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>> Good morning, and
happy Sabbath services.
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We are so happy to be here
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you guys. The
songs that we picked mean
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a lot to all of us individually,
and we want to invite you guys
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to stand and sing along with
us as we start our first song.
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you will, we are going to
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be reading from 1 Peter
1:13-16. 1 Peter 1:13-16.
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We are reading from the NIV.
It says, "Therefore, with minds
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that are alert and fully sober,
set your hope on the grace to be
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brought to you when Jesus Christ
is revealed at His coming.
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As obedient children, do not
conform to the evil desires you
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had when you lived in ignorance.
But just as He who called you is
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holy, so be holy in all you
do; for it is written: 'Be holy,
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because I am holy.'"
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>> Father, thank You. May our
bad days show that You are still
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good. May our whole life testify
that You are always good. You
will never be not good.
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You will always be good. And
it's such an honor to be able to
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call this good God our very best
friend. In Jesus' name, we
worship You. Continuing now
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that all the
people say Amen. And Amen.
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If it's true that familiarity
breeds contempt, I'm telling you
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what -- I am developing,
as we speak, a major, major
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contempt for this
pandemic. [ Light laughter ]
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Huh? I got -- I
went to the counter
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myself, this last week. I
didn't know what the number
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would be.
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But wouldn't you know it, with
my own finger, I pointed at
every single Sabbath that this
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church and this campus have been
under the suffocating blanket of
this COVID-19 pandemic.
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Guess how many Sabbaths? 100.
Today is the 100th Sabbath in a
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row that we have endured this
pandemic. And don't nobody say,
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"Happy
Anniversary." [ Laughter ] No.
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There's some of you here who
probably are saying, you know,
"What is this American
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English -- 'familiarity breeds
contempt'?" Well, I went to
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Google, and I said, "Hey,
Google, give me a simple
definition of 'Familiarity
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breeds contempt.'" It gave me
three. I like this one. So I'm
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going to share it with you right
now. "The more you are exposed
--" that's what this little
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proverb that's been around
forever, "Familiarity breeds
contempt" -- "The more you are
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exposed to someone or something,
the more bored you become and
the less respect or appreciation
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you may have for that person
or thing." Does that sound about
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right to you? Yeah, that's what
it is. And by the way, that
doesn't mean, of course, that
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the longer you are married,
the more boring it becomes." [
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Laughter ] Some of us have been
married to the same person for a
very long time, and it's getting
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better every day. So you can't
apply this to everything, but
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our human tendency -- our human
tendency is, the more we're
exposed to some thing or the
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more time we have with someone,
we develop this, "Aw, come on,
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again? Again?" I wonder if
that's the case with the
seventh-day Sabbath. That's what
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I'm just thinking out loud with
you about. Could it be that
familiarity breeds contempt and
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that unbeknown to us, there is
this toxic contempt even within
our very own souls, and we have
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no clue? "Oh, yeah,
it's the Sabbath again.
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Whoo-hoo!" I'm talking about --
I'm talking to a campus that is
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dominantly, on all three
campuses, filled with people who
have spent their whole lives,
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every seventh day, saying, "It's
the Sabbath. Yay." [ Light
laughter ] Could it be our
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familiarity with the Sabbath
that's destroyed its meaning in
our minds and in our lives,
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in our experiences? I mean,
we know what the Sabbath stands
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for. "The maker of all things
loves and wants me." Oh, I love
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that. That's why there is a
seventh-day Sabbath, because He
said, at the end of that
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Creation week, I got to have a
week, just you and me together.
I love the animals, but I love
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you more. We'll be together."
"God is a Being questing for
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friends" -- that's the whole
point. That's the whole point
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of that book sitting right there
on this pulpit. "I'm questing
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for friends, and I'd love for
you to be one of them." I get
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it. I understand that Jesus is
the Savior, Jesus is the
Creator, Jesus is our forever
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friend. And He designed the
Sabbath to be a summit -- a
summit experience that we meet
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Him every seventh day in a way
we cannot meet Him any other of
the previous six days.
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I get it. But there's one little
part of the Sabbath that I'm not
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sure we get. I'm not complaining
about you. I'm not complaining
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about me. I'm still trying to
figure this out myself, but I'm
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just wondering. I'm going to run
three lines by you right now
from Holy Scripture -- boom,
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boom, boom. There's one word
that will appear only in all
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three. See if you can figure it
out. The first one, of course,
is the well-known, "Hey, this is
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the end of Creation. Six days
are over," God says, "Okay, this
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was a great, great experience.
The human race now is going."
"Thus the heavens and the earth
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were completed in all their vast
array." Verse 2 of Genesis 2,
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"By the seventh day God had
finished the work he had been
doing; so on the seventh day he
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rested from all his work. Then
God blessed the seventh day and
made it holy, because on it
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he rested from all the work of
creating that he had done." I
mean, we know that.
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There's no way you can look at
this text, you won't get it yet.
You're not -- You're not
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noticing the word yet. I have to
put another text. I'll probably
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have to put both of them up. So
here's another text. God's on
top of Mount "Sai--
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now" -- Mount Sinai now --
with Moses, one of His dearest,
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dearest friends. God has, just
with His finger -- with His
finger, as Moses describes it --
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carved in granite, stone, the
4th Commandment. "Remember the
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Sabbath day, to keep it holy."
