I'd like to welcome
you all here again today
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to this third presentation
in this series End-Time,
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Loyalty and Love.
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And also welcome
those who are watching
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from wherever
you may be watching
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around the world or listening,
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a very warm
welcome to you and I pray
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that you too will be
blessed as we journey
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through the six
part series together.
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We're halfway
through part three.
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If you've missed the couple,
you can catch up on that.
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And we'll look forward to
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the next three
episodes after this.
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Today's message I've
entitled, "History's Holy Hoax."
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Now when you take a
look at the definition,
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the definition of hoax
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is this according
to the Dictionary.com.
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"A hoax is a deliberately
fabricated falsehood
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made to masquerade as truth.
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Something intended
to deceive or defraud."
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Now from a very early age,
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I wasn't even into my teens,
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I discovered the reality
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of what it's like to be taken
in by a hoax to be defrauded.
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I don't know if anyone
here has been defrauded
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or ripped off.
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Anyone here had been
ripped off in the past?
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Okay, a couple of you have.
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Let me share with you a story.
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True story.
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This is a picture here of me
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on the left and with my sister.
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That's Rachel.
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And on the other side is
a picture with my mother,
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and myself, Rachel, and
my littlest sister Lydia.
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She's holding the ball.
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They hanging on to that ball
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and we are there
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next to our
beloved blue Kingswood
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with no power steering.
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I'm telling you, it
was a good work here
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driving that car.`
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Not that I drive it
much because I'm here today,
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otherwise I wouldn't be here
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if I did much driving back then.
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Anyway, I remember the day
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when this lady
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that we couldn't wait for
her to visit our home turned up.
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The lady's name
I cannot remember,
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I just remember
what she brought.
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She brought with her chocolates.
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Chocolates.
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She worked in a
chocolate and lolly factory.
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Now that was just something that
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we started look
forward to as kids
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because my parents
were into healthy eating.
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And they didn't buy us
any chocolates, any lollies,
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no ice cream, no chips.
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It was just healthy food
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while all the kids had
chips in their lunch box
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and Snickers bars and Mars bars,
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guess what I had?
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I had boxes of Sultanas.
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Yay! Very exciting.
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And so anyway, and I
remember this one day,
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this lady she brought us
a box of roses chocolates.
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And I was just so excited.
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My sisters were excited.
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We all got a box each.
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And we were just thrilled.
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I mean, this lady
was the best thing ever.
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She was our favorite
friend, we look forward to her
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coming more than
anything else in the world.
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Anyway, here we are
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with our box of
roses chocolates,
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and my sisters
guess what they did?
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They hide
through them immediately.
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Even before you could blink,
those chocolates were gone.
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And I told them, I warned them.
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I said, "Look, who knows
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when the Good Samaritan
is gonna come back again.
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We got no idea
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when this lady is
coming back again,`
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save some for
tomorrow and the next day
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and so on and so forth."
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But no, they
didn't wanna listen to me.
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And so they ate
all their chocolates.
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Well, me, what did I do?
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I ate a few. Absolutely.
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However, I decided that
I needed to keep the rest
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for another day and
sparingly enjoy them
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over a longer period of time.
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But I knew that
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if my sisters
found my chocolates,
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it would be all over.
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So I had to hide my chocolates,
and I hid my chocolates.
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I hid my
chocolates in my bedroom so
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so well that I
forgot where I hid them.
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I couldn't
remember where I hid them.
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Anyway I forgot
about the chocolates
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and one day,
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one day as I'm just
rummaging through my bedroom,
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all of a sudden
guess what I come across.
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I come across my chocolates,
my beloved roses chocolates.
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And I sit down on the
bed and I'm just ready to,
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ready to rip
into these chocolates.
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I mean, there's just
saliva just pouring everywhere.
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Not that you
wanted to hear that.
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But I'm just sitting
there and I'm just ready
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and I opened up the
box and they're all there.
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My sisters haven't
found the chocolates.
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Praise the Lord.
I'm just so excited.
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And I'm about to hove into
them and I'm just so excited.
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Shut the door.
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Make sure my
sisters are no way in case
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I don't want the
special moment ruined by them.
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Anyway, so away I go,
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I unwrapped the first chocolate.
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I'm so excited. I'm ready.
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Horror.
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Absolute horror.
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It's not a chocolate.
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It's a rock.
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I'm like have mercy.
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Wait until I
catch up with Cadbury's.
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I'm like, "They're gonna give me
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a year supply of chocolate
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for this
terrible, terrible mistake
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that they've made."
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So anyway, I
opened up the second one.
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Guess what?
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Another rock.
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I was starting to
get a bit suspicious.
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But I thought,
let's give it one more go,
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one more go.
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True story.
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I opened up the third wrapping.
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You guessed it.
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Another rock.
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Someone had found my chocolates.
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And it wasn't my mom
or my dad or the cat.
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It was my sisters.
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They had found the chocolates,
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they had polish them all off
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and put rocks in
every single wrapper.
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Every single
one to the last one.
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Hoax, taken in
by a hoax, deceived.
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My life has never been the same.
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I've been to many counselors,
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and they can't help me they say.
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They've never dealt with
anything like this before.
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Now that's not
part of a true story.
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You know, we've all
been taken in by a fraud,
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by a hoax, we'd been deceived.
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But today we wanna
talk about something
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far more important,
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far more critical than
a box of roses chocolates.
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Today, we wanna take
a look at the blessings
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that God has
given to the human race
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at the very beginning of
time in the Garden of Eden,
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and how the enemy has
done his utmost to try
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and take away
their blessing from us.
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We've discovered thus far
that in the beginning of time,
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God created two
blessed institutions
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to remain with the
human race for all of time.
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One of them being marriage,
and we thank God for marriage
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and the family.
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Amen. Absolutely.
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We looked at that in
our previous presentation.
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And the second one is
the seventh-day Sabbath
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that God gave to Adam and Eve
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and to their children for
the rest of human history.
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Now when it comes to
these two beautiful gifts,
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we've discovered that
God placed these two gifts
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from the Garden of Eden
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in the heart of His
Ten Commandment law.
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You remember that from
that last presentation?
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The fourth commandment,
"Remember the Sabbath day,"
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the fifth commandment,
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"Honor thy
mother and thy father."
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The two commandments,
they are very different
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in how they begin to
all the other commandments,
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specifically, so that God
could get through the message
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of these two wonderful blessings
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that the enemy has
tried to destroy it.
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We discovered also that
all the way in the Bible
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from Genesis to Revelation,
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the Sabbath,
from when God gave it
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at creation
remains all the way through
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to the very end of time
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that we unpack this in
our previous presentation.
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We don't have time to
do that on this occasion.
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But we
discovered in the beginning,
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God created this Sabbath
when he gave it to Adam and Eve
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at Mount Sinai.
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God commanded it
through The Ten Commandments
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that He wrote
with His own finger,
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with His own hand.
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In His life,
Jesus worshiped on it,
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in His death, Jesus
continued to observe it,
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the New Testament
Church continued to observe it,
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God's last-day
people will keep it
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according to the
Book of Revelation.
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And we discovered that
from one Sabbath to another,
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according to Isaiah 66:22-23,
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"All flesh will
come and worship God
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on the earth made new."
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So from creation to recreation,
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God's blessed Sabbath
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will remain for all of eternity.
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That is what the Bible teaches.
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So today, we wanna take
a look at from the Bible,
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and from the pages of history,
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how this has all changed
because there is an enemy
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who wants to defraud the
human race of the blessings
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that God has for humanity.
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Those two
blessings from the garden
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being marriage in the
family, and the Sabbath,
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that work hand in
hand to create happiness,
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joy, peace, and
prosperity for all.
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Does the enemy want
us to enjoy all that?
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Absolutely not.
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Absolutely not.
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So we need to find the truth.
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I've come here to
find out the truth.
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What about you?
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Have you come to find the truth?
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You wanna know the truth?
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Well, today by God's grace,
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we will see the words of
Jesus fulfilled where He said,
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"If you abide in My
Word, you will know the truth,
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and the truth
will set you free."
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So let's pause and pray
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before we indeed
abide in God's Word
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to seek for His truth.
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Father in heaven, we thank You
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that we have Your Word.
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We thank You, Father,
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that Your Word is
a lamp unto our feet
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and a light unto our path.
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And we thank You
that in Your Word,
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we have clarity of
what Your will is for us
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and for the entire
human race, that we may indeed
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enjoy the blessings
of peace, happiness,
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and joy that You have for us.
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So bless us we
pray in Jesus' name.
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Amen. Amen.
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I wanna begin by
going to John 10:10,
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where Jesus here
outlines His plan for us
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as well as the
enemy's plan for us.
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In John 10:10, Jesus said,
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"The thief does not
come except to steal,
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kill and destroy."
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And who do you
think the thief might be?
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That's the Devil, of course.
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That's the Devil
whose name is evil with a D.
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That's why it's
called the Devil.
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That's all he's interested in.
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Evil for you and
I, and Jesus goes on,
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"But I have come
that they may have life,
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and that they may
have it more," what?
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"More abundantly."
