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Thank you for joining us for
Eternal Truths Matter. During
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this series we've been looking
at some of the fundamental
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truths of scripture. We look at
the Bible as the divine word of
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God and the evidence that the
Bible is divinely inspired we've
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seen the irrefutable arguments
that Christ is divine and we
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looked at the false teaching of
Satan on spiritualism and how he
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wants to unite the world. In
this program today we're going
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to discover the truth that Satan
hates most. Is there a Bible
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truth that Satan hates more than
any other? And why does he hate
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it so much? Let's pray together.
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Father in heaven thank you for
Jesus. Thank you for the eternal
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truths that really matter from
scripture. And as we study today
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open our eyes to new truths.
Open our eyes to understand your
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word more clearly. May we hear
the call of Christ to make the
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changes in our lives to prepare
us for the coming of Christ. In
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Jesus' name, amen.
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In the 1840s there were
developments that took place
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in the area of philosophy,
in the area of politics, in the
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area of religion, in science
that changed the world. These
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developments began really when
a man by the name of Charles
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Darwin wrote his first draft
of the Origin of the Species in
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1842. But his first essay was
published in 1844 and by 1859
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Darwin had finalized his book
of the Origin of the Species. It
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was being circulated pretty
widely. In that particular book
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Darwin asserts that there
was not a creator behind the
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creation of this world, but he
asserts rather that we are here
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by chance, that we simply
evolved from lower forms of life
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Now if that's true we have very,
very little worth. If we're just
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a collection of genes and
chromosomes, if we are hap
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hazardly put together, if there
is no design in our lives or in
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the universe, if we are just
some kind of randomized human
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beings that just developed out
of pure absolute chance, then
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our lives have very, very little
value. They have very, very
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little meaning. Now at the same
time that Darwin was developing
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his thoughts on the evolutionary
process Karl Marx and Friedrich
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Engels were rocking the world
with the publication of the
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Communist Manifesto. And the
Communist Manifesto basically
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asserts that the Proletariat,
the working people of the world
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need to rise up an challenge
the bourgeoisie, the shop owners
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and the wealthy people of the
world...it's just this idea of
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equality. The problem was there
was so called so-called equality
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for some. There was still a
pretty strict class structure
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in Communism. You know I
have worked for many, many years
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in Eastern Europe, Hungary,
Poland, Yugoslavia, had lectures
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in Romania, traveled in and out
Russia. And one of the things
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notice about the whole concept
of communism is that it is very
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dehumanizing. Human beings are
only a cog in the wall of the
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state. And that atheistic
philosophy that brings despair
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I can't tell you the despair on
the faces of those that I met in
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eastern Europe. Not only was it
cold and chilly in some places
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in Russia but the chill in the
people's lives. It was like a
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dark shadow that just hung over
them. Russia during the days of
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communism had one highest
suicide rates and one of the
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highest alcohol rates in
the world. And abortion rates in
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the women were just amazing
because there was no moral
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compass, nothing to guide them
with. Why is it, do you think,
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that Satan in the 1840s raised
up those two philosophies that
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just rocked the world and
influenced multiplied millions
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of people? Why was evolution
and communism growing at the
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same time? It's because Satan
hates Jesus. And at that time
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God was going to raise up a
group of Bible students based on
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the teachings of the book of
Revelation that would bring the
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world a message to prepare
it for the coming of Jesus. Now
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there's one thing that Satan
hates more than anything other
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one truth and that's that Christ
is the creator. Now even some
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Christians are somewhat
baffled about that in their
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understanding of Christ as the
creator of the world. To help us
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understand it let's go to
the book of Ephesians chapter 3.
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See if you accept Marxist
communism, atheism there is no
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creator. We're here by chance.
If you accept evolution there is
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no creator. We're here by chance
But the Bible is very clear in
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counteracting that falsehood
that we're here by chance.
