Participants: Pr. Mike Thompson
Series Code: CSH
Program Code: CSH021418
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00:45 >>WELCOME TO SACRAMENTO CENTRAL SEVENTH-DAY ADVENTIST CHURCH. 00:48 WE ARE RIGHT HERE IN SACRAMENTO, CALIFORNIA IN THE UNITED STATES 00:52 OF AMERICA. AND I KNOW THAT THERE ARE VERY 00:54 MANY OF YOU THAT JOIN US EACH WEEK TO STUDY GOD'S WORD 00:58 TOGETHER - FROM ACROSS THE COUNTRY, AROUND THE WORLD - YOU 01:01 PULL OUT YOUR HYMNALS, YOU SING WITH US, WE GET OUT OUR BIBLES, 01:04 WE SEE WHAT GOD'S WORD HAS TO SAY TO US EVERY WEEK. 01:08 AND WE ARE SO APPRECIATIVE THAT YOU CONSTANTLY AND FAITHFULLY 01:12 TUNE IN. LET'S BEGIN THIS MORNING WITH 01:15 SINGING HYMN #198 - 'AND CAN IT BE?'. 01:18 THIS COMES AS A REQUEST FROM JESSICA IN AUSTRALIA, EMMANUEL 01:23 ANTWI IN ITALY, EZEKIEL IN KENYA, ESSELINE, HENK, AND 01:28 ELFRIEDA IN THE NETHERLANDS, SILVIA IN PERU AND MANY MORE 01:32 AROUND THE PLANET HAVE REQUESTED THIS SONG - 01:35 'AND CAN IT BE?' - HYMN #198. 01:38 WE'LL SING THE FIRST, THE SECOND, AND THE LAST VERSES. 01:40 (MUSIC) 04:19 >>YOU CANNOT SING THAT SONG WITHOUT ABSOLUTELY BEAMING FROM 04:22 EAR TO EAR BECAUSE WE HAVE AN AMAZING SAVIOR. 04:25 LET'S SING HYMN #98. THIS IS A NEW HYMN THAT WE'RE 04:32 GOING TO PULL OUT THIS WEEK. AS YOU KNOW, WE ARE GOING 04:34 THROUGH THE HYMNAL AND SINGING NEW HYMNS. 04:36 IF YOU HAVE A REQUEST THAT YOU'D LIKE TO SING WITH US - WHETHER 04:40 IT'S NEW OR OLD - I INVITE YOU TO GO TO OUR WEBSITE AT 04:43 'SACCENTRAL.ORG'. THERE YOU CAN CLICK ON THE 04:45 'CONTACT US' LINK AND YOU CAN REQUEST ANY HYMN IN OUR HYMNAL 04:48 AND WE WILL SING THAT WITH YOU ON A COMING STUDY TOGETHER. 04:52 HYMN #98 - 'CAN YOU COUNT THE STARS?' 04:56 - THIS COMES AS A REQUEST FROM WINONA IN CANADA, JOSEPH IN 05:00 FLORIDA, ANTOINNETTE IN JAMAICA, AND EUGENE IN THAILAND. AND WE 05:05 WILL SING ALL THREE VERSES - 'CAN YOU COUNT THE STARS?'. 05:09 (MUSIC) 07:04 >>I JUST THINK THAT'S A SWEET SONG. 07:06 I THINK IT'S A GREAT SONG TO TEACH OUR CHILDREN - A NEW SONG 07:09 FOR THE CHILDREN'S DIVISIONS BECAUSE IT JUST TALKS ABOUT GOD 07:13 AND HIS GREATNESS AND HIS CREATIVE POWER AND HOW MUCH HE 07:16 LOVES US. LET'S PRAY TOGETHER. 07:19 OUR FATHER IN HEAVEN, WE THANK YOU SO MUCH THAT YOU CREATED 07:23 EVERYTHING AROUND US THAT REMINDS US OF YOU AND YOUR 07:26 CREATIVE POWER. HOW YOU FORMED THE WORLD - 07:29 YOU PLACED US HERE NOT TO DIE, NOT TO SIN. 07:33 AND WE THANK YOU SO MUCH, LORD, THAT YOU HAVE PROMISED THAT 07:36 YOU'RE GOING TO COME BACK AND REDEEM US AND RESTORE US TO WHAT 07:39 YOU FIRST INTENTIONALLY MADE US TO BE AND THAT IS A FRIEND TO 07:43 WALK WITH YOU FACE TO FACE. WE LOOK FORWARD TO THAT DAY, 07:46 LORD. HELP EACH OF US WITHIN HEARING 07:49 OF MY VOICE TO DO OUR PART TO HASTEN YOUR COMING. 07:51 LORD, WE JUST CAN'T WAIT TO SEE YOU SO PLEASE COME SOON. 07:55 PLEASE BLESS PASTOR MIKE TODAY AS HE BRINGS US OUR STUDY, LORD, 07:58 WORDS OF REFRESHING TO EACH OF US. WE PRAY THESE THINGS 08:02 IN YOUR NAME, JESUS, AMEN. OUR STUDY TODAY WILL BE BROUGHT 08:07 TO US BY PASTOR MIKE THOMPSON AND HE IS THE VISITATION AND 08:12 HEALTH PASTOR HERE AT SACRAMENTO CENTRAL. 08:18 >>GOOD MORNING EVERYBODY. HAPPY SABBATH. 08:19 THANK YOU, JOLYNE AND THE SINGERS. 08:22 IT'S GOOD TO BE HERE. AMEN, MICHAEL. 08:26 THERE'S MICHAEL AND HIS - MY LIBRARIAN. I DON'T HAVE ANY 08:30 BOOKS TO GIVE YOU TODAY SO YOU'VE GOT THE DAY OFF. 08:33 ANYWAY, I'D LIKE TO BEGIN BY PRESENTING OUR FREE OFFER. 08:38 SO IT'S OFFER #179 - 'FEAST DAYS AND SABBATHS' - 08:42 IF YOU CALL 1-866-STUDY-MORE OR 1-866-788-3966 08:50 WE WILL SEND THIS TO YOU. AT LEAST AMAZING FACTS WILL - 08:54 'FEAST DAYS AND SABBATHS'. MY VOICE SOUNDS A LITTLE STRANGE 08:58 THIS MORNING BUT MAYBE IT'LL WARM UP AS WE GO ALONG THIS 09:01 MORNING SO PRAY FOR ME. WE'RE IN LESSON #5 ON THIS 09:06 QUARTERLY'S THEME, WHICH IS 'CHRIST AND HIS LAW' AND WE'RE 09:12 LOOKING, THIS WEEK, AT A VERY PERTINENT SUBJECT: 'CHRIST AND 09:17 THE SABBATH' - AND THERE'S A MEMORY TEXT THERE FROM MARK 09:21 CHAPTER 2:27 AND 28. JESUS SAID, "THE SABBATH WAS 09:26 MADE FOR MAN, AND NOT MAN FOR THE SABBATH. 09:30 THEREFORE THE SON OF MAN IS ALSO LORD OF THE SABBATH." 09:36 NOW THERE IS, ON SUNDAY'S SECTION - IT'S ACTUALLY A 09:42 QUESTION - IT SAYS, "THE JEWISH SABBATH?" 09:46 BECAUSE I REMEMBER BEFORE I - WELL, KIND OF ABOUT THE TIME I 09:50 WAS BECOMING A SEVENTH-DAY ADVENTIST AND I WOULD TALK ABOUT 09:54 THE SABBATH, PEOPLE WOULD SAY, 'OH, THE JEWISH SABBATH?' 09:57 AND YOU'VE PROBABLY HEARD THAT YOURSELF. 09:59 'OH, IT'S THE JEWISH SABBATH.' WELL, YEAH, THE JEWS HAD IT, BUT 10:04 IT'S FOR EVERYBODY. IN FACT, LET'S BEGIN. LET'S GO TO 10:08 GENESIS CHAPTER 2 AND READ VERSES 1, 2, AND 3 - GENESIS 2, 10:16 VERSES 1, 2, AND 3 AND WE'LL JUST REFRESH OURSELVES ABOUT 10:23 THE ORIGIN OF THE SABBATH AND WHO IT WAS ACTUALLY MADE FOR. 10:27 GENESIS 2, THE FIRST THREE VERSES: "THUS THE HEAVENS AND 10:32 THE EARTH WERE FINISHED, AND ALL THE HOST OF THEM. 10:37 AND ON THE SEVENTH DAY GOD ENDED HIS WORK WHICH HE HAD MADE; AND 10:41 HE RESTED ON THE SEVENTH DAY FROM ALL HIS WORK WHICH HE HAD 10:44 MADE. AND GOD BLESSED THE SEVENTH DAY 10:47 AND SANCTIFIED IT: BECAUSE THAT IN IT HE HAD RESTED 10:52 FROM ALL HIS WORK WHICH GOD CREATED AND MADE." 10:57 NOW THE FIRST HUMAN MAN THAT WAS MADE - WAS HIS NAME ABRAHAM OR 11:03 WAS HE CALLED ADAM? ADAM. THAT'S RIGHT. 