I'm John Carter in Moscow.
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In Havana, Cuba.
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Now in Kiev, the
capital of Ukraine.
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I'm John Carter in Petra.
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Right here in Communist China.
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Reporting from India.
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Hi, I'm John Carter
in the Solomon Islands.
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I'm John Carter in Soweto.
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From El Salvador.
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I'm John Carter
in Sydney, Australia.
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John Carter finds a
solution to insanity.
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Topic today is "A
Solution to Insanity."
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It's about a year since we
had this tremendous shootout
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here in one of the safest cities
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in the United States.
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That's where we live,
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in Thousand Oaks
just down the road.
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So we're commemorating
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with sorrow of
those young people
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being shot to death a year ago.
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At the same time we discovered
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there was a shootout up
the road at Santa Clarita.
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A young guy, just a
young boy of 15 or 16 goes in
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and starts to shoot people.
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People say to me,
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something gone wrong in America.
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Something gone
wrong in the world.
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The place seems
to be going crazy.
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Is there any solution?
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Today, this program
like all of our programs
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is dedicated to the truth.
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It's not meant to be politically
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or religiously correct.
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It is dedicated
by the grace of God
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to the truth of God,
"A Solution to Insanity."
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I don't often
quote The New York Times.
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The Liberal New York
Times came out recently
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with this article calling,
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can you believe it
for a Digital Sabbath?
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New York Times said,
"People are going crazy.
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They can't get away from,
you know, on their cell phones,
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can't get away from them.
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They're addicted and
it's driving people crazy."
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And The Liberal New York Times
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which is not always
charitable towards religious
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viewpoints said this,
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"We need to have
a Digital Sabbath
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from sunset Friday
to sunset Saturday."
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Isn't that amazing?
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Said, "We need to
turn these things off."
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And you know, there are people
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who come to meetings
like this and go to church,
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and they can't leave
their little things in the car!
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You know why?
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They're
addicted and these things
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are driving people crazy.
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Then I noticed an
article in Newsweek magazine,
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this was astounding.
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It was called
"1984" which, of course,
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is the great
book by George Orwell,
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on the control of the masses.
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And it said this,
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"The people in
America are being brainwashed,
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and they can no
longer think for themselves.
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And it's not the
government that's doing it.
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It's the big
companies like Amazon and Apple,
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the big companies
they are controlling them
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because they are brain...
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They're sending
signals to the people.
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And it's a part of
the growing insanity.
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Would you please
turn in your Bibles
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to the first book in the Bible,
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Genesis 2:1-3.
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The Bible says,
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I'm going to come
and stand over here.
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Look at this camera.
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"Thus the heavens and the earth
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and all the host
of them were finished.
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And on the seventh day
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God ended His
work which He had done,
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and He rested on the seventh day
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from all his work
which he had done.
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Then God
blessed the seventh day,
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and sanctified it,
made it holy, because in it,
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He rested from all his work
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which God had created and made."
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Right in the very beginning
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before sin entered the world,
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God gave to the
human race a Sabbath
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because people need the Sabbath.
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Even people in paradise
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apparently needed the Sabbath
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and hence the world gone crazy.
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I think the freeways
have become more aggressive,
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maybe it's just me.
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Somebody will go
roaring past you,
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cut you off and you'll say,
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"That's one of
those crazy young people."
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And there's a
little old granny who's 90.
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And she's texting us,
she's driving down 101.
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Completely crazy.
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She's crazy.
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Young women
tailgating and young men,
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all are agreed, of course,
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that Washington has gone crazy.
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Shall we explore
that any further?
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I think not.
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The world has gone crazy.
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Our enemies, the people that
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we were taught to be
suspicious of and even to hate,
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they are now our friends
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and our friends are our enemies.
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We have a new phrase, we
talk about our frenemies.
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It's crazy.
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And if you get your
information from the media,
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it's because you're crazy.
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It's true.
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Don't get your
information just from the media.
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Where drugs, alcohol,
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legalized pot now in California,
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other places.
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Jerry Brown, the
former governor said,
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"Who needs more potheads,
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especially in California?"
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And so we're
proud of being potheads.
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Human sexuality, when
you turn on the media,
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it's often no longer he or she.
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I don't know what you call
it, but I think it's crazy.
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In Mexico, listen to this.
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There are 30,000 murders a year
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to supply our crazy
addiction for drugs!
