Participants: Pr. Doug Batchelor
Series Code: CSH
Program Code: CSH021437
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00:45 >>WELCOME TO SACRAMENTO CENTRAL SEVENTH-DAY ADVENTIST CHURCH. 00:48 WE'RE SO GLAD THAT YOU'RE TUNING IN. 00:49 WHETHER THIS IS YOUR FIRST TIME OR YOU'RE WITH US EVERY WEEK, 00:52 WE'RE JUST EXCITED TO SING SONGS TOGETHER TODAY AND OPEN UP GOD'S 00:57 WORD AND STUDY TOGETHER. I HOPE YOU'VE HAD A LOVELY WEEK. 01:00 I HAVE AND I'M JUST - BUT I'M ALWAYS VERY THANKFUL WHEN IT'S 01:04 SABBATH BECAUSE IT JUST SEEMS LIKE WE GO AND WE GO AND WE GO 01:08 AND IF YOU REALLY DIDN'T HAVE THAT DAY TO JUST STOP - 01:11 I DON'T KNOW HOW PEOPLE DO IT THAT JUST DON'T HAVE 24 HOURS TO 01:16 STOP WHAT YOU'RE DOING AND JUST REST. 01:20 SO WE'RE SO THANKFUL FOR THE SABBATH. 01:24 IF YOU'RE WATCHING ON OUR WEBSITE TODAY AT 01:27 'SACCENTRAL.ORG' OR ON THE VARIOUS TELEVISION NETWORKS OR 01:30 JOINING US ON THE RADIO, WE'RE GOING TO SING TOGETHER AT THIS 01:34 TIME SO IF YOU HAVE A HYMNAL, PULL IT OUT WITH US AND JOIN 01:37 WITH US - #152 - WE'RE GOING TO START WITH 'TELL ME THE STORY OF 01:41 JESUS,' WHICH COMES AS A REQUEST FROM - THERE WAS A LONG LIST OF 01:45 NAMES BUT I PICKED A SMATTERING FROM AROUND THE WORLD. 01:49 AMY, BETH, CHUCK, NEAL, AND MICHAEL IN CANADA, HANOCK IN 01:53 ETHIOPIA, ROSEMARIE AND CALEB IN GUAYANA, AND ELIROO IN NIGERIA. 01:59 FIRST, SECOND, ALL THREE STANZAS. THERE WE GO. #152. 02:03 (MUSIC) 05:08 >>AT THIS TIME I INVITE YOU TO PLEASE JOIN WITH US IN PRAYER. 05:12 FATHER IN HEAVEN, MAY IT ALWAYS BE YOUR WILL AND NOT OURS. 05:17 MAY WE ALWAYS SUBMIT TO YOU AS OUR LOVING HEAVENLY FATHER 05:21 BECAUSE YOU KNOW WHAT'S BEST FOR US AND SOMETIMES - 05:23 MANY TIMES - WE THINK WE HAVE IT FIGURED OUT. 05:26 WE THINK THAT OUR WAY IS BETTER THAN YOURS AND SOMETIMES YOU 05:30 TEACH US VERY VALUABLE LESSONS AND I JUST PRAY THAT WE WILL 05:34 TRUST YOU AND THAT WE WILL ALWAYS REST ASSURED IN YOUR 05:38 PROMISES THAT YOU ARE LOOKING OUT FOR US AND 05:41 YOUR WAYS ARE ALWAYS BETTER THAN OURS. 05:44 FATHER, THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR BRINGING US HERE TO OPEN UP YOUR 05:47 WORD AND STUDY TOGETHER. I PRAY THAT YOU'LL BE WITH US. 05:49 BE WITH OUR EXTENDED FAMILY AROUND THE WORLD. 05:53 BE WITH EACH ONE IN A VERY SPECIAL WAY AND OUR SPEAKER. 05:56 IN JESUS' NAME, AMEN. AT THIS TIME OUR LESSON STUDY 06:01 WILL BE BROUGHT TO US BY PASTOR DOUG BATCHELOR. 06:06 >>I WANT TO WELCOME OUR FRIENDS WHO ARE WATCHING ON TELEVISION 06:09 AND WE'LL BE CONTINUING IN JUST A MOMENT WITH OUR STUDY ON THE 06:13 TEACHINGS OF JESUS, BUT SOME OF YOU KNOW THAT CENTRAL CHURCH AND 06:19 THE SABBATH SCHOOL HAS BEEN IN A LITTLE BIT OF TRANSITION 06:22 IN THE LAST FEW MONTHS. 06:24 I'D LIKE TO INVITE PASTOR CHRIS BUTTERY - I THINK HE'S OFF TO MY 06:28 RIGHT SOMEWHERE - IF HE COULD JOIN ME, WE'RE GOING TO JUST 06:31 SHARE WITH YOU, A LITTLE BIT, SOME OF WHAT IS GOING ON. 06:34 YOU KNOW, AMAZING FACTS - WE WERE THINKING ABOUT IT THIS WEEK 06:38 - AMAZING FACTS' SABBATH SCHOOL OR CENTRAL SABBATH SCHOOL HAS 06:41 BEEN ON THE AIR NOW FOR, WE THINK, SEVENTEEN YEARS AND IT 06:46 STARTED - IT'S OKAY PASTOR CHRIS, COME ON UP - IT STARTED 06:49 AS AN EXPERIMENT. WE HAD A REQUEST FROM 3ABN. 06:52 THEY SAID, 'YOU KNOW, YOU'RE TAPING A CHURCH SERVICE, IT'D BE 06:54 NICE TO HAVE A SABBATH SCHOOL AS WELL. 06:56 AND SO WE JUST STARTED THROWING IT TOGETHER AND THE LORD BLESSED 07:01 AND IT'S BEEN GOING NOW AND WE HEAR THESE SONG REQUESTS COMING 07:04 IN FROM AROUND THE WORLD AND AS I TRAVEL I HEAR PEOPLE AROUND 07:07 THE WORLD SAY THEY'RE STUDYING WITH US. 07:09 BUT AS SOME OF YOU KNOW - SOME WHO ARE WATCHING MAY NOT KNOW - 07:13 CENTRAL CHURCH IS ONE OF THE OLDEST ADVENTIST CHURCHES IN 07:16 CALIFORNIA AND IT'S BEEN RESPONSIBLE FOR PLANTING A 07:19 NUMBER OF CHURCHES IN THE GREATER SACRAMENTO AREA. 07:23 ABOUT SEVEN YEARS AGO CENTRAL WORKED TOGETHER AND DECIDED 07:27 TO PLANT A CHURCH IN GRANITE BAY. 07:30 GRANITE BAY IS A SUBURB THAT IS SORT OF EAST OF SACRAMENTO AND - 07:36 WITH THE IDEA - IT'S PRETTY CLOSE TO THE AMAZING FACTS' 07:38 OFFICES - THAT SOMEDAY WE'D ALSO BE RECORDING SERVICES OVER THERE 07:42 AS THE LORD BLESSED AND THE LORD BLESSED AND THE CHURCH GREW. 07:46 I KNEW I'D ALSO BE MOVING OVER THERE AT SOME POINT AND WE 07:50 STARTED IN A HOME AND THEN WENT TO A HIGH SCHOOL AND FOR THE 07:54 LAST SEVEN - EIGHT YEARS WE'VE BEEN RENTING A PRESBYTERIAN 07:57 CHURCH. BUT WE'RE NOT ABLE TO TAPE THERE 08:00 BECAUSE WE ONLY HAVE IT A COUPLE OF HOURS A WEEK. 08:04 BUT IN JANUARY I KNEW THAT CENTRAL WAS GOING TO BE IN VERY 08:11 CAPABLE HANDS. I THOUGHT THE TIME HAD COME 08:13 WHERE I SHOULD STEP DOWN AS SENIOR PASTOR. 08:16 IN THE CONVENING TIME, THE CONFERENCE EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE 08:19 AND YOU FOLKS HAVE ASKED - CHRIS BUTTERY IS NOW THE SENIOR PASTOR 08:23 OF CENTRAL CHURCH. BUT CENTRAL'S BEEN VERY NICE IN 08:26 THAT THEY'VE LET AMAZING FACTS KEEP TAPING BECAUSE WE HAD 08:29 NOWHERE TO GO TO TAPE OUR SABBATH SCHOOL. 08:32 WELL, WE'RE COMING TO A POINT OF TRANSITION NOW. 08:35 WE THOUGHT FOR THE NEXT COUPLE OF WEEKS WE OUGHT TO, AT LEAST, 08:37 GIVE YOU A PICTURE OF WHAT'S HAPPENING AND - JUST SO EVERYONE 08:41 KNOWS WHAT'S GOING ON. DO YOU WANT TO SAY ANYTHING? 08:43 >>I WOULD SAY THAT AMAZING FACTS HAS ALSO BEEN VERY GRACIOUS TO 08:48 CENTRAL IN PROVIDING THE EQUIPMENT STILL TO ALLOW US TO 08:53 LIVE-STREAM TO OUR ONLINE AUDIENCE AND ALSO OUR CHURCH 08:56 SERVICES AS WELL, GIVING US A CHANCE TO ACTUALLY GET OUR 09:00 EQUIPMENT IN AND GET THINGS SET UP SO WE CAN CONTINUE ON WITH 09:03 OUR MEDIA PROGRAM HERE. >>ABSOLUTELY. 09:05 YOU KNOW, THERE'S A STORY IN THE BIBLE WHERE JESUS WAS TALKING TO 09:09 PETER WHEN HE WAS IN HIS BOAT ON THE SHORE AND HE TOLD PETER TO 09:13 THROW HIS NET OUT ON THE WATER AND THEY GOT SUCH A BIG CATCH 09:17 THAT BOTH BOATS WERE FULL. NOW WHEN WE STARTED DOING 09:21 SABBATH SCHOOL, THERE WAS REALLY ONLY ONE ADVENTIST NETWORK BACK 09:25 THEN, BUT IN THE CONVENING YEARS THERE MUST BE AT LEAST A DOZEN, 09:30 WHEN YOU COUNT THE OTHER LANGUAGES, ADVENTIST SATELLITE 09:32 NETWORKS THAT ARE OUT. SO THE DEMAND FOR PROGRAMMING 09:35 HAS GONE UP. AND, YOU KNOW, THE MORE LINES 09:38 YOU HAVE IN THE WATER, THE MORE FISH YOU CATCH, RIGHT? 09:41 AND SO, WHEN WE REACH THE END OF OUR QUARTERLY DEALING WITH THE 09:46 TEACHINGS OF JESUS AND WE START WITH THE TEACHINGS OF JAMES, 09:49 ACTUALLY WE'RE GOING TO CONTINUE TAPING AT BOTH AREAS. 09:53 BOTH GROUPS ARE GOING TO CONTINUE RECORDING. 09:55 AND YOU'LL CONTINUE DOING MEDIA, SABBATH SCHOOL, AND OTHER THINGS 09:58 HERE AT CENTRAL CHURCH. >>THAT'S THE PLAN, PASTOR DOUG. 10:01 WE'RE HOPING THAT - WE'RE CERTAINLY GOING TO CONTINUE LIVE 10:05 STREAMING TO OUR ONLINE MEMBERS AND VISITORS AND GUESTS AND - 10:08 WITH CENTRAL STUDY HOUR AND ALSO WE'LL - WE'RE GOING TO MAKE THE 10:12 PROGRAMS - EDITED, RECORDED PROGRAMS - AVAILABLE ON OUR 10:16 WEBSITE, WHICH IS 'SACCENTRAL.ORG' - SO PEOPLE CAN 10:19 TUNE IN AND WATCH THE LESSON IF THEY WANT TO AHEAD OF TIME, JUST 10:22 LIKE THEY'VE BEEN DOING VIA 3ABN AND HOPE AND, HOPEFULLY, THEY'LL 10:26 ALSO CONTINUE THE PROGRAMMING AS WELL, AS WE GET INTO OCTOBER AND 10:30 INTO THE NEW QUARTERLY SO IT'S KIND OF EXCITING. 