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00:35 >>GOOD MORNING, FRIENDS. WELCOME AGAIN TO SABBATH 00:37 SCHOOL STUDY HOUR. A VERY WARM WELCOME TO OUR 00:39 EXTENDED BIBLE STUDY CLASS ACROSS THE COUNTRY AND AROUND 00:42 THE WORLD - WE'RE DELIGHTED THAT YOU'RE STUDYING THE 00:45 BIBLE WITH US TODAY. ALSO TO THE MEMBERS HERE 00:47 AT GRANITE BAY SEVENTH-DAY ADVENTIST CHURCH AND THOSE 00:49 WHO ARE VISITING, A VERY WARM WELCOME TO YOU AS WELL. 00:52 WE'VE BEEN STUDYING THROUGH THE BOOK OF MATTHEW AS OUR STUDY 00:55 TOGETHER. TODAY WE FIND OURSELVES ON 00:57 LESSON #6 ENTITLED RESTING IN CHRIST . 01:01 NOW, FOR OUR FRIENDS WHO ARE JOINING US, IF YOU DON'T HAVE A 01:03 COPY OF THE LESSON QUARTERLY THAT WE'RE STUDYING TOGETHER, 01:06 YOU CAN GET TODAY'S STUDY BY GOING TO THE AMAZING FACTS 01:09 WEBSITE - JUST AMAZINGFACTS.ORG AND YOU CAN DOWNLOAD LESSON #6, 01:15 RESTING IN CHRIST . WE HAVE A FREE OFFER WE'D LIKE 01:18 TO LET YOU KNOW ABOUT, AS WELL. IT'S CALLED THE REST OF YOUR 01:21 LIFE: EVERYTHING YOU NEED TO KNOW ABOUT THE SABBATH AND ALL 01:25 YOU'LL NEED TO DO TO RECEIVE THIS FREE OFFER 01:27 IS GIVE US A CALL. THE NUMBER IS 866-788-3966 - 01:32 THAT'S 866-788-3966 - AND YOU CAN ASK FOR OFFER #813. 01:40 AGAIN, IT'S A WONDERFUL MAGAZINE CALLED THE REST OF YOUR LIFE AND 01:43 WE'LL BE HAPPY TO SEND THAT TO ANYBODY WHO CALLS AND ASKS. 01:47 WELL, BEFORE WE GET TO OUR STUDY THIS MORNING, I'D LIKE TO INVITE 01:49 OUR SONG LEADERS TO COME FORWARD AND THEY'RE GOING TO BE LEADING 01:52 US IN A SONG OF PRAISE BEFORE WE GET TO OUR STUDY OF GOD'S WORD. 01:59 >>THANK YOU, PASTOR ROSS. THIS MORNING WE'RE GOING TO 02:02 BE SINGING ABOUT JESUS, OUR PRICELESS TREASURE - HYMN #431 - 02:07 WE'LL SING ALL THREE VERSES. (MUSIC) 02:27 >>COME, LET US SING OF HOMELAND, DOWN BY THE CRYSTAL 02:33 SEA; WONDERFUL LAND WHERE JESUS BUILDETH A MANSION FOR ME. 02:44 OVER YONDER, DOWN BY THE CRYSTAL SEA, OVER YONDER, THERE'S WHERE 02:56 I LONG TO BE, NO MORE SORROW, TOIL, GRIEF, NOR CARE, IN THE 03:08 HOMELAND BRIGHT AND FAIR, OVER, OVER THERE. 03:18 WATER OF LIFE THERE FLOWETH, FRUIT IN ABUNDANT STORE; 03:26 CITIZENS OF THAT COUNTRY HUNGER AND THIRST NEVERMORE. 03:36 OVER YONDER, DOWN BY THE CRYSTAL SEA, OVER YONDER, THERE'S WHERE 03:49 I LONG TO BE, NO MORE SORROW, TOIL, GRIEF, NOR CARE, IN THE 04:01 HOMELAND BRIGHT AND FAIR, OVER, OVER THERE. 04:12 COME GO WITH ME TO HOMELAND, JESUS INVITES YOU THERE; HELP 04:20 SPREAD THE INVITATION, TELL IT TO MEN EVERYWHERE. 04:30 OVER YONDER, DOWN BY THE CRYSTAL SEA, OVER YONDER, THERE'S WHERE 04:43 I LONG TO BE, NO MORE SORROW, TOIL, GRIEF, NOR CARE, IN THE 04:54 HOMELAND BRIGHT AND FAIR, OVER, OVER THERE. 05:06 >>I AM SO LOOKING FORWARD TO THAT DAY WHEN WE WILL BE IN 05:09 HEAVEN WITH JESUS FOREVER. AND THAT IS WHY WE SING. 05:13 AT THIS TIME, PASTOR ROSS WILL COME UP AND HAVE OUR MORNING 05:17 PRAYER. >>AMEN. 05:25 WELL, BEFORE WE GET STARTED WITH OUR STUDY TODAY, LET'S JUST BOW 05:27 OUR HEADS AND HAVE A WORD OF PRAYER. 05:29 DEAR FATHER IN HEAVEN, ONCE AGAIN, WE ARE GRATEFUL FOR THE 05:31 OPPORTUNITY TO GATHER TOGETHER AND OPEN UP THE BIBLE AND STUDY 05:34 THIS VERY IMPORTANT PART OF SCRIPTURE TALKING ABOUT JESUS 05:38 AND HIS TEACHINGS. SO LORD, WE ASK THAT ONCE 05:40 AGAIN YOU BE WITH US. GUIDE OUR HEARTS AND MINDS FOR 05:43 WE ASK THIS IN JESUS' NAME, AMEN. 05:46 OUR STUDY THIS MORNING WILL BE BROUGHT TO US BY PASTOR DOUG. 05:52 >>THANK YOU, PASTOR ROSS AND I WANT TO THANK OUR MUSICIANS AND 05:57 OUR SINGERS. MORNING EVERYONE. 05:58 >>MORNING. >>HOW ARE YOU? 06:00 >>FINE. >>YOU LOOK OKAY. 06:02 (LAUGHTER) I THINK THAT PASTOR ROSS MENTIONED THAT OUR LESSON 06:08 TODAY IS ON RESTING IN CHRIST. THIS IS AN IDEAL TIME TO TELL 06:11 YOU AGAIN ABOUT THE OFFER. WE HAVE A FREE OFFER 06:14 FOR THOSE THAT CALL IN. IT'S CALLED 06:15 THE REST OF YOUR LIFE . IT IS A NEW SHARING MAGAZINE BY 06:19 AMAZING FACTS THAT GOES THROUGH THE SABBATH SUBJECT 06:22 FROM BOW TO STERN. IT REALLY IS A - IN A VERY 06:25 BEAUTIFUL WAY - IT'S KIND OF A PREMIUM GIFT. 06:27 BUT IF YOU CALL THE NUMBER ON THE SCREEN THERE - IT'S 06:30 866-788-3966 - WE'LL SEND YOU ONE OF THESE. 06:34 I WANT YOU TO LOOK IT OVER, STUDY IT, AND THEN SHARE IT WITH 06:36 SOMEBODY AND WE'LL GET THE MESSAGE OUT. 06:39 IT GOES ALONG WITH THE LESSON TODAY THAT IS TALKING ABOUT 06:42 RESTING IN CHRIST AND DEALING, IN PARTICULAR, WITH SOME OF THE 06:47 MIRACLES THAT JESUS DID RELATED TO THE SABBATH DAY AND SOME OF 06:50 THOSE SABBATH DISPUTES THAT YOU FIND THROUGHOUT THE NEW 06:54 TESTAMENT. AND WE HAVE A MEMORY VERSE. THE MEMORY VERSE IS FROM 06:58 MATTHEW CHAPTER 11, VERSE 28 AND HERE IT'S FROM THE NIV. 07:02 ARE YOU READY? MATTHEW 11:28, "COME TO ME, ALL 07:07 YOU WHO ARE WEARY AND BURDENED, AND I WILL GIVE YOU REST." 07:12 NOW, I'M ALWAYS A LITTLE CONFLICTED WHEN WE MEMORIZE 07:15 VERSES IN VARIOUS TRANSLATIONS BECAUSE THEN WHEN YOU SAY IT 07:19 TOGETHER AS A CONGREGATION, EVERYONE'S READING FROM THEIR 07:22 VARIOUS TRANSLATIONS AND IT SOUNDS A LITTLE BIT LIKE BABEL. 07:26 BECAUSE WE ALL KNOW IT AS 'COME UNTO ME ALL YOU WHO ARE WEARY 07:31 AND HEAVY-LADEN, AND I WILL GIVE YOU REST.' BUT IT IS - HEAVY 07:34 LADEN MEANS BURDEN, SO THAT REALLY IS ACCURATE. 07:37 AND WHAT WE'RE DOING TODAY IS OUR MISSION, IT'S GOING TO BE 07:41 FROM MATTHEW 11:20 THROUGH MATTHEW 12:14 AND SO THAT'S, 07:46 SORT OF, OUR ASSIGNMENT. YOU'LL SEE THAT WE'LL BE READING 07:49 THROUGH SOME OF THESE THINGS TODAY. 07:52 AND SO, WHY DON'T YOU TURN IN YOUR BIBLES TO MATTHEW CHAPTER 07:56 11 AND WE'RE GOING TO START READING WITH VERSE 20 AND 08:00 THERE'S A LOT OF LESSONS HERE THAT ARE AVAILABLE. 08:06 AND IT SAYS HE BEGAN TO REBUKE THE CITIES IN WHICH MOST OF HIS 08:12 MIGHTY WORKS HAD BEEN DONE, BECAUSE THEY DID NOT REPENT. 08:17 NOW SOMEONE, IN A MOMENT, IS GOING TO READ LUKE 11:32 - OKAY, 08:20 YOU'LL HAVE THAT EMMA? SO JESUS IS REBUKING THESE 08:25 CITIES WHERE HE HAD DONE SO MANY OF HIS MIGHTY WORKS. 08:28 AND IT SAYS IN VERSE 21, "WOE TO YOU, CHORAZIN! 08:31 WOE TO YOU, BETHSAIDA! FOR IF THE MIGHTY WORKS WHICH 08:36 WERE DONE IN YOU HAD BEEN DONE IN TYRE AND SIDON, THEY WOULD 08:40 HAVE REPENTED LONG AGO IN SACKCLOTH AND ASHES." 08:43 NOW DOES THE OLD TESTAMENT HAVE PROPHECIES THAT TALK ABOUT THE 08:46 DESTRUCTION OF TYRE AND SIDON? THEY DO. 08:49 YOU CAN READ ABOUT THAT IN EZEKIEL. 08:53 TYRE IS - WAS THE CAPITAL OF THE PHOENICIANS AND WHO WENT UP AND 09:01 SPENT SOME TIME WORKING WITH THE CITY OF TYRE? 09:04 YOU KNOW WHEN ELIJAH WAS HIDING OUT WITH THAT WIDOW - I KNOW 09:09 THAT DOESN'T SOUND RIGHT, BUT YOU KNOW WHAT I'M TALKING ABOUT? 09:11 WHEN THEY WERE HUNTING FOR HIS LIFE AND HE LIVED IN THE WIDOW'S 09:13 HOME UPSTAIRS - SHE LIVED UP IN THE NORTH. 09:16 AND JESUS, THE ONLY TIME THAT JESUS WENT ON A MISSIONARY TRIP, 09:20 HE WENT UP TO THE REGION OF TYRE AND HE PREACHED THERE. 09:25 AND REMEMBER, THIS WOMAN SAID, 'OH, MY DAUGHTER IS POSSESSED BY 09:28 A DEVIL, PLEASE COME AND HEAL HER.' AND HE SAID, 'I'M SENT TO 09:31 THE LOST SHEEP OF THE HOUSE OF ISRAEL. 09:33 YOU'RE NOT AN ISRAELITE, YOU'RE A SIDONIAN OR A PHOENICIAN.' AND 09:36 SHE SAID, 'OH, BUT EVEN THE DOGS GET THE CRUMBS THAT FALL FROM 09:39 THE CHILDREN'S PLATES.' AND SO IT'S INTERESTING THAT BOTH 09:42 ELIJAH AND JESUS WENT TO THE SAME REGION AND, IN BOTH CASES, 09:46 THEY DID A MIRACLE FOR A WOMAN THAT WAS UP THERE. 