He's just done that. And now he
turns to Moses, and
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he says, "Yo, I need you to go
back to the people at the bottom
of the mountain, and I want you
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to tell them these words." So,
this is Exodus 31:13. Here we
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go. "'Say to the Israelites'
-- Moses -- "You must observe My
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Sabbaths."'" By the way, "My
Sabbaths." God calls the Sabbath
His own. Jesus says, "I'm Lord
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of the Sabbath, and the Sabbath
was made for you." But it's not
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your day. It's My day." "Tell
them to observe My Sabbath."
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"This will be a sign between Me
and you for the generations to
come, so you may know that I am
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the Lord, who makes you holy."
You will don't get it. There's
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one word that has appeared in
each of these. Maybe the third
one will help. Now he's with a
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young prophet, in exile -- a
young man named Ezekiel. He's
reviewing the Creation
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story with Ezekiel, and He makes
this statement to Ezekiel. This
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is Ezekiel 20:12. "Ezekiel, I
gave them --" my people -- "my
Sabbaths --" there it is again,
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"these are Mine" -- "I gave them
my Sabbaths as a sign between
us, so they would know that I
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the Lord made them holy." Do you
know one word that has appeared
in all three of those?
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What is it? Come on,
call it out. I can't hear you.
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>> "My." >> "Holy." >>
Well, some of you are right,
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and some of you are wrong. I'll
not identify who's who. But some
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of you got it. It's the word
"holy." For us Americans and for
us human beings, us in the
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third-millennial culture that we
live, "holy" is a bad word. It's
a four-letter word,
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and we're not happy with it. We
don't like "holy." Nobody likes
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"holy." "You can talk to me
about love, talk to me about
joy, talk to me about peace,
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okay, okay. But don't talk to me
about holy." What is our problem
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with "holy"? I can't believe
this. When there was no sin on
the planet, there were no
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sinners on the planet, God made
this day holy. That can't be bad
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news. Whatever it is, it's got
to be good news, because there's
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no bad news alive. Wow. What is
this business? Come on,
four-letter word, "holy."
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What's up with that?
Well...what's the big deal about
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it, anyway? I mean, you know,
"Dwight, don't spend a whole lot
of time on this word, because I
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really am not moved by the -- by
the need for this word." Okay, I
get it, but let me just
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run one more line. We'll only
go to the New Testament now.
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Let me run another line by you.
The book of Hebrews -- you ever
heard of the book of Hebrews?
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And wait a minute -- our faith
community right now, all over
this planet, is studying every
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single seventh-day Sabbath, the
book of Hebrews, written by our
friend, Félix Cortez, in
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that building right over there.
Did a marvelous job. I'm being
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blessed every week by his
writings. Okay, so, this is
Hebrews chapter 12.
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Check this out. Paul writing,
"Make every effort to live in
peace with everyone."
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"Come on, guys, get along, will
ya?" That's what Paul is saying,
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"Get along. Come on, love
each other. Make every effort."
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"Make every effort to live in
peace with everyone and to be
--" Ooh, to be what? --
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"holy." Well, what's the
big deal about holy, Paul.
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Come on, finish your sentence.
He says, "I will." Without
holiness no one will
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ever see whom? That's
Jesus. "Without holiness, you're
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not going to see me." "Aw,
You're -- You're such a grumpy
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old Creator. That's what
You are." "No. You won't see Me
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without holiness." So, this
isn't a little throwaway. No,
this is -- this is a
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big deal. What kind of a
big deal is it? A.W. Tozer, a
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long-ago writer, when I
graduated from the seminary
here, a friend of mine -- he now
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sleeps in Jesus -- Lou Venden --
he gave me this book for
graduation. It's a classic.
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Let me put a line from that book
on the screen here. "God is holy
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--" God is holy -- four-letter
word, there He is -- "God is
holy and He has made holiness
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the moral condition necessary to
the health of His universe.
Sin's temporary presence in the
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world can only -- only
accents this." Keep reading.
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"Whatever is holy is healthy;
evil is a moral sickness that
must end --" like this
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pandemic -- "ultimately in
death." The pandemic is bad
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news. True or false? 'Cause it's
evil. That's why. It's evil.
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Holiness is the moral language
-- the moral language of this
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universe, the universal
descriptor of the Kingdom of
God. And without holiness, hey
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-- Jesus says, "Without holiness
-- I'm sorry but that's the way
we are -- you won't come here."
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So I can't just blow this
off. Mnh-mnh. And by the way,
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speaking of the word "holy," do
you know that this word appears,
in its various forms, over 600
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times in Holy Scripture. Over
600 times. And it must be a big
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word. I mean, if the word
appears 600 times, it's on God's
mind. And guess what?
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Not once is any other
characteristic, any other
attribute, any other quality of
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God given the distinction that
the word "holy" gets. You say,
"Can you prove that to
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me, Dwight?" I sure can.
I'll prove it from the heart of
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the Old Testament, and then
we'll go to the end of the New
Testament, and you are
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going to discover something
about the word "holy." Watch
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this. Now, this is Isaiah
chapter 6. Okay? "And the
seraphim --" so, he's
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the young -- because he's a
young prophet, the young prophet
is looking, "And the
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seraphim --" these angels
-- "were calling out to one
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another." What are they calling
out? >> Holy. >> "Holy, holy,
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holy is the Lord Almighty; the
whole earth is full of His
glory." How many times do they
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call out this one word that
we're having a little bit of
trouble with? How many times did
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they call it out?
>> Three. >> Three.
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Watch this at the end of the
Bible, in the mighty Apocalypse.
"Day and night --" ooh, day and
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night -- "the four living
creatures --" these are the
highest, by the way.
