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>>MORNING, FRIENDS, AND WELCOME
TO SABBATH SCHOOL STUDY HOUR.
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I'D LIKE TO WELCOME THOSE
JOINING US ACROSS THE COUNTRY
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AND AROUND THE WORLD - ALSO,
THE MEMBERS OF THE GRANITE BAY
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CHURCH THAT ARE
OUR ONLINE MEMBERS -
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A VERY SPECIAL WELCOME TO YOU.
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ALSO TO OUR CHURCH
MEMBERS IN OUR LOCAL GRANITE BAY
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CONGREGATION - GLAD TO SEE YOU
HERE FOR SABBATH SCHOOL TODAY.
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WELL, WE'VE BEEN STUDYING
THROUGH THE GOSPEL OF LUKE OVER
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THE PAST FEW WEEKS AND TODAY WE
FINDS OURSELVES ON LESSON #5 AND
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THE LESSON IS ENTITLED CHRIST
AS THE LORD OF THE SABBATH -
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A VERY IMPORTANT STUDY. WE
HAVE AN OFFER THAT GOES ALONG
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WITH OUR LESSON TODAY.
IT IS A BRAND-NEW SHARING
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MAGAZINE DEALING WITH THE
SABBATH CALLED THE REST OF YOUR
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LIFE , AND THIS IS GOING TO
BE OUR FREE OFFER FOR TODAY.
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SO THOSE OF YOU WHO ARE
WATCHING, IF YOU'D LIKE TO ORDER
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THE REST OF YOUR LIFE ,
EVERYTHING YOU NEED TO KNOW
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ABOUT THE SABBATH
IN OUR NEW MAGAZINE,
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THE NUMBER TO
CALL IS 866-788-3966.
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THAT NUMBER, AGAIN, IS
866-788-3966 AND YOU CAN ASK FOR
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THE OFFER THAT
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AGAIN, THE MAGAZINE IS
CALLED THE REST OF YOUR LIFE -
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EVERYTHING YOU NEED TO
KNOW ABOUT THE SABBATH.
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WELL, AT THIS TIME, I'D LIKE TO
INVITE OUR SONG LEADERS TO COME
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AND JOIN ME HERE ONSTAGE, AND
THEY'LL LEAD US AS WE BEGIN THIS
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STUDY HOUR WITH A FEW MOMENTS
OF WONDERFUL MUSIC AND PRAISE.
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>>LET'S SING #385 -
CROWNING JEWEL OF CREATION.
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AND DON'T FORGET TO SEND IN
YOUR REQUESTS AND WE'LL SING
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THOSE WITH YOU ON A
COMING PRESENTATION.
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WE'LL SING THE
FIRST AND THE LAST VERSES.
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(MUSIC)
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CROWNING JEWEL OF
CREATION, BLEST AND HALLOWED,
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SANCTIFIED; TIME AND CHANGES ALL
TRANSCENDING, SHARED FOREVER,
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GLORIFIED. BLESSED
SABBATH MADE FOR MAN,
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GIFT FROM THE CREATOR'S
HAND. TEACH US LORD, IN STORM OR
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SUNSHINE HOW TO TRULY REST
IN THEE, MAY THY SABBATH PEACE
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ENFOLD US AND
OUR SHELTER EVER BE.
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BLESSED SABBATH MADE FOR MAN,
GIFT FROM THE CREATOR'S HAND.
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>>I INVITE YOU TO BOW YOUR
HEADS AS WE BEGIN WITH A WORD OF
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PRAYER. DEAR
FATHER IN HEAVEN, WE THANK
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YOU FOR THE OPPORTUNITY
TO GATHER TOGETHER ON THIS
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BEAUTIFUL DAY - THIS
SABBATH - AND OPEN UP YOUR WORD.
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AND WE ASK FOR THE HOLY SPIRIT
TO COME AND GUIDE OUR HEARTS AND
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OUR MINDS AS WE LOOK AT THIS
VERY IMPORTANT SUBJECT, FOR WE
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ASK THIS IN JESUS' NAME, AMEN.
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IF THOSE OF YOU JOINING
US, IF YOU DON'T HAVE A LESSON
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QUARTERLY, YOU CAN DOWNLOAD
TODAY'S LESSON - LESSON #5 - AT
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THE AMAZING FACTS WEBSITE
- JUST AMAZINGFACTS.ORG .
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AT THIS TIME I'D LIKE TO INVITE
PASTOR DOUG TO COME FORWARD AND
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HE WILL LEAD US IN OUR STUDY FOR
TODAY. THANK YOU, PASTOR DOUG.
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>>AND THANK YOU,
PASTOR ROSS. MORNING.
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I WANT TO WELCOME, AGAIN, THOSE
WHO ARE PART OF THE EXTENDED
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CLASS - I FORGOT I'VE GOT MY OWN
MICROPHONE HERE, I CAN STEP AWAY
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FROM THAT - AND INVITE
YOU TO OUR STUDY TODAY.
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WE'RE CONTINUING
THROUGH MY FAVORITE GOSPEL.
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YOU KNOW, IF YOU ASK PEOPLE
WHICH OF THE FOUR GOSPELS IS
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THEIR FAVORITE, YOU KNOW
WHAT PEOPLE TYPICALLY SAY?
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THE GOSPEL OF JOHN.
JOHN IS THE GOSPEL OF LOVE.
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HAVE YOU HEARD THAT BEFORE?
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DID YOU KNOW JOHN IS
ALSO THE GOSPEL OF LAW?
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THERE'S ALMOST NOTHING THAT IS
SAID - NOBODY SAYS ANYTHING MORE
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ABOUT THE GOSPEL
AND LAW THAN JOHN.
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JOHN SAYS, 'IF YOU LOVE ME, KEEP
MY COMMANDMENTS.' 'IF YOU SAY
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YOU LOVE HIM AND YOU KEEP NOT
HIS COMMANDMENTS, YOU'RE A LIAR
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AND THE TRUTH IS NOT...'
'HIS COMMANDMENTS ARE NOT
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BURDENSOME.' JOHN, WHO ALSO
WROTE REVELATION, 'BLESSED ARE
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THOSE THAT DO HIS COMMANDMENTS.'
'HERE ARE THOSE WHO KEEP THE
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COMMANDMENTS OF GOD.' - IT
SAYS THAT TWICE IN REVELATION.
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YOU'D BE SURPRISED.
JOHN WAS NOT ONLY THE
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COMMANDMENT OF LOVE,
HE'S THE COMMANDMENT OF LAW.
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BUT I WAS TELLING YOU, LUKE IS
MY FAVORITE OF THE GOSPELS AND I
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DON'T KNOW WHY - NO, I THINK
IT'S BECAUSE HE'S UNIQUE IN WHAT
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HE SAYS. LIKE I
SAID, IN THE GOSPEL OF
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LUKE YOU ONLY
FIND THE PRODIGAL SON.
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IN THE GOSPEL OF LUKE YOU
ONLY FIND THERE THE STORY OF
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ZACCHAEUS AND A NUMBER OF
OTHER PARABLES. ALSO, BEING A
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PHYSICIAN - BECAUSE WE BELIEVE
HE WAS - HE COMES TO THE GOSPELS
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WITH A LITTLE DIFFERENT
PERSPECTIVE ON SOME THINGS.
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WITH THAT, WE'RE GOING TO BE
FINDING OUT WHAT LUKE SAYS ABOUT
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JESUS AND THE
SABBATH, IN PARTICULAR.
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SO, IF YOU'VE GOT YOUR LESSONS,
WE HAVE A MEMORY VERSE - IT'S
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LESSON #5 - LESSON #5 AND WE'RE
GOING TO BE - THE TITLE OF IT
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IS, OF COURSE, CHRIST AS
THE LORD OF THE SABBATH .
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THE MEMORY VERSE IS MARK 2,
VERSES 27 AND 28 - MARK 2:27
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AND 28. SAY THAT WITH ME?
"'THE SABBATH WAS MADE FOR MAN,
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AND NOT MAN FOR THE SABBATH.
THEREFORE THE SON OF MAN IS ALSO
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LORD OF THE SABBATH.'"
JESUS IS LORD OF THE SABBATH.
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NOW, IT'S INTERESTING THAT LUKE,
WHO IS THE ONLY - WE'RE FAIRLY
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CERTAIN HE IS A GENTILE
WRITER AND, WHILE HE IS THE ONLY
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GENTILE WRITER, HE SAYS
APPROXIMATELY 50% OF EVERYTHING
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THAT IS SAID ABOUT THE
SABBATH IN THE NEW TESTAMENT.
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NOW WHEN I SAY LUKE I
MEAN LUKE AND THE BOOK OF ACTS.
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YOU'RE GOING TO FIND ABOUT 50%
OF THE REFERENCES OF THE SABBATH
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COME FROM THE PEN OF LUKE.
AND SO, HE SAYS MORE ABOUT IT
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THAN MATTHEW, MARK, AND JOHN,
WHICH IS INTERESTING BECAUSE IF
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HE WAS A GENTILE YOU THINK
HE WOULD HAVE SAID, 'THE JEWISH
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SABBATH.' BUT
HE NEVER SAYS THAT.
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HE ALWAYS JUST STATES IT
AS A MATTER OF FACT FOR ALL
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BELIEVERS. AND
SO, I THINK THAT'S
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SIGNIFICANT AND WE
SHOULD MAKE A NOTE OF THAT.
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FIRST VERSE WE'RE GOING TO GO TO
IS IN LUKE 4:16 AND IT SAYS, "SO
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HE CAME TO NAZARETH,
WHERE HE HAD BEEN BROUGHT UP.
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AND AS HIS CUSTOM WAS, HE
WENT INTO THE SYNAGOGUE ON THE
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SABBATH DAY, AND
STOOD UP TO READ."
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- NOW, JUST A THOUGHT HERE,
'I THOUGHT THAT JESUS CAME FROM
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BETHLEHEM.' WELL, HE WAS BORN IN
BETHLEHEM, BUT THEN WHERE DID HE
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GO FROM BETHLEHEM? TO
EGYPT. HOW LONG WAS HE IN EGYPT?
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OH, WE FIGURE, MAYBE
TWO, THREE YEARS OLD.
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KING HEROD, THE GREAT IS
THE REASON THAT JOSEPH FLED WITH
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MARY TO EGYPT - REMEMBER, HE
KILLED THE BABIES IN BETHLEHEM -
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TO PROTECT THE CHILD. AND
THERE WAS SOME CONCERN THAT
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JESUS' LIFE WAS AT RISK, OF
COURSE, SO THEY FLED AND THEY
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WENT DOWN THERE AT THE
INSTRUCTION OF AN ANGEL.
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BUT THEN, WHEN HEROD THE GREAT
DIED, WHICH HISTORIANS TELL US
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WAS PRETTY CLOSE TO THE YEARS -
WHAT WE WOULD CALL THE YEAR 1 AD
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- THERE'S NO YEAR ZERO.
THE ANGEL THEN APPEARED TO
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JOSEPH AND SAID, 'NOW YOU CAN
GO BACK.' HE CAME BACK WHEN THEY
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THOUGHT ABOUT GOING TO BETHLEHEM
BECAUSE THEY HAD FAMILY THERE -
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THAT'S WHY THEY DID THE CENSUS
THERE. HE FOUND OUT THAT HEROD'S
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SON, OR HEROD ARCHELEUS, WAS
REIGNING DOWN THERE AND HE SAID,
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'NO, I DON'T - HE'S
PROBABLY LIKE HIS FATHER.'
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HE WENT BACK UP TO GALILEE
WHERE HE HAD BEEN ORIGINALLY.
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AND SO, FROM THE TIME THAT JESUS
WAS THREE YEARS OLD UNTIL HE
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BEGAN HIS MINISTRY, HE LIVED AT
NAZARETH, WHICH WAS ACTUALLY NOT
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RIGHT ON THE SEA OF GALILEE,
NAZARETH WAS MORE IN ONE OF THE
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MOUNTAIN REGIONS
THAT WAS WEST OF GALILEE.
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BUT HE HAD A CUSTOM AND IT SAYS,
"SO HE CAME TO NAZARETH, WHERE
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HE HAD BEEN BROUGHT UP." -
AFTER HE BEGAN HIS MINISTRY,
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HE WENT BACK TO HIS HOME TOWN -
"AND AS HIS CUSTOM WAS, HE WENT
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INTO THE SYNAGOGUE ON THE
SABBATH DAY, AND STOOD UP TO
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READ." NOW WHAT IS A CUSTOM?
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IS A CUSTOM
SOMETHING YOU DO ONCE OR TWICE?
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OR IS IT A PATTERN?
WHAT IS A CHRISTIAN?
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IS A CHRISTIAN A
FOLLOWER OF CHRISTIANS?
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OR IS A CHRISTIAN
A FOLLOWER OF CHRIST?
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AND SO, WHAT WAS THE
CUSTOM OF OUR LEADER?
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HE WENT INTO THE SYNAGOGUE ON
THE SABBATH DAY AND HE NOT ONLY
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ATTENDED CHURCH ON THE SABBATH
DAY - YOU KNOW, IF YOU EVER ARE
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WORRIED ABOUT IF YOU'RE A
SABBATH-KEEPING CHRISTIAN 'WILL
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I GET IN TROUBLE?' ALL
YOU'VE GOT TO DO IS SAY,
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'WELL, LORD, THAT'S WHAT YOU
DID AND I'M JUST FOLLOWING YOUR
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EXAMPLE. THE CUSTOM
OF JESUS WAS TO ENTER
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INTO THE SYNAGOGUE ON THE
SABBATH DAY AND HE READ THE
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BIBLE AND HE GATHERED TOGETHER
WITH OTHERS. NOW, THE WORD
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'SYNAGOGUE' - AND WE SOMETIMES
ARE FOOLED BY THAT - 'SYNAGOGUE'
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- WE THINK, YOU KNOW, IT'S
A JEWISH WORD. 'SYNAGOGUE' IS
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REALLY A WORD THAT IS TALKING
ABOUT A GATHERING. IT MEANS
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'A RELIGIOUS ASSEMBLAGE
OF PERSONS; A MEETING;
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A CONGREGATION; A CONVENING;
A COMING TOGETHER, USUALLY FOR
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A RELIGIOUS PURPOSE.' THE
CHURCH WAS CALLED A SYNAGOGUE.
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YOU GET IN REVELATION IT TALKS
ABOUT 'THE SYNAGOGUE OF SATAN' -
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PEOPLE THINK THAT
MEANS IT'S JEWISH.
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NO, IT JUST MEANS THE CHURCH.
SO THE WORD 'SYNAGOGUE' -
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DON'T BE FOOLED BY THAT.
TODAY, WHEN WE SAY 'SYNAGOGUE'
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IN OUR CULTURE, YOU'RE THINKING
EXCLUSIVELY JEWISH, AREN'T YOU?
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YOU NEVER SAY 'A JEWISH CHURCH'
IN OUR CULTURE, YOU SAY, 'I WENT
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TO A JEWISH SYNAGOGUE.' AND YOU
DON'T SAY, 'I WENT TO A GENTILE
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SYNAGOGUE.' YOU SAY A JEWISH
SYNAGOGUE - GENTILE CHURCH.
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IT WASN'T LIKE THAT BACK THEN.
THE WORD WAS INTERCHANGEABLE.
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WHERE DID PAUL GO WHEN HE FIRST
WAS PERSECUTING CHRISTIANS?
