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00:33 >>MORNING, FRIENDS, AND WELCOME TO SABBATH SCHOOL STUDY HOUR. 00:36 I'D LIKE TO WELCOME THOSE JOINING US ACROSS THE COUNTRY 00:38 AND AROUND THE WORLD - ALSO, THE MEMBERS OF THE GRANITE BAY 00:41 CHURCH THAT ARE OUR ONLINE MEMBERS - 00:43 A VERY SPECIAL WELCOME TO YOU. 00:45 ALSO TO OUR CHURCH MEMBERS IN OUR LOCAL GRANITE BAY 00:48 CONGREGATION - GLAD TO SEE YOU HERE FOR SABBATH SCHOOL TODAY. 00:51 WELL, WE'VE BEEN STUDYING THROUGH THE GOSPEL OF LUKE OVER 00:55 THE PAST FEW WEEKS AND TODAY WE FINDS OURSELVES ON LESSON #5 AND 00:58 THE LESSON IS ENTITLED CHRIST AS THE LORD OF THE SABBATH - 01:03 A VERY IMPORTANT STUDY. WE HAVE AN OFFER THAT GOES ALONG 01:06 WITH OUR LESSON TODAY. IT IS A BRAND-NEW SHARING 01:09 MAGAZINE DEALING WITH THE SABBATH CALLED THE REST OF YOUR 01:13 LIFE , AND THIS IS GOING TO BE OUR FREE OFFER FOR TODAY. 01:16 SO THOSE OF YOU WHO ARE WATCHING, IF YOU'D LIKE TO ORDER 01:19 THE REST OF YOUR LIFE , EVERYTHING YOU NEED TO KNOW 01:22 ABOUT THE SABBATH IN OUR NEW MAGAZINE, 01:24 THE NUMBER TO CALL IS 866-788-3966. 01:29 THAT NUMBER, AGAIN, IS 866-788-3966 AND YOU CAN ASK FOR 01:35 THE OFFER THAT YOU'LL SEE ON YOUR SCREEN. 01:37 AGAIN, THE MAGAZINE IS CALLED THE REST OF YOUR LIFE - 01:41 EVERYTHING YOU NEED TO KNOW ABOUT THE SABBATH. 01:43 WELL, AT THIS TIME, I'D LIKE TO INVITE OUR SONG LEADERS TO COME 01:46 AND JOIN ME HERE ONSTAGE, AND THEY'LL LEAD US AS WE BEGIN THIS 01:50 STUDY HOUR WITH A FEW MOMENTS OF WONDERFUL MUSIC AND PRAISE. 01:55 >>LET'S SING #385 - CROWNING JEWEL OF CREATION. 02:01 AND DON'T FORGET TO SEND IN YOUR REQUESTS AND WE'LL SING 02:04 THOSE WITH YOU ON A COMING PRESENTATION. 02:06 WE'LL SING THE FIRST AND THE LAST VERSES. 02:08 (MUSIC) 02:21 CROWNING JEWEL OF CREATION, BLEST AND HALLOWED, 02:28 SANCTIFIED; TIME AND CHANGES ALL TRANSCENDING, SHARED FOREVER, 02:39 GLORIFIED. BLESSED SABBATH MADE FOR MAN, 02:48 GIFT FROM THE CREATOR'S HAND. TEACH US LORD, IN STORM OR 03:00 SUNSHINE HOW TO TRULY REST IN THEE, MAY THY SABBATH PEACE 03:11 ENFOLD US AND OUR SHELTER EVER BE. 03:19 BLESSED SABBATH MADE FOR MAN, GIFT FROM THE CREATOR'S HAND. 03:40 >>I INVITE YOU TO BOW YOUR HEADS AS WE BEGIN WITH A WORD OF 03:43 PRAYER. DEAR FATHER IN HEAVEN, WE THANK 03:45 YOU FOR THE OPPORTUNITY TO GATHER TOGETHER ON THIS 03:48 BEAUTIFUL DAY - THIS SABBATH - AND OPEN UP YOUR WORD. 03:50 AND WE ASK FOR THE HOLY SPIRIT TO COME AND GUIDE OUR HEARTS AND 03:53 OUR MINDS AS WE LOOK AT THIS VERY IMPORTANT SUBJECT, FOR WE 03:56 ASK THIS IN JESUS' NAME, AMEN. 03:59 IF THOSE OF YOU JOINING US, IF YOU DON'T HAVE A LESSON 04:03 QUARTERLY, YOU CAN DOWNLOAD TODAY'S LESSON - LESSON #5 - AT 04:08 THE AMAZING FACTS WEBSITE - JUST AMAZINGFACTS.ORG . 04:11 AT THIS TIME I'D LIKE TO INVITE PASTOR DOUG TO COME FORWARD AND 04:15 HE WILL LEAD US IN OUR STUDY FOR TODAY. THANK YOU, PASTOR DOUG. 04:21 >>AND THANK YOU, PASTOR ROSS. MORNING. 04:25 I WANT TO WELCOME, AGAIN, THOSE WHO ARE PART OF THE EXTENDED 04:29 CLASS - I FORGOT I'VE GOT MY OWN MICROPHONE HERE, I CAN STEP AWAY 04:32 FROM THAT - AND INVITE YOU TO OUR STUDY TODAY. 04:36 WE'RE CONTINUING THROUGH MY FAVORITE GOSPEL. 04:39 YOU KNOW, IF YOU ASK PEOPLE WHICH OF THE FOUR GOSPELS IS 04:42 THEIR FAVORITE, YOU KNOW WHAT PEOPLE TYPICALLY SAY? 04:44 THE GOSPEL OF JOHN. JOHN IS THE GOSPEL OF LOVE. 04:49 HAVE YOU HEARD THAT BEFORE? 04:50 DID YOU KNOW JOHN IS ALSO THE GOSPEL OF LAW? 04:53 THERE'S ALMOST NOTHING THAT IS SAID - NOBODY SAYS ANYTHING MORE 04:58 ABOUT THE GOSPEL AND LAW THAN JOHN. 05:02 JOHN SAYS, 'IF YOU LOVE ME, KEEP MY COMMANDMENTS.' 'IF YOU SAY 05:05 YOU LOVE HIM AND YOU KEEP NOT HIS COMMANDMENTS, YOU'RE A LIAR 05:07 AND THE TRUTH IS NOT...' 'HIS COMMANDMENTS ARE NOT 05:10 BURDENSOME.' JOHN, WHO ALSO WROTE REVELATION, 'BLESSED ARE 05:14 THOSE THAT DO HIS COMMANDMENTS.' 'HERE ARE THOSE WHO KEEP THE 05:16 COMMANDMENTS OF GOD.' - IT SAYS THAT TWICE IN REVELATION. 05:18 YOU'D BE SURPRISED. JOHN WAS NOT ONLY THE 05:21 COMMANDMENT OF LOVE, HE'S THE COMMANDMENT OF LAW. 05:22 BUT I WAS TELLING YOU, LUKE IS MY FAVORITE OF THE GOSPELS AND I 05:26 DON'T KNOW WHY - NO, I THINK IT'S BECAUSE HE'S UNIQUE IN WHAT 05:30 HE SAYS. LIKE I SAID, IN THE GOSPEL OF 05:35 LUKE YOU ONLY FIND THE PRODIGAL SON. 05:37 IN THE GOSPEL OF LUKE YOU ONLY FIND THERE THE STORY OF 05:40 ZACCHAEUS AND A NUMBER OF OTHER PARABLES. ALSO, BEING A 05:43 PHYSICIAN - BECAUSE WE BELIEVE HE WAS - HE COMES TO THE GOSPELS 05:47 WITH A LITTLE DIFFERENT PERSPECTIVE ON SOME THINGS. 05:51 WITH THAT, WE'RE GOING TO BE FINDING OUT WHAT LUKE SAYS ABOUT 05:55 JESUS AND THE SABBATH, IN PARTICULAR. 05:58 SO, IF YOU'VE GOT YOUR LESSONS, WE HAVE A MEMORY VERSE - IT'S 06:02 LESSON #5 - LESSON #5 AND WE'RE GOING TO BE - THE TITLE OF IT 06:07 IS, OF COURSE, CHRIST AS THE LORD OF THE SABBATH . 06:10 THE MEMORY VERSE IS MARK 2, VERSES 27 AND 28 - MARK 2:27 06:15 AND 28. SAY THAT WITH ME? "'THE SABBATH WAS MADE FOR MAN, 06:22 AND NOT MAN FOR THE SABBATH. THEREFORE THE SON OF MAN IS ALSO 06:26 LORD OF THE SABBATH.'" JESUS IS LORD OF THE SABBATH. 06:31 NOW, IT'S INTERESTING THAT LUKE, WHO IS THE ONLY - WE'RE FAIRLY 06:36 CERTAIN HE IS A GENTILE WRITER AND, WHILE HE IS THE ONLY 06:40 GENTILE WRITER, HE SAYS APPROXIMATELY 50% OF EVERYTHING 06:45 THAT IS SAID ABOUT THE SABBATH IN THE NEW TESTAMENT. 06:47 NOW WHEN I SAY LUKE I MEAN LUKE AND THE BOOK OF ACTS. 06:51 YOU'RE GOING TO FIND ABOUT 50% OF THE REFERENCES OF THE SABBATH 06:54 COME FROM THE PEN OF LUKE. AND SO, HE SAYS MORE ABOUT IT 06:57 THAN MATTHEW, MARK, AND JOHN, WHICH IS INTERESTING BECAUSE IF 07:01 HE WAS A GENTILE YOU THINK HE WOULD HAVE SAID, 'THE JEWISH 07:04 SABBATH.' BUT HE NEVER SAYS THAT. 07:07 HE ALWAYS JUST STATES IT AS A MATTER OF FACT FOR ALL 07:10 BELIEVERS. AND SO, I THINK THAT'S 07:12 SIGNIFICANT AND WE SHOULD MAKE A NOTE OF THAT. 07:14 FIRST VERSE WE'RE GOING TO GO TO IS IN LUKE 4:16 AND IT SAYS, "SO 07:21 HE CAME TO NAZARETH, WHERE HE HAD BEEN BROUGHT UP. 07:23 AND AS HIS CUSTOM WAS, HE WENT INTO THE SYNAGOGUE ON THE 07:27 SABBATH DAY, AND STOOD UP TO READ." 07:30 - NOW, JUST A THOUGHT HERE, 'I THOUGHT THAT JESUS CAME FROM 07:34 BETHLEHEM.' WELL, HE WAS BORN IN BETHLEHEM, BUT THEN WHERE DID HE 07:40 GO FROM BETHLEHEM? TO EGYPT. HOW LONG WAS HE IN EGYPT? 07:45 OH, WE FIGURE, MAYBE TWO, THREE YEARS OLD. 07:50 KING HEROD, THE GREAT IS THE REASON THAT JOSEPH FLED WITH 07:54 MARY TO EGYPT - REMEMBER, HE KILLED THE BABIES IN BETHLEHEM - 07:58 TO PROTECT THE CHILD. AND THERE WAS SOME CONCERN THAT 08:01 JESUS' LIFE WAS AT RISK, OF COURSE, SO THEY FLED AND THEY 08:06 WENT DOWN THERE AT THE INSTRUCTION OF AN ANGEL. 08:07 BUT THEN, WHEN HEROD THE GREAT DIED, WHICH HISTORIANS TELL US 08:11 WAS PRETTY CLOSE TO THE YEARS - WHAT WE WOULD CALL THE YEAR 1 AD 08:16 - THERE'S NO YEAR ZERO. THE ANGEL THEN APPEARED TO 08:21 JOSEPH AND SAID, 'NOW YOU CAN GO BACK.' HE CAME BACK WHEN THEY 08:24 THOUGHT ABOUT GOING TO BETHLEHEM BECAUSE THEY HAD FAMILY THERE - 08:28 THAT'S WHY THEY DID THE CENSUS THERE. HE FOUND OUT THAT HEROD'S 08:31 SON, OR HEROD ARCHELEUS, WAS REIGNING DOWN THERE AND HE SAID, 08:36 'NO, I DON'T - HE'S PROBABLY LIKE HIS FATHER.' 08:38 HE WENT BACK UP TO GALILEE WHERE HE HAD BEEN ORIGINALLY. 08:42 AND SO, FROM THE TIME THAT JESUS WAS THREE YEARS OLD UNTIL HE 08:47 BEGAN HIS MINISTRY, HE LIVED AT NAZARETH, WHICH WAS ACTUALLY NOT 08:52 RIGHT ON THE SEA OF GALILEE, NAZARETH WAS MORE IN ONE OF THE 08:55 MOUNTAIN REGIONS THAT WAS WEST OF GALILEE. 