10:32 WHAT ABOUT AMAZING FACTS, BECAUSE I NEEDED TO ASK YOU TOO 10:35 - AMAZING FACTS AND GRANITE BAY'S PROGRAMS - HOW ARE YOU 10:38 PROCEEDING WITH THAT AND WHERE CAN FOLK ACCESS THOSE PROGRAMS? 10:43 >>WELL THE - FIRST OF ALL, JUST SO EVERYONE KNOWS, THE SATELLITE 10:46 NETWORKS THAT YOU'RE SEEING THAT CARRY THESE PROGRAMS, NONE OF 10:50 THEM HAVE CHARGED FOR THE SABBATH SCHOOL PROGRAMMING. 10:53 IT'S JUST BEEN THEIR KINDNESS SO MAKE SURE AND CONTACT THEM AND 10:56 TELL THEM YOU WANT TO CONTINUE TO SEE MORE OF THESE BIBLE 10:58 STUDIES. SO IT'S REALLY UP TO THEM. 11:00 BUT, GOD WILLING, THE AMAZING FACTS SABBATH SCHOOL PROGRAM 11:04 WILL CONTINUE TO BROADCAST, AND STATIONS ALLOWING, 11:08 DURING THE SAME TIMES. 11:10 AND CENTRAL NOT ONLY DOES SABBATH SCHOOL AND WORSHIP 11:14 SERVICES, BUT I BELIEVE THIS CHURCH IS GOING TO CONTINUE TO 11:16 BE A PLACE FOR MEDIA CONVOCATIONS. 11:19 WE'VE HAD ASI HERE AND THERE'S BEEN TRAINING AND EVANGELISM - 11:24 AND SO WE JUST WANT TO ENCOURAGE YOU TO CONTINUE TO PRAY FOR BOTH 11:30 CHURCHES AS WE CONTINUE TO DO MEDIA. 11:32 NOW - RIGHT NOW, CENTRAL CHURCH IS GOING TO CONTINUE DOING 11:37 BROADCASTING HERE EVERY WEEK, AS THEY DO. 11:39 AMAZING FACTS DOESN'T HAVE A FULL-TIME FACILITY YET. 11:43 WE DID BUY, EARLIER THIS YEAR, AN OFFICE/WAREHOUSE BUILDING 11:47 RIGHT NEAR OUR OFFICE THAT WILL HOST THE GRANITE BAY CHURCH FOR 11:51 THE IMMEDIATE FUTURE. IT'S NOT RENOVATED YET AND SO, 11:55 FOR THE TIME BEING, WE'LL BE TAPING SABBATH SCHOOL DURING OUR 11:58 PRAYER MEETING TIME - WE STARTED OUR FIRST ONE THIS WEEK. 12:01 SO BEGINNING WITH THE BOOK OF JAMES WE'LL BE BROADCASTING FROM 12:05 THE AMAZING FACTS' STUDIO UNTIL WE CAN GET IN THE WAREHOUSE THAT 12:10 WE BOUGHT AND START TAPING THERE. 12:12 SO THAT'S - THEY'LL SEE THINGS LOOK LIKE THEY'RE IN TRANSITION 12:14 FOR A LITTLE WHILE. WE THOUGHT IT'S IMPORTANT THAT 12:16 OUR EXTENDED CLASS UNDERSTAND WHAT IS HAPPENING. 12:19 >>YEAH, I'M IN FULL AGREEMENT AND WE'LL BE PRAYING FOR GRANITE 12:22 BAY AND AMAZING FACTS' VENTURE AS THEY MOVE FORWARD AS WELL. 12:25 AND WE KNOW YOU FOLK ARE PRAYING FOR CENTRAL AS WE CONTINUE ON AS 12:27 WELL, PASTOR DOUG. >>AMEN. 12:29 THESE CHURCHES ARE FAMILY. AMEN? >>AMEN. THANK YOU. 12:31 >>AND WE'LL TELL YOU MORE IN THE WEEKS THAT FOLLOW AND WE JUST 12:34 WANT TO SEE THE MISSION OF CHRIST FULFILLED IN THE WORLD. 12:39 WE WANT TO REMIND OUR FRIENDS THAT, ALONG WITH OUR STUDY 12:41 TODAY, THAT HAPPENS TO BE ON THE SUBJECT OF THE SABBATH, JESUS - 12:44 THE TEACHINGS OF JESUS AND THE SABBATH - WE HAVE A FREE OFFER. 12:48 RIGHT HERE, IT'S A BOOK BY JOE CREWS AND IT'S CALLED 'WHY GOD 12:52 SAID REMEMBER.' WHY GOD SAID REMEMBER. 12:55 WE WILL SEND IT TO YOU FOR FREE. WE SIMPLY ASK THAT YOU READ IT. 12:59 WE HOPE AFTER YOU READ IT THAT YOU PASS IT ON. 13:01 AND IT TURNS INTO EVANGELISM. 13:03 CALL THE NUMBER ON YOUR SCREEN - 866-STUDY-MORE - THAT'S 13:07 866-788-3966 AND ASK FOR OFFER #185. 13:15 YOU KNOW, I WAS BORN WITH A SERIOUS LISP AND IT GOT A LOT 13:20 BETTER WHEN I HAD BRACES ABOUT 20 YEARS AGO - OR 25 YEARS AGO - 13:26 BUT I STILL HAVE TO REALLY WORK ON 'DOUGLAS' AND 'SIX'. 13:31 I HAVE TO JUST REALLY FIGHT TO SAY THOSE THINGS 13:33 BECAUSE IT'S SO HARD FOR ME. 13:35 YOU CAN PROBABLY TELL STILL - STILL TELL I HAVE A LISP. 13:37 ANYWAY, GET THE BOOK ON THE SABBATH. 13:40 WE'RE GOING INTO OUR LESSON ON 'THE SABBATH.' THIS IS GOING TO 13:43 BE A TOUGH ONE FOR ME - LOTS OF 'ESSES' IN TODAY'S STUDY. 13:50 AND IT'S LESSON #11 - WE HAVE A MEMORY VERSE - MEMORY VERSE IS 13:54 MARK 2, VERSES 27 AND 28 AND I ALWAYS APPRECIATE IF YOU SAY 13:59 THAT WITH ME IN A ROBUST VOICE. WE'RE GOING TO READ IT 14:02 IN JUST A MOMENT. YOU READY? MARK 2:27 AND 28. HERE WE GO. 14:07 "AND HE SAID TO THEM, 'THE SABBATH WAS MADE FOR MAN, 14:12 AND NOT MAN FOR THE SABBATH. 14:15 THEREFORE THE SON OF MAN IS ALSO LORD OF THE SABBATH.'" NOW 14:21 SOMETIMES PEOPLE THINK THAT JESUS, HERE, WAS SAYING, 'I CAME 14:25 TO DO AWAY WITH THE SABBATH.' WHEN HE SAID, 'I'M LORD OF THE 14:27 SABBATH.' BUT NOTICE, HE DIDN'T SAY THE SABBATH WAS MADE FOR 14:32 JEWS - IT WOULD HAVE BEEN A GOOD PLACE TO SAY THAT. SOME PEOPLE 14:36 THINK THE SABBATH BEGAN AT MOUNT SINAI DURING THE EXODUS. 14:40 BUT JESUS SAYS THE SABBATH WAS MADE FOR MAN AS IN MANKIND - 14:44 HUMANITY - ALL MEN. AND WHERE DOES HE POINT BACK TO? 14:50 THE GARDEN OF EDEN WITH THE FIRST MAN AND THE FIRST SABBATH. 14:54 I'VE ACTUALLY HEARD SOME SUNDAY-KEEPING BIBLE 14:56 COMMENTATORS SAY, 'GOD DIDN'T REALLY REQUIRE SABBATH 14:59 OBSERVANCE UNTIL THE EXODUS WHEN IT WAS GIVEN AT MOUNT SINAI. 15:04 THAT IS NOT TRUE. YOU CAN FIND, IN THE BIBLE, IT 15:07 SAYS, BEFORE THEY GOT TO MOUNT SINAI THAT, WHEN GOD POURED OUT 15:10 THE MANNA, HE SAID, 'DON'T GO LOOKING FOR MANNA ON THE SABBATH 15:14 - THAT'S THE DAY OF REST. THEY HADN'T EVEN GOTTEN THERE, 15:16 BUT THEY KNEW THAT THAT WAS A DAY OF REST. 15:18 THEN HE SAID, 'WHY AREN'T YOU KEEPING MY SABBATHS? 15:20 AND EVEN WHEN MOSES FIRST WENT TO PHARAOH, BEFORE THEY EVEN GOT 15:24 INTO THE WILDERNESS, PHARAOH SAID, 'YOU ARE MAKING THE PEOPLE 15:28 SABBATH AND SO I AM GOING TO INCREASE THEIR WORKLOAD AND 15:34 THEY'VE GOT TO MAKE THEIR BRICKS WITHOUT STRAW NOW. 15:36 AND SO THERE'S EVIDENCE THAT THE SABBATH WAS KEPT, BY THE 15:39 FAITHFUL OF GOD, ALL THE WAY BACK TO THE BEGINNING. 15:42 I HAVE A LIST - I DIDN'T BRING IT WITH ME THIS MORNING - BUT 15:45 I'VE GOT A LIST OF 145 LANGUAGES OF THE WORLD - DIFFERENT 15:50 LANGUAGES - THEIR WORD FOR SATURDAY. 15:54 AND IN MOST OF THOSE LANGUAGES - WELL, IN ALL 145 ON MY LIST - 15:59 THE WORD IS 'SABBATH.' IN RUSSIAN THE WORD FOR SATURDAY? 16:03 SUBOTNIK, WHICH IS SABBATH. IN SPANISH, THE WORD FOR 16:07 SATURDAY - USED - MANY - WHAT IS IT? SABADO, RIGHT? 16:11 AND MANY OTHER LANGUAGES OF THE WORLD. 16:13 SO IT'S PRETTY CLEAR THAT THE SABBATH WAS KNOWN BY OTHER 16:17 LANGUAGES AND OTHER NATIONS BESIDE ISRAEL, GOING BACK TO 16:20 CREATION. IT'S ONE OF THE EARLIEST 16:22 INSTITUTIONS, RIGHT THERE WITH MARRIAGE. 16:25 SO LET'S GET INTO THE TEACHINGS OF JESUS DEALING WITH THE 16:29 SABBATH DAY. FIRST OF ALL, WE'RE GOING TO 16:31 TALK ABOUT CHRIST THE CREATOR OF THE SABBATH. 16:36 SO SOMEONE LOOK UP FOR ME - WE'VE GOT SOME MICROPHONES, I 16:39 THINK, AND I NEED SOMEONE WHO HAS COLOSSIANS 1:16. 16:43 YOU'VE GOT YOUR BIG FORTUNE COOKIE WITH A SCRIPTURE ON IT. 16:46 WE'LL GET YOU A MICROPHONE. YOU'LL BE NEXT. 16:48 GET READY AND I'LL BE - WHEN THEY SIGNAL ME, WE'LL GO TO YOU. 16:51 AND I'M GOING TO READ JOHN 1 - EVERYONE KNOWS THESE IMMORTAL 16:55 WORDS - JOHN 1:1-3 - THE GOSPEL OF JOHN. 16:59 "IN THE BEGINNING WAS THE WORD, AND THE WORD WAS WITH GOD, AND 17:03 THE WORD WAS GOD. HE" - NOW IT'S TALKING ABOUT 17:06 WORD IT SAYS 'HE' - WHO IS IT TALKING ABOUT? 