11:07 SO ADAM COMES ALONG AND, OF COURSE, ALONG COMES HIS SWEET 11:10 WIFE, AFTER A LITTLE BIT OF SURGERY ON HIS RIBCAGE, BUT THE 11:15 FIRST TWO HUMAN BEINGS WERE ADAM AND EVE AND THEY WERE THE FIRST 11:20 TWO, ON THE SIXTH DAY, AS THE SUN WENT DOWN, TO ENTER INTO THE 11:25 VERY FIRST SABBATH THAT GOD HAD CREATED AND THEN HE BLESSED IT. 11:30 AND THEY WERE THERE, ACTUALLY, TO BE A PART OF THAT - TO SEE 11:33 THAT HAPPEN. SO THE SABBATH WAS GIVEN TO THEM 11:38 - THE FIRST PROGENITORS - THAT'S A BIG WORD, BUT I THINK IT'S 11:41 RIGHT - OF THE HUMAN RACE - THE FIRST MAN AND WOMAN AND THE 11:46 FIRST MOM AND DAD - THERE THEY WERE. 11:48 AND SO THE SABBATH WAS GIVEN TO THEM. NOW ABRAHAM DIDN'T 11:53 COME ALONG UNTIL CLOSE TO 1,900 - 2,000 YEARS THEREABOUTS - 11:58 JUST IN BALLPARK FIGURES THERE. ABRAHAM DIDN'T COME ALONG UNTIL 12:03 ABOUT 2,000 YEARS AFTER THE CREATION. 12:06 AND SO THIS IS WHERE OUR MEMORY VERSE TIES IN: JESUS, IN MATTHEW 12:10 2:27 AND 28, HE REMINDS US THAT THE SABBATH WAS MADE FOR MAN. 12:17 AND THIS IS WHY, WHEN GOD DECLARED HIS LAW VERBALLY - THE 12:24 TEN COMMANDMENTS FROM THE TOP OF MOUNT SINAI, AND HE GOT TO THE 12:29 SABBATH COMMANDMENT, HE USED THE WORDS - WHAT DID HE SAY? 12:32 HOW DID IT BEGIN? HE SAID WHAT? 'REMEMBER' - RIGHT? 12:37 GOD SAID, 'REMEMBER THE SABBATH DAY'. IN OTHER WORDS, 12:43 IF THE SABBATH WAS SOMETHING BRAND NEW JUST FOR THE JEWS 12:46 HE WOULD HAVE SAID, 'HERE'S SOMETHING NEW.' BUT HE SAID NO. 12:50 HE SAID, 'REMEMBER THE SABBATH DAY' AND GOD IS REFERRING BACK 12:53 HERE TO WHEN THE SABBATH WAS FIRST BROUGHT INTO BEING, 12:58 CREATED, AND BLESSED - AND THAT WAS CREATION, WHEN IT WAS FIRST 13:03 ESTABLISHED FOR THE BENEFIT OF ALL HUMANITY, NOT JUST FOR THE 13:09 JEWS. BUT YOU KNOW AS WELL AS I DO, 13:14 THERE'S A LOT OF SUNDAY-KEEPING CHRISTIANS WHO DON'T KNOW ANY 13:19 BETTER, SO LET'S BE VERY GENTLE WITH THESE PEOPLE. 13:24 THEY DON'T KNOW ANY BETTER AND THEY KEEP SUNDAY AND THEY HEAR 13:28 ABOUT THE SABBATH - THE REAL SABBATH - 13:31 AND THEY SAY, 'OH, IT'S THE JEWISH SABBATH. 13:33 IT WAS GIVEN JUST FOR THE JEWS.' AGAIN, A LOT OF THEM DON'T 13:37 REALIZE THAT BUT SOMETIMES, PERHAPS THEIR PASTORS OR SOME 13:41 BIBLE TEACHER WILL TELL THEM, 'NO, LOOK, LET'S GO TO 13:46 DEUTERONOMY CHAPTER 5' - LET'S TURN THERE BY THE WAY - LET'S GO 13:49 TO DEUTERONOMY CHAPTER 5 AND THEY MAY BE GIVEN THIS KIND OF 13:54 INSTRUCTION: THEY SAY, 'LET'S TURN TO DEUTERONOMY CHAPTER 5 13:59 AND LET'S NOTICE WHAT THE SABBATH - WHO IT WAS GIVEN TO 14:03 AND WHY.' DEUTERONOMY CHAPTER 5 - BECAUSE THE SABBATH IS HERE - 14:12 REPEATED HERE IN DEUTERONOMY CHAPTER 5, VERSES 12 THROUGH 15 14:19 - DEUTERONOMY 5:12-15. AND IT SAYS, "KEEP THE SABBATH 14:27 DAY TO SANCTIFY IT, AS THE LORD THY GOD HATH COMMANDED THEE. 14:33 SIX DAYS THOU SHALT LABOR, AND DO ALL THY WORK:" - 14:36 NOW, IS THERE ANYTHING HERE ABOUT CREATION YET? 14:39 NO, I DON'T SEE IT. 14:40 VERSE 14 - BUT I'M GOING TO COME BACK TO SOMETHING IN A MOMENT - 14:44 "BUT THE SEVENTH DAY IS THE SABBATH OF THE LORD THY GOD: IN 14:48 IT THOU SHALT NOT DO ANY WORK, THOU, NOR THY SON, NOR THY 14:53 DAUGHTER, NOR THY MANSERVANT, NOR THY MAIDSERVANT, NOR THINE 14:58 OX, NOR THINE ASS, NOR ANY OF THY CATTLE, NOR THY STRANGER 15:02 THAT IS WITHIN THY GATES; THAT THY MANSERVANT AND THY 15:07 MAIDSERVANT MAY REST AS WELL AS THOU. 15:10 AND REMEMBER THAT THOU WAST A SERVANT IN THE LAND OF EGYPT, 15:15 AND THAT THE LORD THY GOD BROUGHT THEE OUT THENCE THROUGH 15:18 A MIGHTY HAND AND BY A STRETCHED OUT ARM: THEREFORE THE LORD THY 15:22 GOD COMMANDED THEE TO KEEP THE SABBATH DAY." 15:25 SO SOME BIBLE INSTRUCTORS WILL TELL THEIR INQUIRING STUDENTS, 15:29 'SEE, LOOK, THERE'S THE SABBATH. IT WAS GIVEN TO THE JEWS AS A 15:34 MEMORIAL THAT GOD BROUGHT THEM OUT OF SLAVERY IN EGYPT. 15:41 WELL, THAT'S TRUE BUT IT'S NOT THE WHOLE STORY AND THERE'S A 15:45 LITTLE GIVEAWAY HERE. IF YOU GO BACK TO VERSE 12 OF 15:49 THIS SAME PASSAGE, GOD SAYS, "KEEP THE SABBATH DAY TO 15:54 SANCTIFY IT, AS THE LORD THY GOD HATH COMMANDED THEE." 15:58 WHAT DOES THAT MEAN? HATH - HATH - IT'S ANOTHER REMINDER - 16:03 KEEP THE SABBATH DAY AS I HAVE PREVIOUSLY REMINDED YOU TO DO. 16:09 YOU GET THE POINT HERE? AND SO WHAT IS THIS? 16:12 IT'S A REFERENCE THAT TAKES US BACK AGAIN TO EXODUS CHAPTER 20 16:18 WHERE GOD SAID, 'REMEMBER THE SABBATH DAY.' IN EXODUS 20 WHEN 16:21 IT SAYS, 'REMEMBER THE SABBATH DAY' - THAT TAKES US RIGHT BACK 16:25 TO GENESIS CHAPTER 2, VERSES 1, 2, AND 3. 16:28 SO IT TAKES US ALL THE WAY BACK AGAIN TO CREATION. 16:35 NOW IT'S - BUT OF COURSE, THIS PASSAGE HERE IN DEUTERONOMY - 16:40 IT'S STILL TRUE, I MEAN, WE CAN'T THROW IT OUT. 16:42 AND IT'S NOT ACTUALLY CLASHING WITH THE GENESIS ACCOUNT OF 16:47 CREATION OR IN - ACCOUNT OF THE SABBATH OR IN EXODUS 20, BUT GOD 16:52 IS BRINGING TO LIGHT HERE TWO THINGS ABOUT THE SABBATH. 16:56 HE'S REMINDING US THAT HE IS THE CREATOR - THAT HE MADE US - 17:02 BUT HE'S ALSO REMINDING US AS WE EXTRAPOLATE HERE FROM 17:07 DEUTERONOMY CHAPTER 5, VERSE 15 THE FACT THAT HE'S ALSO OUR 17:14 REDEEMER. HE'S OUR CREATOR AND HE'S OUR 17:17 REDEEMER AND IN THE SABBATH COMMANDMENT IN EXODUS 20, WE'RE 17:22 REMINDED HE IS OUR CREATOR. AND IN THIS ONE, AS WE DRAW THIS 17:27 LESSON OUT, AS HE'S SPOKEN TO THE ISRAELITES, WE DRAW FROM 17:31 THIS THAT HE'S ALSO OUR REDEEMER AND DELIVERER AND THE 17:34 SABBATH IS ALSO A MEMORIAL OF THAT AS WELL. 17:38 LET'S GO BACK TO VERSE 15 AND SEE WHAT HE SAYS HERE TO THE 17:42 ISRAELITES, "AND REMEMBER THAT THOU WAST A SERVANT IN THE LAND 17:48 OF EGYPT, AND THAT THE LORD THY GOD BROUGHT THEE OUT THENCE 17:52 THROUGH A MIGHTY HAND AND BY A STRETCHED OUT ARM: THEREFORE THE 17:56 LORD THY GOD COMMANDED THEE TO KEEP THE SABBATH DAY." 18:02 AND SO WHAT HE TELLS THE ISRAELITES THERE, 'YOU WERE A 18:08 SLAVE AND THE SABBATH IS THERE TO REMIND YOU THAT YOU WERE 18:10 DELIVERED FROM SLAVERY; THEREFORE KEEP IT 18:14 AS A MEMORIAL OF BOTH THINGS. 