Amen, Lord Jesus, we thank
you for this Sabbath today.
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And as we gather to
worship as a family, Lord Jesus,
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fill this room with your
spirit and your presence.
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Continue to be with us.
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Refresh us, revive us,
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as we worship you
today, in Jesus' name.
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Amen. You may be seated.
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It's Sabbath
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And my rest has arrive
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It's Sabbath
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A day God set aside
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It's Sabbath
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It's a Joy and delight
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It's Sabbath
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It's Sabbath
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And my rest has arrived
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It's Sabbath
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A day God set aside
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It's Sabbath
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It's joy and delight
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It's Sabbath
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O Holy God
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O Holy God, this Holy day
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Please purify our lives we pray
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O Holy God, this Holy day
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Please purify our lives we pray
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It's Sabbath
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It's a joy and delight
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It's Sabbath
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Let's sing it
again, It's Sabbath
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It's Sabbath
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And my rest has arrived
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It's Sabbath
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A day God set aside
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It's Sabbath
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It's a Joy and delight
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It's Sabbath
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It's Sabbath
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And my rest has arrived
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It's Sabbath
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A day God set aside
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It's Sabbath
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It's a Joy and delight
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It's Sabbath
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And this is off for today
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O Holy God
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O Holy God, this Holy day
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Please purify our lives our pray
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O Holy God, this Holy day
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Please purify our lives our pray
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It's Sabbath
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It's a joy and delight
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It's Sabbath
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It's Sabbath
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It's a Joy and delight
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It's Sabbath
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Over the mountains and the sea
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Your river runs with love for me
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And I will open up my heart
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And let the Healer set me free
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I'm happy to be in the truth
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And I will daily lift my hands
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For I will always sing of
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When Your love came down
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Now sing out the chorus.
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I could sing of
your love forever
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I could sing of
your love forever
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I could sing of
your love forever
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I could sing of
your love forever
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I could sing of
your love forever
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All together, over
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Over the mountains and the sea
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Your river runs with love for me
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And I will open up my heart
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And let the Healer set me free
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I'm happy to be in the truth
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And I will daily lift my hands
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For I will always sing of
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When Your love came down
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I could sing of
your love forever
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I could sing of
your love forever
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I could sing of
your love forever
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I could sing of
your love forever
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Let's sing Amazing grace,
with passion in our hearts.
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Amazing grace
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How sweet the sound
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That saved a wretch like me
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I once was lost
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But now am found
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Was blind
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But now I see
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I could sing
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I could sing of
your love forever
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I could sing of
your love forever
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I could sing of
your love forever
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I could sing of
your love forever
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We've already been ushered into
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Your very presence, Holy Father.
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With the music, the praise,
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with the bringing
of our littlest ones.
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Just a moment longer we
stay here in your house.
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May your words
speak with clarity.
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Let us understand
and what we understand,
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may we integrate it
into this business of living.
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We pray in Christ's name. Amen.
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Do you suppose God
has a MySpace account?
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I suppose a more
logical question is,
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why would He not
have a MySpace account?
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200 million human beings meet
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in that little
piece of cyberspace.
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One out of every 33 people alive
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on the planet
today is in MySpace.
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And if you're
mumbling right now to yourself,
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oh, mercy, what is MySpace?
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Don't you dare
say a word out loud,
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you'd give away your age.
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This has to be the ages
of the ages for cyberspace.
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Let me run some numbers by you.
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Did you know that in February,
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Americans, now
these are only Americans,
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made over, no-- made not quite
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ten billion core
searches on Google.
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If February had
been two more days,
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we'd have gone over 10 billion.
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Did you know that in January,
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according to
Nielsen's net ratings,
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the average person
in the U.S alone, spent,
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listen to this, 37 hours,
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1 minute and 59
seconds on the internet.
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December, in America,
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we Americans online
viewed 10 billion videos.
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We're the most cyberspaced,
high-techie generation
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in the history
of earth, obviously.
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And we have become,
as most of you know,
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the most socially
networked generation.
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Hitwise.com
describes 55 social networks
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that band the globe,
the top, top four being,
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MySpace-- Let me
just try something,
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if you have an
account on MySpace,
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would you raise your hand?
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Just come on, be
proud of it, all right.
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MySpace? All
right, good for you.
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Facebook, if you have
an account on Facebook,
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some of you have
double, look at you.
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Facebook.
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Now according to hitwise.com,
these are the top four,
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MyYearBook, any of you
ever heard of that one?
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I haven't heard that one.
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How about Bebo, number four?
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It's the number one
social network in the U.K.
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Here's a quiz for you,
who do you suppose spends
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more time in social networks,
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men or women, males or females?
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Huh? Okay, hold on, hold on.
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Prweekus.com, all right,
here's their website here,
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I'm quoting now, "A
recent study by the pewinternet,
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an American Life
Project determine
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that female teens
are the primary Creators
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of web content far
outpacing their male peers
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in the areas of
blogging, website building
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and creating
social network profiles."
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You go girls.
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So here's the question,
does God have a MySpace account?
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Do you? I already found out.
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I know what you're asking.
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How about you
pastor, do you have one?
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The answer is, I didn't,
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until some young friends of mine
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in the seminary decided
to create an account for me.
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I found out about it,
somebody tipped me off
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and then I figured
out how you get on MySpace
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and I went on to MySpace.
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Sure enough, there I was,
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I don't know where
they got my picture.
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And then you know, you
have this friends space
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where you list your top friends,
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my two top friends they said are
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Doug Batchelor and Joseph Bates.
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Now I've got to tell you,
Doug Batchelor, it's true,
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Doug Batchelor, is
a good friend of mine
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but Joseph Bates, was
in the class ahead of me
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so I've never
really got to know him.
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Does God have a space,
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does God have a
place in MySpace?
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Open your Bible
with me this morning,
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as we plunge into a
new series for a new season
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about a new
generation in cyberspace,
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the most high-teched,
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cyberspace savvy
generation history.
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We're going to call
this series, God's Party.
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Five parts to God's Party,
let me tell you about them.
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Today, MySpace,
next Sabbath, Facebook,
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Sabbath after
that, YouTube YouToo,
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Sabbath after
that, Green Google,
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Sabbath after that,
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I think this is a great
one to end a year with, Yahoo.
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All right, okay, now I want to,
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I want to give you,
right here at the beginning,
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I want us to scribble down
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the bottom line to this
brand new series, all right.
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So take out your study
guide, let's write it down.
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The bottom line to
this brand new series,
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if you didn't get a study guide
put your hands up right now,
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we got the friendliest,
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most efficient
ushers in the world.
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They're in the
balcony, they're up front,
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they're in the middle,
just hold your hand up,
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we'll make sure
you get a study guide.
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I hope everybody here has one.
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Good, and to those of you
who are watching on television,
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we're delighted to have
you on the brand new series,
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God's Party, go to
our website please.
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You see it on the
screen there, www.pmchurch.tv.
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We're looking for the
series entitled God's Party
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and today's teaching, MySpace,
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when you see today's teaching,
you click on study guide,
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you'll have the
same study guide we do
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and we'll be connected
through cyberspace together.
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All right, so
grab that study guide,
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print it off,
do it a real quick.
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By the way, let me
just tell you this,
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we have set the
study guides up now
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so that you
could be sitting here
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and actually doing it,
don't you ever do this,
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you could be sitting here
doing it on your cell phone.
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We've set it up
now so that you can
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actually type
into your computer,
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you don't have to run it
off and then write it in,
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I don't know how we did
it but somebody came asks us,
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if we could do it.
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That was you, Paul.
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By the way nice overplaying
today, that was beautiful.
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Yeah, Paul, came to me,
Paul Williams, great oboist,
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and he said,
hey, Dwight, come on,
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set it up so that we
can do it right-- wherever.
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Not here, okay.
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All right, take your new
study guide, let's fill it in.
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God's Party, what's the
bottom line to God's Party?
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Now that we know the
day, let us explore the way.
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Now that we know the
day, let us explore the way,
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because the series we
just came out of was entitled
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"The Sabbath."
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By the way, Justin,
that was a great rendition
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of "The Sabbath" this
morning, beautiful piece.
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I can sing that
every single week.
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So we just come
out of the Sabbath
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and the most
logical question for us
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to be asking as
third millennials,
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now that we heard
about that is, so what?
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Huh?
