Participants: Carlton P. Byrd
Series Code: BOL
Program Code: BOL000104
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00:00 ♪ (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: My date is my Sabbath with my seal. 00:24 It's a holy convocation. 00:27 Which means the people of God come together to worship God. 00:31 You come looking your best. 00:34 Understand that your best and my best may be different, 00:37 but we come in our best. 00:38 I'm trying to understand folk talking about I'm coming 00:40 to the Lord just as I am. 00:42 Well, he's the King of Kings and the Lord of Lords. 00:45 I just feel if you were going to see Barack Obama 00:48 you would come with your best. 00:50 So if you're going to see the one who died and hung 00:52 and bled for you, you ought to come in your best. 00:58 My attentions are on him, not on everything else 01:02 that is going on. 01:03 Not speaking my own words, doing my own pleasure, 01:05 because I'm dealing with the best. 01:08 I'm dealing with the Lord, because it's his Sabbath 01:13 and I have a date with him. 01:15 But he goes on in his Word. 01:16 Go to Isaiah 66. He tells me, he says listen, this thing, 01:22 my Sabbath, my seal, is not just for the here 01:26 and now. 01:27 But he says in the Word of God in Isaiah 66, verse 22: 01:31 "For as the new heavens and the new earth, 01:35 which I will make, shall remain before me, saith the Lord, 01:38 so shall yr seed and your name remain." 01:41 He says: "And it shall come to pass, that from one new moon 01:43 to another, and from one sabbath to another, 01:45 shall all flesh come to worship before me, saith the Lord." 01:51 Now, you can think Pastor Byrd has lost his mind up here 01:53 preaching, but it's the truth anyhow. 01:55 It may not be popular, but you can't be popular and prophetic 01:58 at the same time. 01:59 You've got to call it like it is. 02:02 I keep saying and I'll say it again, it's too much 02:04 cotton candy preaching. 02:06 Sweet on the outside and hollow and empty on the inside. 02:09 You've got to call it like it is, what thus saith the Lord. 02:22 Don't want a pat this preach, preach, preach, 02:23 they ain't said nothing. 02:27 You better preach what thus saith the Lord. 02:30 When the world is on fire, I want what's thus saith 02:33 the Lord. 02:34 If I'm trying to get to the kingdom, I want 02:38 what doth saith the Lord. 02:41 Don't sugar coat me with Jesus. 02:44 On this earth, in the earth to come, God says 02:49 my Sabbath will be observed and all flesh will come 02:53 together to worship me, saith the Lord. 02:55 So we find there are seven days. 02:57 How many days, everybody? 02:58 (Aud: Seven) In a week. 03:00 God created this earth in six literal days, but on the seventh 03:02 day he rested, he blessed it, and he sanctified it. 03:05 God then said, remember the seventh-day Sabbath 03:07 to keep it holy, because it's my seal. 03:09 My name. 03:10 I am the Lord thy God. 03:11 My title, I am Creator. 03:13 My territory, the heaven anearth, the seas 03:15 and all that in them is. 03:16 God said that my Sabbath is to be a sign between me 03:19 and my people forever. 03:20 God then said, you know what else? 03:23 Not only is it to be a sign between me and my people, 03:25 but it's to be a holy convocation. 03:27 A holy time for the people of God, because they love me, 03:30 they come and they worship me. 03:31 And then God said, listen, you're not supposed to do your 03:34 own thing, speak your own words, find your own pleasure, 03:38 but understand that the Sabbath is me and God time. 03:42 It is a date between me and God. 03:44 Because God says, earth is preparation place 03:47 for paradise and we're going to keep the Sabbath on earth 03:49 and when we get to the new heavens and new earth. 03:53 So that's clear. 03:56 That's straight from the Bible. 04:04 Do you mean to tell me that this is what the Word says? 04:07 Oh, but no, Pastor Byrd. 04:10 God must have changed his Word. 04:15 It can't just be this crystal clear and everybody's doing 04:19 their own thing about God's Sabbath. 