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IT SAYS, 'HE WENT TO
THE SYNAGOGUES TO ARREST THE
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CHRISTIANS.' ISN'T THAT
INTERESTING THAT PAUL WOULD GO
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LOOKING FOR CHRISTIANS
IN SYNAGOGUES. WELL, THAT'S
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BECAUSE, OF COURSE, THE
EARLY CHRISTIANS ALL MET
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WITH THE JEWS. THERE
WAS NO OTHER PLACE TO GO
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AND - BUT IT JUST MEANT 'THE
GATHERING PLACE' AND ALL THE
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COMMUNITIES HAD ONE. SO
HE WENT INTO THE SYNAGOGUE
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AND HE STOOD UP TO
READ THE SCRIPTURES.
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IT WAS HIS CUSTOM TO DO THIS
ON A REGULAR BASIS. USING THE
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TEACHING OF LUKE, I WANT YOU TO
NOTICE SOMETHING. GO TO LUKE 21,
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VERSE 37, "AND IN THE DAYTIME HE
WAS TEACHING IN THE TEMPLE, BUT
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AT NIGHT" - NOW THIS IS
WHEN HE'S IN JERUSALEM - "BUT AT
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NIGHT HE WENT OUT AND STAYED
ON THE MOUNTAIN CALLED OLIVET."
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NOW, WITH THAT IN MIND, GO TO
LUKE 22:39, "COMING OUT, HE WENT
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TO THE MOUNT OF OLIVES, AS
HE WAS ACCUSTOMED" - AND SO IT
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TELLS YOU IT'S SOMETHING THAT HE
NOT DID ONCE OR TWICE, BUT LUKE
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IS SAYING THAT IT WAS
HIS PATTERN TO DO THAT.
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HE'D TEACH IN THE TEMPLE,
HE'D GO OUT TO, YOU KNOW, A MORE
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RURAL SETTING - THE MOUNT OF
OLIVES WAS NOT AS DEVELOPED BACK
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THEN AS IT IS TODAY, IT WAS MORE
OF A FARMING AREA AND HE WOULD
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ACTUALLY STAY THERE
- HE WOULD SLEEP THERE.
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BUT HE'D GO OUT AND HE'D PRAY.
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AND THEN YOU CAN READ ALSO IN
LUKE 5, VERSE 16, "SO HE HIMSELF
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OFTEN WITHDREW INTO
THE WILDERNESS AND PRAYED."
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SO, WHEN JESUS DID SOMETHING
- WHEN LUKE USES THE WORD
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'CUSTOM,' IT SAYS HERE
IT'S SOMETHING HE DID OFTEN.
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THAT WAS ALL THAT I JUST
READ - TO MAKE THAT POINT.
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JESUS, WHEN HE WENT TO NAZARETH
AND HE WENT TO THE SYNAGOGUE AND
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IT SAYS IT WAS HIS CUSTOM, THIS
IS SAYING IT WAS HIS PRACTICE.
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IT WASN'T HIS PRACTICE ON AN
OCCASIONAL SABBATH, IT WAS HIS
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PRACTICE EVERY SABBATH AND
THERE'S A LOT OF SCRIPTURES THAT
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BEAR THIS OUT.
YOU'LL FIND A LOT OF THE
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CONTROVERSY ABOUT JESUS AND HIS
TEACHINGS OCCURRED DURING THE
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SABBATH BECAUSE HE WOULD
GET UP AND HE WOULD TEACH.
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NOW, THAT FIRST SABBATH, WHEN HE
GOT UP AND HE SPOKE - MATTER OF
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FACT, TURN IN LUKE CHAPTER 4, WE
READ THAT VERSE - VERSE 16 - I'D
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LIKE YOU TO GO THERE WITH ME,
PLEASE - LUKE 4:16 - IT SAYS,
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"SO HE CAME TO NAZARETH,
WHERE HE HAD BEEN BROUGHT UP."
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- BY THE WAY, YOU REMEMBER IT
SAYS HE WENT HOME - AFTER HE WAS
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TWELVE YEARS OLD HE WENT BACK
WITH HIS PARENTS TO NAZARETH AND
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HE WAS SUBJECT TO THEM
AND HE WAXED STRONG IN SPIRIT.
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THAT'S WHERE HE WAS GROWING UP.
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HE WAXED STRONG IN
STATURE AND IN SPIRIT.
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AND IT SAYS THAT -
"WHERE HE'D BEEN BROUGHT UP.
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AND AS HIS CUSTOM WAS, HE
WENT INTO THE SYNAGOGUE ON THE
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SABBATH DAY, AND
STOOD UP TO READ.
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AND HE WAS HANDED THE
BOOK OF THE PROPHET ISAIAH.
00:13:38.63\00:13:41.33
AND WHEN HE HAD OPENED THE BOOK,
HE FOUND THE PLACE" - YOU KNOW,
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THERE WAS NO CHAPTER AND VERSE
BACK THEN, SO WHEN YOU FOUND THE
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PLACE, IT MIGHT TAKE HIM A
MOMENT - "HE FOUND THE PLACE
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WHERE IT WAS WRITTEN: 'THE
SPIRIT OF THE LORD IS UPON ME,
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BECAUSE HE HAS ANOINTED ME TO
PREACH THE GOSPEL TO THE POOR;
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HE HAS SENT ME TO HEAL
THE BROKENHEARTED, TO PROCLAIM
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LIBERTY TO THE CAPTIVES AND
RECOVERY OF SIGHT TO THE BLIND,
00:14:00.20\00:14:02.93
TO SET AT LIBERTY THOSE WHO
ARE OPPRESSED; TO PROCLAIM THE
00:14:02.93\00:14:06.23
ACCEPTABLE YEAR OF THE LORD.'
THEN HE CLOSED THE BOOK, AND
00:14:06.23\00:14:09.53
GAVE IT BACK TO THE ATTENDANT"
- SOMEONE ACTUALLY GUARDED THE
00:14:09.53\00:14:12.33
SCRIPTURES - THEY WERE SACRED.
HAVE YOU EVER BEEN TO A JEWISH
00:14:12.33\00:14:14.83
SYNAGOGUE AND SOMEONE CARRIES
OUT THE TORAH AND IT'S - IT'S
00:14:14.83\00:14:18.56
JUST - THEY KEEP THEM UNDER LOCK
AND KEY BECAUSE SOME OF THE OLD
00:14:18.56\00:14:21.30
ONES ARE HAND WRITTEN AND IT'S
JUST VERY VALUABLE - "AND GAVE
00:14:21.30\00:14:24.43
IT BACK TO THE
ATTENDANT AND SAT DOWN.
00:14:24.43\00:14:28.23
AND THE EYES OF ALL WHO WERE IN
THE SYNAGOGUE WERE FIXED ON HIM.
00:14:28.23\00:14:31.50
AND HE BEGAN TO SAY TO
THEM, 'TODAY THIS SCRIPTURE IS
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FULFILLED IN YOUR HEARING.'
SO ALL BORE WITNESS TO HIM, AND
00:14:34.40\00:14:38.53
MARVELED AT THE GRACIOUS
WORDS WHICH PROCEEDED OUT OF HIS
00:14:38.53\00:14:42.40
MOUTH. AND THEY SAID, 'IS
THIS NOT JOSEPH'S SON?' " -
00:14:42.40\00:14:44.93
WHERE DID HE GET THIS
LEARNING? GRACIOUS WORDS -
00:14:44.93\00:14:47.20
NOTICE - JESUS IS ANNOUNCING THE
INAUGURATION OF HIS MINISTRY.
00:14:47.20\00:14:53.16
HE DOES IT IN HIS HOMETOWN
AND HE DOES IT ON THE SABBATH.
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SOMETHING ELSE IS VERY
IMPORTANT ABOUT THIS PASSAGE.
00:14:57.70\00:15:00.80
NOTICE WHAT JESUS' MODE
OF PREACHING WAS - HE READ A
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PASSAGE OF SCRIPTURE
AND THEN HE EXPOUNDED ON IT.
00:15:04.56\00:15:08.00
A LOT OF TIMES YOU HEAR
PREACHERS GET UP AND THEY'LL
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TAKE A NEWSPAPER CLIPPING AND
THEY'LL SHARE A FUNNY STORY AND
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THEN THEY JUST KIND OF WAX
ELOQUENT AND PONTIFICATE ON
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THOSE THINGS. JESUS
WAS A BIBLE PREACHER.
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FIRST THING WAS HE READ A
PASSAGE AND THEN HE SAT DOWN AND
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HE TALKED TO PEOPLE AND HE
EXPOUNDED ON WHAT THE PASSAGE OF
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SCRIPTURE SAYS. HE
WAS A BIBLE PREACHER.
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BUT HE USED THE SABBATH
TO, BASICALLY, INAUGURATE AND
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ANNOUNCE THE
BEGINNING OF HIS MINISTRY.
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ALRIGHT, YOU CAN LOOK IN - WE'RE
GOING TO TALK A LITTLE BIT ABOUT
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WHAT HE DID IN CAPERNAUM.
GO TO MARK CHAPTER 1, VERSE 21.
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"THEN THEY WENT INTO CAPERNAUM,
AND IMMEDIATELY ON THE SABBATH"
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- IF YOU WANT TO HAVE AN
INTERESTING STUDY SOMETIME, TAKE
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YOUR BIBLE - HOW MANY OF YOU
HAVE BIBLE COMPUTER PROGRAMS OR
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YOU'VE GOT THE BIBLE ON THE -
JUST ABOUT EVERYBODY NOW, RIGHT?
00:15:54.96\00:15:58.03
TYPE IN THE WORD 'IMMEDIATELY'
OR 'STRAIGHTWAY' - YOU'LL BE
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SURPRISED HOW
OFTEN MARK SAYS THAT.
00:16:01.96\00:16:04.06
MARK IS THE FASTEST GOSPEL.
IT JUST IS ALWAYS SAYING,
00:16:04.06\00:16:07.56
'IMMEDIATELY,' 'STRAIGHTWAY,'
AND - OR DIFFERENT SIMILAR TERMS
00:16:07.56\00:16:11.00
- HE "WENT INTO CAPERNAUM, AND
IMMEDIATELY ON THE SABBATH HE
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ENTERED THE
SYNAGOGUE AND TAUGHT."
00:16:14.76\00:16:16.53
YOU KNOW, THEY HAVE DISCOVERED
THE ANCIENT CITY OF CAPERNAUM
00:16:16.53\00:16:18.40
AND THEY'VE ACTUALLY FOUND A
SYNAGOGUE IN CAPERNAUM AND WHEN
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YOU GO TO ISRAEL AND YOU TRAVEL
AROUND - YOU KNOW, ONE OF THESE
00:16:21.70\00:16:26.06
DAYS, AMAZING FACTS IS THINKING
OF TAKING A GROUP TO ISRAEL.
00:16:26.06\00:16:28.06
THAT WOULD BE VERY INTERESTING.
00:16:28.06\00:16:29.90
I'VE BEEN THERE A COUPLE OF
TIMES AND WHEN YOU GO TO ISRAEL,
00:16:29.90\00:16:33.70
YOU GO TO ONE TOWN AND THERE'LL
BE FOUR CHURCHES THAT WILL SAY,
00:16:33.70\00:16:37.36
'THIS IS WHERE JESUS WAS BORN.'
THEY ALL HAVE A DIFFERENT PLACE.
00:16:37.36\00:16:39.40
AND THEY'LL ALL SAY, 'THIS WAS
THE SERMON ON THE MOUNT - THIS
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IS THE MOUNT WHERE JESUS DID THE
SERMON.' AND ALL THE CHURCHES
00:16:43.23\00:16:44.96
HAVE BUILT ON DIFFERENT
MOUNTAINS AND SAY, 'NO, THIS WAS
00:16:44.96\00:16:47.06
THE MOUNTAIN.' 'NO, THIS WAS
THE MOUNTAIN. WE HAVE THE SPOT.'
00:16:47.06\00:16:49.10
'YOU CAN STAND WHERE JESUS
STOOD.' 'NO, IT'S NOT THERE.
00:16:49.10\00:16:50.50
IT'S HERE.' THEY ALL ARGUE AMONG
THEMSELVES FOR THESE TOURIST
00:16:50.50\00:16:53.30
LOCATIONS. BUT WHEN
YOU GO TO CAPERNAUM, IT
00:16:53.30\00:16:56.80
WAS A SMALL TOWN, THEY DID
DISCOVER ONE ANCIENT SYNAGOGUE
00:16:56.80\00:16:59.23
THERE. THAT WAS
PROBABLY THE SYNAGOGUE
00:16:59.23\00:17:02.26
BECAUSE THEY DIDN'T
HAVE THAT MANY OF THEM.
00:17:02.26\00:17:04.76
IT WAS A SMALL FISHING VILLAGE
AND SO YOU CAN LOOK AT - AT
00:17:04.76\00:17:08.46
LEAST THE FOUNDATION STONES - OF
THE PLACE WHERE JESUS PROBABLY
00:17:08.46\00:17:11.10
ACTUALLY STOOD AND TAUGHT
AND IT'S VERY INTERESTING -
00:17:11.10\00:17:15.46
KIND OF MOVING. AND HE
"WENT INTO CAPERNAUM, AND
00:17:15.46\00:17:18.73
IMMEDIATELY ON THE SABBATH
HE ENTERED THE SYNAGOGUE AND
00:17:18.73\00:17:20.73
TAUGHT. AND THEY
WERE ASTONISHED AT HIS
00:17:20.73\00:17:23.03
TEACHING, FOR HE TAUGHT THEM AS
ONE HAVING AUTHORITY, AND NOT AS
00:17:23.03\00:17:26.13
THE SCRIBES." SO ARE
YOU SEEING THE PATTERN?
00:17:26.13\00:17:28.20
THERE WAS A PRACTICE OF JESUS
TO ENTER INTO THE SYNAGOGUE AND
00:17:28.20\00:17:30.93
TEACH AND PREACH ON THE SABBATH.
GO TO LUKE 6, VERSE 6 - TALKING
00:17:30.93\00:17:37.30
ABOUT A SIMILAR OCCASION - "NOW
IT HAPPENED ON ANOTHER SABBATH,
00:17:37.30\00:17:42.46
ALSO, THAT HE ENTERED
THE SYNAGOGUE AND TAUGHT.
00:17:42.46\00:17:45.13
AND A MAN WAS THERE WHOSE RIGHT
HAND WAS WITHERED" - IT SAYS HIS
00:17:45.13\00:17:50.93
RIGHT HAND WAS WITHERED - "SO
THE SCRIBES AND THE PHARISEES
00:17:50.93\00:17:54.23
WATCHED HIM CLOSELY, WHETHER
HE WOULD HEAL (JESUS) ON THE
00:17:54.23\00:17:56.90
SABBATH, THAT THEY MIGHT
FIND AN ACCUSATION AGAINST HIM.
00:17:56.90\00:17:59.36
BUT HE KNEW THEIR THOUGHTS,
AND SAID TO THE MAN WHO HAD THE
00:17:59.36\00:18:03.20
WITHERED HAND, 'ARISE AND STAND
HERE.'" - HE HAD HIM GET UP AND
00:18:03.20\00:18:06.53
STAND FORWARD. AND THIS IS
THE FIRST TIME JESUS DOES THIS.
00:18:06.53\00:18:09.43
HE'S GOING TO HEAL SOMEONE, BUT
BEFORE HE HEALS HIM HE MAKES IT
00:18:09.43\00:18:11.73
AN OBJECT LESSON - "THEN JESUS
SAID TO THEM, 'I WILL ASK YOU
00:18:11.73\00:18:16.36
ONE THING: IS IT LAWFUL ON
THE SABBATH TO DO GOOD OR TO DO
00:18:16.36\00:18:20.56
EVIL, TO SAVE
LIFE OR TO DESTROY?'
00:18:20.56\00:18:22.96
AND WHEN HE HAD LOOKED AROUND AT
THEM ALL," - THEY SAID NOTHING.
