I want to spend my life
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Mending broken people
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I want to spend my life
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Removing pain
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Lord, let my words
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Heal a heart that hurts
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I want to spend my life
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Mending broken people
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I want to spend my life
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Mending broken people.
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Hello, friends,
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and welcome to
Friday Night Family Worship,
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I'm sitting
here with my captain,
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my wife.
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I'm the copilot.
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The one who wrote the
constitution in our family.
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One guy once said that
there was a sign his wife
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put the above the bed
head on his side, and it said,
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"The opinions expressed
by him are not necessarily
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those of the management."
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So, after 33
years, I know what...
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We are a team.
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We are a team, I know that.
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Thank you for letting us
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come into your
home on Friday evening.
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Amen.
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It's time to worship the
Lord and the beauty of holiness.
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It's the Sabbath. Yes.
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And if you are
Seventh-day Adventist,
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you know that.
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But if you are not,
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we know that you may
have watched 3ABN before.
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If this is your first
time, don't change the channel.
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You are about to experience
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and learn
something from God's word,
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not from this
network but, from God's word,
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that's very important...
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Yes.
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In your worship,
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and your familiar
relationship with Jesus.
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I don't think you'll
be watching this channel,
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except you're looking for Christ
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in some beautiful way,
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and we do believe in sharing him
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in a very beautiful way.
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Ain't that right, honey?
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Oh, we do, we love the Lord,
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and He's been so good
to us and all of us here.
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We know the Lord's been good us.
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Yeah.
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Speaking of all of us here,
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I think it's gonna be
bedtime before we had prayer.
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Introduce everyone.
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To go ahead and
introduce everyone,
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and I'll start over here with...
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Who is he?
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The people to the far
left, some people may have,
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I'll let him tell.
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Tell us who you
are, and what you do now,
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good to have you
here, your name surely.
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Okay, I'm Joe O'Brien,
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and I worked here since 1999.
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Oh.
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And I'm in the pastoral
department answering phones,
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letters, emails,
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and most of many
other things but that's it.
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That's it?
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What about head
elder of the church?
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Okay, yeah.
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Okay, well, yeah,
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somebody made me held
head elder of the church.
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Thank you.
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And good to have you
here, Joe, and always a good,
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always a
pleasure to work with you.
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And to your right?
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I'm Joe's wife, Nancy O'Brien.
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And most of my
life, I've been a teacher,
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but raised one daughter
with Joe, and right now,
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I'm working at 3ABN in
Planned Giving & Trust Services
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as well I'm a head
deacon at a church.
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That's right, good to have here,
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Joe and Nancy.
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I don't know if
you've noticed it.
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Wonderful couple.
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They always coordinate,
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that's how we know
who belongs to whom.
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Number of couples do that
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but it's good to
have both of you,
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the O'Briens.
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They've been here at
3ABN in a wonderful capacity
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from the time
our school started.
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Yes.
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She was our...
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Our first school
was Nancy O'Brien.
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Amen, wonderful teacher.
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Thank you for all
you've done, Nancy.
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Yes.
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To our right, I'll
start with this gentlemen,
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and you can introduce
the young lady to your right.
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My name is Gary Will,
I'm an Editor here at 3ABN.
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I started out with Brenda
Walsh in the Kids Network,
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and Greg and Mollie asked
me to come to the main network
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and help out here
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and so the Lord
brought my family here.
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And this is my
daughter Elizabeth,
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but I'll let her
introduce herself.
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My name is Elizabeth Will,
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and I'm a freshman here
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at the
Thompsonville Christian School.
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Anyway good to have you both.
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We had a chance to
meet, not too long ago,
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and we came to find out that
we have something in common.
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We liked flying roads.
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Yes. Yes, they do.
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Glad, you made
en voyage recently.
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And he enjoyed that very much,
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and so we're
gonna have not only fun
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worshipping together but
getting to know his family
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and his wife who'll
be moving here soon.
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Yes.
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And you have two other
children Gavin and Arabella.
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That's correct.
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Great kids, great kids.
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Well, we got to have both of you
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on our program today.
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We're gonna sing
some songs in a moment,
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but, honey, would
you begin our program
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with a wonderful word of prayer.
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Sure, let's bow our heads.
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Our kind Father in heaven,
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Lord, it's your
blessed Sabbath evening.
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And we thank you Lord
for being in the midst,
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we thank you,
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we invite your
presence into our hearts,
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and those that are watching
and listening to this program,
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we invite your
presence into their hearts also.
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We ask Lord that your
spirit will abide with us.
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I pray that
you'll empty us of self
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and then you'll be
lifted up and glorified
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through this study
about your blessed Sabbath.
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Lord, we thank you,
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we praise you,
and we glorify you,
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in Jesus holy name, Amen.
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Amen.
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Now, honey,
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our program is
about the Sabbath,
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and before we
dive into the program,
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we're gonna sing some
songs about the Sabbath.
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And the lady who's
gonna be accompanying us is
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none other than
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one of my
favorites Jill Morikone
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who's gonna be on the Piano.
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She fulfills many
positions at 3ABN,
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she's the Administrative
Secretary for Danny Shelton,
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and a very wonderful Christian,
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who also has a program herself.
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And her husband is
in charge of production,
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wonderful couple, and
we were blessed by them.
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Amen.
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We're gonna begin, if you
have your Hymns notes at home...
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This song...
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Song number 388,
don't forget the Sabbath.
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It's a special song.
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Amen.
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Don't forget the Sabbath
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The Lord our God hath blest
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Of all the week the brightest
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Of all the week the best
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It brings repose from labor
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It tells of joy divine
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Its beams of light descending
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With heavenly beauty shine
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Welcome
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Welcome, welcome, ever welcome
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Blessed Sabbath day
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Welcome, welcome, ever welcome
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Blessed Sabbath day
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Keep the Sabbath holy
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And worship Him today
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Who said to His disciples
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"I am the living way."
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And if we meekly follow
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Our Savior here below
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He'll give us of the fountain
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Whose streams eternal flow.
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Welcome, welcome, ever welcome
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Blessed Sabbath day
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Welcome, welcome, ever welcome
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Blessed Sabbath day
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Amen.
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Just two stanzas of that.
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Two? Okay, good.
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And, you know, the
Sabbath is about time.
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Yeah.
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We're gonna learn today,
the Sabbath is about time,
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holy time,
simplified time, blessed time.
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But in order to
understand and receive its joy,
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you've got to
take time to be holy.
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500, we're gonna sing
the first, second, and third
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stanzas of this beautiful hymn,
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Take Time to be holy.
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Take Time to be holy
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Speak of with thy Lord
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Abide in Him always
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And feed on His Word
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Make friends of God's children
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Help those who are weak
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Forgetting in nothing
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His blessing to seek
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Take time to be holy
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The world rushes on
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Spend much time in secret
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With Jesus alone.
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By looking to Jesus
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Like Him thou shalt be
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Thy friends in thy conduct
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His likeness shall see.
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Take time to be
holy Let Him be thy Guide
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Take time to be holy
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Let Him be thy Guide
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And run not before Him
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Whatever betide.
