LAW, I CAME TO MAGNIFY THE LAW. ¤ 00:01:25.21\00:01:30.02 >> I LIKE TO FOCUS ON THE THIRD COMMANDMENT. 00:01:44.63\00:01:51.71 THE LORD THY GOD IN VAIN. THE GLORY OF GOD'S NAME IS THE 00:01:51.71\00:01:56.85 MOST SACRED TRUST AND HE HAS GIVEN THAT TRUST TO US. 00:01:56.85\00:02:06.32 >> YOU'RE STUDYING THE FOURTH COMMANDMENT, WHEN WE'RE 00:02:06.32\00:02:09.12 CONSIDERING THE IMPORTANCE AND COMMANDMENT, YOU CANNOT SEPARATE 00:02:09.12\00:02:19.40 THE CREATOR FROM THE SABBATH. 00:02:19.40\00:02:21.14 >> WELCOME TO 3ABN SPRING CAMP MEETING 2019. 00:02:25.27\00:02:29.84 A GREAT BLESSING SO FAR. THE LORD HAS RICH BLESSING IN 00:02:29.84\00:02:38.32 STORE FOR YOU. THE THEME IS LAW OF LOVE AND 00:02:38.32\00:02:45.79 LIBERTY. PASTOR DAVID SHIN WILL BE 00:02:45.79\00:02:51.63 IT'S ENTITLED "A DAY OF CELEBRATION COMMANDMENT" IT'S 00:02:51.63\00:02:56.27 BASED ON THE FOURTH COMMANDMENT. HE'S A GRADUATE OF THE SEVENTH 00:02:56.27\00:03:06.28 DAY ADVENTIST THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY AND HAS WHAT LOVE FOR 00:03:06.28\00:03:09.75 SHARING THE GOSPEL TO PUBLIC UNIVERSITY STUDENTS IN A 00:03:09.75\00:03:13.59 MEANINGFUL WAY. DAVID SHIN IS HE IS A DEEP 00:03:13.59\00:03:20.96 THINKER. THINKER. 00:03:20.96\00:03:29.27 SO I CAN TAKE NOTES AND REFLECT ON THE MESSAGE LATER. 00:03:29.27\00:03:32.34 I ADVISE YOU PULL OUT A PEN AND A PIECE OF PAPER AND TAKE SOME 00:03:32.34\00:03:36.98 NOTES. SONG, WHEN HIS SONG WILL BE 00:03:36.98\00:03:44.19 "COME TO JESUS" NEXT VOICE WILL BE THAT OF PASTOR DAVID SHIN. 00:03:44.19\00:03:51.26 ¤ 00:03:51.26\00:03:51.93 >> David: AMEN. THANK YOU FOR THAT BEAUTIFUL 00:07:53.64\00:07:59.14 SONG. HAVE YOU BEEN ENJOYING 3ABN CAMP 00:07:59.14\00:08:03.91 MEETING? THE LAW OF LIBERTY AND LOVE AND 00:08:03.91\00:08:12.09 I WAS SITTING IN THE BANG LISTENING TO THE SERMON BY 00:08:12.09\00:08:15.79 PASTOR RYAN DAY. PRAISE THE LORD FOR THE SABBATH. 00:08:15.79\00:08:19.23 WHAT A BLESSING IT IS THAT WE HAVE AS A COMMUNITY OF FAITH TO 00:08:19.23\00:08:23.00 GATHER TOGETHER AND WORSHIP THE LORD IN SPIRIT AND TRUTH. 00:08:23.00\00:08:25.90 OUR TOPIC THIS MORNING IS ON THE EXPERIENCE OF THE SABBATH. 00:08:25.90\00:08:31.64 I INVITE YOU TO BOW YOUR HEADS WITH ME. 00:08:31.64\00:08:36.41 OUR FATHER IN HEAVEN, LORD, WE THANK YOU FOR THE WORDS OF THAT 00:08:36.41\00:08:41.52 SONG. OUR HEARTS ARE FILLED WITH JOY 00:08:41.52\00:08:49.09 AND APPRECIATION FOR WHAT YOU THE LOVE OF GOD, WE WANT TO MAKE 00:08:49.09\00:08:56.10 YOU LORD OF OUR LIVES. AS WE PAUSE FORKER OUR FEW 00:08:56.10\00:09:02.97 MOM-- FOR AFEW MINUTES WE PRAY THAT YOU BLESS US. 00:09:02.97\00:09:15.55 MAY JESUS BE UPLIFTED, CHRIST BE SEEN. 00:09:15.55\00:09:19.32 MAY THE HOLY SPIRIT APPLY THE TRUTHS SPECIFICALLY TO OUR 00:09:19.32\00:09:23.26 HEARTS THAT WE NEED. WE ASK THESE THINGS IN THE 00:09:23.26\00:09:26.90 PRECIOUS NAME OF JESUS. AMEN. 00:09:26.90\00:09:34.47 PHOTOGRAPH OF A SCULPTURE THAT WAS CRAFTED BY ARGUABLY ONE OF 00:09:34.47\00:09:40.18 THE GREATEST ARTIST IN HISTORY, MICHAEL ANGELO. 00:09:40.18\00:09:52.22 RESIDES IN THE ST. PETER BASILICA IN ROME. 00:09:52.22\00:09:57.63 ITALIAN RENAISSANCE. MASTERPIECE. 00:09:57.63\00:10:09.50 SCULPTURE, IT IS SAID THAT HE OVERHEARD ANOTHER GENTLEMAN THAT 00:10:09.50\00:10:19.95 HIS ADMIRATION, ATTRIBUTED MICHAEL ANGELO'S MASTERPIECE TO 00:10:19.95\00:10:28.16 ANOTHER RIVAL ARTIST. AS YOU CAN IMAGINE, THIS DID NOT 00:10:28.16\00:10:34.10 SIT WELL WITH MICHAEL ANGELO. THEY SAID, I'M GOING TO DO 00:10:34.10\00:10:38.47 SOMETHING ABOUT THAT. NO ONE EVER HAS A 00:10:38.47\00:10:42.77 MISUNDERSTANDING ABOUT THE STATUE. 00:10:42.77\00:10:51.11 HIS CHISEL AND HE CHISELED AWAY. NEXT PICTURE HERE OF WHAT HE 00:10:51.11\00:10:56.45 CHISELED ON THE SASH OF THIS STATUE. 00:10:56.45\00:11:06.43 IT SAID, MICHAEL ANGELO MADE IT. THIS IS THE ONLY STATUE THAT HE 00:11:06.43\00:11:20.38 EVER SIGNED. IT IRKED HIM SO MUCH THAT HIS 00:11:20.38\00:11:24.61 STATUE, HIS MASTERPIECE WAS ATTRIBUTED TO ANOTHER ARTIST. 00:11:24.61\00:11:28.28 HE WENT BACK WITH A CHISEL. HE SAID, MICHAEL ANGELO MADE IT. 00:11:28.28\00:11:39.26 WHEN AN ARTIST COMPLETES SOMETHING, MANY TIMES THEY SIGN 00:11:39.26\00:11:45.37 IT. ME IN YOUR BIBLES TO THE 00:11:45.37\00:11:49.67 BEGINNING OF THE BIBLE, GENESIS 2:1-3. 00:11:49.67\00:11:58.28 TALK ABOUT GOD'S SIGNATURE AFTER GOD CREATES THE EARTH IN SIX 00:11:58.28\00:12:07.52 CONSECUTIVE DAYS. SIX LITERAL CONTIGUOUS, 24-HOUR 00:12:07.52\00:12:15.00 PERIODS LIKE WE EXPERIENCE TODAY. 