Participants: Phillip Sizemore (Host)
Series Code: LOE
Program Code: LOE000012
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00:01 The harvest truly is plenteous,
00:03 but the laborers are few. 00:04 Pray ye therefore, the Lord of the harvest, 00:06 that he will, he will send forth 00:08 laborers unto this harvest. 00:10 Also, I heard the voice of the Lord saying, 00:13 "Whom shall I send, and who will go for us?" 00:17 Then said I, "Here am I. Send me. Send me!" 00:23 Life on the Edge will enable you to be an effective 00:26 harvester for the Lord. 00:27 We now invite you into our classroom 00:30 to come, experience Life. 00:43 Hello, and welcome you back again 00:45 to the Lay Institute for Evangelism. 00:47 And today we're going to be studying the Sabbath. 00:49 I wanna welcome you people at home 00:50 also back to our classroom here 00:52 in the Lay Institute for Evangelism. 00:55 Today's study, as we go through will be about resting. 00:57 And we can all use some rest right now, 00:59 how about that? 01:00 Yeah, you feel my pain, huh. 01:01 And so you go to the slide here and see the title 01:03 of the subject for today the Sabbath, 01:05 abbreviation being (SB) stands just that's 01:08 what we're gonna use for the abbreviation 01:09 for the Sabbath as we go through the study. 01:11 And as we move along the purpose of the study 01:13 is to show that God gave us the Sabbath, 01:16 one, one reason that he gave the Sabbath, 01:18 so we can have a rest. 01:19 But this purpose here is he, he gave the Sabbath to, 01:22 and we're gonna us to find out 01:24 that the antichrist has a counterfeit for the rest. 01:26 So the rest, the Sabbath that God has given us, 01:29 we're gonna, we're gonna find out that 01:30 antichrist has a counterfeit to that. 01:32 Now, you remember we've already studied 01:34 and looked at in the Bible that every truth that 01:37 God has basically the devil has, 01:39 has developed a counter, counter truth 01:41 and he's counteracted it, you know, 01:42 everything that God has its truth, 01:43 the devil has a counterfeit for it, 01:45 counterfeit, that's what I'm looking for. 01:46 And, well, the last study, over the last two we did, 01:49 we looked at the antichrist part I and part II 01:51 and that's where we wrote out in full. 01:53 And usually when you hear it like Bible studies, 01:55 when you go through a Bible studies setting 01:56 such as what we were doing. 01:58 It's very rare that you do a study on like 01:59 the antichrist so early under the study. 02:02 But it's gonna make sense as why we did that 02:03 as we go through this study. 02:05 In other words, the decisions that we're going to be 02:07 making here and through each study is not based on... 02:11 Okay, you, we know as we're giving 02:13 a Bible study on the Sabbath. 02:14 It's gonna be, it's gonna be a versus kind of study, 02:16 like Sabbath versus Sunday. 02:19 And often times in our study if we make that the issue, 02:21 we want people to make a decision, 02:22 you know, on Saturday or Sunday. 02:23 Here you gotta make this decision, 02:25 but what's gonna be the key part to this decision 02:27 is not Saturday and Sunday. 02:28 But we're gonna be choosing between 02:30 Jesus Christ and the antichrist. 02:33 And that's how we're gonna bring this Sabbath study 02:34 about by, by making a comparison between the two. 02:36 And so we're gonna show that the antichrist 02:38 obviously has a counterfeit to the true Sabbath. 02:40 And the sinner part of the study 02:41 as we find our rest in Jesus Christ, 02:43 who created the Sabbath for us to spend time with Him. 02:47 So the purpose of the Sabbath is that we can just take 02:49 that time and spend it with Lord Jesus. 02:51 You know, what the devil would have us do. 02:53 He would have us never find that time to spend with Jesus. 02:57 And so he tries to do one of two things, 02:59 either get rid of the Sabbath all together or make it, 03:02 so, so insignificant that nobody actually keeps it. 03:04 Either way if you're not, if not obeying God, 03:06 keeping his commandments and, and keeping that rest 03:08 that he has for us. 03:09 You're still following the antichrist 03:11 instead of Jesus Christ, 03:12 that's how we're going to proceed with this study. 03:14 And here is the number of texts we're gonna have 03:16 is just 12 of them in this study. 03:17 All though I can be long winded, 03:19 I can make 12 go for a lot longer than an hour. 03:21 So I have to talk kind of fast probably one point 03:23 when I realize I'm falling behind to get 03:24 this done in an hour. 03:25 So, put your hearing aids on fast forward, 03:28 do whatever you have to do to keep up, okay? 03:29 So there they are 03:31 is where we'll begin, we'll end in Isaac 66:22, 23. 03:34 And it's real interesting I think how this study 03:36 will be broken down? 03:37 And basically I will give you the overview right now. 03:40 First of all, we show that the antichrist 03:41 is trying to, to counterfeit it. 03:43 Then we show who created the Sabbath. 03:45 And we're going to find out that was Jesus. 03:46 Then we're going to find out that Jesus kept the Sabbath, 03:49 then we're gonna find out that Jesus disciples kept 03:51 the Sabbath and we're gonna find out 03:52 that we'll be keeping the Sabbath in heaven. 03:57 And it's strange, it's strange the idea that sometime 03:59 in between Jesus and the disciples keeping 04:01 the seventh day Sabbath and then all the way down 04:04 to the second coming of Jesus, 04:05 when we begin to keep it again, 04:07 that there is time in between, that God says, 04:08 okay, don't worry about it at that time. 04:10 And that's how the study will proceed 04:11 to the understanding that God is consistent, 04:14 he's not the author of confusion, 04:15 as the Bible tells us. 04:16 But of understanding of peace, these kind of things. 04:19 So he's not going to be confusing 04:20 in what he wants us to do at one point 04:22 and not wanting us to do at some place else. 04:23 That's how the study will proceed. 04:24 So, let us go on right away to the first text 04:26 and it's found in Daniel Chapter 7 and verse 25, 04:29 Daniel 7:25, I'm already there in my Bible 04:34 who would like to read that? 04:35 Jessica, can you read Daniel 7:25 for us? 04:38 When you get there it's speaking of the antichrist, 04:41 remember we've already covered the antichrist 04:43 a little earlier on in our study, 04:46 and that was actually I believe the study before last. 04:48 The last one was the law of God, 04:50 this one being of Sabbath. 04:51 So, go ahead, Jessica, Daniel 7:25. 04:54 "And he shall speak great words against 04:56 the Most High, and shall wear out the saints of 04:59 the Most High, and think to change times and laws. 05:03 And they shall be given into his hand until a time 05:07 and times and a dividing of time." 05:09 There's a whole lot in that statement right there, 05:11 this is why we covered this antichrist, 05:12 Jessica, before, before we actually got 05:15 to the Sabbath study. 05:17 One of the things that we brought out the last time 05:19 is he'll do what concerning God's law. 05:21 He'll think to change times and laws. 05:23 Now, do you remember how we decide, 05:25 determined and when you give the study 05:26 you may have to remind the person of this. 05:28 You remember how we determined, 05:29 how we know that this is God's law 05:30 they must be talking about here 05:31 because somebody could read the text 05:33 and they can say, well, you know, 05:34 this is as, it says, right here in the text that 05:36 he will think to change times and laws. 05:37 Well, that could be any... 05:38 How do you know it's God's law? 05:40 It could be any law, right. 05:41 So, how can we, how do we determine, 05:42 how can we make sure that he's definitely speaking 05:44 about God's law. 05:45 And we ask a question like this, 05:46 can the United States change the laws of United States? 05:50 Sure, they can, right? 05:51 They can change their laws. 05:52 But they can change the laws of say, 05:54 another country say, such as Germany. 05:56 And the answer that we actually come to is, 05:58 yes, they could, if they conquered them. 06:01 Right, normally they can't change the laws of that 06:02 country but they could, theoretically, 06:04 if they went to, they wanted to change the laws in Germany, 06:07 they'll have to go to Germany and conquer them 06:08 then they can change the laws, couldn't they? 06:10 But now could the United States change the law of God? 06:13 Can they conquer him? No. 06:15 So we can't conquer God, 06:16 so one country can't change God's laws, 06:18 that, remember, that's how we come to the understanding. 06:20 So, we know this must be talking about God's law. 06:23 Can any country, the Unites States 06:25 or any country think to change God's law. 06:28 Sure, they can think they can, they can go up say, 06:30 hey, you know what that, 06:31 that whole commandment there about, 06:32 about idols or stuff like that let's just, 06:33 let's get rid of that 06:34 because we like bowing down to our idols. 06:35 We actually have a program, 06:37 a TV program called American Idol. 06:39 So we like our idols and we don't want to get rid of them, 06:41 so let's rid of that commandment, 06:42 how about that? 06:43 Can they change it? No, but can they think to? 06:46 Sure, but notice here in the text again in Chapter, 06:49 in Chapter 7 verse 25, it says, 06:51 he thinks to change both times and laws. 06:53 Now, when we cover the antichrist, 06:54 we're kind of spun around the times thing just a little bit, 06:56 we didn't spend a whole lot of time on it. 06:58 But are you aware that there are wanted, 06:59 there is one of God's laws. 07:01 That deal specifically with time. 07:03 Yes, there is and we'll look at that in just a minute. 