In shady green pastures,
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so rich and so sweet,
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God leads His dear children
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along;
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Where the water's cool flow
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bathes the weary one's feet,
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God leads His dear children
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along.
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Some thro' the waters,
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some thro' the flood,
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Some thro' the fire,
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but all thro' the blood;
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Some thro' great sorrow,
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but God gives a song;
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In the night season
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and all
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the day long.
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Tho' sorrows befall us,
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and Satan oppose,
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God leads His
dear children along;
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But through
faith we will conquer
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and defeat all our foes,
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for God leads His dear children
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along.
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He leads some thro' the water
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and some thro' the flood,
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Some thro' the fire,
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but all thro'
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the blood;
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Some thro' great sorrow,
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but God gives a song;
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In the night season
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In the night season
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and all
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the day
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long.
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Amen. Thank you, Pastor John.
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Adam's Mother's Birthday.
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Everybody loves a birthday.
How many love birthdays?
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You tend only to
shy away from birthdays
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after you get past 40.
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Ummm... after I turned
45 I didn't really care
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about birthdays as
much as I once did.
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And I'm told that most
women stop their birthdays
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at or about 39.
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So birthdays tend to
lose a little significance
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the older you get... you
almost hate to see them come
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uh, uh, when birthdays
come a little bit late.
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But you think YOU'RE old.
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You should see how
old Adam's mother is.
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She is a lot
older than anybody here.
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She's so old she cannot talk,
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cannot walk, we
have to carry her about.
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I'm going to tell
you in just a few minutes
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who Adam's mother's
birthday is. Shall we pray.
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Father in Heaven,
we thank you for Jesus.
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And though this
title is a little funny
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the subject, you know dear
God, is very, very serious.
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It is something that you
have asked us to keep in mind.
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And so dear Lord, we ask that
You would bless us this night.
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Give us a clear understanding
of what You want us to do.
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Show us from Your Word the truth
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and then help us, dear
Jesus, to walk in that truth...
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because salvation only
comes as we follow the truth.
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And we thank you for the truth
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in Jesus' name. Amen.
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Who is Adam's mother?
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Have any of you
guessed who Adam's mother is?
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My production crew
cornered me today in worship
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and they came up with an answer.
I think somebody leaked it out
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who Adam's mother is,
but has anybody guessed
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who Adam's mother
is? Perhaps you at home?
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Anybody; just shout it
out. Who was Adam's mother?
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This is a good group.
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I'm going to ask you... I'm
going to introduce you, rather,
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to Adam's mother. She's here.
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She's been here all night.
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Adam's mother is
under this cloth.
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Would you like to
meet Adam's mother?
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She's here.
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Right here.
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Here is Adam's mother.
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Adam's mother is Mother Earth.
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Adam's mother is Mother Earth,
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and I've got to clean
this up when I'm finished.
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Adam's mother is Mother Earth.
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If we go by the idea
that it takes two to create,
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Adam's father would be God...
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Adam's mother
would be? Mother Earth.
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The co-respondents: God
the Father and Mother Earth...
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we get Adam.
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Genesis chapter
2... what book did I say?
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Genesis chapter 2.
Turn with me if you will.
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Genesis chapter 2 and verse 7.
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Now a number of
things are there.
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One: God took earth,
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formed man, breathed
into this inanimate object
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His breath, His
Spirit, and man became -
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not was given -
became a living soul.
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Now we're going to
talk of that oh, I think umm
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later on this week... I
think it's on Wednesday...
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we really talk about what
it means to be a living soul.
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But God the
Father, Mother Earth,
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breath of God... we've got Adam.
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Adam's mother? Mother Earth.
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Now if you think
you've been tricked
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I apologize... because
you have not been tricked.
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You have not been hoodwinked.
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What you have
been is marketed to.
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I just marketed to you.
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The same kind of marketing
that is used to sell cars
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and homes and
computers and clothes
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and appliances and
soap and toothpaste
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and a thousand
other secular products
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that mankind
wants you to remember.
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When they want you
to remember something
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they use a marketing device to
try to plant that in your head.
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So what I did is market to you.
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I did that because
there are three things
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that I want you to remember.
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Three things that I feel
it is very important for you
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to remember. And more
importantly, there are 3 things
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that God wants you to remember.
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He wants you to lock
down on these three things
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because they are
very, very important.
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Three incredibly
important things.
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The first is... God
wants us to remember
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the crucifixion. What did I say?
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Let's go to the book of Luke.
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Luke chapter 22.
What book did I say?
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Luke 22 beginning at verse 19:
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In other words, Jesus was saying
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"do this to remember Me. "
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"Do this to remind yourself
of what I am doing for you. "
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"Do this periodically
so you do not forget
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the sacrifice that
I am making for you. "
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Can you say Amen? Amen!
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There are few things in
this world more important
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than the sacrifice that
Christ made for each of us
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on the cross. Can you say Amen?
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It's important... and
so Christ said "remember.
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Remember, remember. "
You see, they were confused.
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The disciples were really
hoping that Jesus would come
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and break the Roman yoke.
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They were really
hoping that Christ would come
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and get the
Romans off their back.
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That He would give
them earthly glory.
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And they didn't really
like the idea that their King
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was going to sacrifice Himself.
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And so He did
this. He broke the bread
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and said: "Do this in
remembrance of Me as a memorial
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of the sacrifice that
I'm going to make for you. "
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That was the actual
event inaugurated by Jesus
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that we call the Last Supper.
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Let's go to I
Corinthians chapter 11.
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What book did I say?
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You're in I
Corinthians chapter 11
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and we're going to pick
up the story at verse 23.
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Here we go. We're
reading from the Word of God,
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New Testament, I Corinthians.
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Paul is saying: "I am
going to recount for you
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what happened on
that fateful night.
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That Christ did
something very, very special
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which is worthy of
commemoration and remembering. "
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Christ laid down His life.
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It wasn't taken by the Romans.
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It wasn't taken by Pilate.
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Christ made it plain:
"You're not taking My life...
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I am giving My life for you...
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for you. "
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"When He had given
thanks He broke it. "
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He said: "Do it in
remembrance of Me. "
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Let's pick it up at verse 25:
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So we've got the broken
bread... the body of Christ.
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The spilled blood in that cup
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talking about and
exemplifying Christ's sacrifice.
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Remember, ladies and gentlemen,
as used in the Word of God
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does not mean
merely don't forget...
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because God never forgets.
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God doesn't forget.
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God doesn't forget
every good deed you do
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and God doesn't
forget every bad deed you do.
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So when you're
asking God to remember
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you're not saying
"God, don't forget. "
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You're saying:
"God, do something. "
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I've got a sermon
called Remember Me
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and in that sermon I
trace every time God remembers.
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And I found out in
studying for that sermon
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that every time
God remembers something
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something wonderful and mystical
happens. A miracle takes place.
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Like the flood was
raging and the Bible says
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"God remembered Noah. "
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Flood water stopped.
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Rachel didn't have
any children. She prayed.
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God remembered her. She got
two boys: Joseph and Benjamin.
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Hannah didn't have
any children. She prayed.
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God remembered;
God gave her Samuel.
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Over and over and
over there is this pattern.
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When God remembers,
a miracle takes place.
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And so when that
thief on the cross
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turned to that cross
in the middle and said:
00:14:01.38\00:14:03.27
"Jesus, remember me"
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he wasn't saying
"God, don't forget about me"
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he was saying "God save me! "
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"Do something for me. "
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So when God remembers,
God does ladies and gentlemen.