17:09 JESUS - "HE WAS IN THE BEGINNING WITH GOD. 17:13 ALL THINGS WERE MADE THROUGH HIM, AND WITHOUT HIM NOTHING WAS 17:17 MADE THAT WAS MADE." NOTHING WAS MADE THAT WAS MADE 17:22 WITHOUT HIM. ALL THINGS WERE MADE BY JESUS. 17:26 LET'S GO TO THAT NEXT VERSE IN COLOSSIANS 1:16. 17:29 >>COLOSSIANS 1:16, "FOR BY HIM ALL THINGS WERE CREATED THAT ARE 17:35 IN HEAVEN AND THAT ARE ON EARTH, VISIBLE AND INVISIBLE, WHETHER 17:40 THRONES OR DOMINIONS OR PRINCIPALITIES OR POWERS. 17:45 ALL THINGS WERE CREATED THROUGH HIM AND FOR HIM." 17:49 >>ALL THINGS. AGAIN, WE READ THAT IN JOHN, NOW WE'RE READING 17:53 IT IN COLOSSIANS BY PAUL - ALL THINGS THAT WERE MADE. 17:57 GOD HAS CREATED ALL THINGS THROUGH JESUS. 18:00 MATTER OF FACT, IF YOU LOOK IN ISAIAH 45:12 THE LORD SAYS, "I 18:04 HAVE MADE THE EARTH, AND CREATED MAN ON IT. I - MY HANDS - 18:08 STRETCHED OUT THE HEAVENS, AND ALL THEIR HOST I HAVE 18:10 COMMANDED." AND, OF COURSE, THE HEAVENS - ASTRONOMY DICTATES 18:13 OUR TIME - I JUST WANT TO REMIND YOU - DOES THE WHOLE WORLD 18:20 RECOGNIZE THE SEVEN-DAY WEEK? OKAY. DOES THE WHOLE CIVILIZED 18:26 WORLD RECOGNIZE THAT THE DAY HAS ABOUT 24 HOURS? 18:31 DOES THE WHOLE CIVILIZED WORLD HAVE A YEAR DIVIDED UP INTO 18:36 APPROXIMATELY TWELVE MONTHS? WITH A LEAP YEAR? THE WHOLE 18:39 WORLD, UNIVERSALLY, RECOGNIZES THAT. WE CAN UNDERSTAND WHY 18:44 THE WHOLE WORLD HAS A MONTH WITH ABOUT 30 DAYS IN IT. 18:50 THE WORD 'MONTH' COMES FROM A PRIMITIVE WORD - WHERE WE GET 18:54 THE WORD 'MOON' AND IT'S BECAUSE OUR MONTHS ARE LOOSELY - THEY 19:00 ORIGINATED WITH THE LUNAR CALENDAR. 19:04 NOW WE'RE REALLY FOLLOWING A SOLAR CALENDAR, BUT WE STILL 19:06 KEEP MONTHS BECAUSE IT STARTED WITH THAT 27-DAY DIVISION. 19:12 WE ALL HAVE A YEAR - NOW THE DIFFERENT CULTURES OF THE WORLD 19:16 - EVEN IN THE AMERICAS AMONG THE AZTECS AND THE INCAS AND IN 19:21 AFRICA, THEY HAD YEARS THAT WERE DIVIDED UP BY THE MONTHS OR THE 19:26 MOON CYCLES AND - WITH 365 OR 360 - THE JEWS HAD A LUNAR 19:32 CALENDAR WITH 360 DAYS BUT THEY'D ADD AN EXTRA MONTH EVERY 19:35 13 YEARS BUT THEY ALL HAD ABOUT 360 - 365 DAYS IN IT BECAUSE, 19:42 ASTRONOMICALLY, THAT'S HOW LONG IT TOOK THE EARTH TO MAKE A 19:46 COMPLETE CIRCLE AROUND THE SUN AND THEY COULD SEE THAT AND 19:48 OBSERVE IT IN THE HEAVENS. SO HERE'S THE QUESTION: WHY DOES 19:53 THE WHOLE WORLD OBSERVE A SEVEN-DAY WEEK? WHAT IN THE SUN, 19:57 MOON, OR STARS - ASTRONOMY - GIVES US A SEVEN-DAY WEEK? 20:01 YOU CAN REALLY ONLY TRACE IT TO 'IN THE BEGINNING GOD SAID.' YOU 20:07 KNOW FRANCE TRIED TO GO TO A TEN-DAY WEEK - IT DIDN'T WORK. 20:11 DID YOU KNOW THAT EARLIER ON, THE AMERICAN MILITARY, IN 20:15 LOOKING FOR EFFICIENCY, TRIED TO PUT THE SOLDIERS ON A SCHEDULE 20:19 OF WORKING NINE DAYS AND RESTING ON THE TENTH. 20:22 THIS WAS BACK DURING THE WAR WHEN THEY WERE JUST TRYING TO 20:24 MILK THE MAXIMUM - THEY WANTED TO KNOW TO WHAT LENGTHS THEY 20:27 COULD PUSH A HUMAN WITHOUT BREAKDOWN - 20:30 HOW FREQUENTLY THEY NEEDED REST. 20:31 THEY TRIED DOING IT ONCE EVERY TEN DAYS, IT DIDN'T WORK. 20:35 AND THEY REALIZED THAT THE BEST SCHEDULE FOR THE HUMAN BODY IS 20:38 TO REST FROM YOUR REGULAR LABOR ONE DAY IN SEVEN. 20:42 AND SO THE WORLD'S PRETTY WELL ACCEPTED THAT NOW AND EVEN 20:46 MEDICAL SCIENCE IS. SO THIS IS GOD'S DESIGN. 20:49 GOD CREATED THE SABBATH. ONE MORE VERSE FOR YOU ON THAT: 20:52 HEBREWS 1, VERSES 1 AND 2 - TALKING ABOUT JESUS THE CREATOR. 20:56 "GOD, WHO AT VARIOUS TIMES AND IN VARIOUS WAYS SPOKE IN TIME 21:00 PAST TO THE FATHERS BY THE PROPHETS, HAS IN THESE LAST DAYS 21:04 SPOKEN TO US BY HIS SON, WHOM HE HAS APPOINTED HEIR OF ALL 21:08 THINGS, THROUGH WHOM ALSO HE MADE THE WORLDS." 21:12 SO THROUGH WHOM DID GOD MAKE THE WORLDS? JESUS. 21:16 SO ALL OF THAT IS SAID TO EMPHASIZE A VERY IMPORTANT POINT 21:21 THAT WHEN JESUS TALKS ABOUT THE SABBATH AND HE SAYS 'THE SON OF 21:24 MAN IS LORD OF THE SABBATH.' HE REALLY IS THE LORD OF THE 21:29 SABBATH IN THAT ALL THINGS THAT WERE MADE ARE MADE BY HIM. 21:32 HE MADE THE SABBATH AND SO WHAT JESUS SAYS 21:36 REGARDING THE SABBATH GOES. 21:38 SOME PEOPLE THINK, 'WELL THE GOD OF THE OLD TESTAMENT, UNDER THAT 21:41 JEWISH DISPENSATION, HE HAD A SEVENTH-DAY SABBATH BUT JESUS, 21:45 THE GOD OF THE NEW TESTAMENT, HE HAS A FIRST-DAY SABBATH.' PLEASE 21:49 SHOW ME ANYWHERE IN THE TEACHINGS OF JESUS WHERE HE ASKS 21:53 US TO KEEP THE FIRST DAY AS THE SABBATH. THERE IS NOTHING. 21:59 BUT YOU'LL HEAR A LOT OF - AND READING THIS WEEK I RAN INTO 22:02 SOME OF THE OTHER COMMENTATORS - I WAS LOOKING UP SOME VERSES AND 22:05 THESE VERSES THAT TALK ABOUT THE SABBATH ARE SO CLEAR THAT SOME 22:10 OF THE SUNDAY - FAMOUS SUNDAY COMMENTATORS - WHO I RESPECT, 22:13 YOU KNOW, A LOT OF WHAT THEY SAY, BUT WHEN THEY COME TO THESE 22:15 VERSES THEY ALMOST FEEL LIKE THEY'VE GOT TO STOP AND MAKE A 22:18 DEFENSE FOR SUNDAY AND THE ONLY PLACES THEY CAN POINT TO IS THEY 22:22 SAY, 'WELL, EUSEBIUS, IN THE FIRST CENTURY, HE SAID THAT THE 22:25 CHRISTIANS GATHERED ON THE FIRST DAY OF THE WEEK.' WELL, THEY 22:28 MIGHT HAVE, BUT IT DOESN'T SAY THAT THEY CALLED IT A SABBATH. 22:30 AND EVEN IF THEY DID, IT'S NOT IN THE BIBLE, RIGHT? 22:34 'OH, BUT IT SAYS THAT JESUS ROSE ON THE FIRST DAY OF THE WEEK.' 22:36 YEAH, THAT'S GOOD. I'M THANKFUL. 22:39 BUT IT DOESN'T SAY HE NOW SAYS KEEP THIS AS THE NEW SABBATH 22:42 BECAUSE THERE WAS NOTHING WRONG WITH THE SEVENTH-DAY SABBATH. 22:47 AND THEY'LL SAY, 'WELL, YEAH, BUT IT SAYS SOMETHING ABOUT 22:50 TAKING UP A COLLECTION ON THE FIRST DAY OF THE WEEK.' THAT'S 22:54 IN 1 CORINTHIANS 16 - THEY DID TAKE A COLLECTION UP ON THE 22:57 FIRST DAY OF THE WEEK - NOT IN CHURCH - IT SAYS IT WAS IN THEIR 23:00 HOMES - 'LAY MONEY ASIDE THAT THERE BE NO GATHERING - 23:04 COLLECTION WHEN THEY GATHER TOGETHER ON THE SABBATH.' THE 23:08 FIRST OF THE WEEK, WHEN YOU GET YOUR BOOKS IN ORDER, SET IT 23:10 ASIDE. THERE'S NOTHING IN THE NEW 23:12 TESTAMENT. THERE'S NOT THE SHRED, NOT EVEN 23:15 THE HINT OF A COMMAND TO KEEP THE FIRST DAY AS THE SABBATH. 23:20 SO THESE ARGUMENTS THAT YOU HEAR QUITE FRANKLY ARE DESPERATE 23:26 ATTEMPTS TO CREATE CIRCUMSTANTIAL EVIDENCE. 23:31 YOU DON'T WANT TO CREATE A NEW COMMAND FROM GOD THAT IS GOING 23:35 TO OVERRULE A WRITTEN, SPOKEN COMMAND FROM GOD WITH 23:38 CIRCUMSTANTIAL IDEAS. GOD WOULD NEVER DO IT THAT WAY. 23:43 WHEN GOD SPEAKS WITH HIS VOICE TO A NATION AND HE WRITES IT 23:48 WITH HIS FINGER AND HE PUTS IT IN THE HOLIEST PLACE OF ALL - 23:53 TREATS IT WITH THE HOLIEST REGARD - IF GOD WAS GOING TO 23:57 CHANGE ONE OF THOSE COMMANDS - AND, ESPECIALLY WHEN YOU 23:59 CONSIDER HE DOESN'T CHANGE THE OTHER NINE - AND HE PUTS IT IN 24:03 THE MIDDLE OF THE LAW AND HE BEGINS WITH THE WORD 'REMEMBER' 24:08 - IF HE'S GOING TO CHANGE THAT ONE THEN HE REALLY NEEDS TO HAVE 24:13 A MEGAPHONE IN THE BIBLE THAT SAYS, 'KEEP THE FIRST DAY HOLY 24:17 NOW AND DO NOT KEEP THE SEVENTH DAY.' 24:19 BUT THERE'S NOTHING LIKE THAT, IS THERE? 