Shall we bow our
heads for prayer?
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What a wonderful day this has
been, O Loving Heavenly Father.
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And now we have the
opportunity of culminating,
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reaching the climax of
this day through the study
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of Your Holy Word.
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And the subject that we're going
to study today is extremely
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solemn and important.
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And we know that we can't
understand it without the aid
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of your Holy Spirit.
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So we ask, Father, that
through the administration
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of Your Spirit, You will come
to be with us in this place.
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You will also be with all
of those who are watching this
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program on the different
channels on television.
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I ask, Lord, that through Your
Spirit, You will speak clearly
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and distinctly to each heart.
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And we thank You
for hearing our prayer,
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for we ask it in
Jesus' name, Amen.
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I'd like to begin by reading the
verses that we've been studying
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in the last several
sessions: Revelation 14:6, 7.
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This is the third imperative
in the first angel's message
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that we're going to take a
look at in our study today.
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The first
imperative is: fear God.
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The second imperative
is: give glory to Him.
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And the third, of course, is
worship Him who made the heaven,
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earth, the sea, and
the springs of water.
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Now the first thing that we want
to ask is who was this Creator
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that is mentioned in
the first angel's message?
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Well, go with me to Colossians
1 and we'll read verses 15-17.
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Colossians 1:15-17.
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Here it's speaking about Jesus
Christ, and notice what it says.
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That is by Jesus.
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...and for Him.
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Now that expression,
in Him all things consist,
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means that He
holds creation together.
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In Him all things hold together.
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That's the way
that it's translated,
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for example, in the
New International Version.
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And so the Bible is
very clear that the Creator,
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who is mentioned in
the first angel's message,
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was none other than
Jesus Christ Himself.
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But now we must ask the
question, why does Jesus
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command us to worship Him?
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Notice Psalm 95:6.
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Here is the motivation,
or the reason why Jesus calls
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upon us to worship Him.
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It says in Psalm 95:6,
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So the motivation for worship is
the fact that He is the Creator,
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and we are His creatures.
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Worship is due from us because
we were created by Jesus Christ.
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Let's notice one other
verse that speaks about the
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motivation for worship.
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Nehemiah 9:6, Nehemiah 9:6.
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Here Nehemiah, inspired
by the Holy Spirit, says:
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Notice the similar
idea to Colossians 1.
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He's also the
preserver, or the one who holds
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everything together.
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And now notice how verse 6 ends.
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The host of heaven what?
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The host of heaven worships you.
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So what is the
motivation for worship?
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The fact that God alone
is the Lord, and He made the
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heavens, and
everything that is in them.
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Now in order to understand
the first angel's message then,
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we have to go back to
the story of Creation.
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Because the first angel's
message says the reason why
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you're supposed to
worship Jesus, or worship God,
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is because He's the Creator.
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So the first angel's
message obviously sends us back
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to Genesis, to
the story of creation.
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In other words we cannot
understand the first angel's
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message without going back to
Genesis 1, and also chapter 2.
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So let's go back there to
Genesis 1:31 and we'll read
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through chapter 2 and verse 1.
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I want you to notice several
interesting details here.
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It says:
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Who specifically? Jesus.
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and indeed it was very good.
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So the evening and the
morning were the sixth day.
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I want you to
remember that word: finished.
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Let me ask you,
what day did Jesus finish
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His work of creation?
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He finished the sixth day.
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The word finished is used.
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Who did all of
the work for six days?
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Jesus did all of the work.
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Did human beings
do any of the work?
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Did Adam and Eve do any
of the work? Absolutely not.
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It says clearly, Then God
saw everything that He had made,
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and then it says that
He finished the sixth day,
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saw that it was good,
and His works were finished.
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But now we need to talk about
the day after the sixth day.
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Let's talk
about the seventh day.
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Go with me to Genesis
2:2, 3, Genesis 2:2, 3.
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And I want us to notice
several interesting things
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in these two verses.
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Now here's my question: Once
again this passage tells us that
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who did all of the work?
Jesus did all of the work.
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God did all of the work.
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It's repeated time and again.
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It says on the seventh
day God ended His work,
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which He had done; He rested.
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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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In other words, once again it's
repeated that the person who
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created everything during
the first six days was whom?
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was God, or as we read at the
beginning of our presentation,
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Jesus Christ. But now I
want you to notice another very
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interesting detail in
this passage of Genesis 2:2, 3.
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Let's go, once again, and read
the passage, and I'm going to
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underline two key words.
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It says, And on the seventh
day God ended His work which
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He had done; and He rested...
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Notice... He rested on the
seventh day from all His work
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which He had done.
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And don't miss this next word:
Then God blessed the seventh day
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and sanctified it.
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When did God bless and
sanctify the seventh day?
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It was after He
what? after He rested.
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In other words, what made the
Sabbath holy? the fact that God,
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or Jesus, what?
rested on the Sabbath.
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And in case you didn't
get it from where it says,
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then, after He rested,
then God blessed the seventh day
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and sanctified it.
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We're told again, because in
it He rested from all His work
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which God had created and made.
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In other words, Jesus did all
of the work the first six days,
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and then Jesus
rested the seventh day.
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And when the seventh day ended,
Jesus blessed the seventh day,
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and He
sanctified the seventh day.
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Now we need to ask the
question, What did Jesus do
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on the seventh day?
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You know, for a long time I
had an enigma in my mind about
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the book of
Genesis; particularly
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about the seventh day.
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You know, you read
the story of creation,
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and God's rest on the seventh
day, and it never says in the
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creation story that
Jesus told Adam and Eve
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to keep the Sabbath.
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And I always
wondered about that.
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There are other places in the
Bible that show that the Sabbath
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originally was made for man.
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Nevertheless, I always wondered
why in the Genesis account
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it doesn't say God told Adam
and Eve to keep the Sabbath.
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I want you to put
that enigma on hold,
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because we're
going to come back to it.
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I want to go to another verse
now that corroborates the idea
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that we just noted in Genesis,
where it says that Jesus rested,
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or God rested, and
after He rested the whole day,
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then He blessed
and sanctified the day.
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Let's go to the fourth
commandment of God's Holy Law.
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And, by the way, the first
angel's message is referring,
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with it's language, to Exodus
20, the fourth commandment.
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By the way, what I'm going
to read was spoken by God's own
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voice, and it was written by His
own finger on tables of stone,
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so we must listen.
