Participants: Carton P. Byrd
Series Code: BOL
Program Code: BOL000072
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00:01 ♪ (Theme Song) ♪ ♪ Jesus is worthy ♪
00:11 ♪ oh yes, he's worthy ♪ ♪ worthy of all... ♪ 00:18 ♪ all the praise... ♪ ♪ (Music) ♪ 00:22 Pastor Byrd: When I come into God's house 00:24 on the seventh-day Sabbath, I'm looking my best. 00:27 I'm smelling my best. 00:29 I'm acting my best, because I'm worshiping the King 00:31 of Kings and the Lord of Lords. 00:33 If I had a date with President Barack Obama, 00:36 I would be together head to toe. 00:39 But when I come into his presence, I humble myself, 00:44 I lift holy hands and I begin to worship him for all 00:48 he's done for me, redeemed and set me free, 00:53 just because, just because he's my God. 00:57 Do I have a witness in this place? 01:01 What will happen when you get to heaven? 01:06 Isaiah 66: 28: "For as the new heavens and the 01:14 new earth, which I will make, shall remain before me, 01:16 saith the Lord, so shall your seed and your name remain. 01:21 And it shall come to pass, that from one new moon 01:26 to another, and from one Sabbath to another, 01:31 shall all flesh," how much flesh? 01:33 (Aud: All.) "Come to worship before me, saith the Lord." 01:41 Seven days in a week. 01:44 Six days God created this earth. 01:47 On the seventh day God rested, God blessed it, 01:50 God sanctified it. 01:52 The ten commandments, in commandment number four, 01:56 he said remember the Sabbath day to keep it holy. 01:58 God said the Sabbath was to be a sign 02:01 between he and his people forever. 02:03 The Bible goes on and says the Sabbath is 02:05 a holy convocation, a holy coming together. 02:08 The Bible goes on and says from sunset to sunset, 02:12 from evening until evening shall you celebrate 02:15 my Sabbath. 02:16 The Bible says that I'm not supposed to do my own thing, 02:19 that I'm not supposed to seek my own pleasure, 02:22 the I'm not supposed to seek my own words. 02:24 The Bible goes on to say that when we get to heaven, 02:28 the Bible says all flesh shall come together on 02:31 God's Sabbath and they shall worship God 02:34 on God's Sabbath. 02:40 Pastor Byrd, that's clear. 02:43 Even a child can understand that. 02:49 So did God change the Sabbath, 02:55 because that's so clear, Pastor, did God 02:57 change the Sabbath and his law? 03:03 Go to Psalm 89, verse 34: "My covenant will I not break, 03:16 nor alter the thing that has gone out of my lips." 03:21 God also says in Malachi 3:6, the Lord says: 03:29 "For I am the Lord, I change not." Well, 03:35 Pastor Byrd, if God the Father didn't change the Sabbath, 03:39 Jesus must have changed the Sabbath, because we have 03:44 all this confusion about the Sabbath. 03:47 Did Jesus change the Sabbath? 03:50 Well, let me answer that from the New Testament, 03:52 because there are some of you sitting up saying, 03:55 he gave us all that Old. 03:56 Well, in the spirit of equal opportunity, let me give you 03:59 some New. Matthew 5:17: "Speak not that I am come 04:06 to destroy the law, or the prophets: I am 04:09 not come to destroy but to" what, everybody? 04:11 (Aud: Fulfil.) "For verily I say to you, Till heaven 04:15 and earth pass, one jot or one tittle shall in no wise 04:17 pass from the law, till all be" what, everybody? 04:20 Fulfilled. 04:21 "Whosoever therefore shall break one of these least 04:24 commandments, and shall teach men so, he shall be 04:27 called the least in the kingdom of heaven: 04:30 but whosoever shall do and teach them, the same shall 04:32 be called great in the kingdom of heaven." Jesus said, 04:38 I didn't come to change anything. 04:41 I didn't come to destroy the law. 04:43 I didn't come to destroy the prophets. 04:45 I came to fulfill it. 04:48 And whosoever shall teach these things shall be great 04:52 in God's kingdom. 04:55 Whosoever shall not teach these things shall be least 05:00 in God's kingdom. 05:02 Pastor Byrd is not here for a popularity contest. 05:03 Pastor Byrd is not here to get some more friends, 05:07 I have enough. 05:09 Pastor Byrd is here to preach and teach the 05:11 unadulterated Word of God, because there's a famine 05:16 in the land and it's not for bread and water, 05:19 and if we're going to worship God, if we're going to sing, 05:21 if we're going to sweat, let's not just worship him 05:25 in spirit, but let's worship him in truth and worship 05:27 him the way he said we ought to worship him. 05:36 I didn't come to destroy, he said, I came to fulfill. 