Hello, and welcome to
"Behold the Lamb Presents."
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I'm Chris Shelton your
host and we cordially invite you
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to stay tuned in for our
study of God's word today.
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We are going to
look at a subject
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that we've
referred to quite often but,
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perhaps have just not made it
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the focal point
of our time together
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on "Behold the Lamb Presents."
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But in reality it is a
major issue for our day and age.
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In fact, it is a vital
part of God's last warning
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to His remnant
people as found partially
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in the Book of
Revelation chapter 14.
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And here we find that
three angels' messages
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that are to be
proclaimed around the world
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with a loud cry warning God's
people to come out of Babylon
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or religious
confusion and you will find here
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an earnest call to worship God
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who has made heaven
and earth and the sea
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for the judgment of
this world has begun.
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We are warned in Revelation 14
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that if we do not
come out of Babylon
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and would rather
choose to worship
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the beast power and his
image we will be tormented
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with fire and brimstone
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in the presence
of the holy angels
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and in the presence of
the Lamb, Jesus Christ.
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Upon close
examination as we progress
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through this study
we will also discover
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that to worship the creator God
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we must also keep
His Ten Commandment law
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and at the heart of God's law
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we find a commandment
that men has thought to change,
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cunningly change over the years.
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Men over the decades
have crafted arguments
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as to why they
choose to worship God
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without keeping
this portion of His law
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and that being the
fourth commandment.
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Let's look at Exodus 20:8,
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here it states that we
are clearly, clearly it states
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we are to
"Remember the Sabbath day,
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to keep it holy."
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But God doesn't stop there.
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He continues to tell us
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how we are to keep it
holy in verses 9 through 11.
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I want you to look that up
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when you have
time for yourselves.
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Therefore, we have
developed this five part series
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that we've entitled "The
Sabbath, a Test of Faith"
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and within this series
we will be covering messages
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that are entitled
"The Origin of the Sabbath"
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which is today's,
"The Law and Grace"
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"How to Keep the
Sabbath" "Revelation 14"
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and finally "Avoiding
the Mark of the Beast."
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You don't want to
miss any of these messages.
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But before as
always we being the message
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"The Origin of the Sabbath"
with Pastor Kenny Shelton.
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We are blessed to listen
to a song that is entitled
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"More Love to Thee" as performed
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by the "Ouachita
Hills Academy Bell Choir"
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from 3ABN worship center.
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Thanks for joining us once
again here at "Behold the Lamb"
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and as you've already heard
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we have an
exciting five part series.
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You can't afford
to miss one of that.
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They all build on the other.
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This is the first part
"The Origin of the Sabbath"
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and again we just
know as we build upon this.
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We are laying a platform
of how the Sabbath began.
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So those who are saying well,
once again there is going to be
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a Bible study about the
Sabbath and going looking
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from passage to passage
oh, that be beautiful to do.
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That's not the
purpose of this message.
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May approach it little
bit differently than maybe
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many of you have.
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But I think this
will be a great blessing.
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It has been a blessing for me
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and I want to pass
that blessing on to you.
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And I want to encourage
you once again to that--
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you need to respond.
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If you are hearing these things
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and maybe for
the very first time
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so we want to be able
to get back to those who,
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you will say I've
heard it over and over
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but there is
millions that have not.
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So would you, you know,
be gracious and let us--
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just, you know, kind of begin it
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and look from an
angle that we are doing it
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to reach those who maybe,
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maybe have never
heard this before.
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So we pray that it
will be a blessing.
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We need your
prayers and so we just--
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we pray today that each one
of us will be united together,
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power of the Holy Spirit
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would be poured
out on as we look.
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You know, we
talked about the Sabbath.
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You know, it's a
test of faith for us.
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And so I pray that
you will be encouraged
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about these five part series.
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So if we miss a
little some of you say oh,
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he should have brought
in this and he should--
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people are really good at that.
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You know, and I'm
pretty good myself looking back
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and say well, we should--
remember there is five parts,
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so lot of these issues
that we are just covering one
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if we don't get it by
God's grace number two,
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if not then number
three, four and five.
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So let's pray
about it. Shall we?
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We can't do this without praying
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and we need your
prayer along with us.
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So I know that you
are going to where you can
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and I love it when
you say, you know, pastor,
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when you pray in
kneel in front of my set
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and I pray with you.
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Thank you for doing that.
Let's pray together, shall we?
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Father in heaven, we thank
You for the privilege of prayer.
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We pour heart out to
you right now and our mind.
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Many times words just
cannot express what's in,
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in our hearts but
You do, You read them
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and so You know
that we want this to be
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an honor and glory for You.
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We wanted to bring forth
a God of heaven our Creator,
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our Redeemer, our Sustainer.
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We want to bring home the points
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that will convict
and convert hearts.
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Only Your Holy
Spirit can do that.
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Lord, we stand
before you bear today,
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we have nothing which to offer
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that's good within
ourself but you do.
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So I pray that
you will take that
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what we are ready to present now
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by Your grace and Your strength
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and that You will let
the hearers hear exactly
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what they need to.
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Again we ask for that conviction
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of the Holy Spirit.
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Illuminate our
hearts and our minds,
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forgive me of any
sin in my heart and life
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anything that will separates.
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I need to hear
Your voice this morning
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and I thank You in
advance for in Jesus name, amen.
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Again we thank you for tuning
in, on such a regular basis.
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You know, that's
very, very important.
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We believe that we
need present truth messages.
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We don't need
some of those messages
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that show water down
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and they are
soldiers for everyone.
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I heard people say today
that some of these message
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that are found in the scripture
and it just kind of blows
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my mind if all
right to say that.
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They will say, you know,
that's for this group only
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or that's for the
Baptist or that for the,
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you know, the church of God,
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that's for the Adventist
folk, that's for us to enter.
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If it's God's word it is
not for a specific group,
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it's for every one.
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So let's obey-- if it comes
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from the Bible everyone say
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well, that's the message
is just for the Adventist.
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Is it?
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If it's from God's word,
you know, it's for all of us.
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So we will, we're
searching the scripture
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and so what we are going
to do, you have your Bible
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what I would like for
you to do is to turn with me.
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We need a good
foundation, don't we?
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And as we begin we go
back to the Word of God.
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May I encourage you
this and we are talking about
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the origin of the
Sabbath, how it began?
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We always go back.
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You want to know what truth is.
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If you really want to
know what truth is what you do?
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You always go
back to the beginning
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the way that God said it.
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I cannot emphasis
this enough go back the way
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that God set it up
before sin come in the world.
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Why?
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Because one day he
is gonna go right back
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and he is going to what?
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He is-- we're gonna be
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in that garden again.
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We are gonna be just
like it was before man sinned.
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So we can learn that
what truth is the way
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that God set it up
in the very beginning.
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After all God's ways
are best, isn't that right?
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So let's go
back, take your Bible
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if you are going with
me and I'm gonna turn mine
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right now to the
Exodus Chapter 20.
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And if you allow me I
will read these verses.
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I know lot of you say,
oh, we don't want to read.
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I want to read these to you
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and I pray that you
have your Bible open,
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you will read with me
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because may people don't
go back to the Old Testament
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because they are
told by the pastor
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oh, we just,
we're not gonna do that.
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I want you to read the
verse with me 8 through 11.
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Okay, read that
with me right now.
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"Remember the Sabbath
day, to keep it holy."
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That's what the Bible said.
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"Six days shalt thou
labor, and do all thy work
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but the seventh day
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is the Sabbath of
the Lord thy God."
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Did you notice? Listen
to every word carefully.
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"Seventh day is the
Sabbath of the Lord thy God."
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Not a group, not a
denomination as it were,
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not-- e very--
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it's a Sabbath of Lord thy God.
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"In it thou shalt not do
any work, thou, nor thy son,
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nor thy daughter, manservant,"
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the Bible says,
"maidservant, nor the cattle,
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stranger that is
within thy gates" why?
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Here's the
reason why the Sabbath.
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Because the Bible said
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"For in six days the
Lord made heaven and earth,
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the sea, and all
that in them is,"
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and notice what He did.
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"And He rested the
Sabbath day, wherefore the Lord"
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notice what, "He
blessed the Sabbath day,
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and He hallowed it."
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How beautiful
when we read scripture
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and it tells
exactly why, why God did it
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and who it did it for.
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So I hope you are
taking these things in
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because remember we serve a
God that doesn't change, right.
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Anything coming out of His mouth
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He cannot change or alter.
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He is the same
yesterday, today and forever
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and you can't go
wrong following God.
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Can you? You
just can't go wrong.
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So we get back into just
the simplicity of scripture.
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Now, if your - you know,
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you are with me in the Bible
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so forth then let's go
back to the Book of Genesis.
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Shall we?
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Now this is very, very
important for us to do.
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In the Book of Genesis 2:1-3.
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Genesis Chapter 2 now
where we are going to the back.
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We're going to--
some of you may not know
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that the Old Testament
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so that's a first
book of the Bible.
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Genesis Chapter 2, we are
going to the second chapter,
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we are going to
read verses 1 through 3.
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This is very, very
important. Notice this.
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It says, "Thus the heavens
and the earth were finished,
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all the host of them."
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Now notice "And on
the seventh day God"
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notice this, what
did God "ended his work
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which He had made and He
rested on the seventh day
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from all His work
which He had made."
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Verse 3 the Bible said,
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"And God
blessed the seventh day,
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and He sanctified it"
you can say well, why?
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"Because that
in it He had rested
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from all the work
which God created and made."
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It's really simple when we
look and just simple the Bible.
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God created the
heavens and the earth
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and He was done
with creation on six days
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and on the seventh
day God said I rested,
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so I'm going to set aside a
day the seventh day of the week
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every on a weekly cycle
so that you can remember
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who did the
creating and God rested.
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He said set
example that we should do.
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The world is not
doing it, you see.
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That's a busiest
day probably of the week
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always it's on the Sabbath.
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Why?