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This is the highest order of
angels in the universe. These
are the top four -- the
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four. "The four living creatures
never stop saying --" whoa, here
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it comes again -- "'Holy, Holy,
Holy, is the Lord God Almighty,
who was, and is, and is to
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come!'" Do you know that
the Bible nowhere says, "God is
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love, love, love." The Bible
nowhere says, "God is righteous,
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righteous, righteous." The Bible
nowhere says, "God is just,
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just, just; forgiving,
forgiving, forgiving; merciful,
merciful, merciful." No, no, no.
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Only one quality of God is
given this trifold, this triad
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treatment. And it's
"holy." His holiness. Wow.
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We can't just run from this,
because, obviously, the three
verses we read show us that in
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the heart of the seventh-day
Sabbath, the -- the -- the iss--
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the reality is the holiness
of God. Whoa. That just blows my
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mind. God is holy. And by the
way, the New Testament doesn't
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stop there. It doesn't just say,
"Oh, without holiness, you can't
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come to heaven." No, it goes on.
You just heard it a moment ago.
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Darius read it from 1 Peter.
Here it is. "But just as He who
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called you is holy, so be holy
--" this is 1 Peter 1:15 -- so
be holy in all you do."
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Keep reading, verse 16. "For it
is written: 'Be holy, because I
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am holy.'" That really blows you
out of the water, because what
God is, He says, "I want you
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to be. I'm holy; you'll be
holy." "No, God, you don't know
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me. Whoo-hoo. You don't know
me. And don't ask me to describe
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myself to You. You don't know
me. I cannot be what You are."
Oh, that's true in many aspects.
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You can't be God. Neither
can I. You can't be your father.
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Can you? You can try, but
you'll never be your father.
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Or your mother, by the way. You
just can't. I can't be God. He's
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God. He's the only God there
is. And I'm not God. But wait a
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minute, wait a minute, wait a
minute. God is telling me,
"Dwight, I want you to be holy,
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because I'm holy."
Whoa. What's going on here?
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Jerry Bridges, in his stirring
little book "The Pursuit of
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Holiness," he writes, "To be
holy is to be morally
blameless." Oh, this is getting
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worse as we go. Morally
blameless? "To be holy is to be
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morally blameless." Is is to be
separated from sin and,
therefore, consecrated
00:30:18.51\00:30:22.65
to God... Holiness is nothing
less than conformity to the
00:30:22.65\00:30:27.09
character of God." Oh, my.
You can't ask me to do that.
00:30:27.09\00:30:34.36
But He did. And he says it's
in the heart and soul of the
00:30:34.36\00:30:41.40
seventh day of the week -- the
Sabbath, the holy Sabbath.
"Remember the holy Sabbath,
00:30:41.40\00:30:46.64
to keep it holy."
Wow. [ Inhales sharply ]
00:30:46.64\00:30:53.75
I realize that this sounds
rather scary now. "This -- We're
00:30:53.75\00:30:59.25
now into the impossibility
territory. I mean, Dwight, just
give it up, will ya?"
00:30:59.25\00:31:05.36
And I would say, "Yeah, you're
right"... except your friend and
00:31:05.36\00:31:11.43
mine, Paul, comes along. We
won't even look it up. Paul
comes along and he says,
00:31:11.43\00:31:14.90
"I'm writing a letter to the
people that live in Corinth. It
happens to be a seaport town
00:31:14.90\00:31:18.44
full of STDs." You know
what "STD" is, don't you?
00:31:18.44\00:31:21.28
Sexually transmitted diseases.
It's full of them, and some of
them are going to that church
00:31:21.28\00:31:25.51
that Paul planted. "Well, Paul,
I want you to give a name to
00:31:25.51\00:31:29.55
those people." He says, "I will.
If they come to Jesus..." "They
00:31:29.55\00:31:32.72
have." "...then I want you
to call them saints." "What?!"
00:31:32.72\00:31:34.96
"I want you to call the
Corinthians saints." "No!"
00:31:34.96\00:31:37.83
"Yes." And you know the
word Paul uses? The holies.
00:31:37.83\00:31:42.23
He calls them the holies.
"Hagios." In the Greek, it's
00:31:42.23\00:31:46.94
"the holies," "the holy ones."
00:31:46.94\00:31:49.17
Apparently, you
don't have to be perfect...
00:31:49.20\00:31:55.68
to pursue holiness.
There would be no Corinthian
00:31:55.68\00:31:59.51
church, and there would
be no Andrews University.
00:31:59.51\00:32:04.42
So this can't be bad news.
I mean, if God starts out with
00:32:04.42\00:32:07.32
saying, "This is the day.
This is My holy day," it's
00:32:07.32\00:32:10.36
got to be wonderful news.
We just got to figure out how
00:32:10.36\00:32:13.13
in the world does
this turn into wonderful.
00:32:13.13\00:32:14.73
And I'm going to tell you how
it turns into wonderful, because
00:32:14.73\00:32:17.70
we're going to shift -- we're
going to shift the paradigm
00:32:17.70\00:32:19.67
right now. I want
you to see that the word
00:32:19.67\00:32:21.47
"holy" is, indeed,
a four-letter word.
00:32:21.47\00:32:23.37
We're going to misspell the word
"holy." We've done this maybe
00:32:23.41\00:32:26.34
before, you and I. We're going
to misspell the word "holy."
00:32:26.34\00:32:28.28
Instead of saying "holy," we're
going to say "wholly," but spell
00:32:28.28\00:32:37.39
it another way. It's no longer a
four-letter word. That ought to
00:32:37.39\00:32:41.19
make it good. This is "wholly."