09:50 BUT, LATER, JUDGMENT CAME TO TYRE AND IT WAS FORETOLD. 09:53 IT'S ONE OF THE GREAT PROPHECIES THAT TYRE - BIG CITY - ALMOST 09:57 IMPENETRABLE FORTRESS - THAT IT WOULD BE DESTROYED AND SCRAPED 10:01 LEVEL WITH THE GROUND. AND THIS IS WHAT ALEXANDER THE GREAT DID. 10:05 THE CAPITAL OF THE CITY WAS SORT OF ON AN ISLAND OFF OF THE COAST 10:08 AND ALEXANDER DESTROYED THE CITY THAT WAS ON THE MAINLAND, 10:12 PUSHING ALL THE RUBBLE OFF INTO THE SEA TO BUILD A CAUSEWAY SO 10:17 HIS SOLDIERS COULD ATTACK THE ISLAND AND CONQUER IT. 10:20 THEY DID THAT COMBINED WITH SHIPS AND THEY DESTROYED IT. 10:24 IT WAS JUDGED BECAUSE OF THEIR SINS. YOU'VE PROBABLY READ IN 10:27 THE BIBLE WHERE IT TALKS ABOUT THE KING OF TYRE. AND YOU CAN 10:31 READ IN EZEKIEL 28, IT'S REALLY A PROPHECY ABOUT THE DEVIL, BUT 10:35 IT SAYS, 'THUS SAYS THE LORD, TO THE KING OF TYRE.' IT TALKS 10:37 ABOUT HIS PRIDE - AND SO THEY WERE JUDGED. AND JESUS SAID, 'IF 10:41 THE MIRACLES THAT HAD BEEN DONE IN BETHSAIDA AND CAPERNAUM HAD 10:47 BEEN DONE IN TYRE, IT WOULD STILL HAVE EXISTED - THEY WOULD 10:50 HAVE REPENTED LIKE THE CITY OF NINEVEH REPENTED. 10:53 AND SO HE'S SAYING, 'YOU'VE HAD TREMENDOUS OPPORTUNITY.' - "THEY 10:58 WOULD HAVE REPENTED LONG AGO IN SACKCLOTH AND ASHES." 11:00 WHICH IS WHAT HAPPENS IN JONAH 3, VERSE 6. 11:02 "BUT I SAY TO YOU, IT WILL BE MORE TOLERABLE FOR TYRE AND 11:06 SIDON IN THE DAY OF JUDGMENT THAN FOR YOU." 11:10 WHY WOULD IT BE MORE TOLERABLE? BECAUSE TO WHOM MUCH IS GIVEN, 11:15 MUCH IS REQUIRED AND THE SIDONIANS AND THE PEOPLE OF 11:18 TYRE, THEY DIDN'T HAVE THE OPPORTUNITIES THAT THE PEOPLE 11:22 HAD THERE AROUND GALILEE, TO HEAR THE PREACHING OF JESUS. 11:26 AND HE GOES ON AND SAYS, "AND YOU, CAPERNAUM," - WHERE DID 11:30 PETER LIVE? PETER LIVED IN CAPERNAUM, RIGHT 11:33 THERE ON THE SEA OF GALILEE - "AND YOU, CAPERNAUM, WHO ARE 11:36 EXALTED TO HEAVEN, WILL BE BROUGHT DOWN TO HADES;" - 11:41 KING JAMES SAYS, 'HELL'. NOW, WHY DID HE SAY THAT? 11:43 'YOU'RE EXALTED TO HEAVEN' - WAS CAPERNAUM IN THE MOUNTAINS - A 11:47 HIGH CITY? NO, IT'S DOWN BY THE SEA. WHY DID IT SAY "CAPERNAUM, 11:51 WHO ARE EXALTED TO HEAVEN"? WHY DO YOU THINK HE SAYS THAT? 11:55 A COUPLE OF REASONS. ONE IS, THEY WERE VERY 11:57 PROSPEROUS IN THE TIME OF CHRIST. 12:00 AND THE OTHER REASON IS THEY HAD - THEY'RE EXALTED BECAUSE THEY 12:05 HAD BEEN HONORED BY HEAVEN TO HAVE THE SON OF GOD SPEND THE 12:09 MAJOR PART OF HIS MINISTRY IN GALILEE AND CAPERNAUM. 12:13 'TO GALILEE IN THE LAND OF THE GENTILES WHO SAT IN DARKNESS, A 12:18 GREAT LIGHT HAS COME.' AND SO JESUS, THOUGH BORN IN BETHLEHEM, 12:23 THOUGH REARED IN NAZARETH, THEY CALLED CAPERNAUM HIS CITY. 12:27 YOU REMEMBER WE STUDIED THIS A FEW WEEKS AGO, BECAUSE THAT'S 12:29 WHERE THE BULK OF HIS MINISTRY WAS. 12:31 AND SO, THEY WERE EXALTED TO HEAVEN. 12:34 THEY HAD THIS GREAT OPPORTUNITY, BUT MOST OF THEM DID NOT REPENT. 12:38 AND HE SAID, 'YOU WILL BE BROUGHT DOWN TO HADES.' NOW, 12:42 WHAT DOES HE MEAN BY THAT? WHEN YOU SAY 'HADES' IN THE 12:46 BIBLE - HADES IS - IT'S A GREEK PLACE OF TORMENT. 12:51 IT WAS THE LOWER DARK REGIONS IN GREEK MYTHOLOGY. 12:56 IT'S A WORD THAT IS USED WHEN YOU TRANSLATE FROM HEBREW - 13:00 JESUS SAID IT IN HEBREW, BUT WHEN YOU TRANSLATE IT INTO GREEK 13:03 THEY USED THE WORD 'HADES' BECAUSE IT ALSO MEANT THE GRAVE 13:06 AND IT ALSO MEANT A DESTRUCTION. IT MEANT DARKNESS. 13:12 IT MEANT DESOLATION. AND SO, HADES IS OFTEN 13:15 TRANSLATED AND PEOPLE ALWAYS THINK THAT IT MEANS THE PLACE OF 13:19 BURNING FROM GREEK MYTHOLOGY. NO, YOU'VE GOT TO LOOK AT WHAT 13:22 THE HEBREW WAS THAT THEY WERE TRANSLATING INTO GREEK. 13:25 DOES THE LORD SEND ENTIRE CITIES TO HADES? 13:30 YOU KNOW, IT'S INTERESTING, GOD SAVES INDIVIDUALS. 13:33 WE FIND CASES OF THAT IN THE BIBLE, RIGHT? ONE BY ONE. 13:37 GOD SAVES FAMILIES AND FAMILIES CAN BE JUDGED. 13:42 WE CAN THINK OF FAMILIES THAT WERE SAVED. 13:44 PETER SAID TO THE PHILIPPIAN JAILER, 'REPENT AND BE BAPTIZED. 13:49 BELIEVE IN THE LORD JESUS CHRIST, YOU'LL BE SAVED.' AND 13:51 LATER THAT DAY HE AND HIS HOUSEHOLD WERE SAVED. 13:54 WE CAN THINK OF WHOLE FAMILIES THAT WERE LOST. 13:57 GOD SAVED SOME OF LOT'S FAMILY OUT OF SODOM AND THE FAMILY OF 14:02 ACHAN WAS STONED AND BURNED. 14:05 WE CAN THINK OF WHERE THE LORD DESTROYED TOWNS - INDIVIDUALS, 14:09 FAMILIES - A TOWN IS COMPOSED OF MANY FAMILIES. 14:13 ARE THERE CITIES THAT WERE SAVED? 14:15 WHAT HAPPENED TO NINEVEH WHEN THEY REPENTED? 14:17 ARE THERE CITIES THAT WERE DESTROYED? 14:22 SO, IN THE JUDGMENT, DOES GOD JUDGE CITIES? 14:24 WHAT ABOUT NATIONS? CAN GOD SAVE A NATION? 14:27 CAN HE DESTROY A NATION? AND THEN, GOD SAVES WORLDS 14:33 AND HE DESTROYS WORLDS. AND SO, WHEN THE LORD SAYS THAT 14:38 THIS CITY IS GOING TO BE JUDGED MORE SEVERELY THAN THAT CITY, 14:42 IS IT REALLY CITIES THAT ARE JUDGED? 14:44 DOES THE LORD JUDGE MUNICIPALITIES? 14:46 DOES THE LORD JUDGE POLITICAL PARTIES? 14:48 I MEAN, HOW DO YOU PUNISH A POLITICAL PARTY? 14:51 ISN'T IT REALLY INDIVIDUALS THAT ARE IN THOSE CITIES AND IN THOSE 14:55 VILLAGES AND TOWNS AND FAMILIES? AND SO, HE WASN'T SAYING 14:59 EVERYBODY IN CAPERNAUM WAS GOING TO BE GOING DOWN TO HELL, HE 15:04 WAS SAYING THAT THE TOWN OF CAPERNAUM THAT HAD BEEN SO 15:07 HONORED AND SO PROSPEROUS, WAS GOING TO BE DESOLATE. 15:10 AND IT WAS LATER DESOLATED IN WAR. 15:14 AND SO HE WAS FORETELLING A JUDGMENT THAT WOULD COME. 15:18 YOU "WILL BE BROUGHT DOWN TO HADES; FOR IF THE MIGHTY WORKS 15:21 WHICH WERE DONE IN YOU HAD BEEN DONE IN SODOM, IT WOULD HAVE 15:24 REMAINED UNTIL THIS DAY." ALRIGHT, GO AHEAD, READ 15:26 FOR US LUKE 11:32, PLEASE. >>"THE MEN OF NINEVEH SHALL 15:31 RISE UP IN THE JUDGMENT WITH THIS GENERATION, AND SHALL 15:34 CONDEMN IT: FOR THEY REPENTED AT THE PREACHING OF JONAH; AND, 15:38 BEHOLD, A GREATER THAN JONAH IS HERE." 15:40 >>SO THERE AGAIN YOU'VE GOT AN EXAMPLE WHERE HE'S COMPARING 15:43 NINEVEH THAT REPENTED - A PAGAN CITY - AT THE PREACHING OF 15:48 JONAH, AND HERE YOU'VE GOT JESUS WHO IS - HE'S LIKE JONAH IN MANY 15:53 WAYS. WHAT ARE SOME OF THE WAYS JESUS AND JONAH ARE SIMILAR? 15:57 JESUS WAS NOT A WAYWARD PROPHET THAT RAN FROM THE WORD OF THE 16:00 LORD, BUT WAS JESUS ASLEEP IN A BOAT DURING A STORM? 16:03 WAS JONAH ASLEEP IN A BOAT DURING A STORM? 16:06 THE BIBLE SAYS 'JONAH WENT TO NINEVEH, AN EXCEEDING GREAT CITY 16:11 OF THREE DAYS' JOURNEY AND HE ENTERED THE CITY A DAY'S 16:14 JOURNEY' - THAT'S THREE AND A HALF DAYS - 'AND HE PREACHED IN 16:17 FORTY DAYS IT WOULD BE DESTROYED.' JESUS PREACHED THREE 16:20 AND A HALF YEARS TO HIS OWN PEOPLE AND SAID, 'THIS 16:23 GENERATION WILL NOT PASS AWAY UNTIL THERE'S NOT ONE STONE LEFT 16:26 UPON ANOTHER IN THE TEMPLE. FORTY YEARS LATER 16:28 IT WAS DESTROYED. SO THAT WAS THE SIGN OF JONAH. 16:31 DID THEY CAST LOTS FOR JONAH? DID THEY CAST LOTS FOR JESUS? 16:37 DID THEY WAKE UP JONAH AND SAY, 'PRAY THAT WE DO NOT PERISH'? 16:42 DID THE DISCIPLES WAKE UP JESUS AND SAY, 'PRAY THAT WE DO NOT 16:44 PERISH'? DID THEY SACRIFICE JONAH SO THAT 16:47 THEY COULD HAVE PEACE AND THEN THE WATER WAS CALM? 16:49 DID JESUS SPEAK AND THEN THE WATER WAS CALM? 16:52 THERE ARE SOME SIMILARITIES THERE. 