00:12:15.00\00:12:18.90 IN OUR OWN COMMUNITY OF FAITH THAT ARE DOUBTING THE LITERAL 00:12:18.90\00:12:24.81 NATURE OF GENESIS 1 AND 2. THEY SAY, WE CAN'T TAKE GENESIS 00:12:24.81\00:12:30.35 LITERALLY. PREHISTORIC MINDS UNDERSTAND THE 00:12:30.35\00:12:36.62 NATURE OF CREATION. THEY DIDN'T UNDERSTAND MODERN 00:12:36.62\00:12:40.09 SCIENCE AND BIOLOGY LIKE THEY DO TODAY. 00:12:40.09\00:12:45.09 DIFFERENT ONE WHEN IT COMES TO GENESIS 1. 00:12:45.09\00:12:49.13 IF YOU UNDERSTAND ANYTHING ABOUT HEBREW, THERE'S ONLY WAY TO 00:12:49.13\00:12:55.14 UNDERSTAND GENESIS 1. THAT IS LITERALLY. 00:12:55.14\00:12:58.21 THESE ARE 24-HOUR PERIOD. NOT BILLIONS OF YEARS. 00:12:58.21\00:13:03.68 WE ARE SEVENTH DAY ADVENTISTS. IN OTHER WORDS, WE BELIEVE THAT 00:13:03.68\00:13:07.65 SOMETHING HAPPENED ON THE SEVENTH DAY THAT WAS A MEMORIAL 00:13:07.65\00:13:11.45 OF THE PREVIOUS SIX DAYS. I HAVE A PASSION AND BURDEN 00:13:11.45\00:13:15.99 ABOUT THIS BECAUSE I WAS SITTING WITH AN INDIVIDUAL, YOU'RE 00:13:15.99\00:13:19.13 SAYING, GENESIS 1 CANNOT BE TAKEN L LITERALLY. 00:13:19.13\00:13:24.63 I SAID, FRIEND, WHY DO WE KEEP THE SABBATH? 00:13:24.63\00:13:32.41 DOESN'T MAKE ANY SENSE. WHY DO WE KEEP THE SABBATH EVERY 00:13:32.41\00:13:38.91 SEVEN DAYS? IT'S A PREVIOUS SIX WERE 00:13:38.91\00:13:42.88 BILLIONS OF YEARS. IT WOULD MAKE MORE SENSE TO KEEP 00:13:42.88\00:13:49.46 THE SABBATH AS A MEMORIAL ONCE EVERY 70. 00:13:49.46\00:13:55.30 IF YOU WILL DO IT, IT KEEP THE SABBATH EVERY SEVEN DAYS, 00:13:55.30\00:14:01.74 THERE'S NO REASON TO BE A SEVENTH DAY ADVENTIST IF YOU 00:14:01.74\00:14:06.74 DON'T BELIEVE THAT GENESIS 1 IS LITERAL. 00:14:06.74\00:14:12.75 SOME PEOPLE HAVE TRIED TO MELD DARWINIAN EVOLUTION WITH THE 00:14:12.75\00:14:23.49 BIBLE. EVEN THE ATHEIST WILL TELL YOU 00:14:23.49\00:14:29.50 THAT. ABOUT THIS BECAUSE OUR 00:14:29.50\00:14:33.54 FOUNDATIONAL PILLARS ARE UNDER ATTACK TODAY. 00:14:33.54\00:14:39.01 SOMETHING AS FUNDAMENTAL AND FOUNDATIONAL, SEVENTH DAY 00:14:39.01\00:14:44.71 ADVENTIST IS UNDERMINED EVEN IN OUR INSTITUTIONS. 00:14:44.71\00:14:53.49 GENESIS 2. THE SEVENTH DAY, GOD ENDED HIS 00:14:53.49\00:14:59.86 WORK WHICH HE HAD DONE. HE RESTED ON THE SEVENTH DAY 00:14:59.86\00:15:03.30 FROM ALL HIS WORK WHICH HE HAD DONE AND THEN BLESSED THE 00:15:03.30\00:15:08.14 SEVENTH DAY AND SANC SANCTITIED IT. GOD IN SIX DAYS CREATES A 00:15:08.14\00:15:23.22 MASTERPIECE. HE FORMS IT IN SIX DAYS. 00:15:23.22\00:15:34.40 AS GOD LOOKS BACK ON HIS MASTERPIECE, HE SAYS, YOU KNOW 00:15:34.40\00:15:43.37 WHAT I'M GOING TO SIGN IT. I'M GOING TO SIGN THIS 00:15:43.37\00:15:49.24 MASTERPIECE JUST LIKE MICHAEL ANGELO SIGNS HIS. 00:15:49.24\00:15:56.35 MISUNDERSTANDING AS TO WHO THE CREATOR IS. 00:15:56.35\00:16:08.36 MARVELOUS CREATION THAT HE FORMED. 00:16:08.36\00:16:14.64 PLACE. LOCATION, I'M GOING TO SANE IT 00:16:14.64\00:16:21.44 IN -- SIGN IT IN TIME. PRAISE GOD. 00:16:21.44\00:16:28.15 CAN YOU IMAGINE EVERY SEVEN DAYS IMAGINE IF IT'S JERUSALEM, WE 00:16:28.15\00:16:34.36 BE IN THAT HOLY PLACE. GOD SAID I'M GOING TO SIGN IT IN 00:16:34.36\00:16:42.73 TIME. I HAVE IN ALASKA. 00:16:42.73\00:16:59.91 SOMEBODY IN THE BACK SAID PASTOR, IS IT WARM THERE? 00:16:59.91\00:17:03.92 PEOPLE THRILL ALASKA IS AN ICEBOX. 00:17:03.92\00:17:09.69 IT IS COLD, I MOVED FROM MICHIGAN. 00:17:09.69\00:17:13.73 THAN IN MICHIGAN. BEAUTIFUL PLACE. 00:17:13.73\00:17:21.97 PARADISE. LITTLE BIT JET LAG HERE. 00:17:21.97\00:17:27.38 IT DOESN'T MATTER IF YOU LIVE IN AN ANCHORAGE, ALASKA OR RUSSIA, 00:17:27.38\00:17:37.15 THIS HOLY WAVE THAT GOD INSTITUTED COMES OVER YOU EVERY 00:17:37.15\00:17:42.76 SEVEN DAYS, A TEMPLE IN TIME WHICH IS A MEMORIAL OF THE 00:17:42.76\00:17:50.83 CREATION. TIME THIS EVENING. 00:17:50.83\00:17:54.74 THAT HOLY WAVE COMES OVER US AND GOD SIGNED IT IN TIME. 00:17:54.74\00:18:01.84 HIS OWN SIGNATURE. HE BLESSED IT, HE RESTED AND HE 00:18:01.84\00:18:07.38 SANCTIFIED IT WHEN YOU LOOK AT IT IN THE HEBREW, GENESIS 2, 2 00:18:07.38\00:18:14.69 AND 3 ON THE SEVENTH DAY GOD FINISHED HIS WORK WHICH HE HAD 00:18:14.69\00:18:19.09 DONE, SEVENTH WORD IN THE HEBREW. 00:18:19.09\00:18:22.76 FROM ALL HIS WORK WHICH HE HAD DONE. 00:18:22.76\00:18:27.94 GOD BLESSED THE SEVENTH DAY AND MADE IT HOLY. 00:18:27.94\00:18:32.91 SEVEN WORDS IN THE HEBREW. DO YOU THINK GOD IS TRYING TO 00:18:32.91\00:18:35.88 MAKE A POINT HERE? SEVEN WORDS IN THE HEBREW. 