08:59 BUT HE HAD A CUSTOM AND IT SAYS, "SO HE CAME TO NAZARETH, WHERE 09:05 HE HAD BEEN BROUGHT UP." - AFTER HE BEGAN HIS MINISTRY, 09:07 HE WENT BACK TO HIS HOME TOWN - "AND AS HIS CUSTOM WAS, HE WENT 09:11 INTO THE SYNAGOGUE ON THE SABBATH DAY, AND STOOD UP TO 09:14 READ." NOW WHAT IS A CUSTOM? 09:17 IS A CUSTOM SOMETHING YOU DO ONCE OR TWICE? 09:21 OR IS IT A PATTERN? WHAT IS A CHRISTIAN? 09:26 IS A CHRISTIAN A FOLLOWER OF CHRISTIANS? 09:31 OR IS A CHRISTIAN A FOLLOWER OF CHRIST? 09:34 AND SO, WHAT WAS THE CUSTOM OF OUR LEADER? 09:39 HE WENT INTO THE SYNAGOGUE ON THE SABBATH DAY AND HE NOT ONLY 09:43 ATTENDED CHURCH ON THE SABBATH DAY - YOU KNOW, IF YOU EVER ARE 09:47 WORRIED ABOUT IF YOU'RE A SABBATH-KEEPING CHRISTIAN 'WILL 09:50 I GET IN TROUBLE?' ALL YOU'VE GOT TO DO IS SAY, 09:53 'WELL, LORD, THAT'S WHAT YOU DID AND I'M JUST FOLLOWING YOUR 09:56 EXAMPLE. THE CUSTOM OF JESUS WAS TO ENTER 09:59 INTO THE SYNAGOGUE ON THE SABBATH DAY AND HE READ THE 10:02 BIBLE AND HE GATHERED TOGETHER WITH OTHERS. NOW, THE WORD 10:06 'SYNAGOGUE' - AND WE SOMETIMES ARE FOOLED BY THAT - 'SYNAGOGUE' 10:10 - WE THINK, YOU KNOW, IT'S A JEWISH WORD. 'SYNAGOGUE' IS 10:12 REALLY A WORD THAT IS TALKING ABOUT A GATHERING. IT MEANS 10:17 'A RELIGIOUS ASSEMBLAGE OF PERSONS; A MEETING; 10:20 A CONGREGATION; A CONVENING; A COMING TOGETHER, USUALLY FOR 10:23 A RELIGIOUS PURPOSE.' THE CHURCH WAS CALLED A SYNAGOGUE. 10:27 YOU GET IN REVELATION IT TALKS ABOUT 'THE SYNAGOGUE OF SATAN' - 10:30 PEOPLE THINK THAT MEANS IT'S JEWISH. 10:32 NO, IT JUST MEANS THE CHURCH. SO THE WORD 'SYNAGOGUE' - 10:35 DON'T BE FOOLED BY THAT. TODAY, WHEN WE SAY 'SYNAGOGUE' 10:37 IN OUR CULTURE, YOU'RE THINKING EXCLUSIVELY JEWISH, AREN'T YOU? 10:40 YOU NEVER SAY 'A JEWISH CHURCH' IN OUR CULTURE, YOU SAY, 'I WENT 10:44 TO A JEWISH SYNAGOGUE.' AND YOU DON'T SAY, 'I WENT TO A GENTILE 10:48 SYNAGOGUE.' YOU SAY A JEWISH SYNAGOGUE - GENTILE CHURCH. 10:52 IT WASN'T LIKE THAT BACK THEN. THE WORD WAS INTERCHANGEABLE. 10:55 WHERE DID PAUL GO WHEN HE FIRST WAS PERSECUTING CHRISTIANS? 11:00 IT SAYS, 'HE WENT TO THE SYNAGOGUES TO ARREST THE 11:04 CHRISTIANS.' ISN'T THAT INTERESTING THAT PAUL WOULD GO 11:07 LOOKING FOR CHRISTIANS IN SYNAGOGUES. WELL, THAT'S 11:10 BECAUSE, OF COURSE, THE EARLY CHRISTIANS ALL MET 11:13 WITH THE JEWS. THERE WAS NO OTHER PLACE TO GO 11:14 AND - BUT IT JUST MEANT 'THE GATHERING PLACE' AND ALL THE 11:20 COMMUNITIES HAD ONE. SO HE WENT INTO THE SYNAGOGUE 11:23 AND HE STOOD UP TO READ THE SCRIPTURES. 11:26 IT WAS HIS CUSTOM TO DO THIS ON A REGULAR BASIS. USING THE 11:29 TEACHING OF LUKE, I WANT YOU TO NOTICE SOMETHING. GO TO LUKE 21, 11:32 VERSE 37, "AND IN THE DAYTIME HE WAS TEACHING IN THE TEMPLE, BUT 11:38 AT NIGHT" - NOW THIS IS WHEN HE'S IN JERUSALEM - "BUT AT 11:41 NIGHT HE WENT OUT AND STAYED ON THE MOUNTAIN CALLED OLIVET." 11:45 NOW, WITH THAT IN MIND, GO TO LUKE 22:39, "COMING OUT, HE WENT 11:51 TO THE MOUNT OF OLIVES, AS HE WAS ACCUSTOMED" - AND SO IT 11:56 TELLS YOU IT'S SOMETHING THAT HE NOT DID ONCE OR TWICE, BUT LUKE 12:00 IS SAYING THAT IT WAS HIS PATTERN TO DO THAT. 12:03 HE'D TEACH IN THE TEMPLE, HE'D GO OUT TO, YOU KNOW, A MORE 12:08 RURAL SETTING - THE MOUNT OF OLIVES WAS NOT AS DEVELOPED BACK 12:11 THEN AS IT IS TODAY, IT WAS MORE OF A FARMING AREA AND HE WOULD 12:14 ACTUALLY STAY THERE - HE WOULD SLEEP THERE. 12:16 BUT HE'D GO OUT AND HE'D PRAY. 12:18 AND THEN YOU CAN READ ALSO IN LUKE 5, VERSE 16, "SO HE HIMSELF 12:23 OFTEN WITHDREW INTO THE WILDERNESS AND PRAYED." 12:27 SO, WHEN JESUS DID SOMETHING - WHEN LUKE USES THE WORD 12:30 'CUSTOM,' IT SAYS HERE IT'S SOMETHING HE DID OFTEN. 12:33 THAT WAS ALL THAT I JUST READ - TO MAKE THAT POINT. 12:35 JESUS, WHEN HE WENT TO NAZARETH AND HE WENT TO THE SYNAGOGUE AND 12:39 IT SAYS IT WAS HIS CUSTOM, THIS IS SAYING IT WAS HIS PRACTICE. 12:42 IT WASN'T HIS PRACTICE ON AN OCCASIONAL SABBATH, IT WAS HIS 12:46 PRACTICE EVERY SABBATH AND THERE'S A LOT OF SCRIPTURES THAT 12:49 BEAR THIS OUT. YOU'LL FIND A LOT OF THE 12:51 CONTROVERSY ABOUT JESUS AND HIS TEACHINGS OCCURRED DURING THE 12:55 SABBATH BECAUSE HE WOULD GET UP AND HE WOULD TEACH. 12:57 NOW, THAT FIRST SABBATH, WHEN HE GOT UP AND HE SPOKE - MATTER OF 13:01 FACT, TURN IN LUKE CHAPTER 4, WE READ THAT VERSE - VERSE 16 - I'D 13:07 LIKE YOU TO GO THERE WITH ME, PLEASE - LUKE 4:16 - IT SAYS, 13:15 "SO HE CAME TO NAZARETH, WHERE HE HAD BEEN BROUGHT UP." 13:17 - BY THE WAY, YOU REMEMBER IT SAYS HE WENT HOME - AFTER HE WAS 13:20 TWELVE YEARS OLD HE WENT BACK WITH HIS PARENTS TO NAZARETH AND 13:23 HE WAS SUBJECT TO THEM AND HE WAXED STRONG IN SPIRIT. 13:26 THAT'S WHERE HE WAS GROWING UP. 13:28 HE WAXED STRONG IN STATURE AND IN SPIRIT. 13:31 AND IT SAYS THAT - "WHERE HE'D BEEN BROUGHT UP. 13:34 AND AS HIS CUSTOM WAS, HE WENT INTO THE SYNAGOGUE ON THE 13:36 SABBATH DAY, AND STOOD UP TO READ. 13:38 AND HE WAS HANDED THE BOOK OF THE PROPHET ISAIAH. 13:41 AND WHEN HE HAD OPENED THE BOOK, HE FOUND THE PLACE" - YOU KNOW, 13:45 THERE WAS NO CHAPTER AND VERSE BACK THEN, SO WHEN YOU FOUND THE 13:47 PLACE, IT MIGHT TAKE HIM A MOMENT - "HE FOUND THE PLACE 13:51 WHERE IT WAS WRITTEN: 'THE SPIRIT OF THE LORD IS UPON ME, 13:53 BECAUSE HE HAS ANOINTED ME TO PREACH THE GOSPEL TO THE POOR; 13:57 HE HAS SENT ME TO HEAL THE BROKENHEARTED, TO PROCLAIM 14:00 LIBERTY TO THE CAPTIVES AND RECOVERY OF SIGHT TO THE BLIND, 14:02 TO SET AT LIBERTY THOSE WHO ARE OPPRESSED; TO PROCLAIM THE 14:06 ACCEPTABLE YEAR OF THE LORD.' THEN HE CLOSED THE BOOK, AND 14:09 GAVE IT BACK TO THE ATTENDANT" - SOMEONE ACTUALLY GUARDED THE 14:12 SCRIPTURES - THEY WERE SACRED. HAVE YOU EVER BEEN TO A JEWISH 14:14 SYNAGOGUE AND SOMEONE CARRIES OUT THE TORAH AND IT'S - IT'S 14:18 JUST - THEY KEEP THEM UNDER LOCK AND KEY BECAUSE SOME OF THE OLD 14:21 ONES ARE HAND WRITTEN AND IT'S JUST VERY VALUABLE - "AND GAVE 14:24 IT BACK TO THE ATTENDANT AND SAT DOWN. 14:28 AND THE EYES OF ALL WHO WERE IN THE SYNAGOGUE WERE FIXED ON HIM. 14:31 AND HE BEGAN TO SAY TO THEM, 'TODAY THIS SCRIPTURE IS 14:34 FULFILLED IN YOUR HEARING.' SO ALL BORE WITNESS TO HIM, AND 14:38 MARVELED AT THE GRACIOUS WORDS WHICH PROCEEDED OUT OF HIS 14:42 MOUTH. AND THEY SAID, 'IS THIS NOT JOSEPH'S SON?' " - 14:44 WHERE DID HE GET THIS LEARNING? GRACIOUS WORDS - 14:47 NOTICE - JESUS IS ANNOUNCING THE INAUGURATION OF HIS MINISTRY. 14:53 HE DOES IT IN HIS HOMETOWN AND HE DOES IT ON THE SABBATH. 14:57 SOMETHING ELSE IS VERY IMPORTANT ABOUT THIS PASSAGE. 15:00 NOTICE WHAT JESUS' MODE OF PREACHING WAS - HE READ A 15:04 PASSAGE OF SCRIPTURE AND THEN HE EXPOUNDED ON IT. 15:08 A LOT OF TIMES YOU HEAR PREACHERS GET UP AND THEY'LL 15:11 TAKE A NEWSPAPER CLIPPING AND THEY'LL SHARE A FUNNY STORY AND 15:14 THEN THEY JUST KIND OF WAX ELOQUENT AND PONTIFICATE ON 15:16 THOSE THINGS. JESUS WAS A BIBLE PREACHER. 15:19 FIRST THING WAS HE READ A PASSAGE AND THEN HE SAT DOWN AND 15:23 HE TALKED TO PEOPLE AND HE EXPOUNDED ON WHAT THE PASSAGE OF 15:26 SCRIPTURE SAYS. HE WAS A BIBLE PREACHER. 15:29 BUT HE USED THE SABBATH TO, BASICALLY, INAUGURATE AND 15:32 ANNOUNCE THE BEGINNING OF HIS MINISTRY. 15:34 ALRIGHT, YOU CAN LOOK IN - WE'RE GOING TO TALK A LITTLE BIT ABOUT 15:38 WHAT HE DID IN CAPERNAUM. GO TO MARK CHAPTER 1, VERSE 21. 15:43 "THEN THEY WENT INTO CAPERNAUM, AND IMMEDIATELY ON THE SABBATH" 15:49 - IF YOU WANT TO HAVE AN INTERESTING STUDY SOMETIME, TAKE 15:51 YOUR BIBLE - HOW MANY OF YOU HAVE BIBLE COMPUTER PROGRAMS OR 15:54 YOU'VE GOT THE BIBLE ON THE - JUST ABOUT EVERYBODY NOW, RIGHT? 