18:16 AND WHEN WE GO - I'M JUST HARKING BACK A LITTLE BIT HERE 18:19 TO EXODUS 20, VERSE 1 - GOD ACTUALLY MENTIONS THIS BONDAGE 18:24 THING AGAIN - EXODUS 20, VERSE 1, "AND GOD SPAKE ALL THESE 18:28 WORDS SAYING," - THIS IS ON THE TOP OF MOUNT SINAI, JUST GETTING 18:31 READY TO RECITE THE TEN COMMANDMENTS - "AND GOD SPAKE 18:36 ALL THESE WORDS SAYING, 'I AM THE LORD THY GOD, WHICH HAVE 18:39 BROUGHT THEE OUT OF THE LAND OF EGYPT, OUT OF THE HOUSE OF 18:44 BONDAGE.'" - SO IT'S ACTUALLY IN 20 AS WELL - EXODUS 20 ALSO. 18:49 SO IT'S A WONDERFUL THING. IT'S TO REMIND US OF GOD'S 18:51 CREATIVE POWER AND ALSO HIS REDEMPTIVE POWER. 18:57 IN EXODUS 20, VERSE 2 - ACTUALLY I'LL JUST MENTION THAT - EXODUS 19:01 20, VERSE 2 - WE LOOKED AGAIN HOW YOU FIND THIS BONDAGE THING 19:04 ALSO MENTIONED WHEN GOD GAVE THE TEN COMMANDMENTS FROM SINAI. 19:11 SO, FROM WHAT WE READ ABOUT GOD SPEAKING TO THE ISRAELITES 19:16 SAYING, 'YOU WERE ONCE IN BONDAGE AND THE SABBATH IS TO 19:19 REMIND YOU OF THAT,' THEN THAT ALSO IS SOMETHING WE ALSO 19:22 CAN TAKE TO HEART OURSELVES, CAN WE NOT? TO REMIND OURSELVES, 19:27 'HERE BUT BY THE GRACE OF GOD GO I - HERE BUT BY THE GRACE OF 19:32 GOD - HERE I AM. I'M BORN WITH A SINFUL NATURE. 19:36 I'M JUST PROGRAMMED TO DO WHAT'S WRONG. I'M BORN WITH SIX 19:41 THOUSAND YEARS, THEREABOUTS, OF SKEWED DNA AND EVERY - 19:44 I'VE SAID THIS BEFORE - EVERY GENERATION THAT COMES ALONG IS 19:47 REALLY THE WEAKEST BECAUSE, YOU KNOW, MY GRANDFATHER WAS BAD 19:53 ENOUGH, BUT I GOT HIS GENES AND MY DAD'S GENES AND I, IN TURN, 19:57 PASSED THEM ON TO MY KIDS AND TO MY GRANDCHILDREN. 20:00 SO EVERY GENERATION IS ACTUALLY THE WEAKEST. 20:03 BUT BY THE GRACE OF GOD, THAT DELIVERANCE FROM WHATEVER HOLDS 20:10 US IN THE BONDAGE OF SIN, JESUS CAN SET US FREE. 20:15 AND SO, WHEN WE COME TO CHURCH ON SABBATH, YOU SEE, WE SIT HERE 20:18 AND - WE SHOULD - AND REJOICE AND YOU LOOK AT IT, THIS 20:21 BEAUTIFUL CALIFORNIA SUNSHINE - I'M SORRY ABOUT EVERYBODY THERE 20:25 IN ENGLAND BUT WE'VE GOT BEAUTIFUL CALIFORNIA SUNSHINE 20:29 HERE AND IT'S BEAUTIFUL, RIGHT? 20:32 AND AS WE SIT HERE WE'RE REMINDED OF THE FACT THAT GOD 20:35 MADE US AND THIS IS THE DAY FOR US TO REMEMBER THAT. 20:39 BUT WE'RE ALSO HERE THIS MORNING, TO REMEMBER THE FACT 20:43 THAT JESUS NOT ONLY MADE US BUT HE CAME TO REDEEM US. 20:47 AND SO, ON THIS BEAUTIFUL DAY - THIS BEAUTIFUL SABBATH - I CAN 20:52 JUST BASK AND REJOICE IN THE FACT THAT CHRIST HAS DELIVERED 20:58 ME. CAN YOU SAY 'AMEN' FOR THAT? 21:01 AND THERE'S NOTHING - THERE'S NOTHING HE CANNOT DELIVER US 21:03 FROM. AND THE BOOK COMES TO MIND - 21:06 'MINISTRY OF HEALING' - I FORGET THE PAGE. 21:09 IT SAYS, 'IT DOES - IT MATTERS NOT WHAT MASTER PASSION HOLDS 21:12 YOU IN BONDAGE, JESUS - JESUS CAN SET YOU FREE.' LET'S GO TO 21:20 LUKE CHAPTER 4 - IN THE NEW TESTAMENT - MATTHEW, MARK, LUKE 21:29 - LUKE CHAPTER 4. I LOVE THIS PASSAGE HERE - 21:36 ESPECIALLY WHEN JESUS SPEAKS - WE'RE GOING TO GO TO VERSE 16 - 21:41 LUKE 4:16 - LUKE CHAPTER 4, BEGINNING IN VERSE 16. 21:47 JESUS HAS JUST BEGUN HIS MINISTRY - WE READ HERE, "AND HE 21:54 CAME TO NAZARETH, WHERE HE HAD BEEN BROUGHT UP: AND, AS HIS 21:59 CUSTOM WAS, HE WENT INTO THE SYNAGOGUE ON THE SABBATH DAY, 22:03 AND STOOD UP FOR TO READ. 22:06 AND THERE WAS DELIVERED UNTO HIM THE BOOK OF THE PROPHET ESAIAS. 22:10 AND WHEN HE HAD OPENED THE BOOK, HE FOUND THE PLACE WHERE IT WAS 22:13 WRITTEN," - I'D LOVE TO HAVE HEARD THE VOICE - I'D LOVED 22:17 TO HAVE HEARD THE VOICE OF JESUS - I JUST REALLY WOULD. 22:20 IT MUST HAVE JUST - OH - SO I'M SORRY YOU HAVE TO PUT UP WITH 22:24 MINE, BUT TO HAVE LISTENED TO HIM SPEAK. 22:29 AND HE'S ACTUALLY - WE'LL READ HIS WORDS IN A MOMENT, BUT HE'S 22:33 ACTUALLY READING FROM ISAIAH CHAPTER 61, A PROPHECY GIVEN 22:38 ABOUT 700 YEARS BY ISAIAH - POINTING FORWARD TO THE MESSIAH. 22:46 AND HERE'S THIS, YOU KNOW, THE CARPENTER'S SON. 22:49 HE GREW UP IN NAZARETH. 'OH, IT'S JUST THE CARPENTER'S 22:51 SON.' THEY DIDN'T SEE WHAT WAS 22:53 BEHIND THAT EXTERIOR. SO THE CARPENTER'S SON GETS UP 22:56 TO SPEAK AND THOSE WORDS MUST HAVE JUST BEEN SOMETHING. 23:03 AND SO HE'S READING THIS AND HE'S READING ABOUT HIMSELF. 23:08 HE SAYS, "'THE SPIRIT OF THE LORD IS UPON ME, BECAUSE HE HATH 23:14 ANOINTED ME TO PREACH THE GOSPEL TO THE POOR; HE HATH SENT ME TO 23:19 HEAL THE BROKEN HEARTED, TO PREACH DELIVERANCE TO THE 23:24 CAPTIVES, AND RECOVERING OF SIGHT TO THE BLIND, TO SET AT 23:29 LIBERTY THEM THAT ARE BRUISED, TO PREACH THE ACCEPTABLE YEAR OF 23:35 THE LORD.' AND HE CLOSED THE BOOK," - IMAGINE HIM DOING IT 23:41 JUST VERY SLOWLY - CLOSED THE BOOK - CLOSED THE SCROLL - 23:47 "AND HE GAVE IT AGAIN TO THE MINISTER, AND SAT DOWN. 23:52 AND THE EYES OF ALL THEM THAT WERE IN THE SYNAGOGUE WERE" - 23:54 NOTE, IT SAYS THEY WERE - "FASTENED ON HIM." 23:56 NOW, THEY MUST HAVE HEARD PEOPLE READ EVERY WEEK, YOU KNOW? 24:00 THEY READ VERY WELL. AND THEY PROBABLY LISTENED TO 24:02 THEM AND WHILE HE'S HANDING THE SCROLL, THEY PROBABLY LOOK DOWN 24:04 LIKE WE DO, YOU KNOW, YOU SHUFFLE AROUND - YOU DO A FEW 24:06 THINGS - BUT EVERY EYE WAS FASTENED ON HIM. 24:10 I'VE SOMETIMES THOUGHT ABOUT IT - WHY WAS EVERY EYE FASTENED ON 24:12 HIM? BECAUSE SOMEHOW, THE WAY HE READ 24:16 FROM THE WORD OF GOD, THIS - THIS CARPENTER'S SON, 24:22 HE WAS DIFFERENT. EVERY EYE WAS FASTENED ON HIM. 24:27 AND THEN HE SAYS THIS: "AND HE BEGAN TO SAY UNTO THEM, 'THIS 24:33 DAY IS THIS SCRIPTURE FULFILLED IN YOUR EARS.'" AND SOMEONE 24:40 PROBABLY THOUGHT, 'DID YOU HEAR THAT? 24:46 DID HE - THIS DAY IS SCRIPTURE FULFILLED - THIS IS ABOUT THE 24:50 MESSIAH.' - "AND ALL BARE HIM WITNESS, AND WONDERED AT THE 24:56 GRACIOUS WORDS WHICH PROCEEDED OUT OF HIS MOUTH. 25:01 AND THEY SAID, 'IS NOT THIS JOSEPH'S SON?'" - 25:04 ANYWAY, YOU KNOW THE REST OF THE STORY - YOU KNOW THEY WANTED 25:06 TO THROW HIM OVER A CLIFF. BUT TO HAVE HEARD JESUS SPEAK. 