Sing together "Father, we love you." 00:01:13.89\00:01:16.60 Father, we love You 00:01:16.63\00:01:21.71 We worship and adore You 00:01:21.74\00:01:27.09 Glorify Thy name 00:01:27.12\00:01:30.72 In all the earth 00:01:30.75\00:01:36.98 Glorify Thy name 00:01:37.01\00:01:42.16 Glorify Thy name 00:01:42.19\00:01:47.09 Glorify Thy name in all the earth 00:01:47.12\00:01:55.09 Jesus, we love You 00:02:02.36\00:02:06.62 We worship and adore You 00:02:06.65\00:02:12.06 Glorify Thy name 00:02:12.09\00:02:15.55 in all the earth 00:02:15.58\00:02:21.90 Glorify Thy name 00:02:21.93\00:02:26.78 Glorify Thy name 00:02:26.81\00:02:31.85 Glorify Thy name in all the earth 00:02:31.88\00:02:39.85 Spirit, we love You 00:02:51.53\00:02:55.88 We worship and adore You 00:02:55.91\00:03:01.23 Glorify Thy name 00:03:01.26\00:03:04.37 in all the earth 00:03:04.40\00:03:10.62 Glorify Thy name 00:03:10.65\00:03:15.40 Glorify Thy name 00:03:15.43\00:03:20.16 Glorify Thy name 00:03:20.19\00:03:23.48 In all the earth 00:03:23.51\00:03:29.91 Glorify Thy name 00:03:29.94\00:03:33.67 In all the earth 00:03:33.70\00:03:36.95 Amen. 00:03:42.64\00:03:44.15 Give thanks to the Lord 00:04:06.06\00:04:07.91 Our God and King 00:04:07.94\00:04:10.26 His love endures forever 00:04:10.29\00:04:14.48 For He is good He is above all things 00:04:14.51\00:04:18.56 His love endures forever 00:04:18.59\00:04:22.63 Sing praise, sing praise 00:04:22.66\00:04:30.63 Sing praise, sing praise 00:04:30.66\00:04:38.63 Forever God is faithful 00:04:38.66\00:04:43.37 Forever God is strong 00:04:43.40\00:04:47.36 Forever God is with us 00:04:47.39\00:04:51.55 Forever and ever 00:04:51.58\00:04:56.05 From the rising to the setting sun 00:04:56.08\00:04:59.95 His love endures forever 00:04:59.98\00:05:03.81 And by the grace of God we will carry on 00:05:03.84\00:05:08.14 His love endures forever 00:05:08.17\00:05:12.21 Sing praise, sing praise 00:05:12.24\00:05:20.19 Sing praise, sing Praise 00:05:20.22\00:05:28.19 Forever God is faithful 00:05:28.22\00:05:32.39 Forever God is strong 00:05:32.42\00:05:36.37 Forever God is with us 00:05:36.40\00:05:40.39 Forever and ever 00:05:40.42\00:05:44.61 Forever God is faithful 00:05:44.64\00:05:48.48 Forever God is strong 00:05:48.51\00:05:52.64 Forever God is with us 00:05:52.67\00:05:56.78 Forever and ever 00:05:56.81\00:06:00.62 Amen. 00:06:38.59\00:06:40.44 How many of you are just glad 00:06:40.47\00:06:41.50 to be the house for worship today? 00:06:41.53\00:06:43.64 To come and have prayers 00:06:43.67\00:06:44.74 you see friends and our loved ones 00:06:44.77\00:06:46.84 who had a long week 00:06:46.87\00:06:48.29 and God brings us back Sabbath to Sabbath fellowship. 00:06:48.32\00:06:52.17 And so we have a new song we want to teach you 00:06:52.20\00:06:54.56 it's about the Sabbath 00:06:54.59\00:06:56.53 its called "This Is Your Day." 00:06:56.56\00:07:00.34 God declared it so this is your day 00:07:00.37\00:07:02.13 we are gonna teach you too at this time. 00:07:02.16\00:07:04.01 We sing the verse and the chorus for you. 00:07:04.04\00:07:05.76 it's very easy so when you catch it join in. 00:07:09.02\00:07:10.93 It says, "A time, set aside for worship" 00:07:18.10\00:07:20.80 A time, set aside for worship 00:07:20.83\00:07:27.20 Sanctified and perfect. 00:07:27.23\00:07:28.62 Sanctified and perfect 00:07:28.65\00:07:31.49 Purified and ture. 00:07:31.52\00:07:33.11 Purified and ture 00:07:33.14\00:07:35.30 That's the same level you sing that with us "A time." 00:07:35.33\00:07:38.18 A time 00:07:38.21\00:07:39.51 For every tribe and nation. 00:07:39.54\00:07:41.46 For every tribe and nation 00:07:41.49\00:07:44.25 For all of your creation. 00:07:44.28\00:07:45.62 For all of your creation 00:07:45.65\00:07:48.69 To come and honor You. 00:07:48.72\00:07:49.88 To come and honor You 00:07:49.91\00:07:52.64 And the chorus, "You are my Creator." 00:07:52.67\00:07:54.37 You are my creator, Lord over Heaven and Earth 00:07:54.40\00:08:01.52 I hear you you're my sustainer. 00:08:01.55\00:08:02.98 You are my sustainer, 00:08:03.01\00:08:05.86 My soul You redeemed from the curse 00:08:05.89\00:08:11.22 And as I delight in you 00:08:11.25\00:08:14.35 You cause me to ride on the high places of the earth 00:08:14.38\00:08:20.10 My king, my God, 00:08:20.13\00:08:24.04 This is Your day 00:08:24.07\00:08:28.29 Just simple enough, let's try it again all together 00:08:28.32\00:08:30.99 "A time, set a side for worship." 00:08:31.02\00:08:33.59 A time, set aside for worship 00:08:33.62\00:08:41.17 Sanctified and perfect 00:08:41.20\00:08:44.24 Purified and ture. 00:08:44.27\00:08:45.51 Purified and ture 00:08:45.54\00:08:50.57 A time, for every tribe and nation 00:08:50.60\00:08:57.73 For all of your creation 00:08:57.76\00:09:00.96 To come and honor You. 00:09:00.99\00:09:02.02 To come and honor You 00:09:02.05\00:09:05.04 You are my creator. 00:09:05.07\00:09:06.65 You are my creator, Lord over Heaven and Earth. 00:09:06.68\00:09:13.88 My sustainer. 00:09:13.91\00:09:15.18 You are my sustainer 00:09:15.21\00:09:18.02 My soul You redeemed from the curse 00:09:18.05\00:09:23.57 And as I delight in You 00:09:23.60\00:09:26.47 You cause me to ride on the high places of the earth 00:09:26.50\00:09:32.22 My king, my God, 00:09:32.25\00:09:36.15 This is Your day 00:09:36.18\00:09:40.81 My king, my God, 00:09:40.84\00:09:44.71 This is Your day 00:09:44.74\00:09:46.92 How great is our God. 00:09:52.55\00:09:56.26 This picture heavenly seen, 00:09:56.29\00:09:58.42 together the splendor. 00:10:08.98\00:10:11.23 The splendor of the King 00:10:11.26\00:10:18.12 Clothed in majesty 00:10:18.15\00:10:22.70 Let all the earth rejoice 00:10:22.73\00:10:25.90 Let all the earth rejoice 00:10:25.93\00:10:30.04 He wraps Himself in light 00:10:30.07\00:10:36.65 And darkness tries to hide 00:10:36.68\00:10:41.81 And trembles at His voice 00:10:41.84\00:10:45.10 And trembles at His voice 00:10:45.13\00:10:49.14 How great is our God, sing with me 00:10:49.17\00:10:55.96 How great is our God, and all will see 00:10:55.99\00:11:02.26 How great, how great is our God 00:11:02.29\00:11:09.86 Age to age, He stands 00:11:14.89\00:11:20.71 And time is in His hands 00:11:20.74\00:11:25.79 Beginning and the End 00:11:25.82\00:11:28.61 Beginning and the End 00:11:28.64\00:11:32.65 The Godhead Three in One 00:11:32.68\00:11:39.38 Father, Spirit, Son 00:11:39.41\00:11:43.65 The Lion and the Lamb 00:11:43.68\00:11:46.91 The Lion and the Lamb 00:11:46.94\00:11:50.95 How great is our God, sing with me 00:11:50.98\00:11:57.38 How great is our God, and all will see 00:11:57.41\00:12:03.42 How great, how great is our God 00:12:03.45\00:12:10.57 Name above all names, 00:12:15.67\00:12:19.67 You are worthy of all praise 00:12:19.70\00:12:27.00 And my heart will sing 00:12:27.03\00:12:29.49 How great is our God 00:12:29.52\00:12:37.14 Name above all names. 00:12:37.17\00:12:39.15 Name above all names 00:12:39.18\00:12:44.79 You are worthy of our praise 00:12:44.82\00:12:50.37 And my heart will sing 00:12:50.40\00:12:52.79 How great is our God 00:12:52.82\00:12:57.66 How great is our God, sing with me 00:13:01.85\00:13:08.43 How great is our God, and all will see 00:13:08.46\00:13:14.93 How great, how great is our God 00:13:14.96\00:13:22.41 Come unto Him 00:13:55.09\00:14:00.83 all ye that labor 00:14:00.86\00:14:06.63 Come unto Him 00:14:06.66\00:14:11.71 that are heavy laden 00:14:11.74\00:14:18.54 And He will give you rest 00:14:18.57\00:14:24.12 Come unto Him 00:14:30.55\00:14:37.03 all ye that labor 00:14:37.06\00:14:43.13 Come unto Him 00:14:43.16\00:14:49.36 that are heavy laden 00:14:49.39\00:14:55.44 And He will give you rest 00:14:55.47\00:15:01.15 Take His yoke upon you, 00:15:08.02\00:15:13.42 and learn of Him 00:15:13.45\00:15:19.57 For He is meek 00:15:19.60\00:15:25.64 and lowly of heart 00:15:25.67\00:15:31.51 And ye shall find rest 00:15:31.54\00:15:37.59 And ye shall find rest 00:15:37.62\00:15:43.99 unto your souls 00:15:44.02\00:15:49.62 Take His yoke upon you, 00:15:56.58\00:16:02.55 and learn of Him 00:16:02.58\00:16:08.77 For He is meek 00:16:08.80\00:16:15.03 and lowly of heart 00:16:15.06\00:16:21.14 And He shall find rest 00:16:21.17\00:16:27.69 And ye shall find rest 00:16:27.72\00:16:33.90 unto your souls 00:16:33.93\00:16:40.89 Let's pray together. 