05:42 You asked me to give you an answer of that fulfillment. 05:46 I'm glad you asked. 05:48 Go to Luke 4:16: "And he came to Nazareth, where he 06:01 had been brought up: and as his custom was, he went 06:07 into the synagogue," that's the church, 06:09 "on the" what day, everybody? 06:10 (Aud: Sabbath.) "And stood up for to read. 06:15 And there was delivered unto him the book 06:17 of the prophet Esaias. 06:18 And when he had opened the book, he found the place 06:21 where it was written, The spirit of the Lord 06:23 is upon me, because he hath anointed me to preach 06:25 the gospel to the poor; he hath sent me to heal 06:28 the brokenhearted, to preach deliverance to the 06:29 captives, and recovering of sight to the blind, 06:31 to set at liberty them that are bruised, 06:32 to preach the acceptable year of the Lord. 06:34 And he closed the book, and he gave it again 06:39 to the minister, and sat down. 06:41 And the eyes of all them that were in the synagogue 06:44 were fastened on him." 06:46 On the seventh-day Sabbath Jesus went in the church. 06:49 That's why Leviticus 23:3 says that it's 06:51 a holy convocation. 06:52 Jesus went into the synagogue, the church, 06:55 on the Sabbath day, and in this instance Jesus 06:57 was the guest preacher. 07:00 And he got up and he preached from the Word of God. 07:03 The Bible says that all the eyes of the people 07:05 in the church were fastened on him, and when he got through 07:08 preaching, he sat down and he turned the service 07:11 back over to the home pastor. 07:13 You all don't hear what I'm saying. 07:15 It was Jesus' custom on the seventh-day Sabbath 07:17 to go to church. 07:19 Why? 07:20 Because God rested on the seventh day, God blessed 07:24 the seventh day and God sanctified the seventh day. 07:31 Well, Pastor Byrd, God the Father didn't change 07:35 the Sabbath. 07:37 Jesus Christ the Son didn't change the Sabbath. 07:40 Well, the apostles must have changed the Sabbath. 07:46 Take your Bibles and go with me to the Book of Acts. 07:50 Know what you believe, know why you believe it, 07:52 and know where it's found. 07:57 Acts 13:42, and the Word of God says: "And when the Jews 08:08 were gone out of the synagogue," out of the church, 08:12 "the Gentiles," the what, everybody? 08:14 (Aud: Gentiles.) "Besought that these words might be 08:16 preached to them the next Sabbath. 08:18 Now when the congregation was broken up, many 08:20 of the Jews and religious proselytes followed Paul 08:21 and Barnabas: who, speaking to them, persuaded them 08:24 to continue in the grace of God. 08:26 And the next Sabbath day came almost the whole city 08:31 together to hear the word of God." Now, I'm going to 08:36 preach this and preach this and preach this until the 08:39 whole city of Huntsville comes on God's Sabbath 08:44 to hear the Word of God. 08:47 Surely if Noah can preach 120 years, surely I can 08:51 stand up here and preach the Word of God until the 08:54 whole city comes together to hear the Word of God. 08:58 But what I love about this text is three things. 09:00 Number one, Acts comes after Jesus' death. 09:04 And if they kept the Sabbath in Acts, that means 09:09 they kept the Sabbath after Jesus died, 09:11 rose and got up. 09:13 So the Sabbath was not done away with at the cross. 09:20 Number two from this text, the Bible says that 09:23 the Sabbath, the Word was preached on the Sabbath 09:26 to the Jews, but the Gentiles besought that it might be 09:30 preached to them as well, which means the Sabbath 09:33 is not a Jewish thing, but the Sabbath is a Christian 09:39 thing and because I'm a follower of Jesus Christ, 09:41 I keep his Sabbath. 09:44 Number three, this text teaches me that even though 09:47 we're under grace, we still have to keep God's Sabbath. 09:57 Now all that I am or ever will be is by the grace 09:59 of God, but even under grace I've got to keep what God 10:02 says, because I love me some Jesus. 10:08 The Word of God says that Paul and Barnabas persuaded 10:11 the Jews and the Gentiles and the whole city to continue 10:15 in the grace of God. 10:18 So Jesus didn't change the Sabbath, the Father didn't 10:20 change the Sabbath, the apostles or disciples 10:25 didn't change the Sabbath, and the Sabbath was kept 10:26 after Jesus' death. 