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Ephesians chapter 3 verse 9:
To make all men see what is the
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fellowship of the mystery, which
from the beginning of the world
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has been hid in God, who created
all things by Jesus Christ. So
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how was this world created. All
things were created according to
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scripture by Jesus. Now Satan
hates Jesus and he hates the
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fact that all the angels worship
Jesus. He hates the fact that
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Cherubim's and Seraphim's
worship Jesus. He hates the fact
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that there's a call on earth for
us to worship the Creator. We
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did not evolve by chance. When
the genes and chromosomes came
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together to form the unique
biological structure, your
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personality, God threw away the
pattern. You and I are unique
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creations of God designed by
God. In fact, Jeremiah says when
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you were in your mother's womb
I knew you All life is sacred.
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Given to us by God. Therefore
since life is a gift of God we
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fall at the feet of the Creator,
Jesus the active agent in
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creation and we worship him.
Now what is the basis of our
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worship? You find it here in
Revelation chapter 4 verse 11:
Creation is the basis
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of worship. If the devil can
knock out creation, he can knock
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out the very
foundation of worship.
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Here, Revelation 4 verse 11:
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Thou are worthy, O Lord,
to do what? receive glory and
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honor and power: Why? For thou
hast created all things, and for
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thy pleasure they are and were
created. So God is worthy of our
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honor. God is worthy of our
glory, God's worthy of all power
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Why? Because through Jesus
Christ he created all things.
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Now has God left a memorial
of his creation in an age of
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evolution for all humanity
as a flag or as a sign of his
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creative activity? Has God
indeed given to us something
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that would counteract evolution
Here in Genesis chapter 2 when
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God created the world,
he creates the world and he
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finishes his creative activity
there on the seventh day. And in
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Genesis chapter 2 the Bible
makes it very plain that God has
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left an eternal memorial.
A memorial of his creative
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activity. Genesis the second
chapter verse 1 and onward:
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It says: Thus the heavens and
the earth were finished, and all
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host of them. And on the 7th day
God ended His work which He had
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made; and He rested on the
7th day from all the work which
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he had made. And God blessed
the 7th day, and sanctified it:
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because He had rested from all
his work which God created and
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made. There at creation
as a memorial of his creative
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activity, there at creation we
find that God did three things
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with the Sabbath. First God
blessed the Sabbath. It doesn't
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say he blessed the first day, or
the third day or the fifth day.
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You can get a blessing from
whatever day you worship on but
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if you want the Sabbath blessing
you've got to go where God put
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the blessing, right? Let's
suppose I have seven Bibles.
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One, two, three four, five, six,
seven. You can get a blessing
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whatever Bible you read, right?
Let's suppose I put a thousand
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dollar bill in the seventh Bible
You want the special blessing
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where do you have to go? Well
there is a blessing in any of
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the Bibles you read, but you
want the special blessing, you
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want that thousand dollars. You
got to come to the seventh Bible
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That's where it was put.
That's the point. You can get a
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blessing worshipping on any
day but you can't the Sabbath
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blessing. The Sabbath blessing
only comes from the Sabbath day.
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So God blessed the Sabbath but
beyond that God sanctified it.
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He set it apart because to
sanctify means to set apart for
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holy use. So God sanctified the
Sabbath. He set it apart. It is
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different, distinct from all
the days and God rested on the
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seventh day as well. And
so he left it as a memorial of
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creation. So in an age of
evolution, the Sabbath stands as
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a monument. In an age of
evolution the Sabbath stands as
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a flag blowing in the breeze
that God through Christ created
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the world. This is why when
God led Israel out of Egyptian
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bondage and he led them to Mount
Sinai. In Egyptian bondage they
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were oppressed. The Egyptians
worshipped the sun god Amon Ra
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and it was very difficult for
the Israelites although some of
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them did it, to worship on
the Sabbath. Very difficult. Yet
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when God led them out of that
bondage in Exodus chapter 20 in
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the 10 commandment law God
reminded them of the importance,
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the significance of the Sabbath.