00:17:13.29\00:17:15.57 Oh Father, what when an appropriate prayer 00:17:15.60\00:17:19.78 on a day like today. 00:17:19.81\00:17:22.62 The words of our Lord and Savior come to me 00:17:22.65\00:17:26.02 they are weary heavy laden 00:17:26.05\00:17:27.84 I will give you rest come to Me and so we have. 00:17:27.87\00:17:33.13 A few moments remain in this house of Yours 00:17:33.16\00:17:40.11 engage our minds and communicate with our hearts. 00:17:40.14\00:17:46.10 We pray in Jesus name, amen. 00:17:46.13\00:17:49.05 This last week I received an email 00:17:52.53\00:17:54.76 from a student somewhere who had been listening 00:17:59.03\00:18:02.37 last weekend on the radio 00:18:02.40\00:18:05.08 as we began this series. 00:18:05.11\00:18:08.32 I want to read to you a portion of that email. 00:18:08.35\00:18:14.20 Dr. Nelson, I listen to your presentation 00:18:14.23\00:18:16.61 on the refreshing delusion today via radio. 00:18:16.64\00:18:23.21 I'm coming to consider myself a closet atheist 00:18:23.24\00:18:28.49 which makes your confrontational Dawkins, 00:18:28.52\00:18:30.41 that would be Richard Dawkins we looked at his book 00:18:30.44\00:18:32.59 The God Delusion last week 00:18:32.62\00:18:34.59 which makes your confrontation of Dawkins 00:18:34.62\00:18:36.42 a particular significance at this point in my search. 00:18:36.45\00:18:40.08 And then he describes the family 00:18:40.11\00:18:42.80 he grew up in a very Christian family, obviously 00:18:42.83\00:18:45.92 and as a result my bookshelf is lined 00:18:45.95\00:18:47.98 with titles by Josh McDowell, 00:18:48.01\00:18:49.98 Michael Behe and Alister McGrath. 00:18:50.01\00:18:52.71 Those are all Christian writers, scientists and theologians. 00:18:52.74\00:18:56.49 But those books they've been steadily losing ground 00:18:56.52\00:18:59.62 as the scales tip in favor of Richard Dawkins, 00:18:59.65\00:19:03.30 Daniel Dennett, Michael Shermer all atheist authors 00:19:03.33\00:19:09.41 and the deafening voice of the academic community 00:19:09.44\00:19:12.74 at large, all right. 00:19:12.77\00:19:16.35 I have to admit that despite my attempts 00:19:16.38\00:19:18.20 to be an objective learner 00:19:18.23\00:19:19.64 my worldview is essentially a leaf swaying in the winds off 00:19:19.67\00:19:23.62 cognitive dissonance and peer pressure. 00:19:23.65\00:19:28.06 I gather from the website that there will be a second part 00:19:28.09\00:19:30.42 to the refreshing delusion next week? 00:19:30.45\00:19:33.20 Actually there are six parts we are now in-- in part two. 00:19:33.23\00:19:36.84 I look forward to it. 00:19:36.87\00:19:38.02 My challenge to you would be this. 00:19:38.05\00:19:41.27 Wow. Impress me. 00:19:41.30\00:19:44.34 I want to tell you I have such a hard time impressing my wife 00:19:47.97\00:19:51.73 how could I possibly impress you? 00:19:51.76\00:19:56.68 At this rate it probably won't be long 00:19:56.71\00:19:59.68 before I begin losing ties with the church. 00:19:59.71\00:20:05.05 And the outside voices will be all I can hear. 00:20:05.08\00:20:09.50 Your voice is one of the voices 00:20:09.53\00:20:12.24 that has a chance to make a cogent impact on a paradigm 00:20:12.27\00:20:15.37 that I and others like me share 00:20:15.40\00:20:17.46 before we get sucked into the skeptic machine. 00:20:17.49\00:20:22.26 Thank you again for your openness in the pulpit 00:20:22.29\00:20:25.40 and he signs his name. 00:20:25.43\00:20:30.11 I want to respond to my young friend. 00:20:30.14\00:20:32.60 I don't know if he's here, 00:20:32.63\00:20:33.66 I don't know if he's listening on the radio, 00:20:33.69\00:20:35.00 I don't if he is watching on television right now. 00:20:35.03\00:20:39.70 I got your word, 00:20:39.73\00:20:42.28 it's a bit intimidating its bit about impress me 00:20:42.31\00:20:46.24 but I want to respond to you 00:20:46.27\00:20:47.39 and I want to respond to your friends. 00:20:47.42\00:20:50.22 As we noted last time there are only two worldviews-- 00:20:50.25\00:20:52.80 regarding human origins only two worldviews. 00:20:52.83\00:20:54.89 One is called naturalism where nature reigns supreme 00:20:54.92\00:20:59.99 and my -- and the young writers absolutely right, 00:21:00.02\00:21:03.17 this worldview is the deafening voice 00:21:03.20\00:21:04.86 to the academic community at large. 00:21:04.89\00:21:07.32 No question. 00:21:07.35\00:21:08.69 The other worldview 00:21:08.72\00:21:09.75 it's the older worldview super naturalism. 00:21:09.78\00:21:13.53 Above and beyond nature there is a divine creator. 00:21:13.56\00:21:16.97 There is no third option. 00:21:19.42\00:21:21.06 There is no middle ground 00:21:21.09\00:21:23.11 when it comes to human origin. 00:21:23.14\00:21:24.69 Only those two worldviews 00:21:24.72\00:21:27.88 which is why I take very seriously 00:21:27.91\00:21:29.54 the challenge of this young writer impress me. 00:21:29.57\00:21:33.98 And while there's no way I can impress you, no way. 00:21:34.01\00:21:37.54 Nevertheless I want to invite you to join me 00:21:37.57\00:21:39.99 all of us join together and ponder a bit longer 00:21:40.02\00:21:42.56 the last day of creation in the biblical account 00:21:42.59\00:21:45.59 recorded here in Holy Scripture. 00:21:45.62\00:21:48.69 Open your Bible with me please, 00:21:48.72\00:21:50.08 to the Bible's first book Bresheit. 00:21:50.11\00:21:53.15 The first word in Hebrew 00:21:53.18\00:21:54.31 is the title in Hebrew of the book in the beginning. 00:21:54.34\00:21:57.02 Genesis 1 was where we were last week. 00:21:58.65\00:22:02.81 We moved into Genesis 2, I want to return to Genesis 2. 00:22:02.84\00:22:05.67 If you didn't bring a Bible 00:22:05.70\00:22:06.77 please grab the few Bible right in front of you, 00:22:06.80\00:22:08.50 you need to track this today. 00:22:08.53\00:22:09.75 Especially today it will be page 2 00:22:09.78\00:22:12.11 in your pew Bible Genesis 2, 00:22:12.14\00:22:15.53 New King James Version, there in a pew Genesis 2 00:22:15.56\00:22:22.01 so that I have right here. 00:22:22.04\00:22:25.02 Genesis 2:1 here we go, "Thus" 00:22:25.05\00:22:29.74 the six days are described there in Genesis 1. 00:22:29.77\00:22:32.03 Six days of creation. 00:22:32.06\00:22:33.09 "Thus the heavens and the earth, 00:22:33.12\00:22:34.17 and all the host to them were finished." 00:22:34.20\00:22:35.92 Verse 2 "And on the seventh day 00:22:35.95\00:22:37.92 God ended His work which He had done 00:22:37.95\00:22:40.15 and He rested on the seventh day 00:22:40.18\00:22:41.95 from all His work which He had done." 00:22:41.98\00:22:43.47 Now verse 3 "Then God blessed the seventh day and sanctified 00:22:43.50\00:22:48.15 because in it He rested from all His work 00:22:48.18\00:22:50.68 which God had created and made." 00:22:50.71\00:22:53.59 I got to ask you something have you ever wondered 00:22:53.62\00:22:55.43 why there is a little bit of cognitive dissonance 00:22:55.46\00:22:57.88 in what we just read. 00:22:57.91\00:22:59.35 I mean, it says, how is this possible? 00:22:59.38\00:23:02.28 It says the God ended His work on the seventh day. 00:23:02.31\00:23:05.32 He did two things He ended his work any also rested, 00:23:05.35\00:23:08.05 it doesn't seem logical at all to me. 00:23:08.08\00:23:09.22 It ought to read 00:23:09.25\00:23:10.28 and on the sixth day He ended His work 00:23:10.31\00:23:11.93 and on the seventh day He rested. 00:23:11.96\00:23:14.06 But ladies and gentlemen, that is not what we just read. 00:23:14.09\00:23:18.49 I came across the work of a Danish writer. 00:23:18.52\00:23:23.30 I've been impressed 00:23:23.33\00:23:25.08 with his careful logical philosophical thinking. 00:23:25.11\00:23:30.68 And his writing is bit of reasoning 00:23:30.71\00:23:33.57 as help clear up any confusion 00:23:33.60\00:23:35.12 and so I want to share top of your study guide, 00:23:35.15\00:23:40.07 top of your study guide I want to share that quotation. 