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So what am I supposed
to do with the Sabbath,
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so what's this day
for? 24 hours, so what?
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God's Party is the searching
-for-the-answer to the,
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so what, question
that we rightfully ask.
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So let's get
going, open your Bible now
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please to the
second book of the Bible.
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One ancient line,
two dynamic verses.
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One ancient line, two dynamic
verses in the second book,
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that would be
the book of Exodus.
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Find Exodus 31, please.
You didn't bring a Bible?
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We've got a pew Bible for you,
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it'll be the same
translation that I have.
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Here, The New King James,
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which will also be on
the screen this morning.
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Exodus 31, just one
line, just one line,
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and it's God and Moses having
a private conversation together
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and God is doing
the talking right now,
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and He's talking
about the Sabbath.
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This is dynamite, all right.
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Genesis chapter--
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I mean Exodus
rather, Exodus 31:17,
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"It" the
Sabbath, God's speaking,
00:21:28.99\00:21:31.25
"It is a sign between Me
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and the children
of Israel forever"
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and hit the pause
button right there
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because some of you as
soon as you hear that you say,
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ah, I told you,
I told you, Dwight,
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that the Sabbath is something
between God and Israel.
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I am not a Jew
so I-- the Sabbath
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is not applicable
to me and my journey.
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Hold it, hold it, hold it.
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You must be very
careful with that kind of logic.
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Watch where this
logic will take you,
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if you hang on to that logic.
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Do you know with whom
God made the new covenant?
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Everybody is clear that
new covenant's for Christians,
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new covenant's
for the whole world.
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God made the new
covenant, isn't that right?
00:22:07.13\00:22:08.85
Everybody is
under the new covenant.
00:22:08.88\00:22:10.99
Let me show you something.
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With whom did God
make the new covenant?
00:22:12.18\00:22:13.69
Let's go to the New
Testament and find out.
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Hebrews 8:8,
"Behold, the days are coming,
00:22:15.19\00:22:18.27
says the Lord, when I
will make a new covenant."
00:22:18.30\00:22:20.42
With whom?
00:22:20.45\00:22:22.00
"With the house of Israel
and with the house of Judah."
00:22:22.03\00:22:25.85
Wait a minute,
time out, time out.
00:22:25.88\00:22:27.96
I thought the new covenant
was for everybody, it is.
00:22:27.99\00:22:31.61
Because when God says Israel,
00:22:31.64\00:22:33.03
He's talking
about all His friends
00:22:33.06\00:22:35.46
through out all of
history, all over the earth.
00:22:35.49\00:22:39.06
And that, by the way,
00:22:39.09\00:22:40.21
is the truth about the Sabbath.
00:22:40.24\00:22:41.79
It's for everybody.
00:22:41.82\00:22:42.99
From the very beginning,
00:22:43.02\00:22:44.07
in fact, scribble
this down, will you?
00:22:44.10\00:22:45.46
"The same people God
makes the covenant with
00:22:45.49\00:22:47.92
He gives the Sabbath to
00:22:47.95\00:22:49.52
- 'Israel' represents
all his people forever."
00:22:49.55\00:22:53.45
God makes the new
covenant with His people,
00:22:53.48\00:22:54.86
that's for whom the
Sabbath was created as well.
00:22:54.89\00:22:58.51
All right, so lets go
back to that verse now,
00:22:58.54\00:23:00.01
Exodus 31:17,
"The Sabbath is a sign
00:23:00.04\00:23:02.70
between Me and all
my people forever."
00:23:02.73\00:23:06.53
Somewhere we can read
that. Now keep reading.
00:23:06.56\00:23:08.61
"For in six days the Lord made
00:23:08.64\00:23:10.64
the heavens and the earth,
00:23:10.67\00:23:12.38
and on the seventh day He
rested and was refreshed."
00:23:12.41\00:23:17.48
One ancient line,
two dynamic verbs,
00:23:17.51\00:23:19.45
write it down verb,
dynamic verb number one,
00:23:19.48\00:23:22.61
He was refreshed, well
take them reverse order,
00:23:22.64\00:23:24.74
He was refreshed.
00:23:24.77\00:23:26.08
Keep your pen moving
00:23:26.11\00:23:27.14
because the Hebrew verb
here for refreshed is "naphash",
00:23:27.17\00:23:30.50
it means to take a breath.
00:23:30.53\00:23:33.86
Which is why, by the
way, the New Jerusalem Bible,
00:23:33.89\00:23:35.84
and I put this in
the study guide for you,
00:23:35.87\00:23:37.14
the New Jerusalem
Bible renders this,
00:23:37.17\00:23:38.98
"but on the seventh day
He rested and drew breath."
00:23:39.01\00:23:45.36
Some of us enjoy running.
00:23:45.39\00:23:48.27
And we all know
that there are times
00:23:48.30\00:23:49.47
when enjoy is just a
euphemism for endure.
00:23:49.50\00:23:52.94
Well, everybody knows
that. But be that as it may.
00:23:52.97\00:23:55.38
You know, those of
you who are runners,
00:23:55.41\00:23:57.04
when you come back from running,
00:23:57.07\00:23:59.57
a good hard run
you come back sweaty,
00:23:59.60\00:24:02.10
you come back smelly,
00:24:02.13\00:24:04.14
and you come back generally
spent, isn't that true?
00:24:04.17\00:24:07.48
I do my long runs
on Sunday mornings.
00:24:07.51\00:24:10.03
So I go out and do my 10k.
00:24:10.06\00:24:12.00
And when I come back, I
have this little ritual,
00:24:12.03\00:24:14.80
I go to the box and I
pull out my Sunday paper
00:24:14.83\00:24:17.60
and I go and I sit
down on the front step.
00:24:17.63\00:24:20.96
I say I do that--
when you're in spring
00:24:20.99\00:24:24.56
and apparently
we're not in spring
00:24:24.59\00:24:25.92
because you can't do that.
00:24:25.95\00:24:27.51
But you go, I sit down,
I open up the newspaper,
00:24:27.54\00:24:30.39
I catch my breath
and I just chill out.
00:24:30.42\00:24:34.57
That's what naphash
means, it means to slow down,
00:24:34.60\00:24:37.50
it means to sit down, it
means to catch your breath,
00:24:37.53\00:24:39.75
it means to be refreshed.
00:24:39.78\00:24:41.04
In fact, it has a Hebrew twin,
00:24:41.07\00:24:42.67
watch this, this is fascinating.
00:24:42.70\00:24:44.98
Naphash has a Hebrew twin
00:24:45.01\00:24:47.00
and you see it in
your study guide there,
00:24:47.03\00:24:48.48
nephesh, they
sound almost alike.
00:24:48.51\00:24:51.11
And what is nephesh
mean? A breathing being.
00:24:51.14\00:24:55.24
The very first time this
word gets used in all the Bible
00:24:55.27\00:24:57.89
is back in the creation story
and I just love this moment.
00:24:57.92\00:25:00.61
So keep your finger right here
00:25:00.64\00:25:01.98
because we're coming
quickly back to Exodus 31,
00:25:02.01\00:25:04.58
but let's go back
to Genesis chapter 2.
00:25:04.61\00:25:08.24
Creation takes
place in Genesis 1
00:25:08.27\00:25:09.83
but Genesis 2
comes along and says,
00:25:09.86\00:25:11.45
"Let me give you a
little bit of the details
00:25:11.48\00:25:12.83
behind that creation,
00:25:12.86\00:25:14.35
particularly the
creation of the human raise."
00:25:14.38\00:25:17.64
The two first parents of us all.
00:25:17.67\00:25:21.61
Now so this is Genesis
2, page 1 of your pew Bible,
00:25:21.64\00:25:25.02
drop down to verse 7, "
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And the Lord God."
00:25:26.55\00:25:27.72
Now remember from
our previous series,
00:25:27.75\00:25:29.01
who is the Lord God?
00:25:29.04\00:25:30.07
That's Christ, that's
the preincarnate Christ,
00:25:30.10\00:25:31.87
that's Jesus, the
one who becomes Jesus.
00:25:31.90\00:25:33.88
"And the Lord God formed man
out of the dust of the ground."
00:25:33.91\00:25:39.21
Now that's a very
action, that verb, "formed."
00:25:39.24\00:25:42.79
Hey wait a
minute, guys, do you know
00:25:42.82\00:25:43.85
what God could have done?