00:18:22.96\00:18:28.06
OTHER PLACES IT SAYS HE LOOKED
AROUND AT THEM WITH ANGER - THE
00:18:28.06\00:18:30.36
SAME STORY - BECAUSE HE WAS
SO FRUSTRATED THAT THEY DIDN'T
00:18:30.36\00:18:34.56
UNDERSTAND THAT ANSWER TO A
SIMPLE QUESTION: IS THE SABBATH
00:18:34.56\00:18:37.46
A DAY FOR DOING GOOD?
WAS IT WRONG TO HEAL ON THE
00:18:37.46\00:18:40.23
SABBATH? I MEAN,
CAN GOD NOT PERFORM A
00:18:40.23\00:18:43.56
MIRACLE ON THE SABBATH?
THAT WAS VERY FRUSTRATING TO THE
00:18:43.56\00:18:49.23
LORD - THEY DIDN'T
APPRECIATE THAT TRUTH.
00:18:49.23\00:18:51.43
"AND WHEN HE HAD LOOKED AROUND
AT THEM ALL, HE SAID TO THE MAN,
00:18:51.43\00:18:55.53
'STRETCH OUT YOUR HAND.'
AND HE DID SO, AND HIS HAND WAS
00:18:55.53\00:18:58.56
RESTORED AS WHOLE AS THE OTHER.
BUT THEY WERE FILLED WITH RAGE,
00:18:58.56\00:19:04.20
AND DISCUSSED WITH ONE ANOTHER
WHAT THEY MIGHT DO TO JESUS."
00:19:04.20\00:19:06.53
WHAT KIND OF SPIRIT IS IT THAT
WOULD MAKE YOU ANGRY AT A MAN
00:19:06.53\00:19:12.86
WHO HAD JUST GIVEN ANOTHER
MAN THE USE OF HIS HAND BACK AND
00:19:12.86\00:19:18.16
MADE HIM WHOLE?
WOULDN'T YOU THINK THAT'S CAUSE
00:19:18.16\00:19:20.10
FOR REJOICING?
BUT THEY WERE ANGRY.
00:19:20.10\00:19:23.46
THEY WERE SO BOUND UP IN WHAT
THEIR BELIEFS WERE AND THAT HE
00:19:23.46\00:19:26.63
WAS COUNTERMANDING THEIR
OPINIONS THAT THEY WANTED TO
00:19:26.63\00:19:30.10
DESTROY HIM JUST TO
PRESERVE THEIR OPINIONS.
00:19:30.10\00:19:33.16
OBVIOUSLY, THAT'S
NOT THE RIGHT SPIRIT.
00:19:33.16\00:19:35.66
THEY DISCUSSED WITH ONE ANOTHER
WHAT THEY MIGHT DO TO JESUS.
00:19:35.66\00:19:38.83
'HOW DARE HIM PERFORM A
MIRACLE?' I MEAN, WHO DO THEY
00:19:38.83\00:19:42.00
THINK DID THE
MIRACLE? WASN'T IT FROM GOD?
00:19:42.00\00:19:44.50
HOW DARE GOD DO THIS
AND BREAK HIS SABBATH?
00:19:44.50\00:19:47.20
YOU KNOW, JESUS SAID, 'MY FATHER
WORKS AND I WORK ALSO.' YOU
00:19:47.20\00:19:50.83
KNOW, A NUMBER OF MIRACLES AND A
LOT OF CONTROVERSY THAT OCCURRED
00:19:50.83\00:19:56.00
REGARDING THE SABBATH DAY -
BUT NEVER ONCE WAS IT BECAUSE
00:19:56.00\00:20:01.00
THE SABBATH DAY WAS NOT TO BE
KEPT. THE CONTROVERSIES AND THE
00:20:01.00\00:20:05.23
CONTENTION THAT JESUS HAD WITH
THE RELIGIOUS LEADERS REGARDING
00:20:05.23\00:20:08.83
MIRACLES ON THE SABBATH DAY,
NEVER HAD TO DO WITH WHETHER OR
00:20:08.83\00:20:13.40
NOT THE SABBATH
DAY SHOULD BE KEPT.
00:20:13.40\00:20:15.50
IT ALWAYS REVOLVED
AROUND HOW IT SHOULD BE KEPT.
00:20:15.50\00:20:19.43
SO WHEN PEOPLE SAY WE DON'T NEED
TO KEEP THE SABBATH ANYMORE -
00:20:19.43\00:20:22.36
'BECAUSE, YOU KNOW, JESUS HEALED
ON THE SABBATH' OR 'JESUS PICKED
00:20:22.36\00:20:25.73
GRAIN ON THE SABBATH' AND THE
DIFFERENT THINGS THAT HAPPENED -
00:20:25.73\00:20:28.36
NEVER DID JESUS SAY WE
DON'T NEED TO KEEP THE SABBATH
00:20:28.36\00:20:31.76
ANYMORE. THAT WOULD HAVE
BEEN SO EASY FOR HIM TO SAY.
00:20:31.76\00:20:33.66
BUT IT WAS ALWAYS ABOUT
HOW TO KEEP THE SABBATH.
00:20:33.66\00:20:39.66
WITH A LOT OF THE LAW OF GOD IT
WASN'T SO MUCH WHETHER OR NOT TO
00:20:39.66\00:20:43.43
KEEP IT, BUT HOW TO KEEP IT.
DID JESUS HAVE A DISPUTE WITH
00:20:43.43\00:20:47.10
THE COMMANDMENT 'HONOR
YOUR FATHER AND MOTHER' WITH THE
00:20:47.10\00:20:50.33
RELIGIOUS
LEADERS? HE DID, ACTUALLY.
00:20:50.33\00:20:52.50
YEAH, HE - BUT IT DIDN'T HAVE
ANYTHING TO DO WITH WHETHER OR
00:20:52.50\00:20:56.33
NOT THEY SHOULD KEEP
IT, IT WAS HOW TO KEEP IT.
00:20:56.33\00:20:59.06
NOW, FOR INSTANCE, THEY HAD
A LAW WHERE YOU COULD WILL YOUR
00:20:59.06\00:21:02.13
PROPERTY TO THE CHURCH - TO THE
TEMPLE - AND YOU DIDN'T HAVE TO
00:21:02.13\00:21:04.80
TAKE CARE OF YOUR
PARENTS IN THEIR OLD AGE.
00:21:04.80\00:21:06.66
IT WAS CALLED CORBAN.
00:21:06.66\00:21:08.00
JESUS SAID, 'YOU DECLARE CORBAN
OVER YOUR PROPERTY SO YOU CAN
00:21:08.00\00:21:10.90
LIVE OFF YOUR PROPERTY WHILE
YOUR MOTHER AND FATHER GET OLD
00:21:10.90\00:21:13.56
AND THEY CAN'T TAKE CARE OF
THEMSELVES AND YOU NEGLECT THE
00:21:13.56\00:21:16.10
COMMANDMENT THAT SAYS 'HONOR
YOUR FATHER AND MOTHER' SO YOU
00:21:16.10\00:21:18.93
CAN KEEP A TRADITION.' SO THERE
WAS A NUMBER OF THE LAWS - DID
00:21:18.93\00:21:23.33
THEY MISAPPLY THE
LAWS ABOUT DIVORCE?
00:21:23.33\00:21:25.70
THEY SAID, 'OH, BUT THE
RELIGIOUS LEADERS SAID THAT WE
00:21:25.70\00:21:28.66
CAN GET A DIVORCE.' HE SAID,
'BECAUSE OF THE HARDNESS OF YOUR
00:21:28.66\00:21:30.73
HEARTS, BUT THAT'S NOT GOD'S
WILL.' SO JESUS CAME TO MAGNIFY
00:21:30.73\00:21:32.93
- WHEN YOU MAGNIFY
SOMETHING, WHAT DO YOU DO?
00:21:32.93\00:21:35.73
YOU MAKE IT CLEAR.
YOU MAKE IT HONORABLE.
00:21:35.73\00:21:40.20
HE CAME TO MAGNIFY THE
LAW AND MAKE IT HONORABLE.
00:21:40.20\00:21:42.56
YOU KNOW, IF OUR GOVERNMENT -
NOW YOU DRIVE IN CALIFORNIA, AT
00:21:42.56\00:21:48.93
LEAST HERE WHERE THIS IS BEING
RECORDED - ARE YOU ALLOWED TO
00:21:48.93\00:21:52.03
MAKE A RIGHT TURN ON
A RED LIGHT? YOU ARE.
00:21:52.03\00:21:56.10
THAT'S NOT TRUE
EVERYWHERE, BUT YOU CAN.
00:21:56.10\00:21:59.20
SUPPOSE THAT THE LAW CHANGED
AND ALL OF A SUDDEN IT BECAME
00:21:59.20\00:22:04.20
ILLEGAL TO MAKE A
RIGHT TURN ON A RED LIGHT.
00:22:04.20\00:22:07.46
AND THE STATE VOTED THIS NEW LAW
IN BUT THEY DIDN'T TELL YOU OR
00:22:07.46\00:22:13.53
THEY DIDN'T ADVERTISE IT AND YOU
GET PULLED OVER AND YOU PROTEST
00:22:13.53\00:22:18.33
TO THE POLICEMAN AND SAY,
'THIS ISN'T VERY FAIR.' AND THE
00:22:18.33\00:22:21.30
POLICEMAN WOULD SAY, 'WELL, THEY
MADE A NEW LAW.' AND YOU SAID,
00:22:21.30\00:22:25.93
'BUT YOU DIDN'T ANNOUNCE IT, YOU
DIDN'T ADVERTISE IT, YOU DIDN'T
00:22:25.93\00:22:28.63
TELL US.' DO YOU KNOW, IF THEY
WERE GOING TO ENACT A NEW LAW
00:22:28.63\00:22:32.73
THAT SAYS YOU CAN TURN LEFT ON
A RED LIGHT BUT YOU CAN'T TURN
00:22:32.73\00:22:36.36
RIGHT, TWO
THINGS HAVE TO HAPPEN.
00:22:36.36\00:22:38.30
YOU HAVE TO NULLIFY THE OLD
LAW AND VOTE IN THE NEW LAW.
00:22:38.30\00:22:43.96
YOU CANNOT VOTE IN A NEW
LAW THAT CONTRADICTS AN OLD LAW
00:22:43.96\00:22:46.90
UNTIL YOU ALSO HAVE A SEPARATE
LAW THAT NULLIFIES THE OLD LAW.
00:22:46.90\00:22:51.73
SO IN ORDER FOR THE SABBATH
TO HAVE CHANGED FROM SATURDAY TO
00:22:51.73\00:22:56.03
SUNDAY, TWO THINGS NEEDED
TO HAPPEN. ONE IS YOU NEEDED TO
00:22:56.03\00:22:59.23
FIND A NEW COMMANDMENT THAT SAYS
'YOU WILL NOW KEEP THE FIRST DAY
00:22:59.23\00:23:02.23
AS THE SABBATH.' DO YOU
FIND THAT ANYWHERE IN THE BIBLE?
00:23:02.23\00:23:04.96
THE SECOND THING WOULD HAPPEN
IS YOU WOULD NEED TO FIND A
00:23:04.96\00:23:08.16
COMMANDMENT - THIS IS ONE OF THE
TEN COMMANDMENTS - AS GOES THE
00:23:08.16\00:23:11.46
LAW, SO GOES THE SABBATH,
BECAUSE THE SABBATH IS IN THE
00:23:11.46\00:23:14.50
VERY HEART OF IT. IT'S THE ONLY
COMMANDMENT THAT BEGINS WITH THE
00:23:14.50\00:23:16.86
WORD 'REMEMBER.' IT'S OBVIOUSLY
VERY IMPORTANT TO THE LORD.
00:23:16.86\00:23:19.53
I WAS READING A BOOK - ANY
OF YOU HEARD OF M.L. ANDREASEN -
00:23:19.53\00:23:23.00
ADVENTIST AUTHOR? M.L. ANDREASEN
- THE PASTOR WHO BAPTIZED ME
00:23:23.00\00:23:27.70
GAVE ME SOME BOOKS AND I PULLED
OUT SOME OLD BOOKS THIS WEEK AND
00:23:27.70\00:23:30.23
WAS READING A BOOK BY
M.L. ANDREASEN - IT'S GREAT.
00:23:30.23\00:23:32.86
IT'S CALLED THE LAW OF GOD AND
THE FAITH OF JESUS AND I OPENED
00:23:32.86\00:23:37.53
IT UP AND I OPENED IT UP AND
FOUND THAT IT WAS A SIGNED COPY.
00:23:37.53\00:23:39.73
I DIDN'T REALIZE THAT. BUT
HE HAS AN EXCELLENT SECTION
00:23:39.73\00:23:42.26
THERE AT THE END OF
THAT BOOK ON THE SABBATH DAY.
00:23:42.26\00:23:44.56
AND YOU GET DONE READING
THAT AND YOU THINK, 'HOW COME
00:23:44.56\00:23:47.06
RELIGIOUS
LEADERS CANNOT SEE THIS?
00:23:47.06\00:23:49.66
THE LAW, IN THE BIBLE, FOR
KEEPING THE FIRST DAY OF THE
00:23:49.66\00:23:53.40
WEEK IS NON-EXISTENT.
THERE IS NO COMMANDMENT THAT
00:23:53.40\00:23:57.30
NULLIFIES THE FOURTH
COMMANDMENT. MATTER OF FACT,
00:23:57.30\00:24:01.26
YOU READ IN HEBREWS, IT SAYS
'THERE REMAINS, THEREFORE, THE
00:24:01.26\00:24:03.76
KEEPING OF A SABBATH FOR
THE PEOPLE OF GOD.' AND HE SAYS,
00:24:03.76\00:24:06.90
'HE SPAKE IN A CERTAIN PLACE ON
THE SEVENTH DAY.' IT NEVER SAYS
00:24:06.90\00:24:09.40
HE SPAKE ABOUT THE
FIRST DAY BEING A SABBATH.
00:24:09.40\00:24:12.60
IT IS TOTALLY A TRADITION AND
SPECULATION THAT, BECAUSE JESUS
00:24:12.60\00:24:15.86
ROSE ON THE FIRST DAY, THAT IT
SUDDENLY BECAME THE NEW SABBATH.
00:24:15.86\00:24:19.10
NOW JESUS DOES GIVE US SOMETHING
TO REMEMBER HIS RESURRECTION -
00:24:19.10\00:24:23.53
WHAT IS IT? IT'S BAPTISM.
BAPTISM IS A TYPE OF DEATH,
00:24:23.53\00:24:28.43
BURIAL, AND RESURRECTION
- NOT A NEW SABBATH DAY.
00:24:28.43\00:24:30.90
AND IF THE BIBLE SAYS THAT ON
THE SIXTH DAY GOD FINISHED HIS
00:24:30.90\00:24:36.13
WORK AND HE RESTED THE SEVENTH
DAY - SO THERE'S A REASON THAT
00:24:36.13\00:24:39.13
HE CHOSE THE SEVENTH DAY, WHERE
DOES IT COMMAND THAT GOD DID
00:24:39.13\00:24:42.76
SOMETHING ELSE? WHEN JESUS
FINISHED HIS WORK OF SAVING US
00:24:42.76\00:24:46.53
FROM OUR SINS. WHAT DAY OF
THE WEEK WAS THAT? FRIDAY, THE
00:24:46.53\00:24:51.76
SIXTH DAY. WHEN DID HE REST
FROM SAVING US? THE SABBATH.
