The escalation of global
terrorism, crime, immorality,
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and natural disasters,
seems to indicate our world
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is spiraling towards it's
ultimate hour with destiny.
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Who, if anyone, will
survive Earth's final events?
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Discover what Bible prophecy
reveals about the rapture,
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the mark of the
beast, and Armageddon.
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Though shrouded in
mystery for centuries,
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the book of Revelation
can be understood today.
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Peer into the future,
and see what wonderful things
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God has planned for His people.
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And now, Pastor Brian
McMahon presents the powerful
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Bible seminar
"Revelation Speaks Hope".
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Our subject for
tonight we've entitled:
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"God's test of
loyalty". If you would open up
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your Bibles with me to
Acts 17 as we begin tonight.
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Acts 17:10 and onwards.
The Bible says [text on screen]
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Now notice the 2 groups,
there were the Thessalonians
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and there were the Bereans.
The Thessalonians were not open
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to studying, they were not
open to see whether those things
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were so, but then
there were the Berean group,
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and the Bible calls
them noble, doesn't it?
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Why did the
Bible call them noble?
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Because they were open
to truth, they wanted to see
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whether those things were
so, and how did they do that?
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Did the Bereans find out things
by going to their neighbor
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and asking for
their opinion, yes or no?
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No. Did the Bereans go and ask
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their pastor what he thinks,
and whatever he thinks is okay
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with them? No.
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They didn't ask their pastor,
they didn't ask their priest,
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they didn't ask their
rabbi, rather, they searched
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the Scriptures, didn't
they? And notice when it says
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they searched, that means
they put some effort into it.
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They did not do as some
have done, where they simply
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determine, or predetermine,
what they want to believe
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and then no matter what
the rest of the Bible says
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they're going to believe
what they want to believe.
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Well, we've covered opening
night that that's not the way
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to find out truth. So
they searched the Scriptures,
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they had a longing to
have their minds enlightened
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with what the
words of God really says.
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In Daniel 12:4 the
Bible says: [text on screen]
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God wants to increase knowledge
in His word to your mind
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and to my mind. In
Revelation 13:3 it says:
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[text on screen]
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There's another verse very
much similar to it in verse 8
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where it says: [text on screen]
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So Scripture's telling us dear
friends that in the last days
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there's going to be such
great deception that it's going
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to take in the world.
I'm so glad that the Bible
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qualifies it by saying that
there will be some who will not
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be deceived, but they will be
in the minority, dear friends.
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So when we search the
Scriptures as the Bereans did,
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if we find something there
that is truth, and yet the world
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is following something
else, should it surprise us?
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Should it startle us?
Well, it shouldn't dear friends,
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and the reason is because
the Bible has already told us
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that in the last days the
vast majority of people will be
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going down the wrong
way. They'll be following down
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the wrong road. I
believe that for those people
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that are living in that last
days of this earth's history,
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God wants them to know
truth from error, amen?
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And sometimes the
truth surprises the Catholic,
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and sometimes the truth
surprises the Protestant,
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sometimes it surprises the
atheist, sometimes it surprises
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the Jew, but everything that
we're going to study tonight,
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I had to study out for
myself from the Word of God,
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and make a decision whether
it was truly taught in the Bible
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or not, and I know that
you're going to want to do
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the same tonight. So
having said all of that,
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do you still want
the truth tonight?
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- [Audience] Yeah. -
Amen, well let's go find it
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together then. Go to
Revelation 14 with me.
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Here we find God's last grand
closing message to the world
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before Jesus
returns. Revelation 14:6:
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[text on screen]
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So it's a Christ
centered message, why?
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Because it's called
the everlasting gospel.
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It's the good
news that Jesus saves.
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And it says: [text on screen]
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So folks, this tells us it's
not just for 1 denomination,
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it's not just for people
of 1 language, or 1 creed,
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here is a message
that is to sweep the world.
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It's to span the
oceans, it's to leap across
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all the geographical boundaries
that this world has set up,
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and it's to speak to
people of every language,
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every kind, every persuasion.
"Fear God" - which means
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reverence Him,
worship Him, respect Him
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[continues to read]
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So what the Bible is telling
us then is that it is announcing
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that there's going to be a
certain time in this earth's
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history when we are
living in a generation that's
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just leading up to
the coming of Jesus,
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and notice in this time that's
called "the judgment hour"
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there's a special call
that goes to all the world.
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It says: "And give glory to Him
for the hour of His judgment"
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"has come" [text on screen]
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Okay, now why do I
share this with you?
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Because Revelation 14:7 is
calling us to true worship,
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it says: "worship Him
that made these things".
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Revelation 14:9 is warning
us against false worship.
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Verse 9 begins saying:
"And the 3rd angel followed"
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"them saying with a loud voice,
If any man worship the beast".
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So in the last days
of this earth's history
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people are either going
to worship God as the Creator
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or they're going to
worship that one which the Bible
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calls the beast. So
what's the central issue?
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The central issue,
friends, is loyalty.
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The central issue
is allegiance to God.
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The central issue is
worship, what are we going to do
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with our worship?
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Remember those key
points, we go down to verse 12,
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and in verse 12 God
sets up a contrast here.
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In Verse 12 it says: "Here
is the patients of the saints,"
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"here are they that
keep the commandments of God"
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"and the faith of Jesus."
So the Bible is contrasting
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for us those that
are worshipping the beast
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and following that
with those that are keeping
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the commandments of God, so
that's why it's so important
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that we understand what the
true commandments of God are,
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what do you say out there?
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So go back with me
to Revelation 14:7,
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where it says: "Worship Him
who made heaven, and earth,"
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"and the sea, and
the fountains of waters."
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What do we call the one
who made all of these things:
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heaven, earth, the sea, and
the fountains, what's another
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word for the
maker of all things?
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Creator, so in
an age of evolution,
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God is calling us back
to our roots, isn't He?
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He's telling us that
we're not just the result
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of some big cosmic bang,
some big bang, we're not just
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an evolution accident
here, we are the result
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of a creator's
handiwork, aren't we?
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Why do we worship God anyway?
Have you ever thought of that?
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What's the basis of
worship? Why do we give God
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our total allegiance?
Well, the Bible actually
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answers that for
us. Go to Revelation 4,
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you're already in Revelation, so
it's not difficult to turn there
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Revelation 4 is our
text: [text on screen]
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"for" - which is just
another word for "because",
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[continues to read]
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So the very basis of
worship is that God created us.
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Has our loving God, has
this all powerful Creator
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given this world
something to remember Him by?
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Hasn't God, in His
wisdom, given this world
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something so we would
never forget that there is a God
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in heaven, and we are
His creatures here on earth,
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and we owe our
allegiance to Him?
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Well friends, God
has given us something,
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and we want to take a
look at it tonight, together.
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Turn with me to Exodus 20:8,
the Bible says: [text on screen]
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Tonight we're going to study the
topic of the 4th commandment,
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the one that deals with
remembering God's Sabbath day.
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And as we do so, I have
a suggestion for us all,
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let's be like the noble Bereans
who searched the Scriptures
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whether those things were
so. Rather than ask our favorite
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Uncle Willy, or Aunt Hazel,
or anyone else we might love
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and trust, what do you say we
go to the Bible for the answers
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on this subject tonight, amen?
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Because that is what
God would want us to do.
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I know that you
heard some people say:
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"Oh that 7th day,
that's the Jewish Sabbath."
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I know you've heard
people say that perhaps,
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but notice it doesn't say
"the Sabbath of the Jew" here,
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but rather it says: "the
Sabbath of the Lord thy God".
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When God made man on
the 6th day of creation,
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after that day was
over, how many human beings
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were alive on planet earth.
2, and what were their names?
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Adam and Eve. Were they Jews?
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No, they were not
Jews, as a matter of fact
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there were no Jews for
hundreds and hundreds of years
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after Adam and Eve.
After He finished making man
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on the earth, on that
6th day, there were no Jews
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after that, but we do want
to go and find out when God
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did establish the Sabbath,
this will help us tonight,
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so with me to Genesis 2.
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The book of beginnings is
where we're going to turn.
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Let's begin reading in
verse 1: [text on screen]
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"...seventh day"
- on the what day?
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Seventh day. [text on screen]
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He rested on
what day? Seventh day,
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"He rested on the
Seventh day from all His work"
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"which He had made."
Verse 3: [text on screen]
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He blessed the
what day? Seventh Day.
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"...because in it",
that "it" is the seventh day,
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"He had rested from all His work
which God created and made."
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This is a wonderful
account of the creation week
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and the final day of that week.
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When God created, we
know that on the 1st day
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He made a special
work. He made the light,
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and separated it from
the darkness, and called
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the light "day" and the
evening He called the "night".
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The 2nd day He created
the firmament, and divided it
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and had the atmosphere
above and the waters beneath.