00:25:43.88\00:25:45.26
I mean He could have just
said, "Let there be Adam."
00:25:45.29\00:25:49.69
Wow, not bad.
00:25:49.72\00:25:51.97
Couldn't He have done that?
00:25:52.00\00:25:53.03
He did that
with everything else.
00:25:53.06\00:25:54.51
Just spoke the
word, "Let there be--
00:25:54.54\00:25:58.18
But He didn't.
00:25:58.21\00:25:59.25
The only part of the creation,
the only moment of creation
00:25:59.28\00:26:03.09
when God becomes
personally interactive
00:26:03.12\00:26:06.37
is the creation
of the human race.
00:26:06.40\00:26:08.76
And He takes some dust,
00:26:08.79\00:26:10.28
you ever go here
to Andrews University,
00:26:10.31\00:26:11.95
you go over to
the art department,
00:26:11.98\00:26:13.27
man we got some great
artists on this campus.
00:26:13.30\00:26:15.83
And you know what, they
take a little bit that dust,
00:26:15.86\00:26:17.25
you put water in it
and it becomes clay.
00:26:17.28\00:26:19.58
And you watch those masters
work just with their hands.
00:26:19.61\00:26:23.77
They begin to work that
clay, that's what God did,
00:26:23.80\00:26:25.45
he began to work, He
say, "oh, no four fingers?
00:26:25.48\00:26:28.01
No lets add a fifth."
00:26:28.04\00:26:29.67
And if He had stopped with four,
00:26:29.70\00:26:30.73
we be in trouble, wouldn't we?
00:26:30.76\00:26:32.18
Have a five, five.
00:26:32.21\00:26:34.75
I like those arms
here, it's good, good.
00:26:34.78\00:26:37.19
Let's see two ears, one mouth,
00:26:37.22\00:26:39.36
which means we're
supposed to listen
00:26:39.39\00:26:40.53
twice as much as we speak.
00:26:40.56\00:26:42.04
The whole point.
Two ears, one mouth.
00:26:42.07\00:26:45.50
And then, how
does the verse put it?
00:26:45.53\00:26:48.03
"And Lord God formed man."
00:26:48.06\00:26:49.42
Adam, by the way, in the Hebrew,
00:26:49.45\00:26:50.86
Adam, we call him Adam.
00:26:50.89\00:26:52.40
"The Lord God formed man
of the dust of the ground,
00:26:52.43\00:26:55.32
and He leaned over and
breathed into his nostrils,
00:26:55.35\00:27:00.38
the breath of life."
00:27:00.41\00:27:01.45
Picture the incarnate,
the preincarnate Christ
00:27:01.48\00:27:03.98
just leaning over
and putting His mouth,
00:27:04.01\00:27:06.64
His divine mouth over
the nose of Adam and He goes.
00:27:06.67\00:27:10.42
And that whole ribcage goes.
00:27:13.95\00:27:16.10
And Adams eyes opened
and ladies and gentlemen,
00:27:21.17\00:27:23.62
when his eyes opened
00:27:23.65\00:27:25.02
who is the first
face he's gazing into?
00:27:25.05\00:27:29.49
Straight into the
face of his Creator.
00:27:29.52\00:27:33.49
I want to tell you
some about parents.
00:27:33.52\00:27:35.11
Because I've been
a parent twice over.
00:27:35.14\00:27:37.07
When your baby is sleeping,
and you love that baby so much,
00:27:37.10\00:27:40.28
you wish the baby were awake.
00:27:40.31\00:27:41.80
That's the thing about
babies, when they're awake,
00:27:41.83\00:27:43.14
you wish they were
asleep and when they're asleep,
00:27:43.17\00:27:44.81
you wish they were awake.
00:27:44.84\00:27:45.87
And you know, I
don't know how many times
00:27:45.90\00:27:46.99
I've gone in the room
and I just wanted to just--
00:27:47.02\00:27:49.25
I just want to look
into that baby's face,
00:27:49.28\00:27:50.82
maybe get a little recognition.
00:27:50.85\00:27:52.16
So I purposely make--
I'm in trouble with Karen
00:27:52.19\00:27:54.57
if I make a lot of noise
but I just make a little noise,
00:27:54.60\00:27:56.33
that kind of shake the cradle.
00:27:56.36\00:27:57.73
And there go those eyes.
00:27:57.76\00:28:01.43
Those eyes open
and I'm looking down.
00:28:01.46\00:28:03.74
I tell you what,
when you're a daddy
00:28:03.77\00:28:05.49
that is one gaze
you never forget.
00:28:05.52\00:28:08.57
So the Creator says, yeah.
00:28:08.60\00:28:13.63
And, verse not over, so
"He breathed into his nostrils
00:28:13.66\00:28:17.50
the breath of life
and man became a," what?
00:28:17.53\00:28:20.27
Man became a living
being, ladies and gentlemen
00:28:20.30\00:28:22.41
jot this down in
your study guide please
00:28:22.44\00:28:23.77
because that's the
word, the first time
00:28:23.80\00:28:25.56
it's used in all of
scripture, the word naphash,
00:28:25.59\00:28:29.18
it means, jot it down,
00:28:29.21\00:28:31.10
"the Creator breathed the
breath of life into all of us
00:28:31.13\00:28:33.22
and we became alive."
00:28:33.25\00:28:35.92
Oh I like that, we
became, did you see that there?
00:28:35.95\00:28:37.81
We became alive.
00:28:37.84\00:28:40.57
King James says, "We
became a living soul."
00:28:40.60\00:28:43.30
Alive. Keep your pen moving.
00:28:43.33\00:28:48.01
So what are you saying, Dwight,
about naphash and nephesh.
00:28:48.04\00:28:51.01
Well, these two
twins, the word naphash
00:28:51.04\00:28:53.42
which is a twin to nephesh,
00:28:53.45\00:28:54.81
carries with it
the nuance meaning,
00:28:54.84\00:28:56.86
jot this down, of
coming back to life.
00:28:56.89\00:29:01.22
All right, nephesh
is when you come to life
00:29:01.25\00:29:02.83
but naphash means
coming, breathing again,
00:29:02.86\00:29:06.40
re-freshed,
re-souled, as it were,
00:29:06.43\00:29:12.01
you're coming back again, see.
00:29:12.04\00:29:15.16
To be refreshed and that's--
00:29:15.19\00:29:16.27
would you jot those down please?
00:29:16.30\00:29:17.39
To be refreshed
is to be recharged.
00:29:17.42\00:29:22.81
Recharged.
00:29:22.84\00:29:25.14
Have you ever knows that
nearly everything we own,
00:29:25.17\00:29:26.70
is this true or what?
00:29:26.73\00:29:27.89
Nearly everything we own is
hooked up to a battery charger.
00:29:27.92\00:29:32.65
Have you ever
thought about that?
00:29:32.68\00:29:33.76
So I'm hurrying
through our house,
00:29:33.79\00:29:34.84
I've said, okay, let me find out
00:29:34.87\00:29:35.98
how many battery chargers
do I have in this house?
00:29:36.01\00:29:39.43
And I probably forgot something,
00:29:39.46\00:29:41.47
so if you can tell me,
00:29:41.50\00:29:43.39
you just tell me
which it was I forgot.
00:29:43.42\00:29:46.37
Everything is on a battery.
00:29:46.40\00:29:47.91
So I'm going to reach into this
little Andrews University bag
00:29:47.94\00:29:51.48
and okay, this is
for my digital camera,
00:29:51.51\00:29:54.88
All right, you got
to charge your batteries
00:29:54.91\00:29:55.98
for your digital
camera, everybody knew that.
00:29:56.01\00:29:59.35
This one is for--
00:29:59.38\00:30:01.46
Ooh, it's a
heavy one, this one--
00:30:01.49\00:30:03.80
Oh, this is for my
Palm Pilot, all right,
00:30:03.83\00:30:06.45
you got to
recharge that for sure.
00:30:06.48\00:30:09.43
Oh, cell phone,
00:30:09.46\00:30:11.08
what would you do
without the cell phone charger?
00:30:11.11\00:30:13.36
Cell phone, we all
know about that one.
00:30:13.39\00:30:18.09
Laptop.
00:30:18.12\00:30:20.59
We got a flashlight, have
you ever seen these flashlights?