00:24:51.76\00:24:56.23
SO NOT ONLY DOES GOD ENDORSE THE
SEVENTH DAY BECAUSE HE RESTED
00:24:56.23\00:25:00.90
FROM HIS WORK IN THE OLD
TESTAMENT, JESUS, IN THE NEW
00:25:00.90\00:25:04.13
TESTAMENT - IN THE GOSPEL -
ENDORSES THE SEVENTH DAY BECAUSE
00:25:04.13\00:25:07.00
HE RESTS FROM HIS
WORK OF SAVING US FROM SIN.
00:25:07.00\00:25:09.53
AND HE SAID, 'IT IS FINISHED.'
AND HE GOES TO SLEEP AND HE
00:25:09.53\00:25:12.73
RISES TO CONTINUE HIS WORK
AS OUR HIGH PRIEST ON SUNDAY.
00:25:12.73\00:25:17.06
IT'S NOT INAUGURATED
AS A NEW DAY OF REST.
00:25:17.06\00:25:19.36
AND SO I JUST AM ALWAYS AMAZED
AND, YOU KNOW, THAT'S ONE REASON
00:25:19.36\00:25:23.20
I BECAME A SEVENTH-DAY ADVENTIST
CHRISTIAN, IS JUST THE BIBLE
00:25:23.20\00:25:25.36
EVIDENCE, TO ME, WAS WHAT
YOU WOULD SAY IN THE BASKETBALL
00:25:25.36\00:25:28.53
VERNACULAR, A SLAM-DUNK.
IT WAS JUST SO CLEAR THAT I
00:25:28.53\00:25:32.03
COULD NEVER UNDERSTAND -
ALRIGHT, LET'S GO TO THE NEXT
00:25:32.03\00:25:35.90
SECTION UNDER MONDAY - SABBATH:
ITS MEANING AND ITS MESSAGE .
00:25:35.90\00:25:40.46
LUKE 4:17 - ACTUALLY, I
ALREADY READ THIS ONE TO YOU.
00:25:40.46\00:25:44.86
SO I WANT TO GO TO - WHAT
IS THE MEANING FOR THE SABBATH?
00:25:44.86\00:25:49.43
WELL, PART OF THE MEANING OF THE
SABBATH IS IT'S CALLED 'A HOLY
00:25:49.43\00:25:52.60
CONVOCATION.' NOW
SOME PEOPLE ARE CONFUSED.
00:25:52.60\00:25:55.30
THERE'S A LAW IN THE OLD
TESTAMENT WHICH SAYS, DURING THE
00:25:55.30\00:25:58.93
SABBATH DAY, YOU'RE NOT
TO GO OUT OF YOUR DWELLINGS.
00:25:58.93\00:26:01.70
AND PEOPLE SAY - I
ACTUALLY HEARD THIS OSTENSIBLY
00:26:01.70\00:26:05.90
SABBATH-KEEPING PASTOR TELL
PEOPLE AT CAMP MEETING, 'SABBATH
00:26:05.90\00:26:08.16
DAY YOU'RE NOT TO GO OUT OF YOUR
DWELLINGS - IT'S A DAY TO JUST
00:26:08.16\00:26:11.00
STAY AT HOME AT
REST.' CAN YOU BELIEVE THAT?
00:26:11.00\00:26:12.60
HE SAID, 'YOU DON'T
HAVE TO GO TO CHURCH.
00:26:12.60\00:26:14.96
IT ACTUALLY SAYS YOU SHOULD NOT
GO OUT OF YOUR DWELLINGS.' WELL,
00:26:14.96\00:26:17.56
WHEN GOD SAYS THAT IN THE OLD
TESTAMENT, IT'S IN THE CONTEXT
00:26:17.56\00:26:19.93
OF SOMEBODY GOING OUT LOOKING
FOR FIREWOOD AND THEY WERE
00:26:19.93\00:26:23.40
NOT TO GO OUT
LOOKING FOR FIREWOOD.
00:26:23.40\00:26:26.00
BUT IN THE OLD TESTAMENT IT SAYS
THE SABBATH WAS - LET ME READ IT
00:26:26.00\00:26:30.06
TO YOU - LEVITICUS 23:3, "SIX
DAYS SHALL WORK BE DONE, BUT THE
00:26:30.06\00:26:35.10
SEVENTH DAY IS A SABBATH OF
SOLEMN REST, A HOLY CONVOCATION.
00:26:35.10\00:26:40.20
YOU SHALL DO NO WORK ON IT;
IT IS THE SABBATH OF THE LORD IN
00:26:40.20\00:26:43.73
ALL YOUR DWELLINGS." -
NOT THE SABBATH OF THE JEWS,
00:26:43.73\00:26:45.96
THE SABBATH OF WHO? OF THE LORD.
"A HOLY CONVOCATION." - WHAT IS
00:26:45.96\00:26:50.53
A CONVOCATION? A
GATHERING; AN ASSEMBLY.
00:26:50.53\00:26:54.86
SO, SOME PEOPLE SAY, 'YOU KNOW,
PASTOR DOUG, I'M SORRY I DIDN'T
00:26:54.86\00:26:58.30
MAKE IT TO CHURCH THIS
WEEK. IT WAS A ROUGH WEEK.
00:26:58.30\00:27:01.10
I NEEDED TO STAY HOME AND REST.'
AND I'M NOT SAYING THAT THERE'S
00:27:01.10\00:27:04.03
NEVER AN OCCASION WHERE YOU
ARE SO UTTERLY PHYSICALLY AND
00:27:04.03\00:27:06.16
MENTALLY EXHAUSTED THAT YOU JUST
CAN'T GET OUT OF BED YOU NEED A
00:27:06.16\00:27:08.00
REST. IT DOESN'T
MEAN - THERE'S TIMES
00:27:08.00\00:27:09.66
FOR THAT, I UNDERSTAND
THAT. NOTICE HOW I EMPHASIZE YOU
00:27:09.66\00:27:11.60
BETTER BE UTTERLY PHYSICALLY,
MENTALLY EXHAUSTED WHERE IT'S
00:27:11.60\00:27:15.50
ACTUALLY A MEDICAL EMERGENCY
- YOU BETTER STAY HOME AND REST.
00:27:15.50\00:27:18.23
BECAUSE PART OF SABBATH KEEPING
IS NOT JUST NOT DOING WORK, THE
00:27:18.23\00:27:23.60
BIBLE SAYS IT IS A HOLY
CONVOCATION - NOT JUST A
00:27:23.60\00:27:27.06
CONVOCATION, BUT
A HOLY CONVOCATION.
00:27:27.06\00:27:29.56
HOW IMPORTANT IS THAT?
WHEN GOD SAYS IT'S A HOLY
00:27:29.56\00:27:33.63
CONVOCATION, THAT
MEANS WE NEED TO BE THERE.
00:27:33.63\00:27:36.26
THAT'S AN ASSEMBLY. WE
CONVENE. WE COME TOGETHER.
00:27:36.26\00:27:41.73
DOES THE LORD WANT US GOING
TO CHURCH ON THE SABBATH DAY?
00:27:41.73\00:27:43.96
HE DOES, OBVIOUSLY. AND
SO, WHEN IT TALKS ABOUT THE
00:27:43.96\00:27:47.40
MEANING OF THE SABBATH, ONE OF
THE THINGS IS WHY DO WE CONVENE?
00:27:47.40\00:27:50.10
IT'S SOMETHING WHERE WE GET
TOGETHER FOR CORPORATE WORSHIP.
00:27:50.10\00:27:54.53
IT'S A TIME TO COME TOGETHER
AS ONE BODY AND TO PRAISE AND TO
00:27:54.53\00:27:58.76
WORSHIP. DO WE
GATHER STRENGTH WHEN WE
00:27:58.76\00:28:01.16
WORSHIP TOGETHER? DOES
THE NEW TESTAMENT TELL US
00:28:01.16\00:28:05.46
ABOUT THE IMPORTANCE OF
MEETING TOGETHER AS A BODY?
00:28:05.46\00:28:08.66
AND, YOU KNOW, SOMEONE MIGHT
BE THE EYE, SOMEONE ELSE IS THE
00:28:08.66\00:28:13.73
ARM, SOMEONE ELSE IS THE FOOT,
SOMEONE ELSE IS THE MOUTH -
00:28:13.73\00:28:16.36
WE'RE ALL DIFFERENT PARTS OF
THE BODY. WELL, THE BODY IS ALL
00:28:16.36\00:28:19.50
SCATTERED THROUGH THE WEEK
IN DIFFERENT PARTS AND DIFFERENT
00:28:19.50\00:28:22.26
PLACES. WE NEED TO COME TOGETHER
- IT'S NICE TO COME TOGETHER AT
00:28:22.26\00:28:24.83
PRAYER MEETING AND OTHER TIMES,
BUT ESPECIALLY IF THERE'S ONE
00:28:24.83\00:28:27.50
DAY YOU SHOULD NOT NEGLECT,
THE GATHERING TOGETHER OF THE
00:28:27.50\00:28:30.33
SAINTS. YOU KNOW HOW IT SAYS
IN HEBREWS CHAPTER 10 'DO NOT
00:28:30.33\00:28:34.23
FORSAKE THE ASSEMBLING OF
YOURSELVES TOGETHER AND ALL THE
00:28:34.23\00:28:36.83
MORE AS YOU SEE THE DAY
APPROACHING.' HOW MANY OF YOU
00:28:36.83\00:28:38.83
SEE THE DAY OF
THE LORD APPROACHING?
00:28:38.83\00:28:40.43
ALL THE MORE AS YOU SEE THE
DAY APPROACHING YOU SHOULD NOT
00:28:40.43\00:28:42.73
NEGLECT THE COMING
TOGETHER OF THE SAINTS.
00:28:42.73\00:28:45.76
AND THE SABBATH WAS, FOR
ONE THING, ITS MEANING 'A HOLY
00:28:45.76\00:28:50.13
CONVOCATION.' THE SABBATH
WAS A TIME TO STUDY THE WORD.
00:28:50.13\00:28:55.53
JESUS, AS HIS CUSTOM WAS,
ENTERED INTO THE SYNAGOGUE ON
00:28:55.53\00:28:58.43
THE SABBATH AND
READ THE SCRIPTURES.
00:28:58.43\00:29:02.10
HE OPENED THE SCRIPTURES.
IT'S A TIME TO STUDY THE WORD.
00:29:02.10\00:29:05.96
HE EXPOUNDED WHAT THE
MEANING OF THE SCRIPTURES WERE.
00:29:05.96\00:29:08.66
WHY IS THAT IMPORTANT?
PSALM 119, VERSE 11, "YOUR WORD
00:29:08.66\00:29:12.93
I HAVE HIDDEN IN MY HEART, THAT
I MIGHT NOT SIN AGAINST YOU."
00:29:12.93\00:29:17.30
HOW MANY OF YOU KNOW THAT
WE HAVE A PROBLEM WITH SIN?
00:29:17.30\00:29:21.10
JESUS CAME TO SAVE US FROM OUR
- IF HE DOESN'T SAVE US FROM OUR
00:29:21.10\00:29:26.06
SINS WE'RE IN
HOT WATER - OR WORSE!
00:29:26.06\00:29:29.46
IT'S VERY IMPORTANT THAT
WE'RE SAVED FROM OUR SIN.
00:29:29.46\00:29:32.30
THE WORD IS WHERE
THE POWER COMES FROM.
00:29:32.30\00:29:35.63
THERE IS SOMETHING SANCTIFYING
THAT HAPPENS WHEN WE CONVENE AND
00:29:35.63\00:29:38.90
STUDY THE WORD TOGETHER IN
OUR NATURES, IT SAVES US - IT
00:29:38.90\00:29:42.63
FORTIFIES US - AGAINST SIN.
"YOUR WORD I HAVE HIDDEN IN MY
00:29:42.63\00:29:46.06
HEART, THAT I MIGHT NOT SIN
AGAINST YOU." FURTHERMORE, A
00:29:46.06\00:29:49.56
REASON WE KEEP THE SABBATH, IT'S
PART OF GOD'S LAW - PART OF ITS
00:29:49.56\00:29:55.90
MEANING. JESUS SAID IT'S EASIER
FOR HEAVEN AND EARTH TO PASS
00:29:55.90\00:29:58.83
AWAY THAN FOR ONE TITTLE OF
THE LAW TO FAIL. IT'S UNFAILING.
00:29:58.83\00:30:03.40
BY THE WAY, THAT WAS LUKE. YOU
KNOW THE REASON I READ THAT TO
00:30:03.40\00:30:07.53
YOU IN LUKE
CHAPTER 16, VERSE 17?
00:30:07.53\00:30:09.50
WHEN IN MATTHEW HE SAYS IT'S
EASIER FOR HEAVEN AND EARTH TO
00:30:09.50\00:30:13.80
PASS AWAY; NOT ONE JOT OR ONE
TITTLE WILL FAIL FROM THE LAW
00:30:13.80\00:30:16.36
TILL ALL BE FULFILLED, LUKE
DOESN'T EVEN SAY 'TILL ALL BE
00:30:16.36\00:30:20.03
FULFILLED' BECAUSE SOME PEOPLE
MISAPPLY 'TILL ALL BE FULFILLED'
00:30:20.03\00:30:22.46
AND THEY THINK THAT MEANS
- FULFILLED MEANS 'DONE AWAY
00:30:22.46\00:30:25.76
WITH. 'MATTER OF
FACT, LOOK AT THAT WITH ME.
00:30:25.76\00:30:28.66
YOU'VE GOT YOUR BIBLES? GO
TO MATTHEW CHAPTER 5 - I WANT
00:30:28.66\00:30:32.10
TO READ THIS TO YOU.
MATTHEW CHAPTER 5 AND WE'LL
00:30:32.10\00:30:35.33
START AT VERSE 19 - LET'S START
AT VERSE 17, "DO NOT THINK THAT
00:30:35.33\00:30:42.83
I CAME TO DESTROY
THE LAW OR THE PROPHETS.
00:30:42.83\00:30:44.90
I DID NOT COME TO
DESTROY BUT TO FULFILL." -
00:30:44.90\00:30:47.80
NOW SOME PEOPLE THINK FULFILL
MEANS 'I CAME TO DO AWAY WITH
00:30:47.80\00:30:50.90
IT.' THINK ABOUT HOW SILLY
THAT WOULD SOUND: JESUS WOULD BE
00:30:50.90\00:30:56.56
SAYING THEN, 'DON'T THINK I
CAME TO DESTROY THE LAW OR THE
00:30:56.56\00:30:59.50
PROPHETS. I DID NOT
COME TO DESTROY BUT TO
00:30:59.50\00:31:01.46
DO AWAY WITH. THAT
WOULDN'T MAKE SENSE.
00:31:01.46\00:31:05.10
AND THEN READ ON, "FOR
ASSUREDLY, I SAY TO YOU, TILL
00:31:05.10\00:31:08.53
HEAVEN AND EARTH PASS AWAY,
ONE JOT OR ONE TITTLE WILL BY NO
00:31:08.53\00:31:11.36
MEANS PASS FROM THE
LAW TILL ALL IS FULFILLED."
00:31:11.36\00:31:13.70
NOW WHAT DOES 'FULFILLED'
MEAN? IF YOU WANT TO UNDERSTAND
00:31:13.70\00:31:17.63
THE MEANING OF A WORD IN
THE BIBLE, WHERE DO YOU GO TO
00:31:17.63\00:31:20.16
UNDERSTAND IT? THE BIBLE.
FIND OUT, IN OTHER PLACES, HOW
00:31:20.16\00:31:25.50
THE WORD IS USED AND THAT'S
THE BEST WAY TO GET THE CONTEXT.
00:31:25.50\00:31:29.00
JESUS COMES TO JOHN
THE BAPTIST TO BE BAPTIZED.
00:31:29.00\00:31:31.80
JOHN SAYS, 'LORD, IT'S
NOT RIGHT THAT I BAPTIZE YOU.