00:18:35.88\00:18:45.62 WHEN YOU LOOK AT THIS LITERARY STRUCTURE OF THE CREATION STORY, 00:18:45.62\00:18:51.69 YOU HAVE DAY ONE, DAY TWO, DAY THREE, DAY FOUR, FIVE, SIX. 00:18:51.69\00:18:57.73 WHEN IT COMES TO THE SEVENTH DAY IN GENESIS 2, IT SAYS THE 00:18:57.73\00:19:05.01 SEVENTH DAY. ALL THE OTHER DAYS ARE MENTIONED 00:19:05.01\00:19:13.08 ONCE. IN THE HEBREW MIND WHEN THEY 00:19:13.08\00:19:20.66 WANTED TO EMPHASIZE SOMETHING BEING IMPORTANT, THEY WOULD 00:19:20.66\00:19:23.39 REPEAT IT TWICE. HERE THE SEVENTH DAY IS 00:19:23.39\00:19:30.57 EMPHASIZED THREE TIMES. THE ONLY DAY THAT IS REPEATED IS 00:19:30.57\00:19:35.40 REPEATED NOT TWICE BUT THREE TIMES. 00:19:35.40\00:19:41.58 THIS IDEA AND THIS NOTION THAT THE SEVENTH DAY IS COMMON IS 00:19:41.58\00:19:49.65 IRRATIONAL FROM A BIBLICAL GOD SAYING, THERE'S SOMETHING 00:19:49.65\00:19:53.32 UNIQUE ABOUT THE SEVENTH DAY. IT IS DIFFERENT THAN ALL OF THE 00:19:53.32\00:19:59.39 OTHER DAYS IT BY THE WAY, AS WAS ILLUSTRATED IN OUR PREVIOUS 00:19:59.39\00:20:04.27 PRESENTATION, THIS DAY WAS NOT INSTITUTED FOR THE JEWS ALONE. 00:20:04.27\00:20:09.17 ADAM AND EVE, I HAVE NEWS FOR YOU FRIENDS, WE'RE NOT JEWS. 00:20:09.17\00:20:14.71 CONTRARY TO POPULAR OPINION, THE JEWS CAME A LOT LATER. 00:20:14.71\00:20:20.95 HUNDREDS OF YEARS LATER. I DON'T KNOW WHAT THEY WERE. 00:20:20.95\00:20:24.15 THEY WERE THE ORIGINAL. THE REAL THING. 00:20:24.15\00:20:37.03 HERE THEY ARE IN CREATION. WITNESSING ANY OF GOD'S 00:20:37.03\00:20:43.71 CREATION. ADAM DIDN'T EVEN SEE GOD CREATE 00:20:43.71\00:20:48.71 EVE. THEY JUST WOKE UP AND IT WAS 00:20:48.71\00:20:55.42 THERE THEY HAD TO BELIEVE GOD'S WORD. 00:20:55.42\00:21:01.36 WORDED. OKAY. 00:21:01.36\00:21:13.17 IT'S FAITH. CREATED ALL THIS. 00:21:13.17\00:21:18.17 OKAY. WHAT WERE THEY RESTING FROM? 00:21:18.17\00:21:28.05 THEY HAVEN'T DONE A THING. THEY WERE RESTING IN HIS WORK. 00:21:28.05\00:21:36.96 COME ON NOW. BY THE WAY, WHEN YOU REST ON THE 00:21:36.96\00:21:42.83 SEVENTH DAY, YOU'RE RESTING IN HIS WORK. 00:21:42.83\00:21:47.20 SOME PEOPLE SAY THAT THE SEVENTH DAY SABBATH IS LEGALISM. 00:21:47.20\00:21:51.47 THAT'S CONTRARY. RIGHTEOUSNESS. 00:21:51.47\00:22:03.02 REST IN GOD. EXODUS 20:8-11. 00:22:03.02\00:22:13.43 ONLY COMMANDMENT THAT BEGINS THE ONE EVERYONE TELLING US TO 00:22:13.43\00:22:17.47 FORGET. IT'S SO COUNTERINTUITIVE 00:22:17.47\00:22:23.07 FRIENDS. GENESIS 2, GOD MAKES IT HOLY. 00:22:23.07\00:22:30.21 IN EXODUS, WE ARE TO KEEP IT HOLY. 00:22:30.21\00:22:37.19 ALL YOUR WORKS BUT SABBATH DAY IS THE SABBATH AND LORD YOUR GOD 00:22:37.19\00:22:42.12 IN. AND SEA AND ALL THAT IS IN THEM 00:22:42.12\00:22:46.63 AND RESTED THE SABBATH DAY. THEREFORE THE LORD BLESSED THE 00:22:46.63\00:22:50.60 SABBATH DAY AND MADE IT HOLY. KEY OBSERVATIONS I WANT TO MAKE 00:22:50.60\00:22:55.94 HERE. ACCORDING THESE VERSUS, YOU 00:22:55.94\00:23:02.71 DON'T WORK. THAT'S HOW YOU KEEP A DAY HOLY. 00:23:02.71\00:23:06.78 YOU DON'T WORK. YOU REST FROM SECULAR LABOR. 00:23:06.78\00:23:10.02 SOME PEOPLE SAY, PASTOR, I KEEP EVERY DAY HOLY. 00:23:10.02\00:23:15.66 WE ARE LIVE HOLY LIVES BY THE GRACE OF GOD. 00:23:15.66\00:23:18.13 IN ORDER TO KEEP A DAY HOLY, NEED TO REST FROM YOUR SECULAR 00:23:18.13\00:23:24.07 LABOR. INDUSTRIOUS AND WE ARE TO WORK. 00:23:24.07\00:23:34.91 A STORY ABOUT A MAN TAKEN TO CONCENTRATION CAMP, COMMUNIST 00:23:34.91\00:23:42.65 RUSSIA, SABBATH KEEPER . THEY DAYS. 00:23:42.65\00:23:50.86 NIGHT, SUN DOWN SATURDAY EVENING, I'M NOT WORKING. 00:23:50.86\00:23:55.16 THEY TOOK HIM PUTT HIM IN A HOLE IN THE GROUND. 00:23:55.16\00:24:01.47 THE NEXT MONTH. HE PERSISTED IN HIS STAND FOR 00:24:01.47\00:24:05.37 THE SABBATH. FINALLY, HE HAD A CONVERSATION 00:24:05.37\00:24:07.68 WITH THE HEAD OF THAT CONCENTRATION CAMP. 00:24:07.68\00:24:12.91 HEAD OF THAT CAMP SAID, IF YOU CAN GET ALL YOUR WORK DONE IN 00:24:12.91\00:24:16.72 SIX DAYS, YOU CAN REST ON THE SEVENTH. 00:24:16.72\00:24:21.32 THE MAN SAID GREAT, YOU ARE TO PROVIDE WATER FOR THE ENTIRE 00:24:21.32\00:24:26.80 CAMP. OX IS TO HAUL WATER FROM THE 00:24:26.80\00:24:33.10 RIVER BACK AND FORTH. THEY SAID THAT'S A DEAL. 00:24:33.10\00:24:36.81 DAY ONE HE GETS OUT THERE, THIS OX IS SO SLOW. 00:24:36.81\00:24:46.41 LIKE A SNAIL. GET THIS DONE. 00:24:46.41\00:24:50.59 HE GOES DOWN TO THE RIVER, COME BACK, I DON'T KNOW HOW MANY 00:24:50.59\00:24:57.83 HE SAY NO WAY. DAY SIX SOMETHING HAPPENED. 