Privileged to be
here this morning.
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Thank you for coming.
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Look like we have
a full house, huh?
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And I am
thankful to be in a house
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of the Lord this morning.
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How about you? Amen.
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How you doing with
the camp meeting so far?
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Amen.
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All right, how many
it's your first time here?
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Uh-oh!
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I didn't want to see that,
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I was hoping you
were here all week,
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but we welcome
you today for sure.
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And that was the
setup, wasn't it?
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I set you, I got you to
comment and raise your hands,
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shame on me.
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But I am so...
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How many have
been here the entire
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since Wednesday night?
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Oh, well, look at all of this.
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And the messages have
been fantastic, haven't they?
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Amen.
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It's about time we do something
on the three angels' messages.
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If it's present truth, we
should know about it, right?
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The world should know about it,
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but the world
can't know about it
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if we may be ever in our...
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and I notice, I go to
schools, I talk to young people,
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I talk to
sometimes older people,
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and it's almost
like a lot of us,
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Seventh-day
Adventist are in a rut.
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Now Molly says a rut's
nothing more than a grave
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with two ends open.
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So... But
sometimes we are in a rut.
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We are so busy with life,
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we're so busy worrying about
what somebody else is wearing
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or how they look or
what they're driving
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that we forget about
why God has put us here
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on planet earth
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in these closing
moments of earth's history.
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What a privilege and
what a responsibility
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to be Seventh-day
Adventist Christians
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literally in the closing moments
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of earth's history.
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It's amazing. It's awesome.
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And every day we should
thank God for this opportunity
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that he's given us.
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Jesus said, "Go ye
into all the world."
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When He said go ye and I said
this over and over and over,
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and I'm saying it for those who
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maybe haven't thought
about it or heard about it.
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Dr. Thompson said it to
me a long time ago, he said,
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"Danny, when Jesus said,
'Go ye into all the world,'
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He counted his
resources in advance
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and found that
it wasn't wanting."
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So that says that you
and me can do anything
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when we come in
the name of the Lord.
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We don't care how
big the obstacles are,
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it makes no difference
because Jesus has said,
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"Go ye into all the world."
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He's the
creator of the universe,
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all power is in Him.
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He says, "All power has given Me
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in heaven and earth.
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Go ye therefore."
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So today, what an opportunity
to be living in a time
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that as I speak now,
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this signal is going up
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from this little
former cornfield area
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in Southern Illinois,
22,300 miles to space,
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traveling around the
world at the speed of light.
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I mean, that's
amazing, isn't it,
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186,000 miles per second?
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I mean, you think
about that technology
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when we started in
3ABN in the beginning,
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there was very few
satellites up in space,
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there was only C-band,
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and when we shot to satellite
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about a million
people in America
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were able to watch 3ABN
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because about a
million people had the dishes.
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People said, "Why
are you doing all of that
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if you're only going
to reach a million people,
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there's 200 plus million
people in the United States."
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Hey, you got to
start somewhere, right?
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I mean, you're going to
be a bear, be a grizzly,
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but sometimes
you got to start out
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with small beginnings.
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So we just did
what we knew to do.
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We didn't know
anything about technology,
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but we went forward,
God blessed and He honored.
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I would have
never dreamed back then
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when we went on the air in 1986,
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would have never
dreamed that 33 years later
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that I can take my smartphone,
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had no such
thing as smartphones,
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I was always dumb
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and the phones
were smarter than me,
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I'm still that way,
they're still too smart for me,
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but who would ever dream
you could take your phone out
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and look up 3ABN and say,
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"Let's see which network
do I want to watch today?"
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Anywhere in the world,
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take out your
tablets, your iPads,
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anywhere in the
world and watch 3ABN.
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You can use social media.
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There're so many ways to get
the gospel into all the world,
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not only cable,
television, satellite,
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we have all of
the social media now,
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the 3ABN is trying
to take advantage of,
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also to get this
gospel to the world.
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Jesus...
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In radio, of
course, around the world.
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Jesus is serious
about coming back.
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Heaven is not heaven
until His people are home.
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Do I need to say that again?
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Heaven is not heaven
until God's children are there.
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Amen.
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But today,
something has to happen.
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This gospel of the kingdom
has to go into all the world
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before Jesus will come back.
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So today, we're going to talk
about the New Covenant Sabbath.
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There are different views
concerning the New Covenant
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which includes of
course the New Covenant Sabbath
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by Protestants and Christians,
we're all aware of that, right?
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The importance of
this is simply this.
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We all have to make a decision
about the Ten Commandments.
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Are we going to keep them?
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Were they nailed to the cross?
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What are we going to do
with the Ten Commandments
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that God established,
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man didn't
establish and God did,
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so we have to make a decision.
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Now modern day Christians
including evangelicals,
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Protestants consider themselves
to be New Covenant Christians.
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You ever talk to anybody
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and you start to talk
about the Sabbath and they say,
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"Oh, I'm New
Covenant, I'm New Covenant,
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I don't go by
the Old Testament"?
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I mean, am I the only one
or somebody had that happen?
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Oh, several of
you have. All right.
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Well, we don't go
by the Old Testament,
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we're New Covenant,
we're New Testament people.
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And so that's their view of it,
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then anything that
happened back then,
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that Old Testament, so
I've asked people sometimes,
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tried to be nice about it,
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"You don't use
the Old Testament?"
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"Oh, I'm not under that at all."
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I say, "Well, why
do you have a Bible,
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why don't you just
carry the New Testament?"
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because you have
a whole, you know,
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sometimes you
have the whole Bible,
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if you don't need
the Old Testament,
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why don't you
just get rid of it?"
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So they're quick to
acknowledge the Sabbath,
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what's the Sabbath of
the Old Testament covenant.
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Now I want to say,
before I go any further,
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God has people in all churches.
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Because your
Seventh Day Adventist
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or any Sabbath
keeper or any denomination,
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you're not going to
go to heaven by saying,
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"Hey, guess what? I
joined the church in 1984."
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What's going to be important is
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when did we join
the Jesus, right?
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When did we make Him
the Lord of our life?
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So when I'm talking here today,
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I'm not talking
to put people down,
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but I want to talk just
family, we want to talk family,
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things that you probably
encounter as well as I do,
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and how do we deal with these.
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So a lot of these folks
say that they've been freed
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from the
legalistic keeping physically
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of a Seventh-day Sabbath.
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Have you heard that?
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That's why, and we'll
talk about it a little bit.
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They say,
"Well, the commandments
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weren't nailed to the cross."
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So I don't physically
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need to keep the
Seventh-day Sabbath,
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you all are in the
legalism, and I say,
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"Really, I notice you go
to church Sunday every week,
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every legalistic
week you go to Sunday.
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You go to church on Sunday."
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Now why do you do that?
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Because they say,
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"Well, Sabbath is
just a spiritual rest,
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you don't have to
keep it, you know,
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when God instituted
it in that creation,
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No one kept it till Moses,
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and so it's
just a spiritual rest
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foreshadowing Jesus'
coming and now I rest in Jesus."
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Well, how can we not rest
on Jesus on Sunday, right?
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I'm going to quit,
you all aren't with me,
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all right?
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You're with me?
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No, I mean, is
that a fair question?
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Yes. Because isn't...
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They say, "Well, we keep
Sunday not as the Sabbath,"
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a lot of them say that now,
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they used to back up
until the 1960s or so,
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all the television program
sayings you watched always
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talked about the Sabbath
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and they inserted
Sunday for the Sabbath.
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But they've
gotten more informed.
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So as you get more informed,
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you have to have a
reason for what you do.
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So here we have people who say,
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"We honor the
resurrection of Christ
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by going to church Sunday
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because he arose on
the first day of the week."
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Does everybody believe Christ
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rose on the
first day of the week?
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What day is that? Sunday.
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And these Evangelicals
and Christians and Catholics
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will tell you Sunday is
the first day of the week.
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So when you're
having a Bible study
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with somebody and they say,
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"Well, how do you know
Saturday is the Sabbath?
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I mean, how do you know
that that day of the week?"
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I say well, number one,
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the Catholics
have been keeping up
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for 2,000 years nearly,
you know, 1800 whatever.
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The Jews, I'm
sure they never forgot
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which day is Saturday.
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You know, so if the Jews
think Saturday is the Sabbath,
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the Catholics
think Saturday is Sabbath
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and all the New Testament
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Protestants say
Sunday is the Sabbath...
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Let me go back, the Catholics,
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the first day of the
week is Sunday, the Jews,
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the seventh day of
the week, Saturday.
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And the Protestants
nowadays even confirm that
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Sunday is the
first day of the week.
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Then Saturday has to be
the seventh day of the week
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which is the Bible Sabbath.
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Now you're with me?
Everybody's with me.
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I'm trying to get
with myself actually,
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I'm here to make
sure we're doing this.
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But they claim that
it's a spiritual rest.
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And so when you honor
Sunday as the resurrection,
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why isn't it
just a spiritual rest?
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That's what I ask people.
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Well, how come you
go to church Sunday?
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Well, we honor,
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but you're not
supposed to physically do it.
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It's a spiritual thing, right?
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So why would you say Adventists
shouldn't keep the Sabbath
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because that's
working our way into heaven,
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but you all can keep Sunday,
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and that's not
working your way into haven,
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just because you say it's
honoring the resurrection,
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but in fact, we want to
honor what God says, am I right?
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Now again, I don't
mean to be critical
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when I talk like this,
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but I want to talk
openly and honestly,
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I find communications
is the greatest tool
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that God has given us.
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So many of us don't want
to offend anybody, right?
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You don't have
to raise your hands.
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But how many of you
have been talking to people
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and you thought, "Wow,
this is an opportunity,
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I should...
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No, I don't want to offend them.
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I don't want to offend them."
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I've told this story before,
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but I went to a church
in state way north of here,
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and I don't stay in
homes with people anymore.
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Not that I don't
love you when I travel,
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but a lot of reasons,
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I find I'm better
off if I stay in a hotel,
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and some of you are
great and you're kind,
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but sometimes
people have agendas too.
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So I was staying in
the home of somebody.
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And I thought, "Really
nice, and it's a nice place,"
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and they support 3ABN, so
I was staying in the home.