00:31:31.80\00:31:36.33
YOU'RE THE SON OF GOD, YOU
SHOULD BAPTIZE ME.' AND JESUS
00:31:36.33\00:31:39.00
SAID, 'SUFFER IT TO BE SO
NOW, FOR THUS IT BECOMES US TO
00:31:39.00\00:31:43.36
FULFILL ALL RIGHTEOUSNESS.' NOW
WHAT DID JOHN THE BAPTIST MEAN?
00:31:43.36\00:31:47.86
TO DO AWAY WITH
ALL RIGHTEOUSNESS?
00:31:47.86\00:31:49.96
OR WHAT DID JESUS MEAN THERE?
DO AWAY WITH ALL RIGHTEOUSNESS?
00:31:49.96\00:31:52.73
NO, OBVIOUSLY NOT. IT
MEANS TO FILL SOMETHING FULL.
00:31:52.73\00:31:56.70
THE WORD 'FULFILL' MEANS JUST
WHAT IT SOUNDS LIKE IT MEANS,
00:31:56.70\00:31:59.06
IT MEANS TO FILL SOMETHING FULL.
00:31:59.06\00:32:00.93
AND HE SAID, 'DON'T THINK THAT
I'VE COME TO DESTROY THE LAW.
00:32:00.93\00:32:05.66
AND THEN HE GOES ON TO SAY -
VERSE 19 - "WHOEVER THEREFORE" -
00:32:05.66\00:32:09.53
I'M IN MATTHEW 5:19 - "WHOEVER
THEREFORE BREAKS ONE OF THE
00:32:09.53\00:32:12.66
LEAST OF THESE COMMANDMENTS, AND
TEACHES MEN SO, SHALL BE CALLED
00:32:12.66\00:32:15.50
LEAST IN THE KINGDOM OF HEAVEN;
BUT WHOEVER DOES AND TEACHES
00:32:15.50\00:32:18.83
THEM, HE SHALL BE CALLED
GREAT IN THE KINGDOM OF HEAVEN.
00:32:18.83\00:32:21.56
FOR I SAY TO YOU, THAT UNLESS
YOUR RIGHTEOUSNESS EXCEEDS THE
00:32:21.56\00:32:24.76
RIGHTEOUSNESS OF THE SCRIBES AND
PHARISEES, YOU WILL BY NO MEANS
00:32:24.76\00:32:28.13
ENTER THE KINGDOM OF HEAVEN."
NOW THEY WERE SO FASTIDIOUS
00:32:28.13\00:32:32.13
ABOUT KEEPING THE LAW - THE
SCRIBES AND PHARISEES, JESUS
00:32:32.13\00:32:35.26
SAID, 'YOUR RIGHTEOUSNESS
MUST EXCEED THEIRS.' THEY NEVER
00:32:35.26\00:32:38.70
SUGGESTED DOING
AWAY WITH THE LAW.
00:32:38.70\00:32:40.50
WELL, THEY NOT ONLY
NEEDED A BETTER QUANTITY OF
00:32:40.50\00:32:43.66
RIGHTEOUSNESS, HE'S REALLY
TALKING ABOUT THEY NEEDED A
00:32:43.66\00:32:45.86
BETTER QUALITY OF RIGHTEOUSNESS.
THEIRS WAS EXTERNAL.
00:32:45.86\00:32:48.66
JESUS SAID IT NEEDS TO
BE INTERNAL RIGHTEOUSNESS.
00:32:48.66\00:32:52.06
ANYWAY, BUT THE IDEA THAT
JESUS CAME TO ABOLISH THE TEN
00:32:52.06\00:32:57.43
COMMANDMENTS, NOW NOBODY
EVER ARGUES THAT JESUS CAME TO
00:32:57.43\00:33:01.16
ABOLISH THE LAW THAT SAYS, 'YOU
DON'T MURDER.' OR THAT JESUS
00:33:01.16\00:33:05.00
CAME TO ABOLISH THE LAW
THAT SAYS 'HONOR YOUR FATHER AND
00:33:05.00\00:33:07.53
MOTHER; DON'T KILL; DON'T
HAVE OTHER GODS' - YOU KNOW WHY?
00:33:07.53\00:33:10.50
RICH YOUNG RULER COMES TO JESUS
- THE RICH YOUNG RULER - HE
00:33:10.50\00:33:16.46
COMES TO JESUS AND HE SAYS,
'GOOD MASTER, WHAT GOOD THING
00:33:16.46\00:33:18.76
SHALL I DO THAT I
MIGHT HAVE ETERNAL LIFE?
00:33:18.76\00:33:20.50
AND JESUS SAID, 'READ THE
COMMANDMENTS.' HE SAID, 'WHICH
00:33:20.50\00:33:25.00
ONES?' JESUS
SAID, 'THOU SHALT NOT
00:33:25.00\00:33:27.86
KILL; THOU SHALL NOT STEAL;
HONOR YOUR FATHER AND MOTHER' -
00:33:27.86\00:33:31.16
AND HE QUOTES THE COMMANDMENTS
THAT DEAL WITH MAN'S
00:33:31.16\00:33:33.83
RELATIONSHIP
WITH HIS FELLOW MAN.
00:33:33.83\00:33:36.90
AND HE SAID, 'ALL OF THESE I'VE
KEPT FROM MY YOUTH UP.' SO A
00:33:36.90\00:33:41.33
LAWYER COMES TO JESUS AND HE
SAID, 'WHAT SHOULD I DO TO ENTER
00:33:41.33\00:33:47.63
INTO LIFE?' JESUS
SAID, 'HOW READEST THE
00:33:47.63\00:33:50.16
LAW?' - WHAT DOES THE LAW SAY?
00:33:50.16\00:33:53.90
SO WHEN SOMEONE COMES TO JESUS
AND THEY SAY, 'WHAT MUST I DO TO
00:33:53.90\00:33:56.46
BE SAVED?' - THAT'S
THE RICH YOUNG RULER -
00:33:56.46\00:33:58.80
AND A LAWYER COMES TO JESUS
AND SAYS, 'WHAT DO I DO TO HAVE
00:33:58.80\00:34:01.40
EVERLASTING LIFE?' IN
BOTH CASES YOU KNOW WHAT
00:34:01.40\00:34:03.46
CHRIST POINTED THEM TO? THE LAW.
00:34:03.46\00:34:05.90
YOU MEAN GOD WANTS US TO -
ARE WE SAVED BY KEEPING THE LAW?
00:34:05.90\00:34:09.60
NO, BUT YOUR KEEPING THE LAW
WILL BE AN EVIDENCE THAT YOU ARE
00:34:09.60\00:34:15.70
SAVED. NOW, WHY DO I SAY THAT?
BECAUSE THE BIBLE SAYS THAT.
00:34:15.70\00:34:18.93
YOUR FAITH
WITHOUT WORKS IS DEAD.
00:34:18.93\00:34:22.56
YOU'RE NOT SAVED BY YOUR WORKS,
BUT ARE YOU JUDGED BY YOUR
00:34:22.56\00:34:28.10
WORKS? 'BEHOLD HE
COMES TO REWARD EVERY
00:34:28.10\00:34:30.76
MAN ACCORDING TO HIS
FAITH?' - IT DOESN'T SAY THAT.
00:34:30.76\00:34:33.66
YOU'RE REWARDED ACCORDING TO
YOUR WORKS BECAUSE YOUR WORKS
00:34:33.66\00:34:36.40
WILL INDICATE IF YOUR FAITH IS
GENUINE. WE'RE SAVED BY FAITH,
00:34:36.40\00:34:41.70
BUT IF THE FAITH IS REAL,
THERE WILL BE A DIFFERENCE.
00:34:41.70\00:34:44.20
OTHERWISE, WHO IS THE LORD
TALKING ABOUT WHEN HE SAYS,
00:34:44.20\00:34:46.93
'LORD, LORD?' - ALL
THESE PEOPLE THAT SAY,
00:34:46.93\00:34:49.23
'LORD, LORD,' AND HE
SAYS, 'I DON'T KNOW YOU.
00:34:49.23\00:34:51.23
DEPART FROM ME YE
WHO WORK INIQUITY.
00:34:51.23\00:34:52.96
SO THOSE WHO REALLY KNOW
THE LORD, THERE'S GOING TO BE A
00:34:52.96\00:34:55.96
DIFFERENCE IN THEIR
LIFE. THEY WILL BE LIKE JESUS.
00:34:55.96\00:34:58.13
ISN'T THAT WHAT A CHRISTIAN
IS? AND WHAT ABOUT JESUS?
00:34:58.13\00:35:01.06
DID HE KEEP HIS FATHER'S
COMMANDMENTS? JESUS SAID,
00:35:01.06\00:35:04.00
'I HAVE KEPT MY FATHER'S
COMMANDMENTS AND I ABIDE IN
00:35:04.00\00:35:06.13
HIS LOVE. SO THAT IS DEFINITELY
PART OF WHAT IT MEANS - WHAT THE
00:35:06.13\00:35:11.40
TEACHING OF JESUS WAS.
ALRIGHT, LET'S MOVE ON HERE.
00:35:11.40\00:35:14.90
PART OF THE SABBATH -
THE MEANING OF THE SABBATH -
00:35:14.90\00:35:18.36
IS REST. GOD WANTS
US TO EXPERIENCE REST.
00:35:18.36\00:35:21.33
JESUS SAID, 'COME UNTO ME ALL
YOU WHO ARE - WHO LABOR AND ARE
00:35:21.33\00:35:26.13
HEAVY LADEN AND I WILL GIVE
YOU REST.' HE WANTS US TO HAVE
00:35:26.13\00:35:30.00
PHYSICAL REST, BUT HE
WANTS US MORE THAN THAT, TO HAVE
00:35:30.00\00:35:33.66
SPIRITUAL REST. YOU
KNOW, IF A PERSON HAS
00:35:33.66\00:35:36.70
EVERYTHING PERFECTLY. IF
YOU HAVE A DAY WHERE YOU EAT
00:35:36.70\00:35:42.30
- THE FOOD IS PREPARED
EXACTLY THE WAY YOU LIKE IT.
00:35:42.30\00:35:45.66
SOME PEOPLE SAY, 'YOU KNOW, I
CAN'T EVER GET A GOOD MEAL.' -
00:35:45.66\00:35:47.90
THEY GET THE MEAL JUST LIKE THEY
LIKE IT - AND YOU GET THE BEST
00:35:47.90\00:35:50.43
SEAT ON THE BUS AND YOU GET THE
JOB PROMOTION AND YOU'RE DRIVING
00:35:50.43\00:35:53.56
A COMFORTABLE CAR AND YOU FEEL
NO PHYSICAL MALADY - IF YOU'VE
00:35:53.56\00:35:58.46
GOT EVERY EARTHLY DESIRE
SATISFIED BUT YOU DON'T HAVE
00:35:58.46\00:36:02.50
PEACE IN YOUR
HEART, YOU'RE UNHAPPY.
00:36:02.50\00:36:05.10
THE REASON I SAY THAT IS I KNOW
THAT THERE ARE PEOPLE - SOME IN
00:36:05.10\00:36:09.63
HOLLYWOOD - WHO ARE FAMOUS, WHO
ARE HEALTHY, WHO ARE RICH - AND
00:36:09.63\00:36:15.13
ALL THE AMENITIES - AND THEY
KILLED THEMSELVES BECAUSE THEY
00:36:15.13\00:36:18.20
WERE SO UNHAPPY. AND THEY
WERE EVEN GOOD LOOKING TOO.
00:36:18.20\00:36:20.36
AND THEY KILLED THEMSELVES
BECAUSE THEY WERE SO EMPTY
00:36:20.36\00:36:23.73
AND IT WAS SO MEANINGLESS.
00:36:23.73\00:36:25.60
AND THEN THERE ARE PEOPLE WHO
DON'T HAVE ANY OF THOSE THINGS
00:36:25.60\00:36:30.00
BUT THEY'RE HAPPY BECAUSE
THEY HAVE PEACE IN THEIR HEARTS.
00:36:30.00\00:36:33.20
IF YOUR PEACE - IF YOUR REST
- IS CONTINGENT ON GETTING YOUR
00:36:33.20\00:36:41.50
FOOD FIXED PERFECTLY OR HAVING
THAT PAIR OF SHOES THAT YOU
00:36:41.50\00:36:45.50
WANTED TO BUY OR HAVING THE HOME
YOU WANTED TO BUY OR THE CAR YOU
00:36:45.50\00:36:49.43
WANTED TO BUY - IF YOUR
HAPPINESS IS CONTINGENT ON A
00:36:49.43\00:36:51.30
PERFECT - WEATHER - A DAY OF
PERFECT WEATHER, CIRCUMSTANCES
00:36:51.30\00:36:57.73
WILL ROB YOU OF YOUR HAPPINESS
BECAUSE THINGS WILL GO WRONG.
00:36:57.73\00:37:00.46
YOUR HAPPINESS WILL
CONSTANTLY BE FICKLE BASED UPON
00:37:00.46\00:37:03.63
CIRCUMSTANCES. BUT IF
YOUR HAPPINESS IS BASED
00:37:03.63\00:37:06.80
UPON YOUR RELATIONSHIP WITH THE
LORD, THE DEVIL CAN NEVER TAKE
00:37:06.80\00:37:09.83
IT AWAY, RIGHT? IT'S NOT
SUBJECT TO CIRCUMSTANCES.
00:37:09.83\00:37:14.86
THERE - JESUS SAID IT'S LIKE
WATER THAT STARTS ON THE INSIDE.
00:37:14.86\00:37:17.66
IT'S NOT WATER ON - A WELL ON
THE OUTSIDE, HE TOLD THE WOMAN
00:37:17.66\00:37:20.50
'IT'S AN ARTESIAN WELL
WITHIN YOU THAT SPRINGS UP.'
00:37:20.50\00:37:24.33
IT'S SELF-SUPPLYING.
THIS IS THE REST THAT THE
00:37:24.33\00:37:27.60
SABBATH REPRESENTS -
JESUS IS OFFERING US.
00:37:27.60\00:37:31.36
IN - SOMETHING ELSE THE
SABBATH IS A SIGN OF: IT SAYS,
00:37:31.36\00:37:37.93
'SPEAK TO THE
CHILDREN OF ISRAEL.
00:37:37.93\00:37:39.63
SURELY MY SABBATHS YOU WILL KEEP
FOR IT IS A SIGN' - BY THE WAY,
00:37:39.63\00:37:42.96
THAT'S EXODUS 31:13 AND 14 -
I SHOULD GIVE YOU THE VERSE -
00:37:42.96\00:37:46.26
EXODUS 31:13 AND 14 - "SPEAK
ALSO TO THE CHILDREN OF ISRAEL,
00:37:46.26\00:37:51.10
SAYING: 'SURELY MY SABBATHS
YOU SHALL KEEP, FOR IT IS A SIGN
00:37:51.10\00:37:54.80
BETWEEN ME AND YOU THROUGHOUT
YOUR GENERATIONS, THAT YOU MAY
00:37:54.80\00:37:57.70
KNOW THAT I AM THE
LORD WHO SANCTIFIES YOU." -
00:37:57.70\00:37:59.63
NOW, I WANT TO STOP HERE.
SOME WILL SAY, 'WELL, SEE?
00:37:59.63\00:38:05.00
HE GAVE IT TO THE JEWS.
00:38:05.00\00:38:06.83
IT'S A SIGN FOR THE JEWS.' I'VE
HEARD PEOPLE READ IT BACK TO ME.
00:38:06.83\00:38:11.10
THE SABBATH WAS A
SIGN FOR THE JEWS.