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So God's plan for you and
I is that we may have life
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and have it more
abundantly whereas the enemy,
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he wants to take
away that abundant life.
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He wants to steal,
kill, and destroy the plans
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that God has to bless
each and every one of us.
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When it comes to
worship, we discover that
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the central issue
in the entire Bible,
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in fact, is worship.
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Worship is not about a
day, but it's about allegiance
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and loyalty to our
Creator, to our Savior,
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and to the one that sustains us,
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and that is Jesus Christ.
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The very first murder in
the Bible was over worship,
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when Cain killed
his brother Abel.
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Satan has always wanted worship
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because worship
belongs to God alone.
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You say the word worship.
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It means worth ship.
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Who is worthy to be worshiped?
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Who is worthy to
receive our loyalty,
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our honor?
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And the only one who is worthy
is the one who created us.
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And that is who?
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That is God.
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He alone is
worthy to be worshiped.
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But the enemy wants to take away
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from the worship that
belongs to God for himself.
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And so the very first murder
in the Bible was over worship,
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true and false worship.
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The central issue, in
the Book of Revelation,
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at the end of
time is over worship.
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That word worship appears
over and over and over again.
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It's about who will
you give your end-time
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loyalty and allegiance to.
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Will it be God?
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Or will it be the enemy?
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They are one of two choices
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that each person
will need to make.
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Jesus alone
deserves to be worshiped,
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for He alone is our Creator,
and He alone is our Redeemer.
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He alone
deserves to be worshiped.
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So the question
is, if the Sabbath
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from Genesis to Revelation,
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where on earth did
Sunday worship come from?
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If it's all the
way through the Bible,
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where on earth did
Sunday worship come from?
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Well, the truth is,
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as we'll discover
in this presentation,
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and in all other subjects,
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especially relating to those
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significant fundamental
truths in God's Word.
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For every truth that God has,
the enemy has a counterfeit.
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That's just how it works.
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For every truth that God has,
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the enemy has a counterfeit
to take away the blessings
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that God has for
each and every one of us.
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So we're gonna
find out from the Bible,
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we're gonna find
out what God's plan is.
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And we're gonna
find out from history
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where the changes took place.
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I wanna begin
by sharing with you
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just an overall description
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of the significance of the sun
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and sun worship
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when it comes to the
cultures of the past.
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"Throughout history,
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many ancient
cultures worship the sun.
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Light and heat
were essential elements
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to cultures
dependant on agriculture.
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Therefore, the
great force of the sun
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became the
object of their worship.
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Sadly, on many occasions,
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the Old Testament records
that the chosen people of God,
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the nation of Israel
chose to worship the sun god
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rather than the Son of God.
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Often the religious
leaders were responsible
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for leading the people
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in the pagan
practice of sun worship."
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And we have an example
of that in Ezekiel 8:16,
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where the religious leaders
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are leading out in the
worship of the sun god,
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which was the predominant
god of then known world
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when Israel lived at that time.
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"So He brought me
into the inner courts
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of the Lord's house."
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We read in Ezekiel 8:16.
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"And there, at the door
of the temple of the Lord,
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between the porch and the altar,
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were about twenty-five men
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with their backs
toward the temple of the Lord
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and their faces toward the east,
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and they were worshiping
the sun toward the east."
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So even though God
had warned His people
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over and over again,
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do not follow
the worship practices
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of the nations
that surround you,
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and the nations
that surrounded Israel
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worshiped the sun god,
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that was their predominant God
based on what I've just shared
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regarding the whole
necessary force of the sun
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for their agriculture
and so on and so forth.
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God says, "Don't
worship the sun god."
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But we find here in
Ezekiel that God's people,
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in fact, God's leaders,
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God's very
leaders in the temple,
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in the church,
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they have their
backs towards the temple
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and their faces towards the east
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and they're
worshiping the sun god
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as the other pagan nation.
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So sadly, sun worship
crept into God's people
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and amongst God's
people right there
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at the very beginning of time,
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way back in Old Testament times.
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Notice what we read in
The Faith of Our Fathers.
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This is written a
history of the Christian church
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by James Cardinal
Gibbons, who's passed away.
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He wrote this
epic on church history.
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And notice what he had to say
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regarding the day of worship,
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and what the Bible has to say
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regarding the true
day of the worship.
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I'm reading his words,
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from Faith of Our
Fathers, page 561,
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Cardinal James Gibbons,
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a prominent Catholic theologian,
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this is what he wrote.
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"You may read the Bible
from Genesis to Revelation,
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and you will not find
a single line authorizing
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the sanctification of Sunday."
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He goes on, "The
scriptures enforce
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the religious
observance of Saturday."
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So as far as
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James Cardinal
Gibbons is concerned,
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he's a well-known,
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well respected
Church of Rome historian.
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He states what the
facts are, and the facts are
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that you can read
through the entire Bible
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from Genesis to
Revelation and you will not find
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one single scripture
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there authorizing the
change of the day of worship
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from Saturday to Sunday.
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In the Old Testament,
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the first day is
mentioned on one occasion
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and that's in Genesis 1
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when God on the very
first day created light.
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And in the New Testament,
there are eight references
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to the first day of the week,
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five directly in relation
to the resurrection of Jesus
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He was raised on the
first day of the week.
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And three others
they're in the New Testament,
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one in John, another one in Acts
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and another one in Corinthians.
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Don't have time to
look at those passages,
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you can do that
in your own time.
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But neither one of
those eight passages
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speak of any
change taking place,
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either in the time of Christ
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or in the time of His disciples.
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So what we need to
ask is what was going on
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during the time of Christ,
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what was going on
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during the time
of the early church?
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What does the Bible say?
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And so this is a
little bit of recap
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from what we
have already looked at
00:18:35.44\00:18:36.91
in our previous presentation.
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Notice what we
read in Luke 4:16.
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"So He came to
Nazareth," speaking of Jesus,
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"where He had been brought up.
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And as His custom was,
He went into the synagogue
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on the Sabbath day,
and stood up to read."
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That's speaking of Christ.
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Now notice what we read next,
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we read
regarding the Apostle Paul.
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"Then Paul, as his
custom was, went in to them,
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and for three
Sabbath reasoned with them
00:19:04.24\00:19:07.48
from the Scriptures."
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We go on.
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"So when the Jews
went out of the synagogue,
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the Gentiles begged
that these words might be
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preached to them
the next Sabbath.
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On the next Sabbath
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almost the whole
city came together
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to hear the Word of God."
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That's in Acts 13:42-44.
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So here we have
testimony and the evidence
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from the New
Testament that the Apostle Paul,
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he not only went into
the synagogue on the Sabbath,
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and ministered to the
Jews, and preached to the Jews,
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and shared with them,
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but he also
shared with the Gentiles.
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Now the Gentiles were not Jews,
but He shared with them also
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on the seventh-day
Sabbath as the scriptures share.
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When it comes to Jesus,
Jesus made it very clear that
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40 years after He
would go to heaven,
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the Sabbath would remain.
00:20:01.26\00:20:02.86
Notice what Jesus
said in Matthew 24:20,
00:20:02.90\00:20:08.04
what He shared
with His disciples,
00:20:08.07\00:20:09.84
"And pray that your
flight may not be in winter
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or on the Sabbath."
00:20:13.27\00:20:15.24
Now this is in relation
00:20:15.28\00:20:16.98
to the destruction of Jerusalem.
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Jesus warned that
Jerusalem would be destroyed,
00:20:19.25\00:20:23.08
the temple would be destroyed,
00:20:23.12\00:20:24.45
not one stone would
be left upon another
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in the words of Jesus.
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And Jesus said that
when it comes time to flee,
00:20:28.69\00:20:32.63
and Jesus had given warnings,
00:20:32.66\00:20:35.53
and He had given an escape plan
00:20:35.56\00:20:37.77
for those who were interested
in following His instructions,
00:20:37.80\00:20:41.30
you can read about
that in Matthew Chapter 24.
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And He said, when
the time comes to flee,
00:20:43.71\00:20:47.51
when the doors are
open, and there's a reprieve
00:20:47.54\00:20:51.28
and there's an
opportunity, the door is opened,
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make sure you
don't flee during winter
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for obvious reasons
or on the Sabbath day.
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This is 70 AD well and truly
00:21:00.79\00:21:04.93
down the track
00:21:04.96\00:21:06.29
from when Jesus was here,
00:21:06.33\00:21:09.23
and well and truly into
the New Testament period.
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In Hebrews 4:4, 9, we discover,
00:21:11.97\00:21:16.71
the Apostle Paul writes,
00:21:16.74\00:21:18.27
"For He has
spoken in a certain place
00:21:18.31\00:21:20.98
of the seventh-day in this way,
00:21:21.01\00:21:23.21
'And God rested
on the seventh day
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from all His works.'
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There remains therefore a
rest for the people of God.'
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" So the New
Testament is very clear.
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"There remains therefore a
rest for the people of God."
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The Sabbath remains
for all of God's people,
00:21:37.23\00:21:40.36
all the way down through time,
00:21:40.40\00:21:42.36
all the way from
the time of Christ
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to the second coming
and as we have discovered
00:21:44.93\00:21:47.24
and beyond.
