Worthy, worthy, is the Lamb
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Worthy, worthy is the Lamb
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Worthy, worthy is the Lamb
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That was slain
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Glory, hallelujah!
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Praise Him, hallelujah!
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Glory, hallelujah
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To the Lamb!
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Savior, let Thy kingdom come!
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Now the power of sin consume
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Bring Thy blest millennium
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Holy Lamb
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Glory, hallelujah!
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Praise Him, hallelujah!
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Glory, hallelujah
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To the Lamb!
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Thus may we each moment feel
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Love Him, serve
Him Praise Him still
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Till we all on Zion's hill
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See the Lamb
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Glory, hallelujah!
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Praise Him, hallelujah!
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Glory, hallelujah
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To the Lamb!
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Glory, hallelujah!
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Praise Him, hallelujah!
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Glory, hallelujah
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To the Lamb!
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To the Lamb!
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To the Lamb!
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Do you feel The world is broken?
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We do
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Do you feel the shadows deepen?
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We do
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But do you know
That all the dark
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Won't stop the light
From getting through?
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We do
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Do you wish that you could see
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It all made new?
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We do
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Is all creation groaning?
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It is
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Is a new creation coming?
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It is
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Is the glory of the Lord
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To be the light
Within our midst?
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It is
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Is it good that we
remind Ourselves of this?
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It is
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Is anyone worthy?
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Is anyone whole?
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Is anyone able to break The seal
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And open the scroll?
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The Lion of Judah
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Who conquered the grave
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He is David's Root
And the Lamb who died
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To ransom the slave
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Is He worthy?
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Is He worthy?
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Of all blessing
And honor and glory
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Is He worthy of this?
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He is
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Does the Father truly love us?
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He does
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Does the Spirit move among us?
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He does
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And does Jesus, our Messiah
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Hold forever those He loves?
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He does
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Does our God intend
To dwell again with us?
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He does
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Is anyone worthy?
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Is anyone whole?
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Is anyone able to break The seal
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And open the scroll?
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The Lion of Judah
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Who conquered the grave
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He is David's root
And the Lamb who died
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To ransom the slave
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From every people and tribe
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Every nation and tongue
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He has made us a
kingdom And priests to God
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To reign with the Son
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Is He worthy?
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Is He worthy?
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Of all blessing
And honor and glory
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Is He worthy?
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Is He worthy?
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Is He worthy of this?
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He is!
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He is!
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Is He worthy?
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Is He worthy?
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He is!
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He is!
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Is He worthy?
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Is He worthy?
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He is!
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Father, we love You
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We worship
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And adore You
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Glorify Thy name
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In all the earth
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Glorify Thy name
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Glorify Thy name
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Glorify Thy name
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In all the earth
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Jesus, we love You
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We worship
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And adore You
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Glorify Thy name
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In all the earth
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Glorify Thy name
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Glorify Thy name
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Glorify Thy name
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In all the earth
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Spirit, we love You
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We worship
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And adore You
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Glorify Thy name
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In all the earth
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Glorify Thy name
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We will glorify
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Thy name
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Glorify Thy name
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In all the earth
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Glorify Thy name
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In all the earth.
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Dear Lord
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And Father of humankind
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Forgive our foolish ways
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Reclothe us In our rightful mind
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In purer lives Thy service find
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In deeper reverence, praise
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O Sabbath rest by Galilee
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O calm of hills above
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Where Jesus knelt
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To share with Thee
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The silence
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Of eternity
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Interpreted
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By love!
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Drop
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Thy still dews of quietness
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Till
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All our strivings cease
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Take from our souls
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The strain and stress
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And let our
ordered lives confess
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The beauty
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Of Thy peace
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The beauty
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Of Thy peace
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Breathe through the heats
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Of our desire
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Thy coolness and Thy balm
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Let sense be dumb
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Let flesh retire
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Speak through the earthquake,
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Wind, and fire
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O still, small Voice of calm
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O Sabbath rest
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O Sabbath rest.
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Let's pray.
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Father, that's our prayer.
00:14:01.27\00:14:05.44
In a world
ravaged by this pandemic,
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in a nation on edge,
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oh that we might
find this rest in Jesus.
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At the moments we now share,
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be clear, we
pray in Jesus' name,
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amen.
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This morning we're gonna
begin to see a side of America
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we never dreamed possible.
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Consider blue laws.
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Let's cut to the chase.
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Let's put Wikipedia
on the screen for us,
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please blue laws.
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"Blue laws also
known as Sunday laws
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are laws designed
to restrict or ban some
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or all Sunday
activities for religious
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or secular reasons
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particularly to promote
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the observance of a
day of worship or rest.
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Blue laws may
also restrict shopping
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or ban sale of certain
items on specific days,
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most often on
Sundays in the Western world.
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Blue laws are enforced
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in parts of the
United States and Canada,
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as well as some
European countries,
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particularly in Austria,
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Germany,
Switzerland, and Norway,
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keeping most
stores closed on Sundays."
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Speaking of America,
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I realized that
we're in the thick
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of a season of
political campaigning.
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And I know these three
words have been bandied
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about back and
forth law and order,
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law and order, law and order,
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well, who wouldn't
want law and order?
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I suppose it depends
on how you define it.
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Why do I bring it up today?
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Because the day
could come in America,
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that in order to
establish law and order
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to deal with its ills
00:15:48.28\00:15:50.61
America will choose to resort
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to these old kind
of sleepy blue laws,
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Sunday laws on many
of the state's books.
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And so believing that
an ounce of prevention
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is worth a pound of what?
00:16:05.06\00:16:06.90
Of cure.
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In advance of anything
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I want to share with you
00:16:09.90\00:16:12.43
why I don't believe
in Sunday blue laws.
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Let's go to the beginning.
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In the beginning,
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December 24, Christmas Eve 1968,
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the three astronauts
00:16:25.01\00:16:26.35
they're inside that
tiny little Apollo 8 capsule
00:16:26.38\00:16:28.78
are huddled around that portal,
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and they're looking down
00:16:30.25\00:16:31.59
on our
terrestrial blue green ball
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and the three of
them takes turns reading
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the first 10 verses
of the Book of Genesis,
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Genesis Chapter 1,
I want to go to that.
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We're not gonna
read the 10 verses,
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I'll just set-up for two.
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Go to the
beginning of your Bible,
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the Book of Genesis Chapter 1.
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They read from the King James.
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They read, by the way
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to the largest
television audience in history,
00:16:52.67\00:16:55.78
up until that moment.
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So the whole world is tuned in
00:16:57.61\00:16:59.55
as these
astronauts read these words.
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We'll read just verses 1 and 2.
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Genesis 1:1,
00:17:03.08\00:17:04.42
I'm in the New
International Version.
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"In the beginning..."
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Those are arguably
the most well-known words
00:17:07.92\00:17:09.56
of the Bible all over the planet
00:17:09.59\00:17:11.03
you can be an atheist to
know about in the beginning.
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"In the beginning
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God created the
heavens and the earth."
00:17:14.93\00:17:16.40
Verse 2, "Now the
earth was formless and empty,
00:17:16.43\00:17:19.57
darkness was over the surface
00:17:19.60\00:17:21.17
of the deep and
the Spirit of God
00:17:21.20\00:17:23.17
was hovering over the waters."
00:17:23.20\00:17:26.21
What follows is the
account of earth's creation
00:17:26.24\00:17:29.74
by the Creator in six days,
00:17:29.78\00:17:32.15
evening,
morning, evening, morning,
00:17:32.18\00:17:33.52
evening,
morning, evening morning,
00:17:33.55\00:17:34.95
six 24-hour days.
00:17:34.98\00:17:37.89
The week culminates
00:17:37.92\00:17:39.82
with the
addition of a seventh day.
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I want you to
drop-down please to Chapter 2.
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Chapter 2, and here comes
that last day of the week.
00:17:45.19\00:17:49.60
Thus, this is verse 1,
00:17:49.63\00:17:51.33
"Thus the heavens and
the earth were completed
00:17:51.37\00:17:53.17
in all their vast array.
00:17:53.20\00:17:55.50
By the seventh day
God had finished the work
00:17:55.54\00:17:57.87
he had been doing
00:17:57.91\00:17:59.37
so on the seventh day he
rested from all his work.
00:17:59.41\00:18:02.78
Then God blessed the seventh day
00:18:02.81\00:18:05.51
and made it holy,
00:18:05.55\00:18:07.52
because on it he rested
00:18:07.55\00:18:09.05
from all the work of
creating that he had done."
00:18:09.08\00:18:13.56
God says, "I have a
gift for you human race.
00:18:13.59\00:18:15.46
I just made you
on day number six.
00:18:15.49\00:18:16.99
I have a gift for you.
00:18:17.03\00:18:18.36
I'm gonna give myself to
you in the gift of the Sabbath
00:18:18.39\00:18:20.30
every seventh day
for the rest of time."
00:18:20.33\00:18:22.46
In perpetuity
00:18:22.50\00:18:23.93
as long as there is
life on this planet,
00:18:23.97\00:18:25.70
there will be a seventh day,
00:18:25.73\00:18:27.07
and every seventh
day will remind you
00:18:27.10\00:18:28.57
that you are
mine and I am yours.
00:18:28.60\00:18:30.71
I give myself to you
in the gift of this day.
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Wow.
00:18:33.84\00:18:35.24
That's pretty cool.
00:18:35.28\00:18:37.18
George McCready Price, the
philosopher, the scientist,
00:18:37.21\00:18:40.78
and the Bible scholar.
00:18:40.82\00:18:42.68
In that provocative book of his,
00:18:42.72\00:18:44.05
The Time of the
End, you got to see this.
00:18:44.09\00:18:46.55
A little twist here I
had never thought of before
00:18:46.59\00:18:49.66
and I predict a bunch
of you haven't either.