15:58 TYPE IN THE WORD 'IMMEDIATELY' OR 'STRAIGHTWAY' - YOU'LL BE 16:01 SURPRISED HOW OFTEN MARK SAYS THAT. 16:04 MARK IS THE FASTEST GOSPEL. IT JUST IS ALWAYS SAYING, 16:07 'IMMEDIATELY,' 'STRAIGHTWAY,' AND - OR DIFFERENT SIMILAR TERMS 16:11 - HE "WENT INTO CAPERNAUM, AND IMMEDIATELY ON THE SABBATH HE 16:14 ENTERED THE SYNAGOGUE AND TAUGHT." 16:16 YOU KNOW, THEY HAVE DISCOVERED THE ANCIENT CITY OF CAPERNAUM 16:18 AND THEY'VE ACTUALLY FOUND A SYNAGOGUE IN CAPERNAUM AND WHEN 16:21 YOU GO TO ISRAEL AND YOU TRAVEL AROUND - YOU KNOW, ONE OF THESE 16:26 DAYS, AMAZING FACTS IS THINKING OF TAKING A GROUP TO ISRAEL. 16:28 THAT WOULD BE VERY INTERESTING. 16:29 I'VE BEEN THERE A COUPLE OF TIMES AND WHEN YOU GO TO ISRAEL, 16:33 YOU GO TO ONE TOWN AND THERE'LL BE FOUR CHURCHES THAT WILL SAY, 16:37 'THIS IS WHERE JESUS WAS BORN.' THEY ALL HAVE A DIFFERENT PLACE. 16:39 AND THEY'LL ALL SAY, 'THIS WAS THE SERMON ON THE MOUNT - THIS 16:43 IS THE MOUNT WHERE JESUS DID THE SERMON.' AND ALL THE CHURCHES 16:44 HAVE BUILT ON DIFFERENT MOUNTAINS AND SAY, 'NO, THIS WAS 16:47 THE MOUNTAIN.' 'NO, THIS WAS THE MOUNTAIN. WE HAVE THE SPOT.' 16:49 'YOU CAN STAND WHERE JESUS STOOD.' 'NO, IT'S NOT THERE. 16:50 IT'S HERE.' THEY ALL ARGUE AMONG THEMSELVES FOR THESE TOURIST 16:53 LOCATIONS. BUT WHEN YOU GO TO CAPERNAUM, IT 16:56 WAS A SMALL TOWN, THEY DID DISCOVER ONE ANCIENT SYNAGOGUE 16:59 THERE. THAT WAS PROBABLY THE SYNAGOGUE 17:02 BECAUSE THEY DIDN'T HAVE THAT MANY OF THEM. 17:04 IT WAS A SMALL FISHING VILLAGE AND SO YOU CAN LOOK AT - AT 17:08 LEAST THE FOUNDATION STONES - OF THE PLACE WHERE JESUS PROBABLY 17:11 ACTUALLY STOOD AND TAUGHT AND IT'S VERY INTERESTING - 17:15 KIND OF MOVING. AND HE "WENT INTO CAPERNAUM, AND 17:18 IMMEDIATELY ON THE SABBATH HE ENTERED THE SYNAGOGUE AND 17:20 TAUGHT. AND THEY WERE ASTONISHED AT HIS 17:23 TEACHING, FOR HE TAUGHT THEM AS ONE HAVING AUTHORITY, AND NOT AS 17:26 THE SCRIBES." SO ARE YOU SEEING THE PATTERN? 17:28 THERE WAS A PRACTICE OF JESUS TO ENTER INTO THE SYNAGOGUE AND 17:30 TEACH AND PREACH ON THE SABBATH. GO TO LUKE 6, VERSE 6 - TALKING 17:37 ABOUT A SIMILAR OCCASION - "NOW IT HAPPENED ON ANOTHER SABBATH, 17:42 ALSO, THAT HE ENTERED THE SYNAGOGUE AND TAUGHT. 17:45 AND A MAN WAS THERE WHOSE RIGHT HAND WAS WITHERED" - IT SAYS HIS 17:50 RIGHT HAND WAS WITHERED - "SO THE SCRIBES AND THE PHARISEES 17:54 WATCHED HIM CLOSELY, WHETHER HE WOULD HEAL (JESUS) ON THE 17:56 SABBATH, THAT THEY MIGHT FIND AN ACCUSATION AGAINST HIM. 17:59 BUT HE KNEW THEIR THOUGHTS, AND SAID TO THE MAN WHO HAD THE 18:03 WITHERED HAND, 'ARISE AND STAND HERE.'" - HE HAD HIM GET UP AND 18:06 STAND FORWARD. AND THIS IS THE FIRST TIME JESUS DOES THIS. 18:09 HE'S GOING TO HEAL SOMEONE, BUT BEFORE HE HEALS HIM HE MAKES IT 18:11 AN OBJECT LESSON - "THEN JESUS SAID TO THEM, 'I WILL ASK YOU 18:16 ONE THING: IS IT LAWFUL ON THE SABBATH TO DO GOOD OR TO DO 18:20 EVIL, TO SAVE LIFE OR TO DESTROY?' 18:22 AND WHEN HE HAD LOOKED AROUND AT THEM ALL," - THEY SAID NOTHING. 18:28 OTHER PLACES IT SAYS HE LOOKED AROUND AT THEM WITH ANGER - THE 18:30 SAME STORY - BECAUSE HE WAS SO FRUSTRATED THAT THEY DIDN'T 18:34 UNDERSTAND THAT ANSWER TO A SIMPLE QUESTION: IS THE SABBATH 18:37 A DAY FOR DOING GOOD? WAS IT WRONG TO HEAL ON THE 18:40 SABBATH? I MEAN, CAN GOD NOT PERFORM A 18:43 MIRACLE ON THE SABBATH? THAT WAS VERY FRUSTRATING TO THE 18:49 LORD - THEY DIDN'T APPRECIATE THAT TRUTH. 18:51 "AND WHEN HE HAD LOOKED AROUND AT THEM ALL, HE SAID TO THE MAN, 18:55 'STRETCH OUT YOUR HAND.' AND HE DID SO, AND HIS HAND WAS 18:58 RESTORED AS WHOLE AS THE OTHER. BUT THEY WERE FILLED WITH RAGE, 19:04 AND DISCUSSED WITH ONE ANOTHER WHAT THEY MIGHT DO TO JESUS." 19:06 WHAT KIND OF SPIRIT IS IT THAT WOULD MAKE YOU ANGRY AT A MAN 19:12 WHO HAD JUST GIVEN ANOTHER MAN THE USE OF HIS HAND BACK AND 19:18 MADE HIM WHOLE? WOULDN'T YOU THINK THAT'S CAUSE 19:20 FOR REJOICING? BUT THEY WERE ANGRY. 19:23 THEY WERE SO BOUND UP IN WHAT THEIR BELIEFS WERE AND THAT HE 19:26 WAS COUNTERMANDING THEIR OPINIONS THAT THEY WANTED TO 19:30 DESTROY HIM JUST TO PRESERVE THEIR OPINIONS. 19:33 OBVIOUSLY, THAT'S NOT THE RIGHT SPIRIT. 19:35 THEY DISCUSSED WITH ONE ANOTHER WHAT THEY MIGHT DO TO JESUS. 19:38 'HOW DARE HIM PERFORM A MIRACLE?' I MEAN, WHO DO THEY 19:42 THINK DID THE MIRACLE? WASN'T IT FROM GOD? 19:44 HOW DARE GOD DO THIS AND BREAK HIS SABBATH? 19:47 YOU KNOW, JESUS SAID, 'MY FATHER WORKS AND I WORK ALSO.' YOU 19:50 KNOW, A NUMBER OF MIRACLES AND A LOT OF CONTROVERSY THAT OCCURRED 19:56 REGARDING THE SABBATH DAY - BUT NEVER ONCE WAS IT BECAUSE 20:01 THE SABBATH DAY WAS NOT TO BE KEPT. THE CONTROVERSIES AND THE 20:05 CONTENTION THAT JESUS HAD WITH THE RELIGIOUS LEADERS REGARDING 20:08 MIRACLES ON THE SABBATH DAY, NEVER HAD TO DO WITH WHETHER OR 20:13 NOT THE SABBATH DAY SHOULD BE KEPT. 20:15 IT ALWAYS REVOLVED AROUND HOW IT SHOULD BE KEPT. 20:19 SO WHEN PEOPLE SAY WE DON'T NEED TO KEEP THE SABBATH ANYMORE - 20:22 'BECAUSE, YOU KNOW, JESUS HEALED ON THE SABBATH' OR 'JESUS PICKED 20:25 GRAIN ON THE SABBATH' AND THE DIFFERENT THINGS THAT HAPPENED - 20:28 NEVER DID JESUS SAY WE DON'T NEED TO KEEP THE SABBATH 20:31 ANYMORE. THAT WOULD HAVE BEEN SO EASY FOR HIM TO SAY. 20:33 BUT IT WAS ALWAYS ABOUT HOW TO KEEP THE SABBATH. 20:39 WITH A LOT OF THE LAW OF GOD IT WASN'T SO MUCH WHETHER OR NOT TO 20:43 KEEP IT, BUT HOW TO KEEP IT. DID JESUS HAVE A DISPUTE WITH 20:47 THE COMMANDMENT 'HONOR YOUR FATHER AND MOTHER' WITH THE 20:50 RELIGIOUS LEADERS? HE DID, ACTUALLY. 20:52 YEAH, HE - BUT IT DIDN'T HAVE ANYTHING TO DO WITH WHETHER OR 20:56 NOT THEY SHOULD KEEP IT, IT WAS HOW TO KEEP IT. 20:59 NOW, FOR INSTANCE, THEY HAD A LAW WHERE YOU COULD WILL YOUR 21:02 PROPERTY TO THE CHURCH - TO THE TEMPLE - AND YOU DIDN'T HAVE TO 21:04 TAKE CARE OF YOUR PARENTS IN THEIR OLD AGE. 21:06 IT WAS CALLED CORBAN. 21:08 JESUS SAID, 'YOU DECLARE CORBAN OVER YOUR PROPERTY SO YOU CAN 21:10 LIVE OFF YOUR PROPERTY WHILE YOUR MOTHER AND FATHER GET OLD 21:13 AND THEY CAN'T TAKE CARE OF THEMSELVES AND YOU NEGLECT THE 21:16 COMMANDMENT THAT SAYS 'HONOR YOUR FATHER AND MOTHER' SO YOU 21:18 CAN KEEP A TRADITION.' SO THERE WAS A NUMBER OF THE LAWS - DID 21:23 THEY MISAPPLY THE LAWS ABOUT DIVORCE? 21:25 THEY SAID, 'OH, BUT THE RELIGIOUS LEADERS SAID THAT WE 21:28 CAN GET A DIVORCE.' HE SAID, 'BECAUSE OF THE HARDNESS OF YOUR 21:30 HEARTS, BUT THAT'S NOT GOD'S WILL.' SO JESUS CAME TO MAGNIFY 21:32 - WHEN YOU MAGNIFY SOMETHING, WHAT DO YOU DO? 21:35 YOU MAKE IT CLEAR. YOU MAKE IT HONORABLE. 21:40 HE CAME TO MAGNIFY THE LAW AND MAKE IT HONORABLE. 21:42 YOU KNOW, IF OUR GOVERNMENT - NOW YOU DRIVE IN CALIFORNIA, AT 21:48 LEAST HERE WHERE THIS IS BEING RECORDED - ARE YOU ALLOWED TO 21:52 MAKE A RIGHT TURN ON A RED LIGHT? YOU ARE. 21:56 THAT'S NOT TRUE EVERYWHERE, BUT YOU CAN. 21:59 SUPPOSE THAT THE LAW CHANGED AND ALL OF A SUDDEN IT BECAME 22:04 ILLEGAL TO MAKE A RIGHT TURN ON A RED LIGHT. 22:07 AND THE STATE VOTED THIS NEW LAW IN BUT THEY DIDN'T TELL YOU OR 22:13 THEY DIDN'T ADVERTISE IT AND YOU GET PULLED OVER AND YOU PROTEST 22:18 TO THE POLICEMAN AND SAY, 'THIS ISN'T VERY FAIR.' AND THE 22:21 POLICEMAN WOULD SAY, 'WELL, THEY MADE A NEW LAW.' AND YOU SAID, 22:25 'BUT YOU DIDN'T ANNOUNCE IT, YOU DIDN'T ADVERTISE IT, YOU DIDN'T 22:28 TELL US.' DO YOU KNOW, IF THEY WERE GOING TO ENACT A NEW LAW 22:32 THAT SAYS YOU CAN TURN LEFT ON A RED LIGHT BUT YOU CAN'T TURN 22:36 RIGHT, TWO THINGS HAVE TO HAPPEN. 22:38 YOU HAVE TO NULLIFY THE OLD LAW AND VOTE IN THE NEW LAW. 22:43 YOU CANNOT VOTE IN A NEW LAW THAT CONTRADICTS AN OLD LAW 22:46 UNTIL YOU ALSO HAVE A SEPARATE LAW THAT NULLIFIES THE OLD LAW. 22:51 SO IN ORDER FOR THE SABBATH TO HAVE CHANGED FROM SATURDAY TO 22:56 SUNDAY, TWO THINGS NEEDED TO HAPPEN. ONE IS YOU NEEDED TO 22:59 FIND A NEW COMMANDMENT THAT SAYS 'YOU WILL NOW KEEP THE FIRST DAY 23:02 AS THE SABBATH.' DO YOU FIND THAT ANYWHERE IN THE BIBLE? 