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We're to blame
for 30,000 murders
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a year in Mexico.
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We don't like to
talk about this, do we?
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You know why?
Because we're too crazy.
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We're so crazy
that we've got to feed
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our insane
addiction, heroin, cocaine
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and The Liberal
New York Times says,
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"We need the Sabbath."
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And that's not crazy.
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Why the Sabbath?
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Because the word
Sabbath means rest.
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It is divine rest
from human restlessness,
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rest from worry, rest from care,
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rest from our cell
phones and rest from craziness.
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When we have a
meeting like this,
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we have to announce
it two or three time
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turn off your cell phone
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because people can't...
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can't get away from it.
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It's craziness.
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The word Sabbath is
the Hebrew word Shabbat,
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very beautiful word.
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Shabbat is the Hebrew word.
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It's just one of
those beautiful Shabbat
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and it means rest.
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The Jews have some
very wonderful traditions
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and one is the
Friday night tradition.
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When the Sabbath commences,
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they light a
candle and they say,
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Shabbat Shalom,
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light a candle to
bring in the Sabbath.
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Not like so many of the Gentiles
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who are too crazy
to understand that
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God knew some
things that we don't know.
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I like calling my Jewish
doctor on who's been sick
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on Friday night
since saying to him,
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Dr. Shabbat Shalom,
and I pray with him.
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We need the divine
rest of the Sabbath
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in our hearts 24/7.
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It is a divine
solution to human insanity.
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Let me give you now a
brief history of the Sabbath.
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It was given to the human
race before sin in paradise.
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A moment ago, we
read Genesis 2:1-3.
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And so, God gave
to the human race
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the Sabbath before sin.
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And people who are
sinless need a Sabbath,
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we sinners need
it a million times
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more to save us
from our insanity.
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And people have said
to me over the years,
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"But don't you know that
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the Sabbath is
simply for the Jews?"
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No, I'm sorry,
because there were no Jews
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in the Garden of
Eden, and Jesus said,
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the Sabbath was made for man
and M-A-N doesn't spell J-E-W.
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So, of course, the Sabbath
is for our brothers and sisters
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who are Jewish also.
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It was restored
to the Israelites
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at the time of Moses,
they had been in slavery.
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And when you read,
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we're not going
to take time today
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but if you read,
put this in your mind,
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Exodus Chapter 16.
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It talks about the
giving of the manna.
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Manna is a Hebrew word
that means, what is it?
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No, it doesn't mean
bread, it means, what is it?
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People came out and they
saw this stuff on the ground.
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And it tasted like
wafers made with honey.
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And they said, "What is it?"
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God said, "It is the bread
that God has given you to eat."
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And this manna fell on
the ground on the first,
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the second, the
third, and the fourth,
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and the fifth days.
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And if you kept it overnight,
it went bad and it stank.
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But on the sixth day,
there was a double portion.
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And so if the people
kept it to the next day,
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the Sabbath, it did not go bad,
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because on the seventh day,
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there was no manna
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that was poured
out upon the ground,
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because God was
trying to teach those people
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the need for spiritual rest,
and that man shall not live
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by bread alone,
but by every word
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that proceeds out
of the mouth of God.
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These miracles went on Sunday,
Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday,
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Thursday, Friday,
Saturday for 40 years.
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And you would have
to be tremendously slow,
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if you could not work out
the importance of the Sabbath
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and the identity of the Sabbath.
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And then at the
same time period,
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God came down in
fire on Mount Sinai,
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and gave the people
the Ten Commandments.
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And right in the very
heart of the Ten Commandments,
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God placed the Sabbath.
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Look at your Bibles
and turn to Exodus 20:10,
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"And Yahweh, Elohim,
Almighty God said these words,
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not just to the
Jews but to the world.
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Remember, he
didn't say remember,
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thou salt not kill,
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or thou shalt
not commit adultery.
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Most of us have got
enough sense to remember
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not to do those things.
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But he said,
"Remember the Sabbath day
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to keep it holy.
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Six days you shall
labor and do all your work,
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but the seventh day
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is the Sabbath of
the Lord your God.
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In it you shall do no work,
you, your son, your daughter,
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your male servant,
nor your female servant,
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nor your cattle,
nor your stranger
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who is within your gates."
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God came down and
gave to His people
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and to the world the Sabbath.
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Now let me mention this to you.