07:04 First of all, we're going to put a graphic on the screen 07:06 of the Ten Commandment that you find in the Bible 07:08 and in the Ten Commandments you will find 07:11 in the Catholic Catechism, or you know, 07:13 we discovered that being the antichrist 07:14 as we went through the study. 07:15 And you remember we looked at this once 07:17 before even in that study, 07:18 and when we get to the third commandment 07:20 when it says, in Ten Commandments 07:21 on the left side there. 07:22 Thou shall not take God's name in vain. 07:24 Then on the right side, you will see what it says 07:25 remember the Lord's day to keep it Holy. 07:28 Why is the one about not taking 07:29 God's name in vain there? 07:30 Oh, it is there, it's actually the second commandment 07:32 on the right side. 07:34 So you can get, you can get a catechism, 07:35 and open it up, which they, you know, 07:36 the antichrist power claims 07:37 the tradition is about the Bible. 07:39 And Protestants, which most of us 07:41 consider ourselves right, we're Protestants. 07:43 We consider the Bible above any tradition, right? 07:46 Traditions are fine as long as 07:47 they don't contradict the scriptures. 07:49 And so, what we find here is they've taken out 07:52 the second commandment about making graven images 07:54 and you know, why that is, right? 07:55 If you're gonna, if you're gonna come down 07:57 and kiss a statue on the foot or pray to a statue, 08:00 or you know, saying we're not really praying 08:01 to the statue or praying to what it represents, 08:03 or whatever it is. 08:04 But that's directly in contrast to what 08:05 the commandment is saying, so we had to get rid of that. 08:07 You notice that, that was the change. 08:09 But now look here when we get to the fourth commandment, 08:11 and what it says in the Catechism it will say, 08:13 you remember the, Lord's day to keep it holy 08:17 That's what it says in the Catechism, 08:18 Mike said, Sabbath you look on the left side 08:20 in the fourth commandment, there out in the Bible. 08:22 And it says, remember the Sabbath day to keep it Holy. 08:25 And so there's been, there's like a, 08:27 as a change there in that commandment. 08:28 And as a matter of fact you're gonna find out 08:30 that they did try to change that commandment. 08:33 Now, contrast now we're thinking about, 08:36 first of all, this being the antichrist. 08:38 That's who we're referring to, 08:39 is the antichrist here, right. 08:40 So, contrasting to the antichrist we could say 08:42 anytime anybody wants to do away with God's law 08:45 or change God's law. 08:46 We can apply that to whose work? 08:49 The antichrist, the Bible said, 08:50 that's exactly what he would try to do, 08:51 he would try to change times and laws. 08:52 But now, as opposed to that look what the Bible says 08:55 about the followers of Jesus Christ. 08:57 And we will find that in our next slide, 08:59 Revelation Chapter 14 verse 12. 09:01 Revelation 14 verse 12. 09:03 And, Christa, I wanna ask you to read that for us, 09:06 Revelation Chapter 14, and 12th verse, 09:12 are you ready there? 09:13 Go right ahead. 09:15 Oh, pick up your microphone, there you go. 09:19 Revelation 14 verse 12. 09:22 "Here is the patience of the saints. 09:25 Here are those who keep the commandments of God, 09:27 and the faith of Jesus." 09:28 So, Christa, while you have 09:30 the microphone, tell me something. 09:31 People that are, save the saints, 09:34 what is that they, that the first thing 09:36 that God points out that has 09:37 a special characteristic that they have? 09:40 The patience. And they do what? 09:42 They keep it the Commandments of God. 09:45 Which commandments, do you suppose 09:46 he is talking about, Christa? 09:47 The Ten Commandments. 09:48 The Ten Commandments obviously, 09:49 I mean like let say, oh well, 09:51 the Ten Commandments were done away with, 09:52 as how many people say, 09:53 they're nailed to the cross or done away with. 09:55 So what commandments would this be talking about then? 09:57 Tough question isn't it, because we don't know. 09:59 And it narrows it down a whole lot, 10:01 if you can do away with the Ten Commandments 10:02 and it says the saints of God are keeping 10:03 the Ten Commandment or the commandments of God 10:05 and you say, well the Ten Commandments 10:06 we're done away with, what commandments 10:07 would this be talking about? 10:09 It only make sense, doesn't it? 10:10 He must be talking about the Ten Commandments. 10:12 So now, what we discovered the antichrist power 10:14 will think to change God's law 10:17 times and laws and he will try to get rid 10:18 of that, that think. 10:19 Then we'll find that Jesus Christ, his followers, 10:21 the saints of God will be keeping 10:23 the commandments of God. 10:24 And also you have another reference, 10:25 you know, where it's at in the Bible by chance. 10:27 It says almost exactly the same things 10:29 in Revelation 12:17, right? 10:31 Revelation Chapter 12 verse 17, 10:33 just back a little bit and it says, the same thing, 10:35 says, 10:37 the dragon was angry at the woman. 10:39 Now you know who the dragon represents 10:40 in the Bible prophecy. 10:41 The devil, 10:43 and the women represents the church, 10:45 Jeremiah 6:2, it's in one place, 10:46 you can reference that. 10:47 And he said, he makes war with her 10:49 and went to make war with the reminder of her seed 10:51 which keep the commandments of God 10:53 and have the testimony of Jesus. 10:54 So, there you go again, the devil hates her 10:56 because she is keeping the commandments. 10:57 Well, we know that the devil inspires 10:59 the antichrist power to do away with God's law. 11:01 So, you have it time and again, 11:02 in the Bible that God's people are actually obeying 11:04 the commandments of God. 11:06 All nine of them, right? No, all ten. 11:09 There's ten of them, right. 11:11 So, we referenced so far that the antichrist power 11:14 will be trying to change God's law, 11:16 doing away with, specifically 11:17 the one that deals with God's time, times and laws. 11:20 And then people of God will be keeping 11:22 all the Ten Commandments. 11:23 So, which commandment is it? 11:25 This is like elementary school here, 11:26 so we all have to be able to get this, right? 11:28 Which commandment is it that has 11:30 cto deal with time directly? 11:33 The Sabbath commandment. 11:34 And we're going to read that right now. 11:35 Exodus Chapter 20 verse 8 through 11. 11:37 Exodus Chapter 20 verse 8 through 11. 11:40 We'll turn there Genesis, Exodus, 11:44 let me get there myself, 11:46 20 verse 8 and who would like to read that one? 11:52 Mike, you want to take that one? 11:53 Exodus Chapter 20 verses 8 through 11. 12:00 Reads, "Remember the Sabbath day to keep it holy. 12:03 Six days shalt thou labor and do all thy work, 12:05 but the seventh day is the Sabbath of the Lord. 12:08 In it thou shall do, shall not do any work, 12:11 thou nor thy son, nor thy daughter, 12:14 nor thy manservant, nor thy maidservant, 12:16 nor thy cattle, nor the strangers 12:18 that is within thy gates. 12:20 For in six days, the Lord made the heaven 12:22 and the earth, the sea, and all that in them is, 12:25 and rested the seventh day. 12:26 Wherefore the Lord blessed 12:28 the Sabbath day and hallowed it." 12:29 Very good, now there's something I like to point out 12:32 in this text when we bring this up. 12:33 This is the only one in the Ten Commandments 12:35 that deals with God's time. 12:37 Times bring the Sabbath. 12:39 And the law being the forth commandment, 12:41 isn't it also interesting that it is the longest 12:43 of the Ten Commandments. 12:45 If you go through and read the Ten Commandments, 12:46 it has the most words in it. 12:47 It's kind of been the sinner there right, 12:48 the fourth commandment, 12:49 you go to the fifth you passed, 12:51 there is no sinner of ten, other than you know, 12:53 between 5 and 6, 12:55 it will be sinner, but we don't have 12:56 a commandment between 5 and 6. 12:58 Or 4 and 5 well I guess, this is way I'm doing it. 13:00 There is no sinner of 10, right? 13:02 I'm trying to figure my math out there, 13:03 I can't figure that out. 13:04 It's in the middle of the heart of God's law. 13:05 It's the only that starts with the word, remember. 13:08 But I want to point out something here. 13:11 We've understood that the antichrist power will be trying 13:13 to change that law or God's law. 13:17 And in this the only one that deals with time and he said, 13:19 you will think to change times and laws. 13:21 Now, some people at this point, they'll say, 13:23 you know, you know, I can kind of see that 13:26 like may be, may be that I used to keep the, 13:28 the seventh day Sabbath being on Saturday. 13:30 But, you know, in the New Testament 13:31 we keep Sunday as the Sabbath. 13:33 And we're gonna address that in more detail 13:34 in a minute, but a point that 13:36 you want to bring out here is, 13:38 can you just pick any day? 13:40 I mean, doesn't the commandment 13:41 in the spirit of the Law, the spirit of 13:43 the commandment there is something like this. 13:45 As long as you pick one day in seven to rest, 13:46 isn't that what it is? 13:48 So, I like the point out something in the commandment, 13:50 that some people may overlook just a little bit. 13:52 And I can tell you a story 13:54 if I had time of a particular case. 13:57 I was involved in a, in this very thing, 13:59 where someone was telling me, yeah, 14:00 it just doesn't matter and I said, sure it matters. 