Music...
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Welcome to our study
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of the Sanctuary,
Salvation and our Savior.
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I want to begin by
going to the screen here
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and showing you a
picture of a sculpture
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that resides in St. Peter's
Basilica there in Rome...
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it's called the Pieta
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and it was made by one
of the greatest artists
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during the Renaissance
Period known as Michelangelo
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and he created by the age
of 24... remarkable genius...
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and it said in the
story of the sculpture
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that a person was
admiring the sculpture
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and Michelangelo was there
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and he overheard the person
that was admiring this sculpture
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say and attribute this
work of art to another artist.
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Well, as you can imagine
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that did not sit
well with Michelangelo
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and so, he went
back to the sculpture
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and then, etched in the
marble... in the sculpture
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his own name,
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I have it zoomed
in here on the screen
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and you can see there,
it says, "Michelangelo. "
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This was so
bothersome to... to Michelangelo
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that someone else would
attribute his work of art
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to another individual
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that he went back and carved
in the sash of the sculpture
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his name
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and not only did he
sign it with his name,
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but he says this,
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and you can see it
here on the screen,
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"Michelangelo
Buonarroti Florentine made it. "
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It could not be
more clearer than this,
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Michelangelo wanted to make sure
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that he was the
creator of this statue
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and for today's study, I
want to look at another instance
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in which an artist
greater than Michelangelo
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signed... not in a
marble... not in a place
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but in time... His signature.
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We want to go to the
very beginning of the Bible,
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Genesis chapter 2
verses 1 through 3,
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"Thus the heavens and the earth
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and all the host
of them were finished,
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and on the seventh day God
ended His work which He had done
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and He rested on the seventh day
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from all His work
which He had done,
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then God blessed the
seventh day and sanctified it
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because in it, He
rested from all His work
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which God had
created and made. "
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Here, at the
beginning of time...
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the beginning of Creation,
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God creates the earth in
six literal, consecutive,
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contiguous 24-hour periods
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and after that time period,
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God does three
things on the seventh day.
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He rests... He blesses...
and He makes that day holy.
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This is God's masterpiece...
this is God's creative process
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and afterwards, He
does not sign it in a place,
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He signs it in time,
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the 7th day is a Sabbath...
is the Sabbath of the Lord
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and God infused
His holiness into time.
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This is His signature...
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after God creates
His masterpiece...
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just like Michelangelo
created his masterpiece,
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he signed it and
etched it in stone...
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God did something
greater than Michelangelo.
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He signed it in time
as a memorial of creation.
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Now, here's a question,
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"How many Jews were
around at the creation?"
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None...
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You know, contrary
to popular opinion,
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Adam and Eve were not Jews.
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They were the
original human beings,
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the Jewish nation...
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the Israelites did not
come until 1,000s of years later
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with Abraham, Isaac and Jacob.
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Adam and Eve were not
Jews and this is prior to sin
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that God signs in
time His signature...
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so, like a holy
wave every seventh day...
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God's signature...
God's holiness comes over us
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and we can be participating
in the holiness of God.
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It's interesting when
you look at the Hebrew
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in Genesis chapter 2:2 and 3,
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"On the seventh day God finished
His work which He had done,
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which is seven
words in the Hebrew
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and He rested on the
seventh day from all His work
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which He had done... "
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seven words in the Hebrew,
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"so God blessed the
seventh day and hallowed it... "
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seven words in the Hebrew...
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the number
seven is evident there
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even in the... the
nuances of the Hebrew language.
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Seven... seven... seven...
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there's another part of
the way that the literary
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structure of the
creation story goes,
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you have the first day
which is mentioned once...
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you have the second
day, mentioned once...
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third day... fourth
day... fifth day... sixth day...
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and then you come
to the seventh day
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and it says, "The seventh day...
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the seventh day...
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the seventh day. "
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Now, in the Hebrew language,
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when they wanted to
emphasize something...
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when they wanted to say
that something was important,
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they would repeat it,
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but here God
repeats the seventh day
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not just two times but
repeats it three times.
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The seventh
day... the seventh day...
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the seventh day,
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in other words, this does
not diminish the seventh day,
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but places it on
a higher platform
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than any of the other days,
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the other days...
just mentioned once...
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but the seventh day
is mentioned three times.
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The seventh day...
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the seventh day
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the seventh day,
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this is before any Jew...
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this is before the
Ceremonial Law of Moses...
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this is before all of these
things in Edenic perfection,
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God sets apart the
seventh day and makes it holy.
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Now, what does this have
to do with the sanctuary?
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Ezekiel chapter
20 verse 12 says,
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"Also, I gave them my
Sabbaths, as a sign between us,
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so that they would know
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that I the LORD
made them holy. "
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Listen to the
significance of this.
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The Bible tells us
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that the Sabbath is not
only a memorial of creation,
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but it's also a memorial
of redemption and salvation.
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In other words,
when we keep the Sabbath,
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we not only
memorialize the reality
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that God created the earth
in six literal, contiguous,
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consecutive days and
rested on the Sabbath,
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and we should do the same,
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but the seventh-day
Sabbath also shows us
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how God takes us... and
recreates in us the image of God
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and makes us holy and
we rest in that assurance.
