Participants: Pr. Brian McMahon
Series Code: RSH
Program Code: RSH000009
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00:09 The escalation of global terrorism, crime, immorality,
00:12 and natural disasters, seems to indicate our world 00:15 is spiraling towards it's ultimate hour with destiny. 00:18 Who, if anyone, will survive Earth's final events? 00:21 Discover what Bible prophecy reveals about the rapture, 00:24 the mark of the beast, and Armageddon. 00:26 Though shrouded in mystery for centuries, 00:28 the book of Revelation can be understood today. 00:32 Peer into the future, and see what wonderful things 00:35 God has planned for His people. 00:38 And now, Pastor Brian McMahon presents the powerful 00:41 Bible seminar "Revelation Speaks Hope". 00:47 Our subject for tonight we've entitled: 00:49 "God's test of loyalty". If you would open up 00:51 your Bibles with me to Acts 17 as we begin tonight. 00:54 Acts 17:10 and onwards. The Bible says [text on screen] 01:26 Now notice the 2 groups, there were the Thessalonians 01:30 and there were the Bereans. The Thessalonians were not open 01:34 to studying, they were not open to see whether those things 01:37 were so, but then there were the Berean group, 01:39 and the Bible calls them noble, doesn't it? 01:42 Why did the Bible call them noble? 01:44 Because they were open to truth, they wanted to see 01:47 whether those things were so, and how did they do that? 01:52 Did the Bereans find out things by going to their neighbor 01:57 and asking for their opinion, yes or no? 01:59 No. Did the Bereans go and ask 02:01 their pastor what he thinks, and whatever he thinks is okay 02:03 with them? No. 02:05 They didn't ask their pastor, they didn't ask their priest, 02:07 they didn't ask their rabbi, rather, they searched 02:10 the Scriptures, didn't they? And notice when it says 02:13 they searched, that means they put some effort into it. 02:17 They did not do as some have done, where they simply 02:19 determine, or predetermine, what they want to believe 02:23 and then no matter what the rest of the Bible says 02:25 they're going to believe what they want to believe. 02:27 Well, we've covered opening night that that's not the way 02:29 to find out truth. So they searched the Scriptures, 02:32 they had a longing to have their minds enlightened 02:34 with what the words of God really says. 02:36 In Daniel 12:4 the Bible says: [text on screen] 02:54 God wants to increase knowledge in His word to your mind 02:58 and to my mind. In Revelation 13:3 it says: 03:02 [text on screen] 03:12 There's another verse very much similar to it in verse 8 03:15 where it says: [text on screen] 03:24 So Scripture's telling us dear friends that in the last days 03:27 there's going to be such great deception that it's going 03:30 to take in the world. I'm so glad that the Bible 03:33 qualifies it by saying that there will be some who will not 03:36 be deceived, but they will be in the minority, dear friends. 03:39 So when we search the Scriptures as the Bereans did, 03:43 if we find something there that is truth, and yet the world 03:48 is following something else, should it surprise us? 03:51 Should it startle us? Well, it shouldn't dear friends, 03:53 and the reason is because the Bible has already told us 03:56 that in the last days the vast majority of people will be 03:59 going down the wrong way. They'll be following down 04:01 the wrong road. I believe that for those people 04:03 that are living in that last days of this earth's history, 04:06 God wants them to know truth from error, amen? 04:09 And sometimes the truth surprises the Catholic, 04:12 and sometimes the truth surprises the Protestant, 04:14 sometimes it surprises the atheist, sometimes it surprises 04:17 the Jew, but everything that we're going to study tonight, 04:19 I had to study out for myself from the Word of God, 04:22 and make a decision whether it was truly taught in the Bible 04:24 or not, and I know that you're going to want to do 04:26 the same tonight. So having said all of that, 04:29 do you still want the truth tonight? 04:31 - [Audience] Yeah. - Amen, well let's go find it 04:34 together then. Go to Revelation 14 with me. 04:37 Here we find God's last grand closing message to the world 04:41 before Jesus returns. Revelation 14:6: 04:45 [text on screen] 04:53 So it's a Christ centered message, why? 04:54 Because it's called the everlasting gospel. 04:57 It's the good news that Jesus saves. 04:59 And it says: [text on screen] 05:05 So folks, this tells us it's not just for 1 denomination, 05:09 it's not just for people of 1 language, or 1 creed, 05:12 here is a message that is to sweep the world. 05:15 It's to span the oceans, it's to leap across 05:18 all the geographical boundaries that this world has set up, 05:21 and it's to speak to people of every language, 05:24 every kind, every persuasion. "Fear God" - which means 05:28 reverence Him, worship Him, respect Him 05:31 [continues to read] 05:36 So what the Bible is telling us then is that it is announcing 05:39 that there's going to be a certain time in this earth's 05:41 history when we are living in a generation that's 05:45 just leading up to the coming of Jesus, 05:47 and notice in this time that's called "the judgment hour" 05:50 there's a special call that goes to all the world. 05:53 It says: "And give glory to Him for the hour of His judgment" 05:58 "has come" [text on screen] 06:05 Okay, now why do I share this with you? 06:06 Because Revelation 14:7 is calling us to true worship, 06:11 it says: "worship Him that made these things". 06:14 Revelation 14:9 is warning us against false worship. 06:19 Verse 9 begins saying: "And the 3rd angel followed" 06:21 "them saying with a loud voice, If any man worship the beast". 06:25 So in the last days of this earth's history 06:27 people are either going to worship God as the Creator 06:30 or they're going to worship that one which the Bible 06:33 calls the beast. So what's the central issue? 06:35 The central issue, friends, is loyalty. 06:37 The central issue is allegiance to God. 06:40 The central issue is worship, what are we going to do 06:43 with our worship? 06:45 Remember those key points, we go down to verse 12, 06:48 and in verse 12 God sets up a contrast here. 06:51 In Verse 12 it says: "Here is the patients of the saints," 06:54 "here are they that keep the commandments of God" 06:58 "and the faith of Jesus." So the Bible is contrasting 07:01 for us those that are worshipping the beast 07:04 and following that with those that are keeping 07:06 the commandments of God, so that's why it's so important 07:08 that we understand what the true commandments of God are, 07:11 what do you say out there? 07:12 So go back with me to Revelation 14:7, 07:17 where it says: "Worship Him who made heaven, and earth," 07:21 "and the sea, and the fountains of waters." 