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It says in Exodus 20:8,
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Jews. No, it says:
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We're going to
notice the reason why.
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Now comes the reason.
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Why are we supposed to work
six days and rest the seventh?
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And don't miss this now.
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Or made it holy.
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Is this very clear that God, or
Jesus, rested the seventh day,
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and then Jesus blessed the
seventh day and made it holy?
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Yes, or no? Absolutely!
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So this first week of the
history of the world is what I
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call God's week, or Jesus' week.
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You see, it's God's week
before it becomes man's week,
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because God is the One who
worked six, and God is the One
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who rested on the seventh day.
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In other words, the
first week is all about God.
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The first week does not
deal primarily with man.
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In other words, God, among
other things, created the week
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by working six days, and
by resting on the seventh day.
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You know, as I studied this
out I discovered the reason why
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God did not command
Adam and Eve to keep that
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first Sabbath holy.
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You say, Well,
what is the reason?
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Listen folks, we just noted in
Scripture that the day did not
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become holy until it was over.
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Jesus didn't make the Sabbath
holy until the day ended.
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So how could He tell Adam
and Eve when the Sabbath was
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beginning, Keep the Sabbath
holy, if it wasn't holy yet?
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Furthermore, how could God tell
Adam and Eve, Keep the Sabbath
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and follow My example, if
God, or Jesus, had not first
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given the example?
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Furthermore, and this is a very
important point, the Sabbath
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that God commanded man to keep
was not the first Sabbath of
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human history, but
starting with the second
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Sabbath of human history.
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And you say, How is that?
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This might be new to you.
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Even if you're a
Seventh-day Adventist
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it might be new to you.
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But it's Biblical, and it's
powerful, and it explains why
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God did not command Adam and
Eve to keep that first Sabbath,
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but rather the second Sabbath.
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What does the
fourth commandment say?
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The fourth commandment makes the
Sabbath a creation ordinance,
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because it sends
you back to creation.
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It explains that you keep
the Sabbath because of creation.
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Now it's very interesting
that God says in the fourth
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commandment to man, work six
and what? rest on the seventh.
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Now here's my question:
when that first Sabbath came,
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had man worked six days?
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He had not worked six days.
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So could he keep the commandment
technically that says,
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work six and
rest the seventh? No.
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Jesus worked six, He rested
the seventh, and then the fourth
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commandment says that He told
Adam and Eve, and all of their
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descendents, Now, as you
saw Me work six, and rest on the
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seventh, you work six and
you rest the next seventh day.
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So after Jesus made the Sabbath
holy, after Jesus gave the
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example, then He gives the
fourth commandment which says,
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Keep the Sabbath day holy,
because now, after I rested,
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the Sabbath is holy.
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So let me ask you,
Whose day is the Sabbath?
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The Sabbath is the day
of whom? of Jesus before
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it is the day of man.
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The week was created by Jesus,
and then the week was given
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to man after it
was created by Jesus.
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By the way, Seventh-day
Adventists are not the only ones
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that believe that the
Sabbath is a creation ordinance.
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Let me read you a statement
from an Evangelical scholar.
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His name is Henry Morris.
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I'll be saying a little bit more
about him a little bit later.
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Notice what he says.
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This is in the book,
Biblical Creationism, page 62.
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What did God do? What did Jesus
do when He created the week?
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He established a permanent what?
a permanent pattern for man
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to follow the same
process, or procedure as God.
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So let me ask you, Did
the Sabbath then become a sign
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of God the Creator for man?
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The fourth
commandment says, Yes.
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Because the motivation
for keeping the Sabbath is
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because of creation.
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So as soon as the first
week ended Jesus says to man,
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Now you're going to work
six and the next seventh day
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you're going to come, and
we're going to keep the Sabbath
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the way you saw Me
keep this first Sabbath.
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And in this way, from then
on, you are going to remember
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that I am the Creator.
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The Sabbath will be the
sign that I am the Creator,
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and you will
remember it from then on.
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Incidentally, that's the reason
why the fourth commandment
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begins by saying, Remember
the Sabbath day to keep it holy.
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In fact the Bible tells us that
the Sabbath is a sign between
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God and His people.
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And I want you to remember this,
because we're going to come back
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to it in later lectures.
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Exodus 31:17,
Exodus 31:17, God says:
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You say, Well, that was
for the children of Israel.
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But do you know that the
New Testament says that those
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who are Christ's
are Abraham's seed,
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and heirs
according to the promise?
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You can read it
in Galatians 3:29.
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If you are Christ's,
you're Abraham's seed.
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If you are Christ's you
are Israel, and so it says:
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And then it says, He
says why it's a sign, notice:
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That is because.
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So let me ask you, Was the
Sabbath a creation institution?
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It most certainly was
a creation institution.
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It pre-dates the Jews.
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It has nothing to do,
in its original intention,
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with redemption at the cross,
because the Sabbath was created
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in a perfect world.
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It has nothing to do with
redemption, with the cross
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in its original intention.
00:19:01.70\00:19:03.10
Later it takes on
a secondary function.
00:19:03.14\00:19:05.84
But from the beginning
it points towards creation.
00:19:05.87\00:19:09.04
So the first angel's message,
when it tells us to worship
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the Creator, it's
sending us back to Genesis.
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And we notice that the sign
of the Creator is the observance
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of the seventh day Sabbath.
00:19:18.15\00:19:19.49
Now allow me to read
you a few other statements,
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amazing
statements from Henry Morris,
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who is an Evangelical scholar.
00:19:23.66\00:19:25.13
By the way, he
passed away in 2006.
00:19:25.16\00:19:28.60
He was a staunch defender
of a six day, literal creation.
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And he was the founder of
the Institution for Creation
00:19:32.83\00:19:35.44
Research in San
Diego, California.
00:19:35.47\00:19:37.64
Notice what he says: Biblical
Creationism, pages 61, 62.
00:19:37.67\00:19:41.38
That is by the
fourth commandment.
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He says the Sabbath
was not instituted by the
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fourth commandment.
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On page 251 he says this:
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In another quotation,
page 253, of the book,
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Biblical Creationism, he says:
00:20:41.90\00:20:44.04
Those are amazing statements
from an Evangelical scholar
00:21:16.14\00:21:20.24
who's saying that the Sabbath
is a creation institution,
00:21:20.28\00:21:23.35
and it was kept by the human
race long before the existence
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of Moses, or the existence
of the ten commandments.