00:18:49.69\00:18:51.89
So this is
George McCready Price,
00:18:51.93\00:18:53.66
"From the beginning
the Creator planned to have
00:18:53.70\00:18:55.96
a memorial of
His method of his..."
00:18:56.00\00:18:58.37
Excuse me, "of his, "
00:18:58.40\00:18:59.73
and the italics are his,
"of his method of creating."
00:18:59.77\00:19:02.94
I thought that the
Sabbath was to be a memorial
00:19:02.97\00:19:05.77
of the fact that He created.
00:19:05.81\00:19:07.51
No, no, no,
McCready Price is saying,
00:19:07.54\00:19:09.64
"No, it's the method too."
00:19:09.68\00:19:11.71
"It would be for the
good and lasting happiness
00:19:11.75\00:19:14.78
of mankind for them to
remember His creatorship,
00:19:14.82\00:19:18.29
His power, His sovereignty,
He could have accomplished, "
00:19:18.32\00:19:22.99
this is true, isn't it?
00:19:23.02\00:19:24.36
"He could have accomplished
the making of the earth
00:19:24.39\00:19:26.06
and its plants and
animals in one day,"
00:19:26.09\00:19:28.30
could He have
done it in one day?
00:19:28.33\00:19:29.76
While he goes on, "or
even instantaneously."
00:19:29.80\00:19:31.87
Yo, let's have planet earth.
00:19:31.90\00:19:33.87
Fully populated.
00:19:33.90\00:19:35.24
He could have
done it. He didn't.
00:19:35.27\00:19:36.87
He chose to do it a certain way.
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"But he did not."
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No, no, no, no,
keep reading now.
00:19:41.28\00:19:42.64
"He might have prolonged
this creative act for ten days,
00:19:42.68\00:19:45.51
or thirty.
00:19:45.55\00:19:46.88
But He did not,
00:19:46.92\00:19:48.25
He deliberately
planned to do it by stages,
00:19:48.28\00:19:50.69
spread out over six days,
00:19:50.72\00:19:54.02
with a special
extra day at the close
00:19:54.06\00:19:56.49
as an official
memorial of what He had done
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and how He had done it."
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My, my, my, my, my,
00:20:01.26\00:20:02.80
there's
something about the method,
00:20:02.83\00:20:04.17
I never thought
about that before,
00:20:04.20\00:20:05.57
the fact, okay,
the Sabbath is, yo!
00:20:05.60\00:20:07.80
I came from a Creator,
00:20:07.84\00:20:09.90
you have a not just
the fact of creation,
00:20:09.94\00:20:12.07
the method of creation.
00:20:12.11\00:20:14.18
I did it in stages
00:20:14.21\00:20:16.11
so that I could
have a seven stage
00:20:16.14\00:20:18.68
and that'll be just
you and me together.
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Oh, my, can you believe
the gift of the Sabbath?
00:20:21.52\00:20:24.42
The brilliant Jewish
scholar Abraham Heschel,
00:20:24.45\00:20:28.12
he referred to the
Sabbath as a palace in time.
00:20:28.16\00:20:32.93
For the rest of time the Creator
00:20:32.96\00:20:34.50
every seventh day
communing with His creation,
00:20:34.53\00:20:37.97
drawing close to these
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who are created
in His own image.
00:20:39.37\00:20:41.57
He feels a special
affinity to you right now
00:20:41.60\00:20:44.54
because you're in His image.
00:20:44.57\00:20:46.81
You're not a
strange creation to Him.
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He feels a closeness to you.
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The Sabbath every seventh day
to remind us my, oh my, oh my.
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No wonder the Sabbath
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is both the geometric
center of the Ten Commandments.
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In Hebrew, the number of words
on either side is the same.
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So it's in the geometric center
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and it's also the
thematic and literary center.
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Come on. Let's go to Exodus 20.
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Let's go to the
Ten Commandments.
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Everybody loves
the Ten Commandments.
00:21:14.70\00:21:16.34
Everybody knows a story
about the Ten Commandments.
00:21:16.37\00:21:18.44
Hey, did you grow up
watching the Prince of Egypt?
00:21:18.47\00:21:20.34
Come on, tell me the truth.
00:21:20.38\00:21:21.71
Did you grow up
watching the Prince of Egypt?
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Yes, you did.
00:21:23.31\00:21:25.51
If you did not grow up
watching the Prince of Egypt,
00:21:25.55\00:21:27.95
then you're older and you watch
00:21:27.98\00:21:29.32
see Cecil B.
DeMille's The Ten Commandments,
00:21:29.35\00:21:31.89
but they did a lot
better with the animation.
00:21:31.92\00:21:33.96
Oh, I love the story.
00:21:33.99\00:21:35.32
Was it Moses? Wasn't it?
00:21:35.36\00:21:36.69
The Prince of Egypt,
Moses, out in that burning bush.
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What a story.
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And when you get to
the Ten Commandments,
00:21:43.00\00:21:44.37
you remember
seeing that hand of God.
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As God with His own finger,
writes the Ten Commandments,
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carves them into granite.
00:21:52.44\00:21:54.94
Oh, I love the story.
00:21:54.98\00:21:56.31
In fact, the Sabbath
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actually is
couched in two stories.
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My friend Sigve
Tonstad in his book,
00:22:00.52\00:22:04.02
The Lost Meaning
of the Seventh Day
00:22:04.05\00:22:05.39
has helped me to see this.
00:22:05.42\00:22:06.76
First, let me quote Tonstad,
00:22:06.79\00:22:08.12
and then we'll take a
look at those stories.
00:22:08.16\00:22:09.76
Let's put Tonstad
on the screen here.
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He's a physician.
00:22:11.16\00:22:12.49
He's a New Testament
scholar and a writer,
00:22:12.53\00:22:15.10
"The seventh day
is not willing, "
00:22:15.13\00:22:18.30
if the Sabbath
had a mind of its own.
00:22:18.33\00:22:19.87
"The seventh-day is
not willing to be estranged
00:22:19.90\00:22:23.81
from its narratival roots."
00:22:23.84\00:22:26.11
That's just theological speak
00:22:26.14\00:22:27.48
for those from the stories
that provide its foundation.
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Keep going.
00:22:30.81\00:22:32.15
"The story of God's faithfulness
00:22:32.18\00:22:33.78
that is etched
in the seventh-day,"
00:22:33.82\00:22:35.92
oh, I love this,
00:22:35.95\00:22:37.29
"envisions a chain
reaction of blessing,
00:22:37.32\00:22:39.89
forging the
Sabbath into a conduit
00:22:39.92\00:22:42.42
of grace to all creation."
00:22:42.46\00:22:45.66
What he's telling us is
you got to know the stories,
00:22:45.69\00:22:47.73
you got to know the stories.
00:22:47.76\00:22:49.16
Once you know the stories,
00:22:49.20\00:22:50.87
then the Sabbath
00:22:50.90\00:22:52.23
embedded in those two stories,
it shines with more glory.
00:22:52.27\00:22:57.11
Okay, so we got
to find the story.
00:22:57.14\00:22:58.77
So did you get to Exodus 20 here
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I'm talking I
haven't even gotten
00:23:00.18\00:23:01.51
to Exodus 20 yet.
00:23:01.54\00:23:02.88
Let's go to the
beginning of the commandments.
00:23:02.91\00:23:04.25
Exodus 20.
00:23:04.28\00:23:05.61
Okay, I got it.
00:23:05.65\00:23:06.98
Verse 1, and God
spoke all these words, okay,
00:23:07.02\00:23:08.35
so we know God
is gonna first speak
00:23:08.38\00:23:09.72
the commandments,
00:23:09.75\00:23:11.09
then He's gonna
write them with His finger.
00:23:11.12\00:23:14.02
Verse 2, Oh!
00:23:14.06\00:23:15.52
Before He even
begins the Ten Commandments,
00:23:15.56\00:23:17.36
He tells a story.
00:23:17.39\00:23:18.73
Look at this.
00:23:18.76\00:23:20.10
"I am the Lord your God,
who brought you out of Egypt,
00:23:20.13\00:23:23.16
out of the land of slavery."
00:23:23.20\00:23:25.93
Who doesn't love
the Exodus story?
00:23:25.97\00:23:27.37
Is there anybody here
00:23:27.40\00:23:28.74
that doesn't
love the Exodus story?
00:23:28.77\00:23:30.11
And even in the Prince of Egypt?
00:23:30.14\00:23:31.47
I love it. Once they get out.
00:23:31.51\00:23:33.31
They get out at midnight,
and they run into the Red Sea.
00:23:33.34\00:23:34.71
Do you remember that? Shew!
00:23:34.74\00:23:38.21
That wind and
the walls towering,
00:23:38.25\00:23:41.65
I love that part every
single time, don't you?
00:23:41.68\00:23:44.32
That's the story of the
Exodus. What's the Exodus?
00:23:44.35\00:23:46.65
It's when God
saved a nation of slaves.
00:23:46.69\00:23:50.53
He liberated
them. He delivered them.
00:23:50.56\00:23:51.89
He redeemed them.
00:23:51.93\00:23:53.26
He saved them before
He says a word about...
00:23:53.29\00:23:54.96
Hey, would you do
this for happiness?
00:23:55.00\00:23:56.36
And would you do
this for happiness?
00:23:56.40\00:23:57.73
Would you do that?
00:23:57.77\00:23:59.10
He says, "I
wanna tell you a story.
00:23:59.13\00:24:00.47
Don't you ever forget."
00:24:00.50\00:24:01.84
And by the way,
it's the greatest story
00:24:01.87\00:24:03.20
of liberation in
human literature,
00:24:03.24\00:24:08.31
except for Calvary.
00:24:08.34\00:24:10.38
And it was intended to
be the story of Calvary.
00:24:10.41\00:24:12.41
That's the whole point.
00:24:12.45\00:24:14.02
Deliverance, set free.
00:24:14.05\00:24:16.62
No more evil taskmasters.