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Because God said
He wanted you to rest.
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He wants to spend
some time with you.
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You will say today well,
I understand the Sabbath.
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I have heard
some people say this.
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I know about the Sabbath
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because it was
made for the Jews.
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Just one passage and again
they will be elementary to you
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but Mark 2:27 talks about--
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we will read couple of
verses there before and after.
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If you want get
the context of it.
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The Bible simply said,
"The Sabbath was made for man,"
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God made it.
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He knew we need it
and so He made it special
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and then He did
something special.
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The Bible said that He
blessed and He sanctified it.
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we are going to look at
some of those words in a moment
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but I want you to
again as you think about
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these verses in Genesis
2:1-3 here we have something
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that we call a weekly cycle,
seven days, seven literal days
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that the Bible says here.
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Six for work, one for rest.
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Now remember don't
say bless your heart
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some of you writing say,
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well, I keep every
day like a Sabbath.
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You can't do that, number one.
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Don't have time
to go in, you can't.
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Because you ever do
any work you understand
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there anything else.
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Okay, so He says we
have seven day cycle.
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Now remember God
preserved the seventh day
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down through
the history of time.
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We can trace it in the Bible
and we can trace it in history.
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For those of you say,
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well, time laws we
don't know which day.
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May I say today,
many of you just looking
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for excuse not to honor.
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You might try to
convince yourself,
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you might try to convince others
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but God has
preserved the Sabbath
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from the very
beginning of creation.
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He's preserved it.
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Why would He give us something
and then we can't find out
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what day it is.
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Say I want to
bless the seventh day
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but we can't figure it
out, God wouldn't do that.
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And you know what, He
knew it didn't take very much
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to confuse this all so He
just says seven days, right,
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and just put one day aside
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so that we could
get away from the world
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and things are in the world.
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Some will say,
we just can't know
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which day is the Sabbath?
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Let's think it through today,
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this is called the
origin of the Sabbath.
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Let's think it
through a little bit,
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just what I meant.
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Would God give us a
weekly cycle seven days
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and not be able we
couldn't track them,
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that we couldn't
keep track of them
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when He said
expressly the seventh day?
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Why would God say that and
then we can't figure it out?
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Something is not right here.
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This we do know
that time is measured
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by the heavenly bodies.
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Everybody knows
that, we should know that.
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Well, interesting.
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See, God set this
world, created this world
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and can I say a globe?
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He made this
globe, He made this world
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and He took it out of the
space and He began to spin it.
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Maybe we will get
that its spinning.
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Now it spins on its axis.
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You say well what is the axis?
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It's a line on which a
turning body revolves, okay.
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So He put it on axis, He's put
in spin and so it's spinning.
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So God then spins the
world on a yearly course--
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interesting
notice, on a yearly course
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around the sun turn it
together with the moon.
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These called heavenly bodies.
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We are talking what?
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Origin of the
Sabbath, we are saying God
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then put
something into the heavens
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so that we could
keep track of the time
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so we wouldn't
forget the seven day cycle.
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That's interesting how different
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the seven day weekly cycle
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is from the monthly
and from the yearly,
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even from the
daily, interesting.
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All these
others depend upon some
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but the seven
day cycle does not.
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Stay with me, I want
you to think with me.
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So we have the heavenly bodies,
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they are going
to govern the earth
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which we call day and night.
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The Bible says in Genesis 1:14,
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they would be fore signs,
and for seasons and for what?
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For days and for years.
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And we know this
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that the heavens
are in perfect order.
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Do we know that? Absolutely.
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Right, God put them there.
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God spoken them in existence
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and they stay and they
obey what's human beings don't.
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They do exactly what
God has designed them to do.
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In fact, the
astronomers, you know,
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through their great telescopes,
00:18:13.63\00:18:16.24
some of you-- we
call them stargazers,
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some of you really love to view
the heavens and things in it.
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I know you are
amazed by the greatness
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and the goodness of God.
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And so as we look
at-- we begin to observe
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the heavens and the
stars and things that there,
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are there they
regulate our time,
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seconds and minutes and hours.
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And so as we see this
there is something to it.
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There-- what do we do?
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Interesting, we set our
watches or we say our clocks,
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our phones, the time what,
00:18:44.77\00:18:48.11
but by the myth
its right of heaven.
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We set them with
God's timepiece to make sure
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they are perfect
because it's always perfect,
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it's always in order.
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Kind of a interesting thought.
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Now, some of you will say, well,
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you know, I still can't
quite get the date thing,
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I can't-- Let me just read you,
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I've got jotted down
a couple things here.
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I want to read to
because it's very important.
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It's very important
that we understand this.
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For those who
say it can't be done
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there has been
changes in the weekly cycle.
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There have been changes
that we can't figure it out.
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These are just
two little letters,
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two little accepts from letters
from the two observatories,
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kind of interesting.
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Here's what one said.
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This is a US Naval
observatory says this.
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"The chronological
order of the specialist
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have no doubt
about the continuity
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of the weekly cycle long
before the Christian era."
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Notice this, "And
no calendar changes
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in the past centuries have
disrupted the weekly cycle."
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The weekly cycle has been
going on since God created,
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right, in the first six days
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and He rested the
seventh, interesting.
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Now let me give you another hear
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from the Royal
Greenwich observatory.
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Notice what it says here.
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And a letter was
written and he said,
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"We don't know of any
change in the seven day cycle
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which came down from the
very earliest periods of time."
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Notice this.
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Further he states this,
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it has been-- no,
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"It has run
independently of the month
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and all the
astronomical periods.
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Therefore no astronomical
evidence can be furnished
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in the
connection with the week."
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Remember we talked
about everything else
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is kind of conditional.
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You know, you have
your days and your weeks,
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your months and
your years, you will see
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how they hinge on
something in just a moment.
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But something about
the seven day cycle,
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the seven day cycle it doesn't--
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here the astronomers,
I call them stargazers,
00:20:42.14\00:20:45.17
the people who study
the heavens are saying,
00:20:45.20\00:20:46.86
well, the weekly cycle was
just a little bit different
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than all these other things
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because they
hinge on something else.
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But the seven day cycle doesn't.
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Wow, that's just
what we've been reading,
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that's what we've
been studying here.
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Awesome thoughts.
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So how then is a
day really measured?
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Well, let's begin
to think about it.
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A day is measured
by the earth's what?
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Good, I heard some
of you out, rotation.
00:21:12.12\00:21:14.86
Now you know, I'm
just talking when I say
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I heard that
people right and say well,
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you can't hear us talk.
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No, but I know that you
are asking those questions,
00:21:19.61\00:21:22.23
so they are very simple.
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A day then is
measured by the earth's what?
00:21:23.51\00:21:25.95
Rotation.
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So what we have here is half
of the world, we say the globe.
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Half of it is in light and
the other half is in good--
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in darkness, good.
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Genesis 1:5 the
Bible said God called
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the light day and He
called the darkness what?
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Night. Okay,
this makes sense here.
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And so we know long ago
00:21:46.72\00:21:48.56
we know people
really didn't need a clock,
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they didn't really have
watches but they understood
00:21:50.18\00:21:52.39
when the sun come up
and when the sun went down,
00:21:52.42\00:21:54.86
very interesting
the setting of the sun.
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See a calendar day is what?
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A calendar day is measured
00:22:00.36\00:22:01.92
by one complete
rotation of the earth,
00:22:01.95\00:22:05.79
and interesting.
00:22:05.82\00:22:07.98
You would say one
complete rotation?
00:22:08.01\00:22:10.86
And that includes what?
00:22:10.89\00:22:12.43
A night and then
it includes the day.
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You see the Hebrews
if we go back far enough
00:22:15.79\00:22:17.66
we realize that Hebrews
each full day ran from--
00:22:17.69\00:22:21.40
notice this and
this is Bible reckoning
00:22:21.43\00:22:24.06
from the evening
to the, the morning.
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That's how we-- right,
00:22:27.16\00:22:28.74
that's how we look at time.
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So interesting thought
that the time right, begin,
00:22:30.17\00:22:33.36
the day begins
when the sun goes down,
00:22:33.39\00:22:36.17
not when the sun comes up.
00:22:36.20\00:22:38.05
So when we being
to think about that
00:22:38.08\00:22:39.86
for those of you who say well,
00:22:39.89\00:22:41.11
how come your folks keep
Sabbath on Friday sundown?
00:22:41.14\00:22:44.10
Oh, when the sun
goes down on Friday
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that's the beginning of Sabbath
the 24 hour period of time.
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We'll have time to talk
more about this as we go.
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So evening and
morning, the dark part first.
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Now I can read in the Bible
00:22:55.78\00:22:57.01
and you can too
Leviticus Chapter 23
00:22:57.04\00:22:59.69
you can read verses 32.
00:22:59.72\00:23:01.53
You can read Mark
Chapter 1 verses 21 and 32.
00:23:01.56\00:23:07.00
Mark Chapter 1--
Chapter 22 versus 6 and 7.
00:23:07.03\00:23:11.31
Okay, so we have them
what we've been talking about
00:23:11.34\00:23:14.04
the day is measured
by the earth's rotation.
00:23:14.07\00:23:17.81
Now, so we're gonna say
now how about the monthly?
00:23:17.84\00:23:21.09
Okay, the month.
00:23:21.12\00:23:22.15
We look at the month, the
month is governed by what?
00:23:22.18\00:23:24.70
The moon.
00:23:24.73\00:23:25.76
How many of you
look out the window and--
00:23:25.79\00:23:27.45
you know, night
time and star you see,
00:23:27.48\00:23:29.04
the moon is in different,
you know, phases of the month.
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And so that's what the
month is governed by the moon
00:23:32.62\00:23:35.57
and what does that mean?
00:23:35.60\00:23:36.67
That means that's
by the time required
00:23:36.70\00:23:39.57
for the moon to go
once around the earth,
00:23:39.60\00:23:42.84
interesting.