25:11 SO HERE HE IS, HE IS THE ONE WHO, LOOKING AT CHRIST AND THE 25:16 SABBATH, HE WAS THE CREATOR. WE DID HAVE SOME VERSES ABOUT - 25:21 I THINK I MUST HAVE SKIPPED THEM SOMEWHERE. 25:24 WE'LL LOOK AT A VERSE IN A MOMENT. 25:27 HERE IS THE CREATOR AND HE'S IN THIS LITTLE SYNAGOGUE ON SABBATH 25:32 AND HE'S READING ABOUT HIMSELF. WHAT HUMILITY AND MEEKNESS. 25:38 YOU KNOW, IF IT HAD BEEN 99,999 OTHER, YOU KNOW, RABBIS OUT 25:46 THERE, THEY WOULD HAVE PROBABLY WANTED, YOU KNOW, THAT WERE 25:48 WANT TO OPEN THEIR TUNIC AND LET - YOU KNOW, LIKE SUPERMAN - 25:54 BUT NOT JESUS. NO, NOT JESUS, HE WAS JUST TOTALLY DIFFERENT. 26:03 AND IT'S A SAD THING THAT THEY WANTED TO DO WHAT THEY DID TO 26:06 HIM, WHICH MAKES ME WANT TO GO TO JOHN. 26:07 LET'S GO TO JOHN CHAPTER 1. 26:13 THE CREATOR - HE'S STANDING THERE JUST IN ORDINARY GARB. 26:21 JOHN CHAPTER 1, VERSE 1, "IN THE BEGINNING WAS THE WORD, AND THE 26:28 WORD WAS WITH GOD, AND THE WORD WAS GOD. THE SAME WAS IN THE 26:34 BEGINNING WITH GOD." - AND IT SAYS IN VERSE 3 - 26:36 "ALL THINGS WERE MADE BY HIM; AND WITHOUT HIM WAS NOT ANYTHING 26:41 MADE THAT WAS MADE. IN HIM WAS LIFE; AND THE LIFE 26:46 WAS THE LIGHT OF MEN. AND THE LIGHT SHINETH IN 26:50 DARKNESS; AND THE DARKNESS COMPREHENDED IT NOT." 26:54 SO HERE HE STANDS AND THIS LIGHT IS SHINING - BECAUSE MEN'S EYES 27:00 WERE SO DULL, THEY COMPREHENDED THE LIGHT NOT. 27:05 AND IT SAYS IN VERSE 10, "HE WAS IN THE WORLD, AND THE WORLD WAS 27:11 MADE BY HIM," - HERE HE IS AGAIN - "AND THE WORLD KNEW HIM NOT." 27:17 - LOOK AT VERSE 11 - "HE CAME UNTO HIS OWN," - AND WHAT DOES 27:20 IT SAY? - "AND HIS OWN RECEIVED HIM NOT." 27:27 YOU KNOW, IT WAS WILLIAM BOOTH WHO STARTED THE SALVATION ARMY. 27:37 HE - I THINK IT WAS IN THE EAST END OF LONDON - AND HE WOULD 27:42 HAVE THESE PREACHING SERVICES AND HIS HEART WOULD REJOICE AS 27:45 HE SAW PEOPLE ACCEPT JESUS CHRIST. 27:48 BUT YOU KNOW THE THING THAT REALLY HURT HIM? 27:52 HE REJOICED ON ONE HAND, BUT THE THING THAT REALLY HURT HIM IS 27:55 WHEN HE SAW OTHERS TURN AROUND AND GO OUT THE BACK DOOR. 27:59 THAT WAS THE THING - IT WAS A BITTERSWEET EXPERIENCE. 28:02 IMAGINE WHAT IT WAS LIKE FOR JESUS THE CREATOR - HE CREATED 28:06 EVERY SINGLE HUMAN BEING AND HE COMES ALSO TO BE THEIR REDEEMER. 28:11 AND HE COMES AND HE SPEAKS THIS TRUTH - HE IS THE LIGHT THAT 28:14 LIGHTS EVERY MAN - THAT COMES INTO THE WORLD - AND HE GOES 28:17 BACK TO HIS LITTLE HOMETOWN CHURCH AND HE SAYS, 'THIS DAY IS 28:21 THIS WORD FULFILLED IN YOUR EARS' HOPING THAT THERE MIGHT BE 28:24 SOMEBODY THAT SAYS, 'I GET IT! YOU'RE THE MESSIAH!' - NOT ONE. 28:30 HE HAD FEELINGS, YOU KNOW? HOW DO YOU SUPPOSE HE FELT? 28:34 GOD GOES THROUGH A LOT OF GRIEF - HE GOES THROUGH A LOT OF 28:38 GRIEF. WITH THESE LITTLE THINGS DOWN 28:41 HERE WE GIVE HIM SO MUCH GRIEF BUT, YET, HE NEVER STOPS. 28:45 JUST LIKE THE RELENTLESS TIDE THAT KEEPS SMASHING UP AGAINST 28:49 THOSE ROCKS - DAY AFTER DAY, YEAR AFTER YEAR, JUST SMASHING 28:54 UP AGAINST THOSE ROCKS. A LOT OF TIMES, THOSE ROCKS, 28:58 THEY HARDLY SEEM TO DO ANYTHING, BUT BY AND BY YOU FIND SOME 29:01 ROCKS - THEY CRUMBLE AND THEY FALL. 29:05 AND I PRAY HERE IN THIS SANCTUARY TODAY OR SOMEBODY 29:09 WATCHING - I HOPE YOU'RE NOT ONE OF THOSE ROCKS WHERE JESUS, FOR 29:11 THE LONGEST TIME, HAS BEEN SENDING IN THE FLOOD TIDE OF HIS 29:15 LOVE JUST SPLASHING ALL OVER YOU AND HE'S TRYING TO TELL YOU THAT 29:19 HE'S YOUR SAVIOR AND YOU NEED HIM. AND HE'S TELLING YOU, 29:23 'THIS DAY IS THIS WORD FULFILLED IN YOUR EARS. YOU NEED ME. 29:26 I MADE YOU BUT I ALSO REDEEMED YOU.' DON'T, DON'T, 29:31 DON'T RESIST THOSE WAVES ANYMORE. 29:36 JUST SAY, 'LORD, JUST WASH ME OUT AND WASH ME AWAY INTO YOUR 29:42 ARMS OF LOVE.' OH, GOD IS GOOD. ANYWAY, JUST TO GET BACK HERE, 29:51 SO HE CAME TO PROCLAIM LIBERTY TO THE CAPTIVES AND THE OPENING 29:55 OF THE PRISON TO THEM THAT ARE BLIND. NOW, I WANT TO GO BACK 29:58 TO ISAIAH 61, WHICH JESUS WAS ACTUALLY READING FROM IN LUKE 30:03 CHAPTER 4, BUT HE DIDN'T - HE DIDN'T QUOTE ALL OF IT. 30:07 BUT I WANT TO GO BACK THERE - ISAIAH 61 - AND I'M GOING TO - 30:17 WE'LL READ IT - IT'S THREE VERSES AND JUST TRY AND 30:21 TAKE THIS IN. THIS IS ALL JESUS: "THE SPIRIT 30:26 OF THE LORD GOD IS UPON ME; BECAUSE THE LORD HATH ANOINTED 30:31 ME TO PREACH GOOD TIDINGS UNTO THE MEEK; 30:34 HE HATH SENT ME TO BIND UP THE BROKENHEARTED, TO PROCLAIM 30:39 LIBERTY TO THE CAPTIVES, AND THE OPENING OF THE PRISON TO THEM 30:43 THAT ARE BOUND;" - THAT EGYPTIAN BONDAGE, YOU SEE. 30:46 JESUS SETS YOU FREE - VERSE 2, "TO PROCLAIM THE ACCEPTABLE YEAR 30:52 OF THE LORD, AND THE DAY OF VENGEANCE OF OUR GOD;" - AND HE 30:56 SAYS, - "TO COMFORT ALL THAT MOURN; TO APPOINT UNTO THEM THAT 31:00 MOURN IN ZION, TO GIVE UNTO THEM BEAUTY FOR ASHES, THE OIL OF JOY 31:06 FOR MOURNING, THE GARMENT OF PRAISE FOR THE SPIRIT OF 31:10 HEAVINESS; THAT THEY MIGHT BE CALLED TREES OF RIGHTEOUSNESS, 31:15 THE PLANTING OF THE LORD, THAT HE MIGHT BE GLORIFIED." 31:19 - ISN'T THAT BEAUTIFUL? TO PROCLAIM LIBERTY - AND, YOU 31:25 KNOW, THE ONLY WAY THAT JESUS CAN SET US FREE IS BY COMING IN. 31:36 AND THE ONLY WAY THAT JESUS CAN COME IN THROUGH THAT DOOR INTO 31:41 OUR LIVES IS IF WE'RE WILLING TO OPEN THAT DOOR. 31:48 THERE'S EGYPT AND HE CAN ONLY OPEN THE DOOR AND LET US OUT OF 31:52 EGYPT IF WE'LL OPEN ANOTHER DOOR AND LET HIM IN 31:56 AND THAT IS INTO THE DOOR OF OUR HEARTS. AND WHEN THIS HAPPENS, 32:01 THEN THERE'S FREEDOM. WE'RE NO LONGER IN BONDAGE - WE 32:04 HAVE THE NEW BIRTH EXPERIENCE. YOU KNOW, YOU READ THE BIBLE AND 32:07 YOU READ ELLEN WHITE'S WRITINGS - YOU KNOW WHAT IT ALL BOILS 32:09 DOWN TO SO OFTEN? IT MEANS CONVERSION. 