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In joy or in sorrow
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Still follow the Lord
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And looking to Jesus
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Still trust in His Word.
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Amen. Amen.
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We made it through that.
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Thank you, this is
not a singing program,
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that's for sure.
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But, you know,
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this is a time to share
the beauty of God's word.
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Actually, this idea
you conveyed this to me,
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and actually Joe
conveyed this to you,
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when we had our
Tuesday morning worship.
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Thinking about a topic,
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what have we not
covered in Family Worship
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and when is this
program going to be aired
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and we thought,
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"It's going to be
aired on the Sabbath."
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Yeah.
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Friday evening in
the circle of family,
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what better topic to talk about
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than how to observe the Sabbath.
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Amen. Sabbath observes it.
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Now what we're
not going to do is
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tell you the dos and don'ts,
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because some of you
watching are in the mountains,
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some of you watching are way
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in the recesses
of the rural areas,
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nobody around but
you maybe your house
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or your trailer or your camper
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if you're camping somewhere.
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But somebody may be
in a high rise tenement
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in New York, in Brooklyn,
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and in some part in California.
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You may be watching from
your beachfront property.
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Wherever you might be
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and we know that
different context
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allows people to appreciate
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and experience different things.
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So we're not going to
give you the dos and don'ts,
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don't do this don't do that,
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but we're going to
share some principles
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from God's word.
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And experience.
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And experiences on how we
grow into the Sabbath, we have,
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just very briefly,
we have Joe and Nancy,
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who were not
originally Sabbath observers.
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Right.
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You were raised kind of,
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give us a little
bit by your background.
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Well, I was raised Catholic,
and I was an altar boy,
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I went through the
process of doing everything
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I could to the point of thinking
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that might be something
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God would like
for me to be a priest.
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And then at the age
of 19, I read the Bible,
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and I found out
that God has his way
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and man has their way.
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And so I had to start fresh
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and this is where
I'll just say that
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concerning the
Sabbath as I studied into,
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what the Bible says,
what our church does,
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I found the Sabbath commandment,
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and it is a commandment.
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Right. Not a suggestion.
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This is serious, we never to...
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Sin is the
transgression of the law
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and the Sabbath
commandment is a law
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on the wages of sin as
death, this could be serious.
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Right. Okay.
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So that being said,
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I read the commandment and...
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Well, we'll get into that later.
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Okay.
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I just, I'm going
to let it set for now,
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but so anyway,
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it's Catholic study for probably
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until I was about 40.
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Wow!
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Before I finally said,
"I'll prove you wrong."
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I picked up the book and
found out somebody's right.
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And it wasn't you.
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Yeah, that wasn't me.
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Wow. But good to have you.
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And, Nancy, kind of was,
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were you a part of that journey?
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Only the last part of it,
I was raised also Catholic.
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I became a
Catholic school teacher.
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And I firmly believed that
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what they were
teaching me was true.
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And then I also read the Bible,
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and I always
stumbled on the commandments.
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I had read
through, and I would say,
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"Huh, Sabbath the Seventh-day.
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Well, that must, why, well."
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I would just, you
know, dismiss I think,
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"Well, I guess we
don't do that anymore."
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And but I always
did stumble on that one.
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And so when...
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And also the death as
well, it just didn't, you know,
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what happened to
you when you died,
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I just didn't like the
teaching of the Catholic Church.
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And anyway, long
story short, when I met Joe,
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I'd already been,
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like I said stumbled or
in questing the Sabbath,
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questing some of
the other teachings
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in the Bible that just
didn't seem to go along
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with what I had been taught,
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and then we took a
revelation seminar.
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Wow!
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And while that, I mean,
it's just things made sense.
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Wow!
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Praise the Lord
that you're here.
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Now, were studying
to be a nun at one time?
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Well, I had
prayed and asked the Lord
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if that's what
he wanted me to do.
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And I was a
Catholic school teacher,
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and I was teaching
on a mission school
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on an Indian
reservation, and I often...
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I'd spent a few nights
with the nuns thinking,
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"Well, maybe I would join them."
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Wow!
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But in my heart, it
just didn't seem like
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that's what God wanted,
and so I said, "Well, Lord,
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if you want me to get
married, bring me somebody."
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He did. Yeah.
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So you could have
been a father O'Brien.
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Yeah.
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But here you are
elder O'Brien. Yeah.
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Well, you know,
being Irish O'Brien,
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it was either
going to be a policeman
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or a fireman or a,
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you know...
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A priest.
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A priest, so I
ended up being a fireman.
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That's true, that's
true, that's a very good one.
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Except for now,
now it's changing.
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I just want to
mention that Nancy when she,
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when she was teaching
in this Catholic school,
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there were other
Protestant teachers there.
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And when she began to teach
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what the Bible
says about the Sabbath,
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they fired her.
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Oh!
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But they kept the others.
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What? Wow!
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It's only the one that told
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gave the God's word
accurately that got...
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You know, I would
say, "Well, children,
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this is what the church teaches.
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But this is
what the Bible says."
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Really?
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And so I'd let them, you
know, get both sides of it.
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Wow!
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I wasn't popular.
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And I also...
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He had to put you
out to bring you in.
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Yes.
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I also lost my job but
then went through the process,
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and they had to
give it back to me
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'cause of the Constitution.
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That's right. Exactly.
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But Gary had a kind of
a different experience.
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You were raised in a
different environment
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and Sabbath had a
different context to you.
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Right, kind of a totally
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opposite side of the coin there.
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I was raised by a young couple
who were new in the faith,
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and so they were very
zealous for doing what was right
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and the commandments
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and the Sabbath
and stuff and so.
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And I love my parents very much,
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so I would not want
to talk bad about them.
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But they did the
best to their knowledge,
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and they were very
strict to my or my sister and I,
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and so we were not
allowed to do a lot of things
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that the other kids were
allowed to do on Sabbath.
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And so, we'd actually
stopped being a joy for me.
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It was more of, you
know, watching the clock,
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when is it over.
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It's, "I can't do
this, I can't do that."
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And so, for many years,
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Sabbath to me
was a real drudgery,
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it was not a pleasure.
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But since then I'm on a journey,
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the Lord helps me on journey on
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what does it mean
to keep the Sabbath.
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And my daughter's with me
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and she can
probably say some things but,
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you know,
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we're not, you know,
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we're like I
said it is a journey.
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We didn't start off
with our kids the right way
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but I'm hoping that
the Lord is now working
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so that they can see the
importance of the Sabbath.
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That's what we're striving for.
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Wow!
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Anything you want to
add to that, Elizabeth?
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Well, I mean,
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when we started
this journey at first
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I was kind of like, "Oh, no,"
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because I didn't
find it a pleasure myself.
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It was
something that I had to do
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and now that we're,
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I'm starting to
learn more about it,
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and I just really
I'm starting to enjoy it,
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enjoy fellowshipping.
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That's right.
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Enjoy hearing from God's word,
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and it's really been a blessing.
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That's good. Wow!
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And it makes all the difference.
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And we all have
different journeys,
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I was, you know,
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Angie was raised in a fully
Adventist Home all of her life.