14:03 And they're like no, no, no. 14:04 It just says, remember the Sabbath to keep it holy. 14:07 I said, well you know, that's the sign, 14:08 it's out in your front door, that where it says that, 14:10 remember the Sabbath, keep it holy. 14:12 But the commandment says, 14:13 and look what the commandment says. 14:15 As Mike has read, but it says verse 10 that part of it. 14:19 But the seventh day, which day? 14:23 You know, what word he used before seventh? 14:25 The. It's a definite article. 14:28 The Seventh day, is The Sabbath of the Lord thy God. 14:34 So if the commandment says, 14:36 The Seventh day and you can say, 14:39 doesn't really matter, it can be any day. 14:41 It also says, the Lord thy God. 14:44 So, it can also be any God and you think about 14:47 what's going on in our churches today like 14:49 the ecumenical idea, yes, it is basically. 14:51 Yeah, you can worship any God on any day 14:52 and everybody could be just fine. 14:53 But is that what the Bible teaches? 14:55 No, because the children of Israel was doing just that. 14:57 And when they was being like curses put on him from God, 15:00 when they be worshiping the false Gods 15:01 and things like that. 15:02 So, it's God who says, I'm a jealous God. 15:05 And I want your worship for myself, 15:06 that's what the first four commandments are all about. 15:08 Not only does it say, The Seventh day, 15:10 the Sabbath, The Seventh day 15:11 and The Lord thy God and it also says just down 15:14 underneath that what it says the Lord thy God 15:17 and the seventh day, 15:18 it says, let me go down to it here. 15:20 For in six days the Lord made the heaven 15:22 and the earth, the sea and all that is in them is. 15:24 In other words, the whole idea 15:26 the commandment shows God as the creator, 15:29 I made everything, I rested the Seventh day 15:32 and I commanded you to rest the seventh day, 15:34 and in honor of worshiping me, he says, 15:38 as God you will keep the Seventh day Sabbath. 15:40 That's in the commandment there, right? 15:42 So as we look at that we find out 15:43 that God's people are gonna be keeping 15:44 the Ten Commandments. 15:45 And the Lord here says, 15:46 I am the Lord thy God and you worship me 15:48 on The Seventh day. 15:50 Now, how many days a week, shall we worship God? 15:52 Every day, but how many days we keep holy to God. 15:56 Why? Because he commanded it, exactly right. 16:00 So, this is the importance of the commandment. 16:01 So, do you understand right now from this point 16:04 if you were the devil, if you were the antichrist power 16:08 and you want people be worshiping you. 16:09 Remember that's what we learned from the antichrist, 16:11 he wanted people to worship him. 16:12 That's what devil wanted all way back there 16:14 when you read about it in Isaiah, 16:15 he says, I, Isaiah Chapter 14, 16:17 I will the Most High, I will be like God, 16:19 I want his position, I want his throne, 16:20 remember all that stuff, right? 16:21 If you want to be worshiped as God, 16:23 what one commandment which you definitely 16:25 want want to away with. 16:27 The one where you honor him is the creator, right? 16:29 You want tells you which God you're worshiping. 16:31 You know, the other nine commandments, 16:32 you can, you can basically keep those commandments 16:35 in your mind and worship any other Gods 16:38 keeping those commandments. 16:39 You can have that the God of the moon 16:41 and still you want, you want him first, 16:42 you know, you want all the, 16:44 you don't worshiping every God, 16:45 you don't bow down to other images, 16:46 you know, those kind of things 16:47 and you keep that God first. 16:49 You don't take his name in vain, right? 16:50 But when you get to the Sabbath commandment, 16:52 it tells you which God you're worshiping. 16:54 The creator God. 16:55 It tells you out of all the other things 16:56 which God you're worshiping. 16:57 So, can you understand why the devil 16:58 would want to go away with this one? 17:00 Can you also understand what the Bible says, 17:02 this that since his job is to deceive the whole world. 17:05 And if it's possible, he'll deceive even the very elect. 17:08 Why he would just want not to say, 17:09 do away with the commandment, but change it. 17:13 See, this is the work of the antichrist, 17:14 to change things, make it deceptive, 17:15 and that's what's going on. 17:16 Now, let us go now, what we're gonna find out 17:18 as we move along, as we progress along in the study, 17:21 we're gonna take look at 17:22 who is it that created the Sabbath. 17:25 Who created the Sabbath? 17:26 Where did it come from exactly? 17:27 John Chapter 1, it's on the slide there, 17:29 oh I'm sorry, you go to John Chapter 1, 17:32 John Chapter 1... And, I made a mistake on my slides there, 17:37 but I think they can fix that. 17:38 John Chapter 1, Matthew, Mark, Luke, John 17:47 and we're gonna read verse 1 to 3 17:49 and then verse 14, Jessica, will you do that for me? 17:53 John 1, through 3. 17:55 "In the beginning was the Word, 17:56 and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. 18:00 The same was in the beginning with God. 18:02 All things were made by him, and without him was 18:05 not anything made that was made." 18:07 Go into verse 14. 18:09 "And the Word was made flesh, and dwell among us, 18:13 and we beheld his glory, 18:15 the glory as of the only begotten of the Father, 18:18 full of grace and truth." 18:20 Okay, according to the text we've read, Jessica, 18:21 who is the word? God, and then that would be Jesus, 18:26 dwelt among us with the flesh right, 18:28 that's what verse 14 says, he dwelt among us, 18:30 he dwelt in the flesh among us. 18:31 So, speaking now to everyone of God creating everything, 18:36 who specifically was it, of the God head 18:37 that done the creating according to text. 18:39 Jesus the word. So Jesus created everything. 18:43 Did he also create the Sabbath? 18:46 He created everything else. 18:47 Let's find out if he also created the Sabbath. 18:48 Genesis Chapter 1, verse 31, 18:52 Genesis Chapter 1, verse 31, 18:53 we found out in the book of John that 18:55 Jesus come in the flesh. 18:56 He created everything, he is the one responsible 18:59 for creating everything and what we're gonna find out 19:00 now is, Kaitlin is going to read for us, 19:02 Genesis Chapter 1 verse 31, 19:04 is that he also created the Sabbath. 19:07 All right, Kaitlin, when you read verse 31, 19:08 read it all the way down through verse 3 of Chapter 2, 19:11 read it straight on through, okay. 19:13 "And God saw every thing that he had made, 19:16 and behold, it was very good. 19:18 And the evening and the morning were the sixth day. 19:21 Thus the heavens and the earth were finished, 19:23 and all the host of them. 19:25 And on the seventh day God ended his work 19:27 which he had made, and he rested on the seventh day 19:31 from all his work, which he had made. 19:33 And God blessed the seventh day and sanctified it. 19:37 Because that in it he had rested from all his work 19:40 which God had created and made." 19:42 Very good, now according to what we read in John, 19:44 that the Jessica read for us, 19:45 who is one that done this creating here? 19:48 Jesus himself, specifically Jesus himself right, 19:50 the word made flesh and dwelt among us and said, 19:52 he was the one that done the creating. 19:54 Okay, Jesus done the creating and it says here 19:56 that on the seventh day. 19:58 Now on the other six days of the week, 20:01 God would create a day 20:03 and then he would fill it with something. 20:05 Right, every time he would create something, 20:06 he would create something physical, 20:08 you know, on those days and each day he, 20:10 there will be something physically 20:11 that would take place. 20:12 What physically took place on the seventh day? 20:15 What did he make? 20:16 What did he make on the seventh day, Christa, 20:17 I want to pick on you again? 20:18 What did God make on a seventh day? 20:19 Pick up your microphone there. 20:21 Tell me what he made on the seventh day? 20:22 He didn't make anything. 20:23 He didn't make anything, that's exactly right. 20:25 And so what you find here is he didn't make anything, 20:27 all he did was rest. 20:30 Now, there is something that 20:31 that I find was very fascinating in our world, 20:34 is whenever we think of the way the world works right now, 20:37 in our world right now. 20:39 We're in a world, why do we have a 365 roughly, 20:43 365 day year, why do we have that? 20:45 365 and a quarter because we have the leap year, right. 20:48 But why do have a 365 day a year? 20:51 It's exactly how long it takes back, 20:53 you got the earth setting here, the sun setting here 20:55 and the earth goes around it and it takes 365 days 20:57 to a full season around the earth, 20:59 round the sun, you knew that, right? 21:00 Okay, so that's why we have a calendar set up that way. 21:02 Why do have say it like a 30 day a month. 21:05 Thirty day, 28 some, 31 others right, 21:07 but we have a 30 day month, why is that? 21:09 That's how long it takes the moon to rotate 21:10 around the earth, right? 21:12 Why do have a 24 hour day? 21:15 That's how long it takes the earth to spin 21:16 one time of its axis, it spins one time around 21:18 own its axis in 24 hours, moving pretty fast, right? 