00:38:11.10\00:38:13.46
BUT HE SAID IT WAS A
SIGN FOR SANCTIFICATION.
00:38:13.46\00:38:16.70
DO ONLY JEWS
NEED TO BE SANCTIFIED?
00:38:16.70\00:38:18.50
OR DO GENTILES NEED
TO BE SANCTIFIED TOO?
00:38:18.50\00:38:21.73
THE SABBATH IS A SIGN OF
SANCTIFI - WHY IS IT A SIGN OF
00:38:21.73\00:38:25.66
SANCTIFICATION? WHAT DID
GOD TO ON THE SABBATH DAY?
00:38:25.66\00:38:28.93
HE RESTED. HE SET IT ASIDE. HE
SANCTIFIED IT. HE MADE IT HOLY.
00:38:28.93\00:38:37.66
IF GOD CAN MAKE A DAY HOLY, CAN
HE MAKE US HOLY? YOU KNOW, THE
00:38:37.66\00:38:42.83
SABBATH IS ALSO A SIGN OF
GOD'S ABILITY TO RECREATE US.
00:38:42.83\00:38:46.86
YOU KNOW, WHEN YOU PRAY 'CREATE
WITHIN ME A NEW HEART.' YOU KNOW
00:38:46.86\00:38:50.16
HOW DIFFICULT IT IS TO CREATE
A NEW HEART? ANY OF YOU HAVE
00:38:50.16\00:38:54.46
CERTAIN ORGANS YOU'D LIKE
TO HAVE RECREATED IN YOUR BODY?
00:38:54.46\00:38:57.26
CAN THE DOCTORS DO IT?
SOMETIMES THEY CAN FIX YOUR
00:38:57.26\00:39:02.60
TEETH, BUT THEY'RE NOT
EXACTLY THE SAME, ARE THEY?
00:39:02.60\00:39:07.66
AND GOD SAYS HE'LL
CREATE NOT ONLY A NEW HEART,
00:39:07.66\00:39:10.90
BUT A BETTER
HEART. THAT'S A MIRACLE.
00:39:10.90\00:39:12.70
THE SABBATH, WHEN HE CREATED
EVERYTHING IN THE BEGINNING -
00:39:12.70\00:39:15.73
THE SABBATH'S A
MEMORIAL OF THAT.
00:39:15.73\00:39:17.50
ALRIGHT, LET ME
READ ANOTHER ONE.
00:39:17.50\00:39:19.06
EZEKIEL 20, VERSE 12, "MOREOVER
I ALSO GAVE THEM MY SABBATHS, TO
00:39:19.06\00:39:24.36
BE A SIGN BETWEEN THEM AND
ME, THAT THEY MIGHT KNOW THAT
00:39:24.36\00:39:28.33
I AM THE LORD
WHO SANCTIFIES THEM."
00:39:28.33\00:39:30.40
NOW THAT WORD 'SIGN' IS VERY
INTERESTING BECAUSE WHEN YOU GET
00:39:30.40\00:39:34.56
TO REVELATION, WE FIND OUT
THAT THE PEOPLE WHO FOLLOW GOD,
00:39:34.56\00:39:37.40
THEY'VE GOT THE SEAL OF GOD
- THE SIGN - AND THE PEOPLE WHO
00:39:37.40\00:39:41.90
FOLLOW THE BEAST HAVE GOT A
MARK OR A SIGN, OR A SEAL OF THE
00:39:41.90\00:39:45.00
BEAST. SO YOU'VE
GOT TWO OPPOSING SEALS.
00:39:45.00\00:39:47.70
THE SABBATH, WHICH IS - GOD
BUILT INTRINSICALLY INTO EVERY
00:39:47.70\00:39:51.23
WEEK - IS A PERPETUAL SIGN THAT
HE IS THE CREATOR AND THAT HE
00:39:51.23\00:39:56.60
CAN RECREATE US.
ALRIGHT, LET'S MOVE ALONG HERE.
00:39:56.60\00:40:01.56
AND IT SAYS HERE IN ROMANS 6,
VERSES 6 AND 7, "KNOW THIS, THAT
00:40:01.56\00:40:07.10
OUR OLD MAN WAS CRUCIFIED WITH
HIM, THAT THE BODY OF SIN MIGHT
00:40:07.10\00:40:11.00
BE DONE AWAY WITH, THAT WE
SHOULD NO LONGER BE SLAVES OF
00:40:11.00\00:40:13.93
SIN. FOR HE WHO HAS DIED
HAS BEEN FREED FROM SIN."
00:40:13.93\00:40:17.83
SO THE - ROMANS TELLS US THE
SABBATH IS ALSO A SIGN OF THE
00:40:17.83\00:40:21.83
LORD WANTING TO SANCTIFY
US AND FREE US FROM SIN.
00:40:21.83\00:40:27.10
IT'S A SIGN OF
DELIVERANCE FROM THAT SLAVERY.
00:40:27.10\00:40:29.30
2 CORINTHIANS 5:17, "THEREFORE,
IF ANYONE IS IN CHRIST, HE IS A
00:40:29.30\00:40:35.36
NEW CREATION;" - THAT'S THE
SANCTIFICATION - "OLD THINGS
00:40:35.36\00:40:38.30
HAVE PASSED AWAY; BEHOLD,
ALL THINGS HAVE BECOME NEW."
00:40:38.30\00:40:41.33
AND, AGAIN, HEBREWS 4:1 THROUGH
9 - MATTER OF FACT, IF YOU HAVE
00:40:41.33\00:40:46.86
YOUR BIBLES, GO TO HEBREWS.
I WANT TO READ THIS WHOLE THING
00:40:46.86\00:40:48.76
TO YOU BECAUSE THIS IS A - AND
WE'LL END THIS STUDY WITH THIS
00:40:48.76\00:40:53.53
PART - HEBREWS 4 AND I
WANT TO START WITH VERSE 1.
00:40:53.53\00:40:57.23
PEOPLE SOMETIMES CAN CONFUSE
THIS PASSAGE - HEBREWS 4:1,
00:40:57.23\00:41:02.40
"THEREFORE, SINCE A PROMISE
REMAINS OF ENTERING HIS REST,
00:41:02.40\00:41:07.30
LET US FEAR LEST ANY OF YOU
SEEM TO HAVE COME SHORT OF IT."
00:41:07.30\00:41:11.63
- WE WANT TO HAVE THAT REST
- "FOR INDEED THE GOSPEL WAS
00:41:11.63\00:41:14.90
PREACHED TO US AS WELL AS
TO THEM;" - PEOPLE IN THE NEW
00:41:14.90\00:41:17.50
TESTAMENT TIME AS WELL AS PEOPLE
IN THE OLD TESTAMENT TIME - BUT
00:41:17.50\00:41:19.66
THE WORD WHICH THEY HEARD DID
NOT PROFIT THEM, NOT BEING MIXED
00:41:19.66\00:41:23.13
WITH FAITH IN
THOSE WHO HEARD IT.
00:41:23.13\00:41:25.06
FOR WE WHO HAVE BELIEVED DO
ENTER THAT REST, AS HE HAS SAID:
00:41:25.06\00:41:29.93
'SO I SWORE IN MY WRATH, 'THEY
SHALL NOT ENTER MY REST,''" -
00:41:29.93\00:41:32.90
THAT'S A QUOTE FROM PSALM 95:11
- CHILDREN OF ISRAEL, THEY DID
00:41:32.90\00:41:36.43
NOT ENTER HIS REST
BECAUSE OF UNBELIEF.
00:41:36.43\00:41:38.50
YOU REMEMBER IN THE BORDERS OF
THE PROMISED LAND WHEN THEY SENT
00:41:38.50\00:41:42.76
OUT THE SPIES AND THEY DIDN'T
BELIEVE THAT HE COULD BRING THEM
00:41:42.76\00:41:45.73
INTO THE PROMISED LAND? HE
SAID, 'THIS GENERATION WILL
00:41:45.73\00:41:47.73
NOT ENTER MY REST
BECAUSE OF THEIR UNBELIEF.
00:41:47.73\00:41:50.00
- "ALTHOUGH THE WORKS WERE
FINISHED FROM THE FOUNDATION OF
00:41:50.00\00:41:53.00
THE WORLD. FOR HE HAS SPOKEN IN
A CERTAIN PLACE OF THE SEVENTH
00:41:53.00\00:41:56.20
DAY" - HOW MANY DAYS OF
CREATION? THE WORKS WERE
00:41:56.20\00:42:01.10
FINISHED FROM THE FOUNDATION,
BUT HOW MANY DAYS IN A WEEK?
00:42:01.10\00:42:03.10
SO ALL THE WORK OF GOD WAS DONE
IN SIX DAYS BUT THERE ARE SEVEN
00:42:03.10\00:42:07.63
DAYS IN THE WEEK BECAUSE HE
MADE A WHOLE NEW DAY - A WHOLE
00:42:07.63\00:42:11.23
DISTINCT, SPECIAL DAY - "FOR HE
HAS SPOKEN IN A CERTAIN PLACE" -
00:42:11.23\00:42:14.30
AND EVERYBODY KNOWS WHAT THAT
PLACE IS - "OF THE SEVENTH DAY
00:42:14.30\00:42:17.40
IN THIS WAY: 'AND GOD RESTED
ON THE SEVENTH DAY FROM ALL HIS
00:42:17.40\00:42:20.90
WORKS';" - THAT'S GENESIS 2:2 -
"AND AGAIN IN THIS PLACE: 'THEY
00:42:20.90\00:42:25.10
SHALL NOT ENTER MY REST.'" - I
READ THAT TO YOU - PSALM 95:11 -
00:42:25.10\00:42:28.36
"SINCE THEREFORE IT REMAINS THAT
SOME MUST ENTER IT," - ENTER THE
00:42:28.36\00:42:32.53
REST - "AND THOSE TO WHOM IT
WAS FIRST PREACHED DID NOT ENTER
00:42:32.53\00:42:37.93
BECAUSE OF DISOBEDIENCE," -
WHENEVER THE CHILDREN OF ISRAEL
00:42:37.93\00:42:41.30
DISOBEYED, THEY
WERE CARRIED AWAY.
00:42:41.30\00:42:43.73
IT TALKS ABOUT WHEN THE FLOOD
CAME AND TOOK THEM ALL AWAY.
00:42:43.73\00:42:48.93
THEY WERE CARRIED AWAY BECAUSE
OF UNBELIEF. WHEN THEY WERE
00:42:48.93\00:42:53.06
GOOD, THEY GOT TO STAY
IN THE LAND AND THEY RESTED.
00:42:53.06\00:42:55.53
WHEN THEY WERE BAD, THE
ASSYRIANS CARRIED THEM OUT OF
00:42:55.53\00:42:58.20
THE PROMISED
LAND, OUT OF THE REST.
00:42:58.20\00:42:59.90
THE BABYLONIANS
CARRIED THEM OUT OF THE REST.
00:42:59.90\00:43:02.30
THE ROMANS CARRIED THEM
AND DISPERSED THEM OUT OF THEIR
00:43:02.30\00:43:04.53
REST. THE PROMISED
LAND REPRESENTED TO
00:43:04.53\00:43:07.66
THEM, FINALLY NO MORE WANDERINGS
- FORTY YEARS OF WANDERING.
00:43:07.66\00:43:11.60
WHEN THEY LIVED IN BABYLON,
THEY KNEW IT WAS TEMPORARY.
00:43:11.60\00:43:14.63
THEY WERE LOOKING FOR THE CHANCE
TO COME BACK TO THE LAND AND
00:43:14.63\00:43:18.10
REST. AND THEY DIDN'T
ENTER IN BECAUSE OF UNBELIEF.
00:43:18.10\00:43:23.53
THEY KEPT
TRUSTING IN OTHER GODS.
00:43:23.53\00:43:26.26
SO HE SAYS HERE, "AGAIN HE
DESIGNATES A CERTAIN DAY," - OH
00:43:26.26\00:43:32.00
WAIT, I WANT TO BACK UP - VERSE
6 - "SINCE THEREFORE IT REMAINS
00:43:32.00\00:43:35.56
THAT SOME MUST ENTER IT,
AND THOSE TO WHOM IT WAS FIRST
00:43:35.56\00:43:37.50
PREACHED DID NOT ENTER BECAUSE
OF DISOBEDIENCE, AGAIN HE
00:43:37.50\00:43:41.70
DESIGNATES A CERTAIN DAY, SAYING
IN DAVID," - WHEN HE SAYS 'IN
00:43:41.70\00:43:44.80
DAVID' HE MEANS IN PSALMS
- "'TODAY,' AFTER SUCH A LONG
00:43:44.80\00:43:48.46
TIME, AS IT HAS BEEN SAID:"
- AND THIS IS PSALMS 95:7 -
00:43:48.46\00:43:51.13
"'TODAY, IF YOU WILL HEAR
HIS VOICE, DO NOT HARDEN YOUR
00:43:51.13\00:43:53.90
HEARTS.'" - AS THEY
DID IN THE WILDERNESS -
00:43:53.90\00:43:56.20
"FOR IF JOSHUA HAD GIVEN
THEM REST, THEN HE WOULD NOT
00:43:56.20\00:43:59.23
AFTERWARD HAVE
SPOKEN OF ANOTHER DAY.
00:43:59.23\00:44:01.13
THERE REMAINS THEREFORE A
REST FOR THE PEOPLE OF GOD."
00:44:01.13\00:44:04.30
- NOW, YOU KNOW THAT WORD
THERE IN VERSE 9 - HEBREWS 4:9 -
00:44:04.30\00:44:06.76
'THERE REMAINS A REST' - YOU
KNOW WHAT THAT WORD 'REST' IS?
00:44:06.76\00:44:09.53
SABBATISMOS - IT'S THE
SAME WORD FOR 'SABBATH'
00:44:09.53\00:44:13.36
THAT YOU FIND OTHER
PLACES IN THE GREEK.
00:44:13.36\00:44:15.20
THERE REMAINS A
SABBATH FOR THE PEOPLE OF GOD.
00:44:15.20\00:44:18.43
THAT WOULD HAVE BEEN A REALLY
GOOD PLACE FOR HEBREWS TO SAY,
00:44:18.43\00:44:20.90
'BUT NOW IT'S ON THE
FIRST DAY OF THE WEEK.
00:44:20.90\00:44:23.30
BUT HE DOESN'T, HE MENTIONS
IT IN THE CONTEXT OF THE SEVENTH
00:44:23.30\00:44:26.56
DAY OF THE WEEK.
NOTHING IN THE NEW TESTAMENT
00:44:26.56\00:44:30.10
TELLS US THAT THE DAY
OF REST HAS BEEN CHANGED.
00:44:30.10\00:44:31.80
ALRIGHT, I WANT TO GO TO SABBATH
HEALINGS AT CAPERNAUM - SABBATH
00:44:31.80\00:44:35.00
HEALINGS AT CAPERNAUM - MATTHEW
4:13, "AND LEAVING NAZARETH, HE
00:44:35.00\00:44:41.26
CAME AND DWELT IN CAPERNAUM,
WHICH IS BY THE SEA, IN THE
00:44:41.26\00:44:44.63
REGIONS OF ZEBULUN AND NAPHTALI,
THAT IT MIGHT BE FULFILLED WHICH
00:44:44.63\00:44:47.86
AS SPOKEN BY ISAIAH THE PROPHET,
SAYING:" - AND HE'S QUOTING,
00:44:47.86\00:44:51.50
NOW, ISAIAH 9:1 AND 2 - "'THE
LAND OF ZEBULUN AND THE LAND OF
00:44:51.50\00:44:54.86
NAPHTALI, BY THE WAY OF THE SEA,
BEYOND THE JORDAN, GALILEE OF
00:44:54.86\00:44:57.26
THE GENTILES: THE PEOPLE WHO SAT
IN DARKNESS HAVE SEEN A GREAT
00:44:57.26\00:44:59.90
LIGHT, AND UPON THOSE WHO SAT IN
THE REGION AND SHADOW OF DEATH
00:44:59.90\00:45:03.56
LIGHT HAS DAWNED." - BECAUSE
A LOT OF JESUS' MINISTRY WAS IN
00:45:03.56\00:45:07.36
THE REGION AROUND GALILEE
- THAT'S WHERE HE CALLED THE
00:45:07.36\00:45:10.66
FISHERMEN. AND SO WHILE HE WAS
THERE, HE HAD THIS EXPERIENCE.