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And youngest of eight children,
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what was Sabbath
like in your home?
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Sabbath was wonderful.
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We sang songs just like
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we're doing tonight, sang songs,
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we read the Bible,
our Sabbath school lesson.
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And my mom 'cause my
father died in England,
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so she, he left
her with eight of us.
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So it was, it was
just a wonderful time,
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we looked forward.
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We played music what
Jim Reeves or something,
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we always had nice
music, nice Christian music.
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Our dinner was
done, our closure's ready,
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and we played our music.
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It just set the
atmosphere for the Sabbath.
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So when it's time, my mom said,
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it was time for worship, my mom,
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"So, okay, everyone,
come on, time for worship."
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And sometimes,
she would even say it,
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we would always be
there in the living room,
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and we'd just bow
our heads and pray
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and ask the Lord
for guidance and,
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you know, we were kids
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and it didn't
mean much to us then
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but it mean a lot
now that I look back.
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That's right, I
remember it was in your home
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that I was invited as a teenager
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when we before we actually
started dating officially,
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you know, that
was the only reason
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I come over for
a Family Worship.
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And Angie would invite me over
00:19:03.64\00:19:04.97
and it was in
that living room where
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her family had Family
Worship on Friday evenings,
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heard her sing a song
"I Am Willing, Lord, "
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all these songs,
they play those songs.
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And it was a
wonderful atmosphere,
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very family oriented.
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It was not rigid at all.
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When we would get off track
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'cause you can't
have eight children,
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seven children there at one time
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or five of them there one time.
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And not something go funny
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or something just
kind of we'll say,
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you off and you
laugh, and a mother say,
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"Let's get back on track,"
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never rigid, never harsh.
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So the Sabbath
actually was reborn in my heart,
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in your home.
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But what I want
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what I think is
really important to do
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is I want to go to Genesis.
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Now we have an
outline that we often use,
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and we're not going to
necessarily go in order,
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we can kind of look
and pick and choose,
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but what I like to start with is
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where the Sabbath was made
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because one of the
big misconceptions that...
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And I think that each
of us could appreciate is
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from a different perspective,
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one of the misconceptions
that pervades, and...
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Oftentimes, evades the
minds of many Christians is that
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the Sabbath is
just for the Jews.
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Oh, yeah.
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That has been
just such a roadblock
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when you talk to
other Christians,
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they say, "Well,
that's just for the Jews,"
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Well, it was
noted that the cross
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was no longer relevant.
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So what I want to do, we all...
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How many days do
we have in a week?
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Somebody tell me. Seven.
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So we all have
seven days in a week,
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and when you look
at the Genesis record,
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you'll find that the Lord used
every day to create something
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but He had a seventh day
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and you can't
find anything physical
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in creation on that day.
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You can't find a tree.
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You can't find an animal.
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You can't find anything physical
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He created on that day.
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So the question will be
why give us a seven-day week.
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So let's look at
Genesis 2:1 to 2:3.
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If you have your
Bibles, follow along with us.
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And if any of you, I haven't...
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Like I should go
out and remember that,
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but I will make promises
that maybe only I can fulfill
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'cause sometimes
people contact and say,
00:21:01.42\00:21:02.99
"Could I get an
outline of that program?
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It was really great."
00:21:04.39\00:21:05.73
I have outlines
not everyone does.
00:21:05.76\00:21:07.20
So try to be very
careful who you might ask,
00:21:07.23\00:21:10.23
but Genesis 2:1 to
2:3, let me just start,
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Gary, would you
read that for us?
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2:1 to 2:3? Yeah.
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"Thus the heavens, and
the earth were finished,
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and all the hosts of them.
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And on the seventh
day God ended His work
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which He had made,
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and He rested on the seventh day
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from all His work
which he had made,
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and God blessed the
seventh day and sanctified it,
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because that in it He
had rested from all His work
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which God created and made."
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And so, you'll
notice what it says,
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what day did God rest on?
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Seventh. On the seventh day.
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What day did He end His work on?
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Seventh day. Seventh day.
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What day did he sanctify?
00:21:45.27\00:21:46.80
Seventh day.
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And could somebody tell
me what does sanctify mean?
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Set apart for a
holy purpose. Right.
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Set apart for a
holy purpose. Yes.
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Sanctified relationships,
and sanctified relationships,
00:21:54.64\00:21:57.08
set apart for holy purpose.
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So what you, what
we want to establish
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at the very outset
before we get into the specifics
00:22:00.82\00:22:03.18
or more
specifically the principles is
00:22:03.22\00:22:05.99
this is the record
of the creation week.
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So whenever the week
cycles, many of you might know,
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you can find 24-hour period
00:22:12.29\00:22:14.26
with the rising and
the setting of the sun
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for 23 hours and 56 minutes,
00:22:16.73\00:22:18.77
if you want to be specific.
00:22:18.80\00:22:20.14
You can also find the full moons
00:22:20.17\00:22:21.80
giving us the month,
00:22:21.84\00:22:23.17
the full moon,
00:22:23.20\00:22:25.31
quarter moon, half moon,
00:22:25.34\00:22:27.31
three-quarter moon,
00:22:27.34\00:22:28.68
back to the full moon,
that's the cycle of the month.
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You can find it 365 day a year,
00:22:30.68\00:22:32.68
the whole rotation of
the earth around the sun.
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We have all these
heavenly indicators.
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But many people don't
know that the only place
00:22:38.12\00:22:39.72
you can find a
seven-day week is where?
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In the Bible?
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Say it. In the Bible.
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In the Bible,
there's no other record
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where the seven-day
week could be established
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except inside the Bible.
00:22:49.66\00:22:51.00
Yeah.
00:22:51.03\00:22:52.37
So now as we started there,
00:22:52.40\00:22:53.74
Joe, you want to say
something that kind of...
00:22:53.77\00:22:55.10
Well, I was
thinking it would be nice
00:22:55.14\00:22:56.47
if we would read the...
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The Sabbath command. Yeah.
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And see what we
can glean from it.
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Let's do that, let's do that.
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May I read it?
00:23:02.51\00:23:03.85
Tell us where we going?
00:23:03.88\00:23:05.21
Okay, we're going
to go to Exodus 20.
00:23:05.25\00:23:08.35
There's the commandments,
the Ten Commandments,
00:23:08.38\00:23:10.59
these are the moral
law not the sacrificial law
00:23:10.62\00:23:13.99
or the health law
or the other laws.
00:23:14.02\00:23:16.39
This is the moral law,
00:23:16.42\00:23:17.89
it's eternal, God
says I change not.
00:23:17.93\00:23:19.86
Okay.
00:23:19.89\00:23:21.23
And so this particular
one is begins on verse 8,
00:23:21.26\00:23:24.87
so it's Exodus Chapter 20
beginning with verse eight,
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and this is coming from
the mouth of God, I mean,
00:23:28.97\00:23:31.87
we're reading it but
He is the one who said it,
00:23:31.91\00:23:34.28
in stone,
00:23:34.31\00:23:35.64
and He says, "Remember,"
00:23:35.68\00:23:38.41
well, that tells us right there,
00:23:38.45\00:23:40.05
we were going to
forget, so keep that in mind.
