Shall we pray? Father, in
heaven, as we begin this very,
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important study from Your Holy
Word, we ask that You will give
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us understanding, and not only
understanding, but that You will
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give us the willingness
to listen to Your voice,
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and to put into
practice that which we learned
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from Your Holy Word.
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We ask for the guidance of
Your Spirit, and we ask for a
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submissive and tender heart.
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We thank You, Lord for hearing
our prayer for we ask it in
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Jesus' name, Amen.
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I'd like us to begin our
study today at the book of
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Exodus 20:8-11, Exodus 20:8-11.
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This is the fourth
commandment of the law of God.
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The law which God
wrote with His own finger
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on tables of stone,
with, actually, flames of fire,
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according to scripture.
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It says here:
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In it you shall do no work, you,
nor your son, nor your daughter,
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nor your male servant, nor your
female servant, nor your cattle,
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nor your stranger who
is within your gates:...
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And then we have the reason
why God gave this commandment.
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Notice verse 11. It says:
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That is He made it holy.
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Now there are two
things that I want us to notice
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as we begin our study.
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First of all, the reason for the
observance of this commandment
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is creation. It says that God
gave us this commandment because
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in six days He made the
heavens, the earth, the seas,
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and all that is in them,
and He rested the seventh day.
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So this commandment is
actually a creation ordinance.
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The second thing that I want
us to notice about this verse
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is that it clearly tells
us that God did three things
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with the Sabbath.
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First of all, we
are told that He rested.
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And I want you to
remember these words: He rested.
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Secondly, He
blessed the Sabbath.
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And in the third place,
we find that God hallowed it,
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or sanctified
it; He made it Holy.
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So three ideas: resting,
blessing, and hallowing.
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And it points us
back to creation.
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Now if this commandment
points us back to creation,
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where do you suppose
would be a good place
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to go to find
out why God gave it?
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I think it would be a
good idea for us to go back
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to the book of
Genesis, because that's where
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we find creation described.
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This commandment
sends us back to Genesis.
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So let's go back to Genesis.
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We have a couple of verses
that I'm going to refer to.
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I'm not going to read them,
but I'm going to refer to them,
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because we've
mentioned them before.
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First of all we
have Genesis 1:1.
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I don't think I even have to
turn in my Bible to that one.
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It says: In the
beginning God created
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the heavens and the earth.
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We have three ideas:
in the beginning, God,
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created heaven and earth.
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When we go to John 1:1-3
we find who that creator was.
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It says very clearly
there: In the beginning,...
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See, the same expression.
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In the beginning was the Word.
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The Word was God.
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And then verse 3 tells us that
all things were made by Him;
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and without Him
nothing was made that was made.
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So as we compare
Genesis 1:1, with John 1:1-3,
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there's no doubt whatsoever
that the Creator of Genesis
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was none other than whom?
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It was none other
than Jesus Christ.
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So, if at the beginning
Jesus created the Sabbath,
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the Sabbath is the day of Jesus,
because Jesus is the Creator,
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according to scripture.
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Now let's go back to Genesis
1 and discover what condition
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this world was in before
Jesus actually created it.
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Genesis 1:1, 2: In
the beginning God,...
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That's Jesus; we've
already seen from John 1.
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In the beginning God created
the heaven's and the earth.
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And now comes the
verse I want to underline.
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How many problems
did the earth have? two.
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And the Spirit of
God was hovering over
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the face of the waters.
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Now you notice that the planet
before Jesus put it in order,
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before He actually performed
the work of creation of the
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six days of creation week, we
find that the earth was without
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form and void. Now
what does that mean,
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without form and void?
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Well, I like the
translation in Spanish better,
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because it's closer to
what the original means.
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In Spanish it says:
Desordenada y Vacia.
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What does Desordenada mean?
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There's some of
you who know Spanish.
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It means in a disorderly state.
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And what does Vacia mean?
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It means empty. In other
words, there were two problems
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with the planet. It
was in a disorderly state,
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and it was empty. Now what
the Bible means by a disorderly
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state is that the planet, as
it was, could not sustain life.
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In other words, the planet
was in a disorganized state.
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It could not sustain life.
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And so God, first of all,
had to place the planet in order
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to resolve the first problem,
and then He had to fill it
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to resolve the second problem.
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And it's interesting, as we
examine the story of creation,
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that the first three
days of creation week,
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Jesus puts the planet in order.
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And the last three
days of creation week
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He fills the planet with life.
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Now, have you ever noticed
that there was a progression
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in the story of creation?
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First of all God
created inanimate things;
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things that were not alive.
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He created light, He
created the firmament,
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and He made the dry land.
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None of those are
conscious, or living.
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Then he proceeded to create the
sun, the moon, and the stars.
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And then we find
God creating vegetation,
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and we find Him creating birds,
and we find Him creating fish,
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and we find Him
creating human beings.
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Now what Jesus did, was
during the first three days of
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creation, to prepare the
planet for the living things
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that He was going
to fill the planet with
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on the last three days.
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Now let's review what
Jesus did during creation week.
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First Day: Jesus says, Let there
be light, and there was light.
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Second Day: Let
there be the firmament.
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And as He speaks
the firmament appears.
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By the way, that's
the layer of oxygen.
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Can any living thing
survive without light? No.
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Can any living thing survive
without oxygen? Of course not.
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And God knows that.
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Some people say, Why
didn't God create man first
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if man was the
most important thing?
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Because he would have
died without having any
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oxygen to breathe.
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See, God is pretty smart!
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The first three days
He organizes the planet,
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so that then He can
fill the planet afterwards.
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And so the third day God
said, Let the dry land appear,
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because He knows that
human beings are going to
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live on the land. Hello!
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He knows that the land
animals are going to have
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to live on the earth.
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He knows that on the earth
there are going to have to be
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trees and plants, and so on
the third day He makes the land
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appear, and then He
creates the vegetation.
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And at the end of the third day
He looks at what He has done,
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and He says, It's good!
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The fourth day He now fills the
heavens with heavenly bodies;
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with the sun, the
moon, and the stars.
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And at the end of the fourth day
He looks upon what He has done,
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and Jesus says, It's good!
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Then comes the fifth day.
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The waters are empty.
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In the daytime
the sky's are empty.
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There's no songs of birds.
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And so on the fifth day Jesus
says, Let the waters produce
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living creatures. And suddenly
the waters are filled with
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all sorts of living
fish, and marine animals.
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And then Jesus says on the fifth
day, Let there be in the sky
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birds. And suddenly the
air is filled with birds
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singing their songs.
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Of course, at this point
they didn't have anybody to sing
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their songs to, but God
is going to work on that.
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Now, do you notice that at the
end of the fifth day God looks
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upon what He's made, Jesus does,
and He sees that it is good.
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Now comes the sixth day.
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Do you know that on the
sixth day Jesus worked more
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than on any other day?
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Allow me to review what happened
on the sixth day of creation.
