Jesus said: "If you love
Me, keep my commandments. "
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Now people all over the
world are turning back to God's
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eternal moral law, claiming
His promise to write them
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in our hearts and our
minds. Live from the DC Armory
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in our nations
capital, 3ABN presents
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The Commandments Weekend.
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Your only Son
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No sin to hide
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But You have sent Him,
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From Your side
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To walk upon this guilty sod
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And to become the Lamb of God
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Your gift of Love They crucified
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They laughed and scorned
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Him as He died
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The humble King
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They named a fraud
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And sacrificed the Lamb of God
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Lamb of God,
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Sweet lamb of God
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I love the Holy Lamb of God
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Wash me in His precious Blood
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My Jesus Christ the Lamb of God
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I was so lost
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I should have died
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But You have brought
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me to Your side
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To be led by Your staff and rod
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And change my
name to a lamb of God
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Lamb of God,
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Sweet lamb of God
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I love the
Holy, Holy Lamb of God
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Wash me in Your precious Blood
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until I am a Lamb of God
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Wash me in Your precious Blood
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until I am a Lamb of God
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Praise the Lord for the
precious blood of Jesus Christ.
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We are His
blood bought purchase.
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We are going to not have
a very special treat from
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pastor C. A. Murray,
who's going to be bringing us
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a sermon on the 4th commandment.
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I say a special treat
because he is a special man.
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I've grown to love
C. A. He came to 3ABN
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with 26 years of
experience as an ordained pastor
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and also 12 years of production
and television hosting
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under his belt,
so we're very blessed
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to have pastor C. A.
and it is my pleasure
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to introduce him to you now.
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Good Morning and Happy Sabbath.
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Happy Sabbath.
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Oh you've got to
say it like you mean it.
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Happy Sabbath.
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Happy Sabbath.
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Praise the Lord.
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We've entitled our message
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" A letter from
a secret admirer. "
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And if you want our foundation
text, it is one, I think,
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that you know very well.
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It is Exodus 20,
beginning at verse 8.
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I spoke with Doug Batchelor
on Thursday, he called,
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since we were both preaching
on the 4th commandment.
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We wanted to eliminate
any inadvertent redundancy.
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In other words, I didn't
want to say the same thing
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he was saying, and he didn't
want to say the same thing
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that I was saying, but
we found that when you're
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dealing with this very
special commandment, there are
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some texts that
just seem to overlap.
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So you will hear one
or two things that you may
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have heard on last
evening, and then you will hear
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some things that I'm
sure you did not hear
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on last evening.
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Before we speak, let
us speak to our Father.
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Our Father in
heaven, we thank You for this
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grand opportunity to
speak about this most special
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of gifts, this 4th commandment.
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And Lord, as we seek to
explain a little bit about it,
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would You please give
us the presence and power
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of the Holy Spirit, that
we may know and understand
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and in understanding
become more like Jesus.
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We thank You dear
Father, in Jesus' name.
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Amen.
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I want to put it on the screen,
Exodus 20, beginning at verse 8,
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because I want us all
to read it together, it is
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the 4th commandment.
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I want us all to see
it and recite it together.
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Now, I've go to
say before I recite,
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I'm kind of old school,
when I memorized the Bible,
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I memorized the
King James Version,
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so I may slip and say
some "thee" and "thou",
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I'm preaching
from the New King James
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and the texts are New King James
but my brain is still thinking
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"King James", so if
I slip and say a "thee"
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when I should say a
"you", or "thou" when I should
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say a something
else, you'll understand
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I'm a little old
school, and it's hard to teach
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a reasonably old dog new tricks.
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Let's go, let's
repeat it together, it says:
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In it you shall do no work:
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you, nor your son,
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nor your daughter,
nor your male servant,
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nor your female
servant, nor your cattle,
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nor your stranger
who is within your gates.
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Amen, and Amen.
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The 4th commandment
draws attention to itself
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right out of the box
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because of it's
unique structure.
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For symmetry's sake, God
could have structured it.
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He could have aligned
it like it's predecessors.
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He could have said:
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"Thou shalt not
forget the Sabbath. "
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Then it would have been
grammatically like those
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that preceded it;
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"Thou shalt have no
other gods before me. "
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"Thou shalt not
make any graven images. "
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"Thou shalt not take the name
of the Lord, thy God in vain. "
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"Thou shalt not
forget the Sabbath. "
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But if God would have done that,
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He would have run the risk
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of this most precious
and special commandment
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being lost in the
shuffle with its siblings.
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And the 4th
commandment I submit to you
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is not at all like the first 3.
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It is inherently, intrinsically,
innately dissimilar
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than commandments 1,2 and 3.
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I believe that it is true
that commandments 1,2 and 3
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are strictly God focus dictums.
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There's no question about that,
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the first 3
commandments deal with God.
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The last 6 commandments are
humanity focused commandments.
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They set the
parameters for civilized,
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sanctified society.
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I want you to
stick with me here.
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But the 4th commandment
can not really be ideologically
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or theologically
lumped with the first 3,
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nor can it be
lumped with the last 6.
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The 4th commandment,
to my mind, is rather
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a bridge commandment,
ensconcing a fusion of the focus
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of the first 3
commandment and the last 6.
