What do the mysterious images of Daniel and Revelation mean? When 00:00:01.36\00:00:07.84 will the Anti-Christ appear and make his final move? How can I 00:00:07.87\00:00:12.24 be ready for the final events of earth's history? You'll be 00:00:12.27\00:00:16.81 amazed and encouraged by what the Bible reveals. Join us as 00:00:16.85\00:00:20.88 Pastor Brian McMahon leads out in Prophecy Unsealed. 00:00:20.92\00:00:30.23 Welcome to another study in our Prophecy Unsealed series. Our 00:00:30.26\00:00:34.03 topic is entitled God's Test of Loyalty. Let's start here in the 00:00:34.06\00:00:40.44 scriptures: Acts 17 and verse 10 says: And the brethren 00:00:40.47\00:00:43.20 immediately sent away Paul and Silas by night unto Berea: who 00:00:43.24\00:00:46.88 coming thither went into the synagogue of the Jews. These 00:00:46.91\00:00:50.15 were more noble than those in Thessalonica, in that they 00:00:50.18\00:00:53.55 received the word with all readiness of mind, and searched 00:00:53.58\00:00:56.69 the scriptures daily, whether those things were so. Therefore 00:00:56.72\00:01:00.92 many of them believed; also of honorable women which were 00:01:00.96\00:01:03.59 Greeks, and of men, not a few. And why were they called noble? 00:01:03.63\00:01:08.40 Because they were open to study. They were open to see whether 00:01:08.43\00:01:11.67 those things were so. And how did they do it? Did they go to 00:01:11.70\00:01:15.40 their pastor or their priest or rabbi and ask them for their 00:01:15.44\00:01:17.97 opinion? Did they go to their neighbor and see what they had 00:01:18.01\00:01:21.51 to say. No, they didn't, did they It says they searched the 00:01:21.54\00:01:25.28 scriptures for themselves. They didn't take other opinions. They 00:01:25.31\00:01:30.62 wanted to know what did the scripture really have to say. 00:01:30.65\00:01:33.05 It wasn't with the opinion that some have or the method that 00:01:33.09\00:01:35.82 some have today of predetermining what they want to 00:01:35.86\00:01:38.96 believe and they try to read into the Bible what they want it 00:01:38.99\00:01:42.06 to say. Not the Bereans. In Revelation chapter 13 and verse 00:01:42.10\00:01:46.53 3 we read these words: And I saw one of his heads as it were 00:01:46.57\00:01:49.40 wounded to death; and his deadly wound was healed: and...how much 00:01:49.44\00:01:52.81 of the world friends...all the world wondered after the beast. 00:01:52.84\00:01:56.31 Now notice this is not something to take lightly. Here we see 00:01:56.34\00:01:59.71 down at the end of time, there is a majority of people that are 00:01:59.75\00:02:03.35 going to be following a false way. We haven't identified the 00:02:03.39\00:02:06.19 beast in the seminar yet, but we can see right away that there 00:02:06.22\00:02:09.62 is going to be a mass movement of error before Jesus comes back 00:02:09.66\00:02:12.69 Here is another verse just next to it in verse 8: And all that 00:02:12.73\00:02:16.13 dwell upon the earth shall worship him, whose names are not 00:02:16.16\00:02:19.83 written in the book of life of the Lamb slain from the 00:02:19.87\00:02:22.10 foundation of the world. Now this is startling isn't it folks 00:02:22.14\00:02:25.27 Here we're seeing that the world will worship and follow after a 00:02:25.31\00:02:29.71 beast power. They're captivated by it. They're mesmerized by it. 00:02:29.74\00:02:33.82 It says in Revelation 18 that they're drunken by the wine of 00:02:33.85\00:02:37.22 this power which means it's false teachings. If we study the 00:02:37.25\00:02:40.82 Bible and we see in the Bible that the vast majority of people 00:02:40.86\00:02:45.39 are going a false way it shouldn't surprise us should it? 00:02:45.43\00:02:48.20 It shouldn't startle us because we've already been told in 00:02:48.23\00:02:51.63 prophecy that this is going to happen before Jesus comes back. 00:02:51.67\00:02:54.24 So God is going to open our mind in such a marvelous way that the 00:02:54.27\00:02:59.67 world can have a witness of truth before Jesus comes. We see 00:02:59.71\00:03:02.48 this in Daniel chapter 12 and verse 4. It says: But thou, O 00:03:02.51\00:03:06.48 Daniel shut up the words, and seal the book, even to the time 00:03:06.51\00:03:10.65 of the end: many shall run to and fro, and knowledge shall be 00:03:10.69\00:03:14.92 increased. So before Jesus comes it says knowledge in his word 00:03:14.96\00:03:18.96 is going to increase. God is going to shed a spotlight of 00:03:18.99\00:03:24.43 scripture upon this generation such as he has never done before 00:03:24.47\00:03:28.17 And before Jesus comes back God has a message for this world. 00:03:28.20\00:03:31.87 Just as Noah had a message for the world before the coming of 00:03:31.91\00:03:34.91 the flood. Just as John the Baptist had a message before the 00:03:34.94\00:03:38.55 first coming of Jesus, so the message of Revelation 14 goes to 00:03:38.58\00:03:42.75 all the world before the second coming of Jesus. God is 00:03:42.78\00:03:46.62 preparing a world, preparing the society for the great event 00:03:46.65\00:03:49.49 called the second coming. And it says, and notice now, we're to 00:03:49.52\00:03:55.33 worship him that made heaven and earth and the sea and the 00:03:55.36\00:03:57.23 fountains of waters. So Revelation 14 verse 7 is a call 00:03:57.27\00:04:00.20 toward true worship. Revelation 14 verse 9 is a warning against 00:04:00.24\00:04:05.77 false worship. So there's two worships talked about in this 00:04:05.81\00:04:08.61 book of the Bible that we call Revelation. In the last days of 00:04:08.64\00:04:12.08 earth's history every human being is going to find themself 00:04:12.11\00:04:14.58 on one of those two sides. We're going to be worshipping God as 00:04:14.62\00:04:17.52 the way he asks us to or going to be worshipping a false way 00:04:17.55\00:04:21.09 and being on a beast's side. And the central issue is loyalty 00:04:21.12\00:04:25.69 friends. The central issue is faithfulness. The central issue 00:04:25.73\00:04:30.07 is obedience to God. Let's now think about it. We're called to 00:04:30.10\00:04:36.47 worship God who made heaven and earth, the sea, and the 00:04:36.50\00:04:39.77 fountains of waters. In other words, we're called to worship 00:04:39.81\00:04:42.24 God as the Creator. We live in an age of terrible heresy when 00:04:42.28\00:04:47.12 it comes to how we arrive at the foundations of this world. 00:04:47.15\00:04:51.42 In an age when they think we're nothing more than a highly 00:04:51.45\00:04:55.26 developed biological organism God is calling us back to our 00:04:55.29\00:05:00.66 roots here. We are the result of the Creator's handy work, Amen? 00:05:00.70\00:05:03.16 Have you ever asked yourself the question why do we worship God 00:05:03.20\00:05:07.40 any way. What is the basis of worship? There's an answer to 00:05:07.44\00:05:10.61 that in scripture found in Revelation chapter 4 and verse 00:05:10.64\00:05:15.08 11. Thou art worthy, O Lord, to receive glory and honor and 00:05:15.11\00:05:18.88 power: for...that means because ...thou hast...done what... 00:05:18.91\00:05:23.69 created all things and for thy pleasure they are and were 00:05:23.72\00:05:27.39 created. So the very basis of worship is that God created us. 00:05:27.42\00:05:32.46 God is certainly wiser than that He's going to give us a symbol 00:05:32.49\00:05:36.90 something to remember the fact that he is the Creator and we 00:05:36.93\00:05:41.20 are his handiwork. And what happens when people forget that 00:05:41.24\00:05:44.67 there's a Creator? What happens when people forget that there's 00:05:44.71\00:05:47.11 a higher authority than ourselves? When that happens 00:05:47.14\00:05:50.38 then they get into well if there's no higher authority than 00:05:50.41\00:05:53.18 myself, then I'll just do whatever I want to do and then 00:05:53.21\00:05:56.25 you get crime and you get violence and you get basically a 00:05:56.28\00:06:00.26 breakdown of society. In John 4 and verse 24, it says: God is a 00:06:00.29\00:06:04.59 Spirit and they that worship him must worship him in spirit and 00:06:04.63\00:06:10.33 in...what? Truth. 00:06:10.37\00:06:11.70 You see the devil has introduced into the Christian churches of 00:06:11.73\00:06:15.60 today the idea that how you worship really doesn't matter 00:06:15.64\00:06:19.97 to God. And that idea has circulated so much that people 00:06:20.01\00:06:23.95 have believed it. Well, deep in the heart of God's law God left 00:06:23.98\00:06:29.52 us something very special there as a symbol of his creative 00:06:29.55\00:06:32.89 authority. The devil is deceiving mankind over the 00:06:32.92\00:06:37.29 central issue of worship, friend Let's go take a look at what 00:06:37.33\00:06:41.06 they had to say in the book of Exodus. Now before we go there 00:06:41.10\00:06:44.70 I just want you to remember what we've covered the last couple 00:06:44.73\00:06:47.70 nights. In the last couple nights of the seminar we 00:06:47.74\00:06:50.54 studied about God's law. We've studied about how law and grace 00:06:50.57\00:06:54.01 go together. We studied that we're not saved by the law but 00:06:54.04\00:06:57.48 we're saved by God's marvelous grace through faith is a gift of 00:06:57.51\00:06:59.51 God, not of works lest any man should boast. Amen. But Jesus 00:06:59.55\00:07:03.89 balanced that by saying if you love me what...Keep my 00:07:03.92\00:07:08.36 commandments. So obedience is the response of faith. Jesus did 00:07:08.39\00:07:12.53 not die so we can continue being disobedient. Jesus died because 00:07:12.56\00:07:16.16 we were disobedient and he desired through his tremendous 00:07:16.20\00:07:20.00 gift of salvation to bring us back into an obedient 00:07:20.04\00:07:23.30 relationship with him. And the law of God reveals to us how 00:07:23.34\00:07:27.68 