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First of all, if you
read the story in Genesis 2...
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By the way, Genesis 2 is
an amplification of certain
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elements of chapter 1.
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There were not two creations.
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There's not the creation of
Genesis 1, and the creation of
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Genesis 2. Genesis 2 amplifies
certain details that are not
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contained in Genesis 1,
particularly how the woman
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who was created, how man
was created, and amplifies also
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several aspects about the tree
of life, and the tree of the
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knowledge of good and evil.
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Now the first thing that
Jesus made on the sixth day
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were the land animals.
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You can find that in
Genesis 1: 25 and following.
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Secondly He made man.
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Have you ever noticed that when
He made man He did not speak him
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into existence, like He spoke
everything else into existence?
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He gave him the personal touch.
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He took clay, He took
dust, and He formed man
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out of the dust of the ground,
and breathed into his nostrils
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the breath of life. And
the Bible says that man became
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a living soul. Now I'd like
to ask you, Do you suppose that
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when Jesus created Adam,
and suddenly Adam wakes up,
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if we can use the expression,
and he's suddenly conscious.
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He wasn't there, and
now suddenly he's there.
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Do you suppose that
Adam was somewhat surprised?
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Do you suppose Adam
asked, Where did I come from?
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What am I doing here?
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Where am I going? He must have
had questions, because he wasn't
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there, and now
suddenly he's there.
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Adam is surprised, but
God does not explain to Adam,
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at that moment, the
source of His existence.
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In fact, we find God
saying after He created man,
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that there's something in
creation week that is not good.
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Have you noticed that at
the end of every week it says,
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it was good? It was
good, it was good, it was good.
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When it gets to the part of
the sixth day where God creates
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man, He looks at Adam and He
says, there is something here
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that is not good. It is not
good that man should be alone.
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I will make him a helpmeet;
a helper like unto him.
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And so the Bible says that Jesus
told Adam to name all of the
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animals that He had created.
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Now that's going to
take more than five minutes.
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That's going to take the
better part of the sixth day.
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And so Adam, and
there's a purpose in this.
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Adam starts naming
all of the animals.
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And as he names the animals,
he sees that each one of them
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has a mate, but he
doesn't have a mate.
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God wanted him to feel lonely.
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And now in his loneliness,
he's craving for a mate
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like the animals have a mate.
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And the Bible says that Jesus
says it's not good for Adam
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to be alone. And so you have
the first anesthesia of human
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history, general anesthesia,
and Adam is put to sleep.
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And then you have the
first surgery of human history.
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The Bible says that God,
Jesus opened up Adam's side,
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and He took out
one of Adam's ribs.
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And out of the
rib He made a woman.
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And now suddenly, you
can imagine Adam shaking off
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the effects of the anesthesia.
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And, you know, he was sleeping.
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He didn't know
what was going on.
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And then suddenly he
wakes up and here comes Jesus,
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walking along with
Eve next to His side,
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because the Bible says
that God brought Eve to Adam.
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See, you don't go
out hunting for a mate.
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God brings the mate to you.
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If you go hunting you
might run into trouble.
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And so God, Jesus
brings Eve to Adam.
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And I can just only
imagine somewhat what Adam
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must have said. He
must have said, Wow!
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Where did you come from?
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You're beautiful!
You're just like me!
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You stand erect. And
you're able to communicate;
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you're able to talk.
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How wonderful!
Where did you come from?
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By the way, have you noticed
that not once in all of this
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creation story did Adam or
Eve see God create anything?
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This is amazing!
Even when He created Eve,
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He put Adam to sleep.
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In other words, the only proof,
if you can speak of proof,
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that Adam and Eve had that
God was their Creator, was what?
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The fact that God told
them that He was their Creator.
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They had no scientific proof.
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They had no empirical proof.
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They had no historical proof.
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They had no proof whatsoever.
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The only proof, or evidence,
if you please, that they had
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that Jesus was their Creator,
is the fact that Jesus told
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them that He was their Creator.
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They had to accept it by faith.
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They had to trust God's Word.
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By the way, do you know that
the whole controversy in human
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history is over God's Word.
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You can boil
everything down to God's Word.
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We studied that
in our last lecture.
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What the devil is trying to do
in Genesis 3 is shake the trust
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of Adam and Eve in God's Word.
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And we notice that
He uses five methods:
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First method, signs and wonders.
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You know, accept the sign and
the wonder, instead of what I've
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said. The second method is
for the devil to actually change
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God's Word. God has
said, You can't eat of any tree
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of the garden, to get
Eve to exaggerate God's Word.
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God told us not to touch it.
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And later on we'll find that
the devil will actually quote
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God's Word correctly, but he'll
leave certain portions out,
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like in Psalm 91. See, he quoted
Psalm 91 correctly, but he left
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a portion of it out.
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And so, if you leave a portion
out, it can leave a totally
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different, and wrong impression.
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And then, of course, we find
that the devil tried to get Adam
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and Eve to follow their senses.
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He tried to get Adam and Eve to
follow their reasoning powers.
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And he used Eve, a
person, to tempt Adam.
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So the devil uses five methods
to try and get God's people
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to disobey His clear,
explicit, simple Word.
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Adam and Eve were supposed
to accept that Jesus was their
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Creator, because Jesus told
them that He was their Creator.
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After all, there could have
been other explanations, right?
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Couldn't they have come
into existence by a big bang?
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I suppose so! Couldn't
they have come into existence
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by spontaneous
generation? I suppose so.
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And that's what the
devil wanted Eve to believe.
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He says, Oh, this story of
God that He's your Creator,
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and that when you eat from
the tree you're going to die.
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Oh, come on! You
actually believe that?
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You trust that? Oh, come on now!
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You see, what God knows is
that if you eat from that tree,
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you're going to
be just like Him.
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You're going to be other gods
around, and God doesn't want
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other gods around. He's the
only one who wants to be God,
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and so He intimidates you
into thinking that if you eat,
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you're going to die.
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You're not going to die, you're
going to be just like Him.
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And God doesn't want any rivals.
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Do you see what this
temptation really involves?
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It's much more serious
than what most people think.
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Now we need to take a look at
Genesis 2:2, 3, Genesis 2:2, 3.
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Do you remember the three things
that are mentioned in Exodus 20?
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The fourth
commandment of the law of God?
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The three ideas? What
did God do with the Sabbath?
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He what? He rested.
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Secondly He blessed.
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And then the third, He
sanctified, or made Holy.
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Now is the Sabbath of Genesis
the same Sabbath of Exodus 20?
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Do you think so?
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Notice Genesis 2:2, 3,
Genesis 2:2, 3. It says:
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Question: did Jesus in Genesis,
do the very three things that
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are mentioned in the fourth
commandment of the law of God?
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Did He rest? Yes.
Did He bless? Yes.
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Did He make holy
or sanctified? Yes.