00:24:57.83\00:25:03.90 THAT OX GOT UP THAT MORNING INFUSED WITH ENERGY. 00:25:03.90\00:25:10.77 HE SAID THERE'S SOMETHING WRONG THIS OX. 00:25:10.77\00:25:16.01 RIVER BACK AND FORTH. NOT ONLY DID HE BRING WATER FOR 00:25:16.01\00:25:19.11 THAT DAY BUT HE BROUGHT WATER FOR THE NEXT DAY. 00:25:19.11\00:25:22.75 WHICH WAS THE SABBATH. PRAISE GOD. 00:25:22.75\00:25:28.49 THAT MAN SAID I DON'T KNOW HE HAD THE SABBATH OFF. 00:25:28.49\00:25:33.73 MAYBE IT WAS A FLUKE. ON DAY SIX THAT OX GOT UP, BOLT 00:25:33.73\00:25:41.77 OF ENERGY. LIKE LIGHTNING WENT DOWN TO THAT 00:25:41.77\00:25:44.27 RIVER AND FOR THE ENTIRE TIME THAT MAN WAS IN THAT 00:25:44.27\00:25:49.11 CONCENTRATION CAMP, THAT OX HELPED HIM TO KEEP THE SABBATH 00:25:49.11\00:25:54.45 HOLY. AMEN. 00:25:54.45\00:25:57.72 [APPLAUSE] I GET NO ROYALTIES IT'S CALLED 00:25:57.72\00:26:07.03 "MIRACLE OF THE SEVENTH DAY OX" WOW. 00:26:07.03\00:26:16.40 HE WANTS TO SPEND THAT TIME WITH YOU ON THE SABBATH. 00:26:16.40\00:26:21.54 OUR TOPIC TODAY IS SPECIFICALLY ON THE EXPERIENCE OF THE 00:26:21.54\00:26:31.72 SABBATH. VERY GOOD AT SHOWING WHICH DAY 00:26:31.72\00:26:36.62 IS THE RIGHT DAY. PRAISE THE LORD FOR THAT. 00:26:36.62\00:26:41.96 APOLOGETIC PERSUASIVE RESPONSE TO WHICH DAY IS THE SABBATH. 00:26:41.96\00:26:47.44 WE SHOULD DO THAT. I'M NOT SAYING WE SHOULD NOT DO 00:26:47.44\00:26:50.67 THAT, WHEN IT COMES DOWN TO THE EXPERIENCE OF THE SABBATH, MANY 00:26:50.67\00:26:54.68 TIMES IT'S FRAMED IN THIS PARADIGM OF PROHIBITION. 00:26:54.68\00:27:04.55 YOU CAN'T, YOU SHOULDN'T, YOU WON'T. 00:27:04.55\00:27:11.16 ANYTHING THAT YOU WANT. THERE ARE CERTAIN THINGS THAT 00:27:11.16\00:27:14.13 ARE INAPPROPRIATE TO DO ON THE SABBATH. 00:27:14.13\00:27:19.80 I'M TALKING ABOUT THE FRAME OF THE SABBATH. 00:27:19.80\00:27:23.91 MYSELF. I'M A THIRD GENERATION SEVENTH 00:27:23.91\00:27:29.18 DAY ADVENTIST. BLESSING, AMEN. 00:27:29.18\00:27:43.96 NEAR WASHINGTON ADVENTIST UNIVERSITY. 00:27:43.96\00:27:51.20 THEN WE MOVED FROM THERE WHICH WAS ONE ADVENTIST HUB TO ANOTHER 00:27:51.20\00:27:57.14 ADVENTIST HUB NEAR THE GENERAL MARYLAND. 00:27:57.14\00:28:04.35 HAGERSTOWN, MARYLAND. YOU'RE IN THESE ADVENTIST 00:28:04.35\00:28:30.64 COMMUNITIES, THERE'S SOMETHING KID, I LOOKED AT THE SABBATH 00:28:30.64\00:28:37.85 WITH DREAD. NIGHT TO SATURDAY NIGHT. 00:28:37.85\00:28:45.55 I REMEMBER ONE EVENING IN PARTICULAR WE WERE ALL THERE. 00:28:45.55\00:28:50.93 I KNEW WHAT TIME SUN DOWN WAS. WE PUT OUR TIMERS ON WHAT TIME 00:28:50.93\00:28:57.37 SUN DOWN WOULD BE. IT WAS A COUNTDOWN. 00:28:57.37\00:29:02.27 JUST TELLING YOU MY EXPERIENCE. AS OUR TIMERS WERE AT 10, MY 00:29:02.27\00:29:10.08 FRIENDS AND I IN UNISON SAID 10, 9, 8, 7, 6, 5, 4, 3, 2, 1, WE 00:29:10.08\00:29:26.16 ERUPTED IN CHEER. THAT MEANT WE CAN TURN ON THE 00:29:26.16\00:29:29.36 TELEVISION. I'M ASHAMED OF IT. 00:29:29.36\00:29:33.67 WE'RE LIKE WOW, THE SABBATH IS OVER. 00:29:33.67\00:29:43.58 MINUTES. EXPERIENCE THE SABBATH. 00:29:43.58\00:29:47.95 YOU FOLLOWING ME HERE? THE SABBATH WAS FRAME IN THIS 00:29:47.95\00:29:53.22 NEGATIVE POSTURE. AS A YOUNG PERSON, IT FELT 00:29:53.22\00:29:57.29 ETERNAL. RESTRICTIONS PROHIBITION, 00:29:57.29\00:30:04.03 MISERY, DREAD, A DRUDGERY WE HAVE TO WORK OUR WAY THROUGH AND 00:30:04.03\00:30:08.77 THEN WHEN THE CLOCK TICKS SUN DOWN, PARTY. 00:30:08.77\00:30:18.71 EXPERIENCE. SOMETIMES BEING BORN INTO THIS 00:30:18.71\00:30:22.55 CHURCH BECAUSE YOU DON'T APPRECIATE WHAT YOU'RE BORN 00:30:22.55\00:30:26.29 INTO. THERE'S TWO PITFALLS THAT WE CAN 00:30:26.29\00:30:33.86 FALL INTO IN REGARDS TO OUR SABBATH EXPERIENCE. 00:30:33.86\00:30:42.60 DRUDGERY. THE SABBATH IS LIKE PRISON TIME. 00:30:42.60\00:30:48.78 SUN DOWN TO SUN DOWN. IT'S FRAMED IN THIS NEGATIVE 00:30:48.78\00:30:54.32 PROHIBITIVE CONTEXT THAT TOUGH TO ENDURE FOR 24 HOURS. 00:30:54.32\00:30:58.62 THAT'S ONE PITFALL. THE OTHER PITFALL IS ON THIS 00:30:58.62\00:31:04.36 SIDE. COMMON. 00:31:04.36\00:31:12.67 WE TREAT ANY OTHER DAY. BY THE WAY, I BELIEVE THAT ON 00:31:12.67\00:31:19.11 THE PENDULUM THAT EWITH GO THROUGH AND BY THE WAY, THE 00:31:19.11\00:31:22.81 DEVIL DOESN'T CARE WHICH ONE YOU FALL INTO, AS LONG AS YOU FALL 00:31:22.81\00:31:27.15 INTO ONE, DREAD, DRUDGERY, PRISON TIME OR SABBATH BECOMES 00:31:27.15\00:31:31.95 ALL ABOUT ME AND MY NEEDS. IT'S MAN CENTERED AND IT BECOMES 00:31:31.95\00:31:39.53 COMMON. THE CHURCH PARTICULARLY IN THE 00:31:39.53\00:31:45.00 WEST, THAT ON THE PENDULUM THAT WE SWING THROUGH IN REGARDS TO 00:31:45.00\00:31:49.50 OUR SABBATH EXPERIENCE, I OVER HERE. 00:31:49.50\00:31:55.41 WHERE THE SABBATH IS BECOMING COMMON RATHER THAN SACRED. 