Welcome back,
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before the break we
were discussing the Sabbath
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and we referenced
Ezekiel chapter 20 verse 12,
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"Also I gave them my
Sabbaths as a sign between us,
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so they would know that I
the LORD made them holy. "
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We said that the Sabbath is
not only a memorial of creation,
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how God takes
six days of creation
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and on the seventh He
rests and He makes it holy
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but God takes us and re-creates
in us the image of God
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and then we rest
in that assurance.
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In other words, the
Sabbath is not only a memorial
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of what God did
in six literal days
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but it's also a memorial
of what He is doing in us
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in creating a clean heart
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and renewing the
image of God in us.
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So, the Sabbath is not
only a sign of creation,
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it's also a sign... a
symbol of salvation as well
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and this is the link between
the sanctuary and the Sabbath.
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Now, how is the
Sabbath portrayed
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in the Ten Commandments?
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Now, the Ten Commandments...
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remember, we noted
that the Ten Commandments
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was written by God,
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it was written in
stone and was placed by Moses
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inside of the
Ark of the Covenant.
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It was the only
part of the Bible
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that God wrote with His
own finger on tablets of stone.
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He etched it Himself
emblazoned with fire, I believe,
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perhaps when it first came
from the hand of God to Moses,
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He etched it in stone
and the fourth commandment
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is the only commandment
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that begins with
the word, "Remember. "
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Now, it's interesting
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because the only commandment
that begins with the word
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"Remember"
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is the one that the
entire Christian Community,
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it seems like,
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is telling us
that we need to forget.
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Now, that's counter intuitive.
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How in the world are
we going to tell people
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to forget the Commandment
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that begins with
the word, "Remember?"
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The other implication
of the word, "Remember"
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is that, this is not the
first time that the Sabbath
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was mentioned
or even instituted.
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Some people say, "Oh,
that's a Jewish day...
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the seventh day is
the Jewish Sabbath. "
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Well, quite the contrary.
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Why would God tell
them to remember something
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if He had not
told them something
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about the Sabbath before?
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In other words,
you can't tell someone,
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"Look, remember this"
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if you haven't
told them it before.
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The Sabbath was not instituted
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at the time that Moses was
given the Ten Commandments,
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the Sabbath pre-existed
the Ten Commandments...
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it's at the very
beginning of the Bible,
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in the book of Genesis,
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we can see that
in the creation week,
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before there was any
sin, the Sabbath was there.
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So, let's read
the fourth commandment
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which was written
with God's own finger
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on tablets of stone,
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Exodus chapter 20
verses 8 through 11,
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"Remember the
Sabbath day, to keep it holy.
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Six days you shall
labor and do all your work,
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but the seventh day is a
Sabbath of the LORD your God,
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in it you shall do no work,
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you nor your son
nor your daughter,
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nor your male servant
nor your female servant
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nor your cattle
nor your stranger
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who is within your gates.
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For in six days the
LORD made the heavens...
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the earth, the sea
and all that is in them,
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and rested the seventh day;
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therefore the LORD
blessed the Sabbath day
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and hallowed it. "
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An important consideration,
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"How do you keep a day holy?"
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According to these verses,
the way that you keep a day holy
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is by not working on that day.
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Some people say, "Oh,
I keep every day holy. "
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Well, we should
endeavor by the grace of God
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to live holy lives
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but in order to keep a day holy,
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the Bible tells us that we
need to do no work on that day.
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Now, it's worth mentioning
that the Bible also tells us
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in the fourth commandment,
that we should be industrious,
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that we should work six
days and rest the seventh
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but in order to keep a day holy,
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you need to refrain
from secular employment
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on that day.
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That is the way
that we keep a day holy.
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The other consideration that we
need to make in regards to this,
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is that there are seven
entities that are mentioned
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within this
phrase... within this...
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this reference here in
the fourth commandment,
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"your son, your
daughter, your servant... "
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when you go to them,
there are seven entities
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that are mentioned there,
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the number seven
is prevalent in this
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and the last part of
this commandment brings out
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that we are to follow...
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imitate the modeling that
God did in the creation week.
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In other words, God
creates the earth in six days,
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He rests on the seventh
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and we are to
follow in that example
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by resting from our employment
on the seventh day Sabbath.
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Now, the question arises,
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"When we mention
the seventh-day Sabbath,
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which day is the seventh day?"
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Now, you look in any dictionary
and you look up "Saturday"
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what does it say?
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It says that
seventh day of the week.
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You look in...
well calendars change
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but you look in
the typical calendar
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and the seventh day
of the week is Saturday
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and the seventh-day Sabbath
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pre-existed the
time of calendars
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because you can see that even
in the origination of languages,
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in over a 140
languages of the world...
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the word for the seventh
day of the week is "Sabbath. "
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What is Saturday in Spanish?
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Sabádo...
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and here we have on the screen,
the different languages...
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in the Greek...
Sabbaton... meaning Sabbath,
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Spanish... Sabádo...
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Portuguese... Sábado...
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Italian... Sabato...
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you can go down through the list
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in these languages...
even in the inception...
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the way that that
languages are nuanced,
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the seventh-day
Sabbath... Saturday...
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many times
literally says, "Sabbath. "
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Now, when we look at this idea
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that the Sabbath is
a Jewish institution,
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quite the contrary...
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when you read the Bible,
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you see that the Bible indicates
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that the Sabbath
was given for all of man
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indicating all of humanity.
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The Sabbath is not
primarily a Jewish institution
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because Adam and
Eve were not Jewish,
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the Sabbath was made
for all of humanity...
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even as salvation was
made for all humanity.
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What about the Apostles?