24:22 AND SO, IT'S VERY DANGEROUS FOR BIBLE CHRISTIANS TO PUT ASIDE A 24:27 COMMAND OF GOD AND SAY, 'IT DOESN'T MATTER.' OR SAY, 24:30 'AS LONG AS IT'S A SEVENTH DAY.' BUT DOES THE LORD SAY A SEVENTH 24:33 DAY OR DOES HE SAY THE SEVENTH DAY? 24:36 HE'S VERY CLEAR - VERY SPECIFIC ABOUT IT. 24:38 AND SO WE'LL GET INTO THIS MORE IN THE LESSON HERE. OKAY, SO 24:41 THIS IS JESUS - COMMANDED - JESUS CREATED THE SABBATH DAY. 24:45 ALRIGHT, 'CHRIST THE LORD OF THE SABBATH.' NOW WE'RE GOING TO GET 24:51 INTO A SPECIFIC INCIDENT THAT HAPPENED AND, YOU KNOW, I JUST 24:56 WONDER IF MAYBE WE OUGHT TO GO TO MATTHEW 12 AND READ THIS 24:59 FIRST. SOMEBODY LOOK UP FOR ME DEUTERONOMY 23:25. WHO HAS THAT 25:04 SLIP? MANJEET? LET'S GET YOU A MICROPHONE. WHERE'S THE MIC? 25:08 HOLD YOUR HAND UP SO HE SEES YOU - AND IN THE MEANTIME, LET'S GO 25:12 TO MATTHEW 12 AND THIS IS - THIS IS A VERSE THAT DEALS WITH THIS 25:19 INCIDENT THAT BECAME A POINT OF CONTENTION. MATTHEW 12, 25:24 WE'LL START WITHVERSE 1, "AT THAT TIME JESUS WENT THROUGH 25:29 THE GRAIN FIELDS ON THE SABBATH. AND HIS DISCIPLES WERE HUNGRY, 25:32 AND BEGAN TO PLUCK HEADS OF GRAIN AND TO EAT." 25:35 NOW JUST, YOU KNOW, WHEN I FIRST READ THIS - MAYBE YOU ALL 25:39 UNDERSTAND THESE THINGS, BUT I GREW UP IN NEW YORK CITY AND WE 25:42 DON'T GROW A LOT OF WHEAT THERE AND SO I DIDN'T KNOW AND EVEN 25:45 WHEN I - BORN IN SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA, I NEVER SAW THIS SO 25:48 I DIDN'T KNOW HOW THAT WORKED. 25:50 AND SO WHEN I FIRST READ THIS IN THE BIBLE I SAID, 'WHAT WERE 25:52 THEY DOING?' AND WHEN WHEAT BROWNS AND RIPENS 25:57 IN THE FIELD, YOU CAN EAT IT - EVEN BEFORE IT GETS BROWN YOU 26:00 CAN EAT IT AND YOU JUST TAKE IT, YOU POP THE HEADS OFF - YOU 26:03 PROBABLY POPPED A FOXTAIL OFF THE GRAIN BEFORE - YOU RUB IT IN 26:07 YOUR HAND AND IT SEPARATES THE HUSK FROM THE ACTUAL KERNELS OF 26:11 WHEAT, YOU BLOW - THE HUSK AND THE CHAFF BLOWS AWAY, AND THEN 26:17 YOU THROW THE GRAINS IN YOUR MOUTH AND IT'S JUST EATING RAW 26:20 WHEAT. BUT WHEN YOU'RE HUNGRY - WHEN 26:23 YOU'RE REALLY HUNGRY, EVEN THAT STARTS TO TASTE GOOD. 26:25 NOW I DO REMEMBER HITCHHIKING THROUGH SOME COUNTRY ONE TIME 26:28 WHEN I WAS JUST HUNGRY AND MY GIRLFRIEND AND I PULLED THE CORN 26:33 OUT OF THE FIELD AND WE BROKE IT OFF AND WE JUST ATE RAW CORN. 26:37 ANY OF YOU EVER JUST EAT RAW CORN OUT OF THE FIELD? 26:39 AS FAR AS I KNOW IT DIDN'T HURT ME. 26:41 IT TASTED PRETTY GOOD WHEN YOU'RE HUNGRY. 26:43 THEY SAY IT'S SAFER TO COOK IT AND - BUT - SO THE DISCIPLES, 26:47 THEY'RE JUST - IT'S NOT HEAVY LABOR, THEY'RE JUST POPPING OFF 26:51 THESE GRAINS. THEY'RE WALKING AS THEY DO IT. 26:53 THEY BLOW OFF THE HUSK AND THEY THROW THE KERNELS IN THEIR 26:55 MOUTHS. BUT SOME OF THE RELIGIOUS LEADERS WERE 26:59 WATCHING AS THEY DID THIS. LET ME FINISH READING HERE. 27:03 WHEN - VERSE 2 - "AND WHEN THE PHARISEES" - THIS IS MATTHEW 12, 27:05 VERSE 2 - "AND WHEN THE PHARISEES SAW IT, THEY SAID TO 27:08 HIM," - THEY MUST HAVE JUST BEEN TRACKING HIM ALL THE TIME - 27:11 SPIES WATCHING HIM - "'LOOK, YOUR DISCIPLES ARE DOING WHAT IS 27:15 NOT LAWFUL TO DO ON THE SABBATH!'" 27:18 AND JESUS ANSWERED AND SAID, "HAVE YOU NOT READ WHAT DAVID 27:21 DID WHEN HE WAS HUNGRY, HE AND THOSE WHO WERE WITH HIM: " - AND 27:24 THAT'S IN 1 SAMUEL 21:6 - "'HOW HE ENTERED THE HOUSE OF GOD AND 27:28 ATE THE SHOWBREAD WHICH WAS NOT LAWFUL FOR HIM TO EAT, NOR FOR 27:31 THOSE WHO WERE WITH HIM, BUT ONLY FOR THE PRIESTS? 27:34 OR HAVE YOU NOT READ IN THE LAW THAT ON THE SABBATH THE PRIESTS 27:36 IN THE TEMPLE PROFANE THE SABBATH, AND ARE BLAMELESS? 27:39 YET I SAY TO YOU THAT IN THIS PLACE THERE IS ONE GREATER THAN 27:42 THE TEMPLE. BUT IF YOU HAD KNOWN WHAT THIS 27:45 MEANS, 'I DESIRE MERCY AND NOT SACRIFICE,' YOU WOULD NOT HAVE 27:49 CONDEMNED THE GUILTLESS." - JESUS IS SAYING WHAT THE 27:52 APOSTLES DID AND WHAT DAVID DID, THEY ARE GUILTLESS - "FOR THE 27:55 SON OF MAN IS LORD EVEN OF THE SABBATH." 27:58 ALRIGHT NOW, LET'S START WITH THE EXAMPLE THAT JESUS GIVES - 28:01 THE TEACHING JESUS GIVES - TALKING ABOUT THE GRAIN. 28:04 AND MANJEET, WHY DON'T YOU READ THAT VERSE TO US THAT'S FROM 28:06 DEUTERONOMY 23:25. 28:08 >>"WHEN YOU COME INTO YOUR NEIGHBOR'S STANDING GRAIN, YOU 28:12 MAY PLUCK THE HEADS WITH YOUR HAND, BUT YOU SHALL NOT USE A 28:19 SICKLE ON YOUR NEIGHBOR'S STANDING GRAIN." 28:23 >>DID YOU EVER SEE, IN INDIA, WHERE THEY HARVEST WITH A 28:25 SICKLE? I BET YOU DID, YEAH. 28:27 HOW MANY OF YOU - NOT TOO MANY OF YOU REMEMBER BECAUSE FOR THE 28:31 LAST 150 YEARS WE'VE HAD JOHN DEERE TRACTORS IN NORTH AMERICA, 28:34 BUT YOU GO TO MANY PARTS OF THE WORLD - YOU USED TO SEE IT IN 28:36 UKRAINE A FEW YEARS AGO - THEY HAVE THESE BIG - WHAT WAS ON THE 28:40 FLAG - THE RUSSIAN FLAG? IT'S A SICKLE. 28:44 BECAUSE IT WAS VERY COMMON, YOU KNOW, THEY HAD A HANDLE UP HERE, 28:47 A HOLDING PLACE DOWN HERE, A LONG, VERY, VERY SHARP KNIFE, 28:50 AND THE MEN WOULD GO THROUGH AND THEY'D GO LIKE THIS, AND HARVEST 28:53 THE GRAIN AND THE WOMEN WOULD COME AFTERWARD AND THEY WOULD 28:56 COLLECT AND YOU HAVE TO USE A SWEEPING MOTION BECAUSE YOU DO 28:58 IT ALL DAY LONG AND IT NEEDS TO BE VERY NATURAL. 29:01 AND THE WOMEN WOULD COME THROUGH AND OTHERS WOULD COME THROUGH 29:03 AND THEY'D GATHER THEM TOGETHER AND THEY'D TAKE THEM AND THEY'D 29:05 BEAT THE HEADS OFF IT AND EVENTUALLY THEY'D SEPARATE THE 29:09 CHAFF WITH THE WINNOWING FANS AND - 29:11 AND SO YOU WEREN'T ALLOWED - LET ME BACK UP. 29:15 I WANT TO READ SOMETHING ELSE TO YOU BEFORE I GET TO THAT. 29:18 LEVITICUS 23:22 - WERE THEY STEALING THIS PERSON'S GRAIN? 29:23 MAYBE IT WASN'T BREAKING THE SABBATH, BUT WERE THEY STEALING? 29:26 LEVITICUS 23, VERSE 22, MOSES SAID, "WHEN YOU REAP THE HARVEST 29:31 OF YOUR LAND, YOU SHALL NOT WHOLLY REAP THE CORNERS OF YOUR 29:35 FIELD WHEN YOU REAP, NOR SHALL YOU GATHER ANY GLEANING FROM 29:39 YOUR HARVEST. YOU SHALL LEAVE THEM FOR THE 29:41 POOR AND FOR THE STRANGER: I AM THE LORD YOUR GOD." 29:45 NOW AS YOU GO UP AND DOWN A FIELD AND THE TRACTORS TURN 29:48 AROUND - AND EVEN WHEN THEY'RE SCYTHING THEY TURN AROUND AND 29:51 COME BACK, YOU KNOW, IT'S SORT OF A CIRCULAR PROCESS WHEN 29:56 YOU'RE GOING UP AND - AND SOMETIMES THE CORNERS WERE THE 30:00 LAST THING YOU'D DO BECAUSE THEY KIND OF - THE LITTLE PIECES 30:03 THAT YOU MISSED IN THE CORNER. MOSES SAID, 'LEAVE THE CORNERS. 30:07 LET THE POOR HAVE SOMETHING THEY CAN EAT. 30:08 DON'T COMPLETELY SHAKE EVERY APPLE OUT OF YOUR TREE OR PICK 30:11 EVERY GRAPE OFF YOUR VINES, BUT LEAVE SOMETHING FOR THE POOR, 30:15 ESPECIALLY BY THE ROADS BY WHERE THEY TRAVEL. 30:18 GOD SAID THE LORD'LL BLESS THE REST OF IT IF YOU DO THIS.' SO 30:21 THE DISCIPLES HAD EVERY RIGHT, ACCORDING TO THE LAW OF MOSES, 30:24 TO GLEAN. THEY WERE WALKING AS THEY WERE DOING IT. 30:27 THEY WEREN'T CUTTING THE STUFF DOWN AND PUTTING IT IN A BAG. 30:29 THAT WOULD HAVE BEEN DIFFERENT. AND SO THEY'RE JUST GLEANING. 30:32 WHAT THEY'RE DOING IS PERFECTLY ACCEPTABLE. 30:34 THEY WERE NOT TAKING A SICKLE OUT. 30:36 WERE THEY BREAKING THE LAW OF GOD BY DOING THIS? 30:39 WERE THEY BREAKING THE SABBATH? ANYTHING WRONG WITH EATING ON 30:43 SABBATH? NO. IT SHOULD BE A BLESSING. 