10:27 The Sabbath was not just for the Jews and the Sabbath 10:29 was kept even under grace. 10:30 Go to Hebrews, Chapter 4, get some more Word. 10:43 You don't get this everywhere. 10:45 I don't even charge you. 10:47 I ask for a free-will offering. 10:49 Come on, say Amen. 10:52 Hebrews 4:4, the Word of God says: "For he spake in 11:00 a certain place of the seventh day on this wise, 11:05 and God did rest the seventh day from all his works. 11:07 And in this place again, If they shall enter 11:09 into my rest. 11:10 Seeing therefore it remaineth that some 11:12 must enter therein, and they to whom it was first preached 11:14 entered not in because of unbelief. 11:17 Again, he limiteth a certain day, saying 11:19 in David, Today, after so long a time; as it is said, 11:21 Today if ye will hear his voice, harden not your 11:24 hearts." Verse 8 is the clincher for me on why I 11:27 know the Sabbath is right. 11:28 "For if Jesus had given them rest, then would he 11:30 not afterward have spoken of another day. 11:36 There remaineth therefore a rest to the people of God." 11:39 If Jesus, if the Father had changed the Sabbath don't 11:43 you think they would have told us? 11:47 God is a God that dots every "i" and crosses every 11:51 "t." If God changed his law, if God changed his 11:55 Sabbath, don't you think God would have told us? 12:01 The Sabbath was kept after Jesus' death, 12:03 after his ascension. 12:06 It was not nailed or done away with at the cross. 12:09 Let's expand our minds. 12:11 Think about it, friends of mine. 12:12 In Genesis 1, God created this earth. 12:17 In Genesis 2, God instituted the Sabbath. 12:21 In Genesis 3, we have the fall of man. 12:25 Adam and Eve ate of the fruit. 12:27 Genesis 3 comes after Genesis 2. 12:39 Before the fall of man, the Sabbath was already 12:41 instituted in the Garden of Eden. 12:43 The only reason Jesus went to the cross is because 12:44 Adam and Eve sinned and so as sin entered one man, 12:46 sin entered all men. 12:47 If Adam and Eve had not sinned, there would have 12:49 been no need for Jesus to go to the cross. 12:51 But the fact is the Sabbath was in place before they 12:54 even sinned, before Jesus even went to the cross. 13:08 So for an individual law to be done away with the cross 13:10 --it has nothing to do with the cross. 13:12 The Sabbath was already in place before sin, 13:18 which was before the cross. 13:22 And then when we get to the kingdom all flesh will come 13:25 together and worship the Lord on God's Sabbath. 13:34 All right. 13:36 Seven days in a week. 13:39 Six days God created this earth. 13:42 On the seventh day God rested, blessed it 13:44 and sanctified it. 13:46 Very clear that the Bible says remember the Sabbath 13:48 day to keep it holy. 13:49 It's very clear that the Sabbath 13:51 is a holy convocation. 13:52 That it begins sunset, ends sunset, even unto even. 13:55 It's very clear it's a holy convocation, 13:58 a holy coming together. 13:59 It's very clear we're not supposed to honor ourselves 14:01 but to honor God, not doing our own pleasure, not speaking 14:03 our own words, not doing our own ways, but in essence, 14:06 we have a date with God. 14:07 That when the Lord comes back and we go to heaven, 14:09 all flesh will come together and we shall worship 14:12 God on God's Sabbath. 14:13 It's very clear in the Old Testament 14:15 that God says, I didn't change the Sabbath 14:17 therefore I am the Lord, I change not. 14:19 It's very clear, Jesus said, think not that I've 14:22 come to destroy the law and the prophets, 14:23 but I came to fulfill it. 14:24 He fulfilled it because in Luke 4:16-20 he went into 14:26 the synagogue, the church, on the Sabbath day to read. 14:29 It's very clear that after Jesus' death the apostles 14:32 kept the Sabbath. 14:35 It's very clear the Sabbath was not for Jews, but the 14:37 Sabbath was for Jews, Gentiles and everybody. 14:40 It's very clear that we should observe the Sabbath 14:42 even under grace. 14:44 And it's very clear that if Jesus had changed the day 14:46 he would have told us. 14:54 So, Pastor, how do we know which day is the Sabbath? 15:10 Now before I answer that from the Word of God, 15:15 let me check the biblical answer with Carlton Byrd first. 15:21 How do we know which day is the Sabbath. 