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On the 3rd day He
added something else.
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He made the dry land appear,
and then we had the grass
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on top of it, the trees
came forth, and the fruit trees,
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and so on. He
started to make it beautiful.
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On the 4th day He put
things up in the heavens.
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The sun, the moon and the
stars, and they were to guide
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the seasons and
the days and the years.
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Then on the 5th day, He
put the creatures in the seas,
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and in the air, He
started to populate them,
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but He wasn't finished
yet. Then we have the 6th day,
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and on the 6th day
He made the land animals
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and, of course,
human beings, Adam and Eve,
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but He wasn't finished, the
week was not complete rather.
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His creation was finished,
but God wanted to finish out
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the week with a
very special memorial.
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So on the 7th day He set
up that memorial of Himself
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as the Creator, and
on that day, we're told,
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He rested, He blessed the
day, and He sanctified it,
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that means He set
it apart for Holy use.
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[text on screen]
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Dear friends, once again, after
that week there were no Jews,
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and that's when the
Sabbath was created.
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In fact, you could take
your Bible, you could read it
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from cover to cover, Genesis
to Revelation and back again,
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you will never ever find the
expression "Sabbath of the Jews"
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A lot of people say
that, and they can sound
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ever so convincing when they
do, but the Bible never says it.
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It always says "the Sabbath
of the Lord thy God"...always.
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Now let's go take a look at
who the Sabbath was made for.
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If you would turn to Mark 2.
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I know you hear that a
lot, people saying the Sabbath
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was only for the Jew,
but Mark 2, here's the words
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of Jesus, and Jesus
makes it very plain.
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We're going to
look at Mark 2:27.
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In the words of Jesus
is says: [text on screen]
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"M. A. N." that's a funny way to
spell "Jew", isn't that right?
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Okay, the
Sabbath was made for who?
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Man, and that's the
generic term for all mankind.
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So the Sabbath wasn't made for
the Jew, it was to be a blessing
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for everybody,
wasn't it? And yet somehow
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people can continue to
say that the 4th commandment
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is Jewish. I'm going
to ask you a question,
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those of you who have been
coming, you especially know this
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because you've been
studying here with us.
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The commandment that
says: "Thou shalt not kill",
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is that only for the Jews? No.
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Does the one that says: "Thou
shalt not commit adultery",
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is that Jewish in
nature? No, of course not.
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Is the one that says:
"Thou shalt not covet",
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"Thou shalt not
bear false witness",
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are those to be
only for the Jews?
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No, of course not. You
see, the 4th commandment
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is no more Jewish
than the other ones are.
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All of them were for humanity,
not just 1 or 2, or whatever.
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And yet, people somehow
think that the 4th commandment
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is only for the
Jews. If you go back
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to the commandment
itself there in verse 10,
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it says right in the
commandment of Exodus 20:10:
00:15:05.22\00:15:08.62
[text on screen]
00:15:08.65\00:15:10.62
"stranger that is
within thy gates."
00:15:20.11\00:15:22.51
So see, right there in
the commandment it tells us
00:15:22.54\00:15:24.06
it's not just for the Jew only,
it's also for the Gentiles.
00:15:24.09\00:15:27.54
So in the command God says: "I
want you to remember this day."
00:15:27.57\00:15:33.76
We might say: "Well, why
Lord? Why should we remember"
00:15:33.79\00:15:36.29
"this day?" He
goes on in verse 11:
00:15:36.32\00:15:38.84
[text on screen]
00:15:38.87\00:15:40.85
Well what he's doing is
he's quoting from Genesis 2.
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Where we just were a
moment ago in Genesis 2,
00:15:54.03\00:15:56.28
where God rested on that
day, and blessed that day,
00:15:56.31\00:15:58.21
and sanctified that
day, Moses, as he writes down
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these words in Exodus,
he's commenting on that act
00:16:01.77\00:16:05.05
that God did back
there in creation week.
00:16:05.08\00:16:09.20
So in this commandment
God is telling us the fact
00:16:09.23\00:16:13.56
that He is the creator, which is
exactly what Revelation told us
00:16:13.59\00:16:18.04
we're to give worship
to. Do you know that that's
00:16:18.07\00:16:21.68
what distinguishes the true
God from all those false things
00:16:21.71\00:16:24.64
that are called God.
You see, the Devil knew
00:16:24.67\00:16:29.42
that if he was going to draw
attention away from the true God
00:16:29.45\00:16:32.63
somehow he had to get
mankind's attention away
00:16:32.78\00:16:36.97
from the Sabbath day,
because if everybody was keeping
00:16:37.00\00:16:40.37
the Sabbath day, then
everybody every single week
00:16:40.40\00:16:44.19
would have a reminder of
the fact that there's a true God
00:16:44.22\00:16:46.20
up in heaven.
00:16:46.23\00:16:48.04
Satan doesn't want you
to know that, and Satan
00:16:48.07\00:16:50.14
doesn't want
people to remember that.
00:16:50.17\00:16:52.43
If everybody kept the Sabbath,
could you have a doubter of God?
00:16:52.46\00:16:56.90
Could you have an atheist?
Could you have a skeptic?
00:16:56.93\00:16:59.73
Well no, not really,
because how could you doubt God
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or not believe in God if
you keep a day every week
00:17:02.54\00:17:05.06
in honor of God.
That's what God intended,
00:17:05.09\00:17:08.10
that we would never forget Him.
00:17:08.13\00:17:10.26
So by causing people
to disregard the Sabbath,
00:17:10.29\00:17:13.58
by causing people to
neglect the Sabbath, or reject
00:17:13.61\00:17:17.63
the Sabbath, he has
led multitudes of people
00:17:17.66\00:17:20.30
away from the true God, and
they start believing in things
00:17:20.33\00:17:22.82
like evolution,
or no God at all.
00:17:22.85\00:17:27.35
Think carefully with me, the
Sabbath is a gift from heaven
00:17:27.38\00:17:32.69
to mankind, did you
ever think of it that way?
00:17:32.72\00:17:35.14
When in the 4th commandment
God says "I'm going to give you"
00:17:35.17\00:17:37.78
"a special gift every
single week, and that's a gift"
00:17:37.81\00:17:40.94
"of My presence and my time."
Isn't it a wonderful thing
00:17:40.97\00:17:44.44
to think about it in heaven,
to think that we get to be
00:17:44.47\00:17:46.42
with our Creator.
Aren't you looking forward
00:17:46.45\00:17:48.69
to heaven because we
get to be with Jesus?
00:17:48.72\00:17:51.25
God is saying: "I'm going
to give you a little foretaste"
00:17:51.28\00:17:53.49
"of heaven even while
you're here on earth."
00:17:53.52\00:17:55.59
"I'm going to give you
one day every single week"
00:17:55.62\00:17:59.87
"when we can meet
together in a special way,"
00:17:59.90\00:18:02.56
"and you can have My
presence in a special way"
00:18:02.59\00:18:04.91
"that is not there the
other 6 days of the week."
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The Devil knew that
the perfect 7th day Sabbath
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honored the true God, so
the Devil does everything he can
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to get people to get their eyes
off of that day of the week.
00:18:14.63\00:18:17.51
And yet God said
that if you keep this day,
00:18:17.54\00:18:19.57
"it will always be a special
sign between Me and you."
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So let's take a look at a couple
of texts that tells us that
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in Exodus 31:17, notice
what God said about this day:
00:18:24.71\00:18:33.54
[text on screen]
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So quoting the fact that God
made the heavens and the earth
00:18:42.24\00:18:45.23
in 6 days, then He says, and the
7th day, that's a special sign.
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Dear friends, it was a special
sign then, and guess what,
00:18:51.63\00:18:55.54
because the commandments
are still for us today,
00:18:55.57\00:18:57.67
it is a special sign now,
it hasn't changed, God doesn't
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change, the commandments do
not change, God's special day
00:19:01.92\00:19:05.58
doesn't change, it's still a
sign between Him and his people.
00:19:05.61\00:19:08.20
Let's look at
another one in Ezekiel 20:12.
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He says regarding His
people: [text on screen]
00:19:11.62\00:19:14.89
Throughout the Old
Testament, and even the New,
00:19:25.24\00:19:28.16
He's saying "The Sabbath
is a special sign of loyalty"
00:19:28.19\00:19:31.90
"between Me and My people."
00:19:31.93\00:19:34.96
Here's an article
that I cut out of my paper
00:19:34.99\00:19:37.78
near my home town, sort of cut
off a little bit off the top,
00:19:37.81\00:19:41.67
but it talks about
remembering the Sabbath,
00:19:41.70\00:19:43.50
and it goes on and talks about
how churches has overlooked this
00:19:43.53\00:19:47.27
and really have
suffered a loss because of it.