00:23:40.08\00:23:42.45
Exactly.
00:23:42.48\00:23:43.82
"Remember the Sabbath
day to keep it holy, "
00:23:43.85\00:23:48.32
it didn't say keep them holy.
00:23:48.36\00:23:49.69
That's right.
00:23:49.72\00:23:51.06
You don't keep the
Sabbath any day you choose,
00:23:51.09\00:23:53.23
it's the day He
said, "Keep it holy.
00:23:53.26\00:23:56.83
Six days thou shalt
labor and do all your work."
00:23:56.87\00:24:00.67
Six days, He
didn't say we're holy.
00:24:00.70\00:24:03.84
He didn't sanctify them,
and set them side for holy,
00:24:03.87\00:24:05.91
He just says, "Six days,
00:24:05.94\00:24:07.81
you shalt labor
do all your work."
00:24:07.84\00:24:09.84
But the seventh day is
the Sabbath of the Lord.
00:24:09.88\00:24:14.58
Now some people will say
the Lord's day is Sunday.
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But God didn't say that.
00:24:17.62\00:24:18.95
Right.
00:24:18.99\00:24:20.32
God says, "The
Sabbath is the Lord's,
00:24:20.36\00:24:23.39
the Lord your God."
00:24:23.43\00:24:24.76
Let me pause a second...
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Yes, yes, yes.
00:24:26.16\00:24:27.50
Because, you
know, this is important.
00:24:27.53\00:24:28.86
"The seventh day is
the Sabbath of the Lord,
00:24:28.90\00:24:30.23
your God,"
00:24:30.27\00:24:31.60
is really important.
00:24:31.63\00:24:32.97
So when you come back
that the Sabbath of the Lord,
00:24:33.00\00:24:34.37
your God,
00:24:34.40\00:24:35.74
the question is not
what day is the right day,
00:24:35.77\00:24:38.47
the question is,
00:24:38.51\00:24:39.84
who is your God? Now
this is really important.
00:24:39.87\00:24:42.24
Can I say expand on
that, will you mind?
00:24:42.28\00:24:43.75
Who's your God? Sure.
00:24:43.78\00:24:45.25
See the thing is God knew
00:24:45.28\00:24:47.22
He was going to have competition
00:24:47.25\00:24:49.15
as to who's God
because The Fallen Angel,
00:24:49.18\00:24:52.55
the leader of The
Fallen Angel said...
00:24:52.59\00:24:54.79
Yeah.
00:24:54.82\00:24:56.56
"I will exalt myself
above the stars of God.
00:24:56.59\00:24:59.29
I will be as the most high."
00:24:59.33\00:25:02.40
That's right.
00:25:02.43\00:25:03.77
That means he
wants to be worshiped.
00:25:03.80\00:25:05.23
Yes. That's right.
00:25:05.27\00:25:06.60
Okay, so he reminds
us in the commandment,
00:25:06.63\00:25:10.21
"It is the Sabbath
of the Lord, your God."
00:25:10.24\00:25:13.64
Now if I may quickly this
is really cool stuff, boy,
00:25:13.68\00:25:16.08
I'll tell you.
00:25:16.11\00:25:18.01
God is so smart.
Oh, you have notes, too.
00:25:18.05\00:25:20.25
Listen to this, listen
to this, Matthew 59 says,
00:25:20.28\00:25:23.99
"But in vain, they do worship me
00:25:24.02\00:25:25.72
teaching for doctrines
the commandments of, " who?
00:25:25.75\00:25:28.02
Man.
00:25:28.06\00:25:29.39
Oh, oh, we got commandments,
we don't want to be careful.
00:25:29.42\00:25:32.06
Matthew 77, "How be it in vain,
00:25:32.09\00:25:35.76
they do worship me teaching
00:25:35.80\00:25:37.37
for doctrines the
commandments of man."
00:25:37.40\00:25:40.17
And that
worship is in vain. Yes.
00:25:40.20\00:25:44.11
Please be,
notice the little words.
00:25:44.14\00:25:46.51
Yeah. They're powerful.
00:25:46.54\00:25:48.01
And then in Titus, you
know, Titus 1:14, it says,
00:25:48.04\00:25:52.45
"Not giving
heed to Jewish fables
00:25:52.48\00:25:54.65
and commandments of men
that turn you from the truth."
00:25:54.68\00:25:59.02
Let's get back to the truth.
00:25:59.05\00:26:00.39
Where were we?
00:26:00.42\00:26:01.76
Okay, but now,
let's just point this out.
00:26:01.79\00:26:03.12
Because it's
really good emphasize,
00:26:03.16\00:26:04.53
when you establish the
fact that the Sabbath is
00:26:04.56\00:26:07.20
the seventh day of the week,
00:26:07.23\00:26:09.16
and that is the
day that God blessed
00:26:09.20\00:26:11.10
and sanctified, and
the day that God said to
00:26:11.13\00:26:12.97
"Remember to keep it holy".
00:26:13.00\00:26:15.10
Now I don't know, Elizabeth,
00:26:15.14\00:26:16.57
I'm asking you
question that you to answer,
00:26:16.60\00:26:17.94
it might be yes or no,
I'm just kind of going,
00:26:17.97\00:26:19.94
did you, were you ever
told keep your room clean
00:26:19.97\00:26:23.14
or anything,
keep anything clean?
00:26:23.18\00:26:24.98
Yes.
00:26:25.01\00:26:26.35
Okay, yeah, Mom
said that, Dad said that?
00:26:26.38\00:26:28.38
Yes.
00:26:28.42\00:26:29.92
Don't forget to
keep everything clean,
00:26:29.95\00:26:31.52
we just finished
cleaning up the house,
00:26:31.55\00:26:32.89
whatever the case.
00:26:32.92\00:26:34.26
I was raised, were
you ever raised told that?
00:26:34.29\00:26:36.29
Oh, yeah, yeah.
00:26:36.32\00:26:39.63
Keeping the room clean
was a very important thing
00:26:39.66\00:26:41.26
around my house, yes.
00:26:41.30\00:26:42.76
And keeping
something clean means what?
00:26:42.80\00:26:48.40
Somebody clean it.
00:26:48.44\00:26:50.21
Putting in order.
00:26:50.24\00:26:52.64
Yeah, or keep it clean means
somebody already cleaned it.
00:26:52.67\00:26:56.34
Yeah.
00:26:56.38\00:26:57.71
We went to a pastor's house once
00:26:57.75\00:26:59.18
and I remember
this is a funny story.
00:26:59.21\00:27:02.05
Their housekeeper
vacuuming the carpet
00:27:02.08\00:27:05.82
and all the lines were just
00:27:05.85\00:27:08.82
you can see the
pattern that they use,
00:27:08.86\00:27:10.19
it just looks so perfect.
00:27:10.23\00:27:11.99
And I thought,
"Man, this is so clean,
00:27:12.03\00:27:14.16
this is so OCD,
00:27:14.20\00:27:17.17
obsessive compulsive,
everything is just so clean."
