Good evening everyone.
Let's take out our study
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guides, have a word of
prayer and get right into
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our information this
evening, we've got an exciting
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message in store for you "The
Rock that Simply Will Not Roll"
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"Part 2." So
let's begin with a word
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of prayer and we'll dive
right in to our message proper.
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Father in heaven, we come before
You this evening and we are
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anticipating a blessing.
Father, we are coming to You
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because you are a prayer
hearing, prayer answering God.
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We know that You will hear,
and more than that, You will
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answer. Father,
the cry of our heart
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tonight is for Biblical truth.
So please tonight, as we open
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Your word, may You send
the Spirit that inspired these
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Scriptures to now be the
Spirit that instructs in these
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Scriptures.
Father, You have promised
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to send the Spirit of truth
to guide us into all truth.
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Tonight the yearning,
craving desire of our hearts
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is for Biblical truth.
So please be with us this
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evening, and may we have an
experience, a rich experience
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with You in Your word.
We ask this in Jesus' name,
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let everyone say "amen".
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Okay, so let's go right to
our study guide, and instead
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of reading that whole,
great big long paragraph there
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what I'd like you to do is
look down about mid way through,
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it says "We have seen that
the dividing issue at the end"
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"of time will be
the issue of worship."
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Additionally we have seen
that the Antichrist will be
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a subtle religious
impostor more than a violent
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political
opposer. We have emphasized
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the importance of standing
on the rock of Christ, His word,
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and His perfect law of
love. Now we are poised to grasp
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one of the issues, the most
significant issues in the book
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of Revelation in
its larger significance.
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What issue strikes at the heart
of worship, Biblical fidelity,
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tradition versus
the commandments of God,
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and the subtle religious
sophistries of Satan, we will
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answer that important
question in this lesson.
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So let's go directly to
the screen, how many of you
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remember that old TV show,
I think it was called Dragnet,
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where the old fellow
would say "Just the facts man,"
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"just the facts."
Okay, today I'm going to
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give you just the
facts, nothing but the facts.
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[text on screen]
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How many of you
want Bible truth?
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Very good, let's
notice our next slide.
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Notice the top says "truth
can hurt", but the bottoms says
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"error can
kill", do you see that?
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Truth sometimes hurts, but truth
is always better than error.
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Remember the other day we
said that the difference between
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a surgeon and butcher is
that a butcher cuts to kill
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and a surgeon cuts to
heal. God is not a butcher,
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He's a surgeon, and tonight
I'm going to perfectly candid
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with you, some of you are
going to be cut a little bit,
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but remember, God never
sends His truth to hurt us
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or to humiliate us, but
to enlighten us so we can be
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faithful and obedient to Him.
Listen to this: [text on screen]
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I'm looking across the
room at a good friend of mine,
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Al Green, and Al Green
does my taxes; I expect Al Green
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to tell me the truth about
what I owe the US government
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on my taxes, that's the
professional expectation
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that I have of Al Green.
Shouldn't we want our preachers
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and teachers to do
the same? [Audience] Yes.
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Isn't that right? If
we have the expectation
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that our accountant tells us the
truth, and our banker tells us
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the truth, and our doctor
tells us the truth, and our
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lawyer tells us the truth, we
should have the same expectation
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of those who work and
who deal with eternal truth.
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So that's what we're
going to be doing today.
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[text on screen]
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Open your Bibles to
the book of Revelation.
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Revelation 14.
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Here in Revelation 14 we find
what is sometimes referred to
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as the 3 angel's messages, and
we'll spend more time on this
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in the future. These
are 3 very important,
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very significant messages
that are given by angels.
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The word "angel" in the
Greek simply means "the bearer"
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"of a message", and
here there are 3 messages.
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Let's just take a quick look
at the first angel's message,
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Revelation 14:6, John
says: "Then I saw another"
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"angel flying in the midst of
heaven", so this is a heavenly
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message, "having the everlasting
gospel to preach to those"
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"who dwell on the earth, to
every nation, tribe, tongue"
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"and people", so in other words,
this message is for everyone,
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it is a universal message.
Verse 7: "Saying with a loud"
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"voice, Fear God and give glory
to Him, for the hour of His"
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"judgment has come, and worship
Him who made", notice that,
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"worship Him who made
the heaven, and the earth,"
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"and the sea, and
the springs of waters."
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We have said before that
there are 404 verses in the book
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of Revelation, and a full
270, at least, of those come
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directly from the Old Testament.
That verse that you just
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read there in verse 7 is
the single largest quotation
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from the Old Testament in
the entire book of Revelation,
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right there in verse
7, I'll read it again.
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It says "And worship
Him", and here it is, "who made"
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"the heaven, and the earth,
and the seas, and the springs"
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"of waters", that is the single
largest verbatim quotation
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in the entire book of Revelation
of an Old Testament passage.
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I want you to notice what
it has to relate to, it relates
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to worshipping God as the
creator of heaven and earth.
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In fact, there are 2
reasons that we worship God.
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Open your Bible to Revelation
4. There are 2 primary reasons
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that we worship God and I'll
pick 1 up in Revelation 4:10.
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Here we have this
marvelous throne room scene.
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In this marvelous throne
room scene there are angels
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and there are elders, and there
are these strange looking beasts
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and they are worshipping
Him that sits on the throne.
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I'm in verse 10: "The 24
elders fall down before Him",
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"Him" being God, "who sits
on the throne and worship Him"
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"who lives for ever and ever,
and they cast their crowns"
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"before the throne
saying", now watch what they do,
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watch what they say, "You
are worthy O Lord to receive"
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"glory, and honor, and power
for", or because, "You created"
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"all things and by Your will
they exist and were created."
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"We're worshipping You
because You're the Creator."
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"We're worshipping You because
You made us and You made"
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"everything." Now
look in Revelation 5:12.
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Here the Lamb has come into
the throne room, He has taken
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the scroll out of the hand
of Him who sits on the throne,
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He sits down on that same
throne and those that are around
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say in verse 12: "Worthy
is the Lamb who was slain,"
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"to receive power, and riches,
and wisdom, and strength,"
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"and honor, and
glory." Look at verse 9:
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"You are worthy to take the
scroll, to open its seals for"
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"You were slain and You
have redeemed us to God by Your"
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"blood out of every tribe,
tongue, and people, and nation,"
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"and have made us kings
and priests to our God, and we"
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"shall reign on
the earth for ever."
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Jump down to verse 14: "And
the 4 living creatures said,"
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"Amen, and the 24 elders
fell down and worshipped Him"
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"who lives for ever and ever."
So here in Revelation 4 and 5
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we find the 2 primary
reasons why God is worshipped.
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Nr.1- because He's our creator,
and Nr.2- because He's our
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Saviour and our Redeemer.
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So here in this first
angel's message of Revelation 14
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there's this call: "Fear
God and give glory to Him"
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"for the hour of His judgment
has come and worship Him",
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and then he quotes from
the Old Testament, "who made"
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"the heaven, the earth, the
sea, and the springs of waters."
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There is this clarion call
to worship God as the creator.
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So far so good
everyone? [Audience] Yes.
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Powerful Biblical call, "worship
God as creator, worship God"
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"as the Redeemer." If
those are the 2 reasons
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that we worship God then Satan,
through the Antichrist, is going
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to try and undermine those
2 things so that we won't see
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God as our creator, and we
won't see Him as our redeemer,
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and thus won't render to
Him the worship that He's due.
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Now look at Revelation 13 again.
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The conflict, as we've already
said, will pit true Biblical
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worship against
false manmade worship.
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Now let me show you
a startling Bible fact,
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an amazing Bible fact,
the real issue is worship,
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you'll notice the word "worship"
is a contraction of 2 words:
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"worth", "ship", in other words,
whatever you worship is what's
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worth the most to you. If
your car is worth the most
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to you, that's what you worship,
if sports are worth the most
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to you, that's what you
worship, if you're family is
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worth the most to you,
that's what you worship,
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if God is worth the most to
you, that's what you worship.
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[text on screen]
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No book in the Bible contains
the word "worship" more than
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the book of
Revelation. So consistently here
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worship, worship, worship,
worship is the consistent
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reverberating issue in
the book of Revelation.
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Now we're in Revelation 13,
in fact, I think I've got it
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here on the screen for
you, actually, Revelation 12:9,
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we'll quote that one
first. It says: [text on screen]
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"Who deceives just a small
portion of the world; he was"
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"cast to the earth, and his
angels were cast out with him."
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Is that what it
says? [Audience] No.
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It says he deceives half
of the world? [Audience] No.
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He deceives 60% of
the world? [Audience] No.
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He deceives how much of the
world according to that verse?
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- [Audience] All. -All
the world, the whole world.
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Notice this, Revelation 13:3:
"Half of the world marvelled"
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"and followed the
beast"? 70%? [text on screen]
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How about verse
8? [text on screen]
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So we have these 3 texts there,
they're right there in your
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study guide, that make it
crystal clear to us that this
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idea of all the world
being deceived, of all the world
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wondering after the beast is not
something that we as Christians,
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should be surprised about.
Tonight if we discover that much
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of the world has, in
fact, wondered after the beast
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we shouldn't go
"What?! I'm so surprised!"
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"I can hardly believe it",
we should say "that's exactly"
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"what we would expect because
that's what the Bible says."
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In fact, we should be surprised
if we found that the world
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wasn't wondering
after that beast.