00:23:40.10\00:23:42.85 Take your study guide out please 00:23:42.88\00:23:43.97 it should be right there in your worship bulletin. 00:23:44.00\00:23:46.47 Pull your study guide out, thank you. 00:23:46.50\00:23:47.70 Ushers are making sure that everybody here all the way 00:23:47.73\00:23:49.59 to the back of the balcony 00:23:49.62\00:23:50.90 and by the way that includes overflow in the youth chapel. 00:23:50.93\00:23:54.14 Make sure that everybody gets a study guide today 00:23:54.17\00:23:59.09 and while they're doing that I want to thank you 00:23:59.12\00:24:01.23 who are watching us on television right now. 00:24:01.26\00:24:02.84 I'm delighted that you're here. 00:24:02.87\00:24:05.11 Get the same study guide. 00:24:05.14\00:24:06.17 You can do it got our website there it is on the screen 00:24:06.20\00:24:08.26 www.pmchurch.tv 00:24:08.29\00:24:11.76 and you are looking for a series 00:24:11.79\00:24:12.88 called "The Sabbath" two word series, 00:24:12.91\00:24:15.80 The Sabbath today's teaching 00:24:15.83\00:24:17.96 the Three Act Play, the Three Act Play. 00:24:17.99\00:24:21.50 You look for that one its part two in the series. 00:24:21.53\00:24:23.87 It will say study guide there, 00:24:23.90\00:24:25.52 you click and you'll have the same study guide we have. 00:24:25.55\00:24:28.47 Let's begin with the words of this Danish writer's. 00:24:28.50\00:24:30.56 His name M. L. Andreasen, 00:24:30.59\00:24:32.60 all right first quotation at the top of your study guide 00:24:32.63\00:24:37.00 "The heavens and the earth were indeed finished" 00:24:37.03\00:24:38.87 we just read that Genesis 2:1 00:24:38.90\00:24:40.65 "but God's work was not ended. 00:24:40.68\00:24:42.70 He had yet to make the Sabbath, 00:24:42.73\00:24:44.25 and this He could do only on the Sabbath. 00:24:44.28\00:24:47.74 And so God made the Sabbath on the Sabbath, 00:24:47.77\00:24:50.00 and He made it by resting" write that in. 00:24:50.03\00:24:52.63 "He made it by resting. That resting ended His work. 00:24:52.66\00:24:58.01 The Sabbath was the finishing touch. 00:24:58.04\00:25:00.27 Only when God had made the Sabbath was His work done. 00:25:00.30\00:25:05.79 Whoever believes in a finished creation 00:25:05.82\00:25:07.81 must of necessity believe in the Sabbath." 00:25:07.84\00:25:12.78 What's-- what's his point? 00:25:12.81\00:25:14.11 It's a point that Genesis 2 what Moses is making. 00:25:14.14\00:25:16.94 Look, God's work was not ended on a sixth day. 00:25:16.97\00:25:19.69 There was more work to be done 00:25:19.72\00:25:20.81 and so God gave the finishing touch to His work 00:25:20.84\00:25:23.66 by resting on the seventh day. 00:25:23.69\00:25:27.50 If God had ended His work on a sixth day 00:25:27.53\00:25:29.85 somewhat conclude you know the Sabbath 00:25:29.88\00:25:31.33 really is not that essential to God's original design, 00:25:31.36\00:25:33.86 you know, you don't have to have it. 00:25:33.89\00:25:36.10 No way a Genesis two cries out no, no, no 00:25:36.13\00:25:39.85 He was not finished on a sixth day. 00:25:39.88\00:25:42.97 In fat jot this down 00:25:43.00\00:25:44.08 "God ended His work on the seventh day, 00:25:44.11\00:25:46.34 which means that in some significant way 00:25:46.37\00:25:48.94 the seventh day is utterly is essential 00:25:48.97\00:25:52.78 to both the divine Creator and the human race." 00:25:52.81\00:25:57.75 To reinforce the high premium 00:25:57.78\00:25:59.23 that the divine Creator places on the seventh day Genesis 00:25:59.26\00:26:02.36 two describe three divine acts three acts, 00:26:02.39\00:26:06.68 a three act play here it goes, three acts. 00:26:06.71\00:26:10.05 Let's read it again this will be verse three 00:26:10.08\00:26:12.33 "Then God blessed the seventh day and sanctified it 00:26:12.36\00:26:16.25 because in it He rested from all His work 00:26:16.28\00:26:18.58 which God had created and made." 00:26:18.61\00:26:22.84 What are those three divine acts jot them down. 00:26:22.87\00:26:25.42 Let's go, number one. 00:26:25.45\00:26:26.48 Divine act number one in His three act play 00:26:26.51\00:26:28.29 God blessed the seventh day. 00:26:28.32\00:26:33.14 Do you know that when God blesses 00:26:33.17\00:26:34.31 and the Hebrew word here is Barach. 00:26:34.34\00:26:36.01 When God blesses something or someone 00:26:36.04\00:26:38.03 His posture assumes a very intentional stance. 00:26:38.06\00:26:42.95 Watch this, this is fascinating. 00:26:42.98\00:26:44.58 Let's go to remember Moses and Aaron they were brothers, 00:26:44.61\00:26:49.97 Aaron was a leader of the worship community 00:26:50.00\00:26:51.74 and Moses instructed Aaron he said hey, 00:26:51.77\00:26:53.36 listen, when we are done worship, 00:26:53.39\00:26:55.00 I want you to come out every time and raise your hands 00:26:55.03\00:26:58.21 and give what we now call the Aaronic blessing 00:26:58.24\00:27:00.89 it's in Numbers 6. 00:27:00.92\00:27:01.95 Notice what happens in Numbers 6, 00:27:01.98\00:27:03.44 let's put it on the screen. 00:27:03.47\00:27:04.60 Numbers 6:24, 25 "The Lord bless you" 00:27:04.63\00:27:08.86 okay, so that's what's going to happen now. 00:27:08.89\00:27:10.26 "The Lord bless you and keep you, 00:27:10.29\00:27:12.56 the Lord make His face to shine upon you, 00:27:12.59\00:27:18.31 and be gracious to you, 00:27:18.34\00:27:20.12 the Lord" here comes the face again. 00:27:20.15\00:27:21.35 "The Lord lift up His countenance upon you 00:27:21.38\00:27:23.99 and give you peace." 00:27:24.02\00:27:25.16 That's the Aaronic blessing. 00:27:25.19\00:27:26.49 Is that isolated in that blessing? 00:27:26.52\00:27:27.65 No it is not. 00:27:27.68\00:27:28.71 Take a look at this Psalm 67:1 00:27:28.74\00:27:30.85 It's a prayer to God, 00:27:30.88\00:27:31.91 "God be merciful to us and bless us 00:27:31.94\00:27:34.64 and cause His face" 00:27:34.67\00:27:37.03 When you bless us here's what's gonna happen 00:27:37.06\00:27:38.45 you are gonna "cause your face to shine upon us." 00:27:38.48\00:27:42.53 Write it down please, 00:27:42.56\00:27:43.73 "When God blesses something or someone, 00:27:43.76\00:27:46.14 He turns His face toward it to give it His full attention." 00:27:46.17\00:27:52.09 Hey come on guys, you and I are the same way aren't we? 00:27:52.12\00:27:54.00 We are the same way. 00:27:54.03\00:27:56.16 I remember the very first car I ever bought it was in college. 00:27:56.19\00:27:58.93 It was a brand new 11 year old Volkswagen Bug. 00:27:58.96\00:28:03.42 Oh, I love that car look at flaky green paint job, 00:28:03.45\00:28:06.87 oversized rear tires rested and holy muffler 00:28:06.90\00:28:10.08 but I could not take my eyes off of that car. 00:28:10.11\00:28:15.19 Every time I came out of the door I'm telling for sure 00:28:15.22\00:28:17.00 I look over in the parking lot is it still there? 00:28:17.03\00:28:18.51 Oh, yes, lovely, lovely. 00:28:18.54\00:28:21.96 All right, because when something 00:28:21.99\00:28:23.29 is of great value to you, 00:28:23.32\00:28:25.08 you put your face, full face 00:28:25.11\00:28:27.28 and you hold your eyes and you lock on. 00:28:27.31\00:28:31.17 The scripture say that when God blesses us 00:28:31.20\00:28:33.65 He turns His smiling 00:28:33.68\00:28:35.16 and beaming face full on straight into our face. 00:28:35.19\00:28:40.11 That's a means to get a blessing from God. 00:28:40.14\00:28:43.65 Karen and I were at some holiday gathering 00:28:43.68\00:28:46.08 the other evening and I gazed across the room 00:28:46.11\00:28:48.12 it was one of those moments 00:28:48.15\00:28:49.76 that husbands and wives know about 00:28:49.79\00:28:51.23 even if you've been married for nearly 34 years. 00:28:51.26\00:28:55.10 She turned and it was an epiphany of beauty. 