32:13 IT'S REALLY AS SIMPLE AS THAT - CONVERSION - BEING BORN AGAIN. 32:18 YOU CAN'T HAVE CONVERSION - YOU CAN'T BE BORN AGAIN UNLESS 32:21 YOU'RE WILLING TO LAY IT ALL DOWN. 32:25 BUT IF WE WILL DO THAT, JESUS WILL COME IN AND HE WILL 32:29 SANCTIFY IT - IT'LL BRING FORTH THE FRUITS - THE SANCTIFYING 32:32 FRUITS OF HIS GLORY. THEN THE SABBATH - THE SABBATH, 32:37 IN ALL ITS FULLNESS WILL BECOME THE SIGNET - NOT JUST THE FACT 32:40 THAT HE CREATED ME, BUT ALSO THE FACT THAT HE REDEEMED ME. 32:44 EZEKIEL 20:12 - SORRY, EZEKIEL 20, VERSE 12 - YEAH, I DID SAY 32:48 IT RIGHT. IT SAYS, "MOREOVER ALSO I GAVE 32:51 THEM MY SABBATHS, TO BE A SIGN BETWEEN ME AND THEM, THAT THEY 32:55 MIGHT KNOW THAT I AM THE LORD THAT SANCTIFY THEM." 33:00 AND THOSE WHO ARE SANCTIFIED THROUGH THE SPIRIT AND BORN 33:03 AGAIN, THEY ARE RECOGNIZED AS THE CHILDREN OF GOD. 33:08 SO YOU CAN GO FROM A SLAVE TO A SON. YOU CAN GO FROM A SLAVE 33:14 TO A DAUGHTER. YOU CAN GO FROM A SLAVE IN 33:19 EGYPTIAN BONDAGE - BONDAGE TO SIN - TO ONE WHO IS SET FREE 33:23 TO BECOME A SON OR A DAUGHTER OF GOD. 33:28 AND THIS IS A WONDERFUL THING - THAT GOD, THROUGH CHRIST, HAS 33:32 ALREADY ACCOMPLISHED FOR US ALL THE GRACE - ALL THAT GRACE WAS 33:36 RELEASED THERE AT THE CROSS AND THAT GRACE CONTINUES TO BE 33:40 RELEASED FROM THE MOST HOLY PLACE WHERE JESUS INTERCEDES FOR 33:44 US AND IT'S JUST WAITING - JUST WAITING IN ABUNDANCE. 33:48 I WANT TO READ FROM ROMANS 8 HOW WE GO FROM SLAVES TO SONS AND 33:54 DAUGHTERS. ROMANS 8 - LET ME FIND IT HERE - 34:00 ROMANS 8, VERSE 9 - ROMANS 8, VERSE 9 - IT SAYS - ACTUALLY THE 34:13 LATTER PART - IT SAYS, "BUT YE ARE NOT IN THE FLESH, BUT IN THE 34:17 SPIRIT, IF SO BE THAT THE SPIRIT OF GOD DWELL IN YOU. 34:20 NOW IF ANY MAN HAVE NOT THE SPIRIT OF CHRIST, HE IS NOT OF 34:24 HIS." - IF YOU DON'T HAVE THAT SPIRIT THROUGH THE NEW BIRTH 34:27 THEN YOU'RE NOT HIS - YOU'RE NOT HIS CHILD. 34:31 BUT IF YOU ARE - IF YOU ARE BORN AGAIN - IF YOU ARE CONVERTED - 34:34 ROMANS 8, VERSE 14 - IT SAYS, "FOR AS MANY AS ARE LED BY THE 34:38 SPIRIT OF GOD, THEY ARE THE SONS OF GOD." AND THE SABBATH IS A 34:42 SIGN OF THIS - HIS CREATORSHIP AND HIS REDEMPTION. 34:47 THE SIGN OF OUR DELIVERANCE FROM SPIRITUAL EGYPTIAN BONDAGE TO BE 34:52 MEN AND WOMEN IN CHRIST JESUS WHO WAS SET FREE FROM SIN. 34:56 ANOTHER VERSE IN EZEKIEL 20 I'D LIKE TO READ - EZEKIEL CHAPTER 35:04 20, VERSE 20 - NOW IN 12 HE SAYS THIS - I'LL READ THIS AGAIN - 35:12 FIRST OF ALL HE SAYS, "MOREOVER I ALSO GAVE THEM MY SABBATHS, 35:15 TO BE A SIGN BETWEEN ME AND THEM, THAT THEY NIGHT KNOW THAT 35:17 I AM THE LORD THAT SANCTIFY THEM." WE LOOKED AT THAT, 35:20 BUT IN VERSE 20 IT SAYS, "AND HALLOW MY SABBATHS; AND THEY 35:24 SHALL BE A SIGN BETWEEN ME AND YOU THAT YE MAY KNOW THAT I AM 35:27 THE LORD YOUR GOD." WE'RE HIS CHILDREN. 35:31 PRAISE THE LORD FOR THAT. OKAY, OUR TIME'S MOVING ON. 35:35 I WANT TO GO TO MONDAY - 'A TIME FOR REST AND WORSHIP' - AND I'VE 35:44 ALREADY READ FROM JOHN 1 - THE FIRST THREE VERSES AND VERSE 10 35:48 - BUT I WANT US TO LOOK HERE IN COLOSSIANS 1, VERSE 16 - 35:53 COLOSSIANS 1:16 - SPEAKING, AGAIN, OF JESUS THE CREATOR - IT 36:07 SAYS, "FOR BY HIM WERE ALL THINGS CREATED, THAT ARE IN 36:11 HEAVEN, AND THAT ARE IN EARTH, VISIBLE AND INVISIBLE, WHETHER 36:16 THEY BE THRONES, OR DOMINIONS, OR PRINCIPALITIES, OR POWERS: 36:19 ALL THINGS WERE CREATED BY HIM, AND FOR HIM:" - AND IN THE 36:23 LESSON IT MENTIONS THAT HE CREATED THINGS INVISIBLE TOO. 36:27 NOW, THAT MAY MEAN, FROM AN EARTHLY STANDPOINT, THINGS WHICH 36:30 ARE SO FAR AWAY THEY'RE INVISIBLE TO US - 36:32 WE CAN'T SEE THEM. BUT NOT JUST THAT, THE SABBATH - 36:36 CAN YOU ACTUALLY SEE THE SABBATH? 36:39 NO, NO YOU CAN'T SEE IT, CAN YOU? 36:41 YOU KNOW, SUDDENLY THE AIR DOESN'T TURN BLUE OR PINK AND, 36:44 'OH, IT'S THE SABBATH.' NO, WE CAN'T SEE IT. 36:46 IT'S AN INVISIBLE ENTITY. CAN YOU SEE THE HOLY SPIRIT? 36:50 OF COURSE, CHRIST DIDN'T CREATE THE HOLY SPIRIT, OF COURSE, BUT 36:54 THERE'S THINGS - THE SABBATH, FOR EXAMPLE - THAT WE CANNOT 36:57 SEE, YET IT'S VERY TANGIBLE AND IT'S VERY REAL WHEN WE HAVE THAT 37:02 SPIRITUAL EXPERIENCE WITH JESUS. HEBREWS CHAPTER 1, VERSE 2. 37:07 HEBREWS IS ONE OF MY FAVORITE BOOKS IN THE BIBLE AND HERE, 37:11 TOO, CHRIST IS BROUGHT TO LIGHT AS THE CREATOR - HEBREWS 1 AND 37:16 VERSE 1 - IT SAYS, "GOD, WHO AT SUNDRY TIMES AND IN DIVERSE 37:22 MANNERS SPAKE IN TIME PAST UNTO THE FATHERS BY THE PROPHETS, 37:27 HATH IN THESE LAST DAYS SPOKEN UNTO US BY HIS SON, WHOM HE HATH 37:33 APPOINTED HEIR OF ALL THINGS, BY WHOM ALSO HE MADE THE WORLDS;" 37:39 - AND IN VERSE 10, AS WELL, HE SAID, "AND, THOU, LORD," - THIS 37:42 IS GOD SPEAKING TO CHRIST AND CALLING HIM LORD - "AND, THOU, 37:47 LORD, IN THE BEGINNING HAS LAID THE FOUNDATION OF THE EARTH; AND 37:50 THE HEAVENS ARE THE WORKS OF THINE HANDS:" - CAN YOU REALLY 37:56 GRASP THE ONE THAT SPAKE AND IT WAS DONE? 38:02 COMMANDED AND IT STOOD FAST? HE CAME DOWN HERE AND TOOK ON A 38:06 HUMAN FORM THAT WAS SIX FOOT, MAYBE. 38:11 I DON'T KNOW - JUST A HUMAN FORM - AND YET, IN THERE WAS THE 38:17 ETERNAL GOD OF THE UNIVERSE. I - YOU KNOW, IN ALL ETERNITY 38:24 WE'LL NEVER REALLY UNDERSTAND THAT. 38:27 WE'LL NEVER BE ABLE TO WRAP OUT MINDS AROUND IT TO BE ABLE TO 38:32 CONTEMPLATE THE LENGTH AND THE DEPTH AND THE BREADTH AND THE 38:36 HEIGHT OF THE LOVE OF GOD. IN 'DESIRE OF AGES' IT SAYS 38:40 THERE THAT FOR JESUS TO HAVE TAKEN ADAM'S PLACE IN HIS 38:45 UNFALLEN STATE WOULD HAVE BEEN A - WHAT WAS IT? 38:49 - AN INFINITE HUMILIATION. AND IT WOULD. HE IS GOD. 38:53 AND HE TOOK ADAM'S PLACE - IF HE DID BEFORE ADAM SINNED - IT 38:56 WOULD STILL BE A SINLESS BEING, BUT IT WOULD HAVE BEEN AN 38:58 INFINITE HUMILIATION. BUT JESUS - JESUS TOOK ON HUMAN 39:06 FLESH AFTER 4,000 YEARS OF SIN. YOU LOOK AT HIS GENEALOGY. 