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And so when God
asks us to remember
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He's not saying "Don't forget. "
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He's saying "Do. "
00:14:20.66\00:14:21.84
When He says
"remember" He's saying do. "
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I want you to keep that in mind.
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The Bible, ladies and
gentlemen, is a book of "do's. "
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It is a book of "do's. "
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When God says "remember, "
He's saying "don't forget...
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but also "do. "
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So... as often as you do
this bread and do this cup
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you are talking about Jesus,
you are remembering Jesus.
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You are glorifying
Christ until He comes.
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"For as often as you eat
this bread and drink this cup"
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He's not saying talk
about drinking the bread...
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drinking the cup... or
talk about eating the bread,
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He's saying: "as often
as you DO these things. "
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As often as you eat and
drink you are proclaiming
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the Lord's death until He comes.
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Now, this service is
generally called in Christendom
00:15:02.30\00:15:06.56
the Last Supper.
00:15:06.66\00:15:07.67
And the ordinance that we
have, the thing that we do,
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is called holy what? Communion.
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It's a general term
used across denominations;
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it is called Communion.
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Uh, it's a time
of re-commitment,
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re-affirmation, re-consecration,
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self-examination, and acceptance
of the sacrifice of Christ.
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Colossians chapter 1
verse 14. What book did I say?
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Colossians
chapter 1 and verse 14...
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let's read from the
Word of God. It says:
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When we take Communion, we
are re-affirming that we accept
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Christ's sacrifice for us.
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That His blood
washes away our sins.
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We are saying: "Jesus, I realize
what You have done for me.
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I accept what
You've done for me.
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I'm putting away sin.
00:16:03.76\00:16:05.16
I'm re-affirming and
re-committing myself to You
00:16:05.36\00:16:08.38
and I am taking these
emblems... these emblems
00:16:08.68\00:16:11.51
of Your broken body
and Your spilled blood...
00:16:11.71\00:16:14.41
because I love You
and I want to follow You
00:16:14.61\00:16:18.05
and I want to be like You. "
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And so the bread and
the wine are symbols of
00:16:20.17\00:16:23.09
Christ's atoning sacrifice
on the cross for you and me.
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You understand that? Say Amen!
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All right. The first
thing He wants us to remember is
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His crucifixion. The second
thing that we are to remember
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is the
resurrection. What did I say?
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The resurrection.
Remember the crucifixion.
00:16:39.19\00:16:42.83
Remember the resurrection.
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As important as
the crucifixion is,
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the resurrection is
equally as important.
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Remember that thing
I showed the other day:
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Get it through your
head... Jesus is dead?
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The resurrection belies that.
00:16:56.94\00:16:59.85
If Christ had just died
and stayed in the grave,
00:17:00.15\00:17:03.38
He would have been
like everybody else.
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So as important as it
was for Him to die for us
00:17:06.27\00:17:09.30
it was equally as important
that He was resurrected.
00:17:09.60\00:17:12.63
Can you say Amen? Amen!
00:17:12.83\00:17:13.91
All right. Let's
go to the Word of God.
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I'm in Colossians
chapter 2. What book did I say?
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Colossians chapter 2- you're
with me - Colossians chapter 2
00:17:17.69\00:17:20.77
verses 11 and 12.
Colossians 2:11-12. Here we go:
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And so there is a
linkage... a symbolism.
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Baptism is a symbol of
death, burial, and resurrection
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in Jesus Christ.
Can you say Amen?
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That's why when we baptize
we put you under the water
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and bring you up out of the
water: because it's a symbol
00:18:08.35\00:18:11.66
of Christ going into the grave
00:18:11.86\00:18:13.66
and coming up
in newness of life.
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That's why we don't
sprinkle with water hoses.
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We don't splash you in the face.
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We don't drop rose
petals on your head.
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We baptize you as Christ did.
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We take you down into the water
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and bring you
up out of the water
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symbolizing that
the old man is dead
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and the new man is
coming up in Christ Jesus
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because that's the way
John the Baptist did it of Jesus
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when John baptized Jesus.
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So that's the correct mode
of baptism. But more than that,
00:18:35.65\00:18:38.76
it is a symbol of Christ
going into the grave, staying,
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and coming back up resurrected
on that Sunday morning.
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Do you understand that?
00:18:47.68\00:18:48.92
Can you say Amen? So
we've got a linkage there.
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Let's go to I
Corinthians chapter 15.
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Let's go to I
Corinthians chapter 15 verse 14.
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What book did I say?
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I Corinthians 15. You're
still with me. Here we go:
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If Christ is not
risen, I am wasting my time.
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Huh? And if Christ is not risen,
00:19:16.16\00:19:19.49
you are wasting your time.
00:19:19.69\00:19:22.50
If Christ is not risen, all
of the churches in the world
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who proclaim the name
of Jesus are counterfeit
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and need to be closed down.
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If Christ didn't
come out of that grave,
00:19:35.10\00:19:37.80
then we are wasting our time.
00:19:38.00\00:19:40.03
Who are we serving?
00:19:40.33\00:19:41.78
If Christ didn't rise,
we are serving a dead God
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who could not help Himself
and certainly cannot help us.
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But praise God, Jesus is alive!
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Amen? He is risen!
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He is risen...
Christ... is... risen!
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And so I've got
hope that even if
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I die young, if I don't
get my threescore and ten,
00:20:05.65\00:20:09.76
if life is hard and tough, I've
got a promise of a better life.
00:20:10.06\00:20:14.92
You know I told a friend of mine
00:20:15.42\00:20:18.53
when I was
pastoring the Adventist church
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in Manhattan, New York
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I preached 117 funerals.
00:20:22.27\00:20:26.11
117 funerals.
00:20:26.31\00:20:27.60
And at the end of every funeral
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I made this statement:
00:20:29.49\00:20:30.70
death in Christ is not
00:20:30.90\00:20:33.17
such a bad thing.
00:20:33.27\00:20:34.74
Better to die in Jesus
00:20:34.94\00:20:37.60
than live without
Him. You understand that?
00:20:37.81\00:20:40.21
Better to die in
Jesus than live without Him
00:20:40.41\00:20:42.41
because if you die in
Christ you've got the promise
00:20:42.61\00:20:45.16
that you will live again.
00:20:45.36\00:20:46.91
Why? Because Christ lives again!
00:20:47.11\00:20:49.58
Had a young mother...
son walking down the street.
00:20:49.79\00:20:52.26
Gunfight broke
out in a skating rink.
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Son took two bullets, died.
What do I tell that mother?
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Young man... good grades.
00:20:58.58\00:21:01.89
Smart student... obedient son.
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Just happened to be in the
wrong place at the wrong time.
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Loved the Lord.
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In church every week.
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And the mother is sitting
there. My, I think it was,
00:21:12.73\00:21:14.76
18-year-old son shot down.
00:21:14.86\00:21:17.27
You know what I
told her at the funeral?
00:21:17.30\00:21:19.32
I told her: "Your
son is bullet-proof. "
00:21:19.52\00:21:21.53
I told her he is bullet-proof.
00:21:22.68\00:21:24.07
I told her: "even
though your son got shot down,
00:21:24.27\00:21:28.17
he died in Jesus so
he's going to live again. "
00:21:28.37\00:21:32.11
They didn't
really hurt your child.
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I said to her: "All they did was
send your child to bed early.