00:28:55.13\00:28:59.74 I could not get my eyes off at that girl. 00:28:59.77\00:29:04.27 Why? 00:29:04.30\00:29:05.33 Because when something is of great value to you, 00:29:05.36\00:29:07.95 you'll lock your eyes on it. 00:29:07.98\00:29:09.64 When God blesses, how does that line go 00:29:09.67\00:29:12.41 and God blessed the seventh day, 00:29:12.44\00:29:16.76 God did something to the seventh day, 00:29:16.79\00:29:18.47 He does not do to the first day 00:29:18.50\00:29:19.77 or the second day or the third day 00:29:19.80\00:29:20.90 or fourth, fifth and sixth only to the seventh. 00:29:20.93\00:29:23.61 Does got turn His face and with that beaming smile 00:29:23.64\00:29:28.12 He locks His eyes on that seventh day 00:29:28.15\00:29:32.66 because when something is of great value 00:29:32.69\00:29:34.26 to you keep turning your face toward 00:29:34.29\00:29:36.32 and the seventh day is the only day 00:29:36.35\00:29:39.51 that God Has blessed. 00:29:39.54\00:29:41.53 Which is why by the way for the life of me 00:29:41.56\00:29:43.86 I'm little slow but I cannot imagine 00:29:43.89\00:29:46.38 how anybody could come along and announce 00:29:46.41\00:29:48.89 that the blessing of God 00:29:48.92\00:29:49.95 has been removed from the seventh day 00:29:49.98\00:29:52.03 and transferred to another day 00:29:52.06\00:29:53.61 especially since there is not a solitary hint 00:29:53.64\00:29:56.54 of such a removal and transfer in all of Holy Scripture. 00:29:56.57\00:30:02.51 What so big deal about the seventh day 00:30:02.54\00:30:05.11 we will find it now keep going. 00:30:05.14\00:30:06.76 Let's read the verse 3 again 00:30:06.79\00:30:08.78 "Then God blessed the seventh day and sanctified it 00:30:08.81\00:30:12.63 because in it He rested from all His work 00:30:12.66\00:30:15.51 which God had created and made." 00:30:15.54\00:30:18.66 Okay here comes Act number two in the divine play, 00:30:18.69\00:30:21.06 act number two, jot it down. 00:30:21.09\00:30:22.70 "God sanctified the seventh day." 00:30:22.73\00:30:26.72 Now the Hebrew word for sanctified is qadash. 00:30:26.75\00:30:29.14 It's a verb form of the word Holy. 00:30:29.17\00:30:31.09 So essentially what Genesis two is saying 00:30:31.12\00:30:32.91 is God holyized the seventh day. 00:30:32.94\00:30:38.21 Eugene Peterson in that marvelous 00:30:38.24\00:30:40.75 paraphrase of his called "The Message" 00:30:40.78\00:30:42.80 nailed it, he nailed it. 00:30:42.83\00:30:44.05 Jot this down, here is how he translated it. 00:30:44.08\00:30:46.52 This is Genesis 2:3, the message reads. 00:30:46.55\00:30:48.75 "He" God "made it a Holy." 00:30:48.78\00:30:51.70 Capital H, makes sure you get the capital. 00:30:51.73\00:30:53.75 "He made it a Holy Day." 00:30:53.78\00:30:57.86 And God made the seventh day a Holy Day. 00:30:57.89\00:31:02.17 Hey listen, you know what makes something holy? 00:31:02.20\00:31:04.45 What makes something holy? 00:31:04.48\00:31:06.26 I you remember that story the old 00:31:06.29\00:31:07.78 middle age shepherd attending his father-in-law 00:31:07.81\00:31:10.66 sheep out in the middle of nowhere 00:31:10.69\00:31:12.98 minding his own business. 00:31:13.01\00:31:14.80 When one day he sees this towering sheet, 00:31:14.83\00:31:19.84 you remember that, towering sheet of orange flame 00:31:19.87\00:31:24.79 and inside that sheet is a green bush 00:31:24.82\00:31:29.45 that is not being consumed and he's never seen 00:31:29.48\00:31:32.66 anything like it in his whole life. 00:31:32.69\00:31:33.92 So Moses tells the sheep to stay right there 00:31:33.95\00:31:35.78 and Moses is walking up to the bush and he has a stick 00:31:35.81\00:31:38.24 and he's gonna poke it at the flames 00:31:38.27\00:31:40.34 when this voice comes booming out, 00:31:40.37\00:31:44.19 take off your shoes you are on holy ground. 00:31:44.22\00:31:48.28 Question what made that ground and that bush holy? 00:31:48.31\00:31:51.57 Answer, the very presence and glory of God Almighty. 00:31:51.60\00:31:57.60 Isn't that right? 00:31:57.63\00:31:58.88 I mean a few months later Moses and the children of Israel 00:31:58.91\00:32:01.27 God has deliver them from Egypt 00:32:01.30\00:32:02.42 they are on their way to the Promised Land 00:32:02.45\00:32:04.11 and they built this little, they built this little 00:32:04.14\00:32:05.96 lean to church made out of tapestry walls. 00:32:05.99\00:32:09.48 They called it the sanctuary and on that day 00:32:09.51\00:32:11.49 they opened it for the first time 00:32:11.52\00:32:12.95 you look at Exodus 40 00:32:12.98\00:32:14.30 right there at the end there is this 00:32:14.33\00:32:16.76 you remember the pillar of cloud that lead them every day 00:32:16.79\00:32:18.97 where they went you remember that? 00:32:19.00\00:32:20.03 It just comes descending and turns into fire 00:32:20.06\00:32:22.38 there is so much glory in the place not one priest, 00:32:22.41\00:32:26.65 not even Moses himself would dare to enter 00:32:26.68\00:32:29.64 it's become holy ground. 00:32:29.67\00:32:32.04 Question what turned that sanctuary into holy ground? 00:32:32.07\00:32:36.83 Answer, the very presence and glory of God Almighty. 00:32:36.86\00:32:42.47 So when the same Moses speaks of this same God 00:32:42.50\00:32:45.65 and He describes God turning a day, 00:32:45.68\00:32:48.13 turning a day into holy sanctifying a day. 00:32:48.16\00:32:54.14 Question, what is it that makes, the seventh day holy? 00:32:54.17\00:32:59.34 Answer, the very presence 00:32:59.37\00:33:02.38 and glory of almighty God. 00:33:02.41\00:33:07.37 Keep your pen moving. 00:33:07.40\00:33:09.07 God is present in now this is-- this is very important. 00:33:09.10\00:33:12.55 The point is God is present in not on. 00:33:12.58\00:33:16.98 That's not as some we forgot in there 00:33:17.01\00:33:18.17 that supposed to be there. 00:33:18.20\00:33:19.23 God is present in not on the seventh day, 00:33:19.26\00:33:22.69 the seventh day Sabbath 00:33:22.72\00:33:23.75 which is why keep your pen moving. 00:33:23.78\00:33:24.81 Abraham Heschel, the great mystic 00:33:24.84\00:33:25.98 and theologian could write, 00:33:26.01\00:33:27.10 "The seventh day is like a palace in time 00:33:27.13\00:33:30.40 with a kingdom for all." 00:33:30.43\00:33:33.34 Look, God not only turns his face isn't this incredible. 00:33:33.37\00:33:36.05 God not only turns his face toward the seventh day 00:33:36.08\00:33:39.00 He actually infuses it 00:33:39.03\00:33:40.77 so that it becomes He becomes it. 00:33:40.80\00:33:44.57 Which by the way ladies and gentlemen, 00:33:44.60\00:33:46.57 is why and this is critical on the seventh day. 00:33:46.60\00:33:49.48 I used to get this backwards on the seventh day 00:33:49.51\00:33:53.58 God invites the human race to enter His day 00:33:53.61\00:33:56.43 we do not invite God to enter our space. 00:33:56.46\00:33:59.95 I mean we've tended to think well, 00:33:59.98\00:34:01.01 the Sabbath is when you say God, come on in 00:34:01.04\00:34:02.50 coming into our little house, 00:34:02.53\00:34:03.56 come into my dormitory room spend the day with me. 00:34:03.59\00:34:05.22 God says, you got a timeout. 00:34:05.25\00:34:07.60 You just walk into My space 00:34:07.63\00:34:09.73 it's My palace in time welcome child, 00:34:09.76\00:34:13.78 nice to have you here today. 00:34:13.81\00:34:15.64 See there's a difference. Jot it down. 00:34:15.67\00:34:19.20 "For it is God's very presence in the seventh day 00:34:19.23\00:34:21.65 that makes it both holy and wholly his." 00:34:21.68\00:34:24.52 Make sure you spell the holies different. 00:34:24.55\00:34:26.01 To different holies, The seventh day makes it holy 00:34:26.04\00:34:28.15 because God's presence 00:34:28.18\00:34:29.21 is infused into the very seventh day 00:34:29.24\00:34:31.20 and by the way it's not only that holy 00:34:31.23\00:34:32.89 it's the W-H O-L-L-Y wholly as well. 00:34:32.92\00:34:35.95 This is exclusively it is all mine. 00:34:35.98\00:34:39.45 I used to think that well this day 00:34:39.48\00:34:40.51 is mine He gave it to me. 00:34:40.54\00:34:41.92 No, no I didn't give it to you to posses 00:34:41.95\00:34:45.02 I gave it to you as a gift to spend with Me. 00:34:45.05\00:34:47.62 It's My day. 00:34:47.65\00:34:49.75 Wow, which is why for the life for me, 00:34:49.78\00:34:54.28 I cannot imagine how anybody could come along and announce 00:34:54.31\00:34:57.18 that God's holy presence is somehow been removed 00:34:57.21\00:34:59.91 from that from His palace and time 00:34:59.94\00:35:01.39 which has been removed and transfer to some other day. 00:35:01.42\00:35:04.44 Come on, who in the world 00:35:04.47\00:35:06.75 would have the authority to do that 00:35:06.78\00:35:11.28 especially when there's not a solitary hint 00:35:11.31\00:35:13.04 of such a removal and transfer in all Holy Scripture. 