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And as such, it belongs
neither with the first 3,
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nor with the last 6;
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the 4th commandment
stands all by itself.
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As such, I see
the 4th commandment,
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and hold on, it's
going to be a bumpy ride,
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as a type of Christ.
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Listen to me now,
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in the 4th
commandment we see Jesus.
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You know, God has a way
of sneaking Jesus into almost
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everything, doesn't He?
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And I believe that God slipped
Jesus into the 10 commandments
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at commandment Nr. 4.
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The 4th commandment
is the bridge between
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the God focus of the first 3
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and the human
focus of the next 6.
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Jesus was all God and
all Man. Can you say amen?
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The Bible says: "In Him
dwells all the fullness"
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"of the Godhead, bodily. "
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So Christ was
all God and all man.
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He was all about
God and all about man.
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He was Son of
God and Son of Man.
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Well, the same can be
said, for the 4th commandment.
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The 4th
commandment is all about God,
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but it's also all about man.
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It starts off talking about God,
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but it ends up
talking about man.
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As such, it is a bridge
commandment, a type of Christ.
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Jesus was the perfect,
indescribable, inexplicable
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amalgamation of
divinity and humanity,
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and the Sabbath
is just like that.
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It's all about God,
but it's all about man.
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Can you say amen? As
such, the Sabbath commandment
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then, is de
facto, a type of Christ.
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This, the 4th
commandment, looks like Jesus.
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So, if there is one
commandment of all the 10
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in which we get a picture
of who and what Jesus is,
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it is the 4th commandment.
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You want to see Jesus?
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You look at commandment
Nr. 4 and you'll get picture
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of who Jesus is.
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You want to know
what He looks like?
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You can see Him in
the 4th commandment.
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The 2 greatest gifts
every given to this world:
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1. The Son of Man.
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The other: the Sabbath.
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This cosmic
convergence, this co-mingling,
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the best of heaven
and the best on Earth.
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The Sabbath then,
ladies and gentlemen,
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is a marriage made in heaven.
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It is a gift of
God to His people,
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and the 4th commandment
is literally God coming
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down from His throne,
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stepping into the "Abba" mode,
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running to humanity,
throwing His arms around us,
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and giving us the nicest,
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the freshest,
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the purest,
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the biggest, the longest,
the warmest, the sweetest
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hug and kiss
you've ever had. Amen!
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That then, is the Sabbath.
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And that's what the
Sabbath is all about.
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The Living
Bible paraphrase says:
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"Observe the
Sabbath as a holy day. "
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"Don't just recall the Sabbath,"
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"react to it"
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"in light of
that recollection. "
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The Sabbath is about doing,
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keep it holy, behave holy
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in celebration of the
fact that God has already
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made it holy.
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Do you notice the
Bible doesn't say:
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"Make the Sabbath holy. " It
says: "Keep the Sabbath holy"
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because you can only keep
holy what God has made holy.
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It is almost as
though in the Pentateuch,
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the word "remembrance"
is foundational to a great
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experience with God.
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When God was ready
to do something for,
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with, through, and
to, and around His people,
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when He desired to
draw them into a special
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spiritual experience, God
would enjoin them to "remember"
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- hold on to that
word, it is a key word.
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It is not a word that you should
pass by lightly because you see
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it over and over and over again
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in the Pentateuch in particular,
the first 5 books of the Bible.
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Deuteronomy 16:3.
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Deuteronomy 16:3.
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The word of God
says: "Remember the day"
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"in which you were in
Egypt. Remember that day. "
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Later on He says:
"Remember Abraham,
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"Isaac and Israel. "
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Later on He says:
"Remember, priests,"
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"to put a little
tassel on your robe,"
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"so you can
remember to respect God. "
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He says: "Remember
what the Lord did for you"
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"in Egypt. " He
says: "Remember what God"
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"did for you in
the wilderness. "
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Deuteronomy 15:15 "Remember".
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Deuteronomy 16:3 Remember,
Deuteronomy 16:12 Remember,
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Deuteronomy 24:9 Remember,
Deuteronomy 24:18 Remember,
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Deuteronomy 24:22
"Remember! Remember! Remember!"
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God is saying: "Don't
ever forget what I've"
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"done for you; remember,
and when you remember, react!"
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"Do something! Rejoice!
Relive! Revive! Reaffirm!"
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"Retell! Revitalize!"
"Remember" is a coal
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to spiritual resurgence.
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The 4th commandment
then, is the most intimate
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of all the commandments.
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It is the most personal
of all the commandments.
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It is the longest of
all the commandments.
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It is the most self revealing
of all the commandments.
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It is the
"glasnost", the "perestroika"
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of all the commandments.
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The German theologians
called it the "Deus Revelatus".
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It is the un-hidden
God, the explained God.
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In the 4th commandment
we see God as never before.
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It is the clearest expression
of who and what God is.
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So then, this word "remember"
is foundational to a great
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experience with God.
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Hey, you want to
grow strong in Jesus?
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Remember!
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And whenever God is
taking you to a place where you
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can't see the future,
remember what He did for you
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in the past.
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The only thing worse, I
say, then nostalgia, is amnesia.
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You don't ever want to forget
where God has brought you from
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and where He's leading to you.