00:30:20.62\00:30:22.14
You just plug them in the wall,
they charge up during the day,
00:30:22.17\00:30:24.00
pull them out use 'em at night.
00:30:24.03\00:30:25.19
Great invention,
who thought of that,
00:30:25.22\00:30:26.43
I don't know.
00:30:26.46\00:30:29.87
iPod, I got to
charge up my iPod.
00:30:29.90\00:30:33.29
Yeah, you didn't think I
even knew about 'em, did you?
00:30:33.32\00:30:37.70
That's why you're laughing.
You know, what this one is?
00:30:37.73\00:30:43.86
You can't even brush your teeth
anymore without charging up.
00:30:43.89\00:30:48.82
What is this?
00:30:48.85\00:30:50.39
Everything we
own and by the way,
00:30:50.42\00:30:51.82
I don't have in this bag,
00:30:51.85\00:30:53.00
I do not have an
auto battery charger,
00:30:53.03\00:30:56.76
but if the price
of gas keeps going up,
00:30:56.79\00:30:58.46
we're all going to be plugging
in our cars every single night.
00:30:58.49\00:31:02.02
Charging the
batteries back-up, huh?
00:31:02.05\00:31:06.81
What's up with these chargers?
00:31:06.84\00:31:09.61
Ah, here's the point
ladies and gentlemen.
00:31:09.64\00:31:12.20
Fact, would you scribble
this down, little Q and A here.
00:31:12.23\00:31:14.71
What is the
purpose of a charger?
00:31:14.74\00:31:16.41
What's the purpose
of a recharger? Answer.
00:31:16.44\00:31:18.61
To restore the power
and the energy of that
00:31:18.64\00:31:22.01
which has become run down.
00:31:22.04\00:31:25.20
That's true of
batteries and guess what?
00:31:33.05\00:31:35.51
That is also true of life.
00:31:35.54\00:31:38.42
Could it be, that we were given
00:31:38.45\00:31:40.06
the seventh day
Sabbath to recharge
00:31:40.09\00:31:43.60
what's become run
down in our lives.
00:31:43.63\00:31:48.16
Exodus 31:17, go
back there please,
00:31:48.19\00:31:51.75
where your finger
was, the Sabbath God says,
00:31:51.78\00:31:54.79
"is a sign between Me
00:31:54.82\00:31:56.46
and the children
of Israel forever.
00:31:56.49\00:31:59.05
For in six days the Lord
made the heavens and the earth,
00:31:59.08\00:32:02.24
and on the seventh day He
rested and was recharged."
00:32:02.27\00:32:07.60
He was refreshed.
00:32:07.63\00:32:10.04
Dynamic verb number one,
00:32:10.07\00:32:11.76
there it is refreshed, recharge.
00:32:11.79\00:32:13.62
And I know what you're saying,
00:32:13.65\00:32:14.69
you're saying, but you
know something, pastor,
00:32:14.72\00:32:16.79
this is talking about God,
this isn't talking about us.
00:32:16.82\00:32:20.21
And you're right.
00:32:20.24\00:32:21.71
But what we don't
know is that in fact,
00:32:21.74\00:32:25.40
just a bit earlier in Exodus,
00:32:25.43\00:32:27.03
God used that same
thought, to talk about us.
00:32:27.06\00:32:30.47
Go-- just turn back a
few pages to Exodus 23
00:32:30.50\00:32:34.10
and take a look at verse 12.
00:32:34.13\00:32:35.19
Exodus 23:12, it's great,
00:32:35.22\00:32:42.61
"Six days," God's speaking here,
00:32:42.64\00:32:44.95
"six days you
shall do your work,
00:32:44.98\00:32:48.36
and on the seventh
day you shall rest,
00:32:48.39\00:32:51.76
that your ox and
your donkey may rest."
00:32:51.79\00:32:53.69
I want to tell you some,
hit a pause button right there.
00:32:53.72\00:32:55.65
The brute beast of
barnyard are of concern to God.
00:32:55.68\00:33:00.63
He's not
concerned about you and me.
00:33:00.66\00:33:02.34
Do you think
we're the only thing
00:33:02.37\00:33:03.79
special on this planet to Him?
00:33:03.82\00:33:05.30
Are you kidding? He
made the whole system.
00:33:05.33\00:33:08.85
The whole creation is
His. He cares about everything.
00:33:08.88\00:33:13.65
So He said, I want to
make sure of the animals.
00:33:13.68\00:33:15.28
I want this Sabbath
to have a residual effect
00:33:15.31\00:33:16.90
on all the dumb creatures
that you have in your purview.
00:33:16.93\00:33:24.73
So He said, six days
you should do your work,
00:33:24.76\00:33:26.42
and on the seventh
day you shall rest,
00:33:26.45\00:33:28.63
that your ox and
your donkey may rest,
00:33:28.66\00:33:30.90
and the son of
your female servant
00:33:30.93\00:33:32.32
and the stranger may be,
00:33:32.35\00:33:34.04
there it is, naphash,
let them be refreshed.
00:33:34.07\00:33:37.20
Let them be
recharged. Jot this down, guys.
00:33:37.23\00:33:40.54
Clearly God
intends the celebration
00:33:40.57\00:33:41.95
of the seventh day Sabbath
00:33:41.98\00:33:43.02
to refresh and
recharge all in the family
00:33:43.05\00:33:46.16
and community who
honor Him on His day.
00:33:46.19\00:33:48.89
It's for everybody,
everybody get recharged.
00:33:48.92\00:33:52.97
That's how holistic God is
as He thinks about the Sabbath.
00:33:53.00\00:33:58.41
Now here is
something, here is a writer,
00:33:58.44\00:34:00.25
James Richard Wibberding,
00:34:00.28\00:34:01.44
has written a
delightful book, titled the book
00:34:01.47\00:34:03.07
"Sabbath reflections,
a weekly devotional."
00:34:03.10\00:34:05.71
And in the book, in fact, I put
it there in your study guide.
00:34:05.74\00:34:08.09
In the book, he makes this
very perceptive observation.
00:34:08.12\00:34:11.09
Take a look at this.
00:34:11.12\00:34:12.15
"Energy," see if
you agree with this,
00:34:12.18\00:34:14.75
"energy is more
precious than time."
00:34:14.78\00:34:20.51
Because he says, "I can't
use my time without energy."
00:34:20.54\00:34:24.23
You know, the point he's making?
00:34:24.26\00:34:26.41
In that little ellipsis
there, here what he's saying,
00:34:26.44\00:34:28.06
24 hours a day?
00:34:28.09\00:34:29.13
He says, do you understand
00:34:29.16\00:34:30.20
that you spend eight
hours of that time sleeping.
00:34:30.23\00:34:32.72
I know, you guys
don't but the, you know,
00:34:32.75\00:34:34.52
the ideal eight hours a day.
00:34:34.55\00:34:36.22
We'll talk about sleep next week
00:34:36.25\00:34:37.30
by the way in Facebook.
00:34:37.33\00:34:39.94
He says you know, why do
we spend eight hours in sleep?
00:34:39.97\00:34:42.45
That's so that our
bodies can reenergize.
00:34:42.48\00:34:44.33
Get the old
battery charged up again.
00:34:44.36\00:34:45.84
And then he says, you're
going to spend two hours eating.
00:34:45.87\00:34:48.94
Well, give or take.
00:34:48.97\00:34:50.32
But what's the
purpose of eating?
00:34:50.35\00:34:51.71
Reenergize, energy again.
00:34:51.74\00:34:53.27
And then he says,
you're going to spend
00:34:53.30\00:34:54.33
four more hours in rest.
00:34:54.36\00:34:55.88
And I thought to
myself, four more hours in rest.
00:34:55.91\00:34:57.75
Are you kidding? I
don't have a four hour nap.
00:34:57.78\00:35:00.24
Every time the heart
stops, a little rest.
00:35:00.27\00:35:03.23
He goes up to four hours,
00:35:03.26\00:35:04.53
he says that's 14
hours of reenergizing,
00:35:04.56\00:35:07.40
10 hours for work.
00:35:07.43\00:35:08.50
That's how important
energy is to you and me.
00:35:08.53\00:35:10.88
Hey, we couldn't enjoyed time
00:35:10.91\00:35:12.15
if we didn't
have energy, could we?
00:35:12.18\00:35:13.54
There will be no
point having time,
00:35:13.57\00:35:15.01
you got no way to enjoy.