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Did the Apostles
keep the Sabbath?
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Acts chapter 16 verse
13, "And on the Sabbath day,
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we went to the
city of the riverside,
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where prayer was
customarily made,
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and we sat down and spoke
to the women who met there. "
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Some people say
that after Jesus arose
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and went to heaven,
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that the Christian
church changed the Sabbath day
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from Saturday to Sunday
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but we can see no
reference in the book of Acts
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which is after the
resurrection of Jesus
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that there was any
reference to the Sabbath day
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being changed from the
Seventh day of the week
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to the first day of the week.
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Quite the contrary,
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the Apostles
continued to keep the Sabbath.
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Some people say that
the "Lord's Day" is Sunday
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and here's a
reference to the Lord's Day
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in Revelation
chapter 1 verse 10,
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"I was in the
Spirit on the Lord's Day,
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and I heard behind me a
loud voice, as of a trumpet... "
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and so, people
say, "Oh, there it is...
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the Lord's
Day... that's Sunday. "
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Well, it's important
Friends when we study Scripture
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to let the Bible
speak for itself.
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Now, we need to ask ourselves,
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"What did Jesus say
the Lord's Day was?"
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Let's go in the gospels,
Matthew chapter 12 verse 8,
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"For the Son of man is
Lord even of the Sabbath. "
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So, there is no reference here
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to the Lord's Day being
the first day of the week,
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here Jesus said, "Jesus
is Lord of the Sabbath. "
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The Lord's Day is the Sabbath.
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What about in heaven?
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Isaiah chapter
66 verses 22 and 23,
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"For as the new heavens and the
new earth, which I shall make,
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shall remain
before me, says the LORD,
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so shall your descendants
and your name remain.
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And it shall come to pass,
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that from one
new moon to another,
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and from one Sabbath to another,
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all flesh shall come to worship
before me, says the LORD."
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In other words, not only
is the Sabbath in Genesis...
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is the Sabbath at the
heart of the Ten Commandments...
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is the Sabbath all the way
through the Christian church
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in the book of Acts,
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but the Bible also indicates
that when we get to heaven,
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and we stand with God in heaven,
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we will keep the
Sabbath in heaven as well.
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Now, follow me in
this line of reasoning.
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If we keep the
Sabbath at creation,
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if we keep the Sabbath
in the Ten Commandments,
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the Apostles kept the Sabbath
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and we're going to
keep the Sabbath in heaven,
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isn't it only logical
and reasonable and rational
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to assume that we are to
keep the Sabbath right now?
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I believe so.
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I believe that the
Bible evidence supports
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that the
seventh-day Sabbath is something
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that is to be experienced today
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not only as a sign
and a symbol of creation,
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but also,
re-creation of our own hearts.
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It is a sign and symbol
of the salvation experience
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as illustrated in the sanctuary.
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This is from the Catholic
Cardinal, James Gibbons,
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"You may read the Bible
from Genesis to Revelation,
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and you will not
find a single line
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authorizing the
sanctification of Sunday.
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The Scriptures enforce
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the religious
observation of Saturday. "
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The Faith of our
Fathers, page 89.
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There are many
other references like this
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but Friends, you cannot find
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a single reference in Scripture,
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indicating that there has
been a change or a transference
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from Saturday to Sunday.
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The... the notion of the first
day of the week being sanctified
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does not come from Scripture
but it comes from tradition.
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Now, tradition is
an interesting thing
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because
sometimes you can do things
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and not recognize
the significance of them.
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For instance, Easter...
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what in the world do
bunny rabbits and Easter eggs
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have to do with
the resurrection?
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It's part of tradition
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and what happened was
there was this melding
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between the goddess of Ishtar
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which was the goddess of
fertility and Christianity
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and they melded them together
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and today, people practice
Easter Eggs and Easter Bunnies
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and meld them with
the resurrection of Jesus
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not recognizing that
this is part of tradition
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but there is no
Biblical support for Easter Eggs
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and bunny rabbits
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and in the same way this
idea of pagan sun worship
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fused with Christianity...
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the pagans
worshipped the sun on Sunday,
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the Christians
worshipped on Saturday
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and through a period
of time, Sunday observance
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was made prominent
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and Saturday became
something that was obscure
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and was done away
with through the centuries
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and this happened
years and years ago
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and the question
to us today Friends,
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"Are you going to
worship and obey God
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or are you going to worship
and obey the traditions of men?
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The Bible tells us,
"In vain do you worship Me,
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following the
traditions of man... "
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and here God is
calling us back to the Bible...
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back to Scripture
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and back to the Biblical Sabbath
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because every time we experience
the Sabbath every seven days
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as it comes like a
holy wave over planet earth
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wherever you may be,
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the Sabbath comes
like a holy wave...
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it was instituted at Creation
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and to be a
continual reminder to us
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of God's created process
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and when you
celebrate the Sabbath,
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it reminds us that
God can create the earth
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which was without form and void
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and He does it with a word.
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"Let there be light...
and there was light... "
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and you trust in
that creative process
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for our own personal salvation
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and even as He took the
earth without form and void
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and He formed
it and He fills it,
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He takes our
lives which are a mess
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and He restores in
us the image of God
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and every
seventh day we celebrate
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and we rest in that assurance
that I can't make myself holy.
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It is God Who makes us holy.
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Won't you
surrender to God today?
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Won't you
celebrate the Sabbath...
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the seventh day of the week
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and rest in the
assurance that God can take you
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and re-create in
you the image of God.
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Won't you accept
Him today as your Savior
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and Lord of your life?
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I want to
encourage you to stay with us
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as we continue our study
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of the sanctuary,
salvation and our Savior.
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