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Is the fourth commandment
referring to the same Sabbath
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that was made at the beginning?
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Absolutely. There's
no doubt whatsoever.
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The Sabbath is a
creation ordinance.
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Now let me ask you, do you
think that God had to bless
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the Sabbath for Himself?
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Listen folks, God is
the source of all blessing.
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Why would He have to
bless a day for Himself?
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He's infusing the day with
a blessing not for Himself,
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but for others. Everything
that God blesses is for others
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in scripture. Never for Himself.
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So God blessed the
seventh day Sabbath.
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He infused the day with
life, health, and prosperity,
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because anytime you find
the word blessing in scripture,
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it has to do with life,
with abundance, with prosperity,
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with that which is good.
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Did God have to make
a day holy for Himself?
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He says, Oh, I'm going to
make a holy day for Myself.
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Listen, for God all days
are holy, because everything
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connected with God is Holy.
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And so God didn't have to
set apart a day, a Holy day,
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for Himself. Did God
really need to rest, in fact?
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The fact is that we're going
to notice in a few moments that
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God did not have to rest.
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Jesus did not have to rest.
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I mean, how much rest
do you need after saying,
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Let there be light?
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Let there be the firmament.
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Let there be dry land.
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Let there be trees,
and plants, and grass.
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Let there the be the
sun, the moon, and the stars.
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Let there be fish.
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Let there be birds.
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Let there be land animals.
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You know, God at the end of
creation week, He says, Wow,
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I've really worked!
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I need a vacation.
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Is God resting
because He's tired?
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Is Jesus resting
because He's tired?
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Absolutely not! Then the
question is, why is He resting?
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We'll get to that in a
moment, but before that allow me
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to mention one other thing,
which is extremely important.
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Do you know that the story
of creation says that Jesus
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actually
finished His work twice?
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Now you say, how can
you finish your work twice?
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Well, let's notice Genesis 1:31.
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There's a very
interesting nuance here.
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Genesis 1:31, and we'll continue
reading through chapter 2.
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Genesis 1:31, and we'll go on to
read chapter 2. It says there:
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When did He finish?
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It says it was the evening and
the morning of the sixth day.
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Thus the heavens and the
earth, and all the host of them
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were finished. He
finished the sixth day,
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according to this verse.
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But then you
read the next verse.
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It appears to
have a contradiction.
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It says in verse 2: And on the
seventh day God ended his work
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which he had done;...
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Now wait a minute.
Did He finish on the sixth
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or did He end on the seventh?
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Maybe Moses forgot what
he wrote in Genesis 1:31.
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And he says, Oh, excuse me.
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It wasn't the sixth day that He
finished, it was the seventh day
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that He finished.
Actually, there's something else
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that's going on here,
and let me explain it.
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I had the privilege of working
for 41/2 years in New Mexico.
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All of New Mexico was my
territory, and West Texas.
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I lived in Amarillo, Texas.
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And one of the places
which I really enjoyed visiting
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was Taos, New Mexico.
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Have any of you ever
been to Taos, New Mexico?
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Beautiful country up there.
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Yeah, you know,
that's God's country.
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Wonderful!
Especially in the winter.
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It gets beautiful
because of all of the mountains.
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But, anyway, something which
Taos has, which I'm sure other
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places have, but it impacted
me, is a huge number of art
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galleries. They
have so many artists.
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Many of them are
Native Americans.
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And, you know, you can go to
their shop, and you can see them
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actually painting works of art.
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And I had the privilege, while
I was there, I had a series of
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meetings for
three weeks one time.
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In fact it was on Genesis.
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This was many years ago.
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And I used to enjoy
going to the art galleries,
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and watching the artist work.
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And do you know
what they would do?
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What they would do is
they would, first of all,
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take a frame, a wooden frame,
and then they would staple
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a piece of
canvas over the frame.
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They would make sure
that it was nice and tight.
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They would place it on
the easel, and then they would
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sit down, and I'm
dramatizing for effect.
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They would sit down, and they
would put some colors on the
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canvas. And after they finished
the first day of work they
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would look at the
canvas and say, It looks good.
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And then the second day
they would come and they would
00:25:06.94\00:25:10.24
add a few colors there.
00:25:10.27\00:25:11.87
They would perhaps add
a few clouds in the sky.
00:25:11.90\00:25:15.34
And then after a day's work
they would look, and they would
00:25:15.37\00:25:18.73
say, Hum, it looks good!
00:25:18.76\00:25:21.38
Then they would come the third
day and they would add some
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hills, and they would add
some mountains, and some trees,
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and some plants,
and some flowers.
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And at the end of the third day
they would look and they would
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say, Hum, looks good!
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Then the fourth day they
would sit down, and they would
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probably, you know, paint a sun
in the sky, and they would add
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a few more colors to the canvas.
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And at the end of the fourth
day they'd look at their work,
00:25:42.70\00:25:45.88
and they'd say, Hum, looks good!
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And the fifth day they would
have jumping out of a lake,
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you know, some fish.
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And they would color some
birds flying through the air.
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And at the end of the fifth day,
they would look and they would
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say, Hum, looks real good!
00:26:00.23\00:26:03.46
And then the sixth day they
would sit down and they would
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and some giraffes, and some
elephants, and different kinds
00:26:06.84\00:26:09.78
of animals on the canvas, and
then they would paint a woman
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and a man perhaps, there
enjoying the beautiful scenery.
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And then they would add the
final touches to the canvas,
00:26:18.52\00:26:24.83
and look and
say, It is very good!
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Now let me ask you, was
the work of art finished?
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I said they
finished. I said he finished.
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Is the work of art finished?
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Yes, and No. The work itself is
finished, but what is lacking?
00:26:44.35\00:26:52.37
The signature of the
author of the work of art.
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Without identifying who made it,
(Hello), anybody can come along
00:27:01.05\00:27:05.98
and claim it. But the fact is
that the picture was finished;
00:27:06.01\00:27:11.27
the work of art was finished.
00:27:11.30\00:27:12.41
But then the artist
would take the brush.
00:27:12.44\00:27:18.26
See, I'm not an artist.
00:27:18.29\00:27:20.14
He would take the brush,
and he would sign his name
00:27:20.17\00:27:24.16
to the work of art.
00:27:24.19\00:27:25.22
And then the work was finished.
00:27:25.25\00:27:30.93
If we apply this to creation,
now we understand how Jesus
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finished His work twice.
00:27:36.16\00:27:37.64
The sixth day He
finished a work of art.
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And, by the way, this work of
art was not ecstatic that when
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you look at it
it's always the same.
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This was a living picture.
00:27:47.46\00:27:50.12
It was a picture that
changed at every instant,
00:27:50.15\00:27:53.53
at every moment. He
made this beautiful world.
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This beautiful work of art.
00:27:56.33\00:27:58.16
But Jesus knew that it was
necessary to identify who was
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the One who made
this work of art.
