Welcome back to In
Search of the Truth.
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I'm Karen Byrd.
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In our last program we
learned that the God of creation
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wrote His character
- His law - in stone.
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We also learned that
this law is still our guide,
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our moral compass today.
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How comforting to
discover that it is His plan
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to write that law on our hearts.
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Today Charles is back at
Mt. Sinai to take a closer look
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at the one commandment that
is nearly universally ignored.
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Join us as we go in
search of the REST of the story.
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If you jump on
the World Wide Web
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and go to a web site
called optillusions.com
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you will find some very
interesting optical illusions.
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You can even
purchase some posters of them.
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Here are two of
them. What do you see here?
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Most of us quickly
see the face of an Indian.
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Or is it an Indian?
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If you look closer you can see
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that it is the back of an
Eskimo stepping into a cave.
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OK, here is
another optical illusion.
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How many colors
are on this picture?
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Look carefully.
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Some of us might
think that there are four,
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but actually
there are only three.
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White, Green, and Pink.
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You see, things are not
always what they appear to be.
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Sometimes we're so
sure of what we first see
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that we don't consider
what we might have missed.
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Let's look at
another illusion together.
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Here is a top hat.
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Which length is longer, the
brim of the hat or the height?
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Your eyes are
probably telling you
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that the hat is
taller than the brim is wide
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but since I've set you up,
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showing you two
other optical illusions,
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you are probably
willing to consider
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that the brim may be wider.
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To prove to ourselves
which length is longer
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we must use a ruler.
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When we do,
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we find that the brim of
the hat is 13 inches wide
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while the height
is only 12 and a half.
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See this check for $1,000?
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This is not an illusion.
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It is my guarantee
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that my search for
truth is an honest one.
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I'm going to offer this
money to the first person
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who can give me
the missing text.
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It's a text that I've looked for
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but have been unable to find.
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I'll tell you more about
it later in the broadcast.
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In our last broadcast we talked
about the Ten Commandments
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that were written by
the very finger of God
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and given to Moses on Mt. Sinai.
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Satan, the enemy of God,
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has encouraged men to
set this moral compass aside
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and disregard His
plans for happiness.
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Satan has even gone so far now
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that he has pastoral
imposters in God's church
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telling people that the
law has been done away with.
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Jesus disagrees with
these false prophets.
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He said in Luke 16:17,
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"It is easier for
heaven and earth to pass,
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than one tittle
of the law to fail."
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Here is the same verse in
the New International Version.
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"It is easier for
heaven and earth to disappear
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than for the least stroke of
a pen to drop out of the Law."
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Heaven and earth are still here
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and according to
Jesus so is His law.
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God tells us the
same thing in Psalm 89.
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"My covenant I will not break,
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Nor alter the word that
has gone out of My lips."
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God tells us that He will not
change or break His covenant.
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Notice here that the Ten
Commandments came from His lips.
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"And God spoke
all these words..."
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These commandments were a
part of a covenant relationship.
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Now folks, it is
utterly impossible
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for any of God's
moral law to ever change.
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It would appear that all Ten
Commandments are binding today.
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But right in the
middle of that law
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is a command that
is virtually ignored
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by every
religion on planet earth.
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This is what it says.
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In the deserts of Egypt's
Sinai Peninsula is a mountain
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that tradition has told us
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is the mountain
that God met Moses at.
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It was at this mountain that
He wrote with His own finger,
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the Ten Commandments including
the Sabbath commandment
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which says,
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"Remember the Sabbath
day, to keep it holy."
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Some people have falsely assumed
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that the Sabbath was
given to the Jewish people.
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But the Sabbath
has always been there.
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The Sabbath was there in Eden.
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Adam and Eve kept the Sabbath
before there ever was any sin.
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And the children of God
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have always kept
the Sabbath day holy.
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It was for that purpose
that when Moses went into Egypt
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he commanded the people that
they should keep the Sabbath.