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And the man came to
me Friday evening, said,
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"Brother Danny, when
you're talking tomorrow
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to our church,
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I wonder if you
could say something."
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Uh-oh, I heard
somebody say uh-oh.
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I said, "Well,
what have you got?"
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He said, "We're having...
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Our church is almost split.
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There are people in
our church that feel like
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we should pass out the
book to Great Controversy
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all over this city.
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But we have a lot of Catholics,
we have a lot of Lutherans,
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we have a lot of people here.
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And so half the Church
says, 'We don't want to do that.
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That's like
throwing it in their face.
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That's like, you know,
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the Great Controversy
is pretty straightforward
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and whatever it says.'
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So half the Church says,
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'Well, we don't
want to do that.'
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And the other half says,
'No, that's our responsibility,
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that's our job to do it.'"
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So he said, "Would you
talk about that tomorrow?"
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I said, "Sure,
which side are you on?"
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I asked him.
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They just made me supper.
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They're getting ready to
make breakfast in the morning,
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right?
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And I'm going to spend
Saturday night with them.
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So I said,
"Which side are you on?"
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He said, "Well, I'm on the
side that I think we just ought
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to love people into the church."
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And I said, "Oh,
I'm with that. I'm fine.
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Aren't you fine with
loving people in the church,
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just take it for what he said?
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I'm fine with that,
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just loving
people into the church,"
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he said, "Oh, great.
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So you'll tell them tomorrow
that we shouldn't pass...
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they'll listen to you,
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we shouldn't
pass out the books."
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I said, "No, I'm with you,
loving people into the church,
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we need to tell them the truth."
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So I'm sorry, but
I'm on the other side.
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And now if you want me
to go home or go to a hotel,
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I can go to hotel."
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"No," he said,
"You can stay here."
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And I said, "If you
don't want to cook breakfast,
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I saw some
Cheerios and I can make it.
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I can go to my
home, it's no big deal.
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Give me that, some rice steam
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and little bit of honey
and walnuts, I'm great."
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"No, no," they
said, "You can do it."
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So this is the thing.
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Sometimes we're afraid that
we're going to offend people.
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So today, when we're talking,
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if we don't do it,
who's going to, right?
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If we're not
honest with people...
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Thank you.
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If we're not honest with
people, who's going to be?
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Those who have much are what?
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Responsible for much.
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Those who have little
are responsible for...
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Little.
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What would you say
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when it comes to spiritual food,
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spiritual discernment,
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with Seventh-day
Adventist Christians,
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would we be on the side
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if we have
little or we have much?
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Much.
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All right, if we have much,
what are we supposed to do?
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What's the principle of
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when you have a
lot of something?
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You share it, all right?
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Are we all together so far? Yes.
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So we want to share
what God has given us,
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but I do want to say this,
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Sunday has nothing to
do with the New Covenant.
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Plainly speaking,
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Sunday worship has nothing to do
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with honoring our Lord's
death or the resurrection
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is not based on
any Bible instruction.
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When Jesus died on the cross,
the New Covenant was ratified.
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When was it ratified?
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It's important
that we know this.
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It was ratified when?
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When he died on the cross.
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Was it ratified on
Sunday, the following Sunday?
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No.
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When was it ratified? Okay.
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I may be a little redundant,
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but maybe we need
to be today, okay?
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Now, reason this is important
is nothing can be added
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to a covenant
once it's ratified.
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You know what the
word ratified means, right?
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Makes an agreement.
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Sunday keeping cannot be
added to the New Covenant
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because it was not
in the New Covenant
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when Christ died.
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What day did He die
on? He died on Friday.
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What did He do
over Sabbath? Rested.
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And what did He
do on Sunday. Arose.
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Arose from the tomb, right?
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So Christ is alive.
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Don't want to knock this off.
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Okay. Christ is alive.
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So He rose from the tomb.
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I hit a button and I
had about one hundred faces
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that were either
smiling or crying on here.
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And then I
looked into the audience
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and saw the same thing.
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We're going to have
a fun time, aren't we?
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Okay, so we're
going to go back now to...
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when was it?
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When was the New
Covenant ratified?
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Ratified on Friday.
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When did Sunday
keeping take effect?
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Before or after?
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After.
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Well, that's not very
hard to understand, is it?
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So how can Sunday worship
be part of a New Covenant?
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Are you with me?
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Somebody finish it for me.
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How can Sunday worship
be part of a New Covenant
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if it wasn't ratified before?
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When did Sunday
worship become...
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where people did it all
the time, Sunday keeping,
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when did that happen?
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Generations after
Christ's death, is that right?
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Okay. So are we together now?
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I mean, if I'm wrong,
well, don't tell me now
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because all of
it'll be a bad time,
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we're on the air,
but think about it.
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Tell me afterwards, but
I'm trying to get something
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across here that people say,
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"I'm a New Covenant Christian,
I believe that you don't...
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the Ten Commandments
have been done away with,
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I don't have to
keep that old law
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because that old law
was nailed to the cross
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and so I just keep Sunday
in honor of the resurrection
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because I go by
the New Covenant."
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No, honestly, if you
go by the New Covenant,
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you will still keep
Seventh-day Saturday Sabbath
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because
Seventh-day Saturday Sabbath
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was still the
covenant when Christ died.
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That Sabbath was the Sabbath
of Adam, of Abraham, of Moses,
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of Isaac, of Jacob,
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on down through the
ages the Sabbath of Jesus.
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And when Jesus died,
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it had nothing to
do with doing away
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with something He
instituted at creation.
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Now we're going to talk
a little bit about people
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and I don't know I've
got a bunch of pages here
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about the Old and New Covenant.
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Do I really need
to go into that today?
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Because I have
all the scriptures
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of what they are
and maybe I need to
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or maybe I should
just say we have a book,
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we have number of
books here at 3ABN
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that would explain to you
the Old and the New Covenants
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and of what they mean to us.
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Quickly, briefly,
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let me rather
than to read it all,
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a covenant is a contract.
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The dictionary says,
"It's a contract, agreement,
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and undertaking a commitment,
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a guarantee, a
warrant, a pledge,
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a promise, a bond, indenture."
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There's so many
things that it is,
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but a covenant or an agreement
is between two parties.
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So now in the Old
Testament, God said to Moses,
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"I want to make a
covenant with the people
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of children of Israel,
and I want to bless them."
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Hey, if he's going to bless
somebody, why not those folks,
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they've been in
bondage for how many years?
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Hundreds of years, right?
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They were slaves in bondage.
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Moses gets them
out. God frees them.
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God says, "I want to
make a covenant with you.
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I want to bless these folks.
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You've been in a
horrible situation
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for hundreds of years.
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You don't even know who I am."
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They didn't have a chance
to go to church on Sabbath,
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they didn't have a chance
to read the Ten Commandments,
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to read the Bible.
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They didn't have the Scriptures.
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They didn't have
any, they were slaves.
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So God says, "I want
to bless those people."
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In that just like
God to take care of those
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who maybe haven't been
able to take care of themselves.
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He says, "I want to
bless those people."
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So you go tell them
that I want to bless them.
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And if they agree to this,
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then we're going
to make a covenant.
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So he goes and tells
them, Moses, and the people,
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you can look at
in Exodus 19 chapter
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when you get a chance
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or you can look it up
now, it's fine with me.
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But you can look it up.
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But what he says,
"And Moses went up..."
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let's read it, in Exodus 19:3-6.
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"And Moses went up unto God,
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and the Lord called him
and to a mountain, saying,
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'Thus shall thou say
to the house of Jacob,
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and tell the children of Israel,
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if you will obey My voice,
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indeed, and keep My covenant,
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then you shall be
a peculiar treasure
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unto Me above all people,
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for all the earth is Mine,
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and you shall be
unto Me a holy nation,
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these are the words
which thou shall speak
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unto the children of Israel.'"
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Now as soon as Moses spoke
those, the people said what?
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"We will do what God says.
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We will do what God says."
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But the problem turned out to be
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they tried to
do it in the flesh.
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They didn't say with God's help,
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they will do it, they just said,
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"We will do these things."
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As soon as their affirmative
answer went back to God,
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that was the basis
for the Old Covenant
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was set up,
00:19:57.09\00:19:58.43
but before it could
go into formal operation,
00:19:58.46\00:20:00.60
there had to be a
ritualistic system,
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and that was there had to
be some shedding of blood.
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So Moses went out,
they had built 12 altars
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to represent the
tribes of Israel.
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They sprinkled
blood, they got an ox,
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and the young men
went out, the Bible says,
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"They spread this blood,
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and then they
spread it on the people."
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Once that happened, guess what?
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The covenant was
ratified, all right?
00:20:23.25\00:20:26.86
Some of you are with me.
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So what it took
was a commitment,
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God made a commitment,
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and then the children of
Israel made a commitment.
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Now it was signed,
sealed, and delivered
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if you were by the
sprinkling of blood.
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Now could anything
be added after that?
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No. It couldn't be added, right?
00:20:46.11\00:20:48.08
God wouldn't do it
because he told him but...
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People, we can't add it.
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Somebody said
"Well, why can't you?"
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Let's say that I
go to bank tomorrow,
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Monday, I'll go Monday,
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since it's closed on Sunday
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because an honor
to the resurrection.
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I'll go to the church,
I'll go to bank on Monday,
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and I'll ask to borrow $10,000.
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And so they look
at my credit and say,
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"It's fair, it's good enough,
we'll give you that loan,
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we'll give you the
$10,000 at 5% interest."
00:21:14.50\00:21:18.34
So I said,
"That's a little bit high,
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but I'm kind of in a jam,
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I need it, so
give me your contract."
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So they just happen to
have contracts written up
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for any amount you want
or capable of getting, right?
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So they get it, and
what I do to ratify it?
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I sign it.
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Now as soon as I sign that,
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that contract is ratified.
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But this is on
Monday, but Tuesday,
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let's say Monday night I
talked to my brother Kenny,
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he says, "Huh, I
went to the same bank
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I got a loan for 2% interest."
00:21:49.47\00:21:53.34
So I go back Tuesday and say,
00:21:53.38\00:21:55.58
"Well, you know what,
I'm just going to pay you
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from now on 2%
interest instead of 5%."
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Now when I get out of
court because I'll be sued,
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what's the court
going to say to me?