loving respond to their Creator and how they respond to their 00:07:27.71\00:07:32.11 fellowman. The popular theology that's circulating today is this 00:07:32.15\00:07:35.62 They'll say that Jesus did everything for our salvation 00:07:35.65\00:07:39.02 and therefore there's nothing left to do. Now again that's one 00:07:39.05\00:07:43.49 of those half-truths I was telling you about. It is true 00:07:43.53\00:07:46.16 that Jesus did everything necessary for our salvation, 00:07:46.19\00:07:48.43 that's true, but it is also true that there is something that we 00:07:48.46\00:07:52.80 must do about that which Jesus provided. Because if there was 00:07:52.83\00:07:57.21 no response on behalf of human beings then I suppose that would 00:07:57.24\00:07:59.34 mean everyone would go to heaven and we know that's not the truth 00:07:59.37\00:08:01.34 So yes there is something that we must do. Let's go take a look 00:08:01.38\00:08:06.51 Exodus chapter 20 starting in verse 8. What does it say here? 00:08:06.55\00:08:09.68 Remember the Sabbath day, to keep it holy. Six days shalt 00:08:09.72\00:08:14.52 thou labor, and do all thy work: But the seventh day is the 00:08:14.56\00:08:16.99 Sabbath of the Lord thy God: In it thou shalt not do any work, 00:08:17.03\00:08:20.30 thou nor thy son nor thy daughter, thy manservant, nor 00:08:20.33\00:08:23.87 thy maidservant, nor thy cattle, not thy stranger that is within 00:08:23.90\00:08:26.23 thy gates: For in six days the Lord made heaven and earth, the 00:08:26.27\00:08:29.54 sea and all that in them is, and rested the seventh day: 00:08:29.57\00:08:32.87 wherefore the Lord blessed the Sabbath day and hallowed it. 00:08:32.91\00:08:36.24 God wrote his will on stone for human beings. Not on sand to be 00:08:36.28\00:08:42.45 washed away, not on parchment paper to burn up or fade. He 00:08:42.48\00:08:46.52 wrote it on stone so it would never fade throughout all 00:08:46.55\00:08:48.86 of the ages. When God wrote it down there did he call them the 00:08:48.89\00:08:54.13 10 suggestions? No, he didn't call them the 10 what? 00:08:54.16\00:08:57.30 commandments. So we're looking tonight at one of those 00:08:57.33\00:09:01.44 immovable commandments that God wrote down. And he wrote 00:09:01.47\00:09:06.01 Remember but the world forgot. Why don't we go to the Bible and 00:09:06.04\00:09:09.68 why don't we see exactly? what the Bible teaches on this 00:09:09.71\00:09:13.65 subject. Is that okay with you? And yet it starts with the word 00:09:13.68\00:09:16.92 remember. Now perhaps you've heard people say this. They'll 00:09:16.95\00:09:22.16 say, Oh but the Sabbath, that's that old Jewish commandment 00:09:22.19\00:09:24.23 isn't it? Now we read the fourth commandment together. Notice it 00:09:24.26\00:09:28.20 didn't say the Sabbath of the Jew. It says the Sabbath of the 00:09:28.23\00:09:31.97 who? It said the Sabbath of the Lord thy God. Right? And so when 00:09:32.00\00:09:36.91 God made man there on the sixth day of creation after he had 00:09:36.94\00:09:40.71 finished that sixth day, how many human beings were alive on 00:09:40.74\00:09:43.11 planet earth? Two right? And what were their names? Adam and 00:09:43.14\00:09:47.32 Eve. Were they Jews? No they were not Jews. There were no 00:09:47.35\00:09:50.79 Jews for hundreds and hundreds and hundreds and hundreds of 00:09:50.82\00:09:55.46 years after Adam and Eve. God made the Sabbath for man and 00:09:55.49\00:10:00.23 that's the generic term for all of mankind. And God commanded 00:10:00.26\00:10:04.67 us to keep that day holy. Some people think that God created 00:10:04.70\00:10:07.97 the Sabbath in the time of Moses but the Sabbath friends goes all 00:10:08.00\00:10:11.41 the way back to Genesis, right there in the Garden of Eden. 00:10:11.44\00:10:14.18 In fact, if we go back to Genesis let's do that right now. 00:10:14.21\00:10:17.61 Let's see what it has to say. Genesis chapter 2 and verse 1. 00:10:17.65\00:10:22.22 It says: Thus the heavens and the earth were finished, and all 00:10:22.25\00:10:24.82 the host of them. And on the seventh day God ended his work 00:10:24.85\00:10:28.06 which he had made, and he rested on the seventh day. He rested on 00:10:28.09\00:10:30.29 the what day? Seventh day from all his work which he had made. 00:10:30.33\00:10:34.16 And it says: And God blessed the seventh day, and sanctified it 00:10:34.20\00:10:41.47 So notice, God was busy creating on day one it says he separated 00:10:41.50\00:10:46.84 the light from the darkness. On day two he made the firmament. 00:10:46.88\00:10:50.21 From the water above he separated from the water beneath 00:10:50.25\00:10:52.78 On day three he made the grass and the trees. On day four it's 00:10:52.81\00:10:56.48 the sun, the moon, the stars. On day five he made the birds of 00:10:56.52\00:11:00.36 the air and the creatures of the sea. On day six he made the 00:11:00.39\00:11:02.72 land animals and he made human kind and then on day seven he 00:11:02.76\00:11:08.10 didn't create no more. He rested and gave us an example of what 00:11:08.13\00:11:13.00 we should do. God did not ask us to do anything except He first 00:11:13.03\00:11:18.31 gave us an example by doing it himself. So God rested on that 00:11:18.34\00:11:22.24 day. He blessed that day and he sanctified the seventh day and 00:11:22.28\00:11:27.18 the Bible is clear friends that the only two human beings that 00:11:27.22\00:11:31.79 were there when God did all of that were Adam and Eve. Right? 00:11:31.82\00:11:36.93 And so the seventh day or the Sabbath is not a Jewish day. 00:11:36.96\00:11:39.86 It's God's day. It's the day that God gave for all of 00:11:39.89\00:11:44.37 mankind. But this argument comes up over and over and over. Did 00:11:44.40\00:11:48.77 he just make it for the Israelites. Let's let the New 00:11:48.80\00:11:50.84 Testament tell us. Mark chapter 2 and verse 27. It says: The 00:11:50.87\00:11:53.88 Sabbath was made for...here it is folks...M-A-N. What does that 00:11:53.91\00:12:00.48 spell. Man. That's a funny way to spell Jew, isn't it? No it 00:12:00.52\00:12:04.59 doesn't say that. It was made for man. That's the generic term 00:12:04.62\00:12:08.06 for all of mankind irrespective of sex or nationality. Nothing 00:12:08.09\00:12:12.99 here about any Jew. Only Adam and Eve were there at that time. 00:12:13.03\00:12:15.90 It is never called the Jewish Sabbath. You hear that from 00:12:15.93\00:12:19.17 preachers sometimes but the Bible never says it. The reason 00:12:19.20\00:12:22.30 God gave the Sabbath folks was to be a blessing for all of 00:12:22.34\00:12:26.68 mankind. God desired both Jews and Gentiles, everybody else 00:12:26.71\00:12:32.85 that has lived in this world to have a break from their labor 00:12:32.88\00:12:36.89 and to rest. Is the commandment that says Thou shalt not kill 00:12:36.92\00:12:41.96 Jewish in nature? No. Is the one that says thou shalt not take 00:12:41.99\00:12:47.13 the name of the Lord thy God in vain, is that only for the Jews 00:12:47.16\00:12:49.66 to carry out. Of course not. None of the other nine are only 00:12:49.70\00:12:53.40 for the Jews. Why would the fourth one be only for the Jews? 00:12:53.44\00:12:55.50 You can search the Bible from Genesis to Revelation and back 00:12:55.54\00:13:00.04 again. You will never find the phrase Sabbath of the Jews. In 00:13:00.08\00:13:03.24 the commandment itself it says: In it thou shalt not do any work 00:13:03.28\00:13:06.28 thou nor thy son, not thy daughter, thy manservant nor 00:13:06.31\00:13:08.15 thy maidservant, nor thy cattle, get this now, nor thy who? 00:13:08.18\00:13:12.29 stranger that is within thy gates. So right in the 00:13:12.32\00:13:15.09 commandment itself, it tells us it's for the non-Jew as well as 00:13:15.12\00:13:18.76 for the Jew. And so God says I want you to remember the 00:13:18.79\00:13:21.13 Sabbath: For in six days the Lord made heaven and earth, the 00:13:21.16\00:13:24.00 sea and all that in them is, and rested the seventh day: 00:13:24.03\00:13:27.10 wherefore the Lord blessed the Sabbath day and hallowed it. 00:13:27.14\00:13:29.44 Now what is God quoting from here? He's quoting from Genesis 00:13:29.47\00:13:33.24 chapter 2 which we just read, right? Do you know that this is 00:13:33.27\00:13:36.14 what distinguishes God from all of the false things that are 00:13:36.18\00:13:38.95 called God. No people who call themself God can create anything 00:13:38.98\00:13:42.88 can they? Nothing made of metal or stone or rock or any other 00:13:42.92\00:13:48.52 kind of material can create anything. God has always been 00:13:48.56\00:13:51.99 dishonored friends by people worshipping falsely, calling 00:13:52.03\00:13:58.13 things God that are not God. God here is saying if you want 00:13:58.17\00:14:01.57 for all time to remember that he is the creator then keep the 00:14:01.60\00:14:07.34 Sabbath day holy. Let's go take a look at Exodus 31 verse 17. 00:14:07.38\00:14:10.18 Speaking of the Sabbath it says it's a sign between me and the 00:14:10.21\00:14:14.32 children of Israel forever: for in six days the Lord made heaven 00:14:14.35\00:14:17.62 and earth. This is why the devil friends works so hard to get 00:14:17.65\00:14:22.19 people to disregard the Sabbath to neglect it or reject it or 00:14:22.22\00:14:28.56 spiritualize it away so somehow it doesn't have any meaning in 00:14:28.60\00:14:32.00 their life. And that's why many Christians today are accepting 00:14:32.03\00:14:35.77 Darwinian evolution as a valid explanation for how we got here. 00:14:35.80\00:14:39.27 Folks, that idea goes directly against the Bible. Throughout 00:14:39.31\00:14:44.05 the Old Testament the Sabbath was a sign between God and his 00:14:44.08\00:14:48.42 people. Let's take a look at it here in Ezekiel 20 and verse 12. 