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But now we need to move forward.
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Let's talk about the
exodus of Israel from Egypt.
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Do you remember the sign
that God gave to mark the
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exodus from Egypt?
00:21:39.26\00:21:40.80
It was the Passover, right?
00:21:40.86\00:21:42.30
Let me ask you, Who was it that
delivered Israel from bondage
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in Egypt, and established
the institution of the Passover?
00:21:46.87\00:21:50.14
Go with me to Exodus 3:13, 14.
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This is happening
at the burning bush.
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There's a majestic being
that comes to speak with Moses.
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I want you to notice the
terminology that is used.
00:22:01.42\00:22:04.52
Who was it that
appeared in the burning bush?
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What was His name?
00:22:35.15\00:22:36.48
His name was I AM, and He
says I have been sent to deliver
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Israel from Egypt.
00:22:40.99\00:22:42.32
Now if you read Exodus
20:1, which is the preamble
00:22:42.36\00:22:46.46
to the ten
commandments, it says there,
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I AM the Lord your God, who took
you out of the land of Egypt,
00:22:49.36\00:22:53.87
out of the house of bondage.
00:22:53.90\00:22:55.64
Let me ask you, Was the giver
of the ten commandments the same
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one who appeared
in the burning bush?
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Yes, because at the
burning bush He says,
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I am going to deliver you.
00:23:01.51\00:23:02.84
When the ten commandments
are given He says, I am the One
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who delivered you.
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Now the question is, Who
was this that appeared in
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the burning bush who
said, I am going to deliver you,
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and also gave
the ten commandments?
00:23:12.42\00:23:15.12
Let's go to John
8:58, 59, John 8:58, 59.
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Jesus is entertaining a
conversation with the Jews.
00:23:21.63\00:23:24.27
Notice what it says here.
00:23:24.30\00:23:26.70
What was Jesus claiming when He
said, before Abraham was, I AM?
00:23:36.41\00:23:41.85
He was saying, I was
the One who appeared where?
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in the burning bush.
00:23:45.52\00:23:47.02
Did the Jews know
that He was claiming that?
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You'd better believe it.
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Notice verse 59. It
says there in verse 59:
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Let me ask you then, Who
delivered Israel from Egypt?
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Jesus. Who was the One who gave
the ten commandments? Jesus.
00:24:06.27\00:24:11.71
Who was the One who created
this world, worked six days,
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and rested on the seventh, and
by His rest He made the Sabbath
00:24:15.88\00:24:19.32
holy, and then gave it
to man along with the week?
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Who was it? It was Jesus Christ.
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So the Sabbath belongs to Jesus.
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The Deliverer of
Israel was Jesus.
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In other words, the Creator
is also the Redeemer of Israel.
00:24:29.76\00:24:34.20
Let me ask you, Was that the
same person who came to deliver
00:24:34.24\00:24:38.17
the human race from bondage?
00:24:38.21\00:24:39.54
Go with me to John 1:1-3
and then we'll read verse 14.
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This is one of the ones that's
not on your list, but you know
00:24:45.51\00:24:48.72
it so well that probably you
don't even have to look it up.
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John 1:1-3, 14. In the
beginning was the Word,
00:24:51.25\00:24:56.22
and the Word was with
God, and the Word was God.
00:24:56.26\00:25:01.13
He was in the
beginning with God.
00:25:01.16\00:25:04.40
Who is this? Who
is the Word? Jesus.
00:25:04.43\00:25:10.61
Now notice: All
things were made through Him;
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and without Him
nothing was made that was made.
00:25:14.38\00:25:18.55
Was Jesus the
Creator? Yes, He was.
00:25:18.58\00:25:21.52
Was He also the Redeemer?
00:25:21.55\00:25:24.09
Notice verse 14. And
the Word became flesh,
00:25:24.12\00:25:28.66
and dwelt among us,
(and we beheld His glory,
00:25:28.69\00:25:32.96
the glory as of the
only begotten of the Father,)
00:25:32.99\00:25:35.76
full of grace and truth.
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Was Jesus the fulfillment of
the Passover lamb? Absolutely.
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And so you have an unbroken
chain of creation, redemption of
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Israel, and the Redeemer
of the human race being whom?
00:25:49.58\00:25:53.58
being Jesus Christ.
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Now if you examine the story of
the Bible, you'll find that the
00:25:56.22\00:26:00.39
Passover lamb needed to
have two characteristics.
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First of all the
Passover lamb had to be perfect,
00:26:03.66\00:26:07.40
and without blemish.
00:26:07.46\00:26:08.76
And then when it was determined
that the lamb was perfect,
00:26:08.80\00:26:13.20
and without blemish, the
lamb was then sacrificed.
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Let me ask you, What did
this represent? the perfect,
00:26:19.01\00:26:22.38
unblemished lamb?
00:26:22.41\00:26:23.78
It represented the
perfect life of Jesus Christ
00:26:23.85\00:26:27.62
that He lived on this earth.
00:26:27.65\00:26:29.65
And what did the
death of the lamb represent?
00:26:29.68\00:26:32.49
The death of the lamb
represented the death of Jesus
00:26:32.52\00:26:35.86
bearing our sins on the cross.
00:26:35.89\00:26:38.79
In other words, the Passover
had a much greater dimension
00:26:38.83\00:26:42.90
to it than just sacrificing a
lamb, and eating bitter herbs,
00:26:42.93\00:26:47.00
and partaking of
unleavened bread.
00:26:47.04\00:26:49.50
The sign that Jesus gave to
Israel was fulfilled in Himself
00:26:49.54\00:26:54.28
when He came to this world.
00:26:54.31\00:26:55.88
Now we need to ask the question,
What day and hour did Jesus die
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as the Passover lamb?
00:27:03.08\00:27:04.59
Go with me to Matthew 27:46, 47.
00:27:04.62\00:27:08.76
We're going to notice
something very interesting here.
00:27:08.79\00:27:10.46
And don't you go to sleep on
me, because this is going to get
00:27:10.49\00:27:13.29
very interesting, and very good.
00:27:13.33\00:27:14.93
Matthew 27:46, 47.
00:27:14.93\00:27:17.57
We're going to look
at the last three sayings
00:27:17.60\00:27:19.80
of Jesus on the cross. It says:
00:27:19.83\00:27:22.10
Notice, it wasn't the ninth
hour, it's about the ninth hour.