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You're about to be delivered
by the God of creation,
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he told them.
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You need to keep
the Sabbath day holy.
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And so he
encouraged them to do that.
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The Bible records that that
was the complaint of Pharaoh.
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He says, 'You cause the
people to Sabot', or to rest.
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So it was that the
people began to keep the Sabbath
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even before they
came to this mountain
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and had that day
written in stone.
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It made Pharaoh angry,
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'Well, if
you've got time to rest
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you can make your bricks
without straw being supplied.'
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So, he commanded
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that his task masters make them
make as many bricks as before
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yet without straw.
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Of course this
caused a lot of trouble.
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And finally the
people arrived here
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after a
magnificent deliverance by God
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and here He
wrote with His finger,
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"Remember the
Sabbath day, to keep it holy.
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Six days shalt thou
labor, and do all thy work:
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But the seventh day is the
Sabbath of the LORD thy God:
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in it thou shalt not do
any work, thou, nor thy son,
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nor thy
daughter, thy manservant,
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nor thy
maidservant, nor thy cattle,
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nor thy stranger
that is within thy gates:
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For in six days the
LORD made heaven and earth,
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the sea, and
all that in them is,
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and rested the seventh day:
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wherefore the LORD blessed the
Sabbath day, and hallowed it."
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Who made this law?
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According to Exodus 20
it was the God of creation.
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Now you may find it amazing
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that God puts
forth His creative power
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as the reason for why we
should remember the Sabbath day.
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Not only is creation and
the Sabbath linked in Exodus 20
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but if we go back to
the first book of the Bible,
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the book of Genesis,
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We discover that here
also the Sabbath and creation
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are linked together.
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In Genesis 2 it tells us about
the last thing God created.
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Was it man? No
it was the Sabbath!
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"And on the seventh day
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God ended his
work which he had made;
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and he rested on the
seventh day from all his work...
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And God blessed the
seventh day, and sanctified it:
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because that in it he
had rested from all his work
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which God created and made."
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Which day of the
week is the Sabbath?
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The commandment
tells us that plainly.
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"But the seventh day is the
Sabbath of the LORD thy God:
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in it thou shalt
not do any work."
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Pick up your calendar.
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The weekly cycle has seven days.
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Count them.
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One, two, three,
four, five, six, seven.
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The seventh day is the Sabbath.
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This is not Sunday.
The Sabbath is not Sunday.
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It is the
seventh day of the week.
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How can we know?
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We know because God
performed 2080 miracles to say,
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'This is the Sabbath.'
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Something special
happened in the valley below.
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If you look down there
you can see that it's desert,
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nothing is growing, how
are the people going to eat?
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God began to rain
down a food called manna.
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When that manna came
the people would go out
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on Sunday, Monday, Tuesday,
Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday
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and gather manna.
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They were to gather only enough
for that day except on Friday.
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On Friday they were
supposed to gather twice as much
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and God would perform a miracle.
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On Monday if they
collected any extra
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it would spoil by the next day
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and smell pretty bad from
what I read in scriptures.
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But if they
collected enough on Friday
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God kept it so that it
was preserved over Sabbath
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so they could eat it and
no manna fell on Saturday.
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2080 times God said,
'This is the Sabbath.'
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Here it is
again, here it is again,
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watch out here it comes again.
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The same Jews who had
that miracle performed for them
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have a calendar they
have used continuously
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without
interruption to this very day.
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Go to any Jewish calendar
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and you'll find that
their Saturday Sabbath
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is the same as
our Saturday Sabbath.
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Doesn't the
creator of all mankind
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have the right to
declare what day is His Sabbath?
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Would man tell
God His way is wrong?
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Let me ask you
an honest question.
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Why do we have a seven-day week?
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Look with me in
the book of beginnings.
