Hello, friends, grab your
Bible and a friend, and sit back
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as we explore
God's word together
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on this edition
of "House Calls."
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Welcome again, friends,
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to a special
edition of "House Calls."
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We're continuing
on the era number one
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or era number one
talking about the Bible Sabbath.
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And to my right is my good
friend Pastor John Stanton.
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Good to have you here,
John. Good to be here again.
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You know, I tell
you, this program,
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we have taken the
time to specifically focus
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on an issue that has
been, to a great degree--
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I think that's
an understatement,
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it has been
grossly misrepresented
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in the Christian world.
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This is not so much a concern
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about what's
being said in the world.
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If you're not a
follower of Christ,
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well, just honoring the
Sabbath is not gonna make
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a difference one
way or the other.
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You know, there are people
that are great vegetarians
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and they are vegans,
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but they don't even
accept Jesus at all.
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You know, they
just got a good diet.
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So this is not about a
message to those who don't know,
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but to those who do know
and are being taught arbitrarily
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or being taught
intentionally I should say,
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from pulpits
all around the world
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that the Sabbath doesn't matter.
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We've talked about
and made some indent
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on this topics thus far, John,
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and so we're gonna go ahead
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and transition now
into what the Bible says
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in the New Testament
establishing the factors
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of the last days and
the significance of it
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in the exercise of our
worship in these last days.
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Yeah, and I think the best
place to start will be the cross
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and Luke portrays very
clearly in his transition
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of the preparation
day to the Sabbath,
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to the
Resurrection Day and then we go
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right from there into
the period of the church.
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Very good. And we do that.
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But let's start with
prayer as we always do.
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So bow your heads with us
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as we seek the Lord
in prayer. That's right.
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Gracious Father in
heaven, You are so good to us.
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We don't deserve it.
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But again, we come before You
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because we are in such
great need of Your blessing.
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And today, Lord,
it's nothing new.
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We're asking for
Your Holy Spirit.
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We're asking for Your presence
here during this program.
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Reach our heart, touch our heart
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with what You want us
to know and teach us--
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guide us through the helper,
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the Holy Spirit who
will come to guide us
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into that truth that
we desire for our lives.
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Lord, we give You our
lives, we give You our hearts
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and we wanna honor and
glorify You in Jesus name.
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Amen. Amen.
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John, I'm so glad you've
chosen to catapult into that--
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Now friends, as we
go to Luke 23:54-56
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and Luke 24:1 may be verse 2.
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What are we gonna be looking
at is, in fact, a yearly event
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that occurs in
every Christian faith,
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the honoring of the
resurrection of Christ.
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Now, the big
argument today, John,
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I'm smiling now because this
is a praise to the Lord text.
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This is a hallelujah,
thank you, Jesus, text.
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When Christians get to the
place where they say, Easter--
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Well, we know, I'm
not gonna talk about
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the pagan aspects of it,
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that's not the
purpose of my statement here.
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When Christians get to the place
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where they honor the
resurrection of Christ
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in many faiths, in
the Christian world,
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they look to--it's called
holy week in the Catholic Church
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and the majority of
my family is Catholic.
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They look to holy week and
then they come to Ash Wednesday,
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Good Friday, and Easter Sunday.
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Ash Wednesday, Good
Friday, and Easter Sunday,
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which in some-- it's
also called Palm Sunday.
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Sometimes, Easter
Sunday is called Palm Sunday.
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You know, your Palm
Sunday, Ash Wednesday,
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Good Friday,
Easter Sunday, sorry.
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And so you have
clearly these observances
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that mark out the
clear explanations
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that these verses,
we're going to read,
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have brought to the forefront.
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So we're gonna
read this verses and
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we're gonna stop along
the way and explain clearly
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where we are in the
exercise of Good Friday,
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Easter Sunday, all right?
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It also answers the
question, how do we know
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the seventh day
is Saturday. Right.
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Still today. Right.
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How do we know
that it's Saturday?
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Maybe it's all
shifted because you know
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the calendars
have changed. Right.
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The calendars have
changed with the adjustment
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or the adopting of a
different system. Right.
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But the weekly cycle
itself has not changed.
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It is never changed
the cycle of Sunday,
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Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday,
Thursday, Friday, Saturday.
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Right. They even named the days.
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It used to be day
one, day two, day three,
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but now it's
Sunday, Monday, Tuesday
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and that part has never changed.
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Just the date,
the number of the date
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has changed and shifted.
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And so since this time,
since the crucifixion of Christ
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and His resurrection,
nothing has changed.
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It is still in the
order as presented here
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in the scriptures, from Luke 23.
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And I'm gonna start
with verse 53, or 52.
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And this is Joseph and it said,
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"This man went to Pilate and
asked for the body of Jesus."
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Jesus had been crucified.
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He had died and
they're asking for His body.
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"Then he took it
down, wrapped it in linen
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and laid it in a tomb
that was hewn out of a rock,
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where no one had
ever lain before."
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That day was, John? The
preparation. That's right.
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And the Sabbath drew near.
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So it is not the Sabbath
yet, it's the preparation day,
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that preparation day is commonly
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also known as
Friday. That's right.
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And that's when
Jesus was crucified.
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Now there is some confusion,
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we don't have time
to talk about this.
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Some say, well may be he
wasn't crucified on Friday,
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maybe it was
earlier in the week.
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The crucifixion
clearly here established
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was on the preparation day,
the day has always been Friday.
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History will tell you that.
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Verse 55, "And
the women who had come
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with him from
Galilee followed after,
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and they observed the
tomb and how his body was laid.
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Then they returned and prepared
spices and fragrance oil."
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And they did, what, John?
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And they rested on the Sabbath
according to the commandment.
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There you go.
According to the, what?
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Commandment. Commandment.
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So the disciples are
commandment keepers? Right.
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They're also Sabbath keepers
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because they did what
Jesus asked them to do,
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that is from Sabbath to
Sabbath to observe God's--
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to remember and
observe God's Holy Day.
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Now notice this,
verse 1 of Chapter 25 or 24.
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"Now on the
first day of the week,
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very early in the morning, they,
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and certain
other women with them,
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came to the tomb
bringing the spices
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which they had prepared,
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but they found the stone
rolled away from the tomb,
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then they went
in and did not find
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the body of the Lord Jesus."
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John, what had
happened? He rose. He rose.
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He rose from the
grave. From His--His tomb.
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And today He is still risen.
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And clearly, John,
we see established here
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a sequence of days on
where these events happened,
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preparation day,
crucifixion, the Sabbath,
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Christ resting in the grave,
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His--He in being dead
following the crucifixion.
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Sunday, the first day
of the week very early
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in the morning being resurrected
from the tomb. That's right.
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And that has not changed.
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In fact, I would
suggest to you they--
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well, maybe we're too
early to talk about this,
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but the very church
that claims the authority
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to have changed that
Sabbath to Resurrection Day,
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which we now mostly Christian
world observes as the Sabbath.
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They believe it is the
Sabbath, as Resurrection Day,
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claims do it on the
authority of the resurrection.
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And by virtue of the fact that,
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that resurrection happened
on the first day of the week
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which is why we observe
or most Christians observe
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the first day of the
week in church worship
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and other things
that we've now been doing
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as a matter of tradition in
the Christian church for now,
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how many centuries? Since
early 300 or 4th century. Right.
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Really, 4th century A.D.
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So that's--anyway
that's kind of an ushering
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into now what
we're seeing as the,
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or what the Bible
is gonna describe now
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through the book of
Acts as the church era,
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the era of the church
under the new covenant.
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And we want to see,
John, here whether or not
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the Sabbath was changed
at this time or not. Okay.
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Because this is the allegation.
This is what is being taught.
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That as the
resurrection happened,
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that is when the
Sabbath was changed to Sunday
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and that's why
we see the disciples
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and others observing the Sabbath
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on this first day of the
week in the book of Acts.
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We've got to find
out if that's true.
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Okay, well, now--let me
begin with the words of Jesus
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because this is a very
wonderful place to start.
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I would take the word
of Jesus probably, sorry--
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I would take the word of Jesus
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unequivocally over
anyone else's word.
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I mean, that's what we
have to get to the place and do.
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We have to say, okay, I
know what the pastor said,
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but Jesus says, I
know what my church says,
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but Jesus says,
that's what we have to do
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and that is missing
in Christianity nowadays.
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We are honoring people
with mega degrees and giga,
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mega churches like as
though there are some,
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they are the new God.
That is not God's intent.
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God is to be worshipped.
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When John was about
to bow before the angel
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in Revelation 19, the angel says
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"Don't do this, I am
of your fellow servant
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and your brethren, worship
God" and what's missing today,
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is God's word has been
so minimized with the word
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"but" and then they go
on to explain something
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that's not
supported by God's word.
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But when you read the
words of Jesus in reference
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to destruction that was
going to come to Jerusalem
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39 years after He made
this statement. That's right.
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You'll find that Jesus by
His own words acknowledged
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that the Sabbath would still
be in place after His death,
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after His resurrection,
and after His ascension.
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And as the
Christians of the early church
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were coming
together for worship.
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Right, the reason why
they continued worshipping
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on the Sabbath is
because it wasn't an issue.
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But before we're
done in the program,
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we hope to try to get to it.
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If not maybe we might
think of stretching this.
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But here's my point,
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Jesus by His own
words made it very clear
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that long after I'm gone,
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I'm back in heaven
preparing a place for you,
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be careful that when destruction
comes to you in Jerusalem,
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it doesn't
happen on the Sabbath.
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Here's His words, Matthew 24
and let's start with verse 17.