00:35:15.04\00:35:17.54
That's what he's writing here.
00:35:17.57\00:35:19.29
"Perceptive," keep
going on the quotation,
00:35:19.32\00:35:21.73
"perceptive people transform
our energy needs into dollars,
00:35:21.76\00:35:27.10
selling
everything from energy bars
00:35:27.13\00:35:29.14
to energy drinks to sugar highs
00:35:29.17\00:35:30.93
and, what party
thrives without refreshments?"
00:35:30.96\00:35:33.53
And I never
thought about that before
00:35:33.56\00:35:34.79
but isn't that,
that's the word we use.
00:35:34.82\00:35:36.84
That's why I love
to going to parties,
00:35:36.87\00:35:38.02
I mean I enjoy meeting people
00:35:38.05\00:35:39.08
but I love the
refreshments even more, why?
00:35:39.11\00:35:41.06
Because that's
what fun about a party.
00:35:41.09\00:35:43.48
You got anything to eat.
00:35:43.51\00:35:46.12
Come on, be honest,
don't you enjoy refreshments?
00:35:46.15\00:35:48.14
Yeah, we call them refresh,
it's kind of reenergize.
00:35:48.17\00:35:51.69
We love it.
00:35:51.72\00:35:53.85
And now here's where I
thought he was perceptive.
00:35:53.88\00:35:56.14
"We humans have to
recharge or refuel often.
00:35:56.17\00:35:59.79
This energy
deficit can be traced
00:35:59.82\00:36:02.78
to human banishment
from the tree of life,
00:36:02.81\00:36:06.22
but all is not lost.
00:36:06.25\00:36:07.96
There is
something of refreshment."
00:36:07.99\00:36:09.74
Write it down.
00:36:09.77\00:36:10.83
"There is
something of refreshment
00:36:10.86\00:36:13.81
still within reach."
00:36:13.84\00:36:15.38
Wibberding, is writing
about God's seventh day Sabbath.
00:36:15.41\00:36:19.06
He says, we got a
refreshment coming.
00:36:19.09\00:36:21.08
Don't give up on the
weak, don't you quit yet,
00:36:21.11\00:36:23.50
refreshment is within reach.
00:36:23.53\00:36:26.94
You know what,
ladies and gentlemen,
00:36:26.97\00:36:28.27
what would happen if
we shifted the paradigm
00:36:28.30\00:36:31.30
from obligatory observances
to recharging refreshment?
00:36:31.33\00:36:38.68
To shift the paradigm.
00:36:38.71\00:36:39.77
You know, the problem with us--
00:36:39.80\00:36:40.83
oh, it's the
Sabbath, I got to do this,
00:36:40.86\00:36:44.05
oh man, I have to, do I?
00:36:44.08\00:36:45.86
Yes, to be faithful to
God, you have to do it.
00:36:45.89\00:36:48.27
If the Sabbath is
just this awful, drudgery,
00:36:48.30\00:36:52.50
that I'm required to do,
well, no wonder it's a bore.
00:36:52.53\00:36:55.13
What if we shifted the paradigm
00:36:55.16\00:36:56.37
and we thought of it as
recharging, refreshment.
00:36:56.40\00:36:59.01
You know what, it would become
00:36:59.04\00:37:00.07
the most joyful day of the week.
00:37:00.10\00:37:01.45
Wouldn't it? It's all up here.
00:37:01.48\00:37:05.85
Exodus, go back to
31:17, The Sabbath God says,
00:37:05.88\00:37:11.80
"It is a sign between
Me and my friends forever."
00:37:11.83\00:37:15.40
"For in six days the Lord
made the heavens and the earth,
00:37:15.43\00:37:18.45
and on the seventh day He
rested and was refreshed."
00:37:18.48\00:37:22.41
There it is
dynamic verb number two.
00:37:22.44\00:37:24.29
There are only two
of them, write it down,
00:37:24.32\00:37:25.35
number two, "rested."
00:37:25.38\00:37:27.34
Number two is rested.
00:37:27.37\00:37:28.82
Now interesting on the Hebrew
word here, very interesting.
00:37:28.85\00:37:31.72
The Hebrew word
here for rest is Shabath,
00:37:31.75\00:37:35.50
from whence comes our
word Sabbath or Sabbath.
00:37:35.53\00:37:39.17
But notice a literal
meaning of the word, rest.
00:37:39.20\00:37:42.75
It actually means
to cease or desist.
00:37:42.78\00:37:46.97
So that when God
rested on the Sabbath
00:37:47.00\00:37:48.80
he just ceased what he has been
doing the previous six days.
00:37:48.83\00:37:51.76
That explains why
I can say God rested.
00:37:51.79\00:37:53.80
I mean do you
think that Creator came
00:37:53.83\00:37:54.87
to that seventh day
and said, man, guys,
00:37:54.90\00:37:56.36
this is, this was hard work,
00:37:56.39\00:37:58.33
can somebody give us a day
off or something right now.
00:37:58.36\00:38:01.19
Can you imagine
Him out of breath
00:38:01.22\00:38:02.31
that I got to
recharge my batteries.
00:38:02.34\00:38:05.62
Didn't need it at all.
00:38:05.65\00:38:07.32
Do you know what, God gave
less than a dozen commands.
00:38:07.35\00:38:10.64
Creation week, that's
not going to wear you out.
00:38:10.67\00:38:12.49
And two human sculptures,
00:38:12.52\00:38:14.27
that would take a
little bit of time
00:38:14.30\00:38:15.50
but it's not
going to wear you out.
00:38:15.53\00:38:19.02
But the word rested
means to cease and desist,
00:38:19.05\00:38:23.88
He quit doing
what He had been doing
00:38:23.91\00:38:26.50
those six days
on the seventh day.
00:38:26.53\00:38:30.89
Right, jot that down, will you?
00:38:30.92\00:38:31.95
When God rested on the Sabbath,
00:38:31.98\00:38:33.03
He simply ceased doing
00:38:33.06\00:38:34.53
what he'd been
doing all week long
00:38:34.56\00:38:36.15
and that's why
ladies and gentlemen,
00:38:36.18\00:38:37.70
He invites us to do the
same in the fourth commandment
00:38:37.73\00:38:40.05
of the Ten Commandments.
00:38:40.08\00:38:41.13
When He's talking
about the Seventh day Sabbath
00:38:41.16\00:38:42.50
He says, listen guys,
don't work, take a break.
00:38:42.53\00:38:44.76
Give it a rest.
Slow down, slow down.
00:38:44.79\00:38:50.38
Cease and desist,
00:38:50.41\00:38:52.09
that's what I
did when I made you.
00:38:52.12\00:38:54.75
That's what I want you
to do when you come to me.
00:38:54.78\00:38:56.55
Just slow down.
00:38:56.58\00:39:00.14
I'm not against work, God says.
00:39:00.17\00:39:02.12
I've made you to work.
00:39:02.15\00:39:04.37
You're a strong
worker, you're a hard worker
00:39:04.40\00:39:06.36
and I'm proud of you for it.
00:39:06.39\00:39:07.51
But there comes a
time when you got to cut--
00:39:07.54\00:39:08.90
you got to stop,
just take a break.
00:39:08.93\00:39:12.51
We'll call it my Sabbath.
00:39:12.54\00:39:14.27
You and me, cease and desisted.
00:39:14.30\00:39:17.53
Yeah, but what's
the deal about ceasing?
00:39:17.56\00:39:19.30
I mean, what do
we have to cease?
00:39:19.33\00:39:21.31
Everybody knows
00:39:21.34\00:39:22.37
that one of the great
principles of friendships
00:39:22.40\00:39:24.81
is that you must
remove the distractions
00:39:24.84\00:39:28.28
so that you can
focus on the relationships.
00:39:28.31\00:39:32.01
Let's put that on the screen,
00:39:32.04\00:39:33.07
you must remove the distractions
00:39:33.10\00:39:35.55
so that you can
focus on the relationship.
00:39:35.58\00:39:40.23
Now that it is
praying time here in Andrews,
00:39:40.26\00:39:41.64
I know that when I
walk in, in the evening
00:39:41.67\00:39:42.93
when I walk in
front of Lamps and Hall,
00:39:42.96\00:39:44.00
the women's residence,
00:39:44.03\00:39:45.07
I got to walk
looking straight ahead.