00:28:04.35\00:28:07.13
And that's the reason
why He created the Sabbath.
00:28:07.16\00:28:10.95
The Sabbath
identifies the Creator.
00:28:10.98\00:28:14.73
The Sabbath is the
signature of Jesus upon His work
00:28:14.76\00:28:18.83
of creation. It tells us
who made all of these things.
00:28:18.86\00:28:23.70
Are you
understanding what I'm saying?
00:28:23.73\00:28:25.50
Now, I mentioned that God wasn't
tired, Jesus wasn't tired when
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He finished creation week.
00:28:31.60\00:28:32.72
Let's go to Isaiah
40:28, Isaiah 40:28.
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Here we find an interesting
declaration about creation,
00:28:39.17\00:28:43.29
and about the Creator.
00:28:43.32\00:28:44.61
And I want you to notice
this interesting statement
00:28:44.64\00:28:48.21
of the prophet
Isaiah. It says here:
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Does the Creator get
weary, according to this verse?
00:29:12.99\00:29:17.32
Was Jesus tired at the end of
creation week? Absolutely not!
00:29:17.35\00:29:21.22
By the way, was man tired?
00:29:21.25\00:29:25.44
I don't know whether you've
stopped to think about this.
00:29:27.04\00:29:29.51
Man was created on the
second half of the first day.
00:29:29.54\00:29:34.00
So his first day on earth, first
full day on earth, was the day
00:29:34.03\00:29:39.23
of what? It was the day of rest.
00:29:39.26\00:29:41.82
Now this is strange!
00:29:41.85\00:29:43.20
God rests, and He's not tired.
00:29:43.23\00:29:46.51
And man hadn't
worked, and so he rests,
00:29:46.54\00:29:50.60
and he's not tired either.
00:29:50.63\00:29:52.17
Why would you have God
and man resting on the Sabbath
00:29:52.20\00:29:56.66
if neither one
of them are tired?
00:29:56.69\00:29:59.01
There must be a deeper purpose
to the observance of the Sabbath
00:29:59.04\00:30:05.68
than physical rest.
00:30:05.71\00:30:08.61
Are you
understanding what I am saying?
00:30:08.64\00:30:10.88
There's a deeper dimension to
the Sabbath than physical rest,
00:30:10.91\00:30:15.20
because Adam wasn't
tired, Eve wasn't tired,
00:30:15.23\00:30:18.32
and God wasn't tired either.
00:30:18.35\00:30:21.44
And, by the way, have you ever
noticed in the creation story
00:30:21.47\00:30:24.44
that Adam and Eve
did none of the work?
00:30:24.47\00:30:26.96
How much work of creation
did Adam and Eve perform?
00:30:26.99\00:30:31.18
Nothing! And so when the seventh
day comes around, God says to
00:30:31.21\00:30:37.98
Adam and Eve, I'm going
to come down to the garden,
00:30:38.01\00:30:41.51
and I want you, Adam, and
you, Eve, to spend the Sabbath
00:30:41.54\00:30:49.13
with me. I want
us to rest together.
00:30:49.16\00:30:52.35
And you say, well,
that's not what Genesis says.
00:30:52.38\00:30:54.58
Genesis says that God rested.
00:30:54.61\00:30:57.08
That's true, but notice
what Jesus says in Mark 2:27,
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Mark 2:27. And
we'll read verse 28 also.
00:31:02.78\00:31:08.91
Notice Jesus, who was
the Creator of the Sabbath,
00:31:08.94\00:31:12.35
what He has to say.
00:31:12.38\00:31:14.12
Mark 2:27. And He said to them:
00:31:14.15\00:31:19.14
...and not man for the Sabbath.
00:31:28.02\00:31:31.42
Therefore the Son of
man is also Lord of what?
00:31:31.45\00:31:38.55
Lord of the Sabbath.
00:31:38.58\00:31:39.82
For whom was the Sabbath made?
00:31:39.85\00:31:41.13
The Sabbath was not made for
God, because God doesn't need
00:31:41.16\00:31:45.13
a Sabbath of rest. The
Sabbath was made for man.
00:31:45.16\00:31:48.29
And yet God rested,
and He invited man to rest.
00:31:48.32\00:31:52.26
Now why would
they rest together?
00:31:52.29\00:31:54.20
Let me dramatize what
happened that first Sabbath.
00:31:54.23\00:31:57.43
By the way, the last thing
that God makes on the sixth day
00:31:57.46\00:32:02.66
is marriage. Do you notice that?
00:32:02.69\00:32:06.92
He calls Adam and Eve and He
says, Adam, Eve, could you stand
00:32:06.95\00:32:11.32
right here in front of Me?
00:32:11.35\00:32:12.38
Ah, we're going to have
our first marriage here.
00:32:12.41\00:32:14.62
And He pronounces those words:
What God hath joined together
00:32:14.65\00:32:19.53
let not man cast asunder.
00:32:19.56\00:32:21.46
I declare you man and wife.
00:32:21.49\00:32:22.77
He didn't say that,
but He married them.
00:32:22.80\00:32:25.81
And immediately after He
marries them, the holy hours
00:32:25.84\00:32:30.95
of the Sabbath begin.
00:32:30.98\00:32:32.36
Now, have you noticed
that during creation week,
00:32:32.39\00:32:35.33
the first six
days God made things?
00:32:35.36\00:32:38.62
On the seventh
day He made holy time.
00:32:38.65\00:32:42.34
This shows us that time
is more important than what?
00:32:43.98\00:32:47.01
than things. In fact, during
the sixth days of labor and work
00:32:47.04\00:32:54.83
we remember the things of
God, whereas on the seventh day
00:32:54.86\00:32:59.06
the purpose is to
remember the God of things.
00:32:59.09\00:33:01.63
Now, allow me to mention what
happened on that first Sabbath.
00:33:04.01\00:33:08.51
God calls Adam and Eve.
00:33:08.54\00:33:10.57
He's resting with them.
00:33:10.60\00:33:11.63
It says so in Genesis.
00:33:11.66\00:33:12.90
And Jesus says to Adam,
Well, Adam, what do you think?
00:33:12.93\00:33:19.03
Well, Lord, You could have made
that tree a little bit taller
00:33:19.06\00:33:22.89
over there. I don't think so!
00:33:22.92\00:33:25.31
Jesus says, Do
you like what you see?
00:33:25.34\00:33:29.79
What do you
think Adam said? Wow!
00:33:29.82\00:33:34.25
How about those
birds over there? Amazing!
00:33:34.28\00:33:37.97
How about this wife
that I gave you? Wow!
00:33:38.00\00:33:41.31
How about this
husband? Oh, marvelous!
00:33:41.34\00:33:45.09
In other words, on that
day Jesus met with Adam and Eve
00:33:45.12\00:33:49.83
and they contemplated
His work of creation.
00:33:49.86\00:33:53.50
God said, All of this
that you see, I made for you.