00:14:48.45\00:14:50.82 It says: Moreover also I gave them my Sabbaths, to be a what, 00:14:50.85\00:14:55.02 a sign between me and them, that they might know that I am the 00:14:55.06\00:14:58.63 Lord that sanctify them. So that Sabbath was to be throughout 00:14:58.66\00:15:02.96 time that special symbol of a connection between God and his 00:15:03.00\00:15:07.20 people. We can come apart, spend some time with him and we need 00:15:07.24\00:15:11.41 this friends. The world is running on stress today. US News 00:15:11.44\00:15:16.95 and World Report: Working harder than ever. Stress is worldwide 00:15:16.98\00:15:21.45 wherever you go. People are having temporal problems and 00:15:21.48\00:15:25.45 they're getting caught up on all kinds of things. They get 00:15:25.49\00:15:29.06 heart attacks and nervous break downs and road rage and all 00:15:29.09\00:15:32.56 of these kind of things. The devil has this world under the 00:15:32.59\00:15:38.13 hammer seven days a week. Right And God is saying you need a day 00:15:38.17\00:15:41.64 apart to recoup and regroup and to get to know that there is a 00:15:41.67\00:15:45.97 Creator God that wants to have a relationship with us. Don't 00:15:46.01\00:15:48.61 you need a day every week when you're not worried about paying 00:15:48.64\00:15:50.48 the bills, and just acknowledge that we have a wonderful Creator 00:15:50.51\00:15:55.25 and he wants to know us. And the devil knew that the perfect 00:15:55.28\00:16:01.72 seventh day Sabbath honored the perfect God. So what did he do? 00:16:01.76\00:16:04.56 He said, if God has a day that honors him then I've got to put 00:16:04.59\00:16:08.33 that day under attack. And folks is it not true that everything 00:16:08.36\00:16:13.37 God gives us to be a blessing the devil somehow tries to mess 00:16:13.40\00:16:17.37 it up? Jesus said: If you love me, keep my commandments. Now 00:16:17.41\00:16:20.64 notice Jesus put obedience in the context of a relationship. 00:16:20.68\00:16:24.88 And by the way that relationship is going to determine how you 00:16:24.91\00:16:31.22 look at this subject tonight. Because have you ever been to 00:16:31.25\00:16:33.72 someone's house that you really don't have a great relationship 00:16:33.76\00:16:35.16 with and you're kind of looking at your watch. How much time do 00:16:35.19\00:16:38.63 we have left before I have a right to go. The problem is you 00:16:38.66\00:16:41.80 don't really...you're not really close to that person. But when 00:16:41.83\00:16:43.80 you are close to them we say boy time flies. We always had a 00:16:43.83\00:16:47.00 great time. Time went by and you hardly even noticed it. How you 00:16:47.04\00:16:53.17 love the Lord is to determine how much time you want to spend 00:16:53.21\00:16:55.54 with the Lord. And as God has said, I want to spend time with 00:16:55.58\00:16:57.78 you every single week and we don't love the Lord then we 00:16:57.81\00:17:01.22 probably wouldn't look upon the Sabbath as a tremendous blessing 00:17:01.25\00:17:03.05 But when you do love God it is not a legalistic thing to want 00:17:03.08\00:17:06.15 to be able to spend time with him. Isn't that why we're 00:17:06.19\00:17:07.99 looking forward to heaven because we want to spend time 00:17:08.02\00:17:11.16 with God. Amen? Sure. So God is saying we don't have to wait 00:17:11.19\00:17:15.03 till then. Every single week I put aside a period of time to 00:17:15.06\00:17:19.87 come apart and we can have that special time together. God wants 00:17:19.90\00:17:23.44 not just a quality of time. Got wants a quantity of time. Have 00:17:23.47\00:17:27.31 you ever had a really good friend and you had a very close 00:17:27.34\00:17:30.91 relationship with but then that friend moved away? And you 00:17:30.95\00:17:33.25 didn't get to spend time with that friend anymore and it just 00:17:33.28\00:17:35.58 wasn't the same as it used to be because you just didn't spend 00:17:35.95\00:17:38.85 that time that you once did with that person. God knows that. 00:17:38.89\00:17:41.62 And so he says you know we need to spend that time regularly 00:17:41.66\00:17:45.89 together. We have it on those other days, true, but life is 00:17:45.93\00:17:49.10 busy. But on the Sabbath come apart, rest, and we'll just 00:17:49.13\00:17:53.80 spend some time together. And the devil seeks to nullify 00:17:53.84\00:17:56.47 everything that honors the true God. And so that is why sincere 00:17:56.50\00:18:01.84 Christian people today, they are missing this commandment, they 00:18:01.88\00:18:04.58 are breaking it every single week and a lot of them don't 00:18:04.61\00:18:08.58 even know it. Do you know the whole theory that has come into 00:18:08.62\00:18:11.19 Christian churches today that the 10 commandments are nailed 00:18:11.22\00:18:13.49 to the cross and done away with. You know the churches that say 00:18:13.52\00:18:16.06 that folks, they don't really mean it. The churches that say 00:18:16.09\00:18:20.83 the 10 commandments are done away with, every single 00:18:20.86\00:18:24.37 Christian church in this city believe thou shalt have no other 00:18:24.40\00:18:27.64 gods before me, they all believe that, the first 00:18:27.67\00:18:30.24 commandment. Every single Christian except one big one 00:18:30.27\00:18:33.14 believes thou shall not make any graven image or bow down before 00:18:33.17\00:18:37.05 those things. Every single Christian church in this city 00:18:37.08\00:18:39.41 believes thou shalt not take the name of the Lord thy God in vain 00:18:39.45\00:18:42.25 honor thy father and thy mother, thou shalt not kill, commit 00:18:42.28\00:18:45.99 adultery, bear false witness, steal or covet. They all believe 00:18:46.02\00:18:49.29 in those folks. But there's one that gives them a problem and 00:18:49.32\00:18:54.26 that's the fourth commandment. because they're not doing it. 00:18:54.30\00:18:55.90 So because they're not doing it and they know they're not doing 00:18:55.93\00:18:59.43 it, they're not keeping the seventh day Sabbath, they're 00:18:59.47\00:19:01.37 willing to say that the whole law is done away but then they 00:19:01.40\00:19:05.44 turn right around and they say oh but in the New Testament we 00:19:05.47\00:19:07.48 bring back in nine of them, right? Now for thinking, 00:19:07.51\00:19:12.48 perceptive people that just doesn't' make sense. Not all, 00:19:12.51\00:19:16.72 folks. But in order to justify their breaking of that 00:19:16.75\00:19:20.76 commandment they go to all kinds of theological leaps and crazy 00:19:20.79\00:19:26.90 conclusions all saying the law is nailed to the cross, we've 00:19:26.93\00:19:30.17 got grace so we don't need the commandments any more. It's all 00:19:30.20\00:19:32.87 to try to get away from the fourth commandment. There's one 00:19:32.90\00:19:36.91 commandment that God specifically told us to remember 00:19:36.94\00:19:39.71 and it's the one commandment that churches today are telling 00:19:39.74\00:19:43.18 us it's okay to forget Right Now that again would make me wake up 00:19:43.21\00:19:47.15 right? Absolutely. Does it make any sense to throw out all 10 00:19:47.18\00:19:51.05 commandments as if they were bad and then by some kind of 00:19:51.09\00:19:54.92 theological magic bring back in nine of them. If I went to the 00:19:54.96\00:19:59.69 doctor and let's say that I had a really mangled fourth finger 00:19:59.73\00:20:03.83 representing the fourth commandment right? And the 00:20:03.87\00:20:07.04 doctor looked at my finger and says you know I wish I could 00:20:07.07\00:20:09.80 save it but I just can't. I'm going to have to amputate that 00:20:09.84\00:20:13.38 fourth finger. I say oh boy that's sad news, but okay. 00:20:13.41\00:20:15.34 So the doctor says here's what I'm going to do. I'm going to 00:20:15.38\00:20:19.05 cut off all 10 of your fingers and I'll sew back on the nine 00:20:19.08\00:20:24.12 good ones but I'll just leave that bad one-off. Would you hang 00:20:24.15\00:20:27.02 around that office very long. Chuckles. I'm sure you'd get out 00:20:27.06\00:20:30.29 of there as fast as you could, right? That's nonsense isn't it? 00:20:30.33\00:20:32.79 And yet churches today are saying the same thing. They're 00:20:32.83\00:20:36.93 saying the commandments are bad. They're burdensome, they're 00:20:36.97\00:20:41.00 legalistic. We got to cut them off. Right? Oh but all of a 00:20:41.04\00:20:44.64 sudden we need nine of them. Jesus said in Matthew 5:19 00:20:44.67\00:20:48.14 Whosoever therefore shall break one of these least commandments, 00:20:48.18\00:20:50.31 and shall teach men so, he shall be called the least in the 00:20:50.35\00:20:52.71 kingdom of heaven. Jesus made it clear didn't he? 00:20:52.75\00:20:56.69 In James chapter 2 we read this: For whosoever shall keep the 00:20:56.72\00:21:00.76 whole law, and yet offend in how many? One point, he is 00:21:00.79\00:21:04.59 guilty of how much? All. Yes. That's the 10 commandments 00:21:04.63\00:21:07.60 friends. They are like 10 golden links of a chain. Think of it as 00:21:07.63\00:21:15.54 one chain with 10 links. It doesn't matter where that chain 00:21:15.57\00:21:18.94 is broken meaning it doesn't matter which commandment they 00:21:18.97\00:21:21.58 might put themself against the chain was broken. God thinks of 00:21:21.61\00:21:25.11 the 10 commandments as one law and that golden chain of 00:21:25.15\00:21:28.58 obedience is to be kept as one and that's why in 1 John 2 and 00:21:28.62\00:21:33.32 verse 3 and 4 and we looked at this the other night, it says 00:21:33.36\00:21:35.26 If we say we love God and we don't want to keep his 00:21:35.29\00:21:38.59 commandments we're a liar, right That's what the Bible says. So 00:21:38.63\00:21:43.87 when you honor the Sabbath you're honoring the whole law, 00:21:43.90\00:21:45.57 not just the fourth commandment but the entire law. It's all or 