00:39:45.10\00:39:47.50
I will not look to my
right, to the park benches,
00:39:47.53\00:39:49.62
I will not look to my
left, to the parked cars.
00:39:49.65\00:39:51.40
I'll just will
look straight ahead.
00:39:51.43\00:39:54.03
You know why?
00:39:54.06\00:39:55.09
Because young adults
have figured that out.
00:39:55.12\00:39:56.95
You guys are brilliant,
you have figured it out.
00:39:56.98\00:39:58.54
One of the great
secrets to relationships
00:39:58.57\00:40:00.09
is you got to cut
out the distractions
00:40:00.12\00:40:01.89
so you can focus
only on that relationship.
00:40:01.92\00:40:04.95
And some of you
guys are so focused,
00:40:04.98\00:40:06.46
I wouldn't want
to even interrupt.
00:40:06.49\00:40:10.33
So I just look straight ahead,
00:40:10.36\00:40:12.25
pretend like I
didn't see anything.
00:40:12.28\00:40:16.86
Because every friendship
needs that, doesn't it,
00:40:16.89\00:40:18.74
you got to cut
out the distractions
00:40:18.77\00:40:20.90
so that you can
focus on the relationship.
00:40:20.93\00:40:22.96
Hey listen, have you
ever been with somebody?
00:40:22.99\00:40:25.05
You don't have to be a
young adult for this one.
00:40:25.08\00:40:26.68
Have you ever, have you
ever been with somebody?
00:40:26.71\00:40:29.23
And you've been
going for five minutes,
00:40:29.26\00:40:30.89
you've been talking.
00:40:30.92\00:40:31.98
And you suddenly realize
that person, the body is here,
00:40:32.01\00:40:37.07
I swear the body is right here,
00:40:37.10\00:40:39.26
but that person is
a 1,000 miles away.
00:40:39.29\00:40:44.12
How does it feel
when that happens?
00:40:44.15\00:40:45.41
How do you feel?
00:40:45.44\00:40:47.19
Don't you feel
kind of like a fool?
00:40:47.22\00:40:49.36
I mean, talking and
talking and talking and talking.
00:40:49.39\00:40:53.28
You must been
talking to the wall.
00:40:53.31\00:40:56.88
You see, you can
be physically present.
00:40:56.91\00:41:00.44
You can be physically
present in a relationship.
00:41:00.47\00:41:03.08
And you can be emotionally
00:41:03.11\00:41:04.24
and you can be
mentally a 1,000 miles away.
00:41:04.27\00:41:09.12
And oh, boy, is that
true about God's gift,
00:41:09.15\00:41:14.75
of that seventh day.
00:41:14.78\00:41:15.91
Physically
present in a counterfort,
00:41:15.94\00:41:17.44
yes sir, check.
00:41:17.47\00:41:20.51
Mind a million miles away.
00:41:20.54\00:41:28.01
That's why God
uses the word Sabbath,
00:41:28.04\00:41:30.96
which not only means to
rest, it means to cease,
00:41:30.99\00:41:33.47
because He wants us to cease.
00:41:33.50\00:41:34.99
What is necessary,
come on you got to do this,
00:41:35.02\00:41:37.01
this is important,
you got to be distracted
00:41:37.04\00:41:38.58
with these priorities
over these past six days.
00:41:38.61\00:41:40.57
But what I'm asking you
to do is cease, just stop.
00:41:40.60\00:41:43.37
Stop all that good stuff
00:41:43.40\00:41:44.72
and now let's
just focus, you and me.
00:41:44.75\00:41:46.56
Let's just focus,
you and me together.
00:41:46.59\00:41:52.12
How does He put it here
in Exodus 31, write it down.
00:41:52.15\00:41:55.01
"The Sabbath is a sign
between Me and you forever,
00:41:55.04\00:41:57.61
the sign of our
forever friendship."
00:41:57.64\00:42:02.32
I want to tell you
something, ladies and gentlemen,
00:42:02.35\00:42:03.63
the Sabbath is exclusively,
00:42:03.66\00:42:05.59
exclusively
about a relationship.
00:42:05.62\00:42:08.16
People think it's about
a calendar and some time,
00:42:08.19\00:42:10.26
no, it's about our relationship
00:42:10.29\00:42:13.35
with the Almighty,
Creator of the universe.
00:42:13.38\00:42:18.09
And as everybody knows if
you want to grow a friendship,
00:42:18.12\00:42:21.14
you unplug the distractions
00:42:21.17\00:42:22.98
so that you can
focus on that relationship.
00:42:23.01\00:42:26.13
So hey, guys, remember
this little bag down here,
00:42:26.16\00:42:28.64
all these little recharges?
00:42:28.67\00:42:31.79
I'm going to put
something practical on the table
00:42:31.82\00:42:33.79
and I want to see how
hard you debate me on this one.
00:42:33.82\00:42:36.84
I'm prepared for
you to argue, all right.
00:42:36.87\00:42:40.01
Here's what I'm
going to suggest.
00:42:40.04\00:42:42.46
What would happen
if on the Sabbath,
00:42:42.49\00:42:45.25
on the seventh day Sabbath,
00:42:45.28\00:42:46.88
we unplug them all?
00:42:46.91\00:42:52.90
You say, what are
you talking about?
00:42:52.93\00:42:54.40
I'm talking about unplugging
the high speed internet.
00:42:54.43\00:42:58.37
Unplugging the cell
phone. You're kidding me.
00:42:58.40\00:43:02.75
I'm talking about
unplugging the television.
00:43:02.78\00:43:06.17
Unplugging the
radio, except for W.A.U.S.
00:43:06.20\00:43:11.88
I'm talking about
unplugging the emails.
00:43:11.91\00:43:15.25
Unplugging your
MySpace, Facebook account.
00:43:15.28\00:43:20.89
I'm talking about
unplugging the newspaper
00:43:20.92\00:43:26.05
and the 24 hour news
channels, just unplugged.
00:43:26.08\00:43:29.01
I know what you're thinking.
00:43:29.04\00:43:30.07
What kind of a weirdo, fanatic,
have you become, pastor?
00:43:30.10\00:43:34.25
Fair enough.
00:43:34.28\00:43:35.33
Let me tell you, let me
just clarify what I mean.
00:43:35.36\00:43:38.17
Because I'm not talking about
unplugging from technology.
00:43:38.20\00:43:44.08
I'm talking about unplugging
00:43:44.11\00:43:45.45
from what the
technology connects us to.
00:43:45.48\00:43:49.97
See.
00:43:50.00\00:43:52.47
The problem is not with me.
00:43:52.50\00:43:54.04
The problem-- hey, hey,
the problem is with all of us.
00:43:54.07\00:43:57.75
We have all
become the most connected
00:43:57.78\00:44:02.54
but addicted
generation in history.
00:44:02.57\00:44:05.39
Addicted to our 24/7
demand for technology
00:44:05.42\00:44:10.32
and information
and it's called glut.
00:44:10.35\00:44:13.55
We never unplug. I
don't unplug at night.
00:44:13.58\00:44:16.73
I don't unplug in the day.
00:44:16.76\00:44:17.83
These things are
always plugged in.
00:44:17.86\00:44:19.83
I don't know may be
our-- may be stock futures,
00:44:19.86\00:44:21.89
there will be a
plunge in stock futures.
00:44:21.92\00:44:23.62
May be I'll have an
unexpected email bulletin.
00:44:23.65\00:44:26.29
May be a new friend will
show up on my MySpace account
00:44:26.32\00:44:29.26
and I got to
make sure I'm there.
00:44:29.29\00:44:31.21
So much so that even
when we go to church,
00:44:31.24\00:44:33.29
we've got our
Blackberries and our cell phones
00:44:33.32\00:44:36.16
and they're
vibrating and even beeping
00:44:36.19\00:44:38.44
and we'll pull it
out and be obedient
00:44:38.47\00:44:40.09
as little servants and say,
00:44:40.12\00:44:41.70
who might be calling me now?
00:44:41.73\00:44:44.15
God has no
MySpace on the Sabbath.
00:44:49.35\00:44:54.33
It's all our space.
00:44:54.36\00:44:56.74
Because all my
gadgets are plugged in.
00:44:56.77\00:45:00.82
Bring it on.
00:45:00.85\00:45:02.96
I'll be there in
an instant for you.