00:33:53.53\00:33:59.16
It is My gift for you.
00:33:59.19\00:34:00.87
But you might forget
where this came from.
00:34:03.45\00:34:08.44
So what I want us to do is
every seventh day you're going
00:34:08.47\00:34:11.89
to interrupt your activities.
00:34:11.92\00:34:14.60
You're going to
interrupt your endeavors.
00:34:14.63\00:34:17.01
And for twenty-four whole hours
I'm going to come to the garden
00:34:17.04\00:34:22.52
and We're going to
contemplate what I made for you.
00:34:22.55\00:34:27.95
The focus is going
to shift from you to Me.
00:34:27.98\00:34:31.90
By the way, have you noticed
that on the sixth day God made
00:34:31.93\00:34:35.79
Adam king of creation?
00:34:35.82\00:34:39.08
He gave Adam and Eve
dominion, the Bible says.
00:34:39.11\00:34:42.12
But by creating the seventh day
God is saying to Adam and Eve,
00:34:42.15\00:34:45.21
you are Lord's of creation, but
the seventh day shows that I am
00:34:45.24\00:34:48.65
your Lord, because I
made you; you're My creatures.
00:34:48.68\00:34:54.21
And so every seventh day
Jesus promised to come and meet
00:34:54.24\00:34:58.91
with Adam and Eve so that
they could contemplate His works
00:34:58.94\00:35:01.60
of creation; His
marvelous works of creation.
00:35:01.63\00:35:03.70
And in this way their hearts
would be filled with reverence,
00:35:03.73\00:35:06.93
and with love, and with
gratefulness, because of the
00:35:06.96\00:35:11.15
love, and the wisdom of
Jesus in giving them this gift.
00:35:11.18\00:35:15.34
Notice that they had not
worked for it; it was a gift.
00:35:15.37\00:35:19.32
Is this true of salvation, too?
00:35:20.94\00:35:22.95
See, this is part two.
00:35:22.98\00:35:24.43
We're not dealing with the
Sabbath and salvation in our
00:35:24.46\00:35:26.95
lecture today. We're going
to deal with that tomorrow,
00:35:26.98\00:35:29.47
because the Sabbath has
an additional dimension.
00:35:29.50\00:35:31.74
You see, the purpose of the
Sabbath is to show that Jesus
00:35:31.77\00:35:36.01
works, and we simply
receive His gift and accept it.
00:35:36.04\00:35:39.85
And keeping the Sabbath is
a sign that we believe that He
00:35:39.88\00:35:43.24
is the Creator, and that we're
thankful and grateful to Him,
00:35:43.27\00:35:46.42
and that we worship Him
because He is our Creator.
00:35:46.45\00:35:49.38
How about it? Can you imagine
Adam saying, You mean to say
00:35:49.41\00:35:55.05
that I have to take a whole
day of the week out of my busy
00:35:55.08\00:36:00.21
schedule? And we have twenty-
four hours to suspend all of my
00:36:00.24\00:36:05.93
things so that we can just talk
about You, and what You've done?
00:36:05.96\00:36:09.56
How is it, Lord, that
You deliver unto me this yoke
00:36:09.59\00:36:13.11
of bondage? You know what I
think Adam said, what Eve said?
00:36:13.14\00:36:19.22
They said, Jesus,
couldn't we meet every day?
00:36:19.26\00:36:23.42
Because if they loved Jesus,
would they want to spend that
00:36:25.49\00:36:28.73
time of
fellowship with Jesus? Yes!
00:36:28.76\00:36:31.32
The sixth day Jesus
says, Adam I made you for Eve.
00:36:31.35\00:36:35.49
Eve I made you for Adam.
00:36:35.52\00:36:36.87
But the seventh day He says,
Adam and Eve, I made you for Me.
00:36:36.90\00:36:40.26
I am your Lord.
I am your Creator.
00:36:40.29\00:36:44.76
I made you for fellowship.
00:36:44.79\00:36:46.49
Suspend your things, and just
come and enjoy rest with Me.
00:36:46.52\00:36:53.70
That was the original
intent of the Holy Sabbath,
00:36:55.28\00:36:58.17
and God knew that
people might forget it.
00:36:58.20\00:37:01.42
That's why, in the
fourth commandment He says,
00:37:01.45\00:37:03.24
Remember the
Sabbath day to keep it holy.
00:37:04.70\00:37:06.20
Do you think that if the Sabbath
was necessary at creation,
00:37:06.23\00:37:09.44
in a perfect world,
with a perfect Adam and Eve,
00:37:09.47\00:37:12.72
if it was necessary to
remind them about their roots,
00:37:12.75\00:37:17.01
the source of their existence,
how wonderful their Creator was,
00:37:17.04\00:37:20.63
how much love He had for
them by giving them all of these
00:37:20.66\00:37:23.88
things free of charge,
without their working for them.
00:37:23.91\00:37:26.58
Do you think that Adam
and Eve needed to remember who
00:37:26.61\00:37:33.84
the Creator was? Obviously, Yes,
00:37:33.87\00:37:36.50
because the Sabbath was
created for that purpose.
00:37:36.53\00:37:39.68
Now, it's interesting that some
individuals say that the Sabbath
00:37:39.71\00:37:47.07
was okay in the Old Testament,
but that the Sabbath does not
00:37:47.10\00:37:52.12
apply to Christians today.
00:37:52.15\00:37:53.55
I once had an interesting
conversation with a pastor
00:37:53.58\00:37:57.54
friend. He was not a
pastor of the same church
00:37:57.57\00:38:00.12
that I belong to. And
just to play devil's advocate,
00:38:00.15\00:38:03.50
I said to him, You know what?
00:38:03.53\00:38:05.17
I believe that's it's perfectly
okay for a man to marry a man,
00:38:05.20\00:38:08.30
and a woman to marry a woman.
00:38:08.33\00:38:09.62
Now, I don't believe
that, but I said that to him.
00:38:12.10\00:38:16.61
And his eyes bulged, and
he looked at me and he says,
00:38:16.64\00:38:20.93
You as a pastor would say that
you think that a man can marry
00:38:20.96\00:38:25.45
a man, and a woman a woman?
00:38:25.48\00:38:27.26
I said, Sure, why not?
00:38:27.29\00:38:30.36
And he looked at me and he
says, the answer is obvious.
00:38:30.39\00:38:34.40
The Bible says that at the
beginning God made Adam and Eve,
00:38:34.43\00:38:39.27
and He performed the
first marriage between a man
00:38:39.30\00:38:43.29
and a woman. And then I
had him where I wanted him.
00:38:43.32\00:38:45.61
And I looked at him and
I said, Okay, good point.
00:38:45.64\00:38:50.97
What else did Jesus
make at creation week?
00:38:51.00\00:38:54.14
And boy, you
should have seen him.
00:38:57.28\00:38:58.63
You could have heard a pin drop.