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We're gonna talk about
the abomination of desolation
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in verse 15, but
let's go ahead and read,
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when destruction comes.
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Verse 16. Matthew
24:16 down to verse 20.
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"Then let those who are in
Judea flee to the mountains,
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let him who is on the
housetop not come down
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to take anything
out of his house."
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In other words, just get.
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Get out of
there. Get out of there.
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"And let him
who is in the field"
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verse 18 "not go
back to get his clothes.
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But woe to
those who are pregnant
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and those who are
nursing babies in those days."
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This is gonna be tough.
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And then He says in verse 20,
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the words that
admit by Jesus' own words,
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He confirmed the continued
existence of the Sabbath
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long after His death, and
resurrection, and ascension.
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"And pray that your flight
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may not be in
winter or on the Sabbath."
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Capitalize Sabbath
there. Jesus is saying
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when destruction
comes to Jerusalem,
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I pray that it doesn't
happened on the Sabbath.
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And, John, tell me, why?
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What would the Christians
be doing on the Sabbath?
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They'll be worshipping in
the synagogue or in a church.
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And they all know
exactly where to find them,
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to destroy them,
to take their lives.
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And when you read about
the destruction of Jerusalem,
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Josephus, the
historian in A.D.--
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talks about the
destruction in A.D.70.
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This statement
was made in A.D. 31.
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So 39 years after
Jesus ascended to heaven,
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He, Jesus, is
saying, there'll still be--
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the Sabbath will
still be in place. Right.
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And He was not
talking about a new Sabbath.
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This is the
transition now we have to make.
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We have to confirm here
that there was no transition
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between what Jesus said,
and what the disciples did.
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We talked about that,
we touched on that briefly,
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but now we're gonna go
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to some of the
passages in the New Testament.
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After John makes his point,
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'cause I know you want
to reiterate something.
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We're gonna go to some
passages in the New Testament,
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specifically in
the book of Acts,
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to show that these disciples
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knew clearly what Jesus meant.
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And by the way,
we began the program
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with that very
text in Luke 23:54-56
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and Luke 24:1 showing that
when Jesus was in the tomb,
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the women that were
gonna anoint His body,
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they didn't do
so, on the Sabbath
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because they rested,
according to the commandment.
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They rested
according to the commandment,
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the fourth commandment.
Jesus even rested at His death.
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He was in the tomb
on the Sabbath day.
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So now, let's go to
a couple of passages
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in the New Testament. What
do you wanna say before we...?
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No, let's just go to
several of them. All right.
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We're gonna read from Acts
13, Acts 17, Acts 18. Acts 6--
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Several things, that
are clearly indicators,
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the day that
both Jews and Gentiles
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came together for worship.
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That's right. Okay, which one?
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Spend time
observing God Sabbath day.
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Let's start with the
first one, go for it.
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So the first one, I
want to kind of give you
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every instance. Right.
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Let's look at
most of these here.
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Acts 13:42 and 44. All right.
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Verse 42 says, "So when the
Jews went out of the synagogue,
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the Gentiles
begged that these words
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might be preached to
them the next Sabbath."
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And then verse 44
says, "On the next Sabbath
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almost the whole
city came together
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to hear the word of
God." This is now the Sabbath.
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That's right. All right?
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Now, why do we
know this isn't Sunday?
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Because the
Sabbath is a different word
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than the first day of
the week. That's right.
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These are two different days
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as we're just
seeing Luke describe.
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Dr. Luke, who
wrote the book of Luke
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which we just read from
also, wrote the book of Acts.
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He didn't just
mess up in his language.
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He was consistent.
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He says this is the
Sabbath, another day,
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the first day of the
week, is a different day.
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And the Sabbath was the
day that Jews and Gentiles
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came together to worship
the Lord and to praise His name.
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And so we see the first instance
of that here in Acts 13, John.
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So there you go,
Acts 13:42 and 44.
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So right away we find the
Jews and the Gentiles, Sabbath.
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Paul and Barnabas preaching
on the Sabbath, clearly.
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Now, let's look at
the next reference.
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Here we go to the
Acts 17, Acts 17 Verse 2.
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And look at verse 2.
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And this one is significant
because this is where
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Thessalonica where they began
to turn the world upside down.
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And when you look at
this, it is very significant.
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Then we're gonna
go to the passages
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that are commonly referred to as
the text that holds the change.
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But we'll see that
it's completely contrary,
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there is no change.
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Okay, Acts 17:1 and 2,
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"Now when they
had passed through
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Amphipolis and Apollonia,
they came to Thessalonica,
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where there was a
synagogue of the Jews.
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Then Paul, as his
custom was went into them,
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and for three Sabbaths reasoned
with them from the scriptures.
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Now explaining and demonstrating
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that the Christ had to suffer
and rise again from the dead
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and saying, 'this Jesus whom
I preach to you is the Christ.'
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And some of them were persuaded
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and a great
multitude of the devout Greeks
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and not a Jew of the leading
woman joined Paul and Silas."
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Not a few, yeah.
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Not a few, that means
who accepted the fact?
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The Greeks so for the--
Lots of them. Lots of them.
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Not few, but many.
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So the Greeks accepted Christ,
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but where did the
Greeks hear this message?
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On the Sabbath day.
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And that's-- that of
course parallels Acts 13
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which we just
read where he was--
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Paul was persuading both Jews
and Greeks, Jews and Gentiles.
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That's right. On the Sabbath.
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And this clearly
here is repeating that
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it was Paul's custom as
well as it was Jesus' custom
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when He was on this earth.
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Now let's go to Acts 18.
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We actually didn't go to one
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but we'll go back
to that in a moment.
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Acts 18:4, read
that one for us, John.
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"And he reasoned in the
synagogue every Sabbath,
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and persuaded both
Jews and Greeks." Okay.
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So we have a
connection with both--
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worship of both
of them going on.
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There's no separate day.
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And when He says, he persuaded,
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he reasoned with
them every Sabbath
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and persuaded
both Jews and Greeks.
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In this particular
instance, Paul was reasoning,
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and when he says every Sabbath,
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he was there for
a year and a half.
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How many days? That's verse 11.
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We know that from verse 11.
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A year and a half he was there.
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A year and six months.
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Now, how many-- how
many months is that?
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That's 18
months, isn't it? Yeah.
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Okay. How many
Sabbaths is that? 18?
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How many Sabbaths is that?
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I think its 72 or 78 Sabbath.
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78 Sabbaths in a row.
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Now, if I had changed something,
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I would have been
really upset with Paul,
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that he would have been
sending the wrong message.
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If God intended to change,
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if Jesus had nailed
the Sabbath to the cross.
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I would have said this
guy is not representing me.
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I would not have
his works recorded.
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Matter of fact, I
would refer to him
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not as an
apostle to the Gentiles,
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but an apostate apostle.
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Yet by his very
actions, a year and six months,
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78 weeks in a row,
78 Sabbaths in a row,
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he preached to Jews and Greeks.
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You know, John, I see no
evidence of a change there.
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So that's clearly not any
place you can go to to suggest
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that the Sabbath was
changed to Sunday. That's right.
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'Cause there is a consistency
here of meeting every Sabbath.
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That's right, and
you know what's amazing
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about this book it's
called the Acts of the Apostles.
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There are
shortened-- shortened to Acts.
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This is what they did?
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This is what they
did? So if I'm an apostle,
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if I'm carrying a
message as a preacher,
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I should be following
what the apostles did.
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So this idea of
the Apostles' Creed,
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it's all in the
life of the apostles.
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This is what they did.
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They're not doing
anything out of harmony
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with what Jesus established
from the very beginning,
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Old Testament,
the life of Christ,
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He did the same thing.
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He said it was gonna exist
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long after He had
ascended to heaven.
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So that's why they're
continuing to honor the Sabbath.
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Now let's go to
another reference Acts 16:13.
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I'd like you to
read that one for me.
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It says, "On the Sabbath
day we went out of the city
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to the river side, where
prayer was customarily made;
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and we sat down and spoke
to the women who met there."
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Okay, the reason why they
did it by the river side is
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because they were
not enough men to begin
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a physical church building,
but they continued worshipping,
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so they went down
by the river side.
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But, once again,
no evidence there
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that there was any
change in the Sabbath.
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We're seeing
consistently, over and over
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the New Testament Church.
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Get this, friends,
the New Testament Church.
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We are the New Testament Church.
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The New Testament
Christian did not change the day
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from the seventh day
Sabbath to the first day.
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Any change yet,
John? No, no change.
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Okay, so now what I
wanna do, is now I'm gonna dive
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into the fray and
bring up the favorite text
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in the book of
Acts that is often sided
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as the change
coming into play. Okay.
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All right? Let's go Acts 20:7.
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We're gonna look
at all these texts.
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Acts 20:7 and I'd like you
to read that one for us, John.
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I'm gonna look up
something else here
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while you're reading Acts 20:7.
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And this is particularly very
significant, read Acts 20:7.
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Okay, it says, verse 7,
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"Now on the
first day of the week,
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when the disciples came
together to break bread,
00:21:22.34\00:21:25.47
Paul, ready to
depart the next day,
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spoke to them and continued
his message until midnight.
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There were many
lamps in the upper room
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where they were
gathered together."
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So one of the interesting
things about this text,
00:21:36.71\00:21:38.28
is that it shows
that the disciples
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and those that were
worshipping together,
00:21:40.93\00:21:43.40
gathered during
an evening. Right.
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This is where many
lamps were burning.
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This is where the
message continued until midnight
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that Paul was preaching
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and they were gathered
together in the evening.