00:45:02.99\00:45:07.05
Have you noticed at some times
00:45:07.08\00:45:08.26
you can be physically
present in a relationship
00:45:08.29\00:45:11.38
and be emotionally and
mentally a million miles away?
00:45:11.41\00:45:15.65
Jot this down, will you?
00:45:22.50\00:45:24.28
In the Bible, God
calls the Sabbath MyDay.
00:45:24.31\00:45:27.44
And by the way if He
were doing the Bible now,
00:45:27.47\00:45:29.54
He'd put the MyDay
together, wouldn't He?
00:45:29.57\00:45:31.03
Yep.
00:45:31.06\00:45:32.46
But today, I believe
God would surely call
00:45:32.49\00:45:34.16
the Sabbath MySpace.
00:45:34.19\00:45:36.82
Keep your pen moving.
00:45:36.85\00:45:38.49
Six days, God says, hey, listen.
00:45:38.52\00:45:39.72
"Six days I give
to you to do your work
00:45:39.75\00:45:40.94
and to grow your networks
00:45:40.97\00:45:42.00
and to utilize
you're your technologies
00:45:42.03\00:45:43.24
and please expand
your connectivities."
00:45:43.27\00:45:44.99
But the seventh day is
the MySpace Sabbath day
00:45:45.02\00:45:48.28
of the Lord your God.
00:45:48.31\00:45:50.71
Keep your pen moving.
00:45:50.74\00:45:51.77
And in the
MySpace of my Sabbaths,
00:45:51.80\00:45:54.31
you shall unplug your gadgets
00:45:54.34\00:45:56.78
that you might
plug into your God.
00:45:56.81\00:46:01.16
Unplug.
00:46:01.19\00:46:04.02
Guys, this is
what's so embarrassing.
00:46:04.05\00:46:07.95
This is totally
counter intuitive
00:46:07.98\00:46:14.21
to our high-techie mindset.
00:46:14.24\00:46:17.29
This is it, this
is the exact opposite.
00:46:17.32\00:46:19.90
Because what God is saying is,
00:46:19.93\00:46:22.41
you've got to
unplug in order to plug in.
00:46:22.44\00:46:27.76
And that's crazy.
00:46:27.79\00:46:28.82
No, no, you got to plug in, God.
00:46:28.85\00:46:30.69
You got this
to, hold it hold it,
00:46:30.72\00:46:31.79
you got to plug in.
00:46:31.82\00:46:32.87
No, God says, no, no, no, no.
00:46:32.90\00:46:34.42
You've got to
unplug in order to plug in.
00:46:34.45\00:46:40.22
"Be still," Psalm
46, write this down.
00:46:40.25\00:46:42.69
"Be still and know,
00:46:42.72\00:46:49.78
be still and
know that I am God."
00:46:49.81\00:46:55.49
I've been your friend
from the get go, boy, girl.
00:46:55.52\00:46:59.54
When you were born
and your parents did this,
00:46:59.57\00:47:03.18
I was there.
00:47:03.21\00:47:04.83
I have marked you
from the beginning.
00:47:04.86\00:47:08.69
I'm only asking for
the last day of the week.
00:47:08.72\00:47:13.16
Could you unplug
from the other six days
00:47:13.19\00:47:16.58
and come to me on this last one?
00:47:16.61\00:47:18.40
I know you got to study.
00:47:18.43\00:47:19.84
I know you've got
those crazy schedules.
00:47:19.87\00:47:23.27
I'll let you live with it.
00:47:23.30\00:47:24.92
But I'm asking
you, on the last day,
00:47:24.95\00:47:28.89
the seventh day, would
you mind unplugging the week.
00:47:28.92\00:47:34.56
So that is just you and me.
00:47:34.59\00:47:38.03
I know it's counter intuitive
to our high-techie way of life
00:47:38.06\00:47:40.99
but that's what God's saying.
00:47:41.02\00:47:42.05
By the way, He's
doing it through the Hebrew.
00:47:42.08\00:47:44.63
The intentional
placement of the Hebrew,
00:47:44.66\00:47:46.62
the unplugged, cease and desist.
00:47:46.65\00:47:49.74
The unplugged verb comes first
00:47:49.77\00:47:52.11
and after you've
unplugged then you refresh,
00:47:52.14\00:47:54.51
then you plug in for recharging.
00:47:54.54\00:47:56.88
The order is correct.
00:47:56.91\00:47:58.77
It seems backwards to
our third millennial minds,
00:47:58.80\00:48:02.33
but it's right.
00:48:02.36\00:48:03.39
Unplug, so that you can plug in.
00:48:03.42\00:48:07.27
MySpace, you and me, 24 hours.
00:48:07.30\00:48:13.53
I've given you my life,
I'm asking for 24 hours.
00:48:13.56\00:48:17.89
Isn't that great,
guys? Isn't that great?
00:48:17.92\00:48:19.81
The Desire of Ages,
by the way, comes along
00:48:19.84\00:48:21.56
and it's commenting on
this Psalm 46 statement of God.
00:48:21.59\00:48:25.37
You know, I love this
line from Desire of Ages,
00:48:25.40\00:48:26.70
"when every
other voice is hushed,
00:48:26.73\00:48:28.62
and in quietness
we wait before Him,
00:48:28.65\00:48:31.21
the silence of the soul."
00:48:31.24\00:48:33.27
Read with the
gadgets turned off.
00:48:33.30\00:48:35.59
"The silence of the soul makes
00:48:35.62\00:48:37.96
more distinct the voice of God."
00:48:37.99\00:48:43.64
Now I'm going to
make a statement here.
00:48:43.67\00:48:50.10
I believe, that if we
will give God the priority
00:48:50.13\00:48:57.20
His relationship
is inviting us to,
00:48:57.23\00:49:01.18
every other
relationship in our lives
00:49:01.21\00:49:05.63
will begin to
quietly fit together.
00:49:05.66\00:49:10.16
I believe that when Jesus
said in the Sermon on the Mount,
00:49:10.19\00:49:12.85
"Seek first, the kingdom
of God and his righteousness."
00:49:12.88\00:49:16.15
He means plug into me first.
00:49:16.18\00:49:19.71
And I'll take care of every
other relationship you have.
00:49:19.74\00:49:24.56
So at the end of every week,
00:49:24.59\00:49:27.81
I'm going to ask two
things unplug and then plug in.
00:49:27.84\00:49:35.72
And I promise you,
00:49:35.75\00:49:37.41
I will recharge
every battery you have.
00:49:37.44\00:49:44.39
I want to end with something
from the Wall Street journal,
00:49:44.42\00:49:46.65
came out a couple of weeks ago.
00:49:46.68\00:49:50.31
It's written by, Steven Moore,
00:49:50.34\00:49:51.84
who is the economics up
head page senior editor.
00:49:51.87\00:49:57.18
Obviously he teaches
economy classes in colleges
00:49:57.21\00:49:59.91
because he opens up with a story
00:49:59.94\00:50:01.09
and I'm going to read
that one to you right here.
00:50:01.12\00:50:03.78
Steven Moore.
00:50:03.81\00:50:07.14
"A few weeks ago, I gave a talk
00:50:07.17\00:50:08.62
on the state of the economy
to a group of college students,
00:50:08.65\00:50:12.44
almost all
Barrack Obama enthusiasts.
00:50:12.47\00:50:16.56
"Who were griping
about how down-right
00:50:16.59\00:50:18.48
awful things are
in America today.
00:50:18.51\00:50:23.34
As they sip
their Starbucks latte's
00:50:23.37\00:50:25.78
and adjusted their
designer sunglasses,
00:50:25.81\00:50:29.16
they recited their grievances.
00:50:29.19\00:50:31.10
The country is awash in debt,
that we will have to pay off.
00:50:31.13\00:50:34.42
The middle class is shrinking,
the polar ice caps are melting
00:50:34.45\00:50:37.45
and college is expensive.
00:50:37.48\00:50:42.21
I've been
speaking to groups like
00:50:42.24\00:50:43.45
this one for more than 20 years,
00:50:43.48\00:50:44.86
but I have never confronted
such universal pessimism
00:50:44.89\00:50:49.18
from a young audience.
00:50:49.21\00:50:50.33
I mean, Its members acted
00:50:50.36\00:50:51.39
as if the
hardships of modern life
00:50:51.42\00:50:52.80
are making it
nearly impossible for them
00:50:52.83\00:50:54.46
to get out of
bed in the morning.