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I find it fascinating
that the word for Saturday
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in many languages of the Bible
00:21:52.24\00:21:55.01
literally is
translated as Sabbath.
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Here we go.
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I have just a few
here a few examples of how,
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"In over 100 modern
00:22:03.05\00:22:05.05
and ancient
languages of the world,
00:22:05.09\00:22:07.06
the root word for
Saturday is Sabbath."
00:22:07.09\00:22:09.59
Notice these, in German,
00:22:09.62\00:22:12.23
the word for
Saturday is Samstag,
00:22:12.26\00:22:15.56
which means Sabbath day.
00:22:15.60\00:22:16.93
In French, Samedi
or Sabbath day also.
00:22:16.97\00:22:19.63
In Spanish, Sabado,
which means Sabbath.
00:22:19.67\00:22:22.20
Italian, Sabbato, Sabbath.
00:22:22.24\00:22:24.74
Macedonian, the
language that I grew up with,
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Sabota or Sabbath.
00:22:27.41\00:22:29.04
Serbo-Croatian Subota,
which also means Sabbath.
00:22:29.08\00:22:34.28
Arabic Sabet, Sabbath,
Sudanese, Saptu, Maltese,
00:22:34.32\00:22:39.69
is-Sibt, Latin, Sabbatum,
Czech, Sobota, Gregorian,
00:22:39.72\00:22:45.13
Sabati, Greek,
Savvato, Armenian Shabat,
00:22:45.16\00:22:49.50
and Russian Subbota.
00:22:49.53\00:22:51.43
So can you see the word
for Saturday comes to us
00:22:51.47\00:22:56.71
in all these different languages
00:22:56.74\00:22:58.77
from that very word Sabbath?
00:22:58.81\00:23:00.98
It's continued on.
00:23:01.01\00:23:03.28
Now in English,
the word for Saturday
00:23:03.31\00:23:06.38
is not Sabbath
that we generally use.
00:23:06.41\00:23:10.39
It's Saturday, of course.
00:23:10.42\00:23:12.39
And that comes to us
from the Roman god systems
00:23:12.42\00:23:16.93
that worship different gods
on different days of the week.
00:23:16.96\00:23:20.43
And so Saturday
comes from Saturn,
00:23:20.46\00:23:23.57
Saturn's day and Sunday
00:23:23.60\00:23:25.93
is, of course,
the day of the sun,
00:23:25.97\00:23:28.37
Monday is the day of the
moon, and so on and so forth.
00:23:28.40\00:23:31.64
And you can go through
all the days of the week
00:23:31.67\00:23:33.44
that are based on
the planetary gods
00:23:33.48\00:23:36.85
that the Romans had
that we have inherited
00:23:36.88\00:23:40.62
for our English names
of the days of the week.
00:23:40.65\00:23:44.69
Now, the day of worship
00:23:44.72\00:23:50.43
from Saturday to Sunday
00:23:50.46\00:23:52.76
has been changed.
00:23:52.79\00:23:54.23
That is obvious and
most Christians today
00:23:54.26\00:23:57.73
worship on the first
day of the week, on Sunday.
00:23:57.77\00:24:01.00
So the question
that begs to be asked,
00:24:01.04\00:24:03.77
and we need to answer is how
00:24:03.81\00:24:05.77
and when did the
change take place?
00:24:05.81\00:24:09.58
How and when did
the change take place?
00:24:09.61\00:24:11.91
Now that's a very
important question.
00:24:11.95\00:24:13.62
Now why is this
question very important?
00:24:13.65\00:24:15.78
Because this question has
everything to do with worship.
00:24:15.82\00:24:20.32
What is the key
issue in the entire Bible?
00:24:20.36\00:24:23.69
Worship, allegiance, loyalty,
00:24:23.73\00:24:26.19
there is nothing more
important than worship.
00:24:26.23\00:24:30.27
God created Adam
and Eve in His image
00:24:30.30\00:24:33.47
for them to have
fellowship with Him,
00:24:33.50\00:24:35.47
for them to be
in union with Him,
00:24:35.50\00:24:37.74
for them ultimately to
worship Him as their Lord,
00:24:37.77\00:24:41.44
and as their God,
and as their Creator.
00:24:41.48\00:24:45.81
This is so
significant and so important,
00:24:45.85\00:24:48.75
in that we know from
the very beginning of time
00:24:48.78\00:24:53.62
as we read through Revelation,
as we read through the Bible,
00:24:53.66\00:24:57.46
as we read through
the Book of Isaiah,
00:24:57.49\00:24:59.46
as we read through
the Book of Ezekiel
00:24:59.49\00:25:01.20
we discover that
the enemy, Satan,
00:25:01.23\00:25:05.63
who was once called Lucifer,
00:25:05.67\00:25:08.37
who was God's leading angel,
00:25:08.40\00:25:10.61
he rebelled and formed
00:25:10.64\00:25:12.51
a rebellion around him
00:25:12.54\00:25:14.34
of one third of the angels
00:25:14.38\00:25:16.11
because he
wanted to be worshiped.
00:25:16.14\00:25:20.08
In Isaiah Chapter 14, we
don't have time to go there.
00:25:20.12\00:25:22.88
But in Isaiah
Chapter 14, he cries out,
00:25:22.92\00:25:26.55
I will be like the Most High,
00:25:26.59\00:25:28.76
I will be
worshiped like the Most High,
00:25:28.79\00:25:31.06
and God alone
deserves to be worshiped.
00:25:31.09\00:25:33.86
No one else, God alone.
00:25:33.90\00:25:36.06
And so this is a
significant issue.
00:25:36.10\00:25:38.63
And so I wanted to know
the answer to this question,
00:25:38.67\00:25:41.90
how and when did
the change take place?
00:25:41.94\00:25:44.17
I wasn't interested
in hearing from others.
00:25:44.21\00:25:46.57
So I decided to
do my own research.
00:25:46.61\00:25:48.78
About 20 years ago or
so I spent three months
00:25:48.81\00:25:53.11
researching this very subject.
00:25:53.15\00:25:55.25
I wanted to find out the truth.
00:25:55.28\00:25:57.62
And so I came
across this book here
00:25:57.65\00:26:01.66
that I have up there
on the screen for you.
00:26:01.69\00:26:05.63
Book written by
Samuele Bacchiocchi,
00:26:05.66\00:26:07.60
in fact, it's his
doctoral dissertation
00:26:07.63\00:26:10.07
and it's entitled,
00:26:10.10\00:26:12.13
"From Sabbath to Sunday."
00:26:12.17\00:26:15.50
Subtitle,
00:26:15.54\00:26:16.87
"A historical
investigation of the rise
00:26:16.91\00:26:19.14
of Sunday observance
in early Christianity."
00:26:19.17\00:26:22.68
Now this book by
Samuele Bacchiocchi,
00:26:22.71\00:26:25.01
as I pointed out, it's
his doctoral dissertation.
00:26:25.05\00:26:28.08
It was printed
there, as you can see,
00:26:28.12\00:26:31.85
at the Pontifical Gregorian
University Press back in 1977.
00:26:31.89\00:26:36.99
That's in the City of Rome.
00:26:37.03\00:26:40.16
Dr. Bacchiocchi has
passed away a few years ago.
00:26:40.20\00:26:44.03
However, this would have to be
00:26:44.07\00:26:46.23
the leading historical document
00:26:46.27\00:26:49.17
that we have on this subject
00:26:49.20\00:26:50.57
in order to
answer this question.
00:26:50.61\00:26:53.81
This is such a
significant piece of work
00:26:53.84\00:26:56.75
that it received the
highest award and honor
00:26:56.78\00:27:00.98
by the Church of Rome
for the historical accuracy.
00:27:01.02\00:27:06.29
You see, Dr. Bacchiocchi,
he was one of the first
00:27:06.32\00:27:08.69
if not the very first,
not quite sure about that.
00:27:08.72\00:27:11.96
But he was one of
the first Protestants
00:27:11.99\00:27:13.90
to study and get his doctorate
00:27:13.93\00:27:17.83
from the Pontifical
Gregorian University
00:27:17.87\00:27:20.74
there in Rome itself.
00:27:20.77\00:27:22.30
And so we studied
these original sources
00:27:22.34\00:27:25.61
in order to discover the truth
of how the change took place
00:27:25.64\00:27:29.61
from Saturday or from
the Sabbath to Sunday.
00:27:29.64\00:27:33.05
Notice these words
00:27:33.08\00:27:35.38
written by Vincenzo Monachino,
00:27:35.42\00:27:40.69
I probably hashed that name.
00:27:40.72\00:27:42.86
But anyway, he is the Chairman
00:27:42.89\00:27:44.59
of the Church
History Department,
00:27:44.63\00:27:46.90
Pontifical Gregorian University.
00:27:46.93\00:27:48.56
Notice what he had to
say regarding this work
00:27:48.60\00:27:51.67
of Dr. Bacchiocchi.
00:27:51.70\00:27:53.03
"It is a work
that recommends itself
00:27:53.07\00:27:54.97
because of its rich content,
the rigorous scientific method,
00:27:55.00\00:27:58.44
and the vast horizon with
which it has been conceived
00:27:58.47\00:28:01.58
and executed."