21:21 But where in the sun, moon or stars do we get 21:25 a seven day week? 21:28 It's nowhere, you don't find anything in the solar system, 21:30 anything, any moments of the bodies of the solar system 21:33 anything moving that gives a seven day a week. 21:35 The only place you find it is in the Hebrew Bible, 21:39 the Christian Bible that says that God created 21:42 everything in six days and rested the seventh day. 21:44 And it's funny because even in like communist China, 21:46 even in other countries that don't claim there is, 21:48 there it is no God, you know, or they don't, 21:50 they don't hold up the same God you and I do. 21:52 Guess how many days they have in their week? 21:54 Seven, isn't that fascinating? 21:56 It only comes from one place, in the beginning God. 21:59 And so God here says, now I created the seven day week 22:02 and for the skeptic it say, 22:03 well I don't really believe he did in seven days. 22:05 Then why do you keep a seven day week? 22:07 Because the rest of the world does, why? 22:10 It's very good to think about, isn't it? 22:11 I mean, even, even devout evolutionists, 22:13 the denying of God altogether say, 22:16 they keep a seven day week. 22:17 I mean, like okay, what are you going to do this weekend? 22:19 You'll say to them. 22:20 Well, I'm going to do this, this week end, 22:22 you know, like how do they know what the weekend is? 22:27 Because we have a seven day week. 22:28 And they know when, when we're all, 22:29 when we're all referring to the weekend, 22:31 we're all referring to the same couple of days 22:33 cat the end of the first day of the next week. 22:34 You know, because we know that from the Bible 22:36 that Saturday is the seventh day 22:37 and Sunday is the first day, 22:38 and we'll prove that from Bible as we go along. 22:39 But it's fascinating that the whole world 22:41 recognizes that, isn't that? 22:43 But look what God did on that seventh day, 22:45 on sixth day he created everything, 22:46 he finished creating, he create, 22:47 what was his crowning act of creation. 22:50 You, me, us, that was his crowing act of was us. 22:55 But what did he create on the seventh day, 22:57 he gave us a day to rest. 23:01 And we're going to find out 23:02 that Sabbath was made for a man. 23:05 Sabbath was made for us, a day of rest 23:07 because he knew we need it. 23:09 Do we ever sometimes, right. 23:10 All right, and so as we go along through here, 23:12 look what he says about the seventh day, 23:13 and verse two says on the seventh day God 23:15 ended his work, which he made and he rested 23:17 because he was tired? 23:19 Like God says, whoa, man, 23:20 I've been crazed up all week, 23:22 I'm so weary, I gotta quit. 23:24 You think that's what happened? 23:25 I mean it says he rested, it wasn't 23:27 because he was tired, it was because he was giving 23:29 his followers an example. 23:31 And then the Bible says this about it, 23:33 God blessed the seventh day. 23:35 When did God bless the seventh day? 23:37 At Mount Sinai, right? 23:38 When he gave the Ten Commandments, 23:39 that's when he blessed it. 23:40 No, according to the Bible he blessed it all 23:42 the way back in creation. 23:43 Now, I heard some people with their higher criticism, 23:45 the critics you know, we've been studying 23:47 hermeneutics here at LIFE and though 23:49 I've been interpreting the Bible they'll say, 23:50 who wrote the book of Genesis? 23:53 Moses, well, Moses was a Hebrew 23:55 and he was just saying, well this is the reason 23:56 why God gave us the Ten Commandments on Mount Sinai. 23:59 Well, if he start picking the Bible apart like that, 24:01 you might as well throw it away 24:02 and quit calling yourself a Christian. 24:03 The Bible says that God blessed 24:05 the seventh day back in Genesis. 24:08 What the Bible says, God blessed the seventh day 24:11 and he sanctified it. 24:12 What's the word sanctified mean? 24:15 Not only make it holy, but to set apart for a Holy use. 24:19 So, he set a day apart for our holy use himself. 24:22 Now I preached this sermon called holy flesh 24:25 and it's taken out of the book Haggai 24:27 in the Old Testament there, in Chapter 2. 24:29 And starting in verse 11 through 13 and a priest, 24:31 God talking to Haggai says, ask the priest concerning law. 24:34 If he is carrying some holy flesh in his garment. 24:37 And he touches something. 24:38 Because if you touch holy flesh, 24:40 that means like the sacrifice is holy, 24:42 you know, and if you touch that holy flesh yourself 24:44 you become holy. 24:45 But if the priest after becoming holy after touching 24:47 that flesh touches, like say this table, 24:49 this podium thing here, does that podium become holy? 24:51 And he says, no. 24:53 Because mankind has no power to make anything holy. 24:56 Only, only that flesh we're talking about there 24:59 is a representation of Jesus Christ. 25:01 Only he can make something Holy, 25:02 he creates everything, right? 25:03 So, it's him that makes something holy, 25:05 he blesses the seventh day here 25:07 in Genesis Chapter 2 in verse 3, he blessed it. 25:10 Now, I've spend a lot of time on this. 25:12 I do this when I give a Bible study or anything else too, 25:13 because the person has to understand that 25:16 as many people will say, hey, 25:17 the Sabbath that was just for the Jews, right? 25:21 How many Jews were around in Genesis? 25:26 They were none, right, who was the first Jew? 25:29 It wasn't until the time of Abraham, right? 25:32 Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, you know, 25:34 whose name become Israel right. 25:35 He went from deceiver to Israel. 25:37 Those were the first what we would we call Jews. 25:39 There were no Jews when God first created 25:41 the seventh day and blessed it. 25:43 So, what we find out we're just using 25:45 the book of Genesis is that God specifically set aside 25:48 the seventh day and rested on it 25:49 and commanded us to do the same. 25:51 He set it aside for a holy use. 25:53 Now, many people will say oh, yeah, 25:55 but that was, that was only for the Jews. 25:58 Let's find out what Jesus has to say about that himself. 26:00 Mark Chapter 2 verse 27 and 28. 26:03 Mark Chapter 2 verse 27 and 28. 26:10 And Gloria, Miss Gloria, you wanna read that one for us? 26:16 Everybody there needs to be there, I am, go ahead... 26:23 "And he said to them, The Sabbath was made for man, 26:27 and not man for the Sabbath. 26:30 Therefore the Son of man is also the Lord of the Sabbath." 26:34 Miss Gloria, I hate to correct you. 26:36 No, no, you gave the right text, 26:38 but I thank you read it from a bad translation 26:39 or something, because I think it should say 26:41 the Sabbath was made for the Jews 26:42 and not Jews for the Sabbath. 26:43 Doesn't yours say that? 26:45 Yours doesn't say that, oh so your says man, 26:47 that's what mine says too actually, it says man. 26:50 Yeah, and the reason you want to pin point this out. 26:52 That Jesus is here speaking, and he is creator, 26:54 the one who created everything. 26:56 And they was giving him a hard time saying, 26:57 you know, you messed up on the Sabbath, 26:58 they're trying to accuse him of breaking the Sabbath. 27:00 And he's simply pointing them to the whole idea, 27:02 you know, what? 27:03 Sabbath wasn't made, or he says Sabbath was made for man. 27:07 In other words, it was made for mankind, 27:08 it was made for you, not you for the Sabbath. 27:12 In other words, the Sabbath is there 27:13 for a blessing to mankind. 27:16 Now, to some people I admit that Sabbath is not 27:18 a blessing to them, because they've got a lot 27:20 of worldly things they need to be doing on the Sabbath. 27:21 You know, they got, 27:22 they got to do their grocery shopping 27:24 and they got to go to their ball games. 27:25 And they got to, maybe, you know, 27:26 go run here and run there and they got to do on, 27:28 a lot of things they need to be doing on the Sabbath. 27:30 So the Sabbath to them would be not 27:31 a blessing but a burden. 27:33 That Jesus himself was trying to set us straight, 27:35 if you're a follower of him, who did he say, 27:37 the Sabbath will made for? 27:39 For you. If you're following him. 27:41 That Sabbath is made for you. 27:43 And so we found out, Jesus was the creator of everything 27:46 and we're gonna, and we found out 27:47 that he even created the Sabbath. 27:49 And now we're going to find out, 27:50 not only did he create the Sabbath, 27:51 but Jesus himself kept the Sabbath. 27:55 Jesus kept the Sabbath, here we find out he says 27:57 it was made for man, him being a man himself would have, 28:00 would have, when he come in the flesh, 28:01 he would have kept it too if he wanted us to keep it right? 28:04 Did he keep it? Let us look at it. 28:06 Let us go to the next text, it's on the slide here. 28:08 Luke Chapter 4 and verse 16, Luke Chapter 4, 28:11 Matthew, Mark and Luke, still the New Testament, 28:15 Chapter 4 and verse 16, Miss Danielle, 28:20 not really Miss Danielle, that's her first name, 28:22 but you wanna read that for us, Luke 4:16. 28:24 Sure, "And He came to Nazareth, 28:27 where He had been brought up, and as His custom was, 28:29 He went to the synagogue on the Sabbath day, 28:31 and stood up for to read." 28:33 Why did Jesus go to the synagogue? 28:36 To stand up to read, what do you suppose he was reading? 28:38 Why did he go, I say why did he go, 28:39 I'm sorry, you're missing the table. 28:40 It was his custom... 28:41 Yeah, and you know, what he was reading? 28:42 When, according to what we follow along to there. 28:43 He read from the book of Isaiah. 28:46 So, he was reading the Bible in the synagogue. 28:49 Why was Jesus in the synagogue on the Sabbath? 