15:24 When an individual asks that, somebody wants 15:28 the Bible to say, remember Saturday to keep it holy. 15:37 That's what someone wants the Bible to say. 15:42 But, you know what? 15:43 I've read the Bible from cover to cover and nowhere 15:46 in the Bible do I find where it says, thou shalt not 15:48 smoke crack. 16:03 The Bible teaches that my body is God's temple and so 16:11 because I know my body is God's temple and the Holy 16:14 Spirit must abide in me, then I know crack 16:18 and the Holy Spirit just don't go together. 16:20 Do I have a witness in this place? 16:26 But somebody wants the Word to say remember this day 16:30 or that day to keep it holy. 16:31 Go to Revelation 1:10: "I was in the Spirit on the 16:48 Lord's day, and heard behind me a great voice, as 16:56 of a trumpet." Now, let me stop there. 17:01 People will try to use this text to justify what day 17:03 the Sabbath is, but the text does not give 17:07 a numerical or named day, the text just says that John 17:10 said, "I was in the Spirit on the Lord's day." Now, 17:19 let's back up. 17:20 We're in Revelation. 17:21 Go to Mark 2:27. 17:25 Trying to help somebody. 17:27 Not trying to offend, but trying to defend the Word 17:28 of God. 17:30 Jesus said, "and he said unto them the Sabbath 17:32 was made for" whom, everybody? 17:34 Man. 17:35 "And not man for the" what? 17:36 (Aud: Sabbath.) "Therefore the Son of man is Lord also 17:39 of the" what? 17:40 Sabbath. 17:41 In other words, the Sabbath was made for man, not man 17:44 for the Sabbath. 17:45 Jesus is Lord of the Sabbath. 17:47 If Jesus is Lord of the Sabbath day, would not then 17:50 the Lord's day be the Sabbath? 17:58 But someone wants to know still, which day 18:00 is the Sabbath. 18:01 Pastor, you've been clear on all this, but which day 18:03 is the Sabbath? 18:04 All right. 18:05 Now, if I were to go to a dictionary and I would look 18:09 up Saturday, it would say Saturday is the 18:11 seventh day of the week. 18:17 If I go to an unaltered calendar, if I go to the 18:22 seventh day of the week, the seventh day is Saturday. 18:24 If I were fluent in the Spanish language, I would 18:32 go to Sabado, which is translated in the English, 18:38 Saturday the Sabbath. 18:42 If I go to an orthodox Jew and I ask him which day 18:46 is Sabbath, they will tell me Saturday, the seventh day, 18:52 is the Sabbath. 18:55 But our rule at the revival has been, 18:59 don't go to the calendar, don't go to a language 19:04 dictionary, don't go to an orthodox Jew, 19:09 but our creed at the revival has been, go to 19:12 the Word of God. 19:17 Let's go to Luke 23:50: "And, behold, there was 19:23 a man named Joseph, a counsellor, and he was 19:26 a good man, a just: (The same had not consented to the 19:29 counsel and deed of them;) he was of Arimathaea, 19:32 a city of the Jews: who also himself waited 19:35 for the kingdom of God. 19:36 This man went unto Pilate, and begged the body of Jesus." 19:38 He was the undertaker. 19:40 "And he took it down, and wrapped it in linen, 19:41 and laid it in a sepulchre that was hewn in stone, wherein 19:43 never man before was laid. 19:44 And that day was the preparation." 19:45 Preparation, sixth day. 19:47 Good Friday. 19:56 "And the Sabbath drew on." 20:01 Which means, the seventh-day Sabbath 20:04 followed the sixth day, Good Friday. 20:07 Verse 55: "And the women also, which came with him 20:09 from Galilee, followed after, and beheld the sepulchre, 20:10 and how his body was laid. 20:11 And they returned, and prepared spices 20:13 and ointments: and rested the Sabbath day according 20:18 to the" what, everybody? 20:19 (Aud: Commandment.) Even in death Jesus was obedient 20:21 to his commandment. 20:24 All right, so, day six, Good Friday, preparation 20:27 day, his body was taken down from the cross. 20:29 On day seven, the seventh-day Sabbath, 20:31 Saturday, his body lay resting in the grave. 20:34 Luke 24:1, the Bible says: "Now upon the first day 20:42 of the week, very early in the morning, they came unto 20:47 the sepulchre, bringing the spices, which they 20:49 had prepared, and certain others with them. 20:51 And they found the stone rolled away from the sepulchre. 20:53 And they entered in, and found not the body 20:57 of the Lord Jesus. 