00:28:01.61\00:28:04.35
Notice this
introduction to the book,
00:28:04.38\00:28:08.98
"The investigation shows,"
00:28:09.02\00:28:11.32
and I'm reading from the
book, from the introduction,
00:28:11.35\00:28:13.76
"the adoption of
Sunday in place of the Sabbath
00:28:13.79\00:28:16.42
did not occur
00:28:16.46\00:28:17.79
in the primitive
Church of Jerusalem
00:28:17.83\00:28:19.29
by virtue of
apostolic authority,
00:28:19.33\00:28:21.56
but
approximately a century later
00:28:21.60\00:28:23.80
in the Church of Rome.
00:28:23.83\00:28:25.27
An interplay of Jewish,
pagan, and Christian factors
00:28:25.30\00:28:28.47
contributed to the
abandonment of the Sabbath
00:28:28.50\00:28:31.44
and adoption of
Sunday observance instead."
00:28:31.47\00:28:34.71
So that is what took place.
00:28:34.74\00:28:36.41
It was a gradual change,
the change of the Sabbath
00:28:36.44\00:28:40.12
took place
gradually, and that's what
00:28:40.15\00:28:41.78
you can read in this
document, and other documents.
00:28:41.82\00:28:44.85
So as I read through this book,
00:28:44.89\00:28:47.16
and as I read
through many other books,
00:28:47.19\00:28:49.86
I discovered that
they were probably
00:28:49.89\00:28:51.23
three significant reasons
00:28:51.26\00:28:53.56
why and how the
change took place.
00:28:53.60\00:28:55.93
And I wanna share with you a
summary from Dr. Bacchiocchi,
00:28:55.96\00:28:58.57
he probably has
summarized that better
00:28:58.60\00:29:01.04
than most have come across.
00:29:01.07\00:29:02.40
And here they are, here
are the three key points.
00:29:02.44\00:29:06.64
There was Anti-Judaism,
00:29:06.68\00:29:10.25
"During the 2nd
century, Christians developed
00:29:10.28\00:29:12.48
a theology of separation from
and contempt towards the Jews."
00:29:12.51\00:29:17.09
Now why is that?
00:29:17.12\00:29:18.45
What you see what is going on
00:29:18.49\00:29:20.06
is that the Jews
were getting themselves
00:29:20.09\00:29:23.09
into a lot of
trouble from the Romans.
00:29:23.12\00:29:26.49
You can read about
that in your history books,
00:29:26.53\00:29:29.00
there were all
sorts of uprisings.
00:29:29.03\00:29:31.53
And so the Romans
were giving the Jews
00:29:31.57\00:29:35.10
a good old pounding.
00:29:35.14\00:29:36.74
And guess who got
caught up in the crossfire?
00:29:36.77\00:29:39.51
The Christians
because they both worshiped
00:29:39.54\00:29:42.08
on the same day of the
week, both the Christians
00:29:42.11\00:29:44.45
and the Jews worshiped
on the seventh-day Sabbath.
00:29:44.48\00:29:47.08
So they wanted to
distinguish themselves
00:29:47.12\00:29:49.32
from their Jewish
friends and neighbors
00:29:49.35\00:29:52.35
and so they began to keep Sunday
00:29:52.39\00:29:56.59
as well not as a
holy day, H-O-L-Y,
00:29:56.62\00:30:00.86
but as a holiday, H-O-L-I-D-A-Y.
00:30:00.90\00:30:04.53
And so it was day of festivity,
but it distinguished them
00:30:04.57\00:30:07.60
from their Jewish neighbors.
00:30:07.64\00:30:09.40
Number two, Sun Worship,
00:30:09.44\00:30:11.74
"The pagan Romans worshiped
the sun as their chief god.
00:30:11.77\00:30:15.24
The Christians, in
order to be friend the pagans,
00:30:15.28\00:30:17.75
began to adopt
the symbol of the sun
00:30:17.78\00:30:19.85
and Sunday as a
replacement day of worship
00:30:19.88\00:30:22.38
by reasoning
that God created light
00:30:22.42\00:30:24.59
and Jesus was
raised on the first day."
00:30:24.62\00:30:26.76
So that was their reasoning.
00:30:26.79\00:30:28.12
And so they began to slowly
00:30:28.16\00:30:30.69
but surely changed
their day of worship
00:30:30.73\00:30:32.83
in order to try and
win and attract the Romans.
00:30:32.86\00:30:35.70
And the Romans they
worshiped the sun god,
00:30:35.73\00:30:39.80
and the one who
especially made sun worship
00:30:39.83\00:30:43.61
or Sunday worship.
00:30:43.64\00:30:46.37
Very popular was
the first Roman Emperor
00:30:46.41\00:30:48.71
to become a Christian
00:30:48.74\00:30:50.08
and that was
Constantine in the year 321 AD,
00:30:50.11\00:30:53.38
Constantine he proclaimed
the first national Sunday law
00:30:53.42\00:30:59.15
where he mandated
00:30:59.19\00:31:02.16
that all within his empire
00:31:02.19\00:31:04.63
would worship on
the day of the sun
00:31:04.66\00:31:07.03
in order to bring about a union
00:31:07.06\00:31:09.66
between the pagans
and the Christians.
00:31:09.70\00:31:11.70
That was a
political move on his part,
00:31:11.73\00:31:14.10
but that was the second reason.
00:31:14.14\00:31:15.80
Now the third reason is this.
00:31:15.84\00:31:18.54
The Church at Rome,
00:31:18.57\00:31:20.38
"The most powerful
church in the Roman Empire
00:31:20.41\00:31:22.71
encouraged Sunday worship
rather than Saturday worship.
00:31:22.74\00:31:25.48
The Sabbath
became a day of fasting
00:31:25.51\00:31:28.35
and Sunday became
a day of feasting."
00:31:28.38\00:31:31.52
That's according
to Dr. Bacchiocchi
00:31:31.55\00:31:33.96
and his research.
00:31:33.99\00:31:35.36
So how excited would you be
00:31:35.39\00:31:37.19
as a little boy or a little girl
00:31:37.23\00:31:39.43
during the time
when this all took place
00:31:39.46\00:31:42.63
regarding the Sabbath?
00:31:42.66\00:31:44.03
It was a day of fasting.
00:31:44.07\00:31:46.23
And Sunday was
the day of feasting.
00:31:46.27\00:31:49.10
So slowly but surely
over time, things changed
00:31:49.14\00:31:53.61
and from the seventh-day Sabbath
00:31:53.64\00:31:56.71
to the first day of the week,
00:31:56.75\00:31:58.68
but as you go through history
00:31:58.71\00:32:00.05
and you read
through the history books,
00:32:00.08\00:32:02.25
especially there in
Africa, you discover that
00:32:02.28\00:32:05.59
Sabbath keeping remained
00:32:05.62\00:32:07.29
all the way from
the time of Christ,
00:32:07.32\00:32:09.06
all the way through to today.
00:32:09.09\00:32:11.23
There have been Sabbath keepers,
00:32:11.26\00:32:12.93
seventh-day Sabbath keepers,
00:32:12.96\00:32:14.70
not many of them
at different times,
00:32:14.73\00:32:17.07
but they have been
scattered here and there
00:32:17.10\00:32:19.07
that have remained true to God
00:32:19.10\00:32:20.87
and to His Word.
00:32:20.90\00:32:22.64
When it comes to this question,
00:32:22.67\00:32:24.01
I also decided that
I needed to get hold of
00:32:24.04\00:32:27.44
Convert's
Catechism, which why I did.
00:32:27.48\00:32:29.74
So I got hold of
this Convert's Catechism
00:32:29.78\00:32:32.28
and in this
Catechism of Catholic Doctrine,
00:32:32.31\00:32:37.05
its question and answer
and notice what we find here.
00:32:37.09\00:32:40.92
Here we have these words.
00:32:40.96\00:32:43.83
The question,
"Which is the Sabbath day?"
00:32:43.86\00:32:47.66
The answer,
"Saturday is the Sabbath day."
00:32:47.70\00:32:51.00
Another question,
00:32:51.03\00:32:53.13
"Why do we observe
Sunday instead of Saturday?"
00:32:53.17\00:32:55.97
And the answer,
00:32:56.00\00:32:57.57
"We observe Sunday
instead of Saturday
00:32:57.61\00:32:59.57
because the Catholic
Church transferred the solemnity
00:32:59.61\00:33:03.24
from Saturday to Sunday."
00:33:03.28\00:33:05.61
So that is what the
church itself says that
00:33:05.65\00:33:09.05
it is responsible
00:33:09.08\00:33:11.69
for changing the day of worship,
00:33:11.72\00:33:14.62
as far as
Christians are concerned
00:33:14.66\00:33:16.42
from Saturday to Sunday.
00:33:16.46\00:33:17.79
Yes, they were these
other factors involved,
00:33:17.83\00:33:19.89
as I've already put up
there on the screen for you.