00:27:24.77\00:27:27.91
It's about the ninth hour.
00:27:38.09\00:27:39.42
It's not the ninth hour
yet, because He still has
00:27:39.45\00:27:41.46
some things to say. John 19:30.
00:27:41.49\00:27:45.06
But when you go to Luke you
discover that He said something
00:27:56.67\00:27:59.77
after He said, It is finished.
00:27:59.81\00:28:01.44
In Luke 23:46 it says: And when
Jesus had cried out with a loud
00:28:01.48\00:28:06.55
voice... That's when
He says, It is finished.
00:28:06.58\00:28:08.32
He said, Father, into
Your hands I commend My spirit.
00:28:08.35\00:28:13.42
Having said this,
He breathed His last.
00:28:13.49\00:28:16.66
Let me ask you, What hour of
the day do you think that Jesus
00:28:16.69\00:28:20.36
breathed His last after saying,
It is finished; Father into Your
00:28:20.43\00:28:23.97
hands I commend My spirit?
exactly at the what hour?
00:28:24.00\00:28:29.37
at the ninth hour.
00:28:29.40\00:28:31.11
And you say, Well,
Pastor, what is the ninth hour?
00:28:31.14\00:28:33.71
Well, let's go to
Exodus 12:6, Exodus 12:6.
00:28:33.78\00:28:39.35
We're still
dealing with the Sabbath.
00:28:39.38\00:28:40.72
We'll come back to
the Sabbath, but we need
00:28:40.75\00:28:42.08
some background here.
00:28:42.12\00:28:43.49
Exodus 12:6. It's speaking about
the observance of the Passover,
00:28:43.52\00:28:47.72
and it says this: Now you shall
keep it until the fourteenth
00:28:47.76\00:28:52.83
day of the same month.
00:28:52.86\00:28:54.30
Then the whole assembly of
the congregation of Israel shall
00:28:54.30\00:29:00.97
kill it. That is kill the
Passover lamb when? at twilight.
00:29:01.00\00:29:06.01
In Hebrew it literally
says, between the two evenings.
00:29:06.04\00:29:12.68
You say, So the Jews had
two evenings? Absolutely!
00:29:12.71\00:29:16.92
You say, What
were the two evenings?
00:29:16.95\00:29:19.05
The first evening is when
the sun reaches the meridian
00:29:19.09\00:29:22.46
and it starts
its downward course.
00:29:22.49\00:29:25.13
And, by the way, I
know that scientifically
00:29:25.16\00:29:26.49
the sun doesn't move.
00:29:26.53\00:29:27.86
But we're speaking in the
manner that we usually speak.
00:29:27.86\00:29:30.67
When the sun reaches its
summit, and begins its descent,
00:29:30.70\00:29:34.80
that is when the
afternoon begins.
00:29:34.84\00:29:38.71
You know, even in Spanish,
when we get to the hours of the
00:29:38.74\00:29:42.34
afternoon we say, tarde, right?
00:29:42.38\00:29:46.25
In other words, the first
evening is when the sun begins
00:29:46.28\00:29:51.42
setting from the meridian.
00:29:51.45\00:29:53.66
The second evening is when the
sun actually sets at sundown.
00:29:53.69\00:30:00.30
Now the question is, What would
be between the two evenings?
00:30:00.33\00:30:04.93
Between the two evenings
would be the ninth hour,
00:30:04.97\00:30:08.34
or three o'clock, because the
ninth hour was three o'clock.
00:30:08.37\00:30:11.67
Third hour was nine o'clock,
that's when Jesus was crucified.
00:30:11.71\00:30:14.94
The sixth hour would have been
noon, and the ninth hour was at
00:30:14.98\00:30:18.98
three o'clock in the afternoon.
00:30:19.01\00:30:21.42
In other words, Jesus died
at the precise moment that the
00:30:21.45\00:30:26.25
Passover lamb was
supposed to be what?
00:30:26.29\00:30:28.96
was supposed to be sacrificed.
00:30:28.99\00:30:31.59
Three o'clock on what
Christians call Good Friday.
00:30:31.63\00:30:37.20
Now I want to read a passage
in Scripture that gives us the
00:30:37.23\00:30:40.77
sequence of days of
the passion of Christ.
00:30:40.80\00:30:43.24
I want to show you
that Jesus died on Friday;
00:30:43.27\00:30:47.11
He was buried in the tomb
and remained in the tomb all day
00:30:47.14\00:30:51.61
Sabbath; and He resurrected
on the first day of the week.
00:30:51.65\00:30:54.88
Luke 23:54-56. Here you
find the chronological sequence.
00:30:54.92\00:31:00.99
We know that He died at
three o'clock in the afternoon.
00:31:01.02\00:31:04.26
Which day? let's notice.
00:31:04.33\00:31:07.40
That day, this is when
Jesus was crucified and died.
00:31:07.40\00:31:11.17
So had the Sabbath begun yet?
No, it was Friday. Verse 55.
00:31:14.74\00:31:20.14
What did the ladies
do outside the tomb?
00:31:35.29\00:31:38.13
They what? they rested.
00:31:38.16\00:31:40.20
Let me ask you, was there an
urgency to get the body of Jesus
00:31:40.26\00:31:43.10
off of the cross on Friday? Yes.
00:31:43.13\00:31:46.13
Why was there urgency
to get it off the cross?
00:31:46.17\00:31:48.97
because He could not be
on the cross on the Sabbath.
00:31:49.00\00:31:52.21
There's a deeper
intent than that,
00:31:52.24\00:31:54.28
than the legalism of the Jews.
00:31:54.31\00:31:55.84
You see, when the Sabbath began,
Jesus had to be already prepared
00:31:55.88\00:32:00.55
like the Passover
lamb after it was killed.
00:32:00.62\00:32:02.42
It had to be prepared, and then
later on, probably at sundown,
00:32:02.45\00:32:06.55
than they ate the Passover lamb.
00:32:06.59\00:32:08.39
You see, Jesus
died at three o'clock.
00:32:08.42\00:32:10.53
His body needed to be prepared
in order to be buried, so that
00:32:10.56\00:32:14.96
His body would rest in the
tomb all of the day Sabbath.
00:32:15.00\00:32:20.84
In other words,
Jesus did in redemption
00:32:20.90\00:32:24.64
what He did at creation.