00:27:17.20\00:27:19.83
So I was joking around,
00:27:19.87\00:27:21.20
acting like I'm
going to step on it,
00:27:21.24\00:27:22.57
and I actually
tilted too far forward.
00:27:22.60\00:27:25.24
I've footprint
put on another, "Oh, "
00:27:25.27\00:27:28.21
and they laughed
at all because once,
00:27:28.24\00:27:30.48
once it was finished,
00:27:30.51\00:27:34.55
my foot print
got imprinted on it.
00:27:34.58\00:27:37.22
Yeah.
00:27:37.25\00:27:38.59
And jokingly my friends,
00:27:38.62\00:27:41.89
"Take your foot
off of my carpet."
00:27:41.92\00:27:44.03
Now, you know, you
know ahead of it, right?
00:27:44.06\00:27:46.83
Go ahead. Isaiah 58.
00:27:46.86\00:27:48.96
Okay. Let's look at this.
00:27:49.00\00:27:51.63
We're going to
come back to that.
00:27:51.67\00:27:53.00
Good. Isaiah 58.
00:27:53.03\00:27:54.37
Gary, why don't
you read it for us?
00:27:54.40\00:27:55.74
It's in our syllables actually.
00:27:55.77\00:27:57.11
And it would save
you a little bit of time.
00:27:57.14\00:27:58.54
We're going go to
Isaiah 58:12 to 14,
00:27:58.57\00:28:00.94
because what we're
going to address now
00:28:00.98\00:28:02.38
as we established principles,
and one of the principles that
00:28:02.41\00:28:04.58
Joe brought out on the
Bible of Isaiah strongly is
00:28:04.61\00:28:07.22
we can't really pick a day.
00:28:07.25\00:28:08.88
So when you think
about the Sabbath,
00:28:08.92\00:28:10.62
you can't pick a day and say,
00:28:10.65\00:28:11.99
"Well, this is my
Sabbath or this is his Sabbath
00:28:12.02\00:28:14.12
or that's their Sabbath."
00:28:14.16\00:28:15.49
That's right. The
Lord already decided that.
00:28:15.52\00:28:16.86
Amen.
00:28:16.89\00:28:18.23
If you worship
the God of creation,
00:28:18.26\00:28:19.73
there's no need to waste
time trying to figure out a day,
00:28:19.76\00:28:22.53
He's already done that,
00:28:22.56\00:28:23.90
which is what
number of the week?
00:28:23.93\00:28:25.53
The seventh
day. The seventh day,
00:28:25.57\00:28:27.64
that's the day
of the seventh day.
00:28:27.67\00:28:29.80
But now look at this because
I, I stepped on His carpet.
00:28:29.84\00:28:34.14
And look at this,
this is an amazing one,
00:28:34.18\00:28:36.34
go ahead, Gary,
read that for us.
00:28:36.38\00:28:38.41
"Those from among you
00:28:38.45\00:28:40.05
shall build the old ways places.
00:28:40.08\00:28:42.35
You shall raise
up the foundations
00:28:42.38\00:28:44.05
of many generations,
00:28:44.09\00:28:45.59
and you shall be called
the repair of the breach,
00:28:45.62\00:28:48.32
the restorer of
streets to dwell in.
00:28:48.36\00:28:51.03
If you turn away
your foot from the Sabbath
00:28:51.06\00:28:53.50
from doing your
pleasure on my holy day
00:28:53.53\00:28:55.96
and call the Sabbath a delight,
00:28:56.00\00:28:57.70
the holy day of
the Lord honorable,
00:28:57.73\00:28:59.73
and shall honor him
not doing your own ways
00:28:59.77\00:29:02.74
nor finding your own pleasure
nor speaking your own words,
00:29:02.77\00:29:05.67
then you shall
delight yourself in the Lord,
00:29:05.71\00:29:07.51
and I will cause you to ride
on the high heels of the earth
00:29:07.54\00:29:10.51
and feed you with
the heritage of Jacob,
00:29:10.55\00:29:12.48
your father, the
mouth of Lord has spoken."
00:29:12.51\00:29:15.28
Now look at this, if you
turn your foot from the Sabbath,
00:29:15.32\00:29:17.42
what are some of the things that
00:29:17.45\00:29:18.79
this brings out
that we looked at?
00:29:18.82\00:29:20.86
Some of the points that
this actual text tells us
00:29:20.89\00:29:23.69
what we should do.
00:29:23.73\00:29:25.36
so I'm in the verse 13.
00:29:25.39\00:29:28.16
Well, I'd like to kind of lean
into that with this thought,
00:29:28.20\00:29:31.17
it's kind of a dual thought.
00:29:31.20\00:29:32.53
It says, "Don't put
your foot on the Sabbath, "
00:29:32.57\00:29:35.77
another words don't take that
carpet is perfect and dirty it.
00:29:35.80\00:29:40.34
Okay, In other words,
00:29:40.38\00:29:41.71
it's a holy
thing, be very careful.
00:29:41.74\00:29:43.91
Actually in some dictionaries,
00:29:43.95\00:29:45.28
you'll find that holy is
defined as potentially lethal.
00:29:45.31\00:29:49.95
So be careful with holy things.
00:29:49.98\00:29:52.15
So anyway, He says
00:29:52.19\00:29:53.52
"From doing thy
pleasure on my holy day,
00:29:53.56\00:29:56.83
thy pleasure".
00:29:56.86\00:29:58.19
I want to emphasize,
00:29:58.23\00:29:59.56
if I was
against this whole idea,
00:29:59.59\00:30:01.90
I would say, "Oh, see, we can't
do anything on the Sabbath,
00:30:01.93\00:30:04.57
see."
00:30:04.60\00:30:05.93
Yeah.
00:30:05.97\00:30:07.30
"I can't have any
pleasure on my holy day
00:30:07.34\00:30:09.17
but on his holy day,
00:30:09.20\00:30:11.47
I can't speak my own words
and I can't do any of this."
00:30:11.51\00:30:14.68
Okay, but pay attention
carefully what God is saying.
00:30:14.71\00:30:16.95
Okay.
00:30:16.98\00:30:18.31
It's power packed
from doing your pleasure
00:30:18.35\00:30:22.18
but come to my house
00:30:22.22\00:30:24.32
and have pleasure
with me in fellowship.
00:30:24.35\00:30:26.22
Amen.
00:30:26.25\00:30:27.59
Have pleasure that spiritual
00:30:27.62\00:30:28.96
and heavenly
beyond your pleasure.
00:30:28.99\00:30:30.33
Okay.
00:30:30.36\00:30:31.69
He's not saying you
can't have pleasure...
00:30:31.73\00:30:33.06
Yeah.
00:30:33.09\00:30:34.43
Or enjoy
pleasure, He's just saying,
00:30:34.46\00:30:35.80
put yours aside
and come be with me.
00:30:35.83\00:30:37.63
I'd like to add that.
00:30:37.67\00:30:40.10
If you look at the
Ten Commandments...
00:30:40.14\00:30:41.47
Right.