00:24:16.65\00:24:19.25
Yep.
00:24:19.29\00:24:20.62
So He tells the story.
00:24:20.66\00:24:22.86
And then He tells
the Ten Commandments,
00:24:22.89\00:24:24.89
He speaks the Ten Commandments.
00:24:24.93\00:24:26.36
And then in the
fourth commandment,
00:24:26.39\00:24:27.90
He tells one more story.
It's the only other story.
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So I got to get
back to Exodus 20.
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And drop-down to
the fourth commandment
00:24:34.54\00:24:35.87
that will be verse 8.
00:24:35.90\00:24:38.14
"Remember the Sabbath
day by keeping it holy.
00:24:38.17\00:24:43.38
Six days you shall
labor and do all your work,
00:24:43.41\00:24:46.35
but the seventh day is a Sabbath
00:24:46.38\00:24:47.78
of the Lord your God.
00:24:47.82\00:24:49.18
On it you shall not
do any work, neither you,
00:24:49.22\00:24:51.42
nor your son or your daughter,
00:24:51.45\00:24:52.85
nor your male or female servant,
00:24:52.89\00:24:54.32
nor your
animals, nor any foreigner
00:24:54.36\00:24:56.19
residing in your towns."
00:24:56.22\00:24:57.56
Why? Verse 11.
00:24:57.59\00:24:58.99
"For in six days..."
00:24:59.03\00:25:00.36
Here comes the story. Now
I'm gonna tell you a story.
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"For in six days the Lord
made the heavens and the earth,
00:25:02.30\00:25:05.50
the sea, and
all that is in them,
00:25:05.53\00:25:07.84
but He rested
on the seventh day.
00:25:07.87\00:25:10.44
Therefore the Lord blessed
00:25:10.47\00:25:12.07
the Sabbath day
and made it holy."
00:25:12.11\00:25:15.54
Once upon a time,
00:25:15.58\00:25:17.38
before you were
born, I made your parents.
00:25:17.41\00:25:21.55
They were the
first two on this planet.
00:25:21.58\00:25:24.12
And I've been friends
with the human race ever since
00:25:24.15\00:25:26.32
no matter how you treat
Me, you are in My image.
00:25:26.35\00:25:31.19
And I longed for a
friendship with you too.
00:25:31.23\00:25:35.36
Every seventh day, that's a Ton,
00:25:35.40\00:25:36.87
Tonstad is telling us.
00:25:36.90\00:25:38.23
Every seventh day
two stories, Exodus,
00:25:38.27\00:25:40.67
that goes back to the creation
two great narratival bookends
00:25:40.70\00:25:46.94
for the entire human
race, the seventh day Sabbath.
00:25:46.98\00:25:49.61
I want to get
Tonstad one more time.
00:25:49.64\00:25:50.98
Let's put him
on the screen here.
00:25:51.01\00:25:52.45
"The person who experiences
00:25:52.48\00:25:54.32
God's
faithfulness in the rest, "
00:25:54.35\00:25:56.42
you're resting.
00:25:56.45\00:25:57.79
Come on it's a joy, the
Sabbath, you get to rest,
00:25:57.82\00:25:59.89
"in the rest of the Sabbath
00:25:59.92\00:26:01.29
is to extend the
privilege to son and daughter,
00:26:01.32\00:26:05.16
to male and female
slave, to the resident alien,
00:26:05.19\00:26:07.93
even to the cows,
the cattle, triggering,"
00:26:07.96\00:26:11.83
I love this, "triggering
an avalanche of blessing
00:26:11.87\00:26:14.40
that is to make all Creation
00:26:14.44\00:26:16.74
beneficiaries of the Sabbath."
00:26:16.77\00:26:18.31
Guess what?
00:26:18.34\00:26:19.67
When we celebrate the Sabbath,
this is what Tonstad is saying.
00:26:19.71\00:26:22.41
When God gave us the
Sabbath and we celebrate it,
00:26:22.44\00:26:24.48
the blessing is not just for me,
00:26:24.51\00:26:25.85
me, me, me, me.
00:26:25.88\00:26:27.22
No, it just kind of
00:26:27.25\00:26:28.58
is this chain
reaction of blessing,
00:26:28.62\00:26:29.95
it spreads even to animal life.
00:26:29.98\00:26:33.82
Man.
00:26:33.86\00:26:35.89
This must be a big deal.
00:26:35.92\00:26:37.69
This day must be a big
deal to God and His friends.
00:26:37.73\00:26:42.30
It's no wonder Jesus
00:26:46.43\00:26:49.04
one day decided to
give Himself a title.
00:26:49.07\00:26:52.04
I want you to see this title.
00:26:52.07\00:26:53.41
Now let's go to
the Book of Mark now.
00:26:53.44\00:26:55.11
That little dramatic
gospel, Mark Chapter 2.
00:26:55.14\00:26:59.48
Mark Chapter 2.
00:26:59.51\00:27:01.48
Let's drop-down
00:27:01.52\00:27:03.22
to the last two lines of Mark 2.
00:27:03.25\00:27:05.45
So Jesus is talking,
talking to His friends,
00:27:05.49\00:27:07.46
He's got His disciples.
00:27:07.49\00:27:08.82
They're all around Him.
00:27:08.86\00:27:10.19
And by the way,
it's on the Sabbath
00:27:10.23\00:27:11.56
when He's doing this.
00:27:11.59\00:27:12.93
So they're all around Him.
00:27:12.96\00:27:14.30
And He's loving on them.
00:27:14.33\00:27:15.66
And He says,
"Hey, guys, and ladies,
00:27:15.70\00:27:17.03
I wanna tell you something."
00:27:17.07\00:27:18.40
This is verse 27 of Mark 2.
00:27:18.43\00:27:19.77
"Then Jesus said to them,
00:27:19.80\00:27:21.14
'The Sabbath
was made for," what?
00:27:21.17\00:27:23.74
"For man, not
man for the Sabbath.'
00:27:23.77\00:27:27.48
So the Son of Man is
Lord even of the Sabbath."
00:27:27.51\00:27:33.38
He just gave Himself a title.
00:27:33.42\00:27:35.15
And by the way,
there's some Christians
00:27:35.18\00:27:36.52
and some
Christians have done it.
00:27:36.55\00:27:37.89
Okay.
00:27:37.92\00:27:39.25
Can you give that verse
up for a minute on the screen
00:27:39.29\00:27:40.62
that last that the verse 27?
00:27:40.66\00:27:45.06
Yeah, thank you. Watch this.
00:27:45.09\00:27:46.86
There are some
Christians who read it this way.
00:27:46.90\00:27:49.00
"Then Jesus said
to His disciples,
00:27:49.03\00:27:50.43
'The Sabbath was made for Jews,
and not Jews for the Sabbath."
00:27:50.47\00:27:57.27
Are you serious?
00:27:57.31\00:27:59.04
The Sabbath was made for Jews?
00:27:59.07\00:28:00.41
Oh, man, that's bad news for me.
00:28:00.44\00:28:01.78
You know why?
00:28:01.81\00:28:03.14
Because Genesis 2 says,
"Woman was made for man."
00:28:03.18\00:28:04.91
And if woman was
made for only Jews,
00:28:04.95\00:28:06.51
I'm in big trouble.
00:28:06.55\00:28:08.48
Right?
00:28:08.52\00:28:09.85
No, this is humanity.
00:28:13.52\00:28:15.62
This is the human race.
00:28:15.66\00:28:16.99
The Sabbath was
made for the human race,
00:28:17.03\00:28:18.36
not the human
race for the Sabbath.
00:28:18.39\00:28:22.03
In fact, you know what,
00:28:22.06\00:28:23.40
Jesus says, and
so the Son of Man...
00:28:23.43\00:28:24.83
Put that next
text up, please 28.
00:28:24.87\00:28:26.37
"So the Son of Man is
Lord even of the Sabbath."
00:28:26.40\00:28:29.34
This is the same word.
00:28:29.37\00:28:30.71
They say, "Dwight,
what does this word mean?
00:28:30.74\00:28:32.87
What is the actual
language?" Glad you ask.
00:28:32.91\00:28:35.04
William Skip MacCarty,
00:28:35.08\00:28:37.21
he wrote in a book
titled Perspectives
00:28:37.25\00:28:39.25
on the Sabbath Four Views
in his opening extended essay,
00:28:39.28\00:28:42.52
I wish you could read it.
00:28:42.55\00:28:43.89
It's just a dynamite
essay on the Sabbath.
00:28:43.92\00:28:45.92
Let's put William Skip MacCarty.
00:28:45.95\00:28:48.72
"When Mark
recorded Jesus' words,
00:28:48.76\00:28:51.36
'the Sabbath was made for man,'
00:28:51.39\00:28:52.99
he chose Greek terms
00:28:53.03\00:28:54.50
that would
communicate the universal
00:28:54.53\00:28:56.46
and permanent
character of the Sabbath."
00:28:56.50\00:28:58.63
Keep reading,
00:28:58.67\00:29:00.00
"The Greek term anthropos, okay?
00:29:00.04\00:29:02.64
Anthropos.
00:29:02.67\00:29:04.01
What is that?
00:29:04.04\00:29:05.37
Hey, anthropology. Come on.
00:29:05.41\00:29:06.74
We got
00:29:06.78\00:29:08.11
an anthropology department here.
00:29:08.14\00:29:09.48
What is anthropology?
00:29:09.51\00:29:10.85
The study of humanities,
not the study of males, right?
00:29:10.88\00:29:13.25
It's a study of the
human race, anthropology,
00:29:13.28\00:29:16.05
"The Greek term anthropos,"
00:29:16.08\00:29:17.42
the Sabbath was
made for anthropos,
00:29:17.45\00:29:19.45
"is the generic
term for humankind.