16:54 BUT THE WHOLE CITY OF NINEVEH REPENTED AT THE PREACHING OF 16:57 JONAH AND HERE A GREATER THAN JONAH - JESUS - WAS PREACHING TO 17:01 HIS OWN PEOPLE AND THEY WOULD NOT REPENT. 17:04 IT'S INTERESTING HOW MANY TIMES IN THE BIBLE THAT THE PAGANS AND 17:09 THE GENTILES ARE COMMENDED BY JESUS FOR THEIR LISTENING AND 17:13 THEIR FAITH. BUT THE CHURCH - YOU KNOW, 17:17 EVERYTHING GOD SAYS ABOUT ISRAEL WHEN HE CONDEMNS THEM, IT'S 17:19 REALLY A LESSON FOR US AS A CHURCH - WHEN WE'VE GOT SO 17:23 MUCH TRUTH, ARE NOT RESPONSIVE SOMETIMES. 17:26 YOU SEE WHAT HE'S SAYING? ALRIGHT, MOVING RIGHT ALONG. 17:30 AND THEN YOU CAN SEE - HE TALKS ABOUT - IF YOU GO TO THE NEXT 17:35 PASSAGE HERE - HE TALKS ABOUT THE RELATIONSHIP. 17:38 SO AFTER HE TALKS ABOUT THE JUDGMENT, HE SAID, 'IF THE 17:42 MIGHTY WORKS WERE DONE IN SODOM THAT HAD BEEN DONE IN YOU, IT 17:46 WOULD HAVE REMAINED TO THIS DAY.' BOY, WHAT A CONDEMNATION. 17:49 THE LORD SAYS TO CAPERNAUM, 'IF SODOM AND GOMORRAH HAD SEEN THE 17:53 MIRACLES - IF YOU CAN NAME THE MOST WICKED CITIES YOU CAN THINK 17:57 OF, BIBLICALLY, WHAT CITIES WOULD YOU PICK? JESUS SAID IF 18:01 SODOM AND GOMORRAH HAD HEARD AND SEEN THE MIRACLES AND HEARD THE 18:06 SERMONS THAT YOU HAVE HEARD AND SEEN, THEY WOULD HAVE REPENTED. 18:09 AND SO, BECAUSE THERE WASN'T A REVIVAL OF REPENTANCE, GENERALLY 18:14 SPEAKING, IN CAPERNAUM, FROM THE PREACHING OF JESUS, HE SAID, 18:18 'THERE'S A GREAT JUDGMENT.' NOW, AFTER HE MAKES THAT STATEMENT, 18:21 YOU GO TO VERSE 25 IN MATTHEW 11 IT SAYS, "AT THAT TIME JESUS 18:25 ANSWERED AND SAID," - HE PAUSES THIS SCATHING JUDGMENT AND HE 18:30 SAYS, - "'I THANK YOU, FATHER, LORD OF HEAVEN AND EARTH, THAT 18:32 YOU HAVE HIDDEN THESE THINGS FROM THE WISE AND PRUDENT AND 18:36 HAVE REVEALED THEM TO BABES.'" WHO WERE THE WISE AND PRUDENT? 18:40 THEY HAD BELIEVERS, THEY HAD JEWS, THEY HAD PEOPLE WHO HAD 18:43 BEEN IN THE FAITH FOR YEARS, THEY HAD SYNAGOGUES IN 18:45 CAPERNAUM, AND THE ONES WHO ENDED UP BELIEVING WERE THE 18:49 GENTILES AND THE FISHERMEN AND THE BABES - THE ONES WHO DIDN'T 18:53 CLAIM TO HAVE THAT GREAT KNOWLEDGE. 18:56 AND SO CHRIST WAS HERE SAYING, NOW, NOT EVERYBODY IN CAPERNAUM 18:58 IS GOING TO BE DESTROYED. THERE ARE PEOPLE WHO HAVE HAD 19:01 CHILD-LIKE FAITH THAT ARE GOING TO BELIEVE. 19:04 AND SO HE MAKES SURE AND INSERTS THAT - "EVEN SO, FATHER," - 19:08 VERSE 26 OF MATTHEW 11 - "FOR SO IT SEEMED GOOD IN YOUR SIGHT. 19:12 ALL THINGS HAVE BEEN DELIVERED TO ME BY MY FATHER, AND NO ONE 19:16 KNOWS THE SON EXCEPT THE FATHER. NOR DOES ANYONE KNOW THE FATHER 19:19 EXCEPT THE SON, AND THE ONE TO WHOM THE SON WILLS 19:23 TO REVEAL HIM." SO THEN HE PUTS AN 19:24 APPEAL IN THERE. HE SAID, 'DO YOU WANT TO BE ONE 19:26 OF THOSE WHO IS READY IN THAT JUDGMENT? 19:30 THE FATHER HAS SENT ME HIS SON TO REVEAL GOD TO YOU.' SO HE - 19:35 HE'S EVEN MAKING AN APPEAL. AND THEN, FINALLY, HE CLOSES 19:38 OFF THAT APPEAL WITH THE GREAT APPEAL OF THE BIBLE. 19:41 YOU KNOW, YOU GET TWO PRINCIPAL STATEMENTS IN MATTHEW. 19:45 THE WHOLE GOSPEL IS SUMMED UP IN THESE TWO PRINCIPAL STATEMENTS. 19:49 ONE IS CALLED 'THE GREAT INVITATION' - AND THAT'S WHAT 19:53 WE'RE ABOUT TO READ - MATTHEW CHAPTER 11:28, AND IF YOU WANT 19:56 TO REMEMBER THE OTHER ONE, IT'S MATTHEW 28, VERSES 18 AND 19. 20:01 SO YOU'VE GOT MATTHEW 11:28 AND MATTHEW 28, VERSES 18 AND 19, 20:06 AND THERE YOU HAVE 'THE GREAT COMMISSION. IN THE GREAT 20:10 INVITATION HE'S SAYING, 'COME TO ME.' THIS IS THE VERTICAL 20:14 RELATIONSHIP - LOVE FOR GOD - TWO GREAT COMMANDMENTS - LOVE 20:17 THE LORD - GREAT INVITATION - COME TO ME - THE GREAT 20:21 COMMISSION - GO FOR ME. ONE IS LOVE FOR GOD. 20:25 THE OTHER ONE IS LOVE FOR YOUR FELLOW MAN. 20:28 THEY'RE BOTH IN MATTHEW. AND SO, HERE WE'RE ABOUT TO 20:30 READ THE GREAT INVITATION. "COME TO ME, ALL YOU WHO LABOR 20:35 AND ARE HEAVY LADEN," - WHO WOULD THAT BE? 20:38 THAT'D BE EVERYBODY - JUST THE BURDENS OF LIFE. 20:43 YOU KNOW, I REMEMBER WHEN I WAS YOUNG AND I HAD TO DO HOMEWORK 20:49 AND I REMEMBER THINKING WHAT A BURDEN MY LIFE WAS WHEN I HAD TO 20:54 REMEMBER ALL THOSE WORDS FOR THE SPELLING TEST. 20:58 AND, TO ME, IT SEEMED SO HARD. AND IT'S STILL HARD. 21:01 I AM SO THANKFUL FOR SPELL CHECK BECAUSE IT RAISES MY PERCEIVED 21:05 IQ WHEN I COMMUNICATE SO MUCH MORE. 21:09 OF COURSE, YOU'VE GOT TO BE VERY CAREFUL THOUGH BECAUSE I DEPEND 21:12 NOW ON THIS TALKING/TYPING SOFTWARE BECAUSE I STILL TYPE 21:19 WITH TWO FINGERS. I CAN TYPE BUT IT'S 21:21 REALLY EMBARRASSING. AND SO I SOMETIMES 21:23 TALK AND IT TYPES. YOU'VE GOT TO BE VERY CAREFUL. 21:26 YOU READ THOSE THINGS OVER BEFORE YOU CLICK 'SEND'. 21:29 AND EVEN ON MY PHONE I'LL TEXT SOMEBODY A MESSAGE AND I'LL 21:32 CLICK THE LITTLE MICROPHONE - I'LL TALK MY TEXT AND THEN CLICK 21:35 'SEND' AND I LOOK LATER AT WHAT I SENT AND, OH, IT JUST SOUNDED 21:38 REALLY GARBLED. IT'LL SAY SOME REALLY FUNNY THINGS. 21:42 I KNOW WHENEVER I USE THE WORD 'PROPHETIC' IT TRANSLATES 21:46 PROSTHETIC. IT JUST CAN'T GET PROPHETIC. 21:50 THERE'S NOT A LOT OF PEOPLE USING THAT SOFTWARE THAT ARE 21:51 SAYING PROPHETIC AND SO IT MESSES THAT UP. 21:54 ANYWAY, HOW DID I GET ON THAT? OH, IT WAS SUCH A BURDEN WHEN 21:58 I WAS DOING SPELLING TESTS. AND THEN YOU GET INTO HIGH 22:02 SCHOOL AND THINK, 'NOW LIFE IS REALLY A BURDEN. THE TESTS ARE 22:05 GETTING HARDER.' I JUST TALKED TO MY SON IN COLLEGE. 22:08 HE SAID, 'I WISH I WAS A KID AGAIN BACK IN SCHOOL.' BECAUSE 22:11 NOW HE'S DOING COLLEGE-LEVEL WORK AND HE SAID, 'BOY, I 22:15 THOUGHT I WANTED TO GROW UP - THAT LIFE WOULD BE EASIER.' - HE 22:18 SAID, 'COLLEGE IS REALLY HARD.' I SAID, 'PUT ON YOUR SEAT BELT, 22:21 IT GETS WORSE AS YOU'RE AN ADULT.' OUR BURDENS SEEM TO 22:25 INCREASE AS TIME GOES BY, YOU KNOW? AND THEN YOU GET MARRIED 22:29 AND YOU THINK, 'OH MAN, LIFE CAN BE TOUGH. 22:32 I'VE GOT TO SUPPORT A WIFE.' AND THEN YOU HAVE KIDS. 22:35 THEN YOU HAVE GRAND KIDS. WELL THAT'S GOOD, YEAH. 22:40 AND THEN, YEAH, AFTER YOU KICK ALL THE KIDS OUT THE GRAND KIDS 22:42 AREN'T SO BAD. THAT'S RIGHT. WHEN THEY BECOME 22:46 SELF-FUNDING THAT'S NICE. BUT THERE ARE BURDENS IN LIFE. 22:51 YOU HAVE HEALTH PROBLEMS WHEN YOU GET OLDER. 22:54 AND YOU, YOU KNOW, YOU JUST SAY, 'OH, YEAH, I WOULD LIKE PEACE 22:58 AND REST.' AND JESUS SAYS, 'COME UNTO ME' OR 'SEEK ME' AND I WILL 23:06 GIVE YOU THAT REST. "TAKE MY YOKE UPON YOU" - NOW, 23:10 YOU NOTICE HE DOESN'T SAY THERE ARE NO BURDENS IN LIFE? 23:12 BECAUSE THE VERY CONTEXT OF HOW HE'S SAYING YOU GET THE REST IS 23:16 IN THE CONTEXT OF A BURDEN. YOU YOKE ANIMALS WHO ARE PLOWING 23:21 AND THE LORD HAS A HARVEST FOR US TO WORK IN. 23:24 SO HE'S NOT SAYING THERE'S NOTHING TO DO. 23:26 THERE ARE BURDENS IN LIFE. HE SAYS, "MY BURDEN IS LIGHT." 23:29 IT IS SO MUCH EASIER WHEN YOU HAVE JOY DOING WORK. 23:36 I ALWAYS LIKE TO POINT BACK TO THAT STORY IN THE BIBLE WHEN THE 23:41 TWO DISCIPLES ON THE ROAD TO EMMAUS IN THE GOSPEL OF LUKE 23:45 CHAPTER 24. THEIR HEARTS WERE BROKEN AND 23:48 THEY WERE GOING DOWNHILL. IT WAS A SUNNY DAY BUT THEY WERE 23:50 GOING DOWNHILL SAD BECAUSE THEY THOUGHT JESUS WAS DEAD. 23:54 AFTER THEY FOUND OUT JESUS WAS ALIVE - THEY WALKED SEVEN MILES 23:57 DOWNHILL - AFTER THEY FOUND OUT JESUS WAS ALIVE AND THE SUN HAD 24:01 GONE DOWN, HE APPEARED TO THEM AT THE DINNER THERE - THEY NOW 24:05 WENT UPHILL SEVEN MILES IN THE DARK - GOING UPHILL - MUCH 24:09 HARDER IN THE DARK GOING UPHILL - BUT THEY WERE SO HAPPY. 