04:21 God must have changed his Word. 04:25 Go to Malachi 3:6. 04:27 God must have changed his Word. 04:30 God had to change the Sabbath. 04:34 Go to Malachi 3:6. 04:37 If you have it let me hear you say Amen. 04:43 Well, the Word of God says where I'm reading, 04:45 Malachi 3:6, he says, "For I am the Lord, I change" 04:50 what, everybody? 04:51 "Not." So stop there. 04:53 That means God didn't change anything. And then why would 04:57 God change something when God told us to remember 04:59 in the first place? 05:00 So God says, I didn't change anything. 05:06 So if God the Father didn't change, surely 05:11 in the New Testament, God the Son, Jesus the Christ, 05:15 must have changed it. 05:17 Well, let's go to Matthew 5:17. 05:25 The Word of God, Jesus himself speaking, did Jesus change 05:28 anything? 05:29 Jesus said, no, "Think not that I am come to destroy the law, 05:32 or the prophets: I am not come to destroy, 05:34 but to" what? 05:35 "Fulfill. 05:36 For verily I say unto you, Till heaven and earth pass, 05:38 one jot or one tittle shall in no wise pass 05:40 from the law, till all be" what, everybody? 05:43 (Aud: Fulfilled) "Whosoever therefore shall break one 05:45 of these least commandments, and shall teach men so, 05:47 he shall be called the least in the kingdom of heaven: 05:49 but whosoever shall do and teach them, the same 05:51 shall be called" what, everybody? 05:53 Great. 05:55 So Jesus said, I don't change anything. 05:57 I came to fulfill it. 05:59 Well, what do you mean you came to fulfill it? 06:01 Jesus said, I came to fulfill it, because I came 06:03 to live it myself. 06:04 Well, what do you mean you came to live it yourself, Jesus? 06:06 Well, Jesus said, you know, when I was on his earth 06:09 I kept the Sabbath, too. 06:10 I observed the Sabbath as being God's seal. 06:13 What do you mean, Jesus? 06:14 He said, well, turn with me to the book of Luke, 06:16 Chapter 4. Jesus says, I didn't change anything, 06:23 I fulfilled it. I lived it. 06:24 Luke 4:16. 06:30 Know what you believe, why you believe it, 06:32 and where it's found. 06:33 The Word of God says: "And he came to" 06:35 where? 06:36 "Nazareth, where he had been brought up: and, as his" 06:38 what was? 06:39 As his what was? 06:40 (Aud: Custom) He went into the what? 06:42 Synagogue, which was the church, on the what day? 06:45 (Aud: Sabbath) "And stood up for to read. 06:47 And there was delivered unto him the book of the prophet Esias. 06:49 And when he had opened the book, he found the place where it was 06:51 written, The Spirit of the Lord is upon me, because he hath 06:54 anointed me to preach the" what to the poor? 06:57 (Aud: Gospel) "He hath sent me to heal the broken" what? 06:59 (Aud: Hearted) "To preach deliverance to the captives, 07:01 and recovering of sight to the blind, to set at liberty 07:03 them that are bruised, to preach the acceptable year 07:05 of the Lord. 07:06 And he closed the book, and he gave it again to the minister, 07:08 and sat down. 07:09 And the eyes of all them there were in the synagogue were 07:12 fastened on him." Jesus said, I didn't come to destroy 07:14 or change anything. 07:15 I came to fulfill it. 07:16 It was my custom to go to church on the seventh-day Sabbath 07:19 and preach the gospel. 07:20 And in this instance he did just that. 07:23 And then when he finished preaching, he sat down and gave 07:25 the book to the host preacher and to the host preacher, 07:29 you can take it from here, I said it. 07:33 Okay, so God didn't change it. 07:37 Jesus the Christ didn't change God's Sabbath, God's seal. 07:43 So it must have been changed after Jesus' death. 07:50 The apostles much have changed the Sabbath, because, 07:53 Pastor Byrd, it's just too clear. 07:56 You read it from the Old Testament, we've gotten it 07:58 from the New Testament and the gospel. 08:00 It has to be that God's Sabbath was changed. 