00:30:41.50\00:30:42.84
All but two of
them say thou shalt.
00:30:42.87\00:30:44.21
Right.
00:30:44.24\00:30:45.57
God is speaking to us a
direct command thou shalt.
00:30:45.61\00:30:47.94
But when it comes to the Sabbath
00:30:47.98\00:30:49.31
and then our parents,
00:30:49.34\00:30:50.68
it's almost a,
00:30:50.71\00:30:52.15
it's a calling to remember to...
00:30:52.18\00:30:55.55
And then it's any kind of
goes in that with, you know,
00:30:55.58\00:30:58.45
don't work.
00:30:58.49\00:31:00.86
Who doesn't want
to day off, right?
00:31:00.89\00:31:02.22
That's true.
00:31:02.26\00:31:03.59
You know, and so He's calling us
00:31:03.63\00:31:04.96
not into a
burdensome relationship
00:31:04.99\00:31:07.76
but a relationship
where He's, you know,
00:31:07.80\00:31:10.10
wanting to spend time with us
00:31:10.13\00:31:11.47
and so those
things that distract us,
00:31:11.50\00:31:13.37
He's saying, "Put those aside."
00:31:13.40\00:31:15.94
Spend the day with me
and that was important to me
00:31:15.97\00:31:19.71
when I was reading
the Ten Commandments,
00:31:19.74\00:31:21.08
it's a calling, it's
God's calling us to Him.
00:31:21.11\00:31:24.38
And speaking of calling,
00:31:24.41\00:31:25.75
and this was a phrase
that really touched me
00:31:25.78\00:31:27.52
when we were
first trying to discover
00:31:27.55\00:31:29.62
about Sabbath was
call the Sabbath a delight.
00:31:29.65\00:31:32.45
That's right.
00:31:32.49\00:31:33.82
And I thought, "Wow, a delight,
00:31:33.86\00:31:35.19
we're supposed to have
a delight on this day."
00:31:35.22\00:31:36.56
That's right.
00:31:36.59\00:31:37.93
So we kind of set out
00:31:37.96\00:31:39.29
to make it a
delight for our daughter,
00:31:39.33\00:31:40.66
you know, to make it a delight.
00:31:40.70\00:31:42.03
Yes.
00:31:42.06\00:31:43.40
Not restrictions but, you know,
00:31:43.43\00:31:45.67
that phrase really struck me
00:31:45.70\00:31:47.04
when I was
reading at that, hey...
00:31:47.07\00:31:48.50
I'd say real
quickly, this is so beautiful,
00:31:48.54\00:31:50.21
I just love this.
00:31:50.24\00:31:51.57
And if you go
just a step further,
00:31:51.61\00:31:52.94
it says "I'm not seeking or
finding thine own pleasure."
00:31:52.97\00:31:55.91
Yes.
00:31:55.94\00:31:57.28
I can't have any
pleasure on the Sabbath.
00:31:57.31\00:31:59.48
That's now all it says.
00:31:59.51\00:32:00.85
Not what it says,
00:32:00.88\00:32:02.45
it says thine own pleasure.
00:32:02.48\00:32:04.42
That's a key.
00:32:04.45\00:32:05.79
Another words
instead of looking at all
00:32:05.82\00:32:07.16
the tall buildings in a
city and how fancy they are
00:32:07.19\00:32:08.92
and how pretty they are
and how hard they were to build
00:32:08.96\00:32:11.26
and how high they
went, forget that.
00:32:11.29\00:32:13.36
Come and have pleasure with me.
00:32:13.40\00:32:14.76
Amen.
00:32:14.80\00:32:16.13
Come into my
second book, creation,
00:32:16.16\00:32:20.20
go to a park with your
child and show them that,
00:32:20.24\00:32:23.91
look at that bee,
00:32:23.94\00:32:25.61
all the birds have
slippery feathers can fly fast,
00:32:25.64\00:32:27.81
why is the bee fuzzy and slow?
00:32:27.84\00:32:29.98
Well, because
there's pollen in the flower,
00:32:30.01\00:32:32.55
and God put that pollen
on those fuzzy little hairs
00:32:32.58\00:32:36.69
to be carried to another tree
so that you could have apples.
00:32:36.72\00:32:41.06
This is the second book.
This is the pleasure of God.
00:32:41.09\00:32:44.23
Forget the
buildings on that one holy day
00:32:44.26\00:32:47.26
fellowship with the creator.
00:32:47.30\00:32:48.93
Amen.
00:32:48.96\00:32:50.30
And now notice
what's also happening,
00:32:50.33\00:32:51.67
let's think of
some of the things now.
00:32:51.70\00:32:53.03
If you are a city
dweller, you might say,
00:32:53.07\00:32:56.77
"There are no
bees for 20 miles."
00:32:56.81\00:33:00.28
You know, there're
no bees for 20 miles.
00:33:00.31\00:33:02.34
We don't have any
birds, we've got pigeons.
00:33:02.38\00:33:04.48
Yeah.
00:33:04.51\00:33:05.85
And pigeon is a
pigeon, and bird is a bird,
00:33:05.88\00:33:07.72
if you're in New
York, right, honey?
00:33:07.75\00:33:09.08
Tons of pigeons.
00:33:09.12\00:33:10.45
Pigeons, pigeons,
don't fear anyone.
00:33:10.49\00:33:11.82
No.
00:33:11.85\00:33:13.19
And so we don't get that chance
00:33:13.22\00:33:14.56
to enjoy those
things growing up,
00:33:14.59\00:33:15.92
we never looked at bees
and pigeons on the Sabbath.
00:33:15.96\00:33:17.29
No, never.
00:33:17.33\00:33:18.66
So what did we do?
00:33:18.69\00:33:20.03
How do we enjoy the Sabbath?
00:33:20.06\00:33:21.40
What was a delight for us?
00:33:21.43\00:33:22.76
Wow, we went out
witnessing, didn't we?
00:33:22.80\00:33:24.97
That's right.
00:33:25.00\00:33:26.33
We share in our
faith. We share in our faith.
00:33:26.37\00:33:27.70
In Sabbath, we
went to nursing homes,
00:33:27.74\00:33:29.80
we visit the sick,
00:33:29.84\00:33:31.71
you know, and I
enjoy that as a...
00:33:31.74\00:33:34.04
Within prison ministry?
00:33:34.08\00:33:35.41
Prison ministry was huge for us
00:33:35.44\00:33:37.48
and we did that on the Sabbath.
00:33:37.51\00:33:38.85
I just, I mean,
we did it together.
00:33:38.88\00:33:42.15
Remember? That's right.
00:33:42.18\00:33:43.62
We would after Sabbath school,
00:33:43.65\00:33:45.12
we had this car
that only drove forward,
00:33:45.15\00:33:48.76
it didn't have a reverse gear.
00:33:48.79\00:33:50.13
So Christian car, we call that.
00:33:50.16\00:33:51.59
That's kind of
sign, Lord say go forward.
00:33:51.63\00:33:53.06
Forward.