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Now, here's the one
of the interesting things
00:21:55.44\00:21:56.81
about this is that
we-- here it commonly taught
00:21:56.84\00:21:59.76
that on the
first day of the week,
00:21:59.79\00:22:01.16
look there's a gathering
of the people together.
00:22:01.19\00:22:02.58
And they're breaking bread.
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And they're breaking bread.
So clearly there's a change.
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Well, number one,
the first problem is,
00:22:06.59\00:22:08.01
this is the
first day of the week
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and it's in
opposition to the Sabbath
00:22:09.44\00:22:11.46
that they met
inconsistently or consistently
00:22:11.49\00:22:14.87
throughout, up to
this point. That's right.
00:22:14.90\00:22:18.31
But keep in mind here,
00:22:18.34\00:22:19.71
there's one thing
that often people forget,
00:22:19.74\00:22:22.37
to this day-- during this day
00:22:22.40\00:22:25.12
the custom of
the Jews as a nation,
00:22:25.15\00:22:28.53
and as a people, and
had been for many years,
00:22:28.56\00:22:31.17
was that the day began
at evening. That's right.
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So where the sunset that was
00:22:36.72\00:22:39.15
the beginning of
the next day. Correct.
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So the beginning of
the first day of the week
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was actually in our
day, Saturday night. Okay.
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So the Sabbath, which is
why the Jews to this day,
00:22:48.83\00:22:52.43
we, as well, observe
the seventh day of the week
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from Friday sun down
'cause that's the beginning
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of the seventh day to
Saturday sun down. That's right.
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Then on Saturday sun
down is the first day
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of the week till
Sunday sun down. That's right.
00:23:02.36\00:23:04.80
So this here is a
meeting that's taking place
00:23:04.83\00:23:07.22
in vernacular today
on Saturday night. Right.
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What were they
doing on Saturday night?
00:23:11.54\00:23:13.11
Well, if you do some research,
John, I was looking online.
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There was a custom that the Jews
00:23:15.20\00:23:19.02
had where they
would get together
00:23:19.05\00:23:20.42
and we call it vespers,
having a vesper program.
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But they had vespers as well.
00:23:23.45\00:23:25.69
They got together regularly
to close out the Sabbath.
00:23:25.72\00:23:28.62
They'd been
observing the Sabbath all day,
00:23:28.65\00:23:30.31
they'd spent time
together, the evening now
00:23:30.34\00:23:32.55
had come and they were
having Sabbath vespers.
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This was simply
saying that as they spent
00:23:34.77\00:23:36.78
the whole day
together on the seventh day,
00:23:36.81\00:23:38.54
as the evening came about,
they had this vesper program
00:23:38.57\00:23:42.92
and Paul preached
during this vesper program
00:23:42.95\00:23:44.87
until midnight. All right.
00:23:44.90\00:23:46.91
That is what's happening here.
00:23:46.94\00:23:48.58
There is no endorsement
of a Sunday worship service
00:23:48.61\00:23:52.49
or a first day of the week,
except that it's at evening,
00:23:52.52\00:23:55.26
on Saturday night
worship service here.
00:23:55.29\00:23:57.58
So we easily can
dismiss this text from being--
00:23:57.61\00:24:00.51
providing any kind
of support for a change
00:24:00.54\00:24:03.11
of the observance
of Sabbath to Sunday.
00:24:03.14\00:24:05.06
And the other thing
that is amazing here
00:24:05.09\00:24:06.64
that we cannot
afford to not mention is,
00:24:06.67\00:24:10.09
there's almost the suggestion
that by doing something
00:24:10.12\00:24:12.81
you change what God has done.
00:24:12.84\00:24:15.74
There's a suggestion here by--
00:24:15.77\00:24:17.34
let's just say,
now we met on Sunday.
00:24:17.37\00:24:20.00
And matter of
fact, we give--we have
00:24:20.03\00:24:22.12
a Bible study training
class on Sunday morning,
00:24:22.15\00:24:25.49
and we met three
Sundays in a row,
00:24:25.52\00:24:27.77
would that action
say to the community,
00:24:27.80\00:24:30.92
now the
Seventh-day Adventist Church
00:24:30.95\00:24:33.04
is honoring the
first day of the week?
00:24:33.07\00:24:35.13
Absolutely, not.
That's the same instance here.
00:24:35.16\00:24:37.98
Paul was gathering together--
00:24:38.01\00:24:39.44
He was about to take a 16 to 20
city tour all throughout Asia.
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He was gonna go
from one location
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to the other,
eventually, ending up in Rome,
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where in the duration, in
the process of this journey,
00:24:50.70\00:24:54.13
he was arrested and
eventually ended up to Rome
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and appealed to Caesar.
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You find that in Acts 27.
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But he was simply
giving his farewell sermon
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to the Christians at Troas
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and when Eutychus
fell from the window
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because he preached so
long and so late in the evening.
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I don't feel bad, I
preach sometimes up to an hour
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and may be a
little bit after that.
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But Paul preached and
even after Eutychus was
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brought back to life
he continued preaching.
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He was biding them farewell as
he was gonna begin a long tour.
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But here's what
the-here's what the inference,
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here's what the suggestions
are when people read this text.
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They said see,
they were breaking bread
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on the first day of the week.
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That's what this
text is used to say.
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But, friends, what
they don't tell you
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is what Acts 2:46
says. Go there with me.
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Showing you once again
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that the actions
of man cannot remove,
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nor abricate, nor
alter the command of God.
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Here it is, Acts
2:46. Notice what it says.
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"So continuing" what is
the next word, John? Daily.
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"Daily with one
accord in the temple,
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and breaking bread
from house to house,
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they ate their food
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with gladness and
simplicity of heart."
00:26:08.86\00:26:12.22
Verse 47 "Praising God
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and having favor
with all the people.
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And the Lord
added to the church."
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How frequently, John? Daily.
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Those who were being
saved, this was evangelism.
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This what, this is
exactly what this was--
00:26:25.24\00:26:27.14
house to house
temple evangelism.
00:26:27.17\00:26:30.05
Everyday people
were being saved.
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Well, how're they
gonna be saved everyday?
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By breaking bread in the
temple and from house to house.
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These people are serious about
00:26:37.85\00:26:39.22
getting the
message out. That's right.
00:26:39.25\00:26:40.62
That's what this is saying.
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The breaking of bread was
not an action to abricate,
00:26:42.05\00:26:44.84
nullify or void
the fourth commandment.
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So we have no
evidences thus far.
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But let's go to
another text now.
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This is text number 1.
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Acts 20:7. When you
read-- when you listen
00:26:54.17\00:26:55.97
to a sermon by
very popular preacher,
00:26:56.00\00:26:59.18
take note, all
those popular preachers
00:26:59.21\00:27:03.44
deceive their
congregation with this text.
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And they use this text and say,
00:27:05.98\00:27:07.71
in this verse to Christians
transfer the legalistic Sabbath
00:27:07.74\00:27:12.29
from the Jews to the
first day of the week
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after the
resurrection of Christ.
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Lie. Not true. And here's what--
00:27:19.08\00:27:21.96
This is not a
transference of the Sabbath.
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We want to say this.
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We want to be respectful,
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but we want to be
defensive of the truth. Exactly.
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This is where
we're being defensive
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of the truth not
to be disrespectful.
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We say this because it is
my belief that many of them
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actually do
understand that there was a--
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there was no change.
How'd they know that?
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And the Sabbath is Sunday.
00:27:42.15\00:27:44.01
The real issue is that
if they were to change,
00:27:44.04\00:27:47.47
they would lose most
of their congregation
00:27:47.50\00:27:49.67
and they would lose
the financial benefits
00:27:49.70\00:27:51.75
that come from
pastoring the church.
00:27:51.78\00:27:53.15
It's a sad reality,
but it's true. It is true.
00:27:53.18\00:27:55.14
We've had
preachers that told us that.
00:27:55.17\00:27:56.88
And I'm
respectfully stating the truth,
00:27:56.91\00:27:59.30
because most of the
time, on this subject,
00:27:59.33\00:28:02.48
it is a
rationalization of the practice,
00:28:02.51\00:28:04.94
not an actual
search to put the church
00:28:04.97\00:28:07.73
in harmony with
God's word. Right.
00:28:07.76\00:28:09.51
And this is where
we're standing up and saying,
00:28:09.54\00:28:11.42
you know, we're
living in the last days
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and this is becoming--
it's going to become the issue.
00:28:12.85\00:28:16.39
The bifurcating,
separating issue between
00:28:16.42\00:28:19.08
God's faithful people
and those who are observing
00:28:19.11\00:28:23.24
a man made setup, a
tradition. That's right.
00:28:23.27\00:28:25.79
If that's the case, we
must get this message out
00:28:25.82\00:28:28.23
which is why we're
doing this special series,
00:28:28.26\00:28:31.23
a sharing series
here on the Sabbath.
00:28:31.26\00:28:33.64
And of course
the second great era
00:28:33.67\00:28:35.19
which is coming up on
the immortality of the soul.
00:28:35.22\00:28:40.05
So anyway, I just wanted to say
that because--I'm glad you did.
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We keep harping on this,
00:28:43.05\00:28:44.42
but we're trying not to
do this disrespectfully.
00:28:44.45\00:28:46.54
We're trying to
do this with respect,
00:28:46.57\00:28:48.13
but there's also
sometimes the truth does have
00:28:48.16\00:28:50.72
that two edge
sword, it does cut.
00:28:50.75\00:28:52.95
And, you know
what, we want to agitate,
00:28:52.98\00:28:54.93
and the word I'm using
there agitate is intentional.