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You cannot add
anything to this contract
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after it was
ratified, after you signed it.
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Are we making any
sense at all, are we?
00:22:16.93\00:22:18.93
I'm trying to get it in a way
that we can all understand it.
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That is really very simple.
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We looked at the Old Covenant,
when that blood was sprinkled,
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the God then is dead after
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that is when God
took Moses to the...
00:22:31.05\00:22:33.31
had him come to the mount
00:22:33.35\00:22:34.68
and gave him
the Ten Commandments
00:22:34.72\00:22:36.05
which were a part
of that Old Covenant.
00:22:36.08\00:22:38.62
So now let's go
look at the New Covenant.
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Most of the time
folk go to Hebrews,
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we can go to the 8
chapter starting with verse 6.
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"But now has he
obtained more excellent ministry
00:22:48.23\00:22:52.00
by how much he
is also the mediator
00:22:52.03\00:22:54.77
of a better covenant,
00:22:54.80\00:22:56.30
which was established
upon better promises,
00:22:56.34\00:22:58.81
for if that first
covenant had been faultless,
00:22:58.84\00:23:01.81
then should no place have
been sought for the second,
00:23:01.84\00:23:04.81
for finding fault
with them, he said,
00:23:04.85\00:23:06.98
'Behold the days
come,' saith the Lord,
00:23:07.02\00:23:09.12
'When I will make a New Covenant
00:23:09.15\00:23:11.69
with the house of Israel
and with the house of Judah,
00:23:11.72\00:23:14.96
not according to
the covenant that I made
00:23:14.99\00:23:17.03
with their fathers in the
day when I took them by the hand
00:23:17.06\00:23:20.06
to lead them out
of the land of Egypt
00:23:20.10\00:23:22.16
because they
continued not,'" they what?
00:23:22.20\00:23:24.77
"They continued
not in my covenant,
00:23:24.80\00:23:26.74
and I regarded them not."
00:23:26.77\00:23:29.07
The covenant was
broken, says the Lord.
00:23:29.10\00:23:31.34
"'For this is the
covenant that I will make
00:23:31.37\00:23:33.54
with the house of
Israel after those days,'
00:23:33.58\00:23:35.74
saith the Lord,
00:23:35.78\00:23:37.11
'I will put my
laws in their mind
00:23:37.15\00:23:39.58
and write them in their...'"
00:23:39.61\00:23:40.95
Hearts.
00:23:40.98\00:23:42.32
"And I will be to them a God
00:23:42.35\00:23:44.02
and they shall
be to me a people."
00:23:44.05\00:23:46.79
Wow, what a beautiful promise
and I'm thankful to be living
00:23:46.82\00:23:50.73
under New Covenant, aren't you?
00:23:50.76\00:23:52.76
I am so thankful
that Jesus shed His blood
00:23:52.79\00:23:55.76
on the cross of calvary.
00:23:55.80\00:23:57.13
Does that mean that no
one before Christ's death
00:23:57.17\00:23:59.93
will ever be
saved to go to heaven?
00:23:59.97\00:24:02.30
Absolutely not. Absolutely not.
00:24:02.34\00:24:04.47
And it's very
important to understand that.
00:24:04.51\00:24:06.88
I'm so thankful that
we have a New Covenant,
00:24:06.91\00:24:09.68
but the difference in the
Old and the New Covenant...
00:24:09.71\00:24:12.28
Now what made
the New Covenant...
00:24:12.31\00:24:14.05
I think we spoke
about it already.
00:24:14.08\00:24:15.88
Christ shed blood
00:24:15.92\00:24:17.25
on the cross of
Calvary that Friday,
00:24:17.29\00:24:19.59
ratified the New Covenant,
nothing can be added to it.
00:24:19.62\00:24:23.86
I know that's redundant,
but it's an important point
00:24:23.89\00:24:26.03
I want you to go away with.
00:24:26.06\00:24:27.96
Nothing can be added to it.
00:24:28.00\00:24:30.03
Sunday keeping
cannot be considered
00:24:30.07\00:24:32.30
when somebody says to you,
00:24:32.33\00:24:33.97
"You ought to live
under the New Covenant,
00:24:34.00\00:24:36.30
I mean, the New Testament."
00:24:36.34\00:24:37.67
So I honor
Sunday and you can say,
00:24:37.71\00:24:40.04
"No, honestly, that's
not part of the New Covenant.
00:24:40.08\00:24:42.94
You do live in
the New Covenant area,
00:24:42.98\00:24:45.05
but Sunday worship is
not part of that Sunday."
00:24:45.08\00:24:48.28
They're honoring the
resurrection formerly by
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as though it's biblical
00:24:50.65\00:24:52.75
is not part of
that New Covenant.
00:24:52.79\00:24:55.49
In fact, the New Covenant...
00:24:55.52\00:24:59.19
or let's talk
about this for a moment,
00:24:59.23\00:25:00.70
this really hit me
like a ton of bricks.
00:25:00.73\00:25:03.16
People say, "Well, you know,
we live under the New Covenant,
00:25:03.20\00:25:07.70
so we don't have to keep
those old commandments anymore."
00:25:07.74\00:25:12.07
You ever hear that? Yeah.
00:25:12.11\00:25:14.74
I was at a church,
00:25:14.78\00:25:16.71
a big Baptist
church with Melody,
00:25:16.75\00:25:19.18
when she was about, I
don't know, 15, 16 years old.
00:25:19.21\00:25:24.02
And it was in Tennessee.
00:25:24.05\00:25:26.29
And they asked
us to come and sing.
00:25:26.32\00:25:28.09
I didn't know them.
00:25:28.12\00:25:29.52
Got there and it is
a pretty big church,
00:25:29.56\00:25:30.93
1,000 and 1,500 people.
00:25:30.96\00:25:32.99
They said, "We
heard you on the radio
00:25:33.03\00:25:34.56
and we heard your testimony.
00:25:34.60\00:25:36.20
Melody's mother had been killed
in an automobile accident,
00:25:36.23\00:25:39.47
1982, and we just
wanted you there."
00:25:39.50\00:25:42.17
So we went to the
church and we sang.
00:25:42.20\00:25:45.74
After the church was
over, the pastor said,
00:25:45.77\00:25:47.51
come back in the study,
00:25:47.54\00:25:49.04
they had taken up
an offering for us
00:25:49.08\00:25:50.75
and they took up their
Sunday morning offering
00:25:50.78\00:25:53.21
for the church as well.
00:25:53.25\00:25:54.65
So they said,
"Come back in the room,
00:25:54.68\00:25:56.92
and before you leave,
00:25:56.95\00:25:58.29
and we'll give you your offering
00:25:58.32\00:25:59.65
that we took up for your music."
00:25:59.69\00:26:01.96
So I said, "Fine." So
I went back in the room.
00:26:01.99\00:26:04.26
Here's the
offering for our music
00:26:04.29\00:26:05.76
was a few couple
little plates, right?
00:26:05.79\00:26:07.96
Over here was their
Sunday school offering,
00:26:08.00\00:26:10.47
and it was big.
00:26:10.50\00:26:11.83
There were several
people counting all of that.
00:26:11.87\00:26:14.24
So the pastor came
up to me, and he said,
00:26:14.27\00:26:17.67
"I didn't know till
just now somebody said,
00:26:17.71\00:26:20.54
you're a Seventh-day Adventist."
00:26:20.58\00:26:23.31
I said, "Yeah, that's
true." He said, "What?
00:26:23.35\00:26:25.81
You don't seem like a
Seventh-day Adventist."
00:26:25.85\00:26:28.88
I said, "What are we
supposed to be like?"
00:26:28.92\00:26:32.32
He said, "Well, you
all keep that old law.
00:26:32.35\00:26:35.02
You keep that old
Ten Commandment law."
00:26:35.06\00:26:37.59
And I said, "Yeah, don't you?"
00:26:37.63\00:26:39.63
"No." I said, "Why not?"
00:26:39.66\00:26:41.36
He's said, "Man,
we've been liberated,
00:26:41.40\00:26:43.47
look at Colossians,
00:26:43.50\00:26:44.83
the old law was
nailed to the cross."
00:26:44.87\00:26:47.70
And I said, "Really?
00:26:47.74\00:26:49.44
So we don't have to
keep the Ten Commandments."
00:26:49.47\00:26:51.04
"No."
00:26:51.07\00:26:52.41
I said, "I'm glad to know that."
00:26:52.44\00:26:53.78
I said, "Thank you,
pastor, you've helped me,
00:26:53.81\00:26:55.48
and honestly," I said,
"You enlightened me greatly."
00:26:55.51\00:26:58.88
And he was shocked.
00:26:58.91\00:27:00.25
You know, you
try to get somebody
00:27:00.28\00:27:01.85
convert them to your theology.
00:27:01.88\00:27:03.28
It's usually not
that easy, right?
00:27:03.32\00:27:06.05
But I was with him.
00:27:06.09\00:27:07.42
You know why?
00:27:07.46\00:27:09.02
Because they piled up the
offering, put it in a bag,
00:27:09.06\00:27:11.39
the churches, they
piled up my little one.
00:27:11.43\00:27:13.73
So as I'm talking to him,
00:27:13.76\00:27:15.10
I walked over and
I picked the big bag,
00:27:15.13\00:27:17.00
put it under my arm.
00:27:17.03\00:27:18.37
I said, "Thank
you. God bless you."
00:27:18.40\00:27:20.54
And I started
walking out of the church.
00:27:20.57\00:27:23.74
I had it under my arm.
00:27:23.77\00:27:26.94
"Brother Shelton."
00:27:26.98\00:27:28.31
I was no longer
that old Adventist.
00:27:28.34\00:27:29.78
So brother
Shelton, we're brothers now,
00:27:29.81\00:27:32.98
put me on a guilt trip.
00:27:33.01\00:27:34.35
"Brother Shelton, just
a minute, just a minute."
00:27:34.38\00:27:36.99
I said, "Yes, sir."
00:27:37.02\00:27:39.22
"I'm sorry, you got
the wrong offering."
00:27:39.25\00:27:40.99
I said, "No, I
got the right one."
00:27:41.02\00:27:42.46
"No, no, no, yours is this one."
00:27:42.49\00:27:44.23
He said, "This offering."