00:33:19.93\00:33:23.06
However, the key reason today
00:33:23.10\00:33:27.17
why not only Roman
Catholic Christians,
00:33:27.20\00:33:30.97
but Christians of
all various persuasions
00:33:31.01\00:33:34.81
keep holy or worship on
the first day of the week
00:33:34.84\00:33:38.95
is due to this
change that was made
00:33:38.98\00:33:41.78
by the Church of Rome
00:33:41.82\00:33:43.15
who openly admits
that is what took place.
00:33:43.18\00:33:46.99
Now did this
catch God by surprise?
00:33:47.02\00:33:49.72
Was God caught by
surprise when this took place,
00:33:49.76\00:33:53.63
when this
incredible change took place?
00:33:53.66\00:33:56.33
No.
00:33:56.36\00:33:57.70
Notice what we read
in the Book of Daniel.
00:33:57.73\00:33:59.93
In Daniel 7:25, 2,500 years ago,
00:33:59.97\00:34:05.07
almost 1,000 years
before the change took place,
00:34:05.11\00:34:09.08
God predicted
through His servant Daniel
00:34:09.11\00:34:11.61
that a power would arise
00:34:11.65\00:34:13.68
that would intend
to change God's times
00:34:13.72\00:34:17.72
and His law.
00:34:17.75\00:34:19.62
Daniel 7:25.
00:34:19.65\00:34:22.42
We have played out in history
00:34:22.46\00:34:25.29
what God said would take place.
00:34:25.33\00:34:27.56
This power that would attempt
to change God's holy time
00:34:27.60\00:34:31.83
and God's holy law.
00:34:31.87\00:34:35.17
The Apostle Paul
speaks on this in his day
00:34:35.20\00:34:38.47
and this is what he writes.
00:34:38.51\00:34:40.58
In 2
Thessalonians 2:3, 4, he writes,
00:34:40.61\00:34:44.08
"Let no one deceive you
by any means for that Day,"
00:34:44.11\00:34:46.85
speaking of the Second Coming,
00:34:46.88\00:34:48.58
"will not come unless the
falling away comes first,"
00:34:48.62\00:34:52.05
the word there
falling away in the original
00:34:52.09\00:34:54.76
is the word apostasia.
00:34:54.79\00:34:56.62
It's where we get our
English word apostasy from
00:34:56.66\00:34:59.79
or people who apostatize
00:34:59.83\00:35:01.16
they fall away from Bible truth.
00:35:01.20\00:35:03.10
That's what it
means to apostatize.
00:35:03.13\00:35:04.83
We keep reading.
00:35:04.87\00:35:06.60
"And the man of
sin is revealed,"
00:35:06.63\00:35:08.54
speaking of this power
00:35:08.57\00:35:10.04
that would seek to
change God's times and laws,
00:35:10.07\00:35:12.44
"the son of perdition,"
00:35:12.47\00:35:13.81
here is another
reference to this power,
00:35:13.84\00:35:15.91
"who opposes and exalts himself
above all that is called God
00:35:15.94\00:35:19.35
or that is worshiped."
00:35:19.38\00:35:20.72
There is that
word, that keyword,
00:35:20.75\00:35:22.32
"so that he sits as
God in the temple of God,
00:35:22.35\00:35:25.12
showing himself that he is God."
00:35:25.15\00:35:27.92
So the enemy would use a power
00:35:27.96\00:35:31.59
and that is how the
enemy has always operated.
00:35:31.63\00:35:35.26
Satan has never come out in
the open and done his dirty,
00:35:35.30\00:35:39.70
deceiving work in the open.
00:35:39.73\00:35:42.84
He didn't do that
with Adam and Eve.
00:35:42.87\00:35:45.61
He deceived Eve
through what means
00:35:45.64\00:35:47.84
and through what avenue?
00:35:47.88\00:35:49.44
Through the
serpent. Isn't that right?
00:35:49.48\00:35:51.18
He used the serpent as a medium.
00:35:51.21\00:35:54.32
The angels were deceived,
one-third of the angels
00:35:54.35\00:35:56.85
were deceived through his lies,
00:35:56.89\00:36:00.36
through his deception.
00:36:00.39\00:36:02.42
And he deceives you and I today.
00:36:02.46\00:36:05.49
He seeks to deceive you
and I today I should say,
00:36:05.53\00:36:08.20
I pray that we
will not be deceived.
00:36:08.23\00:36:10.00
If we remain in God's
Word we will never be deceived.
00:36:10.03\00:36:13.27
But he seeks to
deceive us in the same way
00:36:13.30\00:36:16.34
through his counterfeit.
00:36:16.37\00:36:18.37
Now the enemy is seeking
that which belongs to God
00:36:18.41\00:36:22.58
and God alone
and that is worship.
00:36:22.61\00:36:25.81
There is a power that the
enemy uses as his front man
00:36:25.85\00:36:29.42
in order to receive worship.
00:36:29.45\00:36:32.15
And that is any
and every institution,
00:36:32.19\00:36:35.82
not just the Church of Rome,
00:36:35.86\00:36:37.43
but any and every institution
00:36:37.46\00:36:40.20
that seeks to substitute
00:36:40.23\00:36:42.26
the clear Word of
God that seeks to change
00:36:42.30\00:36:45.60
the clear commandments of God
00:36:45.63\00:36:49.07
and instead place the traditions
00:36:49.10\00:36:52.04
or the suppositions
or the inventions of man.
00:36:52.07\00:36:56.64
Now on this point,
00:36:56.68\00:36:58.71
I have this historical document
00:36:58.75\00:37:03.45
or have these quotes
from a number of the churches,
00:37:03.49\00:37:06.99
authoritative quotations
on the Sabbath and Sunday,
00:37:07.02\00:37:10.23
so it's not just
the Church of Rome
00:37:10.26\00:37:12.16
that is admitting to this change
00:37:12.19\00:37:16.36
and to what day is
the true Sabbath day
00:37:16.40\00:37:19.07
and the significance of
that, but many other churches.
00:37:19.10\00:37:21.20
I'll just put up
a couple up there
00:37:21.24\00:37:23.47
where leaders of the various
00:37:23.51\00:37:26.44
Christian churches share.
00:37:26.47\00:37:28.28
Here is one from
the Anglican Manual
00:37:28.31\00:37:31.15
of Christian Doctrine, page 127.
00:37:31.18\00:37:33.85
The question,
"Is there any command
00:37:33.88\00:37:35.88
in the New Testament
00:37:35.92\00:37:37.25
to change the day of weekly rest
00:37:37.29\00:37:38.95
from Saturday to Sunday?"
00:37:38.99\00:37:40.46
And the answer is none.
00:37:40.49\00:37:42.66
Here is another one, this
time, Dr. Edward T. Hiscox,
00:37:42.69\00:37:47.56
he is the author
of The Baptist Manual
00:37:47.60\00:37:49.86
and this is what he
writes on the subject.
00:37:49.90\00:37:52.00
"There was and is a commandment
to keep holy the Sabbath day,
00:37:52.03\00:37:55.77
but the Sabbath
day was not Sunday.
00:37:55.80\00:37:57.84
It will be said, however,
and with some show of triumph,
00:37:57.87\00:38:01.14
that the Sabbath was transferred
00:38:01.18\00:38:03.01
from the seventh to
the first day of the week."
00:38:03.04\00:38:05.55
He goes on.
00:38:05.58\00:38:07.45
"Where can the record of
such a transaction be found?
00:38:07.48\00:38:11.05
Not in the New
Testament- absolutely not.
00:38:11.09\00:38:14.62
There is no Scriptural
evidence of the change
00:38:14.66\00:38:17.29
of the Sabbath institution
00:38:17.33\00:38:18.69
from the seventh to
the first day of the week."
00:38:18.73\00:38:22.63
So here we have
00:38:22.66\00:38:24.37
these leading church authorities
00:38:24.40\00:38:29.20
who know their Bibles
00:38:29.24\00:38:30.57
better than you, better than me,
00:38:30.61\00:38:32.34
probably better
than most people.
00:38:32.37\00:38:34.08
And they have read the Bible.
00:38:34.11\00:38:36.44
They have read the
Bible from cover to cover,
00:38:36.48\00:38:38.98
and they have
discovered the truth
00:38:39.01\00:38:41.65
that there has been no change
00:38:41.68\00:38:43.75
and that the Sabbath day
00:38:43.79\00:38:45.35
remains as the
seventh day of the week.
00:38:45.39\00:38:47.39
This is a very interesting,
00:38:52.19\00:38:55.53
I guess document
00:38:55.56\00:38:56.90
that was put out
probably more than
00:38:56.93\00:38:58.83
a century ago now.
00:38:58.87\00:39:00.37
Rome's Challenge, Why
Do Protestants Keep Sunday?
00:39:00.40\00:39:05.47
And in these four
articles that were written
00:39:05.51\00:39:09.91
by the Church of Rome,
addressing the question
00:39:09.94\00:39:13.42
of Why Do
Protestants Keep Sunday?
00:39:13.45\00:39:15.42
They ask the
million dollar question,
00:39:15.45\00:39:19.55
and this is it.