00:21:45.60\00:21:49.80 nothing. In fact God sees the law the same way. Now let's 00:21:49.84\00:21:54.51 establish what day of the week we're talking about here. Now 00:21:54.54\00:21:55.91 that we've established the permanency of the Sabbath, let's 00:21:55.94\00:21:58.85 see which day we're actually talking about. Is it Tuesday, 00:21:58.88\00:22:00.25 is it Wednesday, is it Friday? Because friends to be honest I 00:22:00.28\00:22:04.15 don't care what day it is, I want to do what God says to do. 00:22:04.19\00:22:06.99 Amen? Whatever it is I want to do what God says it is. 00:22:07.02\00:22:10.99 And so we find here in Genesis 2 and verse 3: And God blessed 00:22:11.03\00:22:15.10 the what day? Seventh-day and he sanctified it. Here's the 00:22:15.13\00:22:19.43 question. Can we really be sure what day the seventh day is. If 00:22:19.47\00:22:22.47 you were to go to a dictionary or an encyclopedia it's very 00:22:22.50\00:22:26.54 clear from those secular sources that it says the seventh day is 00:22:26.57\00:22:29.58 what we would call in our English, Saturday. Right? But if 00:22:29.61\00:22:34.42 we want to find the true Sabbath in the New Testament, we've got 00:22:34.45\00:22:37.79 to do a little more study here. If you go on a calendar you 00:22:37.82\00:22:43.22 start you know reading across, Sunday, Monday, Tuesday, 00:22:43.26\00:22:45.86 Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday, one two, three, four, 00:22:45.89\00:22:48.36 five, six, seven there's no question. 00:22:48.43\00:22:50.37 Any school child can see that the seventh day 00:22:50.43\00:22:53.10 is what we would call Saturday. But let's go to 00:22:53.13\00:22:55.77 the Bible as our ultimate authority 00:22:55.80\00:22:57.44 and see what it says. In Revelation chapter 1 and verse 00:22:57.47\00:23:01.81 10 it says: I was in the Spirit on the Lord's day. Now notice 00:23:01.84\00:23:07.62 John says he had a vision, he had it on the Lord's day. That 00:23:07.65\00:23:10.99 means it belongs to the Lord. That means it's different than 00:23:11.02\00:23:13.86 other days. Right? Different. Now unfortunately John doesn't 00:23:13.89\00:23:16.93 tell us here what day he's talking about. Just said he had 00:23:16.96\00:23:20.20 a vision. He had it on the Lord's day. But here is 00:23:20.23\00:23:23.16 something very important. We are well into the New Testament time 00:23:23.20\00:23:27.27 now. The other disciples have died off, John is still alive. 00:23:27.30\00:23:31.41 He's saying he had a vision and it was on the Lord's day. That 00:23:31.44\00:23:36.91 means there still was a special day called the Lord's day. Would 00:23:36.95\00:23:40.62 you agree friends? This does away with the idea that some 00:23:40.65\00:23:44.62 come up with that all days are the same in the New Testament. 00:23:44.65\00:23:46.55 They go to Romans chapter 14, they misinterpret one of Paul's 00:23:46.59\00:23:51.33 verses there and they read into it what they want it to say and 00:23:51.36\00:23:56.43 they say will Paul said all days are the same now. Paul didn't 00:23:56.46\00:23:59.17 say that at all. We're going to see both tonight and tomorrow 00:23:59.20\00:24:01.00 night exactly what Paul believed But he didn't say all days are 00:24:01.04\00:24:04.44 the same. They're imposing their belief upon those texts. But 00:24:04.47\00:24:09.11 John, after Paul had already died, He says I was in the 00:24:09.14\00:24:10.85 spirit and it was the Lord's day it still was in existence friend 00:24:10.88\00:24:16.02 But to be sure what day the Lord is, excuse me to be sure what 00:24:16.05\00:24:19.19 day the Lord's day is let's ask Jesus. That's the safety isn't 00:24:19.22\00:24:23.43 it, asking Jesus. So let's go here. We could discuss this for 00:24:23.46\00:24:27.30 a long time, each person having you're own opinion what day the 00:24:27.33\00:24:29.83 Lord's day is. But we do know that the Lord still has a day. 00:24:29.86\00:24:32.63 But Jesus said this in Matthew 12 and verse 8, he said: For the 00:24:32.67\00:24:36.20 Son of man...speaking of himself...is Lord even of the... 00:24:36.24\00:24:41.04 what day?...Sabbath day. Now if Jesus is Lord and he is Lord of 00:24:41.08\00:24:45.75 the Sabbath then that must mean that the Sabbath is the Lord's 00:24:45.78\00:24:48.58 day. Right. And if the English language is to make any sense 00:24:48.62\00:24:50.89 that's exactly what Jesus is saying. In fact, if you go back 00:24:50.92\00:24:54.19 to the commandment itself, it says that the seventh day is the 00:24:54.22\00:24:57.63 Sabbath and it's the Sabbath of the Lord thy God. It couldn't be 00:24:57.66\00:25:02.53 any plainer really. That means it belongs to the Lord. So let's 00:25:02.56\00:25:06.17 go to Mark chapter 2 now, verse 28. And here it says: Therefore 00:25:06.20\00:25:10.21 the Son of man...now again the Son of man is Jesus favorite 00:25:10.24\00:25:14.14 expression for himself. The Son of man is Lord also of the what? 00:25:14.18\00:25:17.61 Sabbath. The only day of the week that Jesus ever said he was 00:25:17.65\00:25:22.42 Lord of. Because he's Lord of the Sabbath. So what do we find 00:25:22.45\00:25:25.39 out? John said: I was in the Spirit on the Lord's day. Jesus 00:25:25.42\00:25:29.16 in both the gospel of Matthew and the gospel of Mark said that 00:25:29.19\00:25:31.69 he is the Lord of the Sabbath. Let me just say this plainly 00:25:31.73\00:25:34.86 folks. The idea of the Lord's day being any other day than the 00:25:34.90\00:25:39.43 seventh day Sabbath is an idea that has been repeated 00:25:39.47\00:25:43.10 often enough 00:25:43.14\00:25:44.87 and by people influential enough that innocent sincere Christians 00:25:44.91\00:25:49.04 have got caught up in that and they started to believe it. And 00:25:49.08\00:25:52.55 I know this is new for some of you. I recognize that many of 00:25:52.58\00:25:56.08 you have been faithfully observing the first day of the 00:25:56.12\00:25:59.09 week, Sunday, as your day of rest, your day of worship, but I 00:25:59.12\00:26:02.96 challenge you as we go through this study tonight and our next 00:26:02.99\00:26:06.13 topic together to search the scriptures for yourself. Be like 00:26:06.16\00:26:10.23 that noble Berean and rather than ask what is popular out 00:26:10.27\00:26:14.80 there say what does the Bible really have to say? But we're 00:26:14.84\00:26:19.94 going to establish the Sabbath very clearly here in the New 00:26:19.97\00:26:23.75 Testament. Because people come along to you and they will say 00:26:23.78\00:26:26.18 that in the New Testament they will say that the Sabbath was 00:26:26.21\00:26:29.68 changed. That it became a different day of the week. Well 00:26:29.72\00:26:31.82 let's go find out. So go to Luke chapter 23 verse 54. It says: 00:26:31.85\00:26:36.06 And that day was the preparation and the Sabbath drew on, that 00:26:36.09\00:26:38.89 means the Sabbath was coming. Verse 56: And they returned, and 00:26:38.93\00:26:42.36 prepared spices and ointments; and rested the Sabbath day 00:26:42.40\00:26:44.73 according to the commandment. Luke 24 verse 1: Now upon the 00:26:44.77\00:26:48.64 first day of the week, very early in the morning, they came 00:26:48.67\00:26:51.27 unto the sepulcher, bringing the spices which they had prepared, 00:26:51.31\00:26:54.38 and certain others with them. So what do we have here? We've got 00:26:54.41\00:26:58.95 three days mentioned in quick but orderly succession. We've 00:26:58.98\00:27:03.75 got the day that Jesus died, we've got the day that Jesus 00:27:03.79\00:27:06.55 laid in the tomb and then the day that Jesus rose from the 00:27:06.59\00:27:09.32 tomb. One was called the preparation day, one was called 00:27:09.36\00:27:13.70 the Sabbath according to the commandment and then we've got 00:27:13.73\00:27:15.30 of course the first day of the week. So let's establish these, 00:27:15.33\00:27:17.57 shall we. Mark 15 verse 42. It says: And now when the even was 00:27:17.60\00:27:22.97 come...that means the evening... because it was the preparation, 00:27:23.00\00:27:25.71 that is...he's defining it for us...the day before the Sabbath, 00:27:25.74\00:27:29.94 So the preparation day according to scripture is the day before 00:27:29.98\00:27:33.21 the what? The Sabbath. That's right. So it says on that day 00:27:33.25\00:27:37.15 Joseph of Arimathea...went in boldly unto Pilate, and begged 00:27:37.19\00:27:40.79 or the King James says craved the body of Jesus. So the 00:27:40.82\00:27:44.63 preparation day in many of the Christian churches of today they 00:27:44.66\00:27:47.10 call it good what? Good Friday, right? Sure, the day that Jesus 00:27:47.13\00:27:50.47 died. So that's Friday. Now Mark 16 verse 9 says: Now when Jesus 00:27:50.50\00:27:54.94 was risen early the first day of the week, he appeared first to 00:27:54.97\00:27:58.27 Mary Magdalene, out of whom he had cast seven devils. So now 00:27:58.31\00:28:01.64 we've got the first day of the week as the day that Jesus rose 00:28:01.68\00:28:05.05 from the tomb and in many Christian churches again they'll 00:28:05.08\00:28:08.45 refer to that as Easter what? Sunday. Sure. So we've got 00:28:08.48\00:28:12.45 Sunday the day that Jesus rose from the tomb. And here it is as 00:28:12.49\00:28:15.62 plain as plain can make it folks You've got the day that Jesus 00:28:15.66\00:28:19.73 died, Friday. You got the day that Jesus rose, Sunday. There's 00:28:19.76\00:28:25.07 only one day in the middle. That according to a seven-day week 00:28:25.10\00:28:26.43 and that's a week and that's the day we call in our English 00:28:26.47\00:28:28.04 Saturday, what the Bible calls 00:28:28.07\00:28:30.84 the Sabbath according to the commandment. The series of 00:28:30.87\00:28:37.38 events involving the crucifixion the entombment and the 00:28:37.41\00:28:41.75 resurrection of Jesus