00:27:44.26\00:27:46.06
I said, "Well, I know
that's what is meant to be.
00:27:46.09\00:27:47.93
But I'm just
going to take this one."
00:27:47.96\00:27:50.87
"Well, you can't do that."
00:27:50.90\00:27:52.23
He said, "You can't..."
00:27:52.27\00:27:54.17
And I said,
"Really?" I said, "Why not?"
00:27:54.20\00:27:57.97
Hello.
00:27:58.01\00:27:59.34
I said, "Why not?"
00:28:02.14\00:28:04.18
He said, "Well,
you can't take..."
00:28:04.21\00:28:05.71
I said, "Oh, would
that be called stealing?"
00:28:05.75\00:28:08.92
And he just looked at me
like a deer in headlights.
00:28:08.95\00:28:14.32
So he said, "I get your point.
00:28:14.36\00:28:16.32
Can I have my offering back?"
00:28:16.36\00:28:17.83
I said, "Okay."
00:28:21.36\00:28:22.70
You know what I'm saying,
things that people do, right?
00:28:26.87\00:28:30.07
We say now why in the
world do people want to say
00:28:30.11\00:28:33.61
that the commandments
were nailed to the cross?
00:28:33.64\00:28:38.31
Why? I found there's only...
00:28:38.35\00:28:40.08
Now I could be wrong, and
you all can tell me later.
00:28:40.12\00:28:42.48
But I found there's
really only a couple reasons
00:28:42.52\00:28:45.29
why people don't want to
keep the commandments of God.
00:28:45.32\00:28:49.59
I only know two,
I'm sure there's more.
00:28:49.62\00:28:52.66
It's either
ignorance or rebellion.
00:28:52.69\00:28:55.60
Now don't be
offended anybody watching,
00:28:55.63\00:28:57.43
ignorance is nothing bad.
00:28:57.47\00:28:58.80
I'm ignorant
about a lot of things.
00:28:58.83\00:29:00.67
But it's not being
dumb or not being, you know,
00:29:00.70\00:29:03.17
it's nothing like people
say, "You think I'm stupid?"
00:29:03.20\00:29:05.37
"No." I said, "You're ignorant."
00:29:05.41\00:29:07.11
Ignorant just means...
00:29:07.14\00:29:10.95
but I'm ignorant too, right?
00:29:10.98\00:29:12.85
So I'm not pointing fingers,
00:29:12.88\00:29:14.22
three of them just
coming back at me when I point.
00:29:14.25\00:29:16.55
No, there's a difference,
you know, and being ignorant
00:29:16.58\00:29:19.69
just simply means we don't know.
00:29:19.72\00:29:21.96
So when we're ignorant,
00:29:21.99\00:29:23.32
God says in the
Bible that he did what?
00:29:23.36\00:29:26.53
He winked in our time
of ignorance, am I right?
00:29:26.56\00:29:29.63
So there's
nothing wrong with that.
00:29:29.66\00:29:31.00
But it seems to me
00:29:31.03\00:29:32.77
that it's either
rebellion or ignorance
00:29:32.80\00:29:35.80
why people don't keep the
commandments of God, right?
00:29:35.84\00:29:39.74
So we go...
00:29:39.77\00:29:41.11
What I decided to do, I said,
00:29:41.14\00:29:42.74
"Well, let's see what's so bad,"
00:29:42.78\00:29:44.35
now see if I can
find a little note
00:29:44.38\00:29:45.95
because I want
this to really hit you.
00:29:45.98\00:29:48.25
I said, "Okay, let's see
00:29:48.28\00:29:50.05
what's so bad about
the Ten Commandments."
00:29:50.09\00:29:54.49
Because he took me this pastor
00:29:54.52\00:29:57.06
and others have
taken me to Colossians 2,
00:29:57.09\00:29:59.79
you know, 14 or 16, 17 and 18.
00:29:59.83\00:30:03.77
And it says,
"Blotting out the handwriting
00:30:03.80\00:30:07.34
of the ordinances
that was against us,
00:30:07.37\00:30:10.64
which was contrary to us,
00:30:10.67\00:30:12.77
and took it out of the
way, nailing it to the cross."
00:30:12.81\00:30:15.58
Right there,
they say is doing away
00:30:15.61\00:30:18.08
with the Seventh-day Sabbath.
00:30:18.11\00:30:19.85
Now what part of
the Ten Commandments
00:30:19.88\00:30:21.85
was man's law that needed
to be nailed to the cross?
00:30:21.88\00:30:26.76
I can't... Let's find out.
00:30:26.79\00:30:28.92
Let's go over them.
00:30:28.96\00:30:30.29
"Thou shall have no
other gods before Me."
00:30:30.33\00:30:32.69
That probably should be
nailed to the cross, right?
00:30:32.73\00:30:35.33
No, nothing wrong with that.
00:30:35.36\00:30:37.00
"Thou shall not make
unto thee any graven images."
00:30:37.03\00:30:40.70
Nail that to the cross?
00:30:40.74\00:30:42.50
"Thou shall not take the
name of the Lord in vain."
00:30:42.54\00:30:45.31
Do we nail that to the cross?
00:30:45.34\00:30:47.51
"Remember the
Sabbath day to keep it holy."
00:30:47.54\00:30:50.31
God gave us that just
so we would remember Him
00:30:50.35\00:30:52.55
and not get so caught up,
00:30:52.58\00:30:54.08
the children of
Israel for another 400 years,
00:30:54.12\00:30:56.08
they forget Him every week,
00:30:56.12\00:30:57.59
we come back and
remember who our Creator God is.
00:30:57.62\00:31:01.16
That doesn't sound so bad.
00:31:01.19\00:31:02.76
Sounds like that's a good thing.
00:31:02.79\00:31:04.19
Remember the Sabbath day.
00:31:04.23\00:31:05.69
Okay, let's nail
this one to the cross.
00:31:05.73\00:31:07.80
"Honor thy father and mother."
00:31:07.83\00:31:09.73
No, can't do that.
00:31:09.76\00:31:11.10
"Thou shall not kill.
00:31:11.13\00:31:13.40
Thou shall not commit adultery.
00:31:13.44\00:31:15.80
Thou salt not steal.
00:31:15.84\00:31:18.21
Thou shall not
bear false witness.
00:31:18.24\00:31:20.88
Thou salt not covet."
00:31:20.91\00:31:22.98
Is somebody
listening? Are you with it?
00:31:23.01\00:31:25.81
I'm trying to find out
which one of these laws
00:31:25.85\00:31:28.15
was so against us
that Jesus needed to die
00:31:28.18\00:31:31.02
on the cross to
do away with them.
00:31:31.05\00:31:33.39
If the Ten
Commandments were so bad,
00:31:33.42\00:31:35.39
why did Paul say in Romans 7:12,
00:31:35.42\00:31:37.33
"The law is holy,
00:31:37.36\00:31:38.69
and the commandment
holy and just and good"?
00:31:38.73\00:31:40.90
If the Ten
Commandments were so bad,
00:31:40.93\00:31:42.93
why would Paul
say in Romans 3:31,
00:31:42.96\00:31:45.50
"Do we then make void
the law through faith?
00:31:45.53\00:31:48.04
God forbid, we
establish the law."
00:31:48.07\00:31:51.51
If the law is so bad
and commandments are so bad,
00:31:51.54\00:31:53.71
why does Jesus say in
John, "If you love Me..."
00:31:53.74\00:31:58.01
"Keep My commandments."
00:31:58.05\00:31:59.38
"If you love Me..."
"Keep My commandments."
00:31:59.41\00:32:01.18
Who said that? Jesus.
00:32:01.22\00:32:02.82
When did He say?
00:32:02.85\00:32:04.19
In the Old Testament
or the New Testament?
00:32:04.22\00:32:05.55
New Testament.
00:32:05.59\00:32:06.96
Jesus said, "If you love
Me, keep My commandments."
00:32:06.99\00:32:10.73
So we have the
Creator of the universe
00:32:10.76\00:32:12.83
and the New Testament
saying, "If you love..."
00:32:12.86\00:32:14.73
He wasn't saying,
He could have said,
00:32:14.76\00:32:17.17
"I'm going to die."
00:32:17.20\00:32:18.53
Now think about it.
00:32:18.57\00:32:19.90
Thursday before the crucifixion,
00:32:19.93\00:32:21.57
He met with the
disciples in the upper room.
00:32:21.60\00:32:24.27
Did He say, "I'm going to die,
00:32:24.31\00:32:27.48
I'm going to be
underground three days,
00:32:27.51\00:32:28.84
I'm going to rise again.
00:32:28.88\00:32:30.21
But after I do, I want you to do
00:32:30.25\00:32:32.61
away with the commandments
00:32:32.65\00:32:34.28
and I want you to keep Sunday
in honor of my resurrection"?
00:32:34.32\00:32:38.29
No. He could have.
00:32:38.32\00:32:40.66
It could be right in the Bible
00:32:40.69\00:32:42.02
because he did
tell them something.
00:32:42.06\00:32:43.99
He's told them
about communion and said,
00:32:44.03\00:32:45.93
"Do this in
remembrance of Me," right?
00:32:45.96\00:32:49.63
So He could have said,
00:32:49.66\00:32:53.37
"Keep Sunday after I arise."
00:32:53.40\00:32:56.81
But there's a
reason He didn't do it.
00:32:56.84\00:32:58.37
Let me finish.
00:32:58.41\00:33:01.01
If the commandments are so
bad and so much against us,
00:33:01.04\00:33:04.58
why does Matthew 15:9 say,
00:33:04.61\00:33:06.31
"But in vain do they worship Me,
00:33:06.35\00:33:07.95
teaching for
doctrines commandments of men"?
00:33:07.98\00:33:10.32
Why did Jesus
say in Matthew 5:17?
00:33:10.35\00:33:12.32
"Think not I come to
destroy the law or the prophets,
00:33:12.35\00:33:15.22
I have not come to
destroy but to fulfill."
00:33:15.26\00:33:18.56
This is so simple
that it's elementary.
00:33:18.59\00:33:20.53
Now I say this
as kindly as I can.
00:33:20.56\00:33:22.53
This is so simple
that it's elementary,
00:33:22.56\00:33:26.74
think about it.