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"Then God said,
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"Let there be lights in
the firmament of the heavens
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to divide the
day from the night;
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and let them be
for signs and seasons,
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and for days and years;
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and let them be for lights
in the firmament of the heavens
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to give light on the earth";
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and it was so."
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What makes a year a year?
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One earth orbit around the sun.
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This is just how God created it.
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He said the lights in the
firmament would be for years.
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What makes a day a day?
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One rotation of
the earth on its axis.
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This is just how God made it.
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He said the lights in
the firmament of the sky
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would be for days.
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What makes a month and month?
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One cycle of the
moon waxing and waning.
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What makes the four seasons,
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what makes the day
and what makes the night?
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Nobody argues the
answers to these questions.
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Nobody even questions.
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It is all dictated by
the planets and the stars
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just as God created it to be.
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Why do we have a seven-day week?
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It does not fit neatly
into the yearly calendar.
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Why not a ten day
week? Why not a 5 day week?
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Why is it that for
the last 6,000 years
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cultures have been
following a seven-day week?
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There is only
one reason. Only one.
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Because God made
the earth in six days
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and rested on the seventh day
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and blessed the
seventh day and made it holy.
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From that day to the present
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there have always been
some people who believed
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and obeyed and worshiped
and rested on the seventh day.
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It started that way in Eden.
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Adam and Eve were
perfect. There was no sin.
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And from that day to this
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we have only two
tastes of paradise.
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Only two glimpses
of the perfect world
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fresh from the creator's hand.
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One is marriage.
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And when we obey all His laws
about marriage from this book,
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when we die to self
and live for others,
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our marriages are a
little taste of heaven on earth.
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The other institution that comes
to us from the perfect world
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is the Sabbath.
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drops what He is busy doing,
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and there is a
lot to be busy with...
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and He spends intimate
time with His children.
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Did you know that
Jesus was the creator?
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That's what the man who wrote
the book of Revelation says.
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"All things were made by Him;
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and without him was not
any thing made that was made."
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This God, who created the
world in six days and nights
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stepped down off
His eternal throne
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and took upon himself
the form of a servant.
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He didn't just
become a man like Adam
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And what do we find the
creator God doing on the Sabbath
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as a man here on Earth?
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He was doing just what He
did in Eden with Adam and Eve
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when He was fully God.
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He was having
fellowship with man.
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"So He came to Nazareth,
where He had been brought up.
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And as His custom was,
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He went into the
synagogue on the Sabbath day,
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and stood up to read."
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Some might falsely argue,
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"Well of course He
would do that He was a Jew."
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But careful investigation
shows Jesus never did anything
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without having a
deliberate reason.
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He went to the
synagogue on the Sabbath
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because He created the Sabbath.
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As a burden? As a chore?
As a duty? No, no, and no.
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In His own words,
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"The Sabbath was
made for man." REMEMBER!
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That's how the 4th
commandment starts.
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Remember!
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The Sabbath has been there
since the dawn of creation.
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It was the crowning
act of His creative week.
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Then God rested.
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Because He was tired? NO.
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He stopped to
enjoy what He had made,
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to fellowship with
His newest creation.
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But He made the Sabbath for man.
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Adam and Eve, our first parents,
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were created on the
6th day of the week,
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our Friday.
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And within a few hours
they were being invited to rest.
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REST! Rest from what?
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They weren't even tired!
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No, not rest from
what. Wrong question.
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They were invited to rest IN.
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They rested in
God's creative power,
00:14:08.55\00:14:11.03
they rested in
God's creative genius,
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they rested in
His finished work,
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and they rested and reveled
in God's personal presence.
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Now, about the
$1,000 for the missing text.
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If God gave us His
Decalogue as a moral guide,
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a written view of His character,
00:14:27.88\00:14:29.65
then there must be a
place where He changed it.
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There must be a place
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because most of the people who
claim that Jesus is their Savior
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don't keep the Sabbath holy
according to the commandment.
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Most of them, if they keep any
day as a holy day, keep Sunday.