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He's going to sleep a
little longer than most of us.
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But on the resurrection morning
00:21:43.00\00:21:44.54
you're going to
see your son again. "
00:21:44.74\00:21:46.42
He's bullet-proof. You
see, once you're in Jesus
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they can't hurt you.
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Even if they take your
life, they can't hurt you
00:21:49.79\00:21:52.70
because if you die in Jesus
you're going to live again.
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So they can't hurt you
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once you've got on your...
your robe of righteousness.
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Even if... that's why you can
walk through the valley of the
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shadow of death
and fear no evil.
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Because even if they take
your life they can't hurt you
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because your life is hid -
your soul is hid - in Christ.
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And so I told that
mother: "Don't you worry about
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your child because he's bullet-
proof. They haven't hurt him.
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He's just going to
sleep a little longer
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than some of us. But on
the resurrection morning
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just like Christ
came from the grave
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he's going to
come from that grave. "
00:22:23.51\00:22:25.39
That's God's promise.
00:22:25.59\00:22:26.86
We're going to talk about that
a little more in a few nights
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when we preach a
sermon called "Soul Man. "
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So if Christ be not
raised, then there's nothing
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that separates Him from
any other very good man.
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The thing that makes
Christianity so wonderful,
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so powerful, so great
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is the resurrection.
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That's the thing
that separates my God
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from every other
god... small g...
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the fact that He's risen.
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The sadness of
Friday superseded by the joy
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of Sunday morning when
Christ came from the grave.
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And so baptism symbolizes that.
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Also, the holiday that
we generally call Easter
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which is more accurately
called Resurrection Sunday.
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Easter is pagan; Resurrection
Sunday is Christian.
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That also commemorates that
coming forth from the grave.
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So two things now
we've got to remember.
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Stick with me.
First we remember what?
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Crucifixion.
Important because that's
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the day Christ
died for our sins.
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Then on the other
hand, remember? Resurrection.
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Because that's the
day He rose from the grave
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and gives me hope
that when I die in Christ
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I will one day live again.
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Those are... it's two
parts of the same handle.
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You know, they go together.
Crucifixion/resurrection.
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Crucifixion/resurrection.
They go together like...
00:23:57.91\00:24:00.29
like...
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one hand and the other.
00:24:05.52\00:24:07.36
Like a left hand and a right
hand. You cannot separate them.
00:24:08.77\00:24:11.87
Crucifixion/resurrection.
They go together like...
00:24:12.17\00:24:14.90
all of a sudden
my mind is blank.
00:24:14.93\00:24:17.39
Birds of a
feather. Praise the Lord!
00:24:17.69\00:24:19.59
Wonder what that was?
00:24:19.99\00:24:21.44
Like birds of a feather. Like...
00:24:21.74\00:24:26.39
right hand and left
hand. That's the best I can do.
00:24:26.69\00:24:28.71
So remembering the crucifixion
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we are
remembering the resurrection.
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There is a third event that
God has asked us to remember
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that is equally as
important as the former two...
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because without it, none of this
00:24:44.34\00:24:49.20
would be possible. None
of this would make sense;
00:24:49.50\00:24:53.68
none of this would be necessary.
00:24:53.98\00:24:56.90
God says we need
to remember creation.
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Amen! Now why is
creation important?
00:25:03.00\00:25:06.39
For a number of reasons.
00:25:06.59\00:25:07.78
One: without
creation, we wouldn't be here.
00:25:07.98\00:25:12.57
None of us would be here.
00:25:12.87\00:25:14.67
So crucifixion and
resurrection without creation...
00:25:14.97\00:25:20.13
unnecessary. So God
says: "remember creation. "
00:25:20.43\00:25:24.61
Remember that it
was God who created you.
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I'm in the book of
Isaiah. What book did I say?
00:25:27.64\00:25:29.60
The Old Testament book of Isaiah
00:25:29.90\00:25:31.90
chapter 45. I'll give
you a second to find it.
00:25:32.30\00:25:34.79
Isaiah 45... I'm at verse 12.
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Let's read the Word
of God. The Bible says:
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And so God is leaving no
doubt as to who made this earth,
00:25:54.76\00:25:59.02
and we are part of this earth.
00:25:59.32\00:26:00.37
God says: "I - My hands
- have formed this earth. "
00:26:00.67\00:26:04.10
I want you to remember that.
00:26:04.30\00:26:06.04
Remember that it was
God who made this earth.
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Now that's very,
very, very important.
00:26:09.15\00:26:11.91
If we would have remembered that
00:26:12.21\00:26:16.32
we wouldn't have
theistic evolutionists.
00:26:16.62\00:26:20.37
We wouldn't have
deistic evolutionists.
00:26:20.67\00:26:23.57
We wouldn't have
atheistic evolutionists.
00:26:23.87\00:26:26.70
We wouldn't have
Darwinian evolutionists.
00:26:27.00\00:26:29.91
We wouldn't have
people going around saying:
00:26:30.01\00:26:33.14
"Daddy was a gorilla,
Momma was a chimpanzee. "
00:26:33.34\00:26:36.81
We wouldn't have people saying
that we came from the hand
00:26:38.12\00:26:41.57
of monkeys and apes and
that all of this that you see
00:26:41.77\00:26:45.60
was mere chance.
00:26:45.80\00:26:48.05
You know, it occurs to me...
00:26:48.35\00:26:50.32
You've got to be kind of dense
00:26:50.52\00:26:54.25
to think - given all of
the design in the world...
00:26:54.55\00:26:59.01
You look at a snowflake...
every one individually made,
00:26:59.31\00:27:03.31
perfectly symmetrical and
every single one different...
00:27:03.61\00:27:08.24
and say: "mere chance.
00:27:08.54\00:27:12.27
It is mere chance
that we stand on two feet,
00:27:12.57\00:27:16.18
have two hands,
five fingers on each,
00:27:16.48\00:27:19.67
five toes on each,
walk upright, have a brain.
00:27:19.98\00:27:24.37
Have eyes, have ears, can
see, think, and praise God
00:27:24.67\00:27:30.23
and all of that is
just mere accident. "
00:27:30.53\00:27:33.97
Does that make sense to you?
00:27:34.27\00:27:36.34
It just doesn't make sense.
00:27:36.64\00:27:38.83
You've got millions
and billions and billions
00:27:39.14\00:27:42.32
of worlds and galaxies,
planets without number,
00:27:42.52\00:27:46.41
and it just happened?
00:27:46.71\00:27:49.13
It's counterintuitive...
It just doesn't make sense
00:27:49.43\00:27:53.26
to think you can have
design without a designer.
00:27:53.56\00:27:58.59
If you have an
automobile that works,
00:27:58.89\00:28:02.24
somebody put that
automobile together.
00:28:02.54\00:28:05.32
Amen? And if you drive
that automobile long enough,
00:28:05.62\00:28:09.93
sooner or later that
automobile will not work.
00:28:10.23\00:28:14.29
Amen! It's
going to break down...
00:28:14.59\00:28:17.68
because things go
from order to disorder.
00:28:17.98\00:28:22.67
If you leave a room to itself,
come back five years later,
00:28:22.97\00:28:28.22
is it going to be
just like you left it?
00:28:28.42\00:28:30.30
No. No it won't.
00:28:30.80\00:28:33.52
It will begin to disintegrate.
00:28:33.82\00:28:35.84
And if you come
back 100 years later,
00:28:36.14\00:28:38.13
it will have disintegrated more.