00:28:54.96\00:28:57.86
We want to agitate the
mind because, you know what,
00:28:57.89\00:29:00.63
so many Christians don't think,
00:29:00.66\00:29:02.30
they just do
what the pastor says.
00:29:02.33\00:29:04.21
They don't read their Bibles.
00:29:04.24\00:29:05.61
They sit in church like this
00:29:05.64\00:29:07.85
and they listen
to these classically,
00:29:07.88\00:29:09.25
wonderfully put
together oratorial displays.
00:29:09.28\00:29:13.06
They don't do
anything. Itching--Itching ears,
00:29:13.09\00:29:14.46
what's that verse.
00:29:14.49\00:29:15.86
Yeah, they gather to themselves
00:29:15.89\00:29:17.26
teachers, having itching ears.
00:29:17.29\00:29:18.66
Paul talked about
that in the last days,
00:29:18.69\00:29:20.18
there'll be teachers that
will gather to themselves.
00:29:20.21\00:29:22.78
They will gather teachers
that have itching years.
00:29:22.81\00:29:24.43
They'll turn away from the
truth and be turned to fables.
00:29:24.46\00:29:26.66
And the itching ears, there
is they want to have their ways,
00:29:26.69\00:29:30.04
their ears scratched.
00:29:30.07\00:29:31.85
So they feel good about
what they practice already,
00:29:31.88\00:29:34.08
not to learn the truth,
00:29:34.11\00:29:35.56
but that someone would endorse
and support their lifestyle.
00:29:35.59\00:29:38.20
And that's
unfortunate that the truth
00:29:38.23\00:29:39.74
offends sometime
because if you are Christians--
00:29:39.77\00:29:42.15
I heard a
preacher just recently say,
00:29:42.18\00:29:44.25
the truth is so
important to the people of God.
00:29:44.28\00:29:46.12
We've got to honor the truth
and in the very same sermon
00:29:46.21\00:29:48.28
he's teaching the
Sabbath was changed
00:29:48.31\00:29:49.69
to the first day of the week.
00:29:49.72\00:29:51.09
And I am thinking, apply
that principle to yourself.
00:29:51.12\00:29:54.34
But now, let's go to
the next passage and, John,
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I want you to read here in
the book of 1 Corinthians 16.
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First Corinthians 16, I
want you to look together
00:30:03.10\00:30:05.67
with me at verse 1
and read that for us.
00:30:05.70\00:30:10.86
"Now concerning the collection
for the saints as I have
00:30:10.89\00:30:14.93
given orders to the churches
of Galatia, so you must do also.
00:30:14.96\00:30:19.35
On the first of the
week that each one of you
00:30:19.38\00:30:21.76
lay something aside
storing up as He may prosper.
00:30:21.79\00:30:24.97
That there may be no
collection when I come."
00:30:27.06\00:30:29.53
Okay, now, this passage in fact
00:30:29.56\00:30:33.79
is speaking about the famine
00:30:33.82\00:30:38.03
that had gripped the church.
00:30:38.06\00:30:41.63
And in order for the
relief to come to those
00:30:41.66\00:30:46.50
who were effected by famine.
00:30:46.53\00:30:48.97
This was what I may
refer to as a Red Cross,
00:30:49.00\00:30:53.62
or Salvation Army attempt.
00:30:53.65\00:30:55.27
Special call to give.
00:30:55.30\00:30:56.67
A special call to give.
00:30:56.70\00:30:58.07
But what I want you to notice
00:30:58.10\00:30:59.72
is this collection did
not take place in a church.
00:30:59.75\00:31:02.99
There's no
church gathering here.
00:31:03.02\00:31:05.21
The gathering
was what the people
00:31:05.24\00:31:07.58
did at their own homes,
00:31:07.61\00:31:09.08
that there be no
gathering when I come.
00:31:09.11\00:31:11.56
Otherwise you'll be
pulling things together
00:31:11.59\00:31:13.12
while I am
standing at the doorway.
00:31:13.15\00:31:15.19
Get this again.
00:31:15.22\00:31:16.81
On the first day of
the week Acts 16, verse 2.
00:31:16.84\00:31:20.44
Let each one of you
lay something aside.
00:31:20.47\00:31:24.93
Lay it aside, clothing, food,
00:31:24.96\00:31:27.28
canned food
whatever. Store it up.
00:31:27.31\00:31:29.41
Storing up as He may prosper
00:31:29.44\00:31:34.46
that there be no
collections when I come.
00:31:34.49\00:31:40.18
Now, when you come to church,
but when I come to your house.
00:31:40.21\00:31:44.51
But this text has been twisted.
00:31:44.54\00:31:46.52
When Christians
gathered together in the church,
00:31:46.55\00:31:48.48
they had a collection on
the first day of the week.
00:31:48.51\00:31:50.43
That's not what this says.
00:31:50.46\00:31:51.83
And if you go on further,
00:31:51.86\00:31:53.40
you will notice that as
they continue this collection.
00:31:53.43\00:31:57.09
And look at verse 3.
00:31:57.12\00:31:58.85
"And when I come whomever
you appoint by your letters
00:31:58.88\00:32:03.66
I will sent to bear
you a gift to," where?
00:32:03.69\00:32:06.27
"Jerusalem." The
Christians in Jerusalem were
00:32:06.30\00:32:09.79
experiencing a famine and they
were getting all they could,
00:32:09.82\00:32:13.39
all the goods they could
00:32:13.42\00:32:14.79
to relieve the
suffering of those in Jerusalem.
00:32:14.82\00:32:17.17
So you go on further
and you see the story.
00:32:17.20\00:32:19.61
"But if it is fitting"
verse 4 "that I go also,
00:32:19.64\00:32:22.47
they will go with me." And
then conclusions down here.
00:32:22.50\00:32:25.31
"Now I will come to you
when I pass through Macedonia
00:32:25.34\00:32:28.44
for I am passing
through Macedonia."
00:32:28.47\00:32:30.69
And so He is continuing
going from city to city
00:32:30.72\00:32:32.87
to gather food,
to gather provision
00:32:32.90\00:32:35.35
for those who are under famine
00:32:35.38\00:32:38.01
and in under
dourest in Jerusalem.
00:32:38.04\00:32:40.51
Now, we need to answer though
00:32:40.54\00:32:41.91
why this was to begin on
the first day of the week,
00:32:41.94\00:32:44.21
because there is
a principle here.
00:32:44.24\00:32:46.51
They had been gathering together
on the seventh day of the week.
00:32:46.54\00:32:50.06
And this is the very next
day-- the first day of the week.
00:32:50.09\00:32:52.24
This is when the collection
or the gathering should begin.
00:32:52.27\00:32:55.67
That's right Start thinking--
00:32:55.70\00:32:57.07
here's the principle, start
thinking about your offerings
00:32:57.10\00:32:59.16
and your gifts
before you get to church.
00:32:59.19\00:33:01.93
Start thinking about
your offerings and gifts
00:33:01.96\00:33:03.81
for the next Sabbath when
you come together to worship
00:33:03.84\00:33:06.71
on the very day
after you've spent
00:33:06.74\00:33:09.11
the last Sabbath at your church.
00:33:09.14\00:33:11.04
Sometimes I think,
John, as pastors we wonder
00:33:11.07\00:33:13.49
with our giving in congregations
00:33:13.52\00:33:15.77
that it's just like
whatever is in your pocket.
00:33:15.80\00:33:19.17
Oh, what do I have? Right.
00:33:19.20\00:33:21.01
And they pull out and
throw it in the envelope.
00:33:21.04\00:33:22.83
Paul is saying here, I
want you to think about it
00:33:22.86\00:33:24.70
as early as possible
which should be the first day,
00:33:24.73\00:33:26.87
the day after
you've gathered together
00:33:26.90\00:33:28.60
for your next
offering. That's right.
00:33:28.63\00:33:31.15
So the principle
here it clearly follows
00:33:31.18\00:33:33.90
that they've all ready
come together to observe.
00:33:33.93\00:33:36.47
Now, individually they
are setting something aside,
00:33:36.50\00:33:38.80
storing it up beginning
the first day of the week on.
00:33:38.83\00:33:40.98
Right. So these two passages
the most popular ones Acts 20: 7
00:33:41.01\00:33:46.98
and First
Corinthians 16:1 down to verse 4
00:33:47.01\00:33:52.41
You could read
the rest of the story
00:33:52.44\00:33:54.06
because the
collection continued.
00:33:54.09\00:33:55.90
They were
relieving the suffering,
00:33:55.93\00:33:57.78
point--bread was broken,
00:33:57.81\00:34:00.53
bread was broken by
the Christians everyday.
00:34:00.56\00:34:03.38
Acts 2:46 is a
supplement to Acts 21:7 showing,
00:34:03.41\00:34:07.87
you that breaking of bread
00:34:07.90\00:34:09.27
was not a first
day, new Sabbath,
00:34:09.30\00:34:11.93
new day of worship activity.
00:34:11.96\00:34:14.07
Not at all
supported by scripture.
00:34:14.10\00:34:16.36
First Corinthians
16 was a collection
00:34:16.39\00:34:18.71
for the saints that were
in hardship in Jerusalem.
00:34:18.74\00:34:22.57
They were going from
house to house collecting.
00:34:22.60\00:34:24.71
This was not a
collection taken up in church
00:34:24.74\00:34:27.12
on the first day of the week.
00:34:27.15\00:34:28.84
This first day of
the week collecting
00:34:28.87\00:34:30.90
was taken up
from house to house.