08:02 God's seal had to be changed after Jesus' death because 08:06 it just doesn't make sense why everyone doesn't understand 08:08 the seventh day is God's Sabbath, 08:13 God's seal, because it's clear in the Bible, so it had 08:22 to change after Jesus' death. 08:25 Go to Acts 13:42. 08:29 Getting quiet in here. 08:31 Acts 13:42, the Word of God says: "And when the Jews 08:38 were gone out of the synagogue, the Gentiles besought 08:42 that these words might be preached to them the next" 08:44 what? 08:45 Sabbath. 08:46 "Now when the congregation was broken up, many of the Jews 08:48 and religious proselytes followed Paul and Barnabas: 08:50 who, speaking to them, persuaded them to continue 08:52 in the grace of" whom, everybody? 08:54 (Aud: God) "And the next sabbath day." The next what, everybody? 08:57 "Came almost the whole city together to hear the word of" 09:00 whom, everybody? 09:01 (Aud: God) Three things we learn from this text. 09:03 Number one, we clearly learn after Jesus' death the Sabbath 09:06 was still kept. 09:08 That's clear. 09:09 After Jesus' death the Sabbath was still kept. 09:11 Paul and Barnabas were after Jesus' death. 09:13 Are you hearing what I'm saying? 09:15 Number two, even under grace. 09:20 When we in grace we don't have to keep God's laws, that means 09:24 we can go shoot and kill some people because you're under 09:28 grace? 09:29 We're under grace, we don't--no, no, no. 09:31 They were still persuaded to continue in the grace of God 09:34 and still observe God's Sabbath. 09:37 Number three, the Sabbath is not just for Jews. 09:40 The Sabbath is for Jews and the Sabbath is for Gentiles 09:46 because the Sabbath is for everybody. 09:50 Jesus died for everybody. 09:52 Now, let's expand our minds. 09:55 Let's say that somebody comes up to you or maybe you, your own 09:58 self, erroneously had believed prior to tonight that, well, 10:04 the Sabbath was changed 10:09 because Jesus died and there was no more need 10:14 for the Sabbath. 10:17 Or the Sabbath was changed because Jesus rose on another 10:20 day other than the Sabbath. 10:22 So because of that, you know, we don't have to deal with 10:24 that Sabbath thing. 10:25 That's not binding. 10:26 Now, I don't understand that logic when you can say, keep all 10:30 the other ten commandments, don't lie, don't kill, 10:32 don't steal, don't commit adultery, 10:34 don't do all that, but you don't have to observe the Sabbath. 10:37 Well, let's expand or minds. 10:40 The reason why that's a weak argument to say that the Sabbath 10:47 was done away with at the cross is because the Sabbath 10:52 was instituted before man had even sinned. 10:59 In Genesis 1, creation. 11:04 Are you hearing me? 11:05 In Genesis 1, creation. 11:09 In Genesis 2, the institution of the Sabbath. 11:15 In Genesis 3, the fall of man or the first sin, 11:21 when Adam and Eve ate of the fruit when God told 11:23 them don't do it. 11:24 Creation, Genesis 1, the Sabbath instituted in Genesis 2, 11:29 in Genesis 3, the fall of man. 11:32 The Sabbath was in place before the fall of man. 11:37 The reason Jesus had to go to Calvary is because of the fall 11:43 of man, because man sinned, Jesus had to go to Calvary. 11:49 If man had never sinned, there would have been no need 11:52 for Jesus to go to Calvary. 11:54 Beloved, there is no other name under which we can be saved 11:59 but the name of Jesus. 12:01 Through Jesus' shed blood we have forgiveness of sin. 12:05 Jesus, yes, died for my sins. 12:07 Jesus, yes, rose, but that had nothing to do with changing 12:15 the Sabbath because the Sabbath was in place before man 12:21 had already sinned. 12:24 Hebrews 4. 12:25 I'm working my way down to the end. 12:30 Hebrews 4:4, "For he spake in a 12:42 certain place of the seventh day on this wise, and God did rest 12:46 the seventh day from all his works. 12:49 And in this place again, If they shall enter into my rest. 12:51 Seeing therefore it remaineth that some must enter therein, 12:54 and they to whom it was first preached entered not in 12:57 because of unbelief." 