00:19:47.30\00:19:50.38
Another article I found from
"Christianity Today" magazine,
00:19:50.41\00:19:54.46
again, I apologize, I've cut off
a little bit off the top there,
00:19:54.49\00:19:56.48
but it says at the top:
"Rediscovering the Sabbath".
00:19:56.51\00:20:01.77
In other words, the
churches have long misunderstood
00:20:01.80\00:20:04.43
the fact that the 7th day
is for us today as much as it
00:20:04.46\00:20:08.08
ever was to the
Israelites of old.
00:20:08.11\00:20:12.09
Why does God want us to
have this special time with Him?
00:20:12.12\00:20:16.50
Friends, He wants us
to have this time with Him
00:20:16.53\00:20:18.17
because God is
relationship oriented.
00:20:18.20\00:20:21.23
In other words,
Jesus didn't just say:
00:20:21.26\00:20:23.34
"Keep My commandments",
but rather Jesus said:
00:20:23.37\00:20:26.01
[text on screen]
00:20:26.04\00:20:28.04
So God puts the
commandments in the context
00:20:29.45\00:20:32.54
of a relationship of
love. I know that Satan
00:20:32.57\00:20:36.33
seeks to nullify
everything that honors God,
00:20:36.36\00:20:39.53
so Satan is working very
hard tonight to cause people
00:20:39.56\00:20:42.80
to think of the
Sabbath as done away with,
00:20:42.83\00:20:46.43
do you know why this is
one reason why we covered
00:20:46.46\00:20:48.72
the 10
commandments our last 2 nights?
00:20:48.75\00:20:50.97
It's because so many churches
today are trying to find a way
00:20:51.00\00:20:56.73
to do away with the Sabbath
that they're willing to say
00:20:56.76\00:21:00.31
that the whole law is
done away with, so we've proven
00:21:00.34\00:21:03.73
from the Scriptures on more than
1 night that is just not so.
00:21:03.76\00:21:07.00
The churches that say the
law's nailed to the cross,
00:21:07.03\00:21:09.74
the churches that say that the
10 commandments are no longer
00:21:09.77\00:21:12.00
binding, they
don't really mean that,
00:21:12.03\00:21:14.68
the people that say
that, they thought it trough,
00:21:14.71\00:21:16.80
they don't really mean
that, think about it with me.
00:21:16.83\00:21:20.00
Every single church in
this area, or I could say
00:21:20.03\00:21:23.96
in the city of Sacramento,
every single church believes
00:21:23.99\00:21:27.34
"Thou shalt have no
other gods before Me",
00:21:27.37\00:21:29.56
they all believe that;
every single church but one
00:21:29.59\00:21:32.14
believes: "Thou shalt
not make any graven image"
00:21:32.17\00:21:34.74
"and bow down and worship
it", every single church but one
00:21:34.77\00:21:36.49
keeps that. Every
single church believes
00:21:36.52\00:21:40.34
"Thou shalt not take the name
of the Lord thy God in vain."
00:21:40.37\00:21:43.21
Every church believes "Honor
thy father and thy mother",
00:21:43.24\00:21:45.33
"thou shalt not kill",
"commit adultery", "steal"
00:21:45.36\00:21:47.10
"bear false
witness" and "covet",
00:21:47.13\00:21:48.94
they all believe in those things
but there is 1 commandment
00:21:48.97\00:21:51.49
that gives them difficulty,
and that is the 4th commandment.
00:21:51.52\00:21:55.03
So in order to try
to get around the fact
00:21:55.06\00:21:57.20
that they're not
honoring the 4th commandment
00:21:57.23\00:21:59.47
as it is listed in the
Bible, their way around that
00:21:59.50\00:22:02.76
is to say that all of
the commandments have been
00:22:02.79\00:22:04.97
done away with.
They say the whole law
00:22:05.00\00:22:07.04
was nailed to the cross,
and then they come right back
00:22:07.07\00:22:10.36
and they say: "But in
the New Testament, we keep"
00:22:10.39\00:22:12.77
"9 of them." Now, for
thinking, perceptive people,
00:22:12.80\00:22:17.42
that just doesn't
make sense. Isn't it more
00:22:17.45\00:22:22.58
than just interesting
that the one commandment
00:22:22.61\00:22:25.23
that people today are
saying it's okay to forget
00:22:25.26\00:22:30.37
is the 1 commandment
that God said: "remember"?
00:22:30.40\00:22:35.11
Once again, even though churches
in their heart of hearts
00:22:35.14\00:22:37.41
don't really believe
that, it's the easiest way
00:22:37.44\00:22:39.97
that they have tried to
find to do away with the fact
00:22:40.00\00:22:42.20
that they're not
honoring that commandment.
00:22:42.23\00:22:45.44
I'm going to share something
with you as you turn there
00:22:45.47\00:22:47.08
that I hope you'll never forget.
When the Devil comes to people
00:22:47.11\00:22:51.63
to try to get them
to disregard the Bible,
00:22:51.66\00:22:55.87
and to do something that
is wrong, he doesn't have
00:22:55.90\00:22:59.57
the Scriptures on his side.
The Scriptures are a safeguard
00:22:59.60\00:23:02.94
for us to do what's
right. So what the Devil does
00:23:02.97\00:23:07.40
is he uses arguments, carefully
crafted and scripted arguments
00:23:07.43\00:23:13.51
that will lure people away
from following what the Bible
00:23:13.54\00:23:16.74
plainly says, so that's
why we need the Scriptures
00:23:16.77\00:23:19.78
to cut through all of
those deceptive arguments.
00:23:19.81\00:23:22.88
So don't fall for that one about
the commandments being done
00:23:22.91\00:23:26.38
away with.
00:23:26.41\00:23:27.92
In James 2:10 here's
what we read: [text on screen]
00:23:27.95\00:23:34.74
We've talked a little bit about
it, but this is also important
00:23:46.45\00:23:49.75
because it is controversial
in asking what day of the week
00:23:49.78\00:23:53.73
actually is the Sabbath.
If you look at an almanac,
00:23:53.76\00:23:57.13
or an encyclopedia, or a
dictionary, the calendar,
00:23:57.16\00:24:01.43
and especially the Bible, you
will see that in all of those
00:24:01.46\00:24:04.46
areas it is absolutely
certain what day of the week
00:24:04.49\00:24:07.87
the true Sabbath is,
but again, we're going to go
00:24:07.90\00:24:10.27
to the Bible, it's
our ultimate authority.
00:24:10.30\00:24:12.23
Turn with me to Revelation 1.
00:24:12.26\00:24:16.57
This is a well known text so we
want to be sure that we cover it
00:24:17.33\00:24:20.91
We want to find the true
Sabbath in the New Testament,
00:24:21.33\00:24:24.51
and once again, go to the
Bible as our final authority.
00:24:24.54\00:24:26.65
Revelation 1:10, the
Bible says, and this is John,
00:24:26.68\00:24:34.18
the revelator
speaking: [text on screen]
00:24:34.21\00:24:36.93
"and heard behind me a
great voice, as of a trumpet."
00:24:39.92\00:24:43.22
Notice, John had a vision.
He had it on a certain day
00:24:43.25\00:24:46.24
of the week, and he called
that day "the Lord's day",
00:24:46.27\00:24:49.56
that means it's
different than other days.
00:24:49.59\00:24:52.18
It's different than the
other days, that specific day
00:24:52.21\00:24:53.96
was the Lord's day,
it belongs to the Lord.
00:24:53.99\00:24:56.02
Unfortunately, he doesn't
get too specific about what day
00:24:56.05\00:24:58.23
he's talking about here,
he doesn't tell us exactly
00:24:58.26\00:25:01.46
what day of the week it
is, he simply says he had
00:25:01.49\00:25:03.81
a vision, it the Lord's day.
>From Genesis to Revelation,
00:25:03.84\00:25:07.28
you don't that exact term
"the Lord's day" used again,
00:25:07.31\00:25:12.89
this is the only place
in the Bible it's used,
00:25:12.92\00:25:14.58
here in Revelation 1:10,
but this much we do know:
00:25:14.61\00:25:18.96
long after the time of
Jesus walking the earth
00:25:18.99\00:25:22.03
and ascending back to
heaven, there was a special day
00:25:22.06\00:25:24.88
called the Lord's day.
So right away we know this,
00:25:24.91\00:25:28.27
that this immediately does
away with this false theory
00:25:28.30\00:25:30.79
that in the New Testament
all the days are the same.
00:25:30.82\00:25:33.66
That's another
arguments that the Devil uses.
00:25:33.69\00:25:35.88
He twists things to cause people
to think: "Well, there isn't"
00:25:35.91\00:25:39.30
"really a Sabbath day any
more because all the days"
00:25:39.33\00:25:42.82
"are the same, they're
all of the same nature."