00:38:58.66\00:38:59.71
And I'm still
waiting for his answer.
00:39:01.18\00:39:04.61
You see the Sabbath was made
at the same time as marriage.
00:39:04.64\00:39:08.26
And so if you say that marriage
still applies between a man
00:39:10.22\00:39:13.97
and a woman, and you
argue on the basis of creation,
00:39:14.00\00:39:17.13
you must also argue on the basis
of creation that the Sabbath
00:39:17.16\00:39:21.09
is still binding. And, by the
way, some people say the Sabbath
00:39:21.12\00:39:24.44
was for the Jews. Listen
up to what I'm going to say.
00:39:24.47\00:39:26.65
No place in the Bible does
it say that the Sabbath was
00:39:26.68\00:39:30.07
the Sabbath of the Jews.
00:39:30.10\00:39:31.26
Furthermore, Adam was not a Jew,
because the name Jew comes from
00:39:31.29\00:39:36.86
Judah, one of the sons of Jacob.
00:39:36.89\00:39:38.34
In fact the Sabbath, some people
say, Well, the Sabbath was
00:39:40.08\00:39:42.40
a symbol of the rest
that we have in Jesus
00:39:42.43\00:39:44.34
when He died on the cross
to give us His spiritual rest.
00:39:44.37\00:39:46.45
Listen folks, when the Sabbath
was created there was no need
00:39:46.48\00:39:49.61
for any Redeemer,
because man had not sinned.
00:39:49.64\00:39:52.73
The Sabbath is part of
God's original plan for man.
00:39:52.76\00:39:56.84
It is not an
after thought of God.
00:39:56.87\00:39:58.93
Well, I'll give them the Sabbath
now to show them the rest that I
00:39:58.96\00:40:01.93
am going to give them
someday when I die on the cross.
00:40:01.96\00:40:03.83
There was no need for a cross
when the Sabbath was created.
00:40:03.86\00:40:06.99
There were no Jews, so you
can't say that the Sabbath was
00:40:07.02\00:40:10.43
made for the Jews.
00:40:10.46\00:40:11.49
Am I making myself clear?
00:40:11.52\00:40:13.87
The Sabbath is a
creation institution.
00:40:13.90\00:40:17.58
Now I'd like to ask
the question, when does the
00:40:17.61\00:40:20.38
Sabbath begin?
This is very important.
00:40:20.41\00:40:23.94
You know, some
people say I keep Sunday.
00:40:23.97\00:40:26.20
And what they do is
go to church on Sunday.
00:40:26.23\00:40:28.50
It's not the same to
go to church on Sunday,
00:40:28.53\00:40:31.84
or go to church on Saturday,
as observing the Sabbath
00:40:31.87\00:40:36.65
the way the Bible says.
00:40:36.68\00:40:37.82
Notice Genesis 1:5, Genesis 1:5.
00:40:37.85\00:40:44.16
This is a formula that is
used each day of creation.
00:40:44.19\00:40:48.43
It says there in verse 5:
00:40:48.46\00:40:50.35
Did you notice the order?
00:41:02.45\00:41:03.76
What comes first, the
evening or the morning?
00:41:03.79\00:41:05.68
According to this it's
the evening and the morning.
00:41:05.71\00:41:09.28
And, by the way, the
word evening means sunset.
00:41:09.31\00:41:13.99
Go with me to
Mark 1:32, Mark 1:32.
00:41:14.02\00:41:20.42
Here it's speaking
about the healings of Jesus,
00:41:22.60\00:41:25.45
and these are the
words that we find.
00:41:25.49\00:41:27.46
At
evening...Notice the same word.
00:41:27.49\00:41:31.96
When is evening?
When the sun what?
00:41:42.98\00:41:46.34
When the sun sets.
00:41:46.37\00:41:48.09
And it says in the
Bible, from evening to evening
00:41:48.12\00:41:52.66
shall you keep,
your what? your Sabbaths.
00:41:52.69\00:41:57.04
Now let me ask you, do you
know why we have a week today?
00:41:57.07\00:42:00.83
Why does a week have seven days?
00:42:00.86\00:42:02.51
Do you know that every
measurement of time that we have
00:42:05.09\00:42:07.93
has an astronomical
explanation, except one?
00:42:07.96\00:42:11.96
Our year is the amount of time
that it takes our earth to make
00:42:11.99\00:42:17.25
one complete revolution around
the sun: 365 and 1/4 days.
00:42:17.29\00:42:21.53
It has an
astronomical explanation.
00:42:22.58\00:42:24.55
Our month, technically speaking,
is the period between one
00:42:24.58\00:42:28.92
new moon and another.
00:42:28.96\00:42:29.99
The day is the amount of
time that it takes our planet to
00:42:31.75\00:42:35.48
make one
complete turn on its axis.
00:42:35.51\00:42:37.40
Every one of those
measurements has an astronomical
00:42:37.43\00:42:41.74
explanation. There's one
measurement of time that has no
00:42:41.77\00:42:44.32
astronomical explanation,
and that is the week.
00:42:44.35\00:42:46.72
Why does the
week have seven days?
00:42:46.75\00:42:48.31
It could have ten.
It could have five.
00:42:48.34\00:42:50.88
Why does it have seven days?
00:42:50.91\00:42:54.58
Simply because that's the
way that God made the Sabbath,
00:42:54.61\00:42:59.30
that Jesus made the week,
and the Sabbath at the beginning
00:42:59.41\00:43:02.25
of human history. And the
weekly cycle has continued
00:43:02.28\00:43:06.88
uninterrupted since that time.
00:43:06.92\00:43:09.54
By the way, do you know that
there are some people that say,
00:43:09.57\00:43:13.87
Well, you know, that's
okay, but we don't know whether
00:43:13.90\00:43:16.20
the Sabbath today is the
same Sabbath that existed
00:43:16.23\00:43:19.00
way back then. We don't
know whether the weekly cycle
00:43:19.03\00:43:22.25
has been broken. Biblically we
can show that the weekly cycle
00:43:22.28\00:43:26.98
has not been broken.
00:43:27.01\00:43:28.04
By the way, Christians have no
problems saying that the Sunday
00:43:28.07\00:43:30.74
that we keep is the
Sunday Jesus resurrected.
00:43:30.78\00:43:33.27
It's just the
Sabbath that Adventist's keep
00:43:33.30\00:43:37.26
that isn't the same Sabbath.
00:43:37.30\00:43:38.85
But the Sunday that
we keep today is the same
00:43:38.88\00:43:41.65
Sunday as the Resurrection.
00:43:41.68\00:43:42.83
You can't have it both ways.
00:43:42.87\00:43:44.27
If the Sunday that is observed
today is supposedly in honor
00:43:44.30\00:43:48.67
of the resurrection of Jesus,
then the day before Sunday,
00:43:48.70\00:43:51.40
the Sabbath, is
also the same Sabbath.