07:23 What do we call the one who made all of these things: 07:26 heaven, earth, the sea, and the fountains, what's another 07:28 word for the maker of all things? 07:30 Creator, so in an age of evolution, 07:34 God is calling us back to our roots, isn't He? 07:37 He's telling us that we're not just the result 07:39 of some big cosmic bang, some big bang, we're not just 07:44 an evolution accident here, we are the result 07:47 of a creator's handiwork, aren't we? 07:50 Why do we worship God anyway? Have you ever thought of that? 07:53 What's the basis of worship? Why do we give God 07:57 our total allegiance? Well, the Bible actually 07:59 answers that for us. Go to Revelation 4, 08:01 you're already in Revelation, so it's not difficult to turn there 08:03 Revelation 4 is our text: [text on screen] 08:13 "for" - which is just another word for "because", 08:16 [continues to read] 08:23 So the very basis of worship is that God created us. 08:29 Has our loving God, has this all powerful Creator 08:34 given this world something to remember Him by? 08:38 Hasn't God, in His wisdom, given this world 08:41 something so we would never forget that there is a God 08:45 in heaven, and we are His creatures here on earth, 08:47 and we owe our allegiance to Him? 08:49 Well friends, God has given us something, 08:51 and we want to take a look at it tonight, together. 08:53 Turn with me to Exodus 20:8, the Bible says: [text on screen] 09:30 Tonight we're going to study the topic of the 4th commandment, 09:33 the one that deals with remembering God's Sabbath day. 09:36 And as we do so, I have a suggestion for us all, 09:40 let's be like the noble Bereans who searched the Scriptures 09:46 whether those things were so. Rather than ask our favorite 09:51 Uncle Willy, or Aunt Hazel, or anyone else we might love 09:55 and trust, what do you say we go to the Bible for the answers 09:58 on this subject tonight, amen? 10:00 Because that is what God would want us to do. 10:02 I know that you heard some people say: 10:05 "Oh that 7th day, that's the Jewish Sabbath." 10:08 I know you've heard people say that perhaps, 10:10 but notice it doesn't say "the Sabbath of the Jew" here, 10:13 but rather it says: "the Sabbath of the Lord thy God". 10:18 When God made man on the 6th day of creation, 10:21 after that day was over, how many human beings 10:26 were alive on planet earth. 2, and what were their names? 10:30 Adam and Eve. Were they Jews? 10:32 No, they were not Jews, as a matter of fact 10:35 there were no Jews for hundreds and hundreds of years 10:40 after Adam and Eve. After He finished making man 10:43 on the earth, on that 6th day, there were no Jews 10:46 after that, but we do want to go and find out when God 10:50 did establish the Sabbath, this will help us tonight, 10:52 so with me to Genesis 2. 10:56 The book of beginnings is where we're going to turn. 10:59 Let's begin reading in verse 1: [text on screen] 11:08 "...seventh day" - on the what day? 11:12 Seventh day. [text on screen] 11:18 He rested on what day? Seventh day, 11:23 "He rested on the Seventh day from all His work" 11:25 "which He had made." Verse 3: [text on screen] 11:29 He blessed the what day? Seventh Day. 11:33 "...because in it", that "it" is the seventh day, 11:36 "He had rested from all His work which God created and made." 11:41 This is a wonderful account of the creation week 11:45 and the final day of that week. 11:48 When God created, we know that on the 1st day 11:53 He made a special work. He made the light, 11:55 and separated it from the darkness, and called 11:58 the light "day" and the evening He called the "night". 12:00 The 2nd day He created the firmament, and divided it 12:03 and had the atmosphere above and the waters beneath. 12:06 On the 3rd day He added something else. 12:09 He made the dry land appear, and then we had the grass 12:12 on top of it, the trees came forth, and the fruit trees, 12:16 and so on. He started to make it beautiful. 12:18 On the 4th day He put things up in the heavens. 12:21 The sun, the moon and the stars, and they were to guide 12:23 the seasons and the days and the years. 12:26 Then on the 5th day, He put the creatures in the seas, 12:30 and in the air, He started to populate them, 12:34 but He wasn't finished yet. Then we have the 6th day, 12:37 and on the 6th day He made the land animals 12:39 and, of course, human beings, Adam and Eve, 12:42 but He wasn't finished, the week was not complete rather. 12:46 His creation was finished, but God wanted to finish out 12:49 the week with a very special memorial. 12:51 So on the 7th day He set up that memorial of Himself 12:55 as the Creator, and on that day, we're told, 12:57 He rested, He blessed the day, and He sanctified it, 13:01 that means He set it apart for Holy use. 13:04 [text on screen] 13:08 Dear friends, once again, after that week there were no Jews, 13:13 and that's when the Sabbath was created. 13:15 In fact, you could take your Bible, you could read it 13:18 from cover to cover, Genesis to Revelation and back again, 13:21 you will never ever find the expression "Sabbath of the Jews" 13:25 A lot of people say that, and they can sound 13:27 ever so convincing when they do, but the Bible never says it. 13:31 It always says "the Sabbath of the Lord thy God"...always. 13:36 Now let's go take a look at who the Sabbath was made for. 13:39 If you would turn to Mark 2. 13:45 I know you hear that a lot, people saying the Sabbath 13:47 was only for the Jew, but Mark 2, here's the words 13:50 of Jesus, and Jesus makes it very plain. 13:53 We're going to look at Mark 2:27. 13:55 In the words of Jesus is says: [text on screen] 14:07 "M. A. N." that's a funny way to spell "Jew", isn't that right? 14:11 Okay, the Sabbath was made for who? 14:13 Man, and that's the generic term for all mankind. 14:16 So the Sabbath wasn't made for the Jew, it was to be a blessing 14:18 for everybody, wasn't it? And yet somehow 14:21 people can continue to say that the 4th commandment 14:24 is Jewish. I'm going to ask you a question, 14:26 those of you who have been coming, you especially know this 14:28 because you've been studying here with us. 14:30 The commandment that says: "Thou shalt not kill", 14:33 is that only for the Jews? No. 14:35 Does the one that says: "Thou shalt not commit adultery", 14:37 is that Jewish in nature? No, of course not. 14:40 Is the one that says: "Thou shalt not covet", 14:43 "Thou shalt not bear false witness", 14:44 are those to be only for the Jews? 14:46 No, of course not. You see, the 4th commandment 14:49 is no more Jewish than the other ones are. 14:51 All of them were for humanity, not just 1 or 2, or whatever. 14:57 And yet, people somehow think that the 4th commandment 15:00 is only for the Jews. If you go back 15:02 to the commandment itself there in verse 10, 15:05 it says right in the commandment of Exodus 20:10: 15:08 [text on screen] 15:20 "stranger that is within thy gates." 