24:14 THEY'RE STILL WORKING. IT'S EVEN HARDER WORK, 24:17 BUT THEY'RE HAPPY. THEY WERE JOYFUL. 24:19 IT MADE IT EASY BECAUSE THEY KNEW JESUS WAS ALIVE. 24:23 AND THAT'S REALLY THE TWO ROADS IN LIFE. 24:25 YOU'VE GOT ONE ROAD, YOU DON'T KNOW THE LORD, YOU'RE GOING 24:27 DOWNHILL, YOU'RE SAD, YOU'RE HEADING TO EMMAUS - THAT MEANS 24:30 HOT WATER - JUST HEADING TO HOT WATER FROM THE CITY OF GOD. 24:33 THE OTHER ONE YOU'RE GOING TO THE CITY OF GOD BUT YOU'RE HAPPY 24:35 BECAUSE JESUS IS ALIVE AND WITH YOU. 24:37 AND, SO WHEN WE KNOW CHRIST, OUR BURDEN IS LIGHT - IF YOU KNOW 24:42 THAT JESUS IS WITH YOU, AMEN? "TAKE MY YOKE UPON YOU AND 24:47 LEARN FROM ME," - DO YOU NOTICE IT'S A LEARNING PROCESS? 24:50 - 'FOR I AM GENTLE. I AM MEEK AND LOWLY.' - YOU 24:52 DON'T HAVE TO BE STRIVING TO BE THE BEST - "I AM GENTLE AND 24:55 LOWLY IN HEART, AND YOU WILL FIND REST FOR YOUR SOULS. 24:59 FOR MY YOKE IS EASY AND MY BURDEN IS LIGHT." 25:03 WE TALKED ABOUT THIS A FEW WEEKS AGO WHEN WE DID A MESSAGE. 25:06 IS IT EASIER TO BE SAVED OR LOST? THE WAY OF THE WICKED IS 25:10 HARD BUT THE BIBLE SAYS JESUS SAYS, 'MY BURDEN IS EASY - MY 25:14 YOKE IS EASY. MY BURDEN IS LIGHT.' NOW, I WANT YOU TO 25:18 NOTICE SOMETHING HERE: WHEN YOU LOOK IN THE BOOK OF JOSHUA 14:15 25:25 IT SAYS THAT WHEN THEY FOUGHT WITH THE LORD, THEY CONQUERED 25:30 THEIR ENEMIES AND THE LAND HAD REST FROM WAR. 25:35 JOSHUA 21:44 - IT SAYS, 'AND THE LORD WAS WITH THEM AND HE GAVE 25:40 THEM REST.' YOU LOOK IN JUDGES 3 WHEN THEY REPENTED, IT TELLS US 25:46 'AND THE LAND HAD REST FORTY YEARS.' LOOK IN JUDGES CHAPTER 25:52 3, VERSE 30, "AND THE LAND HAD REST FOR EIGHTY YEARS." 25:56 JUDGES 5:31 - AT ONE TIME THEY CAST OFF THE MOABITES. 26:00 THE OTHER TIME THEY CAST OFF - THEY TURNED TO THE LORD. 26:02 THEY SOUGHT THE LORD. THEY CAST OFF THE MIDIANITES, IN 26:05 THE BOOK OF JUDGES, "SO THE LAND HAD REST FOR FORTY YEARS." 26:08 IT'S INTERESTING, HAVE YOU EVER NOTICED, GOING THROUGH THE BOOK 26:10 OF JUDGES, THAT WHENEVER A JUDGE CAME IN AND TURNED THE PEOPLE 26:13 BACK TO THE LORD AFTER BEING OPPRESSED BY THEIR ENEMIES, THEY 26:17 HAD REST IN DERIVATIVES OF 20, 40, 80. 26:21 IS THAT JUST A COINCIDENCE? USUALLY THAT REPRESENTED A 26:27 GENERATION - FORTY YEARS - AND SO IT'S OFTEN 40 OR 80 - TWO 26:30 GENERATIONS THEY HAD REST. DAVID REIGNED FORTY YEARS. 26:34 SAUL REIGNED FORTY YEARS. SOLOMON REIGNED FORTY YEARS. 26:39 MOSES SPENT FORTY YEARS IN EGYPT, FORTY YEARS IN THE 26:42 WILDERNESS, FORTY YEARS BRINGING PEOPLE FROM EGYPT THROUGH THE 26:45 WILDERNESS. THERE'S ALL THESE INTERESTING 26:47 GENERATIONS YOU FIND IN THE BIBLE. 26:49 BUT NOTICE, IT SAYS THE LAND HAD REST, THE LAND HAD REST, THE 26:52 LAND HAD REST, THE LAND HAD REST. 26:53 NOW I WANT TO READ YOU - WHAT WAS JESUS QUOTING, POSSIBLY, 26:59 WHEN HE SAID THE GREAT INVITATION? 27:03 I THINK JESUS WAS ALLUDING TO A REFERENCE OF SCRIPTURE - YOU MAY 27:07 WANT TO LOOK THIS UP - 2 CHRONICLES - YOU KNOW, THERE ARE 27:12 SOME GREAT PASSAGES IN 2 CHRONICLES. 27:14 YOU'VE GOT THAT ONE THAT SAYS, 'IF MY PEOPLE, WHICH ARE CALLED 27:16 BY MY NAME, WILL HUMBLE THEMSELVES AND PRAY' - GREAT 27:18 PROMISES. 2 CHRONICLES 14 AND LOOK AT 27:25 VERSE 4, "HE COMMANDED JUDAH TO SEEK THE LORD GOD OF THEIR 27:32 FATHERS, AND TO OBSERVE THE LAW AND THE COMMANDMENT. 27:35 HE REMOVED THE HIGH PLACES AND THE INCENSE ALTARS FROM ALL THE 27:39 CITIES OF JUDAH, AND THE KINGDOM WAS QUIET UNDER HIM. 27:43 AND HE BUILT FORTIFIED CITIES IN JUDAH, FOR THE LAND HAD REST;" - 27:48 WHAT DID THE LAND HAVE? >>REST. 27:50 >>WHY'D THEY HAVE REST? SEEK THE GOD OF THEIR FATHERS. 27:55 ALRIGHT? THE LAND HAD REST. 27:56 KEEP READING. "HE HAD NO WAR IN THOSE YEARS, 27:59 BECAUSE THE LORD HAD GIVEN HIM REST. 28:02 THEREFORE HE SAID TO JUDAH, 'LET US BUILD THESE CITIES AND MAKE 28:05 WALLS AROUND THEM, AND TOWERS, GATES, AND BARS, WHILE THE LAND 28:09 IS YET BEFORE US, BECAUSE WE HAVE SOUGHT THE LORD...WE HAVE 28:13 SOUGHT HIM, AND HE HAS GIVEN US REST ON EVERY SIDE.' SO THEY 28:18 BUILT AND PROSPERED." THEY'RE WORKING BUT 28:21 THEY'RE RESTING. WHY ARE THEY RESTING? 28:26 BECAUSE THEY SOUGHT THE LORD. WHAT DOES JESUS SAY? 28:28 'COME UNTO ME.' 'YOU WILL SEARCH FOR ME AND YOU WILL FIND ME WHEN 28:32 YOU SEARCH FOR ME WITH ALL YOUR HEART.' YOU WANT REST? 28:35 SEEK THE LORD. >>AMEN. 28:37 >>WHILE HE MAY BE FOUND. CALL UPON HIM WHILE HE IS NEAR. 28:40 WHEN THEY SOUGHT THE LORD, GOD DELIVERED THEM FROM THEIR 28:44 ENEMIES. WHO'S OUR ENEMY? >>SATAN. 28:46 >>THE DEVIL. YOU'VE GOT THE TEMPTATIONS 28:49 THAT MAKE US RESTLESS. AND THEN THEY HAD THAT REST. 28:54 THEY BUILT AND THEY PROSPERED AND SO - AND THIS WAS OFTEN THE 28:58 CASE UNDER GOOD KINGS LIKE ASA AND JEHOSHOPHAT AND JOSIAH - 29:03 WHEN THEY SOUGHT THE LORD THEY HAD REST FROM THEIR ENEMIES. 29:07 NOW I DON'T WANT TO TAKE THIS FIRST DAY TOO FAR, BUT THE OTHER 29:11 ONES'LL GO QUICKER. SO TURN WITH ME TO HEBREWS 4, 29:14 TALKING ABOUT - WHOLE LESSON IS ABOUT REST - TURN TO 29:17 HEBREWS CHAPTER 4. IF YOU DON'T UNDERSTAND THIS 29:20 PRINCIPLE, YOU'RE NOT GOING TO UNDERSTAND HEBREWS 4. 29:23 HEBREWS 4 IS TALKING ABOUT THE ULTIMATE REST AND THAT'S THE KEY 29:28 OF OUR LESSON. IF YOU GO TO VERSE 3 - HEBREWS 29:32 4, VERSE 3 - "FOR WE WHO HAVE BELIEVED DO ENTER THAT REST, AS 29:37 HE HAS SAID: 'SO I SWORE IN MY WRATH, 'THEY SHALL NOT ENTER MY 29:40 REST,''" NOW WHAT PAUL IS DOING - PAUL WROTE HEBREWS - WHAT HE'S 29:43 DOING HERE - HE'S QUOTING FROM A PSALM OF DAVID IN PSALM 95. 29:47 AND IT SAID, 'I'VE SWORN TO THEM THEY WILL NOT ENTER MY REST.' 29:51 THE PEOPLE OF GOD DID NOT ENTER THE REAL REST BECAUSE OF 29:55 UNBELIEF. WHENEVER THEY STOP BELIEVING THE 29:57 LORD AND SEEKING THE LORD, THEY LOST THEIR PEACE AND THEIR REST. 30:02 ALTHOUGH THE WORKS WERE FINISHED FROM THE FOUNDATION OF THE 30:05 WORLD, FOR HE HAD SPOKEN IN A CERTAIN PLACE OF THE SEVENTH DAY 30:09 - 'AND GOD RESTED ON THE SEVENTH DAY FROM HIS WORKS' - FROM ALL 30:12 HIS WORKS. AND AGAIN, IN THIS PLACE, 'THEY 30:15 SHALL NOT ENTER MY REST.' AGAIN, HE'S REFERRING TO PSALM 95:11 - 30:18 'SINCE THEREFORE IT REMAINS THAT SOME MUST ENTER IT AND THOSE TO 30:22 WHOM IT WAS FIRST PREACHED' - THE PEOPLE OF ISRAEL DID NOT 30:25 ENTER BECAUSE OF DISOBEDIENCE AND UNBELIEF. 30:28 AGAIN, HE DESIGNATES A CERTAIN DAY, SAYING IN DAVID - HE SAYS 30:31 'IN DAVID' - HE MEANS IN THE PSALMS - HE SPEAKS - THIS IS THE 30:35 BOOK OF HEBREWS AND SO PAUL IS WRITING LIKE 'YOU'RE GOOD JEWS 30:38 AND YOU KNOW THE BIBLE.' HE'S ASSUMING YOU KNOW THE PSALMS. 