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I say, I say again:
if you can't see your way
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to the future, then
remember what God has done
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for you in the past.
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On the 7th day, we rest.
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Praise God.
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We rest because we need it.
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We rest in honor of a
God who rested even though
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He didn't need it.
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We celebrate it
because God set an example
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for us in resting.
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In Genesis, God
told Adam and Eve:
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"On the day that
you eat from the tree,"
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"you will
surely die. " They ate,
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they continued to live,
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they continued to walk,
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they continued to talk, and
breath, and produce children,
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but something had changed.
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Something was reconfigured.
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Something had indeed died.
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I have a Korean
friend, a good friend of mine,
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he's Presbyterian.
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I'm trying to make him
Adventist, but he's a little
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resistant because
he works 7 days a week.
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He owns 3 dry
cleaners, owns them.
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He gets up
every morning at 5.30.
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He does not eat breakfast
because he's in to work at 6.30.
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He works all day,
until 7.30 at night.
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Then he goes home and
he cooks for the family.
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He has a degree, he
went to cooking school.
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Oh forgive me, he went
to the Culinary Institute.
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After he cooks for the
family, he cleans up the dishes,
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then he does his own books.
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He also has a
degree in accounting.
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He does the day's
receipts for all 3 dry cleaners.
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Then he goes to bed.
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Next morning he's up
doing the same thing.
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On Sunday he's up at 5.30,
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he does his books,
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he goes to church,
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sings in the choir,
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cooks potluck for the church,
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comes home,
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cooks for the
family because the family
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won't eat potluck food,
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does his books,
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then goes to bed
at about 12 or 12.30.
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Monday morning, he's
back on that treadmill again.
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Now, he has money in the
bank, he can fly back and forth
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to Korea at about
$1500 a pop anytime he wants.
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He's got a very nice home in
Westchester County, New York.
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He drives a brand new car,
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he has all the accoutrements,
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all of the trappings, he
is living the American Dream,
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but he is killing himself.
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He's dying, because he
takes no time for Jesus.
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The Bible says on the 7th day
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we rest
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because we need to rest.
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Mark 2:27, you know it well,
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Mark 2:27. The Bible says:
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Now the ancient Rabbi's taught
just the reverse, oddly enough.
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That God made the Sabbath first,
and then plugged man into it.
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They taught that man
was made for the Sabbath,
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but Jesus said: "You
got that all wrong. "
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"The Sabbath was made
for man," because when God
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made man, He said:
"What's the best thing"
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"I can give him?"
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"Well, I'll give
him the Sabbath,"
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"to keep him holy"
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- uhuh -
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"and I'll give him a wife,"
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"to keep him happy. "
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Amen! Hallelujah!
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Amen!
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Both came from Eden, before sin.
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Can you say amen?
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If you're married,
you better say amen.
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The best 2 things, - listen! -
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if you've got Jesus,
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the Sabbath,
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and a good wife,
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brother you've got the
best that heaven can give.
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And if you don't, well you've
got Jesus and the Sabbath.
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Heaven has given
you its best from Eden:
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marriage and the
Sabbath. Can you say amen?
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God saw that we would need this,
and if you've got a good wife,
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you've got
salvation, and the Sabbath,
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you are rich regardless of
what your bank account says.
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God saw that we would
drive ourselves perpetually.
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We would destroy
ourselves with our own pursuits.
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So along with the
engine that drives us,
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the drive to succeed,
and the drive to excel,
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and the drive to
feed our families,
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and the drive to have security,
and the drive to be educated,
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and the drive to keep up
appearances, and the drive
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to do what the
commercials say you ought to do,
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and the drive to be
like everybody else.
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Every 7 days, along
with the accelerator,
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God put a little break
there, a little exit ramp off
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the superhighway of
life, a little chance for you
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to pullover, and
refresh, and repose, and repine,
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and get a little relaxation
to pull off and get God focused
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and He called that little break
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"The Sabbath"!
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Praise God for the Sabbath!
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Psalms 103:14, the
Bible says in Psalms 103:14
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David says: "Our
days are as grass,"
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"the flower flourishes
and then the flower fades. ",
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and some of us,
in our hot pursuit
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of the almighty
dollar, are fading fast.
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And so, God said: "I've
got to give them a break. "
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The Sabbath then, is
medicine, ladies and gentlemen.
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The Sabbath is
Medicare, it is Medicaid,
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it is a prescription
for successful Godly living.
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Isaiah 58:13, 14.
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When I was
pastoring the Ephesus Church,
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I had my church recite
this every single week.
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Isaiah 58:13,14.
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Turn with me and we will
read it together. It says:
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God is saying: "There's
a very special blessing"
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"in keeping the
Sabbath day that is attached"
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"to no other day. "
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You can't get it on
Friday, you can't get Sunday,
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you can't get it on
Wednesday, you can only get it
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on the Sabbath
because only Sabbath
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has the blessing in it.
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James 1:17 tells us
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that every good gift,
and every perfect gift
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comes from God.
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Every good gift, every
perfect gift comes from God.
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God, in Eden,
decided, before sin
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that marriage and the Sabbath
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were the best things
he could do for mankind.
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And we, ladies
and gentlemen, sadly,
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are trying to destroy them both.