I have found that if I can move
from the domain of moral --
00:32:41.19\00:32:50.13
moral rectitude, which is just a
big word for "moral specificity
00:32:50.13\00:32:57.27
and precision" -- in other
words, sin -- if we can move
from that, from rectitude to
00:32:57.27\00:33:06.11
relationship, we find out what's
going on up here. So that
because of this little
00:33:06.11\00:33:10.25
spelling change -- and I want
you to do that in your mind -- I
do it now all the time --
00:33:10.25\00:33:14.36
I want you to do this in your
mind. I want you to hear God say
00:33:14.36\00:33:17.83
to you what He says to me, only
He'll use your name. But he
says, "Dwight, I want to
00:33:17.83\00:33:21.83
tell you something, because I'm
holy, and I want you to be holy.
00:33:21.83\00:33:25.87
Here's the deal. I am wholly
yours, and I'm asking you to be
wholly Mine. That's what I
00:33:25.87\00:33:34.44
mean." "Really, God?" "That's
it. I'm wholly yours, and I want
00:33:34.44\00:33:39.98
you to be wholly Mine." Well,
that makes it more possible.
00:33:39.98\00:33:48.96
At least, conceiving it.
Hmm, now, wait a minute, wait a
00:33:48.96\00:33:55.16
minute, don't just blow that
off. "I am wholly yours." In
fact, let's put the -- Let's
00:33:55.16\00:33:58.87
just hang it in front of our
eyes for a moment here. "I am
wholly yours, and I want
00:33:58.87\00:34:03.94
you to be wholly Mine." Let
that go deeper into your mind.
00:34:03.94\00:34:07.41
"I am wholly yours, and I want
you to be wholly Mine." You
know, that the Almighty God
00:34:07.41\00:34:13.42
Himself would say, "I'm wholly
yours," that's enough to --
that's enough to blow you
00:34:13.42\00:34:17.02
out of the water, isn't it? I
mean, that "I'm wholly yours"?
"All of me for you"?
00:34:17.02\00:34:21.52
Come on. No, it is. That's the
truth of Calvary. That's the
truth of Jesus' death
00:34:21.52\00:34:26.93
on the Cross -- "I am wholly
yours." I want to show you
00:34:26.93\00:34:31.33
something. Every child on this
planet. We got wonderful
children in this church.
00:34:31.33\00:34:34.94
Man.
00:34:34.94\00:34:36.57
Every child on this planet
-- Doesn't matter what country
00:34:36.60\00:34:39.57
you're from or where your
parents are from, if you're a
00:34:39.57\00:34:42.48
child, you know this motion.
When I do this to a child
00:34:42.48\00:34:48.05
anywhere on earth -- and
I've been to a lot of places on
00:34:48.05\00:34:50.99
earth -- If I see a little child
in a room, and I go like this...
00:34:50.99\00:34:55.16
No, no, take me
out of the picture.
00:34:55.16\00:34:57.73
When mother goes like this, when
Daddy walks into the room and he
sees his little girl, he
00:34:57.76\00:35:03.47
sees his little boy -- When
Daddy walks into the room and he
goes like this to his son,
00:35:03.47\00:35:07.24
what's he saying? "Come on,
child... run to me, run to me!
00:35:07.24\00:35:13.31
I want to love on you. I want to
hug you. Come here!" Isn't that
00:35:13.31\00:35:18.15
what outstretched arms mean? >>
Yeah. >> "I want you to run to
00:35:18.15\00:35:21.38
me. Don't run from me. Come to
me." When Jesus died -- When the
00:35:21.38\00:35:26.92
incarnate God dies, God makes
sure that when He dies, they
have His arms nailed this way,
00:35:26.92\00:35:32.69
so that every time you look at
the Cross, those arms are facing
00:35:32.69\00:35:37.97
you. And you know what He's
saying? "Run to me, child. Run
00:35:37.97\00:35:43.84
to me. I want to love on you.
I want to hug you. Come here!"
00:35:43.84\00:35:48.88
Is that bad news or good news?
>> Good news. >> "I am wholly
00:35:48.88\00:35:55.42
yours, and I want you to be
wholly Mine." Hey, listen, guys,
00:35:55.42\00:36:00.52
if you don't like it, up in the
balcony or down here, I got to
tell you a little secret.
00:36:00.52\00:36:04.63
You're going to end up in front
of this church someday with me,
because you got a beautiful girl
00:36:04.63\00:36:09.86
beside you or a beautiful,
handsome boy beside you. And
you're going to say, "Hey,
00:36:09.86\00:36:13.84
Pastor, marry us, will ya?" And
I will, after a few weeks of
premarital counsel.
00:36:13.84\00:36:19.41
But when you stand up here,
whoa, be careful. Don't you dare
00:36:19.41\00:36:23.28
come here unless you're ready
for this. When you stand up
here, I'm going to ask you, in
00:36:23.28\00:36:28.22
front of the witnesses in the
building and the witnesses of
heaven, to declare to her, "I am
00:36:28.22\00:36:34.06
wholly yours. And I
want you to be wholly mine."
00:36:34.06\00:36:39.66
Every marriage begins with that
pledge. Don't be ragging on God
00:36:39.66\00:36:45.00
about, "Oh, this is such a bad
deal." Ha. You can't get married
00:36:45.00\00:36:48.97
without this deal -- "I am
wholly yours, and I want you to
00:36:48.97\00:36:56.68
be wholly mine." And guess what?
That's not only the truth of
Calvary, that's the truth of the
00:36:56.68\00:37:00.78
seventh-day Sabbath, because
it's the same Creator, who's now
the Savior of the world.