00:28:38.23\00:28:39.74
We go from order to disorder
00:28:40.04\00:28:42.24
not disorder to order.
00:28:42.44\00:28:44.65
If you leave your room
messy and come back that night,
00:28:44.95\00:28:49.54
is your room going
to be in good shape?
00:28:49.84\00:28:51.53
I rather doubt it.
00:28:51.83\00:28:53.41
If you leave it messy and
you come back 10 years later,
00:28:53.71\00:28:58.86
it's going to messy and dusty.
00:28:59.16\00:29:02.43
Amen! But it will not
have any order because things
00:29:02.73\00:29:06.20
don't go from disorder to order.
00:29:06.40\00:29:10.12
They go from order to disorder.
00:29:10.42\00:29:13.79
And so the idea that
we came from disorder
00:29:14.09\00:29:18.55
to what you see today
00:29:18.86\00:29:20.68
doesn't make sense.
00:29:20.98\00:29:23.40
It says there's got to be a God.
00:29:23.70\00:29:27.92
If something has a design,
there has got to be a designer.
00:29:28.22\00:29:33.29
Can you say Amen?
00:29:33.49\00:29:34.51
So God says "don't
forget that... because when you
00:29:34.81\00:29:37.49
forget that, you forget
about Me, you get off base...
00:29:37.69\00:29:40.95
you get off track
and you lose your way. "
00:29:41.25\00:29:44.08
So, one: remember creation.
00:29:44.38\00:29:45.91
Remember crucifixion.
00:29:46.22\00:29:47.76
Remember resurrection.
00:29:48.06\00:29:50.43
All of these are important.
00:29:50.73\00:29:52.41
But what about
creation is most important
00:29:52.71\00:29:56.03
and why are we here today?
00:29:56.34\00:29:58.24
And what does this
have to do with Adam
00:29:58.44\00:30:00.35
and Adam's Mother's birthday?
00:30:00.55\00:30:02.38
I want you to know... or
let me say it this way...
00:30:02.68\00:30:05.77
Let me ask a question rather
than give you a statement.
00:30:06.07\00:30:08.61
Is there anybody
here that does not believe
00:30:08.91\00:30:13.95
in the Ten Commandments?
00:30:14.15\00:30:15.69
Praise the Lord... no hands.
00:30:17.42\00:30:19.63
Is there anybody here
that believes it is all right
00:30:19.93\00:30:23.91
to commit adultery?
00:30:24.11\00:30:25.76
No.
00:30:26.96\00:30:28.50
Anybody here believe
it is all right to lie?
00:30:28.80\00:30:31.85
No.
00:30:33.35\00:30:34.88
Is there anybody here
that believes it is all right
00:30:35.18\00:30:37.98
to covet?
00:30:38.18\00:30:39.69
You know, somebody has
something and you want it.
00:30:39.99\00:30:41.90
Is there anybody here who
believes that it is all right
00:30:43.22\00:30:46.42
to flat out disrespect
and disobey your parents?
00:30:46.63\00:30:51.02
No.
00:30:51.52\00:30:53.07
Is there anybody here
who believes that we ought to
00:30:53.37\00:30:56.24
build idols and worship them?
00:30:56.44\00:30:58.61
No.
00:30:59.11\00:31:00.94
We're doing pretty good.
00:31:01.24\00:31:02.82
So let's go to
one commandment...
00:31:03.12\00:31:05.29
the one commandment
that God has said remember.
00:31:05.59\00:31:08.57
He's tacked on the word remember
just like He did before.
00:31:08.67\00:31:11.82
Go with me if you
will to the book of Exodus.
00:31:12.02\00:31:13.24
What book did I say? Exodus.
00:31:13.44\00:31:15.41
I'm in Exodus chapter 20
00:31:15.71\00:31:17.64
and I want to read
beginning at verse 11.
00:31:17.94\00:31:21.18
We're reading now
the Ten Commandments.
00:31:21.48\00:31:23.47
What's the very first word?
00:31:23.87\00:31:26.58
Remember.
00:31:26.88\00:31:28.58
The Bible says remember.
That means it's very important.
00:31:28.88\00:31:32.13
Don't forget it.
Remember the what?
00:31:32.43\00:31:35.51
"Sabbath Day, to keep it holy. "
00:31:35.81\00:31:38.36
Now, you will note
00:32:20.20\00:32:21.75
the Bible says "keep it holy. "
00:32:22.05\00:32:27.14
Amen? Didn't say make it holy.
00:32:27.44\00:32:30.45
I wonder why?
00:32:30.56\00:32:33.25
Why does the Bible
say "keep it holy"?
00:32:33.55\00:32:36.14
Let's look at the
word keep a little bit.
00:32:36.44\00:32:38.00
Keep... interesting
word. It means to continue
00:32:38.30\00:32:42.54
or cause to continue
in a specified condition.
00:32:42.74\00:32:47.08
To continue or cause to continue
00:32:47.38\00:32:50.91
in a specified condition.
00:32:51.11\00:32:53.18
Now, let's look at what
the specified condition is.
00:32:53.38\00:32:56.29
What is the specified condition?
00:32:56.50\00:32:59.76
What is it?
00:33:00.06\00:33:01.32
Holy. The specified condition
for the Sabbath is holy.
00:33:01.92\00:33:07.47
In other words, God has said
"I have made this day holy. "
00:33:07.67\00:33:12.60
That's the condition. "Your job
00:33:12.90\00:33:15.82
is to keep it holy
not make it holy. "
00:33:16.02\00:33:20.97
Because we cannot
make anything holy.
00:33:21.17\00:33:24.60
Only a holy God can
make something holy.
00:33:24.80\00:33:28.55
Amen? Listen, it
takes God to make you holy.
00:33:28.85\00:33:31.67
You can't make yourself holy.
00:33:31.97\00:33:33.64
So when it comes to a day,
00:33:33.84\00:33:35.25
the only person
who can make a day holy
00:33:35.45\00:33:37.85
is a holy God.
00:33:38.05\00:33:39.15
And so God
says: "keep it holy. "
00:33:39.45\00:33:42.41
Amen? All right. Now, real quick
00:33:42.71\00:33:45.51
years ago I remember a lady said
00:33:45.71\00:33:48.90
to me: "You know, I
keep all the days holy. "
00:33:49.11\00:33:50.80
And my answer to
her was the same answer
00:33:51.10\00:33:53.46
I have to give to
you... "No, you don't. "
00:33:53.66\00:33:54.90
You can't... because
we are not holy beings.
00:33:55.20\00:33:57.80
We don't have the
power to sanctify a day.
00:33:58.10\00:34:00.32
Only a holy God
can do that. Amen?
00:34:00.62\00:34:02.62
We have the ability
to keep... not to make.
00:34:02.92\00:34:07.25
We cannot bless;
we cannot sanctify.
00:34:07.55\00:34:10.28
If God curses
something, you can't bless it.
00:34:10.58\00:34:13.08
If God blesses
something, you can't curse it.
00:34:13.38\00:34:16.29
We've got to do
what God tells us to do.
00:34:16.59\00:34:19.23
That is why God
says: "Don't make it...
00:34:19.53\00:34:22.46
keep it holy because I
have already made it holy. "
00:34:22.76\00:34:25.50
We are called to
keep the seventh day holy.
00:34:25.81\00:34:29.09
Now, how does the seventh day
become Adam's Mother's birthday?