00:23:42.87\00:23:44.17
If the visible
phases that we have,
00:23:44.20\00:23:47.18
some of you will say
yeah, but you remember,
00:23:47.21\00:23:48.71
some will say well, yeah,
00:23:48.74\00:23:49.97
its from the
crescent to the full moon
00:23:50.00\00:23:53.45
and then from the
full back to the crescent.
00:23:53.48\00:23:57.29
Now that's, now
we use the calendar
00:23:57.32\00:23:59.64
in which to do that.
00:23:59.67\00:24:01.40
Very interesting the monthly.
How about you thing about?
00:24:01.43\00:24:04.04
Okay, now we will get
little bit deeper here.
00:24:04.07\00:24:06.61
We talked about three phases
00:24:06.64\00:24:07.86
now we are
talking about the yearly.
00:24:07.89\00:24:09.82
We are talking about
time, how it can be kept,
00:24:09.85\00:24:12.22
how it can be traced,
how it hasn't been changed.
00:24:12.25\00:24:14.73
And remember
because the heavenly bodies
00:24:14.76\00:24:16.19
are in perfect
order, they lose a second
00:24:16.22\00:24:18.34
because God put them
there and they are perfect.
00:24:18.37\00:24:21.33
So we look at the
year measure what?
00:24:21.36\00:24:23.81
Measured by the
sun, that's interesting.
00:24:23.84\00:24:26.58
So we have our
spinning earth, right our globe,
00:24:26.61\00:24:29.30
it's spinning right
00:24:29.33\00:24:30.86
and it circles
continuously right by the moon
00:24:30.89\00:24:34.60
and it travels
around the course of what?
00:24:34.63\00:24:37.07
Of the sun.
00:24:37.10\00:24:39.17
So as it goes around
that course we see it,
00:24:39.20\00:24:41.72
it makes the seasons, right,
00:24:41.75\00:24:44.33
spring and summer and
oh, autumn and winter.
00:24:44.36\00:24:47.68
It's the four seasons.
00:24:47.71\00:24:49.33
So as we look at that we say oh,
00:24:49.36\00:24:51.00
okay, I can see
what God is saying
00:24:51.03\00:24:53.10
so when that completion is made,
00:24:53.13\00:24:55.84
all way around that,
that's we call it a year.
00:24:55.87\00:24:59.27
Wow.
00:24:59.30\00:25:01.05
So the days, the
months, and the years
00:25:01.08\00:25:06.70
as we come
together and we look at it
00:25:06.73\00:25:08.55
it's depending on other
things that are going on
00:25:08.58\00:25:11.26
but somehow that
weekly cycle is not.
00:25:11.29\00:25:15.37
I wonder why?
00:25:15.40\00:25:17.59
Only the week seven days
had no natural landmarks.
00:25:17.62\00:25:24.16
Think about it.
00:25:24.19\00:25:25.22
You view the
heavens there is landmarks
00:25:25.25\00:25:26.55
that are there but the
weekly cycle of seven days
00:25:26.58\00:25:28.69
has no natural landmarks at all
00:25:28.72\00:25:30.72
when you look
and you really study.
00:25:30.75\00:25:32.03
Now what do I mean by this?
00:25:32.06\00:25:33.12
Just look at just three things
that we just talked about.
00:25:33.15\00:25:35.70
Why?
00:25:35.73\00:25:36.76
Because the daily
rotation of our globe.
00:25:36.79\00:25:40.18
What does it do?
It marks off the days.
00:25:40.21\00:25:42.98
Two, the monthly that
we just talked about here
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the circuit of the earth
by the moon and number three,
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is the yearly
revolutions of the earth
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and the moon around the sun.
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Hope that make sense.
These mark off our time.
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Interesting.
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But there is no
astronomical cycle connected
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with the seven day week.
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Did you get that?
00:26:08.95\00:26:09.99
Now what you say,
oh, astronomical that--
00:26:10.02\00:26:12.13
listen, that
astronomical is simply--
00:26:12.16\00:26:14.56
it's a science of the
study of some different things.
00:26:14.59\00:26:17.58
Notice, what does it study
off? It's study of the stars.
00:26:17.61\00:26:20.46
It's a study of the planets,
00:26:20.49\00:26:23.14
all other heavenly
bodies that are up there
00:26:23.17\00:26:25.79
so they are
studying all of these things.
00:26:25.82\00:26:27.85
And what does it deal with?
It deals with several things.
00:26:27.88\00:26:31.08
It deals of the size of them,
it deals with the composite,
00:26:31.11\00:26:35.54
what they are made up of.
00:26:35.57\00:26:37.08
It deals with their motion.
It deals with their positions.
00:26:37.11\00:26:41.84
But interesting the weekly cycle
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there is nothing else, you know,
00:26:43.47\00:26:45.69
nothing that
really depends upon.
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Wow.
00:26:48.59\00:26:49.62
There must be something special
00:26:49.65\00:26:51.17
about the
weekly seven day cycle?
00:26:51.20\00:26:54.45
Wow.
00:26:54.48\00:26:55.69
The Sabbath
given in the beginning
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and it was given by who?
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Good, it's was give by
God, the God of nature.
00:26:59.74\00:27:04.79
Definitely marked
off as we see by giving--
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we'll go back to
the Bible you'll say
00:27:08.40\00:27:09.81
but was it really
marked off by something?
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Absolutely.
00:27:11.73\00:27:12.95
If we go back we can look
when God gave us the manna.
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Oh, you remember that, sure.
00:27:16.00\00:27:17.87
Exodus 16:22-30.
00:27:17.90\00:27:21.98
Now remember he
marked something off.
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This was before the law--
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Ten Commandment law
was given on Mount Sinai.
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Does that make sense to you?
00:27:30.03\00:27:31.32
This was before.
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Lot of people say well,
there was never a Sabbath,
00:27:32.93\00:27:34.57
never observed of it
until after God gave the law.
00:27:34.60\00:27:37.22
It shows the Ten Commandment,
00:27:37.25\00:27:38.50
the seventh day
Sabbath was in operation
00:27:38.53\00:27:40.20
from the very
beginning in creation.
00:27:40.23\00:27:42.49
And then so God began
to make it off and He said,
00:27:42.52\00:27:44.64
okay, look, let's go back
and it is giving of the manna.
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And it's still
identified certainly
00:27:49.67\00:27:50.83
in the New Testament so
you can read a lot there.
00:27:50.86\00:27:52.61
Now, let's go back.
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Because of our
time we speed along.
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But let's go back
just a little bit and read,
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you know, read the accounts.
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Now, read the
accounts of these things
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that we are talking
bout showing about the week.
00:28:02.36\00:28:06.21
Going back to the past
and then to the present
00:28:06.24\00:28:09.75
and then future, interesting.
00:28:09.78\00:28:12.47
How do we go? What
you are talking about?
00:28:12.50\00:28:14.40
Well, you can go
back to the past,
00:28:14.43\00:28:15.80
you can go with certainly,
you can take known dates
00:28:15.83\00:28:18.64
that are given in
scripture and prophecy
00:28:18.67\00:28:20.75
and we can go back
00:28:20.78\00:28:21.98
and we being to trace
certain periods of time.
00:28:22.01\00:28:25.03
See that helps us to
realize no time has been lost
00:28:25.06\00:28:27.73
that we can, we can know
00:28:27.76\00:28:29.30
which day is the
seventh day Sabbath,
00:28:29.33\00:28:32.04
beyond the shadow of the doubt.
00:28:32.07\00:28:34.44
So kind of
interesting, you know,
00:28:34.47\00:28:36.84
thinking along this line
for some reason we talk about.
00:28:36.87\00:28:41.18
The world has been-- can
I use the word snookered?
00:28:41.21\00:28:44.89
The world has been snookered
00:28:44.92\00:28:46.28
when it comes to the
real seventh day Sabbath.
00:28:46.31\00:28:48.42
It's been deceived, it's
been cheated, interesting.
00:28:48.45\00:28:52.07
Why?
00:28:52.10\00:28:53.13
Well, we just
read in Genesis 2:1-3,
00:28:53.16\00:28:56.81
the Sabbath was
instituted, it was established,
00:28:56.84\00:29:00.59
it was set into
operation in Eden before sin.
00:29:00.62\00:29:06.19
See, those are facts
that we must approach
00:29:06.22\00:29:08.56
if we are honest in
heart and we want to look
00:29:08.59\00:29:10.68
at how the
origin of the Sabbath.
00:29:10.71\00:29:13.05
How did it begin? Who began?
00:29:13.08\00:29:15.82
Well, it's a
very interesting here,
00:29:15.85\00:29:17.13
well, we have to just go
back to the beginning we see.
00:29:17.16\00:29:20.98
Now think about, it
was God, notice this,
00:29:21.01\00:29:23.08
it was honored of God the
seventh day Sabbath, right.
00:29:23.11\00:29:26.26
It was set apart
by God the Bible said.
00:29:26.29\00:29:29.29
It was set aside
by divine appointment,
00:29:29.32\00:29:32.67
remember that
and it was given then
00:29:32.70\00:29:35.17
to man, man, right.
00:29:35.20\00:29:37.97
God made the Sabbath for man.
00:29:38.00\00:29:41.23
And when He gave it to him
00:29:41.26\00:29:42.69
He said this is a
perpetual covenant.
00:29:42.72\00:29:45.96
Man, what does that mean?
00:29:45.99\00:29:48.48
When it has to
do with the Sabbath
00:29:48.51\00:29:50.46
it says here it
means it's ceaseless.
00:29:50.49\00:29:52.85
It means it continues
on. It's unlimited in time.
00:29:52.88\00:29:57.54
It's permanent,
it's uninterrupted.
00:29:57.57\00:30:01.92
Wow.
00:30:01.95\00:30:03.50
It's a memorial of His
creation, a finished creation.
00:30:03.53\00:30:08.28
So what is the
Sabbath then based upon?
00:30:08.31\00:30:11.78
Please, think with me,
you love Jesus, don't you?