15:22 So see, right there in the commandment it tells us 15:24 it's not just for the Jew only, it's also for the Gentiles. 15:27 So in the command God says: "I want you to remember this day." 15:33 We might say: "Well, why Lord? Why should we remember" 15:36 "this day?" He goes on in verse 11: 15:38 [text on screen] 15:50 Well what he's doing is he's quoting from Genesis 2. 15:54 Where we just were a moment ago in Genesis 2, 15:56 where God rested on that day, and blessed that day, 15:58 and sanctified that day, Moses, as he writes down 16:01 these words in Exodus, he's commenting on that act 16:05 that God did back there in creation week. 16:09 So in this commandment God is telling us the fact 16:13 that He is the creator, which is exactly what Revelation told us 16:18 we're to give worship to. Do you know that that's 16:21 what distinguishes the true God from all those false things 16:24 that are called God. You see, the Devil knew 16:29 that if he was going to draw attention away from the true God 16:32 somehow he had to get mankind's attention away 16:37 from the Sabbath day, because if everybody was keeping 16:40 the Sabbath day, then everybody every single week 16:44 would have a reminder of the fact that there's a true God 16:46 up in heaven. 16:48 Satan doesn't want you to know that, and Satan 16:50 doesn't want people to remember that. 16:52 If everybody kept the Sabbath, could you have a doubter of God? 16:56 Could you have an atheist? Could you have a skeptic? 16:59 Well no, not really, because how could you doubt God 17:02 or not believe in God if you keep a day every week 17:05 in honor of God. That's what God intended, 17:08 that we would never forget Him. 17:10 So by causing people to disregard the Sabbath, 17:13 by causing people to neglect the Sabbath, or reject 17:17 the Sabbath, he has led multitudes of people 17:20 away from the true God, and they start believing in things 17:22 like evolution, or no God at all. 17:27 Think carefully with me, the Sabbath is a gift from heaven 17:32 to mankind, did you ever think of it that way? 17:35 When in the 4th commandment God says "I'm going to give you" 17:37 "a special gift every single week, and that's a gift" 17:40 "of My presence and my time." Isn't it a wonderful thing 17:44 to think about it in heaven, to think that we get to be 17:46 with our Creator. Aren't you looking forward 17:48 to heaven because we get to be with Jesus? 17:51 God is saying: "I'm going to give you a little foretaste" 17:53 "of heaven even while you're here on earth." 17:55 "I'm going to give you one day every single week" 17:59 "when we can meet together in a special way," 18:02 "and you can have My presence in a special way" 18:04 "that is not there the other 6 days of the week." 18:08 The Devil knew that the perfect 7th day Sabbath 18:11 honored the true God, so the Devil does everything he can 18:14 to get people to get their eyes off of that day of the week. 18:17 And yet God said that if you keep this day, 18:19 "it will always be a special sign between Me and you." 18:22 So let's take a look at a couple of texts that tells us that 18:24 in Exodus 31:17, notice what God said about this day: 18:33 [text on screen] 18:42 So quoting the fact that God made the heavens and the earth 18:45 in 6 days, then He says, and the 7th day, that's a special sign. 18:51 Dear friends, it was a special sign then, and guess what, 18:55 because the commandments are still for us today, 18:57 it is a special sign now, it hasn't changed, God doesn't 19:01 change, the commandments do not change, God's special day 19:05 doesn't change, it's still a sign between Him and his people. 19:08 Let's look at another one in Ezekiel 20:12. 19:11 He says regarding His people: [text on screen] 19:25 Throughout the Old Testament, and even the New, 19:28 He's saying "The Sabbath is a special sign of loyalty" 19:31 "between Me and My people." 19:34 Here's an article that I cut out of my paper 19:37 near my home town, sort of cut off a little bit off the top, 19:41 but it talks about remembering the Sabbath, 19:43 and it goes on and talks about how churches has overlooked this 19:47 and really have suffered a loss because of it. 19:50 Another article I found from "Christianity Today" magazine, 19:54 again, I apologize, I've cut off a little bit off the top there, 19:56 but it says at the top: "Rediscovering the Sabbath". 20:01 In other words, the churches have long misunderstood 20:04 the fact that the 7th day is for us today as much as it 20:08 ever was to the Israelites of old. 20:12 Why does God want us to have this special time with Him? 20:16 Friends, He wants us to have this time with Him 20:18 because God is relationship oriented. 20:21 In other words, Jesus didn't just say: 20:23 "Keep My commandments", but rather Jesus said: 20:26 [text on screen] 20:29 So God puts the commandments in the context 20:32 of a relationship of love. I know that Satan 20:36 seeks to nullify everything that honors God, 20:39 so Satan is working very hard tonight to cause people 20:42 to think of the Sabbath as done away with, 20:46 do you know why this is one reason why we covered 20:48 the 10 commandments our last 2 nights? 20:51 It's because so many churches today are trying to find a way 20:56 to do away with the Sabbath that they're willing to say 21:00 that the whole law is done away with, so we've proven 21:03 from the Scriptures on more than 1 night that is just not so. 21:07 The churches that say the law's nailed to the cross, 21:09 the churches that say that the 10 commandments are no longer 21:12 binding, they don't really mean that, 21:14 the people that say that, they thought it trough, 21:16 they don't really mean that, think about it with me. 21:20 Every single church in this area, or I could say 21:23 in the city of Sacramento, every single church believes 21:27 "Thou shalt have no other gods before Me", 21:29 they all believe that; every single church but one 21:32 believes: "Thou shalt not make any graven image" 21:34 "and bow down and worship it", every single church but one 21:36 keeps that. Every single church believes 21:40 "Thou shalt not take the name of the Lord thy God in vain." 21:43 Every church believes "Honor thy father and thy mother", 21:45 "thou shalt not kill", "commit adultery", "steal" 21:47 "bear false witness" and "covet", 21:48 they all believe in those things but there is 1 commandment 21:51 that gives them difficulty, and that is the 4th commandment. 