00:33:53.09\00:33:54.43
And we would drive to
prisons, Rikers Island there,
00:33:54.46\00:33:57.83
and right off and
outside of, right in New York.
00:33:57.87\00:34:01.90
And we would sing to inmates.
00:34:01.94\00:34:03.34
Yeah.
00:34:03.37\00:34:04.71
and we would be
so much more fulfill,
00:34:04.74\00:34:06.68
it was a pleasure.
00:34:06.71\00:34:08.04
We actually left
more blessed than
00:34:08.08\00:34:10.78
if we sometimes
just sat in church
00:34:10.81\00:34:12.48
and really just received,
00:34:12.51\00:34:13.85
which is a beautiful
thing, that's a part of worship.
00:34:13.88\00:34:15.38
But we thought,
00:34:15.42\00:34:16.75
"Man, there are people
that can't come out to church.
00:34:16.79\00:34:18.19
Let's go to them,
00:34:18.22\00:34:19.55
go on to the highways and hedges
00:34:19.59\00:34:20.92
and the prisons and
give people the joy of it."
00:34:20.96\00:34:24.36
Real quickly though,
00:34:24.39\00:34:26.39
we started off with saying
00:34:26.43\00:34:27.76
that the Lord is the
Lord of the Sabbath I believe.
00:34:27.80\00:34:29.26
Yes.
00:34:29.30\00:34:30.63
And so how can the Sabbath,
00:34:30.67\00:34:32.07
and I'm asking
question to all of you.
00:34:32.10\00:34:34.14
How can the Sabbath
be a pleasure of delight?
00:34:34.17\00:34:36.81
If you don't know
the Lord of the Sabbath,
00:34:36.84\00:34:38.24
how can you go
into the nursing homes
00:34:38.27\00:34:42.04
and witness people,
00:34:42.08\00:34:43.41
if you don't know him
00:34:43.45\00:34:44.78
because that was my
problem as a child really is
00:34:44.81\00:34:47.28
I didn't know the
Lord of the Sabbath.
00:34:47.32\00:34:48.72
That's right.
00:34:48.75\00:34:50.19
And so it wasn't a delight.
00:34:50.22\00:34:51.85
I couldn't wait to, you
know, go do what I wanted to do.
00:34:51.89\00:34:54.52
You know, I wanted to
do what I wanted to do.
00:34:54.56\00:34:56.42
I was not following this.
00:34:56.46\00:34:58.29
So, you know, how
can you do these things
00:34:58.33\00:35:00.46
if you don't have the love
of the Lord of the Sabbath?
00:35:00.50\00:35:02.76
Well, I may though
question to Elizabeth,
00:35:02.80\00:35:04.67
I like to put
Elizabeth on the spot.
00:35:04.70\00:35:06.70
You know, knowing
your brother and sister.
00:35:06.74\00:35:10.67
If somebody else
walk up to a stranger,
00:35:10.71\00:35:12.61
walked up to you and
ask you to do something,
00:35:12.64\00:35:14.88
who would you listen to first,
00:35:14.91\00:35:16.31
your brothers and
sisters or a stranger?
00:35:16.34\00:35:22.25
Probably my, the people I know,
00:35:22.28\00:35:24.62
my brother and sister.
00:35:24.65\00:35:25.99
Exactly.
00:35:26.02\00:35:27.36
If your dad or mom
asked you to do something
00:35:27.39\00:35:28.79
or a stranger ask you,
00:35:28.82\00:35:30.43
who would you
probably listen to first?
00:35:30.46\00:35:31.99
My parents. Excellent.
00:35:32.03\00:35:33.36
And what's the
difference? I know them.
00:35:33.40\00:35:36.46
And see that's the good
thing that Gary to bringing out.
00:35:36.50\00:35:38.50
Good point.
00:35:38.53\00:35:39.93
If we don't know the
Lord, this is a command.
00:35:39.97\00:35:45.07
When the military,
the Christian military,
00:35:45.11\00:35:46.88
"Let's do it, let's do it
because we might get killed."
00:35:46.91\00:35:49.54
The Lord doesn't want us
to put our pleasures aside.
00:35:49.58\00:35:53.78
We'll put our work aside
because we are afraid of Him.
00:35:53.82\00:35:56.08
Yeah.
00:35:56.12\00:35:57.45
We will want to
put our work aside
00:35:57.49\00:35:59.15
when we understand His
pleasures are far greater
00:35:59.19\00:36:01.32
than our pleasures.
00:36:01.36\00:36:02.69
Matter of fact, I
want to have Angie
00:36:02.72\00:36:05.29
to read some real quickly here.
00:36:05.33\00:36:07.10
We're going to
come back to you, Joe.
00:36:07.13\00:36:08.90
Man, our time is
fast, slow that clock down,
00:36:08.93\00:36:12.57
please put us, stop the clock
00:36:12.60\00:36:14.94
'cause we want to get
a couple of things here.
00:36:14.97\00:36:16.81
Mark 2:27 and 28.
00:36:16.84\00:36:19.64
This is something
that was really important
00:36:19.67\00:36:21.24
because if you
think the Lord loves us,
00:36:21.28\00:36:23.75
does He love us?
00:36:23.78\00:36:25.11
Amen. Yes, He does.
00:36:25.15\00:36:26.48
He would never
recommend something
00:36:26.51\00:36:29.05
that is not good for us.
00:36:29.08\00:36:31.09
And this is a
beautiful passage here.
00:36:31.12\00:36:32.52
Mark 2:27 and 28.
00:36:32.55\00:36:34.86
Look at what the Lord tells us.
00:36:34.89\00:36:37.96
And by the way,
00:36:37.99\00:36:39.33
this is in direct response
to people that have the Sabbath
00:36:39.36\00:36:42.76
and didn't
understand the beauty of it.
00:36:42.80\00:36:44.13
"And He said to them,
00:36:44.17\00:36:46.23
'The Sabbath was made for man,
00:36:46.27\00:36:48.17
and not man for the Sabbath.'
00:36:48.20\00:36:50.47
Therefore the Son of Man
is also Lord of the Sabbath."
00:36:50.51\00:36:55.31
Okay, so He's not
only Lord of our lives
00:36:55.34\00:36:58.25
but He's Lord of the Sabbath.
00:36:58.28\00:36:59.95
Sabbath. Yeah.
00:36:59.98\00:37:01.32
So as Gary was pointing out
and we have discovered so far,
00:37:01.35\00:37:05.59
this is a day that
is to be kept holy,
00:37:05.62\00:37:08.56
to be free from our pleasures.
00:37:08.59\00:37:09.99
Let's get specific about one of,
00:37:10.03\00:37:11.66
some of the things
that we kind of cease to do.
00:37:11.69\00:37:13.06
Let's get specific...
00:37:13.09\00:37:14.43
Yeah.
00:37:14.46\00:37:15.80
Because we have CNN,
ABC, NBC, CBS, FOX news.
00:37:15.83\00:37:19.53
We've got magazines,
00:37:19.57\00:37:20.90
we've got our
iPads or what else,
00:37:20.94\00:37:22.64
what do we have?
00:37:22.67\00:37:24.01
What is this? Texting.