00:39:19.59\00:39:22.42
If Protestants believe and teach
00:39:22.46\00:39:26.19
that they stand on the
Bible and the Bible alone,
00:39:26.23\00:39:30.10
on Sola Scriptura,
and if they believe
00:39:30.13\00:39:33.64
in God's Ten Commandments,
00:39:33.67\00:39:35.70
then why do
Protestants keep Sunday
00:39:35.74\00:39:39.94
as their day of worship
00:39:39.97\00:39:41.44
rather than Saturday
as their day of worship
00:39:41.48\00:39:44.85
according to what
the Scriptures teach?
00:39:44.88\00:39:47.02
Isn't that a good question?
00:39:47.05\00:39:48.42
That's a very good question.
00:39:48.45\00:39:50.79
The Church of Rome rightly says,
00:39:50.82\00:39:54.09
"We changed the day of worship,
00:39:54.12\00:39:55.66
therefore we are
allowed to worship on this day
00:39:55.69\00:39:58.66
and we don't claim
to go by Sola Scriptura,
00:39:58.69\00:40:02.53
the Bible and the Bible alone,
00:40:02.56\00:40:03.90
but you Protestants
do, you Protestants claim
00:40:03.93\00:40:07.54
that you live by
every word that proceeds
00:40:07.57\00:40:10.17
from the mouth of God,
00:40:10.21\00:40:11.54
yet in this all important matter
00:40:11.57\00:40:13.51
that deals with one of
the very commandments of God
00:40:13.54\00:40:16.71
with a commandment that begins
00:40:16.75\00:40:18.11
with the word Remember,
you choose to willfully
00:40:18.15\00:40:21.95
and conveniently forget."
00:40:21.98\00:40:24.22
And so that is the challenge.
00:40:24.25\00:40:25.95
And it's a very,
very good challenge.
00:40:25.99\00:40:28.09
And I take my hat off,
00:40:28.12\00:40:29.62
and I respect the Church of Rome
00:40:29.66\00:40:32.66
for being honest and upfront.
00:40:32.69\00:40:36.03
But I don't have
respect for those that try
00:40:36.06\00:40:38.97
and come up with all sorts
of weird and wonderful reasons
00:40:39.00\00:40:42.57
that are not in Scripture,
of why they can neglect
00:40:42.60\00:40:47.08
the Word of God in
such an important matter
00:40:47.11\00:40:49.68
as worship
00:40:49.71\00:40:51.41
and the keeping of
God's fourth commandment,
00:40:51.45\00:40:56.18
I just don't understand,
and there's just no excuse
00:40:56.22\00:40:59.45
for others to
follow in that way.
00:40:59.49\00:41:03.53
Martin Luther, Martin Luther
00:41:03.56\00:41:07.06
challenged the Church of Rome
00:41:07.10\00:41:09.40
in 1517, October 31, 1517,
00:41:09.43\00:41:14.47
Martin Luther,
00:41:14.50\00:41:17.04
a Church of Rome theologian
00:41:17.07\00:41:20.71
and highly respected monk,
00:41:20.74\00:41:24.11
one who was absolutely loyal
00:41:24.15\00:41:27.42
to his church finally realized
00:41:27.45\00:41:31.55
that his church in
many important areas
00:41:31.59\00:41:35.19
had strayed away from
God's truth from His word.
00:41:35.22\00:41:39.33
And he wanted to follow
the Bible and the Bible alone.
00:41:39.36\00:41:42.16
And so Martin Luther
nailed his "95 Theses
00:41:42.20\00:41:46.50
or 95 Reasons, 95 Disputes"
00:41:46.53\00:41:51.31
with the church
regarding indulgences,
00:41:51.34\00:41:54.41
regarding how
you and I are saved.
00:41:54.44\00:41:57.31
And he nailed that on
the Wittenberg Church door.
00:41:57.35\00:42:01.85
Martin Luther called
his beloved Church of Rome
00:42:01.88\00:42:06.45
back to the Scriptures,
00:42:06.49\00:42:08.69
back to the Word of God,
00:42:08.72\00:42:10.16
back to the commandments of God.
00:42:13.40\00:42:15.46
And so we have Martin Luther,
00:42:15.50\00:42:20.57
who challenged
the Church of Rome,
00:42:20.60\00:42:22.90
his church, his beloved church,
00:42:22.94\00:42:24.97
to stand on Sola Scriptura.
00:42:25.01\00:42:28.04
And so the church almost,
00:42:31.08\00:42:34.88
yeah, just over three,
00:42:34.92\00:42:36.92
just over 20 years
from that point in time,
00:42:36.95\00:42:42.06
almost three decades,
I should say from 1517,
00:42:42.09\00:42:46.16
almost three decades
on the church of Rome
00:42:46.19\00:42:50.37
conducted what is
known as the Council of Trent
00:42:50.40\00:42:55.40
from 1545 to 1563,
00:42:55.44\00:42:59.07
18 years, 25 sessions,
00:42:59.11\00:43:02.01
probably one of the
00:43:02.04\00:43:03.38
if not the most
important Council
00:43:03.41\00:43:06.05
of the Church of Rome.
00:43:06.08\00:43:07.68
And at this
council, the church had
00:43:07.72\00:43:10.19
two major items
that are discussed
00:43:10.22\00:43:13.82
during that 18-year period.
00:43:13.86\00:43:16.42
The two main
objectives of the church council
00:43:16.46\00:43:18.76
were number one, "To
condemn the principles
00:43:18.79\00:43:21.13
and doctrines of the Protestant
Reformation or Protestantism."
00:43:21.16\00:43:25.33
And secondly,
00:43:25.37\00:43:26.70
"To clarify the
doctrines of the Catholic Church
00:43:26.74\00:43:29.27
on all disputed points."
00:43:29.30\00:43:31.57
Martin Luther had
raised a significant issue
00:43:31.61\00:43:35.21
and it created absolute
turmoil within the church.
00:43:35.24\00:43:40.52
One of the key
issues that was discussed
00:43:40.55\00:43:43.12
and debated as these
two significant points
00:43:43.15\00:43:46.55
were addressed
during this 18-year period
00:43:46.59\00:43:49.42
was whether the church
would go with tradition,
00:43:49.46\00:43:54.56
or whether the church
would go with the Bible?
00:43:54.60\00:43:58.93
Was that possible for the church
00:43:58.97\00:44:01.34
to have both the
tradition in one hand
00:44:01.37\00:44:04.91
and God's truth in the other,
00:44:04.94\00:44:06.91
was that even possible?
00:44:06.94\00:44:08.91
There was a lot
of toing and froing.
00:44:08.94\00:44:11.58
And finally the church decided
00:44:11.61\00:44:15.85
that of the two tradition
00:44:15.88\00:44:19.35
and truth, of
the two the safest,
00:44:19.39\00:44:22.99
the more safe course of
action was to follow tradition.
00:44:23.02\00:44:27.76
And why is that?
00:44:27.80\00:44:29.13
Because there is no way
00:44:29.16\00:44:30.60
the church could
remain the way it was,
00:44:30.63\00:44:34.00
would remain to
teach and practice the way
00:44:34.04\00:44:37.27
it had been up until this point.
00:44:37.31\00:44:40.51
If it wanted to continue,
00:44:40.54\00:44:42.58
if it wanted to
follow God's truth,
00:44:42.61\00:44:44.31
it could not
remain in that same way.
00:44:44.35\00:44:47.08
The images and the
idols in the churches
00:44:47.12\00:44:49.32
that were worshiped and revered,
00:44:49.35\00:44:52.05
they had to go, as
well the day of worship
00:44:52.09\00:44:57.26
needed to be changed
00:44:57.29\00:44:59.33
back to the
biblical day of worship.
00:44:59.36\00:45:01.90
And so, sadly,
the Church of Rome,
00:45:01.93\00:45:04.10
during the Council
of Trent made a decision
00:45:04.13\00:45:07.34
that it would
remain with the status quo
00:45:07.37\00:45:10.01
and would no
longer abide by the Bible
00:45:10.04\00:45:13.58
and the Bible
alone as that it claimed,
00:45:13.61\00:45:15.61
but it would be the
Bible and tradition.
00:45:15.64\00:45:19.11
What did Jesus have
to say about tradition?
00:45:19.15\00:45:22.22
Notice these words.
00:45:22.25\00:45:24.59
What did Jesus have to say
00:45:24.62\00:45:26.19
about placing
tradition above God's truth?
00:45:26.22\00:45:30.66
What did Jesus have to say?
00:45:30.69\00:45:32.03
Let's go to His words.
00:45:32.06\00:45:33.40
In Mark 7:7-8,
00:45:33.43\00:45:37.33
Jesus addresses this
very topic and He says,
00:45:37.37\00:45:40.30
"And in vain they worship Me,
00:45:40.34\00:45:43.17
teaching as doctrines
the commandments of men."
00:45:43.20\00:45:45.87
He's speaking here to
the religious leaders.
00:45:45.91\00:45:49.64
"For laying aside
the commandment of God,
00:45:49.68\00:45:53.05
you hold to the
tradition of men."
00:45:53.08\00:45:57.25
Nothing new under
the sun as Solomon said.