00:37:00.78\00:37:07.19
His arms are nailed wide-open.
But when He made the Sabbath, it
was like He was saying,
00:37:07.19\00:37:11.76
"Come on,
children. Come on! Run to me!
00:37:11.76\00:37:18.00
Let me love on you.
Let me hug you." Wow.
00:37:18.00\00:37:24.64
And by the way, that's why God
didn't make -- God did not make
the Sabbath a place.
00:37:24.64\00:37:30.38
Because if it were a place, we'd
all be in Mecca, worshipping
00:37:30.38\00:37:34.55
Him, right? "You got to go to
Jerusalem. It's the only place
00:37:34.55\00:37:38.25
you can do it." God didn't make
the Sabbath a place. He didn't
even make it space,
00:37:38.25\00:37:42.96
because if He made it space,
we'd all have to -- we all would
have to be going to your church
00:37:42.96\00:37:48.13
to have worship. "No," he
said, "I need something that's
00:37:48.13\00:37:54.40
universal. I need something
that's global. I need something
that is given equally to the
00:37:54.40\00:38:00.21
entire human race from the
beginning of time to the end of
time. And that something is
00:38:00.21\00:38:05.35
time. I'm going to
holy-ize time. Wshooh."
00:38:05.35\00:38:10.12
"And when I have holy-ized
time, man will never be able to
00:38:12.82\00:38:18.36
un-holy-ize it. Man will never
be able to walk unto me and say,
'You know what? God, thank you
00:38:18.36\00:38:21.96
for doing the seventh day. We
want the first day. Please, it's
00:38:21.96\00:38:25.20
more convenient now. The culture
is this way. We don't want to
00:38:25.20\00:38:28.70
stand out and have to get
serious about this holiness
thing. Just let us do this.'
00:38:28.70\00:38:32.77
Well, how can you? Wshooh!
I've already done it on the
00:38:32.77\00:38:37.31
seventh day. Only one
day. And it's the seventh one."
00:38:37.31\00:38:44.39
That's why it's a big
deal, folks. There's a lot of
00:38:44.39\00:38:48.26
confusion going around, these
days. Nobody's sure. Some are
00:38:48.26\00:38:51.46
saying, "It really doesn't
matter. Folks, it just doesn't
matter." Okay, you can live by
00:38:51.46\00:38:55.63
that. [ Chuckles ] "God wrote it
with His finger, but it really
00:38:55.63\00:38:58.70
doesn't matter. It's not that
big a deal." Oh, come on. It's a
00:38:58.70\00:39:04.71
big deal. Wow. "I am wholly
yours. And I want you to be
00:39:04.71\00:39:08.91
wholly Mine." Abraham Joshua
Heschel, in his classic essay on
the Sabbath -- and that's the
00:39:08.91\00:39:15.72
title of it, "The Sabbath" --
"To observe the seventh day does
not mean merely to obey or to
00:39:15.72\00:39:21.69
conform to the strictness of a
divine command." Keep reading.
"To observe is to celebrate the
00:39:21.69\00:39:26.90
creation of the world and to
create the seventh day all over
again" -- I love that -- "the
00:39:26.90\00:39:32.53
majesty of holiness in time."
And I love that phrase -- "the
majesty of holiness in time."
00:39:32.53\00:39:38.81
That's what God did. "I put
holiness in time. It's not in
00:39:38.81\00:39:45.18
space, it's not a place. It's
in time. Everybody can have it.
00:39:45.18\00:39:52.72
And I want
everybody to have it." Wow.
00:39:52.72\00:39:56.59
Heschel is right. Well, didn't
we just read it? It was a moment
00:39:56.59\00:40:01.76
ago. Come on. "Dwight, bring
the text back up again, one more
00:40:01.76\00:40:04.33
time." Okay. "I have given you
the Sabbath, so that you may
know that I am the Lord, who
00:40:04.33\00:40:10.61
makes you holy." The Sabbath is
a sign that God makes you wholly
His, and makes me wholly His.
00:40:10.61\00:40:17.65
Is it a sign that I
make myself holy? Yes or no?
00:40:17.65\00:40:21.02
>> No? >> Of course not.
The Sabbath is not a sign that I
00:40:21.02\00:40:24.09
make myself holy. The Sabbath is
a sign that the Creator makes me
00:40:24.09\00:40:27.46
holy. The Creator makes me holy.
"I'm wholly yours. I want you to
00:40:27.46\00:40:32.69
be wholly Mine." Lookit, if I
can do that -- if I can do that
with Karen -- and we did -- got
00:40:32.69\00:40:39.23
it on old Super 8 film now, so I
can never back out. "Dwight, did
00:40:39.23\00:40:42.17
you really make that promise?"
I did. If I can do that, and you
00:40:42.17\00:40:45.44
will if you haven't, then God
has the right to do the same --
00:40:45.44\00:40:51.38
"I'm wholly yours. You be wholly
Mine." And there's only one day
of the week that declares that
00:40:51.38\00:40:57.62
-- only one. It's the one
He chose. It's the seventh day.
00:40:57.62\00:41:04.73
Nothing has changed on the
calendar, nothing has changed in
00:41:04.73\00:41:08.03
time. It's still
the same day. Wow. Okay.
00:41:08.03\00:41:14.04
So, what does that mean? That
means there's some power
embedded in this day.