00:31:55.41\00:32:02.98 WE ARE CALLED TO BE A REPAIRER OF THE BREACH. 00:32:02.98\00:32:09.86 ISAIAH 58:12. IN OTHER WORDS, THERE IS A 00:32:09.86\00:32:14.60 BREACH BETWEEN GOD AND US AND GOD SAYS, ISAIAH 58:12, WE ARE 00:32:14.60\00:32:21.70 TO RESTORE THAT BREACH. HOW DO YOU RESTORE A BROKEN 00:32:21.70\00:32:28.68 RELATIONSHIP? USE.SOMETIMES CAN BE IN FRAMED 00:32:28.68\00:32:37.69 NEGATIVE TERM. YOU DON'T SPEND TIME WITH 00:32:37.69\00:32:42.02 SOMEONE. GOD SAYS, THERE'S A CHASM 00:32:42.02\00:32:48.10 BETWEEN ME AND YOU. I WANT YOU TO REPAIR THAT 00:32:48.10\00:32:52.50 BREACH. REPAIR THAT CHASM. 00:32:52.50\00:32:54.74 THAT CONNECTION, THAT RELATIONSHIP AND IN VERSE 13 HE 00:32:54.74\00:32:59.67 TELLS US HOW TO DO THAT. ISAIAH 58:13-14, IF YOU TURN 00:32:59.67\00:33:08.38 YOUR FOOT FROM THE SABBATH AND LORD AND HONOR HIM AND NOT 00:33:08.38\00:33:14.16 FINDING YOUR OWN PLEASURE OR SPEAKING YOUR OWN WORDS, YOU 00:33:14.16\00:33:18.19 SHALL DELIGHT YOURSELF IN THE LORD. 00:33:18.19\00:33:22.00 HEELS OF THE EARTH AND FEED YOU WITH THE HERITAGE WITH JACOB 00:33:22.00\00:33:26.20 YOUR FATHER THE MOUTH OF THE LORD HAS SPOKEN. 00:33:26.20\00:33:30.04 IN THE CONTEXT OF ISAIAH 58, HE SAYS THERE'S A BROKEN 00:33:30.04\00:33:34.38 RELATIONSHIP. THAT WE NEED TO STAND WITH GOD 00:33:34.38\00:33:38.98 AND THE PRACTICAL THAT WE EXPAND THAT RELATIONSHIP WITH GOD IS 00:33:38.98\00:33:44.35 THROUGH THE SABBATH. THE WAY THAT WE RECQUAINT 00:33:44.35\00:33:49.06 OURSELVES WITH GOD IS THROUGH THE RESTORATION OF HOW WE 00:33:49.06\00:33:53.80 EXPERIENCE THE SABBATH. ISAIAH 58 TELLS US WHAT OUR 00:33:53.80\00:34:04.37 EXPERIENCE CAN BE. IN THE SABBATH. 00:34:04.37\00:34:10.98 QUICKLY HERE, ISAIAH 58:13, THE BIBLE SAYS IF YOU TURN AWAY YOUR 00:34:10.98\00:34:17.72 FOOT FROM THE SABBATH, THE ENGLISH TRANSLATION IS OBSCURED, 00:34:17.72\00:34:24.73 WHAT IT ACTUALLY SAYS IN THE HEBREW IS TO TURN AWAY FROM 00:34:24.73\00:34:30.43 SOMETHING AND TO RETURN TO THE SABBATH. 00:34:30.43\00:34:38.21 METAPHOR OF THE FOOT. THE OTHER PLACE IN SCRIPTURE 00:34:38.21\00:34:40.98 WHERE THE FOOT OR THE FEET ARE IN THE RELATIONSHIP SOMETHING 00:34:40.98\00:34:47.28 THAT IS CONSIDERED HOLY IS IN THE BOOK EXODUS. 00:34:47.28\00:34:51.05 GOD IS ABOUT TO HAVE COMMUNION, A CONNECTION WITH MOSES AT THE 00:34:51.05\00:35:00.86 BURNING BUSH. CLOSER. 00:35:00.86\00:35:06.17 THIS GROUND, WHICH IS HOLY GROUND, YOU NEED REMOVE THE 00:35:06.17\00:35:12.37 SANDALS OFF YOUR FEET. GOD SAYS, BEFORE YOU ENGAGE ME 00:35:12.37\00:35:19.08 ON THIS AREA OF TE GROUND THAT IS HOLY, WHAT MADE THAT GROUND 00:35:19.08\00:35:23.89 HOLY? WHAT MADE THE SABBATH HOLY? 00:35:23.89\00:35:29.82 GOD IS THERE. BECAUSE GOD THERE, THAT GROUND 00:35:29.82\00:35:33.80 ON THE ENTIRE PLANET AT THAT TIME NEEDS TO BE ENGAGED, 00:35:33.80\00:35:40.77 DIFFERENTLY THAN ANY OTHER GROUND. 00:35:40.77\00:35:47.88 YOU ARE TAKE YOUR SHOES OFF YOUR FEET BECAUSE YOU ARE ON HOLY 00:35:47.88\00:35:56.69 GROUND. ELLEN WHITE TALK ABOUT A TIME IN 00:35:56.69\00:36:07.36 OUR CHURCH THAT THE CHURCH WILL BE IN CRISES. 00:36:07.36\00:36:12.30 SHE TALKS ABOUT THE ALPHA. IN END SHE SAYS THERE WILL BE AN 00:36:12.30\00:36:20.88 OMEGA APOSTASY WITHIN OUR OWN FAITH, WITHIN OUR COMMUNITY OF 00:36:20.88\00:36:24.91 FAITH. PAGE 204. 00:36:24.91\00:36:34.39 THE ENEMY OF SOULS HAVE SOUGHT TO BRING IN THE SUPPOSITION WAS 00:36:34.39\00:36:40.40 TO TAKE PLACE AMONG US. THAT THIS REFORMATION WILL 00:36:40.40\00:36:45.73 CONSIST GIVING UP THE DOCTRINES AND ENGAGING IN A PROCESS OF 00:36:45.73\00:36:55.18 REORGANIZATION. SHE SAYS THERE'S GOING TO COME A 00:36:55.18\00:37:02.12 TIME WHEN THE FOUNDATIONAL PILLARS OF OUR FAITH LIKE THE 00:37:02.12\00:37:07.19 SANCTUARY, ARE GOING TO COME UNDER QUESTION. 00:37:07.19\00:37:14.00 OUTSIDE. A REORGANIZATION, WHERE 00:37:14.00\00:37:21.70 WHAT, OUR PILLARS NEED TO BE REINTERPRETED. 