00:34:30.93\00:34:32.54
They were
collecting from house to house.
00:34:32.57\00:34:35.58
Read the story that,
they'll be no collecting
00:34:35.61\00:34:37.38
when I come to your house,
not when you come to church.
00:34:37.41\00:34:41.89
So these are
out of window. Yeah.
00:34:41.92\00:34:43.86
Now let's-- look
in third--third one
00:34:43.89\00:34:45.38
you want to
transition by saying something.
00:34:45.41\00:34:46.78
No, go ahead, we see
we have a lot to cover.
00:34:46.81\00:34:48.33
We've lot to cover.
Twenty minutes left.
00:34:48.36\00:34:49.73
So going fast. So
We need to move on
00:34:49.76\00:34:51.97
because we got to
cover Colossians 2.
00:34:52.00\00:34:54.37
We got to cover
Ephesians 2. Okay.
00:34:54.40\00:34:57.09
Romans 14. And by the way--
00:34:57.12\00:34:59.23
by the way I want
to point this out.
00:34:59.26\00:35:00.63
We did that in a former program
00:35:00.66\00:35:02.05
when we talked about
the two laws contrasted.
00:35:02.08\00:35:05.64
So but, we all just
include a little portion of that
00:35:05.67\00:35:08.02
in this program
because it fits here.
00:35:08.05\00:35:09.73
Revelation 1:10. It's the third
text that's often referred to.
00:35:09.76\00:35:13.30
And by the way some of
your chain references--
00:35:13.33\00:35:15.37
reference Bibles
do the job on you
00:35:15.40\00:35:17.04
because the chain references
are not inspired references.
00:35:17.07\00:35:20.48
These are chained references
00:35:20.51\00:35:21.88
often put in by
the commentators,
00:35:21.91\00:35:23.77
by the people who put
these Bibles together.
00:35:23.80\00:35:26.32
You'll notice in your
Bible at Revelation 1:10
00:35:26.35\00:35:29.13
the chain reference
points you to Acts 20:7
00:35:29.16\00:35:32.68
when you read the
phrase the Lord's Day.
00:35:32.71\00:35:34.88
That's the classic way
that Satan has used people
00:35:34.91\00:35:37.98
to drive your mind opposite
00:35:38.01\00:35:39.69
to what God's
word actually says.
00:35:39.72\00:35:41.46
I'm being frank about
it. Read out Revelation 1:10.
00:35:41.49\00:35:45.29
"I was in the
Spirit on the Lord's day,
00:35:45.32\00:35:47.54
and I heard behind me a
loud voice as of a trumpet."
00:35:47.57\00:35:50.91
Now, I head the
preacher say again.
00:35:50.94\00:35:54.33
Revelation 1:10, they
gathered on the Lord's day
00:35:54.36\00:35:57.12
the first day of the week.
00:35:57.15\00:35:59.03
You will find no
scriptural support
00:35:59.06\00:36:00.46
for that at
all, none whatsoever.
00:36:00.49\00:36:03.69
And once again, I reiterate,
00:36:03.72\00:36:05.33
man cannot change in
the course of human history
00:36:05.36\00:36:09.05
what God never changed,
what Jesus never changed,
00:36:09.08\00:36:12.21
and what the disciples
had no authority to change.
00:36:12.24\00:36:15.26
So who changed it? God didn't,
00:36:15.29\00:36:17.52
Jesus wouldn't,
the apostles couldn't.
00:36:17.55\00:36:21.07
So the question is, who
did. All right. That's true.
00:36:21.10\00:36:24.25
In fact I did some
looking up here real quick
00:36:24.28\00:36:26.79
while we were talking
about some other things.
00:36:26.82\00:36:28.80
You find the change
happened in the 4th century,
00:36:28.83\00:36:31.09
atleast the
beginning of the change. Right.
00:36:31.12\00:36:33.05
Ah, history will tell you
00:36:33.08\00:36:34.45
and you don't have to go too far
00:36:34.48\00:36:35.85
to actually look
into this. Right.
00:36:35.88\00:36:37.25
But history will tell
you that there was a time
00:36:37.28\00:36:39.19
where the Jews really
fell out of favor in Rome.
00:36:39.22\00:36:41.92
Rome wanted to really separate
00:36:41.95\00:36:44.00
from any appearance
whatsoever of the Jews.
00:36:44.03\00:36:47.10
They call it Judaizing. Yes.
00:36:47.13\00:36:48.87
And Constantine,
who's in power now
00:36:48.90\00:36:51.91
starts to see
that the Christians--
00:36:51.94\00:36:54.28
you know what,
there is something maybe
00:36:54.31\00:36:56.21
that I can agree
with within Christianity,
00:36:56.24\00:36:58.24
but it was more from a sense
of establishing his own power
00:36:58.27\00:37:02.72
and his ability throughout
the kingdom the empire
00:37:02.75\00:37:05.66
that he was
overseeing as emperor of Rome.
00:37:05.69\00:37:09.72
But what we have
here is to separate now
00:37:09.75\00:37:12.85
from an appearance of
Judaism which they also believed
00:37:12.88\00:37:16.83
was ritualistic,
00:37:16.86\00:37:19.85
very legalistic, burdensome.
00:37:19.88\00:37:26.14
They felt that if we
could just change the day
00:37:26.17\00:37:29.17
and in fact what they did was
they changed the day to the day
00:37:29.20\00:37:32.32
that we aleady as
pagans worship. That is right.
00:37:32.35\00:37:36.50
Which is Sunday,
look up the official
00:37:36.53\00:37:39.03
that the major day of
the worship for pagans.
00:37:39.06\00:37:41.96
Pagans worship the ultimate God,
00:37:41.99\00:37:43.50
their supreme
God is the Sun God.
00:37:43.53\00:37:45.81
It is Sunday in honor of him.
00:37:45.84\00:37:48.00
That is the day they
were used to worshipping.
00:37:48.03\00:37:50.05
So they want to transition
what was a very Jewish thing
00:37:50.08\00:37:53.06
they perceived to a pagan thing
that they already observed.
00:37:53.09\00:37:56.82
And in doing so, it
brought favor with the people
00:37:56.85\00:38:00.98
who then, when Constantine
proclaimed himself Christian.
00:38:01.01\00:38:03.78
They assigned to
Christianity itself.
00:38:03.81\00:38:05.82
That's how paganism began
to merge in with Christianity.
00:38:05.85\00:38:09.13
In fact, and I have the
very edict issued--Okay.
00:38:09.16\00:38:12.56
By Constantine himself in
321 A.D. Here's what it says.
00:38:12.59\00:38:17.72
"On the venerable day of the Sun
let the magistrates and people
00:38:17.75\00:38:21.28
residing in cities rest,
and let all workshops be closed.
00:38:21.31\00:38:26.36
In the country however
persons engaged in agriculture
00:38:26.39\00:38:29.18
may freely and lawfully continue
their pursuits because it often
00:38:29.21\00:38:32.10
happens that another day is
not suitable for grain-sowing
00:38:32.13\00:38:35.33
or vine planting; lest by
neglecting the proper moment
00:38:35.36\00:38:38.65
for such operations the
bounty of heaven should be lost.
00:38:38.68\00:38:41.54
So here on the venerable day
of the Sun that the magistrates
00:38:41.57\00:38:44.09
and the people
reside in the cities rest."
00:38:44.12\00:38:47.14
You have here the first sign
of legislated day of worship.
00:38:47.17\00:38:53.20
That's right, and it's called,
00:38:53.23\00:38:54.60
and I wanna say
what John just said.
00:38:54.63\00:38:56.20
The venerable day of the Sun,
00:38:56.23\00:38:59.48
you wanna catch
that "sun-day" worship.
00:38:59.51\00:39:03.05
Now we know the
names of the days
00:39:03.08\00:39:05.20
were not assigned in the Bible.
00:39:05.23\00:39:06.94
But if you look
throughout various cultures,
00:39:06.97\00:39:09.14
various language
groups around the world,
00:39:09.17\00:39:11.19
you'll find the word for
Sabbath is closely associated
00:39:11.22\00:39:15.33
with the
original word in the Bible
00:39:15.36\00:39:17.08
and the Hebrew,
Shabbat. That's right.
00:39:17.11\00:39:20.34
And you'll find clearly that
it's, you know, Sabbatismos,
00:39:20.37\00:39:26.11
Sabbath you will find
in the Syriac language.
00:39:26.14\00:39:29.34
They when the first of
the week is called Sunday
00:39:29.37\00:39:32.65
in our language, but they call
it one day into the Sabbath,
00:39:32.68\00:39:36.33
two day into the Sabbath,
three days into the Sabbath,
00:39:36.36\00:39:39.19
four days into the Sabbath,
five days into the Sabbath.
00:39:39.22\00:39:41.92
When they got to Friday they
called it eve of the Sabbath.
00:39:41.95\00:39:45.77
And then when the Sabbath
came they called it Shabbat--
00:39:45.80\00:39:49.67
Sabath, the day of the Sabbath.
00:39:49.70\00:39:53.13
That was in the Syriac language,
in the Persian language.
00:39:53.16\00:39:56.76
So when the Sabbath
ended, right after the Sabbath
00:39:56.79\00:39:59.26
they called it one day, two day,
three day, four day, five day
00:39:59.29\00:40:02.35
when they got to the sixth day
00:40:02.38\00:40:03.75
they called it
eve of the Sabbath.
00:40:03.78\00:40:06.13
And when you go
throughout all human history
00:40:06.16\00:40:07.76
you will be hard
pressed to find any of the day
00:40:07.79\00:40:11.60
established as a day of
worship other than that.