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The Bible says: "One Lord. "
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"One Faith. One Baptism. "
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May I add: "One God. "
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"One Wife. "
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"One Day. "
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Amen!
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Look at this,
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Paul said the commandments
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are holy, just and good.
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So then, I can rightly
interpret that the Sabbath,
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since it's a
commandment, is holy, just
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and praise God,
the Sabbath is good.
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It's Sabbath
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and I feel good.
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Think about it.
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One day a week.
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You get up, no work.
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Amen!
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No cares, no bills,
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I mean, they're still there,
but you don't have to pay them.
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No job, no school, no tests,
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no shopping, no malls,
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no time/clock.
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You get dressed,
you go to church,
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you sing, you pray,
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you praise God, you worship,
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you fall under
the anointing of God,
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you hear a good sermon. Amen
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Fellowship with
believers who think
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and act, and pray,
and praise like you do,
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the choir sings,
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the soloists solo,
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Bible reading,
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prayer, worship,
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fellowship
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potluck,
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and sometimes, on
those real good Sabbaths,
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during the
deaconeer and the coinaneer,
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you sit back and fold your arms
around yourself and you say:
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"You know what?"
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"This thing is good. "
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And it is good!
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Because everything
that God made is good.
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The truth is, that
everything that is true about
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the other 9 commandments,
ladies and gentlemen,
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is true about the Sabbath.
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If the other 9 commandments
are eternal, Sabbath is eternal.
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If the other 9 commandments
are good for society,
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Sabbath is good for society.
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If the other 9 commandments
are ordained of God,
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Sabbath is ordained of God.
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If the other 9 commandments
are good for everybody today,
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Sabbath is good
for everybody today.
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Think what it would be like
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if every man, and every woman,
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and every boy and every
girl closed up their shops,
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shut down their businesses,
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gathered together
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to worship God
every single Sabbath.
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What a wonderful
world it would be
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if everybody praised
God on the Sabbath day.
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And ladies and gentlemen,
here's the news flash,
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that's how it's
going to be in heaven.
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Isaiah 66:22, 23.
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Got to refer to that
one. Isaiah 66:22, 23.
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The Bible says
in Isaiah 66:22, 23:
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In other words,
ladies and gentlemen,
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in the New Earth,
throughout all eternity,
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we're going to keep Sabbath.
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Now, Now, Now
you will forgive me
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because that leads down
the quarters of a particular
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theological
causeway, which might cause
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a bit of dyspepsia
in the minds and hearts
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of those who don't
understand the centrality of
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the Sabbath issue.
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God started it all with Sabbath,
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in Genesis, at creation.
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Amen!
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And when God selected a
people to carry His message
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to the world, He
gave them Sabbath.
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Amen!
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In the ages to come,
throughout all eternity,
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God says: "We will keep Sabbath"
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So forgive me,
"Yo tengo un pregunta"
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I got a question: why not now?
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I mean, we started with Sabbath,
we'll always have Sabbath,
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so why not Sabbath now?
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Isn't this
practice for eternity?
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So we need to start
practicing keeping Sabbath now.
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There's always been Sabbath,
there will always be Sabbath,
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so why would God
experiment with another day now?
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Kind of makes you want to go:
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"Hmmm. "
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And if He had changed it,
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why keep it a secret?
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I mean, Jesus didn't
say anything about it.
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God didn't say
anything about it.
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The Holy spirit
didn't say anything about it,
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so where did change come from?
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Jesus said: "I came
to make known the will"
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"of my Father. "
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Hebrews 1:1,2.
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You know, the Bible says
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in Hebrews 1:1,2 that:
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So Jesus came to speak
only the words given to Him
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by God. He didn't come to
change anything, He didn't
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come to alter anything,
He didn't come to rearrange
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things, He came to do
the will of His Father.
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John 14:8,9.
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There's this little
dialogue between Christ
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and the disciples.
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They say: "Show us the
Father and it suffices us. "
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We want to see God.
00:34:18.11\00:34:19.60
Jesus says:
00:34:19.64\00:34:22.03
Christ is saying:
"See Me, see the Father. "
00:34:40.33\00:34:43.16
"Know Me, know the Father.
Hear Me, Hear the Father. "
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"I want you to know,
that when you watch Me,"
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"you are seeing God. "
This is what Jesus is saying.
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"I have come to do the
will of Him who sent Me. "
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Not once, not twice... 59.
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Let's look at some dates.
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The gospel of Mark,
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scholarship believes, was the
first of the gospels written.
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The gospel of Mark was
written somewhere around 55 AD,
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The gospel of Mark was
followed by the writing
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of Matthew and Luke,
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somewhere around 65 AD
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And old John didn't
start writing his gospel
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until 96 AD...
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and yet, neither
Matthew, Mark, Luke or John
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say anything about
the change of the day,
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because it's not there.
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Hey! Hey! Hey! Hey!
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Did you hear?
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She dragged her husband
down to the divorce lawyer
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after 25 years of marriage.
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They'd been married for 25
years and she went to the lawyer
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and said: "I want a divorce. "
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Well the lawyer said: "You've
been married for 25 years,"
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"why do you want a divorce now?"
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She said: "Because in 25 years"
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"this man has only told
me he loves me 1 time. "
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"1 time in 25 years,
and I just can't take it. "
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"I want a divorce!"