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3 times it says "all the
world", so our expectation
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is that we would find the world
wondering, in some respect,
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after the beast; and I'm going
to maintain tonight that it
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centers around this idea of
worship, true Biblical worship
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versus manmade
worship. What do these verses
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have in common?
There on your study guide:
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They all describe the
universality of deception.
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That is to say that it's
not just an isolated group here
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and there, but the whole world
is depicted as falling under
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the sophistries of Satan
and the Antichrist power.
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In this lesson we will learn
that many, unknowingly, are
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living under one of the
most subtle deceptions of
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the Antichrist, we should not
be "surprised", is what you'd
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write there. We
should not be surprised
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if we discover that much
of the world has unwittingly
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bought into one of the
deceptions of the last days.
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In fact, according to
Revelation, as we have said,
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we should expect it.
Remember, we do not arrive
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at truth by a majority
vote, but by the Bible.
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Okay, we're on page Nr.2,
we're making very good time.
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I want to present to you
right now on the board a claim
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that you are going to
find to be, many of you,
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totally shocking, so buckle your
safety belts, if there's safety
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belts on those chairs, you
want to buckle them right now.
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I'm going to present to
you historical claims, and then
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we're going to investigate the
truthfulness, or the veracity
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of these historical claims that
we put up here on the screen.
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Jesus says in Matthew 28:18:
"All authority has been given"
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"to Me in heaven and on earth."
That's the claim of Jesus.
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[text on screen]
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Notice, the word "authority"
has as its root word the word
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"author", so Jesus has a
legitimate authority over us
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because He is our author, that
is He's the one who made us,
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are we all clear on
that? So let's continue.
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Let's put some of these
claims up here, Daniel 7:25,
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one of the
identifying characteristics of
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the Antichrist: [text on screen]
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Who's the saints
everyone? [Audience] We are.
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You've got it.
[continues to read]
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Well let's take a look at a
few of these historical claims
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that have been made by
the Roman church-state.
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We've looked at this one
twice, let's look at it again.
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Lucius Ferraris "Prompta
Bibliotheca": [text on screen]
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So the Bible says that one of
the identifying characteristics
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of the Antichrist power is
that he would think that he had
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the prerogative to change and
to modify the very laws of God,
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and the times of God.
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Let me show you, again,
historical statements on
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the screen, notice
them. First one, from
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the Rev. Peter Geierman
from the "Converts Catechism"
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"of Doctrine", page 50.
The whole Catechism is set up
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in question and answer
format. [text on screen]
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Notice the claim,
[continues to read]
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Do you see what he's saying?
"What day's the Sabbath?"
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"Saturday's the Sabbath",
"Wait a minute, why do we keep"
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"Sunday instead of Saturday?"
"Oh, the church changed it."
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Let's show another one,
this one's from the Catholic
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encyclopedia, Vol 4,
page 153, [text on screen]
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Who made the change
according to the claim?
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The church made
the claim, remarkable.
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Let's look at another one, "The
American Catholic Quarterly"
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"Review", January
1883, [text on screen]
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Let's look at still another
one, literally hundreds of these
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could be given, I'm
just giving you a few.
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"Canon and Tradition",
page 263, [text on screen]
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So here we find this
remarkable claim being made by
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the historical Roman
church- state, "we changed"
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"the day of worship from
the Biblical Sabbath, Saturday,"
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"to Sunday, our day." Now,
our question today is this,
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it's a very simple question:
what is the Bible answer?
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What we're going to ask
is this: [text on screen]
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That's what we're going
to discover tonight, so look
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at your study guide there,
we're at the top of page 2:
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The Roman church-state
has historically made one of
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the most remarkable and
disturbing claims known to man,
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namely, they claim that
they actually changed the day
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of worship from
Sabbath to Sunday.
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You can jump down to the
bottom, our question is this:
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is this remarkable claim
true, or can the change from
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Sabbath to Sunday be
supported from the Bible?
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That's what we're going
to ask tonight, so we go to
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the beginning, and that
would bring us to the book
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of Genesis,
let's go to Genesis 1.
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The question we're
asking tonight is: can Sunday
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sacredness be supported from
the Bible, or is it a tradition
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and a relic of the
Roman church-state?
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We're in Genesis 1:1: "In
the beginning God created"
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"the heavens and the earth,
the earth was without form"
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"and void, and darkness
was upon the face of the deep,"
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"and the Spirit of God
was hovering over the waters."
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You have the 6 days of
creation, go to verse 31.
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"And God saw everything
that He had made and indeed"
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"it was very good. The
evening and the morning"
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"were the 6th day."
Genesis 2:1: "thus the heavens"
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"and the earth and all the
hosts of them were finished."
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Take that word "finished" and
hang it on a hook in your mind,
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we're coming back to
it. So, it was finished.
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Verse 2: "And on the
7th day, God ended His work"
00:18:06.32\00:18:09.12
"which He had done, and He
rested on the 7th day from"
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"all His work which He had done,
then God blessed the 7th day"
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"and sanctified it because in
it He rested from all His work"
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"which God had created an made."
I have a question for you today:
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was God tired?
Was God just exhausted
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and fatigued, He came home and
He just had to put His feet up
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and take a day of rest?
No, but God did take a day
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of rest on that 7th day, and
the question would be then: why?
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Why would God do such a thing?
The answer is: not because God
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was tired, but because God was
setting an example for mankind.
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God doesn't need
rest, but do I need rest?
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Do you need rest? Absolutely.
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God did 3 things to the 7th day,
we just read it there in those
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verses: [text on screen]
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The word "sanctified" means He
set it aside for a holy purpose,
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[continues to read]
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So you'd write that right
down on your study guide there.
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God blessed it, God sanctified
it and God rested on it.
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Do you see that
in the text everyone?
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Now we're in the study
guide again: Clearly God wanted
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the Sabbath to be set
apart as special, in fact,
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the word "sanctified"
means "to set apart for a holy,"
00:19:20.17\00:19:24.56
"special purpose." God
could have created the earth
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in 1 second, God could have
just created the whole thing
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in 1 nanosecond, he could
have just thought it and boom,
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it existed, but He did this
for a reason, He created for
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a reason: day 1, day 2,
day 3, day 4, day 5, day 6,
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resting on the 7th.
You think about all of our
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cycles, we have a solar
year, and we have a lunar month,
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and we have a solar day,
but what phenomenon happens
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out in the stellar
heavens every 7 days?
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Does anything
happen astrologically
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and cosmologically every 7 days?
No; why do we have a 7 day week?
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1 reason: God
commanded a 7 day week,
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there's nothing that
happens every 7 days,
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at least not in terms
of the stellar heavens.
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So, we have a solar day, we have
a lunar month, we have a solar
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year, but this weekly cycle
was set up by God as an example
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and a pattern.
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Now you're back to your
study guide: "Remember Me".
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Open your Bibles to Exodus
20. Exodus is the second book
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of the Old Testament,
Exodus 20, and here we find
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the 10 commandments. The
last time we were together
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we looked at those 10
commandments, and we saw
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that those 10 commandments were
actually written by the finger
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of God on tables of stone,
and they were placed in the Ark.
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We discovered that those
commandments were actually
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carved out of the very
throne, the very sapphire throne
00:20:53.71\00:20:56.49
of God Himself;
unchanging, immutable, powerful
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and glorious. Exodus
20, and you will notice
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that there are 10
commandments and 8 of them begin
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with "Thou shalt not".
00:21:07.96\00:21:12.35
8 commandments say
"Don't do this behaviour..."
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I like to say it this
way: a corpse could keep 8
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of the 10 commandments.
A corpse can keep 8 out of
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the 10 because 8 out of the
10 say "don't do a behaviour",
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corpses don't steal, corpses
don't kill, corpses don't have
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other gods, but 2 of
the commandments are framed
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in the positive, and one of
them is found in Exodus 20:8.
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The first word of verse 8
is: "Remember", notice it's not
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"thou shalt not", but
it's "Remember the Sabbath day"
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"to keep it
holy", very interesting.
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"...6 days shall you
labor and do all your work,"
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Where did that come from, 6
days and resting on the 7th?
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It came from creation,
"but the 7th day is the Sabbath"
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"of the Jews". [Audience] Lord.
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Oh, is that what it says?
"The 7th day is the Sabbath"
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"of the Lord your God,
in it you shall do no work,"
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"you, nor your son, your
daughter, your male servant,"
00:22:04.22\00:22:07.13
"or your female servant, nor
your cattle, nor your stranger"
00:22:07.16\00:22:10.02
"who is within your gates,
for in 6 days the Lord made"
00:22:10.05\00:22:12.89
"the heavens and the earth, the
sea and all that is in them,"
00:22:12.92\00:22:15.59
"and He rested the 7th
day, therefore the Lord blessed"
00:22:15.62\00:22:18.30
"the Sabbath day
and hallowed it."
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Do you see that there in
verse 11 where it says He made
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the heavens, the earth, the
sea and all that in them is?
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Earlier, we've already
read it, Revelation 15:6,
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remember I told you that
this is the largest quotation
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in the entire book of Revelation
from the Old Testament.