00:34:29.19\00:34:32.67
Well... your birthday is the
day that you were born. Correct?
00:34:32.97\00:34:36.03
All right. When
was the Sabbath born?
00:34:36.33\00:34:38.71
Seventh day! Amen?
00:34:40.68\00:34:42.88
It was born on the seventh day.
00:34:43.18\00:34:44.35
Day 1, day 2, day 3, day 4,
00:34:44.55\00:34:46.91
day 5 or 6 were incubation days.
00:34:47.11\00:34:49.62
God was putting things together.
00:34:49.82\00:34:51.69
On the seventh day
He stopped His creation
00:34:52.00\00:34:54.55
and the Sabbath was born.
00:34:54.85\00:34:56.46
So the Sabbath becomes
Adam's Mother's birthday.
00:34:56.66\00:35:01.71
Umm-hmm.
00:35:03.69\00:35:05.61
It's the day that the earth
officially came into being.
00:35:05.91\00:35:09.98
When God stopped
His creative work,
00:35:10.28\00:35:13.20
He created a special day.
00:35:13.40\00:35:15.40
The fact that He
didn't work on that day
00:35:15.70\00:35:18.10
made it a special day.
00:35:18.40\00:35:19.70
The fact that He didn't work
00:35:20.00\00:35:21.98
made it a blessed day.
00:35:22.28\00:35:24.11
Made it a special day.
It wasn't that God was tired
00:35:24.41\00:35:26.68
or that God didn't
have anything more to do.
00:35:26.98\00:35:28.84
God wanted to set
aside a temple in time.
00:35:29.14\00:35:31.99
Are you listening to me?
00:35:32.19\00:35:33.20
A very special
day. And so God said:
00:35:33.40\00:35:35.59
"This is what I'm
going to do today.
00:35:35.79\00:35:37.90
Today I am going to not work
00:35:38.10\00:35:41.67
as opposed to I'm
not going to work today.
00:35:41.97\00:35:44.73
Today I am going to not work. "
00:35:45.03\00:35:48.82
And in doing that, He
set aside a very special day.
00:35:49.12\00:35:51.86
I'm in Genesis
chapter 2 verse 2.
00:35:52.06\00:35:54.12
Genesis chapter 2. Go with me to
00:35:54.32\00:35:55.58
the very first
book of the Bible.
00:35:55.68\00:35:57.47
Genesis 2 and 2.
00:35:57.77\00:36:01.00
Here we go:
00:36:02.71\00:36:04.13
So the very fact that God
ceased working on that day
00:36:25.35\00:36:30.02
made it a very
special, sanctified day.
00:36:30.32\00:36:34.29
It made it a very holy day.
00:36:34.40\00:36:36.71
And so God ended His
work, and in doing so
00:36:36.91\00:36:40.48
He both blessed and what?
00:36:40.68\00:36:44.03
sanctified. He
blessed and sanctified.
00:36:44.06\00:36:48.30
Now what does it mean to bless?
00:36:48.50\00:36:49.57
Well, to the quick
dictionary definition:
00:36:49.77\00:36:52.32
to bless means to consecrate
and invoke divine favor.
00:36:52.62\00:36:58.39
When God blesses you,
He shows you divine favor.
00:36:58.69\00:37:02.91
Amen? So you can say: "You
know, I'm blessed of the Lord
00:37:03.22\00:37:06.06
because God has
done this for me...
00:37:06.16\00:37:08.39
He's given me divine favor. "
00:37:08.59\00:37:10.53
So He invokes a
divine favor on that day.
00:37:10.83\00:37:14.01
So that makes the Sabbath Day
different than every other day -
00:37:14.31\00:37:18.07
can you say Amen? -
because it carries with it
00:37:18.27\00:37:20.64
divine favor.
00:37:20.94\00:37:22.67
Now, sanctified.
Let's go to sanctified.
00:37:22.98\00:37:25.48
Sanctified means to
consecrate; to make holy;
00:37:25.78\00:37:31.00
to make of ultimate importance
00:37:31.30\00:37:34.65
and inviolability.
00:37:34.95\00:37:36.89
Very long term.
Well, what's inviolability?
00:37:37.19\00:37:39.53
Inviolability or inviolate
00:37:39.83\00:37:42.44
means never to be
infringed upon or dishonored.
00:37:42.64\00:37:46.72
Whoa!
00:37:47.02\00:37:49.63
Now let's recap.
00:37:50.03\00:37:52.03
We've got a day.
It's a special day.
00:37:52.33\00:37:55.20
God blessed
that day. And listen,
00:37:55.50\00:37:57.81
whenever God blesses something
and you become a part of it
00:37:58.11\00:38:01.48
guess what happens?
00:38:01.68\00:38:02.77
You get the blessing. Amen?
00:38:03.07\00:38:04.89
So there's a special
blessing in the Sabbath Day.
00:38:05.19\00:38:07.08
He sanctified it...
which means He set it aside
00:38:07.38\00:38:09.99
for holy purpose.
That's what sanctification is.
00:38:10.19\00:38:12.85
It's set aside for holiness.
00:38:13.15\00:38:15.11
So it's a day that we step
outside of unholy activity.
00:38:15.42\00:38:19.12
And it's inviolate...
which means it ought never to be
00:38:19.43\00:38:23.20
infringed upon or
violated or dishonored.
00:38:23.30\00:38:26.91
So now we get a kind of an idea
00:38:27.11\00:38:28.23
of what the
Sabbath is all about.
00:38:28.43\00:38:29.81
It's a blessed day.
It's a sanctified day.
00:38:30.11\00:38:33.04
It's a day that
you don't step on.
00:38:33.34\00:38:35.34
Amen? A day that
you don't violate.
00:38:35.64\00:38:37.62
You know I love it when the
dictionary preaches my sermon.
00:38:37.72\00:38:40.53
You can go right
to the dictionary!
00:38:40.84\00:38:41.96
Blessed, sanctified, inviolate.
00:38:42.26\00:38:44.35
The Sabbath is the
fourth commandment,
00:38:44.55\00:38:46.58
and it is as
unchangeable as is God.
00:38:46.79\00:38:50.17
I am so glad that I
don't serve a changeable God.
00:38:50.37\00:38:54.43
I am so glad that
every time I come to God
00:38:54.93\00:38:58.61
I find the exact same God.
00:38:58.81\00:39:00.37
'Cause if you're
like me, I have some days
00:39:00.57\00:39:02.33
when I really don't
want to be bothered.
00:39:02.53\00:39:03.91
We all have good
days and bad days.
00:39:06.36\00:39:09.97
Some days you're
smiling, you're happy.
00:39:10.27\00:39:12.38
You know, you go to
work and somebody says:
00:39:12.59\00:39:14.18
"Victor, how you doing, ugly? "
00:39:14.38\00:39:15.41
And they're just teasing.
00:39:15.71\00:39:17.82
You know you're not ugly;
they know you're not ugly.
00:39:18.22\00:39:20.63
They're just playing.
00:39:20.83\00:39:22.02
But the day you hear that
is the day you don't need that.
00:39:22.32\00:39:25.30
You know, 'cause you got
up late and your keys are lost
00:39:25.60\00:39:28.38
and you're coming
to work kind of mad
00:39:28.58\00:39:29.81
and you walk in and somebody's
saying "How you doing, ugly? "
00:39:30.02\00:39:31.91
And they're just playing, but
today I don't want to hear that.