23:04 THE SECOND THING WOULD HAPPEN IS YOU WOULD NEED TO FIND A 23:08 COMMANDMENT - THIS IS ONE OF THE TEN COMMANDMENTS - AS GOES THE 23:11 LAW, SO GOES THE SABBATH, BECAUSE THE SABBATH IS IN THE 23:14 VERY HEART OF IT. IT'S THE ONLY COMMANDMENT THAT BEGINS WITH THE 23:16 WORD 'REMEMBER.' IT'S OBVIOUSLY VERY IMPORTANT TO THE LORD. 23:19 I WAS READING A BOOK - ANY OF YOU HEARD OF M.L. ANDREASEN - 23:23 ADVENTIST AUTHOR? M.L. ANDREASEN - THE PASTOR WHO BAPTIZED ME 23:27 GAVE ME SOME BOOKS AND I PULLED OUT SOME OLD BOOKS THIS WEEK AND 23:30 WAS READING A BOOK BY M.L. ANDREASEN - IT'S GREAT. 23:32 IT'S CALLED THE LAW OF GOD AND THE FAITH OF JESUS AND I OPENED 23:37 IT UP AND I OPENED IT UP AND FOUND THAT IT WAS A SIGNED COPY. 23:39 I DIDN'T REALIZE THAT. BUT HE HAS AN EXCELLENT SECTION 23:42 THERE AT THE END OF THAT BOOK ON THE SABBATH DAY. 23:44 AND YOU GET DONE READING THAT AND YOU THINK, 'HOW COME 23:47 RELIGIOUS LEADERS CANNOT SEE THIS? 23:49 THE LAW, IN THE BIBLE, FOR KEEPING THE FIRST DAY OF THE 23:53 WEEK IS NON-EXISTENT. THERE IS NO COMMANDMENT THAT 23:57 NULLIFIES THE FOURTH COMMANDMENT. MATTER OF FACT, 24:01 YOU READ IN HEBREWS, IT SAYS 'THERE REMAINS, THEREFORE, THE 24:03 KEEPING OF A SABBATH FOR THE PEOPLE OF GOD.' AND HE SAYS, 24:06 'HE SPAKE IN A CERTAIN PLACE ON THE SEVENTH DAY.' IT NEVER SAYS 24:09 HE SPAKE ABOUT THE FIRST DAY BEING A SABBATH. 24:12 IT IS TOTALLY A TRADITION AND SPECULATION THAT, BECAUSE JESUS 24:15 ROSE ON THE FIRST DAY, THAT IT SUDDENLY BECAME THE NEW SABBATH. 24:19 NOW JESUS DOES GIVE US SOMETHING TO REMEMBER HIS RESURRECTION - 24:23 WHAT IS IT? IT'S BAPTISM. BAPTISM IS A TYPE OF DEATH, 24:28 BURIAL, AND RESURRECTION - NOT A NEW SABBATH DAY. 24:30 AND IF THE BIBLE SAYS THAT ON THE SIXTH DAY GOD FINISHED HIS 24:36 WORK AND HE RESTED THE SEVENTH DAY - SO THERE'S A REASON THAT 24:39 HE CHOSE THE SEVENTH DAY, WHERE DOES IT COMMAND THAT GOD DID 24:42 SOMETHING ELSE? WHEN JESUS FINISHED HIS WORK OF SAVING US 24:46 FROM OUR SINS. WHAT DAY OF THE WEEK WAS THAT? FRIDAY, THE 24:51 SIXTH DAY. WHEN DID HE REST FROM SAVING US? THE SABBATH. 24:56 SO NOT ONLY DOES GOD ENDORSE THE SEVENTH DAY BECAUSE HE RESTED 25:00 FROM HIS WORK IN THE OLD TESTAMENT, JESUS, IN THE NEW 25:04 TESTAMENT - IN THE GOSPEL - ENDORSES THE SEVENTH DAY BECAUSE 25:07 HE RESTS FROM HIS WORK OF SAVING US FROM SIN. 25:09 AND HE SAID, 'IT IS FINISHED.' AND HE GOES TO SLEEP AND HE 25:12 RISES TO CONTINUE HIS WORK AS OUR HIGH PRIEST ON SUNDAY. 25:17 IT'S NOT INAUGURATED AS A NEW DAY OF REST. 25:19 AND SO I JUST AM ALWAYS AMAZED AND, YOU KNOW, THAT'S ONE REASON 25:23 I BECAME A SEVENTH-DAY ADVENTIST CHRISTIAN, IS JUST THE BIBLE 25:25 EVIDENCE, TO ME, WAS WHAT YOU WOULD SAY IN THE BASKETBALL 25:28 VERNACULAR, A SLAM-DUNK. IT WAS JUST SO CLEAR THAT I 25:32 COULD NEVER UNDERSTAND - ALRIGHT, LET'S GO TO THE NEXT 25:35 SECTION UNDER MONDAY - SABBATH: ITS MEANING AND ITS MESSAGE . 25:40 LUKE 4:17 - ACTUALLY, I ALREADY READ THIS ONE TO YOU. 25:44 SO I WANT TO GO TO - WHAT IS THE MEANING FOR THE SABBATH? 25:49 WELL, PART OF THE MEANING OF THE SABBATH IS IT'S CALLED 'A HOLY 25:52 CONVOCATION.' NOW SOME PEOPLE ARE CONFUSED. 25:55 THERE'S A LAW IN THE OLD TESTAMENT WHICH SAYS, DURING THE 25:58 SABBATH DAY, YOU'RE NOT TO GO OUT OF YOUR DWELLINGS. 26:01 AND PEOPLE SAY - I ACTUALLY HEARD THIS OSTENSIBLY 26:05 SABBATH-KEEPING PASTOR TELL PEOPLE AT CAMP MEETING, 'SABBATH 26:08 DAY YOU'RE NOT TO GO OUT OF YOUR DWELLINGS - IT'S A DAY TO JUST 26:11 STAY AT HOME AT REST.' CAN YOU BELIEVE THAT? 26:12 HE SAID, 'YOU DON'T HAVE TO GO TO CHURCH. 26:14 IT ACTUALLY SAYS YOU SHOULD NOT GO OUT OF YOUR DWELLINGS.' WELL, 26:17 WHEN GOD SAYS THAT IN THE OLD TESTAMENT, IT'S IN THE CONTEXT 26:19 OF SOMEBODY GOING OUT LOOKING FOR FIREWOOD AND THEY WERE 26:23 NOT TO GO OUT LOOKING FOR FIREWOOD. 26:26 BUT IN THE OLD TESTAMENT IT SAYS THE SABBATH WAS - LET ME READ IT 26:30 TO YOU - LEVITICUS 23:3, "SIX DAYS SHALL WORK BE DONE, BUT THE 26:35 SEVENTH DAY IS A SABBATH OF SOLEMN REST, A HOLY CONVOCATION. 26:40 YOU SHALL DO NO WORK ON IT; IT IS THE SABBATH OF THE LORD IN 26:43 ALL YOUR DWELLINGS." - NOT THE SABBATH OF THE JEWS, 26:45 THE SABBATH OF WHO? OF THE LORD. "A HOLY CONVOCATION." - WHAT IS 26:50 A CONVOCATION? A GATHERING; AN ASSEMBLY. 26:54 SO, SOME PEOPLE SAY, 'YOU KNOW, PASTOR DOUG, I'M SORRY I DIDN'T 26:58 MAKE IT TO CHURCH THIS WEEK. IT WAS A ROUGH WEEK. 27:01 I NEEDED TO STAY HOME AND REST.' AND I'M NOT SAYING THAT THERE'S 27:04 NEVER AN OCCASION WHERE YOU ARE SO UTTERLY PHYSICALLY AND 27:06 MENTALLY EXHAUSTED THAT YOU JUST CAN'T GET OUT OF BED YOU NEED A 27:08 REST. IT DOESN'T MEAN - THERE'S TIMES 27:09 FOR THAT, I UNDERSTAND THAT. NOTICE HOW I EMPHASIZE YOU 27:11 BETTER BE UTTERLY PHYSICALLY, MENTALLY EXHAUSTED WHERE IT'S 27:15 ACTUALLY A MEDICAL EMERGENCY - YOU BETTER STAY HOME AND REST. 27:18 BECAUSE PART OF SABBATH KEEPING IS NOT JUST NOT DOING WORK, THE 27:23 BIBLE SAYS IT IS A HOLY CONVOCATION - NOT JUST A 27:27 CONVOCATION, BUT A HOLY CONVOCATION. 27:29 HOW IMPORTANT IS THAT? WHEN GOD SAYS IT'S A HOLY 27:33 CONVOCATION, THAT MEANS WE NEED TO BE THERE. 27:36 THAT'S AN ASSEMBLY. WE CONVENE. WE COME TOGETHER. 27:41 DOES THE LORD WANT US GOING TO CHURCH ON THE SABBATH DAY? 27:43 HE DOES, OBVIOUSLY. AND SO, WHEN IT TALKS ABOUT THE 27:47 MEANING OF THE SABBATH, ONE OF THE THINGS IS WHY DO WE CONVENE? 27:50 IT'S SOMETHING WHERE WE GET TOGETHER FOR CORPORATE WORSHIP. 27:54 IT'S A TIME TO COME TOGETHER AS ONE BODY AND TO PRAISE AND TO 27:58 WORSHIP. DO WE GATHER STRENGTH WHEN WE 28:01 WORSHIP TOGETHER? DOES THE NEW TESTAMENT TELL US 28:05 ABOUT THE IMPORTANCE OF MEETING TOGETHER AS A BODY? 28:08 AND, YOU KNOW, SOMEONE MIGHT BE THE EYE, SOMEONE ELSE IS THE 28:13 ARM, SOMEONE ELSE IS THE FOOT, SOMEONE ELSE IS THE MOUTH - 28:16 WE'RE ALL DIFFERENT PARTS OF THE BODY. WELL, THE BODY IS ALL 28:19 SCATTERED THROUGH THE WEEK IN DIFFERENT PARTS AND DIFFERENT 28:22 PLACES. WE NEED TO COME TOGETHER - IT'S NICE TO COME TOGETHER AT 28:24 PRAYER MEETING AND OTHER TIMES, BUT ESPECIALLY IF THERE'S ONE 28:27 DAY YOU SHOULD NOT NEGLECT, THE GATHERING TOGETHER OF THE 28:30 SAINTS. YOU KNOW HOW IT SAYS IN HEBREWS CHAPTER 10 'DO NOT 28:34 FORSAKE THE ASSEMBLING OF YOURSELVES TOGETHER AND ALL THE 28:36 MORE AS YOU SEE THE DAY APPROACHING.' HOW MANY OF YOU 28:38 SEE THE DAY OF THE LORD APPROACHING? 28:40 ALL THE MORE AS YOU SEE THE DAY APPROACHING YOU SHOULD NOT 28:42 NEGLECT THE COMING TOGETHER OF THE SAINTS. 28:45 AND THE SABBATH WAS, FOR ONE THING, ITS MEANING 'A HOLY 28:50 CONVOCATION.' THE SABBATH WAS A TIME TO STUDY THE WORD. 28:55 JESUS, AS HIS CUSTOM WAS, ENTERED INTO THE SYNAGOGUE ON 28:58 THE SABBATH AND READ THE SCRIPTURES. 29:02 HE OPENED THE SCRIPTURES. IT'S A TIME TO STUDY THE WORD. 29:05 HE EXPOUNDED WHAT THE MEANING OF THE SCRIPTURES WERE. 29:08 WHY IS THAT IMPORTANT? PSALM 119, VERSE 11, "YOUR WORD 29:12 I HAVE HIDDEN IN MY HEART, THAT I MIGHT NOT SIN AGAINST YOU." 29:17 HOW MANY OF YOU KNOW THAT WE HAVE A PROBLEM WITH SIN? 29:21 JESUS CAME TO SAVE US FROM OUR - IF HE DOESN'T SAVE US FROM OUR 29:26 SINS WE'RE IN HOT WATER - OR WORSE! 