39:14 NOW IT'S TRUE HIS FATHER WAS THE HOLY SPIRIT BUT MARY, SHE WAS OF 39:22 THE SEED OF DAVID - OTHERWISE THE BIBLE WOULDN'T BE ABLE TO 39:24 SAY THAT HE WAS OF THE SEED OF DAVID, SO MARY HAD TO HAVE COME 39:28 FROM THE LINE OF DAVID. JOSEPH DID, BUT HE WAS HIS LEGAL 39:31 FATHER. WE LOOK AT THE ANCESTORS OF 39:33 JESUS AND HE TOOK UPON HIM THIS FALLEN HUMAN FLESH AND WHAT AN 39:39 INFINITE HUMILIATION, REALLY, BUT YET HE BORE THAT BECAUSE FOR 39:45 REASONS I DON'T FULLY UNDERSTAND AND NEVER WILL AND I'M ASSUMING 39:49 FOR REASONS THAT YOU DON'T FULLY UNDERSTAND. 39:52 EACH ONE OF US IS SO INFINITELY LOVED BY GOD - AS THOUGH WE WERE 39:59 THE ONLY CREATURE THAT HE HAD EVER CREATED THAT IF JUST ONE OF 40:04 US HAD FALLEN - WELL, YOU'VE READ THAT STATEMENT IN 'STEPS TO 40:09 CHRIST' - THE RELATIONS BETWEEN GOD ARE AS DISTINCT AND FULL AS 40:13 THOUGH THERE WEREN'T ANOTHER HUMAN UPON EARTH TO SHARE HIS 40:16 WATCH CARE - NOT ANOTHER SOUL FOR WHOM HE GAVE HIS BELOVED 40:20 SON. EVEN THE ANGELS, FOR ALL ETERNITY - YOU KNOW THIS WILL BE 40:27 THE SCIENCE, EVEN OF THE ANGELS, THAT GOD WAS IN CHRIST 40:30 RECONCILING THE WORLD UNTO HIMSELF. 40:34 BUT, NONETHELESS, IN HIS HUMANITY THE CREATOR WORSHIPED, 40:38 HIMSELF, ON THE DAY THAT HE HAD INSTITUTED. 40:42 AND I'VE GOT MARK 4:17 DOWN HERE BUT I'VE ALREADY READ IT SO I'M 40:46 GOING TO MOVE ON. BUT ON MONDAY HERE, WE'RE 40:49 LOOKING AT 'A TIME FOR REST AND WORSHIP' AND WOULD YOU AGREE 40:53 WITH ME THAT PRAISE IS PART OF WORSHIP? YEAH, I MEAN, 41:02 WHAT IS WORSHIP IF YOU CAN'T PRAISE GOD FOR SOMETHING? 41:05 YOU'RE SITTING HERE IN CHURCH AND WHAT ARE YOU DOING? 41:07 'WELL, I'VE COME TO WORSHIP GOD.' WELL, YOU COULD CHEER UP A 41:10 LITTLE BIT, COULDN'T YOU? WELL, YOU KNOW, WE NEED TO 41:14 PRAISE HIM, EVEN WHEN WE DON'T FEEL LIKE PRAISING HIM. 41:18 I'M NOT MAKING LIGHT OF THIS - MAYBE SOME OF YOU HERE TODAY ARE 41:21 FEELING UNDER A CLOUD, SO I'M NOT SPEAKING IN A MOCKING SENSE 41:26 HERE. BUT, YOU KNOW, IF YOU'RE UNDER A 41:29 CLOUD IT'S ALL THE MORE REASON TO MAKE A CHOICE AND SAY, 41:32 'LORD, OH! BUT LORD, I'M GOING TO PRAISE YOU.' 41:37 YOU KNOW THERE'S POWER IN PRAISE, THERE IS. 41:40 WE NEED TO PRAISE GOD. THERE IS POWER IN PRAISE. 41:43 SO IF THERE'S SOMEBODY HERE WHO IS LISTENING TO THIS GUY AT THE 41:47 FRONT - YOU THINK, 'OH, HE DOESN'T KNOW WHAT HE'S TALKING 41:49 ABOUT.' TRUST ME, PRAISE GOD WHETHER YOU FEEL LIKE IT OR NOT 41:54 BECAUSE THERE IS POWER IN PRAISE. 41:56 SO, ALRIGHT, 'TIME FOR REST AND WORSHIP'. 41:59 SO WE AGREE THEN, THAT PRAISE IS PART OF WORSHIP. 42:05 WE NEED TO PRAISE GOD. AND THAT'S ALL WELL AND GOOD. 42:09 AND, YOU KNOW, THERE'S A LOT OF PRAISE SONGS - SOME I LIKE, SOME 42:13 I DON'T - THEY'RE JUST MONOTONOUS AND JUST GO ON AND ON 42:15 AND ON AND ON AND ON. BUT THERE'S SOME CONTEMPORARY 42:19 MUSIC - SOME VERY NICE CONTEMPORARY MUSIC - PRAISE 42:22 SONGS - THAT ARE VERY, VERY NICE. I LIKE THEM. 42:25 BUT, YOU KNOW, GETTING BACK NOW TO THE SABBATH AND WORSHIP AND 42:29 PRAISE, OF ALL PEOPLE, THE ONES WHO SHOULD BE ABLE TO OFFER GOD 42:39 PRAISE AND WORSHIP IN ITS FULLEST ARE SABBATH KEEPERS. 42:46 DO YOU REALIZE THAT? I'M GOING TO TAKE YOU TO A VERSE HERE. 42:52 I WANT TO GO TO PSALM 146 - PSALM 146 - PSALM 146 AND WE'RE 43:05 GOING TO READ VERSE 1 AND IT SAYS, "PRAISE YE THE LORD. 43:13 PRAISE THE LORD, O MY SOUL." - AND VERSE 2 - "WHILE I LIVE 43:17 WILL I PRAISE THE LORD: I WILL SING PRAISES UNTO MY GOD..." 43:22 THEN YOU GO DOWN TO VERSE 6 AND IT SAYS, "WHICH MADE HEAVEN, AND 43:27 EARTH, THE SEA, AND ALL THAT THEREIN IS:" - AND THEN THE LAST 43:32 VERSE IS, "THE LORD SHALL REIGN FOR EVER, EVEN THY GOD, O ZION, 43:37 UNTO ALL GENERATIONS. PRAISE YE THE LORD." 43:39 SO RIGHT HERE IT BEGINS WITH PRAISE AND IT ENDS WITH PRAISE 43:43 AND PARTWAY DOWN THERE YOU'VE GOT PRAISE AND YOU'VE GOT - 43:45 INVOLVED IN THIS IS HIM - WORSHIP HEAVEN AND EARTH AND THE 43:49 SEA AND THAT IS THEREIN. NOW, WE KNOW THAT THERE'S A LOT 43:58 OF PEOPLE WHO KEEP SUNDAY AND THEY PRAISE GOD. NOW A LOT OF 44:00 THEM DON'T KNOW ANY BETTER AND GOD ACCEPTS THEIR PRAISE. 44:03 BUT, YOU KNOW, AGAIN I WANT TO SAY, WHO CAN REALLY OFFER GOD 44:09 THE FULLEST PRAISE BUT THOSE CAN WHO RECOGNIZE HIM AS THEIR 44:14 CREATOR - NOT OVER LONG DISTANCES OF TIME LIKE YOU FIND 44:19 SOME CHRISTIANS - YOU KNOW, THEY BELIEVE IN INTELLIGENT DESIGN 44:21 AND THEY SAY, 'OH, GOD CREATED BUT IT WAS OVER A PERIOD OF 44:24 EONS.' NO, THE BIBLE SAYS LITERALLY SIX LITERAL 24-HOUR 44:29 DAYS. THAT'S WHAT I BELIEVE. 44:30 THAT'S THE TRUTH. AND ANOTHER 24-HOUR DAY WHICH 44:33 WAS THE SEVENTH DAY ON WHICH HE RESTED AND THAT WAS THE SABBATH. 44:36 SO I'M ON ABOUT THOSE KINDS OF SABBATH KEEPERS. 44:39 THEY ARE THE ONES WHO, IN ALL FULLNESS, CAN REALLY, REALLY 44:44 WORSHIP GOD AND REVERENCE HIS SABBATH AND REVERENCE HIM AS 44:49 THEIR CREATOR. NOW, JOHN THE REVELATOR SAW HUMANS IN HEAVEN 44:54 WORSHIPING GOD ON THE BASIS OF HIS CREATORSHIP. 44:57 DID YOU KNOW THAT? HE SAW HUMANS IN HEAVEN 45:00 WORSHIPING GOD PRAISING HIM ON THE BASIS OF HIS CREATORSHIP. 45:04 LET'S GO TO REVELATION 4, TALKING ABOUT THE 24 ELDERS. 