00:39:32.21\00:39:34.74
And that's the day you get it.
00:39:35.04\00:39:36.51
But every time you go to
God you find a loving Jesus.
00:39:36.71\00:39:39.38
Huh? Never changes His mind.
00:39:39.58\00:39:41.57
Never changes His Word.
00:39:41.78\00:39:42.90
If He says it today, it's
going to be the same yesterday,
00:39:43.20\00:39:45.60
today, and
forever. God does not change
00:39:45.80\00:39:48.48
and His Word does not change.
00:39:48.78\00:39:50.46
I'm going to the book
of Malachi. What book?
00:39:50.56\00:39:52.22
Malachi. Chapter 3 verse 6.
00:39:52.53\00:39:53.97
Let's go to it
real fast. Malachi 3:6
00:39:54.27\00:39:56.07
before my time runs out on me.
00:39:56.18\00:39:57.49
That's God's
Word... "I don't change
00:40:05.54\00:40:07.54
and I don't change the things
that have come out of My mouth.
00:40:07.74\00:40:09.79
So if I say the
Sabbath is blessed,
00:40:09.99\00:40:11.91
it's going to
be blessed forever.
00:40:12.11\00:40:13.79
If I say the
Sabbath is sanctified,
00:40:14.09\00:40:16.24
it's going to be
sanctified forever.
00:40:16.54\00:40:17.99
I'm not going to bless it one
day and take back My blessing.
00:40:18.30\00:40:21.31
If I've set aside a
day by not working on it,
00:40:21.61\00:40:24.64
it will always be blessed.
00:40:24.94\00:40:26.67
And everybody that
becomes a part of that day
00:40:26.97\00:40:29.76
will always be
blessed. " Can you say Amen?
00:40:29.97\00:40:32.60
Blessings on the
day. God does not change;
00:40:33.10\00:40:35.67
His Word does not change.
00:40:35.97\00:40:37.29
So... God doesn't
change, the day doesn't change.
00:40:38.91\00:40:41.27
The blessing does not change.
00:40:41.37\00:40:42.74
And God has something very
special He wants us to know
00:40:42.94\00:40:47.03
about this day. God
takes commandment keeping,
00:40:47.23\00:40:51.32
ladies and gentlemen, very
seriously. Did you know that?
00:40:51.52\00:40:53.66
Very, very seriously.
00:40:53.97\00:40:55.85
We are not saved by keeping
commandments. You know that.
00:40:56.15\00:41:00.48
You can't work
your way into heaven.
00:41:00.78\00:41:03.10
But commandment
keeping is part of salvation.
00:41:03.41\00:41:07.37
You cannot go to heaven
breaking the commandments.
00:41:07.67\00:41:11.51
We keep the
commandments not to be saved.
00:41:11.71\00:41:14.64
We keep the commandments
because we are saved.
00:41:14.94\00:41:18.61
It's an emblem, and ensign,
a sign of a saved relationship
00:41:18.91\00:41:24.47
with Jesus Christ. Christ
said: "Why do you call Me Lord
00:41:24.77\00:41:28.00
and not do the things I say? "
00:41:28.30\00:41:29.91
Amen? So we don't keep
the commandments to be saved.
00:41:30.21\00:41:33.19
We keep them
because we are saved.
00:41:33.39\00:41:35.52
John chapter 14 verse
15. What book did I say?
00:41:35.82\00:41:38.81
Simple
statement... short and sweet.
00:41:39.12\00:41:41.38
Now you will note that's
found in the New Testament.
00:41:44.73\00:41:46.81
Commandment keeping is not
just an Old Testament thing...
00:41:47.11\00:41:49.43
it's a New
Testament thing. Amen?
00:41:49.63\00:41:51.12
Jesus said: "If you love
Me, keep My commandments. "
00:41:51.32\00:41:54.40
And the fourth commandment
- the Sabbath commandment -
00:41:54.60\00:41:57.02
is a commandment,
ladies and gentlemen.
00:41:57.22\00:41:59.07
So just like no
lying, no cheating,
00:41:59.17\00:42:01.91
no stealing, no
covetous, no idolatry...
00:42:02.11\00:42:05.37
The fourth commandment is
part of those commandments
00:42:05.58\00:42:07.88
and must be kept
by the people of God.
00:42:08.08\00:42:10.51
I John chapter 2 verse
4. What book did I say?
00:42:10.81\00:42:12.85
I John 2:4. I'm
giving you a lot of texts
00:42:13.15\00:42:15.52
but I want to prove my point.
00:42:15.72\00:42:17.23
If you say "I know Him" and
you don't keep His commandments,
00:42:28.06\00:42:31.30
you're a liar
00:42:31.50\00:42:32.80
and the truth is not in you.
00:42:33.10\00:42:34.89
And lying is a commandment.
00:42:35.19\00:42:38.67
"Thou shalt not lie. "
00:42:38.97\00:42:40.77
So you can't be saved unless
you keep the commandments.
00:42:41.07\00:42:44.16
John 17:17... you know it well.
00:42:44.36\00:42:46.45
So every word of truth
God's people are called to keep.
00:42:51.82\00:42:55.47
We read this before...
talked about this before.
00:42:55.77\00:42:58.13
Jesus said - John 14:6:
00:42:58.33\00:43:00.26
Commandment keeping I say
again ladies and gentlemen
00:43:08.37\00:43:10.90
is an indication of a
relationship with Jesus Christ.
00:43:11.20\00:43:16.67
How do I know that I am in Him?
00:43:17.90\00:43:20.20
Because I read His Word
00:43:20.50\00:43:22.54
and I do what His Word says.
00:43:22.74\00:43:25.63
I don't discuss it
only. I don't talk about it.
00:43:25.93\00:43:29.68
I don't reminisce about it.
00:43:29.98\00:43:31.36
I do it!
00:43:31.66\00:43:33.08
God says you are what you do...
regardless of what you say.
00:43:33.38\00:43:37.89
I'd rather see what
you do than what you say.
00:43:38.19\00:43:40.22
Amen? All
commandment keeping is the same.
00:43:40.52\00:43:45.25
Don't lie, don't
cheat, don't steal,
00:43:45.55\00:43:48.75
don't have any other gods,
00:43:48.95\00:43:50.73
remember the Sabbath Day.
00:43:50.93\00:43:53.25
Exodus says it is
the Sabbath of the Lord.
00:43:53.55\00:43:57.41
I'm in Isaiah chapter
58. What book did I say?
00:43:57.71\00:43:59.69
Isaiah 58:13 and 14.
00:43:59.99\00:44:02.84
This is a powerful
text... powerful text.
00:44:03.04\00:44:05.04
Remember talking about
trampling on the Sabbath?
00:44:08.29\00:44:09.85
Here comes the promise...
00:44:24.24\00:44:25.35
When the Lord ends something
00:44:34.32\00:44:35.33
with "the mouth of
the Lord hath spoken it, "
00:44:35.53\00:44:37.07
that's an ironclad
guarantee, ladies and gentlemen.
00:44:37.27\00:44:39.19
Ironclad guarantee. He said:
00:44:39.49\00:44:40.90
"If you'll stop
talking about secular things,
00:44:41.10\00:44:44.37
stop doing secular things,
00:44:44.58\00:44:46.27
stop thinking about secular
things and involving yourself
00:44:46.47\00:44:49.51
in secular pleasures
and focus on Me for one day,
00:44:49.71\00:44:53.77
I will cause you to ride upon
the high hills of the earth.