28:51 Come on, give me the answer, somebody? 28:56 Because he was keeping it holy, 28:57 cbecause it was his custom, right. 28:59 He was there to reach the Jews, 29:01 he wasn't there to worship or anything, 29:02 he was there just to reach the Jews, right. 29:04 No, that's wrong. 29:06 I mean, that's like an argument that comes up, 29:08 but I want you to think about it. 29:09 Did Jesus really care about the traditions of the Jews? 29:11 No, as a matter of fact you can read quite 29:13 a few places in the Bible where Jesus pretty much 29:15 slammed the Jews for their traditions. 29:16 For when you worship me in vain, right, 29:19 he's talking about you worship God in vain by keeping, 29:21 for teaching for doctrine the commandments of men. 29:24 I paraphrase it just a little bit, 29:26 but you know what the text is, 29:27 you can reference it, right. 29:28 You worship me in vain, because you're keeping 29:31 the commandments of men. 29:32 So does he care about the traditions of the Jews, 29:35 no, no, if Jesus didn't think the Sabbath was important, 29:38 it was just a Jewish tradition, you know, what? 29:40 He would have said, 29:41 you guys you shouldn't be keeping the Sabbath, stop it. 29:44 He called them out all the other places, 29:46 why would he changed there. 29:47 But he created the Sabbath, he made it for us, 29:50 he made it for them and he... 29:51 as it says in the Bible, his custom. 29:54 Now you know what a custom is, 29:56 csomething you do regularly. 29:58 You know, something you regularly do. 30:00 And if it's something you regularly do 30:01 then Jesus apparently had been doing it 30:02 long before this time as well. 30:04 So, the custom of the Jesus was to keep 30:07 seventh day Sabbath, he went into the synagogue 30:09 and worshiped on the seventh day. 30:11 Now, we're gonna continue on now we found out 30:13 that Jesus himself kept the seventh day Sabbath. 30:16 We know that he, we know that Jesus taught 30:18 and believed that the Sabbath was on Saturday 30:21 and we'll find that out as we go along, 30:22 being a Jew himself. 30:23 But what about... oh, 30:27 we got to continue on morale, I'm sorry. 30:29 It's okay, Luke Chapter 23, 30:32 which day is the Sabbath that's the question 30:34 we got to find out. 30:36 Jesus kept the Sabbath that what we find out here, 30:38 Jesus created the Sabbath, we realize that. 30:40 But many people will say, now wait a minute, 30:41 wait a minute, how do we know 30:43 that Sabbath is on Saturday? 30:45 And you can say, well look at a calendar, 30:47 well let me tell you something, 30:48 calenders have been changing. 30:49 I'm studying right now Spanish, 30:51 I study regularly and I got 30:53 that program called Rosetta Stone. 30:54 Can I give them a commercial right here? 30:56 It's a bad commercial, because when studying Rosetta Stone, 30:59 it was come up in a, I'm studying the days 31:01 of the week right now, 31:02 I'm studying the days of the week and so el sábado 31:06 is the first day of the week in Rosetta Stone. 31:09 And it got me confused at first, 31:10 because it would pop up first day 31:11 of the week and say, okay, what day is this? 31:12 And I would say, domingo, 31:15 Sunday right and it would say err, 31:17 it would give a little thing like wrong. 31:18 You know, I say, come on, come on first day of 31:20 the week is domingo and it would say sabado. 31:22 Because in this, in this program it actually has it 31:25 as Saturday being the first day of the week 31:27 and Sunday being the seventh day of the week. 31:30 So, if sometimes some of the references are 31:31 like all mixed up, but old calendars, 31:33 no more calendars, even calendars today 31:35 for the most part still have Saturday 31:36 as the seventh day of the week. 31:37 But that we can't just go about 31:38 the things of the world, right? 31:40 We had to also be looking at what like, 31:43 how do we know, how do we know that Saturday 31:44 is the seventh day. 31:45 Let me just put it that way. 31:46 We can't, definitely can't go to Rosetta Stone and ask them. 31:48 But, look at Luke Chapter 23, 31:52 now I like to ask you people this way 31:53 first as we're turning there... 31:54 when I'm giving a Bible study 31:55 or when you're preaching it or whatever. 31:57 Most of the time the people don't realize 31:58 where you're going to with this next text 32:00 and they're not, they're not catching on. 32:01 So, I would like to ask it this way, 32:02 before I read the text I ask this question, 32:05 here is the question. 32:06 What day did Jesus die on? 32:09 Nine out of ten people, not everybody will say, 32:11 we call it Good Friday, right. 32:14 I don't know what's so good about Jesus dying, 32:15 but that's what it is called Good Friday, right. 32:18 And then we will say what day did Jesus rise on Easter, 32:22 they will say, Easter Sunday, 32:23 won't they say that, Easter Sunday. 32:24 That's what they will say 32:26 and then they go around hiding eggs 32:28 or that kind of nonsense like that, 32:30 which had nothing to do with Jesus 32:31 death, burial, and resurrection. 32:32 But that we have an agreement with the majority 32:34 of the people you'll study with, 32:36 they'll agree that Jesus died on Friday 32:38 and rose on Sunday. 32:40 No problems there right. 32:41 Now, I'll take them to the Bible, 32:43 we'll take them to the Bible, Luke Chapter 23 verse 58, 32:46 53 rather through Luke 24:3, 32:48 and here something to keep in mind too is that 32:51 when the Bible was written, 32:52 it didn't have Chapter and verse divisions. 32:54 So, it would be just straight through. 32:55 And Aletta, would you read that for us. 33:00 "And he took it down, and wrapped it in linen, 33:02 and laid it in a sepulchre, that was hewn in stone, 33:08 wherein never man before was laid. 33:11 In that day was the preparation, 33:13 and the Sabbath drew on." 33:15 Let me stop you there just for a second. 33:16 Okay, that day that Jesus, they took his body down, 33:20 they took his body down and put it in the sepulchre, 33:22 that day was called the, what? 33:24 Preparation day. Yeah, it's funnier... Aletta. 33:27 It's funny Aletta, there's only two days 33:29 named in the Bible, do you know, 33:30 what two days they are, actually have a name? 33:33 Yes. Yeah. 33:34 The preparation day and the Sabbath day. 33:36 The rest them is called one, two three, four, 33:37 five preparation Sabbath. 33:39 So, right here this is the preparation day 33:41 and the Sabbath drew on. 33:42 So, was it Sabbath yet, when the Jesus died? 33:45 It was the preparation, continue on in next verse 55 33:48 "And the women also, which came with him from Galilee, 33:52 followed after, and beheld the sepulchre, 33:54 and how his body was laid. 33:57 And they returned, and prepared spices and ointments, 34:01 and rested the sabbath day according to the commandment." 34:04 Okay, stop right there a second. 34:06 I think this is a very good point to point out here too 34:07 when you're giving a study. 34:09 It says that they returned and prepared spices 34:11 and they rested on the Sabbath day 34:13 according to the commandment. 34:14 Who wrote the Gospel of Luke, 34:16 Luke, was he a Jew or Gentile historically, 34:19 what was he? 34:20 He was a gentile, a doctor right, 34:22 he was a physician, Luke the physician. 34:24 So, Luke here writing the, writing the gospel of Luke, 34:26 did he write before the Jesus die? 34:28 Was it prophetic or did he write it 34:30 some 20, 30, 40 years after? 34:33 It was afterwards, isn't it interesting 34:34 that Luke looking back under this inspiration 34:37 of the holy spirit, writes that the women rested 34:39 according to the Sabbath after the cross. 34:44 Because, you know, I want just to address 34:45 a little something here, you know, 34:46 many people say that that the, that the cross was nailing 34:49 the Ten Commandments to the cross, 34:51 and that's how they get away with, 34:52 get rid of the Sabbath because the Ten Commandments 34:54 were nailed to the cross. 34:55 Wouldn't it be a perfect time 34:56 for Luke here to reference that? 34:58 Like he still calls it the commandment 35:00 and he's looking back and if anybody would have known 35:02 the commandments were done away with. 35:03 They would have been a gentile Christian looking back 35:05 after the cross said they, they didn't go to 35:07 the anointing of his body on Sabbath and they rested. 35:11 But they didn't need to because the Sabbath 35:12 have been done away with. 35:13 I mean, something there, I mean, 35:15 I don't have any word of it, but he didn't, 35:16 he just said, they still kept the Sabbath. 35:19 And apparently the disciples of Jesus recognized 35:22 after following him around 35:24 for three and a half years of his ministry, 35:25 recognized that they would disappoint him even 35:28 if they anointed his body on the Sabbath, 35:29 so they refrained from working. 35:31 They still kept the commandment, 35:32 they didn't want to, even in the act of love, 35:33 they didn't want to disappoint Jesus. 35:35 So, the Bible says they, now what we looked at so far, 35:37 we're looking at what day the Sabbath is on, 35:39 it says that they rested, that the day 35:42 before they prepared the spices, 35:43 they took his body down and put it in tomb 35:44 the day before rather on the preparation day. 35:46 Then it says they rested on the Sabbath day, 35:48 now Aletta, what it says the next couple of verses there. 35:52 "Now upon the first day of the week, 35:55 very early in the morning, they came unto the sepulchre, 35:59 bringing the spices which they had prepared, 36:02 and send others with them. 36:05 And they found the stone rolled away from the sepulchre. 