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"I saw another angel
flying in the midst of heaven"
00:22:34.55\00:22:37.33
"having the everlasting gospel
to preach onto them that dwell"
00:22:37.36\00:22:39.86
"on the earth and to
every nation, kindred, tongue"
00:22:39.89\00:22:42.61
"and people, saying with a loud
voice, Fear God and give glory"
00:22:42.64\00:22:45.40
"to Him, for the hour
of His judgment has come,"
00:22:45.43\00:22:48.17
"and worship Him that made
the heaven, the earth, the sea"
00:22:48.20\00:22:50.90
"and the fountains of waters",
that quotation comes directly
00:22:50.93\00:22:53.69
from the 4th
commandment, did you know that?
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John was saying "Remember
the 4th commandment", well that
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stands to reason
because the first word of
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the 4th commandment
is the word "remember".
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If my wife says to me "Sweety,
on your way out the door"
00:23:03.91\00:23:06.68
"as you're going to the store
remember to pick up bread",
00:23:06.71\00:23:09.49
the reason she says "remember
to pick up bread" is that she'd
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already told me to pick up
the bread, probably 5 times
00:23:12.28\00:23:14.75
knowing my wife, and
she's telling me to remember it
00:23:14.78\00:23:17.58
because she thinks
I'm going to forget it.
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She could never tell me to
remember something she hadn't
00:23:20.12\00:23:22.91
first told me about, so
when God here says "remember"
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He's reminding
them about creation.
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So "remember the Sabbath
day to keep it holy", go to your
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study guide, there
it says: Remember Me.
00:23:30.82\00:23:33.43
In Exodus 20, the chapter
containing the 10 commandments,
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God reminds His people about
the importance of the Sabbath.
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We can be sure that God was
reminding them about the day
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because it begins
with the word "remember".
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Don't forget who wrote
this law, who wrote it everyone?
00:23:44.28\00:23:47.06
God, with His finger on tables
of stone, and it was placed
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in the Ark. God
wrote this law on stone
00:23:51.60\00:23:54.11
to show that it did not change.
God did not make this day
00:23:54.14\00:23:59.43
holy in Genesis and in
Exodus He reminds the people
00:23:59.46\00:24:02.23
about it, it is worth
noting that only God can make
00:24:02.26\00:24:05.59
anything holy.
00:24:05.62\00:24:07.98
Who am I to make anything
holy? I say "I want this pulpit"
00:24:08.01\00:24:11.46
"to be holy", is
that pulpit suddenly holy?
00:24:11.49\00:24:14.43
No, but if God makes something
holy, then He can tell me
00:24:14.46\00:24:19.20
to keep it that way. Some
people say "Well, I'm just"
00:24:19.23\00:24:23.15
"going to keep only as the
Sabbath, Wednesday will be"
00:24:23.18\00:24:25.93
"my Sabbath", but wait a minute,
God didn't say "make a day holy"
00:24:25.96\00:24:28.82
He said "keep the day
that I already made holy holy",
00:24:28.85\00:24:32.29
does that make sense? He
didn't say "make it that way",
00:24:32.32\00:24:34.67
He said "keep it
that way". So far so good?
00:24:34.70\00:24:37.84
Let's continue there on page
3, we're making incredible time:
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Consider the following texts,
Ezekiel 20, I think I'll just
00:24:43.06\00:24:46.40
put them right up
here on the board for you.
00:24:46.43\00:24:50.56
Ezekiel 20:20, God speaking:
"And keep the Jews' Sabbaths",
00:24:52.64\00:24:59.97
is that what it
says? [text on screen]
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God says "You keep the
Sabbath and everyone will know"
00:25:11.34\00:25:13.68
"that I'm the Lord your God."
Think about it: Buddhists can
00:25:13.71\00:25:16.63
abstain from murder, Buddhists
can abstain from adultery,
00:25:16.66\00:25:20.75
Buddhists can keep 9 of
the 10 commandments, but what's
00:25:20.78\00:25:23.62
the 1 commandment that would
let someone know who you're
00:25:23.65\00:25:26.31
worshipping? It
would be the Sabbath
00:25:26.34\00:25:28.55
commandment because you
say "No, I'm going to work 6"
00:25:28.58\00:25:31.14
"and rest on the 7th because
I worship the God of the Bible,"
00:25:31.17\00:25:34.09
"the God who created in 6
days and rested on the 7th",
00:25:34.12\00:25:37.45
that is the commandment
that would let someone know
00:25:37.48\00:25:40.15
which God it is that
I'm serving and worshipping.
00:25:40.18\00:25:44.23
If you say "I'm not going
to kill", does that make you
00:25:44.26\00:25:47.82
a Christian? No,
a Muslim could keep
00:25:47.85\00:25:50.31
that commandment, a Buddhist
could keep that commandment,
00:25:50.34\00:25:53.42
anyone could keep that
commandment, but if you're
00:25:53.45\00:25:56.06
keeping the 7th day Sabbath
because God is the creator
00:25:56.09\00:25:59.04
and God is the redeemer,
immediately everyone knows
00:25:59.07\00:26:01.45
"Oh, that's the God he worships,
he worships the God of"
00:26:01.48\00:26:04.25
"the Bible, the God of Abraham,
the God of Isaac, the God"
00:26:04.28\00:26:06.86
"of Jacob, the
creator God." Amen?
00:26:06.89\00:26:09.57
- [Audience] Amen. - Powerful.
00:26:09.60\00:26:12.32
So God says "hey, you keep
My Sabbaths, that'll be a sign"
00:26:12.35\00:26:15.23
"between Me and you that
you may know that I am Jehovah,"
00:26:15.26\00:26:17.84
"your God." Verse 12, look
at this one: [text on screen]
00:26:17.87\00:26:23.01
The word "sanctifies" means "to
set aside for a holy purpose".
00:26:29.99\00:26:37.34
So when you're saved God
sanctifies you, He sets you
00:26:37.37\00:26:40.68
aside for a holy purpose.
In the Old Testament certain
00:26:40.71\00:26:43.73
articles of furniture
were sanctified for the Lord's
00:26:43.76\00:26:46.38
service, they were set
aside for a holy purpose, they
00:26:46.41\00:26:48.98
were not to be used for profane
purposes, they were sanctified,
00:26:49.01\00:26:51.78
they were set apart for
God's own holy purposes, and God
00:26:51.81\00:26:55.53
says "the Sabbath is a sign that
I'm the one who sanctifies you."
00:26:55.56\00:27:02.09
Well, let's put modern language
on this, what does that mean?
00:27:02.12\00:27:05.11
[text on screen]
00:27:05.14\00:27:09.01
Not one person in this
room can make that pulpit holy,
00:27:10.36\00:27:13.36
not one person in this room
can make this sign holy, not one
00:27:13.39\00:27:16.17
person in this room can make
my shoes holy, not one person in
00:27:16.20\00:27:19.03
this room can make themselves
holy! [Audience] Amen.
00:27:19.06\00:27:22.68
The only one that can make
you holy is the God who made
00:27:22.71\00:27:25.14
you in the first place,
and that's God in heaven.
00:27:25.17\00:27:28.80
The Sabbath is a sign that it is
God alone that can make us holy,
00:27:28.83\00:27:31.73
watch this, [text on screen]
00:27:31.76\00:27:34.36
Paul said "I know that
in me, that is in my flesh"
00:27:36.14\00:27:38.76
"dwells no good
thing", [continues to read]
00:27:38.79\00:27:42.69
So watch this, this is the
bombshell, [text on screen]
00:27:46.67\00:27:51.63
...because the Sabbath
is a sign that God's the one
00:27:57.82\00:28:00.36
that makes us holy. So
that Sabbath becomes the most
00:28:00.39\00:28:04.40
powerful, potent sign
of righteousness by faith.
00:28:04.43\00:28:09.76
In fact, look there at
your study guide: The Sabbath is
00:28:09.79\00:28:12.53
a sign of 2 powerful
things, as we've already said:
00:28:12.56\00:28:15.20
[text on screen]
00:28:15.23\00:28:17.38
God is our Creator
and God is our Redeemer.
00:28:21.47\00:28:24.60
The word "redeemer" means
"to purchase", God is the one
00:28:24.63\00:28:27.14
who purchased us when His Son
paid the ultimate price for us
00:28:27.17\00:28:31.20
on the cross with His own blood.
So, the 2 reasons that God
00:28:31.23\00:28:36.93
is worshipped in Revelation
is because He's the Creator,
00:28:36.96\00:28:39.63
and He's the Redeemer,
and the Sabbath is a sign
00:28:39.66\00:28:42.28
"Hey, God's the one that
created me in 6 days and rested"
00:28:42.31\00:28:45.13
"on the 7th, and He's my
Redeemer, God is the one"
00:28:45.16\00:28:48.67
"who paid the price for me", and
the Sabbath is a sign of that.
00:28:48.70\00:28:54.14
That's what He says, the
Sabbath is a sign of that.
00:28:54.17\00:28:56.43
Now look at this, we're
back to our study guides:
00:28:56.46\00:28:58.39
Just as Adam and Eve were
called to rest in, and enjoy,
00:28:58.42\00:29:02.75
God's work of creation, so
too, we are called to rest in
00:29:02.78\00:29:07.49
and enjoy God's
work of Salvation.
00:29:07.52\00:29:11.44
I want you just to imagine,
here's Adam, here's Eve,
00:29:11.47\00:29:14.39
they've been created,
they're in the Garden, God says
00:29:14.42\00:29:17.00
"Hey, go check it
out, go explore, I've got"
00:29:17.03\00:29:19.49
"hippopotamuses out there, and
dolphins, and seals, and eels,"
00:29:19.52\00:29:22.20
"go see, run along, go
see how beautiful it is."