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Liberal governments in America
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have done somersaults,
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they've turned themselves
inside out to abolish the Bible
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from the homes
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and the hearts of
the American people.
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They've abolished the
Bibles from the schools
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and even at
Christmas time they are saying,
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it is politically incorrect
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to say Merry Christmas.
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And so there is
a continual assault
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in the schools,
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in the
universities almost everywhere
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against all American values
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which are based on
the Christian Judeo ethic.
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That is a fact.
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And we face today a situation
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where the God is being
kicked out of the schools.
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And the commandments have
been kicked out of the schools
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and we look like
owls, so dumb and we say,
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"What's going on?"
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I'll tell you what's going on.
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It's our craziness
in getting rid of God,
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and the commandments of God.
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Washington said,
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"It's impossible
to govern a nation
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without God and the Bible."
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I guess soon we'll get rid
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of Washington
and Abraham Lincoln,
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because they believed in God.
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There is a tremendous need
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for our return to God.
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And then if you study Scripture,
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you'll find that
all the people of God
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for around 1400
years kept the Sabbath.
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All the great prophets
like Isaiah, Jeremiah, Ezekiel,
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all of them
were Sabbath keepers.
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People say, "I can't."
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One of the greatest challenges
a decent man of God has today
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is to deal with people
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who are increasingly ignorant
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of the
fundamentals of the faith.
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But for thousands of years,
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all the people of
God kept the Sabbath,
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and they kept the Sabbath
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because the
Sabbath reminded them
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that God was God.
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And that He was the one
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who created the heavens
in the earth, and therefore,
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they were unique and glorious.
00:16:04.23\00:16:07.03
They were made in
the very image of God.
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The Sabbath is
faithfully observed
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by Jesus Christ our Lord,
00:16:14.30\00:16:18.14
and all the holy apostles.
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Now take your
Bibles and turn with me
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to Luke 23:53-56.
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Please turn with
me to Luke 23:53-56.
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This talks about
the day when Jesus died.
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If you got it, verse 53.
00:16:38.73\00:16:40.46
"Then he took it down..."
00:16:40.50\00:16:42.53
What's it talking about?
00:16:42.56\00:16:43.90
It's talking about
the body of Christ.
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"Then he took it
down, wrapped it in linen,
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laid it in a tomb that
was hewn out of the rock,
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where no one had
ever lain before.
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That day was the
Preparation or Friday."
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Jesus died on the Friday.
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That's why they
call it Good Friday.
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"And the Sabbath drew near."
00:17:02.75\00:17:04.75
The day after
Friday is the Sabbath.
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"And the women
who had come with him
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from Galilee followed after,
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and they observed the
tomb and how his body was laid.
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Then they returned
and prepared spices
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and fragrant oils,
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and they rested on the Sabbath
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according to the commandment."
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These people
obviously had been taught
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true Sabbath keeping
by the Lord Jesus Christ,
00:17:27.81\00:17:32.35
because even in His
death, they the holy disciples,
00:17:32.38\00:17:38.32
including the holy
women were Sabbath keepers
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because of the
commandments of God.
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Now look at Luke 24:1 and 2.
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Now on the first
day of the week,"
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that is the Sunday,
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the day when Jesus
rose from the dead,
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"very early in the morning,
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they and certain other women
with them came to the tomb,
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bringing the spices
which they had prepared.
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But they found the stone
rolled away from the tomb."
00:18:03.58\00:18:06.58
Now, here we have three days.
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And I'm going to put up
these three days on the screen.
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Here they are,
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three
tremendously important days.
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The Preparation
Day when Jesus died,
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the Sabbath,
according to the commandment,
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and Sunday, the
first day of the week,
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notice it here, the sixth day,
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it is called
the preparation day.
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People say,
"Time has been lost."
00:18:34.24\00:18:35.88
Now that's silly. That's silly.
00:18:35.91\00:18:38.61
If you want to know
which is the right seventh day,
00:18:38.65\00:18:41.82
simply go and ask
any Jewish person.
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Ask any person in Rome,
00:18:45.35\00:18:47.46
who keeps the
first day for instance,
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the Roman Catholic scholars,
the first day is Sunday.
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So the sixth day
is a Preparation Day
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and the day in between,
00:18:55.66\00:18:57.57
the Bible says
00:18:57.60\00:18:59.43
is the Sabbath
of the commandment,
00:18:59.47\00:19:02.04
which is called
in the New Testament,
00:19:02.07\00:19:04.34
the Lord's Day.