21:55 So in order to try to get around the fact 21:57 that they're not honoring the 4th commandment 21:59 as it is listed in the Bible, their way around that 22:02 is to say that all of the commandments have been 22:05 done away with. They say the whole law 22:07 was nailed to the cross, and then they come right back 22:10 and they say: "But in the New Testament, we keep" 22:12 "9 of them." Now, for thinking, perceptive people, 22:17 that just doesn't make sense. Isn't it more 22:22 than just interesting that the one commandment 22:25 that people today are saying it's okay to forget 22:30 is the 1 commandment that God said: "remember"? 22:35 Once again, even though churches in their heart of hearts 22:37 don't really believe that, it's the easiest way 22:40 that they have tried to find to do away with the fact 22:42 that they're not honoring that commandment. 22:45 I'm going to share something with you as you turn there 22:47 that I hope you'll never forget. When the Devil comes to people 22:51 to try to get them to disregard the Bible, 22:55 and to do something that is wrong, he doesn't have 22:59 the Scriptures on his side. The Scriptures are a safeguard 23:02 for us to do what's right. So what the Devil does 23:07 is he uses arguments, carefully crafted and scripted arguments 23:13 that will lure people away from following what the Bible 23:16 plainly says, so that's why we need the Scriptures 23:19 to cut through all of those deceptive arguments. 23:22 So don't fall for that one about the commandments being done 23:26 away with. 23:27 In James 2:10 here's what we read: [text on screen] 23:46 We've talked a little bit about it, but this is also important 23:49 because it is controversial in asking what day of the week 23:53 actually is the Sabbath. If you look at an almanac, 23:57 or an encyclopedia, or a dictionary, the calendar, 24:01 and especially the Bible, you will see that in all of those 24:04 areas it is absolutely certain what day of the week 24:07 the true Sabbath is, but again, we're going to go 24:10 to the Bible, it's our ultimate authority. 24:12 Turn with me to Revelation 1. 24:17 This is a well known text so we want to be sure that we cover it 24:21 We want to find the true Sabbath in the New Testament, 24:24 and once again, go to the Bible as our final authority. 24:26 Revelation 1:10, the Bible says, and this is John, 24:34 the revelator speaking: [text on screen] 24:39 "and heard behind me a great voice, as of a trumpet." 24:43 Notice, John had a vision. He had it on a certain day 24:46 of the week, and he called that day "the Lord's day", 24:49 that means it's different than other days. 24:52 It's different than the other days, that specific day 24:53 was the Lord's day, it belongs to the Lord. 24:56 Unfortunately, he doesn't get too specific about what day 24:58 he's talking about here, he doesn't tell us exactly 25:01 what day of the week it is, he simply says he had 25:03 a vision, it the Lord's day. >From Genesis to Revelation, 25:07 you don't that exact term "the Lord's day" used again, 25:12 this is the only place in the Bible it's used, 25:14 here in Revelation 1:10, but this much we do know: 25:18 long after the time of Jesus walking the earth 25:22 and ascending back to heaven, there was a special day 25:24 called the Lord's day. So right away we know this, 25:28 that this immediately does away with this false theory 25:30 that in the New Testament all the days are the same. 25:33 That's another arguments that the Devil uses. 25:35 He twists things to cause people to think: "Well, there isn't" 25:39 "really a Sabbath day any more because all the days" 25:42 "are the same, they're all of the same nature." 25:45 Well, we know that can't be true otherwise how could 25:47 John say 70 years after Jesus walked the earth 25:51 that he was in the spirit on the Lord's day if there was 25:53 no day that was the Lord's day, that wouldn't make sense. 25:56 So I would say this: if there is a Lord's day, 25:59 how about we ask the Lord Himself what day of the week 26:03 it is? Does that make sense to you? 26:05 Who would know better than Jesus what day He's Lord of. 26:07 So let's do it, go to Matthew 12 with me. 26:10 Here's we're looking at verse 8: "For the Son of man", 26:13 that's Jesus, [text on screen] 26:20 Now if Jesus if the Lord, and He's the Lord of the Sabbath, 26:24 then that must mean that the Sabbath is the Lord's day. 26:26 If English language makes any sense, has any meaning at all 26:29 that's exactly what Jesus is saying, in fact, 26:31 right back in the commandment itself it tells us 26:34 the 7th day is the Sabbath, and it's the Sabbath of the Lord. 26:38 That means the Lord's day is the 7th day of the week; 26:42 it belongs to God in a special way. 26:45 In Mark 2:28 we find something very similar, 26:49 here the Bible also says: [text on screen] 26:54 So the Sabbath is, therefore, the Lord's day. 26:59 In the book of Revelation, for those of you who have spent 27:03 any time there at all, I'm sure that you've noticed 27:05 that numbers have meaning. The number 12 is very prominent 27:10 in the book of Revelation, and there's another number 27:12 that's very prominent in the book of Revelation, 27:14 and that's the number 7. So as we go there 27:17 let me share with you just a little bit about the number 7. 27:19 It says in Revelation there were [text on screen] 27:34 Popular opinion and tradition has replaced the Bible for many, 27:38 and for many churches, but I'm going to politely and kindly 27:44 challenge you tonight. The reason most people keep 27:47 a different day other than the 7th day is simply 27:50 from tradition, it's not from the Bible at all. 27:53 So let's now go through some more verses here 27:56 and let's keep establishing what day the disciples kept. 27:59 Would you turn with me to Luke 23 tonight. 28:05 The Bible has a prophecy that there is going to come a power 28:09 against God's commandments that would seek to change God's times 28:12 and laws, we're going to look more at that on another night, 28:16 but has it been fulfilled? Well, if you go to the history 28:18 books, the encyclopedias, go to the libraries, 28:22 go to various other sources of information, 28:24 you will find it very clear what day of the week the 7th day 28:27 Sabbath is, but let's go to the Scriptures now, 28:29 Luke 23:54, here it says: [text on screen] 28:39 Talking about the day that Jesus died, "And the Sabbath" 28:42 "drew on" - meaning the Sabbath had not yet come, 28:44 "and the women also, which came with Him from Galilee" 28:46 "followed after, and they beheld the sepulcher and how His body" 28:50 "was laid, and they returned and prepared spices" 28:53 "and ointments, and rested the Sabbath day according" 28:56 "to the commandment." Now chapter 24:1, 29:01 it says: [text on screen] 29:11 "And they found the stone rolled away" 29:13 "from the sepulcher." What we have here is 3 days 29:17 mentioned in quick, but nevertheless orderly succession. 