pinpoints for us what day the Sabbath is. 00:28:41.78\00:28:46.99 It nails it right down here friends. If Jesus rose on the 00:28:47.02\00:28:51.06 first day 00:28:51.09\00:28:52.43 then the day that came before that is the day the Bible calls 00:28:52.46\00:28:54.90 the Sabbath had to be the 7th day. So when does the Sabbath 00:28:54.93\00:28:59.43 begin and when does the Sabbath end? Let's go to Leviticus 23 00:28:59.47\00:29:03.91 and verse 32. And here it says: From even unto even...which in 00:29:03.94\00:29:07.61 the King James it means from evening to evening, shall you 00:29:07.64\00:29:11.41 celebrate your Sabbath. Now if you weren't sure what the 00:29:11.45\00:29:15.25 evening was Mark 1 verse 32 says: and at even when the sun 00:29:15.28\00:29:19.92 did what? Set. So when the sun 00:29:19.95\00:29:21.36 set the next day of the week begins. So the sun has set now 00:29:21.39\00:29:25.73 that we have been here so biblically speaking what day has 00:29:25.76\00:29:29.90 now begun? Tuesday right. We're meeting here on a Monday. So 00:29:29.93\00:29:32.87 here we find that in the Bible the dark part of the day came 00:29:32.90\00:29:37.37 before the light part of the day When the sun sets the next day 00:29:37.41\00:29:40.11 begins. So we find now that when the sun sets on Friday evening 00:29:40.14\00:29:43.71 that means the Sabbath has come and when the sun sets on 00:29:43.75\00:29:47.12 Saturday night that means the Sabbath is over. So from Friday 00:29:47.15\00:29:50.72 sundown to Saturday sundown is the biblical Sabbath. Now what 00:29:50.75\00:29:53.59 day did Jesus keep. Again we want to...Sometimes folks you 00:29:53.62\00:29:56.93 just have to say the obvious. Christianity is following Jesus. 00:29:56.96\00:30:01.93 Would you agree? Now that wasn't very loud. Christianity is 00:30:01.96\00:30:06.74 following Jesus. Would you agree All right. So let's get that out 00:30:06.77\00:30:10.31 Luke 4 verse 16 says: And he came to Nazareth where he had 00:30:10.34\00:30:13.41 been brought up; and as his custom was...Now what is his 00:30:13.44\00:30:16.88 custom? Something Jesus always did. Now what was something 00:30:16.91\00:30:21.12 Jesus always did? It goes on... And it says he went into the 00:30:21.15\00:30:25.25 synagogue on the Sabbath day and stood up for to read. So Jesus 00:30:25.29\00:30:29.76 had a custom friends of going to worship on the Sabbath day 00:30:29.79\00:30:34.56 and we want to be walking in the footsteps of Jesus don't we? 00:30:34.60\00:30:36.73 Absolutely we do. So let's now to on and ask this question. Did 00:30:36.77\00:30:42.50 Jesus intend for his followers to also keep the Sabbath after 00:30:42.54\00:30:48.04 he died and rose from the grave. What about those who are 00:30:48.08\00:30:50.88 following him. He gave us that example. Let's go to Matthew 00:30:50.91\00:30:55.18 chapter 24. He was speaking to his disciples. They were asking 00:30:55.22\00:30:58.19 him questions about the end of the world and his coming. And 00:30:58.22\00:31:01.19 very interesting Jesus blended the event of the destruction of 00:31:01.22\00:31:04.63 Jerusalem with the end of the world. And Jerusalem was 00:31:04.66\00:31:11.43 destroyed in 70 A.D. by the General Titus of the Romans. 00:31:11.47\00:31:16.10 So he says of this event as they look forward in the future 00:31:16.14\00:31:22.91 because...But pray that your flight...that is the flight from 00:31:22.94\00:31:25.78 Jerusalem and Judea...be not in the winter, neither on the 00:31:25.81\00:31:29.58 what day? Sabbath day. He said pray that your flight is not in 00:31:29.62\00:31:32.92 the winter...winter because of the harsh conditions that would 00:31:32.95\00:31:35.56 be there, neither on the Sabbath day because the Sabbath day was 00:31:35.59\00:31:37.79 to be sacredly held. So he's telling his followers folks to 00:31:37.83\00:31:41.96 still be respecting the Sabbath day some 40 years into the 00:31:42.00\00:31:47.20 future. Now just think about this with me. If Jerusalem was 00:31:47.24\00:31:50.97 destroyed by the Roman army in 70 A.D., why would Jesus be 00:31:51.01\00:31:55.24 encouraging his disciples to be honoring the Sabbath day 40 00:31:55.28\00:31:59.05 years into the future if at that time there was no meaning for it 00:31:59.08\00:32:02.58 any more? And at that time the commandments are done away with 00:32:02.62\00:32:05.05 and at that time the Sabbath is no longer relevant. It would 00:32:05.09\00:32:07.59 make no sense. Those Christians did flee from Jerusalem before 00:32:07.62\00:32:12.16 it was destroyed. Not one Christian died in the 00:32:12.19\00:32:14.30 destruction of Jerusalem. God did answer their prayer. But if 00:32:14.33\00:32:18.33 Jesus thought the Sabbath was going to be changed he wouldn't 00:32:18.37\00:32:20.97 be telling them to honor it 40 years after his death and 00:32:21.00\00:32:22.77 resurrection. Now that alone should settle the issue of the 00:32:22.80\00:32:27.68 fourth commandment right there. Just that one passage. But let's 00:32:27.71\00:32:31.75 go in the New Testament because you will hear people tell you 00:32:31.78\00:32:33.95 that the disciples kept a different day. They will tell 00:32:33.98\00:32:37.09 you the disciples kept Sunday. Well folks people say a lot of 00:32:37.12\00:32:40.66 things that they can't back up from the Bible. Let's go find 00:32:40.69\00:32:43.56 out what the disciples did do. Acts 13 and verse 14: And when 00:32:43.59\00:32:47.96 they departed from Perga, they came to Antioch in Pisidia, and 00:32:48.00\00:32:50.30 went into the synagogue on the Sabbath day, and sat down. Now 00:32:50.33\00:32:54.24 notice Luke doesn't say they went into the synagogue on the 00:32:54.27\00:32:57.87 day that used to be the Sabbath. Right? He didn't say that. Luke 00:32:57.91\00:33:01.71 did not say they went into the synagogue on that the Jews still 00:33:01.74\00:33:05.41 called the Sabbath. He didn't say that. He just said they went 00:33:05.45\00:33:09.18 in there on the Sabbath. Very, very casual because it was the 00:33:09.22\00:33:12.89 Sabbath. Sometime people say oh but the only reason they went in 00:33:12.92\00:33:16.76 there because that's where the Jews were, right? And they 00:33:16.79\00:33:19.09 wanted to witness to the Jews. Did the gentiles also worship on 00:33:19.13\00:33:23.60 the Sabbath? Let's go take a look here. It says in verse 42: 00:33:23.63\00:33:27.47 And when the Jews were gone out of the synagogue, the Gentiles 00:33:27.50\00:33:30.71 besought that these words might be preached to them the next 00:33:30.74\00:33:34.28 what? Sabbath. They didn't say to the Gentiles hey the Jews 00:33:34.31\00:33:38.05 have their day of worship, you come on back the next day 00:33:38.08\00:33:40.78 because we've established that it's a different day for you. 00:33:40.82\00:33:42.15 He didn't say that did he? No, they were worshipping on the 00:33:42.18\00:33:45.95 exact same Sabbath day. Verse 43 Now when the congregation 00:33:45.99\00:33:51.13 was broken up, many of the Jews and religious proselytes 00:33:51.16\00:33:52.83 followed Paul and Barnabas: who speaking to them persuaded them 00:33:52.86\00:33:57.43 to continue in the what folks? The grace of God. Now 00:33:57.47\00:34:01.10 folks, these were Christians and they were to continue in the 00:34:01.14\00:34:05.37 grace of God but they weren't just Christians, they were 00:34:05.41\00:34:08.68 Sabbath-keeping Christians. And they were continuing in the 00:34:08.71\00:34:11.21 grace of God. Don't let anyone tell you that grace-saved 00:34:11.25\00:34:16.02 Christians don't keep the Sabbath. Right? Or let me put it 00:34:16.05\00:34:19.29 the other way. Don't let anyone tell you that Sabbath-keeping 00:34:19.32\00:34:22.42 Christians aren't in God's grace Because these people were to 00:34:22.46\00:34:26.26 continue in the grace of God. The only way you can continue 00:34:26.29\00:34:29.20 in the grace of God is if you are in the grace of God. Amen? 00:34:29.23\00:34:33.54 Very clearly here. so when the gentiles wanted hear Paul preach 00:34:33.57\00:34:37.54 they weren't told to come back tomorrow. and Then verse 44: 00:34:37.57\00:34:41.18 and the next Sabbath day came almost the whole city together 00:34:41.21\00:34:45.58 to hear the word of God. Now folks this is years after Jesus 00:34:45.61\00:34:49.98 ascended back to heaven. Why were they still keeping the 00:34:50.02\00:34:52.72 Sabbath? Because you don't change what God writes with his 00:34:52.75\00:34:56.62 finger in stone. Do you agree? They don't change it. So they 00:34:56.66\00:35:01.13 kept on doing it. Acts 18 verse 4? And he reasoned in the 00:35:01.16\00:35:05.73 synagogue...how often...every Sabbath, and persuaded the Jews 00:35:05.77\00:35:09.07 only? No the Jews 00:35:09.10\00:35:10.74 and the Greeks. Here's Paul. He's in the city of Corinth a 00:35:10.77\00:35:14.31 Gentile city. He raises up a church 00:35:14.34\00:35:15.94 here they are honoring the Sabbath. And here's another one 00:35:15.98\00:35:19.41 from Acts 16 and verse 13. This one is really special because 00:35:19.45\00:35:24.02 this is not a meeting in a Jewish synagogue. This is out in 00:35:24.05\00:35:27.46 nature. And it says here: And on the Sabbath we went out of the 00:35:27.49\00:35:30.19 city by a riverside, where prayer was wont to be made; and 00:35:30.23\00:35:35.73 we sat down and spake unto the unto the women which resorted 00:35:35.76\00:35:38.30 thither. So we're in a Gentile city Philippi, no meeting in a 00:35:38.33\00:35:42.57 Jewish synagogue. It's out in nature which is a nice place to 00:35:42.60\00:35:45.77 spend a Sabbath, by the way. And here Luke again makes the 00:35:45.81\00:35:50.95 comment. He says and on the Sabbath. See how casually Luke 00:35:50.98\00:35:57.52 says on the Sabbath we did this on the Sabbath, we went