00:35:13.07\00:35:15.72 I'm telling you as you-- as you university students say 00:35:15.75\00:35:18.60 God is all over the seventh day, 00:35:18.63\00:35:20.85 He's all over its His day. 00:35:20.88\00:35:24.58 It must be a-- it must be a huge day to God. 00:35:24.61\00:35:31.58 Why is it so special? 00:35:31.61\00:35:33.19 That's what we are trying to find out. 00:35:33.22\00:35:34.88 Let's read it again verse 3, Genesis 2:3 00:35:34.91\00:35:36.97 "Then God blessed the seventh day and He sanctified it, 00:35:37.00\00:35:41.03 because in it He rested from all His work 00:35:41.06\00:35:43.42 which God had created and made." 00:35:43.45\00:35:47.07 Its-- a three act divine play 00:35:47.10\00:35:48.85 here comes act number three, jot it down. 00:35:48.88\00:35:50.35 Act number one, God blessed the seventh day, 00:35:50.38\00:35:52.43 act number two, God sanctify the seventh day 00:35:52.46\00:35:54.68 and act number three got rested on the seventh today. 00:35:54.71\00:35:59.60 But I got to ask you come on, just in all candor 00:35:59.63\00:36:01.34 why would had God please you tell me-- 00:36:01.37\00:36:03.25 why do God who is infinite? 00:36:03.28\00:36:04.31 You know what infinite means it means I'm above all time, 00:36:04.34\00:36:06.52 I'm not affected by time. 00:36:06.55\00:36:07.75 Why would have God who is both infinite and amputation? 00:36:07.78\00:36:10.13 Do you know what it means to be amputation? 00:36:10.16\00:36:11.34 It means you have all power. 00:36:11.37\00:36:12.40 You can do anything 00:36:12.43\00:36:13.46 just like, just moving your figure it happens. 00:36:13.49\00:36:16.70 How could a God like that need time for rest? 00:36:16.73\00:36:20.72 He need to rest. 00:36:20.75\00:36:23.70 In fact, look at this, this is amazing. 00:36:23.73\00:36:25.53 This verse is in your Bible. 00:36:25.56\00:36:27.10 This will be Isaiah Chapter 40, fill this in please. 00:36:27.13\00:36:29.39 "The everlasting God, the Lord, the Creator" 00:36:29.42\00:36:31.82 notice intentionally the wording there 00:36:31.85\00:36:34.23 "The Creator of the ends of the earth, 00:36:34.26\00:36:36.55 neither faints nor is weary." 00:36:36.58\00:36:40.93 The Bible make sure that we know 00:36:40.96\00:36:42.38 that whatever's happening on the seventh day 00:36:42.41\00:36:44.56 with Almighty God has nothing to do with physical rest. 00:36:44.59\00:36:48.42 He never gets weary. 00:36:48.45\00:36:49.48 Why would I need to rest out of tiredness? 00:36:49.51\00:36:52.84 No it can't be. 00:36:52.87\00:36:55.91 Remember the Hebrew word for rest is shabbos, 00:36:55.94\00:36:59.11 from which comes the word Shabbat or Sabbath. 00:36:59.14\00:37:02.64 Why would God need a Sabbath rest? 00:37:02.67\00:37:05.49 Clearly something more 00:37:05.52\00:37:06.82 got to be more than physical rest. 00:37:06.85\00:37:08.21 I mean, you think about it. 00:37:08.24\00:37:09.27 To whom did God give the first seventh day Sabbath? 00:37:09.30\00:37:11.84 To whom did God give it? 00:37:11.87\00:37:13.43 First to human beings man and woman. 00:37:13.46\00:37:14.73 Of course Adam and Eve. 00:37:14.76\00:37:16.63 I want to ask you something, are they worn out already? 00:37:16.66\00:37:19.79 Are they tired? 00:37:19.82\00:37:21.38 How could it be, they just got made yesterday. 00:37:21.41\00:37:25.30 You can't get tired if you are made yesterday, 00:37:25.33\00:37:28.39 can you? 00:37:28.42\00:37:29.70 Now, Sakae Kubo in his book "God Meets Man" 00:37:29.73\00:37:35.51 makes the obvious point that we so easily overlook 00:37:35.54\00:37:38.47 and I want to have there in your study guide 00:37:38.50\00:37:39.79 so there it is, Thus I'm quoting Kubo, 00:37:39.82\00:37:41.60 "Thus fittingly the Sabbath for Adam and Eve 00:37:41.63\00:37:44.42 was the first full day after their creation. 00:37:44.45\00:37:48.79 It was not because they had labored for a week 00:37:48.82\00:37:50.74 and needed rest that God invited them to celebrate it." 00:37:50.77\00:37:52.52 No. 00:37:52.55\00:37:53.58 "God met them on their first day." 00:37:53.61\00:37:55.59 And I like this. 00:37:55.62\00:37:56.65 "Man's history with God thus begins on the Sabbath," 00:37:56.68\00:38:01.27 human history begins on the Sabbath 00:38:01.30\00:38:04.63 "the seventh day of the Creation week, 00:38:04.66\00:38:06.49 not on the first day." 00:38:06.52\00:38:10.37 Come on guys, this is not rocket science. 00:38:10.40\00:38:12.52 Our first day as a newly created race 00:38:12.55\00:38:15.25 was God's seventh day 00:38:15.28\00:38:16.92 thus, jot this down will you please. 00:38:16.95\00:38:18.50 The Sabbath has ever been 00:38:18.53\00:38:20.17 the first day of the rest of our lives. 00:38:20.20\00:38:25.44 It will double entendre there. 00:38:25.47\00:38:27.73 The first day of the rest of our lives. 00:38:27.76\00:38:32.31 And what is it that brings rest to our lives? 00:38:35.86\00:38:38.23 Oh, come on, what could rest us and refresh us more 00:38:38.26\00:38:40.91 than a personal friendship with our Creator? 00:38:40.94\00:38:43.61 I mean what would be more resting, refreshing. 00:38:43.64\00:38:46.90 John Kellman he is a Scottish writer 00:38:46.93\00:38:49.69 mid nineteenth century 00:38:49.72\00:38:51.58 describes why God created this seventh day. 00:38:51.61\00:38:53.12 I like this, now jot it down. 00:38:53.15\00:38:54.81 "Every time the Sabbath came round, 00:38:54.84\00:38:56.83 while it would of necessity 00:38:56.86\00:38:58.37 bring before the minds of humanity 00:38:58.40\00:39:00.08 the glory of God's wisdom, and power, and goodness, 00:39:00.11\00:39:02.54 as manifested in His works of creation." 00:39:02.57\00:39:04.89 But there's more he is saying, 00:39:04.92\00:39:05.95 there's more than just reminding us 00:39:05.98\00:39:07.08 that God is the Creator. 00:39:07.11\00:39:08.14 "It would bring still more prominently before our minds, 00:39:08.17\00:39:12.05 and present in special splendour" 00:39:12.08\00:39:14.49 he is writing as an Englishman 00:39:14.52\00:39:15.63 "and attractiveness, the crowning glory of His love, 00:39:15.66\00:39:20.32 manifested in His coming so very near to us in friendship 00:39:20.35\00:39:23.39 as man's glorious Friend." 00:39:23.42\00:39:30.35 Oh, I like that. 00:39:30.38\00:39:32.42 But Kellman is saying us hey, hey look 00:39:32.45\00:39:34.02 the Sabbath is not-- is not just about reminding us 00:39:34.05\00:39:36.72 that we have a Creator and that there is a creation. 00:39:36.75\00:39:38.78 I mean, that's, that's wonderful 00:39:38.81\00:39:40.30 but an even higher calling of the Sabbath 00:39:40.33\00:39:43.08 is not just that God is our Creator 00:39:43.11\00:39:44.58 He is also our companion. 00:39:44.61\00:39:46.96 The God of the universe 00:39:46.99\00:39:48.05 is your companion in the journey. 00:39:48.08\00:39:52.16 The three act divine play on the Sabbath 00:39:52.19\00:39:54.95 makes it utterly clear 00:39:54.98\00:39:56.63 the gift of the Sabbath is the friendship of God. 00:39:56.66\00:40:00.41 Nathan Greene a-- 00:40:00.44\00:40:01.83 an internationally celebrated artist 00:40:01.86\00:40:03.67 live just a few mile from us 00:40:03.70\00:40:05.03 right now painted that painting and I love it. 00:40:05.06\00:40:07.65 Isn't that great? I just love it. 00:40:07.68\00:40:09.92 "The gift of the Sabbath is the friendship of God." 00:40:09.95\00:40:16.43 And that is why ladies and gentlemen, 00:40:16.46\00:40:17.67 in the very middle of the Ten Commandments 00:40:17.70\00:40:19.72 which by the way were written by the Creator 00:40:19.75\00:40:21.88 with His own finger into stone 00:40:21.91\00:40:23.43 in the very centre of the Decalogue 00:40:23.46\00:40:25.92 is inscribed the fourth commandment, 00:40:25.95\00:40:28.66 the fourth commandment. 