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And even when they keep Sunday
00:14:45.07\00:14:46.85
they don't obey
the direct command
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"In it you shall do no work."
00:14:48.88\00:14:52.31
I've read my Bible
through multiple times
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but I have not been
able to find the text
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where He made that change.
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I found the one where He said
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"Remember the Sabbath
day, to keep it holy."
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I found the one that said,
00:15:03.96\00:15:05.24
"The LORD blessed the
Sabbath day and hallowed it."
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If He changed His mind
surely He would have told us.
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Find me the missing text,
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the one that changed
God's day from Sabbath to Sunday
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and the $1,000 is yours.
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But lest you spend a
great deal of time looking,
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let me help your search.
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The word Sunday
is not in the Bible.
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That is a pagan
name in honor of the Sun.
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Look in your Strong's Exhaustive
Concordance under "first."
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You will find that there
are 47 scripture references
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with the phrase "first day."
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Of those 47 passages only 8 are
talking about the "first day"
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as referring to Sunday,
the first day of the week.
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Seven of them are
in the New Testament.
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Here on the screen I've listed
the first four references.
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Each of them refers to
Jesus being raised from the dead
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on the first day of the week.
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I'm so thankful that
He rose from the dead
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and I duly note
00:16:00.92\00:16:02.35
that each of the texts
states the historical truth
00:16:02.41\00:16:05.56
that Jesus rose on
the first day of the week.
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This is, of course,
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the number one reason
given by those who keep Sunday
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as their day of worship.
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But as I look carefully
over all these passages
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not one gives any indication
that God has changed His mind
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about the Sabbath being His
holy day, set apart for mankind.
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The Bible does give us
a memorial of the death,
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burial and resurrection of
the Christ and that is Baptism.
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You can read it for yourself
in Romans chapter 6 verses 3-6.
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God never gave people authority
to institute another memorial
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which would destroy
the Sabbath memorial
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that He Himself
instituted at creation.
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Let's look at the
next first day text.
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It's found in John 20 verse 19.
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"Then, the same day at evening,
being the first day of the week,
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when the doors were shut where
the disciples were assembled,
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for fear of the Jews,
00:17:00.83\00:17:02.28
Jesus came and stood in
the midst, and said to them,
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"Peace be with you."
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Notice here that the disciples
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were not holding a meeting
to honor the resurrection.
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They did not even believe in
the resurrection at this point.
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They were meeting behind locked
doors "for fear of the Jews".
00:17:15.71\00:17:20.78
They were afraid
00:17:20.88\00:17:22.08
that they might soon
meet the same fate as Jesus.
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OK, we've looked at 5
of the 7 first day texts.
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Let's look at the 6th.
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1Corinthians chapter 16 verse 2,
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"On the first day of the week
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let each one of you
lay something aside,
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storing up as he may prosper,
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that there be no
collections when I come."
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This text does not say
anything about keeping this day
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as a holy day of worship
in honor of the resurrection.
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Paul was requesting money
for the Jerusalem Christians
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who were suffering from famine
00:17:52.42\00:17:53.96
according to
Acts 11 and Romans 15.
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He was instructing
the Corinthian Christians
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to prepare for this offering
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laying aside at home a certain
amount of money each week
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for this special offering.
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Please note that this was
an individual laying aside,
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and not a collective laying
aside at a church meeting.
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They were putting
money aside for this offering
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that would be collected
later, when Paul arrived.
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There certainly is no
evidence in this passage
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for Sunday keeping.
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OK, The last of the first
day texts from Acts chapter 20.
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"Now on the
first day of the week,
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when the disciples came
together to break bread,
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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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And in a window sat a certain
young man named Eutychus,
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who was sinking
into a deep sleep.
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He was overcome by sleep;
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and as Paul continued speaking,
00:18:50.34\00:18:52.34
he fell down from the third
story and was taken up dead.