00:41:14.04\00:41:19.81
Hey, my friend Sakae Kubo, the
professor here years ago -- some
of you knew him -- had the
00:41:19.81\00:41:25.51
privilege of knowing him -- in
his book "God Meets Man" -- this
is good -- "The Sabbath has
00:41:25.51\00:41:30.02
no meaning at all unless
creative power accomplishes its
result in the life of the one
00:41:30.02\00:41:35.89
who observes the day." There's
something -- There's creative
power from its Maker --
00:41:35.89\00:41:40.96
the Maker of all things, Who
loves me. If the Maker is not
00:41:40.96\00:41:44.57
having His creative power in me,
then there's no -- who needs the
00:41:44.57\00:41:48.00
Sabbath? Hey, listen carefully.
The Sabbath is not Fourth of
00:41:48.00\00:41:50.74
July. "Yo, I love Fourth of
July! I love hot dogs. I love --
00:41:50.74\00:41:55.14
I love corn on the cob. I love
watching fireworks at the end of
00:41:55.14\00:41:58.61
the day. I love the Fourth
of July." The Sabbath is not the
00:41:58.61\00:42:01.88
Fourth of July. It's not
Christmas. It's not
Thanksgiving. It's not a
00:42:01.88\00:42:08.79
holiday. It is the only holy
day... of every week. By the
00:42:08.79\00:42:18.87
way, that's what "holiday"
means. They took the two words
"holy day" and they said, "Well,
00:42:18.87\00:42:21.84
we have so many holy days around
here, we'll just call them
00:42:21.84\00:42:24.51
'holidays.'" The Sabbath is not
a holiday. That is secular. The
Sabbath is a holy day.
00:42:24.51\00:42:29.38
That is sacred. And there's a
world of difference, because it
00:42:29.38\00:42:34.22
has God inside it. You can
feel the sizzling power of the
00:42:34.22\00:42:40.12
Creator Himself embedded in His
day. "It's all about Jesus. You
don't have to give me a
00:42:40.12\00:42:44.36
lecture. It's all about
Jesus." I understand that.
00:42:44.36\00:42:47.13
Wow. Oh, come on, Kubo, keep
going. "Okay," Kubo says, "I
00:42:47.13\00:42:52.53
will." "Holiness --" Oh, this is
going to make you think. You
can't blow this one by.
00:42:52.53\00:42:55.40
You won't get it the first time,
but that's okay. "Holiness of
00:42:55.40\00:43:00.98
being must match holiness of
time. Holiness of time --" his
emphasis -- "Holiness of time
00:43:00.98\00:43:08.68
must become holiness in time."
Something feels very right about
that sentence, but it took
00:43:08.68\00:43:16.32
me a long time to figure it out.
Then, I found another sentence
he wrote, a couple pages later.
00:43:16.32\00:43:23.16
"Ooh, ooh, ooh, I got it." So
I'm going to add that sentence.
00:43:23.16\00:43:27.24
"The Sabbath does not stand
simply for holiness of time or
holy time, but holiness in time,
00:43:27.24\00:43:34.78
or holy people." Yep, it is holy
time. The majesty of holiness in
00:43:34.78\00:43:39.18
time -- of course it is. But
it's not just about time. It's
00:43:39.18\00:43:43.79
about people. "I give myself
wholly to you. Please, you give
yourself wholly to Me.
00:43:43.79\00:43:50.56
It's you and Me. It's all about
you and Me." Is that bad news or
00:43:50.56\00:43:56.26
good news? That's the greatest
news in the universe. He wants
00:43:56.26\00:44:00.10
time with me. And so He gives me
that day. "It's going to be you
00:44:00.10\00:44:03.94
and Me together." And next week,
by the way, we're getting down
to brass tacks. "Now, come on,
00:44:03.94\00:44:07.18
Dwight, how do we really do
this?" We'll talk about that
next week. "Come on, how do we
00:44:07.18\00:44:10.71
really do it on a campus?" We'll
talk about that next week. "I've
given you this day,
00:44:10.71\00:44:16.02
embedded Myself in
it. Come to Me. Run to Me.
00:44:16.02\00:44:20.52
Let Me hold -- Let Me hug you.
Let Me love on you." That's what
00:44:20.52\00:44:25.39
the Sabbath is. It's about
relationship, holy people,
people who are wholly His.
00:44:25.39\00:44:30.67
That's all it's saying. "You
can't get to heaven without us."
00:44:30.67\00:44:33.17
Oh, don't get me going on that.
I'm not worried about that,
because there's one verse in the
00:44:33.17\00:44:37.91
Bible, came to me while
Pastor Ben was praying in second
00:44:37.91\00:44:40.84
service. So those of you who
were sitting up here saw a
little bit of movement going
00:44:40.84\00:44:44.65
back and forth, because I sent
word up, "Hey, I need this text
right now and these notes."
00:44:44.65\00:44:48.52
And they got it. We got an
incredible media team. On the
spot, they make changes.
00:44:48.52\00:44:54.72
And so we're adding this --
1 Corinthians 1:30. I love this
00:44:54.72\00:44:59.29
text. Watch this. This will
knock your socks off. Paul is
writing to the saints who used
00:44:59.29\00:45:05.77
to have STDs, okay? So we're
talking about, you know, mm-hmm.
"It is because of Him that you
00:45:05.77\00:45:11.17
are in Christ Jesus, who has
become for you and me -- He has
become for us wisdom from
00:45:11.17\00:45:17.25
God -- that is --" Paul says
He's become for us -- "our
righteousness --" He's become
00:45:17.25\00:45:23.39
for us -- what's the
next word? >> Holiness.