00:30:11.81\00:30:14.16
You want to know
about these things
00:30:14.19\00:30:16.04
and you've heard it.
00:30:16.07\00:30:17.78
I'm just amazed, I'm amazed.
00:30:17.81\00:30:20.84
Think with me for
a-- I'm amazed with this.
00:30:20.87\00:30:22.79
Many people I talk to who
go to church on a different day
00:30:22.82\00:30:28.13
and when you sit and talk
to them it's very interesting
00:30:28.16\00:30:31.44
as I just did
well not too long ago,
00:30:31.47\00:30:33.01
a couple of days
ago and they said
00:30:33.04\00:30:35.99
there is no question
which is the Sabbath day,
00:30:36.02\00:30:39.22
the seventh day, it's Saturday.
00:30:39.25\00:30:42.64
I knew that, they said
when I was just a little guy.
00:30:42.67\00:30:45.54
My dad said, told
me even that Saturday
00:30:45.57\00:30:48.72
is the seventh day
of the week but we--
00:30:48.75\00:30:50.96
I say, but we what?
00:30:50.99\00:30:54.37
Instituted in the garden, right.
00:30:54.40\00:30:55.76
Appointed by God.
00:30:55.79\00:30:56.84
Made by God, gave to man,
00:30:56.87\00:30:58.48
commanded us to be obedient too.
00:30:58.51\00:31:02.24
But I'm almost
shock that people say
00:31:02.27\00:31:03.81
that's not really an
issue, we know what it is.
00:31:03.84\00:31:07.58
Well, what--
00:31:07.61\00:31:08.68
there's
something is missing here.
00:31:08.71\00:31:10.93
What is the
Sabbath really based upon?
00:31:10.96\00:31:14.27
Remember, laws, regulation,
rules, and people call them--
00:31:14.30\00:31:18.44
keeping the
Sabbath means nothing
00:31:18.47\00:31:20.06
if you don't know the
God behind the Sabbath.
00:31:20.09\00:31:22.58
It means nothing,
it's dos and don'ts.
00:31:22.61\00:31:24.17
You don't want it, it
helped but you from doing
00:31:24.20\00:31:26.07
what you like to do
and how you like to run,
00:31:26.10\00:31:27.87
what you like to
buy, what you liked to do
00:31:27.90\00:31:29.76
until you know the
God behind that Sabbath.
00:31:29.79\00:31:32.54
Why He instituted?
00:31:32.57\00:31:34.62
Oh, friend, it makes all
the difference in the world.
00:31:34.65\00:31:37.68
Listen, that God of the universe
00:31:37.71\00:31:41.64
rested on that Sabbath day.
00:31:41.67\00:31:45.97
You know its very simple
but please think with me,
00:31:46.00\00:31:48.55
it wasn't because He was tired,
00:31:48.58\00:31:50.72
it wasn't
because He was worn out--
00:31:50.75\00:31:52.62
He doesn't get
worried, He doesn't get tired,
00:31:52.65\00:31:55.63
He doesn't need sleep
but He did it for an--
00:31:55.66\00:31:59.52
the God of the
universe rested on it
00:31:59.55\00:32:02.11
and set an example
that I need to do it,
00:32:02.14\00:32:04.12
I need to follow.
00:32:04.15\00:32:06.44
Wow, what a God we serve?
00:32:06.47\00:32:09.52
He rest, He blessed His Sabbath.
00:32:09.55\00:32:13.12
He blessed His rest
day, the Bible says here.
00:32:13.15\00:32:16.25
He sanctified His day.
00:32:16.28\00:32:19.01
It set apart the
Bible said for man.
00:32:19.04\00:32:22.12
We read that in Mark 2
00:32:22.15\00:32:23.48
or at least you look to
that jot it down 2:27, 28.
00:32:23.51\00:32:26.74
Jesus the Son of
God, who was the Creator
00:32:26.77\00:32:30.76
the Bible tells
us in Genesis 1:1-3.
00:32:30.79\00:32:34.87
It was Jesus who
appointed the original Sabbath.
00:32:34.90\00:32:40.42
Boy, I read it, I get just
a little bit excited about it
00:32:40.45\00:32:43.29
because I'm saying wow,
00:32:43.32\00:32:45.29
what a good example
that I have as a Christian?
00:32:45.32\00:32:50.36
What a good example
that I can look to Jesus
00:32:50.39\00:32:53.02
who is the Author and
finisher of our faith.
00:32:53.05\00:32:54.87
Why are we as Christian,
some of you are very selective.
00:32:54.90\00:32:58.76
I serve Jesus, we
follow in His footstep,
00:32:58.79\00:33:01.35
we are gonna make it to heaven,
00:33:01.38\00:33:02.46
we do what Jesus
did, we are gonna make it.
00:33:02.49\00:33:04.24
You say, well how about
the seventh day Sabbath?
00:33:04.27\00:33:06.41
Well, we don't do that.
00:33:06.44\00:33:07.49
Why? You are
not following Jesus?
00:33:07.52\00:33:11.71
If we follow Jesus
we will do what He did,
00:33:11.74\00:33:13.61
what He counsels
to do in His word.
00:33:13.64\00:33:15.35
Would we not?
00:33:15.38\00:33:17.00
We are looking
back at the beginning.
00:33:17.03\00:33:18.26
We want you to question
why you go on another day?
00:33:18.29\00:33:23.95
Any other day that
is not the seventh day
00:33:23.98\00:33:26.24
it has to be a counterfeit.
00:33:26.27\00:33:28.28
It has to be because
God, He only blessed one day.
00:33:28.31\00:33:32.59
He only sanctified one day.
00:33:32.62\00:33:34.30
He only set apart
for worship and holy use
00:33:34.33\00:33:36.71
a 24 hour period of
time that belongs to Him
00:33:36.74\00:33:40.00
and He said My true
followers will hear My voice
00:33:40.03\00:33:42.42
and they will respond.
00:33:42.45\00:33:43.97
They will rest
with Me on that day.
00:33:44.00\00:33:45.62
They will rest
in Me on that day.
00:33:45.65\00:33:47.67
They will be
blessed in Me on that day.
00:33:47.70\00:33:50.41
Boy, how beautiful this
is, please don't miss this.
00:33:50.44\00:33:54.26
it's not a bunch of
dos and don'ts and I can't
00:33:54.29\00:33:56.75
and you will say,
well, it's not a matter,
00:33:56.78\00:33:58.73
and you will keep it
in order to be saved.
00:33:58.76\00:34:01.10
It's because you have a
relationship with Christ,
00:34:01.13\00:34:03.77
you see you are willing
to follow in His footsteps.
00:34:03.80\00:34:07.31
Why?
00:34:07.34\00:34:08.38
You say, whatever thing
mean it was really that good
00:34:08.41\00:34:11.19
when God created it.
00:34:11.22\00:34:12.92
We need to take
that in consideration
00:34:12.95\00:34:14.44
in Genesis 1:31,
Bible says right here,
00:34:14.47\00:34:18.65
"God saw that every
thing that He had made,
00:34:18.68\00:34:21.08
and, behold, it was very good."
00:34:21.11\00:34:24.87
Everything that He had made.
00:34:24.90\00:34:26.35
Now, that mean
everything He made,
00:34:26.38\00:34:28.58
that mean the seventh day too?
00:34:28.61\00:34:31.03
Absolutely.
00:34:31.06\00:34:32.97
Everything that He
made He says very good.
00:34:33.00\00:34:36.84
So we see that He
rested and He wants us
00:34:36.87\00:34:39.33
to rest in the joy
of His completed work.
00:34:39.36\00:34:43.56
He made this world.
00:34:43.59\00:34:45.07
Who he make it for? For us.
00:34:45.10\00:34:47.14
Everything that's
in He made it for us.
00:34:47.17\00:34:50.03
He wants us simply
to remember who He is.
00:34:50.06\00:34:52.98
And let me tell you
the blessings will come
00:34:53.01\00:34:54.74
if you remember who
He is, your Creator God.
00:34:54.77\00:34:59.12
He will bless you for it.
00:34:59.15\00:35:01.04
The world may count
you as the strange thing
00:35:01.07\00:35:03.01
but God said
I'll bless you for it.
00:35:03.04\00:35:05.07
A memorial Bible
says of His creation.
00:35:05.10\00:35:08.64
It's a sign of God's power.
It's a sign of God's love.
00:35:08.67\00:35:13.10
It's a sign that
we are obedient to Him
00:35:13.13\00:35:15.09
because we love Him.
00:35:15.12\00:35:16.38
Not as if-- well,
00:35:16.41\00:35:17.50
if I do then He
will take to heaven
00:35:17.53\00:35:19.17
and I'm going to do it because--
00:35:19.20\00:35:20.56
No, willing you want to
do it. Your love to do it.
00:35:20.59\00:35:25.38
Well, if the Bible because
you can go into Psalms 111:4
00:35:25.41\00:35:29.21
the Bible says "He
hath made His" listen
00:35:29.24\00:35:32.27
"He has made His wonderful
works to be remembered."
00:35:32.30\00:35:37.11
Wow, He said He's
made His wonderful works
00:35:37.14\00:35:40.40
to be remembered
00:35:40.43\00:35:41.58
and in the heart
of the commandment
00:35:41.61\00:35:43.01
it says remember the
Sabbath day to keep it holy.
00:35:43.04\00:35:46.41
Oh, friend, don't
forget what He is saying.
00:35:46.44\00:35:48.59
Please don't forget.
00:35:48.62\00:35:50.67
"To be remembered"
the verse goes on to say
00:35:50.70\00:35:52.40
"the Lord is gracious
and full of compassion."
00:35:52.43\00:35:56.08
Oh, I hope you found that out.
00:35:56.11\00:35:57.62
If you don't know that
today please get to know Him.
00:35:57.65\00:36:00.41
He is gracious.
Praise God for His grace.