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And so the lawyer
said: "Well buddy,"
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"what is your problem?
What is the matter with you?"
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"Don't you know you've
got to do better than that?"
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"What is your excuse?"
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He said:
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"I told her"
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"I loved her"
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"when I married her. "
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"I told her on the day of
our wedding that I loved her. "
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"Now she's a bright girl,"
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"I told her I
loved her forever. "
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"I figured she'd understand"
00:37:38.50\00:37:41.74
"that if I changed my mind"
00:37:41.89\00:37:44.43
"I'd let her known. "
00:37:44.66\00:37:47.43
Now that doesn't work so well
00:37:49.30\00:37:52.52
with men or women
00:37:54.78\00:37:58.35
because we are
capricious and fickle.
00:37:58.39\00:38:01.73
We change. Jeremiah 17:9 says:
00:38:02.36\00:38:06.84
"The heart of man is deceitful
and desperately wicked. "
00:38:07.14\00:38:10.87
"Who can know it?"
Love today, hate tomorrow.
00:38:10.90\00:38:14.55
James says: "Out of
the same mouth comes"
00:38:14.94\00:38:16.82
"blessings and cursings. "
00:38:16.85\00:38:19.05
We change all the
time, so we've learned
00:38:19.09\00:38:22.04
that you can't trust
man, but you can trust God.
00:38:22.08\00:38:27.39
So God prefers that
same line of reasoning
00:38:29.95\00:38:35.10
in the book of Hebrews.
00:38:35.20\00:38:36.78
Hebrews 4:8,9, God is using
that same line of reasoning.
00:38:36.82\00:38:41.99
God is saying through
Paul: He told you in Genesis
00:39:01.48\00:39:06.14
He loved you. He
told you in Exodus
00:39:06.30\00:39:09.22
He loved you. Isaiah,
told you He loved you.
00:39:09.26\00:39:12.54
Jeremiah told you of God's love.
00:39:12.64\00:39:15.23
2,500 years ago, He
told you of His love.
00:39:15.27\00:39:19.18
Paul is saying then, if
God had selected, elected,
00:39:19.26\00:39:23.70
or projected another day,
He would have told somebody.
00:39:23.73\00:39:28.14
Amos 3:7 says:
00:39:28.68\00:39:31.96
You take a day, you bless it,
00:39:41.32\00:39:44.05
you rest on it, you sanctify
it, you hallow it, you wrap it
00:39:44.09\00:39:47.78
in a bow and you give it
to mankind as the perfect gift
00:39:47.82\00:39:51.48
and then you change
it and not tell anybody?
00:39:51.51\00:39:55.37
I don't think so!
And neither does Paul.
00:39:55.40\00:39:59.23
Paul's thesis is: "There
remainest therefore a rest. "
00:39:59.63\00:40:04.59
and many
commentators translate that rest
00:40:04.62\00:40:06.35
as a keeping of the
Sabbath for the children of God.
00:40:06.39\00:40:10.48
Got to go faster
because the clock's against me.
00:40:10.69\00:40:12.95
Exodus 20:12 says
it is a sign forever,
00:40:14.43\00:40:18.82
between God and His
people. God is saying:
00:40:18.92\00:40:22.73
"I told you I
loved you at creation. "
00:40:22.76\00:40:25.97
Amen?
00:40:26.00\00:40:27.02
"I told you at creation
I'll love you forever. "
00:40:27.06\00:40:30.39
"I showed you I loved you
in Eden, when I knelt down"
00:40:30.43\00:40:33.77
"and formed you with my own
2 hands, listen to Me now. "
00:40:33.81\00:40:37.12
"I showed you I loved you
when I knelt down and breathed"
00:40:37.60\00:40:40.84
"into your nostrils
the breath of life,"
00:40:40.87\00:40:43.01
"and you became a living
soul. I made you functional,"
00:40:43.05\00:40:46.15
"and volitional, so that
you could love me by choice. "
00:40:46.19\00:40:48.99
"I showed you I loved you
when I breathed into you,"
00:40:49.03\00:40:51.84
"and made you look and
act like Me. I showed you"
00:40:51.88\00:40:54.52
"I loved you when I
pulled a rib from your side,"
00:40:54.56\00:40:57.17
"and put you to
sleep, and I created"
00:40:57.20\00:40:59.36
"the most beautiful
thing that man has ever seen,"
00:40:59.40\00:41:02.24
"and I named her "woman".
And when you woke up I said:"
00:41:02.28\00:41:05.45
"She's yours".
00:41:05.48\00:41:07.11
"I showed you I loved
you when the first full day"
00:41:07.15\00:41:09.30
"that mankind ever lived on
planet Earth was the Sabbath. "
00:41:09.34\00:41:12.54
"I showed you I loved
you when I called Abraham. "
00:41:12.57\00:41:14.80
"I showed you I loved
you when that ram got caught"
00:41:14.83\00:41:17.22
"in the thicket. " "I
showed you My love in Egypt"
00:41:17.26\00:41:20.06
"when that basket full of
tar held little baby Moses"
00:41:20.09\00:41:22.86
"and it just happened
to be found by the queen,"
00:41:22.89\00:41:25.23
"and the queen's daughter.