00:45:23.39\00:45:26.22
>> Our "holiness, and he's
become our redemption." He's
00:45:26.22\00:45:31.13
everything. "I'll be your
holiness. Let me become holiness
for you. I am wholly yours.
00:45:31.13\00:45:37.93
You be wholly Mine. I'll take
care of it all." Hey, is that
00:45:37.93\00:45:43.57
good news or what? "I am your
holiness." Wow. Talking about
00:45:43.57\00:45:50.61
power. Whoo! [ Chuckles ] Hey,
have you driven down by the dam
here in the village of
00:45:50.61\00:45:55.08
Berrien Springs? Anybody
driven down by the dam lately?
00:45:55.08\00:45:58.19
Come on. Do you know that they
spent, like, months -- I don't
00:45:58.19\00:46:02.42
know how long -- but they have
been constructing this very
classy-looking electrical
00:46:02.42\00:46:06.39
substation. Have you driven
down there? It's beautiful.
00:46:06.39\00:46:10.07
It's a work of art. And they
spent months. But I'll tell you
00:46:10.07\00:46:14.54
this. There is a chain-link
fence around it right now, and
repeated warnings affixed to it
00:46:14.54\00:46:20.68
that declare, "Danger.
High voltage." [ Chuckles ]
00:46:20.68\00:46:26.82
Sometimes -- it's true --
Sometimes you can hear the
sizzle of the power.
00:46:26.82\00:46:32.65
Jesus says, "Hey, in the
beginning, I gave you the
Sabbath, with Me in it.
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Power. And it will sizzle
with the evidence I can change
00:46:42.60\00:46:52.94
anything that needs changing in
your life." Remember, holiness
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is what opens the door to the
universe. "I am your holiness.
You know that room that you've
00:47:01.05\00:47:08.76
been hiding from Me in your
heart? Of course, you can't hide
00:47:08.76\00:47:12.46
it from Me. I've known about it.
I'm waiting for the day when you
00:47:12.46\00:47:14.86
say, 'Lord, You can have
that room.' You know that little
00:47:14.86\00:47:20.84
corner of your life that you've
been hiding from Me? You haven't
hid a thing from Me.
00:47:20.84\00:47:25.04
I'm waiting for the day that you
say, 'Lord, You may have this
corner of my life.'
00:47:25.04\00:47:29.51
Just give it to Me. I am wholly
yours. And I need you to be
00:47:29.51\00:47:34.95
wholly Mine. I'll take care of
everything. I am your holiness."
00:47:34.95\00:47:40.72
[ Chuckling ] Wow. Man,
come on, guys. Help me out here.
00:47:40.72\00:47:45.09
Is this good news or is this bad
news? I'm telling you, it's the
00:47:45.09\00:47:48.50
greatest news. It's the greatest
news that is not known today,
00:47:48.50\00:47:53.34
because the world has blown the
seventh day out of the water.
Yep, "Aw, we don't need
00:47:53.34\00:47:57.81
that day. We have our own."
And there is a church on this
00:47:57.81\00:48:01.21
planet today that says, "Yep,
we did it." And everybody else
00:48:01.21\00:48:05.41
says, "Well, see, that's why
we have another one." Come on.
00:48:05.41\00:48:09.52
You can't be serious. This is
the truth that God is going to
00:48:09.52\00:48:16.42
begin to
percolate. He'll find ways.
00:48:16.42\00:48:19.19
He'll find ways to make sure
the truth about the Creator will
00:48:19.23\00:48:24.70
return one last
time, even to academia.
00:48:24.70\00:48:29.34
Some of you were placed in
academia because you're part of
00:48:29.34\00:48:31.64
a strategic movement
from God to tell the truth.
00:48:31.64\00:48:37.78
Don't you belittle that.
Don't you say, "I'm not going to
00:48:37.78\00:48:40.85
be concerned with that. I
teach in a parochial school,
00:48:40.85\00:48:42.85
and that's all I have to worry
about -- just to make sure these
00:48:42.85\00:48:45.19
kids know what's
right and wrong."
00:48:45.19\00:48:46.79
No, that's not
enough. You have colleagues
00:48:46.79\00:48:49.09
all over this planet.
00:48:49.09\00:48:50.46
And you have credibility. I was
talking with a lawyer, this last
00:48:50.49\00:48:55.23
week. He showed me the law
firm he belongs to. My Lord.
00:48:55.23\00:49:00.07
Washington, D.C. One of our
members here belongs to that
00:49:00.07\00:49:06.91
firm. Why is he in the firm? [
Chuckles ] Because God needs His
00:49:06.91\00:49:10.85
agents everywhere. Don't
you ever apologize for being a
00:49:10.85\00:49:14.65
Sabbatarian. Mnh-mnh. Don't
you ever apologize for being a
00:49:14.65\00:49:18.75
Sabbatarian. You're that for a
reason, because of Jesus. And He
needs you to live out the
00:49:18.75\00:49:23.96
truth of that holy day that is
wholly His, even as He is wholly
00:49:23.96\00:49:31.80
yours. "Live it for Me." That's
it. I'm stopping this right
00:49:31.80\00:49:37.84
here. It's the good news of the
Sabbath that we've forgotten.
It's the good news of the
00:49:40.31\00:49:44.41
Sabbath we have forgotten. It's
a holy day. "I'm wholly yours.
00:49:44.41\00:49:51.19
And you, please, be wholly
Mine." I think it's beautiful.