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In other words, the
salvation experience...
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the sanctuary experience
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is also the Sabbath experience.
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You see, in the sanctuary,
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as we noted in our
Series and presentations,
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the sanctuary is how
God wants to bring us back
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but the Bible tells us
in the book of Hebrews,
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that without holiness,
no one will see the Lord.
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In other words, the
criteria and the condition
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for being able to go back
to that face-to-face encounter
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with God just like
Adam and Eve is holiness.
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The condition for
seeing God is holiness.
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Now, that makes me
feel overwhelmed...
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that makes me feel anxious
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because I look at myself
and I see anything but holiness
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but when you
look in the sanctuary,
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the condition for having
that restoration is holiness.
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The condition to a restoration
and a relationship with God
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is to be holy
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and that fills many
people with anxiety.
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That fills many people
with this feeling of inadequacy.
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Have you ever
wondered to yourself,
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"So, how am I
ever going to make it?
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I'm anything but holy. "
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And so, the Christian experience
for some... for many...
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can be one of anxiety and unrest
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but the sanctuary salvation is
also connected with the Sabbath
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in terms of our
existential experience.
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In other words, the
experience of salvation...
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the experience of restoration...
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the experience
of the sanctuary...
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the experience
where God brings us back
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is not one of unrest...
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it's not one of anxiety...
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quite the contrary...
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it is one of rest.
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It is resting in the reality
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that we can't
make ourselves holy,
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rather, it is God
who makes us holy.
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Isn't that beautiful?
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Isn't it beautiful
that on the seventh day,
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you not only memorialize the
fact that God made a day holy,
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but you
memorialize the present reality
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that it is God
who makes us holy.
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We can't make ourselves holy
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and on the seventh day,
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we rest in the assurance...
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we don't work...
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it's a reminder that we
don't work our ways to heaven,
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some people say,
"Oh, the Sabbath...
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that's legalism. "
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Quite the contrary, God
is telling us to rest...
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not to work...
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and so, on the seventh day,
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we experience the rest
that comes in the assurance
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that God makes us holy.
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Even as God took a day and
infused His holiness into it,
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God takes us...
re-creates the image of God...
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and in the Sabbath
experience... is rest.
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We can rest in the assurance
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that it is God
who makes us holy.
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So, when we talk
about the Sabbath,
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we're talking about the
experience the person has
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as they're coming
into the Courtyard...
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The experience the person has
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as they come
into the Holy Place...
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the experience the person has
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as they come into
the Most Holy Place
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is not one of anxiety...
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it is one of rest
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and I want to tell you,
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in my Christian experience,
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I need to be continually
reminded of this reality.
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Have you ever been given
a gift that is so profound
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and so undeserved
that you feel like...
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"Look, I need to do
something to earn this. "
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You've been given
a gift, you're like,
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"Oh, I need to give at least
some sort of contribution...
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here take this... "
and the person's like,
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"No, no, no, it's a gift. "
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In other words, if you
have to pay for something,
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it's no longer a gift
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and here, we've been given
the awesome gift of salvation
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and it's not of
works, it is a gift...
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eternal life is a gift...
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and we're given this gift
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and the natural
human response is,
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"This is so undeserved,
I want to do something...
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I want to... I want
to try to earn my way...
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I want to make some
sort of contribution
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so I can feel that I
earn and deserve this... "
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and God says, "No!
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you don't earn it...
you don't work for it...
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you rest in that assurance... "
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and we need this
reminder not just annually...
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not just monthly...
we need this weekly.
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Every seven days, we
experience the Sabbath rest
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not only physically but
we find rest for our souls.
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When we experience the Sabbath,
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it is the reality that I
can't work my way to heaven,
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Praise God... I
can't earn my salvation...
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and it is rest...
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it's a reminder that it
is God who makes us holy.
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Ezekiel 20:12,
what a wonderful text,
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"Also, I gave them My
Sabbaths as a sign between us
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so that they would know that
I the Lord made them holy. "
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The Sabbath is a
wonderful sign... a symbol...
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an experience of how
God brings us back...
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the experience of salvation
through the sanctuary...
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through Jesus Christ
is not one of anxiety...
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it is one of rest.
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So, the sanctuary and the
Sabbath are linked together
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because the sanctuary shows
us how God will bring us back
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and the Sabbath
shows us our experience
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of how we can
rest in the assurance
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that even though
we look at ourselves
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and we don't see any holiness
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and I want to tell
you, I get discouraged
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when I look at
my own human frailty
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but we need to keep
our eyes on Jesus...
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the Lamb of God who takes
away the sins of the world,
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and every seventh
day, we remind ourselves
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that we can't
make ourselves holy...
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it is God Who makes us holy.
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Even as God took a
day and made it holy,
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God will make us holy
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because of His
righteousness and His character,
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that is imparted
to each one of us.
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We're going to
take a short break...
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don't go anywhere
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because when we come back,
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we'll look at the
reality of the Sabbath
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through Genesis...
through the Ten Commandments
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all the way to heaven.
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Stay with us as
we continue our study
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of the sanctuary,
salvation and our Savior.
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