00:45:57.29\00:46:01.02
Sadly, in the days of
Christ, traditions were followed
00:46:01.06\00:46:04.73
more than God's truth.
00:46:04.76\00:46:07.20
If you take a look at
the context of these words
00:46:07.23\00:46:10.00
that we read
there in Mark Chapter 7,
00:46:10.03\00:46:12.17
you will
discover that Jesus here
00:46:12.20\00:46:14.30
is addressing amongst
a number of other points,
00:46:14.34\00:46:17.87
the issue of honoring
your mother and your father.
00:46:17.91\00:46:21.71
You see, the religious leaders
had come up with a tradition
00:46:21.74\00:46:25.45
whereby you could dishonor
your mother and your father,
00:46:25.48\00:46:29.55
live a selfish
life and still be seen
00:46:29.58\00:46:33.19
and classed as honorable
00:46:33.22\00:46:35.22
amongst your
religious community.
00:46:35.26\00:46:38.43
All you needed to do
00:46:38.46\00:46:39.79
was pledge all
of your belongings,
00:46:39.83\00:46:42.93
all of your treasures
00:46:42.96\00:46:45.70
to the church after you died,
00:46:45.73\00:46:49.40
and you did not need to
take care of your parents
00:46:49.44\00:46:52.21
while they were still alive.
00:46:52.24\00:46:55.51
Yet the Bible says,
00:46:55.54\00:46:57.98
honor your
mother and your father.
00:46:58.01\00:47:01.75
But they had
taken that commandment,
00:47:01.78\00:47:04.02
thrown it out the window,
00:47:04.05\00:47:05.65
come up with
their own commandment
00:47:05.69\00:47:07.96
to encourage and
invite selfishness
00:47:07.99\00:47:11.29
and self-centeredness,
00:47:11.33\00:47:13.76
and dishonoring
mother and father
00:47:13.80\00:47:15.73
and not taking
care of them in a day
00:47:15.76\00:47:17.67
and age where
there was no Centrelink,
00:47:17.70\00:47:19.70
and there were no
pensions where parents,
00:47:19.73\00:47:23.61
aged parents
relied on their children
00:47:23.64\00:47:26.07
to support them.
00:47:26.11\00:47:28.41
And the church of the day,
00:47:28.44\00:47:29.78
the religious leaders of the day
00:47:29.81\00:47:31.58
had thrown out
the fifth commandment,
00:47:31.61\00:47:34.32
and instead had come up
with their own tradition.
00:47:34.35\00:47:36.79
And Jesus shares these words,
00:47:36.82\00:47:39.82
"In vain they worship Me,
00:47:39.85\00:47:43.49
teaching as doctrines
the commandments of men.
00:47:43.53\00:47:45.93
For laying aside
the commandment of God,
00:47:45.96\00:47:48.26
you hold the tradition of men."
00:47:48.30\00:47:51.97
So today you and I are
faced with that same decision
00:47:52.00\00:47:55.67
that Martin
Luther was faced with
00:47:55.70\00:47:57.77
that Jesus challenged His
religious leaders of His day
00:47:57.81\00:48:03.61
and the people of His day
will it be truth or tradition.
00:48:03.65\00:48:08.98
We must make a choice,
00:48:09.02\00:48:10.75
will it be
following what God says
00:48:10.79\00:48:13.82
and keeping His
commandments including the one
00:48:13.86\00:48:17.56
that begins with
the word Remember,
00:48:17.59\00:48:19.29
following God's Word?
00:48:19.33\00:48:21.43
Or will it be keeping
the commandments of men,
00:48:21.46\00:48:25.07
and following the
traditions of men, Jesus said,
00:48:25.10\00:48:28.37
"He who is not
with Me is against Me."
00:48:28.40\00:48:31.04
We cannot have it both ways.
00:48:31.07\00:48:33.44
We cannot have a
foot in each camp.
00:48:33.48\00:48:37.65
Jesus says that you are with Me
00:48:37.68\00:48:39.31
or you're against Me.
00:48:39.35\00:48:40.68
You're either serving Me
or you're not serving Me,
00:48:40.72\00:48:42.82
you're either
worshiping Me in spirit,
00:48:42.85\00:48:45.32
and in truth, or you're not.
00:48:45.35\00:48:47.39
We cannot have it both ways.
00:48:47.42\00:48:50.06
And so Jesus today
is inviting you and I
00:48:50.09\00:48:52.63
wherever you might be,
00:48:52.66\00:48:54.00
Jesus is inviting
you to worship Him
00:48:54.03\00:48:56.50
in spirit and in truth,
00:48:56.53\00:48:58.53
not to ask for 10% discount,
as many Christians have.
00:48:58.57\00:49:03.30
Every commandment is okay,
except for the one that begins
00:49:03.34\00:49:06.68
with the word Remember, I
find that hard to understand.
00:49:06.71\00:49:10.05
Why would God ask us
today to forget the commandment
00:49:10.08\00:49:13.75
that He said to remember?
00:49:13.78\00:49:16.25
Try that on your
wife or on your husband.
00:49:16.28\00:49:20.96
Tell him that
remember means to forget.
00:49:20.99\00:49:24.03
And to forget means to remember
and see how well you do.
00:49:24.06\00:49:29.56
So the question is,
what will it be for you?
00:49:29.60\00:49:34.34
What will it be for me?
00:49:34.37\00:49:36.20
What will be your foundation?
00:49:36.24\00:49:37.71
What will be my foundation,
for my faith, for your faith?
00:49:37.74\00:49:42.58
Will it be what man says?
00:49:42.61\00:49:44.58
Or will it be what God says?
00:49:44.61\00:49:46.51
For me I want to
have the attitude
00:49:46.55\00:49:51.89
and the testimony
of the Apostle Peter
00:49:51.92\00:49:55.02
and the disciples.
00:49:55.06\00:49:56.39
Notice these
words from Acts 5:29.
00:49:56.42\00:49:59.69
"But Peter and
the other apostles
00:49:59.73\00:50:01.30
answered and said,
00:50:01.33\00:50:02.66
'We ought to obey," who?
00:50:02.70\00:50:04.70
"God rather than, who?
00:50:04.73\00:50:06.70
"Man."
00:50:06.74\00:50:08.87
I respect all people.
00:50:08.90\00:50:12.37
I respect all people, no matter
what their differences may be,
00:50:12.41\00:50:17.31
to me and how I understand,
00:50:17.35\00:50:19.21
but when it comes to my loyalty
00:50:19.25\00:50:20.95
and allegiance,
00:50:20.98\00:50:22.58
when it comes to who I obey,
00:50:22.62\00:50:24.49
when it comes to who I follow.
00:50:24.52\00:50:29.29
I make it very
clear, my loyalty today
00:50:29.32\00:50:33.73
and every day
while God gives me breath
00:50:33.76\00:50:36.87
or until the Second
Coming will be to the Bible
00:50:36.90\00:50:39.40
and the Bible alone.
00:50:39.43\00:50:40.77
Amen?
00:50:40.80\00:50:42.14
To Sola Scriptura, the
Bible and the Bible alone.
00:50:42.17\00:50:44.94
And I pray that
00:50:44.97\00:50:46.31
that is where
your loyalty will be.
00:50:46.34\00:50:47.68
Not with what man says,
00:50:47.71\00:50:49.14
but with what
God says in His Word.
00:50:49.18\00:50:52.65
God's final end
time message of love.
00:50:52.68\00:50:55.32
The Three Angels'
Messages, we've looked at them
00:50:55.35\00:50:57.32
in the previous
two presentations.
00:50:57.35\00:50:59.62
Thy herald this cry,
00:50:59.65\00:51:02.72
this call to the entire world
00:51:02.76\00:51:05.03
at the end of time
00:51:05.06\00:51:06.39
that we find in Revelation 14:7,
00:51:06.43\00:51:08.20
"Saying with a loud voice,
00:51:08.23\00:51:09.63
'Fear God and give glory to Him,
00:51:09.66\00:51:11.03
for the hour of
His judgment has come,
00:51:11.07\00:51:12.63
and worship Him who
made heaven and earth,
00:51:12.67\00:51:15.07
the sea and the
springs of water.'
00:51:15.10\00:51:16.84
" Words as we have discovered,
00:51:16.87\00:51:18.54
directly out of
God's Ten Commandments,
00:51:18.57\00:51:22.24
out of the fourth commandment,
00:51:22.28\00:51:23.61
directly from
the creation account.
00:51:23.65\00:51:25.21
Will God have a
people at the end of time
00:51:25.25\00:51:27.45
who worship Him who
made heaven and earth?
00:51:27.48\00:51:29.82
Those who are
loyal, those who obey,
00:51:29.85\00:51:32.55
those who love Him
with all of their hearts.
00:51:32.59\00:51:34.76
Notice what we read
in Revelation 14:12.
00:51:34.79\00:51:37.19
"Here is the
patience of the saints,
00:51:37.23\00:51:39.46
here are those who
keep the commandments of God
00:51:39.49\00:51:42.60
and the faith of Jesus."
00:51:42.63\00:51:43.97
Will God have a people
who are loyal and love Him
00:51:44.00\00:51:46.84
with all their
hearts at the end of time?