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But Paul went down, fell on him,
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and embracing him said,
00:18:58.82\00:19:00.32
"Do not trouble yourselves,
for his life is in him."
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"Now when he had come up,
had broken bread and eaten,
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and talked a long while, even
till daybreak, he departed."
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By the way,
00:19:11.85\00:19:12.93
this is the best anecdotal
text for worshiping on Sunday,
00:19:12.96\00:19:16.16
but those who use it that way
00:19:16.19\00:19:17.51
are ignoring
some important points.
00:19:17.54\00:19:19.61
Notice when this
meeting actually took place:
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the evening of the
first day of the week.
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In Biblical times the day was
reckoned from sunset to sunset,
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"from even to even"
were told in Genesis 1:5.
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Thus the dark part of
the first day of the week
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in Biblical times would
be what we would today call
00:19:34.75\00:19:37.19
Saturday night.
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The New English Bible
translates this verse:
00:19:38.92\00:19:41.63
"On the Saturday night,
00:19:41.66\00:19:43.16
in our assembly for
the breaking of bread."
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This breaking of bread was a
term for eating a meal together.
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What was actually taking place
00:19:49.46\00:19:51.39
was a Saturday night fellowship
meal held in Paul's honor
00:19:51.42\00:19:54.51
because he was about
to leave in the morning
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and he might
never see them again.
00:19:56.80\00:19:59.00
He was anxious to impart all the
counsel of God that he could,
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so the scripture says
he spent the entire night,
00:20:02.58\00:20:05.05
from sundown to
sunup, preaching to them.
00:20:05.08\00:20:08.34
According to verse 11,
00:20:08.37\00:20:10.03
on Sunday morning the
apostle Paul and his company
00:20:10.06\00:20:13.06
departed on their journey.
00:20:13.09\00:20:15.29
Why didn't they stay
for Sunday morning worship
00:20:15.53\00:20:17.76
if they were keeping Sunday?
00:20:17.79\00:20:19.72
Sunday was not set aside as
a 24 hour Sabbath day of rest,
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but a travel day.
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Now, here we've looked at
every first day of the week text
00:20:25.63\00:20:28.72
in the New
Testament, all 7 of them,
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and we have not found
the slightest indication
00:20:30.65\00:20:33.18
of any change in
the day of worship.
00:20:33.21\00:20:35.42
In fact the New Testament
reveals just the opposite.
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Would you like me to
show you the 84 times
00:20:39.24\00:20:42.40
the Sabbath was kept
in the New Testament?
00:20:42.43\00:20:44.89
This short program will
not permit me to give them
00:20:44.92\00:20:47.94
the same amount of time
I've given the first day texts
00:20:47.97\00:20:51.44
so you may want
to jot these down.
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Also at the end of this program
00:20:53.63\00:20:55.05
we'll offer you a study
guide entitled "Don't be Fooled"
00:20:55.08\00:20:58.89
that will give you many
other passages of scripture
00:20:58.92\00:21:01.32
to consider.
00:21:01.35\00:21:02.53
In Acts chapter 13
verse 14 Paul and his company
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went to the synagogue at
Antioch on the Sabbath. (ONE)
00:21:06.19\00:21:09.65
Acts 13 verses 42-43 says when
the Jews left the synagogue,
00:21:09.68\00:21:15.53
the Gentiles asked
Paul to come preach
00:21:15.80\00:21:17.55
those same words of Jesus
to them the following Sabbath
00:21:17.58\00:21:20.98
and the next Sabbath
the whole city came together
00:21:21.01\00:21:23.47
to hear the Word of God.
00:21:23.50\00:21:25.72
That's TWO times.
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In Acts chapter 16 verse 13
00:21:27.37\00:21:29.55
apparently no synagogue
was available at Philippi.
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So, instead he met with
the believers by the riverside.
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Even though there was
no Jewish place of worship,
00:21:36.08\00:21:38.33
Paul still met on
Sabbath for Christian worship.