00:29:19.49\00:29:21.62
Numerous scholars
have understood Mark 2:27
00:29:21.66\00:29:24.13
as Jesus' affirmation
of the creation origin,
00:29:24.16\00:29:27.50
and universal
character of the Sabbath.'
00:29:27.53\00:29:30.73
That's what Jesus is saying.
00:29:30.77\00:29:32.83
He says, "I have a title
now, you can call me this.
00:29:32.87\00:29:35.90
I'm Lord of the Sabbath."
00:29:35.94\00:29:37.27
Wow.
00:29:37.31\00:29:38.64
He was Lord of
salvation, I knew that,
00:29:38.67\00:29:40.18
but now I can call
him Lord of the Sabbath.
00:29:40.21\00:29:42.84
He says, "That's my title.
00:29:42.88\00:29:44.28
I'm Lord of this day."
00:29:44.31\00:29:45.95
Let's read it
again one more time.
00:29:45.98\00:29:47.65
"Then Jesus said them,
'The Sabbath was made for man,
00:29:47.68\00:29:50.02
and not man for the Sabbath.
00:29:50.05\00:29:52.42
So the Son of Man is
Lord even of the Sabbath.'"
00:29:52.45\00:29:55.76
I tell you what?
00:29:55.79\00:29:57.13
I am against Sunday blue laws
as a solution to law and order
00:29:57.16\00:30:00.40
simply because Jesus is
Lord of the seventh day Sabbath.
00:30:00.43\00:30:05.17
That's why.
00:30:05.20\00:30:07.44
Let me show you another text,
00:30:07.47\00:30:08.80
go to the very end of the Bible,
00:30:08.84\00:30:11.07
the Book of Revelation.
00:30:11.11\00:30:12.44
That's our theme book here
00:30:12.47\00:30:13.81
for American
Apocalypse this series,
00:30:13.84\00:30:16.24
and oh boy,
don't miss next time.
00:30:16.28\00:30:18.98
Revelation Chapter 1.
00:30:19.01\00:30:21.22
Go to Revelation Chapter 1.
00:30:21.25\00:30:24.12
Verse 10 'cause we know
00:30:24.15\00:30:25.49
that John is has
been incarcerated
00:30:25.52\00:30:27.16
for his faith, is
a follower of Christ,
00:30:27.19\00:30:29.62
and they put them
on this penal colony.
00:30:29.66\00:30:31.13
There's little rocky
outcropping in the agency.
00:30:31.16\00:30:33.63
He can't swim
anywhere. He's there.
00:30:33.66\00:30:36.77
Verse 10, Revelation 1:10.
00:30:36.80\00:30:39.03
"And on the Lord's
Day I was in the Spirit,
00:30:39.07\00:30:43.24
and I heard behind me a
loud voice like a trumpet."
00:30:43.27\00:30:47.78
Huh, Dwight, I told you,
00:30:47.81\00:30:49.74
that's all I was
waiting for that text
00:30:49.78\00:30:51.11
because there it is.
00:30:51.15\00:30:52.48
That is proof that
Sunday is in the Bible.
00:30:52.51\00:30:57.09
There it is. Look at.
Dwight, do you have eyes?
00:30:57.12\00:30:59.35
The Lord's Day.
00:30:59.39\00:31:02.76
Are you serious?
00:31:02.79\00:31:05.46
Are you joshing me?
00:31:05.49\00:31:08.76
Are you telling me
00:31:08.80\00:31:10.13
that that one little phrase
00:31:10.17\00:31:11.70
tucked in at
the end of the Bible
00:31:11.73\00:31:13.07
somehow erases the
Creator's chiseled finger
00:31:13.10\00:31:16.27
scribbling in granite,
00:31:16.30\00:31:19.21
that wipes away
00:31:19.24\00:31:20.58
the Creator's gift of
the seventh day Sabbath
00:31:20.61\00:31:22.51
of the human race?
00:31:22.54\00:31:23.88
Are you jump
into that conclusion?
00:31:23.91\00:31:27.18
Man, don't try
getting your exercise
00:31:27.22\00:31:29.82
by jump into conclusions
that will kill you every time.
00:31:29.85\00:31:33.86
Be honest with me.
00:31:33.89\00:31:35.66
What are you saying
about this little Lord's Day?
00:31:35.69\00:31:37.19
That everything gets obliterated
00:31:37.23\00:31:38.66
all of God's outpouring,
00:31:38.69\00:31:40.83
Jesus, the Lord of the
Sabbath is just gone now.
00:31:40.86\00:31:45.47
What do you mean that
has referenced to Sunday?
00:31:45.50\00:31:49.07
What's the day Jesus is Lord of?
00:31:49.10\00:31:51.24
You tell me.
00:31:51.27\00:31:52.97
What did we just read
in the fourth commandment?
00:31:53.01\00:31:55.04
The Sabbath of
the Lord your God.
00:31:55.08\00:31:57.95
Didn't we read that?
00:31:57.98\00:31:59.61
Yeah, that's the Lord's Day.
00:31:59.65\00:32:00.98
You want the
Lord's Day? That's it.
00:32:01.02\00:32:03.08
Jesus said, "I'm
Lord of that day."
00:32:03.12\00:32:05.22
Look at Isaiah,
00:32:05.25\00:32:06.59
let's put Isaiah
Chapter 58 on the screen here,
00:32:06.62\00:32:09.02
if God speaking, "If
you call the Sabbath, "
00:32:09.06\00:32:11.39
he's talking about
the seventh day Sabbath
00:32:11.43\00:32:12.76
because that's the only
Sabbath the Bible knows,
00:32:12.79\00:32:15.06
"If you call the
Sabbath a delight
00:32:15.10\00:32:16.90
and the Lord's
holy day honorable."
00:32:16.93\00:32:20.87
What's going on here?
00:32:20.90\00:32:23.51
I have a day.
00:32:23.54\00:32:25.24
I've given you six days for you.
00:32:25.27\00:32:27.74
I have a day that I am Lord of.
00:32:27.78\00:32:32.01
The Lord's Day is
the seventh day Sabbath.
00:32:32.05\00:32:37.29
Skip again, William
McCarty on the screen,
00:32:37.32\00:32:40.66
"Biblical evidence
00:32:40.69\00:32:42.02
that the 'Lord's
Day' meant Sunday
00:32:42.06\00:32:43.43
is entirely lacking.
00:32:43.46\00:32:45.46
As does the rest
of the New Testament,
00:32:45.49\00:32:47.30
John in his own
Gospel twice refers to Sunday
00:32:47.33\00:32:49.83
as the first day of the
week,' not the 'Lord's Day.'"
00:32:49.86\00:32:51.90
He could have said
00:32:51.93\00:32:53.27
'cause it was
written 40, 50 years
00:32:53.30\00:32:54.64
after the resurrection,
he could have said,
00:32:54.67\00:32:56.00
"Listen, when Jesus
rose on the Lord's Day
00:32:56.04\00:32:57.37
because y'all know
that's the Lord's Day, right?
00:32:57.41\00:32:59.27
He could have
put that in he did it
00:32:59.31\00:33:00.64
because nobody had ever
heard of the Lord's Day,
00:33:00.68\00:33:03.48
as the day for Sunday."
00:33:03.51\00:33:06.01
The only way
John refers to Sunday
00:33:06.05\00:33:08.68
is it's the first day.
00:33:08.72\00:33:10.22
The only day in the
Bible that has a name,
00:33:10.25\00:33:13.46
a proper name, is the Sabbath,
00:33:13.49\00:33:16.86
when they did call
the day before the Sabbath
00:33:16.89\00:33:18.29
a preparation day to
get ready for the Sabbath.
00:33:18.33\00:33:21.13
That's all the
way through the Bible.
00:33:21.16\00:33:24.00
So the Lord's Day is
clearly in biblically.
00:33:24.03\00:33:28.30
Let's finish the quotation.
00:33:28.34\00:33:30.84
"The historical records reveal
00:33:30.87\00:33:33.17
that the first
unambiguous connection
00:33:33.21\00:33:35.51
between 'Lord's Day' and Sunday
00:33:35.54\00:33:38.25
does not show up in
Christian literature
00:33:38.28\00:33:39.81
until the second half
of the second century,
00:33:39.85\00:33:43.22
many decades after
John used the term.
00:33:43.25\00:33:45.39
Therefore, it is clear
00:33:45.42\00:33:46.76
that those who
interpret the 'Lord's Day'
00:33:46.79\00:33:48.92
in Revelation 1:10
00:33:48.96\00:33:50.63
as Sunday do this
00:33:50.66\00:33:52.09
on the basis of extra-biblical,"
00:33:52.13\00:33:54.03
it's not in the Bible,
00:33:54.06\00:33:55.40
you have to go
outside the Bible,
00:33:55.43\00:33:56.97
"that is much
later than the time
00:33:57.00\00:33:59.50
when John wrote Revelation."
00:33:59.53\00:34:01.20
Keep reading.
00:34:01.24\00:34:02.57
"This is an unsound methodology
of biblical interpretation."
00:34:02.60\00:34:06.98
And I agree.
00:34:07.01\00:34:10.68
Clearly, the Lord's Day
00:34:10.71\00:34:12.58
is the only holy day,
00:34:12.61\00:34:17.39
the only Sabbath,
00:34:17.42\00:34:19.52
which is the seventh
day, it's the Lord's day,
00:34:19.55\00:34:22.12
it's the day
that Jesus is Lord of,
00:34:22.16\00:34:24.09
to go to a century and
a half later in history
00:34:24.13\00:34:27.43
and grab the way the
Lord's Day is used in
00:34:27.46\00:34:29.80
and bring drag it
00:34:29.83\00:34:31.17
all the way back
in a New Testament
00:34:31.20\00:34:32.53
times to say,
this is what it means.
00:34:32.57\00:34:33.90
You can't do that.
00:34:33.94\00:34:35.44
No scholar would do that.
00:34:35.47\00:34:37.17
You can't do that.