30:49 THEY WEREN'T BREAKING THE LAW OF MOSES. 30:51 THEY WEREN'T BREAKING THE SABBATH. 30:53 WHAT THEY WERE BREAKING IS A MAN-MADE TRADITION. 30:56 DIDN'T JESUS FREQUENTLY SAY, 'YOU HAVE A FINE WAY OF SETTING 31:01 ASIDE THE COMMANDMENTS OF GOD IN ORDER TO OBSERVE YOUR 31:03 TRADITION?' AND THE LORD TELLS US 'IN VAIN' 31:07 - HE SAYS IN MARK - 'IN VAIN DO THEY WORSHIP ME TEACHING FOR 31:10 DOCTRINES THE COMMANDMENTS OF MEN.' AND SO THERE WERE A LOT OF 31:14 MAN-MADE COMMANDMENTS THAT ACTUALLY WENT AGAINST THE 31:18 COMMANDMENTS OF GOD. ALL OF THE CONTENTION THAT JESUS 31:21 HAD WITH THEM REGARDING THE SABBATH - THEY ACCUSED HIM OF 31:24 SABBATH BREAKING. DID JESUS BREAK THE SABBATH? 31:26 NO, THE BIBLE SAYS JESUS SAID, 'I HAVE KEPT MY FATHER'S 31:30 COMMANDMENTS.' HE DIDN'T BREAK THE SABBATH. 31:32 THAT WOULD HAVE BEEN SIN. JESUS NEVER BROKE THE SABBATH DAY. 31:35 HE BROKE THEIR TRADITIONS OF THE SABBATH DAY. 31:38 THAT'S WHAT THAT IS TALKING ABOUT. 31:40 ALRIGHT, SO - AND THEN JESUS GOES ON - I JUST WANT TO TALK 31:43 ABOUT THE TEACHINGS OF CHRIST ON THE SABBATH. 31:45 JESUS GIVES TWO EXAMPLES IN MATTHEW 12. 31:48 REMEMBER HE SAID, 'HAVE YOU NOT READ WHAT DAVID DID?' NOW HOW 31:51 MANY OF YOU REMEMBER THE STORY THAT JESUS IS REFERRING TO? 31:54 DAVID IS RUNNING FROM KING SAUL AND IN RUNNING - 31:58 HE'S RUNNING FOR HIS LIFE. HE HAS NO FOOD. 32:01 HE MAYBE HAS A FEW MEN WITH HIM BECAUSE, AT THAT POINT, HE WAS A 32:03 CAPTAIN IN THE ARMY OF SAUL AND SO DAVID TELLS HIS MEN - 32:07 HE SAYS, YOU KNOW, 'WAIT HERE. 32:09 I'M GOING TO GO TALK TO THE PRIEST. 32:10 AND I WENT TO THE PRIEST AND HE SAID, 'DO YOU HAVE A SWORD?' - 32:12 'I'M ON URGENT BUSINESS.' AND HE SAID, 'WELL, 32:15 THE ONLY SWORD WE'VE GOT HERE IS GOLIATH'S SWORD.' DAVID SAID, 32:17 'I'LL TAKE IT. THERE'S NONE LIKE IT. AND, BY THE WAY, 32:19 I PROBABLY SHOULD OWN THAT ANYHOW BECAUSE I KILLED 32:22 THE GIANT.' AND SO HE GIVES HIM - GOLIATH'S GOT THIS GREAT BIG 32:25 LONG IRON SWORD. SO HE TAKES IT. HE SAYS, 32:28 'DO YOU HAVE ANY FOOD?' HE SAYS, 'SORRY, WE HAVE NO FOOD. 32:30 THE ONLY FOOD WE HAVE IS THE SHOWBREAD THAT WAS IN THE HOLY 32:35 OF HOLIES THAT THEY WOULD REPLACE. 32:37 AND HE SAID, 'YOU KNOW, WE COULD GIVE YOU THE OLD BREAD, BUT 32:40 THAT'S HOLY BREAD.' AND HE SAYS, 'WE'RE ON URGENT BUSINESS. 32:42 WE'RE HUNGRY.' AND HE SAID, 'WELL, THAT'LL BE OKAY.' 32:44 AND SO THEY GIVE DAVID THE BREAD. 32:46 SO JESUS IS POINTING BACK TO THAT EXPERIENCE AND HE'S SAYING 32:49 - DAVID WAS EATING BREAD THAT, TECHNICALLY, WAS HOLY BREAD THAT 32:53 WAS NOT TO BE EATEN BY THE COMMON PEOPLE, BUT IT WAS AN 32:56 EMERGENCY AND HE WAS ON THE KING'S BUSINESS. 32:59 AND SO SOMETIMES THINGS ARE JUST PRACTICAL. 33:02 YOU CAN READ A STORY WHERE IN - YOU KNOW, I DON'T HAVE THE 33:07 SCRIPTURE REFERENCE AT MY FINGERTIPS. 33:09 SOMEONE WILL HAVE TO FIND IT AND SHARE IT WITH ME LATER, BUT WHEN 33:11 THEY WERE RE-CLEANSING THE TEMPLE AND WHEN THEY WERE DOING 33:15 THE PASSOVER IN THE DAYS OF HEZEKIAH, THAT THE LEVITES THAT 33:18 WERE SUPPOSED TO DO IT DIDN'T HAVE TIME TO PROPERLY GO THROUGH 33:21 THE CLEANSING TO DO IT AND HE SAID, 'LORD, FORGIVE US BECAUSE 33:26 WE WEREN'T READY ON THE APPROPRIATE DAY.' AND GOD SAID, 33:29 YOU KNOW, HE WOULD FORGIVE THEM. SOMETIMES GOD WAS PRACTICAL. 33:34 AND SO, JESUS IS SAYING THEY WERE HUNGRY. FEED THEM. 33:37 AND THEN CHRIST USES THE EXAMPLE - HE SAID, 'ON THE SABBATH DAY' 33:41 - I WAS JUST TALKING TO A FRIEND YESTERDAY ABOUT LAST WEEK WAS A 33:45 VERY BUSY WEEK BECAUSE AS A PASTOR YOU'RE BUSY ON SABBATH - 33:49 WE HAD SOMETHING GOING SABBATH MORNING, SATURDAY NIGHT, SUNDAY 33:53 THERE WAS A WEDDING - INVOLVED IN THE WEDDING. 33:56 SUNDAY NIGHT HAD THE RADIO PROGRAM THEN GO TO AMAZING FACTS 33:59 THROUGH THE WEEK AND DO YOUR AMAZING FACTS AND CHURCH WORK 34:01 ALL WEEK LONG. AND I WAS TELLING HIM YESTERDAY, 34:04 I SAID, 'OH MAN, I COULD USE A BREAK.' HE SAID, 'YEAH, YOU GUYS 34:06 YOU WORK PRETTY HARD ON SABBATH.' HE SAID, 'FOR ME, I'LL 34:08 BE RESTING TOMORROW, BUT YOU GUYS ARE BUSY.' JESUS SAID THE 34:13 PRIESTS PROFANE - IT'S AN INTERESTING WORD THAT JESUS USED 34:17 - HE SAID, 'THE PRIESTS PROFANE THE SABBATH AND YET ARE 34:19 GUILTLESS.' NOW WHAT DID HE MEAN BY THAT? 34:22 WORK THAT THEY DO - THE PRIESTS - ON THE SACRIFICE THERE WERE 34:27 TWICE AS MANY - ON THE SABBATH DAY THERE WERE TWICE AS MANY 34:29 SACRIFICES AND SO THE PRIESTS WERE BUSY. 34:33 AND SOME OF THE LEVITES, THEY WERE KEEPING THE FIRE GOING ON 34:34 THE ALTAR. THEY WERE KEEPING FRESH WATER 34:36 COMING FOR THE LAVER. SO WHEN OUR DEACONS ARE TAKING 34:39 CARE OF THE BAPTISTRY ARE THEY BREAKING THE SABBATH ON SABBATH? 34:43 NO. THERE'S PRACTICAL THINGS THAT NEED TO BE DONE INVOLVED IN 34:46 THE WORSHIP OF GOD AND JESUS SAID, 'DON'T CONDEMN PEOPLE THAT 34:51 ARE DOING THESE THINGS' - NOW, I THINK THERE'S UNNECESSARY WORK 34:54 THAT SOMETIMES PEOPLE TRY TO SQUEEZE IN ON THE SABBATH THAT'S 34:56 NOT NECESSARY. WE OUGHT TO GET EVERYTHING OUT 34:59 OF THE WAY THAT WE CAN. IF THERE'S GOING TO BE A CHURCH 35:01 FELLOWSHIP DINNER, SET UP THE CHAIRS, IF YOU CAN, THE DAY 35:04 BEFORE, RIGHT? BUT WHAT IF YOU HAVE ANOTHER 35:08 MEETING AFTER YOU HAVE YOUR FELLOWSHIP DINNER AND YOU'VE GOT 35:11 TO MOVE THE CHAIRS OR THE TABLES? 35:14 YOU KNOW, IF IT'S PART OF A WORSHIP SERVICE, AN EVANGELISTIC 35:16 MEETING, SOMETIMES YOU HAVE TO DO THOSE THINGS. 35:19 AND SO THE PHARISEE WILL COME ALONG AND SAY, 'YOU'RE DOING 35:22 THAT WHICH IS NOT LAWFUL.' BUT JESUS IS SAYING, 'YOU KNOW, IF 35:26 IT'S INVOLVED IN THE WORSHIP OF GOD AND THE PRIESTS ARE 35:30 GUILTLESS WHEN THEY'RE DOING THESE THINGS. 35:32 AND THOSE WEREN'T JUST HIGH PRIESTS, THOSE WERE THE LEVITES 35:34 AS WELL. ANYBODY INVOLVED - THAT'S APPROPRIATE. 35:37 DOES THAT MAKE SENSE? OKAY, SO WE'VE GOT TO BE 35:40 PRACTICAL ABOUT IT. ALRIGHT, 'THE EXAMPLE OF JESUS' 35:42 IS OUR NEXT SECTION WHERE WE'RE TALKING ABOUT THESE THINGS. 35:46 AND SOMEBODY'S GOING TO LOOK UP LUKE 6:6. 35:50 OKAY, JOLYNE. LET'S GET YOU A MICROPHONE. 35:52 AND I'M GOING TO READ - WHAT'S THE EXAMPLE OF JESUS? 35:56 A CHRISTIAN IS A FOLLOWER OF CHRIST. 35:59 WHAT WAS JESUS' PRACTICE REGARDING THE SABBATH DAY? 36:03 "SO HE CAME TO NAZARETH, WHERE HE HAD BEEN BROUGHT UP. 36:08 AND HE SURPRISED EVERYBODY WHEN OUT OF NOWHERE HE WENT TO THE 36:11 SYNAGOGUE ON THE SABBATH." I JUST WONDER IF ANYONE'S 36:15 READING ALONG WITH ME. I'M SORRY, MAYBE I SHOULDN'T DO 36:18 THAT. I'M TEASING. IT ACTUALLY SAYS, "AND AS HIS 36:23 CUSTOM WAS, HE WENT INTO THE SYNAGOGUE ON THE SABBATH DAY, 36:28 AND STOOD UP TO READ." WHAT IS A CUSTOM? 36:31 WHEN IT SAYS HE - HE ENTERED NAZARETH - NOW THIS MEANS HE'S 36:35 BEGUN HIS PUBLIC MINISTRY WHEN HE GOT TO HIS HOMETOWN HE DID AS 36:39 HAD BEEN HIS CUSTOM GROWING UP. HE WENT INTO THE SYNAGOGUE AND 36:44 HE PARTICIPATED IN THE WORSHIP AND THEY ASKED HIM, AS A 36:48 VISITING FAMILY MEMBER, TO READ FROM THE BIBLE. 36:52 THAT WAS HIS CUSTOM. GOING TO CHURCH. READING THE BIBLE. 