00:40:11.63\00:40:13.76
I wanna also
read another quotation
00:40:13.79\00:40:15.68
because what we're
pointing out here and, John,
00:40:15.71\00:40:17.49
very, very good
point you made here.
00:40:17.52\00:40:19.42
The change was not
done by God, by Jesus,
00:40:19.45\00:40:22.00
by the
disciples or the apostles.
00:40:22.03\00:40:24.08
It wasn't done by the New
Testament Christian Church,
00:40:24.11\00:40:26.08
it was done by Rome.
00:40:26.11\00:40:27.60
Pagan Rome, now Papal
Rome partnered into bringing
00:40:27.63\00:40:32.86
into the Christian
fellowship by persecution
00:40:32.89\00:40:36.47
and by the from 303 to 313 A.D.
00:40:36.50\00:40:41.15
Roman emperor
Diocletian did all he could
00:40:41.18\00:40:43.20
to wipe out the
Christian church.
00:40:43.23\00:40:45.70
But 321 A.D. Roman
Emperor Constantine established
00:40:45.73\00:40:50.44
under his Christianity
a new day of worship.
00:40:50.47\00:40:53.22
The venerable day of the Sun now
being given to the Christians
00:40:53.25\00:40:58.31
and they began by feasting
00:40:58.34\00:40:59.72
and merry-making
making of a light day.
00:40:59.75\00:41:01.99
And they made the
Sabbath look like a burden
00:41:02.02\00:41:03.75
they called the
Judaizing to make it look like
00:41:03.78\00:41:06.67
the Jews were the ones
that were doing everything
00:41:06.70\00:41:09.37
that was burdensome and evil.
00:41:09.40\00:41:10.83
And that was the next counsel
in 364 saying that Christians
00:41:10.86\00:41:14.38
must not Judaize by
resting on the Sabbath
00:41:14.41\00:41:16.71
but must not work on
that day or must to work,
00:41:16.74\00:41:19.91
excuse me, on
that day. That's right.
00:41:19.94\00:41:21.68
So encouraging them
to work. That's right.
00:41:21.71\00:41:23.82
On the Sabbath, but
honoring the Lord's Day
00:41:23.85\00:41:26.77
which they said was now Sunday.
00:41:26.80\00:41:28.27
You know, John, I
wish we had time to do this
00:41:28.30\00:41:29.75
and maybe you could
check back with us on this,
00:41:29.78\00:41:31.71
but I have an entire
presentation of the movement
00:41:31.74\00:41:34.25
of the first day,
Sunday worship being pushed.
00:41:34.28\00:41:37.22
As in Croatia, and
Germany, and England,
00:41:37.25\00:41:40.45
and various parts of the world,
00:41:40.48\00:41:41.92
the first day is it being
established in a law setting.
00:41:41.95\00:41:46.74
What's the word legislatively
being established as a day being
00:41:46.77\00:41:49.69
honored and
recognized as a holy day.
00:41:49.72\00:41:52.21
And the Pope, this present Pope
is saying, we must honor Sunday,
00:41:52.24\00:41:55.87
it is a matter of our salvation.
00:41:55.90\00:41:57.27
We must give our soul at
Sunday give Sunday its soul.
00:41:57.30\00:42:00.68
Its amazing quotations, I
don't have time to put it here,
00:42:00.71\00:42:02.70
but I do have
all the information.
00:42:02.73\00:42:04.50
But here's another question,
00:42:04.53\00:42:06.25
speaking about
the change of the day.
00:42:06.28\00:42:08.16
And by the way, as I read
this I recognize that my family.
00:42:08.19\00:42:12.71
I once again, I
say this ton of times,
00:42:12.74\00:42:14.30
but some of you may miss it.
00:42:14.33\00:42:15.87
My family is
predominantly Catholic,
00:42:15.90\00:42:18.52
so I am not beating anybody up.
00:42:18.55\00:42:19.92
I love my family to the nth
degree every single one of them.
00:42:19.95\00:42:23.82
But I cannot stand by and watch
their hearts and their lives
00:42:23.85\00:42:27.45
be intentionally deceived
by what their church admit
00:42:27.48\00:42:32.31
has no scriptural authority,
00:42:32.34\00:42:34.08
but rest solely on the authority
of the Roman Catholic Church.
00:42:34.11\00:42:37.45
Yeah. That's what
happened during the Dark Ages.
00:42:37.48\00:42:39.23
Let me go ahead and read this.
00:42:39.26\00:42:41.17
Notice the following section
from a Catholic catechism.
00:42:41.20\00:42:44.57
And I will give
you the reference
00:42:44.60\00:42:46.70
right here as we are done.
00:42:46.73\00:42:48.10
Matter of fact what we're going
to do at this program is take
00:42:48.13\00:42:49.50
this and put in
just this as the DVD
00:42:49.53\00:42:50.90
and add these quotation and
scriptures to it and make it
00:42:50.93\00:42:53.20
available to the
public, that's yet to come.
00:42:53.23\00:42:55.84
Have you any other way of
proving that the church has
00:42:55.87\00:42:59.45
power to institute
festivals of precept?
00:42:59.48\00:43:03.74
Answer, from
the Catholic Church.
00:43:03.77\00:43:06.51
Had she not such power
she could not have done that
00:43:06.54\00:43:10.49
in which all modern
religionists agree with her.
00:43:10.52\00:43:16.06
That's
churches, modern churches.
00:43:16.09\00:43:18.34
She could not have
substituted the observance
00:43:18.37\00:43:21.93
of Sunday the
first day of the week.
00:43:21.96\00:43:25.37
For the observance of Saturday
the seventh day and get this.
00:43:25.40\00:43:30.94
A change for which there
is no scriptural authority
00:43:30.97\00:43:36.51
and I am gonna
just say this because
00:43:36.54\00:43:37.91
I am planning to
do that--to do this.
00:43:37.94\00:43:39.97
You will see on the screen as
we put the slides in later on.
00:43:40.00\00:43:43.13
You will see this
reference actually show up
00:43:43.16\00:43:45.05
so you can trace it yourself.
00:43:45.08\00:43:46.86
You know, John, what I
want to say to those listening
00:43:46.89\00:43:48.82
and watching the program.
00:43:48.85\00:43:50.81
We're not making this up.
00:43:50.84\00:43:52.26
No, this is
factual. This is history.
00:43:52.29\00:43:55.84
I mean this is just as
real as the nose on your face.
00:43:55.87\00:43:58.31
If you got the
face, you got a nose.
00:43:58.34\00:44:01.21
You know, if you got a
head, you got ears and eyes.
00:44:01.24\00:44:03.60
Now, this is just real
00:44:03.63\00:44:05.00
as the anatomical
structure that we all possess.
00:44:05.03\00:44:08.59
If we were making this up
we could be trouble makers,
00:44:08.62\00:44:10.47
but what we are trying
to do is undo all the lies
00:44:10.50\00:44:12.76
and deception
that Satan has taken
00:44:12.79\00:44:14.73
thousands of years to
classically put together.
00:44:14.76\00:44:18.21
And, John, I want to say
at this particular point.
00:44:18.24\00:44:20.07
I want to show how God knew.
You wanna bring anything out
00:44:20.10\00:44:23.09
before we go to
the next reference.
00:44:23.12\00:44:24.49
No, I just, you know,
there's so many things
00:44:24.52\00:44:26.06
that references and
quotes we could bring
00:44:26.09\00:44:28.49
you from Rome herself. Right.
00:44:28.52\00:44:31.76
In regard to the
change and she is unabashedly
00:44:31.79\00:44:35.06
very clear, the
change was not scriptural,
00:44:35.09\00:44:38.17
the change was a response what
was a result of our authority.
00:44:38.20\00:44:43.02
In fact she says, Sunday
is the mark of our authority.
00:44:43.05\00:44:46.37
Right. The church is above
the Bible and this transference
00:44:46.40\00:44:50.61
of Sabbath observance
is proof of that fact.
00:44:50.64\00:44:53.00
That comes from the
Catholic record Lenin Ontario,
00:44:53.03\00:44:56.12
September 01, 1923. Right.
00:44:56.15\00:44:58.46
So even you're talking about
20th centuries they're saying
00:44:58.49\00:45:01.29
Sunday is the
mark of our authority.
00:45:01.32\00:45:02.74
It's by virtue of
the change shows that
00:45:02.77\00:45:05.73
we the church have
authority of the Bible.
00:45:05.76\00:45:08.75
And elsewhere she
actually says this.
00:45:08.78\00:45:12.06
And this is Rome.
00:45:12.09\00:45:13.46
"If Protestants
would follow the Bible,
00:45:13.49\00:45:15.56
they should worship on--worship
God on the Sabbath day.
00:45:15.59\00:45:19.37
In keeping Sunday
00:45:19.40\00:45:20.77
they're following a law
of the Catholic Church."
00:45:20.80\00:45:24.95
You know, if our
language here at all
00:45:24.98\00:45:28.31
sounds a little
bit in protest. It is.
00:45:28.34\00:45:31.73
Because we are
Protestants. Right.
00:45:31.76\00:45:33.79
We are still
protesting the authority
00:45:33.82\00:45:37.81
that Rome claims. Right.
00:45:37.84\00:45:39.87
And that authority and
its mark is Sabbath to Sunday,
00:45:39.90\00:45:44.96
The transference they claim
to have made. That's right.
00:45:44.99\00:45:47.54
And so if that's their
authority, of course we're going
00:45:47.57\00:45:50.51
to go after that in
protest. That's right.