00:37:21.70\00:37:30.75 REALLY SIX LITERAL DAYS. DARWIN HAS ENLIGHTENED US. 00:37:30.75\00:37:36.38 A REAL REORGANIZATION AND SHE SAYS, WHAT ARE THE IMPLICATIONS 00:37:36.38\00:37:40.89 WHAT WILL HAPPEN WHEN WE HAVE THIS REORGANIZATION OF OUR 00:37:40.89\00:37:45.89 PILLARS. WERE THIS REFORMATION TAKE 00:37:45.89\00:37:50.57 THE PRINCIPLES OF TRUTH HAS GIVEN TO THE CHURCH WILL BE 00:37:50.57\00:37:55.67 DISCARDED. THE FUNDAMENTAL PRINCIPLES THAT 00:37:55.67\00:37:59.94 HAVE SUSTAINED THE WORK FOR THE LAST 50 YEARS WOULD BE ACCOUNTED 00:37:59.94\00:38:06.55 AS ERROR BOOKS OF NEW RECORD WOULD BE WRITTEN. 00:38:06.55\00:38:10.49 BY THE WAY, WE NEED TO READ THE BIBLE. 00:38:10.49\00:38:17.73 THE BIBLE. YOU CAN'T ENTRUST YOUR ETERNAL 00:38:17.73\00:38:26.43 SALVATION ON SOME SCHOLAR. PRAISE THE LORD FOR SCHOLARS, I 00:38:26.43\00:38:32.77 WOULD VENTURE TO SAY EVEN MORE, YOU CAN'T BASE YOUR SALVATION ON 00:38:32.77\00:38:40.42 CAMP MEETING SPEAKERS. THIS IS SUPPLEMENTAL. 00:38:40.42\00:38:46.92 IT IS NOT A REPLACEMENT FOR YOUR OWN PERSONAL STUDY AND WORD OF 00:38:46.92\00:38:52.49 GOD. PEOPLE OF THE BOOK. 00:38:52.49\00:38:56.03 WE WERE KNOWN AS BOOKWORMS AND ONE SCHOLAR SAID, WE'RE KNOWN AS 00:38:56.03\00:39:02.57 TAPEWORMS BACK WHEN WE HAD CASSETTES. 00:39:02.57\00:39:07.84 ADVENTIST PREACHING. PERSONAL BIBLE STUDY. 00:39:07.84\00:39:12.08 ALL THE DEVIL HAS TO DO IS LEAVE SOME PREACHER ASTRAY AND THE 00:39:12.08\00:39:19.89 MASSES GO WITH HIM. THE WORD OF GOD. 00:39:19.89\00:39:25.86 BOOK OF A NEW ORDER WOULD BE WRITTEN, A SYSTEM OF 00:39:25.86\00:39:32.17 INTELLECTUAL PHILOSOPHY WILL BE INTRODUCE. 00:39:32.17\00:39:38.47 IN OTHER WORDS IT'S THE MIXTURE OF FRUIT AND EVIL 00:39:38.47\00:39:43.88 NOTICE WHAT HE SAYS AFTER THAT. THE SABBATH OF COURSE WILL BE 00:39:50.32\00:39:56.36 WHO CREATED IT. NOTHING WILL BE ALLOWED TO STAND 00:39:56.36\00:40:00.96 IN THE WAY. IS BETTER THAN VICE. 00:40:00.96\00:40:06.50 THEY WILL PLACE THEIR DEPENDENCE ON HUMAN POWER. 00:40:06.50\00:40:12.91 SHE'S TALKING ABOUT OUR CHURCH. THE PILLARS WILL BE REMOVED. 00:40:12.91\00:40:17.38 THEY WILL DO A WONDERFUL WORK IN THE CITIES. 00:40:17.38\00:40:26.65 SABBATH WOULD BE LIGHTLY REGARDED. 00:40:26.65\00:40:30.83 PENDULUM OVER HERE. IN A PLACE WHERE SOMETHING 00:40:30.83\00:40:33.66 THAT'S CONSIDERED SACRED WOULD BE TREATED AS COMMON. 00:40:33.66\00:40:39.00 I WANT TO TELL YOU, AS I HAVE TRAVELED IN PARTICULARLY THE 00:40:39.00\00:40:50.65 WEST, I FEAR FOR OUR PEOPLE. AS THE WAY THAT OUR PEOPLE ARE 00:40:50.65\00:40:59.15 ENGAGING THE SABBATH IS BECOMING MORE AND MORE LIGHTLY REGARDED. 00:40:59.15\00:41:09.46 TRUE REVERENCE FOR GOD IS INSPIRED BY GREATNESS AND A 00:41:09.46\00:41:14.80 REALIZATION OF HIS PRESENCE. ISAIAH 58:13-14 IF YOU TURN YOUR 00:41:14.80\00:41:26.65 FOOTE FROM THE SABBATH, THE SABBATH TO BE HOLY. 00:41:26.65\00:41:32.59 OTHER DAY AND HERE IT SAYS FROM DOING YOUR PLEASURE ON MY HOLY 00:41:32.59\00:41:38.39 DAY. OWN WAYS. 00:41:38.39\00:41:42.86 WHEN I FIRST READ THIS VERSE, IT WAS MYSTIFYING TO ME BECAUSE IN 00:41:42.86\00:41:49.00 THE SAME PASSAGE WHERE IT SAY THAT THE T SABBATH SHOULD NOT BE 00:41:49.00\00:41:58.88 A TIME WHERE YOU HAVE YOUR PLEASURE. 00:41:58.88\00:42:05.25 DELIGHT. PLEASURABLE BE A DELIGHT? 00:42:05.25\00:42:11.96 SOME PEOPLE INTERPRETED THESE SHOULD HAVE NO PLEASURE. 00:42:11.96\00:42:16.73 WHICH IS A MISINTERPRETATION OF THE TEXT. 00:42:16.73\00:42:24.91 PLEASURE YET BE DELIGHTFUL? THE SABBATH IF YOU EXPERIENCE 00:42:24.91\00:42:31.31 ANY PLEASURE, IT'S A SIN. I FOUND IN THE HEBREW THAT THE 00:42:31.31\00:43:03.04 WORD PLEASURE IS TRANSLATED AS BUSINESS PLEASURE. 00:43:03.04\00:43:08.38 THE JEWISH BIBLE LITERALLY SAYS, BUSINESS PLEASURE AND ONE HEBREW 00:43:08.38\00:43:13.52 SAYS THAT LEADS US BACK TO THE STUDY OF THE WORD PLEASURE AS 00:43:13.52\00:43:16.83 FOUND IN ISAIAH 58:13 THIS WORD IS TRANSLATED BUSINESS PLEASURE 00:43:16.83\00:43:26.47 OR ONE'S OWN BUSINESS INTEREST. IN THE CONTEXT OF EXODUS. 00:43:26.47\00:43:32.64 IN OTHER WORDS, THE SABBATH IS A DAY THAT YOU GET TIME OFF. 00:43:32.64\00:43:40.12 PRAISE THE LORD. MOST OF US WHEN WE HEAR THE WORD 00:43:40.12\00:43:46.35 VACATION FROM WORK, WE REJOICE. THE BIKE SAYS YOU ARE NOT TO 00:43:46.35\00:43:58.47 HAVE BUSINESS PLEASURE ON THE SABBATH. 00:43:58.47\00:44:03.24 SPEAKING YOUR OWN WORD. IF YOU HAVE A TRANSLATION OF THE 00:44:03.24\00:44:08.74 WORD THAT HAS ITALICS WHERE SCHOLARS ADDED WORDS, YOU'LL 00:44:08.74\00:44:13.75 NOTICE THAT YOUR OWN IS IF I PHALLICS. 00:44:13.75\00:44:22.56 SPEAKING WORDS. CONSIDERATION, WHAT IS THAT 00:44:22.56\00:44:27.40 SAYING? SILENCE? 00:44:27.40\00:44:35.04 NO PREACHING? NO SABBATH SCHOOL? 