00:34:37.21\00:34:39.51
It's found
nowhere but this one place
00:34:39.54\00:34:41.44
where John says on the Sabbath,
00:34:41.48\00:34:43.14
I was in meditation in prayer
when Jesus showed up to me.
00:34:43.18\00:34:47.48
The Lord of the Sabbath shows up
00:34:47.52\00:34:49.12
on the Sabbath day to John.
00:34:49.15\00:34:51.12
Take that one.
00:34:51.15\00:34:54.09
What's the deal, Dwight?
00:34:54.12\00:34:55.46
Here's the deal.
00:34:55.49\00:34:56.99
Jesus is Lord of the Sabbath.
00:34:57.03\00:34:58.53
And by the way, when He dies,
watch this, when He dies...
00:34:58.56\00:35:01.10
What's the day He died on?
00:35:01.13\00:35:02.76
Friday, Good Friday.
00:35:02.80\00:35:04.13
What's the day
He rose on? Sunday.
00:35:04.17\00:35:05.67
What does He do on this day?
00:35:05.70\00:35:07.67
This is the seventh
day. This is the Sabbath.
00:35:07.70\00:35:09.57
What does the
Creator of the universe
00:35:09.60\00:35:11.47
and the Creator
of the human race
00:35:11.51\00:35:13.04
and the planet called earth,
00:35:13.07\00:35:14.81
what does He do on the
day He gave as a day of rest?
00:35:14.84\00:35:18.51
He rests.
00:35:18.55\00:35:20.75
Arrest my case.
00:35:20.78\00:35:23.62
He rest.
00:35:23.65\00:35:25.39
He could have risen on Saturday.
00:35:25.42\00:35:27.02
Why not?
00:35:27.06\00:35:28.39
No, I gave this to you
to be our day together.
00:35:28.42\00:35:32.49
He rests.
00:35:32.53\00:35:34.66
He sleeps.
00:35:34.70\00:35:37.00
Wow.
00:35:37.03\00:35:39.33
I repeat if you're wanting
law and order as a solution
00:35:39.37\00:35:41.97
to America's ills,
00:35:42.00\00:35:43.34
I'd suggest you go to God's
law and a seventh day Sabbath.
00:35:43.37\00:35:46.21
And by the way,
let me quickly add,
00:35:46.24\00:35:48.14
I am against any civil
law that attempts to define
00:35:48.18\00:35:51.65
and legislate
religious practice,
00:35:51.68\00:35:53.95
the religious
practice of worship.
00:35:53.98\00:35:55.38
No law should tell us
anything about worship.
00:35:55.42\00:35:57.82
It is not the
domain of government.
00:35:57.85\00:35:59.95
It is the domain
of the Kingdom of God
00:35:59.99\00:36:02.49
and only that domain.
00:36:02.52\00:36:05.63
Yeah, there's only one holy day.
00:36:05.66\00:36:08.53
There's only one Lord's Day
00:36:08.56\00:36:09.90
and it's the
seventh day Sabbath day.
00:36:09.93\00:36:11.27
Well, how do we get
00:36:11.30\00:36:12.63
into this
confusing mess, Dwight?
00:36:12.67\00:36:14.34
Come on. Tell me.
00:36:14.37\00:36:16.37
Okay, go to the
Book of Daniel. Come on.
00:36:16.40\00:36:18.91
There's one line,
the Protestant reformers,
00:36:18.94\00:36:21.34
Martin Luther,
John Knox among them.
00:36:21.38\00:36:24.35
They went to the Book of Daniel
00:36:24.38\00:36:25.71
and they found this
one line and they said aha.
00:36:25.75\00:36:29.82
Go back to the Old Testament.
00:36:29.85\00:36:31.19
I want you to see
this in your own Bible.
00:36:31.22\00:36:32.55
Come on, Daniel.
00:36:32.59\00:36:33.92
Daniel is a
little bit hard to find.
00:36:33.96\00:36:35.36
You'll run into
Ezekiel real fast,
00:36:35.39\00:36:36.96
right after Ezekiel is Daniel.
00:36:36.99\00:36:38.89
So go to Daniel Chapter 7.
00:36:38.93\00:36:41.36
Because Daniel,
00:36:41.40\00:36:43.00
Daniel has just been
shown four animal kingdoms,
00:36:43.03\00:36:47.60
their
representatives, their symbols,
00:36:47.64\00:36:49.10
like the eagle is a
symbol of the United States.
00:36:49.14\00:36:50.74
They are symbols of empires.
00:36:50.77\00:36:52.54
There's a Babylonian Empire.
There's a Medo-Persian Empire.
00:36:52.57\00:36:55.51
There's the Greece Empire.
00:36:55.54\00:36:58.41
And then there's
the Roman Empire.
00:36:58.45\00:37:00.22
And when we pick it up
00:37:00.25\00:37:01.58
and that Daniel has just
seen this nondescript beast
00:37:01.62\00:37:05.05
with 10 horns and iron
fangs roaring out of the water.
00:37:05.09\00:37:11.09
And Daniel is so stunned.
00:37:11.13\00:37:13.96
Once you see this.
00:37:14.00\00:37:16.23
Verse 8 Daniel 7.
00:37:16.26\00:37:18.40
Drop-down to verse 8.
00:37:18.43\00:37:21.07
All right,
00:37:21.10\00:37:22.44
"While I was
thinking about the horns, "
00:37:22.47\00:37:24.24
there were 10
horns on this beast.
00:37:24.27\00:37:26.74
"While I was there
thinking about those horns,
00:37:26.78\00:37:28.64
there before me
was another horn."
00:37:28.68\00:37:30.71
Now keep reading, keep reading.
00:37:30.75\00:37:32.08
"A little horn,
which came up among them,
00:37:32.11\00:37:35.18
and three of the first horns
00:37:35.22\00:37:37.75
uprooted before
this little horn."
00:37:37.79\00:37:40.22
By the way, let me tell
you about this little horn.
00:37:40.26\00:37:41.79
"This horn had eyes like
the eyes of a human being,
00:37:41.82\00:37:46.09
and a mouth that
spoke boastfully."
00:37:46.13\00:37:48.96
When the apocalypse
describes this same power,
00:37:49.00\00:37:51.83
it records it this way
00:37:51.87\00:37:53.70
with a mouth that
spoke blasphemies.
00:37:53.74\00:37:57.34
You can only speak
blasphemies to God.
00:37:57.37\00:37:59.94
This is a religious power.
00:37:59.97\00:38:02.11
And because it's
symbolized by a horn,
00:38:02.14\00:38:03.91
it's also a political
00:38:03.95\00:38:05.45
because the horn in the Bible
00:38:05.48\00:38:06.82
is a sign of political strength.
00:38:06.85\00:38:08.78
So it's a
religiopolitical power.
00:38:08.82\00:38:12.32
The reformers were clear,
you know why they're clear?
00:38:12.35\00:38:15.06
Because of verse 25.
00:38:15.09\00:38:16.52
This is what convinced them.
00:38:16.56\00:38:17.89
When they saw this, they
said, we know who that horn is.
00:38:17.93\00:38:20.43
Drop-down to verse 25,
speaking of this little horn,
00:38:20.46\00:38:23.03
"He will speak
against the Most High,"
00:38:23.06\00:38:25.20
so he is antigod, antigod,
we'll talk about Antichrist.
00:38:25.23\00:38:32.21
Anti means
instead of or against.
00:38:32.24\00:38:36.31
"He will speak
against the Most High
00:38:36.34\00:38:39.48
and oppress the
Most High's holy people,
00:38:39.51\00:38:41.42
the saints,
00:38:41.45\00:38:42.78
and he will try to change
the set times and the laws.
00:38:42.82\00:38:46.69
And the holy
people will be delivered
00:38:46.72\00:38:48.22
into his hands for a
time, times, and half a time."
00:38:48.26\00:38:50.83
That's three and a half
years in Hebrew language,
00:38:50.86\00:38:52.66
three and a half years.
00:38:52.69\00:38:54.03
That's prophetic
time. That's 1,260 days.
00:38:54.06\00:38:57.17
That's the long
00:38:57.20\00:38:58.53
the reformers
are absolutely clear.
00:38:58.57\00:39:00.10
That is the long, dark,
00:39:00.14\00:39:01.80
bloody Middle Ages
of Christian history,
00:39:01.84\00:39:06.98
the dark and Middle Ages,
00:39:07.01\00:39:08.88
which were ruled by
one power, also in Rome,
00:39:08.91\00:39:15.58
the Antichrist.
00:39:15.62\00:39:18.35
And did you notice
what the power wants to do?
00:39:18.39\00:39:21.32
The power wants
to change set times
00:39:21.36\00:39:24.76
and holy laws.
00:39:24.79\00:39:29.30
Did the power do
00:39:29.33\00:39:31.13
what the
reformers believed it did?
00:39:31.17\00:39:34.04
Well, let's ask.
00:39:38.14\00:39:39.47
Let's ask the power in
all deference, and courtesy.
00:39:39.51\00:39:45.11
Have you changed
anything in Christianity
00:39:45.15\00:39:47.45
since you came to power?
00:39:47.48\00:39:49.62
Rome answers now.
00:39:49.65\00:39:51.22
The answers will
be on the screen.
00:39:51.25\00:39:53.25
These are her answers.
00:39:53.29\00:39:57.93
I have changed
the Ten Commandments.
00:39:57.96\00:40:01.30
And I have changed the Sabbath.
00:40:01.33\00:40:05.43
Woo, set times, holy law.
00:40:05.47\00:40:08.17
Let's see.
00:40:08.20\00:40:09.54
Let's go to Rome,
The Convert's Catechism.
00:40:09.57\00:40:11.27
This is a instruction book
00:40:11.31\00:40:12.64
for those who join
the Roman Catholic Church.
00:40:12.67\00:40:14.38
It's a little Q&A form.