00:29:22.23\00:29:25.07
They run off and they come back
and say "Oh, God we saw this"
00:29:25.10\00:29:28.06
"thing with the longest neck
we've ever seen, we named it"
00:29:28.09\00:29:30.93
"giraffe, just awesome."
They're out there playing
00:29:30.96\00:29:33.77
in this Edenic garden that God
has created for them, and then
00:29:33.80\00:29:36.57
I can just imagine in
my mind's eye, Adam says
00:29:36.60\00:29:39.43
"You know, it's not good enough
for me to enjoy it, I want"
00:29:39.46\00:29:42.23
"to do something myself."
So Adam stoops down and he
00:29:42.26\00:29:45.15
picks up a piece of clay and
he moulds it into a little puppy
00:29:45.18\00:29:47.82
dog, a Chihuahua, and he says
"God, look what I've created".
00:29:47.85\00:29:50.52
And He says "yeah, but
it's just a piece of dirt",
00:29:50.55\00:29:53.83
he tries to breathe in it
as Adam was breathed into,
00:29:53.86\00:29:56.78
[makes breathing noise],
he's blowing on this piece
00:29:56.81\00:29:59.62
of dirt, does it ever
come to life? [Audience] No.
00:29:59.65\00:30:02.37
I can just imagine in
my mind's eye Jesus saying
00:30:02.40\00:30:05.24
"Adam, you're missing the
point", you can't add to this
00:30:05.27\00:30:08.21
work, you can enjoy this
work, so too with salvation.
00:30:08.24\00:30:11.03
We're saved and we
think "Oh, I'm going to work"
00:30:11.06\00:30:13.66
"my way to heaven, I'm going
to add to what God has done,"
00:30:13.69\00:30:16.53
"I know God has saved me
by grace, but I got something"
00:30:16.56\00:30:19.51
"I've got to do", and God
says "Wait, stop trying to work"
00:30:19.54\00:30:22.12
"your way to heaven,
enjoy what I have done for you."
00:30:22.15\00:30:25.00
[Audience] Amen.
00:30:25.03\00:30:27.28
Hallelujah. So,
it's sign and symbol
00:30:27.31\00:30:29.76
of creation, it's a sign
and symbol of redemption.
00:30:29.79\00:30:32.52
Right there at the bottom of
that paragraph, what a powerful
00:30:32.55\00:30:35.52
symbol: God is both creator
and redeemer, and the Sabbath
00:30:35.55\00:30:38.31
is a powerful sign
that God is both of these.
00:30:38.34\00:30:42.12
Who was the creator
anyway? That's a good question,
00:30:42.15\00:30:45.17
isn't it? Who was the creator?
00:30:45.20\00:30:50.29
Let me just quote it for you,
John 1:1: "In the beginning"
00:30:50.32\00:30:53.19
"was the word, and the
word was with God, and the word"
00:30:53.22\00:30:56.67
"was God." Listen carefully,
"all things were made by Him"
00:30:56.70\00:31:00.10
"and without Him was
nothing made that was made."
00:31:00.13\00:31:03.31
So was the creator?
Jesus was the creator,
00:31:03.34\00:31:06.35
God created through
Christ Jesus according to
00:31:06.38\00:31:09.07
Colossians 1:17, that's in
your study guide right there,
00:31:09.10\00:31:11.74
and this is as old
as Christianity itself.
00:31:11.77\00:31:14.65
Notice this from "The
Apostolic Creed", you can't get
00:31:14.68\00:31:17.47
more Protestant than
"The Apostolic Creed",
00:31:17.50\00:31:20.30
[text on screen]
00:31:20.33\00:31:23.03
God created through Christ
Jesus, Jesus was the Creator.
00:31:28.65\00:31:34.48
Powerful.
According to the teaching
00:31:34.51\00:31:36.97
of the New Testament Jesus
was the one through which God
00:31:37.00\00:31:39.89
created, notice especially,
I've given you several verses,
00:31:39.92\00:31:42.59
I quoted one of them for
you, John 1, and I eluded
00:31:42.62\00:31:45.41
to Colossians 1:16,17.
If Jesus created the air,
00:31:45.44\00:31:49.52
and Jesus created the water,
and the grass, and the birds,
00:31:49.55\00:31:53.28
and the lions, and the
whales, and the octopi,
00:31:53.31\00:31:55.91
and the hippopotami, then
guess what else Jesus created;
00:31:55.94\00:31:59.58
He created the Sabbath.
Doesn't that make sense?
00:31:59.61\00:32:03.95
The same God that made the 1st
day, the 2nd day, the 3rd day,
00:32:03.98\00:32:06.99
the 4th day, the 5th
day, He didn't switch.
00:32:07.02\00:32:09.96
The same God that made the
grass, the giraffes, and all
00:32:09.99\00:32:12.72
of the wonderful things in Eden
is the same God that rested.
00:32:12.75\00:32:16.50
It was Jesus, and His Father,
and the Spirit working together
00:32:16.53\00:32:20.06
in cooperation. So
look at this: Note, not only
00:32:20.09\00:32:27.22
was Jesus the creator in
Eden, He was the law giver
00:32:27.25\00:32:31.49
on Mount Sinai. Many
Christians do not know this
00:32:31.52\00:32:35.21
and it's staggering how few
Christians know that the very
00:32:35.24\00:32:38.09
God who was on Mount Sinai's
summit, the very God who wrote
00:32:38.12\00:32:41.17
with His own finger on table's
of stone, that was Jesus Christ.
00:32:41.20\00:32:45.31
Remember, Moses was walking
through the desert in Mideon
00:32:45.34\00:32:47.60
and he saw that burning
bush and the burning bush spoke
00:32:47.63\00:32:51.06
and said "Go tell that rascal,
Pharaoh, to let My people go".
00:32:51.09\00:32:53.92
He said "They're not going
to believe, who shall I say"
00:32:53.95\00:32:56.19
"sent me?" and he said: "I
am that I am has sent you."
00:32:56.22\00:33:01.73
Jesus one day was speaking to
the religious leaders of His day
00:33:01.76\00:33:04.53
and He said "Why don't
you guys just accept Me?"
00:33:04.56\00:33:07.46
"I mean, your father, Abraham,
rejoiced to see My day,"
00:33:07.49\00:33:10.22
"and he was glad",
and they said "What?!"
00:33:10.25\00:33:12.73
"You've got to be kidding,
Abraham? You're not even"
00:33:12.76\00:33:15.55
"50 years old, you don't even
have any hair on your face,"
00:33:15.58\00:33:18.40
"how could You possibly
have seen the day of Abraham?"
00:33:18.43\00:33:21.30
He said "You listen to me
men, you listen very carefully"
00:33:21.33\00:33:24.08
"to what I'm going to
say: before Abraham was I am."
00:33:24.11\00:33:28.50
Did the Jews
understand what He was saying?
00:33:28.53\00:33:31.49
Yeah, John 8:59 says they picked
up stones, they were going
00:33:31.52\00:33:34.19
to kill Him because they
knew He was saying "I'm the God"
00:33:34.22\00:33:37.18
"of the Old Testament, I'm
the one who was on Mount Sinai,"
00:33:37.21\00:33:40.97
"I'm the one who appeared
to Moses, I'm the law giver."
00:33:41.00\00:33:47.00
So powerful, I wish I had
time to look more at that,
00:33:47.03\00:33:49.79
but I just don't,
so let's continue on.
00:33:49.82\00:33:51.94
This is why Jesus Christ
repeatedly affirmed that He
00:33:51.97\00:33:55.53
was Lord of the
Sabbath, after all, He's the one
00:33:55.56\00:34:00.39
who invented it, He
created it, He commanded it.
00:34:00.42\00:34:03.53
Look at Matthew
12:8: [text on screen]
00:34:03.56\00:34:07.11
Those are the words of
Jesus, how about Mark 2:28?
00:34:09.38\00:34:12.89
[text on screen]
00:34:12.92\00:34:15.20
Just like He's Lord of
the grass, He's Lord of
00:34:15.91\00:34:18.50
the giraffes, He's Lord
of the whales, He's Lord of
00:34:18.53\00:34:21.34
the Sabbath, He made them
all. He's also the Lord of man.
00:34:21.37\00:34:24.08
Luke 6:5: [text on screen]
00:34:24.11\00:34:26.82
Jesus says that
over and over again.
00:34:27.45\00:34:30.25
Jesus often healed on the
Sabbath, we already looked
00:34:30.28\00:34:33.53
at that story in Luke 13,
where He healed that woman
00:34:33.56\00:34:36.15
and the man speaks up and says
"Whoa, whoa, there are 6 days"
00:34:36.18\00:34:38.95
"on which men ought to
labor, come then and be healed"
00:34:38.98\00:34:41.77
"on those days", and
Jesus says "You're a hypocrite,"
00:34:41.80\00:34:44.54
"you're an actor, everyone
of you who has a donkey"
00:34:44.57\00:34:47.26
"or an ox that falls into
the ditch, you lift it out."
00:34:47.29\00:34:50.22
"Ought not this woman,
being a daughter of Abraham"
00:34:50.25\00:34:52.98
"whom Satan has bound, be
loosed from this, her burden,"
00:34:53.01\00:34:55.83
"on the Sabbath?"