00:33:26.77\00:33:29.04
Why do New Testament
Christians continue to say
00:33:29.07\00:33:31.54
that Jesus's death put
an end to the commandments?
00:33:31.57\00:33:37.41
He says, "I come not to..."
00:33:37.45\00:33:39.61
Destroy.
00:33:39.65\00:33:40.98
Not, did he say not,
00:33:41.02\00:33:42.35
it looks like
capital to me, all capitals.
00:33:42.38\00:33:44.59
"I come not to destroy
but to fulfill," right?
00:33:44.62\00:33:49.96
He says, "I come to fulfill."
00:33:49.99\00:33:51.33
In other words, He came to earth
00:33:51.36\00:33:52.69
and shed His blood
00:33:52.73\00:33:54.06
to fulfill the
promise of the Old Testament
00:33:54.10\00:33:56.46
and the promises
in the New Testament
00:33:56.50\00:33:58.60
where He told His
disciples that he would fulfill
00:33:58.63\00:34:00.90
the prophecies
of the Old Testament
00:34:00.94\00:34:03.04
by dying as a
propitiation for our sins.
00:34:03.07\00:34:06.11
Now this could not mean
God's Ten Commandment law
00:34:06.14\00:34:09.14
because God's
Ten Commandment law
00:34:09.18\00:34:11.01
was not against us, right?
00:34:11.05\00:34:13.62
God's Ten Commandment...
00:34:13.65\00:34:14.98
Christ fulfilled the obligations
00:34:15.02\00:34:16.72
of the ceremonial law
00:34:16.75\00:34:18.19
by becoming the
perfect Lamb slain
00:34:18.22\00:34:21.32
for the sins of the world.
00:34:21.36\00:34:22.72
Christ fulfilled the
obligations of the law
00:34:22.76\00:34:24.99
of the Ten Commandments
00:34:25.03\00:34:26.36
by His perfect
obedience to his precepts.
00:34:26.39\00:34:28.76
There are those New
Testament Christians
00:34:28.80\00:34:31.27
who want to point out to us,
and we mentioned a while ago,
00:34:31.30\00:34:34.34
but let's go into
a little bit further,
00:34:34.37\00:34:36.37
Colossians 2:16, 17,
00:34:36.40\00:34:38.44
"Let no man therefore
judge you, of me, or drink,
00:34:38.47\00:34:41.91
or in respect of a holy day,
00:34:41.94\00:34:44.31
or the new moons or the Sabbath,
00:34:44.35\00:34:45.88
which are a
shadow of things to come,
00:34:45.91\00:34:48.15
but the body of Christ."
00:34:48.18\00:34:50.05
The ceremonial laws
including the yearly Sabbaths
00:34:50.09\00:34:54.09
because if you read it
00:34:54.12\00:34:55.46
and do more
than surface reading,
00:34:55.49\00:34:56.96
you'll find there
are a number of Sabbaths.
00:34:56.99\00:34:59.06
There are ceremonial
Sabbaths, seven of them,
00:34:59.09\00:35:00.90
there's all
throughout the Passover,
00:35:00.93\00:35:02.70
you see these
ceremonial Sabbaths.
00:35:02.73\00:35:05.20
And what did they do?
00:35:05.23\00:35:06.60
They pointed to Jesus, right?
00:35:06.63\00:35:09.50
So these, the offerings
00:35:09.54\00:35:11.87
were discounted
at Christ's death
00:35:11.91\00:35:13.78
as they foreshadowed the cross,
notice in verse 16, it says,
00:35:13.81\00:35:17.41
Sabbath days with an S,
00:35:17.45\00:35:19.45
not God's seventh day Sabbath
but the ceremonial Sabbath.
00:35:19.48\00:35:25.29
Do we got... Do we have that?
00:35:25.32\00:35:27.02
So you can see how people
when you first read it say,
00:35:27.06\00:35:29.72
"Well, don't judge me,
eat or drink or whatever..."
00:35:29.76\00:35:33.03
No, these were
all ceremonial laws
00:35:33.06\00:35:36.20
set up that would
be done away with,
00:35:36.23\00:35:38.93
would be nailed to the cross.
00:35:38.97\00:35:40.34
These were the ordinances
00:35:40.37\00:35:41.90
that were against us, all right?
00:35:41.94\00:35:44.67
So the Sabbath
was that creation,
00:35:44.71\00:35:50.21
God owns it.
00:35:50.25\00:35:51.58
It came before sin and
will remain long after sin.
00:35:51.61\00:35:54.65
You see, think about this.
00:35:54.68\00:35:56.89
In Genesis 2:1-3,
00:35:56.92\00:35:59.52
God institutes the
seventh day Sabbath, right?
00:35:59.55\00:36:03.43
Now the ordinances
that were nailed against us
00:36:03.46\00:36:07.06
were ceremonial laws,
00:36:07.10\00:36:08.96
but they weren't given
00:36:09.00\00:36:10.33
till after sin
came into the world.
00:36:10.37\00:36:13.90
So when was the Sabbath given?
00:36:13.94\00:36:15.70
Was sin already
in the world? No.
00:36:15.74\00:36:18.81
So if they're not part
of the ceremonial system,
00:36:18.84\00:36:22.68
the Sabbath is before sin,
00:36:22.71\00:36:24.78
how can it be part
of the ceremonial law
00:36:24.81\00:36:26.68
that's nailed to the cross?
00:36:26.72\00:36:28.55
Does that make
any sense to somebody?
00:36:28.58\00:36:31.52
I mean, it
should make sense to us.
00:36:31.55\00:36:33.32
How can it possibly be?
00:36:33.36\00:36:34.82
It was at the
end of creation week,
00:36:34.86\00:36:38.16
on the seventh day God
rested from all His work,
00:36:38.19\00:36:40.40
He instituted it then.
00:36:40.43\00:36:42.26
There Adam hadn't sinned,
Adam and Eve hadn't sinned.
00:36:42.30\00:36:46.03
So now when we're
looking down the stream of time,
00:36:46.07\00:36:50.57
it's pretty
simple for us to see,
00:36:50.61\00:36:52.31
you know what, this wasn't...
00:36:52.34\00:36:53.88
this is what it
was talking about.
00:36:53.91\00:36:55.24
The ceremonial laws
were nailed to the cross.
00:36:55.28\00:36:59.21
I see my time is
quickly running out on me.
00:36:59.25\00:37:02.38
But I think we should...
00:37:02.42\00:37:03.75
We've talked about
it, and I haven't read it.
00:37:03.79\00:37:05.29
So let's do Exodus 20:8-11,
00:37:05.32\00:37:08.86
I want you to read it
and say it with me out loud.
00:37:08.89\00:37:11.63
"Remember the
Sabbath day to keep it holy.
00:37:11.66\00:37:15.10
Six days shall thou
labor, and do all thy work.
00:37:15.13\00:37:19.43
But the seventh day
is the Sabbath," of who?
00:37:19.47\00:37:22.67
"The Lord thy God, in it
thou shall not do any work,
00:37:22.70\00:37:28.04
thou, nor thy
son, nor thy daughter,
00:37:28.08\00:37:31.58
thy manservant, thy maidservant,
00:37:31.61\00:37:34.38
nor thy cattle,
00:37:34.42\00:37:35.75
nor thy stranger
that is within thy gates,
00:37:35.78\00:37:38.82
for in six days," how many days?
00:37:38.85\00:37:40.82
Six days.
00:37:40.86\00:37:42.19
"The Lord made the
heaven and the earth, the sea,
00:37:42.22\00:37:45.89
and all that in them is,
and He rested the seventh day.
00:37:45.93\00:37:50.63
Therefore, the Lord blessed
00:37:50.67\00:37:52.17
the Sabbath day
and hallowed it."
00:37:52.20\00:37:55.34
So the Ten
Commandments were kept before
00:37:55.37\00:37:58.01
and I'm going to
start winding down on this
00:37:58.04\00:38:00.48
because here's one of the things
00:38:00.51\00:38:01.88
that people say, I watched a...
00:38:01.91\00:38:04.41
They call it a
debate not too long ago
00:38:04.45\00:38:06.65
with an Adventist pastor
00:38:06.68\00:38:09.38
and a person who
was a Sunday pastor.
00:38:09.42\00:38:13.02
And they had a
debate on Facebook,
00:38:13.05\00:38:15.32
and I was very
disappointed in the debate.
00:38:15.36\00:38:17.73
It wasn't that
the Adventist pastor
00:38:17.76\00:38:19.86
didn't have or couldn't have,
00:38:19.89\00:38:22.70
if you're going
to get in debate,
00:38:22.73\00:38:24.07
you might as well win it, right?
00:38:24.10\00:38:25.43
No, whether you
should get in one or not,
00:38:25.47\00:38:26.94
that's up for grabs.
00:38:26.97\00:38:28.34
But if you get in one,
00:38:28.37\00:38:29.80
you want to
make sure you win it,
00:38:29.84\00:38:31.17
don't get into
something you can't win.
00:38:31.21\00:38:32.91
Now if we can't win a discussion
00:38:32.94\00:38:36.14
on the Seventh-day Sabbath,
we should close the doors.
00:38:36.18\00:38:40.02
Oh, some of you don't
agree with that, right?
00:38:40.05\00:38:42.12
I mean, honestly, if
Seventh-day Adventist,
00:38:42.15\00:38:44.25
if Seventh-day Adventist,
00:38:44.29\00:38:46.55
if we can't win a discussion
00:38:46.59\00:38:49.76
or least prove our
discussion without a doubt,
00:38:49.79\00:38:54.50
we need to close our doors.
00:38:54.53\00:38:56.13
This debate that
I watched was set up
00:38:56.16\00:39:00.20
where they ask a question,
00:39:00.24\00:39:01.80
one man had two
minutes like the Adventist guy
00:39:01.84\00:39:05.37
had two minutes to answer it,
00:39:05.41\00:39:06.91
then they give the other
person one minute to answer.
00:39:06.94\00:39:10.05
He might say
something ridiculous.
00:39:10.08\00:39:11.81
But then you move
to the next question.
00:39:11.85\00:39:13.82
That's not a very good format.