00:25:42.85\00:25:45.08
Well, we know that can't
be true otherwise how could
00:25:45.11\00:25:47.19
John say 70 years
after Jesus walked the earth
00:25:47.22\00:25:51.64
that he was in the spirit
on the Lord's day if there was
00:25:51.67\00:25:53.94
no day that was the Lord's
day, that wouldn't make sense.
00:25:53.97\00:25:56.61
So I would say this:
if there is a Lord's day,
00:25:56.64\00:25:59.87
how about we ask the Lord
Himself what day of the week
00:25:59.90\00:26:03.14
it is? Does that
make sense to you?
00:26:03.17\00:26:05.00
Who would know better than
Jesus what day He's Lord of.
00:26:05.03\00:26:07.58
So let's do it, go
to Matthew 12 with me.
00:26:07.61\00:26:10.07
Here's we're looking at
verse 8: "For the Son of man",
00:26:10.10\00:26:13.38
that's Jesus, [text on screen]
00:26:13.41\00:26:16.09
Now if Jesus if the Lord, and
He's the Lord of the Sabbath,
00:26:20.30\00:26:24.03
then that must mean that
the Sabbath is the Lord's day.
00:26:24.06\00:26:26.63
If English language makes any
sense, has any meaning at all
00:26:26.66\00:26:29.84
that's exactly what
Jesus is saying, in fact,
00:26:29.87\00:26:31.81
right back in the
commandment itself it tells us
00:26:31.84\00:26:34.91
the 7th day is the Sabbath, and
it's the Sabbath of the Lord.
00:26:34.94\00:26:38.74
That means the Lord's day
is the 7th day of the week;
00:26:38.77\00:26:42.88
it belongs to
God in a special way.
00:26:42.91\00:26:45.33
In Mark 2:28 we find
something very similar,
00:26:45.36\00:26:49.10
here the Bible also
says: [text on screen]
00:26:49.13\00:26:52.20
So the Sabbath is,
therefore, the Lord's day.
00:26:54.83\00:26:59.90
In the book of Revelation,
for those of you who have spent
00:26:59.93\00:27:03.17
any time there at all,
I'm sure that you've noticed
00:27:03.20\00:27:05.93
that numbers have meaning.
The number 12 is very prominent
00:27:05.96\00:27:10.29
in the book of Revelation,
and there's another number
00:27:10.32\00:27:12.62
that's very prominent
in the book of Revelation,
00:27:12.65\00:27:14.76
and that's the
number 7. So as we go there
00:27:14.79\00:27:17.15
let me share with you just a
little bit about the number 7.
00:27:17.18\00:27:19.66
It says in Revelation
there were [text on screen]
00:27:19.69\00:27:22.42
Popular opinion and tradition
has replaced the Bible for many,
00:27:34.79\00:27:38.95
and for many churches, but
I'm going to politely and kindly
00:27:38.98\00:27:44.03
challenge you tonight.
The reason most people keep
00:27:44.06\00:27:47.64
a different day other
than the 7th day is simply
00:27:47.67\00:27:50.29
from tradition, it's
not from the Bible at all.
00:27:50.32\00:27:53.78
So let's now go
through some more verses here
00:27:53.81\00:27:56.45
and let's keep establishing
what day the disciples kept.
00:27:56.48\00:27:59.56
Would you turn with
me to Luke 23 tonight.
00:27:59.59\00:28:05.11
The Bible has a prophecy that
there is going to come a power
00:28:05.14\00:28:09.15
against God's commandments that
would seek to change God's times
00:28:09.18\00:28:12.40
and laws, we're going to look
more at that on another night,
00:28:12.43\00:28:15.99
but has it been fulfilled?
Well, if you go to the history
00:28:16.02\00:28:18.90
books, the encyclopedias,
go to the libraries,
00:28:18.93\00:28:22.58
go to various other
sources of information,
00:28:22.61\00:28:24.34
you will find it very clear
what day of the week the 7th day
00:28:24.37\00:28:27.33
Sabbath is, but let's
go to the Scriptures now,
00:28:27.37\00:28:29.60
Luke 23:54, here it
says: [text on screen]
00:28:29.63\00:28:38.96
Talking about the day that
Jesus died, "And the Sabbath"
00:28:39.95\00:28:42.17
"drew on" - meaning the
Sabbath had not yet come,
00:28:42.20\00:28:44.79
"and the women also, which
came with Him from Galilee"
00:28:44.82\00:28:46.96
"followed after, and they beheld
the sepulcher and how His body"
00:28:46.99\00:28:50.68
"was laid, and they
returned and prepared spices"
00:28:50.71\00:28:53.39
"and ointments, and rested
the Sabbath day according"
00:28:53.42\00:28:56.83
"to the
commandment." Now chapter 24:1,
00:28:56.86\00:29:01.32
it says: [text on screen]
00:29:01.35\00:29:03.54
"And they found
the stone rolled away"
00:29:11.18\00:29:13.44
"from the sepulcher."
What we have here is 3 days
00:29:13.47\00:29:17.20
mentioned in quick, but
nevertheless orderly succession.
00:29:17.23\00:29:21.21
You've got the preparation
day mentioned, you've got the
00:29:21.24\00:29:24.10
Sabbath Day mentioned and you've
got the first day of the week
00:29:24.13\00:29:27.50
mentioned as well. I'm
going to put another verse
00:29:27.53\00:29:31.03
up on the screen, it's
Mark 15:42, and it says:
00:29:31.06\00:29:35.23
[text on screen]
00:29:35.26\00:29:37.18
The Bible is going to
share with us how it defines
00:29:40.03\00:29:43.17
the word "preparation",
[continues to read]
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So the Bible says that
the preparation day is the day
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before the Sabbath, that's
the day that we would call
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in many of the Christian
churches "Good Friday",
00:30:01.18\00:30:05.52
the day that Jesus died.
So we've got the preparation,
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the day that
Jesus died on the cross.
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Now let's go to Mark 16:9.
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And here the Bible
says: [text on screen]
00:30:16.14\00:30:18.85
Well now we've got the day
when Jesus rose from the grave,
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and it talks about it as
the first day of the week.
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So we've got the preparation
day identified, the day
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that Jesus died, the first
day of the week identified,
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the day that Jesus rose
from the tomb, and now we've got
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1 day in the
middle. We go back again
00:30:39.50\00:30:42.13
to Luke 23:56 and here's
what it says: [text on screen]
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So now we've got the day
in the middle identified.
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The Sabbath day, the day
that came between the day
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that Jesus died and the
day that Jesus rose, is called
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the Sabbath day. I
know that many of you
00:31:03.37\00:31:06.40
know exactly how
to make a sandwich.
00:31:06.43\00:31:08.33
You start with a slice of bread
on top, and a slice of bread
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down below, and then you put
something in the middle of it.
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Well, here we've got a
sandwich of days, you've got
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the top part, the
day that Jesus died,
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you've got the bottom
part, the day that Jesus rose,
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and then you've got
that part in the middle,
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the sweetest part of
all, the time that Jesus laid
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in the tomb, which the
Bible calls the Sabbath.
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I don't know anyone who
can straighten this controversy
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out better than Jesus
Himself, so in Matthew 24
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we have Jesus
talking to His disciples.
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Jesus was telling them
about a time when His church
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would have to flee form
Jerusalem because it would
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be destroyed. We
go down to verse 19,
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speaking as the prophet He was,
it says: "And woe unto them"
00:31:48.04\00:31:53.44
"that are with child,
and to them that give suck"
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"in those
days," [text on screen]
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Jesus is speaking about a
time when Jerusalem was totally
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annihilated. The
Roman armies came
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and surrounded it, this
was in 70 AD, almost 40 years
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after Jesus
spoke to His disciples.
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Here's, the
point: [text on screen]
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...if it wasn't a
commandment anymore?
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Jesus would never have given
that counsel to His people.
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So we have a crystal clear
text that tells us the Sabbath
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was important before, in
the Old Testament, the Sabbath
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was important in the
life of Jesus, and the Sabbath
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was important in the New
Testament, and of course,
00:32:52.84\00:32:54.97
that means all the way
down to our time as well.
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There's more evidence though,
in the book of Hebrews 4:9
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Paul says, and Paul's believed
by many to be the author
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of the book of Hebrews,
it says: [text on screen]
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You know that word
"rest" that's in the King James,
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it's actually in the
original Greek: [text on screen]
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Paul is telling us that there's
a Sabbath keeping experience
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left for the people of God.
You see, we rest from our sins
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on the inside because we
trust in Jesus as our Saviour,
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but there's an outward
keeping of the Sabbath also
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that people can evidence
that we have that peace and rest
00:33:34.49\00:33:37.48
inside. So yes, there remains
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a Sabbath keeping
for the people of God.
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But what about the
apostles, many people believe
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that the disciples taught
something different, or kept
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a different day, so we want
to go and look at that as well.