00:32:24.67\00:32:26.01
On the cross, on the sixth
day He says, It is finished!
00:32:26.04\00:32:32.01
We read the word finished in
Genesis, after six days of work.
00:32:32.05\00:32:37.25
Jesus is saying, I have
bought back the human race.
00:32:37.29\00:32:40.62
I have paid the
price of redemption.
00:32:40.66\00:32:43.32
Then He breathed His last,
and He was put in the tomb,
00:32:43.39\00:32:46.80
and He rested in
the tomb on Sabbath.
00:32:46.86\00:32:52.50
Now in order to fully understand
this, we need to go to
00:32:52.53\00:32:54.80
Exodus 16; the
Sabbath in redemption.
00:32:54.84\00:32:59.61
You see, there was a reason
why Jesus had to remain in the
00:32:59.64\00:33:04.08
tomb on the Sabbath.
00:33:04.15\00:33:05.48
Exodus 16:19-21.
00:33:05.51\00:33:08.25
In other words, when the manna
was picked up any day other than
00:33:14.66\00:33:17.13
Friday for Sabbath,
nobody was supposed to save any
00:33:17.16\00:33:19.73
manna for the
next day. Verse 20.
00:33:19.76\00:33:22.26
And what happened?
00:33:28.97\00:33:31.27
When they left it any other
day, except Friday for Sabbath,
00:33:31.31\00:33:34.24
what happened to
the manna? two things:
00:33:34.28\00:33:35.91
Let me ask you, Was
this normal bread? No.
00:33:40.48\00:33:44.85
What happens with
normal bread if you leave it
00:33:44.89\00:33:46.62
from one day to the next?
00:33:46.65\00:33:47.99
Nothing, really. And
even if you leave it a week
00:33:48.02\00:33:52.56
it just gets moldy, but it
doesn't breed worms and stink.
00:33:52.59\00:33:56.33
What is it that
breeds worms and stinks?
00:33:56.36\00:33:59.23
flesh, decomposing
flesh. That's right.
00:33:59.30\00:34:02.17
Now notice what happened
when the manna was picked up
00:34:02.20\00:34:05.64
on Friday for the
Sabbath. Exodus 16:23, 24.
00:34:05.67\00:34:09.04
...for the Jews. Let me ask
you, why is the Sabbath called
00:34:15.78\00:34:19.62
the Sabbath of the Lord?
because the Lord kept it first.
00:34:19.65\00:34:22.46
It's His day. And
then He gave it to man.
00:34:22.49\00:34:26.70
God says, It's Mine
before it was yours. Notice:
00:34:26.73\00:34:32.03
This is on Friday
when they're doing this.
00:34:46.55\00:34:48.65
Now what was God trying to
teach through the manna episode?
00:35:01.00\00:35:04.30
Because the manna did not
decompose when it was saved
00:35:04.33\00:35:07.44
from Friday to Sabbath.
00:35:07.47\00:35:10.24
Well, we need to know
what the manna represents.
00:35:10.31\00:35:12.14
Let's go to John 6:51.
00:35:12.17\00:35:16.14
You see, most commentators have
missed this Messianic dimension
00:35:16.18\00:35:19.88
of the story of the manna.
00:35:19.91\00:35:21.25
God is not only trying to teach
that we're supposed to keep
00:35:21.28\00:35:24.45
the Sabbath, by the manna
episode, He's trying to teach
00:35:24.49\00:35:27.06
that Jesus kept the Sabbath
when He died on the cross,
00:35:27.09\00:35:31.86
and He rested in the tomb,
and His body saw no corruption.
00:35:31.89\00:35:35.06
Notice, John 6:51.
Here Jesus is speaking.
00:35:35.10\00:35:41.54
What does the manna
represent? the what of Jesus?
00:35:58.75\00:36:01.79
the flesh of Jesus.
00:36:01.82\00:36:03.96
Well, let me ask you,
when Jesus rested in the tomb
00:36:03.99\00:36:07.56
on the Sabbath, did His flesh
see any decay or decomposition?
00:36:07.60\00:36:14.14
No, because He
was the living manna.
00:36:14.17\00:36:19.11
You see, as the manna,
when it was picked up on Friday,
00:36:19.14\00:36:23.75
did not decompose on the
Sabbath, Jesus died on Friday,
00:36:23.78\00:36:28.92
and His body did not decompose
in the tomb on Sabbath,
00:36:28.95\00:36:34.09
because He was the living manna.
00:36:34.16\00:36:36.46
In fact, notice the prophecy
that we find in Psalm 16:8-10.
00:36:36.49\00:36:41.33
This is not just something
off the top of my head;
00:36:41.36\00:36:43.83
the Bible teaches it.
00:36:43.87\00:36:45.20
It says in Psalm 16:8-10,
this is a Messianic prophecy.
00:36:45.23\00:36:49.00
What happened with the
flesh of Jesus? it what?
00:37:04.32\00:37:06.79
it rested in hope.
00:37:06.82\00:37:08.92
Why did it rest in hope?
00:37:08.96\00:37:10.36
I like the New
International Version.
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It says: You will not
abandon Me to the grave,
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Or decay, as it says in
the New International Version.
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What happened when
Jesus was put in the tomb?
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His body did
not see what? decay.
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What would have
happened with the normal body?
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It would have begun the process
of what? of decomposition.
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But not the body of Jesus,
because He was the living manna.
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In other words, what God
was trying to teach was this:
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that when Jesus rested
in the tomb on the Sabbath,
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the Sabbath of Exodus 16, His
body would see no corruption,
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because He was the living manna.
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The emphasis falls upon the
fact that He was going to rest
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on Sabbath from His
works of redemption,
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and His flesh
would not see corruption.
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In fact, let's notice the
fulfillment of this as it's
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given in Acts
2:25-27, 31, Acts 2:25-27.
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Here Psalm 16, that
I just read, is quoted.
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This is Peter preaching
on the Day of Pentecost.
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What was going to
happen with the flesh of Jesus?
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It was going to
what? rest in hope.
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Notice: I'm
reading from the NIV.
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You will not leave Me in the
grave, nor will You allow Your
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Holy One to see decay.
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And then verse 31
explains what was meant by this.
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Seeing what was ahead, He spoke,
David spoke of the resurrection
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of the Christ; that He was
not abandoned to the grave,
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nor did His body see decay.
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Was God trying to teach that the
body of Jesus was going to rest
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in the tomb on Sabbath, and
it was not going to decompose?