29:29 IT'S VERY IMPORTANT THAT WE'RE SAVED FROM OUR SIN. 29:32 THE WORD IS WHERE THE POWER COMES FROM. 29:35 THERE IS SOMETHING SANCTIFYING THAT HAPPENS WHEN WE CONVENE AND 29:38 STUDY THE WORD TOGETHER IN OUR NATURES, IT SAVES US - IT 29:42 FORTIFIES US - AGAINST SIN. "YOUR WORD I HAVE HIDDEN IN MY 29:46 HEART, THAT I MIGHT NOT SIN AGAINST YOU." FURTHERMORE, A 29:49 REASON WE KEEP THE SABBATH, IT'S PART OF GOD'S LAW - PART OF ITS 29:55 MEANING. JESUS SAID IT'S EASIER FOR HEAVEN AND EARTH TO PASS 29:58 AWAY THAN FOR ONE TITTLE OF THE LAW TO FAIL. IT'S UNFAILING. 30:03 BY THE WAY, THAT WAS LUKE. YOU KNOW THE REASON I READ THAT TO 30:07 YOU IN LUKE CHAPTER 16, VERSE 17? 30:09 WHEN IN MATTHEW HE SAYS IT'S EASIER FOR HEAVEN AND EARTH TO 30:13 PASS AWAY; NOT ONE JOT OR ONE TITTLE WILL FAIL FROM THE LAW 30:16 TILL ALL BE FULFILLED, LUKE DOESN'T EVEN SAY 'TILL ALL BE 30:20 FULFILLED' BECAUSE SOME PEOPLE MISAPPLY 'TILL ALL BE FULFILLED' 30:22 AND THEY THINK THAT MEANS - FULFILLED MEANS 'DONE AWAY 30:25 WITH. 'MATTER OF FACT, LOOK AT THAT WITH ME. 30:28 YOU'VE GOT YOUR BIBLES? GO TO MATTHEW CHAPTER 5 - I WANT 30:32 TO READ THIS TO YOU. MATTHEW CHAPTER 5 AND WE'LL 30:35 START AT VERSE 19 - LET'S START AT VERSE 17, "DO NOT THINK THAT 30:42 I CAME TO DESTROY THE LAW OR THE PROPHETS. 30:44 I DID NOT COME TO DESTROY BUT TO FULFILL." - 30:47 NOW SOME PEOPLE THINK FULFILL MEANS 'I CAME TO DO AWAY WITH 30:50 IT.' THINK ABOUT HOW SILLY THAT WOULD SOUND: JESUS WOULD BE 30:56 SAYING THEN, 'DON'T THINK I CAME TO DESTROY THE LAW OR THE 30:59 PROPHETS. I DID NOT COME TO DESTROY BUT TO 31:01 DO AWAY WITH. THAT WOULDN'T MAKE SENSE. 31:05 AND THEN READ ON, "FOR ASSUREDLY, I SAY TO YOU, TILL 31:08 HEAVEN AND EARTH PASS AWAY, ONE JOT OR ONE TITTLE WILL BY NO 31:11 MEANS PASS FROM THE LAW TILL ALL IS FULFILLED." 31:13 NOW WHAT DOES 'FULFILLED' MEAN? IF YOU WANT TO UNDERSTAND 31:17 THE MEANING OF A WORD IN THE BIBLE, WHERE DO YOU GO TO 31:20 UNDERSTAND IT? THE BIBLE. FIND OUT, IN OTHER PLACES, HOW 31:25 THE WORD IS USED AND THAT'S THE BEST WAY TO GET THE CONTEXT. 31:29 JESUS COMES TO JOHN THE BAPTIST TO BE BAPTIZED. 31:31 JOHN SAYS, 'LORD, IT'S NOT RIGHT THAT I BAPTIZE YOU. 31:36 YOU'RE THE SON OF GOD, YOU SHOULD BAPTIZE ME.' AND JESUS 31:39 SAID, 'SUFFER IT TO BE SO NOW, FOR THUS IT BECOMES US TO 31:43 FULFILL ALL RIGHTEOUSNESS.' NOW WHAT DID JOHN THE BAPTIST MEAN? 31:47 TO DO AWAY WITH ALL RIGHTEOUSNESS? 31:49 OR WHAT DID JESUS MEAN THERE? DO AWAY WITH ALL RIGHTEOUSNESS? 31:52 NO, OBVIOUSLY NOT. IT MEANS TO FILL SOMETHING FULL. 31:56 THE WORD 'FULFILL' MEANS JUST WHAT IT SOUNDS LIKE IT MEANS, 31:59 IT MEANS TO FILL SOMETHING FULL. 32:00 AND HE SAID, 'DON'T THINK THAT I'VE COME TO DESTROY THE LAW. 32:05 AND THEN HE GOES ON TO SAY - VERSE 19 - "WHOEVER THEREFORE" - 32:09 I'M IN MATTHEW 5:19 - "WHOEVER THEREFORE BREAKS ONE OF THE 32:12 LEAST OF THESE COMMANDMENTS, AND TEACHES MEN SO, SHALL BE CALLED 32:15 LEAST IN THE KINGDOM OF HEAVEN; BUT WHOEVER DOES AND TEACHES 32:18 THEM, HE SHALL BE CALLED GREAT IN THE KINGDOM OF HEAVEN. 32:21 FOR I SAY TO YOU, THAT UNLESS YOUR RIGHTEOUSNESS EXCEEDS THE 32:24 RIGHTEOUSNESS OF THE SCRIBES AND PHARISEES, YOU WILL BY NO MEANS 32:28 ENTER THE KINGDOM OF HEAVEN." NOW THEY WERE SO FASTIDIOUS 32:32 ABOUT KEEPING THE LAW - THE SCRIBES AND PHARISEES, JESUS 32:35 SAID, 'YOUR RIGHTEOUSNESS MUST EXCEED THEIRS.' THEY NEVER 32:38 SUGGESTED DOING AWAY WITH THE LAW. 32:40 WELL, THEY NOT ONLY NEEDED A BETTER QUANTITY OF 32:43 RIGHTEOUSNESS, HE'S REALLY TALKING ABOUT THEY NEEDED A 32:45 BETTER QUALITY OF RIGHTEOUSNESS. THEIRS WAS EXTERNAL. 32:48 JESUS SAID IT NEEDS TO BE INTERNAL RIGHTEOUSNESS. 32:52 ANYWAY, BUT THE IDEA THAT JESUS CAME TO ABOLISH THE TEN 32:57 COMMANDMENTS, NOW NOBODY EVER ARGUES THAT JESUS CAME TO 33:01 ABOLISH THE LAW THAT SAYS, 'YOU DON'T MURDER.' OR THAT JESUS 33:05 CAME TO ABOLISH THE LAW THAT SAYS 'HONOR YOUR FATHER AND 33:07 MOTHER; DON'T KILL; DON'T HAVE OTHER GODS' - YOU KNOW WHY? 33:10 RICH YOUNG RULER COMES TO JESUS - THE RICH YOUNG RULER - HE 33:16 COMES TO JESUS AND HE SAYS, 'GOOD MASTER, WHAT GOOD THING 33:18 SHALL I DO THAT I MIGHT HAVE ETERNAL LIFE? 33:20 AND JESUS SAID, 'READ THE COMMANDMENTS.' HE SAID, 'WHICH 33:25 ONES?' JESUS SAID, 'THOU SHALT NOT 33:27 KILL; THOU SHALL NOT STEAL; HONOR YOUR FATHER AND MOTHER' - 33:31 AND HE QUOTES THE COMMANDMENTS THAT DEAL WITH MAN'S 33:33 RELATIONSHIP WITH HIS FELLOW MAN. 33:36 AND HE SAID, 'ALL OF THESE I'VE KEPT FROM MY YOUTH UP.' SO A 33:41 LAWYER COMES TO JESUS AND HE SAID, 'WHAT SHOULD I DO TO ENTER 33:47 INTO LIFE?' JESUS SAID, 'HOW READEST THE 33:50 LAW?' - WHAT DOES THE LAW SAY? 33:53 SO WHEN SOMEONE COMES TO JESUS AND THEY SAY, 'WHAT MUST I DO TO 33:56 BE SAVED?' - THAT'S THE RICH YOUNG RULER - 33:58 AND A LAWYER COMES TO JESUS AND SAYS, 'WHAT DO I DO TO HAVE 34:01 EVERLASTING LIFE?' IN BOTH CASES YOU KNOW WHAT 34:03 CHRIST POINTED THEM TO? THE LAW. 34:05 YOU MEAN GOD WANTS US TO - ARE WE SAVED BY KEEPING THE LAW? 34:09 NO, BUT YOUR KEEPING THE LAW WILL BE AN EVIDENCE THAT YOU ARE 34:15 SAVED. NOW, WHY DO I SAY THAT? BECAUSE THE BIBLE SAYS THAT. 34:18 YOUR FAITH WITHOUT WORKS IS DEAD. 34:22 YOU'RE NOT SAVED BY YOUR WORKS, BUT ARE YOU JUDGED BY YOUR 34:28 WORKS? 'BEHOLD HE COMES TO REWARD EVERY 34:30 MAN ACCORDING TO HIS FAITH?' - IT DOESN'T SAY THAT. 34:33 YOU'RE REWARDED ACCORDING TO YOUR WORKS BECAUSE YOUR WORKS 34:36 WILL INDICATE IF YOUR FAITH IS GENUINE. WE'RE SAVED BY FAITH, 34:41 BUT IF THE FAITH IS REAL, THERE WILL BE A DIFFERENCE. 34:44 OTHERWISE, WHO IS THE LORD TALKING ABOUT WHEN HE SAYS, 34:46 'LORD, LORD?' - ALL THESE PEOPLE THAT SAY, 34:49 'LORD, LORD,' AND HE SAYS, 'I DON'T KNOW YOU. 34:51 DEPART FROM ME YE WHO WORK INIQUITY. 34:52 SO THOSE WHO REALLY KNOW THE LORD, THERE'S GOING TO BE A 34:55 DIFFERENCE IN THEIR LIFE. THEY WILL BE LIKE JESUS. 34:58 ISN'T THAT WHAT A CHRISTIAN IS? AND WHAT ABOUT JESUS? 35:01 DID HE KEEP HIS FATHER'S COMMANDMENTS? JESUS SAID, 35:04 'I HAVE KEPT MY FATHER'S COMMANDMENTS AND I ABIDE IN 35:06 HIS LOVE. SO THAT IS DEFINITELY PART OF WHAT IT MEANS - WHAT THE 35:11 TEACHING OF JESUS WAS. ALRIGHT, LET'S MOVE ON HERE. 35:14 PART OF THE SABBATH - THE MEANING OF THE SABBATH - 35:18 IS REST. GOD WANTS US TO EXPERIENCE REST. 35:21 JESUS SAID, 'COME UNTO ME ALL YOU WHO ARE - WHO LABOR AND ARE 35:26 HEAVY LADEN AND I WILL GIVE YOU REST.' HE WANTS US TO HAVE 35:30 PHYSICAL REST, BUT HE WANTS US MORE THAN THAT, TO HAVE 35:33 SPIRITUAL REST. YOU KNOW, IF A PERSON HAS 35:36 EVERYTHING PERFECTLY. IF YOU HAVE A DAY WHERE YOU EAT 35:42 - THE FOOD IS PREPARED EXACTLY THE WAY YOU LIKE IT. 35:45 SOME PEOPLE SAY, 'YOU KNOW, I CAN'T EVER GET A GOOD MEAL.' - 35:47 THEY GET THE MEAL JUST LIKE THEY LIKE IT - AND YOU GET THE BEST 35:50 SEAT ON THE BUS AND YOU GET THE JOB PROMOTION AND YOU'RE DRIVING 35:53 A COMFORTABLE CAR AND YOU FEEL NO PHYSICAL MALADY - IF YOU'VE 35:58 GOT EVERY EARTHLY DESIRE SATISFIED BUT YOU DON'T HAVE 36:02 PEACE IN YOUR HEART, YOU'RE UNHAPPY. 36:05 THE REASON I SAY THAT IS I KNOW THAT THERE ARE PEOPLE - SOME IN 36:09 HOLLYWOOD - WHO ARE FAMOUS, WHO ARE HEALTHY, WHO ARE RICH - AND 36:15 ALL THE AMENITIES - AND THEY KILLED THEMSELVES BECAUSE THEY 36:18 WERE SO UNHAPPY. AND THEY WERE EVEN GOOD LOOKING TOO. 36:20 AND THEY KILLED THEMSELVES BECAUSE THEY WERE SO EMPTY 36:23 AND IT WAS SO MEANINGLESS. 36:25 AND THEN THERE ARE PEOPLE WHO DON'T HAVE ANY OF THOSE THINGS 36:30 BUT THEY'RE HAPPY BECAUSE THEY HAVE PEACE IN THEIR HEARTS. 36:33 IF YOUR PEACE - IF YOUR REST - IS CONTINGENT ON GETTING YOUR 36:41 FOOD FIXED PERFECTLY OR HAVING THAT PAIR OF SHOES THAT YOU 36:45 WANTED TO BUY OR HAVING THE HOME YOU WANTED TO BUY OR THE CAR YOU 36:49 WANTED TO BUY - IF YOUR HAPPINESS IS CONTINGENT ON A 36:51 PERFECT - WEATHER - A DAY OF PERFECT WEATHER, CIRCUMSTANCES 36:57 WILL ROB YOU OF YOUR HAPPINESS BECAUSE THINGS WILL GO WRONG. 