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Go to Acts 13, in
the New Testament,
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what about the early
church? Let's take a look there.
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We're going to begin
reading in Acts 13:14.
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Here's what the Bible
says: [text on screen]
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They went into the
synagogue on what day?
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The Sabbath day. In
other words, Paul preached
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on the Sabbath day,
but what did he preach?
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It goes in verse
15: [text on screen]
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So Paul preached the law and
he preached prophecy as well.
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So here's this great apostle to
the Gentiles, the apostle Paul,
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and he is keeping
the Sabbath of the Lord.
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Well, someone will
always say: "Well, he went into"
00:34:49.95\00:34:51.39
"the synagogue because
that's where the Jews were,"
00:34:51.42\00:34:54.03
"and the Gentiles,
well, they weren't in there,"
00:34:54.06\00:34:55.82
"so they didn't have
to keep the Sabbath."
00:34:55.85\00:34:57.45
Well, let's keep
reading. It's amazing how people
00:34:57.48\00:35:00.06
stop too soon. Go
to verse 42, it says:
00:35:00.16\00:35:03.56
[text on screen]
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"Now when the congregation
was broken up, many of the Jews"
00:35:13.92\00:35:17.04
"and religious proselytes
followed Paul and Barnabas,"
00:35:17.07\00:35:20.86
"who speaking to them
persuaded them to continue"
00:35:20.89\00:35:24.43
"in the grace of
God," [text on screen]
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Are you following along
in your own Bible on this?
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This is so beautiful, it
says that they were keeping
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the Sabbath, both Gentiles
and Jews, and Paul says:
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"You continue in the
grace of God", that tells us
00:35:43.31\00:35:45.75
that grace saved Christians
believe in the commandments
00:35:45.78\00:35:49.45
of God, including
the 4th commandment.
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They were keeping it because
Paul says: "you continue"
00:35:51.92\00:35:54.06
"in that grace that
you're in", and that's exactly
00:35:54.09\00:35:56.73
what he would say to us tonight.
00:35:56.76\00:35:58.88
When the Gentiles
wanted to hear Paul preach,
00:35:58.91\00:36:01.15
he didn't say: "well, we've got
the Jews getting preached to"
00:36:01.18\00:36:03.56
"on the Sabbath, and we're
keeping a different day now"
00:36:03.59\00:36:05.74
"so you come back the next
day", he didn't tell them that.
00:36:05.77\00:36:09.11
In fact, it tells us that the
next Sabbath almost the whole
00:36:09.14\00:36:15.57
city came together, in other
words, all of them were keeping
00:36:15.60\00:36:18.33
the exact same day of
the week, that's the teaching
00:36:18.36\00:36:21.98
of the early
church. We're not done yet.
00:36:22.01\00:36:23.75
Go to Acts 18:4.
00:36:23.78\00:36:30.11
Paul is in a Gentile
city, there's a church raised up
00:36:36.94\00:36:39.71
and what do they do?
It says: [text on screen]
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I hope the Bible is
making it clear to us tonight.
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Every Sabbath.
We'll look at 1 more.
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Go to Acts 16. When
people say that there's
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no evidence of them keeping the
Sabbath in the New Testament,
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I know one thing: they
haven't read the New Testament
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because there's verse
after verse of them keeping
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the Sabbath.
00:37:07.47\00:37:09.78
Acts 16:13, here's what the
Bible says: [text on screen]
00:37:09.81\00:37:13.37
This wasn't a meeting in a
synagogue, this was a meeting
00:37:23.95\00:37:26.22
out by the riverside.
They were still keeping
00:37:26.25\00:37:28.35
the Sabbath, they didn't
have to be in the synagogue,
00:37:28.38\00:37:30.03
they didn't have to be with
Jews at all to keep the Sabbath
00:37:30.07\00:37:32.08
because the commandment was just
as much for the Christian church
00:37:32.11\00:37:34.84
as it ever was
for Jewish people.
00:37:34.87\00:37:37.84
Notice something else as
you read this passage folks.
00:37:37.87\00:37:40.72
When Luke, who
records these words, says:
00:37:40.75\00:37:44.13
"And on the Sabbath" he
didn't say: "And on the day"
00:37:44.16\00:37:47.98
"that used to be the
Sabbath", he did not say:
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"And on the day that
the Jews call the Sabbath",
00:37:51.66\00:37:55.53
he says: "And on the
Sabbath we did this..."
00:37:55.56\00:37:57.90
"and on the
Sabbath we did that..."
00:37:57.93\00:37:59.53
"And on the Sabbath Paul
preached", and why did he
00:37:59.56\00:38:01.79
say that? Because it
was still the Sabbath.
00:38:01.82\00:38:05.57
It hadn't changed,
nothing different about it,
00:38:05.60\00:38:08.10
it wasn't a controversy
back then, it was understood
00:38:08.13\00:38:10.46
that all the commandments
are still there, it wasn't
00:38:10.49\00:38:12.90
an issue at all. It
has since become an issue,
00:38:12.93\00:38:15.29
it certainly wasn't an
issue to the disciples.
00:38:15.32\00:38:17.68
The New Testament
church kept the Bible Sabbath.
00:38:17.71\00:38:21.61
They loved Jesus enough to
what He said and want to keep
00:38:21.64\00:38:25.88
His commandments. The
Sabbath is also a memorial,
00:38:25.91\00:38:30.46
it's a memorial
of God's creation.
00:38:30.49\00:38:32.75
Can you change a memorial
simply because another day
00:38:32.78\00:38:35.54
is more convenient to you?
The US received its independence
00:38:35.57\00:38:39.34
on July the 4th, 1776,
but if I want to celebrate it
00:38:39.37\00:38:43.45
on July the 3rd, or July
the 5th, does it change the fact
00:38:43.48\00:38:46.43
that July the 4th is
the Independence Day?
00:38:46.46\00:38:48.34
It doesn't change that fact,
I can celebrate it everyday
00:38:48.37\00:38:50.60
if I want to choose,
it doesn't change the fact
00:38:50.63\00:38:52.51
which day is Independence Day.
It's sort of like my birthday.
00:38:52.54\00:38:56.11
My birthday is March 30,
19... oh, you don't need to know
00:38:56.14\00:39:00.90
the year. [Audience laughs]
00:39:00.93\00:39:03.31
My birthday is March
30th. All my celebrations on
00:39:03.34\00:39:06.99
March 29th, and all my
festivities of March 31st,
00:39:07.02\00:39:11.51
doesn't change the fact
that my birthday is March 30th.
00:39:11.54\00:39:15.80
In the same way, all the
celebrations a person wants
00:39:15.83\00:39:18.49
to have on a different
day of the week doesn't change
00:39:18.52\00:39:21.00
the fact that there is
only 1 day that God set aside
00:39:21.03\00:39:24.28
as His special day of rest, and
He intended that all the world
00:39:24.31\00:39:27.61
come together on that day,
and honor God as the Creator.
00:39:27.64\00:39:32.94
Now, there is 1 other very
common misconception on this,
00:39:32.97\00:39:35.20
and I want to address it
to you tonight, and that is
00:39:35.23\00:39:38.60
that people will say, and these
are very sincere people too,
00:39:38.63\00:39:41.72
and they will say: "It doesn't
matter what day you keep"
00:39:41.75\00:39:45.45
"because I keep every day holy."
00:39:45.48\00:39:47.96
Friends, we want to be
very careful about Bible truth.
00:39:49.26\00:39:52.56
I want you to listen very
carefully to what I'm about
00:39:52.59\00:39:54.76
to say, lest you go away
with a misunderstanding tonight.
00:39:54.79\00:39:59.25
We can't keep every day holy.
00:39:59.28\00:40:03.54
Why? Because first of all,
00:40:03.88\00:40:05.53
the same commandment that
says "Remember the Sabbath day"
00:40:05.56\00:40:08.18
"to keep it holy" also
says: "6 days shalt thou labor".
00:40:08.21\00:40:12.80
In Ezekiel 46:1 it calls the
other days the 6 working days,
00:40:12.83\00:40:16.32
not every day is a holy
day, so 6 days are working days,
00:40:16.35\00:40:21.27
only 1 day is called
holy in the Scriptures.
00:40:21.30\00:40:24.81
God didn't say: "Keep
all days as the Sabbath",
00:40:24.84\00:40:27.08
He said: "Keep THE
Sabbath". Here's something else
00:40:27.11\00:40:29.55
I want to follow with:
we aught to live for God
00:40:29.58\00:40:31.66
everyday, what do you say?