00:19:04.37\00:19:05.74
And then the day
of the resurrection
00:19:05.77\00:19:08.31
when Jesus our
blessed Lord rose in glory
00:19:08.34\00:19:12.81
from the tomb,
that is the first day.
00:19:12.85\00:19:18.02
Now my point is
this. Here it is.
00:19:18.05\00:19:22.09
Jesus was the Sabbath keeper.
00:19:22.12\00:19:26.66
And all the holy
apostles were Sabbath keepers.
00:19:26.70\00:19:31.23
Finally, many years after Christ
00:19:31.27\00:19:35.40
and His disciples,
00:19:35.44\00:19:38.14
the Sabbath was
changed by the church,
00:19:38.17\00:19:42.91
as admitted by
hundreds and hundreds
00:19:42.94\00:19:46.72
of church historians.
00:19:46.75\00:19:51.59
Now some years
ago, there was a craze
00:19:51.62\00:19:54.62
and people were wearing t-shirts
00:19:54.66\00:19:57.66
that had the words,
"What would Jesus do?"
00:19:57.69\00:20:03.10
And that is a
very, very valid question
00:20:03.13\00:20:05.67
and it demands a valid answer.
00:20:05.70\00:20:08.40
What would Jesus do?
00:20:08.44\00:20:12.17
I want to say to
every person here today,
00:20:12.21\00:20:14.31
my first allegiance
is not to the government.
00:20:14.34\00:20:19.51
My first allegiance
is not to my church.
00:20:19.55\00:20:25.35
My first
allegiance is to Christ.
00:20:25.39\00:20:30.33
My first
allegiance is to Christ.
00:20:30.36\00:20:34.10
And therefore, it
is a valid question,
00:20:34.13\00:20:38.63
what would Jesus do?
00:20:38.67\00:20:42.37
Listen carefully to the argument
00:20:42.40\00:20:46.07
that I shall present humbly
to you for your consideration,
00:20:46.11\00:20:52.01
dear hearts and gentle people.
00:20:52.05\00:20:56.15
Christ's biggest
enemies were not the Romans.
00:20:56.18\00:21:01.16
Christ's biggest enemies
00:21:01.19\00:21:04.29
were the religious
leaders of His day.
00:21:04.33\00:21:09.93
The hierarchy,
especially the Pharisees
00:21:09.96\00:21:14.90
who had invented thousands
00:21:14.94\00:21:17.57
of legalistic
rules and regulations.
00:21:17.61\00:21:22.64
Christ's biggest
enemies were not the Romans,
00:21:22.68\00:21:29.08
but the religious hierarchy
00:21:29.12\00:21:32.35
who made up their own religion
00:21:32.39\00:21:35.99
in the name of God.
00:21:36.02\00:21:37.36
Come with me to Mark 7:6-7.
00:21:37.39\00:21:42.66
Matthew, Mark, come with me
00:21:42.70\00:21:45.17
to Mark 7:6-7,
00:21:45.20\00:21:52.91
dear hearts and gentle people.
00:21:52.94\00:21:56.08
"He answered and said to them,
00:21:56.11\00:21:57.78
'Well, did Isaiah
prophesy of you hypocrites,
00:21:57.81\00:22:03.08
goodness, as it is written:
00:22:03.12\00:22:05.42
'This people
honors Me with their lips,
00:22:05.45\00:22:07.86
but their heart is far from Me,"
00:22:07.89\00:22:10.36
all talk, all mouth.
00:22:10.39\00:22:13.93
"And in vain they worship Me,
00:22:13.96\00:22:15.80
teaching as doctrines
the commandments of men."
00:22:15.83\00:22:20.64
And so the Pharisees
made up their own rules.
00:22:20.67\00:22:24.17
Let me say this,
00:22:24.21\00:22:25.54
so you won't
mistake what I think.
00:22:25.57\00:22:28.08
Manmade religion is
the curse of humanity.
00:22:28.11\00:22:33.31
What we need is
Jesus and His gospel.
00:22:33.35\00:22:38.05
Let me say it again.
00:22:38.09\00:22:41.19
In case there's somebody
00:22:41.22\00:22:42.56
who wasn't
offended the first time.
00:22:42.59\00:22:46.80
Manmade religion is
the curse of humanity.
00:22:46.83\00:22:52.20
And what we need is
Jesus and His gospel.