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That's THREE times.
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In Acts 17 verses 1-4
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Paul preached three
Sabbath days in a row
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to the folks in Thessalonica.
00:21:48.56\00:21:50.68
Now we're at SIX.
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And when Paul was in
Corinth Acts 18:4 says
00:21:52.70\00:21:55.96
he met with the
believers "every Sabbath".
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How long was Paul at Corinth?
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Acts 18:11 says he was
there for a year and a half
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or 78 Sabbaths in a row.
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This brings us to a
running total of 84 Sabbaths
00:22:07.87\00:22:11.69
Paul kept as a Christian!
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Careful study reveals
00:22:14.34\00:22:16.05
that there is not one
text in the New Testament
00:22:16.08\00:22:18.47
that abolishes
the Ten Commandments.
00:22:18.50\00:22:20.68
There is one that appears to.
00:22:20.71\00:22:22.95
It is found in
Colossians chapter 2.
00:22:22.98\00:22:25.08
It says, "Blotting out
the handwriting of ordinances
00:22:25.11\00:22:28.09
that was against us,
00:22:28.12\00:22:29.24
which was contrary to us,
and took it out of the way,
00:22:29.27\00:22:32.83
nailing it to his cross."
00:22:32.86\00:22:34.27
Once again we have to let
scripture interpret scripture.
00:22:34.30\00:22:37.84
In the Bible it uses the word
LAW to mean different things.
00:22:37.87\00:22:41.75
It will say LAW when it is
talking about civil commands
00:22:41.78\00:22:44.96
and rules of government.
00:22:44.99\00:22:46.60
It will say LAW when it
is talking about health rules
00:22:46.63\00:22:49.48
and stipulations like
clean and unclean meat.
00:22:49.51\00:22:52.60
It will say LAW when it is
talking about ceremonial rules,
00:22:52.63\00:22:56.50
like bringing a
sheep to the tabernacle
00:22:56.53\00:22:58.80
and having its blood
taken into the sanctuary.
00:22:58.83\00:23:01.74
And it will say LAW
00:23:01.77\00:23:03.34
when it's talking
about the Ten Commandments.
00:23:03.37\00:23:06.19
I have been to
Israel, I have met with Jews,
00:23:06.22\00:23:09.32
both Orthodox and Messianic
00:23:09.35\00:23:11.24
and they are absolutely clear
00:23:11.27\00:23:12.67
about these
different distinctions.
00:23:12.70\00:23:14.57
So which law was
blotted out? Which law is gone?
00:23:14.60\00:23:20.10
To understand Colossians 2:14
00:23:20.38\00:23:22.72
you must compare it
with what Moses said
00:23:22.75\00:23:25.11
in Deuteronomy 31:24-26.
00:23:25.14\00:23:27.58
Let's put them on
the screen side by side.
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Something was blotted out it but
it wasn't the Ten Commandments.
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What was blotted out
00:23:34.90\00:23:36.00
was the handwriting of
ordinances that was against us.
00:23:36.03\00:23:41.02
Lets compare these three
descriptions with Deuteronomy.
00:23:41.27\00:23:45.11
First notice Moses had
done the "handwriting".
00:23:45.14\00:23:48.72
According to Exodus 31:18
00:23:48.75\00:23:50.93
the Ten Commandments
were not handwritten
00:23:51.05\00:23:53.26
but placed on stone
with the finger of God.
00:23:53.29\00:23:56.20
The laws of
Moses were handwritten
00:23:56.23\00:23:58.78
and placed in a
book, or a scroll.
00:23:58.81\00:24:01.32
These were not
placed inside the ark
00:24:01.35\00:24:03.49
with the Ten Commandments
00:24:03.52\00:24:05.03
but "beside the ark."
00:24:05.06\00:24:06.91
And these handwritings of Moses
00:24:07.05\00:24:09.00
were to be a
witness against the people.