00:45:50.54\00:45:53.46
We are protesting
that this is wrong
00:45:53.49\00:45:56.41
and Protestants there
are many Protestant churches
00:45:56.44\00:45:58.47
that still call
themselves Protestants,
00:45:58.50\00:45:59.87
but they are not anymore. No.
00:45:59.90\00:46:01.51
They're no longer
protesting. The word is, yeah.
00:46:01.54\00:46:03.55
We want to say as
Seventh-day Adventist ministries
00:46:03.58\00:46:05.29
we continue to protest.
00:46:05.32\00:46:06.69
We're continuing
to remain Protestants
00:46:06.72\00:46:08.09
and true to our faith that when
we see error we will reveal it.
00:46:08.12\00:46:12.32
That's right, the Protestant
reformation was for that
00:46:12.35\00:46:14.56
very purpose when
Martin Luther stood up there
00:46:14.59\00:46:17.52
and defended his faith
00:46:17.55\00:46:19.17
he, being a former
monk of the Catholic Church,
00:46:19.20\00:46:24.45
found his hope in the Bible,
that just shall live by faith
00:46:24.48\00:46:28.32
and he defended
in his 95 thesis.
00:46:28.35\00:46:30.19
The 95 reasons why
he reject the dogma
00:46:30.22\00:46:33.94
and the authority
of the Roman Church.
00:46:33.97\00:46:36.47
And he stood up firmly
to establish the foundation
00:46:36.50\00:46:39.21
on a thus saith the Lord,
but today the Christian Church
00:46:39.24\00:46:41.91
has departed from what
the word of God has said.
00:46:41.94\00:46:44.33
And tradition, and convenience,
and financial motivation,
00:46:44.36\00:46:48.99
and modern conformity has
watered down what God's word
00:46:49.02\00:46:54.54
has not removed as
our obligation to serving
00:46:54.57\00:46:58.22
and worshipping
the Lord Jesus Christ.
00:46:58.25\00:47:00.16
Matter of fact we talk about
this and its amazing John that
00:47:00.19\00:47:03.53
end prophecy and we
want to point this out.
00:47:03.56\00:47:06.18
This is kind of
where we wanted to connect.
00:47:06.21\00:47:07.63
We gonna wind up around
this and then bring a text out
00:47:07.66\00:47:10.90
a very powerful
text at the very end.
00:47:10.93\00:47:12.87
But in prophecy the Lord knew.
See God is sovereign, He knows.
00:47:12.90\00:47:16.78
Remember, the commandment was
00:47:16.81\00:47:18.18
"Remember the
Sabbath day to keep it holy."
00:47:18.21\00:47:21.71
Right, so He knew somebody
is gonna try to change it.
00:47:21.74\00:47:24.28
He as a matter of
fact even pointed out
00:47:24.31\00:47:25.87
that it would be Rome.
00:47:25.90\00:47:27.31
There are only four kingdoms
in human--in biblical prophecy.
00:47:27.34\00:47:31.51
Babylon,
Medo-Persia, Greece and Rome.
00:47:31.54\00:47:35.48
Rome was the fourth kingdom.
00:47:35.51\00:47:37.34
And in the book of
Daniel the Lord said clearly.
00:47:37.37\00:47:39.79
Daniel 7:23, he says the fourth
beast this is the fourth kingdom
00:47:39.82\00:47:47.44
because it makes it very clear.
00:47:47.47\00:47:48.84
This four beast or four kingdoms
00:47:48.87\00:47:50.24
that will arise
out of the earth.
00:47:50.27\00:47:51.64
"The fourth beast shall be
a fourth kingdom on the earth
00:47:51.67\00:47:55.79
which shall be different
from all other kingdoms,
00:47:55.82\00:47:58.46
shall devour the whole earth,
00:47:58.49\00:48:00.49
trample it and
break it in pieces."
00:48:00.52\00:48:02.33
And the Roman power
has done that today.
00:48:02.36\00:48:04.89
When you look at the
Roman power when you look at
00:48:04.92\00:48:06.69
Roman
Catholicism round the world.
00:48:06.72\00:48:08.09
The roman leader the
Pontiff, the Pope is seen
00:48:08.12\00:48:10.69
as a political
and religious leader.
00:48:10.72\00:48:13.10
He is different
from all the others.
00:48:13.13\00:48:14.60
He is not just political
like Babylon, Medo-Persia
00:48:14.63\00:48:17.27
and Greece was but he
is religious. That's right.
00:48:17.30\00:48:20.13
But what did he do? Verse 25,
00:48:20.16\00:48:23.75
"He shall speak pompous
words against the most high."
00:48:23.78\00:48:26.14
Don't have time to talk
about all that right now--
00:48:26.17\00:48:28.06
shall persecute the
saints of the most high.
00:48:28.09\00:48:30.04
That was the Dark
Ages for 1260 years.
00:48:30.07\00:48:32.23
More than 50
million Christians that
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did not fall in line
with Rome's dictates.
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But this is something
that God predicted he would do.
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Verse 25, "He
shall intend or think
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to change times and laws."
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And Rome has made that
attempt, they changed laws.
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The commandment that
forbids image worship is removed
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because they worship
images and the commandment
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that points at the
Sabbath has moved it up
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to the third and not
the fourth commandments.
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And the tenth
commandment is split into two.
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And all that the
fourth commandment
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says is remember to
keep the Sabbath holy.
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Remember the
Sabbath day to keep it holy.
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It removes what day it is.
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It takes out if
you look at that.
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Go get a copy of the Convert's
Catechism of Catholic Doctrine,
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you'll see this is
what it simply says,
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remember the
Sabbath day to keep it holy.
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It doesn't tell you
what day it is because
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they by their own
authority admit the change.
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And, John, what amazed to me.
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I will turn this back
over to you before we wind up.
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Comments from churches of other
authorities and denominations.
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You have the
Pentecostals, Presbyterians,
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a Moody Bible institute,
the Methodists, the Lutherans,
00:49:40.42\00:49:42.69
the Episcopals,
the Congregationalists,
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the church of
Christ, the Catholic Church
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and the Baptist
church in their manuals
00:49:45.67\00:49:48.04
all admit that they know.
00:49:48.07\00:49:50.07
Their leadership, their manuals
all admit that we recognize that
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there is no scriptural authority
00:49:53.48\00:49:54.85
for the honor of the
first day of the week.
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So whose
authority are we honoring?
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When we refused to honor God's
authority and choose tradition
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and convenience
over what God says.
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Whose authority are we honoring?
00:50:09.09\00:50:10.46
Well, there's
only two authorities.
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So I don't--I would not
want to be politically correct.
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But if you are not
into God's authority
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you're under an
another authority--
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That's right. And
that's the enemies.
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And now, we're
not saying because
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we have referred to
this before too. Exactly
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The last messages
the Three Angels messages
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from Revelation 14.
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We've read from
that is going to grow
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to a point where Revelation 18.
00:50:30.12\00:50:32.24
You see another
angel joining them who says
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come out of her my
people. That's right.
00:50:35.79\00:50:39.50
So we're talking
about systems here,
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we're not talking
about people. Very important.
00:50:41.84\00:50:43.68
We're not
talking about Catholics.
00:50:43.71\00:50:45.08
We're talking about the
system of Rome. That's right.
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And there are many
Catholics, and Protestants,
00:50:47.85\00:50:50.04
and Presbyterians, and Baptists
00:50:50.07\00:50:51.54
and all these that
are God's people today.
00:50:51.57\00:50:54.65
We're talking to you
and part of the message
00:50:54.68\00:50:56.78
is from God's work come out
of her my people. That's right.
00:50:56.81\00:51:01.18
You know, someone would
say while you would just
00:51:01.21\00:51:02.58
want to me join
my-- join your church.
00:51:02.61\00:51:04.49
Yeah, we want you
to come into the truth.
00:51:04.52\00:51:07.55
That's right. And
follow God with all your heart.
00:51:07.58\00:51:09.84
I mean, our honest plea
to you we're not sharing this
00:51:09.87\00:51:12.18
information just to say that
we're right and you're wrong.
00:51:12.21\00:51:14.76
That's not the case
we are trying to share
00:51:14.79\00:51:16.16
what the Bible
says, so that you can hear
00:51:16.19\00:51:17.68
and respond to God's call
00:51:17.71\00:51:19.12
to come out of the
false system Babylon,
00:51:19.15\00:51:22.21
in fact we did a
whole recent two programs
00:51:22.24\00:51:27.02
on spiritual
Babylon. That's right.
00:51:27.05\00:51:29.43
And that is the
system that the message
00:51:29.46\00:51:31.12
is going to all
God's people in that system
00:51:31.15\00:51:33.58
that is still there to come out
00:51:33.61\00:51:35.37
just as it was during
Babylon where the Israelites,
00:51:35.40\00:51:39.48
the southern kingdom, the nation
of Judah were taken in captive
00:51:39.51\00:51:44.38
by Nebuchadnezzar and his army,
00:51:44.41\00:51:46.33
and were held captive
for seventy years plus.
00:51:46.36\00:51:50.03
And then God called them out
and back to Jerusalem to rebuild
00:51:50.06\00:51:54.01
what was set at waste.
00:51:54.04\00:51:56.19
Now, spiritually
that's happening.
00:51:56.22\00:51:58.56
The waste places are going
to be rebuilt as God's people
00:51:58.59\00:52:01.18
are coming out of Babylon
and then before Christ return
00:52:01.21\00:52:04.92
God will restore that remnant,
that people that come together
00:52:04.95\00:52:08.13
to worship Him. That's right.