30:41 HE'S ASSUMING YOU KNOW GENESIS. HE'S NOT QUOTING ALL THESE 30:44 VERBATIM BECAUSE HE'S TEACHING A POINT ABOUT REST. 30:47 IN DAVID HE SAYS, 'TODAY, AFTER SUCH A LONG TIME, IT HAS BEEN 30:52 SAID, 'TODAY, IF YOU HEAR HIS VOICE, DO NOT HARDEN YOUR 30:55 HEART.' - THAT'S THE SAME PSALM - PSALM 95:11 - AND 7 AND 8 - 31:00 'FOR IF JOSHUA HAD GIVEN THEM REST' - NOW, DIDN'T WE JUST READ 31:04 THAT AS THEY FOLLOWED JOSHUA THROUGH THE PROMISED LAND AND 31:08 THEY DEFEATED THE ENEMIES, THAT THE LAND HAD REST. 31:11 PAUL IS SAYING THAT'S NOT THE ULTIMATE REST BECAUSE THE 31:14 CHILDREN OF ISRAEL LATER WERE TOLD, 'THEY WILL NOT ENTER MY 31:18 REST BECAUSE OF UNBELIEF.' KING DAVID - WHO LIVES FIRST, JOSHUA 31:22 OR DAVID? JOSHUA. HE'S SAYING, 'IF JOSHUA HAD 31:26 GIVEN THEM THE REST THAT THEY WERE TALKING ABOUT, THEN WHY 31:30 DOES KING DAVID SAY THEY'RE NOT GOING TO ENTER 31:32 BECAUSE OF UNBELIEF? DAVID IS PROPHESYING THAT GOD'S 31:36 PEOPLE WOULD NEVER ENTER THE ULTIMATE REST BECAUSE OF 31:38 UNBELIEF IF THEY DID NOT ACCEPT THE MESSIAH, THE SECOND 31:42 JOSHUA, WHOSE NAME WAS JESUS. YOU GET WHAT HE'S SAYING? 31:46 AND THEN THE KEY TO THE WHOLE THING IS HEBREWS 4:11, "LET US 31:51 THEREFORE BE DILIGENT TO ENTER THAT REST, LEST ANYONE FALL 31:55 ACCORDING TO THE SAME EXAMPLE OF DISOBEDIENCE." 31:59 WHAT IS THAT REST THAT WE ARE TO LABOR TO ENTER? 32:03 DOESN'T IT SOUND STRANGE TO YOU TO LABOR TO ENTER REST? 32:06 WE DO IT EVERY WEEK. DON'T YOU WORK DURING THE WEEK 32:11 AND MAYBE EVEN A LITTLE EXTRA WORK ON FRIDAY SO THAT YOU 32:14 DON'T HAVE TO WORK ON SABBATH? HOW MUCH BREAD DO THEY NORMALLY 32:18 GATHER FIVE DAYS A WEEK? ENOUGH FOR THAT DAY. 32:23 HOW MUCH BREAD DID THEY GATHER ON THE SIXTH DAY? 32:27 THEY HAD TO LABOR HARDER SO THEY WOULDN'T HAVE TO GATHER ON THE 32:31 SEVENTH DAY. SO DOES IT MAKE SENSE YOU MIGHT 32:32 LABOR HARDER TO REST MORE? SO WHAT IS THE LABOR THAT PAUL 32:38 IS TALKING ABOUT THAT WE MIGHT ENTER THE REST? 32:41 'SEEK THE LORD WHILE HE MAY BE FOUND; CALL AFTER HIM WHILE HE 32:46 IS NEAR.' IT'S TALKING ABOUT WHAT IT SAYS - THEY SOUGHT 32:49 THE LORD LIKE - 2 CHRONICLES - BECAUSE THEY SOUGHT THE LORD 32:52 HE GAVE THEM REST. SEEKING THE LORD REQUIRES SOME EFFORT. 32:57 YOU CAN SEEK THE LORD IN PRAYER. YOU CAN SEEK THE LORD IN STUDY. 33:01 YOU CAN SEEK THE LORD THROUGH WITNESS, BUT WE NEED TO SEARCH 33:05 FOR HIM WITH ALL OUR HEART - AND THAT'S WHEN YOU FINALLY FIND THE 33:07 REST. IT'S WORTH FINDING. AND I - HOW MANY OF YOU FIND 33:11 SOMETIMES IT'S A LITTLE STRESSFUL JUST BEFORE 33:13 THE SUN GOES DOWN? AS YOU'RE RIP-SNORTING AROUND 33:16 TRYING TO GET EVERYTHING TOGETHER, YOU - YOU PICK 33:19 UP THE PACE A LITTLE BIT? AM I THE ONLY ONE? 33:22 BUT THEN FINALLY YOU SET IT ALL ASIDE, YOU TURN ON THE MUSIC - 33:26 SABBATH MUSIC - YOU HAVE PRAYER AND YOU GO, (BREATHES DEEPLY). 33:30 WAS IT WORTH IT? YOU EVER GO ON A VACATION? 33:33 YOU HAVE TO, YOU KNOW, RUSH TO THE AIRPORT, AND YOU'VE GOT TO 33:35 DO ALL THIS PACKING AND SCHEDULING AND CHECKING IN - AND 33:40 FINALLY YOU GET OUT THERE ON THE BEACH AND YOU SIT BACK IN THE 33:43 LOUNGE CHAIR AND YOU WATCH THE WAVES ROLL IN AND YOU GO, 'AH, 33:47 HAD TO WORK TO ENTER THAT REST.' SO WHAT IS THE REST THAT WE WORK 33:53 TO ENTER? IT'S NOT JUST A LITERAL SABBATH DAY. 33:57 THE SABBATH IS AN ACTUAL SIGN OF THAT. 33:59 IT'S THE DAILY REST IN CHRIST. DO YOU ONLY WANT TO COME TO 34:04 JESUS AND HAVE REST ONE DAY A WEEK, OR DO YOU WANT TO HAVE 34:08 REST SEVEN DAYS A WEEK? HE SAYS, 'HOOK UP TO ME. 34:13 YOU'LL BE LABORING AND YOU'LL FIND REST.' HE'S TALKING ABOUT 34:16 REST IN LABOR. SO IT'S NOT TALKING ABOUT 34:20 KEEPING THE SABBATH, IT'S TALKING ABOUT A REST 34:22 THAT GOES 24/7/365. ISN'T THAT THE KIND 34:26 OF REST YOU WANT? REST FOR YOUR SOUL. 34:29 OKAY, I WORE THAT OUT PRETTY WELL. 34:32 NOW WE'RE TALKING ABOUT UNREST OVER A REST DAY. 34:36 WE'RE GOING BACK NOW TO MATTHEW, EXCEPT WE'RE GOING TO CHAPTER 34:38 12. AND IT SAYS, "AT THAT TIME JESUS 34:41 WENT THROUGH THE GRAIN FIELDS ON THE SABBATH. 34:44 AND HIS DISCIPLES WERE HUNGRY, AND BEGAN TO PLUCK THE HEADS OF 34:48 GRAIN AND TO EAT. AND WHEN THE PHARISEES SAW IT, 34:52 THEY SAID TO HIM, 'LOOK, YOUR DISCIPLES ARE DOING WHAT IS NOT 34:54 LAWFUL TO DO ON THE SABBATH!'" WAS IT THEIR FIELD OR 34:58 SOMEONE ELSE'S FIELD? SO THE PHARISEES ARE UPSET 35:02 BECAUSE THEY'RE STEALING. IS THAT WHY THEY'RE UPSET? 35:06 ALRIGHT, SOMEONE, IN A MOMENT IS GOING TO READ EXODUS 34, VERSE 35:09 21. YOU'LL HAVE THAT? OKAY. LET ME SHARE WHAT THE 35:12 LAW OF MOSES SAID. I'LL READ DEUTERONOMY 23:25, 35:16 "WHEN YOU COME INTO YOUR NEIGHBOR'S STANDING GRAIN, YOU 35:20 MAY PLUCK THE HEADS WITH YOUR HAND, BUT YOU SHALL NOT USE 35:24 A SICKLE ON YOUR NEIGHBOR'S STANDING GRAIN." 35:27 FIRST THING, THEY WERE NOT SUPPOSED TO TRANSVERSE A FIELD. 35:31 FIELDS OFTEN WERE SURROUNDED BY ROADS. 35:33 AND SO, AS THEY WALKED BY THE FIELD - I REMEMBER ONE TIME I 35:39 WAS HITCHHIKING. I WAS VERY HUNGRY AND I WAS 35:41 WALKING BY A FIELD OF CORN. HAVE YOU EVER EATEN RAW CORN 35:44 OUT OF THE - IT'S NOT BAD. YOU WON'T DIE. 35:48 YOU'RE ALL SO USED TO EATING IT COOKED - LET ME JUST TELL YOU, 35:50 YOU WON'T DIE. IT'S PRETTY GOOD. IT SOMETIMES TASTES A LITTLE 35:55 STARCHY AND YOU'VE GOT TO WATCH FOR WORMS. 35:57 IT DEPENDS ON IF IT'S CORN THEY'RE GROWING FOR COWS OR FOR 35:59 HUMAN CONSUMPTION - YOU DON'T KNOW SOMETIMES UNTIL YOU BITE 36:01 INTO IT. BUT IT'S OKAY, YOU KNOW, 36:07 BIBLICALLY THAT'S LEGAL. BUT YOU DON'T GO WALKING OFF 36:10 THROUGH A PERSON'S FIELD WITH A BUCKET. 36:14 IF YOU WALK BY YOUR NEIGHBOR'S APPLE TREE - WE'VE GOT A 36:17 NEIGHBOR, HE'S A MEMBER OF OUR CHURCH, ACTUALLY, AND HE'S GOT A 36:20 FIG TREE AND A POMELO TREE THAT HANGS OVER OUR FENCE. 36:24 NOW, I DON'T MIND BECAUSE MY TREES HANG OVER HIS FENCE TOO. 36:28 MINE DON'T PRODUCE ANY FRUIT THOUGH, THEY'RE JUST PINE 36:30 NEEDLES, SORRY. BUT WE KNOW THEM WELL AND THEY 36:36 HAVE NO PROBLEM WITH MY REACHING UP TO THE BRANCHES THAT ARE 36:39 HANGING OVER THE FENCE - AND I GLEAN. NOTHING WRONG WITH THAT. 36:43 SO THAT'S NOT WHY THE PHARISEES WERE UPSET. 36:47 WHY WERE THEY UPSET? READ FOR US EXODUS 34:21. 36:50 >>"SIX DAYS YOU SHALL WORK, BUT ON THE SEVENTH DAY YOU SHALL 36:53 REST; IN PLOWING TIME AND IN HARVEST YOU SHALL REST." 36:58 >>SO A FARMER - THERE'S SOME THINGS A FARMER CAN DO ON THE 37:02 SABBATH DAY. IS IT OKAY FOR A FARMER TO MILK 37:06 HIS GOATS AND COWS IF THEY NEED MILKING? 37:08 >>YES. >>IT'S ACTUALLY CRUEL IF YOU 37:10 DON'T BECAUSE IT MAKES THEM VERY UNCOMFORTABLE AND YOU'VE GOT TO 37:14 MILK THEM AT REGULAR TIMES SEVEN DAYS A WEEK. BUT WERE THEY TO 37:20 HARVEST THEIR FIELDS? SOME THINGS HAD TO BE DONE. 37:24 EVEN IF THERE HAD BEEN RAIN AND NOW IT WAS THE PERFECT DAY FOR 37:28 HARVESTING, BUT IT'S THE SABBATH, YOU DON'T HARVEST. 37:30 EVEN IF BAD WEATHER WAS COMING, IF YOU DIDN'T GET STUFF OUT OF 37:33 THE FIELD IN TIME, YOU MIGHT - YOUR CROP MIGHT BE DAMAGED - GOD 37:37 SAID, 'EVEN IF YOU RISK LOSING YOUR CROP, YOU DO NOT HARVEST' - 37:41 BECAUSE THAT INVOLVES SERIOUS WORK - 'YOU DO NOT HARVEST ON 37:44 THE SABBATH.' SO WHAT THE DISCIPLES WERE DOING WHEN THEY 37:48 WALKED THROUGH THE FIELD ON THE SABBATH IS, OBVIOUSLY, THEY WERE 37:51 HARVESTING. AND SO IT REALLY MADE THE 37:54 SCRIBES AND THE PHARISEES UPSET AND THEY SAID, 'THEY'RE DOING 37:57 THAT WHICH IS NOT LAWFUL. THEY ARE HARVESTING.' NOW, IS 38:00 THAT WHAT THE LAW WAS SAYING? IF YOU PICK AN APPLE - IF YOU'RE 38:05 WALKING BY - DOWN THE ROAD - ON YOUR WAY TO CHURCH AND YOU 38:10 HAVEN'T HAD ANY BREAKFAST SABBATH MORNING AND THERE'S AN 38:12 APPLE TREE AND IT'S GOT THIS LIMB WITH A RED DELICIOUS 38:15 HANGING DOWN OVER THE ROAD AND YOU REACH UP AND TAKE IT AND 38:19 THAT'S YOUR BREAKFAST ON THE WAY TO CHURCH, ARE YOU 38:21 HARVESTING APPLES? WOULDN'T YOU HAVE TO KIND OF 38:24 PICK IT UP OFF THE COUNTER AND EAT IT TOO? 38:28 ISN'T THAT LEGALISM? THAT'S WHAT THEY WERE DOING. 