36:08 And they entered in, 36:10 and found not the body of the Lord Jesus." 36:13 Okay, so what we see here just from the text, 36:15 we're looking right out of the Bible, 36:17 we're just pulling right out of the Bible, 36:18 it says that the preparation day, 36:20 they put him in the tomb. 36:21 The Sabbath day everyone rested, 36:23 the first day of the week they came 36:25 and guess what had happened? 36:28 He resurrected, according to the Bible what day 36:32 did he lay in the tomb on? 36:35 The Sabbath day. 36:36 Okay, according to what we looked at in the Bible, 36:37 what day did he rise on? 36:40 The first day of the week, yes, take a look at the text, 36:42 the first day of the week, right. 36:43 So, he rises on the first day of the week 36:45 and we call that day, Easter Sunday. 36:47 You call the resurrection, Easter Sunday right, 36:49 so you can't have it both ways. 36:51 Now, and here is another thing that 36:52 I like just drive me insane, 36:54 when I first was coming from a Non-Christian 36:56 background to become a Christian. 36:59 And this whole thing of the Sabbath Sunday thing, 37:01 you know, and whether or not you know, 37:03 the seventh day is there or not. 37:05 One of the arguments that people would say is we, 37:06 we can't really tell which day is the seventh day 37:08 of the week, we can never be sure 37:09 and you'd read this text and they say, well, 37:10 I'm still not sure. 37:11 But you're still not sure what day 37:12 the first day is either then. 37:13 If you don't know which day Saturday is 37:14 or the seventh day is, then you also don't know, 37:16 which day you rose on. 37:17 So, why you keeping that day holy? 37:19 See it's not a issue, no one has a question about 37:21 which day of the week each day is, 37:22 until it comes the issue of what God says. 37:24 Now, imagine this, okay, imagine this, 37:27 God commands us to keep the forth command, doesn't he? 37:30 I mean it's the forth commandment, 37:31 "remember the Sabbath day to keep it holy, 37:32 six days shall thou labor and do all thy work, 37:34 but the seventh day is the Sabbath of the Lord thy God, 37:36 in it you shall not do any work," right. 37:38 He commands it, wouldn't it be strange 37:41 to have the God of order, 37:43 the God of creation that created all the order 37:45 and every vase you see, everything you see. 37:46 Commandments, Ten Commandments 37:49 of which nine it's possible to keep 37:50 and one is impossible to keep, 37:52 having one out of the ten it's impossible to keep 37:53 because we don't know. 37:54 Does that sounds like a God, a reasonable God. 37:57 No, it doesn't. 37:58 And so it's only unreasonable if you don't want to obey 38:01 what God has to say. 38:03 I remember the devil is going to be subtle, 38:04 he is not going to come in wide open, 38:06 plot down with his pitchfork and his tail 38:09 and his red leotards and his horns. 38:11 Of course, we don't have that in the Bible either, 38:12 but that's the way most Christians think of the devil, 38:14 right, many Christians think of the devil. 38:15 Plot down and say, okay, worship me, do this. 38:18 Are you going to do it? 38:19 I mean, he plot down and says, okay Friday is the day, 38:21 worship on Friday, would you do it? 38:23 No. We won't, absolutely right. 38:25 But if he can come and suddenly change to where 38:28 the majority of the people are doing it 38:29 and so it must be okay. 38:30 Does that sound more like that scoundrel, to me too. 38:35 We have the Bible, it tells us which day he died on. 38:38 Laid in the tomb on, rested from his work 38:41 of saving mankind on the Sabbath. 38:43 And then we have the Bible telling us 38:44 he rose on first day of the week. 38:46 We have the Bible telling us that he kept the Sabbath 38:48 while he was alive, on the seventh day of the week. 38:52 We know today, just by asking a real blood Jew 38:57 what day the seventh day of the week is, 38:58 he'll be glad to tell you, it's on Saturday. 39:00 If you go ask your preacher, 39:03 even if they're not a Sabbath keeping pastor, 39:06 as a matter of fact there's Mike here sitting 39:07 in our classroom? 39:08 He was reading his Bible and he come across, 39:13 and he was Non-Christian all together, 39:14 a non believer, Mike was a non believer 39:16 and he was starting to find the Lord 39:17 and he wanted to become a Christian, 39:18 want to serve God. 39:19 And he's reading his Bible and he comes across a passage 39:21 that says, we need to keep the Sabbath holy. 39:23 So, he goes to a Baptist minister and he says, 39:25 I need to talk with you, and the guy says, 39:26 what do you're talking about. 39:28 And he says, well, I've been my Bible 39:29 and I've got a problem here, because the company 39:31 I work for is making me work on Sunday. 39:33 And the Bible says, we should, we should, 39:35 we should rest on that day, isn't that how it went? 39:37 And so he says and the Sunday pastor say no, no, no 39:39 that we're under, grace we don't worry 39:41 about that anymore. 39:42 Mike's like how is that, and he argues with the pastor 39:44 about we should be keeping Sunday, 39:45 not working on Sunday and finally the pastor 39:47 got frustrated with him and said, no, no, no 39:48 you're all mixed up anyway. 39:49 Because the Sunday is not the Sabbath any how, Saturday is. 39:55 So, Mike learned about the Saturday Sabbath being 39:57 the seventh day not from a 39:58 Seventh day Adventist or anybody else. 40:00 But he learned it from a Baptist minister, 40:02 he got frustrated with him about keeping Sunday holy. 40:05 Isn't that fascinating? 40:06 So, you can ask your ministers, 40:08 you know you can go and talk to him and say, 40:09 hey which day is the Sabbath and if they're honest, 40:12 if they're intellectually honest, 40:14 they'll tell you on Saturday. 40:15 And they'll say, why do we keep Sunday? 40:17 They'll come up with an excuse, 40:18 but it won't be biblical. 40:19 Oh, we keep Sunday in honor of the resurrection, 40:22 oh that's fair enough, show me in the Bible 40:24 where it says to do that? 40:25 It doesn't, it's our tradition. 40:28 And what the problem with traditions above the Bible. 40:30 You got major issues, all right. 40:32 So, now we find out that Jesus, 40:33 Jesus himself created all things, 40:35 Jesus kept the Sabbath, Jesus commanded the Sabbath, 40:37 did the disciples keep the Sabbath? 40:40 Let's go down to Matthew Chapter oh, 40:42 this is Jesus here and talking about 40:44 the disciples in the future, talking about us should, 40:46 should they be keeping the Sabbath, 40:47 whether or not they should be keeping it. 40:48 And you find it here in Matthew Chapter 24, 40:50 did he expect in Matthew 24 to Jesus expect his disciples, 40:54 his followers after his death, burial, 40:56 and resurrection to be keeping the Sabbath. 40:58 Here he is going to be talking 40:59 about the destruction of Jerusalem, 41:01 much into the future from the time that, 41:04 that he was walking there and talking about the disciples. 41:07 What does he say in Matthew Chapter 24, 41:09 predicting the future, Mike? 41:11 But pray ye that your flight not be in the winter, 41:13 neither on the Sabbath day. 41:14 Pray that your flight, in other words, 41:16 you're fleeing from Jerusalem on 70 AD 41:19 when the temple was destroyed. 41:20 He was prophesying that the future for the disciples 41:23 and he says, pray when you have to leave 41:25 that your flight not be when. 41:27 So, did he, did Jesus expect the winter to continue on? 41:32 Did he expect winter to continue? 41:34 Sure, he did because he says 41:35 pray that your flight not be on winter. 41:36 So he wasn't expecting the winter to be 41:37 done away with was he? 41:38 I mean he kind a figure that he wasn't be summer 41:40 from then on, he knew that the winter would still exist. 41:42 Did he also expect the Sabbath to continue? 41:45 How, how do you know that? 41:47 Just like the winter, pray that your flight... 41:49 Now why would he be concerned about the Sabbath? 41:52 Now, here's a trick question? 41:53 Because many people, the scoffers about 41:55 cthis point will say huh, he was worried about 41:57 the Sabbath, because the Jews wouldn't be 41:58 able to get out of the city on the Sabbath 41:59 because they got the gates closed. 42:01 Right, that's the argument and that's not true. 42:05 The gates were not opened to merchants 42:06 on the Sabbath, but you can leave the city. 42:09 You just had trouble getting in with your stuff. 42:11 Right, because they didn't want to be 42:12 selling things on the Sabbath. 42:13 But I guarantee you, if you wanted to leave 42:15 your house on the Sabbath, 42:17 it will no problem because if you remember 42:18 when Jesus said when you flee, 42:20 don't take your stuff with you. 42:23 So, if he is gonna tell his disciples not to take 42:24 your stuff with you when you flee the city, 42:26 when you have to flee, don't take your stuff, 42:27 just get down and go. 42:28 Why would he, can be concerned about whether not 42:30 the gates of city would be open or close anyway. 42:32 cYou still have the ways out of the city, 42:33 you know not the big open gates. 42:35 You still have the, the eyes on the side of the city 42:37 what ever that you can slip out of, 42:38 the smaller openings. 42:40 The concerned wasn't whether or not they will be able 42:42 to carry their stuff out. 42:44 He didn't want them to have to be doing that on Sabbath. 