37:00 YOUR HAPPINESS WILL CONSTANTLY BE FICKLE BASED UPON 37:03 CIRCUMSTANCES. BUT IF YOUR HAPPINESS IS BASED 37:06 UPON YOUR RELATIONSHIP WITH THE LORD, THE DEVIL CAN NEVER TAKE 37:09 IT AWAY, RIGHT? IT'S NOT SUBJECT TO CIRCUMSTANCES. 37:14 THERE - JESUS SAID IT'S LIKE WATER THAT STARTS ON THE INSIDE. 37:17 IT'S NOT WATER ON - A WELL ON THE OUTSIDE, HE TOLD THE WOMAN 37:20 'IT'S AN ARTESIAN WELL WITHIN YOU THAT SPRINGS UP.' 37:24 IT'S SELF-SUPPLYING. THIS IS THE REST THAT THE 37:27 SABBATH REPRESENTS - JESUS IS OFFERING US. 37:31 IN - SOMETHING ELSE THE SABBATH IS A SIGN OF: IT SAYS, 37:37 'SPEAK TO THE CHILDREN OF ISRAEL. 37:39 SURELY MY SABBATHS YOU WILL KEEP FOR IT IS A SIGN' - BY THE WAY, 37:42 THAT'S EXODUS 31:13 AND 14 - I SHOULD GIVE YOU THE VERSE - 37:46 EXODUS 31:13 AND 14 - "SPEAK ALSO TO THE CHILDREN OF ISRAEL, 37:51 SAYING: 'SURELY MY SABBATHS YOU SHALL KEEP, FOR IT IS A SIGN 37:54 BETWEEN ME AND YOU THROUGHOUT YOUR GENERATIONS, THAT YOU MAY 37:57 KNOW THAT I AM THE LORD WHO SANCTIFIES YOU." - 37:59 NOW, I WANT TO STOP HERE. SOME WILL SAY, 'WELL, SEE? 38:05 HE GAVE IT TO THE JEWS. 38:06 IT'S A SIGN FOR THE JEWS.' I'VE HEARD PEOPLE READ IT BACK TO ME. 38:11 THE SABBATH WAS A SIGN FOR THE JEWS. 38:13 BUT HE SAID IT WAS A SIGN FOR SANCTIFICATION. 38:16 DO ONLY JEWS NEED TO BE SANCTIFIED? 38:18 OR DO GENTILES NEED TO BE SANCTIFIED TOO? 38:21 THE SABBATH IS A SIGN OF SANCTIFI - WHY IS IT A SIGN OF 38:25 SANCTIFICATION? WHAT DID GOD TO ON THE SABBATH DAY? 38:28 HE RESTED. HE SET IT ASIDE. HE SANCTIFIED IT. HE MADE IT HOLY. 38:37 IF GOD CAN MAKE A DAY HOLY, CAN HE MAKE US HOLY? YOU KNOW, THE 38:42 SABBATH IS ALSO A SIGN OF GOD'S ABILITY TO RECREATE US. 38:46 YOU KNOW, WHEN YOU PRAY 'CREATE WITHIN ME A NEW HEART.' YOU KNOW 38:50 HOW DIFFICULT IT IS TO CREATE A NEW HEART? ANY OF YOU HAVE 38:54 CERTAIN ORGANS YOU'D LIKE TO HAVE RECREATED IN YOUR BODY? 38:57 CAN THE DOCTORS DO IT? SOMETIMES THEY CAN FIX YOUR 39:02 TEETH, BUT THEY'RE NOT EXACTLY THE SAME, ARE THEY? 39:07 AND GOD SAYS HE'LL CREATE NOT ONLY A NEW HEART, 39:10 BUT A BETTER HEART. THAT'S A MIRACLE. 39:12 THE SABBATH, WHEN HE CREATED EVERYTHING IN THE BEGINNING - 39:15 THE SABBATH'S A MEMORIAL OF THAT. 39:17 ALRIGHT, LET ME READ ANOTHER ONE. 39:19 EZEKIEL 20, VERSE 12, "MOREOVER I ALSO GAVE THEM MY SABBATHS, TO 39:24 BE A SIGN BETWEEN THEM AND ME, THAT THEY MIGHT KNOW THAT 39:28 I AM THE LORD WHO SANCTIFIES THEM." 39:30 NOW THAT WORD 'SIGN' IS VERY INTERESTING BECAUSE WHEN YOU GET 39:34 TO REVELATION, WE FIND OUT THAT THE PEOPLE WHO FOLLOW GOD, 39:37 THEY'VE GOT THE SEAL OF GOD - THE SIGN - AND THE PEOPLE WHO 39:41 FOLLOW THE BEAST HAVE GOT A MARK OR A SIGN, OR A SEAL OF THE 39:45 BEAST. SO YOU'VE GOT TWO OPPOSING SEALS. 39:47 THE SABBATH, WHICH IS - GOD BUILT INTRINSICALLY INTO EVERY 39:51 WEEK - IS A PERPETUAL SIGN THAT HE IS THE CREATOR AND THAT HE 39:56 CAN RECREATE US. ALRIGHT, LET'S MOVE ALONG HERE. 40:01 AND IT SAYS HERE IN ROMANS 6, VERSES 6 AND 7, "KNOW THIS, THAT 40:07 OUR OLD MAN WAS CRUCIFIED WITH HIM, THAT THE BODY OF SIN MIGHT 40:11 BE DONE AWAY WITH, THAT WE SHOULD NO LONGER BE SLAVES OF 40:13 SIN. FOR HE WHO HAS DIED HAS BEEN FREED FROM SIN." 40:17 SO THE - ROMANS TELLS US THE SABBATH IS ALSO A SIGN OF THE 40:21 LORD WANTING TO SANCTIFY US AND FREE US FROM SIN. 40:27 IT'S A SIGN OF DELIVERANCE FROM THAT SLAVERY. 40:29 2 CORINTHIANS 5:17, "THEREFORE, IF ANYONE IS IN CHRIST, HE IS A 40:35 NEW CREATION;" - THAT'S THE SANCTIFICATION - "OLD THINGS 40:38 HAVE PASSED AWAY; BEHOLD, ALL THINGS HAVE BECOME NEW." 40:41 AND, AGAIN, HEBREWS 4:1 THROUGH 9 - MATTER OF FACT, IF YOU HAVE 40:46 YOUR BIBLES, GO TO HEBREWS. I WANT TO READ THIS WHOLE THING 40:48 TO YOU BECAUSE THIS IS A - AND WE'LL END THIS STUDY WITH THIS 40:53 PART - HEBREWS 4 AND I WANT TO START WITH VERSE 1. 40:57 PEOPLE SOMETIMES CAN CONFUSE THIS PASSAGE - HEBREWS 4:1, 41:02 "THEREFORE, SINCE A PROMISE REMAINS OF ENTERING HIS REST, 41:07 LET US FEAR LEST ANY OF YOU SEEM TO HAVE COME SHORT OF IT." 41:11 - WE WANT TO HAVE THAT REST - "FOR INDEED THE GOSPEL WAS 41:14 PREACHED TO US AS WELL AS TO THEM;" - PEOPLE IN THE NEW 41:17 TESTAMENT TIME AS WELL AS PEOPLE IN THE OLD TESTAMENT TIME - BUT 41:19 THE WORD WHICH THEY HEARD DID NOT PROFIT THEM, NOT BEING MIXED 41:23 WITH FAITH IN THOSE WHO HEARD IT. 41:25 FOR WE WHO HAVE BELIEVED DO ENTER THAT REST, AS HE HAS SAID: 41:29 'SO I SWORE IN MY WRATH, 'THEY SHALL NOT ENTER MY REST,''" - 41:32 THAT'S A QUOTE FROM PSALM 95:11 - CHILDREN OF ISRAEL, THEY DID 41:36 NOT ENTER HIS REST BECAUSE OF UNBELIEF. 41:38 YOU REMEMBER IN THE BORDERS OF THE PROMISED LAND WHEN THEY SENT 41:42 OUT THE SPIES AND THEY DIDN'T BELIEVE THAT HE COULD BRING THEM 41:45 INTO THE PROMISED LAND? HE SAID, 'THIS GENERATION WILL 41:47 NOT ENTER MY REST BECAUSE OF THEIR UNBELIEF. 41:50 - "ALTHOUGH THE WORKS WERE FINISHED FROM THE FOUNDATION OF 41:53 THE WORLD. FOR HE HAS SPOKEN IN A CERTAIN PLACE OF THE SEVENTH 41:56 DAY" - HOW MANY DAYS OF CREATION? THE WORKS WERE 42:01 FINISHED FROM THE FOUNDATION, BUT HOW MANY DAYS IN A WEEK? 42:03 SO ALL THE WORK OF GOD WAS DONE IN SIX DAYS BUT THERE ARE SEVEN 42:07 DAYS IN THE WEEK BECAUSE HE MADE A WHOLE NEW DAY - A WHOLE 42:11 DISTINCT, SPECIAL DAY - "FOR HE HAS SPOKEN IN A CERTAIN PLACE" - 42:14 AND EVERYBODY KNOWS WHAT THAT PLACE IS - "OF THE SEVENTH DAY 42:17 IN THIS WAY: 'AND GOD RESTED ON THE SEVENTH DAY FROM ALL HIS 42:20 WORKS';" - THAT'S GENESIS 2:2 - "AND AGAIN IN THIS PLACE: 'THEY 42:25 SHALL NOT ENTER MY REST.'" - I READ THAT TO YOU - PSALM 95:11 - 42:28 "SINCE THEREFORE IT REMAINS THAT SOME MUST ENTER IT," - ENTER THE 42:32 REST - "AND THOSE TO WHOM IT WAS FIRST PREACHED DID NOT ENTER 42:37 BECAUSE OF DISOBEDIENCE," - WHENEVER THE CHILDREN OF ISRAEL 42:41 DISOBEYED, THEY WERE CARRIED AWAY. 42:43 IT TALKS ABOUT WHEN THE FLOOD CAME AND TOOK THEM ALL AWAY. 42:48 THEY WERE CARRIED AWAY BECAUSE OF UNBELIEF. WHEN THEY WERE 42:53 GOOD, THEY GOT TO STAY IN THE LAND AND THEY RESTED. 42:55 WHEN THEY WERE BAD, THE ASSYRIANS CARRIED THEM OUT OF 42:58 THE PROMISED LAND, OUT OF THE REST. 42:59 THE BABYLONIANS CARRIED THEM OUT OF THE REST. 43:02 THE ROMANS CARRIED THEM AND DISPERSED THEM OUT OF THEIR 43:04 REST. THE PROMISED LAND REPRESENTED TO 43:07 THEM, FINALLY NO MORE WANDERINGS - FORTY YEARS OF WANDERING. 43:11 WHEN THEY LIVED IN BABYLON, THEY KNEW IT WAS TEMPORARY. 43:14 THEY WERE LOOKING FOR THE CHANCE TO COME BACK TO THE LAND AND 43:18 REST. AND THEY DIDN'T ENTER IN BECAUSE OF UNBELIEF. 43:23 THEY KEPT TRUSTING IN OTHER GODS. 43:26 SO HE SAYS HERE, "AGAIN HE DESIGNATES A CERTAIN DAY," - OH 43:32 WAIT, I WANT TO BACK UP - VERSE 6 - "SINCE THEREFORE IT REMAINS 43:35 THAT SOME MUST ENTER IT, AND THOSE TO WHOM IT WAS FIRST 43:37 PREACHED DID NOT ENTER BECAUSE OF DISOBEDIENCE, AGAIN HE 43:41 DESIGNATES A CERTAIN DAY, SAYING IN DAVID," - WHEN HE SAYS 'IN 43:44 DAVID' HE MEANS IN PSALMS - "'TODAY,' AFTER SUCH A LONG 43:48 TIME, AS IT HAS BEEN SAID:" - AND THIS IS PSALMS 95:7 - 43:51 "'TODAY, IF YOU WILL HEAR HIS VOICE, DO NOT HARDEN YOUR 43:53 HEARTS.'" - AS THEY DID IN THE WILDERNESS - 43:56 "FOR IF JOSHUA HAD GIVEN THEM REST, THEN HE WOULD NOT 43:59 AFTERWARD HAVE SPOKEN OF ANOTHER DAY. 44:01 THERE REMAINS THEREFORE A REST FOR THE PEOPLE OF GOD." 44:04 - NOW, YOU KNOW THAT WORD THERE IN VERSE 9 - HEBREWS 4:9 - 44:06 'THERE REMAINS A REST' - YOU KNOW WHAT THAT WORD 'REST' IS? 44:09 SABBATISMOS - IT'S THE SAME WORD FOR 'SABBATH' 44:13 THAT YOU FIND OTHER PLACES IN THE GREEK. 