00:22:52.23\00:22:54.80
Now what is the gospel?
00:22:54.84\00:22:58.07
Here's the gospel.
00:22:58.11\00:23:00.31
God sent His Son
00:23:00.34\00:23:01.68
who was the creator
on a rescue mission.
00:23:01.71\00:23:06.08
And He did this
because He loves us.
00:23:06.11\00:23:09.82
The greatest truth in the Bible
00:23:09.85\00:23:11.49
is the truth, I love you.
00:23:11.52\00:23:13.72
God loves you.
00:23:13.76\00:23:16.62
On the cross, he
paid for our sins.
00:23:16.66\00:23:21.93
No one is unimportant.
00:23:21.96\00:23:24.37
He has a solution
to the curse of sin
00:23:24.40\00:23:27.57
that breeds insanity.
00:23:27.60\00:23:30.31
He has a solution.
00:23:30.34\00:23:32.07
And until the world
accepts God's solutions,
00:23:32.11\00:23:37.35
they're going to be
more school shootings
00:23:37.38\00:23:43.15
and other terrible things.
00:23:43.18\00:23:45.42
The greatest text in
the Bible is John 3:16.
00:23:45.45\00:23:48.59
Would you please
notice it, John 3:16,
00:23:48.62\00:23:52.06
you know it by heart,
00:23:52.09\00:23:54.00
"For God so loved
the world," everybody...
00:23:54.03\00:24:00.17
Yeah, "that He gave
His one and only Son,
00:24:00.20\00:24:03.00
that whoever believes
in Him shall not perish
00:24:03.04\00:24:05.94
but have everlasting
life or eternal life."
00:24:05.97\00:24:11.28
That's the heart of the
gospel that God loves us.
00:24:11.31\00:24:16.12
And we need His
rest in our hearts.
00:24:19.12\00:24:24.36
People do crazy things.
00:24:24.39\00:24:25.73
The world is going crazy
everywhere in Washington,
00:24:25.76\00:24:28.90
around the world the
world is going crazy.
00:24:28.93\00:24:33.54
Because we don't
have Christ in our hearts,
00:24:33.57\00:24:35.50
we have a bunch
of religious junk,
00:24:35.54\00:24:38.81
but not Christ.
00:24:38.84\00:24:40.28
We need His rest in our hearts.
00:24:40.31\00:24:42.68
Listen carefully to this.
00:24:42.71\00:24:45.08
Then in the next
segment, I'm going to give you
00:24:45.11\00:24:46.98
some amazing stories
00:24:47.02\00:24:48.82
from the life of
Christ and from Russia,
00:24:48.85\00:24:53.02
and from
Siberia, and from Magadan.
00:24:53.05\00:24:57.86
Christ had a conflict
00:24:57.89\00:24:59.23
with the
Pharisees over the Sabbath,
00:24:59.26\00:25:02.66
not whether it should be kept,
00:25:02.70\00:25:06.07
but how it should be kept,
00:25:06.10\00:25:10.24
because the Sabbath
00:25:10.27\00:25:12.61
is the symbol of the gospel.
00:25:12.64\00:25:17.25
And so when Jesus came
and started to keep Sabbath,
00:25:17.28\00:25:21.52
they tried to kill
Him, and they did kill Him.
00:25:21.55\00:25:25.22
And the Bible tells me this
00:25:25.25\00:25:27.06
and most people
haven't seen this.
00:25:27.09\00:25:29.22
The reason they
wanted to kill Him
00:25:29.26\00:25:32.19
was over the
issue of the Sabbath.
00:25:32.23\00:25:38.53
No, no, no.
00:25:38.57\00:25:39.97
Somebody says,
"Jesus broke the Sabbath."
00:25:40.00\00:25:42.20
Hey, you're joining
forces with the Pharisees,
00:25:42.24\00:25:46.24
that's what they said.
00:25:46.27\00:25:48.38
When we come back,
00:25:48.41\00:25:49.74
I'm going to talk
about stories from Russia,
00:25:49.78\00:25:51.95
Ukraine, Eastern Siberia,
00:25:51.98\00:25:55.45
and we're going to talk about
00:25:55.48\00:25:56.95
the solution to the
insanity in the world today.
00:25:56.99\00:26:00.09
Our topic is, "A
Solution to Insanity."
00:26:00.12\00:26:05.93
And we will be back.
00:26:05.96\00:26:08.76
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