42:48 So, even if someone wants to say, hey, 42:51 he wasn't worried about them keeping the Sabbath, 42:54 he was just worried about not being able to get out of city. 42:55 So pray that you're able to get out of city, 42:57 you can't if it's on Sabbath. 42:58 Even if that was the case, he still recognizing 43:00 that the Sabbath would be in existence. 43:04 He still recognizes people will be keeping 43:05 and obeying the Sabbath after 43:07 his death, burial, and resurrection. 43:09 But, whether that's the case or not, 43:11 did his disciples keep the Sabbath. 43:15 Did his disciples and his followers keep the Sabbath? 43:17 Now, this is one of my most favorite texts to go to here. 43:20 This is powerful, Acts Chapter 13, 43:23 Acts Chapter 13 and what we're gonna do 43:26 is we read through this, at one point here later on 43:28 in Acts Chapter 13, I'm gonna ask you all to do 43:31 a little exercise with me. 43:32 Are you gonna be ready for that? 43:34 You don't have to get out of your seats 43:35 for anything like that but at one point I say, 43:37 okay, close your Bibles, close them. 43:39 But when you close them and, and by the way 43:40 you at home, whenever you're giving a Bible study 43:42 or something at this point when we do that closing 43:45 our Bible thing, you want to, 43:46 you want to kind of play along with the person 43:47 you're studying with too and let them do the same thing. 43:49 But tell them not to lose their spot, 43:51 so what you'll do is, when you get to Acts Chapter 13 43:53 you take a little thing here and you got this little string 43:56 in your Bible first you do and if you don't 43:58 get a piece of paper and mark Acts Chapter 13, 44:01 as we read along here, okay. 44:03 So, that you don't lose your spot when we close our Bible. 44:05 It's important we do this, we want to make sure that 44:07 everybody is following along with our little exercise here. 44:10 So, Acts Chapter 13, did the disciples keep the Sabbath, 44:15 were they going to synagogue on Sabbath, 44:16 were they preaching on Sabbath what were they doing? 44:19 Starting in verse 14, Aletta? 44:20 Can you read verse 14 for me 44:22 and 15 and 16 that first three. Okay. 44:25 "But when they departed from Perga, 44:28 they came to Antioch in Pisidia 44:31 and went into the synagogue on the Sabbath day, and sat down. 44:35 And after the reading of the law and the prophets 44:38 the rulers of the synagogue sent unto them, 44:41 saying, Ye men and brethren, 44:43 if ye have any word of exhortation 44:45 for the people, say on. 44:47 Then Paul stood up, and beckoning with his hand said, 44:51 Men of Israel, and ye that fear God, give audience." 44:55 So, what happens here is Paul, 44:57 they go to a synagogue on the Sabbath 45:00 and he just sat down. 45:02 And people knowing that I was the head, 45:04 they must have been fidgeting or something like I do, 45:06 when I sit down in some churches or sometime, 45:07 they'll say, you got something you want to say? 45:10 Yes, I do. 45:11 And he says, beckons with the answers, listen to me. 45:12 Now, did the Paul believe in keeping 45:16 the seventh day Sabbath? 45:17 Some people was gonna say, 45:18 he was just there to reach the Jews. 45:22 Good, I want that to be argument 45:24 because if that your argument, you know, 45:26 if that's your, that's your take on this you're gonna 45:29 find out that was he their just to reach the Jews? 45:31 No, the Bible is gonna tell us so. 45:34 So, we're gonna find out who, who is the best interpreter? 45:36 Right now someone could say, someone could say, 45:39 that's why he was there for to reach the Jews, 45:41 no problem say that. 45:43 But if Bible say something contradictory to that 45:46 what we're gonna believe, 45:48 yeah we've to believe the Bible, don't we? 45:50 So, what happens in verse 17 all the way down 45:53 to verse 36, let me tell you what happens through there. 45:55 Paul preaches a powerful sermon about Jesus Christ. 45:58 He preaches the message about. 45:59 About you hung him on a cross, it's your fault he died, 46:02 you messed up or you rejected him 46:06 but it's not too late, you can repent. 46:07 I'm just paraphrasing his sermon there, right. 46:09 He is calling people to worship Jesus, 46:11 the son of David and, and, and he's done all 46:14 of these wonderful things, 46:15 you rejected him but it's not too late 46:16 to take him back, right. 46:17 He'll accept you if you'll surrender, surrender to him. 46:19 It's a righteousness by faith sermon you might say 46:22 and in verse 37, I'm going to read 46:23 verse 37 and 38, 39 here because I'm going 46:26 to do my little part here to make sure I close my Bible. 46:28 So when you're given a Bible study as well 46:29 and when you're given the study, 46:30 you make sure that whenever you get to the, 46:32 this part of it that you our recalls 46:34 when you tell me close it, 46:35 you want to able to emphasize certain things 46:36 and shut the Bible and be ready for them okay? 46:38 So, this is the fun part of the study, 46:40 I like this better than anything. 46:41 So, starting in verse 37, it say's. 46:44 "But he, whom God raised again, saw no corruption." 46:48 This is, this is Paul speaking about Jesus he saw no 46:51 corruption and his body didn't rot in the grave. 46:53 "Be it known unto you therefore, 46:55 men and brethren, that through this man is preached 46:58 unto you the forgiveness of sins." 47:00 Halleluiah, that's my addition, that's not in the Bible. 47:03 "And by him all that believe are justified from all things, 47:08 from which ye could not be justified 47:10 by the Law of Moses." 47:11 The reason I bring that all the way down to that text 47:13 specifically, it says you can't be justified 47:15 by whose law? 47:17 The law of Moses. 47:18 So, is Paul here also doing away with 47:20 the Ten Commandments and the Sabbath? 47:22 If he is, you got trouble as we continue along. 47:25 Right, of course he is not and we know that obviously 47:27 that he's doing away with Sabbath right here. 47:29 But isn't it funny here that he says that you're 47:31 not justified by the law of Moses, in other words 47:34 by keeping the law of Moses, 47:36 by doing everything that Moses said, 47:37 is that saving anybody? 47:38 No, you can't be saved by keeping 47:40 even the Ten Commandments, you keep them 47:42 that doesn't save you. 47:43 It's Christ that saves you, that's what he is trying 47:45 to explain to these hard headed Jews, right? 47:47 They're trying to think, 47:48 if they do everything just right, 47:49 if they keep the law of Moses and they obey just right. 47:51 And if they do everything, they need to do, 47:53 then they will be saved and what's he is say? 47:56 Sorry, you're out of luck 47:57 because you can't be justified, 47:58 you can't be made right in God's eye's 48:00 by keeping his laws. 48:02 Look what happens next? Verse 42. 48:05 After Paul preached, the Jews were gone out of 48:08 the synagogue, when verse 42 be ready 48:09 to close your Bible, the Jews were gone out 48:11 of the synagogue. 48:13 The Gentiles besought that these words might be 48:15 preached to them the next Sabbath day, 48:17 close your Bible, close them, 48:18 what does that text say, again, does he remember? 48:20 The gentiles, the Non-Jews said, 48:23 we want these words to be preached to us 48:25 when the next Sabbath. 48:27 Now, now, I don't have the Bible back up 48:29 because I can tell you what it's going to say, 48:30 let me tell you what he is going to say? 48:31 Paul says, in the next couple of verses, 48:33 he says, gentiles, no, no, no, no don't worry 48:36 about coming back next Sabbath 48:38 because we meet with the gentiles on Sunday, tomorrow. 48:42 So, you just comeback tomorrow, 48:43 we'll meet together and I'll preach to you tomorrow, 48:45 isn't that what he is going to say? 48:46 He has to, he has to, because the Bible, 48:49 we know from the Bible everybody knows 48:51 the Bible teaches that Paul was 48:53 the apostle to the gentiles. 48:55 So, therefore he is going to tell the gentiles, 48:57 hey, come back on Sunday 48:59 because that's the new Sabbath anyway 49:00 we keep the honor resurrection of Jesus. 49:02 He was just talking about the resurrection of Jesus, 49:04 he was just taking about the forgiveness of sins 49:06 from Jesus, right? 49:07 All this stuff is about Jesus, he is preaching 49:10 a sermon about Jesus. 49:11 Do you think at this point now we're gonna just open 49:13 the Bible back up and Paul, you're going to write, 49:15 read where Paul says don't, no peeking, 49:16 Gloria, no peeking, and you going to read 49:20 where Paul says, come back tomorrow, 49:22 now we should, shouldn't we? 49:24 This is some at least, at least four years past the cross, 49:27 at least four years past the cross it's happening. 49:30 And so obviously, Paul is going to tell them, 49:33 hey, we keep Sunday now, now you can peek Gloria, 49:36 you wanna peek now. 49:37 Look what it is, let's see, is that what he says 49:38 to them, he has to, doesn't he? 49:41 All right, we're gonna read, verse 43. 49:44 "Now when the congregation was broken up, 49:46 many of the Jews and religious proselytes 49:48 followed Paul and Barnabas. 49:50 Who's speaking to them, persuaded them 49:52 to continue in the grace of God." 49:54 And the next Sunday came almost oh, 49:57 I messed that up, didn't I? 49:59 That's not what it says, is it? 50:00 what did it say, 50:02 the next Sabbath day came almost 50:03 the whole city together to hear the word of God. 50:08 Now, I've got a question, I've to ask, 50:09 it begs to be asked here. 50:11 I'm preaching now I know but I preach 50:12 by Bible studies sometimes too, people like it. 50:14 They told everybody back, 50:15 they told everybody back, right. 