We aught to live holy lives
00:40:31.69\00:40:35.65
everyday. Through
the power of Jesus
00:40:35.68\00:40:38.53
living through us, that
we aught to do everyday,
00:40:38.56\00:40:41.30
but that's different
than keeping every day
00:40:41.33\00:40:43.75
as the Sabbath. You might say:
00:40:43.78\00:40:45.06
"Well, where exactly do we
get this idea that the Sabbath"
00:40:45.09\00:40:49.14
"is the first day of the week,
the day that we'd call Sunday,"
00:40:49.17\00:40:51.42
"or some say it's not any day."
Well, let me share with you
00:40:51.45\00:40:53.87
some quotes tonight
to catch you up to speed.
00:40:53.90\00:40:56.53
This is "The Covert's
Catechism of Catholic Doctrine"
00:40:56.56\00:40:59.16
and in this particular
book, which also I studied
00:40:59.19\00:41:02.26
growing up as a Catholic,
by the way, they have some
00:41:02.29\00:41:04.98
interesting statements that
I would like to share with you
00:41:05.01\00:41:07.08
here tonight. In this Catechism
00:41:07.11\00:41:09.59
the Catholic church
asks themselves the question:
00:41:09.62\00:41:12.13
[text on screen]
00:41:12.16\00:41:14.14
In other words, "why then
are we keeping a different day"
00:41:21.44\00:41:23.90
"other than
what the Bible says?"
00:41:23.93\00:41:25.92
They go on and they answer
the question: [text on screen]
00:41:25.95\00:41:28.51
"solemnity" - which means the
sacredness, [continues to read]
00:41:30.23\00:41:33.10
So they say the
Catholic church did this change,
00:41:34.61\00:41:37.26
or at least
this official change.
00:41:37.29\00:41:38.77
Let's go on to another
one. "A Doctrinal Catechism",
00:41:38.80\00:41:42.26
page 174: [text on screen]
00:41:42.29\00:41:44.33
They are asking themselves
the question, here's the answer
00:41:48.80\00:41:50.95
that they give: [text on screen]
00:41:50.98\00:41:52.99
So they say again: "We're the
one that changed the 7th day"
00:42:11.05\00:42:14.29
"to the 1st day, and the Bible
does not tell us to do it."
00:42:14.32\00:42:17.49
"We did it on our
own." There's another quote.
00:42:17.52\00:42:19.89
"The Catholic Encyclopedia"
says this: [text on screen]
00:42:19.92\00:42:25.13
The Bible never calls
it "the Jewish Sabbath",
00:42:30.32\00:42:32.61
they use that term, but
the Bible never uses it,
00:42:32.64\00:42:35.04
[continues to read]
00:42:35.07\00:42:37.04
Now why did they refer
to it as the 3rd commandment
00:42:43.53\00:42:45.43
rather than what the
Bible says, the 4th commandment?
00:42:45.46\00:42:47.72
Because they took
the 2nd commandment out
00:42:47.75\00:42:49.62
in the Catechism. The
2nd commandment has to do
00:42:49.65\00:42:52.02
with "thou shalt not make
unto thee any graven image,"
00:42:52.05\00:42:53.83
"or any likeness of anything
that is in the heaven above,"
00:42:53.86\00:42:55.69
"or in the earth beneath.
Thou shalt not bow down"
00:42:55.72\00:42:57.73
"thyself to them, nor
serve them" because the Catholic
00:42:57.76\00:43:00.37
church had the images in
their church, and that was
00:43:00.40\00:43:03.35
a very condemning thing,
they took that commandment out,
00:43:03.38\00:43:06.70
and that bumped up the
3rd commandment to the place
00:43:06.73\00:43:08.42
of the 2nd, and the 4th
to the place of the 3rd,
00:43:08.45\00:43:10.51
and that's why they're
calling it the 3rd commandment.
00:43:10.54\00:43:12.37
So they're saying: "Yes, we
made that change and therefore"
00:43:12.40\00:43:16.03
"we did it." Let's
go on to another one:
00:43:16.06\00:43:18.04
this one is from a Catholic
apologist, Karl Keating.
00:43:18.07\00:43:21.54
In his book "Catholicism
and Fundamentalism", page 38,
00:43:21.57\00:43:24.82
he says: [text on screen]
00:43:24.85\00:43:27.10
So he's saying: "Yes,
nothing in the Bible at all"
00:43:42.34\00:43:45.18
"says that Sunday should be the
Sabbath, it was the Catholic"
00:43:45.21\00:43:47.71
"church again."
So he's very open
00:43:47.74\00:43:51.10
in saying this.
Here's another very famous
00:43:51.13\00:43:53.92
Catholic, Cardinal
James Gibbons, in his book
00:43:53.95\00:43:57.06
"Faith of Our
Fathers", page 561, here's what
00:43:57.09\00:43:59.55
he had to say: [text on screen]
00:43:59.58\00:44:02.10
So because the Catholic church
claims authority to be able
00:44:14.01\00:44:17.55
to change the Bible, then
they are very willing and open
00:44:17.58\00:44:21.30
in saying that they
did it, but they also agree
00:44:21.33\00:44:25.40
that there's nothing
in the Scriptures that say
00:44:25.43\00:44:27.16
that we should be
keeping any other day other than
00:44:27.19\00:44:29.20
7th day Sabbath, the day
that we would call Saturday.
00:44:29.23\00:44:32.53
Well folks, you can read
the Bible from cover to cover
00:44:32.56\00:44:35.96
there are over 140 passages,
or places, where it mentions
00:44:35.99\00:44:41.05
the 7th day Sabbath, over 140!
00:44:41.08\00:44:43.39
There is not 1 time it ever
says that Sunday is a holy day,
00:44:43.42\00:44:49.16
or that the Sabbath was
changed from Saturday to Sunday,
00:44:49.19\00:44:51.84
or anything like
that, not 1 single time.
00:44:51.87\00:44:54.77
If you were to leave here
tonight, and you were to go
00:44:54.80\00:44:57.82
to an average
minister who is keeping Sunday,
00:44:57.85\00:45:02.78
along with his congregation, and
if you were to ask the question:
00:45:02.81\00:45:05.81
"why are we keeping the 1st
day of the week, when the Bible"
00:45:05.84\00:45:08.24
"clearly says that we
should be keeping the 7th day"
00:45:08.27\00:45:10.59
"of the week, the day
that we would call Saturday."
00:45:10.62\00:45:12.66
"Why are we going
to church on Sunday?"
00:45:12.69\00:45:15.15
He would give you almost
inevitably 1 of 3 answers.
00:45:15.18\00:45:19.64
Answer 1: he would say
"we keep Sunday in honor"
00:45:19.67\00:45:23.92
"of the resurrection."
Well, I would too,
00:45:23.95\00:45:28.14
if God told me to do
it, but God doesn't tell us
00:45:28.17\00:45:31.43
to do that, nowhere in
the Bible does God tell us
00:45:31.46\00:45:34.13
to do that, so no, we can't
do what God doesn't tell us
00:45:34.16\00:45:37.55
to do, amen?
00:45:37.58\00:45:39.60
People say: "do you mean
you want us to forget that"
00:45:40.42\00:45:42.26
"Jesus rose from the
grave?" No of course not,
00:45:42.29\00:45:44.66
in almost every church there
is a table that is brought down,
00:45:44.69\00:45:48.32
if it isn't already
there, they bring it down
00:45:48.35\00:45:49.73
on special occasions,
and there that table is used
00:45:49.76\00:45:53.70
to commemorate the
death of Jesus, and it says:
00:45:53.73\00:45:55.99
"This do in remembrance of Me."
00:45:56.02\00:45:59.56
Do what?
00:45:59.59\00:46:00.91
Holy communion, it
commemorates the death of Jesus.
00:46:00.94\00:46:03.30
Well what about the
resurrection of Jesus?
00:46:03.33\00:46:05.48
That's why we have
Bible baptism friends.
00:46:05.51\00:46:08.19
Bible baptism, you
read about it in Romans 6,
00:46:08.22\00:46:10.69
and the book of Colossians, it
tells us that in Bible baptism
00:46:10.72\00:46:14.20
we are buried with Christ
and we rise again like Jesus
00:46:14.23\00:46:17.94
rose from the grave. We
remember that Jesus died
00:46:17.97\00:46:20.31
and rose from the grave every
time we hold a Bible baptism.
00:46:20.34\00:46:27.54
We'll talk more about
that on a night to come.
00:46:27.57\00:46:30.41
So if they can't get you
with this idea that we do it
00:46:30.44\00:46:33.48
because Jesus rose from the
grave the 1st day of the week,
00:46:33.51\00:46:36.91
then they will say
this: "the law was nailed"
00:46:36.94\00:46:39.23
"to the cross", in fact,
they might even say that first.
00:46:39.26\00:46:42.38
We've studied 2
nights together, we know
00:46:42.41\00:46:43.90
that isn't true,
can you say amen?
00:46:43.93\00:46:46.98
The 10 commandments are
as eternal as God Himself.