here, on 00:35:57.55\00:36:01.16 the Sabbath this happened. Why would Luke just refer to the 00:36:01.19\00:36:04.63 Sabbath as natural as can be? Because it still was the Sabbath 00:36:04.66\00:36:08.60 It hadn't gone anywhere. It hadn't changed. It was a 00:36:08.63\00:36:14.00 specific day. All right. That takes care of that objection I 00:36:14.04\00:36:17.34 hope. Do you know that in fact every...think about it with 00:36:17.37\00:36:21.84 me...every single book of the Bible, 66 books, they come 00:36:21.88\00:36:26.28 together to make one book. Every single book of the Bible from 00:36:26.31\00:36:30.25 Genesis to Revelation was written by a Sabbath-keeping 00:36:30.29\00:36:35.52 person. Have you ever thought about that? Every single one of 00:36:35.56\00:36:38.99 them. Now put Jesus in the mix there who honored 00:36:39.03\00:36:42.20 the Sabbath throughout his life, 00:36:42.23\00:36:43.57 that's pretty good company to keep wouldn't you say? 00:36:43.60\00:36:46.20 Absolutely. That's where I would want to be. Some people are 00:36:46.23\00:36:48.94 quite certain that it doesn't matter which day you keep. 00:36:48.97\00:36:51.91 They'll say oh as long as you keep a day then you're all 00:36:51.94\00:36:56.24 right. You don't need to keep the seventh day Sabbath. Just 00:36:56.28\00:36:58.71 keep one day a week. Just keep a day. Now remember John 17:17 00:36:58.75\00:37:02.35 Jesus said Sanctify them through thy truth: thy what? Word is 00:37:02.38\00:37:06.12 truth. The Bible says there is a way that seemeth right unto a 00:37:06.15\00:37:09.02 man, but the end thereof are the ways of death. So we can't do 00:37:09.06\00:37:12.53 what seems right to us. We have to do what is right to God. John 00:37:12.56\00:37:17.80 4:24. It says: God is a Spirit: and they that worship him must 00:37:17.83\00:37:20.24 worship him in spirit and in truth. It doesn't say they 00:37:20.27\00:37:24.21 should worship him. It doesn't say it's a good idea to worship 00:37:24.24\00:37:27.41 him in spirit and truth. It says they must. Our only safety is 00:37:27.44\00:37:31.75 that which is done through the Holy Spirit and in truth. Now 00:37:31.78\00:37:36.52 suppose I was a single man and suppose that you had seven lovely daughters. And 00:37:36.55\00:37:40.06 I came to you and I said I would like to marry one of your 00:37:40.09\00:37:43.49 daughters. And if I found favor in your sight, you might say to 00:37:43.53\00:37:47.66 me all right Brian, which one of the seven would you like to 00:37:47.70\00:37:51.03 marry? And if I responded to you and said it doesn't matter 00:37:51.07\00:37:55.50 really., A woman is a woman, just give me any one of them. 00:37:55.54\00:37:56.87 Um, how long would I last in your house? Right? I mean you'd 00:37:56.91\00:38:02.24 throw me out and rightfully so. Of course, there's a difference, 00:38:02.28\00:38:05.25 right? A major difference. When people say that the day of the 00:38:05.28\00:38:08.15 week to God, ah there's no difference in the days of the 00:38:08.18\00:38:10.49 week. Give me any one of them. I'll keep any day I want as the 00:38:10.52\00:38:12.99 Sabbath. God didn't say that all days are the same. In fact, 00:38:13.02\00:38:16.26 in Ezekiel 46 verse 1, he called the other days of the week the 00:38:16.29\00:38:19.89 six working days. He made them separate. He called them 00:38:19.93\00:38:24.20 separate from the Sabbath. But he didn't say all days are the 00:38:24.23\00:38:27.27 same. It said, he rested and blessed and sanctified a 00:38:27.30\00:38:30.97 specific day. Now if I said to you, bring me a book, you could 00:38:31.01\00:38:35.88 bring me any book. But if I said to you bring me the book you'd 00:38:35.91\00:38:39.81 know I meant a specific book. Right? And we've learned from 00:38:39.85\00:38:43.72 elementary school the article the or the is a specific article 00:38:43.75\00:38:46.45 It specifies a certain person, place or thing. So God didn't 00:38:46.49\00:38:50.09 say just keep a Sabbath. He said the seventh day is the Sabbath 00:38:50.13\00:38:55.03 of the Lord thy God. He didn't leave it up to us to choose. 00:38:55.06\00:38:57.73 God made it very clearly. The Jews have a saying folks that 00:38:57.77\00:39:02.00 goes like this. Israel is in the heart of the world and Jerusalem 00:39:02.04\00:39:08.18 is in the heart of Israel. And the temple was in the heart of 00:39:08.21\00:39:13.38 Jerusalem. And the Most Holy place was in the heart of the 00:39:13.42\00:39:17.15 temple. And the ark of the covenant was in the heart of the 00:39:17.19\00:39:20.79 Most Holy place and the 10 Commandments were in the heart 00:39:20.82\00:39:25.36 of the ark and the fourth Commandment was in the heart of 00:39:25.39\00:39:29.23 of the commandments. And in the heart of the fourth 00:39:29.26\00:39:34.10 Commandment are the words the Seventh Day is the Sabbath. Now 00:39:34.14\00:39:40.31 what significance does that have It's telling us that all true 00:39:40.34\00:39:45.55 worship has to center around the true God. Amen? If it isn't 00:39:45.58\00:39:50.55 around the true God, it is not true worship. And so the Sabbath 00:39:50.59\00:39:54.19 is the memorial, it is that which constantly directs us 00:39:54.22\00:39:57.33 toward who is the true God. The Sabbath is a memorial of God's 00:39:57.36\00:40:01.56 creation. Can you change a memorial just because you wish 00:40:01.60\00:40:05.10 to change it? In other words, the United States gained its 00:40:05.13\00:40:09.57 independence on July the 4th 1776. If I want to light off 00:40:09.60\00:40:13.24 fireworks on July the 3rd does that make it the independence 00:40:13.27\00:40:16.34 day because I light off fireworks then. Because if I 00:40:16.38\00:40:19.58 want to take the day off on July the 5th, right, and have a 00:40:19.61\00:40:22.52 holiday, does that make it July 5th because I want it to be 00:40:22.55\00:40:25.02 July the 5th. No. In the same way a person can say well I'm 00:40:25.05\00:40:27.82 going to take Wednesday off from work. I'll make that the 00:40:27.86\00:40:29.66 Sabbath. Oh, I got Monday, I'll make it... No friend, you can't 00:40:29.69\00:40:32.43 do that. Because God didn't make those days holy. Amen. In fact, 00:40:32.46\00:40:39.43 while I'm on that let's just address one other very common 00:40:39.47\00:40:42.47 misconception. Have you heard some very honest and sincere 00:40:42.50\00:40:45.34 people say: I keep every day holy. I'm just going to keep the 00:40:45.37\00:40:49.14 Sabbath every day because I'm going to keep every day holy. 00:40:49.18\00:40:51.21 Now let's be very careful with this and very candid. We can't 00:40:51.25\00:40:56.99 keep every day holy. Why? Because God didn't make every 00:40:57.02\00:41:02.19 day holy and we can't keep something holy that God did not 00:41:02.22\00:41:05.99 make holy. We can't make something holy any more than we 00:41:06.03\00:41:10.93 can change the rotation of the planets because we don't have 00:41:10.97\00:41:14.27 that power. God makes something holy. When Moses came before God 00:41:14.30\00:41:17.31 he said, Moses take off your shoes because the ground that 00:41:17.34\00:41:20.04 you're on holy ground. What made that ground holy? God's 00:41:20.08\00:41:23.51 presence was there. Amen. When someone says well I'm going to 00:41:23.55\00:41:28.78 keep all days as Sabbath. I'm going to rest every day. Folks 00:41:28.82\00:41:31.32 if they're going to rest every day they're not more sanctified 00:41:31.35\00:41:33.46 they're lazy, amen? We ought to live for God every day, correct? 00:41:33.49\00:41:37.56 Right. We ought to live for the principles of scripture and for 00:41:37.59\00:41:42.40 the Lord. We ought to live that every day. But that's different 00:41:42.43\00:41:45.73 than saying that every day is holy. God asks us not to do 00:41:45.77\00:41:50.14 secular labor on the Sabbath. That which we would do for our 00:41:50.17\00:41:54.98 regular secular work he says no, put that aside and rest and 00:41:55.01\00:41:59.18 spend it with me. There are what we call occupations of 00:41:59.21\00:42:03.28 necessity. Certain occupations where Jesus said it's lawful to 00:42:03.32\00:42:06.19 do well on the Sabbath and so you're ministering to other 00:42:06.22\00:42:09.79 people for their sake and not your sake. In other words, 00:42:09.82\00:42:13.46 firemen and police and paramedics and hospital nurses 00:42:13.50\00:42:15.76 and doctors. These are life saving ministry that can go on 00:42:15.80\00:42:19.47 on the Sabbath. They relieve human suffering, they can save 00:42:19.50\00:42:23.51 human lives. They help others that don't help themself. There 00:42:23.54\00:42:26.57 are certain things that... emergency services, care for 00:42:26.61\00:42:28.98 the sick or care for the elderly these things continue to operate 00:42:29.01\00:42:32.75 on the Sabbath because it's important with ministry. So if 00:42:32.78\00:42:37.55 it's important to ministry Jesus said that's all right. Acts 20 00:42:37.59\00:42:39.85 verse 27 Paul says: For I have not shunned to declare unto you 00:42:39.89\00:42:43.73 how much? All of the counsel of God. Now Paul I'm going to 00:42:43.76\00:42:47.43 ask you a question here. If you had not shunned to declare unto 00:42:47.46\00:42:51.47 us all the counsel of God, and if somehow the Sabbath has 00:42:51.50\00:42:55.84 gotten changed from the seventh to the first day of the week 00:42:55.87\00:42:58.61 then Paul why didn't you tell us In all of your books of the New 00:42:58.64\00:43:01.68 Testament Paul why didn't you somewhere tell us that God 00:43:01.71\00:43:05.25 switched. It doesn't say that though. There are more than 140 00:43:05.28\00:43:10.02 references in the Bible to the Seventh-day Sabbath. More than 00:43:11.35\00:43:14.19 140. There is not one text in all of the Bible that says 00:43:14.22\00:43:21.23 