38:32 AND, YOU KNOW, WHAT THEY DO - WE DON'T SEE THIS IN THIS CULTURE 38:34 BECAUSE WE DON'T GROW GRAIN, BUT BACK THEN THEY'D HAVE THE 38:37 STANDING WHEAT OR THE RYE, DEPENDING ON WHAT KIND OF GRAIN 38:40 IT WAS, AND THEY WOULD PLUCK THE HEADS - THEY USUALLY LET THEM 38:44 DRY A LITTLE BIT - THEY'D RUB THEM IN THEIR HANDS - THAT WOULD 38:47 SEPARATE THE CHAFF - THEY'D BLOW - THEY MIGHT GO LIKE THIS A 38:51 COUPLE TIMES AND BLOW IT. IT'S BASICALLY, IT'S KIND OF - 38:54 THEY CALL THAT THRESHING - SO THEY GET RID OF ALL THE CHAFF 38:58 AND THEY'D POP THE KERNELS IN THEIR MOUTHS. 39:00 THEY WERE SO HUNGRY THEY WERE JUST EATING RAW WHEAT. 39:02 IT WON'T HURT YOU, IT'S GOOD. IT'S SEEDS. 39:04 AND THEY SAID, 'YOU'RE HARVESTING AND YOU'RE THRESHING 39:09 AND THAT'S A SIN. YOU'RE BREAKING THE SABBATH.' 39:11 THAT'S LEGALISM, AND JESUS WAS TELLING THEM THAT. 39:14 AND THEN HE USES SOME ILLUSTRATIONS TO PROVE THAT. 39:18 WELL, LET ME GIVE YOU ONE MORE VERSE FIRST. 39:19 LEVITICUS 19:9 AND 10 - I TOLD YOU ABOUT THIS BUT I DIDN'T GIVE 39:23 YOU THE VERSE. "WHEN YOU REAP THE HARVEST OF 39:26 YOUR LAND, YOU SHALL NOT WHOLLY REAP THE CORNERS OF YOUR FIELD, 39:29 NOR SHALL YOU GATHER THE GLEANINGS OF YOUR HARVEST." 39:33 - THAT MEANS YOU DON'T GO OVER IT A SECOND TIME. 39:34 THEY CALL THAT THE GLEANINGS. 39:35 IF SOMETHING'S RIPENED LATE YOU JUST LEAVE IT - "AND YOU SHALL 39:40 NOT GLEAN YOUR VINEYARD, NOR SHALL YOU GATHER EVERY GRAPE OF 39:43 YOUR VINEYARD; YOU SHALL LEAVE THEM FOR THE POOR AND THE 39:48 STRANGER: I AM THE LORD YOUR GOD." 39:50 OTHER PLACES IT SAYS, 'FOR THE STRANGER AND THE POOR.' SO IT 39:52 WAS PERMISSIBLE FOR THE STRANGERS AND THE POOR TO BE 39:55 ABLE TO EAT THESE THINGS EVEN ON THE SABBATH DAY, IF IT WAS THEIR 39:59 MEAL AND THEY'RE EATING IT RIGHT OUT OF THE FIELD. 40:01 THEY'RE NOT DOING LIKE RUTH DID, WHERE SHE'S GOING AND GATHERING 40:04 IT AND GETTING SHOCKS. THEY WERE JUST EATING IT. 40:07 THERE WAS NOTHING WRONG WITH THAT. 40:08 BUT THEY HAD BECOME SO LEGALISTIC THAT, IN THE TIME OF 40:12 CHRIST, THEY HAD MEASURED OFF HOW FAR THEY THOUGHT YOU COULD 40:14 WALK ON THE SABBATH DAY - IT WAS ABOUT 4,000 - 4,000 FEET, YEAH - 40:21 SABBATH DAY'S JOURNEY. AND THEY SAID YOU CANNOT CARRY 40:25 A HANDKERCHIEF IN YOUR POCKET BECAUSE IT WAS A BURDEN. 40:28 THEY NEVER KNEW, YOU KNOW, WHERE TO DRAW THE LINE, SO THEY SAID, 40:31 'DON'T CARRY ANYTHING OR IT'S A BURDEN.' WELL, WHAT IF YOU'VE 40:33 GOT HAYFEVER AND YOU NEED A HANDKERCHIEF? 40:36 THEY SAID, 'WELL, SEW IT TO YOUR CLOTHES AND THEN IT BECOMES PART 40:38 OF YOUR CLOTHING AND YOU CAN BLOW YOUR NOSE IN IT THEN.' I 40:42 MEAN, THEY JUST HAD ALL THESE LAWS THAT WERE MAN-MADE LAWS AND 40:45 SO, JESUS, IN ALL OF THE DISPUTES - DON'T FORGET WHAT I'M 40:48 GOING TO SAY: YOU'RE GOING TO SEE THAT CHRIST HAD AS MANY 40:52 DISPUTES ON THE SUBJECT OF THE SABBATH WITH THE RELIGIOUS 40:55 LEADERS, AS ANY OTHER DOCTRINE, BUT NEVER WAS IT A DISPUTE 41:01 REGARDING WHETHER OR NOT YOU SHOULD KEEP THE SABBATH, IT WAS 41:05 ALWAYS A DISPUTE REGARDING HOW TO KEEP THE SABBATH. 41:09 AND SO, SOME PEOPLE SAY, 'WELL, BECAUSE THERE WERE THESE 41:12 DISPUTES THAT WERE LEGALISM, WE SHOULDN'T KEEP THE SABBATH AT 41:14 ALL.' NO, HE WAS JUST TALKING ABOUT THEIR LEGALISM. 41:18 THEY ALSO HAD LEGALISM ABOUT HONOR YOUR FATHER AND MOTHER. 41:21 IT DOESN'T MEAN WE CAN BREAK THAT COMMANDMENT. 41:24 AND SO, WE'RE TO JUST, BASICALLY, YOU KNOW, USE 41:26 PRACTICAL SENSE IN THESE THINGS. 41:29 LOOK IN THE REST OF THIS CHAPTER. 41:31 GO TO - I'M IN CHAPTER 12 - AND HE THEN, AFTER THE PHARISEES 41:38 SAY, 'LOOK, THEY'RE DOING THAT WHICH IS NOT LAWFUL - VERSE 3 OF 41:41 CHAPTER 12 - "BUT HE SAID TO THEM, 'HAVE YOU NOT READ WHAT 41:45 DAVID DID WHEN HE WAS HUNGRY, HE AND THOSE WHO WERE WITH HIM: HOW 41:50 HE ENTERED THE HOUSE OF GOD AND ATE THE SHOWBREAD WHICH WAS NOT 41:53 LAWFUL FOR HIM TO EAT, NOR FOR THOSE WHO WERE WITH HIM, BUT 41:56 ONLY FOR THE PRIESTS?'" NOW, DO YOU KNOW THE STORY 42:00 THAT CHRIST WAS TALKING ABOUT HERE? IT'S WHEN - IN THE DAYS OF 42:04 DAVID - LET ME READ IT TO YOU. GO TO 1 SAMUEL 42:09 CHAPTER 21, VERSE 4. AND SOMEONE, IN A MOMENT, IS 42:15 GOING TO READ MARK 2, VERSE 27. JUAN, YOU'LL HAVE THAT? 42:19 I THINK YOU READ 28 TOO - IN A MOMENT. 42:21 1 SAMUEL 21:4, "AND THE PRIEST ANSWERED DAVID AND SAID, 'THERE 42:25 IS NO COMMON BREAD ON HAND; BUT THERE IS HOLY BREAD,'" - I'D 42:27 BETTER GIVE YOU THE BACKGROUND TO THE STORY. 42:29 DAVID HAS FOUND OUT SAUL IS TRYING TO KILL HIM. HE HOPED IT 42:32 WAS GOING TO GO WELL BUT HE GOT WORD FROM JONATHAN - DAD - 42:38 JONATHAN, THE PRINCE SAID, 'MY FATHER HAS A PRICE ON YOUR HEAD. 42:42 YOU BETTER GET OUT AND GET OUT FAST.' AND SAUL EVEN SENT 42:46 SOMEONE TO DAVID'S HOUSE TO KILL HIM IN HIS BED, BUT HE HAD GONE 42:50 OUT THE WINDOW AND PUT A STATUE IN HIS BED. DON'T ASK ME WHAT 42:53 DAVID HAD A STATUE IN HIS HOUSE FOR. AND THEY'D COVERED IT WITH 42:57 A BLANKET TO LOOK LIKE IT WAS HIM IN THE BED. 43:02 AND MICHAEL, HIS WIFE, TRIED TO LIE FOR HIM TO SAVE HIM. 43:04 SO HE'S RUNNING FOR HIS LIFE AND, IN RUNNING, HE GOES BY 43:09 WHERE THE ARK IS PROTECTED UNDER A TENT - THE OLD TABERNACLE IS 43:14 THERE - AND HE SAYS TO THE PRIEST, 'I'M ON A MISSION' - 43:18 DAVID KIND OF LIES - HE SAYS, 'I'M ON AN URGENT MISSION OF THE 43:21 KING.' NOW DAVID IS ALWAYS THINKING THAT KING, YOU KNOW? 43:25 HE SAID, 'I'M ON A MISSION OF THE KING' - THE KING OF HEAVEN - 43:28 'URGENT MISSION. DO YOU HAVE ANY FOOD?' DAVID HAD SOME OF HIS 43:30 SOLDIERS WITH HIM THAT LATER GREW INTO THE MIGHTY MEN. 43:34 HE SAID, 'THE ONLY THING WE HAVE HERE IS THE DAY-OLD HOLY BREAD 43:37 AND YOU'RE NOT SUPPOSED TO EAT THAT BECAUSE YOU'RE NOT A 43:39 PRIEST.' AND HE SAID, 'BUT IF YOU - IF, YOU KNOW, IF YOU'RE 43:44 HOLY - IF YOU GUYS HAVE BEEN BEHAVING YOURSELVES, THEN WE'LL 43:48 LET YOU EAT IT.' AND DAVID SAID, 'TRULY' - "THEN DAVID ANSWERED 43:51 THE PRIEST, AND SAID TO HIM, 'TRULY, WOMEN HAVE BEEN KEPT 43:53 FROM US ABOUT THREE DAYS.'" YOU KNOW, WHEN THERE WAS A SPECIAL 43:56 SABBATH AND GOD SPOKE TO THE PEOPLE, IT SAID THAT THEY HAD TO 43:59 WASH THEIR CLOTHES AND STAY AWAY FROM THEIR WIVES. 44:02 AND THAT WAS SOMETHING THAT THEY DID DURING A TIME OF FASTING. 44:05 PAUL TALKS ABOUT THAT IN 1 CORINTHIANS 7 TOO. 44:08 AND DAVID SAYS, 'NO, WE'VE BEEN ON A MISSION OF THE KING FOR 44:11 THREE DAYS NOW.' AND HE SAID, 'OKAY, THE BREAD IS HOLY, EVEN 44:15 THOUGH IT WAS CONSECRATED IN THE VESSEL THIS DAY.' "SO THE PRIEST 44:18 GAVE HIM HOLY BREAD; FOR THERE WAS NO BREAD THERE BUT THE 44:20 SHOWBREAD WHICH HAD BEEN TAKEN FROM BEFORE THE LORD, IN ORDER 44:23 TO PUT HOT BREAD" - SO THIS IS THE DAY-OLD SHOWBREAD. 44:27 IT WAS ALREADY - THEY PUT THE NEW BREAD IN ITS PLACE WHEN IT 44:30 WAS TAKEN AWAY. TECHNICALLY, THEY WERE NOT SUPPOSED TO EAT 44:33 THAT, JUST THE SONS OF AARON WERE SUPPOSED TO EAT IT. 44:36 BUT JESUS IS SAYING TO THE SCRIBES AND PHARISEES, 'IF IT'S 44:41 AN EMERGENCY.' YOU KNOW, IF A KID WAS IN A CHURCH AND YOU SEE 44:49 HIM CLIMBING ON A CROSS - A WOODEN CROSS - WITH JESUS ON THE 44:53 CROSS, YOU'D SAY, THAT'S VERY DISRESPECTFUL, DON'T DO THAT.' 44:57 BUT IF THAT CROSS WAS FLOATING IN THE OCEAN AND THE CHILD WAS 45:00 DROWNING, WOULD YOU SAY, 'YOU CAN'T HANG ON TO THE ONLY THING 45:02 FLOATING' - WHICH WAS A WOODEN PIECE OF CROSS? 