00:45:10.66\00:45:14.93
LUKE 4:31, "THEN HE WENT DOWN
TO CAPERNAUM, A CITY OF GALILEE,
00:45:14.93\00:45:18.60
AND WAS TEACHING
THEM ON THE SABBATHS."
00:45:18.60\00:45:21.86
- NOW WHEN LUKE SAYS EARLIER,
IT WAS A CUSTOM, HERE YOU'VE GOT
00:45:21.86\00:45:24.60
THE PLURAL FOR SABBATHS -
IT WASN'T JUST ONE, BUT EVERY
00:45:24.60\00:45:28.66
SABBATH HE WAS IN THE SYNAGOGUE
TEACHING - IN THE VARIOUS TOWNS
00:45:28.66\00:45:33.86
AROUND GALILEE - "AND THEY
WERE ASTONISHED AT HIS TEACHING,
00:45:33.86\00:45:37.50
FOR HIS WORD WAS WITH
AUTHORITY." - YOU KNOW WHERE
00:45:37.50\00:45:40.60
ELSE IT SAYS THAT?
AFTER THE SERMON ON THE MOUNT,
00:45:40.60\00:45:44.06
WHEN JESUS GOT DONE TEACHING, IT
SAID THEY WERE ASTONISHED AT HIS
00:45:44.06\00:45:47.60
TEACHING 'FOR HE TAUGHT THEM AS
ONE HAVING AUTHORITY AND NOT AS
00:45:47.60\00:45:50.63
THE SCRIBES.' YOU KNOW, THE
SCRIBES WOULD SAY, 'WELL, THIS
00:45:50.63\00:45:54.46
VERSE COULD MEAN THIS AND THIS
VERSE COULD MEAN THAT AND RABBI
00:45:54.46\00:45:58.20
BEN YAN SO AND SO, HE SAID IT
MEANS THIS AND THEN THIS OTHER
00:45:58.20\00:46:02.73
RABBI, HE SAID IT MEANS
THAT AND' - NOBODY SAID ANYTHING
00:46:02.73\00:46:06.13
'THIS IS WHAT IT
MEANS' WITH AUTHORITY.
00:46:06.13\00:46:09.46
AN EVANGELIST WILL NEVER MAKE IT
IF THEY TEACH WITHOUT AUTHORITY.
00:46:09.46\00:46:12.30
YOU'VE GOT TO SAY, 'THIS IS WHAT
THE WORD SAYS.' BECAUSE PEOPLE
00:46:12.30\00:46:16.90
ARE MAKING, YOU KNOW,
LIFE-CHANGING DECISIONS.
00:46:16.90\00:46:19.36
THEY'VE GOT TO KNOW 'THIS IS
WHAT GOD IS TELLING US TO DO.'
00:46:19.36\00:46:21.73
AND JESUS TAUGHT AS
ONE THAT HAS AUTHORITY.
00:46:21.73\00:46:24.76
I THINK THAT IT'S IMPORTANT AS
CHRISTIANS WE NEED TO KNOW WHAT
00:46:24.76\00:46:27.20
WE BELIEVE AND BE ABLE
TO SHARE WITH CERTAINTY.
00:46:27.20\00:46:29.30
"NOW...THERE WAS A MAN WHO HAD
A SPIRIT OF AN UNCLEAN DEMON."
00:46:29.30\00:46:32.93
- BY THE WAY, THIS IS ALSO
IN THE BOOK OF LUKE CHAPTER 1 -
00:46:32.93\00:46:35.06
"AND HE CRIED OUT WITH A LOUD
VOICE, SAYING, 'LET US ALONE!
00:46:35.06\00:46:39.20
WHAT HAVE WE TO DO WITH
YOU, JESUS OF NAZARETH?'" -
00:46:39.20\00:46:41.73
BY THE WAY, DOES
THE DEVIL GO TO CHURCH?
00:46:41.73\00:46:43.73
HERE WAS THE - JESUS WAS IN
CHURCH - YOU'VE GOT THE RIGHT
00:46:43.73\00:46:48.96
PREACHER AND HE'S PREACHING
ON THE RIGHT DAY AND THERE'S
00:46:48.96\00:46:51.80
SOMEONE
DEMON-POSSESSED IN THAT CHURCH.
00:46:51.80\00:46:54.60
SO JUST BECAUSE THE DEVIL SHOWS
UP AT CHURCH DOESN'T MEAN IT'S
00:46:54.60\00:46:59.56
NOT THE RIGHT CHURCH - "'WHAT
HAVE WE TO DO WITH YOU JESUS OF
00:46:59.56\00:47:04.46
NAZARETH?'" - NOW OBVIOUSLY
HE SAID, 'WHAT HAVE WE ' -
00:47:04.46\00:47:06.60
THERE'S MORE THAN ONE
DEVIL IN THIS GUY - "'TO DO WITH
00:47:06.60\00:47:09.10
YOU JESUS OF NAZARETH?
DID YOU COME TO DESTROY US?
00:47:09.10\00:47:11.70
I KNOW WHO YOU ARE -
THE HOLY ONE OF GOD!'
00:47:11.70\00:47:15.56
BUT JESUS REBUKED HIM, SAYING,
'BE QUIET, AND COME OUT OF HIM!'
00:47:15.56\00:47:18.03
AND WHEN THE DEMON HAD
THROWN HIM IN THEIR MIDST,
00:47:18.03\00:47:21.23
IT CAME OUT OF HIM
AND DID NOT HURT HIM."
00:47:21.23\00:47:24.96
- YOU KNOW WHY LUKE
SAYS THAT AS A PHYSICIAN?
00:47:24.96\00:47:26.33
THE MAN WENT THROUGH
A VIOLENT CONVULSION.
00:47:26.33\00:47:29.30
YOU SEE THIS HAPPENING SEVERAL
TIMES WHEN JESUS HEALED A PERSON
00:47:29.30\00:47:32.13
WITH VARIOUS PROBLEMS,
ESPECIALLY WHEN DEVILS CAME OUT,
00:47:32.13\00:47:35.13
THEY WERE CONVULSED, AND A
PERSON THAT'S GOING THROUGH
00:47:35.13\00:47:37.46
THRASHING AND CONVULSIONS, THEY
COULD BE INJURED IN THE PROCESS.
00:47:37.46\00:47:40.43
AND SO, I GUESS, THERE HE WAS
BOUNCING OFF THE WALLS AND OFF
00:47:40.43\00:47:43.13
THE PEWS AND WHATEVER THEY HAD
THERE IN THE SYNAGOGUE, AND HE
00:47:43.13\00:47:46.36
WAS THRASHED BY THE DEVIL.
THERE WAS A BATTLE WITH THE
00:47:46.36\00:47:49.13
DEVIL COMING OUT, WHICH
BRINGS ME TO ANOTHER POINT.
00:47:49.13\00:47:52.73
EVEN THOUGH JESUS IS INVOLVED
IN CASTING OUT A DEVIL, WHEN YOU
00:47:52.73\00:47:57.50
ARE STRUGGLING TO BE FREE
FROM ANY BAD HABIT OR SIN, DON'T
00:47:57.50\00:48:00.20
EXPECT IT MAY
HAPPEN WITHOUT A STRUGGLE.
00:48:00.20\00:48:02.63
WHEN THE CHILDREN OF ISRAEL WERE
COMING OUT OF EGYPT, DID THE
00:48:02.63\00:48:06.23
PHARAOH LET GO EASY
OR WAS THERE A STRUGGLE?
00:48:06.23\00:48:08.63
THE WHOLE TIME THERE
WAS A TREMENDOUS BATTLE.
00:48:08.63\00:48:11.86
'I WON'T LET THEM
GO!' 'I WILL LET THEM GO!'
00:48:11.86\00:48:14.40
'I WON'T LET THEM GO!'
PLAGUES ARE FALLING AND THERE'S
00:48:14.40\00:48:16.46
FIRE AND LIGHTNING AND
YOU JUST SEE THIS STRUGGLE.
00:48:16.46\00:48:20.93
WHENEVER A PERSON'S STRIVING TO
BE BROKEN FREE FROM THE DEVIL,
00:48:20.93\00:48:23.20
THERE'S A BATTLE.
00:48:23.20\00:48:25.00
BUT YOU KNOW WHAT IT SAYS - HE
CAST THE DEVIL OUT, BUT IT SAYS,
00:48:25.00\00:48:29.90
"WHEN THE DEMON HAD THROWN HIM
IN THEIR MIDST, IT CAME OUT OF
00:48:29.90\00:48:34.90
HIM AND DID NOT HURT
HIM." - HE SURVIVED IT.
00:48:34.90\00:48:38.00
HE WAS OKAY - "THEN THEY
WERE ALL AMAZED AND SPOKE AMONG
00:48:38.00\00:48:41.56
THEMSELVES, SAYING,
'WHAT A WORD THIS IS!
00:48:41.56\00:48:44.30
FOR WITH AUTHORITY AND POWER
HE COMMANDS THE UNCLEAN SPIRITS,
00:48:44.30\00:48:47.36
AND THEY COME OUT.'" - NOW, BY
THE WAY, DOES THAT STILL WORK?
00:48:47.36\00:48:50.40
CAN JESUS STILL
CAST OUT THE DEVIL?
00:48:50.40\00:48:55.56
NOW MOST PEOPLE DON'T HAVE
LEGIONS OF DEVILS THAT MAKE THEM
00:48:55.56\00:48:58.43
MISBEHAVE IN PUBLIC, BUT WE ALL
STRUGGLE WITH TEMPTATION AND ALL
00:48:58.43\00:49:02.10
OF US ARE HARASSED BY THE DEVIL
AND ALL OF US STRUGGLE WITH
00:49:02.10\00:49:04.73
HABITS, BUT CAN THE LORD
STILL CAST THOSE THINGS OUT?
00:49:04.73\00:49:08.46
HE CAN. SO HE HEALED ON THE
SABBATH. YOU KNOW WHAT HAPPENS?
00:49:08.46\00:49:15.70
THERE'S A CONNECTION IN THE
SYNAGOGUE - HE'S TEACHING THE
00:49:15.70\00:49:18.46
WORD AND WHILE HE'S IN THE
SYNAGOGUE TEACHING THE WORD,
00:49:18.46\00:49:22.53
THIS PERSON REACTS NEGATIVELY
AND A DEVIL IS CAST OUT.
00:49:22.53\00:49:29.53
SOMETIMES IT'S ALSO IN THE
CONTEXT OF PREACHING THE WORD
00:49:29.53\00:49:32.83
THAT THE DEVIL REACTS. HOW
DID JESUS FIGHT THE DEVIL IN
00:49:32.83\00:49:36.13
THE WILDERNESS WHEN HE WAS
TEMPTED? WITH THE WORD - IT'S
00:49:36.13\00:49:39.46
THE POWER OF THE WORD.
THE LORD OF THE SABBATH.
00:49:39.46\00:49:42.56
ALRIGHT, LUKE 6, VERSE 1,
"NOW IT HAPPENED ON THE SECOND
00:49:42.56\00:49:47.13
SABBATH" - THAT - YOU SEE
A PATTERN WITH JESUS HERE?
00:49:47.13\00:49:49.76
HE JUST - HIS WHOLE MINISTRY -
SO MUCH OF HIS TEACHING WAS DONE
00:49:49.76\00:49:52.90
IN THE SYNAGOGUES OR
THE TEMPLE ON THE SABBATH -
00:49:52.90\00:49:56.53
"NOW IT HAPPENED ON THE
SECOND SABBATH AFTER THE FIRST
00:49:56.53\00:49:59.46
THAT HE WENT
THROUGH THE GRAINFIELDS.
00:49:59.46\00:50:01.73
AND HIS DISCIPLES (AND HE)
PLUCKED THE HEADS OF GRAIN AND
00:50:01.73\00:50:04.46
ATE THEM, RUBBING
THEM IN THEIR HANDS.
00:50:04.46\00:50:06.80
AND SOME OF THE PHARISEES
SAID TO THEM, 'WHY ARE YOU DOING
00:50:06.80\00:50:09.10
WHAT IS NOT LAWFUL
TO DO ON THE SABBATH?'
00:50:09.10\00:50:11.10
NOW, JUST SO YOU KNOW WHAT THEY
WERE DOING, YOU KNOW, THIS WAS
00:50:11.10\00:50:14.73
LEGAL ACCORDING
TO THE MOSAIC LAW.
00:50:14.73\00:50:16.86
YOU WERE NOT SUPPOSED TO
COMPLETELY HARVEST EVERY CORNER
00:50:16.86\00:50:20.10
OF YOUR FIELD, YOU'RE SUPPOSED
TO LEAVE SOME OF THE EDGES AND
00:50:20.10\00:50:22.86
THE CORNERS STANDING FOR THE
POOR AND THE WIDOWS THAT WERE
00:50:22.86\00:50:25.76
AMONG THEM. AND THEY
WERE - THAT'S WHAT RUTH DID.
00:50:25.76\00:50:28.50
IF YOU EVER READ THE BOOK OF
RUTH, SHE - RUTH WAS HARVESTING
00:50:28.50\00:50:30.70
THE GLEANINGS OF THE BARLEY
HARVEST AND SHE CAME HOME WITH
00:50:30.70\00:50:33.90
LOTS OF GRAIN BECAUSE BOAZ SAID,
'OH, LET SOME OF IT FALL FOR HER
00:50:33.90\00:50:36.60
AND GIVE HER EXTRA.' THEY WOULD
TAKE THE DRIED GRAIN, YOU COULD
00:50:36.60\00:50:41.36
RUB IT IN YOUR HANDS - I
DON'T KNOW IF YOU'VE EVER DONE
00:50:41.36\00:50:44.63
THIS BEFORE -
THEN YOU - YOU BLOW IT.
00:50:44.63\00:50:46.56
THE CHAFF BLOWS AWAY AND YOU'VE
GOT THE RAW KERNEL OF GRAIN OR
00:50:46.56\00:50:49.53
WHATEVER - BARLEY
- OR WHATEVER IT WAS.
00:50:49.53\00:50:51.53
YOU TOSS IT IN YOUR
MOUTH AND YOU CRUNCH IT.
00:50:51.53\00:50:53.20
IT'S KIND OF ROUGH BUT IT -
IT'S GOOD FOR YOU. IT'S GRAIN.
00:50:53.20\00:50:56.40
AND SO THEY WERE DOING - THEY
WERE JUST HUNGRY - AND AS THEY
00:50:56.40\00:51:00.96
WALKED ALONG - AND YOU KNOW
WHAT THE RELIGIOUS LEADERS -
00:51:00.96\00:51:02.93
THEY CALLED THIS HARVESTING.