00:40:14.41\00:40:15.94
Question: Which
is the Sabbath day?
00:40:15.98\00:40:17.75
Answer: Saturday
is the Sabbath day.
00:40:17.78\00:40:20.38
Question: Why do
we observe Sunday then
00:40:20.42\00:40:22.62
instead of Saturday?
00:40:22.65\00:40:23.99
Answer: We observe
Sunday instead of Saturday
00:40:24.02\00:40:26.65
because the Catholic
Church transferred the solemnity
00:40:26.69\00:40:29.76
from Saturday to Sunday.
00:40:29.79\00:40:34.23
That's pretty clear.
00:40:34.26\00:40:36.97
But the beloved Cardinal James
00:40:37.00\00:40:40.27
given in his bestseller book,
00:40:40.30\00:40:44.11
Faith of Our Fathers,
00:40:44.14\00:40:45.47
he was an American
Cardinal is just as clear,
00:40:45.51\00:40:47.74
but Cardinal
given on the screen.
00:40:47.78\00:40:49.24
"You may read the
Bible," the Cardinal writes,
00:40:49.28\00:40:51.65
"from Genesis to Revelation
00:40:51.68\00:40:53.01
and you will not
find a single line
00:40:53.05\00:40:54.82
authorizing the
sanctification of Sunday.
00:40:54.85\00:40:57.12
The scriptures enforce
00:40:57.15\00:40:58.49
the religious
observance of Saturday."
00:40:58.52\00:41:02.06
Whoa! What's going on here?
00:41:02.09\00:41:03.63
Let's go to the
Catholic Encyclopedia
00:41:03.66\00:41:05.46
and ask it.
00:41:05.49\00:41:07.33
Oh, the Catholic
Encyclopedia responds,
00:41:07.36\00:41:10.07
"The church, after
changing the day of rest
00:41:10.10\00:41:12.87
from the Jewish Sabbath of
the seventh day of the week
00:41:12.90\00:41:15.80
to the first made
the Third Commandment
00:41:15.84\00:41:18.34
refer to,"
00:41:18.37\00:41:19.71
wait a minute, wait a
minute, third commandment,
00:41:19.74\00:41:21.08
we just read the
fourth commandment.
00:41:21.11\00:41:22.94
Oh, it's the third
commandment for them
00:41:22.98\00:41:27.68
because there was a commandment
that was a bit bothersome.
00:41:27.72\00:41:32.95
Commandment number two reads,
00:41:32.99\00:41:34.59
"You shall not make
unto you any graven image."
00:41:34.62\00:41:40.10
And this power said,
00:41:40.13\00:41:41.70
"Let's remove that, please."
00:41:41.73\00:41:44.07
So it got removed. Oops!
00:41:44.10\00:41:45.47
We only have
nine commandments now.
00:41:45.50\00:41:47.37
Well, that's not a problem.
00:41:47.40\00:41:48.74
Take the 10th
commandment and cut it into.
00:41:48.77\00:41:51.31
And that's it now today.
00:41:51.34\00:41:53.64
That's why it's
called the third commandment.
00:41:53.68\00:41:55.71
Now we know it's
the fourth commandment.
00:41:55.74\00:41:57.71
Oh, but the law just
got changed, didn't it?
00:41:57.75\00:42:02.32
Read it again.
00:42:02.35\00:42:03.69
"The church after
changing the day of rest
00:42:03.72\00:42:05.05
from the Jewish Sabbath of
the seventh day of the week
00:42:05.09\00:42:07.42
to the first made
the Third Commandment
00:42:07.46\00:42:09.39
refer to Sunday
00:42:09.42\00:42:11.29
as the day to be kept
holy as the Lord's Day."
00:42:11.33\00:42:15.86
Yeah, but, Dwight,
come on, come on, come on.
00:42:15.90\00:42:17.77
If the Catholic
Church claims to have changed
00:42:17.80\00:42:19.33
the Sabbath from
Saturday to Sunday,
00:42:19.37\00:42:21.17
then why do most
Protestant churches
00:42:21.20\00:42:23.17
were also worship on Sunday
when they go by the Bible?
00:42:23.20\00:42:26.21
Well, that's a
very good question.
00:42:26.24\00:42:28.68
The Catholic Church in
fact asked that same question.
00:42:28.71\00:42:31.88
Why do you?
00:42:31.91\00:42:33.62
Notice this, down
here at Notre Dame
00:42:33.65\00:42:35.58
he was a priest and a professor,
00:42:35.62\00:42:36.95
his name, John A. O'Brien.
00:42:36.99\00:42:38.35
He wrote the book
The Faith of Millions.
00:42:38.39\00:42:40.86
We'll put it on
the screen right now.
00:42:40.89\00:42:42.92
John A. O'Brien, the
Late John A. O'Brien,
00:42:42.96\00:42:45.99
"But since Saturday, not Sunday,
00:42:46.03\00:42:48.66
is specified in the Bible,
00:42:48.70\00:42:50.77
isn't it curious that
non-Catholics who profess
00:42:50.80\00:42:53.50
to take their religion, "
00:42:53.54\00:42:54.94
he's talking about Protestants,
00:42:54.97\00:42:56.44
"who profess to
take their religion
00:42:56.47\00:42:58.01
directly from the Bible
and not from the church,"
00:42:58.04\00:43:00.24
he's talking about Rome,
00:43:00.28\00:43:01.81
"observed Sunday
instead of Saturday?"
00:43:01.84\00:43:04.35
Why does that happen?
00:43:04.38\00:43:05.71
Well, "Yes, of course,
00:43:05.75\00:43:07.08
it isn't consistent," he writes,
00:43:07.12\00:43:09.35
"but this change was
made about fifteen centuries
00:43:09.38\00:43:11.45
before Protestantism was born,
00:43:11.49\00:43:13.15
and by that time the custom
was universally observed."
00:43:13.19\00:43:16.16
Keep reading.
00:43:16.19\00:43:17.53
"They," the Protestants,
"have continued the custom,
00:43:17.56\00:43:19.93
even though it
rests upon the authority
00:43:19.96\00:43:22.86
of the Catholic Church
00:43:22.90\00:43:24.23
and not upon an
explicit text in the Bible."
00:43:24.27\00:43:26.84
They are not
following the Bible.
00:43:26.87\00:43:28.30
Their Catholic Church
says they're following us.
00:43:28.34\00:43:32.34
Keep reading one more line.
00:43:32.37\00:43:35.54
"That observance
remains," O'Brien writes,
00:43:35.58\00:43:40.12
"a reminder, "
to the Protestants,
00:43:40.15\00:43:42.18
"of the Mother Church," Rome,
00:43:42.22\00:43:44.02
"from which the
non-Catholic sects
00:43:44.05\00:43:46.69
broke away like a boy
running away from home
00:43:46.72\00:43:51.93
but still carrying
in his pocket a picture
00:43:51.96\00:43:54.53
of his mother or
a lock of her hair."
00:43:54.56\00:43:59.63
Mercy.
00:43:59.67\00:44:02.17
That wasn't for me.
00:44:02.20\00:44:04.31
That was from the
Roman Catholic Church
00:44:04.34\00:44:05.71
to every
Protestant in America today.
00:44:05.74\00:44:08.84
You have no reason
to worship on Sunday
00:44:08.88\00:44:11.98
except as you return
to the Mother Church.
00:44:12.01\00:44:14.28
Come on.
00:44:14.32\00:44:15.65
You have your mother's picture
00:44:15.68\00:44:17.22
in your pocket.
00:44:17.25\00:44:18.59
Don't you run away?
00:44:18.62\00:44:19.95
You got your mother's
picture in your pocket.
00:44:19.99\00:44:21.62
It's time to come home now.
00:44:21.66\00:44:23.36
We need to do business together.
00:44:23.39\00:44:25.13
Come on home.
00:44:25.16\00:44:27.76
Isn't that amazing?
00:44:27.80\00:44:29.63
He didn't hear that from me.
00:44:29.66\00:44:31.00
So you see.
00:44:35.94\00:44:38.11
That is why I am
against Sunday blue laws
00:44:38.14\00:44:41.64
as a law and order
solution in America
00:44:41.68\00:44:44.51
because I fear blue
laws one day will attempt
00:44:44.55\00:44:47.52
to legislate the wrong day,
00:44:47.55\00:44:49.52
the first day in
place of the right day,
00:44:49.55\00:44:51.92
the seventh day,
00:44:51.95\00:44:53.29
and then I'm in a jam
00:44:53.32\00:44:54.66
because now the law says
00:44:54.69\00:44:56.02
I have to do what I
know is not in the Bible.
00:44:56.06\00:44:58.09
Now come on, Dwight,
00:45:01.66\00:45:03.00
it's not gonna
happen in America.
00:45:03.03\00:45:04.73
We're free to
worship on any day we want.
00:45:04.77\00:45:08.70
My friend, my friend, my friend,
00:45:08.74\00:45:10.07
have you seen what's coming
down the track straight at us?
00:45:10.11\00:45:11.87
Anybody looking up?
00:45:11.91\00:45:13.24
Anybody looking ahead?
00:45:13.27\00:45:14.61
What's coming down
the track straight at us?
00:45:14.64\00:45:17.35
You can't be listening.
You can't be watching.
00:45:17.38\00:45:19.11
You can't be
thinking if you don't see it.
00:45:19.15\00:45:22.65
When I saw the
President of the United States,
00:45:22.68\00:45:26.15
cross the road
filled with protesters
00:45:26.19\00:45:28.32
outside the White
House the other day,
00:45:28.36\00:45:30.79
carrying of all
things in his hands a Bible
00:45:30.83\00:45:34.03
and posing for
pictures in front of a church
00:45:34.06\00:45:35.96
across the street.
00:45:36.00\00:45:37.33
It was a somber reminder to
me of Revelation 13 prediction
00:45:37.37\00:45:41.64
of what sadly will
come true in this nation.