This is the eternal truth that
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Satan hates the most. He hates
it because it's a reminder of
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Christ as the all powerful
creator. Exodus the 20th chapter
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you read about the 10
commandments and here's
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scripture starting with Exodus
chapter 20 verse 8: Remember the
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Sabbath day to keep it holy. Six
days shalt thou labor, and do
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all thy work but the seventh day
is the Sabbath of whom? Not the
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Jew but the Lord thy God: In
it thou shalt not do any work,
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thou, nor thy son, thy daughter,
thy manservant, the maidservant
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nor the cattle, nor the stranger
that is within thy gates. For in
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six days the Lord made heaven,
the earth, the sea and all that
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in them is, and rested on the
seventh day: Wherefore the Lord
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blessed the Sabbath day,
and hallowed it. God makes it
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abundantly plain. He says
remember the Sabbath day. Why
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remember the Sabbath. Because
it is linked to creation. If you
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take away the Sabbath you then
undermine the fact that God has
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created the world, you take away
the whole basis for worship and
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you allow the devil to prepare
the mind for his overwhelming
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delusion when he substitutes a
counterfeit day for the Sabbath
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just before the coming of Christ
And so the Sabbath becomes God's
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sign. The Bible says in
Exodus 20 verse 8, Remember the
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Sabbath day, as if God knew that
human beings would forget it.
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As if God knew clearly that
as time went on there would be
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movements to undermine to
eradicate the Bible Sabbath.
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And so Jesus calls us back calls
us back to worshipping him as
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Creator. He's given a flag. You
know I travel the world and I
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see many different flags.
And these flags are reminders of
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various nations, various
cultures. The American flag
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reminds us of the United States
of America. And as I'm traveling
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I might be traveling in
Argentina, or Brazil. Maybe in
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in India, or Pakistan. Possibly
in Nigeria or Tanzania where
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I've held meetings in each
of these places. And as I'm
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traveling sometimes I'll be
driving along and I'll see a
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building that has kind of a
large fence around it and then
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I'll see the American flag
waving and I'll say that is an
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American Embassy. The
flag identifies the embassy. So
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according to chapter 20 in the
book of Ezekiel does God have a
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flag the identifies his people?
Ezekiel chapter 20...See the
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Egyptians were sun worshippers.
But God called his people back
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to worshipping on the Sabbath
as a memorial of his creative
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activity. And here you have in
the book of Ezekiel chapter 20
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and we're looking there at verse
20. The Bible says: And hallow
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my Sabbaths; they shall be what
a sign between me and you, that
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you may know that I am the
Lord your God. So according to
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scripture the Sabbath is a sign.
It's a sign that we can know
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that this is the Lord our God.
Just as I'm driving through some
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street in India and I see the
American Embassy, the flag is
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flying, that's a sign, that's
the embassy. Driving through
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Brazil I see the American flag
waving over this building that's
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enfenced I say that's the
embassy. That's a symbol of
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America. So the Sabbath is God's
flag that reminds us that he is
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the creator never to
be forgotten, never to be
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eradicated. That's why the Bible
says remember the Sabbath day
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to keep it holy for in six days
thou shalt worship Now the devil
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hates the Sabbath. He hates
the law of God. When the devil
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rebelled in heaven it was
because he wanted God's throne.
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And the basis of every kingdom
the basis of the throne is law.
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You cannot have any government
without law. And so Isaiah
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chapter 14 when it talks about
Satan, it talks about Satan
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attacking and what does he
attack. It's a battle for the
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throne so in the universe we
see this battle for the throne.
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We see this cosmic conflict
between good and evil. Isaiah
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chapter 14, we're looking
at verse 12 and onward: How art
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thou fallen from heaven, O
Lucifer, some of the morning!
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See Lucifer, the light bearer,
how are you fallen from heaven,
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son of the morning. How art thou
cut down to the ground, which
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weakens the nations! For
you said in your heart, I will
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ascend to heaven, I will exalt
my what, my what? My throne
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above the stars of God: I'll sit
in the mount of the congregation
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in the sides if the north: I
will ascend above the heights of
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the clouds, I'll be like the
Most High. Five times I is used.
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Some people say that Lucifer
needed a divine optometrist
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He had I problems, I, I, I. But
what I wanted you to see is I
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will ascend, I want my throne
above the stars of God. There's
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a battle for the throne of
God. Now the next phrase is very
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interesting I will sit upon the
mount of the congregation in the
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sides of the North. What was the
mount of the congregation in the
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sides of the north. What
was that? If you look at the
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encampment of Israel the mount
of congregation in the sides of
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the north is Mount Sinai. And
what happened on Mount Sinai?