Jesus used the Sabbath
00:34:55.86\00:34:58.41
to show that the Sabbath
was a special day created by God
00:34:58.44\00:35:01.28
for man's uplifting, for his
up building, and for his healing
00:35:01.31\00:35:04.10
and recreation, and redemption.
00:35:04.13\00:35:06.48
In fact, one of the things
that Jesus came to do was to
00:35:06.51\00:35:09.52
disentangle the Sabbath from all
of those pathetic and stifling
00:35:09.55\00:35:12.62
rules that the Pharisees and
the scribes had heaped upon it.
00:35:12.65\00:35:16.80
In fact, that's right in
your study guide there, it says:
00:35:16.83\00:35:19.90
But how did Jesus relate
to the Sabbath when He walked
00:35:19.93\00:35:23.66
as a man on this
planet? Look at Luke 4:16.
00:35:23.69\00:35:29.40
You've got your Bibles,
third book of the New Testament,
00:35:29.43\00:35:32.39
see if you can keep up with me,
Luke 4:16, you're doing a great
00:35:32.42\00:35:35.47
job by the way.
00:35:35.50\00:35:37.54
Luke 4:16, look at
this, this is incredible.
00:35:37.57\00:35:43.33
Luke 4:16: "So He came to
Nazareth where He had been"
00:35:43.36\00:35:50.45
"brought up, and as His custom
was, He went into the synagogue"
00:35:50.48\00:35:54.93
"on the Sabbath day
and He stood up to read."
00:35:54.96\00:35:59.39
So if it was Sabbath
and you wanted to find Jesus
00:35:59.42\00:36:02.33
where would you go?
You'd go to the synagogue,
00:36:02.36\00:36:05.05
that's right, because
that's where He was, that was
00:36:05.08\00:36:07.95
His custom. You say: "Oh yeah,
I'm looking for the Jesus,"
00:36:07.98\00:36:10.68
"have you guys seen
Jesus?" "Oh yeah, it's Sabbath"
00:36:10.71\00:36:13.31
"my friend, He's
in the synagogue."
00:36:13.34\00:36:15.92
That's His custom, of course
that's where He's going to be,
00:36:15.95\00:36:18.68
so Jesus actually, as a man,
observed and kept the Sabbath.
00:36:18.71\00:36:21.54
We're continuing on, it
says: Note that Jesus performed
00:36:21.57\00:36:24.33
many of His most powerful
miracles on the Sabbath.
00:36:24.36\00:36:27.03
This was to show that the
Sabbath was for the benefit
00:36:27.06\00:36:29.69
of man, He removed it
from all of the traditions that
00:36:29.72\00:36:34.19
the religious leaders,
the scribes and the Pharisees,
00:36:34.22\00:36:37.66
had entangled it with.
He came to show that it's
00:36:37.69\00:36:40.29
a blessing, that's it
a glorious, wonderful day
00:36:40.32\00:36:42.86
for the creation and recreation.
By the way, I keep saying
00:36:42.89\00:36:45.75
that word "re-creation",
slow it down, "re-creation"
00:36:45.78\00:36:48.56
is recreation, have you
ever thought of that before?
00:36:48.59\00:36:51.33
"Recreation" is just 2 words,
it's just the re-creation,
00:36:51.36\00:36:54.14
it's a day of renewal and
re-creation, God is making you
00:36:54.17\00:36:58.77
into what He is originally
created you to be, that's why
00:36:58.80\00:37:01.40
all true creation should draw
us closer to God, our Creator.
00:37:01.43\00:37:06.54
Last paragraph: In fact,
Jesus, in His death, even kept
00:37:06.57\00:37:11.06
the Sabbath. You say
"What? He kept the Sabbath"
00:37:11.09\00:37:13.88
"in His death?"
You're still in Luke, look at
00:37:13.91\00:37:16.29
Luke 23.
Someone's out there thinking
00:37:16.32\00:37:18.93
"Oh yeah, I see it, I see
it plain as the noonday sun."
00:37:18.96\00:37:21.75
but how do you know
what day the Sabbath is.
00:37:21.78\00:37:24.49
Listen, I presented this
message enough times to know
00:37:24.52\00:37:27.16
that there's at least half
of the people in here thinking
00:37:27.19\00:37:29.99
"Well how do you know
what day the Sabbath is?"
00:37:30.02\00:37:32.98
"How do we know? How
could it possibly be?"
00:37:33.01\00:37:35.66
"How do we know what day it is?"
Well, I'll show you how we know,
00:37:35.69\00:37:38.36
Luke 23, I want to
give you a Bible answer,
00:37:38.39\00:37:40.92
that's the answer you
want anyway, isn't it?
00:37:40.95\00:37:43.53
- [Audience] Yes. -
Okay, we're in Luke 23,
00:37:43.56\00:37:46.52
here we find the
story of the crucifixion.
00:37:46.55\00:37:49.51
We'll pick it up in verse
53: "Then he took it down",
00:37:49.54\00:37:52.43
speaking of the body of
Jesus...actually, let's pick
00:37:52.46\00:37:55.33
it up in verse 50. "Now
behold, there was a man"
00:37:55.36\00:37:57.97
"named Joseph, a council
member, a good and a just man,"
00:37:58.00\00:38:00.90
"he had not consented to their
decision indeed, and he was"
00:38:00.93\00:38:03.68
"from Arimathaea who himself was
also waiting for the kingdom"
00:38:03.71\00:38:06.45
"of God. This man went to Pilate
and he asked for the body"
00:38:06.48\00:38:09.10
"of Jesus, then he took
it down, wrapped it in linen"
00:38:09.13\00:38:11.64
"and he laid it in his tomb
that was hewn out of the rock"
00:38:11.67\00:38:14.30
"where no one had ever
been lain before. That day was"
00:38:14.33\00:38:17.04
"the preparation and
the Sabbath drew near."
00:38:17.07\00:38:19.82
Jesus was crucified
on what day of the week?
00:38:19.85\00:38:22.74
As we say "Friday",
that's exactly right, Friday,
00:38:22.77\00:38:25.65
"Good Friday", so the
preparation day is Friday.
00:38:25.68\00:38:28.46
"The Sabbath drew near",
verse 55, "and the women"
00:38:28.49\00:38:31.25
"who had come with him
from Galilee followed after,"
00:38:31.28\00:38:34.18
"and they observed the
tomb and how His body was laid."
00:38:34.21\00:38:36.82
You know how the ladies
are, they wanted to make sure
00:38:36.85\00:38:39.60
it was just right, of
course they were devastated,
00:38:39.63\00:38:42.34
they were crushed, they
were bruised and beaten in their
00:38:42.37\00:38:45.21
souls, but they wanted to make
sure that everything was just
00:38:45.24\00:38:47.72
right, watch what happens in the
last verse: "Then they returned"
00:38:47.75\00:38:50.56
"and prepared spices and
fragrant oils and they rested"
00:38:50.59\00:38:53.18
"on the Sabbath
according to the commandment."
00:38:53.21\00:38:55.99
These were the disciples
of Jesus, these women were
00:38:56.02\00:38:58.91
the disciples of Jesus.
Sometimes you'll hear people
00:38:58.94\00:39:01.62
say "Jesus did away with
the Sabbath", wait a minute,
00:39:01.65\00:39:04.24
"Jesus did away with the
Sabbath", you won't find that
00:39:04.27\00:39:07.02
anywhere in your Bible, in
fact, you find that anywhere
00:39:07.05\00:39:10.02
in your Bible, I'll give
you $10,000 cash; no way,
00:39:10.05\00:39:12.84
it's not in there. So
these were the very disciples
00:39:12.87\00:39:15.54
of Jesus that come that
want to be sure the body is just
00:39:15.57\00:39:18.28
right, and their devastated,
"but the Sabbath is coming,"
00:39:18.31\00:39:21.22
"we'll come back and
finish it after the Sabbath".
00:39:21.25\00:39:23.85
Why? Because they'd been
00:39:23.88\00:39:26.29
the disciples of Jesus for 3 and
a half years and they had been
00:39:26.32\00:39:29.13
following His
example. So Luke 24:1:
00:39:29.16\00:39:31.68
"Now on the first day of the
week, very early in the morning"
00:39:31.71\00:39:34.60
"they and certain other women
came with them to the tomb,"
00:39:34.63\00:39:37.24
"bringing spices and the
ointments which they had"
00:39:37.27\00:39:39.79
"prepared", they've come
back to finish the job that they
00:39:39.82\00:39:42.46
didn't finish yet, verse
2: "but they found the stone"
00:39:42.49\00:39:45.06
"rolled away from the
tomb", someone say "hallelujah".
00:39:45.09\00:39:47.68
- [Audience] Hallelujah. -
They went there and the body
00:39:47.71\00:39:50.60
of Jesus wasn't there,
He's risen indeed, amen?
00:39:50.63\00:39:53.39
- [Audience] Amen. - Powerful!
00:39:53.42\00:39:55.82
Here's the point: what day
did Jesus rise from the dead?
00:39:55.85\00:39:58.44
Sunday, so then the
Sabbath would be the day between
00:39:58.47\00:40:01.19
Good Friday and
Sunday, that day is Saturday!
00:40:01.22\00:40:05.92
So far so good? No questions?
00:40:05.95\00:40:08.92
I want you to think about
something, as we've already
00:40:08.95\00:40:11.40
learned in creation, remember
I told you to take the word
00:40:11.43\00:40:14.18
"finish" and hang it
on a hook in your mind?