45:05 IT'S - YOU'RE JUST BEING PRACTICAL. 45:08 AND SO THAT'S WHAT JESUS - DAVID AND HIS MEN WERE HUNGRY. 45:11 THERE WAS NOTHING TO EAT. HE'S ON AN URGENT MISSION. 45:14 THEY SAID, 'OKAY, IT'S AN EMERGENCY.' DO YOU KNOW THE 45:17 RELIGIOUS LEADERS DID ALLOW HEALING ON THE SABBATH, BUT IT 45:24 NEEDED TO BE AN EMERGENCY AND THAT TAKES US OFF INTO OUR NEXT 45:27 ONE WE'LL GET TO IN A MOMENT. GO AHEAD, READ FOR US, MARK 45:30 CHAPTER 2, VERSES 27 AND 28. >>"AND HE SAID TO THEM, 'THE 45:35 SABBATH WAS MADE FOR MAN AND NOT MAN FOR THE SABBATH.' THEREFORE, 45:40 THE SON OF MAN IS ALSO LORD OF THE SABBATH." 45:44 >>NOW, WHEN HE TELLS THIS STORY - WHEN YOU READ THIS EXPERIENCE 45:48 IN MATTHEW, IT DOESN'T INCLUDE THAT VERSE. 45:51 AT THE END OF THE EXPERIENCE IN MARK IT SAYS, 'THE SABBATH WAS 45:54 MADE FOR MAN AND NOT MAN FOR THE SABBATH.' I'M GLAD THAT VERSE IS 45:57 IN HERE BECAUSE SOME PEOPLE THINK THE SABBATH WAS MADE FOR 45:59 JEWS. HAVE YOU HEARD THAT BEFORE? 46:01 THE SABBATH WAS A COVENANT JUST FOR JEWS? 46:03 HERE, JESUS SAID THAT IT WAS MADE FOR MAN. 46:05 THAT WORD THERE, I BELIEVE, IN THE GREEK IS 'ANTHROPOS' AND IT 46:08 MEANS 'MANKIND'. IT'S A VERY STRONG ARGUMENT 46:12 THAT THE SABBATH WAS MADE FOR EVERYBODY. 46:15 BUT AT THE SAME TIME - AND THE SABBATH WAS MADE AFTER MAN, YOU 46:18 SEE, AND IT WAS MADE TO BE A BLESSING TO MAN. 46:20 MAN WAS NOT CREATED TO SUDDENLY SERVE THE SABBATH, THE SABBATH 46:23 WAS MADE TO SERVE MAN. AND JESUS, IN MATTHEW, HE SAYS 46:28 IT, 'HAVE YOU NOT READ IN THE LAW THAT ON THE SABBATH DAY THE 46:34 PRIESTS IN THE TEMPLE' - NOW I'M IN MATTHEW - BACK IN MATTHEW 46:36 12:5 - "OR HAVE YOU NOT READ IN THE LAW THAT ON THE SABBATH THE 46:40 PRIESTS IN THE TEMPLE PROFANE THE SABBATH, AND ARE BLAMELESS?" 46:43 WHAT DOES JESUS MEAN THAT THE PRIESTS PROFANED THE SABBATH? 46:48 WHAT DO YOU THINK HE MEANS BY THAT? THEY WORK. 46:52 NOW, NORMALLY, IF A MAN WAS BUILDING A FIRE ON THE SABBATH 46:56 DAY - THEY WEREN'T SUPPOSED TO DO THAT. 46:58 YOU COULD HAVE A FIRE - MANY PEOPLE MISUNDERSTAND THAT. 47:00 I'VE HEARD - I REMEMBER READING A BOOK BY JIMMY SWAGGART YEARS 47:03 AGO, WHEN HE WAS SAYING HOW IMPOSSIBLE IT IS TO KEEP THE 47:05 SABBATH, AND HE MADE IT SOUND LIKE GOD HAD A BAD IDEA. 47:08 HE SAID, 'WHENEVER YOU DRIVE TO CHURCH - YOU'RE NOT SUPPOSED TO 47:13 KINDLE A FIRE ON THE SABBATH AND EVERY TIME THAT YOUR SPARKPLUGS 47:15 FIRE IN YOUR CAR, YOU ARE KINDLING A FIRE. 47:19 IT'S IMPOSSIBLE TO KEEP THE SABBATH.' YOU KNOW, GOD DIDN'T 47:22 TELL THEM THEY COULDN'T HAVE A FIRE. HE DIDN'T TELL THEM THEY 47:25 HAD TO SIT AND SHIVER ALL THROUGH THE SABBATH, HE TOLD 47:28 THEM, 'DON'T KINDLE A FIRE.' HOW DO WE START FIRES TODAY? 47:31 TURN A SWITCH - YOU'VE GOT AN AUTOMATIC THING THAT GOES, 47:34 'CLICK, CLICK, CLICK' UNTIL THE GAS STOVE LIGHTS. 47:36 OR YOU LIGHT A MATCH - HOW DID THEY KINDLE A FIRE IN BIBLE 47:41 TIMES? IT'S LIKE, YOU KNOW, YOU'RE 47:45 RUBBING STICKS TOGETHER. I MEAN, IT WAS PRETTY LABOR 47:47 INTENSIVE TO KINDLE A FIRE AND THEY WERE OUT 47:50 GATHERING THE WOOD. HE SAID, 'DON'T GATHER WOOD.' A 47:52 MAN WAS STONED FOR DOING THAT. IF THEY HAD WOOD GATHERED AND A 47:55 FIRE GOING, THEY COULD PUT WOOD ON THE FIRE. 47:57 THEY COULD KEEP A FIRE GOING ON THE SABBATH. 47:59 THERE WAS NOTHING THAT SAID THEY HAD TO BE COLD. 48:01 THEY JUST WEREN'T TO KINDLE IT. THAT'S THE ACT OF 48:04 STARTING A FIRE. DO YOU SEE THE DIFFERENCE? 48:06 SO, WITH THAT IN MIND, DID THE PRIESTS HAVE TO KEEP THE FIRE 48:10 GOING IN THE SANCTUARY ON THE SABBATH? 48:14 THAT FIRE WAS NEVER TO GO OUT. 48:17 THEY WERE PUTTING WOOD ON THE FIRE. 48:19 WERE THERE SACRIFICES ON THE SABBATH? 48:21 THEY HAD SPECIAL SACRIFICES JUST FOR THE SABBATH. 48:23 THAT MEANS THAT YOU'VE GOT TO - SACRIFICE THE LAMB, DRAIN THE 48:27 BLOOD, SPRINKLE THE BLOOD, SKIN THE LAMB, BURN THE LAMB, HAUL 48:31 THE WATER TO THE LAVER FOR THE WASHING - AND IN PASSOVER, YOU 48:36 KNOW HOW BUSY THOSE PRIESTS WERE ON THE SABBATH DURING THE 48:40 PASSOVER IN THE SANCTUARY? THAT'S WHY JESUS SAID 48:43 THEY'RE PROFANING IT. WHAT HE MEANT IS THEY'RE 48:45 WORKING, BUT THEY ARE BLAMELESS. HOW MUCH BLAME DID THEY HAVE? 48:48 >>NONE. >>ZERO. WHY? 48:51 BECAUSE THEY'RE DOING SOMETHING THAT WAS INVOLVED IN AN ACT OF 48:54 WORSHIP. AND, YOU KNOW, WE'VE REALLY 48:58 STUDIED THIS OUT HERE AT OUR CHURCH BECAUSE, ON THE SABBATH 49:03 DAY - WELL, MANY CHURCHES, YOU KNOW, WHEN YOU HAVE A FELLOWSHIP 49:06 DINNER, THERE'S A CERTAIN AMOUNT OF WORK. 49:08 WE DO AS MUCH AS POSSIBLE BEFORE. 49:10 MATTER OF FACT, AT OUR CHURCH, WE JUST HEAT THINGS UP. 49:13 WE DON'T ACTUALLY EVEN HAVE A LOT OF COOKING GOING ON. 49:17 SOMETIMES CHAIRS NEED TO BE MOVED BY DEACONS BECAUSE ONE 49:20 FUNCTION IS DONE AND ANOTHER FUNCTION IS BEGINNING AND YOU'RE 49:23 GOING FROM THE DINNER INTO THE AFTERNOON STUDY OR WHATEVER IT 49:26 IS AND THERE'S PRACTICAL THINGS - YOU DO AS MUCH AS YOU CAN 49:30 AHEAD OF TIME, BUT THERE ARE THINGS THAT NEED TO BE DONE AND 49:34 THERE'S A GREAT SECTION ON THIS IN THE BOOK DESIRE OF AGES WHERE 49:37 SHE SAYS, 'THAT WHICH IS DONE ON THE SABBATH DAY TO MAKE POSSIBLE 49:41 WORSHIP FOR OTHERS IS HOLY.' AND SO, WHAT SHE'S TALKING ABOUT - 49:45 IT'S IN THE CHAPTER WHERE JESUS DEFENDS THE DISCIPLES WHO ARE 49:50 RUBBING THE GRAIN IN THEIR HANDS. 49:52 AND SO, PASTORS SOMETIMES ARE BUSY ON THE SABBATH. 49:57 AND I'VE BEEN ON THE SABBATH DAY IN SOME COUNTRIES WHERE WE 50:00 BAPTIZED HUNDREDS OF PEOPLE AND MY BACK BEGAN TO HURT. 50:05 I WAS HEAVY LADEN BUT IT WAS A BLESSING. 50:10 I MEAN, ISN'T IT OKAY TO DO THAT ON THE SABBATH DAY? 50:13 AND SO THERE'S PRACTICAL THINGS THAT NEED TO BE DONE AND IT'S 50:16 PART OF THE WORSHIP EXPERIENCE. AND JESUS SAID USE 50:19 COMMON SENSE, OKAY? ANYWAY, ALRIGHT, WHAT 50:23 AM I FORGETTING HERE? ALRIGHT, HEALING ON THE SABBATH. 50:25 WOW, I'M RUNNING OUT OF TIME. MATTHEW 12:9, "NOW WHEN HE HAD 50:29 DEPARTED FROM THERE, HE WENT INTO THEIR SYNAGOGUE. 50:31 AND BEHOLD, THERE WAS A MAN WHO HAD A WITHERED HAND. 50:34 AND THEY ASKED HIM, SAYING, 'IS IT LAWFUL TO HEAL ON THE 50:39 SABBATH?'" - AND THEY WANTED TO ACCUSE HIM. 50:44 "THEN HE SAID TO THEM, 'WHAT MAN IS THERE AMONG YOU WHO HAS ONE 50:47 SHEEP, AND IF IT FALLS INTO A PIT ON THE SABBATH, WILL NOT LAY 50:50 HOLD OF IT?'" - HE MAKES IT REALLY 50:52 HARD FOR THEM TO ANSWER. HE SAID HE DIDN'T HAVE A LOT 50:54 OF SHEEP - HE'S GOT ONE SHEEP. I MEAN, IF HE HAD A LOT OF SHEEP 50:57 HE MIGHT SAY, 'I'LL COME BACK FOR THAT ONE AFTER SUNDOWN.' 50:59 BUT IT'S HIS ONLY SHEEP. "AND IF IT FALLS INTO A 51:03 PIT...WILL NOT LAY HOLD OF IT AND LIFT IT OUT? 51:05 OF HOW MUCH MORE VALUE THEN IS A MAN THAN A SHEEP?" 51:09 ARE THERE VARIATIONS OF VALUE IN GOD'S KINGDOM? 51:14 ARE PEOPLE MORE VALUABLE THAN SHEEP - QUESTION? 