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Absolutely! So did Jesus do the
same after redeeming the human
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race, as what He had done
after creating the human race?
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Absolutely! What did He do?
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He rested on the seventh
day, the whole seventh day.
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Because He was put in the
tomb before the Sabbath began.
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And He remained in
the tomb all day Sabbath.
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You know, some Christians say,
Well, you know, I prefer Sunday
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because Sunday was a happy day,
and the Sabbath was a sad day.
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It's amazing what kind
of rational arguments people
00:39:54.26\00:39:56.73
will come up with.
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The fact is that that
Sabbath should have never been
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a sad day, because Jesus
had told them that He was going
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to go to Jerusalem, and He was
going to die, and He was going
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to resurrect the third day.
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If they'd listened to Him, that
day would have been a day of
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glorious anticipation.
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They would have understood
that Jesus the sixth day said,
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I have finished
the work of redemption.
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They would have said,
No, He's resting in the tomb.
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He said He's going
to resurrect tomorrow.
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That would have been a
day of joyous anticipation.
00:40:17.61\00:40:20.28
And, by the way, Sunday was no
happy day, because the night of
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Sunday the disciples
didn't even believe that Jesus
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Had resurrected. So
how could they be happy?
00:40:26.32\00:40:29.16
So we need to be
careful with rational arguments
00:40:29.19\00:40:31.99
that people provide.
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If they truly had understood
what God was trying to teach
00:40:33.40\00:40:36.73
them through this prophecy of
the rest of the body of Jesus in
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the tomb, the Sabbath
would have been a glorious day
00:40:40.20\00:40:42.90
they would have understood.
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The Messiah is resting
from His works of redemption
00:40:44.31\00:40:47.21
like He rested from
His works of creation.
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You know, some Christians
say, Well, Jesus resurrected
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on Sunday, because He wanted the
church to know that Sunday was
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a special holy day.
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But now we see that the focus is
not Sunday, the focus is what?
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the Sabbath. Listen, in order
for Jesus to rest in the tomb
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all day Sabbath, He would
have had to resurrect on Sunday.
00:41:07.30\00:41:11.30
But the important thing is
not His resurrection on Sunday,
00:41:11.33\00:41:14.80
the important thing is His
rest in the tomb on Sabbath.
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But Christians say, No, it's
Sunday; Sunday that's important.
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No no, it's His
rest in the tomb.
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And, therefore, because He
had to rest in the tomb all day,
00:41:23.55\00:41:26.68
He had to resurrect when?
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He had to resurrect on
the first day of the week.
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It's amazing how during Holy
Week Christians speak about,
00:41:30.95\00:41:34.76
you know they say, Ash
Wednesday, and Holy Thursday,
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and Good Friday, Resurrection
Sunday, Palm Sunday,
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and whoever
mentions the Sabbath?
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Nobody ever mentions the
Sabbath during Holy Week.
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It kind of gets
lost in the shuffle.
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So let's review. Jesus
died at three o'clock on Friday,
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between the two evenings.
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His body was taken down
from the cross and prepared
00:41:58.35\00:42:02.18
for burial before
the Sabbath began.
00:42:02.22\00:42:04.45
Shortly before sundown
His body was put in the tomb;
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he rested from His
works of redemption.
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And His body did not decompose,
because He was the living manna.
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And then Jesus resurrected
on the first day of the week;
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not to make the first day of
the week holy, but because the
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previous day He had to
rest in the tomb on Sabbath.
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Let me ask you, what is it
that makes the Sabbath holy?
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We read in the book of
Genesis, and also in the fourth
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commandment that what
makes the Sabbath holy
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was the rest of Jesus.
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He rested, therefore He
blessed and sanctified the day.
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Is that what the
Bible teaches? Absolutely.
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So what made the Sabbath
holy? the rest of Jesus Christ.
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In order for you to say that
Sunday is the holy day of rest,
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you would have to prove from
Scripture, that Jesus rested
00:42:56.17\00:42:59.67
on the first day of the week.
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Because only His rest
would make the day holy.
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But Jesus did not rest on
the first day of the week.
00:43:04.78\00:43:07.75
Jesus rested the Sabbath in the
tomb, like He did at creation,
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thus sanctifying the Sabbath.
00:43:11.75\00:43:14.56
Now folks, Satan has done his
utmost to erase the memory of
00:43:14.59\00:43:21.10
Jesus Christ from this world.
00:43:21.13\00:43:22.56
He has sought to eradicate
the sign of the Creator;
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the Sabbath, because
it reminds us of Jesus,
00:43:26.94\00:43:29.30
the Creator, and the Redeemer.
00:43:29.34\00:43:31.34
And so He is trying to erase
the sign, and in this way erase
00:43:31.37\00:43:35.31
in our memories
the existence of Jesus,
00:43:35.38\00:43:38.15
and the importance of Jesus.
00:43:38.18\00:43:39.51
You know, men have come up with
all kinds of explanations for
00:43:39.55\00:43:43.75
the existence of the world:
Darwinian evolution, intelligent
00:43:43.79\00:43:48.06
design, punctuated equilibrium,
progressive creation,
00:43:48.09\00:43:53.26
theistic
evolution, New Age theories.
00:43:53.36\00:43:56.30
If people kept the seventh day
Sabbath none of these theories
00:43:56.33\00:44:00.14
would be accepted.
00:44:00.17\00:44:01.50
Because the Bible says that
Jesus created the world in six
00:44:01.54\00:44:04.54
days, and He rested
the seventh day, period.
00:44:04.61\00:44:07.88
That's what Scripture says.
00:44:07.91\00:44:09.51
The tragic truth, however,
is that these philosophies
00:44:09.54\00:44:13.95
that I just mentioned, are
no longer the belief system of
00:44:14.02\00:44:18.32
secular humanists,
skeptics, agnostics, atheists,
00:44:18.35\00:44:22.69
materialists, and evolutionists.
00:44:22.72\00:44:24.79
They have become the
belief of the Christian church,
00:44:24.83\00:44:29.76
and even of some
scholars within the
00:44:29.80\00:44:32.80
Seventh-day Adventist Church.
00:44:32.87\00:44:34.60
Allow me to read you a statement
from the Roman Catholic
00:44:34.64\00:44:39.94
Catechism. This is the
latest Catechism, 1994, page 87.