00:44:35.04\00:44:42.61 SAYING APOSTLES PREACHED ON THE SABBATH, JESUS PREACH ON THE 00:44:42.61\00:44:48.18 SABBATH. THIS IS TALKING ABOUT BUSINESS. 00:44:48.18\00:44:55.52 ARE YOU FOLLOWING ME? IT'S SAYING THAT YOU ARE NOT TO 00:44:55.52\00:45:01.60 TAKE PLEASURE IN BUSINESS, BUSINESS PLEASURE NOR TALK ABOUT 00:45:01.60\00:45:08.40 BUSINESS ON THE SABBATH. A SABBATH IS NOT A DAY FOR 00:45:08.40\00:45:12.84 BUSINESS ENGAGEMENTS AND TRANSACTIONS. 00:45:12.84\00:45:16.48 NOR DOING YOUR OWN WAYS. NOR DOING BUSINESS. 00:45:16.48\00:45:19.88 WHEN YOU TAKE THIS TRANSLATION FROM THE HEBREW, NOR FINDING 00:45:19.88\00:45:24.35 YOUR OWN PLEASURE, ACTUALLY MEANS FINDING BUSINESS ON THE 00:45:24.35\00:45:29.62 SABBATH, LOOKING FOR POTENTIAL CUSTOMERS, SPEAKING WORDS 00:45:29.62\00:45:33.46 ACTUALLY MEANS TALKING BUSINESS AND DOING YOUR OWN BUSINESS 00:45:33.46\00:45:39.43 MEANS DOING BUSINESS AS USUAL. THE SABBATH IS NOT A TIME TO BE 00:45:39.43\00:45:47.94 THINKING ABOUT BUSINESS. TO BE TALKING ABOUT BUSINESS OR 00:45:47.94\00:45:52.85 TO BE DOING BUSINESS ON THE SABBATH. 00:45:52.85\00:46:10.33 PHOTOGRAPHY. ONE OF THE PLACES THAT ALL 00:46:10.33\00:46:15.97 AMATEUR PHOTOGRAPHERS GO TO BUY THEIR PHOTOGRAPHY GEAR, ONE OF 00:46:15.97\00:46:21.41 TWO PLACE PLACES, THERE'S SOMETHING UNIQUE THESE TWO 00:46:21.41\00:46:32.42 COMPANIES. SHOP IN NEW YORK CITY. 00:46:32.42\00:46:36.39 FROM THE VERY BEGINNING, FROM FRIDAY NIGHT EASTERN STANDARD 00:46:36.39\00:46:41.76 TIME,ING TO SATURDAY KNIGHT EASTERN TIME, THEY WILL NOT DO 00:46:41.76\00:46:52.84 BUSINESS. EASTERN STANDARD TIME. 00:46:52.84\00:46:59.35 THEY WILL SAY SORRY THIS WEBSITE CLOSE THE FOR BUSINESS. 00:46:59.35\00:47:04.29 PLEASE COME BACK AFTER SABBATH HOURS HAVE EXPIRED. 00:47:04.29\00:47:19.93 THESE TWO COMPANIES ARE MILLION KEEP THE BIBLE SABBATH. 00:47:19.93\00:47:24.77 THEY'RE NOT ADVENTIST, THEY KEEP THE BIBLE SABBATH. 00:47:24.77\00:47:31.05 THE LORD WILL BLESS YOU. IF YOU MAKE A STAND FOR THE 00:47:31.05\00:47:36.45 SABBATH. DOWN ON THE SABBATH DAY. 00:47:36.45\00:47:45.89 THEN YOU SHALL DELIGHT YOURSELF TO RISE HIGH AND FEED YOU WITH 00:47:45.89\00:47:55.24 THE HERITAGE. IN THE HEBREW, IT IS REFERRED TO 00:47:55.24\00:48:08.15 AN EXQUISITE DELIGHT. TO THE KIND OF DELIGHT THAT 00:48:08.15\00:48:20.63 THEIR ROYAL -- I TALK TO THE PARENT ABOUT SABBATH EXPERIENCE. 00:48:20.63\00:48:38.65 THE SABBATH SHOULD BE MADE SO WEEKLY RETURN WILL BE HELD WITH 00:48:38.65\00:48:44.69 JOY. NOT A DRUDGERY, NOT LIKE YOU 00:48:44.69\00:48:49.29 GOING TO A FUNERAL, HAILED WITH JOY. 00:48:49.29\00:48:56.77 PARENTS, MAKE THE SABBATH A DELIGHT THAT YOUR CHILDREN MAY 00:48:56.77\00:48:59.83 LOOK FORWARD TO IT AND HAVE A WELCOME IF THEIR HEARTS FOR IT. 00:48:59.83\00:49:08.54 WE SHOULD FRAME THE SABBATH THAT IT'S A HOLY DELIGHT, NOT FOR 00:49:08.54\00:49:14.78 CARNAL. FORWARD TO AND SAY, I CAN'T WAIT 00:49:14.78\00:49:22.09 FOR THE SABBATH. THE SABBATH SHOULD BE MADE SO 00:49:22.09\00:49:27.13 INTERESTING THAT ITS WEEKLY RETURN SHOULD BE HAILED WITH 00:49:27.13\00:49:30.40 JOY. OPEN AIR. 00:49:30.40\00:49:33.54 WE CAN SIT WITH THEM IN THE GROVES AND BRIGHT SUNSHINE AND 00:49:33.54\00:49:37.91 GIVE THEIR MINDSES TO FEED UPON. CONVERSING WITH THEM ON THE 00:49:37.91\00:49:42.14 WORKS OF GOD AND CAN INSPIRE THEM WITH LOVE AND REVERENCE BY 00:49:42.14\00:49:47.25 CALLING THEIR ATTENTION TO BEAUTIFUL OBJECTS IN NATURE. 00:49:47.25\00:49:52.72 IN ALASKA, THERE ARE TIME WHEN AND SON, IT IS PRISTINE. 00:49:52.72\00:50:01.26 THERE HAVE BEEN TIMES WHEN YOU HAVE BEEN OVERWHELMED WITH AWE 00:50:01.26\00:50:08.14 AND WONDER AT THE BEAUTY. THERE'S NOT A SOUL FOR MILES. 00:50:08.14\00:50:20.05 LOWER 48, GO SOMEWHERE AND MILLION PEOPLE THERE TO ENJOY IT 00:50:20.05\00:50:26.29 WITH YOU. THE SABBATH SHOULD BE A DELIGHT. 00:50:26.29\00:50:29.52 A TIME TO COMMUNE WITH GOD AND GOD OF NATURE. 00:50:29.52\00:50:34.13 SABBATH. AND PRAYER MARK THE CLOSE OF THE 00:50:34.13\00:50:39.67 HOUR AND INVITE GOD'S PRESENCE THROUGH THE CARES OF THE WEAK. 00:50:39.67\00:50:43.67 PARENTS CAN MAKE THE SABBATH AS IT SHOULD BE. 00:50:43.67\00:50:48.08 THE MOST JOYFUL DAY OF THE WEEK. THEY CAN LEAVE THEIR CHILDREN 00:50:48.08\00:50:52.25 REGARDED AS DAY OF DELIGHT, DAY OF DAYS, THE HOLY THE LORD 00:50:52.25\00:51:00.62 HONORABLE. MAKE THE SABBATH TO YOUR 00:51:00.62\00:51:04.33 CHILDREN A DAY OF THROUGHOUT. A DAY THAT THEY LOOK FORWARDED 00:51:04.33\00:51:10.07 TO. CELEBRATED OUR SON'S SECOND 00:51:10.07\00:51:17.77 BIRTHDAY. WENT TO ALASKA AND SURPRISE. 