13:02 Now, I'm reading straight from the Word tonight. It may 13:04 be different, but I'm reading from the Word. 13:07 They entered not in because of unbelief. 13:12 Verse 7: "Again, he limiteth a certain day, saying in David, 13:14 Today, after so long a time; as it is said, Today if ye will 13:17 hear his" what? 13:18 (Aud: Voice) Harden not your what? 13:20 (Aud: Hearts) "For if Jesus had given them rest, then would he 13:23 not afterward have spoken of another day. 13:25 There remaineth therefore a rest to the people of God." If God 13:35 had changed his day, if God had changed the Sabbath, if he had 13:39 given another day of rest, don't you think he would have 13:41 told us? 13:44 All right, Pastor Byrd. 13:45 It's clear. 13:49 You were right Saturday night. 13:51 You were right Sunday night. 13:53 That Satan is a deceiver. 13:55 That Satan is a liar. 13:58 Pastor Byrd, you were right. 14:00 He's a liar and there's no truth in him. 14:05 And this whole thing boils down to who are we going to give 14:09 our worship to? 14:10 And if I'm going to worship God, yeah, I clap my hands when 14:14 the praise team sings. 14:16 Yes, I'll clap my hands when committed sings. 14:19 But they that worship God must worship God 14:23 in spirit and in truth. 14:30 All right, Pastor Byrd, you're clear. 14:32 The Word of God is clear. 14:33 So, Pastor, if the seventh day is the Sabbath, the seventh day 14:38 is God's seal, the Sabbath was in place before man sinned, 14:46 so we recognize that even though man sinned and Jesus 14:48 had to go to Calvary, the Sabbath was in place 14:50 before man sinned. 14:53 So that couldn't be nullified at the cross, the Sabbath, 14:55 because it was already in place. 14:59 So, Pastor Byrd, how do we know which day is the Sabbath? 15:10 How do we know which day is the Sabbath? 15:17 Somebody wants the Bible to say remember Saturday 15:22 to keep it holy. 15:24 Remember this day to keep it holy. 15:27 Can we be real? 15:29 The rule of common sense. 15:31 The Bible does not say, and I say this all the time, the Bible 15:34 does not say thou shalt not smoke crack. 15:36 But the Bible does say 15:45 that your body and my body, our bodies, 15:47 are God's temples. 15:49 And so the Bible gives us principles by which we live. 15:52 Let's be clear on that. 15:56 How do we know which day? 15:58 All right. 15:59 I told you we were going to work our way down to the end. 16:02 Go to Revelation 1:10. 16:15 The Word of God says, John himself speaking, 16:19 I, John, "was in the Spirit on the Lord's day, 16:27 and heard behind me a great voice, as of a trumpet." 16:35 Now notice, the text does not say anything about 16:40 what number day John was in the Spirit, the text just 16:44 says that I, John, was in the Spirit on 16:48 the Lord's day. 16:50 Because a lot of people try to tell you this text as license 16:53 to keep whatever day they want as the Sabbath. 16:56 John says he was in the Spirit on the Lord's day. 16:59 It does not say which day was the Lord's day. 17:01 It just says John was in the Spirit on the Lord's day. 17:05 Now go back to Mark 2:27-28. 17:13 The Word of God says, stay with me, 17:22 "He said unto them, The sabbath was made for" 17:27 what? 17:28 Man, and not man for the what? 17:30 (Aud: Sabbath) Therefore the Son of man is also Lord of the what? 17:34 (Aud: Sabbath) Now, if Jesus is Lord of the Sabbath 17:38 and the Sabbath day, then is it not logical 17:42 to deduce that the Sabbath is the Lord's day? 17:47 If he's Lord of the Sabbath day, why then wouldn't the Sabbath 17:50 be his day? 17:53 Now, if we go to a dictionary, Saturday is defined 17:56 as the seventh day of the week. 17:59 Any dictionary that has not been tainted. 18:02 I wish I had a witness in this place. 18:05 Saturday is the seventh day. 18:06 That's what the dictionary says. 18:09 If you talk to someone who speaks Spanish, 18:11 Sabado is the root word for Saturday, Sabado 18:16 from the root word Sabaoth, meaning the Sabbath. 