00:40:14.21\00:40:16.81
When everything was created,
1st day, 2nd day, 3rd day,
00:40:16.84\00:40:19.59
4th day, 5th day, 6th day,
and all the work was finished,
00:40:19.62\00:40:23.34
then what did He do? He rested.
00:40:23.37\00:40:26.92
John 19:30, Jesus on the
cross crying out, His last words
00:40:26.95\00:40:32.70
just after He says "Father,
into Your hands I commend"
00:40:32.73\00:40:37.06
"My spirit", and then He
cries out with a strong voice
00:40:37.09\00:40:40.61
"It is finished", and
then He rests on the Sabbath.
00:40:40.64\00:40:47.27
Just as He rested in creation
when the work was finished,
00:40:47.30\00:40:51.07
He rests in redemption when
the work was finished, He rested
00:40:51.10\00:40:54.94
in the tomb on the
Sabbath. Absolutely powerful.
00:40:54.97\00:41:01.18
Are we all still
on our study guides?
00:41:01.21\00:41:03.84
You can write that down
just at the bottom of page 3:
00:41:03.87\00:41:06.58
Just as He rested on the day
of creation, so He did the same
00:41:06.61\00:41:09.34
in redemption.
Hallelujah and hallelujah.
00:41:09.37\00:41:14.59
We're on the back page:
But what about the apostles?
00:41:14.62\00:41:17.64
Somebody's bound to say "Oh,
wait a minute, the disciples"
00:41:17.67\00:41:21.69
"changed the day David, you
missed that part, you forgot"
00:41:21.72\00:41:24.58
"to read the book of Acts",
no, I've read the book of Acts
00:41:24.61\00:41:27.38
through dozens of times and
I'll tell you again, $10,000,
00:41:27.41\00:41:30.33
cold, hard cash to
anyone who can show me any verse
00:41:30.36\00:41:34.38
that even hints at the
fact that the day was changed by
00:41:34.41\00:41:37.24
the disciples, and I'm
not just whistling dixie.
00:41:37.27\00:41:39.81
$10,000 cash is yours
if you can come up with it.
00:41:39.84\00:41:42.51
Jesus Himself had said in
Mark 22:27: "The Sabbath was"
00:41:42.54\00:41:45.65
"made for the Jews",
sorry, I misread that.
00:41:45.68\00:41:50.07
[text on screen]
00:41:50.10\00:41:52.45
The word "man" there is
"anthropos", the study of
00:41:52.48\00:41:56.15
anthropology is
the study of man.
00:41:56.18\00:42:00.43
The word there is "The Sabbath
was made for mankind, and not"
00:42:00.46\00:42:03.38
"man for the Sabbath".
In other words, God made man
00:42:03.41\00:42:06.41
and He had this Sabbath day that
He gave, He didn't make this day
00:42:06.44\00:42:09.32
and say "Well, I've got this
crummy old day, I better go"
00:42:09.35\00:42:12.06
"find someone to keep it."
No, no, no, first He made man
00:42:12.09\00:42:14.96
and then He made
that day for him.
00:42:14.99\00:42:17.94
The Sabbath was made
for the benefit of man.
00:42:17.97\00:42:20.73
Jesus kept the Sabbath
even in His death, He kept it in
00:42:20.76\00:42:23.67
creation, He
kept it in redemption.
00:42:23.70\00:42:26.47
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00:42:26.50\00:42:28.58
My wife is Romanian and on
Saturday if you want to say
00:42:30.70\00:42:34.62
"Happy Sabbath" you say
"Sabat Fericit", "Sabat".
00:42:34.65\00:42:39.25
If I want to say it in
Spanish I say "Feliz Sabado".
00:42:39.28\00:42:44.11
In Russian it's what,
"Subbota"? Where's Vladimir at?
00:42:44.14\00:42:48.08
Raise your hand, is he in here?
Say it in Russian Vladimir?
00:42:48.11\00:42:52.31
Subbota, there you go.
108 language, there's no
00:42:52.34\00:42:55.44
question, in the English
language there's a question
00:42:55.47\00:42:58.19
because we say "Saturday"
because all of our days,
00:42:58.22\00:43:00.97
by the way, are
named after Pagans.
00:43:01.00\00:43:03.47
The "Sunday" was the day
of the worship of the sun,
00:43:03.50\00:43:06.35
"Thorday" was the day
of the worship for Thor,
00:43:06.38\00:43:09.20
"Saturday" was day of
the worship for Saturn,
00:43:09.23\00:43:11.91
"Monday" was the day of the
worship for the moon, etc, etc,
00:43:11.94\00:43:14.61
but in every other language
"Sabbath" is the day we call
00:43:14.64\00:43:17.41
Saturday, it's a piece
of cake for the Spanish,
00:43:17.44\00:43:20.36
it's a piece of cake for
others. So let's talk about
00:43:20.39\00:43:23.27
the apostles, I'm on
the back page, here we go.
00:43:23.30\00:43:25.93
If you're getting questions in
your mind, write those questions
00:43:25.96\00:43:28.66
down because we're
going to do our 15-20 minute
00:43:28.69\00:43:31.36
question/answer time
right after this, I'll take
00:43:31.39\00:43:33.99
the questions right live
from the floor, here we go.
00:43:34.02\00:43:36.67
Not surprisingly, the
apostles all kept the Sabbath.
00:43:36.70\00:43:39.29
See for example Acts chapter...
and there's so many verses
00:43:39.32\00:43:41.97
here, go to the book of
Acts, I'll show you my personal
00:43:42.00\00:43:44.85
favorite, Acts 13.
00:43:44.88\00:43:47.21
Acts 13:13, that's easy
to remember, Acts 13:13.
00:43:47.24\00:43:52.31
It says "Now when Paul and
his party set sail from Paphos"
00:43:52.34\00:43:55.53
"they came to Perga in Pamphylia
and John departing from there,"
00:43:55.56\00:43:58.53
"returned to Jerusalem",
verse 14: "But when they"
00:43:58.56\00:44:01.36
"departed from Perga they came
to Antioch in Pisidia, and they"
00:44:01.39\00:44:04.21
"went into the synagogue
on the Sabbath day, and they"
00:44:04.24\00:44:06.99
"sat down, and after the reading
of the law and the prophets,"
00:44:07.02\00:44:09.87
"the rulers of the
synagogues said to them saying,"
00:44:09.90\00:44:12.48
"Men and brethren, if you
have any word of exhortation"
00:44:12.51\00:44:15.32
"to the people, stay
on." They noticed that Paul
00:44:15.35\00:44:18.08
had walked in, they said "Whoa,
that's Paul. Hey Paul, if you"
00:44:18.11\00:44:21.02
"have anything you'd like
to say to the congregation,"
00:44:21.05\00:44:23.77
"the pulpit's all yours,
stand up, teach and preach."
00:44:23.80\00:44:26.49
So Paul stands up and
preaches a powerful sermon on
00:44:26.52\00:44:29.29
the resurrection of
Jesus Christ, here's just a few
00:44:29.32\00:44:32.14
choice verses, look at verse
30: "But God raised Him from"
00:44:32.17\00:44:34.91
"the dead", verse 34,
"...and that He raised Him"
00:44:34.94\00:44:37.72
"from the dead", you see that?
Acts 13:37, "But He whom God"
00:44:37.75\00:44:44.71
"raised up saw no corruption",
verse 38, "Therefore let it be"
00:44:44.74\00:44:48.21
"known to you brethren that
through this man is preached"
00:44:48.24\00:44:52.93
"the forgiveness of sins."
Look at what he's preaching,
00:44:52.96\00:44:55.76
he's preaching the resurrection,
he's preaching the forgiveness
00:44:55.79\00:44:57.87
of sins, verse 39: "...and
by Him, Jesus Christ, everyone"
00:44:57.90\00:45:01.42
"who believes is justified
from all things from which"
00:45:01.45\00:45:05.48
"they could not be
justified by the law of Moses."
00:45:05.51\00:45:07.86
So look at what he's preaching,
he's preaching the resurrection,
00:45:07.89\00:45:10.47
he's preaching forgiveness,
he's preaching justification.
00:45:10.50\00:45:14.29
Was Paul a New
Testament Christian?
00:45:14.32\00:45:17.12
Sure he was, he believed
in grace, now jump down to
00:45:17.15\00:45:19.98
verse 42; the sermon must
have been a good one because
00:45:20.01\00:45:22.65
in verse 42 it says: "When the
Jews went out of the synagogue"
00:45:22.68\00:45:25.60
"the Gentiles", my version
says "begged", look at that,
00:45:25.63\00:45:29.42
"the Gentiles begged that
these words might be preached"
00:45:29.45\00:45:32.91
"to them on the next
Sabbath." They came and said
00:45:32.94\00:45:37.30
"Whoa, Paul, we were
listening and we never heard"
00:45:37.33\00:45:40.17
"words like that before, will
you please, please, please,"
00:45:40.20\00:45:42.95
"we want to hear these
great truths, you just preached"
00:45:42.98\00:45:45.71
"next Sabbath". This
would have been the perfect
00:45:45.74\00:45:48.34
day for Paul to say "You
know what? You don't have"
00:45:48.37\00:45:51.20
"to do that because the day has
been changed, in fact, the new"
00:45:51.23\00:45:53.98
"Christian day of day or
worship is actually tomorrow,"
00:45:54.01\00:45:56.79
"so you don't have to wait
all the way until next week,"
00:45:56.82\00:45:59.65
"I'll see you tomorrow
right here on the new Christian"
00:45:59.68\00:46:02.46
"day of worship."