00:45:41.67\00:45:44.57
And I saw it in the in the flash
00:45:44.61\00:45:47.31
of that's camera snap.
00:45:47.34\00:45:51.21
A politician
taking over and saying,
00:45:51.25\00:45:55.98
"Hey, I can do this too."
00:45:56.02\00:46:00.72
Wow, a prophecy about America
00:46:00.76\00:46:03.16
we're gonna examine
00:46:03.19\00:46:04.53
very carefully
next time together,
00:46:04.56\00:46:05.89
please don't miss it.
00:46:05.93\00:46:07.26
The title American Apocalypse
is the religious right, wrong.
00:46:07.30\00:46:13.03
Come on.
00:46:13.07\00:46:15.47
Straight down the track.
00:46:15.50\00:46:16.84
Straight down the track.
00:46:16.87\00:46:19.84
It's no wonder
God's last law and order
00:46:19.87\00:46:22.18
appeared to the human race.
00:46:22.21\00:46:25.71
I mean, how can you
talk about law and order
00:46:25.75\00:46:27.48
and reject the law of God?
00:46:27.52\00:46:28.88
Give me a break.
00:46:28.92\00:46:30.52
How can you talk
about law and order
00:46:30.55\00:46:33.15
and reject the law of God
00:46:33.19\00:46:36.32
if you're a spiritual leader,
00:46:36.36\00:46:40.06
God's last passionate
appeal to the human race.
00:46:40.10\00:46:43.13
He shouts out
00:46:43.16\00:46:44.77
the truth about the
Creator and His Sabbath,
00:46:44.80\00:46:47.47
blend with this.
00:46:47.50\00:46:49.07
Go to Revelation,
back to our theme book,
00:46:49.10\00:46:50.97
Revelation Chapter 14.
00:46:51.01\00:46:52.44
Now while you're
finding Chapter 14,
00:46:52.47\00:46:54.44
I want the cameras to
zoom in on this beautiful,
00:46:54.48\00:46:56.81
we call this the rose window.
00:46:56.85\00:46:59.55
This is a picture
of the Second Coming,
00:46:59.58\00:47:02.22
it towers high
above every act of worship
00:47:02.25\00:47:06.22
in this space.
00:47:06.25\00:47:07.59
And I'm glad the
ancient pioneers made sure
00:47:07.62\00:47:09.92
that this was the picture,
00:47:09.96\00:47:11.89
a reminder of what it
means to be an Adventist,
00:47:11.93\00:47:15.06
a Seventh-day Adventist.
00:47:15.10\00:47:17.03
Do you know where
that picture comes from?
00:47:17.07\00:47:18.40
Leave that picture up, please.
00:47:18.43\00:47:19.77
I'm gonna read the words to you.
00:47:19.80\00:47:21.14
We're not gonna
put them on the screen.
00:47:21.17\00:47:22.50
Drop-down to verse
14 in Revelation 14.
00:47:22.54\00:47:23.94
And I wanna show you
that the artist is taking
00:47:23.97\00:47:25.51
Revelation 14 and
designing the picture.
00:47:25.54\00:47:27.81
"I looked," John writes,
00:47:27.84\00:47:29.18
"and there before me was
a white cloud," let's see.
00:47:29.21\00:47:31.08
Oh, we got the
white cloud. Don't we?
00:47:31.11\00:47:32.71
"There before me
was a white cloud,
00:47:32.75\00:47:36.45
and on the seated on the cloud
was one like a Son of man, "
00:47:36.48\00:47:39.15
that's Jesus
favorite title for Himself
00:47:39.19\00:47:40.79
so there we see Him?
00:47:40.82\00:47:42.16
Yes, we do.
00:47:42.19\00:47:44.79
"With a crown of
gold on his head,"
00:47:44.83\00:47:46.76
we got that,
00:47:46.80\00:47:48.56
"and a sharp
sickle in his hand."
00:47:48.60\00:47:50.50
We got that.
00:47:50.53\00:47:52.03
Now, Dwight, why
are you doing this?
00:47:52.07\00:47:53.54
Because I need you to
know that Revelation 14:14
00:47:53.57\00:47:55.90
is describing the
Second Coming of Jesus.
00:47:55.94\00:47:58.07
And immediately
preceding these words
00:47:58.11\00:48:00.28
is God's passionate
last appeal to the human race
00:48:00.31\00:48:03.48
in the form of three angels
who have messages for humanity.
00:48:03.51\00:48:06.92
I want to go to the first
angel for our last reading.
00:48:06.95\00:48:10.29
Go up to verse 6.
00:48:10.32\00:48:11.65
"Then I saw another
angel flying in midair,
00:48:11.69\00:48:14.86
and he had the eternal gospel."
00:48:14.89\00:48:16.39
Let's put that on
the screen please?
00:48:16.42\00:48:18.69
"And he had the eternal gospel
00:48:18.73\00:48:20.70
to proclaim to those
who live on the earth
00:48:20.73\00:48:23.20
to every nation,
tribe, language and people.
00:48:23.23\00:48:25.53
And he said in a loud voice,"
00:48:25.57\00:48:27.00
megalaphone with a
megaphone, he cried out,
00:48:27.04\00:48:30.04
"'Fear God and give him glory,
00:48:30.07\00:48:32.27
because the hour of
his judgment has come.
00:48:32.31\00:48:34.58
Worship him who
made the heavens,
00:48:34.61\00:48:36.18
the earth, the sea,
and the springs of water.'"
00:48:36.21\00:48:39.51
I want you to, I wanna,
I saw a couple lines here.
00:48:39.55\00:48:41.72
First of all,
the angel announces
00:48:41.75\00:48:43.45
the hour of God's
judgment is coming.
00:48:43.49\00:48:45.22
You know what
the angel is saying?
00:48:45.25\00:48:46.65
The angel is saying,
"Listen, boy, listen, girl,
00:48:46.69\00:48:49.22
you got a conscience,
00:48:49.26\00:48:50.59
you have a voice that
speaks in between your ears,
00:48:50.63\00:48:52.99
and you hear that voice
00:48:53.03\00:48:54.36
and you
recognize it immediately."
00:48:54.40\00:48:55.73
It's the same
voice I hear, by the way,
00:48:55.76\00:48:57.17
my conscience
hears the same voice.
00:48:57.20\00:48:59.20
That voice has been telling you,
00:48:59.23\00:49:00.74
we are running out of
time, we're running out of time,
00:49:00.77\00:49:02.64
we're running out of
time, judgment is here.
00:49:02.67\00:49:04.94
Listen to that voice.
00:49:04.97\00:49:06.31
That's what the angel is saying.
00:49:06.34\00:49:07.68
Listen to my voice,
00:49:07.71\00:49:09.88
the voice of the
Holy Spirit Himself.
00:49:09.91\00:49:11.68
I don't know
00:49:11.71\00:49:13.05
what he's been
telling you lately,
00:49:13.08\00:49:14.42
but if you've
been laughing it off,
00:49:14.45\00:49:15.78
if you've been
saying, "Hey, another time,
00:49:15.82\00:49:17.15
I'll get to that.
00:49:17.19\00:49:18.52
I don't have time
to deal with this now."
00:49:18.55\00:49:19.89
If you've been saying manana,
you can't say manana anymore.
00:49:19.92\00:49:22.26
Today is the day.
00:49:22.29\00:49:24.53
Whatever you've
been playing with,
00:49:24.56\00:49:27.03
whatever you're chained to,
00:49:27.06\00:49:29.23
today is the day
that you get set free.
00:49:29.26\00:49:32.03
Dwight, it's not that
easy. It is that easy.
00:49:32.07\00:49:34.30
Of course, there's a battle.
00:49:34.34\00:49:35.94
There's an enemy,
00:49:35.97\00:49:37.31
it will fight to
the last drop of blood
00:49:37.34\00:49:40.34
for you.
00:49:40.38\00:49:41.81
Not on your behalf,
but to hold on to you.
00:49:41.84\00:49:46.25
Behold, the hour of
his judgment has come,
00:49:46.28\00:49:49.28
we're in it.
00:49:49.32\00:49:50.92
That's what the
conscience is saying to me
00:49:50.95\00:49:52.39
and it's saying to you,
00:49:52.42\00:49:53.76
I wanna eye to
that last line now.
00:49:53.79\00:49:55.82
"Worship him who
made the heavens,
00:49:55.86\00:49:58.19
the earth, the sea,
and the springs of water."
00:49:58.23\00:49:59.79
Do you know that
this is a direct quotation
00:49:59.83\00:50:03.16
from the Septuagint,
00:50:03.20\00:50:04.73
which is the
Greek Old Testament,
00:50:04.77\00:50:06.50
same words in the New Testament
00:50:06.53\00:50:08.74
and in the Greek Old Testament
from the fourth commandment,
00:50:08.77\00:50:12.07
straight out of
the fourth commandment.
00:50:12.11\00:50:13.54
God says, "I have
one passionate appeal
00:50:13.58\00:50:15.04
to the human race,
00:50:15.08\00:50:16.41
and it's going to consist
of the fourth commandment."
00:50:16.44\00:50:18.01
And what's the
fourth commandment about?
00:50:18.05\00:50:19.55
I have a day,
00:50:19.58\00:50:20.92
I have a day
you forgotten about.
00:50:20.95\00:50:22.55
I have a day most of
the world has ignored.
00:50:22.58\00:50:24.55
I have a day it's the
gift of myself to you,
00:50:24.59\00:50:27.06
you can no longer ignore it.
00:50:27.09\00:50:28.66
Come to me now.
00:50:28.69\00:50:30.03
Come now we're
running out of time.
00:50:30.06\00:50:32.49
That's the day
that Jesus is Lord of.
00:50:32.53\00:50:36.67
It's the
seventh day Sabbath day.
00:50:36.70\00:50:39.33
There's only one
Sabbath in the Bible.