00:39:13.85\00:39:15.72
But one of the
things that they say is
00:39:15.75\00:39:18.35
and I want to put this out here,
00:39:18.39\00:39:20.92
well, the reason that we
don't keep the Sabbath today
00:39:20.96\00:39:24.93
is because it's a spiritual rest
00:39:24.96\00:39:27.86
and from creation
all the way from creation
00:39:27.90\00:39:32.30
of seventh day
all the way to Moses,
00:39:32.33\00:39:34.74
no one kept the Sabbath.
00:39:34.77\00:39:39.07
Now they kept the
other Ten Commandments,
00:39:39.11\00:39:40.98
but they didn't
keep the Sabbath.
00:39:41.01\00:39:42.44
They say there is no
proof in the Old Testament
00:39:42.48\00:39:45.88
that God directed
anybody to keep the Sabbath,
00:39:45.91\00:39:49.05
but he did all of the
other nine commandments,
00:39:49.08\00:39:53.05
that's a huge point.
00:39:53.09\00:39:54.79
If they're right,
00:39:54.82\00:39:56.73
we might want to relook
at our doctrines, right?
00:39:56.76\00:40:01.03
There is no
proof is what they say,
00:40:01.06\00:40:03.23
and this man has said
it, others have said it.
00:40:03.26\00:40:05.43
"There is no proof from creation
00:40:05.47\00:40:09.24
when Sabbath was instituted
00:40:09.27\00:40:11.27
that any command to
keep the commandments
00:40:11.31\00:40:15.64
the Sabbath until Moses."
00:40:15.68\00:40:19.58
Well, let's find
out if that's true.
00:40:19.61\00:40:21.48
Okay, let's go to Genesis 26:5.
00:40:21.52\00:40:25.59
Genesis 26:5 tells us that
Abraham obeyed God's voice,
00:40:25.62\00:40:30.63
kept His charge,
God's commandments,
00:40:30.66\00:40:32.79
and His statutes, and His laws.
00:40:32.83\00:40:35.06
Now ain't that interesting?
00:40:35.10\00:40:36.77
How many references he makes?
00:40:36.80\00:40:38.67
Genesis 26:5 tells us that
Abraham obeyed God's voice,
00:40:38.70\00:40:44.01
kept His charge,
kept God's commandments,
00:40:44.04\00:40:47.18
His statutes, and His laws.
00:40:47.21\00:40:50.08
It sounds kind of
like overkill to me.
00:40:50.11\00:40:53.95
I mean, why in the world
00:40:53.98\00:40:55.32
you're going to
say all those things.
00:40:55.35\00:40:56.69
Why not just say he
kept the commandments
00:40:56.72\00:40:58.65
or he kept the covenant?
00:40:58.69\00:41:00.56
They didn't do it.
00:41:00.59\00:41:01.92
I think God knew in advance
that down the stream of time,
00:41:01.96\00:41:04.33
there would be
people trying to say,
00:41:04.36\00:41:06.46
"That didn't mean
the Ten Commandments,
00:41:06.49\00:41:08.83
you can get out of this one."
00:41:08.86\00:41:10.60
I mean, how are you
going to get out of this?
00:41:10.63\00:41:11.97
It named everything, right?
00:41:12.00\00:41:13.74
It says that
Abraham obeyed God's voice,
00:41:13.77\00:41:18.04
if he obeys Him,
what's he going to do?
00:41:18.07\00:41:19.41
Keep His commandments.
00:41:19.44\00:41:20.78
But he says, he kept His
charge and God's commandments
00:41:20.81\00:41:24.85
and His statues and His laws.
00:41:24.88\00:41:26.98
That left nothing out, right?
00:41:27.02\00:41:28.45
Abraham did it all.
00:41:28.48\00:41:29.95
Whatever was
there, Abraham did it all.
00:41:29.98\00:41:32.05
And you can know
that the Ten Commandments
00:41:32.09\00:41:34.29
were a part of that.
00:41:34.32\00:41:35.92
So God knew and
I think that's why
00:41:35.96\00:41:39.23
that's so strong
in there, God knew...
00:41:39.26\00:41:40.66
But here's what people say,
00:41:40.70\00:41:42.03
and I want to talk
about this for just a minute.
00:41:42.06\00:41:44.20
It would be foolish
for anyone to suggest
00:41:44.23\00:41:46.87
that no one kept
the Sabbath until Moses,
00:41:46.90\00:41:50.51
very foolish.
00:41:50.54\00:41:53.14
God instituted
it, why institute it
00:41:53.17\00:41:55.24
if he didn't want
anybody to keep it?
00:41:55.28\00:41:57.95
But how can humans negate,
00:41:57.98\00:41:59.45
make void or have the
nerve to ignore the Sabbath
00:41:59.48\00:42:01.58
of the Lord thy God?
00:42:01.62\00:42:02.95
It's not His...
00:42:02.98\00:42:04.32
The commandment
says, Sabbath, not ours,
00:42:04.35\00:42:05.69
the Sabbath of the Lord thy God.
00:42:05.72\00:42:07.12
In other words, who
are we to place oneself
00:42:07.16\00:42:09.46
above God by ignoring
00:42:09.49\00:42:11.19
or trying to
change His commandments,
00:42:11.23\00:42:13.53
including His holy Sabbath?
00:42:13.56\00:42:16.06
Now evangelical
Christians claim the Sabbath
00:42:16.10\00:42:18.83
is a Jewish
Sabbath for the Jews only.
00:42:18.87\00:42:21.37
We've already read
where that's not true, right?
00:42:21.40\00:42:23.81
It says that's the Sabbath
of whom, the Lord thy God.
00:42:23.84\00:42:28.21
So what I want to talk
about here in just a little bit,
00:42:28.24\00:42:31.48
I actually wrote it down.
00:42:31.51\00:42:32.91
And I thought, you
know, Thank You, Lord,
00:42:32.95\00:42:34.75
this is really interesting.
00:42:34.78\00:42:37.92
Have you ever
thought about this?
00:42:37.95\00:42:39.29
It just popped into my head.
00:42:39.32\00:42:40.66
Maybe I probably
heard Stephen Bohr
00:42:40.69\00:42:42.02
or somebody else say it,
00:42:42.06\00:42:43.39
and I thought,
well, the light went on.
00:42:43.43\00:42:44.76
I thought it was something,
00:42:44.79\00:42:46.13
I probably heard
it from somebody else.
00:42:46.16\00:42:48.06
But they say, "Well, the
reason no one kept the Sabbath
00:42:48.10\00:42:53.64
in the Old Testament
00:42:53.67\00:42:55.04
is because
there's no record of it."
00:42:55.07\00:42:58.84
And all of a
sudden it occurred to me,
00:42:58.87\00:43:01.04
this is before Moses, well,
00:43:01.08\00:43:03.21
show me the record of
the other commandments.
00:43:03.24\00:43:08.35
Now think about it for a minute.
00:43:08.38\00:43:09.88
Show me the record of
the other commandments,
00:43:09.92\00:43:12.12
just the same way,
00:43:12.15\00:43:13.56
do it the same way
you're going to do the Sabbath.
00:43:13.59\00:43:16.16
Okay?
00:43:16.19\00:43:17.53
Now God told in
Genesis 35:1 to 4,
00:43:17.56\00:43:21.36
long before Moses,
00:43:21.40\00:43:22.73
God told Jacob
to have his people
00:43:22.76\00:43:24.63
put away their strange gods.
00:43:24.67\00:43:26.70
There's no record
that I see if this written,
00:43:26.74\00:43:28.80
a commandment that says,
00:43:28.84\00:43:30.34
"Thou shall not make
unto thee any graven images,"
00:43:30.37\00:43:33.27
before the time of Moses.
00:43:33.31\00:43:34.74
But God held him accountable
00:43:34.78\00:43:36.11
because they were
breaking His laws.
00:43:36.14\00:43:37.71
Am I right?
00:43:37.75\00:43:39.08
Adam and Eve broke
the first commandment,
00:43:39.11\00:43:40.78
"Thou shall have no
other gods before me,"
00:43:40.82\00:43:42.92
when they serve
the serpent Satan
00:43:42.95\00:43:44.52
instead of their Creator.
00:43:44.55\00:43:45.99
There's no mention in
the Bible that Adam and Eve
00:43:46.02\00:43:48.22
were looking at
the Ten Commandment law
00:43:48.26\00:43:50.53
and said, "Oh,
you know, let me see
00:43:50.56\00:43:53.09
the third, fourth, command..."
00:43:53.13\00:43:54.73
there's no record that
but there was a record,
00:43:54.76\00:43:57.07
there is a law
00:43:57.10\00:43:58.43
because where there's
no law there's no sin.
00:43:58.47\00:44:00.10
Am I right?
00:44:00.14\00:44:01.47
There's no law, there's no sin.
00:44:01.50\00:44:03.47
So Adam and Eve,
once they disobeyed God,
00:44:03.51\00:44:09.04
that meant death for
the whole human race.
00:44:09.08\00:44:11.35
God held us accountable.
00:44:11.38\00:44:12.88
He would not have held them
accountable, were there no law?
00:44:12.91\00:44:16.35
Are we together
on that one, right?
00:44:16.38\00:44:18.79
I don't think there
was a written down law,
00:44:18.82\00:44:20.46
there's no record in the Bible,
Adam and Eve had a written law.
00:44:20.49\00:44:23.63
Now Leviticus 18:21-23,
00:44:23.66\00:44:26.36
"For all these abominations
have the man of the land done
00:44:26.39\00:44:29.93
which were before
and the land is defiled."
00:44:29.96\00:44:33.44
This was done long before Moses,
00:44:33.47\00:44:35.50
yet it's still sin.
00:44:35.54\00:44:36.87
God said, "Neither shall thou
profane the name of thy God,
00:44:36.91\00:44:40.14
I am the Lord."
00:44:40.18\00:44:41.51
I don't see any record of,
00:44:41.54\00:44:42.88
"Thou shall not take the name
of the Lord thy God in vain."
00:44:42.91\00:44:45.21
Are you starting to
see what I'm saying?
00:44:45.25\00:44:47.32
There is no commandment.
00:44:47.35\00:44:48.68
No, of course,
they weren't written,
00:44:48.72\00:44:50.69
but were they there?
00:44:50.72\00:44:52.69
Were they there?