36:56 THAT'S A VERY SIMPLE LOOSE TRANSLATION. 36:58 THE PRACTICE OF JESUS, EVERY SABBATH DAY, WAS TO GO TO CHURCH 37:01 AND READ THE BIBLE. AND WE OUGHT TO BE DOING THAT 37:05 TOO IF THIS IS WHAT JESUS DID. ALRIGHT, READ FOR US LUKE 6:6. 37:10 >>"NOW IT HAPPENED ON ANOTHER SABBATH, ALSO, 37:13 THAT HE ENTERED THE SYNAGOGUE AND TAUGHT. 37:16 AND A MAN WAS THERE WHOSE RIGHT HAND WAS WITHERED." 37:20 >>OKAY. AND WE'LL GET TO WHAT HAPPENED 37:22 WITH THE MAN A LITTLE LATER WHEN WE TALK ABOUT MIRACLES OF THE 37:24 SABBATH. BUT DON'T MISS THE POINT. HERE'S ANOTHER SABBATH. 37:27 WE READ THE FIRST ONE, LUKE 4 AND HERE WE ARE - LUKE 6 - 37:30 "...IT HAPPENED ON ANOTHER SABBATH, ALSO, THAT HE ENTERED 37:32 THE SYNAGOGUE..." SO WAS IT A CUSTOM? 37:34 AND NOW YOU GO TO LUKE 13:10, "NOW HE WAS TEACHING IN ONE OF 37:40 THE SYNAGOGUES ON THE SABBATH." NOW IF LUKE, THREE TIMES - AND 37:45 LUKE IS A JEW OR A GENTILE? PAUL PROBABLY MET LUKE IN 37:49 MACEDONIA WHEN HE WAS PREACHING AMONG THE GENTILES. 37:52 THERE'S A GOOD CHANCE THAT LUKE IS A GENTILE AND SO HERE, THREE 37:57 TIMES, IT SAYS THAT THIS PRACTICE OF JESUS WAS - HE COULD 38:01 HAVE SAID 'HE WAS FOLLOWING THE JEWISH CUSTOM OF SABBATH 38:04 KEEPING.' BUT, YOU KNOW, EVERYTHING THAT LUKE SAYS - AND 38:08 LUKE WROTE HIS BOOK - HOW MANY OF YOU KNOW WHO LUKE WROTE TO? 38:12 THE GOSPEL OF LUKE IN THE BOOK OF ACTS, WRITTEN BY LUKE, WHO 38:15 WAS HE WRITING TO? THEOPHILUS - OH MAN, I KNOW IT BY HEART. 38:22 NOW I CAN'T SAY IT. THEOPHILUS. 38:23 AM I SAYING THAT RIGHT? HE'S WRITING TO A GREEK. 38:26 AND IT WOULD HAVE BEEN A GOOD TIME - BECAUSE LUKE TALKS ABOUT 38:30 A NUMBER OF JEWISH CUSTOMS AS HE WRITES, BUT HERE HE NEVER SAYS 38:34 ANYTHING ABOUT THE SABBATH, MEANING THAT IT WAS A 38:37 SELF-EVIDENT TRUTH TO ALL OF THE BELIEVERS THAT THEY KEPT THIS 38:41 COMMANDMENT. SO HE DOESN'T SAY, 'WELL, THAT WAS THE JEWISH 38:45 SABBATH AND, OF COURSE, WE'RE KEEPING THE CHRISTIAN SABBATH.' 38:47 HE STATES IT AS A FACT FOR ALL BELIEVERS ALL THROUGH HIS 38:50 WRITINGS. 'THIS WAS THE PRACTICE OF JESUS.' AND THEN YOU LOOK AT 38:55 EVEN THE DEATH OF CHRIST. LUKE 23, VERSE 56, "THEN THEY 39:02 RETURNED AND PREPARED SPICES AND FRAGRANT OILS. 39:05 AND THEY RESTED ON THE SABBATH DAY ACCORDING TO THE JEWISH 39:09 TRADITION." IS THAT WHAT HE SAYS? 39:12 "THEY RESTED ON THE SABBATH ACCORDING TO THE COMMANDMENT." 39:15 YOU GO TO LUKE 24, VERSE 1, "NOW ON THE FIRST DAY OF THE WEEK, 39:19 VERY EARLY IN THE MORNING, THEY, AND CERTAIN OTHER WOMEN 39:22 CAME TO THE TOMB BRINGING THE SPICES..." 39:24 AND THE OTHER GOSPELS SAY 'WHEN THE SABBATH WAS PASSED.' 39:28 NOW WE'RE TALKING HERE ABOUT THE PRACTICE OF JESUS AND THE 39:31 EXAMPLE OF JESUS - YOU'RE THINKING, 'PASTOR DOUG, WHY DID 39:33 YOU PUT THE EXAMPLE OF JESUS IN - WHY'D YOU PUT THIS VERSE IN 39:37 UNDER 'THE EXAMPLE OF JESUS?' WHAT DID JESUS TEACH HIS 39:42 DISCIPLES DURING THE THREE AND A HALF YEARS THAT HE WAS WITH 39:46 THEM, REGARDING HOW HE VALUED THE SABBATH? 39:50 WHATEVER HE WAS TEACHING THEM, HE CERTAINLY DID NOT TEACH THEM, 39:55 'DON'T WORRY ABOUT THE SABBATH DAY ANYMORE.' OR 'THIS IS A 39:57 JEWISH TRADITION, SOON TO PASS AWAY.' THE DISCIPLES OF JESUS 40:02 WERE SO CAREFUL ABOUT SABBATH OBSERVANCE, THAT EVEN WHEN IT 40:07 MEANT HIS BODY NEEDED TO BE EMBALMED ON 40:10 THE SABBATH DAY - FRIDAY AFTERNOON HE DIED. 40:14 THEY HURRIED - THEY WENT TO PILATE - THEY DIDN'T WANT THE 40:16 BODIES LEFT ON THE CROSS DURING THE SABBATH - ESPECIALLY SINCE 40:20 IT WAS A HIGH SABBATH BEING - DURING THE PASSOVER - THAT THE 40:24 DISCIPLES DID ALL THEY COULD AND THEY SAID, 'WE WILL NOT BE ABLE 40:28 TO FINISH EMBALMING HIS BODY BEFORE THE SUN GOES DOWN. 40:31 WE WILL COME BACK SUNDAY MORNING BECAUSE THE FULL THREE DAYS WILL 40:34 NOT HAVE PASSED YET BETWEEN SATURDAY - BETWEEN FRIDAY 40:37 AFTERNOON AND SUNDAY MORNING. THEY FIGURED THAT AFTER A PERSON 40:41 DIED, IF THREE 24-HOUR PERIODS WENT BY, DECAY HAD SET IN AND 40:47 YOU HAD TO EMBALM THEM BEFORE THAT TIME. 40:49 REMEMBER WHEN LAZARUS WAS DEAD FOUR DAYS, MARTHA PROTESTED WHEN 40:52 JESUS SAID, 'ROLL AWAY THE STONE' BECAUSE SHE SAID, 40:54 'HE'LL STINK. DECAY WILL HAVE SET IN.' 40:57 BUT THEY COULD STILL FINISH EMBALMING HIS BODY SUNDAY 41:00 MORNING BECAUSE BETWEEN FRIDAY NIGHT AND SUNDAY MORNING YOU 41:03 DON'T HAVE THREE 24-HOUR PERIODS. 41:05 THE THREE DAYS AND THREE NIGHTS THAT JESUS TALKS ABOUT IN 41:08 MATTHEW CHAPTER 12 IS NOT TALKING ABOUT THREE DAYS AND 41:11 NIGHTS IN THE TOMB, IT'S TALKING ABOUT FROM THE BEGINNING OF HIS 41:14 SUFFERING THURSDAY NIGHT AND THAT'S - 41:17 ANYWAY, THAT'S A DIFFERENT STUDY. 41:19 BUT THE SABBATH WAS SO IMPORTANT TO JESUS THE DISCIPLES WOULD NOT 41:23 EVEN FINISH THEIR LABOR OF LOVE EMBALMING HIM FOR FEAR OF DOING 41:30 SOMETHING THEY KNOW WOULD NOT PLEASE JESUS BECAUSE BY THE 41:34 EXAMPLE OF JESUS, THEY SAW HE WAS VERY CAREFUL TO OBSERVE THE 41:38 SABBATH. CHRIST, ON THE SABBATH DAY, 41:41 MIGHT HEAL PEOPLE. HE WAS A CARPENTER. 41:43 DO YOU EVER FIND JESUS MAKING A CHAIR OR BUILDING A HOUSE OR 41:47 DOING CARPENTER-LIKE THINGS ON THE SABBATH DAY? NO. 41:51 DOES HE EVER TELL PETER, JAMES, AND JOHN, 'IT'S SABBATH. 41:55 I DON'T WANT TO EAT THE GRAIN OUT OF THE FIELDS. 41:57 LET'S GO FISHING.' NO, THEY DON'T DO THAT, DO THEY? 42:03 YOU'D BE SURPRISED. 42:04 THERE ARE PROBABLY SOME PROFESSED SABBATH KEEPERS OUT 42:06 THERE WHO FIND EXCUSES TO GO FISHING BEING AT ONE WITH GOD 42:10 AND NATURE ON THE SABBATH DAY.' BUT JESUS DIDN'T DO THAT AND SO 42:16 THE DISCIPLES - THE OTHER THING TO THINK ABOUT: JESUS 42:21 COMPLETED HIS WORK OF SAVING MAN ON FRIDAY AFTERNOON. 42:27 HE SAID, 'IT IS FINISHED.' AS GOD FINISHED CREATING MAN ON THE 42:31 SIXTH DAY OF THE WEEK JESUS SAID, 'IT IS FINISHED.' HE 42:35 RESTED IN THE TOMB ALL THROUGH THE SABBATH. 42:38 JESUS REFERRED TO DEATH AS A SLEEP. 42:41 HE RESTED IN THE TOMB THROUGH THE SABBATH. 42:43 HE ROSE SUNDAY MORNING NOT TO INAUGURATE IT AS A NEW SABBATH, 42:47 BUT TO BEGIN HIS WORK FOR US AS OUR HIGH PRIEST ASCENDING TO THE 42:51 PRESENCE OF THE FATHER. AND SO, YOU KNOW, WHAT HAPPENED 42:56 WITH THE EXAMPLE OF JESUS WITH HIS DEATH AND HIS RESURRECTION 43:00 FORTIFIES THE TRUTH OF THE SABBATH. 43:02 IT DOES NOT ESTABLISH A DIFFERENT SABBATH. 43:05 AND SO, YES HE DID APPEAR TO THE DISCIPLES IN THE UPPER ROOM ON 43:10 THE FIRST DAY OF THE WEEK AND HE APPEARED MANY OTHER TIMES. 43:14 HE APPEARED TO JAMES. HE APPEARED TO PETER. 43:18 HE APPEARED TO TWO ON THE ROAD TO EMMAUS. 43:20 HE APPEARED TO FIVE HUNDRED, PAUL SAYS, AT ANOTHER TIME. 43:22 HE APPEARED ALL DIFFERENT TIMES. HE APPEARED BY THE SEA - 43:25 REMEMBER WHEN THEY WENT FISHING IN JOHN 21? 43:28 SO THE IDEA, BECAUSE HE APPEARED ON CERTAIN DAYS, IT BECAME A NEW 43:31 SABBATH - YOU CAN'T SUPPORT THAT FROM THE BIBLE BECAUSE HE 43:33 APPEARED MULTIPLE TIMES ON MULTIPLE DIFFERENT DAYS. 43:36 ALRIGHT, SO THE EXAMPLE OF JESUS WAS THAT HE HAD A HIGH 43:40 REGARD FOR THE SEVENTH-DAY SABBATH. 43:42 ALRIGHT, 'MIRACLES OF JESUS' - MIRACLES ON THE SABBATH. 