00:40:28.69\00:40:29.72 I want to end with this, this will be our last text. 00:40:29.75\00:40:31.61 Exodus Chapter 20, we are gonna look this one up, 00:40:31.64\00:40:34.90 20 so you just go to the second book of the Bible. 00:40:34.93\00:40:37.52 If you have a pew Bible that would be page 52. 00:40:37.55\00:40:41.58 Exodus Chapter 20, we're only gonna look 00:40:41.61\00:40:44.47 at the fourth commandment that begins in verse 8. 00:40:44.50\00:40:46.32 Exodus 20:8 all right, 00:40:46.35\00:40:53.05 Exodus 20:8 "Remember the Sabbath day, 00:40:53.08\00:40:57.52 to keep it holy." 00:40:57.55\00:40:59.26 Verse 9 "Six days you shall labor 00:40:59.29\00:41:01.06 and do all your work." 00:41:01.09\00:41:02.12 Ten "But the seventh day 00:41:02.15\00:41:03.98 is the Sabbath of the Lord your God. 00:41:04.01\00:41:06.47 In it you shall do no work. 00:41:06.50\00:41:07.53 You, nor your son, nor your daughter, 00:41:07.56\00:41:08.72 nor your male servant, nor you are female servant, 00:41:08.75\00:41:10.55 nor your cattle, nor your stranger 00:41:10.58\00:41:12.13 who is with in your gates. Why? 00:41:12.16\00:41:13.40 Verse 11, "For in six days the Lord made the heavens 00:41:13.43\00:41:16.45 and the earth, the sea, and all that is in them 00:41:16.48\00:41:18.64 and rested on the seventh day. 00:41:18.67\00:41:21.00 Therefore the Lord blessed 00:41:21.03\00:41:22.74 the Sabbath day and hallowed it." 00:41:22.77\00:41:26.46 Isn't that amazing? 00:41:26.49\00:41:27.52 This is the only command 00:41:27.55\00:41:28.58 that begin with the word remember. 00:41:28.61\00:41:30.10 It's the only one in the ten that appeals-- 00:41:30.13\00:41:32.78 that appeals to human memory, why? 00:41:32.81\00:41:36.20 Jot it down 00:41:36.23\00:41:37.26 because it is the one commandment 00:41:37.29\00:41:39.33 the human race has known 00:41:39.36\00:41:41.04 from the beginning of time, that's why. 00:41:41.07\00:41:44.93 You've always known remember, remember 00:41:44.96\00:41:50.12 from day seven of creation 00:41:50.15\00:41:51.18 the divine gift of the seventh day Sabbath 00:41:51.21\00:41:53.14 has been in play in human history. 00:41:53.17\00:41:55.70 You know, come on 00:41:55.73\00:41:56.76 why we remember the Sabbath to keep it holy? 00:41:56.79\00:41:58.71 Its stated the finger of the Creator carved 00:41:58.74\00:42:01.25 He says, this is, look at verse 11 00:42:01.28\00:42:03.59 "For in six days the Lord made the heavens and the earth, 00:42:03.62\00:42:05.71 the sea in all that is in them, and rested the seventh day. 00:42:05.74\00:42:08.87 Therefore the Lord blessed 00:42:08.90\00:42:10.21 the Sabbath day and hallowed it." 00:42:10.24\00:42:13.28 Did you notice that there we have it again 00:42:13.31\00:42:14.34 three act divine play. 00:42:14.37\00:42:15.58 That's it all three acts are there. 00:42:15.61\00:42:18.65 God blessed the seventh day, 00:42:18.68\00:42:21.23 in other words on the Sabbath God turns His face 00:42:21.26\00:42:24.65 full beaming smile straight into the children 00:42:24.68\00:42:30.25 He has invited to join Him on that day. 00:42:30.28\00:42:31.82 God blessed the seventh day, God sanctified the seventh day. 00:42:31.85\00:42:35.88 He infuses His time, 00:42:35.91\00:42:37.74 His very self into the time those 24 hours. 00:42:37.77\00:42:42.28 And third act, God rested on the seventh day, i.e., 00:42:42.31\00:42:45.01 the seventh day is the gift day 00:42:45.04\00:42:47.33 of His friendship for the rest our lives. 00:42:47.36\00:42:51.37 No wonder, He placed 00:42:55.02\00:42:57.22 the fourth commandment in the center. 00:42:57.25\00:42:58.97 And by the way, if you count the words 00:42:59.00\00:43:00.46 of the Ten Commandments in the Hebrew 00:43:00.49\00:43:01.74 and you start at the end and you start at the beginning 00:43:01.77\00:43:03.86 you will come right to the middle word 00:43:03.89\00:43:06.46 fourth commandment center. 00:43:06.49\00:43:10.13 Let me quote that Danish writer again 00:43:10.16\00:43:13.46 who in this context makes a point 00:43:13.49\00:43:15.22 I had never noted before. 00:43:15.25\00:43:17.30 M. L. Andreasen it's in your study guide. 00:43:17.33\00:43:19.31 "The Sabbath command is the only commandment 00:43:19.34\00:43:21.96 in the observance of which God could join man." 00:43:21.99\00:43:27.91 You know, I never thought about that 00:43:27.94\00:43:28.97 but it's got to be true. 00:43:29.00\00:43:30.33 I mean-- how is He, how is God gonna join us in 00:43:30.36\00:43:31.95 you shall have no other Gods before me. 00:43:31.98\00:43:33.93 Do they make sense? 00:43:33.96\00:43:34.99 How is He gonna join us and keep 00:43:35.02\00:43:36.45 you should-- you should not take 00:43:36.48\00:43:37.75 the name of the Lord your God in vain, please. 00:43:37.78\00:43:40.67 He can't join us and honor your father and your mother. 00:43:40.70\00:43:43.13 He doesn't have any parents, 00:43:43.16\00:43:44.19 He is the one that made parents. 00:43:44.22\00:43:46.79 How does He join us and don't steal 00:43:46.82\00:43:47.85 or don't commit adultery? 00:43:47.88\00:43:48.91 He cannot join us. 00:43:48.94\00:43:49.97 It's the one commandment of all ten it's the one. 00:43:50.00\00:43:53.44 "Remember the Sabbath day to keep it holy," 00:43:53.47\00:43:55.53 where this great friendship day He comes down 00:43:55.56\00:43:58.59 and we join together in that one commandment. 00:43:58.62\00:44:02.22 Andreasen goes on here, 00:44:02.25\00:44:03.74 "There is one commandment in the observance 00:44:03.77\00:44:05.58 of which God could join man, the Sabbath commandment. 00:44:05.61\00:44:09.22 Man can keep it, God can keep it. 00:44:09.25\00:44:12.73 thus the Sabbath is the meeting place." 00:44:12.76\00:44:16.58 I like that, it's the only one, only one in a ten. 00:44:16.61\00:44:20.11 "The Sabbath is the meeting place of God and man." 00:44:20.14\00:44:26.62 Which is why I repeat this, for the life of me. 00:44:26.65\00:44:30.37 I cannot imagine how anyone 00:44:30.40\00:44:33.44 not even any church could come along and announce 00:44:33.47\00:44:38.38 the God's fourth commandment 00:44:38.41\00:44:40.61 has been chiseled out of the Decalogue 00:44:40.64\00:44:45.08 an another day now has been substituted. 00:44:45.11\00:44:47.58 It just-- it just 00:44:47.61\00:44:50.04 especially since there's not a solitary hint 00:44:50.07\00:44:53.45 of such a removal and transfer in all Holy Scripture. 00:44:53.48\00:44:57.85 I mean, here's the-- here's the question? 00:44:57.88\00:45:00.73 Why would anybody ever want 00:45:00.76\00:45:04.39 to get rid of the seventh day Sabbath? 00:45:04.42\00:45:08.32 Now, I know they are those who say 00:45:12.27\00:45:15.37 hey, listen Dwight, come on timeout, 00:45:15.40\00:45:16.88 timeout don't you know boy, 00:45:16.91\00:45:18.86 that the Sabbath was made for the Jews. 00:45:18.89\00:45:21.46 And then they make-- they make a correct observation. 00:45:21.49\00:45:23.83 They say after all 00:45:23.86\00:45:24.89 there is no biblical record of Sabbath keeping 00:45:24.92\00:45:27.01 or explicit divine command for Sabbath keeping 00:45:27.04\00:45:29.61 until Mount Sinai and the children of Israel. 00:45:29.64\00:45:31.66 So it's for Israelites not for the rest of us. 00:45:31.69\00:45:35.58 I want to respond to that, 00:45:35.61\00:45:38.24 I want to give you six challenges 00:45:38.27\00:45:40.53 to that kind of thinking. 00:45:40.56\00:45:41.68 Let me run them by, you jot them down. 00:45:41.71\00:45:43.02 All right challenge number one, 00:45:43.05\00:45:44.08 this is-- this is kind of the obvious 00:45:44.11\00:45:46.67 no rocket science here. 00:45:46.70\00:45:48.00 Number one, "When God gave the Sabbath to humanity, 00:45:48.03\00:45:51.86 Jews were not even in existence just the human race." 00:45:51.89\00:45:56.47 So that have a pretty much end it right there 00:45:56.50\00:45:58.24 but I want to give you five more-- five more. 00:45:58.27\00:46:01.68 Number two, "In a perfect world 00:46:01.71\00:46:05.01 wouldn't the example of the Creator 00:46:05.04\00:46:07.78 be command enough?" 