" "I showed you I loved you"
00:41:25.27\00:41:27.24
"at the Red Sea. I showed you My
love at the desert of Sinai. "
00:41:27.28\00:41:30.72
"I showed you My love
at the walls of Jericho. "
00:41:30.75\00:41:33.24
"I showed my love at a
city called Ai, at a place"
00:41:33.28\00:41:35.66
"called Gath. I showed
you My love at Ebenezer. "
00:41:35.69\00:41:38.04
"I showed you My
through Balaam and Balak. "
00:41:38.07\00:41:40.40
"I showed you my
love at Ebion-gezer. "
00:41:40.44\00:41:42.70
"I showed you my love
at Mikmash, and Hebron,"
00:41:42.74\00:41:45.19
"and Carchemish, and Bethpeor. "
00:41:45.22\00:41:46.87
"I showed you My love
when you selected kings"
00:41:46.91\00:41:49.46
"that didn't even follow
Me. I showed you My love"
00:41:49.50\00:41:51.71
"against the Philistines
and the Phoenicians,"
00:41:51.75\00:41:53.93
"and the Amorites,
and the Amalekites. "
00:41:53.96\00:41:55.74
"I showed you my love against
them, more by sending Hittites"
00:41:55.78\00:41:58.42
"Sancherib,
Ezarhadnen, Benhadad. "
00:41:58.45\00:42:01.45
"I showed you My love when the
Seleucid kings tried to turn"
00:42:01.49\00:42:04.21
"your temple into a
disco. I showed you my love"
00:42:04.24\00:42:06.66
"when you sent your own children
through the fire under Manasseh"
00:42:06.70\00:42:09.95
"I showed you My love when
you left Me and ran after Baal,"
00:42:09.98\00:42:12.21
"and Ashtoroth, and
Tammuz, and Dagon, and Ishtar. "
00:42:12.24\00:42:14.82
"I showed you My love when
you knelt down to 1,000 gods"
00:42:14.86\00:42:17.49
"who you thought were Me,
but they really were not Me. "
00:42:17.53\00:42:20.13
"I showed you My
love when Saul consulted"
00:42:20.16\00:42:22.08
"with a witch
instead of coming to Me. "
00:42:22.11\00:42:23.96
"I showed you my love
when you selected kings"
00:42:24.00\00:42:25.60
"that had no business
being on the throne of Israel. "
00:42:25.64\00:42:27.78
"They couldn't even
control their own lives,"
00:42:27.81\00:42:29.24
"let alone My people. "
00:42:29.27\00:42:30.52
"Ahab, and Jezebel, and
Athalia, and Joash, and Jacob,"
00:42:30.56\00:42:34.25
"And Zedekiah, and
Hoshea. Godless kings who had"
00:42:34.28\00:42:37.39
"no business running My people.
I showed you my love through"
00:42:37.43\00:42:40.85
"Nebuchadnezzar and Belshazzar,
the Medes, and the Persians,"
00:42:40.88\00:42:44.44
"and I showed you My
love through the prophets. "
00:42:44.47\00:42:46.02
"And I showed you My love
when you had John the Baptist"
00:42:46.06\00:42:49.40
"killed and I showed you My love
when at birth, you tried to"
00:42:49.44\00:42:52.67
"destroy My son,
Jesus, and you betrayed Him. "
00:42:52.70\00:42:54.55
"I showed you My love
and you stripped Him. "
00:42:54.59\00:42:56.30
"I showed you My
love and you beat Him,"
00:42:56.34\00:42:57.98
"and you lacerated
Him, and you tore His flesh"
00:42:58.02\00:43:00.52
"from His back with a whip,
and you nailed Him to a cross,"
00:43:00.56\00:43:03.01
"and you pushed a crown
of thorns on His head. "
00:43:03.04\00:43:05.10
"And I showed you My
love because Christ knew"
00:43:05.14\00:43:07.02
"what was coming, and
even though He knew it,"
00:43:07.06\00:43:08.87
"He said: "I have loved
you with an everlasting love. "
00:43:08.91\00:43:11.72
"I showed you my love
when you pushed a roman spear"
00:43:11.75\00:43:14.53
"into His side. I
showed you my love"
00:43:14.56\00:43:16.22
"when He hung His head and
died, rested on the Sabbath"
00:43:16.26\00:43:19.82
"and rose the first
day. That's the kind of God"
00:43:19.97\00:43:22.94
"I am, I can't help myself.
" "I've always loved you. "
00:43:22.98\00:43:26.39
"I love you now. I
always will love you. "
00:43:26.42\00:43:28.74
"He that loveth
not, knoweth not God,"
00:43:28.77\00:43:31.06
"for God is love. "
00:43:31.09\00:43:32.34
"And if I ever change my
mind, I'll let you know!"
00:43:32.38\00:43:38.90
Because God does not change!
00:43:40.43\00:43:43.67
Can not change! Will not change!
00:43:43.92\00:43:46.67
Therefore, ye sons of
Jacob some 7,000 years ago
00:43:46.71\00:43:50.07
in Eden, God said He loved you
00:43:50.10\00:43:52.15
and He gave you the
Sabbath before you sinned.