43:45 SOMEONE - LET ME SEE HERE - YOU KNOW WHAT, I DIDN'T GIVE OUT A 43:50 SCRIPTURE FOR THIS SECTION, SORRY. 43:52 TELL YOU WHAT, WE'LL JUST WING IT. 43:53 DOES SOMEONE WANT TO LOOK UP FOR ME MARK 32, VERSE 34? 43:58 YOU GUYS WANT TO FIGHT IT OUT? MIKE? 44:02 ALRIGHT, WE'LL GET YOU A MICROPHONE RIGHT HERE. 44:03 WHERE'S THE MIC? THEY'RE PASSING IT - LOOK OVER 44:06 YOUR SHOULDER. I WANT MARK 1:32 THROUGH 34. 44:12 WE'LL GET READY FOR YOU IN JUST A MOMENT. 44:15 I'M GOING TO READ MATTHEW 9:35, "THEN JESUS WENT ABOUT ALL THE 44:20 CITIES AND VILLAGES, TEACHING IN THEIR SYNAGOGUES," - NOW WHAT 44:24 DAY OF THE WEEK DID HE TEACH IN THE SYNAGOGUE? 44:26 DID WE JUST READ THAT? EVERY SABBATH HE WENT TO THE 44:29 SYNAGOGUE. THEY DIDN'T GO TO THE SYNAGOGUE EVERY DAY. 44:32 THEY HAD WORK TO DO. SIX DAYS THOU SHALT WORK. 44:35 "THEN JESUS WENT ABOUT ALL THE CITIES AND VILLAGES, TEACHING IN 44:38 THEIR SYNAGOGUES, PREACHING THE GOSPEL OF THE KINGDOM," - BY THE 44:42 WAY, PAUL AND THE EARLY APOSTLES - WHAT WAS THEIR CUSTOM AS THEY 44:47 WENT OUT PREACHING AND TEACHING? PAUL, WHENEVER HE WENT TO A NEW 44:50 TOWN HE MET WITH THE JEWS FIRST IN THE SYNAGOGUES. 44:53 AS HE WENT THROUGH ASIA THERE WERE JEWISH SETTLEMENTS ALL 44:55 THROUGH THE ROMAN EMPIRE. HE WENT INTO THE SYNAGOGUES. 44:58 HE PREACHED TO THEM FIRST AND THEN, IF THE JEWS BELIEVED, 45:01 GREAT. SOME OF THEM DIDN'T BELIEVE THEN 45:02 HE'D PREACH TO THE GENTILES ON THE SABBATH IN THE SYNAGOGUES. 45:06 AND SO, THEY WERE FOLLOWING THE EXAMPLE OF JESUS, GOING FROM 45:09 TOWN TO TOWN, VISITING THE SYNAGOGUES, CITIES AND COUNTRY - 45:13 WE NEED A COUNTRY WORK AND A CITY WORK - NOTICE THAT. 45:16 HE WENT TO CITIES AND VILLAGES, ISN'T THAT RIGHT? 45:19 COUNTRIES AND CITIES - "TEACHING IN THEIR SYNAGOGUES, PREACHING" 45:23 - IS THERE A DIFFERENCE BETWEEN TEACHING AND PREACHING? YEAH. 45:27 TEACHING IS A LITTLE MORE INTERACTIVE. 45:29 PREACHING IS YOU'RE JUST KIND OF PROCLAIMING AND ONE SIDE IS 45:31 SPEAKING AND ONE SIDE'S LISTENING - "HEALING EVERY 45:35 SICKNESS AND EVERY DISEASE AMONG THE PEOPLE." 45:38 SOME OF THAT HEALING TOOK PLACE ON THE SABBATH DAY. 45:41 NOW THEY WERE TAUGHT - THE JEWISH PEOPLE HAD BEEN TAUGHT BY 45:46 THE RABBIS, 'DO NOT GO TO THE PHYSICIAN ON SABBATH BECAUSE HE 45:49 SHOULDN'T HAVE TO WORK THEN.' THAT'S WORK. 45:52 AND I WILL SAY, IF A PERSON IS REALLY AILING, SHOULD YOU GO TO 46:00 THE DOCTOR OR THE EMERGENCY ROOM ON THE SABBATH DAY? 46:03 OF COURSE YOU SHOULD. ARE THERE CERTAIN MEDICAL TREATMENTS THAT 46:08 YOU MIGHT RECEIVE THAT ARE ELECTIVE AND YOU CAN SCHEDULE 46:10 THEM? SHOULD YOU SCHEDULE THEM ON SABBATH? NO. 46:16 AND SO, IF IT'S NOT AN EMERGENCY OR CAUSING GREAT DISCOMFORT, 46:19 DON'T DO IT ON SABBATH, DO IT ANOTHER DAY, RIGHT? 46:23 BECAUSE NOT ONLY WILL YOU BE DISTRACTED FROM YOUR REGULAR 46:25 WORSHIP ON THAT DAY, BUT THE OTHERS THAT ARE SERVING YOU 46:29 DON'T HAVE THAT BENEFIT AS WELL, WHETHER OR NOT THEY'RE SABBATH 46:32 KEEPERS, BY YOUR EXAMPLE AND WORD YOU SHOULDN'T, YOU KNOW, 46:35 FORCE IT. SO THEY BELIEVED THAT THEY 46:38 SHOULD WAIT UNTIL THE SABBATH WAS OVER TO BE HEALED. 46:40 THAT'S WHY YOU'RE GOING TO READ YOUR NEXT VERSE. 46:43 MIKE, GO AHEAD. MARK 1:32. 46:46 >>MARK 1, VERSES 32 THROUGH 34, "AT EVENING, WHEN THE SUN HAD 46:50 SET, THEY BROUGHT TO HIM ALL WHO WERE SICK AND THOSE WHO WERE 46:54 DEMON-POSSESSED. AND THE WHOLE CITY WAS GATHERED 46:57 TOGETHER AT THE DOOR. THEN HE HEALED MANY WHO WERE 47:01 SICK WITH VARIOUS DISEASES, AND CAST OUT MANY DEMONS; AND HE DID 47:05 NOT ALLOW THE DEMONS TO SPEAK, BECAUSE THEY KNEW HIM." 47:09 >>ALRIGHT, YOU NOTICE HERE - IT SAYS, 'AT EVEN WHEN THE SUN DID 47:13 SET.' SO WHAT DID THEY DO? THEY WAITED UNTIL THE SUN WENT 47:17 DOWN AND THEN HE BEGAN TO HEAL THEM. 47:22 THEY WERE AFRAID TO COME BEFORE THAT. SO 'AT EVEN WHEN THE SUN 47:25 SET' THEY HAD BEEN PROGRAMMED THAT WAY. 47:28 THEN IF YOU LOOK IN LUKE 4, VERSE 40, "WHEN THE SUN WAS 47:32 SETTING, ALL THOSE WHO HAD ANY THAT WERE SICK WITH VARIOUS" - 47:36 AND THIS IS, AGAIN, FOLLOWING THE SABBATH - "WHEN THE SUN WAS 47:38 SETTING, ALL THOSE WHO HAD ANY THAT WERE SICK WITH VARIOUS 47:41 DISEASES BROUGHT THEM TO HIM; AND HE LAID HIS HANDS ON 47:44 EVERYONE OF THEM AND HEALED THEM." 47:45 SO JESUS RESPECTED THIS AND IN MOST CASES HE DID NOT HEAL ON 47:49 SABBATH, WHY? BECAUSE IT'S ALWAYS WRONG OR 47:52 BECAUSE HE WAS TRYING NOT TO CAUSE A STIR? 47:55 HE KNEW THAT IT WOULD JUST TROUBLE HIS WORK. 47:58 HOW MANY OF YOU REMEMBER WHEN HE HEALED THE MAN AT THE POOL OF 48:00 BETHESDA? WHAT DAY OF THE WEEK WAS THAT? 48:03 IT WAS SABBATH - AND HE WANTED HIM TO JUST KIND OF 'TAKE YOUR 48:06 HEALING AND GO QUIETLY' BUT SOMEBODY SAW HIM CARRYING HIS 48:09 MAT - IT SAYS, 'CARRYING HIS BED' - THEIR BEDS WERE LIKE A 48:12 ROLLED UP MAT IS ALL IT WAS - AND HE WAS CARRYING HIS MAT AND 48:15 THEY SAID, 'OH, YOU'RE DOING WHAT IS UNLAWFUL ON THE SABBATH 48:17 DAY.' WELL, JESUS SAID YOU SHOULDN'T CONDEMN THE GUILTLESS. 48:21 THERE WAS NOTHING WRONG - THE MAN HAD JUST BEEN HEALED - 48:23 HE HADN'T WALKED IN 38 YEARS AND SO IF HE'S CARRYING HIS MAT 48:26 HOME, YOU KNOW, YOU CAN SEE THAT THEY HAD MISAPPLIED THESE 48:31 TEACHINGS ON THE SABBATH. AND YOU LOOK IN JOHN 5, VERSE 48:35 16, "FOR THIS REASON THE JEWS PERSECUTED JESUS, AND SOUGHT TO 48:40 KILL HIM, BECAUSE HE HAD DONE THESE THINGS ON THE SABBATH. 48:44 BUT JESUS ANSWERED THEM, 'MY FATHER HAS BEEN WORKING 48:48 UNTIL NOW, AND I HAVE BEEN WORKING." 48:50 NOW THE PROCESS OF HEALING, 99.99% OF THE HEALING THAT 48:57 HAPPENS HAS NOTHING TO DO WITH DOCTORS. 49:01 IT HAS NOTHING TO DO WITH MIRACLES. 49:04 YOU ARE BEING HEALED ALL THE TIME. 49:06 EVERY TIME YOU SKIN YOUR KNEE OR YOU CUT YOURSELF OR YOU BUMP 49:10 YOURSELF OR YOU'VE GOT SOME KIND OF AILMENT, YOUR BODY IS 49:12 FIGHTING TO HEAL ALL THE TIME. EVEN ON SABBATH IS YOUR BODY 49:18 EXPERIENCING THE HEALING PROCESS? 49:21 AND SO, WHEN JESUS SAYS, 'MY FATHER IS WORKING.' JESUS SAID, 49:25 'GOD IS HEALING PEOPLE, FEEDING PEOPLE, LISTENING TO PRAYERS. 49:28 HE IS WORKING ALL THE TIME.' HE SAYS, 'I AM COMING TO DO THE 49:32 WORK OF GOD IN HEALING AND SO, IF I HEAL A PERSON RADICALLY OR 49:37 QUICKLY OR RAPIDLY ON THE SABBATH DAY AND MY FATHER HEALS 49:41 THEM SLOWLY THROUGH THE - IT'S EVEN JESUS - THROUGH THE NORMAL 49:45 HEALING PROCESS, WHAT'S THE DIFFERENCE? 49:49 I'M JUST ACCELERATING THE MIRACLE OF HEALING ON THE 49:51 SABBATH DAY.' SO THAT'S WHAT HE'S SAYING, 'MY FATHER'S BEEN 49:53 WORKING UNTIL NOW AND I HAVE BEEN WORKING.' GOD IS ALWAYS 49:56 SUPPLYING YOUR NEEDS. AND THEN - LET ME GIVE YOU ONE MORE. 50:01 LUKE 13:15, AGAIN TALKING ABOUT A HEALING, "THE LORD THEN 50:05 ANSWERED HIM AND SAID," - THERE WAS A WOMAN WHO WAS BENT OVER 50:08 18 YEARS - SHE HAD NOT BEEN ABLE TO STRAIGHTEN UP AND JESUS 50:14 WAS ABOUT TO HEAL HER - AND IT'S IN THE SYNAGOGUE - AND IT WAS 50:17 SUCH A PITIFUL CASE AND HE THOUGHT, 'YOU KNOW, I CAN'T BEAR 50:20 TO MAKE THIS LADY WAIT UNTIL SUNDOWN TO HEAL HER, 50:22 I'M HERE NOW. AND HE SAID, "'HYPOCRITE! 