00:44:53.98\00:44:58.41
And more than
that... I'll save you!
00:44:58.61\00:45:00.45
And I'll give you
blessings like nobody else. "
00:45:00.75\00:45:04.63
That's God's promise.
00:45:04.83\00:45:06.85
He said: "Do
this, test Me, try Me. "
00:45:07.05\00:45:09.56
Now, we know what the day is.
00:45:09.76\00:45:12.31
We know what God
wants us to do and not to do
00:45:12.51\00:45:15.26
because He said that
in the fourth commandment.
00:45:15.47\00:45:17.91
He said: "Don't work,
00:45:18.21\00:45:20.72
don't do secular things,
00:45:20.92\00:45:22.30
don't involve yourself
in other kinds of pleasures,
00:45:22.50\00:45:24.48
spend the day
concentrating, fellowshipping,
00:45:24.69\00:45:29.15
worshiping Me. "
00:45:29.36\00:45:31.63
And that includes acts
of kindness and charity.
00:45:31.83\00:45:35.52
Now we've got to find
out when that day is...
00:45:35.82\00:45:39.24
because that's important.
00:45:39.54\00:45:41.03
We've got a
little time. Mark 15:42.
00:45:41.23\00:45:43.07
We've got to
rush now. Mark 15:42.
00:45:43.27\00:45:44.76
Let's go on. Preparation Day
is the day before the Sabbath.
00:45:55.38\00:46:01.49
All right? The day
before the Sabbath is called
00:46:01.69\00:46:03.89
the Preparation Day.
Keep that in your mind.
00:46:04.09\00:46:05.64
Let's go to Mark 16:1 and 2.
00:46:05.94\00:46:07.82
All right, we've got
a little time frame now.
00:46:27.94\00:46:30.07
Preparation Day is
the day before Sabbath.
00:46:30.37\00:46:33.76
The day that Jesus rose
is the day after Sabbath.
00:46:34.06\00:46:39.27
Amen?
00:46:39.57\00:46:41.12
It's that plain. So, the
day that Jesus rose is what?
00:46:41.42\00:46:46.39
The first day.
00:46:46.69\00:46:48.65
So then, the Preparation
Day must be the sixth day.
00:46:48.96\00:46:53.39
So that means Sabbath is the...
00:46:53.69\00:46:56.06
seventh day.
00:46:56.27\00:46:57.46
The day that Christ rose we
call the first day or Sunday.
00:46:57.66\00:47:02.72
Sabbath is the day before Sunday
00:47:02.93\00:47:06.48
which makes it Saturday.
00:47:06.51\00:47:09.45
Plain? Understood?
00:47:09.76\00:47:12.51
Did I pull a fast one on you?
00:47:12.81\00:47:14.09
Word of God. Amen. All
right, let's buttress our point.
00:47:14.39\00:47:17.47
So then, the
Sabbath is the seventh day -
00:47:17.77\00:47:21.98
the day before the
first day or Sunday -
00:47:22.18\00:47:26.21
which makes it Saturday.
00:47:26.41\00:47:27.50
Now, let's go to
an often-used text.
00:47:27.71\00:47:29.42
I'm in Revelation
chapter 1 verse 10.
00:47:29.62\00:47:32.34
Revelation chapter 1
verse 10. Here it is:
00:47:32.64\00:47:35.76
I want you to
listen very carefully.
00:47:38.61\00:47:39.92
I don't want anybody to
think I'm playing games with you
00:47:44.07\00:47:46.17
because this is
vitally important.
00:47:46.37\00:47:47.91
We hear so often the
term "The Lord's Day. "
00:47:50.32\00:47:54.08
That term appears
in the Word of God
00:47:54.38\00:47:57.73
one time... and
you just read it.
00:47:57.93\00:47:59.84
Revelation 1 verse 10.
00:48:00.14\00:48:02.44
Is that clear? You find
it like that no other time.
00:48:02.74\00:48:06.40
What day then is
the "Lord's Day? "
00:48:06.70\00:48:10.16
Is it Sunday?
00:48:10.36\00:48:12.14
I think not. Here is the
proof from the Word of God.
00:48:12.44\00:48:15.11
The Lord's Day is the
day of which Jesus is Lord.
00:48:15.41\00:48:20.31
Can you say
Amen? Follow my logic.
00:48:20.61\00:48:22.48
Let's go to
Philippians chapter 2 verse 11.
00:48:22.68\00:48:24.26
All right, here we go:
00:48:24.46\00:48:28.11
So Jesus Christ is Lord.
00:48:34.17\00:48:36.41
So the "Lord's Day" is the day
of which Jesus Christ is Lord.
00:48:36.71\00:48:40.53
All right? So all we need
to do is find out what day
00:48:41.03\00:48:44.55
Jesus Christ is Lord of
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and then we'll know what
the "Lord's Day" is. Amen?
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And Amen. All right, let's go.
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I'm in Mark chapter 2 verse 27.
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Mark chapter 2 verse
27. This is the Word of God,
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reading in the New Testament:
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All right. That's crucial.
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God made the Sabbath for you
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because God knew if He
didn't make the Sabbath
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you'd work yourself to death.
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You've got people
working seven days a week
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twenty-four hours a
day killing themselves
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trying to make
money. And so God said:
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"STOP IT! "
00:49:22.01\00:49:23.17
"Give Me one day
and I'll refresh you. "
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And I've got temperament
in myself. I know a fellow
00:49:27.19\00:49:29.58
who owns several gas
stations and a certain franchise
00:49:29.68\00:49:34.16
and he proved that with his
gas stations open 6 days a week
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and the blessing of God
he was making as much money
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as those gas stations
open seven days a week
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without the blessing of God.
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True. God says:
"You give me that day
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and I'll take care
of you. " All right.
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Matthew 6:13. We've
got to hustle through it.
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My time is gone away.
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Jesus said - Matthew 6:13-
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Matthew chapter 16
verse 13 is what I want.
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Thank you.
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"Who do they say? "
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That's a crucial question
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because the Bible
always explains itself.
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Jesus is the Son of Man.
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He is also the Son of God.
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Peter said: "Thou art the
Christ, Son of the Living God. "
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Now let's go back to
Mark chapter 2 verse 28.
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Here we go:
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All right, now let's
push it all together.
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The Son of Man is
Lord of the Sabbath.
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The Lord's Day is the
day of which Jesus is Lord.
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Make sense?
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Clear? The Lord's Day is
the day of which Jesus is Lord.
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And Mark chapter 2 verse 28 says
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"Jesus is Lord of the Sabbath. "
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So the Sabbath is the? Amen!
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Did I do it with
mirrors, smoke? No!
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Bible. Word of God.
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So then the Lord's
Day is the Sabbath.
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So when John says in
Revelation chapter 1 verse 10
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"I was in the
Spirit on the Lord's Day, "
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what day was he in
the Spirit? Sabbath!
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Amen?
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Because the Lord's
Day is the Sabbath.
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Mark chapter 2:27 and 28.
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I want it to be clear because
I don't want anybody to think
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that I'm playing games with
you because this is crucial.
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Because the
Sabbath is a commandment,
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and the
commandments are always good.
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They're not just Old Testament.
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They are New Testament.
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They are
eternal; they are forever.
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Jesus said: "If you love
Me, keep My commandments. "
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Jesus Christ then
is Lord of the Sabbath.