00:43:51.44\00:43:53.93
Are you
understanding what I'm saying?
00:43:53.97\00:43:56.43
And if the Sabbath today
is the same Sabbath as it was
00:43:57.54\00:44:00.55
in the days of Christ,
and Jesus kept that Sabbath,
00:44:00.58\00:44:04.12
because we find in Luke 4:16
that it was the custom of Jesus
00:44:04.16\00:44:08.82
to go to the synagogue
to observe the Sabbath.
00:44:08.85\00:44:11.10
Now listen up to
what I'm going to say.
00:44:11.13\00:44:12.54
If Jesus kept the same
Sabbath, which we keep today,
00:44:12.57\00:44:15.49
which is true,
astronomically and historically.
00:44:15.52\00:44:19.31
Even Christians recognize that,
because they observe Sunday,
00:44:19.34\00:44:23.20
in honor of the
resurrection of Jesus.
00:44:23.23\00:44:24.74
If that's true, then we have
to conclude that the Sabbath
00:44:24.77\00:44:32.71
that Jesus observed is
the same Sabbath of creation,
00:44:32.75\00:44:35.77
because do you think Jesus would
be observing the wrong Sabbath,
00:44:35.80\00:44:38.38
being the Creator of
the Sabbath in His day?
00:44:38.41\00:44:40.48
Are you understanding my point?
00:44:40.52\00:44:42.53
If the Sabbath of Christ
is the same Sabbath of today,
00:44:42.56\00:44:45.91
and Jesus kept it, and
Jesus created the Sabbath.
00:44:45.94\00:44:48.67
It must be the same Sabbath
that He made at the beginning,
00:44:48.70\00:44:50.96
because the Creator would
not be observing the wrong day.
00:44:50.99\00:44:55.06
In fact if you look,
and I'll just mention this,
00:44:55.09\00:45:01.02
at Luke 23:54 through Luke
24:1, you'll find the sequence
00:45:01.05\00:45:07.21
of days. It very clearly
says there that Jesus died
00:45:07.24\00:45:10.74
on the Preparation Day,
the day before the Sabbath,
00:45:10.77\00:45:14.27
it says there, Jesus died.
00:45:14.30\00:45:15.74
Then it says that the
women rested on the Sabbath day,
00:45:15.78\00:45:20.75
according to the commandment.
00:45:20.78\00:45:22.12
And then we're told in
Luke 24:1 that Jesus resurrected
00:45:22.16\00:45:27.68
on the first day of the week.
00:45:27.71\00:45:28.96
So there you have the sequence.
00:45:28.99\00:45:31.74
You have Friday, His death.
00:45:31.77\00:45:34.47
By the way,
Christians keep Good Friday.
00:45:34.51\00:45:37.90
Isn't it interesting
how the Sabbath gets lost
00:45:37.93\00:45:40.57
during Holy Week? They
speak about Palm Sunday.
00:45:40.60\00:45:45.68
And among Hispanics
Holy Thursday is particularly
00:45:45.71\00:45:49.64
important: Jueves Santo.
00:45:49.67\00:45:51.50
Oh, that's a very important day.
00:45:51.53\00:45:53.42
And, you know, Crucifixion
Friday, and Resurrection Sunday.
00:45:53.46\00:45:58.30
Who ever says
anything about the Sabbath?
00:45:58.33\00:46:00.48
It's lost in the shuffle,
because there's one who doesn't
00:46:02.48\00:46:06.29
want us to remember the Creator.
00:46:06.32\00:46:07.90
Who would that be? Satan.
00:46:07.93\00:46:12.59
So you find the
sequence of days is the same.
00:46:12.62\00:46:17.43
By the way, did you
notice that in the commandment,
00:46:17.46\00:46:19.62
and in Genesis, it doesn't
say keep one day in seven.
00:46:19.65\00:46:23.04
Every day is the Sabbath.
00:46:23.07\00:46:24.20
Worship every seventh day.
00:46:26.92\00:46:28.89
Because some Christians say,
Yeah, I worship every seventh
00:46:28.92\00:46:32.77
day. That's not
what the Bible says.
00:46:32.80\00:46:35.15
The Bible says that the
Sabbath is the seventh day.
00:46:35.19\00:46:39.18
The same
seventh day of creation.
00:46:39.21\00:46:41.76
The same seventh day that
Jesus kept, is the same seventh
00:46:41.79\00:46:45.70
day today. And it's a day when
Jesus wants us to suspend all
00:46:45.73\00:46:49.61
of our activities.
00:46:49.64\00:46:51.13
And He wants us to
forget about our business,
00:46:51.16\00:46:53.36
and about our work,
and about our endeavors,
00:46:53.39\00:46:56.20
and our recreation.
00:46:56.23\00:46:57.26
He says, forget the things that
I have made, and now we're going
00:46:57.29\00:47:01.81
to reflect, and we're going
to think about our relationship.
00:47:01.84\00:47:04.41
Quality time in
the rat race of life.
00:47:04.44\00:47:08.68
How about it?
Is this a blessing?
00:47:08.71\00:47:10.69
Do you need a break? I do.
00:47:10.72\00:47:14.94
Actually, I work harder on
Sabbath than any other day,
00:47:14.97\00:47:17.82
but it's a
different kind of work.
00:47:18.56\00:47:20.31
The priests offered double
sacrifices on the Sabbath,
00:47:20.34\00:47:23.70
but it was a delight for them.
00:47:23.73\00:47:25.91
I delight to have all of
the church family together,
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and enjoy the fellowship,
and the church programming,
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and the corporate worship.
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It's absolutely beautiful!
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Now, do you know that
the Sabbath is the only day
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in the Bible that
is declared to be holy?
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By the way, some people
say all the days are holy.
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I keep every day.
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The Bible never says you're
supposed to keep every day.
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It says six days
you're supposed to work.
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The seventh day is
the Sabbath that we're
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supposed to keep holy.
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Listen, if all days are holy,
then God would not be able to
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separate the Sabbath as holy,
because in order to separate
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one day as holy, the rest of the
days have to be secular days.
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Hello! Are you
catching my point?
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In order to separate a holy
day, that means that the other
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ones aren't holy.
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For example, I have a church
hymnal, and I have my Bible.
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Well, let's not
use the church hymnal.
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Let's use a history
book that we use in college.
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Are they different?
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Yes! Do they have paper?
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Do they have covers?
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Do they have a name?
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Sure, they're
exactly the same, right? No.
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What separates the
Bible from other books?
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It's God's Holy Word.
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How about the tithe?
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I put a dollar bill
into the offering plate,
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and I have a
dollar bill in my pocket.
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Are they the same?
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Don't they both
have George Washington?
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Yes, they do, but
are they the same?
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No, because one is
secular, and the other is what?
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the other is holy.
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You have this building,
and you have other buildings.
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You have city hall.
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Is this building
different than city hall?
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It most certainly is,
because this building is what?