00:36:00.44\00:36:02.88
Praise God that He is
gracious and long suffering.
00:36:02.91\00:36:05.41
Thank God He is
full of compassion.
00:36:05.44\00:36:08.68
And so when I think about
the Sabbath the day it brings,
00:36:08.71\00:36:11.91
the Sabbath brings
our thoughts, you see,
00:36:11.94\00:36:14.44
into communion with the Creator.
00:36:14.47\00:36:18.11
You remember He
want's us. Jesus prayed this.
00:36:18.14\00:36:20.41
Remember in John 17,
He said He prayed Father
00:36:20.44\00:36:22.68
that we maybe
one as they was one
00:36:22.71\00:36:25.28
the Father and the Son,
that we maybe one with Him.
00:36:25.31\00:36:27.54
The Sabbath brings us
in communion with Him.
00:36:27.57\00:36:29.56
When we let the world
out, we throw the world out
00:36:29.59\00:36:32.73
because we've have
enough for six days
00:36:32.76\00:36:34.50
and we spend that time with Him.
00:36:34.53\00:36:35.93
Clears our mind,
clears our thinking,
00:36:35.96\00:36:37.56
energizes us spiritually
00:36:37.59\00:36:39.50
to do that work that
God has called us to do,
00:36:39.53\00:36:41.70
to let our light
shine before man.
00:36:41.73\00:36:44.02
Oh, friend, to me
this is just exciting.
00:36:44.05\00:36:47.30
Bible reminds us that
all things were made by Him.
00:36:47.33\00:36:52.30
Oh, notice it, all
things were made by Him.
00:36:52.33\00:36:57.65
I've mentioned this before
but I'll mention it again.
00:36:57.68\00:36:59.70
Remember, if all things
were made by Him then what?
00:36:59.73\00:37:03.29
Let's just over
few things, what?
00:37:03.32\00:37:04.74
Then He before all things.
00:37:04.77\00:37:08.69
It have to, isn't that
right? Common sense, sure.
00:37:08.72\00:37:12.71
See no person needs to be
confused here whether they--
00:37:12.74\00:37:16.95
if they are
Bible student or not.
00:37:16.98\00:37:19.46
I don't think
God holds against us.
00:37:19.49\00:37:21.20
We try to use some logic
and we try to think it through.
00:37:21.23\00:37:23.76
We read the
scripture, we think it through.
00:37:23.79\00:37:25.23
We read some more,
we think it through.
00:37:25.26\00:37:27.90
If He had created all
things He had to be here
00:37:27.93\00:37:29.65
before all things.
00:37:29.68\00:37:32.58
Now I make this big statement
that blow some of your mind.
00:37:32.61\00:37:34.81
Christ was God.
00:37:34.84\00:37:38.32
You say, how can
that be, Christ is God?
00:37:38.35\00:37:41.80
Yeah, essentially
in the full of sense,
00:37:41.83\00:37:46.39
in the highest sense and
then we've been studying,
00:37:46.42\00:37:50.05
we will have studies out
on that about the God head,
00:37:50.08\00:37:52.45
you don't want to miss those.
00:37:52.48\00:37:54.61
He was God from all eternity,
yet he was a distinct person.
00:37:54.64\00:38:00.73
Yet He was-- the Bible said
00:38:00.76\00:38:01.92
He was one with the Father.
00:38:01.95\00:38:04.86
And He thought it not
robbery to be equal with God.
00:38:04.89\00:38:09.63
Yeah, I know you read
that in Philippians 2:6.
00:38:09.66\00:38:13.63
And also little bit more
read Proverbs 8 when you time
00:38:13.66\00:38:16.43
and just jot down
verses 22 through about 30.
00:38:16.46\00:38:19.16
Read those sayings
when you have time.
00:38:19.19\00:38:22.29
So we realize that we
studying scripture here
00:38:22.32\00:38:24.69
and we are studying
about the origin the Sabbath
00:38:24.72\00:38:26.41
that we need to understand
that relationship of God,
00:38:26.44\00:38:28.92
of Christ and why
the Sabbath was made.
00:38:28.95\00:38:32.21
You see, Christ, He
was equal with the Father.
00:38:32.24\00:38:35.23
Bible said before
00:38:35.26\00:38:36.75
the foundation of
the world 1 Peter 1:20.
00:38:36.78\00:38:40.72
"Testimonies to
Minister" page 264 says this.
00:38:40.75\00:38:44.10
Notice this, listen, "The
Son of God was given to die
00:38:44.13\00:38:49.92
before the
foundation of the world."
00:38:49.95\00:38:52.18
See all that
does it just confirm
00:38:52.21\00:38:53.79
what the scripture
has already told us.
00:38:53.82\00:38:55.82
It's in harmony with scripture.
00:38:55.85\00:38:57.95
So the seventh day
Sabbath then located where?
00:38:57.98\00:39:01.10
In the very heart of
the Commandments of God
00:39:01.13\00:39:04.52
as we've been
talking of Mark 2:28 reveals
00:39:04.55\00:39:07.44
the Son of man is Lord also
of the Sabbath, interesting.
00:39:07.47\00:39:12.79
He is the author of it.
He is the protector of it.
00:39:12.82\00:39:16.39
He is the maker as it were.
00:39:16.42\00:39:18.81
So the Sabbath we know
as we look in scripture
00:39:18.84\00:39:21.24
Exodus 20:10 tells
us that the Sabbath,
00:39:21.27\00:39:24.84
is the Sabbath of
the Lord Jehovah God.
00:39:24.87\00:39:30.20
Think about if God's
created, He's protected it,
00:39:30.23\00:39:33.71
He's made it for
you, He's made it for me,
00:39:33.74\00:39:35.43
He gave it to us as a gift
00:39:35.46\00:39:38.05
because He knew
that we needed it.
00:39:38.08\00:39:40.26
The Sabbath belongs to Him.
00:39:40.29\00:39:42.52
He is Lord, is He not?
00:39:42.55\00:39:44.40
It's His day,
it's the Lord's day.
00:39:44.43\00:39:47.45
And friend, don't, please don't,
00:39:47.48\00:39:49.18
this is sad when you look
at Sunday or Monday or Tuesday
00:39:49.21\00:39:51.89
and say that is Lord's day.
00:39:51.92\00:39:53.45
That's an impossibility.
00:39:53.48\00:39:54.77
The Lord's day is the
seventh day of the week.
00:39:54.80\00:39:58.12
The Bible is clearer on that.
00:39:58.15\00:39:59.62
Don't let the devil
come in to try to change
00:39:59.65\00:40:01.29
some of the words around
and confuse our thinking on it.
00:40:01.32\00:40:04.19
Man has done that, the Bible
is not confused at all on it.
00:40:04.22\00:40:06.73
God's not confused and you
need not be confused either.
00:40:06.76\00:40:10.20
Sabbath should be, you know,
00:40:10.23\00:40:12.03
it should be
revealed in our lives.
00:40:12.06\00:40:15.37
You think, well,
people look at me
00:40:15.40\00:40:16.45
little bit strange and odd.
00:40:16.48\00:40:17.56
Let them look.
00:40:17.59\00:40:19.38
Maybe that will
be the only thing
00:40:19.41\00:40:20.67
that will help to
change their hearts and life
00:40:20.70\00:40:22.43
and ask a question as why?
00:40:22.46\00:40:26.41
Sabbath for given for
man's benefit, we know that.
00:40:26.44\00:40:29.01
It was beginning
in the, the beginning
00:40:29.04\00:40:30.66
is for the
highest good of mankind.
00:40:30.69\00:40:33.77
God loves you,
00:40:33.80\00:40:34.83
He wants a very
best for you and me.
00:40:34.86\00:40:37.59
He wants us to have
that fellowship together.
00:40:37.62\00:40:40.23
He want's to give us
that rest that we need.
00:40:40.26\00:40:43.97
Friend, that's not
all spiritual, physical.
00:40:44.00\00:40:47.93
All the things that the
piles on you during the week
00:40:47.96\00:40:51.22
God wants to
take all of those off,
00:40:51.25\00:40:52.96
cast your burden He says on Me.
00:40:52.99\00:40:56.28
And we find out of course,
00:40:56.31\00:40:57.34
many centuries later
as we study the weekly--
00:40:57.37\00:41:00.70
the weekly Sabbath was
reaffirmed at Mount Sinai.
00:41:00.73\00:41:03.80
You remember that?
00:41:03.83\00:41:05.09
We've been talking
about all these things here,
00:41:05.12\00:41:06.55
it was done before the law,
00:41:06.58\00:41:07.68
you know, given on Mount Sinai.
00:41:07.71\00:41:10.56
This of this it was
given on Exodus 20:8-11
00:41:10.59\00:41:13.63
we read and Exodus 31:16, 17
00:41:13.66\00:41:16.49
you can read
all of these verses.
00:41:16.52\00:41:18.97
Now what does God do?
00:41:19.00\00:41:20.70
God looks down
the stream of time,
00:41:20.73\00:41:22.05
He sees what's going on.
00:41:22.08\00:41:23.13
He says, I'm
gonna give My people,
00:41:23.16\00:41:24.59
My people an
organized system of worship.
00:41:24.62\00:41:29.19
Wow, what a thought.
00:41:29.22\00:41:31.15
God's people
need to be organized.
00:41:31.18\00:41:32.61
He said, I'm gonna
give them a organized system
00:41:32.64\00:41:34.59
so that they will be
consistent every week,
00:41:34.62\00:41:37.04
every Sabbath, every
seventh day of the week.
00:41:37.07\00:41:41.24
He wants us to be consistent.
Some of you are not consistent.
00:41:41.27\00:41:45.02
You will have
three or four Sabbath
00:41:45.05\00:41:46.13
and you attend church one time,
you think that's good enough.
00:41:46.16\00:41:48.35
That's not consistency
at all. Think about it.
00:41:48.38\00:41:51.53
Remember the
Sabbath was placed where?