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In the Old Testament
and we just proved it to you
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from the New. Now
you may be saying -
00:52:08.46\00:52:09.63
I've got to do
this really fast -
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the days have
gotten all mixed up.
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We don't know
when the Sabbath is.
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How do you know
when the Lord's Day is?
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When the seventh day is?
Not true! And I'll tell you why.
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Because of the way
the days were numbered.
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This is... these are...
this is an amazing fact,
00:52:21.22\00:52:23.90
if I could put that in.
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Back in the days of the
Bible, the ancient Greeks
00:52:25.97\00:52:29.08
and the ancient Hebrews...
they didn't use Sunday,
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Monday, Tuesday,
Wednesday, Thursday, Friday.
00:52:31.70\00:52:33.46
Those are Roman
terms and came a lot later.
00:52:33.66\00:52:35.60
The ancient Hebrews and
Greeks numbered their days
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in relation to the Sabbath.
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And when your days are
numbered and not named,
00:52:42.87\00:52:45.65
you can't get mixed up.
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So let's go to the screen.
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We've got a
couple of things here.
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Sunday - this is in the
Greek - it was called Kyriake.
00:52:50.32\00:52:53.96
Now that was a later change.
00:52:54.26\00:52:55.89
The original date was
protee - Sunday or first day.
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That's first day.
Let's go to Monday.
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Monday is Thepterra.
00:53:01.88\00:53:07.61
That's what that says
there. That's in Greek.
00:53:07.91\00:53:09.27
That's Theptera
which means second day.
00:53:09.57\00:53:12.43
Tuesday... Triti...
00:53:12.73\00:53:16.10
which means third day.
00:53:16.40\00:53:19.11
Wednesday... Tetarti...
which means fourth day.
00:53:19.21\00:53:23.71
Thursday...
Pempti... that's Greek,
00:53:24.01\00:53:26.71
I'm giving you a
lesson in Greek -
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you have to study Greek to get
your degree from the Seminary -
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is Pempti which means fifth day.
00:53:30.53\00:53:33.68
Friday... that's Paraskevi...
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Paraskevi... that letter is a P.
00:53:37.07\00:53:40.15
That's Paraskevi... believe me.
00:53:40.45\00:53:44.83
It literally
means Preparation Day.
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That's what
Paraskevi means. And then
00:53:48.64\00:53:50.81
you've got
Sabbato... which is Sabbath.
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So if you're an ancient
Greek, you're not confused
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what day it is because
after Sabbath you'll say
00:53:57.98\00:54:00.44
"I'll see you
tomorrow. " What's tomorrow?
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First day. Amen?
00:54:02.79\00:54:04.50
Or "I'll see you in a couple
days. " Well, this is first day.
00:54:04.80\00:54:07.21
A couple days is
second day, third day,
00:54:07.42\00:54:09.00
so "I'll see you
on the third day. "
00:54:09.10\00:54:10.14
They didn't have
Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday.
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They had numbers.
You can get confused
00:54:11.72\00:54:13.57
when you've got names,
but when you've got numbers
00:54:13.77\00:54:15.26
you can't get confused
because you'll always have 1, 2,
00:54:15.46\00:54:17.98
3, 4, 5, 6, 7.
00:54:18.18\00:54:20.13
Amen? So the days
can't get mixed up
00:54:20.34\00:54:22.50
because they're numbered.
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The first day? Sunday.
00:54:24.06\00:54:26.32
Second day? Monday. You know?
00:54:26.52\00:54:28.13
Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday,
Thursday... 1, 2, 3, 4, 5.
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And it was the same in Hebrew.
Let's go to that Hebrew one.
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Sunday or...
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That's Sunday.
00:54:41.15\00:54:42.94
Monday. Let's go to Monday...
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That's Monday... meaning
second day unto the Sabbath.
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Third day, Tuesday...
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Which means third
day unto the Sabbath.
00:54:53.61\00:54:56.57
Then Wednesday...
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That's what that is...
fourth day unto the Sabbath.
00:55:00.26\00:55:02.36
Thursday... oh, boy...
00:55:02.66\00:55:05.85
Fifth day unto the Sabbath.
00:55:11.57\00:55:13.24
Friday...
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meaning Eve of the Sabbath.
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And then... that's
what you're looking at...
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In Hebrew... Sabbath.
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So how can you be confused?
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Because every day is
pegged to the Sabbath.
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Well, first day
unto the Sabbath,
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second day unto the Sabbath,
third day unto the Sabbath,
00:55:33.44\00:55:35.28
fourth day unto the Sabbath,
fifth day unto the Sabbath,
00:55:35.48\00:55:37.30
Eve of Sabbath, Sabbath!
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So you cannot be confused
00:55:39.65\00:55:41.49
because the days
are numbered for you.
00:55:41.69\00:55:43.46
And so there was
never any loss of time.
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What was Sabbath at
creation is Sabbath today.
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Remember the
seventh day to keep it holy.
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Jesus says again, John 14:15:
00:55:53.37\00:55:56.10
"If you love Me,
keep My commandments. "
00:55:56.30\00:55:59.20
It's so very, very important
00:55:59.40\00:56:01.49
because it's a
commandment of God.
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It is a commandment of God.
00:56:03.57\00:56:04.60
And my time is slipping by,
and I want to just close with
00:56:04.80\00:56:06.56
a couple things. There
are all kinds of substitutes,
00:56:06.76\00:56:09.24
but here's the truth.
00:56:09.55\00:56:10.77
You will not find any
command to keep any other day
00:56:11.07\00:56:14.78
in the Word of God. If
you say "what did Christ do? "
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I've got a text for
you. Luke chapter 4 verse 16.
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Luke chapter 4 verse 16.
00:56:20.61\00:56:22.70
It says Jesus' custom
was to go in the synagogue
00:56:22.90\00:56:27.25
on the Sabbath Day and to read.
00:56:27.45\00:56:29.77
There it is on
the screen for you:
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So Christ kept
the Sabbath. Amen?
00:56:37.33\00:56:40.12
Even in death,
Christ kept the Sabbath.
00:56:40.43\00:56:42.68
He went into the tomb on Friday.
00:56:42.98\00:56:45.06
Rested on Saturday.
00:56:45.26\00:56:47.07
Rose on Sunday.
00:56:47.27\00:56:48.59
Now we don't have any
call from Jesus to keep Sunday.
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The call is to keep Sabbath.
00:56:52.39\00:56:53.67
And then we find out in
Isaiah that from one new moon
00:56:53.97\00:56:57.50
to the next... and my time
is slipping away so I've got to
00:56:57.70\00:56:59.08
get this fast... we're
going to keep Sabbath in heaven.
00:56:59.28\00:57:01.50
No other day. The Bible
says that we're going to keep
00:57:01.80\00:57:04.34
Sabbath in heaven. So, if
we kept Sabbath at creation,
00:57:04.54\00:57:06.74
if the Hebrew
nation kept Sabbath,
00:57:06.94\00:57:08.92
if we're called
to keep Sabbath now,
00:57:09.12\00:57:10.51
we're going to keep
Sabbath throughout all eternity,
00:57:10.61\00:57:12.69
why would there be a
break in Sabbath right now?
00:57:12.99\00:57:14.63
No break! Sabbath at creation.
00:57:14.93\00:57:17.37
Sabbath in the Old Testament.
Sabbath in the New Testament.
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Sabbath
throughout eternity. Clear?
00:57:19.95\00:57:21.48
All right, let's pray.
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