29:21 You've got the preparation day mentioned, you've got the 29:24 Sabbath Day mentioned and you've got the first day of the week 29:27 mentioned as well. I'm going to put another verse 29:31 up on the screen, it's Mark 15:42, and it says: 29:35 [text on screen] 29:40 The Bible is going to share with us how it defines 29:43 the word "preparation", [continues to read] 29:54 So the Bible says that the preparation day is the day 29:58 before the Sabbath, that's the day that we would call 30:01 in many of the Christian churches "Good Friday", 30:05 the day that Jesus died. So we've got the preparation, 30:08 the day that Jesus died on the cross. 30:10 Now let's go to Mark 16:9. 30:16 And here the Bible says: [text on screen] 30:24 Well now we've got the day when Jesus rose from the grave, 30:27 and it talks about it as the first day of the week. 30:31 So we've got the preparation day identified, the day 30:33 that Jesus died, the first day of the week identified, 30:36 the day that Jesus rose from the tomb, and now we've got 30:39 1 day in the middle. We go back again 30:42 to Luke 23:56 and here's what it says: [text on screen] 30:54 So now we've got the day in the middle identified. 30:57 The Sabbath day, the day that came between the day 31:00 that Jesus died and the day that Jesus rose, is called 31:03 the Sabbath day. I know that many of you 31:06 know exactly how to make a sandwich. 31:08 You start with a slice of bread on top, and a slice of bread 31:10 down below, and then you put something in the middle of it. 31:14 Well, here we've got a sandwich of days, you've got 31:17 the top part, the day that Jesus died, 31:19 you've got the bottom part, the day that Jesus rose, 31:22 and then you've got that part in the middle, 31:23 the sweetest part of all, the time that Jesus laid 31:27 in the tomb, which the Bible calls the Sabbath. 31:30 I don't know anyone who can straighten this controversy 31:33 out better than Jesus Himself, so in Matthew 24 31:36 we have Jesus talking to His disciples. 31:39 Jesus was telling them about a time when His church 31:42 would have to flee form Jerusalem because it would 31:44 be destroyed. We go down to verse 19, 31:48 speaking as the prophet He was, it says: "And woe unto them" 31:53 "that are with child, and to them that give suck" 31:56 "in those days," [text on screen] 32:04 Jesus is speaking about a time when Jerusalem was totally 32:07 annihilated. The Roman armies came 32:09 and surrounded it, this was in 70 AD, almost 40 years 32:14 after Jesus spoke to His disciples. 32:16 Here's, the point: [text on screen] 32:37 ...if it wasn't a commandment anymore? 32:39 Jesus would never have given that counsel to His people. 32:43 So we have a crystal clear text that tells us the Sabbath 32:46 was important before, in the Old Testament, the Sabbath 32:50 was important in the life of Jesus, and the Sabbath 32:52 was important in the New Testament, and of course, 32:55 that means all the way down to our time as well. 32:57 There's more evidence though, in the book of Hebrews 4:9 33:02 Paul says, and Paul's believed by many to be the author 33:05 of the book of Hebrews, it says: [text on screen] 33:11 You know that word "rest" that's in the King James, 33:13 it's actually in the original Greek: [text on screen] 33:18 Paul is telling us that there's a Sabbath keeping experience 33:22 left for the people of God. You see, we rest from our sins 33:27 on the inside because we trust in Jesus as our Saviour, 33:31 but there's an outward keeping of the Sabbath also 33:34 that people can evidence that we have that peace and rest 33:37 inside. So yes, there remains 33:40 a Sabbath keeping for the people of God. 33:42 But what about the apostles, many people believe 33:45 that the disciples taught something different, or kept 33:48 a different day, so we want to go and look at that as well. 33:50 Go to Acts 13, in the New Testament, 33:57 what about the early church? Let's take a look there. 34:00 We're going to begin reading in Acts 13:14. 34:07 Here's what the Bible says: [text on screen] 34:20 They went into the synagogue on what day? 34:22 The Sabbath day. In other words, Paul preached 34:24 on the Sabbath day, but what did he preach? 34:27 It goes in verse 15: [text on screen] 34:37 So Paul preached the law and he preached prophecy as well. 34:41 So here's this great apostle to the Gentiles, the apostle Paul, 34:46 and he is keeping the Sabbath of the Lord. 34:49 Well, someone will always say: "Well, he went into" 34:51 "the synagogue because that's where the Jews were," 34:54 "and the Gentiles, well, they weren't in there," 34:55 "so they didn't have to keep the Sabbath." 34:57 Well, let's keep reading. It's amazing how people 35:00 stop too soon. Go to verse 42, it says: 35:03 [text on screen] 35:13 "Now when the congregation was broken up, many of the Jews" 35:17 "and religious proselytes followed Paul and Barnabas," 35:20 "who speaking to them persuaded them to continue" 35:24 "in the grace of God," [text on screen] 35:33 Are you following along in your own Bible on this? 35:35 This is so beautiful, it says that they were keeping 35:40 the Sabbath, both Gentiles and Jews, and Paul says: 35:43 "You continue in the grace of God", that tells us 35:45 that grace saved Christians believe in the commandments 35:49 of God, including the 4th commandment. 35:51 They were keeping it because Paul says: "you continue" 35:54 "in that grace that you're in", and that's exactly 35:56 what he would say to us tonight. 35:58 When the Gentiles wanted to hear Paul preach, 36:01 he didn't say: "well, we've got the Jews getting preached to" 36:03 "on the Sabbath, and we're keeping a different day now" 36:05 "so you come back the next day", he didn't tell them that. 36:09 In fact, it tells us that the next Sabbath almost the whole 36:15 city came together, in other words, all of them were keeping 36:18 the exact same day of the week, that's the teaching 36:22 of the early church. We're not done yet. 36:23 Go to Acts 18:4. 36:36 Paul is in a Gentile city, there's a church raised up 36:39 and what do they do? It says: [text on screen] 36:52 I hope the Bible is making it clear to us tonight. 36:55 Every Sabbath. We'll look at 1 more. 36:57 Go to Acts 16. When people say that there's 37:00 no evidence of them keeping the Sabbath in the New Testament, 37:03 I know one thing: they haven't read the New Testament 37:05 because there's verse after verse of them keeping 37:07 the Sabbath. 37:09 Acts 16:13, here's what the Bible says: [text on screen] 37:23 This wasn't a meeting in a synagogue, this was a meeting 37:26 out by the riverside. They were still keeping 37:28 the Sabbath, they didn't have to be in the synagogue, 37:30 they didn't have to be with Jews at all to keep the Sabbath 37:32 because the commandment was just as much for the Christian church 37:34 as it ever was for Jewish people. 37:37 Notice something else as you read this passage folks. 