Sunday is sacred or the Sabbath has been changed from Saturday 00:43:21.26\00:43:24.27 to Sunday or anything like that. There is not one single text in 00:43:24.30\00:43:30.47 the Bible. Does the Bible say to keep Sunday in honor of the 00:43:30.51\00:43:34.24 resurrection. And they'll say well are we to forget that Jesus 00:43:34.28\00:43:37.48 rose from the grave. No not at all. We remember that Jesus died 00:43:37.51\00:43:42.72 for our sins when he gave us the ordinance of the Lord's 00:43:42.75\00:43:45.42 supper. We remember that he rose from the grave when you have the 00:43:45.45\00:43:48.32 ordinance of baptism. Romans chapter 6 says just as Jesus 00:43:48.36\00:43:52.13 died and was buried and rose again so we also through 00:43:52.16\00:43:54.53 baptism figuratively do the same So we aren't to forget that 00:43:54.56\00:44:00.20 Jesus did any of that folks? Now if you were to go to...if you 00:44:00.24\00:44:04.24 were to leave here tonight and you were to go to almost all 00:44:04.27\00:44:08.41 Sunday ministers and you very politely, very sincerely, you 00:44:08.44\00:44:14.62 say can you please tell me why we go to church on Sunday when 00:44:14.65\00:44:19.39 the Bible says in, Old Testament, New Testament, Jesus, 00:44:19.42\00:44:22.82 the disciples, it's clear that they went to church on the 00:44:22.86\00:44:26.06 seventh day Sabbath. Why are we going on Sunday? They'll give 00:44:26.09\00:44:29.53 you one of three answers. Number one: They'll say oh well the law 00:44:29.56\00:44:32.87 was nailed to the cross. Now we studied in the seminar, we know 00:44:32.90\00:44:36.20 that the moral law of God, the 10 commandments, were not nailed 00:44:36.24\00:44:39.04 to the cross. There are voluminous scriptures that tell 00:44:39.07\00:44:43.95 us that. And it makes no sense to believe that. It was the 00:44:43.98\00:44:48.75 ceremonial system of sacrifices that was nailed to the cross 00:44:48.78\00:44:51.19 and done away with when Jesus died. That was to pass away. 00:44:51.22\00:44:56.02 Jesus is our Passover. We've covered that. If they can't fool 00:44:56.06\00:45:01.56 you with that they'll give you answer number two. Answer 00:45:01.60\00:45:04.70 Answer number two is Well um we keep Sunday in honor of the 00:45:04.73\00:45:10.11 resurrection. Now again we know the Bible never says to keep 00:45:10.14\00:45:13.98 Sunday in honor of the resurrection. Not at all there's 00:45:14.01\00:45:16.64 no scripture at all that tells us that. So you simply say well 00:45:16.68\00:45:19.21 can you show me one verse that says we should keep Sunday in 00:45:19.25\00:45:22.82 honor of the resurrection. They can't. So if they can't fool you 00:45:22.85\00:45:25.29 with answer number one, and they can't fool you with answer 00:45:25.32\00:45:28.49 number two. They'll give you answer number three. And answer 00:45:28.52\00:45:32.03 number three goes like this. They go ah-ahmm-mm mm ahum Where 00:45:32.06\00:45:36.50 did you learn this? And you say well I was going to the Prophecy 00:45:36.53\00:45:40.37 Unsealed seminar going on right now and I learned it right from 00:45:40.40\00:45:43.51 the Bible. There's verse after verse after verse. Ohh. Well 00:45:43.54\00:45:48.88 don't go back there. Now folks we said opening night here 00:45:48.91\00:45:53.62 something very important. And I said either we are going to show 00:45:53.65\00:45:56.08 you that which we present from the Bible or you don't have to 00:45:56.12\00:46:00.49 believe it at all, Amen? And folks again this is verse after 00:46:00.52\00:46:04.76 verse. There's no question about it. When people don't like 00:46:04.79\00:46:09.93 someone else's position and they can't defend their own position 00:46:09.96\00:46:14.77 from the Bible, you know what they do, they ridicule it. They 00:46:14.80\00:46:17.34 put scorn upon it. And that's what they mean when they say 00:46:17.37\00:46:19.71 Oh that's just the Sabbath of the Jews. Right. You don't need 00:46:19.74\00:46:22.24 to keep that. That's only for them. We don't keep that. Right? 00:46:22.28\00:46:25.61 You know folks it's a shame but they did that to Jesus. When 00:46:25.65\00:46:31.32 they could not gainsay the positions that Jesus put forth 00:46:31.35\00:46:34.82 they said to Jesus in John chapter 8. Oh, we be not born of 00:46:34.86\00:46:39.43 fornication. How terrible. How unfair. Right? But that's what 00:46:39.46\00:46:46.40 they said. But you see when people say things like that 00:46:46.43\00:46:48.50 it can have an effect. So they'll throw out things like 00:46:48.54\00:46:52.64 that to try to persuade you to you know forget about it, leave 00:46:52.67\00:46:58.38 it alone, don't go down that path. Folks we are not here to 00:46:58.41\00:47:03.59 follow popularity, we are not here to follow traditions, we 00:47:03.62\00:47:07.29 are here to follow Jesus and the word of God. Amen? Keep in mind, 00:47:07.32\00:47:11.49 when the devil doesn't have scripture he uses argument. 00:47:11.53\00:47:15.90 Carefully crafted argument that sounds good at the beginning 00:47:15.93\00:47:21.04 when you put it by the Bible they fall pretty fast. The 00:47:21.07\00:47:24.14 Convert's Catechism of Catholic Doctrine, 00:47:24.17\00:47:25.67 that which I grew up reading 00:47:25.74\00:47:27.78 it says this: Which is the Sabbath day? Answer: Saturday is 00:47:27.81\00:47:31.88 is the Sabbath day. I commend them for their honesty here. 00:47:31.91\00:47:34.48 There's no question in their mind. They know. Question: Why 00:47:34.52\00:47:38.59 do we observe Sunday instead of Sabbath? Answer from the 00:47:38.62\00:47:42.26 Catholic Catechism: Because the Catholic church transferred the 00:47:42.29\00:47:44.49 solemnity...which means the sacredness...from Saturday to 00:47:44.53\00:47:47.03 Sunday. Have you any other was of proving that the church has 00:47:47.06\00:47:51.17 the power to institute festivals of precept? The answer: Had she 00:47:51.20\00:47:55.37 not such power she could not have done that which all modern 00:47:55.40\00:47:57.97 religionists agree with her- could not have substituted the 00:47:58.01\00:48:01.14 observance of Sunday the first day of the week, for the 00:48:01.18\00:48:03.91 observance of Saturday the seventh day, a change for which 00:48:03.95\00:48:07.15 there is no scriptural authority That means that change isn't in 00:48:07.18\00:48:13.12 the Bible. In the Catholic Encyclopedia it says this: The 00:48:13.15\00:48:20.20 church, after changing the day of rest from the Jewish Sabbath 00:48:20.23\00:48:23.16 They call it the Jewish Sabbath. The Bible never calls it 00:48:23.20\00:48:27.04 that...Of the seventh day of the week to the first made the Third 00:48:27.07\00:48:29.30 Commandment refer to Sunday as the day to be kept holy as the 00:48:29.34\00:48:33.21 Lord's Day. Here they're calling the fourth one the third because 00:48:33.24\00:48:36.31 they removed the second one from their catechism. So they're 00:48:36.38\00:48:40.55 saying, yeah we made that change we simply call that the Lord's 00:48:40.58\00:48:45.39 Day now. From the book Catholicism and Fundamentalism 00:48:45.42\00:48:48.79 which was written by a Catholic apologist he said: 00:48:48.82\00:48:52.16 fundamentalists meet for worship on Sunday, yet there is no 00:48:52.19\00:48:54.60 evidence in the Bible that corporate worship was to be made 00:48:54.63\00:48:56.73 on Sundays. The Jewish Sabbath, or day of rest, was, of course, 00:48:56.77\00:49:00.44 Saturday. It was the Catholic Church that decided Sunday 00:49:00.47\00:49:04.21 should be the day of worship for Christians, in honor of the 00:49:04.24\00:49:06.37 resurrection. Mmmm. Again nothing in the Bible that says 00:49:06.41\00:49:13.08 that. They're simply putting a meaning upon it that the Bible 00:49:13.11\00:49:14.75 doesn't give. From Faith of Our Fathers the very famous Cardinal 00:49:14.78\00:49:18.82 James Gibbons said: You may read from Genesis to 00:49:18.85\00:49:22.69 Revelation...which means from cover to cover...and you will not find a single-line 00:49:22.72\00:49:25.49 authorizing the sanctification of Sunday. The scriptures 00:49:25.53\00:49:29.63 enforce the religious observance of what folks? Saturday. He's 00:49:29.66\00:49:33.80 saying if you want to go by the Bible it says Saturday. All 00:49:33.84\00:49:39.11 right? One of the former popes, Pope Benedict, look what he had 00:49:39.14\00:49:42.84 to say here. He said: If one considers the importance that 00:49:42.88\00:49:47.32 Saturday has in the Old Testament tradition based on the 00:49:47.35\00:49:50.89 account of the creation and on the Decalogue...the Decalogue is 00:49:50.92\00:49:53.72 the 10 Commandments...it is evident that only an event of 00:49:53.76\00:49:57.43 overwhelming force could cause giving up Saturday and replacing 00:49:57.46\00:50:00.36 it by the first day of the week. He said the creation day was 00:50:00.40\00:50:05.30 Saturday and he said the Sabbath of the 10 commandments was 00:50:05.33\00:50:08.74 Saturday. He admitted it right there. Jesus kept holy. In other 00:50:08.77\00:50:12.47 words when they can't gainsay any other argument they'll 00:50:12.51\00:50:15.24 always come up with this one. Well probably the calendar's 00:50:15.28\00:50:18.61 been changed. Right? Have you heard that one? How do we know 00:50:18.65\00:50:21.38 that this week we have now is the same week you had back in 00:50:21.42\00:50:24.55 Jesus' day? And they throw that out there hoping that you'll 00:50:24.59\00:50:27.99 just say, yeah well they probably have them mixed up so 00:50:28.02\00:50:30.03 that's good enough for me. They're hoping you'll just grab 00:50:30.06\00:50:33.26 onto it. They can't prove that. There's no evidence of it but 00:50:33.29\00:50:37.23 they throw it out there as a last ditch effort to try to 00:50:37.27\00:50:40.97 confuse