00:24:09.03\00:24:12.25
Paul's message to
the believers in Colosse
00:24:12.28\00:24:14.93
was the same message to
the believers in Ephesus.
00:24:14.96\00:24:18.56
"Having abolished in
his flesh the enmity,
00:24:18.59\00:24:22.09
even the law of commandments
contained in ordinances;
00:24:22.12\00:24:25.72
for to make in himself of twain
one new man, so making peace."
00:24:25.75\00:24:30.47
Notice again what
was done away with.
00:24:30.50\00:24:32.96
"Having abolished in
his flesh the enmity,
00:24:32.99\00:24:36.12
even the law of commandments
contained in ordinances;"
00:24:36.15\00:24:40.58
What we now know and understand
00:24:40.64\00:24:42.58
is that the Laws
contained in ordinances
00:24:42.61\00:24:45.48
or the ceremonial
laws were done away with.
00:24:45.51\00:24:48.57
Why?
00:24:48.60\00:24:49.78
Because Jesus was
the ceremonial lamb.
00:24:50.12\00:24:53.22
No longer must we
offer a burnt offering
00:24:53.25\00:24:55.56
in faith of a coming savior.
00:24:55.59\00:24:57.58
Our Savior came
and died for our sins.
00:24:57.61\00:25:00.80
He fulfilled the law containing
types of what was to come.
00:25:00.83\00:25:05.38
But Jesus never gave the
weekly Sabbath as a type,
00:25:05.41\00:25:08.51
a ceremony of something to come.
00:25:08.54\00:25:11.13
The Sabbath was
a weekly reality,
00:25:11.16\00:25:13.55
a weekly time of
personal communion with God.
00:25:13.58\00:25:17.38
And did you know
00:25:17.85\00:25:19.02
that we will be keeping
the same Sabbath in heaven?
00:25:19.05\00:25:21.80
"For as the new
heavens and the new earth,
00:25:21.83\00:25:24.45
which I will make,
00:25:24.48\00:25:25.45
shall remain
before me, saith the LORD,
00:25:25.46\00:25:27.43
so shall your seed
and your name remain.
00:25:27.46\00:25:29.81
And it shall come to pass,
00:25:29.84\00:25:31.35
that from one
new moon to another,
00:25:31.38\00:25:33.17
and from one Sabbath to another,
00:25:33.20\00:25:35.11
shall all flesh come to worship
before me, saith the LORD."
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You know, I'm looking forward
to being in heaven with Jesus
00:25:39.58\00:25:42.60
so I'm starting now to let
Jesus be the Lord of my life.
00:25:42.63\00:25:46.27
And if He is asking me to spend
the Sabbath with Him there,
00:25:46.30\00:25:49.92
then I certainly don't
mind spending the Sabbath
00:25:49.95\00:25:53.18
with Him here.
00:25:53.21\00:25:54.50
The Ten Commandments,
00:25:54.53\00:25:55.94
including the Sabbath
are the basis for a loving,
00:25:55.97\00:25:58.88
intimate relationship
with the God of creation.
00:25:58.91\00:26:02.56
At the foundation of all
quality relationships is time.
00:26:02.59\00:26:07.14
The Sabbath is that weekly
time that God has set aside
00:26:07.38\00:26:10.76
for you to spend with Him.
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Don't throw away
that precious gift
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and don't be fooled into
thinking it doesn't matter.
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To help you learn more
about God's true Sabbath
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call or email right now
for your free study guide.
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What you learn here
will open your eyes.
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Here's the contact
information you'll need.
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Fulfilled prophecy
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is really the ultimate
foundation for rational faith.
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Did you know
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that the United States of
America is prominently portrayed
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in Bible prophecy?
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In our next program Charles
is going in search of the truth
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about the US in Bible prophecy.
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You won't want to miss
these startling predictions.
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We'll see you next time
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as we again go in
Search of the Truth.
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