45:10 REVELATION CHAPTER 4 - WE'RE GOING TO READ VERSES 10 AND 11 - 45:21 SO HE WAS UP IN HEAVEN - HERE'S JOHN WHILE HE SEES INTO HEAVEN - 45:25 REVELATION 4, VERSES 10 AND 11, AND AS "THE FOUR AND TWENTY 45:30 ELDERS" - I'D LOVE TO KNOW WHO THEY WERE BUT WE DON'T KNOW YET 45:36 - "THE FOUR AND TWENTY ELDERS FALL DOWN BEFORE HIM THAT SAT ON 45:41 THE THRONE, AND WORSHIP HIM THAT LIVETH FOR EVER AND EVER, AND 45:45 CAST THEIR CROWNS BEFORE THE THRONE, SAYING," - 45:50 WHAT DO THEY SAY? - 45:52 "'THOU ART WORTHY, O LORD, TO RECEIVE GLORY AND HONOR AND 45:57 POWER: FOR THOU HAST CREATED ALL THINGS, AND FOR THY PLEASURE 46:02 THEY ARE AND WERE CREATED.'" SO HERE WE HAVE HERE THIS - HUMANS 46:09 IN HEAVEN PRAISING GOD - OFFERING THE FULLEST PRAISE FROM 46:14 THE STANDPOINT THAT THEY HAD BEEN REDEEMED FROM THE EARTH, 46:17 BUT ALSO THE FACT THAT HE WAS THE ONE THAT CREATED THEM. 46:23 NOW, STILL IN MONDAY, AS I MENTIONED HERE - 46:28 DID I READ THE RIGHT ONE HERE? 46:31 WE CAN BE SURE THAT THOSE 24 ELDERS UP IN HEAVEN, AS THEY'RE 46:36 PRAISING GOD, THEY DON'T SLEEP, ESPECIALLY WHEN IT'S TIME TO 46:42 WORSHIP GOD AND NEITHER SHOULD WE - WHEN IT'S TIME TO WORSHIP 46:46 GOD ON THE SABBATH, NEITHER SHOULD WE SLEEP. 46:48 WE DON'T NEED TO BE - WELL, I GUESS YOU'RE ALL HERE SO I CAN'T 46:50 BROWBEAT YOU, BUT THERE MAY YET BE SOME WHO HAVE YET TO ARRIVE 46:57 HERE THIS MORNING TO SWELL OUR RANKS. 47:01 NOBODY SHOULD LIE IN BED ON SABBATH MORNING UNTIL 9:00 AND 47:05 10:00 AND THEN JUMP OUT OF BED AND, YOU KNOW, BRUSH YOUR TEETH 47:09 AND WHATEVER AND DRIVE TO CHURCH TO GET HERE BEFORE THE 47:12 BENEDICTION AT THE END OF THE CHURCH SERVICE. 47:15 GOD DID NOT GIVE US THE SABBATH TO BE A DAY WHERE WE JUST LIE 47:19 AROUND. WE NEED TO GET UP EARLY - GET UP EARLY. 47:25 OF ALL DAYS WHEN WE SHOULD BE READY TO REST - SPIRITUALLY REST 47:30 - AND IT DOESN'T MEAN A SLEEPING REST, IT MEANS A PAUSE - SETTING 47:36 ASIDE THAT TIME TO BE WITH GOD. IT'S NOT SPEAKING OF - WELL, WE 47:41 PHYSICALLY REST FROM OUR USUAL LABORS, YES, BUT IT IS A PAUSE. 47:45 IT IS PULLING AWAY FROM THOSE THINGS AND SPENDING THAT 47:48 SPIRITUAL AND PHYSICAL TIME WITH GOD. SO WE SHOULDN'T SPEND 47:53 THAT TIME IN BED. NOW, I DIDN'T BRING IT WITH ME 47:55 AND I DID A COUPLE OF WEEKS AGO, BUT IN VOLUME 6 OF THE 47:58 TESTIMONIES, THERE'S A WHOLE SECTION THERE ON OBSERVANCE OF 48:01 THE SABBATH. I WANT TO SAY IT AGAIN. 48:03 I MAY HAVE KIND OF GIVEN IT TO YOU AS, PERHAPS, AN ASSIGNMENT, 48:07 BUT IF YOU HAVEN'T LOOKED AT IT - IF YOU'VE GOT THE TESTIMONIES, 48:11 LOOK IN THERE AND YOU'LL SEE 'OBSERVANCE OF THE SABBATH' AND 48:14 IT BREAKS IT DOWN INTO CERTAIN AREAS. 48:17 ONE IS 'PREPARATION FOR THE SABBATH'. 48:19 IT SAYS IN THERE THAT WE SHOULD, BEFORE THE SABBATH - BEFORE THE 48:22 SUN SETS - I THINK IT SAYS ABOUT - I MAY BE WRONG HERE, BUT I 48:26 THINK I READ TEN - FIFTEEN MINUTES BEFORE THE SUN GOES 48:28 DOWN, WE NEED TO SIT DOWN. WE NEED TO, IF YOU HAVE A VOICE, 48:34 SING. YOU KNOW, HAVE YOUR BIBLE OPEN. 48:37 IF YOU'VE GOT KIDS - I KNOW IT'S VERY EASY WHEN YOU HAVE KIDS 48:40 TO - IT'S ALWAYS THE LAST MINUTE. 48:42 BUT TEACH YOUR CHILDREN - THE SOONER YOU TEACH THEM AND 48:47 ESTABLISH THEM IN HOW TO REALLY WORSHIP GOD AND HOW TO HONOR THE 48:50 SABBATH, YOU'RE GIVING THEM A GOOD SOLID FOUNDATION. 48:55 SO I WON'T LABOR THAT POINT, BUT DO READ THAT SECTION IN VOLUME 48:59 TESTIMONIES CHAPTER 6 - IT'S VERY, VERY, VERY, VERY USEFUL 49:05 INFORMATION AND WE DON'T READ THE TESTIMONIES, I DON'T THINK, 49:08 AS MUCH AS WE SHOULD. BUT WE KNOW, AS WE'VE MADE THE 49:12 POINT HERE, THAT ONLY TRUE SABBATH KEEPERS CAN REALLY OFFER 49:17 GOD THE FULL PRAISE AND WORSHIP THAT HE DESERVES. 49:20 THERE ARE PEOPLE OUT THERE TODAY WHO ARE YET TO BE THESE SABBATH 49:25 - SEE, THESE PEOPLE WHO WORSHIP GOD AND PRAISE HIM IN THE 49:28 FULLEST SENSE - THOSE WHO ARE YET TO RECEIVE THE THIRD ANGEL'S 49:33 MESSAGE. I'M GOING TO LOOK IN REVELATION 49:36 14, VERSES 6 AND 7 AND WE NOTICE HERE THAT THERE IS THE GOSPEL, 49:42 BUT ALSO THERE IS A CALL BACK TO WORSHIP GOD AS THE CREATOR. 49:47 SO GOD, IN THE THIRD ANGEL'S MESSAGE, WHICH IS GOING TO THE 49:50 WORLD RIGHT NOW, IS CALLING PEOPLE BACK TO HONOR THE SABBATH 49:53 AND BE THOSE THAT TRULY WORSHIP HIM AND PRAISE HIM. 49:57 REVELATION 14:6, "AND I SAW ANOTHER ANGEL FLY IN THE MIDST 50:02 OF HEAVEN, HAVING THE EVERLASTING GOSPEL TO PREACH 50:05 UNTO THEM THAT DWELL ON THE EARTH, AND TO EVERY NATION, AND 50:09 KINDRED, AND TONGUE, AND PEOPLE, SAYING WITH A LOUD VOICE, FEAR 50:12 GOD, AND GIVE GLORY TO HIM; FOR THE HOUR OF HIS JUDGMENT IS 50:16 COME: AND WORSHIP HIM THAT MADE" - WHAT? - "HEAVEN, AND EARTH, 50:21 AND THE SEA, AND THE FOUNTAINS OF WATERS." 50:24 SO RIGHT THERE IN THE HEART OF THE FIRST ANGEL'S MESSAGE, IN 50:27 CONJUNCTION WITH THE EVERLASTING GOSPEL, THERE IS A CALL TO CALL 50:32 PEOPLE BACK TO GOD AND RECOGNIZE HIM AS THE CREATOR. AND THIS IS 50:37 TAKEN RIGHT OUT OF THE FOURTH COMMANDMENT IN EXODUS 20. 50:41 IT'S REALLY - AND, YOU KNOW, THERE'S ONLY ONE CHURCH ON THE 50:45 FACE OF THIS EARTH THAT CAN PREACH THIS MESSAGE. 50:49 I SAY IT HUMBLY, BUT THE ONLY CHURCH THAT CAN PREACH THIS IS 50:52 WHAT CHURCH? YOU'RE SITTING IN ONE. 50:55 THE SEVENTH-DAY ADVENTIST CHURCH. 50:58 IT SAYS HERE, 'THE HOUR OF HIS JUDGMENT IS COME.' THERE'S ONLY 51:02 ONE DENOMINATION TEACHES WE'RE IN THE HOUR OF GOD'S JUDGMENT 51:05 RIGHT NOW AND THAT IS THE SEVENTH-DAY ADVENTIST CHURCH. 51:10 THERE IS ONLY ONE CHURCH THAT IS PREACHING THE GOSPEL ALONG WITH 51:15 THE SABBATH ON A WORLD-WIDE BASIS. NOW YOU'LL FIND SOME 51:19 SMALLER LITTLE GROUPS THAT KEEP THE SABBATH. 51:23 IT'S A FEW YEARS OLD NOW BUT HAVE ANY OF YOU EVER SEEN THAT 51:26 TRACT THAT CAME FROM THE AMERICAN BIBLE SOCIETY? 51:30 AND IT SHOWS - IT'S GOT LISTED ALL - MOST OF THE CHRISTIAN 51:33 DENOMINATIONS YOU CAN THINK OF - THE MAJOR ONES - IT'S GOT THEM 51:37 ALL. AND THEN IT'S GOT LISTED A WHOLE 51:39 BUNCH OF COUNTRIES IN THE WORLD JUST ONE AFTER ONE. 51:42 AND THE SEVENTH-DAY ADVENTIST CHURCH - SMALL AS WE ARE, 51:47 RELATIVELY SPEAKING, WE'RE IN THE MOST COUNTRIES 51:50 ACCORDING TO THE AMERICAN BIBLE SOCIETY. 