THEY SAID, 'YOU ARE HARVESTING
00:51:02.93\00:51:06.43
ON THE SABBATH.' AND JESUS SAID,
'COME ON.' IT'S LIKE YOU'RE
00:51:06.43\00:51:09.66
GOING THROUGH A FIELD
PICKING AN APPLE ON THE SABBATH
00:51:09.66\00:51:11.63
DAY FROM A TREE AND EATING
IT AND SO THEY WERE MAKING A BIG
00:51:11.63\00:51:16.10
DEAL OUT OF THIS BECAUSE
IT BROKE ONE OF THEIR MAN-MADE
00:51:16.10\00:51:18.30
LAWS. JESUS WAS NOT
BREAKING THE SABBATH.
00:51:18.30\00:51:20.60
DID THEY ACCUSE JESUS
OF BREAKING THE SABBATH?
00:51:20.60\00:51:22.76
YOU KNOW, I'VE HEARD PEOPLE SAY,
'JESUS - YOU KNOW WE DON'T HAVE
00:51:22.76\00:51:26.33
TO KEEP THE SABBATH, JESUS
BROKE THE SABBATH.' YOU'LL FIND
00:51:26.33\00:51:28.53
ENEMIES OF THE SABBATH THAT WILL
SAY, 'WE DON'T HAVE TO KEEP THE
00:51:28.53\00:51:30.83
SABBATH, JESUS
BROKE THE SABBATH.'
00:51:30.83\00:51:32.33
DID JESUS EVER BREAK
THE BIBLICAL SABBATH?
00:51:32.33\00:51:34.80
DID JESUS BREAK THE
MAN-MADE TRADITIONS? YES.
00:51:34.80\00:51:39.50
DID THEY ACCUSE JESUS OF BEING
A WINEBIBBER AND A GLUTTON AND A
00:51:39.50\00:51:42.66
SAMARITAN AND A -
DEMON POSSESSED? YES.
00:51:42.66\00:51:46.23
HE WAS ACCUSED OF MANY THINGS
THAT WERE NOT TRUE AND ONE OF
00:51:46.23\00:51:48.66
THE FALSE ACCUSATIONS WAS
THAT HE WAS A SABBATH BREAKER.
00:51:48.66\00:51:50.63
JESUS DID NOT BREAK THE SABBATH,
HE BROKE THEIR TRADITIONS.
00:51:50.63\00:51:54.10
NOW, IN DEALING WITH THEM ON
THIS ISSUE, THEY SAID - JESUS
00:51:54.10\00:52:00.16
ANSWERED THEM AND SAID - I'M
STILL IN LUKE 6 - "'HAVE YOU NOT
00:52:00.16\00:52:06.56
EVEN READ THIS, WHAT DAVID DID
WHEN HE WAS HUNGRY, HE AND THOSE
00:52:06.56\00:52:08.90
WHO WERE WITH HIM: HOW HE WENT
INTO THE HOUSE OF GOD,'" - BY
00:52:08.90\00:52:11.36
THE WAY, THIS WAS A LUNAR
SABBATH, WHEN DAVID DID IT -
00:52:11.36\00:52:13.10
"'HOW HE WENT INTO THE HOUSE OF
GOD, TOOK AND ATE THE SHOWBREAD,
00:52:13.10\00:52:17.00
AND ALSO GAVE SOME TO THOSE WITH
HIM, WHICH IS NOT LAWFUL FOR ANY
00:52:17.00\00:52:21.26
BUT THE PRIESTS TO EAT?'"
- NOW ONLY THE PRIESTS COULD
00:52:21.26\00:52:23.76
TYPICALLY EAT THIS BREAD.
THEY USED TO TAKE OUT THE BREAD
00:52:23.76\00:52:25.96
AFTER A FEW DAYS AND
THEY'D PUT IN FRESH BREAD.
00:52:25.96\00:52:28.00
AND DAVID CAME, HE WAS ON THE
KING'S BUSINESS, HE HAD NO BREAD
00:52:28.00\00:52:32.16
- HE WAS HUNGRY - AND SO
THE PRIESTS GAVE THEIR BREAD TO
00:52:32.16\00:52:34.66
DAVID AND JESUS SAID DAVID WAS
DOING THE WORK OF THE LORD AND
00:52:34.66\00:52:38.06
THEY FELT THAT
THIS WAS IMPORTANT.
00:52:38.06\00:52:40.80
NOW, I'M GOING
TO READ YOU A QUOTE.
00:52:40.80\00:52:43.66
THIS MIGHT BE THE
LAST THING I READ.
00:52:43.66\00:52:45.50
IF I RUN OUT OF TIME, YOU MIGHT
WANT TO MAKE A NOTE OF THIS -
00:52:45.50\00:52:49.33
IT'S DESIRE OF AGES PAGE 285 -
BECAUSE WHEN YOU'RE IN A CHURCH
00:52:49.33\00:52:54.73
THERE'S SOME THINGS THAT NEED TO
BE DONE IN A CHURCH, EVEN ON A
00:52:54.73\00:52:58.56
SABBATH DAY, TO
MINISTER TO PEOPLE.
00:52:58.56\00:53:03.06
WHEN WE'RE RECORDING SERVICES, I
AM SO THANKFUL TO OUR VOLUNTEERS
00:53:03.06\00:53:06.26
AND PEOPLE THAT ARE
MANNING THE CAMERAS.
00:53:06.26\00:53:08.90
THERE ARE PEOPLE WHO DO
MICROPHONES, THERE ARE DEACONS
00:53:08.90\00:53:11.30
THAT ARE DOING WONDERFUL WORK.
SOMETIMES WE HAVE THE SAME AREA
00:53:11.30\00:53:14.66
THAT'S USED FOR SABBATH SCHOOL
THAT LATER IS GOING TO BE USED
00:53:14.66\00:53:16.73
FOR A FELLOWSHIP DINNER AND THE
CHAIRS NEED TO BE MOVED AND THE
00:53:16.73\00:53:19.73
TABLES SET UP. YOU
KNOW WHAT I'M SAYING?
00:53:19.73\00:53:21.66
THERE ARE PRACTICAL THINGS THAT
NEED TO BE DONE AND YOU WANT TO
00:53:21.66\00:53:24.43
BE AS CAREFUL AS YOU CAN
TO GUARD THE SABBATH - GET
00:53:24.43\00:53:27.53
EVERYTHING DONE THAT CAN BE DONE
IN ADVANCE SO YOU DON'T HAVE TO
00:53:27.53\00:53:30.76
DO ANY UNNECESSARY
WORK. ARE WE ALL IN AGREEMENT?
00:53:30.76\00:53:33.70
BUT SOMETIMES THERE'S
THINGS THAT HAVE TO BE DONE THAT
00:53:33.70\00:53:36.26
YOU CAN'T REALLY
DO ON ANOTHER DAY.
00:53:36.26\00:53:38.76
THE PRIESTS WERE BUSIER ON THE
SABBATH THAN ANY OTHER DAY OF
00:53:38.76\00:53:43.36
THE WEEK. THEY
WOULD OFFER SACRIFICE.
00:53:43.36\00:53:45.96
THEY KEPT THE
ALTAR FIRE BURNING.
00:53:45.96\00:53:48.03
SOMEONE HAD TO CARRY WOOD. THEY
HAD CLEANSING - SOMEONE HAD TO
00:53:48.03\00:53:50.50
CARRY WATER. THERE WAS
STUFF THAT WAS GOING ON.
00:53:50.50\00:53:52.60
ELLEN WHITE MAKES THIS COMMENT
AND, AGAIN, THAT WAS DESIRE OF
00:53:52.60\00:53:56.06
AGES P. 285, SPEAKING
ABOUT SABBATH WORK PRINCIPLES.
00:53:56.06\00:54:01.06
"AGAIN, THE PRIESTS IN THE
TEMPLE PERFORMED GREATER LABOR
00:54:01.06\00:54:03.56
ON THE SABBATH
THAN ON OTHER DAYS.
00:54:03.56\00:54:06.23
THE SAME LABOR IN SECULAR
BUSINESS WOULD BE SINFUL, BUT
00:54:06.23\00:54:09.26
THE WORK OF THE PRIESTS
WAS IN THE SERVICE OF GOD.
00:54:09.26\00:54:12.86
THEY WERE PERFORMING
THOSE RIGHTS THAT POINTED
00:54:12.86\00:54:15.70
TO THE
REDEEMING POWER OF CHRIST.
00:54:15.70\00:54:17.53
THEIR LABOR WAS IN HARMONY WITH
THE OBJECT OF THE SABBATH, BUT
00:54:17.53\00:54:20.30
NOW CHRIST HIMSELF HAD COME"
- SHE'S TALKING ABOUT THIS STORY
00:54:20.30\00:54:23.26
WHERE HE WAS ACCUSED OF SABBATH
BREAKING - "THE DISCIPLES, IN
00:54:23.26\00:54:25.93
DOING THE WORK OF CHRIST, WERE
ENGAGED IN THE SERVICE THAT WAS
00:54:25.93\00:54:29.30
NECESSARY FOR THE ACCOMPLISHMENT
OF ITS WORK IT WAS RIGHT TO DO
00:54:29.30\00:54:33.20
ON THE SABBATH DAY.
CHRIST WOULD TEACH HIS DISCIPLES
00:54:33.20\00:54:35.83
AND HIS ENEMIES THAT THE SERVICE
OF GOD IS, FIRST OF ALL, THE
00:54:35.83\00:54:39.70
OBJECT OF GOD'S WORK IN THE
WORLD IS THE REDEMPTION OF MAN.
00:54:39.70\00:54:44.13
THEREFORE, THAT WHICH IS
NECESSARY TO BE DONE ON THE
00:54:44.13\00:54:47.73
SABBATH IN THE ACCOMPLISHMENT OF
THIS WORK IS IN ACCORD WITH THE
00:54:47.73\00:54:51.83
SABBATH LAW." THAT'S A
VERY IMPORTANT PRINCIPLE.
00:54:51.83\00:54:54.43
AND YOU WILL RUN INTO ALL
KINDS OF - I DON'T TRAVEL ON THE
00:54:54.43\00:54:59.26
SABBATH - I MEAN, YOU KNOW, I
DON'T FLY. I SCHEDULE MY FLIGHTS
00:54:59.26\00:55:02.00
- I GET THERE BEFORE THE
SABBATH, I LEAVE AFTER THE
00:55:02.00\00:55:03.66
SABBATH. SOMETIMES THING HAPPEN.
FLIGHTS ARE DELAYED, PLANES ARE
00:55:03.66\00:55:07.23
CANCELED AND I'VE BEEN CAUGHT
AND I THINK THE LORD WINKS AT
00:55:07.23\00:55:10.16
THOSE THINGS -
YOU CAN'T HELP IT.
00:55:10.16\00:55:12.00
I'VE BEEN IN CITIES BEFORE
WHERE PEOPLE HAVE WALKED 30
00:55:12.00\00:55:14.60
BLOCKS IN THE RAIN TO GO
TO CHURCH WHEN THEY COULD HAVE
00:55:14.60\00:55:17.80
TAKEN THE SUBWAY, BUT THEY FELT
THAT TAKING THE SUBWAY - AND YOU
00:55:17.80\00:55:21.43
CAN PRE-BUY TOKENS IF YOU WANT -
SOMEONE WAS REQUIRED TO WORK TO
00:55:21.43\00:55:26.13
DO THAT. I THINK THAT'S EXTREME.
00:55:26.13\00:55:29.20
THERE ARE PEOPLE I'VE MET -
DO YOU KNOW IF YOU GO TO ISRAEL
00:55:29.20\00:55:32.00
THEY'VE GOT WHAT THEY CALL
'SHABBAT ELEVATORS.' YOU KNOW
00:55:32.00\00:55:33.83
WHY THEY'VE GOT
SHABBAT ELEVATORS?
00:55:33.83\00:55:36.00
THERE ARE ELEVATORS THAT YOU CAN
GET IN ON THE SABBATH DAY THAT
00:55:36.00\00:55:38.60
WILL AUTOMATICALLY STOP ON EVERY
FLOOR IN A HOTEL, LEST YOU HAVE
00:55:38.60\00:55:41.50
TO PUSH A BUTTON. HOW
MANY OF YOU KNOW WHAT I'M
00:55:41.50\00:55:45.70
TELLING YOU IS
TRUE? I'M NOT KIDDING.
00:55:45.70\00:55:47.56
OR, WHAT ORTHODOX JEWS WILL DO
IN SOME CASES, THEY WILL GET ON
00:55:47.56\00:55:52.86
AN ELEVATOR AND THEY'LL WAIT FOR
A GENTILE TO PRESS THEIR BUTTON
00:55:52.86\00:55:55.66
SO THEY DON'T HAVE TO INVEST THE
LABOR OF GOING LIKE THAT, WHICH
00:55:55.66\00:56:01.13
IS REALLY ABSURD
WHEN YOU THINK ABOUT IT.
00:56:01.13\00:56:04.30
SO THERE ARE TWO EXTREMES
THAT I WORRY ABOUT AS A PASTOR -
00:56:04.30\00:56:07.20
AND WE'RE
ALWAYS EVALUATING THIS.
00:56:07.20\00:56:08.76
AND WE SHOULD BE THINKING
ABOUT 'WHAT DO I - HOW DO I BEST
00:56:08.76\00:56:11.03
PLEASE THE LORD?'
YOU'VE GOT TO BE PRACTICAL AND
00:56:11.03\00:56:14.10
SAY - I'VE SEEN CHURCHES THAT
GET SO BUSY DOING THINGS ON THE
00:56:14.10\00:56:17.33
SABBATH DAY, IT STOPS BEING
SACRED. ALL KINDS OF SETTING UP
00:56:17.33\00:56:20.70
AND TAKING DOWN OF THINGS AND
IT JUST - IT JUST STOPS FEELING
00:56:20.70\00:56:22.96
LIKE THE SABBATH AND YOU'VE
GOT TO GUARD AGAINST THAT AND DO
00:56:22.96\00:56:26.23
EVERYTHING IN
ADVANCE THAT YOU CAN.
00:56:26.23\00:56:28.13
AND THEN YOU'VE GOT THE OTHER
EXTREME, WHERE PEOPLE ARE SO
00:56:28.13\00:56:30.96
AFRAID THEY MIGHT DO SOMETHING
THAT COULD LOOK LIKE WORK, THAT
00:56:30.96\00:56:32.80
THE SERVICE OF GOD IS ENCUMBERED
AND PEOPLE CAN'T BE REACHED
00:56:32.80\00:56:36.83
BECAUSE - YOU'RE DOING
EVANGELISTIC MEETINGS, YOU
00:56:36.83\00:56:39.33
USUALLY HAVE A FRIDAY
NIGHT MEETING, A SATURDAY NIGHT
00:56:39.33\00:56:43.40
MEETING - THERE'S SOMETIMES TAKE
00:56:43.40\00:56:45.20
DOWN/SET UP JUST TO
DO THAT SORT OF THING.
00:56:45.20\00:56:47.26
SOMETIMES YOU HAVE TO RENT
A PUBLIC HALL AND I JUST THINK
00:56:47.26\00:56:50.43
IT'S IMPORTANT FOR US TO KNOW
THAT JESUS SAID THESE THINGS
00:56:50.43\00:56:53.26
THAT NEED TO BE DONE WHEN IT
COMES TO PROCLAIMING THE GOSPEL
00:56:53.26\00:56:57.30
- GET EVERYTHING OUT OF THE WAY
YOU CAN GET OUT OF THE WAY, BUT
00:56:57.30\00:56:59.70
THAT LAST STATEMENT, "THEREFORE
THAT WHICH IS NECESSARY TO BE
00:56:59.70\00:57:03.03
DONE ON THE SABBATH IN THE
ACCOMPLISHMENT OF THIS WORK IS
00:57:03.03\00:57:06.33
IN ACCORD WITH THE SABBATH
LAW." ALRIGHT, SO - YOU WITH ME?
00:57:06.33\00:57:10.76
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