00:50:39.37\00:50:41.20
The Lord's Day
is the seventh day.
00:50:41.24\00:50:45.11
That's the day
00:50:45.14\00:50:46.94
that Jesus is
calling the human race to,
00:50:46.98\00:50:49.71
I am your Creator, I
know what academia has done.
00:50:49.74\00:50:52.38
The American Academy has no time
00:50:52.41\00:50:54.35
for Creator anywhere,
00:50:54.38\00:50:56.08
never mind the academy now.
00:50:56.12\00:50:57.82
We don't have time.
00:50:57.85\00:50:59.32
I am your Creator.
00:50:59.35\00:51:01.82
I made you.
00:51:01.86\00:51:03.53
And I'm coming back.
00:51:03.56\00:51:05.43
And I wish I
were coming for you.
00:51:05.46\00:51:07.46
Come to me now.
00:51:07.50\00:51:09.03
Come to me now.
00:51:09.06\00:51:11.43
That's it.
00:51:11.47\00:51:14.34
That's it.
00:51:14.37\00:51:15.74
You know what it
all comes down to?
00:51:15.77\00:51:17.54
It all comes down to authority,
whose authority will I accept?
00:51:17.57\00:51:22.71
Whose authority has a
right to command my allegiance?
00:51:22.74\00:51:26.85
Whose authority
calls for my obedience?
00:51:26.88\00:51:29.72
Shall I obey my
Creator who died for me?
00:51:29.75\00:51:33.05
Or shall I obey
the Antichrist power
00:51:33.09\00:51:35.32
who could care less for me?
00:51:35.36\00:51:37.66
Whom will I obey?
00:51:37.69\00:51:40.93
And Peter and the boys,
00:51:40.96\00:51:43.00
the disciples were hauled in
00:51:43.03\00:51:44.50
before the
authorities in Jerusalem,
00:51:44.53\00:51:46.94
and asked them to recant,
00:51:46.97\00:51:48.30
Peter cried out to the
judges, we ought to obey God,
00:51:48.34\00:51:53.54
rather than man.
00:51:53.58\00:51:56.11
We ought to obey
God rather than man.
00:51:56.14\00:51:58.85
As we'll find out
next time, blue laws,
00:51:58.88\00:52:01.38
Sunday laws on
steroids are headed this way.
00:52:01.42\00:52:05.95
I'll tell you about a
meeting that's taking place
00:52:05.99\00:52:07.99
as we speak
right now in Colorado.
00:52:08.02\00:52:10.66
I'll tell you
about it next time.
00:52:10.69\00:52:13.33
They're pulling together.
00:52:13.36\00:52:15.16
The coalition is building.
00:52:15.20\00:52:19.27
Choose you this day
whom you will serve.
00:52:19.30\00:52:24.27
If God is God, follow Him.
00:52:24.31\00:52:26.68
If Baal is god, follow
him, but as for me and my house,
00:52:26.71\00:52:30.18
we will serve the Lord.
00:52:30.21\00:52:34.52
Amen and amen.
00:52:34.55\00:52:37.42
Take out your Connect Card.
00:52:37.45\00:52:38.92
It's on the screen
here, pmchurch.org/connect.
00:52:38.95\00:52:43.32
And you go drop-down.
00:52:43.36\00:52:44.69
When you get to that page,
00:52:44.73\00:52:46.06
you drop-down to Connect
00:52:46.09\00:52:47.43
and you'll see
this Connect Card.
00:52:47.46\00:52:48.80
We'll put it on
the screen right now.
00:52:48.83\00:52:50.17
Our next steps.
00:52:50.20\00:52:51.53
My next step
today is box number one,
00:52:51.57\00:52:54.50
I accept Jesus is Lord
of the seventh day Sabbath.
00:52:54.54\00:52:57.47
Many of you are gonna
put a checkmark right there
00:52:57.51\00:52:59.01
because it's easy
too, you grown up with it.
00:52:59.04\00:53:01.38
There are people
watching across this nation
00:53:01.41\00:53:03.28
and around the world right now
00:53:03.31\00:53:05.25
live stream and on
the web and television,
00:53:05.28\00:53:09.18
for whom this has
been a new teaching.
00:53:09.22\00:53:12.05
And I'm speaking
to you right now.
00:53:12.09\00:53:14.92
If you're wrestling
with this for the first time,
00:53:14.96\00:53:18.16
I want you to
see that second box.
00:53:18.19\00:53:20.40
I need something, I
need something to study,
00:53:20.43\00:53:22.80
send me
something electronically.
00:53:22.83\00:53:25.23
You put your email
address on that form
00:53:25.27\00:53:27.44
you see the spot for it.
00:53:27.47\00:53:29.10
I'll send you
something electronically.
00:53:29.14\00:53:31.57
It's time
00:53:31.61\00:53:32.94
that you study
this out for yourself.
00:53:32.97\00:53:34.31
Don't take my word for it.
00:53:34.34\00:53:36.28
Who am I?
00:53:36.31\00:53:37.65
I'm just a believer
like you in that book.
00:53:37.68\00:53:39.61
Take the word of the Word of God
00:53:39.65\00:53:42.78
as the choice for why you do
00:53:42.82\00:53:44.75
what you do.
00:53:44.79\00:53:46.15
And it'll be clear
to you, I promise you.
00:53:46.19\00:53:47.79
Box number three,
00:53:47.82\00:53:49.16
I'd like to be
baptized into Christ.
00:53:49.19\00:53:51.73
For some reason, you put it off.
00:53:51.76\00:53:54.06
You're young, you got time,
00:53:54.10\00:53:55.83
you keep telling
yourself you don't have time.
00:53:55.86\00:53:57.73
I keep telling you,
you don't have time.
00:53:57.77\00:54:01.17
If you have not
surrendered your life to Jesus,
00:54:01.20\00:54:03.57
and you are not
baptized into Christ,
00:54:03.61\00:54:05.31
you just put a checkmark there
and give me an email address.
00:54:05.34\00:54:08.78
We'll be back in touch with you.
00:54:08.81\00:54:11.01
Please.
00:54:11.05\00:54:12.81
It's time.
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I'm gonna pray
with you in a moment,
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but you got to
listen to our closing hymn.
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Just three short stances,
but just listen to this.
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Don't move. Don't go anywhere.
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Stay right here.
We'll end with prayer.
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We love Thy Sabbath, Lord
00:54:55.76\00:55:01.63
And worship at Thy will
00:55:01.66\00:55:07.40
Oh may these hours
00:55:07.44\00:55:10.67
Sweet peace afford
00:55:10.71\00:55:14.61
And deeper faith instill
00:55:14.64\00:55:19.61
Praise for Thy wondrous love
00:55:23.12\00:55:29.19
That sealed this sacred day
00:55:29.22\00:55:35.16
A sign
00:55:35.20\00:55:36.56
That all may understand
00:55:36.60\00:55:42.50
We own Thy sovereign sway
00:55:42.54\00:55:48.44
O great Creator King
00:55:51.48\00:55:57.39
Through Thy redeeming grace
00:55:57.42\00:56:03.49
Renew
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And sanctify our hearts
00:56:04.89\00:56:10.97
That we may see
00:56:11.00\00:56:15.10
Thy face.
00:56:15.14\00:56:19.71
Oh great.
00:56:22.91\00:56:25.01
Oh, great creator King,
00:56:25.05\00:56:27.88
through Your redeeming grace,
00:56:27.92\00:56:30.49
renew our
hearts, renew our lives.
00:56:30.52\00:56:36.93
We know where we are
in the journey of time,
00:56:36.96\00:56:41.13
we see what's coming,
00:56:41.16\00:56:44.53
but you've called us
00:56:44.57\00:56:47.20
as children of
the Creator and Savior
00:56:47.24\00:56:52.11
to stand tall for you.
00:56:52.14\00:56:54.71
And so, Lord,
00:56:54.74\00:56:56.08
enable every
person listening now,
00:56:56.11\00:56:57.91
anywhere on this planet,
00:56:57.95\00:56:59.81
that same
courage, that same trust.
00:56:59.85\00:57:05.39
The best is yet to
come through our Lord Jesus,
00:57:05.42\00:57:10.43
in His name we pray.
00:57:10.46\00:57:12.33
Amen.
00:57:12.36\00:57:15.93
I wanna take an extra moment
to thank you for joining us
00:57:15.96\00:57:17.83
in worship today.
00:57:17.87\00:57:19.20
It's by the continued
support from viewers like you
00:57:19.23\00:57:21.14
that were able to
bring you this program.
00:57:21.17\00:57:22.97
Today, I wanna
invite you though,
00:57:23.00\00:57:24.34
to share with us
00:57:24.37\00:57:25.71
how this
ministry has blessed you.
00:57:25.74\00:57:27.34
I get inspiring
notes, emails from viewers,
00:57:27.38\00:57:29.68
literally all over the
world telling me, look, Dwight,
00:57:29.71\00:57:31.71
God has been
blessing me this way.
00:57:31.75\00:57:33.31
He's been doing this.
00:57:33.35\00:57:34.68
I would love to
hear from you as well.
00:57:34.72\00:57:36.05
Just visit our website,
00:57:36.08\00:57:37.42
you know it newperceptions.tv
00:57:37.45\00:57:40.19
and click on the Contact
link at the top of the page.
00:57:40.22\00:57:42.49
Send me a note.
00:57:42.52\00:57:43.86
Let me know what
God has been doing
00:57:43.89\00:57:45.56
right now in your life.
00:57:45.59\00:57:47.33
Once again, thank you
for being with us today.
00:57:47.36\00:57:50.03
I hope you'll join
us right here next time.
00:57:50.07\00:57:52.17
And until then,
00:57:52.20\00:57:53.54
may the God of
grace journey with you
00:57:53.57\00:57:55.17
every step of the way.
00:57:55.20\00:57:56.77