50:26 DOES NOT EACH ONE OF YOU ON THE SABBATH LOOSE HIS OX OR DONKEY 50:30 FROM THE STALL, AND LEAD IT AWAY TO WATER IT?'" NOT ALL OF THE 50:32 FARMERS BACK THEN HAD RUNNING WATER IN THEIR BARNS. 50:35 IF THEY WANTED TO WATER THEIR ANIMALS THEY HAD TO HAUL THE 50:37 WATER TO THE ANIMAL OR HAUL THE ANIMAL TO THE WATER, RIGHT? 50:41 YOU KNOW, YOU'VE HEARD IT SAID YOU CAN LEAD A HORSE TO WATER - 50:43 THEY USED TO LEAD THE HORSE TO WHERE THE WATER WAS - LET HIM - 50:46 ISN'T IT EASIER RATHER THAN CARRYING BUCKET AFTER BUCKET OF 50:49 WATER TO A HORSE, JUST LEAD THE HORSE TO THE WATER? 50:52 SO THAT'S WHAT THEY DO. 50:54 THEIR DONKEY, THEIR HORSE, THEIR OX - BY THE WAY, ALL UNCLEAN 50:56 ANIMALS THAT ARE MENTIONED - OR THE OX ISN'T UNCLEAN, SORRY - SO 51:00 IT WAS THE CLEAN AND THE UNCLEAN IS WHAT I MEANT TO SAY - AND HE 51:04 SAID, 'IF YOU WOULD DO THAT WHAT'S WRONG WITH TAKING CARE OF 51:08 THE PRACTICAL NEEDS OF A HUMAN ON THE SABBATH DAY? 51:11 YOU'LL DO IT FOR AN ANIMAL, HOW MUCH MORE IMPORTANT IS A HUMAN? 51:15 ALRIGHT, 'THE SABBATH AFTER THE RESURRECTION.' SOMEONE LOOK UP 51:18 FOR ME ACTS 13:42, WHO HAS THAT VERSE? 51:22 WE GAVE THAT SLIP TO SOMEBODY - RIGHT HERE. 51:25 LET'S GET YOU A MICROPHONE. HOLD YOUR HAND UP SO - 51:26 WHERE'S THE MIC? PASS IT BACK. OKAY? 51:31 ALRIGHT, 'THE SABBATH AFTER THE RESURRECTION.' SO EVEN AFTER 51:35 JESUS HAS ASCENDED TO HEAVEN, WHAT IS THE PRACTICE OF THOSE 51:37 WHO LISTENED TO THE TEACHINGS OF JESUS? 51:39 OUR LESSON IS ON THE TEACHINGS OF JESUS. 51:42 NOW WE'RE GOING TO LOOK AT WHAT HIS IMMEDIATE DISCIPLES BELIEVED 51:45 ABOUT THE SABBATH THEY'D BEEN TAUGHT BY JESUS. 51:48 ACTS 13:14, "BUT WHEN THEY DEPARTED FROM PERGA, THEY CAME 51:52 TO ANTIOCH IN PISIDIA, AND WENT INTO THE SYNAGOGUE ON THE 51:56 SABBATH DAY AND SAT DOWN." - SO NOW THEY'RE UP IN ASIA AND 51:59 THEY'RE GOING THERE DOING THE SAME THING JESUS DID. 52:05 ACTS 16, VERSE 13, "AND ON THE SABBATH DAY WE WENT OUT OF THE 52:08 CITY TO THE RIVERSIDE, WHERE PRAYER WAS CUSTOMARILY MADE; AND 52:13 WE SAT DOWN AND SPOKE TO THE WOMEN WHO MET THERE." 52:16 SO EVEN ON THE SABBATH DAY, PAUL - HE'S NOT MAKING TENTS - PAUL 52:20 IS GOING AND HE'S GATHERING TOGETHER WITH THE PEOPLE, BY THE 52:24 WAY, THE GENTILES WORKED ON THE SABBATH DAY, THROUGHOUT THE 52:28 GRECIAN/ROMAN EMPIRE. I SAY GRECIAN BECAUSE THEY HAD A 52:32 LOT - THEY SPOKE GREEK - IT'S THE ROMAN EMPIRE. 52:34 BUT PAUL, HE'S NOT MAKING TENTS ON THAT DAY. 52:37 HE GOES FOR A PLACE - SABBATH'S A GOOD TIME TO DO BIBLE STUDIES 52:41 AND HE FINDS A PLACE - THE WOMEN ALL RESORTED DOWN BY THE RIVER - 52:45 MAYBE SOME OF THEM WERE WASHING CLOTHES AND HE AND, I THINK IT 52:49 WAS SILAS IN THIS CASE, THEY'RE PREACHING TO THE WOMEN THAT ARE 52:52 THERE. ALRIGHT, GO AHEAD, READ FOR US - 52:54 WHO HAS - OH, YOU'VE GOT IT - ACTS 13:42. 52:59 >>"SO WHEN THE JEWS WENT OUT OF THE SYNAGOGUE, THE GENTILES 53:04 BEGGED THAT THESE WORDS MIGHT BE PREACHED TO THEM 53:09 THE NEXT SABBATH." >>THANK YOU. NOTICE, IT'S NOT 53:12 JUST THE JEWS, THE GENTILES SAID, 'NEXT' - WHEN? 53:17 HOW COME THEY DIDN'T SAY, 'NEXT SUNDAY PREACH TO US?' 53:20 WOULDN'T THAT - WHY DIDN'T PAUL SAY, 'WELL, YOU'RE GENTILES. 53:23 THE JEWS GO SABBATH BUT I'M GOING TO PREACH TO YOU TOMORROW, 53:26 SUNDAY.' NO, HE ACCEPTED - THIS IS THE DAY OF WORSHIP. 53:30 THIS IDEA THAT SUNDAY IS THE SABBATH DAY REALLY CAN'T 53:32 BE SUPPORTED BY THE NEW TESTAMENT. 53:34 AND SO, EVEN AFTER THE RESURRECTION - OH, AND FOR ME, A 53:39 REAL SLAM-DUNK SCRIPTURE IS WHERE JESUS IS TALKING ABOUT HIS 53:42 SECOND COMING AND THE TIME OF TROUBLE THAT'S GOING TO COME ON 53:45 THE WORLD - MATTHEW 24:20 - SPEAKING TO BELIEVERS 53:48 EVERYWHERE, "PRAY THAT YOUR FLIGHT" - HE'S NOT TALKING ABOUT 53:52 ON DELTA OR UNITED AIRLINES, HE'S TALKING ABOUT FLEEING FOR 53:55 YOUR LIFE - "PRAY THAT YOUR FLIGHT MAY NOT BE IN THE WINTER 53:58 OR ON THE SABBATH." 54:00 THE DAY MAY COME WHEN YOU SEE PERSECUTION RISING AND THOSE 54:04 THAT BE IN JUDEA FLEE INTO THE MOUNTAINS. 54:07 SOME HAVE SAID, 'WELL, THE REASON JESUS SAID THAT IS 54:09 BECAUSE THEY WOULD CLOSE THE GATES OF THE CITY ON THE SABBATH 54:12 DAY AND THEY DIDN'T WANT TO GET LOCKED INTO THE CITY.' NO, 54:16 THAT'S NOT TRUE. IN THE DAYS OF NEHEMIAH THEY 54:18 CLOSED THE GATES OF THE CITY ON THE SABBATH DAY. 54:20 BY THE TIME OF CHRIST, WHEN THE ROMANS OCCUPIED THEM, THEY DID 54:23 NOT CLOSE THE GATES OF THE CITY ON THE SABBATH DAY. 54:25 SO IF YOU HEAR THAT, THAT IS TOTALLY WRONG - IT'S NOT TRUE. 54:29 AND SO JESUS IS LOOKING DOWN IN TIME ASSUMING THAT HIS FOLLOWERS 54:34 WOULD STILL BE SABBATH KEEPERS. YOU WOULDN'T WANT TO HAVE TO 54:38 FLEE IN THE WINTER WHEN THERE'S NO FOOD AVAILABLE IN THE FIELDS. 54:42 YOU CAN'T LIVE OFF THE LAND VERY WELL - IT'S COLD AND YOU DON'T 54:45 WANT TO FLEE ON THE SABBATH DAY WHEN, 54:47 OBVIOUSLY, IT'S NOT IN KEEPING WITH REST. 54:51 AND WE SHOULD BE PRAYING NOW ABOUT THAT, JESUS SAID. 54:53 THAT'S WHAT HE SAID, 'PRAY THAT YOUR FLIGHT IS NOT IN THE WINTER 54:57 OR ON THE SABBATH.' SO THE TEACHINGS OF JESUS REGARDING THE 55:00 FUTURE - DID HE ANTICIPATE HIS PEOPLE WOULD BE KEEPING THE 55:03 SABBATH? AND EVEN IN REVELATION - THE 55:07 VISION OF JOHN - 'I WAS IN THE SPIRIT ON THE LORD'S DAY.' SOME 55:11 HAVE SAID, 'OH, THAT'S SUNDAY. THAT'S THE LORD'S DAY.' REALLY? 55:16 SOMEONE LOOK UP FOR ME EXODUS 20, VERSE 10 - WHO HAS THAT? 55:21 DID I GIVE THAT TO ANYBODY? I'M MISSING - OH! 55:25 OVER HERE - LET'S GET A MICROPHONE TO JENNIFER AND I'LL 55:29 READ ISAIAH 58:13, "IF YOU TURN AWAY YOUR FOOT FROM THE SABBATH, 55:35 FROM DOING YOUR PLEASURE ON MY HOLY DAY," - 55:38 WHAT IS THE LORD'S DAY? 55:40 HE CALLS THE SABBATH 'MY HOLY DAY.' RIGHT? 55:46 AND YOU CAN SEE MANY PLACES IN THE BIBLE WHERE IT REFERS TO THE 55:49 SABBATH AS A DAY - DID MAN THINK UP THE SABBATH? 55:53 OR DID THE LORD PICK IT? DIDN'T JESUS SAY THE SON OF MAN 55:57 IS LORD OF THE SABBATH? SO WHAT IS THE LORD'S DAY? 56:01 ALRIGHT GO AHEAD, JENNIFER, READ THAT FOR US.' 56:03 >>"BUT THE SEVENTH DAY IS THE SABBATH OF THE LORD YOUR GOD." 56:07 >>SO WHEN JOHN SAYS, 'I WAS IN THE SPIRIT ON THE LORD'S DAY.' - 56:10 I'VE HEARD SOME VERY INTERESTING ARGUMENTS THAT THAT WAS SUNDAY, 56:12 BUT EVERYTHING I FIND IN THE BIBLE ABOUT THE LORD'S DAY - HE 56:16 CALLS - IF THERE IS A PARTICULAR DAY OF THE WEEK THAT IS HIS DAY, 56:20 IT'S THE SABBATH DAY, AMEN? 56:24 OH FRIENDS, THERE'S A LITTLE MORE I COULD SAY ABOUT THAT, BUT 56:26 WE COVERED THE BULK OF THE LESSON. 56:28 HEY, ONE MORE THING, IF YOU DON'T MIND, SABBATH SCHOOL IS A 56:30 GOOD TIME TO TALK ABOUT EVANGELISM. 56:33 WE'VE GOT AN EVANGELISTIC OPPORTUNITY COMING. 56:35 DON'T FORGET THAT IN A FEW WEEKS AMAZING FACTS IS GOING TO BE 56:39 BROADCASTING, NATIONALLY, A SPECIAL PROPHECY PROGRAM CALLED 56:43 'LANDMARKS OF PROPHECY, COMING TO YOU FROM ALBUQUERQUE, NEW 56:46 MEXICO AND IT WILL BE ON ALL AROUND THE COUNTRY ON 3ABN AND 56:50 AMAZING FACTS TELEVISION. 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