44:15 THERE REMAINS A SABBATH FOR THE PEOPLE OF GOD. 44:18 THAT WOULD HAVE BEEN A REALLY GOOD PLACE FOR HEBREWS TO SAY, 44:20 'BUT NOW IT'S ON THE FIRST DAY OF THE WEEK. 44:23 BUT HE DOESN'T, HE MENTIONS IT IN THE CONTEXT OF THE SEVENTH 44:26 DAY OF THE WEEK. NOTHING IN THE NEW TESTAMENT 44:30 TELLS US THAT THE DAY OF REST HAS BEEN CHANGED. 44:31 ALRIGHT, I WANT TO GO TO SABBATH HEALINGS AT CAPERNAUM - SABBATH 44:35 HEALINGS AT CAPERNAUM - MATTHEW 4:13, "AND LEAVING NAZARETH, HE 44:41 CAME AND DWELT IN CAPERNAUM, WHICH IS BY THE SEA, IN THE 44:44 REGIONS OF ZEBULUN AND NAPHTALI, THAT IT MIGHT BE FULFILLED WHICH 44:47 AS SPOKEN BY ISAIAH THE PROPHET, SAYING:" - AND HE'S QUOTING, 44:51 NOW, ISAIAH 9:1 AND 2 - "'THE LAND OF ZEBULUN AND THE LAND OF 44:54 NAPHTALI, BY THE WAY OF THE SEA, BEYOND THE JORDAN, GALILEE OF 44:57 THE GENTILES: THE PEOPLE WHO SAT IN DARKNESS HAVE SEEN A GREAT 44:59 LIGHT, AND UPON THOSE WHO SAT IN THE REGION AND SHADOW OF DEATH 45:03 LIGHT HAS DAWNED." - BECAUSE A LOT OF JESUS' MINISTRY WAS IN 45:07 THE REGION AROUND GALILEE - THAT'S WHERE HE CALLED THE 45:10 FISHERMEN. AND SO WHILE HE WAS THERE, HE HAD THIS EXPERIENCE. 45:14 LUKE 4:31, "THEN HE WENT DOWN TO CAPERNAUM, A CITY OF GALILEE, 45:18 AND WAS TEACHING THEM ON THE SABBATHS." 45:21 - NOW WHEN LUKE SAYS EARLIER, IT WAS A CUSTOM, HERE YOU'VE GOT 45:24 THE PLURAL FOR SABBATHS - IT WASN'T JUST ONE, BUT EVERY 45:28 SABBATH HE WAS IN THE SYNAGOGUE TEACHING - IN THE VARIOUS TOWNS 45:33 AROUND GALILEE - "AND THEY WERE ASTONISHED AT HIS TEACHING, 45:37 FOR HIS WORD WAS WITH AUTHORITY." - YOU KNOW WHERE 45:40 ELSE IT SAYS THAT? AFTER THE SERMON ON THE MOUNT, 45:44 WHEN JESUS GOT DONE TEACHING, IT SAID THEY WERE ASTONISHED AT HIS 45:47 TEACHING 'FOR HE TAUGHT THEM AS ONE HAVING AUTHORITY AND NOT AS 45:50 THE SCRIBES.' YOU KNOW, THE SCRIBES WOULD SAY, 'WELL, THIS 45:54 VERSE COULD MEAN THIS AND THIS VERSE COULD MEAN THAT AND RABBI 45:58 BEN YAN SO AND SO, HE SAID IT MEANS THIS AND THEN THIS OTHER 46:02 RABBI, HE SAID IT MEANS THAT AND' - NOBODY SAID ANYTHING 46:06 'THIS IS WHAT IT MEANS' WITH AUTHORITY. 46:09 AN EVANGELIST WILL NEVER MAKE IT IF THEY TEACH WITHOUT AUTHORITY. 46:12 YOU'VE GOT TO SAY, 'THIS IS WHAT THE WORD SAYS.' BECAUSE PEOPLE 46:16 ARE MAKING, YOU KNOW, LIFE-CHANGING DECISIONS. 46:19 THEY'VE GOT TO KNOW 'THIS IS WHAT GOD IS TELLING US TO DO.' 46:21 AND JESUS TAUGHT AS ONE THAT HAS AUTHORITY. 46:24 I THINK THAT IT'S IMPORTANT AS CHRISTIANS WE NEED TO KNOW WHAT 46:27 WE BELIEVE AND BE ABLE TO SHARE WITH CERTAINTY. 46:29 "NOW...THERE WAS A MAN WHO HAD A SPIRIT OF AN UNCLEAN DEMON." 46:32 - BY THE WAY, THIS IS ALSO IN THE BOOK OF LUKE CHAPTER 1 - 46:35 "AND HE CRIED OUT WITH A LOUD VOICE, SAYING, 'LET US ALONE! 46:39 WHAT HAVE WE TO DO WITH YOU, JESUS OF NAZARETH?'" - 46:41 BY THE WAY, DOES THE DEVIL GO TO CHURCH? 46:43 HERE WAS THE - JESUS WAS IN CHURCH - YOU'VE GOT THE RIGHT 46:48 PREACHER AND HE'S PREACHING ON THE RIGHT DAY AND THERE'S 46:51 SOMEONE DEMON-POSSESSED IN THAT CHURCH. 46:54 SO JUST BECAUSE THE DEVIL SHOWS UP AT CHURCH DOESN'T MEAN IT'S 46:59 NOT THE RIGHT CHURCH - "'WHAT HAVE WE TO DO WITH YOU JESUS OF 47:04 NAZARETH?'" - NOW OBVIOUSLY HE SAID, 'WHAT HAVE WE ' - 47:06 THERE'S MORE THAN ONE DEVIL IN THIS GUY - "'TO DO WITH 47:09 YOU JESUS OF NAZARETH? DID YOU COME TO DESTROY US? 47:11 I KNOW WHO YOU ARE - THE HOLY ONE OF GOD!' 47:15 BUT JESUS REBUKED HIM, SAYING, 'BE QUIET, AND COME OUT OF HIM!' 47:18 AND WHEN THE DEMON HAD THROWN HIM IN THEIR MIDST, 47:21 IT CAME OUT OF HIM AND DID NOT HURT HIM." 47:24 - YOU KNOW WHY LUKE SAYS THAT AS A PHYSICIAN? 47:26 THE MAN WENT THROUGH A VIOLENT CONVULSION. 47:29 YOU SEE THIS HAPPENING SEVERAL TIMES WHEN JESUS HEALED A PERSON 47:32 WITH VARIOUS PROBLEMS, ESPECIALLY WHEN DEVILS CAME OUT, 47:35 THEY WERE CONVULSED, AND A PERSON THAT'S GOING THROUGH 47:37 THRASHING AND CONVULSIONS, THEY COULD BE INJURED IN THE PROCESS. 47:40 AND SO, I GUESS, THERE HE WAS BOUNCING OFF THE WALLS AND OFF 47:43 THE PEWS AND WHATEVER THEY HAD THERE IN THE SYNAGOGUE, AND HE 47:46 WAS THRASHED BY THE DEVIL. THERE WAS A BATTLE WITH THE 47:49 DEVIL COMING OUT, WHICH BRINGS ME TO ANOTHER POINT. 47:52 EVEN THOUGH JESUS IS INVOLVED IN CASTING OUT A DEVIL, WHEN YOU 47:57 ARE STRUGGLING TO BE FREE FROM ANY BAD HABIT OR SIN, DON'T 48:00 EXPECT IT MAY HAPPEN WITHOUT A STRUGGLE. 48:02 WHEN THE CHILDREN OF ISRAEL WERE COMING OUT OF EGYPT, DID THE 48:06 PHARAOH LET GO EASY OR WAS THERE A STRUGGLE? 48:08 THE WHOLE TIME THERE WAS A TREMENDOUS BATTLE. 48:11 'I WON'T LET THEM GO!' 'I WILL LET THEM GO!' 48:14 'I WON'T LET THEM GO!' PLAGUES ARE FALLING AND THERE'S 48:16 FIRE AND LIGHTNING AND YOU JUST SEE THIS STRUGGLE. 48:20 WHENEVER A PERSON'S STRIVING TO BE BROKEN FREE FROM THE DEVIL, 48:23 THERE'S A BATTLE. 48:25 BUT YOU KNOW WHAT IT SAYS - HE CAST THE DEVIL OUT, BUT IT SAYS, 48:29 "WHEN THE DEMON HAD THROWN HIM IN THEIR MIDST, IT CAME OUT OF 48:34 HIM AND DID NOT HURT HIM." - HE SURVIVED IT. 48:38 HE WAS OKAY - "THEN THEY WERE ALL AMAZED AND SPOKE AMONG 48:41 THEMSELVES, SAYING, 'WHAT A WORD THIS IS! 48:44 FOR WITH AUTHORITY AND POWER HE COMMANDS THE UNCLEAN SPIRITS, 48:47 AND THEY COME OUT.'" - NOW, BY THE WAY, DOES THAT STILL WORK? 48:50 CAN JESUS STILL CAST OUT THE DEVIL? 48:55 NOW MOST PEOPLE DON'T HAVE LEGIONS OF DEVILS THAT MAKE THEM 48:58 MISBEHAVE IN PUBLIC, BUT WE ALL STRUGGLE WITH TEMPTATION AND ALL 49:02 OF US ARE HARASSED BY THE DEVIL AND ALL OF US STRUGGLE WITH 49:04 HABITS, BUT CAN THE LORD STILL CAST THOSE THINGS OUT? 49:08 HE CAN. SO HE HEALED ON THE SABBATH. YOU KNOW WHAT HAPPENS? 49:15 THERE'S A CONNECTION IN THE SYNAGOGUE - HE'S TEACHING THE 49:18 WORD AND WHILE HE'S IN THE SYNAGOGUE TEACHING THE WORD, 49:22 THIS PERSON REACTS NEGATIVELY AND A DEVIL IS CAST OUT. 49:29 SOMETIMES IT'S ALSO IN THE CONTEXT OF PREACHING THE WORD 49:32 THAT THE DEVIL REACTS. HOW DID JESUS FIGHT THE DEVIL IN 49:36 THE WILDERNESS WHEN HE WAS TEMPTED? WITH THE WORD - IT'S 49:39 THE POWER OF THE WORD. THE LORD OF THE SABBATH. 49:42 ALRIGHT, LUKE 6, VERSE 1, "NOW IT HAPPENED ON THE SECOND 49:47 SABBATH" - THAT - YOU SEE A PATTERN WITH JESUS HERE? 49:49 HE JUST - HIS WHOLE MINISTRY - SO MUCH OF HIS TEACHING WAS DONE 49:52 IN THE SYNAGOGUES OR THE TEMPLE ON THE SABBATH - 49:56 "NOW IT HAPPENED ON THE SECOND SABBATH AFTER THE FIRST 49:59 THAT HE WENT THROUGH THE GRAINFIELDS. 50:01 AND HIS DISCIPLES (AND HE) PLUCKED THE HEADS OF GRAIN AND 50:04 ATE THEM, RUBBING THEM IN THEIR HANDS. 50:06 AND SOME OF THE PHARISEES SAID TO THEM, 'WHY ARE YOU DOING 50:09 WHAT IS NOT LAWFUL TO DO ON THE SABBATH?' 50:11 NOW, JUST SO YOU KNOW WHAT THEY WERE DOING, YOU KNOW, THIS WAS 50:14 LEGAL ACCORDING TO THE MOSAIC LAW. 50:16 YOU WERE NOT SUPPOSED TO COMPLETELY HARVEST EVERY CORNER 50:20 OF YOUR FIELD, YOU'RE SUPPOSED TO LEAVE SOME OF THE EDGES AND 50:22 THE CORNERS STANDING FOR THE POOR AND THE WIDOWS THAT WERE 50:25 AMONG THEM. AND THEY WERE - THAT'S WHAT RUTH DID. 50:28 IF YOU EVER READ THE BOOK OF RUTH, SHE - RUTH WAS HARVESTING 50:30 THE GLEANINGS OF THE BARLEY HARVEST AND SHE CAME HOME WITH 50:33 LOTS OF GRAIN BECAUSE BOAZ SAID, 'OH, LET SOME OF IT FALL FOR HER 50:36 AND GIVE HER EXTRA.' THEY WOULD TAKE THE DRIED GRAIN, YOU COULD 50:41 RUB IT IN YOUR HANDS - I DON'T KNOW IF YOU'VE EVER DONE 50:44 THIS BEFORE - THEN YOU - YOU BLOW IT. 50:46 THE CHAFF BLOWS AWAY AND YOU'VE GOT THE RAW KERNEL OF GRAIN OR 50:49 WHATEVER - BARLEY - OR WHATEVER IT WAS. 50:51 YOU TOSS IT IN YOUR MOUTH AND YOU CRUNCH IT. 50:53 IT'S KIND OF ROUGH BUT IT - IT'S GOOD FOR YOU. IT'S GRAIN. 