18:21 If you talk to any Orthodox Jew, they will tell you that Saturday 18:26 is the Sabbath. 18:28 But remember you all, our rule is not to go to the dictionary, 18:33 our rule is not to go to another man, our rule 18:37 it go to the Word of God. 18:39 Which day then is the Sabbath? 18:42 Go to Luke 23:50. 19:07 "And, behold, there was a man named Joseph, a counsellor; 19:12 and he was a good man, and a just: 19:14 (The same had no consented to the counsel and deed 19:17 of them;) he was of Arimathaea, 19:19 a city of the Jews: who also himself waited 19:21 for the kingdom of God. 19:22 This man went unto Pilate, and begged the body of Jesus. 19:25 And he took it down, and wrapped it in linens, and laid it in 19:27 a sepulcher that was hewn in stone, wherein never man 19:30 before was laid. 19:31 And that day was the" what, everybody? 19:33 That day was the what, everybody? 19:35 (Aud: Preparation) "And the sabbath drew on." 19:37 So they took his body down from the cross 19:40 on the preparation day. 19:41 Good Friday. 19:45 The sixth day of the week. 19:46 Are you hearing what I'm saying? 19:48 Took his body down from the cross. 19:50 That day, verse 54, was the preparation, 19:52 and the sabbath drew on. 19:54 Which means, the Sabbath came after Good Friday, 19:56 the preparation day. 19:58 The women also, verse 55, "which came with him 20:00 and beheld the sepulcher,ter, and how his body was laid. 20:03 And they returned, and prepared spices and ointments: and rested 20:07 the" what day? 20:08 Come on, rested the what day? 20:11 (Aud: Sabbath) "According to the" what? 20:13 (Aud: Commandment) On day seven, Saturday, the Sabbath, Jesus' 20:17 body laid resting in the grave, Jesus was obedient 20:20 to God's commandment even in death. 20:22 Luke 24:1. 20:26 "Now upon the first day of the week, very early 20:33 in the morning, they came unto the sepulcher, 20:35 bringing the spices which they had prepared, and certain others 20:37 with them. 20:38 And they found the stone rolled away from the sepulcher. 20:40 And they entered in, and found not the body of the Lord Jesus. 20:42 And it came to pass, as they were much perplexed thereabout, 20:46 behold." How many men, everybody? 20:48 "Two men stood by them in shining garments: 20:50 And as they were afraid, and bowed down their faces 20:52 to the earth, they said unto them, Why seek 20:54 ye the living among the dead? 20:56 He is not here, but is risen: remember how he spake unto you 20:58 when he was yet in Galilee, saying, The Son of man must be 21:00 delivered into the hands of sinful men, 21:02 and be crucified, and the third day rise again. 21:04 And they remembered his words." 21:06 Which means, friends of mine, what day is the Sabbath? 21:10 The Bible is clear. 21:12 Good Friday, the sixth day, preparation day, Jesus died 21:16 on Calvary. 21:17 His body was taken down from the cross. 21:19 On the seventh day, Sabbath, Saturday, his body lay 21:24 resting in the grave. 21:26 On the first day of the week, early Sunday morning, 21:30 Christianity says today, Easter Sunday morning, 21:34 Jesus rose. 21:35 Because after day seven you've got to go back 21:38 to day number one. 21:39 Are you hearing what I'm saying? 21:40 The Bible is clear that the seventh day, Saturday, 21:44 is the Sabbath. 21:45 Which means, because it's a holy convocation, I find myself in 21:52 God's church on God's Sabbath, lifting the name of Jesus. 21:57 Yes, I may have come this night. 22:00 Yes, I may have come that night. 22:02 But on God's seventh day Sabbath, a day of rest, 22:10 evening unto evening. 22:14 Well, Pastor Byrd, man, this is tough. 22:17 Pastor Byrd, this is hard. 22:22 I'm telling you because I love you, and God told me to tell you 22:27 this because he loves you. 22:30 And if you love God you will keep his commandments. 22:42 Now we're righteous in the sight of God, but as filthy rags. 22:47 In and of myself I cannot save myself. 22:52 Yes, I keep God's Sabbath, but in and of myself 22:55 I cannot save myself. 