37:40 When Luke, who records these words, says: 37:44 "And on the Sabbath" he didn't say: "And on the day" 37:48 "that used to be the Sabbath", he did not say: 37:51 "And on the day that the Jews call the Sabbath", 37:55 he says: "And on the Sabbath we did this..." 37:57 "and on the Sabbath we did that..." 37:59 "And on the Sabbath Paul preached", and why did he 38:01 say that? Because it was still the Sabbath. 38:05 It hadn't changed, nothing different about it, 38:08 it wasn't a controversy back then, it was understood 38:10 that all the commandments are still there, it wasn't 38:12 an issue at all. It has since become an issue, 38:15 it certainly wasn't an issue to the disciples. 38:17 The New Testament church kept the Bible Sabbath. 38:21 They loved Jesus enough to what He said and want to keep 38:25 His commandments. The Sabbath is also a memorial, 38:30 it's a memorial of God's creation. 38:32 Can you change a memorial simply because another day 38:35 is more convenient to you? The US received its independence 38:39 on July the 4th, 1776, but if I want to celebrate it 38:43 on July the 3rd, or July the 5th, does it change the fact 38:46 that July the 4th is the Independence Day? 38:48 It doesn't change that fact, I can celebrate it everyday 38:50 if I want to choose, it doesn't change the fact 38:52 which day is Independence Day. It's sort of like my birthday. 38:56 My birthday is March 30, 19... oh, you don't need to know 39:00 the year. [Audience laughs] 39:03 My birthday is March 30th. All my celebrations on 39:07 March 29th, and all my festivities of March 31st, 39:11 doesn't change the fact that my birthday is March 30th. 39:15 In the same way, all the celebrations a person wants 39:18 to have on a different day of the week doesn't change 39:21 the fact that there is only 1 day that God set aside 39:24 as His special day of rest, and He intended that all the world 39:27 come together on that day, and honor God as the Creator. 39:32 Now, there is 1 other very common misconception on this, 39:35 and I want to address it to you tonight, and that is 39:38 that people will say, and these are very sincere people too, 39:41 and they will say: "It doesn't matter what day you keep" 39:45 "because I keep every day holy." 39:49 Friends, we want to be very careful about Bible truth. 39:52 I want you to listen very carefully to what I'm about 39:54 to say, lest you go away with a misunderstanding tonight. 39:59 We can't keep every day holy. 40:03 Why? Because first of all, 40:05 the same commandment that says "Remember the Sabbath day" 40:08 "to keep it holy" also says: "6 days shalt thou labor". 40:12 In Ezekiel 46:1 it calls the other days the 6 working days, 40:16 not every day is a holy day, so 6 days are working days, 40:21 only 1 day is called holy in the Scriptures. 40:24 God didn't say: "Keep all days as the Sabbath", 40:27 He said: "Keep THE Sabbath". Here's something else 40:29 I want to follow with: we aught to live for God 40:31 everyday, what do you say? We aught to live holy lives 40:35 everyday. Through the power of Jesus 40:38 living through us, that we aught to do everyday, 40:41 but that's different than keeping every day 40:43 as the Sabbath. You might say: 40:45 "Well, where exactly do we get this idea that the Sabbath" 40:49 "is the first day of the week, the day that we'd call Sunday," 40:51 "or some say it's not any day." Well, let me share with you 40:53 some quotes tonight to catch you up to speed. 40:56 This is "The Covert's Catechism of Catholic Doctrine" 40:59 and in this particular book, which also I studied 41:02 growing up as a Catholic, by the way, they have some 41:05 interesting statements that I would like to share with you 41:07 here tonight. In this Catechism 41:09 the Catholic church asks themselves the question: 41:12 [text on screen] 41:21 In other words, "why then are we keeping a different day" 41:23 "other than what the Bible says?" 41:25 They go on and they answer the question: [text on screen] 41:30 "solemnity" - which means the sacredness, [continues to read] 41:34 So they say the Catholic church did this change, 41:37 or at least this official change. 41:38 Let's go on to another one. "A Doctrinal Catechism", 41:42 page 174: [text on screen] 41:48 They are asking themselves the question, here's the answer 41:50 that they give: [text on screen] 42:11 So they say again: "We're the one that changed the 7th day" 42:14 "to the 1st day, and the Bible does not tell us to do it." 42:17 "We did it on our own." There's another quote. 42:19 "The Catholic Encyclopedia" says this: [text on screen] 42:30 The Bible never calls it "the Jewish Sabbath", 42:32 they use that term, but the Bible never uses it, 42:35 [continues to read] 42:43 Now why did they refer to it as the 3rd commandment 42:45 rather than what the Bible says, the 4th commandment? 42:47 Because they took the 2nd commandment out 42:49 in the Catechism. The 2nd commandment has to do 42:52 with "thou shalt not make unto thee any graven image," 42:53 "or any likeness of anything that is in the heaven above," 42:55 "or in the earth beneath. Thou shalt not bow down" 42:57 "thyself to them, nor serve them" because the Catholic 43:00 church had the images in their church, and that was 43:03 a very condemning thing, they took that commandment out, 43:06 and that bumped up the 3rd commandment to the place 43:08 of the 2nd, and the 4th to the place of the 3rd, 43:10 and that's why they're calling it the 3rd commandment. 43:12 So they're saying: "Yes, we made that change and therefore" 43:16 "we did it." Let's go on to another one: 43:18 this one is from a Catholic apologist, Karl Keating. 43:21 In his book "Catholicism and Fundamentalism", page 38, 43:24 he says: [text on screen] 43:42 So he's saying: "Yes, nothing in the Bible at all" 43:45 "says that Sunday should be the Sabbath, it was the Catholic" 43:47 "church again." So he's very open 43:51 in saying this. Here's another very famous 43:53 Catholic, Cardinal James Gibbons, in his book 43:57 "Faith of Our Fathers", page 561, here's what 43:59 he had to say: [text on screen] 44:14 So because the Catholic church claims authority to be able 44:17 to change the Bible, then they are very willing and open 44:21 in saying that they did it, but they also agree 44:25 that there's nothing in the Scriptures that say 44:27 that we should be keeping any other day other than 44:29 7th day Sabbath, the day that we would call Saturday. 44:32 Well folks, you can read the Bible from cover to cover 44:35 there are over 140 passages, or places, where it mentions 44:41 the 7th day Sabbath, over 140! 