50:56 AND SO THEY WERE DOING - THEY WERE JUST HUNGRY - AND AS THEY 51:00 WALKED ALONG - AND YOU KNOW WHAT THE RELIGIOUS LEADERS - 51:02 THEY CALLED THIS HARVESTING. THEY SAID, 'YOU ARE HARVESTING 51:06 ON THE SABBATH.' AND JESUS SAID, 'COME ON.' IT'S LIKE YOU'RE 51:09 GOING THROUGH A FIELD PICKING AN APPLE ON THE SABBATH 51:11 DAY FROM A TREE AND EATING IT AND SO THEY WERE MAKING A BIG 51:16 DEAL OUT OF THIS BECAUSE IT BROKE ONE OF THEIR MAN-MADE 51:18 LAWS. JESUS WAS NOT BREAKING THE SABBATH. 51:20 DID THEY ACCUSE JESUS OF BREAKING THE SABBATH? 51:22 YOU KNOW, I'VE HEARD PEOPLE SAY, 'JESUS - YOU KNOW WE DON'T HAVE 51:26 TO KEEP THE SABBATH, JESUS BROKE THE SABBATH.' YOU'LL FIND 51:28 ENEMIES OF THE SABBATH THAT WILL SAY, 'WE DON'T HAVE TO KEEP THE 51:30 SABBATH, JESUS BROKE THE SABBATH.' 51:32 DID JESUS EVER BREAK THE BIBLICAL SABBATH? 51:34 DID JESUS BREAK THE MAN-MADE TRADITIONS? YES. 51:39 DID THEY ACCUSE JESUS OF BEING A WINEBIBBER AND A GLUTTON AND A 51:42 SAMARITAN AND A - DEMON POSSESSED? YES. 51:46 HE WAS ACCUSED OF MANY THINGS THAT WERE NOT TRUE AND ONE OF 51:48 THE FALSE ACCUSATIONS WAS THAT HE WAS A SABBATH BREAKER. 51:50 JESUS DID NOT BREAK THE SABBATH, HE BROKE THEIR TRADITIONS. 51:54 NOW, IN DEALING WITH THEM ON THIS ISSUE, THEY SAID - JESUS 52:00 ANSWERED THEM AND SAID - I'M STILL IN LUKE 6 - "'HAVE YOU NOT 52:06 EVEN READ THIS, WHAT DAVID DID WHEN HE WAS HUNGRY, HE AND THOSE 52:08 WHO WERE WITH HIM: HOW HE WENT INTO THE HOUSE OF GOD,'" - BY 52:11 THE WAY, THIS WAS A LUNAR SABBATH, WHEN DAVID DID IT - 52:13 "'HOW HE WENT INTO THE HOUSE OF GOD, TOOK AND ATE THE SHOWBREAD, 52:17 AND ALSO GAVE SOME TO THOSE WITH HIM, WHICH IS NOT LAWFUL FOR ANY 52:21 BUT THE PRIESTS TO EAT?'" - NOW ONLY THE PRIESTS COULD 52:23 TYPICALLY EAT THIS BREAD. THEY USED TO TAKE OUT THE BREAD 52:25 AFTER A FEW DAYS AND THEY'D PUT IN FRESH BREAD. 52:28 AND DAVID CAME, HE WAS ON THE KING'S BUSINESS, HE HAD NO BREAD 52:32 - HE WAS HUNGRY - AND SO THE PRIESTS GAVE THEIR BREAD TO 52:34 DAVID AND JESUS SAID DAVID WAS DOING THE WORK OF THE LORD AND 52:38 THEY FELT THAT THIS WAS IMPORTANT. 52:40 NOW, I'M GOING TO READ YOU A QUOTE. 52:43 THIS MIGHT BE THE LAST THING I READ. 52:45 IF I RUN OUT OF TIME, YOU MIGHT WANT TO MAKE A NOTE OF THIS - 52:49 IT'S DESIRE OF AGES PAGE 285 - BECAUSE WHEN YOU'RE IN A CHURCH 52:54 THERE'S SOME THINGS THAT NEED TO BE DONE IN A CHURCH, EVEN ON A 52:58 SABBATH DAY, TO MINISTER TO PEOPLE. 53:03 WHEN WE'RE RECORDING SERVICES, I AM SO THANKFUL TO OUR VOLUNTEERS 53:06 AND PEOPLE THAT ARE MANNING THE CAMERAS. 53:08 THERE ARE PEOPLE WHO DO MICROPHONES, THERE ARE DEACONS 53:11 THAT ARE DOING WONDERFUL WORK. SOMETIMES WE HAVE THE SAME AREA 53:14 THAT'S USED FOR SABBATH SCHOOL THAT LATER IS GOING TO BE USED 53:16 FOR A FELLOWSHIP DINNER AND THE CHAIRS NEED TO BE MOVED AND THE 53:19 TABLES SET UP. YOU KNOW WHAT I'M SAYING? 53:21 THERE ARE PRACTICAL THINGS THAT NEED TO BE DONE AND YOU WANT TO 53:24 BE AS CAREFUL AS YOU CAN TO GUARD THE SABBATH - GET 53:27 EVERYTHING DONE THAT CAN BE DONE IN ADVANCE SO YOU DON'T HAVE TO 53:30 DO ANY UNNECESSARY WORK. ARE WE ALL IN AGREEMENT? 53:33 BUT SOMETIMES THERE'S THINGS THAT HAVE TO BE DONE THAT 53:36 YOU CAN'T REALLY DO ON ANOTHER DAY. 53:38 THE PRIESTS WERE BUSIER ON THE SABBATH THAN ANY OTHER DAY OF 53:43 THE WEEK. THEY WOULD OFFER SACRIFICE. 53:45 THEY KEPT THE ALTAR FIRE BURNING. 53:48 SOMEONE HAD TO CARRY WOOD. THEY HAD CLEANSING - SOMEONE HAD TO 53:50 CARRY WATER. THERE WAS STUFF THAT WAS GOING ON. 53:52 ELLEN WHITE MAKES THIS COMMENT AND, AGAIN, THAT WAS DESIRE OF 53:56 AGES P. 285, SPEAKING ABOUT SABBATH WORK PRINCIPLES. 54:01 "AGAIN, THE PRIESTS IN THE TEMPLE PERFORMED GREATER LABOR 54:03 ON THE SABBATH THAN ON OTHER DAYS. 54:06 THE SAME LABOR IN SECULAR BUSINESS WOULD BE SINFUL, BUT 54:09 THE WORK OF THE PRIESTS WAS IN THE SERVICE OF GOD. 54:12 THEY WERE PERFORMING THOSE RIGHTS THAT POINTED 54:15 TO THE REDEEMING POWER OF CHRIST. 54:17 THEIR LABOR WAS IN HARMONY WITH THE OBJECT OF THE SABBATH, BUT 54:20 NOW CHRIST HIMSELF HAD COME" - SHE'S TALKING ABOUT THIS STORY 54:23 WHERE HE WAS ACCUSED OF SABBATH BREAKING - "THE DISCIPLES, IN 54:25 DOING THE WORK OF CHRIST, WERE ENGAGED IN THE SERVICE THAT WAS 54:29 NECESSARY FOR THE ACCOMPLISHMENT OF ITS WORK IT WAS RIGHT TO DO 54:33 ON THE SABBATH DAY. CHRIST WOULD TEACH HIS DISCIPLES 54:35 AND HIS ENEMIES THAT THE SERVICE OF GOD IS, FIRST OF ALL, THE 54:39 OBJECT OF GOD'S WORK IN THE WORLD IS THE REDEMPTION OF MAN. 54:44 THEREFORE, THAT WHICH IS NECESSARY TO BE DONE ON THE 54:47 SABBATH IN THE ACCOMPLISHMENT OF THIS WORK IS IN ACCORD WITH THE 54:51 SABBATH LAW." THAT'S A VERY IMPORTANT PRINCIPLE. 54:54 AND YOU WILL RUN INTO ALL KINDS OF - I DON'T TRAVEL ON THE 54:59 SABBATH - I MEAN, YOU KNOW, I DON'T FLY. I SCHEDULE MY FLIGHTS 55:02 - I GET THERE BEFORE THE SABBATH, I LEAVE AFTER THE 55:03 SABBATH. SOMETIMES THING HAPPEN. FLIGHTS ARE DELAYED, PLANES ARE 55:07 CANCELED AND I'VE BEEN CAUGHT AND I THINK THE LORD WINKS AT 55:10 THOSE THINGS - YOU CAN'T HELP IT. 55:12 I'VE BEEN IN CITIES BEFORE WHERE PEOPLE HAVE WALKED 30 55:14 BLOCKS IN THE RAIN TO GO TO CHURCH WHEN THEY COULD HAVE 55:17 TAKEN THE SUBWAY, BUT THEY FELT THAT TAKING THE SUBWAY - AND YOU 55:21 CAN PRE-BUY TOKENS IF YOU WANT - SOMEONE WAS REQUIRED TO WORK TO 55:26 DO THAT. I THINK THAT'S EXTREME. 55:29 THERE ARE PEOPLE I'VE MET - DO YOU KNOW IF YOU GO TO ISRAEL 55:32 THEY'VE GOT WHAT THEY CALL 'SHABBAT ELEVATORS.' YOU KNOW 55:33 WHY THEY'VE GOT SHABBAT ELEVATORS? 55:36 THERE ARE ELEVATORS THAT YOU CAN GET IN ON THE SABBATH DAY THAT 55:38 WILL AUTOMATICALLY STOP ON EVERY FLOOR IN A HOTEL, LEST YOU HAVE 55:41 TO PUSH A BUTTON. HOW MANY OF YOU KNOW WHAT I'M 55:45 TELLING YOU IS TRUE? I'M NOT KIDDING. 55:47 OR, WHAT ORTHODOX JEWS WILL DO IN SOME CASES, THEY WILL GET ON 55:52 AN ELEVATOR AND THEY'LL WAIT FOR A GENTILE TO PRESS THEIR BUTTON 55:55 SO THEY DON'T HAVE TO INVEST THE LABOR OF GOING LIKE THAT, WHICH 56:01 IS REALLY ABSURD WHEN YOU THINK ABOUT IT. 56:04 SO THERE ARE TWO EXTREMES THAT I WORRY ABOUT AS A PASTOR - 56:07 AND WE'RE ALWAYS EVALUATING THIS. 56:08 AND WE SHOULD BE THINKING ABOUT 'WHAT DO I - HOW DO I BEST 56:11 PLEASE THE LORD?' YOU'VE GOT TO BE PRACTICAL AND 56:14 SAY - I'VE SEEN CHURCHES THAT GET SO BUSY DOING THINGS ON THE 56:17 SABBATH DAY, IT STOPS BEING SACRED. ALL KINDS OF SETTING UP 56:20 AND TAKING DOWN OF THINGS AND IT JUST - IT JUST STOPS FEELING 56:22 LIKE THE SABBATH AND YOU'VE GOT TO GUARD AGAINST THAT AND DO 56:26 EVERYTHING IN ADVANCE THAT YOU CAN. 56:28 AND THEN YOU'VE GOT THE OTHER EXTREME, WHERE PEOPLE ARE SO 56:30 AFRAID THEY MIGHT DO SOMETHING THAT COULD LOOK LIKE WORK, THAT 56:32 THE SERVICE OF GOD IS ENCUMBERED AND PEOPLE CAN'T BE REACHED 56:36 BECAUSE - YOU'RE DOING EVANGELISTIC MEETINGS, YOU 56:39 USUALLY HAVE A FRIDAY NIGHT MEETING, A SATURDAY NIGHT 56:43 MEETING - THERE'S SOMETIMES TAKE 56:45 DOWN/SET UP JUST TO DO THAT SORT OF THING. 56:47 SOMETIMES YOU HAVE TO RENT A PUBLIC HALL AND I JUST THINK 56:50 IT'S IMPORTANT FOR US TO KNOW THAT JESUS SAID THESE THINGS 56:53 THAT NEED TO BE DONE WHEN IT COMES TO PROCLAIMING THE GOSPEL 56:57 - GET EVERYTHING OUT OF THE WAY YOU CAN GET OUT OF THE WAY, BUT 56:59 THAT LAST STATEMENT, "THEREFORE THAT WHICH IS NECESSARY TO BE 57:03 DONE ON THE SABBATH IN THE ACCOMPLISHMENT OF THIS WORK IS 57:06 IN ACCORD WITH THE SABBATH LAW." 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