00:44:52.72\00:44:54.06
Would the only
commandment that God said
00:44:54.09\00:44:56.22
remember would that be
the one He would take out
00:44:56.26\00:44:58.79
if He were to take one out.
00:44:58.83\00:45:00.60
That would be...
00:45:00.63\00:45:02.56
No, I can't even
say that about God.
00:45:02.60\00:45:04.10
I'll start making a joke
like, that wouldn't be the...
00:45:04.13\00:45:06.53
No, He wouldn't do that.
00:45:06.57\00:45:08.84
God would never do, He did it
00:45:08.87\00:45:10.24
because He knew
people would forget.
00:45:10.27\00:45:13.61
Now they say, but
there's no record of people
00:45:13.64\00:45:15.94
keeping the Sabbath.
00:45:15.98\00:45:17.31
Well, in the same
vein, yes, there is.
00:45:17.35\00:45:20.12
Exodus 16th chapter,
00:45:20.15\00:45:21.68
we find that
God is telling Moses
00:45:21.72\00:45:23.65
that He's sending
manna for the people to eat
00:45:23.69\00:45:26.05
and that Moses should tell
the people together, how much?
00:45:26.09\00:45:29.29
Twice as much on what
day, the sixth day of the week
00:45:29.32\00:45:32.86
because of the seventh day
00:45:32.89\00:45:34.50
would be the
Sabbath of the Lord.
00:45:34.53\00:45:37.73
Now when was this?
00:45:37.77\00:45:39.20
Exodus 16.
00:45:39.23\00:45:40.57
When was Exodus...
00:45:40.60\00:45:41.94
When did Ten Commandments come?
00:45:41.97\00:45:43.81
Exodus 20,
right, came afterwards.
00:45:43.84\00:45:46.47
Exodus 16:25 to
30, and Moses said,
00:45:46.51\00:45:49.71
"Eat today,
00:45:49.74\00:45:51.08
for today is the
Sabbath unto the Lord."
00:45:51.11\00:45:53.21
Verse 28, "And the
Lord said unto Moses,
00:45:53.25\00:45:55.85
how long refugee to keep
My commandments, and my laws."
00:45:55.88\00:45:59.59
Does it sound like
it's something new?
00:45:59.62\00:46:01.86
I mean, He hadn't given him yet
00:46:01.89\00:46:03.49
according to all
these other people, right?
00:46:03.53\00:46:06.70
To these people saying,
00:46:06.73\00:46:08.06
"Oh, well, the
Sabbath wasn't there.
00:46:08.10\00:46:09.83
No one kept it.
00:46:09.86\00:46:11.20
There's no record of it."
00:46:11.23\00:46:12.57
When God's to
hold you accountable
00:46:12.60\00:46:14.00
for something you can know
00:46:14.04\00:46:15.84
that He's already
told you what it is.
00:46:15.87\00:46:18.84
He doesn't sound
very happy when He says,
00:46:18.87\00:46:21.41
"How long do you
profane my Sabbath?"
00:46:21.44\00:46:25.18
See that the Lord has
given you the Sabbath,
00:46:25.21\00:46:27.45
who gave it to them?
00:46:27.48\00:46:28.95
Therefore, He gave it
to you, on the sixth day,
00:46:28.98\00:46:30.79
the bread of two days,
00:46:30.82\00:46:32.29
"Abide ye every
man in his place,
00:46:32.32\00:46:34.22
let no man go out of his
place on the seventh day."
00:46:34.26\00:46:37.03
So the people of God
rested on the seventh day.
00:46:37.06\00:46:40.60
Now there was no record
of the Sabbath commandment
00:46:40.63\00:46:43.13
written down at that point.
00:46:43.16\00:46:44.50
That may be true.
00:46:44.53\00:46:45.87
Yet God said to Moses,
00:46:45.90\00:46:47.24
"How long do you
profane my Sabbath?"
00:46:47.27\00:46:50.24
God was holding him accountable.
00:46:50.27\00:46:52.34
So obviously,
00:46:52.37\00:46:54.34
the Ten
Commandments were in effect,
00:46:54.38\00:46:56.08
they always have been,
00:46:56.11\00:46:57.45
because they're
transcript of God's character,
00:46:57.48\00:46:59.55
if we know God, we will
know the Ten Commandments.
00:46:59.58\00:47:02.68
Am I telling the truth?
00:47:02.72\00:47:06.45
I'm going to have to end here
because my time has run out.
00:47:06.49\00:47:09.72
But people will say,
when they use this logic,
00:47:09.76\00:47:14.00
"Well, it doesn't say
so, I didn't read it,"
00:47:14.03\00:47:17.00
where it said,
"Remember the Sabbath day,"
00:47:17.03\00:47:18.83
these are the
same type of people
00:47:18.87\00:47:21.00
who they will use
logic to say it's okay
00:47:21.04\00:47:23.51
to destroy your body with
drugs like opioids or heroin.
00:47:23.54\00:47:26.37
Why?
00:47:26.41\00:47:27.74
Because there's no
direct command in the Bible
00:47:27.78\00:47:29.28
regarding these drugs, right?
00:47:29.31\00:47:31.21
There's no direct
command in the Bible that says,
00:47:31.25\00:47:33.62
"I can't shoot somebody
00:47:33.65\00:47:34.98
if I'm mad at my
neighbor with my gun," right?
00:47:35.02\00:47:38.02
Well, guns
weren't invented then.
00:47:38.05\00:47:40.02
"So maybe I'm okay to
do it because it didn't say
00:47:40.06\00:47:43.16
a direct command in
the Bible doesn't tell me
00:47:43.19\00:47:45.46
not to shoot my neighbor."
00:47:45.49\00:47:47.13
Then if I'm really upset,
00:47:47.16\00:47:48.50
"There's no direct
command in the Bible that says,
00:47:48.53\00:47:50.37
I can't take my
neighbor if I'm mad at him
00:47:50.40\00:47:53.03
up in an airplane
3,000 feet and drop him off,
00:47:53.07\00:47:56.00
push him out
00:47:56.04\00:47:57.41
because there's
no direct command
00:47:57.44\00:47:58.97
in the Bible to do so,"
00:47:59.01\00:48:00.81
because there were
no airplanes back then.
00:48:00.84\00:48:03.75
By now somebody is saying,
00:48:03.78\00:48:05.11
"This guy's really
ridiculous," right?
00:48:05.15\00:48:07.55
Everyone knows this would
be a sin against the neighbor.
00:48:07.58\00:48:10.25
Why?
00:48:10.29\00:48:11.62
Because the principles
00:48:11.65\00:48:12.99
of the Ten
Commandments spell out
00:48:13.02\00:48:14.72
this is sin
against our neighbor.
00:48:14.76\00:48:16.46
So everything doesn't
have to be written down.
00:48:16.49\00:48:18.46
When you look at
the principles of God,
00:48:18.49\00:48:21.36
the Sabbath was
instituted at creation
00:48:21.40\00:48:24.73
along with marriage.
00:48:24.77\00:48:26.30
I don't have time
to go into all of that.
00:48:26.33\00:48:28.37
But the Sabbath was
instituted at creation
00:48:28.40\00:48:32.67
and all Abraham, Isaac, Jacob,
00:48:32.71\00:48:36.01
all of the people kept
God's seventh commandment.
00:48:36.04\00:48:40.28
Moses and the children of Israel
00:48:40.32\00:48:42.88
were commanded by God
to keep His commandments.
00:48:42.92\00:48:45.32
When Jesus came to
earth, He kept the commandments.
00:48:45.35\00:48:49.89
He said, "If you love Me..."
00:48:49.92\00:48:51.63
"Keep My commandments."
00:48:51.66\00:48:53.23
"If you love Me..."
00:48:53.26\00:48:54.60
"Keep My commandments."
00:48:54.63\00:48:57.07
Keep my...
00:48:57.10\00:48:58.43
Am I missing something?
Or is that really simple?
00:48:58.47\00:49:01.80
It's really simple, isn't it?
00:49:01.84\00:49:03.57
If you love Me, keep My...
00:49:03.61\00:49:04.94
I'm glad, you know,
00:49:04.97\00:49:06.31
I have to be a rocket
scientist to figure it out.
00:49:06.34\00:49:07.74
But here's what I found out.
00:49:07.78\00:49:09.28
If people are looking
for truth, they will get it.
00:49:09.31\00:49:12.51
If you're not looking
for truth, you won't get it.
00:49:12.55\00:49:15.85
I'm so thankful for some
of these musicians and writers
00:49:15.88\00:49:20.26
that I'm working with
00:49:20.29\00:49:21.72
to see the
changes in their lives
00:49:21.76\00:49:24.59
when I assigned
them Daniel revelation,
00:49:24.63\00:49:28.16
that wasn't by accident,
God prompted me to do that.
00:49:28.20\00:49:31.93
I said, "Well, if
these folks are on our team,
00:49:31.97\00:49:33.74
that's going to be a
great asset to this world."
00:49:33.77\00:49:36.54
And you know
what? It's happening.
00:49:36.57\00:49:38.34
It's absolutely happening.
00:49:38.37\00:49:40.38
So enclosing the
Ten Commandments,
00:49:40.41\00:49:42.48
all of God's Ten Commandments
are in effect today,
00:49:42.51\00:49:45.28
including the
seventh day Sabbath.
00:49:45.31\00:49:47.65
Which day is the
New Covenant Sabbath?
00:49:47.68\00:49:49.78
Saturday.
00:49:49.82\00:49:51.45
Which day is the
New Covenant Sabbath?
00:49:51.49\00:49:53.56
Saturday is the New
Covenant Sabbath of our Lord,
00:49:53.59\00:49:56.19
therefore it
remains throughout eternity.
00:49:56.22\00:49:58.13
Isaiah 66, so Jesus kept it,
00:49:58.16\00:50:01.16
after the resurrection of Jesus,
00:50:01.20\00:50:03.90
according when other folks say
00:50:03.93\00:50:05.50
that the resurrection now
00:50:05.53\00:50:07.07
we're honoring the New Covenant.
00:50:07.10\00:50:08.84
But what did the disciples keep?
00:50:08.87\00:50:10.94
Sabbath.