00:52:08.16\00:52:09.53
And it will be on the foundation
that last test is going
00:52:09.56\00:52:12.55
to be on whether or not you
will honor God's commandments
00:52:12.58\00:52:17.24
and you will see that
in Revelation throughout.
00:52:17.27\00:52:19.79
That the saints are the
ones that keep the commandments
00:52:19.82\00:52:22.01
of God that the devil
wars against those who keep
00:52:22.04\00:52:25.62
the commandments of God
and the testimony of Jesus.
00:52:25.65\00:52:29.35
Over and over again
it's against that people,
00:52:29.38\00:52:31.53
the commandment keeping of God.
00:52:31.56\00:52:33.29
You know, I want to make
this before I wind these points,
00:52:33.32\00:52:35.24
so we have to condense them but
I want you to do the research.
00:52:35.27\00:52:37.49
Do your
homework--do your homework.
00:52:37.52\00:52:41.19
There the ceremonial Sabbaths
were nailed to the cross.
00:52:41.22\00:52:45.85
Colossians 2:15,
Colossians 2:16, Ephesians 2:15,
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the ceremonial Sabbaths
and you will find the reference
00:52:50.73\00:52:53.23
to the ceremonial Sabbath
00:52:53.26\00:52:54.63
in Leviticus 23
from verse 4 on down.
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Which was the Passover,
the Feast of Unleavened Bread,
00:52:58.10\00:53:01.05
the Feast of First
Fruits, the Feast of Pentecost,
00:53:01.08\00:53:03.77
the Feast of
Trumpets, the Day of Atonement,
00:53:03.80\00:53:05.41
the Feast of Tabernacles.
00:53:05.44\00:53:06.94
These were all the
appointed the table --
00:53:06.97\00:53:09.55
all these were appointed
feast pointing to Christ.
00:53:09.58\00:53:12.46
And when He came He nailed
those Sabbaths to the cross,
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small ceremonial Sabbaths.
00:53:17.79\00:53:19.95
But religious leaders
bunched them together and nailed
00:53:19.98\00:53:23.23
the whole thing
to the cross. Yeah.
00:53:23.26\00:53:24.82
That's not what the
Bible does, because remember
00:53:24.85\00:53:26.36
the Bible
Sabbath, the weekly Sabbath
00:53:26.39\00:53:28.58
was established
before sin entered the world.
00:53:28.61\00:53:31.55
There was no need
to get rid of something
00:53:31.58\00:53:32.95
that was perfect anymore than
00:53:32.98\00:53:34.35
there is a need to
get rid of marriage.
00:53:34.38\00:53:35.75
Not only that, God refers
00:53:35.78\00:53:37.39
to the seventh day Sabbath
as His day. That's right.
00:53:37.42\00:53:40.06
And He refers to the
Sabbaths that are these
00:53:40.09\00:53:42.08
ceremonial Sabbaths as
belonging to the people.
00:53:42.11\00:53:44.69
That's right. They're
the ones that Sabbaths
00:53:44.72\00:53:46.82
that belonged to
the people his day,
00:53:46.85\00:53:49.13
the only day he
has is the seventh day.
00:53:49.16\00:53:52.44
So you can't bunch
those together because
00:53:52.47\00:53:54.28
one belongs to him,
one belongs to the people,
00:53:54.31\00:53:57.68
and we find that
consistently throughout
00:53:57.71\00:53:59.12
the Old Testament as well.
00:53:59.15\00:54:00.52
And here is the
condemnation to leaders today.
00:54:00.55\00:54:02.78
Ezekiel 20:26, "Her
priests have violated my law,
00:54:02.81\00:54:08.21
and have
profaned mine holy things,
00:54:08.24\00:54:10.93
they have put no
difference between the holy
00:54:10.96\00:54:13.08
and the profane, neither
have they showed difference
00:54:13.11\00:54:16.09
between the
unclean and the clean,
00:54:16.12\00:54:18.57
and they have hid
their eyes from my sabbaths,
00:54:18.60\00:54:21.31
and I am profaned among them.
00:54:21.34\00:54:23.46
Among the leaders, the
people God wants to rescue them.
00:54:23.49\00:54:26.68
But any leader that teaches
00:54:26.71\00:54:28.08
that God's Sabbath
is nailed to the cross.
00:54:28.11\00:54:29.88
Ezekiel 22:26 says, "God
has profaned among them."
00:54:29.91\00:54:33.79
He is not speaking through
those who say that he did away
00:54:33.82\00:54:36.49
with something that
he did not do away with.
00:54:36.52\00:54:39.13
In Exodus, in Isaiah
66:23, 22 and 23 it says
00:54:39.16\00:54:44.40
"For as the new
heavens and the new earth which
00:54:44.43\00:54:46.55
I will make shall remain
before me it says the Lord.
00:54:46.58\00:54:49.79
So shall your
dissidence and your name remain
00:54:49.82\00:54:52.60
and it shall come to past that
from one new moon to another
00:54:52.63\00:54:55.78
and from one Sabbath to
another all flesh shall come
00:54:55.81\00:54:59.12
and worship before
me it says the Lord."
00:54:59.15\00:55:01.78
John, the Sabbath
will be kept in heaven.
00:55:01.81\00:55:03.78
Now get this
creation, it was kept.
00:55:03.81\00:55:06.73
Old Testament, it was
kept. It was kept by Jesus.
00:55:06.76\00:55:08.70
It was kept by the disciples.
It was kept by the apostles.
00:55:08.73\00:55:11.05
It was kept by the
New Testament Church.
00:55:11.08\00:55:12.65
It was kept by Christians
who were persecuted by Rome.
00:55:12.68\00:55:15.94
It's been kept by God's
true people today on the earth.
00:55:15.97\00:55:18.53
It will be kept
in the new heavens.
00:55:18.56\00:55:20.40
Why is that the
Christians are being taught
00:55:20.43\00:55:22.07
that it doesn't matter today.
00:55:22.10\00:55:24.78
And I want you to read
this last text, Acts 5:29.
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This is the
deciding issue right here.
00:55:27.96\00:55:30.94
When man says one
thing and God says another.
00:55:30.97\00:55:34.30
I want to have,
John, read this text.
00:55:34.33\00:55:36.15
Very powerful passage.
00:55:36.18\00:55:37.70
Its not
legalistic, it does matter.
00:55:37.73\00:55:40.22
It's not for the Jews alone.
00:55:40.25\00:55:41.89
It's a sing of God's love
for us and our love for Him.
00:55:41.92\00:55:45.05
The Sabbath is the Lord's Day.
00:55:45.08\00:55:46.45
It was not changed
by any earthly power
00:55:46.48\00:55:48.08
nor by any heavenly power.
00:55:48.11\00:55:50.09
What must we do, John,
when we are lapped between
00:55:50.12\00:55:52.83
what our pastors say
and what God's word says.
00:55:52.86\00:55:56.44
It's says, "Then Peter and
the other apostles answered
00:55:56.47\00:55:58.86
and said, we ought to
obey God rather than men."
00:55:58.89\00:56:04.21
So now let's go
back to the haulage.
00:56:04.24\00:56:05.72
We have to obey
God rather than man.
00:56:05.75\00:56:07.60
So what did the Lord say
what did God the Creator,
00:56:07.63\00:56:11.46
our Redeemer,
our soon coming King,
00:56:11.49\00:56:14.15
the one who shredded
His blood to save us,
00:56:14.18\00:56:16.12
the one whose body was broken.
00:56:16.15\00:56:17.58
What did he say in
reference to the Sabbath?
00:56:17.61\00:56:20.40
Remember, the
Sabbath day to keep it holy.
00:56:20.43\00:56:25.59
Brothers and
sisters does it matter?
00:56:25.62\00:56:28.51
If truth matters, if
the Lord you love matters.
00:56:28.54\00:56:32.77
If the word of God matters,
if your salvation matters,
00:56:32.80\00:56:36.60
let us not make any
exception on the fourth.
00:56:36.63\00:56:40.59
When we chose not to make
any exception on the other nine,
00:56:40.62\00:56:43.22
they're all one.
All one in Christ.
00:56:43.25\00:56:45.96
We ought to obey
God rather than man.
00:56:45.99\00:56:50.11
When the world says forget.
When the church says forget.
00:56:50.14\00:56:54.21
Remember, God says remember.
00:56:54.24\00:56:56.48
You know, and God ultimately
says that keeping of the Sabbath
00:56:56.51\00:57:01.43
and the keeping of His law comes
from a love within our heart.
00:57:01.46\00:57:05.44
If you love Me.
00:57:05.47\00:57:06.84
That's why the law
is written on our heart,
00:57:06.87\00:57:08.24
that's why He says, if you
love Me keep My commandments.
00:57:08.27\00:57:11.04
Everything is motivated by love.
00:57:11.07\00:57:12.44
Not just I know the
truth you don't know the truth
00:57:12.47\00:57:14.81
and so I am gonna
do this. That's right.
00:57:14.84\00:57:16.36
It is a motivation
it comes from love.
00:57:16.39\00:57:18.31
And that's what we want
to have God do in your life.
00:57:18.34\00:57:21.44
And so friends we hope
that we've agitated you to some
00:57:21.47\00:57:23.58
degree to look for truth
and make your allegiance to God
00:57:23.61\00:57:26.69
and not to men
because here at House Calls,
00:57:26.72\00:57:28.96
we believe that the word of God
00:57:28.99\00:57:30.36
is upper most in
our walk with Christ.
00:57:30.39\00:57:32.19
God bless you as you
continue walking with Him.
00:57:32.22\00:57:35.31