00:46:47.01\00:46:51.01
So if they can't fool
you with the law being nailed
00:46:51.04\00:46:53.30
to the cross, and if they
can't fool you with this idea
00:46:53.33\00:46:56.32
that we keep it in honor of
the resurrection, when the Bible
00:46:56.35\00:46:58.42
never says it, then
they'll come down to #3,
00:46:58.45\00:47:02.02
and they'll say: "where
did you learn this anyway?"
00:47:02.05\00:47:06.87
And you say: "Well, I was
attending the Amazing Facts"
00:47:06.90\00:47:08.68
"Seminar, and I was
opening up my Bible every night"
00:47:08.71\00:47:12.52
"and I studied it from the
word of God, and I learned"
00:47:12.55\00:47:15.43
"it right there
in the Scriptures."
00:47:15.46\00:47:18.99
And they might just
tell you not to come back.
00:47:19.02\00:47:23.29
Friends, that's what I call,
to use the common vernacular,
00:47:23.32\00:47:27.91
"a cop out".
00:47:27.94\00:47:30.29
I told you opening night,
if we're going to make claims
00:47:30.32\00:47:32.20
from the front here,
either we're going to back it up
00:47:32.23\00:47:33.88
from the word of God, or
you don't have to believe me
00:47:33.91\00:47:35.81
at all, what do you
say? [Audience] Amen.
00:47:35.84\00:47:37.95
This is verse after verse,
Old Testament, New Testament,
00:47:37.98\00:47:41.55
it is back and forth, the
way to the evidence is there.
00:47:41.58\00:47:45.36
Sometimes people say
this: "Well how can we be sure"
00:47:45.39\00:47:50.21
"what day of the
week is the Sabbath?"
00:47:50.24\00:47:53.70
"Haven't calendars been changed?
And because calendars have"
00:47:53.73\00:47:56.84
"been changed, how do
we really know what day"
00:47:56.87\00:47:58.24
"is the 7th day anyway?"
Well folks, isn't it amazing
00:47:58.28\00:48:02.14
that first of all, they always
leave that argument for the end,
00:48:02.17\00:48:05.70
this idea that of the
calendar being changed.
00:48:05.73\00:48:07.75
They never give a
shred of evidence for it,
00:48:07.78\00:48:10.38
but they're hoping that if they
can just throw that argument
00:48:10.41\00:48:12.36
out there, and say the
calendars have been changed,
00:48:12.39\00:48:13.97
so time has been mixed up,
and therefore we don't know
00:48:14.00\00:48:15.99
what day the Sabbath is,
and they always are hoping
00:48:16.02\00:48:18.05
that you'll never call them
on it because they certainly
00:48:18.08\00:48:19.81
can't prove it.
Think it through with me:
00:48:19.84\00:48:23.56
if the calendars have
been changed, and we don't know
00:48:23.59\00:48:27.10
what day Saturday
really is, then we don't know
00:48:27.13\00:48:29.92
what day Sunday really is, amen?
00:48:29.95\00:48:32.31
And yet, how many of
them will stand up and say:
00:48:32.34\00:48:34.87
"this is the day that
Jesus rose from the grave,"
00:48:34.90\00:48:36.51
"so this is why we
go...", and they're so certain
00:48:36.54\00:48:38.17
they know what day Jesus
died on, but they can't find
00:48:38.20\00:48:40.69
the day that comes before that.
00:48:40.72\00:48:43.18
In the days of Jesus
they used the Julian Calendar
00:48:43.21\00:48:45.38
named after Julius
Caesar. That was the calendar
00:48:45.41\00:48:48.66
that was in
operation Jesus' day.
00:48:48.69\00:48:51.55
>From that time onward it was
used throughout the Dark Ages,
00:48:51.58\00:48:55.69
coming up unto the year 1582.
00:48:55.72\00:48:58.95
In the year 1582 in the
month of October they did make
00:48:58.98\00:49:02.20
a significant calendar change,
and this is what happened:
00:49:02.23\00:49:05.40
in order to bring
the calendar more in line
00:49:05.43\00:49:07.18
with the times of
the seasons, they decided
00:49:07.21\00:49:09.70
they would drop 10
days out of the calendar.
00:49:09.73\00:49:12.33
So as they went to the
month of October in 1582,
00:49:12.36\00:49:17.77
the 1st of the month fell on
a Monday, Tuesday was the 2nd,
00:49:17.80\00:49:21.77
Wednesday was the 3rd,
and Thursday was the 4th,
00:49:21.80\00:49:23.32
now Friday would
normally be the 5th,
00:49:23.35\00:49:24.97
but dropping those 10 days out,
they simply made Friday the 15th
00:49:25.00\00:49:28.44
and then Saturday was
the 16th and time went on,
00:49:28.47\00:49:30.68
but looking at that calendar,
did that ever interrupt
00:49:30.71\00:49:32.81
the order of the days of
the week? Sunday, Monday,
00:49:32.85\00:49:34.92
Tuesday, Wednesday,
Thursday, Friday, Saturday,
00:49:34.95\00:49:37.36
did it interrupt that order?
00:49:37.39\00:49:38.91
No, in fact, in all of
the ways that they discussed
00:49:38.94\00:49:42.88
making this change,
never once did they consider
00:49:42.91\00:49:46.37
interrupting the order
of the days of the week.
00:49:46.40\00:49:48.88
Astronomers, or Chronologers,
those who keep track of time,
00:49:48.91\00:49:53.21
will not only tell you
that they haven't lost any days
00:49:53.24\00:49:55.60
of the week, but not even a
fraction of time has been lost.
00:49:55.63\00:50:01.09
They could chart it so
carefully through the years
00:50:01.12\00:50:07.68
that they know that they
haven't lost an hour, a minute,
00:50:07.71\00:50:10.19
and some will say even
a fraction of a second,
00:50:10.22\00:50:12.28
it's all there folks.
00:50:12.31\00:50:14.70
"There has been no change in the
continuity of the weekly cycle",
00:50:14.73\00:50:18.83
so says those that
keep a track of time.
00:50:18.86\00:50:21.96
Do you know that even in
the languages of the world
00:50:21.99\00:50:25.20
we can tell what
day the true Sabbath is?
00:50:25.23\00:50:27.11
How many of you
speak Spanish here tonight?
00:50:27.14\00:50:29.81
Alright. The 7th day of the
week in Spanish is what word?
00:50:29.84\00:50:35.33
- [Audience] Sabado. -
Sabado, thank you so much.
00:50:35.36\00:50:38.73
In Russian, in
Bulgarian, in over 105 languages
00:50:38.76\00:50:45.07
of the world,
the day that we call,
00:50:45.10\00:50:49.51
unfortunately in
the English, Saturday,
00:50:49.54\00:50:52.15
they call the
"Sabbath". In over 105 languages
00:50:52.18\00:50:56.37
of the world, and you
say: "what languages are they?"
00:50:56.40\00:50:58.73
I don't have time to go
over them, but they're all here,
00:50:58.76\00:51:02.70
just in case you might wonder.
00:51:02.73\00:51:05.90
You see dear
friends, how did that happen?
00:51:06.12\00:51:08.86
Is that coincidence that all
of these people around the world
00:51:08.89\00:51:12.77
could get together and
say: "Hey, let's just call"
00:51:12.80\00:51:14.29
"the 7th day of
the week "Sabbath" ",
00:51:14.32\00:51:16.14
of course not. What happened was
00:51:16.17\00:51:18.00
as they went out
from the Tower of Babel,
00:51:18.03\00:51:20.10
and some went to this part of
the world, and some to this part
00:51:20.13\00:51:22.20
of the world, and some
to that part of the world,
00:51:22.23\00:51:23.73
they took the knowledge of the
10 commandments and the Sabbath
00:51:23.76\00:51:26.16
with them; as they
were naming their particular
00:51:26.19\00:51:28.86
days of the week,
they called it "Sabbath".
00:51:28.89\00:51:33.15
In fact, do you know
that the Jews are a people
00:51:33.55\00:51:36.30
that have been keeping
the Sabbath for centuries
00:51:36.33\00:51:38.14
throughout time, they still
keep the exact same day today,
00:51:38.17\00:51:40.86
as we would call Saturday,
that really is Friday sundown
00:51:40.89\00:51:43.70
to Saturday sundown,
that's the Biblical day,
00:51:43.73\00:51:45.32
I'll mention more about
that another time, but they keep
00:51:45.35\00:51:47.66
the exact same day.
00:51:47.69\00:51:49.44
The only way time
could be mixed up for them
00:51:49.47\00:51:52.22
is if a whole nation
of people around the world
00:51:52.25\00:51:54.70
all of sudden slept over
an extra 24 hours and no one
00:51:54.73\00:51:57.32
told them about it, I
don't think that happened.