44:43 There is not 1 time it ever says that Sunday is a holy day, 44:49 or that the Sabbath was changed from Saturday to Sunday, 44:51 or anything like that, not 1 single time. 44:54 If you were to leave here tonight, and you were to go 44:57 to an average minister who is keeping Sunday, 45:02 along with his congregation, and if you were to ask the question: 45:05 "why are we keeping the 1st day of the week, when the Bible" 45:08 "clearly says that we should be keeping the 7th day" 45:10 "of the week, the day that we would call Saturday." 45:12 "Why are we going to church on Sunday?" 45:15 He would give you almost inevitably 1 of 3 answers. 45:19 Answer 1: he would say "we keep Sunday in honor" 45:23 "of the resurrection." Well, I would too, 45:28 if God told me to do it, but God doesn't tell us 45:31 to do that, nowhere in the Bible does God tell us 45:34 to do that, so no, we can't do what God doesn't tell us 45:37 to do, amen? 45:40 People say: "do you mean you want us to forget that" 45:42 "Jesus rose from the grave?" No of course not, 45:44 in almost every church there is a table that is brought down, 45:48 if it isn't already there, they bring it down 45:49 on special occasions, and there that table is used 45:53 to commemorate the death of Jesus, and it says: 45:56 "This do in remembrance of Me." 45:59 Do what? 46:00 Holy communion, it commemorates the death of Jesus. 46:03 Well what about the resurrection of Jesus? 46:05 That's why we have Bible baptism friends. 46:08 Bible baptism, you read about it in Romans 6, 46:10 and the book of Colossians, it tells us that in Bible baptism 46:14 we are buried with Christ and we rise again like Jesus 46:17 rose from the grave. We remember that Jesus died 46:20 and rose from the grave every time we hold a Bible baptism. 46:27 We'll talk more about that on a night to come. 46:30 So if they can't get you with this idea that we do it 46:33 because Jesus rose from the grave the 1st day of the week, 46:36 then they will say this: "the law was nailed" 46:39 "to the cross", in fact, they might even say that first. 46:42 We've studied 2 nights together, we know 46:43 that isn't true, can you say amen? 46:47 The 10 commandments are as eternal as God Himself. 46:51 So if they can't fool you with the law being nailed 46:53 to the cross, and if they can't fool you with this idea 46:56 that we keep it in honor of the resurrection, when the Bible 46:58 never says it, then they'll come down to #3, 47:02 and they'll say: "where did you learn this anyway?" 47:06 And you say: "Well, I was attending the Amazing Facts" 47:08 "Seminar, and I was opening up my Bible every night" 47:12 "and I studied it from the word of God, and I learned" 47:15 "it right there in the Scriptures." 47:19 And they might just tell you not to come back. 47:23 Friends, that's what I call, to use the common vernacular, 47:27 "a cop out". 47:30 I told you opening night, if we're going to make claims 47:32 from the front here, either we're going to back it up 47:33 from the word of God, or you don't have to believe me 47:35 at all, what do you say? [Audience] Amen. 47:37 This is verse after verse, Old Testament, New Testament, 47:41 it is back and forth, the way to the evidence is there. 47:45 Sometimes people say this: "Well how can we be sure" 47:50 "what day of the week is the Sabbath?" 47:53 "Haven't calendars been changed? And because calendars have" 47:56 "been changed, how do we really know what day" 47:58 "is the 7th day anyway?" Well folks, isn't it amazing 48:02 that first of all, they always leave that argument for the end, 48:05 this idea that of the calendar being changed. 48:07 They never give a shred of evidence for it, 48:10 but they're hoping that if they can just throw that argument 48:12 out there, and say the calendars have been changed, 48:14 so time has been mixed up, and therefore we don't know 48:16 what day the Sabbath is, and they always are hoping 48:18 that you'll never call them on it because they certainly 48:19 can't prove it. Think it through with me: 48:23 if the calendars have been changed, and we don't know 48:27 what day Saturday really is, then we don't know 48:29 what day Sunday really is, amen? 48:32 And yet, how many of them will stand up and say: 48:34 "this is the day that Jesus rose from the grave," 48:36 "so this is why we go...", and they're so certain 48:38 they know what day Jesus died on, but they can't find 48:40 the day that comes before that. 48:43 In the days of Jesus they used the Julian Calendar 48:45 named after Julius Caesar. That was the calendar 48:48 that was in operation Jesus' day. 48:51 >From that time onward it was used throughout the Dark Ages, 48:55 coming up unto the year 1582. 48:58 In the year 1582 in the month of October they did make 49:02 a significant calendar change, and this is what happened: 49:05 in order to bring the calendar more in line 49:07 with the times of the seasons, they decided 49:09 they would drop 10 days out of the calendar. 49:12 So as they went to the month of October in 1582, 49:17 the 1st of the month fell on a Monday, Tuesday was the 2nd, 49:21 Wednesday was the 3rd, and Thursday was the 4th, 49:23 now Friday would normally be the 5th, 49:25 but dropping those 10 days out, they simply made Friday the 15th 49:28 and then Saturday was the 16th and time went on, 49:30 but looking at that calendar, did that ever interrupt 49:32 the order of the days of the week? Sunday, Monday, 49:34 Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday, 49:37 did it interrupt that order? 49:38 No, in fact, in all of the ways that they discussed 49:42 making this change, never once did they consider 49:46 interrupting the order of the days of the week. 49:48 Astronomers, or Chronologers, those who keep track of time, 49:53 will not only tell you that they haven't lost any days 49:55 of the week, but not even a fraction of time has been lost. 50:01 They could chart it so carefully through the years 50:07 that they know that they haven't lost an hour, a minute, 50:10 and some will say even a fraction of a second, 50:12 it's all there folks. 50:14 "There has been no change in the continuity of the weekly cycle", 50:18 so says those that keep a track of time. 50:21 Do you know that even in the languages of the world 50:25 we can tell what day the true Sabbath is? 50:27 How many of you speak Spanish here tonight? 50:29 Alright. The 7th day of the week in Spanish is what word? 50:35 - [Audience] Sabado. - Sabado, thank you so much. 50:38 In Russian, in Bulgarian, in over 105 languages 50:45 of the world, the day that we call, 50:49 unfortunately in the English, Saturday, 50:52 they call the "Sabbath". In over 105 languages 50:56 of the world, and you say: "what languages are they?" 50:58 I don't have time to go over them, but they're all here, 51:02 just in case you might wonder. 51:06 You see dear friends, how did that happen? 