20:58 And it came to pass, as they were much perplexed 21:00 thereabout, behold, two men stood by them in shining 21:04 garments: And as they were afraid, and bowed down 21:07 their faces to the earth, they said unto them, 21:09 Why seek ye the living among the dead? 21:11 He is not here, but is risen: remember how he spake 21:16 unto you when he was yet in Galilee, saying, 21:18 The Son of man must be delivered into the hands 21:19 of sinful men, and be crucified, and the third 21:22 day rise again. 21:23 And they remembered his words." Day six, 21:28 according to the Bible, the preparation day, Good 21:30 Friday, he died, body was taken down from the cross. 21:31 On day seven, according to the Bible, the seventh-day 21:34 Sabbath, Saturday, his body was resting in the grave 21:36 according to the commandment. 21:37 On the first day of the week, because when you end seven 21:42 days, you told me at the beginning of this 21:44 presentation that there were seven days in a week, 21:46 so when you have seven days, you have to now go 21:48 back to day number one. 21:49 You don't have a seven-and-a-half day. 21:54 Day one, first day of the week, early in the morning, 22:01 Christian community understands it as Easter 22:04 Sunday, Jesus rose. 22:10 Praise God, Jesus rose. 22:13 But nowhere in scripture does it say that because 22:17 he rose on this first day of the week that that should 22:22 replace God's Sabbath, because God says 22:26 I am the Lord, I change not. 22:26 This text just points out sixth day, Friday, seventh 22:31 day, Saturday, first day, Sunday. 22:35 Remember the seventh-day Sabbath, Saturday, 22:40 to keep it holy. 22:40 So somebody says, Pastor Byrd, that's clear. 22:46 That's clear. 22:47 I cannot debate that from scripture. 22:49 That is clear. 22:52 But then they say, what difference does a day make? 22:56 Well, let me answer your question with another question. 23:01 I'm sure we could ask Adam and Eve what difference 23:08 does fruit make. 23:12 God said, don't eat it. 23:13 Don't touch it, lest you die. 23:19 God rested on the seventh day. 23:21 Why he told the seventh day, that's his business, 23:23 he's God. 23:24 But God is a God of specifics. 23:29 What difference does fruit make? 23:31 Let's ask Cain and Abel what difference does 23:33 a sacrifice make? 23:37 God is a God of specifics. 23:40 And we like to say in the Christian community, 23:41 well, God didn't accept Cain's offering because it 23:45 was not Cain's best. 23:47 That's not true. 23:51 God didn't accept Cain's offering because Cain 23:56 did not give God what God asked for. 24:01 God asked for a lamb, because remember, there can 24:03 be no sacrifice without the shedding of what? 24:05 Blood. 24:06 Cain brought his best fruit, best grains 24:12 and vegetables. 24:13 And so it looked good, it probably tasted good, 24:18 but God couldn't accept it because it was not 24:21 what God asked for. 24:26 Well, Pastor, my ministry, my church is good. 24:28 The choir sings good. 24:31 The preacher preaches good. 24:33 The fellowship is real good, and it just might be. 24:37 But you've got to give God what God asks for. 24:48 What difference does a day make? 24:52 All I know is God said it and that's so. 24:54 Mark 7:6: "He answered and said unto them, Well hath 25:06 Esias prophesied of you hypocrites, as it is written, 25:12 This people honoureth me with their 25:15 lips, but their heart is far from me. 25:23 Howbeit in vain do they worship me, 25:26 teaching for doctrines the commandments of men. 25:30 For laying aside the commandment of God, 25:33 ye hold the tradition of men." 25:37 Example: "As the washing of pots and cups: and many other 25:39 such like things ye do. 25:39 And he said unto them, Full well ye reject 25:45 the commandment of God, that ye may keep your 25:49 own tradition." Matthew 7:21: "Not every one that saith 26:06 unto me, Lord, Lord, shall enter into the kingdom 26:13 of heaven; but he that doeth." 26:19 You can't just hear about the Sabbath, you've got 26:21 to do the Sabbath. 26:23 "Doeth the will of my Father which is in heaven. 26:24 Many will say to me in that day, Lord, Lord, have we 26:26 not prophesied in thy name? 26:27 and in thy name have cast out devils? 26:29 and in they name done many wonderful works? 26:31 And then will I profess unto them, I never knew you: 26:40 depart from me, ye that work iniquity." 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