00:51:57.35\00:52:00.49
So you can prove what
day is the true Sabbath
00:52:00.52\00:52:05.00
from time, you can prove it
historically, you can prove it
00:52:05.03\00:52:09.92
from archeology, you
can prove it linguistically,
00:52:09.95\00:52:12.84
you can prove it Biblically,
all of these ways, and yet,
00:52:12.87\00:52:17.39
the Devil still
attacks it today.
00:52:17.42\00:52:20.20
Isn't it just more than
coincidence that the one
00:52:20.23\00:52:25.81
commandment that God
says "remember" is the one
00:52:25.84\00:52:28.20
that Satan is attacking today.
And isn't it more than just
00:52:28.23\00:52:32.11
coincidence that that
one commandment is the one
00:52:32.14\00:52:34.79
that points us to the true
God? In a time when churches
00:52:34.82\00:52:38.52
and schools are
teaching evolution,
00:52:38.55\00:52:41.95
at a time when we are turning
our hearts to the Creator,
00:52:41.98\00:52:44.00
just before Jesus comes
back, and now is the time
00:52:44.03\00:52:47.01
that the Devil is taking
people away from our roots
00:52:47.04\00:52:51.01
as a people, as
to how we got here.
00:52:51.04\00:52:54.32
You see, you can look
up at the stars tonight
00:52:54.35\00:52:58.92
and as you look up at the
stars you can see why we have
00:52:58.95\00:53:01.83
a 24 hour day. The
time that the earth
00:53:01.86\00:53:04.95
turns on its axis, that's
why we have a 24 hour day.
00:53:04.98\00:53:07.72
You can see why we
roughly have a 30 day month,
00:53:07.75\00:53:09.96
the lunar cycle, the
moon goes around the earth.
00:53:09.99\00:53:12.48
You can see why we have a
solar year as we do, 365 days,
00:53:12.51\00:53:16.57
that's the earth
going around the sun,
00:53:16.60\00:53:18.61
but why do we have a 7 day week?
00:53:18.64\00:53:21.59
You can't look up at the
stars and see a 7 day week.
00:53:21.62\00:53:25.68
Why do we have a 7 day week?
00:53:25.71\00:53:27.96
We have a 7 day week because
God in the very beginning
00:53:27.99\00:53:32.95
made this world in 6 days
and He rested on the 7th day,
00:53:32.98\00:53:37.49
and the hand of providence
protected that 7 day cycle
00:53:37.52\00:53:42.25
on down through the centuries
even unto our very day.
00:53:42.28\00:53:47.51
God divinely kept His
hand on that weekly cycle
00:53:47.54\00:53:51.45
so that no one in the judgment
would ever be able to say
00:53:51.48\00:53:54.15
"Well Lord, how do we know
what day the true Sabbath is?"
00:53:54.18\00:53:58.07
God would say: "Did the order
of the days ever get mixed up?"
00:53:58.10\00:54:00.62
Jesus had no
problem knowing what day
00:54:00.65\00:54:03.22
the Sabbath was, He went into
the synagogue on the Sabbath.
00:54:03.25\00:54:05.75
Friends, there's one
other thing I want to bring
00:54:05.78\00:54:07.99
to your attention tonight.
00:54:08.02\00:54:09.76
As you go out the door
tonight you're going to get
00:54:09.79\00:54:14.16
your regular handout.
You're also going to get
00:54:14.19\00:54:16.08
a little piece of paper
like this in that handout.
00:54:16.11\00:54:19.27
As you look at this it
says "The Church's Comment",
00:54:19.30\00:54:21.43
in other words, we've
given some select quotes here
00:54:21.46\00:54:24.27
from the various churches
that are even keeping Sunday
00:54:24.30\00:54:26.88
as their day of
worship, and yet they agree
00:54:26.91\00:54:29.07
with what we're
saying here from the Bible.
00:54:29.10\00:54:31.20
There's the Baptists agreeing,
the Catholics agreeing,
00:54:31.23\00:54:33.98
the Christian
church, the church of Christ,
00:54:34.01\00:54:35.87
the Congregationalist
Church, the Episcopal Church,
00:54:35.90\00:54:37.79
the Methodist
Church, the Lutheran Church,
00:54:37.82\00:54:39.77
the Presbyterian Church,
as well as the dictionary
00:54:39.80\00:54:41.70
and encyclopedia, it's all here.
00:54:41.73\00:54:43.84
You say: "well Pastor, if
they are agreeing with it,"
00:54:43.87\00:54:46.22
"why aren't they doing
it?" I can't answer for them.
00:54:46.25\00:54:50.30
I can't speak for them,
but I will tell you this:
00:54:50.33\00:54:53.37
it's a lot easier for a person
to see the truth and change
00:54:53.40\00:54:57.49
than it is for an
institution to change.
00:54:57.52\00:55:00.34
Once something
becomes institutionalized
00:55:00.37\00:55:02.12
it's very difficult
for them to ever change,
00:55:02.15\00:55:05.72
the tradition becomes too great.
00:55:05.75\00:55:08.11
Folks, God calls
people to the light of truth.
00:55:08.14\00:55:12.99
This subject is so important
that God wants it to go
00:55:15.42\00:55:20.28
all through the
world before He comes back,
00:55:20.31\00:55:23.00
so that we know the difference
between the commandments
00:55:23.03\00:55:25.08
of God and the
traditions of man.
00:55:25.11\00:55:28.50
You can't get into the
study of Daniel, you can't get
00:55:28.53\00:55:31.67
into the study of
Revelation without confronting
00:55:31.70\00:55:34.48
this very issue that
we're looking at tonight.
00:55:34.51\00:55:36.76
The Bible says: "Here is
the patients of the saints,"
00:55:36.79\00:55:39.58
"here are they that
keep the commandments of God"
00:55:39.61\00:55:42.92
"and the faith of Jesus."
00:55:42.95\00:55:44.86
The choice is clear.
00:55:44.89\00:55:47.83
Jerome was taken from
his dungeon cell in 1416,
00:55:49.49\00:55:56.10
and 1416, they
brought him before
00:55:56.13\00:55:59.19
the papal council
and they tried to get him
00:55:59.22\00:56:02.03
to recant his
faith, but Jerome's courage
00:56:02.06\00:56:06.05
had been bolstered
by the martyr John Huss,
00:56:06.08\00:56:08.96
who had given his
life shortly before.
00:56:08.99\00:56:12.85
As they brought him before
the papal council, they tried
00:56:12.88\00:56:15.09
to get him to recant his
faith, but he wouldn't do it.
00:56:15.12\00:56:19.00
Even his enemies who
wanted to spare his life said:
00:56:19.03\00:56:22.55
"Give up what you believe and
follow what the church says",
00:56:22.58\00:56:25.73
and he says: "No, I can't do it"
00:56:25.76\00:56:30.50
"because to follow
the traditions of men"
00:56:30.53\00:56:33.98
"would be to give up
the true faith of Jesus."
00:56:34.01\00:56:36.95
When they saw that they
would not get him to change,
00:56:36.98\00:56:39.59
they led him in chains
to the place of execution.
00:56:39.62\00:56:44.00
As he walked to the place
of execution, even his enemies
00:56:44.03\00:56:48.67
were struck by the noble
bearing of this individual.
00:56:48.70\00:56:54.08
He went on his way
singing, he held his head high.
00:56:54.11\00:56:57.65
They took him to the stake,
they tied his arms and legs,
00:56:57.68\00:57:01.51
they put the wood all
around and there, Jerome,
00:57:01.54\00:57:06.50
in his last moments, he
sensed the executioner about
00:57:06.53\00:57:10.41
to light the fire from
behind and he called out to him,
00:57:10.44\00:57:14.10
and he said: "Light
the fire before my face."
00:57:14.13\00:57:16.87
"If I had been
afraid, I wouldn't be here."
00:57:16.90\00:57:20.25
As they lit the fire,
Jerome's final words were this:
00:57:20.28\00:57:26.02
"O Lord, Holy
Father, have mercy on me,"
00:57:26.05\00:57:31.04
"and forgive me of my
sins, for Thou knowest"
00:57:31.07\00:57:33.74
"I have always loved Thy truth."
00:57:33.77\00:57:36.77
They took Jerome's life
that day, but what they could
00:57:38.97\00:57:41.90
never take was his
example of following Jesus.
00:57:41.93\00:57:46.19
I want to know
Jesus more, don't you?
00:57:48.05\00:57:50.68
The Sabbath is all
about knowing Jesus more,
00:57:50.80\00:57:53.37
coming to prepare our hearts
for heaven, coming to get ready
00:57:53.40\00:57:56.61
and develop that
relationship that Jerome had,
00:57:56.64\00:58:00.10
and that John Huss had,
and that many many others had,
00:58:00.13\00:58:03.37
and I want to know Him
more, and I know you do too.
00:58:03.40\00:58:07.51