00:43:52.19\00:43:56.20
Then 2,000
years ago, at Calvary,
00:43:56.33\00:43:58.84
He reminded you of His love.
00:43:59.14\00:44:02.51
And He says
today, 2,000 years later,
00:44:02.55\00:44:05.14
"If I ever change my
mind, I'll let you know. "
00:44:05.44\00:44:09.77
Thank God He does not
change, and the Sabbath is just
00:44:10.27\00:44:13.90
as important as it ever was,
because that's the kind of God
00:44:13.94\00:44:17.68
we serve, and Mr. Clock is
against me, but I want to run
00:44:17.71\00:44:20.48
through some things.
Let's go through it real quick.
00:44:20.51\00:44:23.25
The 10
commandments of consideration.
00:44:23.32\00:44:25.89
No other day,
that makes it important
00:44:35.10\00:44:37.94
God put a special
blessing on the Sabbath.
00:44:42.48\00:44:44.48
There's no other day
that can be called the Sabbath
00:44:44.58\00:44:47.13
because that day is
already taken by the Sabbath.
00:44:47.17\00:44:49.45
The Sabbath is the
Sabbath and only the Sabbath
00:44:49.49\00:44:51.78
can be the Sabbath, no
other day can be the Sabbath
00:44:51.81\00:44:54.07
because the
Sabbath is the Sabbath!
00:44:54.10\00:44:56.09
Next commandment:
00:44:56.98\00:44:59.58
Only day!
Couldn't do anything else,
00:45:03.64\00:45:05.91
it's the only day.
00:45:06.01\00:45:09.77
There's a special
title to the Sabbath.
00:45:16.48\00:45:18.48
When God sanctifies
something, He sets it apart
00:45:24.43\00:45:26.57
for Holy use.
00:45:26.60\00:45:29.12
Didn't say Friday, didn't
say Sunday, Monday, Tuesday,
00:45:31.66\00:45:33.89
Wednesday, Thursday
- only said Sabbath!
00:45:33.92\00:45:35.93
Only keep Sabbath
because God commanded us to keep
00:45:35.97\00:45:38.38
the Sabbath.
00:45:38.41\00:45:40.67
It's the crowning, it's the
cherry of top of the sundae.
00:45:45.22\00:45:48.80
It commemorates creation.
00:45:48.83\00:45:51.58
Even in death,
Christ kept the Sabbath.
00:45:55.53\00:45:58.45
Luke 4:16; it was
His custom to keep
00:45:58.48\00:46:01.33
the Sabbath while He
was alive, He kept it up
00:46:01.37\00:46:03.37
even through death, rose
on the first day of the week.
00:46:03.41\00:46:05.59
As I've said before, Luke 4:16.
00:46:12.46\00:46:16.93
About 100 years after Christ,
we get an epistle of Barnabas.
00:46:27.98\00:46:32.30
Pseudepigrapha, from
Egypt, from Alexandria,
00:46:32.33\00:46:34.83
not part of the
Bible, where they talk about
00:46:34.87\00:46:37.30
keeping the first day, or
rather, keeping the 8th day.
00:46:37.34\00:46:40.57
They kept 8 days,
but there's only 7 days.
00:46:40.60\00:46:43.01
God made 7 days at creation.
00:46:43.04\00:46:44.17
You can't add to it,
you can't subtract form it,
00:46:44.21\00:46:46.67
always has been, always
will be 7 days, and those days
00:46:46.71\00:46:51.07
are ordained by God.
00:46:51.10\00:46:53.21
Let's look at the
commandments of nowhere.
00:46:54.44\00:46:57.20
So the Sabbath is the
Sabbath. Sabbath will always be
00:47:03.90\00:47:06.96
the Sabbath because God made it.
00:47:07.00\00:47:10.03
So it still
carries a sanctity of God.
00:47:19.61\00:47:23.89
When God blesses
you, you're blessed.
00:47:26.71\00:47:29.65
Nobody can take your blessing
away. God put a blessing
00:47:29.85\00:47:32.68
on the Sabbath,
nothing you can do with it,
00:47:32.71\00:47:34.73
it's just plain
blessed. Amen? Amen!
00:47:34.76\00:47:37.32
He said: "This is the day. "
00:47:55.65\00:47:57.76
He never took it
back, it's still the day,
00:47:57.80\00:48:00.85
can we praise the Lord?
00:48:00.89\00:48:03.79
He said: "Come together.
" Doug talked about this
00:48:07.29\00:48:09.61
last night, don't stay home
in your house, you've got to
00:48:09.65\00:48:12.75
come together and be with
God, because there's a special
00:48:12.78\00:48:15.85
blessing in unity - amen?
00:48:15.88\00:48:18.33
God promised a special
blessing on the Sabbath day.
00:48:18.97\00:48:24.32
I'm down to 1.5 minutes, so
I've got to go through this.
00:48:24.36\00:48:27.32
Ever get a letter
from a secret admirer?
00:48:27.97\00:48:32.33
I got one when I
was pastoring. Yeah
00:48:34.98\00:48:38.76
You get a letter from
a secret admirer, sent it
00:48:39.16\00:48:41.22
with cologne and perfume.