00:50:54.49\00:50:58.83
So I conducted a survey
of these grim youngsters.
00:50:58.86\00:51:05.39
How many of you, I
asked, own a laptop?
00:51:05.42\00:51:10.43
A cell phone?
00:51:10.46\00:51:12.15
An iPod, a DVD player,
a flat-screen digital TV?
00:51:12.18\00:51:15.02
To every question
somewhere between two-thirds
00:51:15.05\00:51:17.47
and all of the
hands in the room arose.
00:51:17.50\00:51:19.55
They didn't even get my point.
00:51:19.58\00:51:20.89
"Well, duh,"
one of them scoffed,
00:51:20.92\00:51:23.00
"who doesn't have
an iPod these days?"
00:51:23.03\00:51:26.95
I was way too
embarrassed to tell them
00:51:26.98\00:51:28.42
that I, for one, don't.
00:51:28.45\00:51:32.75
They thought that
living without these products
00:51:32.78\00:51:38.41
would be like going
back to prehistoric times."
00:51:38.44\00:51:45.18
Ladies and gentlemen,
maybe that's the solution.
00:51:45.21\00:51:48.40
Going back to prehistoric times.
00:51:48.43\00:51:51.30
In the beginning, God created
the heavens and the earth
00:51:51.33\00:51:57.90
and then on the seventh day
He was rested and refreshed.
00:51:57.93\00:52:03.93
Do you suppose that's it.
00:52:03.96\00:52:06.11
And if you and I could
unplug from our gadgets
00:52:06.14\00:52:11.25
and plug in to our
God, His MySpace Sabbath,
00:52:11.28\00:52:16.04
do you suppose this is it?
00:52:16.07\00:52:17.13
His MySpace Sabbath
could turn out to be
00:52:17.16\00:52:19.40
the gladdest day of all.
00:52:19.43\00:52:25.64
Oh, God.
00:52:25.67\00:52:29.71
We have made
this so complicated.
00:52:29.74\00:52:34.00
We need to shift
the paradigm, that's it.
00:52:34.03\00:52:35.58
Just shift the paradigm.
00:52:35.61\00:52:38.09
Get off of this
obligatory observance stuff.
00:52:38.12\00:52:42.75
Get into this
recharging refreshment joy.
00:52:42.78\00:52:47.04
And so Father, I'm
praying for everybody.
00:52:47.07\00:52:49.73
I'm praying for all of
us. You know what we need.
00:52:49.76\00:52:54.77
You know what our
hearts long for most.
00:52:54.80\00:52:58.01
In your forever friendship
that gets plugged into
00:52:58.04\00:53:03.11
and recharged every seventh day.
00:53:03.14\00:53:07.27
May what we truly long
for most become best to us.
00:53:07.30\00:53:13.74
Wrapped up in our
friendship with you.
00:53:13.77\00:53:18.70
In Jesus' name we pray. Amen.
00:53:18.73\00:53:23.32
There is an old hymn,
00:53:27.41\00:53:28.85
we're going to sing
this on our way out the door.
00:53:28.88\00:53:30.41
382, open up your, your hymnal,
00:53:30.44\00:53:32.65
"O day of resting gladness."
00:53:32.68\00:53:34.94
It's an old, old,
old, old, old hymn,
00:53:34.97\00:53:38.27
we're going to
change the tune to it.
00:53:38.30\00:53:39.98
You'll recognize the
tune when you hear it.
00:53:40.01\00:53:42.15
But you know what,
let's just sing this.
00:53:42.18\00:53:44.16
It's just a short
little one, three stanzas, 382,
00:53:44.19\00:53:46.45
but lets just sing it
out as we stand up together.
00:53:46.48\00:53:49.17
"O day of resting gladness."
00:53:49.20\00:53:51.51
Celebrating the
gift of that MySpace.
00:53:51.54\00:53:56.31
O day of rest and gladness
00:54:31.17\00:54:35.30
O day of joy and light
00:54:35.33\00:54:39.69
O balm of care and sadness
00:54:39.72\00:54:44.31
Most beautiful, most bright
00:54:44.34\00:54:48.46
On thee, the high and lowly
00:54:48.49\00:54:53.02
Who bend before the throne
00:54:53.05\00:54:57.98
Sing, holy, holy, holy
00:54:58.01\00:55:02.77
To the Eternal One
00:55:02.80\00:55:08.89
Thou art a part protected
00:55:08.92\00:55:13.62
From storms that round us rise
00:55:13.65\00:55:17.91
A garden intersected
00:55:17.94\00:55:22.33
With streams of Paradise
00:55:22.36\00:55:26.91
Thou art a cooling fountain
00:55:26.94\00:55:31.57
In life's dreary sand
00:55:31.60\00:55:36.27
From thee, like
Pisgah's mountain
00:55:36.30\00:55:41.04
We view our promised land
00:55:41.07\00:55:48.10
A day of sweet reflection
00:55:48.13\00:55:52.58
Thou art a day of love
00:55:52.61\00:55:57.06
A day to raise affection
00:55:57.09\00:56:02.36
From earth to things above
00:56:02.39\00:56:06.94
New graces ever gaining
00:56:06.97\00:56:11.58
From this our day of rest
00:56:11.61\00:56:16.40
We seek the rest remaining
00:56:16.43\00:56:21.91
In mansions of the blest
00:56:21.94\00:56:27.19
And now may the grace
of the Lord Jesus Christ
00:56:33.04\00:56:36.46
and the love of God
00:56:36.49\00:56:38.42
and the communion
of the Holy Spirit
00:56:38.45\00:56:40.25
be with you all.
00:56:40.28\00:56:42.33
Amen.
00:56:42.36\00:56:43.60
I wanted to take
one more moment here
00:56:58.11\00:56:59.55
at the end of the
telecast to let you know
00:56:59.58\00:57:01.30
how grateful I am
for your journey with us,
00:57:01.33\00:57:04.39
with our New
Perceptions Ministry.
00:57:04.42\00:57:06.28
You may think
that New Perceptions
00:57:06.31\00:57:07.42
is only about television,
00:57:07.45\00:57:09.23
but I need to tell
you, we do have a website
00:57:09.26\00:57:11.72
which is more than
just the study guide.
00:57:11.75\00:57:13.75
I know we go to the
study guide every week
00:57:13.78\00:57:15.19
but if you go to our website,
00:57:15.22\00:57:16.27
let me put the
address on the screen again,
00:57:16.30\00:57:17.95
www.pmchurch.tv.
00:57:17.98\00:57:22.37
You'll find at
that website a blog.
00:57:22.40\00:57:24.12
I write every Wednesday.
00:57:24.15\00:57:25.18
I sit down with my
laptop and write up a blog,
00:57:25.21\00:57:26.99
something as
commenting on world events,
00:57:27.02\00:57:29.27
something local,
something national.
00:57:29.30\00:57:30.92
You get the blog.
00:57:30.95\00:57:32.21
You want archive,
00:57:32.24\00:57:33.64
previous teachings from
here in the Pioneer Pulpit,
00:57:33.67\00:57:35.73
you go to that
annotated archive.
00:57:35.76\00:57:38.36
You can pick out a
message, it will be sent to you.
00:57:38.39\00:57:41.02
You want to get into
the podcast business,
00:57:41.05\00:57:44.22
I am not real
high-techie on this
00:57:44.25\00:57:46.27
but if you click podcast,
00:57:46.30\00:57:47.67
you'll be able to connect
00:57:47.70\00:57:48.77
instantly with
every new teaching
00:57:48.80\00:57:50.21
that comes from
the Pioneer Pulpit.
00:57:50.24\00:57:51.80
The point is,
we're trying to connect
00:57:51.83\00:57:53.41
with a generation
on the move, on the go.
00:57:53.44\00:57:56.34
Thanks for being a part of it.
00:57:56.37\00:57:57.46
Thanks for your
prayer partnership.
00:57:57.49\00:57:58.61
We have got to
connect with this generation
00:57:58.64\00:58:01.23
at this time in earth's history.
00:58:01.26\00:58:03.25
And I'm grateful you and
I are sharing the mission.
00:58:03.28\00:58:05.75
God bless you, until next time.
00:58:05.78\00:58:07.67