday, he died, body was
taken down from the cross.
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On day seven, according
to the Bible, the seventh-day
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Sabbath, Saturday, his
body was resting in the grave
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according to the commandment.
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On the first day of the
week, because when you end seven
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days, you told me at
the beginning of this
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presentation that there
were seven days in a week,
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so when you have seven
days, you have to now go
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back to day number one.
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You don't have a
seven-and-a-half day.
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Day one, first day of the
week, early in the morning,
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Christian community
understands it as Easter
00:22:01.66\00:22:04.40
Sunday, Jesus rose.
00:22:04.40\00:22:10.30
Praise God, Jesus rose.
00:22:10.30\00:22:13.96
But nowhere in scripture
does it say that because
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he rose on this first day
of the week that that should
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replace God's
Sabbath, because God says
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I am the Lord, I change not.
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This text just points out
sixth day, Friday, seventh
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day, Saturday,
first day, Sunday.
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Remember the
seventh-day Sabbath, Saturday,
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to keep it holy.
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So somebody says,
Pastor Byrd, that's clear.
00:22:40.96\00:22:46.86
That's clear.
00:22:46.86\00:22:47.63
I cannot debate
that from scripture.
00:22:47.63\00:22:49.56
That is clear.
00:22:49.56\00:22:52.06
But then they say, what
difference does a day make?
00:22:52.06\00:22:56.23
Well, let me answer your
question with another question.
00:22:56.23\00:23:01.26
I'm sure we could ask
Adam and Eve what difference
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does fruit make.
00:23:08.90\00:23:12.83
God said, don't eat it.
00:23:12.83\00:23:13.46
Don't touch it, lest you die.
00:23:13.46\00:23:19.26
God rested on the seventh day.
00:23:19.26\00:23:21.50
Why he told the seventh
day, that's his business,
00:23:21.50\00:23:23.26
he's God.
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But God is a God of specifics.
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What difference does fruit make?
00:23:29.26\00:23:31.36
Let's ask Cain and
Abel what difference does
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a sacrifice make?
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God is a God of specifics.
00:23:37.36\00:23:40.36
And we like to say in
the Christian community,
00:23:40.36\00:23:41.53
well, God didn't accept
Cain's offering because it
00:23:41.53\00:23:45.90
was not Cain's best.
00:23:45.90\00:23:47.46
That's not true.
00:23:47.46\00:23:51.10
God didn't accept
Cain's offering because Cain
00:23:51.10\00:23:56.20
did not give God
what God asked for.
00:23:56.20\00:24:01.36
God asked for a lamb,
because remember, there can
00:24:01.36\00:24:03.40
be no sacrifice
without the shedding of what?
00:24:03.40\00:24:05.36
Blood.
00:24:05.36\00:24:06.93
Cain brought his
best fruit, best grains
00:24:06.93\00:24:12.40
and vegetables.
00:24:12.40\00:24:13.33
And so it looked good,
it probably tasted good,
00:24:13.33\00:24:18.50
but God couldn't
accept it because it was not
00:24:18.50\00:24:21.30
what God asked for.
00:24:21.30\00:24:26.40
Well, Pastor, my
ministry, my church is good.
00:24:26.40\00:24:28.63
The choir sings good.
00:24:28.63\00:24:31.53
The preacher preaches good.
00:24:31.53\00:24:33.50
The fellowship is real
good, and it just might be.
00:24:33.50\00:24:37.53
But you've got to
give God what God asks for.
00:24:37.53\00:24:48.73
What difference does a day make?
00:24:48.73\00:24:52.13
All I know is God
said it and that's so.
00:24:52.13\00:24:54.86
Mark 7:6: "He answered
and said unto them, Well hath
00:24:54.86\00:25:06.16
Esias prophesied of you
hypocrites, as it is written,
00:25:06.16\00:25:12.83
This people
honoureth me with their
00:25:12.83\00:25:15.66
lips, but their
heart is far from me.
00:25:15.66\00:25:23.26
Howbeit in vain
do they worship me,
00:25:23.26\00:25:26.30
teaching for doctrines
the commandments of men.
00:25:26.30\00:25:30.26
For laying aside
the commandment of God,
00:25:30.26\00:25:33.46
ye hold the tradition of men."
00:25:33.46\00:25:37.06
Example: "As the washing of
pots and cups: and many other
00:25:37.06\00:25:39.26
such like things ye do.
00:25:39.26\00:25:39.96
And he said unto
them, Full well ye reject
00:25:39.96\00:25:45.46
the commandment of
God, that ye may keep your
00:25:45.46\00:25:49.63
own tradition." Matthew
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00:25:49.63\00:26:06.26
unto me, Lord, Lord,
shall enter into the kingdom
00:26:06.26\00:26:13.50
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00:26:19.20\00:26:21.60
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00:26:21.60\00:26:23.00
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00:26:24.73\00:26:26.53
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00:26:26.53\00:26:27.73
and in thy name
have cast out devils?
00:26:27.73\00:26:29.50
and in they name
done many wonderful works?
00:26:29.50\00:26:31.20
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unto them, I never knew you:
00:26:31.20\00:26:40.06
depart from me, ye that
work iniquity." God loves you.
00:26:40.06\00:26:49.20
Jesus died to save you.
00:26:49.20\00:26:54.33
Jesus is coming back to get you,
00:26:54.33\00:26:57.23
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00:26:57.23\00:27:01.30
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00:27:01.30\00:27:11.70
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