51:17 WHAT DOES HUMANISM TEACH TODAY? THERE'S ALMOST NO DIFFERENCE 51:21 BETWEEN A WHALE AND A HUMAN, THAT PEOPLE WILL HUG A TREE AND 51:26 DIE TO SAVE THE TREES AND THEY THINK, 'WELL, WE'VE ALL EVOLVED 51:31 FROM MOTHER NATURE AND WE'RE ALL - THERE'S NOTHING MORE, YOU 51:34 KNOW, THE PORPOISES AND THE MOSQUITOS, IF YOU'RE A 51:38 DEDICATED BUDDHIST IT'S ALL LIFE IS LIFE AND - THE BIBLE TEACHES 51:42 A VERY DIFFERENT WORLD VIEW. THERE ARE VARIATIONS 51:45 OF VALUE IN LIFE. HUMANS ARE THE CROWNING 51:50 ACT OF CREATION. WE ARE WORTH MORE THAN SHEEP. 51:54 IF I'M DRIVING DOWN THE ROAD, HEAVEN FORBID I HIT A DEER. 51:57 IT HAPPENED ONCE, I FELT TERRIBLE. 51:59 A LITTLE DEER SCAMPERED OUT INTO THE ROAD - IT WAS IN A CITY, 52:01 TOO, OF ALL THINGS - AND IT DIED. I FELT TERRIBLE. 52:06 I FELT WORSE THAN IF I HAD HIT A SQUIRREL. 52:10 I CAME ON AN ACCIDENT ONE TIME WHEN SOMEBODY WRECKED THEIR CAR 52:13 BECAUSE THEY WERE AVOIDING A SQUIRREL IN A ROAD. 52:15 AND I THOUGHT, 'RUN OVER THAT SQUIRREL! 52:16 IT'S JUST A CUTE RAT IS ALL IT IS.' (LAUGHTER) DON'T WRECK YOUR 52:20 CAR FOR A SQUIRREL. BUT I'D FEEL WORSE IF I RAN OVER 52:24 A SQUIRREL THAN WHEN A MOSQUITO SPLATS ON MY WINDSHIELD. 52:29 THEY'RE ALL DYING, BUT ISN'T A SQUIRREL WORTH MORE THAN A 52:33 MOSQUITO? ARE YOU WITH ME? THERE ARE VARIATIONS. 52:37 MATTER OF FACT, IF I HIT A MOSQUITO, I DON'T CARE ABOUT 52:39 THAT. I CARE ABOUT MY WINDSHIELD. 52:42 YOU KNOW, THERE'S - THERE'S VARIATIONS OF VALUE AND JESUS IS 52:45 SAYING, 'LOOK, YOU CARE ABOUT YOUR SHEEP ON THE SABBATH, OF 52:48 HOW MUCH MORE VALUE IS IT TO HEAL A PERSON? 52:51 AND HE TALKED - HE HAD THAT WOMAN WHO WAS BENT OVER FOR 18 52:55 YEARS AND HE RAISED HER UP. IT'S INTERESTING, IN THE BOOK OF 53:00 MARK, WHEN THIS STORY HAPPENS, YOU READ IN MARK CHAPTER 3 - 53:03 SAME STORY, WHERE HE HAD THE MAN WITH THE WITHERED HAND - HE 53:06 HEALS HIM IN THE SYNAGOGUE ON THE SABBATH. 53:08 HE TELLS HIM, 'STEP FORWARD' - HE DOES IT IN FRONT OF EVERYBODY 53:11 AND HE SAYS HE LOOKS AROUND AND HE'S ANGRY WITH THEM BY THE 53:16 HARDNESS OF THEIR HEARTS. HE WAITED FOR SOMEONE TO SAY, 53:20 'OF COURSE THIS MAN IS WORTH MORE THAN A SHEEP.' NOBODY SAID 53:23 ANYTHING BECAUSE THEY WERE AFRAID OF THE PRIESTS. 53:26 THEY WERE AFRAID TO JUST SAY WHAT WAS COMMON SENSE - AND MARK 53:30 ADDS THAT POINT. IN CAPERNAUM - IN MARK - SAME 53:33 EXPERIENCE - HE DOES THIS AND THEN HE HEALS A DEMONIAC ON THE 53:38 SABBATH DAY. COMES HOME FROM CHURCH ON THE 53:41 SABBATH DAY IN CAPERNAUM, HE RAISES UP PETER'S MOTHER WHO IS 53:45 SICK, ON THE SABBATH DAY, AND IT SAYS SHE GOT UP AND 53:47 SHE SERVED THEM. SO IS THERE SERVICE 53:51 ON THE SABBATH? SHE GOT UP AND, I GUESS, HELPED 53:54 FEED THEM THEIR SABBATH MEAL. BUT YOU'LL NOTICE, IF YOU READ 53:58 MARK 1:21-34, IT'S ALL HAPPENING ON THE SABBATH DAY. 54:02 AND SO - AND THAT ONE, ACTUALLY, WAS MARK 1:29. 54:08 YOU WANT TO READ THAT FOR US REALLY QUICK? 54:10 >>"NOW AS SOON AS THEY HAD COME OUT OF THE SYNAGOGUE, THEY 54:13 ENTERED THE HOUSE OF SIMON AND ANDREW WITH JAMES AND JOHN. 54:16 BUT SIMON'S WIFE'S MOTHER LAY SICK WITH A FEVER AND THEY TOLD 54:21 HIM ABOUT HER AT ONCE. SO HE CAME AND TOOK HER BY THE 54:24 HAND AND LIFTED HER UP AND IMMEDIATELY THE FEVER LEFT 54:27 HER AND SHE SERVED THEM." >>WHAT DOES A WOMAN REPRESENT 54:31 IN BIBLICAL ANALOGIES? NOT EVERY TIME, BUT MANY TIMES? 54:36 I THINK THAT THERE'S A LESSON IN HERE THAT HE HEALED HER THAT SHE 54:40 MIGHT SERVE HIM. WHY DOES GOD SAVE US? 54:45 WHY DID HE DELIVER ISRAEL? HE TOLD PHARAOH 'THAT THEY MAY 54:47 SERVE ME.' AND IT'S INTERESTING THAT GOD SAVES US - AND EVEN ON 54:53 THE SABBATH DAY - THAT WE MIGHT SERVE HIM. 54:56 ON THE SABBATH DAY SHE GOT UP AND MINISTERED TO THEM THEN. 54:58 WELL, THERE ARE MANY HEALINGS IN THE BIBLE. 55:00 JESUS NEVER SAID THERE WAS ANYTHING WRONG WITH HEALING ON 55:03 THE SABBATH. I KNOW ONE FRIEND THAT HAD A 55:06 TERRIBLE TOOTHACHE ON SABBATH AND HE WAS A SABBATH KEEPER. 55:11 AND HE CALLED THE DENTIST WHO WAS A SABBATH KEEPER. 55:14 AND THE DENTIST SAID, 'I'LL MEET YOU RIGHT NOW.' ANY OF YOU EVER 55:16 HAD A TERRIBLE TOOTHACHE? IT'S JUST THROBBING PAIN. 55:19 AND THE DENTIST SAID, 'LOOK, YOU SHOULDN'T SUFFER LIKE THAT. 55:21 NO PROBLEM. I'LL COME - I'LL MEET YOU AT THE OFFICE. 55:23 GET OVER THERE RIGHT NOW.' AND THE DENTIST, HE WAS LATE GOING 55:26 TO HIS SABBATH SCHOOL - MET THIS PERSON AT THE OFFICE. 55:28 HE SAYS, 'I'LL DO SOMETHING FOR YOU NOW. 55:29 I CAN'T DO THE WHOLE PROCEDURE YOU NEED UNTIL MY STAFF IS HERE, 55:32 BUT THIS'LL TAKE AWAY THE PAIN.' TOOK CARE OF HIM. 55:34 TOOK AWAY THE PAIN. MADE AN APPOINTMENT FOR MONDAY. 55:36 AND THEY FELT MUCH BETTER. ISN'T THAT WHAT JESUS WOULD DO? 55:39 YEAH, JUST BEING PRACTICAL. 55:41 ANYWAY, I HOPE WE LEARNED SOMETHING TODAY. 55:42 I WANT TO REMIND YOU THAT WE DO HAVE THIS REALLY NEAT STUDY 55:46 MAGAZINE - SHARING MAGAZINE - ON THE SABBATH TRUTH. 55:49 IT'S CALLED THE REST OF YOUR LIFE - SORT OF A PLAY ON WORDS. 55:51 WE'LL SEND YOU A FREE COPY - 866-788-3966 - CALL THE NUMBER 55:56 ON YOUR SCREEN AND ASK FOR OFFER #813 WHEN YOU CALL. 56:00 THAT HELPS THEM WHEN THEY ANSWER THE PHONE. 56:02 READ IT AND SHARE IT WITH A FRIEND. 56:03 GOD BLESS YOU, FRIENDS. THANK YOU. 56:05 AND WE'LL STUDY HIS WORD TOGETHER AGAIN NEXT WEEK. 56:09 (MUSIC) >>FRIENDS, ONE OF THE 56:19 AMAZING THINGS THAT YOU'LL OFTEN IN THE SOUTH PACIFIC ISLANDS, 56:23 LIKE HERE ON FIJI, IS THE VAI VAI PLANT. NOW, IN NORTH 56:26 AMERICA, IF YOU WANT TO BUILD A FENCE YOU'VE 56:28 GOT TO GET FENCE POSTS AND THEN YOU PUT THE WOODEN FENCE POSTS 56:31 IN THE GROUND AND THEN AFTER A FEW YEARS THEY'RE GOING TO ROT 56:33 AND BREAK OFF, UNLESS THEY'RE SPECIALLY TREATED. 56:35 BUT HERE, THEY'VE GOT THESE TREES - THE VAI VAI TREE - THEY 56:39 CAN CUT THEM RIGHT OUT OF THE WOODS, 56:40 THEY'LL TAKE A STICK, THEY STICK IT IN THE GROUND, AND BECAUSE 56:43 THEY HAVE SO MUCH RAIN AND PRECIPITATION, IT BEGINS TO 56:46 SPROUT AND TURNS INTO A LIVING FENCE POST. 56:49 IT MAKES UP ITS MIND THAT IT'S GOING TO FLOURISH WHEREVER YOU 56:51 STICK IT, WHICH IS A GOOD LESSON FOR YOU AND ME. 56:55 SO YOU MIGHT WONDER SOMETIMES IF YOU'VE GOT A PURPOSE IN LIFE. 56:58 YOU MIGHT FEEL LIKE YOU'RE GROWING SORT OF SPORADICALLY IN 57:00 EVERY DIRECTION, AND THEN ALONG COMES THIS PERSON WHO CUTS YOU 57:03 DOWN AND CARRIES YOU OFF, HE STICKS YOU IN THE GROUND BUT YOU 57:08 LOOK BACK AND SAY, 'THERE WAS A PLAN. 57:10 THERE WAS A PURPOSE.' GOD KNOWS HOW TO TEACH US HOW TO PROSPER 57:14 WHERE HE PLANTS US. YOU MIGHT WONDER WHY THE LORD 57:17 HAS PUT YOU WHERE HE HAS IN LIFE, BUT YOU CAN PUT DOWN ROOTS 57:20 AND YOU CAN GROW AND YOU CAN SERVE A GREAT PURPOSE FOR GOD. 57:23 YOU KNOW, IT'S LIKE GOD SAYS IN JEREMIAH CHAPTER 29, 'I KNOW THE 57:26 PLANS THAT I'VE GOT FOR YOU TO GIVE YOU A FUTURE.' GOD HAS A 57:29 PURPOSE FOR YOUR LIFE, FRIENDS, AND HE CAN HELP YOU TO PROSPER 57:32 AND GROW WHEREVER YOU'RE PLANTED. (MUSIC) 57:41 >>IN SIX DAYS GOD CREATED THE HEAVENS AND THE 57:44 EARTH. FOR THOUSANDS OF YEARS MAN HAS WORSHIPED GOD ON THE 57:49 SEVENTH DAY OF THE WEEK. NOW, EACH WEEK, MILLIONS OF 57:52 PEOPLE WORSHIP ON THE FIRST DAY. WHAT HAPPENED? 57:56 WHY DID GOD CREATE A DAY OF REST? 57:58 DOES IT REALLY MATTER WHAT DAY WE WORSHIP? 58:01 WHO WAS BEHIND THIS GREAT SHIFT? DISCOVER THE TRUTH BEHIND GOD'S 58:04 LAW AND HOW IT WAS CHANGED. VISIT SABBATHTRUTH.COM. 58:12 (MUSIC) |
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