00:41:51.56\00:41:54.70
In the middle of the
moral Ten Commandment law.
00:41:54.73\00:41:57.89
Which was given by
what? Given by God to man.
00:41:57.92\00:42:00.52
These are
principles are eternal,
00:42:00.55\00:42:02.46
they last forever, their
applications then we say,
00:42:02.49\00:42:05.25
we look them, we say well,
00:42:05.28\00:42:06.40
they are based on
our relationship with God
00:42:06.43\00:42:08.40
and our fellow man.
00:42:08.43\00:42:10.22
Isn't that right?
00:42:10.25\00:42:11.30
Have you read that
in Matthew 22:36-40?
00:42:11.33\00:42:15.11
On this two hang all
the law. Sure you read that.
00:42:15.14\00:42:18.93
So the Sabbath in, the
origin of it reminds us of what?
00:42:18.96\00:42:22.06
That Christ is our Creator.
00:42:22.09\00:42:26.29
He wants to care for
us. He is our Redeemer.
00:42:26.32\00:42:29.05
He is our
sustainer. He is our provider.
00:42:29.08\00:42:32.37
How many people
sing about it and they,
00:42:32.40\00:42:33.91
you know, praise about
it and they say He is here
00:42:33.94\00:42:35.88
but we don't follow His example.
00:42:35.91\00:42:37.23
What's wrong?
00:42:37.26\00:42:39.34
But He came-- that love
00:42:39.37\00:42:41.80
that He showed
became, He showed that love
00:42:41.83\00:42:44.16
more and more and
more as Calvary, sin.
00:42:44.19\00:42:49.01
He showed up and He said
I'm gonna be your Redeemer.
00:42:49.04\00:42:51.99
Wow.
00:42:52.02\00:42:54.43
Because of sin
came in these thing
00:42:54.46\00:42:57.60
we call the ceremonial services.
00:42:57.63\00:42:59.97
See, we get confused
sometime in this world
00:43:00.00\00:43:02.77
from the moral law,
form the ceremonial law.
00:43:02.80\00:43:06.77
Many people read passages
00:43:06.80\00:43:08.20
that pertain to
the ceremonial law
00:43:08.23\00:43:10.05
which end up at the cross
00:43:10.08\00:43:11.89
because all the
ceremonial things,
00:43:11.92\00:43:13.94
you know, that were in the
law of God all these things,
00:43:13.97\00:43:16.25
all pointed to
Jesus coming right,
00:43:16.28\00:43:18.07
living the prefect
life and dying for us
00:43:18.10\00:43:20.36
and after He came
there was no use to do it.
00:43:20.39\00:43:23.62
The gospel going to
the gentiles by Paul.
00:43:23.65\00:43:25.91
Paul was this
transitioning period
00:43:25.94\00:43:27.64
and things were written
there in the New Testament
00:43:27.67\00:43:29.40
we say sometime oh,
it can cause confusion.
00:43:29.43\00:43:31.56
There is no need
as long as we realize
00:43:31.59\00:43:33.58
the moral Ten Commandment
law is by itself over here,
00:43:33.61\00:43:36.55
unchangeable, can't change it.
00:43:36.58\00:43:39.24
Has heaven and earth will
pass away before that does
00:43:39.27\00:43:41.57
and then you have the
ceremonial laws over here.
00:43:41.60\00:43:44.22
I wonder if I read
some of them to you today.
00:43:44.25\00:43:47.67
If you would know the
difference and you can say,
00:43:47.70\00:43:49.82
well, that's the moral law, oh,
no, that's the ceremonial law.
00:43:49.85\00:43:52.70
Most people cannot by the
way, they just can't do it.
00:43:52.73\00:43:57.11
But we need to be studying
to show ourself approved.
00:43:57.14\00:44:01.24
We need to understand
about the sacrificial services
00:44:01.27\00:44:03.91
and all those things
that pointed to Christ.
00:44:03.94\00:44:07.16
We need to
understand those today.
00:44:07.19\00:44:09.68
Simply the prefigure the coming,
00:44:09.71\00:44:11.77
there are shadow of
things to come of Jesus
00:44:11.80\00:44:14.25
coming and dying for us.
00:44:14.28\00:44:16.16
You need to have your
Bible and pencil and paper
00:44:16.19\00:44:17.96
we may ask you a
question here in just a moment
00:44:17.99\00:44:19.97
because I'm thinking now
about the ceremonial services.
00:44:20.00\00:44:23.73
We said, what happened?
00:44:23.76\00:44:24.81
Right when
Christ died they seized.
00:44:24.84\00:44:28.34
But the word that was spoken,
00:44:28.37\00:44:29.43
that was given by God
can never come to an end.
00:44:29.46\00:44:32.12
It's above all
ceremonial rights.
00:44:32.15\00:44:35.51
All the practices
of the Jewish nation.
00:44:35.54\00:44:39.04
You'll say
well, how can this be?
00:44:39.07\00:44:42.29
Well, number one from
the fact the Bible said
00:44:42.32\00:44:44.36
that the seventh day Sabbath
was established before sin.
00:44:44.39\00:44:50.27
Interesting.
00:44:50.30\00:44:51.33
Ceremonial was after sin,
00:44:51.36\00:44:53.39
seventh day
Sabbath was before sin
00:44:53.42\00:44:55.02
so it was perfect,
everything was good, right.
00:44:55.05\00:44:58.08
Now think about--
here's cause confusion
00:44:58.11\00:45:00.11
that we talked about.
00:45:00.14\00:45:01.17
Maybe we'll have time
the way we can do that,
00:45:01.20\00:45:03.10
confusion between the
moral and the ceremonial law.
00:45:03.13\00:45:06.49
You have your Bible
maybe you like to turn with me,
00:45:06.52\00:45:08.54
you can turn with me
to Book of Colossians.
00:45:08.58\00:45:12.38
I hear this read all the
time, people are confused
00:45:12.41\00:45:15.66
and I think maybe you
know, maybe honestly so.
00:45:15.69\00:45:19.93
And you know, so
we need to study it,
00:45:19.96\00:45:22.21
we need to look at it.
00:45:22.24\00:45:23.27
Book of Colossians 2:14-17.
00:45:23.30\00:45:27.99
You know these but listen many
honest hearted people do not.
00:45:28.02\00:45:32.15
They said, "The
blotting out of the handwriting
00:45:32.18\00:45:34.13
of the ordinances
that was against us,
00:45:34.16\00:45:36.23
which was contrary to
us, took it out of the way,
00:45:36.26\00:45:39.26
nailing it to his cross,
00:45:39.29\00:45:42.15
and having spoiled
principalities and powers,
00:45:42.18\00:45:45.04
he made a shew of them openly,
00:45:45.07\00:45:47.08
triumphing over them in it."
00:45:47.11\00:45:50.24
The Bible goes on
to say, notice this.
00:45:50.27\00:45:52.07
"Let no man
therefore judge you in meat,
00:45:52.10\00:45:55.13
or in drink, or in
respect to a holyday,
00:45:55.16\00:45:58.39
or of the new moon,
or of the Sabbath days."
00:45:58.42\00:46:00.85
Interesting.
00:46:00.88\00:46:01.91
Verse 17 says
00:46:01.94\00:46:02.98
"Which are a
shadow of things to come,
00:46:03.01\00:46:04.76
but the body is of Christ."
00:46:04.79\00:46:06.53
Many people say well,
the Ten Commandment law
00:46:06.56\00:46:08.24
and maybe honestly so best they,
00:46:08.27\00:46:09.85
he was nailed to the cross.
00:46:09.88\00:46:11.29
Friend, if I ask you today,
does that pertaining to God's
00:46:11.32\00:46:13.78
Ten Commandment moral
law or the ceremonial law?
00:46:13.81\00:46:16.95
You got to come
to grips with it.
00:46:16.98\00:46:19.07
Well, certainly it
says, here what was it--
00:46:19.10\00:46:21.12
it was blotting
out of the handwriting
00:46:21.15\00:46:23.25
of the ordinances
that was against us,
00:46:23.28\00:46:26.70
nailing it to the
cross, notice this.
00:46:26.73\00:46:30.21
So what would be
therefore it says you the meat
00:46:30.24\00:46:32.92
and the drink offerings and so--
00:46:32.95\00:46:34.54
those were things what?
00:46:34.57\00:46:35.65
That were instituted
in the ceremonial law
00:46:35.68\00:46:37.77
that they
observed pointing to Christ
00:46:37.80\00:46:39.87
but after He come well,
00:46:39.90\00:46:41.53
those things were
nailed to the cross with Christ
00:46:41.56\00:46:43.58
when He was nailed.
00:46:43.61\00:46:44.64
It says the new moons
and the Sabbath they--
00:46:44.67\00:46:46.61
not these seventh day cycle,
the seventh day of the week
00:46:46.64\00:46:49.33
but those seven special days
00:46:49.36\00:46:50.85
that they had
they called Sabbath.
00:46:50.88\00:46:52.93
So we look say, oh,
00:46:52.96\00:46:53.99
that pertained the
moral law at all then.
00:46:54.02\00:46:56.12
Does it? Wow.
00:46:56.15\00:46:57.87
You can also read that
also in Ephesians 2:15,
00:46:57.90\00:47:02.28
take time to do it.
00:47:02.31\00:47:03.37
We can't do it because our time
00:47:03.40\00:47:04.43
just really
going by here quickly.
00:47:04.46\00:47:07.39
What if I gave you another one,
00:47:07.42\00:47:08.62
maybe let's say Luke Chapter 23?
00:47:08.65\00:47:10.85
Oh, we're don't have time.
00:47:10.88\00:47:11.91
If don't get any
further I still want to do this
00:47:11.94\00:47:13.43
because I want to
hear what your opinion.
00:47:13.46\00:47:15.35
I want to hear what
you had to say about it.
00:47:15.38\00:47:17.28
So would this be moral
law or this be the civil law
00:47:17.31\00:47:21.12
that we are
talking, the ceremonial law?