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God gave the law. So the devil
wants to assert his throne above
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the throne of God, the devil
wants to give the law rather
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than to keep the law. The devil
wants people bowing down to him
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in worship as the law giver.
So as a result of that the devil
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would attack God's law and what
aspect of the law do you think
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the devil would attack. The very
heart of God's law, namely the
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Bible Sabbath. And so take your
Bible and turn to Daniel chapter
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7 verse 25 and many of you
I know in this Eternal Truth
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Matters series are following
along in these Bible studies.
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Daniel 7 as you're looking there
at verse 25. And here what law
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would Satan attack most. You'll
find it here in Daniel 7 verse
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25. It says: He shall speak
great words against the Most
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High...this is the little
horn power that would do Satan's
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bidding in changing God's law...
And shall wear out the saints
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of the Most High...persecute
them...He would think to change
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times and laws. So the devil
would think to change times and
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laws. Why does Satan think to
change times and laws. Because
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nobody can change the law
of God written with God's own
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finger on tables of stone. You
can't change that. It's eternal.
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It's part of the very nature
of the universe. So the devil
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thinks he can change
times and laws. What's the only
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one of the 10 commandments
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that has to do with time,
it's the Sabbath commandment.
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Why would the devil
attack the Sabbath. Because he
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wants to do away with creation.
And if he can do away with
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creation what impact will
that have? He does away with the
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basis of worshipping God.
So would God have an end time
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movement that would
be raised up in the last
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days of earth's
history to enable men and women
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to keep his law.
Revelation chapter 12 verse 17.
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At end times, God would raise
up a movement, and this movement
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in the last days of earth's
history would share the glorious
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teachings of the law of God
calling men and women back to
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worshipping the creator.
Revelation 12 verse 17. Now
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Revelation 12 is a fascinating
Bible chapter. In the 12th
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chapter of the book of
Revelation, we have four great
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episodes. The first great
episode has to do with the
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rebellion of Satan in heaven.
Then Satan's attack on Jesus
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when Jesus is born. Then Satan's
attack on God's people. Then
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Satan's attack on God's
end-time people. And you look at
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Revelation chapter 12:17, verse
17. It says the dragon...that's
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Satan, Lucifer...was wroth...
angry...with the woman, and went
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to make war with the remnant
of her seed, which keep the
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commandments of God, and have
the testimony of Jesus Christ.
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So at end-time God would have a
people that would be keeping his
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commandments. Would they be
keeping the Bible Sabbath as a
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symbol, as a memorial of
the creative activity of God.
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Certainly, they would. So at
the same time, get this, this is
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amazing. At the same time,
in the 1840s that evolution is
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emerging at the same time
in the 1840s when communism is
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developing at that same period
of time, God would raise up an
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end-time remnant, a last day
people. A people that would lead
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men and women back to
worshipping the creator. God
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would have a special message for
humanity at end time. We find
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that message in Revelation
chapter 14. It's pictured as
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being carried by three angels in
mid heaven. The first angel
tells us what to do.
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The second angel tells about the
consequence of not doing what
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God says. And the third angel
is a warning against the mark of
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the beast. The first angel
that flies that we see here in
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Revelation 14 is a call in the
light of the judgment hour to
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the everlasting gospel to go
to the ends of the earth and for
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men and women to worship the
creator. The second angel talks
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about Babylon is fallen. When
we read about Babylon in the
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Bible we're reading about
confusion, falsehood, error. And
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then it's a warning against the
mark of the beast. But what I
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want you to see in this
presentation, and we'll develop
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this more in our next
presentation. Revelation 14
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verse 6: I saw another angel
fly in the middle of heaven,
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having the everlasting gospel
to preach to them that dwell on
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the earth, to every nation, and
kindred, and tongue, and people,
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Verse 7: Saying with a loud
voice,...what kind of voice, a
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loud voice... Fear God...that's
respect or obey God...give glory
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to him...why...for the hour
of his judgment is come, and
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worship him that made heaven
and earth, and the sea, and the
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the fountains of waters. Who is
the one that made heaven, earth,
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sea and the fountains of waters?