people. Well the simple truth is this folks. Time has 00:50:41.00\00:50:44.41 never been mixed up. The weekly cycle, Sunday, Monday, Tuesday, 00:50:44.44\00:50:49.24 Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday. That has never been 00:50:49.28\00:50:52.05 broken. Jesus walked on this earth less than 2000 years ago. 00:50:52.08\00:50:56.82 Jesus was God on the earth, Amen Called the Son of God because 00:50:56.85\00:51:00.49 of his relation to the Father but he was never less fully 00:51:00.52\00:51:04.53 divine. In Jesus' day, they had what they called the Julian 00:51:04.56\00:51:07.86 calendar named after Julius Caesar. And they knew what the 00:51:07.90\00:51:11.47 calendars were in that day. They knew what the days of the week 00:51:11.50\00:51:15.87 were and Jesus obviously had no problem knowing what day was the 00:51:15.90\00:51:19.37 Sabbath. It says in Luke 4:16 he went into the synagogue on 00:51:19.41\00:51:22.11 the Sabbath. They knew what day the Sabbath was. We have the 00:51:22.14\00:51:24.85 calendars from then, we have the calendars from now. We have the 00:51:24.88\00:51:28.38 seven-day week, it's never been broken and there's literally 00:51:28.42\00:51:34.66 thousands of these calendars. Now Rome was ruling the world 00:51:34.69\00:51:37.06 There was one major calendar change in the year 1582. So I 00:51:37.09\00:51:42.73 can bring that to your attention The Julian calendar was 360 days 00:51:42.76\00:51:47.87 and six hours. Not too bad. But it's 11 minutes off. So those 11 00:51:48.74\00:51:53.11 minutes accumulated and accumulated and accumulated 00:51:53.14\00:51:54.48 till finally the calendar was out of sync with the season. 00:51:54.51\00:51:56.85 So in order to bring the calendar back into sync with the 00:51:56.88\00:51:59.91 season, they decided to make a change in the year 1582. And 00:51:59.95\00:52:04.12 what they did was in the time of Pope Gregory, they dropped 10 00:52:04.15\00:52:10.13 days out of the calendar system. 00:52:10.16\00:52:11.56 So October of 1582 started Monday the first, Tuesday the 00:52:11.59\00:52:15.56 second, Wednesday the third, Thursday the fourth, but instead 00:52:15.60\00:52:17.50 of making Friday the fifth, they made Friday the 15th. And time 00:52:17.53\00:52:22.94 continued as it always had but did that change the order of the 00:52:22.97\00:52:26.07 days of the week? Sunday, Monday Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, 00:52:26.11\00:52:27.84 Friday. No in fact all of the ways that they considered to 00:52:27.88\00:52:33.08 change the calendar, they never ever considered changing the 00:52:33.11\00:52:37.15 order of the days of the week. Not at all. So some people in 00:52:37.19\00:52:43.09 that day accepted that calendar right away. Other countries 00:52:43.12\00:52:46.53 waited for a while but today we have what we call the Gregorian 00:52:46.56\00:52:48.63 calendar because Pope Gregory was ruling during that time. 00:52:48.66\00:52:52.07 Nevertheless the astronomers today, those that track time, 00:52:52.10\00:52:58.01 and they can track time down to the most minute part of a second 00:52:58.04\00:53:01.78 But do you know that in over 105 languages in the world the 00:53:01.81\00:53:07.38 word for the seventh day of the week is Sabbath. Right? Russian 00:53:07.42\00:53:10.05 and Bulgarian and Spanish and on and on and on and on. But we 00:53:10.09\00:53:15.02 unfortunately in our English call it Saturday what they call 00:53:15.06\00:53:18.26 Sabbath. Is that just a coincidence? You think 105 00:53:18.29\00:53:21.96 languages and more just got together and said hey, let's 00:53:22.00\00:53:23.57 just call the seventh day of the week Sabbath. No, no. They knew 00:53:23.60\00:53:25.90 the weekly cycle, they knew of the Sabbath from antiquity 00:53:25.93\00:53:31.54 friends. And when those languages developed they simply 00:53:31.57\00:53:34.78 brought that word for rest right into their very language. Isn't 00:53:34.81\00:53:41.12 it obvious that if Satan is going to attack the government 00:53:41.15\00:53:44.09 of God, he's going to attack the law of God. Isn't it logical 00:53:44.12\00:53:48.36 that if he's going to attach the Creator he's going to attack the 00:53:48.39\00:53:51.86 sign of the Creator. You see folks when you look up in the 00:53:51.89\00:53:55.26 sky we have a reason why we have a 365-day year, right? The earth 00:53:55.30\00:54:00.90 is going around the sun. We have a reason why we have a roughly 00:54:00.94\00:54:05.01 30-day month of the lunar cycle. We have a reason why we have a 00:54:05.04\00:54:07.84 24-hour day. The earth is turning on its axis. Why do we 00:54:07.88\00:54:10.05 have a 7-day week. We can't look up at the stars and see a 7-day 00:54:10.08\00:54:14.15 week. We have it from an arbitrary arrangement from God 00:54:14.18\00:54:17.22 that he established in the Garden of Eden and it has come 00:54:17.25\00:54:20.82 all the way down through history to this very time. The 7-day 00:54:20.86\00:54:25.43 cycle is as ancient as time itself. You can prove the 00:54:25.46\00:54:30.67 Sabbath biblically, you can prove it linguistically in 00:54:30.70\00:54:36.07 regard to language, you can prove it historically. There's 00:54:36.10\00:54:40.94 no mistaking it then. In every area the evidence is 00:54:40.98\00:54:45.58 overwhelming what day is the true Sabbath. In almost all of 00:54:45.61\00:54:50.02 the Christian churches today somewhere in their writings 00:54:50.05\00:54:52.15 they agree with exactly what we've studied here tonight. 00:54:52.19\00:54:55.99 You're going to get this when you go out. It's called the 00:54:56.02\00:54:59.09 Churches' Comments and there's a quote here from the Baptist 00:54:59.13\00:55:01.66 Church, the Catholic Church, the Christian Church, the Church of 00:55:01.70\00:55:05.10 Christ, Congregational Church, the Episcopal Church, the 00:55:05.13\00:55:08.30 Methodist Church, the Lutheran Church, the Presbyterian Church, 00:55:08.34\00:55:10.97 the dictionary and the encyclopedia all agreeing 00:55:11.01\00:55:15.48 exactly what we've studied here tonight, the seventh day's the 00:55:15.51\00:55:18.98 Sabbath. You say well if they all agree on it then why aren't 00:55:19.01\00:55:22.25 they doing it. I can't answer that because I don't want to in 00:55:22.28\00:55:24.75 any way judge their motives, but I can tell you something. Once 00:55:24.79\00:55:28.02 something has become institutionalized it almost 00:55:28.06\00:55:31.19 never changes folks. God calls people to change. He doesn't 00:55:31.23\00:55:34.86 call institutions to change but it's there; it'll be there when 00:55:34.90\00:55:40.87 you go out tonight because I want you to think. Why don't 00:55:40.90\00:55:45.81 those churches change if they know the truth? Because God 00:55:45.84\00:55:49.34 calls people to follow truth. Faith is simply taking God at 00:55:49.38\00:55:54.45 his word isn't it? We don't want to go beyond what God says and 00:55:54.48\00:55:57.75 to fanaticism. We don't want to fall short of what God says for 00:55:57.79\00:56:03.79 a lukewarm Christian experience but rather we want to do what is 00:56:03.83\00:56:06.49 right according to the Bible. Do you know? Why is this called 00:56:06.53\00:56:13.17 God's test of loyalty? The Sabbath is the perfect test 00:56:13.20\00:56:16.20 because part of it does not appeal to reason. It's true that 00:56:16.24\00:56:21.18 rest appeals to reason but a specific day of rest does not 00:56:21.21\00:56:26.65 appeal to reason. In the Garden of Eden when God said to Adam 00:56:26.68\00:56:30.32 and Eve you can eat of all the trees of the garden but of that 00:56:30.35\00:56:32.92 tree you cannot eat. That tree. Did God explain it anymore to 00:56:32.95\00:56:40.66 them. He just said you can eat of everything, not that one. 00:56:40.70\00:56:43.23 And Eve must have wondered wow you know. I'm not really sure 00:56:43.26\00:56:47.77 why God said that. I don't really understand it and 00:56:47.80\00:56:51.07 because I don't understand it I think I'll just do it. Right? 00:56:51.11\00:56:54.24 And look at the problems we've inherited. In other words, 00:56:54.28\00:56:59.21 basically Eve took the position I will follow God when it makes 00:56:59.25\00:57:02.52 sense to me and I will not follow God if it doesn't make 00:57:02.55\00:57:04.72 sense to me. And that is what we call a religion of your own 00:57:04.75\00:57:07.46 choosing. And many people do the same thing today in regards to 00:57:07.49\00:57:09.79 the commandments. They say well I don't really understand why 00:57:09.82\00:57:12.66 God would have to have the seventh day when I want it 00:57:12.69\00:57:15.30 another day. Right? Well God says it's this day. And that's 00:57:15.33\00:57:19.83 why it's a perfect test. Will we follow God because it's what 00:57:19.87\00:57:23.74 he says or will we do what we want to do. That's why it makes 00:57:23.77\00:57:29.64 it a test day. What's going to be our guide. Is it going to be 00:57:29.68\00:57:34.12 tradition or is it going to be the word of God. If you're not 00:57:34.15\00:57:38.55 Sure, do the safe thing. Follow Jesus. Follow what Jesus said 00:57:38.59\00:57:45.79 Follow what Jesus did. Follow the example that Jesus set for 00:57:45.83\00:57:51.47 his church. In the judgment we will not get in trouble by 00:57:51.50\00:57:56.57 following Jesus. Would you agree You may have a question still 00:57:56.60\00:57:59.87 about the Sabbath and I understand that. This is brand 00:57:59.91\00:58:02.71 new for some of you. But how many of you tonight would like 00:58:02.74\00:58:06.21 to say with me This much I do know. I want to do God's will 00:58:06.25\00:58:10.79 by God's grace. Can we all agree on that tonight. You want to 00:58:10.82\00:58:14.96 do God's will by God's grace. 00:58:14.99\00:58:18.59 ¤ ¤ 00:58:18.63\00:58:26.84