00:46:07.81\00:46:11.12 His very example, Samuele Bacchiocchi 00:46:11.15\00:46:17.74 asked just five question that's what I'm gonna do. 00:46:17.77\00:46:19.62 I'm just gonna quote these five questions 00:46:19.65\00:46:20.92 you have them in your study guide 00:46:20.95\00:46:21.98 this is from His book Divine Rest for Human Restlessness. 00:46:22.01\00:46:25.16 Five rhetorical questions you think of the answers. 00:46:25.19\00:46:27.33 Question number one, "What is it that makes 00:46:27.36\00:46:29.75 any divine precepts moral 00:46:29.78\00:46:31.60 and universal in the first place? 00:46:31.63\00:46:35.73 Would have to be example of God. 00:46:35.76\00:46:38.34 Number two, "Do we not regard a law more 00:46:38.37\00:46:41.00 when it reflects God's nature?" 00:46:41.03\00:46:44.37 Number three could God had given a stronger revelation 00:46:44.40\00:46:47.46 of moral nature of the Sabbath 00:46:47.49\00:46:48.72 than by making it a rule of His divine conduct?" 00:46:48.75\00:46:52.75 Number four, "Is a principle established by divine example 00:46:52.78\00:46:55.83 less binding than one enunciated by divine command." 00:46:55.86\00:46:59.30 And finally number five, 00:46:59.33\00:47:00.89 "Do not actions speak louder than words". 00:47:00.92\00:47:05.33 If you've ever been a parent 00:47:05.36\00:47:06.54 or if you ever gonna become a parent 00:47:06.57\00:47:07.95 you're gonna find out just like that 00:47:07.98\00:47:09.90 that you sometimes never have to say a word to your kids 00:47:09.93\00:47:13.13 you just go through the motions and they will be right behind 00:47:13.16\00:47:16.79 you doing the very same thing. 00:47:16.82\00:47:19.89 It's just the way it is when you are parent. 00:47:19.92\00:47:21.70 Children love to follow the model 00:47:21.73\00:47:26.90 of a father or mother. 00:47:26.93\00:47:30.18 If you have to make a command just follow me. 00:47:30.21\00:47:35.68 Okay, that's number two here is number three 00:47:35.71\00:47:37.23 this is interesting seven times-- 00:47:37.26\00:47:38.38 jot this down please 00:47:38.41\00:47:39.44 seven times in the Book of Genesis 00:47:39.47\00:47:41.38 it refers to the seven day week 00:47:41.41\00:47:43.80 and there the references are all there. 00:47:43.83\00:47:45.33 Now, guys let's just do little bit of thinking here 00:47:45.36\00:47:47.91 if a week a seven days long 00:47:47.94\00:47:49.61 would you pretty much have the seventh day. 00:47:49.64\00:47:54.68 Seven times in the Book of Genesis 00:47:54.71\00:47:56.49 the week is referred to. 00:47:56.52\00:47:57.80 If you've got a week 00:47:57.83\00:47:58.86 you're gonna have to have the seventh day. 00:47:58.89\00:48:02.87 Number four, oh, this is this is an interesting one. 00:48:02.90\00:48:06.74 "The divine provision of the manna," 00:48:06.77\00:48:08.47 write it in manna. 00:48:08.50\00:48:09.64 Remember that little white frosting substance on the ground 00:48:09.67\00:48:12.04 that the people ate for forty years. 00:48:12.07\00:48:13.90 "The divine provision manna clearly presupposes 00:48:13.93\00:48:17.21 the people's knowledge of the sanctity 00:48:17.24\00:48:19.68 of the seventh day." 00:48:19.71\00:48:20.76 Read Exodus 16 it's all there. 00:48:20.79\00:48:23.03 And by the way, this is before Mount Sinai 00:48:23.06\00:48:24.61 the Ten Commandments aren't given until Exodus 20. 00:48:24.64\00:48:26.97 So before there ever were the ten. 00:48:27.00\00:48:30.38 There's a story remember on Sunday, 00:48:30.41\00:48:32.51 Monday and every day of the week 00:48:32.54\00:48:34.48 there was this white stuff on the ground 00:48:34.51\00:48:35.92 and by the way the word went out from God 00:48:35.95\00:48:38.51 don't you-- you thinking asleep in on Tuesday 00:48:38.54\00:48:40.49 so you get a double portion 00:48:40.52\00:48:41.60 and Monday so you can sleep in Tuesday forget it. 00:48:41.63\00:48:43.53 It will turn rotten overnight. 00:48:43.56\00:48:45.60 Some people don't believe it they took a little extra 00:48:45.63\00:48:47.49 so they could sleep in it was rotten the next morning. 00:48:47.52\00:48:50.19 Divine miracle. 00:48:50.22\00:48:51.25 You're not going-- you just get enough for today 00:48:51.28\00:48:53.60 but when you come to the sixth day 00:48:53.63\00:48:56.02 listen to me carefully God says on this day 00:48:56.05\00:48:58.21 you go ahead and take a double portion 00:48:58.24\00:49:00.35 because you're gonna wake up tomorrow morning 00:49:00.38\00:49:01.70 and there will not be up blade of grass 00:49:01.73\00:49:04.69 with anything white on it 00:49:04.72\00:49:06.31 because that's my Sabbath. 00:49:06.34\00:49:08.73 By divine miracle every seventh day 00:49:08.76\00:49:12.34 before Mount Sinai before Mount Sinai 00:49:12.37\00:49:17.80 and then you look at Exodus 16 God says, Listen 00:49:17.83\00:49:19.74 because some people went out on a Sabbath 00:49:19.77\00:49:20.82 and said I'm hungry I forgot to get extra yesterday. 00:49:20.85\00:49:24.04 Too late, nothing there. 00:49:24.07\00:49:26.74 God says how long, how long are you gonna forget My command. 00:49:26.77\00:49:31.49 This command has been around from the very beginning. 00:49:31.52\00:49:34.53 All right we got to go, number five. 00:49:34.56\00:49:35.99 The very language of the fourth commandment 00:49:36.02\00:49:37.53 presupposes a knowledge at the Sabbath. 00:49:37.56\00:49:39.18 It says "Remember" if they had known it 00:49:39.21\00:49:41.54 God should have said "Thou shall keep the seventh day holy" 00:49:41.57\00:49:43.59 I got something new I'm gonna tell you today 00:49:43.62\00:49:45.41 keep the seven-day holy. 00:49:45.44\00:49:46.47 Just no-- just remember you've been with this 00:49:46.50\00:49:48.36 you've been following father for all these centuries 00:49:48.39\00:49:53.40 and then finally to me this is a clincher, number six. 00:49:53.43\00:49:56.44 None write it in, "None of the other Ten Commandments 00:49:56.47\00:50:00.60 is commanded in Genesis 00:50:00.63\00:50:02.09 either does that mean they were not applicable 00:50:02.12\00:50:04.03 to humanity and unknown until Sinai? 00:50:04.06\00:50:06.70 Because that's a big point. 00:50:06.73\00:50:07.76 Nobody knew about the Sabbath until Sinai 00:50:07.79\00:50:09.51 what about the other nine. 00:50:09.54\00:50:11.40 Look at did Cain when Cain killed his brother 00:50:11.43\00:50:13.72 did you feel bad? He felt awful. 00:50:13.75\00:50:16.09 Did he know you're not supposed to kill 00:50:16.12\00:50:17.69 why didn't you say to God? 00:50:17.72\00:50:18.75 I never knew you can't kill people. 00:50:18.78\00:50:21.11 I thought you could do this. 00:50:21.14\00:50:24.75 No, he knew 00:50:24.78\00:50:26.35 when Abraham is lying about his wife being a sister 00:50:26.38\00:50:29.15 don't you think he knows 00:50:29.18\00:50:30.94 he's breaking the don't bear false witness command. 00:50:30.97\00:50:33.34 Of course he knows he's feeling guilty as sin 00:50:33.37\00:50:37.44 and when Joseph comes to Mrs. Potiphar 00:50:37.47\00:50:39.57 or let's reverse the story 00:50:39.60\00:50:41.23 when Mr. Potiphar comes to Joseph 00:50:41.26\00:50:42.87 why didn't Joseph just say hey listen 00:50:42.90\00:50:44.48 you want to sleep with me, 00:50:44.51\00:50:45.59 let's go to bed. 00:50:45.62\00:50:47.84 There's no commandment yet. 00:50:47.87\00:50:49.15 We are this site on Mount Sinai, hallelujah. 00:50:49.18\00:50:53.71 No, there's none of that ladies and gentlemen, 00:50:53.74\00:50:55.26 Joseph knew the command you shall not commit adultery. 00:50:55.29\00:50:58.96 And he said woman, I can't sin against God and do this. 00:50:58.99\00:51:01.80 Where do these boys and girls get all this? 00:51:01.83\00:51:04.37 They got it from a Father 00:51:04.40\00:51:06.43 who's been telling them from the very beginning 00:51:06.46\00:51:08.52 you don't have to write it when you're a parent. 