50:17 So, it says here that the next Sabbath day 50:20 came the whole city together, the whole city means 50:22 the Jews and the gentiles, 50:24 specifically the gentiles came back, 50:25 why did they come on Sunday? 50:29 It's a good question though isn't it? 50:30 I mean, like right now, I'm in a position I'm now, 50:33 I used to work a secular job. 50:35 The Lord has blessed me to able to be 50:36 like a minister now, I'm working here at LIFE. 50:38 And I've love it, love it, love it, you know. 50:39 I recommend it. 50:41 But if someone come to me if I was preaching 50:43 somewhere on a Sabbath right now 50:45 and I had a gentile say, a Sunday goer, 50:49 I'm not gonna really call them gentile 50:51 they're are spiritual Jews too, 50:52 they just don't understand that many times, right? 50:54 But if come to me and said, 50:55 hey will you preach at my church tomorrow? 50:58 Do you think I'm gonna tell him no 50:59 you got to come back on, you got to come back next week. 51:02 I used to, when I was like a fourth class mechanic 51:06 and I would have to work on Sunday. 51:07 If someone want me to preach on a their church 51:08 at a church Sunday, you know what I had to tell him? 51:11 I got a work, I can't go preach I got a work. 51:14 I can't go give a Bible study, 51:15 I got to work tomorrow, right. 51:17 But now would I ever tell somebody that on Sabbath? 51:20 Like about the Sabbath? 51:21 No, because I wasn't working on Sabbath. 51:24 No matter what, I mean, I will like lose my job 51:25 before I disappoint God. That's my idea, right. 51:27 I want to keep the Ten Commandments 51:28 because I love Jesus. 51:29 Are you following that idea? 51:30 So, Paul here, he didn't go and worship with them 51:33 and teach them on Sunday and I want to know why? 51:36 Don't you? Let me give you a good illustration 51:39 as to why we think that maybe the case. 51:41 Acts 18, 1-4. What was Paul doing that he could not go 51:45 on Sunday and preach to these brothers. 51:48 What was, what was he doing? 51:49 Kaitlin, I want you to get your microphone out there 51:52 and read verses 1, we're starting with verse 1, and 2, 51:54 and 3, and 4, and I'll stop you at some point. 51:57 "After these things Paul departed 51:59 from Athens, and came to Corinth; 52:02 And found a certain Jew named Aquila, 52:06 born in Pontus, lately come from Italy, 52:11 with his wife Priscilla; because that Claudius 52:15 had commanded all Jews to depart 52:17 from Rome and come unto him. 52:20 And because he was one of the same craft, 52:23 he abode with them." 52:24 Okay, stop right there just for a second. 52:26 Paul was of the same craft. 52:27 In other words, he done the same thing 52:29 they did for living, he was doing, right. 52:30 What was that job he did he bow with them and he rot, 52:33 what was that he did, Kaitlin, go ahead and read. 52:37 "For by their occupation they were tentmakers." 52:40 All right, so Paul went, he is visiting these 52:42 two brothers right, the other Jews 52:44 they had to leave Rome, and he's working with them, 52:46 what's he doing? Making tents, all right. 52:49 Look what it says in the next verse, 52:50 and read it with, with enthusiasm, Kaitlin. 52:53 "And he reasoned in the synagogue every Sabbath." 52:56 When? Every Sabbath. 52:58 Every Sabbath, all right go on. 53:00 "And persuaded the Jews and the Greeks." 53:02 Oh, oh, so Paul here, what was he doing 53:04 the other six days of the week? 53:06 Making tents, but what did he do on the Sabbath? 53:09 He persuaded, he went to the synagogue and preached. 53:11 And who do you persuade? 53:12 The Jews, and the gentiles, and the Greeks. 53:16 So where was the gentiles meeting on, 53:17 meeting at in early Christian church, 53:19 where were the gentiles meeting? 53:20 In the synagogue, on Sabbath, 53:22 and who was preaching to them? 53:25 The preacher to the gentiles, Paul himself. 53:27 Hey, look he had to work on Sunday. 53:30 He wasn't keeping as a Holy day, 53:31 he was working on Sunday, how do we know that? 53:33 The Bible doesn't record him preaching on Sunday, 53:36 particularly in the synagogue. 53:37 It says, he was working, he is making tents. 53:40 It's six days, these other day he was working 53:43 and then on his Sabbath day, it says, he reasoned 53:45 in the synagogue every Sabbath. 53:46 Now, if he was also meeting with Jews on Sunday 53:48 the text would have to read something like this. 53:50 And the he reasoned in the synagogue 53:52 every Sabbath and every Sunday, 53:54 he visited with the gentiles. 53:56 Would it have to say something like that? 53:58 But it doesn't. 54:00 It just says that he reasoned 54:01 in a synagogue every Sabbath day, 54:05 fascinating isn't it? 54:06 That's what I did when I was working for a living. 54:07 When I had, when I wasn't being able to support myself, 54:09 wasn't supported by just the ministry money. 54:11 You know, like being able to be a minister full time, 54:14 when I wasn't able to do that. 54:15 And I was working, if I had to work on Sunday, 54:17 I couldn't go preach. I had to make a living. 54:21 Paul did too, he was preaching all the time 54:23 you know when I was working as a forklift mechanic, 54:25 I would go round these different 54:26 factories and stuff like. 54:27 I got to travel around all over Kentucky 54:28 I love that job prior to moving 54:32 into different areas, right. 54:33 But I love that, that was one of my favorite jobs 54:34 I ever had next to being a minister. 54:36 Because I would get to travel, 54:37 they would, they would give me a company van 54:38 and all this equipment and everything. 54:39 And I would travel from company to company, 54:41 repairing their forklifts. 54:43 And I would take literature with me and where ever I go, 54:45 I would witness, you know, I had Bible studies 54:46 with people everywhere. 54:47 So I know where seeds are planted, 54:48 all over these factories, all over Kentucky there, 54:49 who know what may come from them. 54:51 Paul, I can picture Paul, he would make his tents 54:53 and he probably wrap up his scroll 54:54 of some scriptures in there, or something like that 54:55 and sew his tents, who knows what he was doing. 54:57 But he was preaching all the time, wasn't he. 54:59 It wasn't just Sabbath he was preaching, 55:01 but that was the day he was not working, 55:03 he would spend it in the synagogue and not working. 55:05 So, now to recap, Jesus created the Sabbath, 55:10 Jesus kept the Sabbath, Jesus expected 55:12 his disciples to keep the Sabbath, 55:13 Matthew Chapter 24, right. 55:17 One of the disciples to the gentiles, 55:18 main one to the gentiles kept the Sabbath, Paul. 55:22 Now, some people say we don't have 55:23 the Sabbath anymore, but let me show you 55:24 something next, the next text we're going to, 55:26 our last text is Isaiah 66 Chapter, 55:29 it didn't change, let me try it again. 55:31 Isaiah 66:22-23, the Old Testament book of Isaiah, 55:35 you know how to get there, go come to the middle 55:38 of your Bible and you find the book 55:39 of Proverbs or Song of Solomon, 55:41 or any of those right there, you need to go to the right, 55:43 Ecclesiastes to the right, Jeremiah, 55:46 go back one book to the left. 55:47 So, you be in Isaiah Chapter 66, 55:51 what we're going to find right now is that 55:53 we will be keeping the Sabbath in heaven. 55:57 So, Jesus kept the Sabbath, 55:59 the disciples kept the Sabbath, 56:00 Jesus commanded to keep the Sabbath. 56:01 All of his followers all through time 56:03 have kept the Sabbath. 56:04 And now we're going to find out 56:06 that we will keep it in heaven, go ahead, 56:08 Daniel, verse 22, Jeremiah Chapter 66 verse 22 and 23, 56:13 I'm sorry Isaiah Chapter 66. 56:18 "For as the new heavens and the new earth, 56:20 which I will make, shall remain before me, 56:22 said the Lord, so shall your seed and your name remain. 56:26 And it shall come to pass, that from one new moon 56:28 to another, and from one Sabbath to another, 56:31 shall all flesh come to worship 56:32 before me, said the Lord." 56:34 So, we read those 22 to see 56:35 there is new heavens and a new earth. 56:37 It's the context of the New Jerusalem; 56:39 it's a context of heaven. 56:41 And what is gonna happen in heaven 56:42 from one new moon to another and from 56:44 one Sabbath to another, we're going come 56:46 to worship before the Lord. 56:48 That's powerful isn't? 56:49 To me, you know, if anybody that studied 56:52 the Bible or you're studying the Bible 56:53 or somebody that's may be doesn't have 56:55 the real solid pre conceded idea that doesn't matter 56:57 you can just disobey God and still go to heaven, 56:59 people have that pre conceded idea, 57:01 goes through this study. 57:03 The only conclusion you can come to, 57:04 is that Jesus himself expects us to keep 57:08 the Sabbath even now. 57:10 And you know, it's not a burden, 57:13 it is a great joy to keep the Sabbath, 57:15 it's that day of rest that God has given to us. 57:17 Now, you remember how we started this study? 57:19 Who is it, that's trying to keep us 57:20 from having that rest? 57:22 The antichrist, the antichrist. 57:24 Your decision right now is not, 57:27 am I going to keep Saturday 57:28 or keep Sunday as holy day. 57:30 But the decision that you have to come to 57:32 am I going to follow Jesus Christ in his day 57:35 or the antichrist in his day. 57:38 It's not a decision of, of a day 57:41 but it's a decision of a person. |
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