00:51:17.77\00:51:26.05 WOULDN'T TRADE IT FOR THE WORLD. PRAISE THE LORD. 00:51:26.05\00:51:30.55 ON THAT DAY, I MARKED A MONTH IN ADVANCE ON MY CALENDAR. 00:51:30.55\00:51:35.79 ON THAT DAY, I GOT UP, I PUT MY PHONE ON AIRPLANE MODE. 00:51:35.79\00:51:46.53 CLOSED MY LAPTOP, I'M IN DOCTORAL STUDY, DIDN'T WANT TO 00:51:46.53\00:51:50.91 THINK ABOUT THAT. PUT IT ALL AWAY. 00:51:50.91\00:51:53.88 IT WAS NOT A DAY THAT I WAS ON YOUTUBE, GOOGLING, THE LATEST 00:51:53.88\00:51:58.55 AND GREATEST CAMERA THAT JUST CAME OUT. 00:51:58.55\00:52:07.09 IT WAS ALL ABOUT MY SON. FOCUSED ON MY SON. 00:52:07.09\00:52:15.73 WE TOOK HIM TO THE ZOO THAT DAY. I NEVER WENT TO THE ZOO BEFORE. 00:52:15.73\00:52:22.17 MY SON'S FAVORITE PLACE. FOCUSED ON MY SON FOR THE ENTIRE 00:52:22.17\00:52:29.48 DAY. WAS ABSOLUTELY DELIGHTFUL. 00:52:29.48\00:52:43.09 THE SABBATH IS NOT ABOUT ME. IT'S ABOUT GOD. 00:52:43.09\00:52:48.63 IT'S FOCUSED ON HIM AND FOCUSED ON MINISTRY TO OTHERS. 00:52:48.63\00:52:53.47 IN THAT FRAME, IN THAT CONTEXT THE SABBATH BECOMES A DELIGHT, 00:52:53.47\00:52:58.87 NOT A DRUDGERY. IF YOU WANT TO MAKE YOURSELF 00:52:58.87\00:53:03.55 MISERABLE, BECOME A NARCISSISTIC. 00:53:03.55\00:53:08.62 AND MY PROBLEM, MAKE IT ALL ABOUT ME AS THOUGH THE UNIVERSE 00:53:08.62\00:53:15.89 REVOLVES AROUND ME. GENERATION ME. 00:53:15.89\00:53:18.36 ALL ABOUT ME. YOU TALK ABOUT MISERY. 00:53:18.36\00:53:27.10 WHEN YOU MAKE IT ABOUT GOD, THE CREATOR, MAKE IT ABOUT SERVICE 00:53:27.10\00:53:31.24 AND MINISTRY, THE SABBATH BECOMES A DELIGHT. 00:53:31.24\00:53:38.98 IT'S IN OUR DNA. WHAT DO YOU THINK WE'LL BE DOING 00:53:38.98\00:53:43.95 IN HEAVEN? BIBLE SAY SABBATH IS A DAY OF 00:53:43.95\00:53:52.16 PHYSICAL REST. IT'S A TIME OF MENTAL REST. 00:53:52.16\00:54:00.94 THE LORD MADE THE HEAVENS AND EARTH AND ALL THAT IS IN THEM 00:54:00.94\00:54:04.17 AND RESTED ON THE SABBATH DAY AND IT MEANS TO SETTLE DOWN AND 00:54:04.17\00:54:10.41 BE QUIET IN A STATE OF TRANQUILITY. 00:54:10.41\00:54:22.02 CELEBRATION. REST. 00:54:22.02\00:54:31.30 A DAY OF SPIRITUAL GOSPEL REST. A LIFE IN CHRIST IS A LIFE OF 00:54:31.30\00:54:48.68 RESTFULNESS. CENTER IN FEAR WHETHER HE SHALL 00:54:48.68\00:54:55.79 BE SAVED. FROM THE SOURCE OF THEIR 00:54:55.79\00:55:01.63 STRENGTH. GOD, TALK AND THINK OF JESUS, 00:55:01.63\00:55:07.00 LET SELF BE LOST IN HIM. DISMISS YOUR FEARS, REST IN GOD. 00:55:07.00\00:55:16.34 THERE CAN BE A LOT OF ANXIETY IN THE CHRISTIAN EXPERIENCE. 00:55:16.34\00:55:20.65 GOD NEVER INTENDED IT FOR THAT TO BE OUR EXPERIENCE. 00:55:20.65\00:55:26.45 FOR SOME, THE CHRISTIAN EXPERIENCE IS A LIFE AND 00:55:26.45\00:55:31.13 EXPERIENCE OF ANXIETY. I DON'T KNOW IF I'M EVER GOING 00:55:31.13\00:55:35.66 TO MAKE IT. I DON'T KNOW IF I WILL EVER BE 00:55:35.66\00:55:40.20 SAVED? ANXIETY. 00:55:40.20\00:55:45.31 EVERY SEVEN DAYS WE NEED TO BE REMINDED TO REST IN HIS WORKS. 00:55:45.31\00:55:52.01 NOT ONLY IN CREATION BUT IN MY RESTORATION AND MY RECREATION. 00:55:52.01\00:56:01.79 EVERY SEVEN DAYS WE NOT ONLY MEMORIALIZE CREATION WE ARE ALSO 00:56:01.79\00:56:07.73 IN THE EXPERIENCE OF REDEMPTION AND WE REST IN HIS WORK AND HIS 00:56:07.73\00:56:18.07 RIGHTEOUSNESS. WE NEED THAT EVERY SEVEN DAYS. 00:56:18.07\00:56:24.51 THERE'S SOMETHING ABOUT US IN OUR HUMAN NATURE WHERE WE THINK 00:56:24.51\00:56:27.12 WE HAVE TO WORK OUR WAY TO HEAVEN. 00:56:27.12\00:56:32.45 OF CONTRIBUTION TO MERIT MY SALVATION. 00:56:32.45\00:56:46.10 REST IN THE EXPERIENCE OF WHAT THE SABBATH MEANS. 00:56:46.10\00:56:55.91 EVERY SEVEN DAYS WHEN WE REST IN HIS WORK OF SALVATION. 00:56:55.91\00:57:06.29 EZEKIEL 21:12. I GAVE THEM MY SABBATH SIGN 00:57:06.29\00:57:09.62 BETWEEN US SO THEY WOULD KNOW THAT I THE LORD MADE THEM WHOLE. 00:57:09.62\00:57:15.70 HOW MANY YOU TODAY WANT TO SAY LORD, MAKE ME HOLY? 00:57:15.70\00:57:19.97 GIVE ME YOUR HOLINESS AND IN THE SABBATH EXPERIENCE, WE CAN HAVE 00:57:19.97\00:57:25.01 THAT REST. I PRAY THAT EACH ONE OF US WOULD 00:57:25.01\00:57:28.74 EXPERIENCE THE LORD OF THE SABBATH. 00:57:28.74\00:57:34.68 WE PRAY TODAY THAT YOU WOULD HELP TO EXPERIENCE THE SABBATH 00:57:34.68\00:57:39.79 IN WAY THAT WE NEVER HAVE BEFORE. 00:57:39.79\00:57:45.29 WORK THAT YOU ARE DOING IN OUR LIVES THAT WE CAN COME TO YOU 00:57:45.29\00:57:51.50 WITH OUR BURDENS. 00:57:51.50\00:57:54.27