00:51:08.55\00:51:12.09 You just model it. 00:51:12.12\00:51:15.43 There they are ladies and gentlemen, 00:51:15.46\00:51:16.57 six proves that the Sabbath has been God's gift 00:51:16.60\00:51:19.50 to the human race from the very beginning of time. 00:51:19.53\00:51:22.30 Why? 00:51:22.33\00:51:23.36 For the gift of the Sabbath is the friendship of God. 00:51:23.39\00:51:28.12 That's why-- that's why, 00:51:28.15\00:51:31.28 but why would anybody-- why would anybody 00:51:31.31\00:51:33.62 want to get rid of the seventh day Sabbath 00:51:33.65\00:51:37.07 I want to tell you. 00:51:37.10\00:51:39.57 Our next teaching don't miss it, 00:51:39.60\00:51:41.03 it's entitled "Legacy of the Bastard Science." 00:51:41.06\00:51:44.59 That's not strong language by the way 00:51:44.62\00:51:46.28 that's technical dictionary language 00:51:46.31\00:51:48.11 and I'm quoting somebody else 00:51:48.14\00:51:50.14 and it's descriptive got your attention, 00:51:50.17\00:51:55.78 that's the point the legacy 00:51:55.81\00:51:58.31 of the illegitimate science next time. 00:51:58.34\00:52:03.31 Think of the heartache, come on guys, 00:52:03.34\00:52:04.50 think of the heartache that could have been spared 00:52:04.53\00:52:05.94 the human race had we always remember 00:52:05.97\00:52:07.87 God is our Creator and our capital 'F' Friend. 00:52:07.90\00:52:11.47 The only way I can figure it out, 00:52:11.50\00:52:12.84 I'm not real smart 00:52:12.87\00:52:13.90 but the only way I can figure it out is there must be some body 00:52:13.93\00:52:17.75 who does not want the human race to remember. 00:52:17.78\00:52:22.08 There must be somebody who is working awfully hard. 00:52:22.11\00:52:29.77 And so let me end with the word to my young friend 00:52:29.80\00:52:32.72 who wrote the email challenged to me impress me. 00:52:32.75\00:52:37.69 My friend, you know 00:52:37.72\00:52:39.15 by now that I have taken your email seriously. 00:52:39.18\00:52:42.03 It's clear to me you are serious about the possibility 00:52:42.06\00:52:44.92 of adopting atheism as your worldview. 00:52:44.95\00:52:51.07 Now, I need you to take me seriously. 00:52:51.10\00:52:55.52 I've taking you seriously you take me seriously now. 00:52:55.55\00:52:58.51 Listen, if you are intellectually honest 00:52:58.54\00:53:03.46 and everything you write indicates that you are 00:53:03.49\00:53:06.99 if you are then you need-- you need to experiment 00:53:07.02\00:53:13.92 for a bit longer. 00:53:13.95\00:53:15.87 You need to experience this gift to the seventh day 00:53:15.90\00:53:21.50 and what you think is hey, come on, come on 00:53:21.53\00:53:22.89 I don't have time for this. 00:53:22.92\00:53:25.53 You have time, it's taken you months 00:53:25.56\00:53:27.92 to come to your convictions now. 00:53:27.95\00:53:30.00 You need, you intellectually honest 00:53:30.03\00:53:32.47 you need to give yourself this time. 00:53:32.50\00:53:35.83 And here is what I want to invite you to do, 00:53:35.86\00:53:37.64 can't required of you, can't check up with you, 00:53:37.67\00:53:40.88 I'm asking you, you owe it to yourself in honesty 00:53:40.91\00:53:45.90 is what I'm asking you to do over the next few Sabbaths. 00:53:45.93\00:53:49.86 Say how many? 00:53:49.89\00:53:50.94 More than just two or three over the next few Sabbaths 00:53:50.97\00:53:53.87 here is the prayer that I'd like to ask you to pray. 00:53:53.90\00:53:58.88 You don't have to write it down 00:53:58.91\00:53:59.94 I'm have a feeling it'll stick in your mind. 00:53:59.97\00:54:01.98 I put it on the screen though, in case you watching. 00:54:02.01\00:54:05.34 Here is the prayer. 00:54:05.37\00:54:07.56 "Okay God. If there really is you. 00:54:07.59\00:54:13.59 And you really are my Creator. 00:54:13.62\00:54:17.10 And the seventh day really is your day with me. 00:54:17.13\00:54:19.40 Then I'm asking you" okay this is the deal. 00:54:19.43\00:54:22.43 I'm bright your bright God? Let's do this. 00:54:22.46\00:54:25.76 "Then I'm asking You to please reveal Yourself to me. 00:54:25.79\00:54:33.34 Impress me. 00:54:33.37\00:54:36.97 Because if You do exist, and You are a Friend, 00:54:37.00\00:54:41.81 then I'd be a fool to walk away from You. 00:54:41.84\00:54:45.67 Amen." 00:54:45.70\00:54:48.54 You remember the prayer, I know you will. 00:54:48.57\00:54:51.81 I want you to pray it over the next few seventh days. 00:54:51.84\00:54:55.80 Do it on a day where God is infused Himself into time. 00:54:55.83\00:55:00.57 You pray the prayer 00:55:00.60\00:55:03.49 because on the authority of this word right here 00:55:03.52\00:55:07.02 it's clear to me 00:55:07.05\00:55:08.55 that the gift to the Sabbath is the friendship God. 00:55:08.58\00:55:13.94 And if that's true 00:55:13.97\00:55:16.04 then you open your mind to Him on this day 00:55:16.07\00:55:18.32 and I promise you that in his own way 00:55:18.35\00:55:22.77 He will speak to you. 00:55:22.80\00:55:26.88 He wants your friendship that much 00:55:26.91\00:55:33.77 and I will be praying for you. 00:55:33.80\00:55:36.19 Let's stand as we pray together. 00:55:36.22\00:55:37.71 And so here we are Holy Father, 00:55:46.12\00:55:47.67 we are on this vast and wide spectrum of life 00:55:47.70\00:55:52.13 and one hand an email wrestling with a worldview 00:55:52.16\00:55:57.96 far down the spectrum and aged senior citizen 00:55:57.99\00:56:04.34 who has found You faithful every day of her life 00:56:04.37\00:56:11.83 and who worships You with all her heart. 00:56:11.86\00:56:14.94 In between these two we're all spread out. 00:56:14.97\00:56:19.12 Oh, God, please we pray the same prayer. 00:56:19.15\00:56:22.60 Impress us with all the sincerity 00:56:22.63\00:56:26.08 we can muster we ask that in Your graciousness 00:56:26.11\00:56:30.48 You might reveal Yourself to us on the seventh day 00:56:30.51\00:56:35.32 as both our Creator and our Friend 00:56:35.35\00:56:40.21 because if it's true that You are both 00:56:40.24\00:56:43.93 why would we ever walk away. 00:56:43.96\00:56:49.80 In the name of Jesus Christ, amen. 00:56:49.83\00:56:56.44 I wanted to take one more moment here 00:56:56.47\00:56:58.02 at the end of the telecast to let you know 00:56:58.05\00:56:59.71 how grateful I am for your journey with us, 00:56:59.74\00:57:02.83 with our New Perceptions Ministry. 00:57:02.86\00:57:04.66 You may think that New Perceptions 00:57:04.69\00:57:05.84 is only about television 00:57:05.87\00:57:07.63 but I need to tell you, we do have a website 00:57:07.66\00:57:10.12 which is more than just the study guide. 00:57:10.15\00:57:12.20 I know you go to the study guide every week 00:57:12.23\00:57:13.74 but if you go to our website, 00:57:13.77\00:57:14.80 let me put the address on the screen again, 00:57:14.83\00:57:16.33 www.pmchurch.tv. 00:57:16.36\00:57:20.77 You'll find at that website a blog. 00:57:20.80\00:57:22.56 I write every Wednesday. 00:57:22.59\00:57:23.62 I sit down with my laptop and write up a blog, 00:57:23.65\00:57:25.32 something as commenting on world events, 00:57:25.35\00:57:27.54 something local, something national. 00:57:27.57\00:57:29.41 You get the blog. 00:57:29.44\00:57:30.63 You want archive, previous teachings 00:57:30.66\00:57:32.88 from here in the Pioneer pulpit, 00:57:32.91\00:57:34.24 you go to that annotated archive. 00:57:34.27\00:57:36.80 You can pick out a message, it will be sent to you. 00:57:36.83\00:57:39.48 You want to get into the podcast business, 00:57:39.51\00:57:42.70 I am not real high-techie on this 00:57:42.73\00:57:44.65 but if you click podcast, 00:57:44.68\00:57:46.18 you'll be able to connect instantly 00:57:46.21\00:57:47.51 with every new teaching 00:57:47.54\00:57:48.61 that comes from the Pioneer pulpit. 00:57:48.64\00:57:50.06 The point is we're trying to connect 00:57:50.09\00:57:51.77 with a generation on the move, on the go. 00:57:51.80\00:57:54.53 Thanks for being a part of it. 00:57:54.56\00:57:55.82 Thanks for your prayer partnership. 00:57:55.85\00:57:57.00 We have got to connect 00:57:57.03\00:57:58.52 with this generation at this time in earth's history 00:57:58.55\00:58:01.78 and I'm grateful you and I are sharing the mission. 00:58:01.81\00:58:04.10 God bless you until next time. 00:58:04.13\00:58:06.10