00:44:39.97\00:44:45.11
The Catholic Catechism leaves
the door open for evolution.
00:44:45.15\00:44:50.25
Notice what it says.
00:44:50.29\00:44:52.69
God Himself created the visible
world in all its richness,
00:44:52.72\00:44:56.99
diversity, and order.
00:44:57.03\00:44:59.13
Now notice this,
notice this word.
00:45:02.83\00:45:04.53
It's very covert, but
you need to read it. It says:
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See, they're not
literal, they're what? symbolic.
00:45:17.28\00:45:21.62
It's leaving the door
open for evolution. So...
00:45:21.65\00:45:25.92
Do you know that John Paul II,
who was greatly admired all over
00:45:33.80\00:45:38.53
the world, not
only opened the door,
00:45:38.57\00:45:41.34
a little crack in the
door, he opened the door wide.
00:45:41.37\00:45:45.07
In fact, notice he gave a speech
on October 22, 1996 to the
00:45:45.11\00:45:50.21
Pontifical Academy of the
Sciences, and he said this:
00:45:50.25\00:45:53.58
That is evolution.
00:45:57.05\00:45:58.39
Of all of these
scholars and their research.
00:46:10.67\00:46:14.77
Let me read you a newspaper
column that speaks about
00:46:32.09\00:46:37.73
this event, this
speech that John Paul II gave.
00:46:37.76\00:46:43.83
This is from the Chicago
Tribune, October 25, 1996.
00:46:43.87\00:46:49.97
That is strengthened.
00:47:12.93\00:47:14.30
So, basically, John Paul
II has said that evolution is
00:47:44.59\00:47:48.63
compatible with the Christian
faith, and that this world
00:47:48.70\00:47:52.70
perhaps, came into
existence through the
00:47:52.77\00:47:55.14
process of evolution.
00:47:55.17\00:47:56.91
Do you know that there are many
evangelical scholars that are
00:47:58.64\00:48:01.34
teaching the same thing?
renowned evangelical scholars
00:48:01.38\00:48:04.71
that are teaching the
idea of progressive creation;
00:48:04.75\00:48:08.48
that God used evolution
as His method of creation,
00:48:08.52\00:48:12.22
and that there was
death long before sin.
00:48:12.25\00:48:14.76
That God used the
process of evolution,
00:48:14.79\00:48:17.29
the survival of the
fittest, animals killing animals
00:48:17.36\00:48:20.03
so that they could
develop into higher species.
00:48:20.06\00:48:22.23
What kind of God is a God who
can speak and things are done?
00:48:22.26\00:48:25.83
Why does God have to use a
process where there's death for
00:48:25.90\00:48:29.44
millions of years before
things came into existence?
00:48:29.47\00:48:32.51
What kind of an
omnipotent God is that?
00:48:32.54\00:48:34.71
I don't serve that kind of God.
00:48:34.74\00:48:37.35
I serve a God of perfection.
00:48:37.38\00:48:38.95
I don't serve a God who uses
the system of trial and error
00:48:38.98\00:48:43.15
to eventually create the world.
00:48:43.18\00:48:46.69
Many scholars, even
in the Adventist Church,
00:48:46.76\00:48:48.62
are re-interpreting
the days of creation
00:48:48.66\00:48:50.43
as long periods of time.
00:48:50.46\00:48:52.26
Many of our own
scholars are using the
00:48:54.30\00:48:56.46
historical critical method.
00:48:56.50\00:48:57.97
Some are even saying that
Moses didn't write the book
00:48:58.00\00:49:01.54
of Genesis; that it's the
result of the work of several
00:49:01.57\00:49:06.21
different authors.
00:49:06.24\00:49:07.61
And they're saying that yeah,
Moses believed that the days of
00:49:07.64\00:49:11.71
creation, or whoever wrote
Genesis believed that the days
00:49:11.75\00:49:14.68
of creation are literal days.
00:49:14.72\00:49:16.72
But Moses was wrong, because
science has proved him wrong.
00:49:16.75\00:49:21.52
That's the idea
that they're sharing.
00:49:21.56\00:49:23.76
This, in spite of the fact
that there are powerful biblical
00:49:23.79\00:49:27.73
arguments to show that the days
of creation were literal days.
00:49:27.76\00:49:31.00
First of all, if you
read the main Hebrew lexicons,
00:49:31.03\00:49:34.94
which are the dictionaries
of Hebrew, for example holidays
00:49:34.97\00:49:39.21
are Hebrew lexicon:
Brown, Driver, and Briggs,
00:49:39.24\00:49:42.08
which is probably the
most famous Hebrew lexicon.
00:49:42.11\00:49:44.71
They all say that Genesis, no
matter what your interpretation
00:49:44.75\00:49:48.52
is, they say that the author
that wrote this believed that
00:49:48.55\00:49:52.02
the days were literal
twenty-four hour days.
00:49:52.05\00:49:55.06
You have, for
example, the story of creation.
00:49:55.09\00:49:58.09
It says, The evening and
the morning of the first day.
00:49:58.13\00:50:00.30
Boy, I'll tell you,
does that mean the evening,
00:50:00.33\00:50:02.30
and the morning of
the first million years?
00:50:02.33\00:50:03.93
The expression,
evening and morning,
00:50:03.97\00:50:06.74
shows that it's literal.
00:50:06.80\00:50:08.14
Furthermore, in the
Old Testament a number with
00:50:08.17\00:50:14.18
a numeral adjective is
used, the word day, excuse me,
00:50:14.24\00:50:18.05
with a numeral
adjective, is used 150 times
00:50:18.08\00:50:20.78
in the Old Testament, and every
single time that the word day,
00:50:20.82\00:50:24.59
Yom, appears with a numeral
adjective, it refers to a
00:50:24.62\00:50:29.86
literal twenty-four hour day.
00:50:29.89\00:50:31.69
And then what do you do
with the fourth commandment?
00:50:31.73\00:50:34.20
The fourth
commandment says you work six,
00:50:34.23\00:50:38.50
and rest the seventh
because God worked six,
00:50:38.53\00:50:42.44
and rested the seventh.
00:50:42.47\00:50:43.84
So if you make the original
days million years days,
00:50:43.87\00:50:48.94
what do you do with us following
the example of the Creator?