00:48:41.25\00:48:43.51
The person says:
"I've been watching you. "
00:48:43.69\00:48:45.82
"I've been studying you. "
00:48:45.85\00:48:47.66
"I know all about you.
I know what you like. "
00:48:47.70\00:48:50.04
"I know what you eat.
I know where you live,"
00:48:50.36\00:48:53.41
"and I think I'll be
just perfect for you. "
00:48:53.65\00:48:56.47
"I've watched you, and
I really care about you. "
00:48:58.77\00:49:01.52
"In fact, I think I love you. "
00:49:01.55\00:49:04.04
And they give you a name, but
they just give you this name,
00:49:04.38\00:49:08.62
they never identify themselves,
00:49:09.73\00:49:12.96
they never close the deal.
00:49:13.06\00:49:16.73
You've just got this love letter
00:49:18.50\00:49:20.61
from somebody out there
00:49:20.64\00:49:22.11
who's watching your
every move and says they know
00:49:22.15\00:49:25.62
they're perfect for you.
But what can you do with that?
00:49:25.66\00:49:29.44
Nothing.
00:49:30.19\00:49:31.51
'Cos all you have is a name.
00:49:31.55\00:49:33.88
They haven't closed the deal.
00:49:34.11\00:49:36.05
Well without the 4th commandment
00:49:36.90\00:49:40.73
the 10 commandments are a letter
00:49:41.30\00:49:45.01
from a secret admirer.
00:49:45.24\00:49:47.53
You've got all
this wonderful stuff.
00:49:47.86\00:49:50.03
There's somebody
out there who loves you.
00:49:50.09\00:49:53.26
Cares about you,
been watching you,
00:49:53.48\00:49:56.55
knows all about you, but
they don't close the deal.
00:49:57.29\00:50:01.39
They never make the date.
00:50:01.93\00:50:04.19
In commandment Nr. 4
God introduces Himself
00:50:04.74\00:50:10.37
and makes the date,
without Him, without Nr. 4,
00:50:10.48\00:50:15.25
we wouldn't even know who
wrote the 10 commandments.
00:50:15.29\00:50:20.01
A letter from a secret admirer.
00:50:20.44\00:50:24.00
Shall we pray. Father God.
00:50:24.03\00:50:25.84
We thank you for your
word, a lamp unto our feet,
00:50:25.88\00:50:28.75
a light unto our path.
Give us an understanding
00:50:28.79\00:50:31.74
of these 10 commandments.
Help us to live out
00:50:31.77\00:50:34.69
this 4th one, this most
special of commandments.
00:50:34.85\00:50:37.90
We thank you in
Jesus' name. Amen.
00:50:37.93\00:50:41.12
There are days when I feel
00:50:55.46\00:51:01.48
the best of me
00:51:02.86\00:51:06.12
is ready to begin
00:51:06.15\00:51:09.38
Then they're days when I feel
00:51:10.75\00:51:14.37
I'm letting go and soaring
00:51:17.35\00:51:21.56
on the wind.
00:51:22.47\00:51:25.23
I've learned in laughter
00:51:25.48\00:51:29.46
or in pain how to survive
00:51:29.49\00:51:33.44
I get on my knees,
00:51:38.22\00:51:41.83
I get on my knees
00:51:44.34\00:51:48.26
There I am before the love
00:51:50.10\00:51:53.78
that changes me
00:51:54.54\00:51:58.39
I don't know how
00:52:01.77\00:52:03.95
but there's power
00:52:03.98\00:52:06.13
when I'm on my knees
00:52:06.23\00:52:11.20
I can be in a crowd
00:52:21.40\00:52:26.65
or by myself
00:52:27.79\00:52:29.89
or almost anywhere
00:52:29.93\00:52:34.60
When I feel that there's a need
00:52:34.89\00:52:39.74
to talk with God,
00:52:41.27\00:52:44.33
He is Emmanuel
00:52:44.37\00:52:47.40
When I close my eyes,
00:52:49.14\00:52:52.49
no darkness there
00:52:52.53\00:52:55.85
There's only light
00:52:56.12\00:53:00.72
I get on my knees,
00:53:01.69\00:53:05.40
I get on my knees
00:53:08.10\00:53:11.73
There I am before the love
00:53:14.47\00:53:18.46
that changes me
00:53:19.33\00:53:23.71
I don't know how
but there's power
00:53:26.58\00:53:30.75
in the blue skies,
00:53:31.15\00:53:34.29
in the midnight hour
00:53:36.79\00:53:39.49
I don't know how
00:53:39.52\00:53:43.12
but there's power,
00:53:43.16\00:53:46.73
there is power
00:53:47.27\00:53:51.03
there's power, power
00:53:51.74\00:53:55.95
wonder working power
00:53:57.96\00:54:01.49
in the blood, Oh thank you Lord,
00:54:01.79\00:54:05.79
of the Lamb
00:54:06.60\00:54:09.63
Oh, there is power
00:54:09.83\00:54:13.56
power
00:54:14.28\00:54:16.68
wonder working power
00:54:16.82\00:54:20.75
in the precious blood
00:54:20.81\00:54:24.68
of the Lamb
00:54:25.09\00:54:28.73
I don't know
how, but there's power
00:54:34.36\00:54:39.48
when I'm on my knees
00:54:40.56\00:54:45.56