00:47:21.15\00:47:22.99
So notice this, let's
look at Luke Chapter 23--
00:47:23.02\00:47:26.82
I turn here my
Bible quickly as I can.
00:47:26.85\00:47:28.69
Luke chapter what?
00:47:28.72\00:47:29.86
Good verse 23,
gonna read verses 52,
00:47:29.89\00:47:33.06
23 I'm gonna read verses 52,
00:47:33.09\00:47:36.01
okay through 56.
00:47:39.65\00:47:41.45
Notice this, it says,
"This man went unto Pilate,"
00:47:41.48\00:47:44.25
talking about
the death of Christ.
00:47:44.28\00:47:45.42
The burial of Jesus.
00:47:45.45\00:47:46.48
Notice it says "This
man went unto Pilate,
00:47:46.51\00:47:48.58
he begged the body of Jesus.
00:47:48.61\00:47:50.33
And he took it down,
and he wrapped it in linen,
00:47:50.36\00:47:53.14
he laid it in a sepulcher
that was hewn in stone,
00:47:53.17\00:47:56.30
wherein never
man before was laid."
00:47:56.33\00:47:58.00
Notice this, oh,
00:47:58.03\00:47:59.11
"And that day was
the preparation day,
00:47:59.14\00:48:02.40
and the Sabbath drew on.
00:48:02.43\00:48:04.66
And the women
also, which were came
00:48:04.69\00:48:06.65
with him from
Galilee, followed after,
00:48:06.68\00:48:08.52
and beheld the sepulcher,
and how his body was laid."
00:48:08.55\00:48:11.36
Notice verse 56
"And they returned,
00:48:11.39\00:48:13.86
and prepared
spices and ointments,
00:48:13.89\00:48:16.14
and rested the Sabbath day
00:48:16.17\00:48:18.43
according to the commandment."
00:48:18.46\00:48:20.69
Interesting, no
confusion in the Bible.
00:48:20.72\00:48:22.65
Bible certainly can be,
00:48:22.68\00:48:23.71
you can trace
time isn't that right?
00:48:23.74\00:48:26.40
Now would you say
that was ceremonial
00:48:26.43\00:48:28.12
or is that part of the
Ten Commandment moral law?
00:48:28.15\00:48:31.39
You had to say
oh, that's commandment
00:48:31.42\00:48:33.08
because God said He
rest on the Sabbath.
00:48:33.11\00:48:35.75
Crucified on Friday,
right, died, rested in the tomb,
00:48:35.78\00:48:39.50
rose on the
first day of the week.
00:48:39.53\00:48:41.03
So that passage there it had
to do certainly with the moral.
00:48:41.06\00:48:43.70
That's simple
enough, you understand
00:48:43.73\00:48:45.34
but we have to make-- we
make a difference in those
00:48:45.37\00:48:48.54
so that we don't become confused
00:48:48.57\00:48:51.43
and many people are today.
00:48:51.46\00:48:53.46
Now God has a plan.
He had a plan for Israel.
00:48:53.49\00:48:56.36
He gave them the Sabbath.
00:48:56.39\00:48:57.43
He gave them Ten Commandment law
00:48:57.46\00:48:58.64
because they were special
and better than anyone else.
00:48:58.67\00:49:00.48
Now He put that and
He said this is your job.
00:49:00.51\00:49:02.62
I want you to
give it to the world.
00:49:02.65\00:49:03.88
Take it and let it change you
00:49:03.91\00:49:05.40
and then give this
message to the world
00:49:05.43\00:49:07.97
and they begin to keep
it well all into themselves.
00:49:08.00\00:49:11.70
Friend, how about us today?
00:49:11.73\00:49:12.76
Are we doing what
God want's us to do?
00:49:12.79\00:49:15.72
Are we really
worshippers of the true God?
00:49:15.75\00:49:18.94
Are we really keeping
that which He said is the sign
00:49:18.97\00:49:21.23
and seal of His
people in His last days?
00:49:21.26\00:49:23.46
Do you really know how
the Sabbath really began
00:49:23.49\00:49:25.62
and why it began and
who was the author of it?
00:49:25.65\00:49:29.32
And what He asked us
to do as His children?
00:49:29.35\00:49:32.70
You know, that could be
quite a challenge today.
00:49:32.73\00:49:36.47
Most of even call
self Sabbath keepers,
00:49:36.50\00:49:39.44
we have a hard time
keeping the Sabbath holy.
00:49:39.47\00:49:42.03
Twenty four hour
period of time remember
00:49:42.06\00:49:44.90
belongs to the
Creator, doesn't belong to you.
00:49:44.93\00:49:47.64
We are going to be
covering a lot of things
00:49:47.67\00:49:48.97
about Sabbath keeping,
how to keep the Sabbath
00:49:49.00\00:49:50.69
law and grace in this series.
00:49:50.72\00:49:52.75
So below thanks need to be said,
00:49:52.78\00:49:54.07
it's going to be
said by the grace of God
00:49:54.10\00:49:55.52
that I wanted just kind
of build this foundation
00:49:55.55\00:49:58.20
that we've been
doing in Genesis Chapter 2.
00:49:58.23\00:50:00.99
God said He just
simply ended His work
00:50:01.02\00:50:03.03
on the sixth day
He rested the seventh.
00:50:03.06\00:50:05.79
What more do we need,
00:50:05.82\00:50:07.29
what does that
mean for us today?
00:50:07.32\00:50:09.83
Is that mean
anything special to you today?
00:50:09.86\00:50:13.57
Simply for God has said
what, He seized His work,
00:50:13.60\00:50:17.78
things that He had done.
00:50:17.81\00:50:19.31
He seized from creating.
00:50:19.34\00:50:22.14
Shouldn't we not seize the work
00:50:22.17\00:50:23.86
that we do
during those six days?
00:50:23.89\00:50:26.22
And again it's a whole period,
00:50:26.25\00:50:27.43
whole 24 hour period of
time it was devoted to rest.
00:50:27.46\00:50:31.19
With order that you are
church going to doing good,
00:50:31.22\00:50:33.36
it's God's day.
00:50:33.39\00:50:34.44
Anything you do on
the Sabbath must be what?
00:50:34.47\00:50:36.61
Around centered, around God
and it need to be holy things
00:50:36.64\00:50:40.15
and good things
that pertain to Him.
00:50:40.18\00:50:41.85
If it pertains to yourself
you are breaking the Sabbath.
00:50:41.88\00:50:44.75
We will whole lot more in that.
00:50:44.78\00:50:47.04
I want you to think along
with me, rest, praise God.
00:50:47.07\00:50:52.43
So He said He
rested on the Sabbath.
00:50:52.46\00:50:54.24
He said, He blessed it.
00:50:54.27\00:50:57.79
He couldn't have blessed
the sixth day of the week,
00:50:57.82\00:51:00.41
could He?
00:51:00.44\00:51:02.06
He didn't blessed it.
00:51:02.09\00:51:03.87
I couldn't have been Friday
00:51:03.90\00:51:05.86
because He said the seventh day,
00:51:05.89\00:51:07.16
Friday is a sixth
day is what it says.
00:51:07.19\00:51:10.65
Plus on the Sabbath day
the Friday had already passed
00:51:10.68\00:51:14.31
so He is not putting
blessing on something
00:51:14.34\00:51:15.75
that's already been passed
00:51:15.78\00:51:17.35
but present and
then into the future.
00:51:17.38\00:51:19.74
Once He blesses its blessed
forever the Bible tells us.
00:51:19.77\00:51:23.48
Wow, seventh day.
00:51:23.51\00:51:27.27
Think about it the day
that He blessed, He set apart
00:51:27.30\00:51:31.15
and He tells us
how we need to be
00:51:31.18\00:51:32.70
keeping it as His people.
00:51:32.73\00:51:35.18
Do you think maybe in
this life as we go through
00:51:35.21\00:51:37.24
and we keep thinking
well, we just go through,
00:51:37.27\00:51:39.19
we can't do the best we
can and we stumble through it
00:51:39.22\00:51:41.46
and we kind of do what
we want to do all the time
00:51:41.49\00:51:43.33
and the heaven's
gonna be our home.
00:51:43.36\00:51:46.33
Does God as our
Creator have a right
00:51:46.36\00:51:48.03
to maybe just set
up some test for us
00:51:48.06\00:51:50.62
to see whether we
love Him or we just,
00:51:50.65\00:51:52.91
oh, boy, little bit windy?
00:51:52.94\00:51:55.62
We talk about Him, you know,
00:51:55.65\00:51:57.39
we quote scripture
and we go to church and,
00:51:57.42\00:52:00.54
but have you really
made that commitment to Him?
00:52:00.57\00:52:03.85
Are you blown about by
every wind of doctrine?
00:52:03.88\00:52:07.85
See this is awesome
times in which we live.
00:52:07.88\00:52:10.50
God has set out
a special message
00:52:10.53\00:52:12.39
for this hour of world's history
00:52:12.42\00:52:13.98
and He challenges us today.
00:52:14.01\00:52:15.32
He said, I will
give you the grace,
00:52:15.35\00:52:16.44
I'll give you the strength
00:52:16.47\00:52:19.17
and yet many of
us will say yeah,
00:52:19.20\00:52:20.32
we realize we need to
keep by God's grace all ten
00:52:20.35\00:52:23.08
but you know, we
just do the best we can.
00:52:23.11\00:52:24.38
No.
00:52:24.41\00:52:25.44
God says, I'm
gonna give you victory,
00:52:25.47\00:52:27.53
a victory, complete
victory in your life.
00:52:27.57\00:52:29.42
He enables us just like Jesus.
00:52:29.45\00:52:32.16
He was enabled what?
00:52:32.19\00:52:33.22
He gained the
victory through His father.
00:52:33.25\00:52:35.31
Same things offered to us today.
00:52:35.34\00:52:36.77
Well, we accept that.