22:57 I told you, just as the woman says, 23:00 I go to Sabbath every week, I go to Sabbath, yeah, yeah, 23:04 yeah. 23:05 The devil goes to church, too. 23:11 But I keep God's Sabbath. 23:13 I observe God's Sabbath because I love me some Jesus. 23:18 And Jesus says, if you love me, keep my commandments, 23:21 but not only that, we've got to learn, 23:23 friends of mine, if we're serious about loving Jesus, 23:25 we've got to love Jesus the way Jesus wants us to love him. 23:32 We don't love Jesus the way we want to love Jesus. 23:34 I love Jesus. 23:35 Well, love him the way he wants to be loved. 23:38 Our wives want us to love them the way they want to be loved. 23:42 Husbands want their wives to love them the way 23:44 they want to be loved. 23:46 You've got to love the Lord the way the Lord wants 23:48 to be loved, not the way you want 23:50 to be loved. 23:51 Well, Pastor Byrd, it's just a day. 23:55 God is a God of specifics. 23:58 Pastor Byrd, it's just a day, and if Adam and Eve were 24:02 here they would say it was just fruit. 24:12 It looked good. 24:15 It tasted good. 24:18 But God says, it's not what I wanted. 24:21 I told you don't eat of the tree of good and evil in the middle 24:24 of the garden. 24:25 Don't do it. 24:26 If you do it you shall what, everybody? 24:28 Die. 24:29 God is a god of specifics. 24:30 You don't believe me, ask Cain. 24:36 Well, Cain gave God his best. 24:38 It could have been his best fruits, best grains 24:40 and vegetables, but God said, 24:42 I need a sacrifice. 24:44 And God said, I can't accept a sacrifice without 24:46 the shedding of blood. 24:47 So, yes, Abel brought a sacrifice. 24:52 Cain brought a sacrifice and it was Cain's best, but God didn't 24:56 accept it because it was not what God asked for. 25:05 I'm giving God my worship. 25:10 I'm giving God my praise. 25:12 But is it the worship and praise 25:21 that God asked for. 25:22 Go to Matthew 7, verse 21. 25:34 "Not every one that saith unto me, Lord, Lord, shall enter into 25:46 the kingdom of heaven; but he that doeth the will of my Father 25:52 which is in heaven. 25:53 Many will say to me in that day, Lord, Lord, have we not 25:56 prophesied in thy name? 25:57 and in they name have cast out devils? 25:59 And in thy name done many wonderful works?" 26:01 God, I sang in the praise team. 26:03 God, I sang in the choir. 26:04 God, I ushered. 26:05 God, I sold fish dinner. 26:06 But did you do my will? 26:12 Verse 23: "And then will I profess unto them, I never knew 26:15 you: depart from me, ye that work iniquity." Last text, 26:22 give me just a little time tonight. 26:26 Mark, Chapter 7. 26:31 Trying to give you the Word. 26:32 Know what you believe, know why you believe it, and know 26:34 where it's found. 26:36 Mark 7, last text, verse 6. 26:41 "He answered and said until them, Well hath Esaias 26:48 prophesied of you hypocrites, as it is written, This people 26:53 honoureth me with their lips, but their heart is far from me. 27:01 Howbeit in vain do they worship me, teaching for doctrines 27:08 the commandments of men. 27:10 For laying aside the commandment of God, ye hold the tradition 27:14 of men, as the washing of pots and cups: and many 27:17 other such like things ye do. 27:19 And he said unto them, Full well 27:24 ye reject the commandment of God, that ye may keep 27:33 your own tradition." 27:43 But if you love me, keep my commandments. 27:47 >: To order a DVD of CD copy of this Breath of Life 27:55 broadcast with Carlton Byrd, just call our toll-free number 28:00 877-BOL-OFFER. 28:02 That's 877-265-6333. 28:06 Please visit us online at breathoflife.tv where you can 28:10 see our broadcast schedule, send us your prayer requests, 28:14 sign up for our newsletter, and make a donation. 28:17 Thank you for watching and supporting Breath of Life. 28:20 God bless you. 28:21 PB: God created man. 28:23 Are you hearing what I'm saying? 28:24 There was not this big boom or big explosion or big bang. |
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