00:51:46.87\00:51:48.64
Indeed He will.
00:51:48.67\00:51:50.27
Indeed He will.
00:51:50.31\00:51:51.64
Will that be the majority?
00:51:51.67\00:51:53.48
Sadly, the answer is no.
00:51:53.51\00:51:55.91
I wish I could
stand up here today
00:51:55.94\00:51:57.95
and say the answer is yes.
00:51:57.98\00:51:59.51
The majority will follow
God and will be loyal to Him,
00:51:59.55\00:52:02.95
they will be loyal to His truth
00:52:02.98\00:52:04.52
rather than the
traditions of man.
00:52:04.55\00:52:06.35
But sadly, the Book
of Revelation tells us
00:52:06.39\00:52:09.42
that the majority
at the end of time
00:52:09.46\00:52:13.36
will follow the
traditions of man,
00:52:13.40\00:52:15.53
the lies of the enemy
rather than the truths of God
00:52:15.56\00:52:19.43
and show their love towards God.
00:52:19.47\00:52:23.07
What do we find
in Revelation 22:14?
00:52:23.10\00:52:25.61
Here is the reward
of those who are loyal.
00:52:25.64\00:52:29.18
Those who love God,
00:52:29.21\00:52:30.55
those who are showing
their allegiance to Him
00:52:30.58\00:52:33.48
in doing what He
has called them to do.
00:52:33.52\00:52:35.25
Revelation 22:14,
00:52:35.28\00:52:36.75
"Blessed are those
who do His commandments,
00:52:36.79\00:52:39.99
that they may have the
right to the tree of life,
00:52:40.02\00:52:42.59
and may enter through
the gates into the city."
00:52:42.62\00:52:46.66
That's God's plan for you.
00:52:46.70\00:52:48.03
That's God's plan for me.
00:52:48.06\00:52:49.50
That's God's plan for
the entire human race.
00:52:49.53\00:52:51.80
God so much wants us
to enter into that city,
00:52:51.83\00:52:56.64
the New Jerusalem, but
all those who enter there
00:52:56.67\00:53:01.88
will be those that have chosen
00:53:01.91\00:53:05.48
because of their love for God
to show their loyalty to Him,
00:53:05.51\00:53:10.52
and there is no greater
show of loyalty than obedience.
00:53:10.55\00:53:14.66
There just isn't.
00:53:14.69\00:53:16.49
There just isn't.
00:53:16.52\00:53:18.49
I wanna finish off by
going back to Martin Luther.
00:53:18.53\00:53:22.03
Martin Luther in 1521,
00:53:22.06\00:53:25.20
some four years after
he nailed those 95 Theses
00:53:25.23\00:53:29.14
on the Wittenberg Church door,
00:53:29.17\00:53:32.67
found himself on April 18, 1521.
00:53:32.71\00:53:37.25
Before the Holy
Roman Emperor Charles V
00:53:37.28\00:53:40.95
and the Church of Rome
00:53:40.98\00:53:42.42
at the Diet of
Worms there in Germany,
00:53:42.45\00:53:45.19
not worms but Worms,
00:53:45.22\00:53:46.72
the City of Worms.
00:53:46.76\00:53:50.33
This speech that he
made not on that first day
00:53:50.36\00:53:56.13
when he was asked to
recant his writings firstly
00:53:56.16\00:54:01.60
to answer whether
that were from him
00:54:01.64\00:54:04.34
and the second
question was, do you recant?
00:54:04.37\00:54:08.68
He made a powerful speech.
00:54:08.71\00:54:11.01
I had the
opportunity back in 2010
00:54:11.05\00:54:13.68
to go to the City of
Worms there in Germany.
00:54:13.72\00:54:16.42
And I stood there
at the very place.
00:54:16.45\00:54:20.66
There is a memorial
there at the very place
00:54:20.69\00:54:22.86
where Martin
Luther made his stand
00:54:22.89\00:54:24.86
and we'll take a
look at those words
00:54:24.89\00:54:26.23
in just a moment.
00:54:26.26\00:54:28.23
Here I stand.
00:54:28.26\00:54:30.10
This is the place in
1521 when Martin Luther
00:54:30.13\00:54:34.74
made his stand
where he sent shock waves
00:54:34.77\00:54:38.11
around the world
through these words
00:54:38.14\00:54:40.38
that he added.
00:54:40.41\00:54:41.74
Notice the words
from Martin Luther
00:54:41.78\00:54:44.75
as he was asked,
"Will you recant?
00:54:44.78\00:54:47.85
Will you turn back?"
00:54:47.88\00:54:49.62
And these were his words,
00:54:49.65\00:54:51.82
"Unless I am convinced
00:54:51.85\00:54:53.19
by the testimony
of the Scriptures
00:54:53.22\00:54:54.79
or by clear reason,
00:54:54.82\00:54:56.39
for I do not
trust either in the pope
00:54:56.42\00:54:58.63
or in councils alone,
00:54:58.66\00:55:00.23
since it is well known
that they have often erred
00:55:00.26\00:55:03.00
and contradicted themselves,
I am bound by the Scriptures
00:55:03.03\00:55:06.80
I have quoted and my conscience
00:55:06.84\00:55:08.67
is captive to the Word of God.
00:55:08.70\00:55:10.54
I cannot and will
not recant anything,
00:55:10.57\00:55:13.71
since it is neither
safe nor right to go
00:55:13.74\00:55:16.31
against conscience."
00:55:16.34\00:55:17.68
And here are these famous words
00:55:17.71\00:55:19.25
that have echoed
down through history
00:55:19.28\00:55:21.52
for the past half a millennia.
00:55:21.55\00:55:23.65
"Here I stand.
00:55:23.69\00:55:25.42
I can do no other.
00:55:25.45\00:55:27.06
May God help me.
00:55:27.09\00:55:28.69
Amen."
00:55:28.72\00:55:30.66
Powerful words
from Martin Luther.
00:55:30.69\00:55:33.13
"Here I stand on God's
Word and God's Word alone.
00:55:33.16\00:55:38.43
I can do no other."
00:55:38.47\00:55:41.70
God is calling you and I today.
00:55:41.74\00:55:44.21
Jesus is
calling you and I today.
00:55:44.24\00:55:47.11
He's calling us to make a stand,
00:55:47.14\00:55:48.91
He's saying, "My dear friend,
00:55:48.94\00:55:51.75
wherever you may
be on this planet,
00:55:51.78\00:55:53.85
I'm inviting
you to make a stand.
00:55:53.88\00:55:56.15
Follow me.
00:55:56.18\00:55:57.55
Follow my ways.
00:55:57.59\00:55:59.69
Follow the plans
that I have for you."
00:55:59.72\00:56:03.66
You may be thinking,
00:56:03.69\00:56:05.29
I've never heard
this message before.
00:56:05.33\00:56:07.10
I had no idea.
00:56:07.13\00:56:09.26
What am I supposed to do?
00:56:09.30\00:56:12.70
Notice what Peter,
sorry the Apostle Paul
00:56:12.73\00:56:16.81
shared with his
audience in Acts 17:30,
00:56:16.84\00:56:20.78
"Truly, these times of
ignorance God overlooked,
00:56:20.81\00:56:23.28
but now commands all
men everywhere to repent."
00:56:23.31\00:56:26.85
God is inviting all
everywhere to repent.
00:56:26.88\00:56:30.02
Jesus says, "If you love
Me, keep My commandments."
00:56:30.05\00:56:34.62
"If you love Me,
keep My commandments."
00:56:34.66\00:56:36.86
Jesus is inviting
us to make a new start.
00:56:36.89\00:56:40.00
He's inviting us
to make a change.
00:56:40.03\00:56:41.76
To follow Him as
the Lord of the Sabbath.
00:56:41.80\00:56:43.70
You know what
it means to repent?
00:56:43.73\00:56:45.40
To repent means to do a U-turn.
00:56:45.43\00:56:47.10
Have you ever
had to do a U-turn?
00:56:47.14\00:56:48.80
You're heading in one
direction and you realize, oops,
00:56:48.84\00:56:51.57
I'm going the wrong way.
00:56:51.61\00:56:52.94
You do a U-turn, you repent,
00:56:52.97\00:56:54.88
and you head back the right way.
00:56:54.91\00:56:57.65
That's God's plan for
each and every one of you
00:56:57.68\00:56:59.61
and I wanna pray that
each and every one of us
00:56:59.65\00:57:01.72
make that
decision to follow Jesus
00:57:01.75\00:57:03.89
as Lord and Savior.
00:57:03.92\00:57:05.25
Let's pray.
00:57:05.29\00:57:06.62
Father in heaven, we
thank You for Your Word.
00:57:06.65\00:57:07.99
We thank You for
Your message of love.
00:57:08.02\00:57:09.99
And we ask and pray
00:57:10.03\00:57:11.59
that because of
our love for Jesus,
00:57:11.63\00:57:13.40
we will seek to follow
Him in spirit and in truth,
00:57:13.43\00:57:16.87
and we thank You
for that in Jesus' name.
00:57:16.90\00:57:19.03
Amen.
00:57:19.07\00:57:20.40