That doesn't happen at all.
00:46:02.49\00:46:05.01
In fact, look what does
happen, verse 43: "Now when"
00:46:05.04\00:46:07.79
"the congregation had broken
up many of the Jews and devout"
00:46:07.82\00:46:10.68
"proselytes followed Paul
and Barnabas speaking to them,"
00:46:10.71\00:46:13.64
"persuaded them to
continue in the grace of God",
00:46:13.67\00:46:16.64
verse 44: "and on the next
Sabbath almost the whole city"
00:46:16.67\00:46:19.39
"came together to
hear the word of God."
00:46:19.42\00:46:21.94
I've given you many other
verse that you can go look up
00:46:21.97\00:46:24.75
on your own, but it is plain as
the noonday sun that every one
00:46:24.78\00:46:27.59
of Jesus'
disciples kept the Sabbath.
00:46:27.62\00:46:30.91
Why wouldn't they?
After all, every single true
00:46:30.94\00:46:33.62
follower of God - I'm
on the study guide now:
00:46:33.65\00:46:36.26
Every single true follower
of God from Adam to Abraham,
00:46:36.29\00:46:40.54
and from Abraham to
Moses, and from Moses to Jesus,
00:46:40.57\00:46:43.58
and from Jesus to the
apostles kept that special day
00:46:43.61\00:46:47.20
as a memorial of
creation and redemption.
00:46:47.23\00:46:50.12
You can't name one follower
of God in the Bible that didn't
00:46:50.15\00:46:52.84
keep the Sabbath.
There's not one of them,
00:46:52.87\00:46:56.94
every single person in the Bible
that was a follower of the true
00:46:56.97\00:47:01.10
God was a Sabbath
keeper, isn't that powerful?
00:47:01.13\00:47:04.53
So hey, how many of you
today want to be followers
00:47:04.56\00:47:07.41
of the true God? Then
you're in good company
00:47:07.44\00:47:10.40
if you chose to
keep the Sabbath as well.
00:47:10.43\00:47:13.26
Look at this, "Wow, I
didn't know that", study guide:
00:47:13.29\00:47:16.18
The Sabbath is all about Jesus
Christ and our relationship
00:47:16.21\00:47:20.18
with Him, that's
what it's all about.
00:47:20.21\00:47:24.41
It's all about our relationship
with the Lord Jesus Christ,
00:47:24.44\00:47:27.13
yet despite the overwhelming
evidence many Christians still
00:47:27.16\00:47:30.11
believe that the Bible teaches
Sunday observance, they base
00:47:30.14\00:47:33.31
this on 3 main
texts. [text on screen]
00:47:33.34\00:47:41.83
Despite the overwhelming
evidence that we presented
00:47:44.24\00:47:47.11
here, and by the way, I'm not
just whistling dixie, I'm not
00:47:47.14\00:47:49.85
just kidding about this $10,000
thing, I make that as a solemn
00:47:49.88\00:47:52.58
promise to you before the
Lord, you find me any text
00:47:52.61\00:47:55.54
that indicates even at all that
the Sabbath has been changed,
00:47:55.57\00:47:58.23
first come first serve,
$10,000 is yours, I'm not just
00:47:58.26\00:48:01.01
whistling dixie.
Despite the overwhelming
00:48:01.04\00:48:03.57
evidence some people say
"No, no, surely it's in there"
00:48:03.60\00:48:06.35
"somewhere", and there are 3
verses that are used to prove
00:48:06.38\00:48:09.41
Sunday observance, these
are the 3 verses; some of you
00:48:09.44\00:48:12.43
are thinking "I never heard this
before, I'm going to go back"
00:48:12.46\00:48:15.07
"and ask my pastor", nothing
wrong with asking your pastor,
00:48:15.10\00:48:17.98
especially if he's a good
man, a Godly man that you trust,
00:48:18.01\00:48:20.83
but let me just give you
one word of advice: we should go
00:48:20.86\00:48:23.59
to the Bible and be checking
our pastors out with the Bible,
00:48:23.62\00:48:26.31
not the Bible
out with our pastors.
00:48:26.34\00:48:29.14
Listen, nobody believes
in going to spiritual leaders
00:48:29.17\00:48:31.87
and spiritual mentors more
than me, but I want to tell you
00:48:31.90\00:48:34.63
something: if you came
up to me and you showed me
00:48:34.66\00:48:37.28
a plain "...thus sayeth
the Lord", and I was like
00:48:37.31\00:48:40.09
"Well, I'm not going to
follow it", then you should say
00:48:40.12\00:48:42.70
"Hey listen, I'm
going somewhere else."
00:48:42.73\00:48:45.48
Nothing wrong with having a
Godly spiritual mentor, we need
00:48:45.51\00:48:48.20
more Godly spiritual mentors,
but just because many of you,
00:48:48.23\00:48:50.93
I know, are thinking "I
can't wait to ask my pastor"
00:48:50.96\00:48:53.65
"about this", listen, ask
your pastor about it, but let me
00:48:53.68\00:48:56.37
just be honest with you
about something: we need to be
00:48:56.40\00:48:59.29
in the habit of checking
our pastors out by the word,
00:48:59.32\00:49:02.18
and not the word out by our
pastors; that applies to me,
00:49:02.21\00:49:04.88
by the way, in fact,
that applies to me first and
00:49:04.91\00:49:07.68
foremost because I'm speaking
to you so frankly and so boldly.
00:49:07.71\00:49:10.59
These are the 3 verses
that you're going to find:
00:49:10.62\00:49:13.49
go with me very
quickly to John 20.
00:49:13.52\00:49:16.40
These are the verse you're going
to find people are going to say:
00:49:16.43\00:49:19.16
"Oh no, I'll show you, they kept
Sunday in the New Testament",
00:49:19.19\00:49:22.01
John 20. Jesus
has been crucified
00:49:22.04\00:49:24.72
and the disciples are
deadly afraid they've heard that
00:49:24.75\00:49:28.17
the body has turned up missing,
they're deadly afraid that
00:49:28.20\00:49:30.94
they're going to be
charged, so in John 20:19,
00:49:30.97\00:49:34.26
I want everyone there,
John 20;19: "Then the same day"
00:49:34.29\00:49:38.98
"at evening, being the first
day of the week", which is?
00:49:39.01\00:49:44.51
Sunday, so Sunday...they
say "There it is, there it is"
00:49:44.54\00:49:47.43
"right there,
see, Sunday worship."
00:49:47.46\00:49:49.81
Well, keep watching,
"...when the doors were shut"
00:49:49.84\00:49:52.60
"the disciples were assembled",
there it is, there's a worship
00:49:52.63\00:49:55.32
service, see?
Except the problem is
00:49:55.35\00:49:57.72
that there's a comma,
not a period, the comma,
00:49:57.75\00:50:00.34
and then it says "...they
were assembled for fear"
00:50:00.37\00:50:03.18
"of the Jews, Jesus came
and stood in the midst of them"
00:50:03.21\00:50:05.87
"and said, Peace be with you."
Beloved, they didn't even yet
00:50:05.90\00:50:08.52
believe in the resurrection
when they're in that room,
00:50:08.55\00:50:11.16
they're afraid that
they're going to be charged with
00:50:11.19\00:50:13.86
the missing body of
Jesus, and they're in that room
00:50:13.89\00:50:16.43
just afraid for fear of
the Jews, there's no worship
00:50:16.46\00:50:18.98
service going on there, they're
hiding, they're deadly afraid.
00:50:19.01\00:50:23.32
So there's no
Sunday worship there.
00:50:23.35\00:50:25.95
Acts 20, you can go to that
one, no worship service there,
00:50:25.98\00:50:28.71
1 Corinthians 16 is the
only time, the ONLY time
00:50:28.74\00:50:33.01
the apostle Paul in all
of his voluminous writings:
00:50:33.04\00:50:35.74
Galatians, Ephesians,
Philippians, Colossians,
00:50:35.77\00:50:38.47
Thessalonians, Romans,
Corinthians, all of Paul's
00:50:38.50\00:50:41.21
voluminous writings, that's
the only place he ever mentions
00:50:41.24\00:50:43.77
the first day of the week,
and all he says about it is:
00:50:43.80\00:50:46.49
"Hey listen, when I come
through town I'm on my way"
00:50:46.52\00:50:49.30
"to Jerusalem, there's
a famine in Jerusalem,"
00:50:49.33\00:50:52.10
"and I want to take up an
offering for those who are"
00:50:52.13\00:50:55.01
"going through difficult times,
get all your offerings together"
00:50:55.04\00:50:57.88
"so I can pick it up on
the first day of the week"
00:50:57.91\00:51:00.58
"when I'm on my way
through." That's it,
00:51:00.61\00:51:03.30
those are the texts.
00:51:03.33\00:51:05.72
I'm telling you right now in
the fear of God and in the sight
00:51:05.75\00:51:08.63
of God, there's not 1
scintilla of a hint of an idea
00:51:08.66\00:51:11.55
of a suggestion of anything
like Sunday keeping in one
00:51:11.58\00:51:14.44
of those verses.