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It's been
separated for a holy use.
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And so six days are secular,
and one day, which Jesus has
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separated, is holy; the seventh
day, according to scripture.
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Some people say, well,
hasn't it been changed>
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Why would God change it?
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Why would Jesus change it?
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Nowhere in the Bible do
you find that it says that
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the day was changed.
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No place do you find
Jesus saying, well folks,
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now we're not supposed
to keep Sabbath anymore,
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because I resurrected.
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Now we're going to
start keeping Sunday.
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There's no thus sayeth
the Lord; there's no command,
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like the Bible commands us to
observe the seventh day Sabbath.
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Some people say it
doesn't really matter, Pastor,
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which day we keep, as
long as we're sincere,
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and we dedicate
one day to the Lord.
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Do you think God accepts a
secular day that we offer Him,
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instead of the holy day
that He has established?
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Do you remember the
story of Nadab and Abihu?
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God said, bring holy
fire into the sanctuary?
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And they were a little
under the influence of alcohol?
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The Bible says, and you
can read this in chapter 10,
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they entered into the
sanctuary with common, ordinary,
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everyday fire? not the
holy fire from the altar?
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By the way, if you
looked at those fires,
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would they look alike? Sure.
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If you put your
finger in both fires,
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would your finger be burned?
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If you analyzed the
chemical qualities of the fires,
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would they be the same?
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Yes, so why was the fire from
the altar different than the
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fire that they used for cooking?
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Because the fire on the
altar, God made what? holy.
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And God said, bring holy fire.
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And so they bring
common, ordinary fire,
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and they present it to the Lord,
and God says, Oh, who cares?
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Fire is fire. No way!
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The Bible says that
the glory of the Lord
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destroyed Nadab and Abihu.
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It's one of those references
that people don't like to read,
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because they say, Eew,
you know, God destroyed them!
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What was the principle?
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They took something which was
common, and they presented it
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to God as if it was what? holy.
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How do you suppose God feels
when we take a common day of
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work and present it to
Him as if it were holy?
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Is it the same principle?
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The first day of the
week is a day of work:
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Six days you shall labor.
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The first day is
the first day of labor.
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To bring that day and
present it to Him as a holy day,
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is the same principle.
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God, if we know what His
will is, will not accept that.
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Some people say, Well,
pastor, we're under grace,
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we're not under the law.
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So does that mean that
you can commit adultery now?
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You can go out and
kill someone, right?
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You can lie, you can
covet, you can worship idols.
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Can you do all of those things?
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Is it okay? Oh,
no, you can't do that!
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Than why does a different
principle apply to the Sabbath?
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He who offends in one
point, is guilty of all,
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according to scripture.
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So just because we're
under grace doesn't give us the
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license to
disobey God's holy law.
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Some people say
it was for the Jews.
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Never once does the
Bible speak of the Sabbath as
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the Sabbath of the Jews.
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There was no Jew
when it was established.
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Oh, but isn't Sunday
the Lord's day? No it isn't.
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Twenty-three times in Scripture
we are told that the Lord's day
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is the Sabbath. The
seventh day is the Sabbath
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of the Lord thy God.
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The Son of Man is
Lord even of the Sabbath.
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Never once does the
Bible present the first day of
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the week as a day of rest.
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Some people say, Well,
Jesus broke the Sabbath.
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We'll deal with
this accusation tomorrow.
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Listen, if Jesus
broke the Sabbath,
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and the Sabbath is one
of the ten commandments,
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Jesus was a sinner,
and Jesus needs a redeemer.
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Are you
understanding what I am saying?
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Serious implications!
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And, by the way, if
Jesus broke the Sabbath,
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then the Pharisees were right.
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Are you going to take
the side of the Pharisees?
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Are you going to
accuse Jesus of sinning?
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Jesus did not
break the Bible Sabbath,
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He broke the
Sabbath of the Pharisees,
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which is not the same
Sabbath, because the Pharisees
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had made it a yoke of bondage.
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It was a day of restrictions,
and rules, and regulations
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that made people miserable.
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The original intention of
just enjoying the whole day in
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basking in God's presence, and
taking a break from our things,
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and just resting in God,
and enjoying what He has done;
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what He has given,
that had been lost.
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The delight had become a
day of misery, and bondage.
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And Jesus came to deliver
the Sabbath from bondage.
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Some people say it was beyond
repair, so He got rid of it.
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Well, the fact is that
marriage was also beyond repair,
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so I guess we've got to
get rid of marriage, too.
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Jesus addressed the issue.
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You get divorced for
any old reason, Jesus said.
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So if you apply
it to the Sabbath,
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you have to
apply it to marriage.
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We can't pick and choose.
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Some people say, but pastor,
how can the majority be wrong?
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Well, you show me
one time in history when
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the majority was right.
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In the days of Noah
how many were right? Eight!
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The Bible says only
one, the others tagged along.
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Let me ask you, in the days
of Daniel, did he stand alone?
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did he stand alone? Yes he did.
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Shadrach, Meshach, and
Abed-nego, when the multitudes
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met in the valley of
Dura, did Daniel stand alone?
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He most certainly did.
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How about Elijah?
Did he stand alone?
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He sure did. Did
Jesus stand alone?
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He even felt that His
Father had forsaken Him.
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My God, My God, why
hast thou forsaken Me?
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The fact is, folks, that
the majority is never right,
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because the majority, as a
general rule, does not want
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to order their lives in
harmony with what God teaches.
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It takes too much effort.
00:55:38.77\00:55:41.73
It cramps our lifestyle.
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And so people, instead
of following what God says,
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they follow the crowd.
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They follow peer pressure.
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They trust their
religious leaders.
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Folks we cannot blindly
trust our religious leaders.
00:55:56.45\00:55:59.85
I'm not saying that we
should not respect our pastors.
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What I'm saying is, we
should not blindly follow them.
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We should compare what they
teach, with what the Holy Word
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of God says. And we
should follow the Word.
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We can always trust the Word.
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Some Christians say,
Well, we have signs and wonders.
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Don't you believe it!
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Some ministers quote
the Word out of context.
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Be careful, go
check it out for yourself.
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Some people
follow their reasoning.
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Well, I honor Jesus
on Resurrection Day.
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That's human reasoning.
00:56:35.60\00:56:37.53
Some people follow the
testimony of their senses.
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Some follow the
peer pressure of others.
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We can only follow
and trust the Word of God.
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Do you remember that in our last
lecture we said that the genuine
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always comes
before the counterfeit?
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Now let's apply that
principle to the day of worship.
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Which was the original, genuine
day of worship that Jesus made
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for the human race?
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There's no doubt. Do you think
the devil, later on in history,
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would have another
day to rival the Sabbath?
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The devil has a counterfeit for
everything that God has true,
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So the devil would obviously
want to have a different day
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of worship. I pray to God
that we will all choose to spend
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this time with
Jesus. How about it?
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