What do we call the one that's
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made the heaven and earth, sea,
and the fountains of waters?
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What is he? He's the creator,
right? So get this. The longest
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time prophecies in the Bible run
out in 1844. If you've studied
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scripture, you will know that in
the book of Daniel, chapter 7,
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and 8 it talks about a 2300
year prophecy in Daniel 8:14. It
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talks about the judgment
and if you Bible students for
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generations recognize that
the 2300 years or days, which
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represent years in Daniel 8
run out in 1844. So at the time
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remember Revelation 14:7 says
the hour of God's judgment IS
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come, IS come. So the judgment
begins in 1844, and God has a
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message to prepare the world
for the coming of Christ at the
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culmination of this judgment and
that message is a call to the
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gospel. It's the call to give
our lives to Jesus. It's a call
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to be faithful to scripture
and it is a call to do what? To
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worship the Creator. So here you
have evolution is rising. This
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idea that human beings
are simply genetic accidents.
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Communism is rising, this idea
that human beings are not worth
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much. They're only cogs in
the world of state, they're only
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bricks in the world of state.
All this is developing. Satan is
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attacking, attacking, attacking
the Bible Sabbath. He's
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attacking the whole idea of
creation because he wants to
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undermine worship and so he gets
after the Sabbath as well. And
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the idea then becomes well the
Sabbath is not that important,
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it's old legalism, Jewish nature
given to Judaism. Wait a minute
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it was given at creation. But
who's the author behind that?
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who's the author behind the one
that wants to change the very
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law of God? Who would be the
author of that? It would have to
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be the evil one. Why? Satan
has a motive, and his motive is
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destroy the very basis for
worship. Attack creation. Get
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rid of the flag, get rid of the
monument of creation, get rid of
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the Sabbath. And if he can
do that he can undermine worship
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and then why worship at
all? That's why there's so much
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secular humanism in our world.
That's why there is so much
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godlessness in our world. If you
do away with the law of God, you
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do away with the Sabbath, then
you're not accountable to any
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body except yourself. We see
in our society a major crisis is
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brewing. That's why God
is making his final appeal.
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Revelation 14 verse 12, here's
the appeal of God: Here is the
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patience of the saints: here are
they that keep the commandments
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of God, and the faith of Jesus.
The Bible is leading us back,
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back to deep faith, the faith in
Christ that transcends culture.
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A faith in Christ that is larger
than, bigger than, greater than
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the world's offerings to us.
Deeper than our hearts. We say
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Lord, I want to be done
with materialism, done with
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secularism, done with the
world's values. I want the faith
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of Jesus, to live in my heart.
And I love Lord to be obedient
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to you and to keep your
commandments. I don't want to
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accept the devil's delusion
of the fact that this world
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evolved. And I want to recognize
the Bible Sabbath as the very
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heart of God's creative
activity. What about you? Have
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you come to the place in your
life where you have fully given
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your life to Jesus. What about
you? Are you longing for his
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faith to dwell in you? Have you
allowed the world to squeeze you
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into its mold so that the values
of the world govern and guide
00:26:52.37\00:26:58.11
your life Maybe you're a
Christian watching this program,
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and you understand for the first
time in your life that the devil
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has attacked the Sabbath
because he wants to do away with
00:27:07.52\00:27:12.66
creation. And once he does away
with creation, he then can do
00:27:12.69\00:27:19.70
away with worship. He's attacked
creation because through that
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vehicle he gets at the Sabbath.
But you hear the call of
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Christ, you see the truth of
God, you recognize that we are
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in a controversy between good
and evil. You say Jesus, I want
00:27:32.81\00:27:38.72
your flag to fly over my house
of the Sabbath because I love
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you as creator. Let's pray.
Father in heaven, thank you so
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much with all of our hearts.
We hear the call of Christ. We
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recognize that the devil's tried
to undermine creation, but the
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Bible Sabbath still stands
as a flag, it still stands as a
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monument calling us to worship
the creator. We praise you for
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that deep within our
hearts. Give us the courage, the
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strength to follow you now and
forever, In Jesus' name, Amen.
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