00:50:48.98\00:50:52.11
It breaks down. If we're
supposed to work six literal
00:50:52.15\00:50:56.08
days and keep the Sabbath, it's
because originally God worked
00:50:56.12\00:51:00.16
six literal days, and kept
the Sabbath, or else He would be
00:51:00.19\00:51:03.19
asking us to
keep an impossibility.
00:51:03.26\00:51:06.16
It all boils down to
whether you have faith or not.
00:51:06.19\00:51:12.17
By faith we believe.
00:51:12.20\00:51:14.54
And I'll tell you what, I choose
to believe the story that God
00:51:14.57\00:51:18.71
tells in His Holy Word.
00:51:18.74\00:51:20.08
Do you think the Devil is
able to shift things around on
00:51:20.14\00:51:24.15
the earth to make it appear that
evolution is a plausible theory?
00:51:24.21\00:51:27.18
You'd better believe he can.
00:51:27.22\00:51:28.55
So all we can do is
trust the Word of God.
00:51:28.58\00:51:32.79
Now before we bring this to an
end I need to talk to you about
00:51:32.82\00:51:35.59
the Sabbath in
its future dimension.
00:51:35.62\00:51:37.43
You see, the Sabbath is not
only a commemoration of Jesus as
00:51:37.49\00:51:40.86
the Creator; it's not only a
commemoration of Jesus as the
00:51:40.90\00:51:44.50
Redeemer; it's also a prophecy
about the future rest that we
00:51:44.53\00:51:48.20
will have in
the kingdom to come.
00:51:48.24\00:51:50.24
Notice Isaiah 66:22, 23,
Isaiah 66:22, 23. It says:
00:51:50.27\00:51:58.05
Notice, He's going
to make a new heavens
00:52:01.85\00:52:04.19
and a new earth, right?
00:52:04.22\00:52:05.55
When He makes a new
heavens, and a new earth,
00:52:16.10\00:52:17.93
according to the context.
00:52:17.97\00:52:19.30
A better translation would
be, from one month to another,
00:52:22.30\00:52:24.81
because the New Moon marks
the beginning of the month.
00:52:24.84\00:52:27.34
From one month to another.
00:52:27.44\00:52:28.91
In Spanish, in fact,
it says, de mes ames,
00:52:28.94\00:52:30.81
from month to month,
and from Sunday to Sunday.
00:52:30.85\00:52:35.15
No, that's not what it says.
00:52:35.18\00:52:37.05
It can't be Sunday because
that's not the day Jesus rested.
00:52:37.09\00:52:39.79
It's His rest that
makes the day holy.
00:52:39.82\00:52:41.46
Will the Sabbath be the
sign of worship to the Creator
00:52:52.00\00:52:54.90
of the new
heavens, and new earth? Yes.
00:52:54.94\00:52:56.94
So there are three
reasons for keeping the Sabbath:
00:52:56.97\00:53:00.11
One because Jesus
created the world in six days;
00:53:00.18\00:53:03.21
rested the seventh.
00:53:03.24\00:53:04.58
Because Jesus
redeemed the world.
00:53:04.61\00:53:06.15
And on the sixth day He said, It
is finished, and rested in the
00:53:06.18\00:53:09.28
tomb on the Sabbath
00:53:09.35\00:53:10.69
And it points forward to
the future, when after He makes
00:53:10.72\00:53:13.36
a new heavens, and a new earth,
He will say, It is finished!
00:53:13.39\00:53:16.32
And He will rest with His
people in the kingdom come.
00:53:16.39\00:53:19.06
Now you say, Why does it say
from one New Moon to another,
00:53:19.09\00:53:23.53
or from one month to another?
00:53:23.57\00:53:25.17
Well, the reason is very simple.
00:53:25.20\00:53:26.80
We're not only going to keep the
Sabbath in the earth made new,
00:53:26.84\00:53:29.57
we're also going to go
every month to eat from a
00:53:29.60\00:53:32.11
very peculiar tree.
00:53:32.14\00:53:33.48
Notice Revelation
22:1, 2, Revelation 22:1, 2.
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This is the New Jerusalem.
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So do you know what we're going
to do every month by going to
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worship before the Lord?
to eat from the tree of life,
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to refurbish our
battery, or life force.
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And why are we going to go from
Sabbath to Sabbath? in order to
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commemorate
what? the new creation.
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And, by the way, some
people misunderstand a verse
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in the Bible,
Revelation 21:23 where it says,
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and I want to read it. It says:
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So they say, See, in the earth
made new there's not going to be
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any day or night.
There's not going to be months.
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There's not going to be days.
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Yes, there are. If you're
going to keep the Sabbath,
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there must be a week.
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If you're going to
go from month to month,
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it must be that
there are months.
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And if there are
months, there are years.
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Hello! Are you all out there?
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What is Revelation 21:23 saying?
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It's talking
not about the earth,
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it's talking about the city.
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And it doesn't say that
there is no sun or moon;
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it has no need of sun or moon.
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Let's read it carefully.
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The city had no need of
sun or of moon to shine in it.
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It had no need, it says, for
the glory of God illuminated it.
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The Lamb is its light.
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So basically, what's going to
happen is in the city the light
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is going to be so
bright that you won't even see
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the sun or the moon.
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It's like turning on
a flashlight in Fresno
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in the month of
July at 12:00 noon.
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Who's going to see the
light of the flashlight?
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The flashlight is on,
but the light can't be seen,
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because the greater light
makes it dissipate so that
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people cannot see it.
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Folks, the final conflict
in this world is going to have
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to do with worship.
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There are going to be two sides.
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We're going to talk later
about this: the seal of God,
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and the mark of the beast.
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One sign is the sign
of worship to the Creator.
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The first angel's message says,
Worship Him who made heaven,
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the earth, the sea,
and springs of water.
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You cannot speak
about that without
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keeping His Holy Sabbath.
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But there's another
power known as the beast,
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and we're going to talk
about this power later on.
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And there are going to be people
in the world who are going to
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worship the beast, who
obviously claims to be a
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counterfeit creator.
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He doesn't claim
to be a counterfeit,
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but he is a counterfeit creator.
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Notice Revelation 14:9, 10.
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Two powers vying for the
loyalty of the human race.
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Two signs: one created by God
before sin, the other created
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by the man of sin.
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The question is,
which sign will we accept?
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The sign that God has
established, or the sign that
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the beast has established
as a sign of his power,
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and his authority?
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That's the
decision that we must make.
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And I pray to the
Lord that God will help us
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make the right decision.
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