51:08 Is that coincidence that all of these people around the world 51:12 could get together and say: "Hey, let's just call" 51:14 "the 7th day of the week "Sabbath" ", 51:16 of course not. What happened was 51:18 as they went out from the Tower of Babel, 51:20 and some went to this part of the world, and some to this part 51:22 of the world, and some to that part of the world, 51:23 they took the knowledge of the 10 commandments and the Sabbath 51:26 with them; as they were naming their particular 51:28 days of the week, they called it "Sabbath". 51:33 In fact, do you know that the Jews are a people 51:36 that have been keeping the Sabbath for centuries 51:38 throughout time, they still keep the exact same day today, 51:40 as we would call Saturday, that really is Friday sundown 51:43 to Saturday sundown, that's the Biblical day, 51:45 I'll mention more about that another time, but they keep 51:47 the exact same day. 51:49 The only way time could be mixed up for them 51:52 is if a whole nation of people around the world 51:54 all of sudden slept over an extra 24 hours and no one 51:57 told them about it, I don't think that happened. 52:00 So you can prove what day is the true Sabbath 52:05 from time, you can prove it historically, you can prove it 52:09 from archeology, you can prove it linguistically, 52:12 you can prove it Biblically, all of these ways, and yet, 52:17 the Devil still attacks it today. 52:20 Isn't it just more than coincidence that the one 52:25 commandment that God says "remember" is the one 52:28 that Satan is attacking today. And isn't it more than just 52:32 coincidence that that one commandment is the one 52:34 that points us to the true God? In a time when churches 52:38 and schools are teaching evolution, 52:41 at a time when we are turning our hearts to the Creator, 52:44 just before Jesus comes back, and now is the time 52:47 that the Devil is taking people away from our roots 52:51 as a people, as to how we got here. 52:54 You see, you can look up at the stars tonight 52:58 and as you look up at the stars you can see why we have 53:01 a 24 hour day. The time that the earth 53:04 turns on its axis, that's why we have a 24 hour day. 53:07 You can see why we roughly have a 30 day month, 53:09 the lunar cycle, the moon goes around the earth. 53:12 You can see why we have a solar year as we do, 365 days, 53:16 that's the earth going around the sun, 53:18 but why do we have a 7 day week? 53:21 You can't look up at the stars and see a 7 day week. 53:25 Why do we have a 7 day week? 53:27 We have a 7 day week because God in the very beginning 53:32 made this world in 6 days and He rested on the 7th day, 53:37 and the hand of providence protected that 7 day cycle 53:42 on down through the centuries even unto our very day. 53:47 God divinely kept His hand on that weekly cycle 53:51 so that no one in the judgment would ever be able to say 53:54 "Well Lord, how do we know what day the true Sabbath is?" 53:58 God would say: "Did the order of the days ever get mixed up?" 54:00 Jesus had no problem knowing what day 54:03 the Sabbath was, He went into the synagogue on the Sabbath. 54:05 Friends, there's one other thing I want to bring 54:08 to your attention tonight. 54:09 As you go out the door tonight you're going to get 54:14 your regular handout. You're also going to get 54:16 a little piece of paper like this in that handout. 54:19 As you look at this it says "The Church's Comment", 54:21 in other words, we've given some select quotes here 54:24 from the various churches that are even keeping Sunday 54:26 as their day of worship, and yet they agree 54:29 with what we're saying here from the Bible. 54:31 There's the Baptists agreeing, the Catholics agreeing, 54:34 the Christian church, the church of Christ, 54:35 the Congregationalist Church, the Episcopal Church, 54:37 the Methodist Church, the Lutheran Church, 54:39 the Presbyterian Church, as well as the dictionary 54:41 and encyclopedia, it's all here. 54:43 You say: "well Pastor, if they are agreeing with it," 54:46 "why aren't they doing it?" I can't answer for them. 54:50 I can't speak for them, but I will tell you this: 54:53 it's a lot easier for a person to see the truth and change 54:57 than it is for an institution to change. 55:00 Once something becomes institutionalized 55:02 it's very difficult for them to ever change, 55:05 the tradition becomes too great. 55:08 Folks, God calls people to the light of truth. 55:15 This subject is so important that God wants it to go 55:20 all through the world before He comes back, 55:23 so that we know the difference between the commandments 55:25 of God and the traditions of man. 55:28 You can't get into the study of Daniel, you can't get 55:31 into the study of Revelation without confronting 55:34 this very issue that we're looking at tonight. 55:36 The Bible says: "Here is the patients of the saints," 55:39 "here are they that keep the commandments of God" 55:42 "and the faith of Jesus." 55:44 The choice is clear. 55:49 Jerome was taken from his dungeon cell in 1416, 55:56 and 1416, they brought him before 55:59 the papal council and they tried to get him 56:02 to recant his faith, but Jerome's courage 56:06 had been bolstered by the martyr John Huss, 56:08 who had given his life shortly before. 56:12 As they brought him before the papal council, they tried 56:15 to get him to recant his faith, but he wouldn't do it. 56:19 Even his enemies who wanted to spare his life said: 56:22 "Give up what you believe and follow what the church says", 56:25 and he says: "No, I can't do it" 56:30 "because to follow the traditions of men" 56:34 "would be to give up the true faith of Jesus." 56:36 When they saw that they would not get him to change, 56:39 they led him in chains to the place of execution. 56:44 As he walked to the place of execution, even his enemies 56:48 were struck by the noble bearing of this individual. 56:54 He went on his way singing, he held his head high. 56:57 They took him to the stake, they tied his arms and legs, 57:01 they put the wood all around and there, Jerome, 57:06 in his last moments, he sensed the executioner about 57:10 to light the fire from behind and he called out to him, 57:14 and he said: "Light the fire before my face." 57:16 "If I had been afraid, I wouldn't be here." 57:20 As they lit the fire, Jerome's final words were this: 57:26 "O Lord, Holy Father, have mercy on me," 57:31 "and forgive me of my sins, for Thou knowest" 57:33 "I have always loved Thy truth." 57:38 They took Jerome's life that day, but what they could 57:41 never take was his example of following Jesus. 57:48 I want to know Jesus more, don't you? 57:50 The Sabbath is all about knowing Jesus more, 57:53 coming to prepare our hearts for heaven, coming to get ready 57:56 and develop that relationship that Jerome had, 58:00 and that John Huss had, and that many many others had, 58:03 and I want to know Him more, and I know you do too. |
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