00:52:36.80\00:52:39.77
After all He said
I set this day apart
00:52:39.80\00:52:41.85
and I set you apart.
00:52:41.88\00:52:43.95
You are to be different.
00:52:43.98\00:52:45.01
If you look around
and you are just like
00:52:45.04\00:52:46.72
the rest of the
world something is wrong.
00:52:46.75\00:52:49.47
You are talking like
them, eating like them,
00:52:49.50\00:52:51.20
dressing like
him, speaking like--
00:52:51.23\00:52:52.80
going the same places they go.
00:52:52.83\00:52:54.76
You are not a
follower of Christ.
00:52:54.79\00:52:55.87
He said, my people will be
a particular, peculiar people.
00:52:55.90\00:53:00.43
I'm not talking
about so different that--
00:53:00.46\00:53:02.73
I'm talking about that
00:53:02.76\00:53:03.79
they are gonna
represent Jesus Christ.
00:53:03.82\00:53:05.17
Jesus was
different when He walked.
00:53:05.20\00:53:06.86
Jesus walked the earth
00:53:06.89\00:53:08.00
there was
something special about Him.
00:53:08.03\00:53:10.33
He didn't have to say anything.
00:53:10.36\00:53:11.49
He just walked by and people
detected something special,
00:53:11.52\00:53:14.56
a father in Him.
00:53:14.59\00:53:17.17
Christ said no
longer I but Christ.
00:53:17.20\00:53:18.92
When will that be with
you? When will that be with me?
00:53:18.95\00:53:22.16
God said I've
sanctified this day
00:53:22.19\00:53:24.57
and I gave it to man
and its good for man.
00:53:24.60\00:53:28.75
It will be a blessing for man.
00:53:28.78\00:53:31.83
It originated with what? God.
00:53:31.86\00:53:33.96
Originated in creation.
00:53:33.99\00:53:36.25
It originated
before there was sin
00:53:36.28\00:53:39.21
and He said, oh, this is good.
00:53:39.24\00:53:41.64
And notice this,
00:53:41.67\00:53:42.86
and then He
commanded us to keep it holy.
00:53:42.89\00:53:47.53
This is not if you feel like it
00:53:47.56\00:53:49.58
or if you think
well we can what to--
00:53:49.61\00:53:51.35
God commanded. He challenged it.
00:53:51.38\00:53:53.53
Put it in the heart of His law.
00:53:53.56\00:53:55.14
Why? It's simply just a test.
00:53:55.17\00:53:57.48
Not a means of salvation.
00:53:57.51\00:53:58.63
Salvation comes
because we accept Christ
00:53:58.66\00:54:00.24
in our heart, in our life.
00:54:00.27\00:54:01.30
We accept His sacrifice,
we are cleansed from sin.
00:54:01.33\00:54:04.22
But then He
said, well I'm gonna--
00:54:04.25\00:54:05.44
here's a test for My people.
00:54:05.47\00:54:06.57
My people hear My voice,
My sheep hear and they follow.
00:54:06.60\00:54:12.62
Friend, are you a
follower of Jesus Christ?
00:54:12.65\00:54:16.16
See, all the human
race received this command
00:54:16.19\00:54:19.09
through Adam and Eve.
00:54:19.12\00:54:20.57
It's not for this denomination,
00:54:20.60\00:54:22.13
not for this group of people
it's for the whole human race.
00:54:22.16\00:54:27.83
See as soon as it was
given to Adam, notice this,
00:54:27.86\00:54:31.65
soon as it was given to Adam
00:54:31.68\00:54:32.72
he had to begin
to count the days
00:54:32.75\00:54:35.18
until the next
Sabbath, interesting.
00:54:35.21\00:54:38.06
So there we see
the weekly cycle,
00:54:38.09\00:54:39.88
the seven day cycle.
00:54:39.91\00:54:41.45
It owes its origin where?
00:54:41.48\00:54:43.51
In these facts, they
go back into creation.
00:54:43.54\00:54:46.66
Sabbath established in
Eden, kept by Adam and Eve,
00:54:46.69\00:54:51.32
kept by the
patriarchs and the prophets
00:54:51.35\00:54:53.72
and the people of God.
00:54:53.75\00:54:55.72
Even through the dark
ages and a wonderful example,
00:54:55.75\00:54:58.81
no other, no better
than Jesus Christ our Lord.
00:54:58.84\00:55:01.21
He came to this world,
00:55:01.24\00:55:02.81
He observed the
seventh day-- weekly Sabbath.
00:55:02.84\00:55:06.32
He is Lord of the Sabbath.
00:55:06.35\00:55:08.86
Friend, today we run out of time
00:55:08.89\00:55:11.04
but I want to encourage you,
00:55:11.07\00:55:12.10
you need to get
this whole series.
00:55:12.13\00:55:13.65
We're just
touching on some things
00:55:13.68\00:55:15.15
but there is five parts in it.
00:55:15.18\00:55:16.76
You need to get all of them
00:55:16.79\00:55:17.97
and let them be
a one upon other.
00:55:18.00\00:55:19.55
If you believe in I need to know
00:55:19.58\00:55:21.35
about the origin of the Sabbath,
00:55:21.38\00:55:23.03
I need to know
about law and grace,
00:55:23.06\00:55:25.42
I need to know how
to keep the Sabbath,
00:55:25.45\00:55:27.06
it will be pleasing to God,
00:55:27.09\00:55:28.27
I need to know the message
of Revelation 14 little better,
00:55:28.30\00:55:31.45
I need to know about
the mark of the beast.
00:55:31.48\00:55:33.41
I want to pray
with you right now.
00:55:33.44\00:55:36.11
These are life and death issues.
00:55:36.14\00:55:37.46
This is not just
touring around with something.
00:55:37.49\00:55:39.47
We need to pray right now.
00:55:39.50\00:55:40.77
Would you pray
with me as I kneel?
00:55:40.80\00:55:44.08
Merciful Father in heaven,
00:55:44.11\00:55:45.15
we thank You for
Your precious word.
00:55:45.18\00:55:46.59
We thank You, we thank You
that You made this special dad.
00:55:46.62\00:55:50.04
You made it for man.
00:55:50.07\00:55:51.10
You knew we need
this time with You.
00:55:51.13\00:55:52.97
So matter of our love
and our obedience to You,
00:55:53.00\00:55:55.25
we want to be, we want to
do what You've asked us to.
00:55:55.28\00:55:58.27
Give us that
strength, give us that ability.
00:55:58.30\00:56:00.24
Not that looking around
the world but to look to Jesus,
00:56:00.27\00:56:02.97
the author and finisher of our.
00:56:03.00\00:56:04.39
I thank You for the Sabbath day,
00:56:04.42\00:56:05.61
for the seventh day of the week.
00:56:05.64\00:56:07.17
Thank You for Your
people who observe it
00:56:07.20\00:56:08.83
and for those who were
here and make that change now.
00:56:08.86\00:56:11.37
In Jesus name we pray
and for His sake, amen.
00:56:11.40\00:56:15.55
You know, what
a privilege it is,
00:56:15.58\00:56:17.35
lot of times you
hear different, you know,
00:56:17.38\00:56:18.89
people come in
preachers and teachers and they,
00:56:18.92\00:56:21.00
and they begin to
bring different things up.
00:56:21.03\00:56:22.96
You know, you
have the opportunity
00:56:22.99\00:56:24.46
to jot things down and
then do your own study.
00:56:24.49\00:56:27.29
See if its not, well,
00:56:27.32\00:56:28.35
you are not being
told the truth here.
00:56:28.38\00:56:29.85
Not some little
flimsy thing its going,
00:56:29.88\00:56:31.75
not some of that lukewarm
or some sugar coated thing
00:56:31.78\00:56:34.02
that really get
down at the word of God
00:56:34.05\00:56:35.58
and say how can I be
pleasing in the sight of God?
00:56:35.61\00:56:38.20
Friend, we encourage
you to send those cards,
00:56:38.23\00:56:40.85
those letters and you know,
00:56:40.88\00:56:41.91
we can only continue on
as you support this ministry.
00:56:41.94\00:56:45.07
So I pray that you will.
00:56:45.10\00:56:46.15
We will be praying
for you, you pray for us
00:56:46.18\00:56:47.94
and we look forward to spending
some more time with you.
00:56:47.97\00:56:50.51
Hello, and welcome back.
00:56:53.05\00:56:54.57
I recently was blessed
to discuss the Sabbath issue
00:56:54.60\00:56:57.86
with acquaintance of mind.
00:56:57.89\00:56:59.60
After discussing just
a small part of the Bible
00:56:59.63\00:57:02.64
upon this subject
she concluded by saying
00:57:02.67\00:57:05.82
but that really
changes your life.
00:57:05.85\00:57:08.56
I answered and
said, yes, it does.
00:57:08.59\00:57:11.48
God is calling for
us to change your lives
00:57:11.51\00:57:14.29
but He will never
ever force us to do so.
00:57:14.32\00:57:17.77
He simply gives us
a choice and explains
00:57:17.80\00:57:20.52
what will happen
to us for eternity
00:57:20.55\00:57:23.26
depending upon the
choices that we make right now.
00:57:23.29\00:57:27.48
Our prayer for you today
00:57:27.51\00:57:29.40
is that you will make
the decision to follow Jesus.
00:57:29.43\00:57:33.20
Yes, your life will be changed.
00:57:33.23\00:57:35.26
Praise God, it will
be changed for the better
00:57:35.29\00:57:38.30
and we hope that you will
order this five part series
00:57:38.33\00:57:41.73
to help keep these scriptures
fresh and alive in your mind
00:57:41.76\00:57:46.14
as we continue
this study entitled
00:57:46.17\00:57:48.57
"The Sabbath a Test of Faith."
00:57:48.60\00:57:51.36
Your order will
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00:57:51.39\00:57:53.72
to continue to
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00:57:53.75\00:57:56.37
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00:57:56.40\00:57:58.52
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00:58:40.01\00:58:42.77
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