00:50:10.97\00:50:12.37
All right, when they wrote
their books of Matthew, Mark,
00:50:12.41\00:50:15.04
Luke, and John 40,
50, 60 years later,
00:50:15.08\00:50:17.81
was there any mention,
00:50:17.85\00:50:19.51
it should have been
a major point to say,
00:50:19.55\00:50:22.05
"I know we
always kept the Sabbath.
00:50:22.08\00:50:24.32
But since Christ died,
00:50:24.35\00:50:25.79
you got to keep the
first day of the week Sunday,"
00:50:25.82\00:50:27.66
didn't happen, did it?
00:50:27.69\00:50:29.12
They didn't do it
because they kept the Sabbath.
00:50:29.16\00:50:33.16
Now they kept it.
00:50:33.19\00:50:34.53
And we're told in Isaiah 66,
00:50:34.56\00:50:36.63
that we will keep the
Sabbath throughout eternity.
00:50:36.67\00:50:40.00
Sunday is the
first day of the week.
00:50:40.04\00:50:41.60
Saturday is the seventh day.
00:50:41.64\00:50:43.47
And yet Protestants,
mostly evangelicals,
00:50:43.51\00:50:46.84
have set it aside
for hundreds of years.
00:50:46.88\00:50:49.81
And they still
want to use the Bible
00:50:49.84\00:50:53.11
to say, "This is why we do it."
00:50:53.15\00:50:55.12
But the truth is
00:50:55.15\00:50:56.48
and this is
another whole sermon.
00:50:56.52\00:50:58.09
In fact, we have a book,
00:50:58.12\00:50:59.45
so those of you
watching today around the world,
00:50:59.49\00:51:01.16
if you want a book we have one,
00:51:01.19\00:51:02.72
Shelly Quinn and I wrote
00:51:02.76\00:51:04.09
called Ten
Commandments Twice Removed.
00:51:04.13\00:51:05.93
We have one called
Spiritual Vigilantes,
00:51:05.96\00:51:07.73
we'll give it to
you free if you want it,
00:51:07.76\00:51:10.27
and you will read it.
00:51:10.30\00:51:12.23
We want you to have the truth.
00:51:12.27\00:51:13.80
But the reason that
people go to church on Sunday,
00:51:13.84\00:51:18.11
the Protestants...
00:51:18.14\00:51:19.47
Do you know what the
word Protestant means,
00:51:19.51\00:51:21.54
means to protest.
00:51:21.58\00:51:22.91
What are you protesting?
00:51:22.94\00:51:24.95
Catholicism. That's when...
00:51:24.98\00:51:28.15
give you a history
lesson, because you all know,
00:51:28.18\00:51:29.85
but to discovery of
America and they say,
00:51:29.88\00:51:32.05
forgive me, American Indians.
00:51:32.09\00:51:33.76
But when I'm talking about...
00:51:33.79\00:51:35.12
when people came across,
00:51:35.16\00:51:36.49
so we know it wasn't discovered.
00:51:36.52\00:51:37.86
There were people here,
00:51:37.89\00:51:39.23
but they fled
persecution, right?
00:51:39.26\00:51:41.10
They fled persecution,
they came here to this land,
00:51:41.13\00:51:44.77
and that's how the...
00:51:44.80\00:51:46.53
In America, we began to see
religious freedom coming up.
00:51:46.57\00:51:49.87
Now people want to say,
00:51:49.90\00:51:51.94
"Well, we're doing
this because of the Bible."
00:51:51.97\00:51:54.34
But here's what I respect
about the Catholic Church,
00:51:54.38\00:51:57.58
the Catholic Church says,
00:51:57.61\00:52:00.08
"There is no biblical reason
00:52:00.12\00:52:01.82
for anybody to
keep Sunday holy."
00:52:01.85\00:52:04.95
The Catholic Church
says that. I got to...
00:52:04.99\00:52:07.29
I have to respect them,
00:52:07.32\00:52:08.66
and that they're
straight up front
00:52:08.69\00:52:10.23
and tell the truth.
00:52:10.26\00:52:11.59
They're not
saying, "Well, I think
00:52:11.63\00:52:12.96
this Scripture means this.
00:52:12.99\00:52:14.33
Well, maybe this
scripture justifies
00:52:14.36\00:52:16.03
doing with the Sabbath
and this one's telling..."
00:52:16.06\00:52:18.20
The Catholic Church
says, "We change the Sabbath,
00:52:18.23\00:52:20.84
we have the authority to do so,
00:52:20.87\00:52:22.80
that's the mark
of our authority."
00:52:22.84\00:52:24.64
We have the
information, you write to 3ABN,
00:52:24.67\00:52:27.08
there's numbers of
books and literature,
00:52:27.11\00:52:28.64
we can give you
00:52:28.68\00:52:30.01
that we're not
talking bad about people,
00:52:30.05\00:52:31.55
that I'm sure
there are going to be
00:52:31.58\00:52:33.11
many Catholics in heaven.
00:52:33.15\00:52:34.48
Praise God for that.
00:52:34.52\00:52:35.88
I'm thankful for that.
00:52:35.92\00:52:37.75
But the truth is, today,
00:52:37.79\00:52:41.32
we have to live up to
all the light that we have.
00:52:41.36\00:52:43.86
We are responsible to
tell our friends and neighbors
00:52:43.89\00:52:46.36
what's going to be
happening in the near future
00:52:46.39\00:52:48.73
is Satan is trying
to take their life,
00:52:48.76\00:52:50.77
trying to keep us from
making heaven our home.
00:52:50.80\00:52:55.24
So the Catholic Church says
00:52:55.27\00:52:57.67
Sunday, the
first day of the week,
00:52:57.71\00:53:00.84
is our day.
00:53:00.88\00:53:02.41
We set it aside,
00:53:02.44\00:53:04.41
any Protestants
who claim to keep
00:53:04.45\00:53:08.48
Sunday from the Bible,
00:53:08.52\00:53:13.22
there's no
biblical reference for it.
00:53:13.25\00:53:15.52
And they actually say
00:53:15.56\00:53:16.89
in one of the
statements we have,
00:53:16.93\00:53:18.26
they ought to be something like,
00:53:18.29\00:53:20.70
they ought to become
Seventh-day Adventists
00:53:20.73\00:53:22.76
if you're going
to go by the Bible
00:53:22.80\00:53:24.13
and the Bible only.
00:53:24.17\00:53:26.30
I could go on. I've
gone too long right now.
00:53:26.33\00:53:28.27
And I've realized that
our time is running out.
00:53:28.30\00:53:30.64
And I just want to...
00:53:30.67\00:53:32.01
Today, hopefully,
00:53:32.04\00:53:33.78
what I've given
it's all jumbled up to me
00:53:33.81\00:53:36.21
and maybe to you too,
but I'm asking that you pray
00:53:36.24\00:53:38.48
and ask the Holy Spirit
because here's what I found,
00:53:38.51\00:53:41.02
no matter what I
say, no matter what I do,
00:53:41.05\00:53:46.29
I've asked God,
00:53:46.32\00:53:47.66
"You take these words
00:53:47.69\00:53:50.63
and You let them go to the ears
of those who need to hear it.
00:53:50.66\00:53:53.66
But let them hear Your words."
00:53:53.70\00:53:56.50
So sometimes, the only
reason I have confidence
00:53:56.53\00:53:58.77
to get up and speak
at all, I walk away,
00:53:58.80\00:54:01.10
shaking my head and saying,
00:54:01.14\00:54:02.47
"I don't think
it made any sense."
00:54:02.50\00:54:05.14
People will come up and say,
"That's exactly what I needed."
00:54:05.17\00:54:08.04
And I'd say, "Thank you, Lord,
00:54:08.08\00:54:09.41
because I knew
it wasn't my words.
00:54:09.44\00:54:11.05
God did answer the
prayer that I ask Him to."
00:54:11.08\00:54:15.62
I'm going to do something a
little different here today.
00:54:15.65\00:54:18.95
I'm going to take
just a little bit of time,
00:54:18.99\00:54:20.36
I'm going to ask Yvonne
to come out and sing a song
00:54:20.39\00:54:24.49
and Tim is going to be playing.
00:54:24.53\00:54:26.26
And I want
Yvonne to, as she sings,
00:54:26.29\00:54:30.07
I want us to really
think about our life
00:54:30.10\00:54:31.80
and our relationship with Jesus.
00:54:31.83\00:54:33.94
We have a mountain of truth,
folks, and we're sitting on it,
00:54:33.97\00:54:38.61
we're sitting on it.
00:54:38.64\00:54:40.61
Now is not the
time to be sitting.
00:54:40.64\00:54:42.18
Now is the time to be going.
00:54:42.21\00:54:44.41
"Go ye into all the world."
00:54:44.45\00:54:46.01
So I'm going to ask
today, that as Yvonne sings,
00:54:46.05\00:54:50.32
you think about your own life
00:54:50.35\00:54:51.69
and your own relationship
with the Lord Jesus Christ.
00:54:51.72\00:54:54.99
Yvonne.
00:54:55.02\00:54:56.36
The Savior is waiting
00:55:04.93\00:55:10.91
To enter your heart
00:55:10.94\00:55:16.78
Why would you let Him
00:55:16.81\00:55:21.78
Come in?
00:55:21.82\00:55:25.75
There's nothing in this world
00:55:25.79\00:55:30.69
To keep you apart
00:55:30.73\00:55:36.26
What is your answer
00:55:36.30\00:55:41.80
To Him?
00:55:41.84\00:55:47.64
Time after time
00:55:47.68\00:55:52.28
He has waited before
00:55:52.31\00:55:57.95
And now He is waiting
00:55:57.99\00:56:03.06
Again
00:56:03.09\00:56:08.33
To see if you're willing
00:56:08.36\00:56:13.97
To open the door
00:56:14.00\00:56:19.77
Oh, how He wants
00:56:19.81\00:56:24.85
To come in
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If you'll take one step
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Toward the Savior
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My friend
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You'll find His arms
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Open wide
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Receive Him and your hate
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Will end
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Within your heart
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He'll abide
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Time after time
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He has waited before
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And now He is waiting
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Again
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To see if you're willing
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To open
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The door
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Oh, how He wants to come
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Oh, how He wants to come
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Oh, how Jesus
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Wants to come
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In
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Amen.
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