Nothing, nothing, nothing!
00:51:14.47\00:51:17.18
So let's continue then.
You notice there on your study
00:51:17.21\00:51:20.34
guide it says: Yet these
texts, when read in context,
00:51:20.37\00:51:28.51
always read your Bible
in context because there's
00:51:28.54\00:51:32.40
a danger that you're going to
be in such a hurry, you're going
00:51:32.43\00:51:35.37
to say "Oh Lord, I'm in a hurry
today, I just need You to speak"
00:51:35.40\00:51:38.36
"to me, I need you to
speak to me out of Your word,"
00:51:38.39\00:51:41.24
"and here we go", and it
says "and Judas hung himself."
00:51:41.27\00:51:44.65
You think "Well, that's not
really what I was looking for,"
00:51:44.68\00:51:47.05
"let's try that
again". [Audience laughs]
00:51:47.08\00:51:49.69
"Lord, I need a
word from You today."
00:51:49.72\00:51:52.61
"...go thou and do
likewise". [Audience laughs]
00:51:52.64\00:51:55.50
"Whoa, that's not what I
was looking for", so we say
00:51:55.53\00:51:58.31
"Alright Lord, come on
now, I need another word,"
00:51:58.34\00:52:01.09
"I need..." [points at Bible
verse], "...what thou doest"
00:52:01.12\00:52:04.01
"do quickly". [Audience laughs]
00:52:04.04\00:52:06.74
Beloved, that's not an
appropriate way to study
00:52:06.77\00:52:09.57
your Bible,
amen? [Audience] Amen.
00:52:09.60\00:52:12.49
You can study the Bible
that way, you can make the Bible
00:52:12.52\00:52:15.29
say any old thing you
want it to say, but if you want
00:52:15.32\00:52:18.06
to study your Bible responsibly
you study it in context.
00:52:18.09\00:52:20.81
So you go look at
every one of these verses.
00:52:20.84\00:52:23.58
Listen, that could be $30,000
for you right there, you go
00:52:23.61\00:52:26.44
look at those verses in context,
you get every one of those,
00:52:26.47\00:52:29.34
that's $30,000,
$10,000 per verse.
00:52:29.37\00:52:31.82
Jesus Christ is
pointing us to His holy Sabbath.
00:52:31.85\00:52:34.58
So we ask the question
here: "So then who did it?"
00:52:34.61\00:52:37.94
"What happened? I
never heard this before,"
00:52:37.97\00:52:42.08
"slow down pastor
David, what happened?"
00:52:42.11\00:52:46.52
The answer, as we saw
at the beginning is this:
00:52:46.55\00:52:49.05
who changed it?
God didn't do it,
00:52:49.08\00:52:51.60
"I am the Lord, I change
not." In fact, He carved those
00:52:51.63\00:52:54.83
10 commandments out of stone,
blue sapphire stone, taken
00:52:54.86\00:52:59.61
from His own throne.
We know God didn't do it,
00:52:59.64\00:53:03.62
"I am the Lord, I change
not." "Jesus Christ, the same"
00:53:03.65\00:53:07.40
"yesterday, today and
forever." Jesus didn't do it.
00:53:07.43\00:53:11.50
"Think not that I am
come to destroy the law or"
00:53:11.53\00:53:14.26
"the prophets, I came not
to destroy, but to fulfil."
00:53:14.29\00:53:16.79
"For verily I say unto you,
until heaven and earth pass"
00:53:16.82\00:53:19.70
"away not one jot or one tittle
shall in no wise pass from"
00:53:19.73\00:53:22.56
"the law." It wasn't Jesus.
00:53:22.59\00:53:24.94
The disciples didn't do
it, the disciples were keeping
00:53:24.97\00:53:27.56
the Sabbath all the way
through, in fact the Bible says
00:53:27.59\00:53:30.30
in Revelation 1:10, John
says "I was in the Spirit"
00:53:30.33\00:53:32.90
"on the Lord's day."
Somebody says "there it is,"
00:53:32.93\00:53:35.89
"the Lord's day", no, there's
only 1 Lord's day in the whole
00:53:35.92\00:53:38.72
Bible, the Lord's day is the
day that Jesus is the Lord of,
00:53:38.75\00:53:41.36
and we've already read
that, "Therefore the Son of man"
00:53:41.39\00:53:44.02
"is Lord of the Sabbath day."
So the Lord's day is His day.
00:53:44.05\00:53:47.60
It's the only day that's
the Lord's day in all the Bible,
00:53:47.63\00:53:50.46
so you've got John keeping
the Sabbath, you have Jesus
00:53:50.49\00:53:53.11
in Matthew 24:20 says: "Pray
that your flight be neither"
00:53:53.14\00:53:55.89
"in the winter nor
on the Sabbath day."
00:53:55.92\00:53:58.49
Jesus knew that His crucifixion
was just in a few short days
00:53:58.52\00:54:01.56
and when He said that He
knew that that destruction
00:54:01.59\00:54:04.24
of Jerusalem
would come in 70 AD.
00:54:04.27\00:54:07.10
Jesus was crucified in 31
AD, the destruction of Jerusalem
00:54:07.13\00:54:10.04
was in 70 AD, that's 39
years later, and Jesus says
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"Hey, 39 years later from now
when you're keeping the Sabbath"
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"pray that you don't
have to flee on that day."
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Jesus knew His disciples
would be keeping the Sabbath,
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is that clear? [Audience] Yes.
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Well then who did
it? There's our answer:
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[text on screen]
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Who's times? God's
times. Who's laws? God's laws.
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That's exactly right, we
should have expected that.
00:54:37.77\00:54:40.68
That's exactly
what we were told.
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Jesus says "All power is given
to Me in heaven and on earth."
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All power, Rome versus
Christ, that was the decision
00:54:46.12\00:54:49.94
that the people had to make
outside of Pontius' judgment
00:54:49.97\00:54:52.57
hall, they said "Give us
Barabbas", their choice was
00:54:52.60\00:54:55.35
"who do you want, do you
want Rome or do you want Jesus?"
00:54:55.38\00:54:58.05
They said "We have
no king but Caesar".
00:54:58.08\00:55:00.75
The same choice comes down to
us today: Is it Rome or Jesus?
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Like I told you, I'm just
providing you with the facts,
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what you do with the facts
is between you and your Lord,
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but you need to have the facts.
A doctor gives you the facts,
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you make your own
decisions. According to the book
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of Revelation there will
be how many calls to worship?
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2 calls to worship. How
many claims on authority?
00:55:19.11\00:55:21.65
2 calls. Okay,
there's a slide I want
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to get to, and
this is it right here...
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This is right on your study
guide, concerning the Sabbath,
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here it is: [text on screen]
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Somebody says to me "Hey,
why do you keep the Sabbath?"
00:56:02.33\00:56:05.02
"You trying to be a
legalist?" Are you kidding me?
00:56:05.05\00:56:07.77
I'm no legalist, I love
the Lord Jesus Christ with all
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my heart and want to do
whatever He asks me to do,
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not in order to be saved, but
because He's already saved me
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by His grace.
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Somebody says "Hey, why
do you keep the Sabbath?"
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I say "If it's good enough for
Jesus, it's good enough for me."
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"That's why I keep the Sabbath,
because I love the Lord."
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Jesus said in John
14:15: "If you love Me, keep My"
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"commandments."
Beloved, tonight you've been
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given information, I want you to
know that I believe with every
00:56:32.98\00:56:35.92
ounce of my heart that the
infrmation that's been given
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to you tonight is true and
Biblical, but I'm just a man
00:56:38.71\00:56:41.33
and men can be wrong, so
that's why I challenge you
00:56:41.36\00:56:43.96
to go home, to study it out
for yourself to see if what I've
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said is true, and if it
is true, by the grace of God,
00:56:46.63\00:56:49.41
say with Joshua "as for and my
house, we will serve the Lord."
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2 questions, Nr.1: was
tonight's presentation clear?
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[Audience] Yes. And
Nr.2: Will you go and check it
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out for
yourself? [Audience] Yes.
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Let's pray.
Father in heaven, tonight
00:57:06.97\00:57:13.06
we present
ourselves to You, Father.
00:57:13.09\00:57:16.57
If this is true we want to
live it, we want to know it,
00:57:16.60\00:57:19.49
we want to love it, so Father,
give us a sense from Your word,
00:57:19.52\00:57:23.77
not from a feeling, not
from some church, not from some
00:57:23.80\00:57:26.42
tradition, from
Your word what's truth.
00:57:26.45\00:57:30.80
We thank You for Your goodness
to us God, You are good,
00:57:30.83\00:57:33.20
we're nothing, You're
good, we're dust, You're good.
00:57:33.23\00:57:37.24
You are our creator and
redeemer and we turn our lives
00:57:37.27\00:57:39.94
over to You. You
made us, You manufactured
00:57:39.97\00:57:42.68
us, You love us, You redeemed
us, we're Yours, everything
00:57:42.71\00:57:45.55
we have is Yours, our
money is Yours, our check book
00:57:45.58\00:57:48.14
is Yours, our cars are
Yours, are children are Yours,
00:57:48.17\00:57:50.86
everything is Yours.
God, teach us how to render
00:57:50.89\00:57:53.47
to you what is already Yours.
Soften and transform our hearts
00:57:53.50\00:58:00.23
to Your glory,
in Jesus name, amen.
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