00:49:51.19\00:49:56.69
Just between you and me, I think
it's beautiful. And I want it to
00:49:56.69\00:50:02.66
be beautiful in your life and in
your heart right now. Yeah, as
00:50:02.66\00:50:07.84
simple as saying, "Jesus, wholly
Yours, I am. Help me to find how
this day accentuates that gift
00:50:07.84\00:50:19.35
-- the gift of You."
Let's pray. Oh, God, oh, Christ,
00:50:19.35\00:50:24.52
I am wholly Yours. We get
it. Calvary's outstretched arms.
00:50:24.52\00:50:28.02
Who could argue with that? And
for You to then turn around --
00:50:28.02\00:50:33.13
this is nothing unusual at all
-- every wedding does it -- for
you to turn around and say, "I
00:50:33.13\00:50:37.50
need you to be wholly Mine," on
behalf of all of us -- because
there's not a soul right now, in
00:50:37.50\00:50:45.91
this sanctuary, on this
livestream, that is not saying,
"I want to be wholly His, I want
00:50:45.91\00:50:54.78
to be wholly Jesus', belong
wholly to Him" -- oh, Christ,
00:50:54.78\00:51:04.79
draw us near. And as You do --
maybe in the end, this is what
00:51:04.79\00:51:12.23
you want -- draw us near so that
we become more and more like
00:51:12.23\00:51:21.24
You. Here is the patience of the
saints. Here are they that keep
00:51:23.35\00:51:29.05
the Commandments of God and the
faith of Jesus. You will make
00:51:29.05\00:51:39.89
that line come true by Your
grace, in the end, that all the
00:51:39.89\00:51:48.07
people say "Amen." Yeah, amen,
amen. Alright, singers, come on
00:51:48.07\00:51:51.94
out here. Come on out here,
singers. We got to end with this
great old gospel hymn.
00:51:51.94\00:51:56.64
While they're coming up, let me
just remind you that we have an
electronic Connect Card today.
00:51:56.64\00:52:02.28
You just go to our -- Get your
little cellphone out and
269-281-2345 -- our code today.
00:52:02.28\00:52:09.32
Just text the word "Banner4" and
it'll take you to this Connect
00:52:09.32\00:52:15.40
Card. Let me just show you this
before the singers get their
00:52:15.43\00:52:18.47
voices going here. "To
the One who declares He is
00:52:18.47\00:52:20.97
wholly mine, I wish to
respond, 'I am wholly Yours.'"
00:52:20.97\00:52:24.41
I know that's your
desire. And that's mine.
00:52:24.41\00:52:26.34
You put a checkmark there.
Now, lookit, this is a little
00:52:26.34\00:52:28.61
different. "I want
to find the holiness of
00:52:28.61\00:52:30.58
Jesus in the seventh-day Sabbath
and begin keeping the Sabbath
00:52:30.58\00:52:33.28
with Him. Please pray for me."
00:52:33.28\00:52:35.42
If you put a checkmark there,
and I have your contact -- there
00:52:35.42\00:52:38.15
will be a place to give me
an e-mail address -- I will be
00:52:38.15\00:52:40.72
personally praying for you.
I will personally pray for you.
00:52:40.72\00:52:44.19
You've never kept the Sabbath --
seventh-day Sabbath -- before,
00:52:44.19\00:52:47.96
but you say, "Listen, I'm just
going to try it," my friend, God
00:52:47.96\00:52:51.77
will honor that.
You're not going to have a
00:52:51.77\00:52:53.87
hard time, trust me.
We'll talk more about this
00:52:53.87\00:52:56.30
next week. Okay, box
number 3, "Please send
00:52:56.30\00:52:58.74
me the Bible study
material on the Sabbath."
00:52:58.74\00:53:01.31
You put a checkmark there, and
give me an e-mail address, we'll
00:53:01.31\00:53:04.21
send it to you. And
finally, number 4, "I want
00:53:04.21\00:53:06.75
to be baptized and follow
Jesus, the Lord of the Sabbath."
00:53:06.75\00:53:10.02
Hallelujah. Why not?
You've been putting it off.
00:53:10.02\00:53:13.39
You've been saying, "No, I'm
not going to go to Jesus yet."
00:53:13.39\00:53:16.06
My friend, this is the year
that you and Jesus, He who gave
00:53:16.06\00:53:21.20
Himself wholly for
you... Baptism says, "I'm wholly
00:53:21.20\00:53:24.37
Yours." It's a
beautiful service.
00:53:24.37\00:53:26.17
You're not going to be baptized
next week, but if you'll put
00:53:26.17\00:53:29.10
your name and give me an e-mail
address, we'll start planning
00:53:29.10\00:53:31.57
with you. We'll
make it the happiest day
00:53:31.57\00:53:33.27
of your life.
00:53:33.27\00:53:34.51
Alright, "Take Time to Be Holy."
Come on, that's a great gospel
00:53:34.54\00:53:37.85
song. Teach it to us, please. [
"Take Time to Be Holy" plays ]
>> We'd like you all to sing
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our final song together.
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[ Music fades ] >>
"And, looking to Jesus,
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still trust in His
Word." Let us pray.
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Dearest Heavenly Father,
You have promised that by
00:56:34.49\00:56:39.63
beholding You,
we become changed.
00:56:39.63\00:56:43.13
You promised that You
will give us Your holiness.
00:56:43.13\00:56:49.40
And so, God, as we leave
this place, help us to be wholly
00:56:49.40\00:56:52.61
Thine, as You are wholly ours.
00:56:52.61\00:56:56.51
I pray that You'll bless
us, You'll keep us, You'll watch
00:56:56.54\00:57:01.48
over us. In Your
sweet name. Amen. >> Amen.
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