51:55 SO THIS ANGEL'S FLYING IN THE MIDST OF HEAVEN ARE GOING AROUND 51:58 THE WHOLE WORLD PREACHING THE HOUR OF GOD'S JUDGMENT AND 52:02 CALLING PEOPLE BACK TO WORSHIP THE SABBATH. 52:05 THERE'S ONLY ONE DENOMINATION THAT CAN FIT THERE, 52:07 THAT IS THE SEVENTH-DAY ADVENTIST CHURCH. 52:10 AND THERE'S ANOTHER THING, AS WELL - I'M GETTING A BIT 52:12 SIDETRACKED BUT I'LL MENTION IT - IN REVELATION 12:17 - ANOTHER 52:17 IDENTIFYING MARK THAT YOU'RE IN THE RIGHT CHURCH, FRIENDS, AND 52:23 WE SHOULDN'T BE EMBARRASSED ABOUT, YOU KNOW, ACKNOWLEDGING 52:28 THIS BECAUSE WE'RE NOT BOASTING OF OURSELVES - 52:30 WE HAVE NO VIRTUE OURSELVES, THE VIRTUE IS IN THE TRUTH 52:33 AND THAT TRUTH IS THERE FOR EVERYBODY TO ACCEPT. 52:36 12:17, "AND THE DRAGON WAS WROTH WITH THE WOMAN, AND WENT TO MAKE 52:39 WAR WITH THE REMNANT OF HER SEED, WHICH KEEP THE 52:42 COMMANDMENTS OF GOD," - NOW WHEN THE BIBLE SPEAKS OF THE 52:44 COMMANDMENTS OF GOD, HOW MANY IS IT SPEAKING ABOUT? NINE? 52:48 ALL TEN, WHICH WOULD INCLUDE THE FOURTH, RIGHT? YES. 52:53 SO HERE THIS REMNANT CHURCH IN THE LAST DAY - KEEPING ALL TEN 52:56 COMMANDMENTS INCLUDING THE SABBATH - 52:58 "AND HAVE THE TESTIMONY OF JESUS CHRIST." 53:01 SO WHAT'S THE TESTIMONY OF JESUS CHRIST? 53:02 REVELATION 19:10 - THE SPIRIT OF PROPHECY. 53:06 SO HERE GOD IS CALLING PEOPLE IN THE WORLD TO BECOME PART OF A 53:11 BODY THAT, IN THE TRUEST SENSE, WILL BE ABLE TO OFFER HIM THE 53:14 FULLEST WORSHIP AND THE FULLEST PRAISE BECAUSE THEY KEEP THE 53:18 SABBATH AND THAT'S GOING TO BE THE SEVENTH-DAY ADVENTIST CHURCH 53:21 BECAUSE, AS WE JUST FOUND OUT, THEY PREACH THE GOSPEL ON A 53:25 WORLD-WIDE BASIS, THEY PREACH THE SABBATH, THEY PREACH THE 53:30 HOUR OF GOD'S JUDGMENT AND, WHAT'S MORE, 53:31 THEY HAVE A PROPHET. THAT'S A HARD ACT TO FOLLOW - AND 53:35 I DON'T WANT TO SOUND FLIPPANT. YOU CAN FIND A FEW LITTLE 53:38 DENOMINATIONS THAT KEEP THE SABBATH BUT THEY DON'T HAVE A 53:40 PROPHET - OR THEY MAY CLAIM TO HAVE ONE BUT NOT A PROPHET SUCH 53:44 AS THE WAY ELLEN WHITE HAS ESTABLISHED HERSELF AS A PROPHET 53:48 - THE MOST PROLIFIC WOMAN WRITER IN THE UNITED STATES. 53:52 YOU MAY FIND SOME CHURCHES THAT KEEP THE SABBATH BUT THEY DON'T 53:55 HAVE A PROPHET. BUT HERE WE'RE SITTING IN ONE 53:58 THAT HAS ALL THE HALLMARKS, SO ARE WE BLESSED? 54:03 YEAH, WE'RE TRULY BLESSED. WE HAVE A LOT OF LIGHT, FRIENDS, 54:07 AN AWFUL LOT OF LIGHT. I GOT A LITTLE SIDE-TRACKED 54:11 THERE BUT I JUST FELT I WANTED TO SHARE THAT WITH YOU. 54:15 OUR TIME IS ABOUT GONE HERE, BUT WHILE WE HAVE A MOMENT, I WANT 54:22 TO READ FROM THURSDAY'S SECTION - PROBABLY CONCLUDE WITH ONE OF 54:28 THESE VERSES. THURSDAY'S SECTION IS 'A NEW CREATION'. 54:34 AND WE'VE GOT SEVERAL VERSES LISTED HERE, BUT I WANT TO GO TO 54:43 2 CORINTHIANS 5:17. LET ME READ THE NOTE. 54:49 IT SAYS, "THE SABBATH NOT ONLY REMINDS US OF GOD'S CREATIVE 54:51 ABILITY, BUT IT POINTS TO HIS RESTORATIVE PROMISES AS WELL. 54:55 INDEED, OF EVERY HEALING OF A PERSON ON THE SABBATH, THE 55:00 PROMISE OF ETERNAL RESTORATION WAS POWERFULLY ENFORCED. 55:04 IN ITS OWN UNIQUE WAY, THE SABBATH PROVIDES A VIEW THAT 55:06 REACHES BACK TO EARTH'S EARLIEST HISTORY AND STRETCHES FORWARD 55:11 TO HUMANITY'S EVENTUAL DESTINY. WE CAN SAY THAT THE SABBATH 55:16 POINTS BOTH TO CREATION AND TO REDEMPTION. 55:19 AND IT DOES. AND YOU KNOW WHAT? 55:20 I'M GOING TO LEAVE THAT ONE AND GO TO REVELATION 21. 55:24 LET'S GO TO REVELATION CHAPTER 21 AND I JUST LOVE THIS - I'M 55:31 GOING TO READ THE FIRST VERSE AND ONE OR TWO OTHERS BESIDES. 55:38 JOHN SAYS, "AND I SAW A NEW HEAVEN AND A NEW EARTH: FOR THE 55:42 FIRST HEAVEN AND THE FIRST EARTH WERE PASSED AWAY; AND THERE WAS 55:45 NO MORE SEA." AND HE SPEAKS HERE AND SAYS, 55:51 "AND I JOHN SAW THE HOLY CITY, NEW JERUSALEM, COMING DOWN FROM 55:54 GOD OUT OF HEAVEN, PREPARED AS A BRIDE ADORNED FOR HER HUSBAND. 55:59 AND I HEARD A GREAT VOICE OUT OF HEAVEN SAYING, 'BEHOLD, THE 56:02 TABERNACLE OF GOD IS WITH MEN, AND HE WILL DWELL WITH THEM, AND 56:06 THEY SHALL BE HIS PEOPLE, AND GOD HIMSELF SHALL BE WITH THEM, 56:10 AND BE THEIR GOD." THIS VERY EARTH WHERE GOD HAD TO 56:13 TURN HIS FACE AWAY AND HIDE HIMSELF BECAUSE OF SIN, 56:17 THIS IS THE VERY PLANET, AFTER REDEMPTION HAS FULFILLED ITS 56:21 PURPOSE, WHERE GOD HIMSELF IS ACTUALLY GOING TO COME DOWN AND 56:24 LIVE HERE. AND THIS RACE THAT HAD BEEN 56:28 PLUNGED THE DEEPEST INTO DEBAUCHERY AND SIN, THIS IS THE 56:33 RACE THAT IS GOING TO BE RENOVATED AND EXALTED TO A 56:36 POSITION EVEN HIGHER THAN THE ANGELS. 56:40 I DON'T KNOW HOW GOD'S GOING TO DO IT, BUT I ASSUME THE WHOLE 56:43 UNIVERSE ROTATES AROUND THE THRONE OF GOD. 56:46 HE'S GOT TO DO A LITTLE SWITCHING AROUND HERE BECAUSE 56:48 HE'S GOING TO MOVE HIS THRONE HERE. 56:50 BUT HE HAS WAYS OF DOING THAT WITHOUT GALAXIES STOPPING STILL 56:54 AND EVERYTHING FLYING OFF. HE HAS HIS WAY OF DOING THAT. 56:57 LET'S NOT GET TOO TIED UP ON THAT BUT - VERSE 5, "AND HE THAT 57:02 SAT UPON THE THRONE SAID, 'BEHOLD, I MAKE ALL THINGS NEW. 57:08 AND HE SAID UNTO ME, WRITE: FOR THESE WORDS ARE TRUE AND 57:10 FAITHFUL. AND HE SAID UNTO ME, IT IS DONE. 57:14 I AM ALPHA AND OMEGA, THE BEGINNING AND THE END. 57:17 I WILL GIVE UNTO HIM THAT IS ATHIRST OF THE FOUNTAIN OF THE 57:20 WATER OF LIFE FREELY. HE THAT OVERCOMETH" - OR SHE 57:26 THAT OVERCOMETH - 'SHALL INHERIT ALL THINGS; AND I WILL BE THEIR 57:30 GOD, AND THEY SHALL BE MY CHILDREN.' AND THE SABBATH IS A 57:37 BEAUTIFUL MEMORIAL OF THAT REDEMPTIVE - BEAUTIFUL 57:42 REDEMPTIVE ACT OF GOD ALONG WITH THE MIRACLE OF CREATION THAT HE 57:49 BRINGS AROUND FOR US EVERY SEVENTH DAY OF THE WEEK. 57:53 SO MAY WE ESPECIALLY REMEMBER THESE THINGS TODAY ON WHAT DAY 57:57 BUT, PRAISE THE LORD, THE SABBATH. 58:01 (MUSIC) |
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