00:37:24.04\00:37:25.54
We're texting our brains out,
00:37:25.57\00:37:27.34
ding, our Facebook post,
00:37:27.38\00:37:28.91
ding, Messenger,
00:37:28.94\00:37:30.41
click, click, cricket sounds.
00:37:30.45\00:37:32.38
It's all pouring in
on us, isn't that true?
00:37:32.41\00:37:34.68
We live in a
media saturated age.
00:37:34.72\00:37:37.29
I mean, do you text?
00:37:37.32\00:37:38.65
Yes. Okay.
00:37:38.69\00:37:40.19
Help us with
texting in the Sabbath.
00:37:40.22\00:37:41.56
Kind of, how does that happen?
00:37:41.59\00:37:44.33
Well, when you talk to people,
00:37:44.36\00:37:47.93
I think some of the
things you should talk about is
00:37:47.96\00:37:51.73
relating to God,
relating to the Sabbath,
00:37:51.77\00:37:54.50
talk about what you
do what you find that
00:37:54.54\00:37:59.64
brings you closer to God
00:37:59.67\00:38:01.38
and that you can
really spend time with Him,
00:38:01.41\00:38:04.55
get to know Him better,
00:38:04.58\00:38:05.91
and that's the things
00:38:05.95\00:38:07.28
I like to talk
to my friends about.
00:38:07.32\00:38:09.35
And If they bring
up something, I say,
00:38:09.38\00:38:12.05
"Hey, let's talk about this.
00:38:12.09\00:38:14.62
Let's see what we
can get out of this."
00:38:14.66\00:38:18.03
And that
something that I like to do.
00:38:18.06\00:38:20.66
You'll guide the conversation
00:38:20.70\00:38:22.03
always hear it
back to the crisis.
00:38:22.06\00:38:23.47
Doing a wonderful job.
00:38:23.50\00:38:25.07
And what else can we,
00:38:25.10\00:38:26.90
what else do we not
do on the Sabbath, honey?
00:38:26.94\00:38:29.10
Well, we don't watch TV,
00:38:29.14\00:38:32.71
for secular shows, we
watch 3ABN, of course.
00:38:32.74\00:38:34.71
Right.
00:38:34.74\00:38:36.08
But we don't
watch secular shows,
00:38:36.11\00:38:37.81
we don't open our secular mail.
00:38:37.85\00:38:41.82
Even secular e-mail,
00:38:41.85\00:38:43.79
we leave that out on the Sabbath
00:38:43.82\00:38:45.59
because our
concentration is on the Lord.
00:38:45.62\00:38:48.12
That's right.
Especially on the Sabbath.
00:38:48.16\00:38:50.76
And so it's every
day, but on the Sabbath,
00:38:50.79\00:38:53.76
we don't do those
particular things, so...
00:38:53.80\00:38:56.97
And we don't, and this
is why I love as a teacher,
00:38:57.00\00:38:59.37
you know, no school work.
00:38:59.40\00:39:00.94
Exactly.
00:39:00.97\00:39:02.94
No school work.
And no housework.
00:39:02.97\00:39:04.31
Exactly. That's right.
00:39:04.34\00:39:05.74
And why do we not
do these things, Joe?
00:39:05.77\00:39:07.91
Well, it's because
in the commandment,
00:39:07.94\00:39:11.01
if we were to continue,
00:39:11.05\00:39:12.38
we find out that God identifies
himself as the creator.
00:39:12.41\00:39:15.82
Yeah. Right.
00:39:15.85\00:39:17.19
That's the second book,
00:39:17.22\00:39:18.55
nature Is like
a pagan word to me
00:39:18.59\00:39:21.39
to substitute the real
word which is creation.
00:39:21.42\00:39:25.43
And God says know me,
00:39:25.46\00:39:27.73
and when we fellowship
with Him on a Sabbath day
00:39:27.76\00:39:30.07
in nature in
creation, we know Him.
00:39:30.10\00:39:33.77
Look at all He's
done all these skills,
00:39:33.80\00:39:35.24
He says,
"Everything on heaven I created,
00:39:35.27\00:39:37.37
everything in heaven,
00:39:37.41\00:39:38.74
everything on the
earth, everything in the sea."
00:39:38.77\00:39:40.11
And it's just amazing,
00:39:40.14\00:39:42.24
because you can go out
and as far as you can go,
00:39:42.28\00:39:45.08
when you get to that brick wall,
00:39:45.11\00:39:46.85
my question is
what's on the other side?
00:39:46.88\00:39:48.95
More. More.
00:39:48.98\00:39:50.72
When you go inward,
00:39:50.75\00:39:52.09
this is hard to
swallow but take it.
00:39:52.12\00:39:53.56
When you go inward,
00:39:53.59\00:39:54.92
I don't care what you've
find the tiniest thing possible,
00:39:54.96\00:39:57.96
it's made out of something else.
00:39:57.99\00:39:59.33
Yeah. That's true.
00:39:59.36\00:40:00.70
So there's no end
inward or outward,
00:40:00.73\00:40:02.60
and if we could be
fascinated by this,
00:40:02.63\00:40:04.83
instead of tall buildings
or other things, you know,
00:40:04.87\00:40:07.44
we would know God.
00:40:07.47\00:40:09.04
We'd have that relationship.
00:40:09.07\00:40:10.47
And throughout
the Bible, He says,
00:40:10.51\00:40:12.51
"I'm the God of creation,
00:40:12.54\00:40:13.94
I made this, I made that."
00:40:13.98\00:40:15.31
And even in the last book
00:40:15.34\00:40:16.68
when He was about to
lead us in through the gates,
00:40:16.71\00:40:18.41
into the kingdom,
00:40:18.45\00:40:20.12
He tells us and reminds us
worship the God of creation.
00:40:20.15\00:40:24.62
That's right.
00:40:24.65\00:40:25.99
The one who made, made, made
00:40:26.02\00:40:27.62
because there's a
lot of gods out there
00:40:27.66\00:40:29.62
but none of them
except Him are the creator.
00:40:29.66\00:40:32.46
Wow. Well said.
00:40:32.49\00:40:33.83
You know, I call
Joe, I call Joe my zealot.
00:40:33.86\00:40:36.36
Yeah.
00:40:36.40\00:40:37.73
'Cause Joe's
champion for the truth.
00:40:37.77\00:40:39.10
Yes.
00:40:39.13\00:40:40.47
And I like that, I really do
00:40:40.50\00:40:41.84
because sometimes
people easily swayed
00:40:41.87\00:40:44.14
and easily
convinced to go other ways
00:40:44.17\00:40:46.44
but once you discover the truth,
00:40:46.47\00:40:48.04
it's a beautiful thing.
00:40:48.08\00:40:49.41
Something I've discovered
in keeping the Sabbath is,
00:40:49.44\00:40:53.88
if I don't keep
the Sabbath holy,
00:40:53.92\00:40:56.79
if I don't put
these things aside,
00:40:56.82\00:40:59.09
my week is off balance.
00:40:59.12\00:41:00.76
I'm not, I'm like a
top that's wobblier.
00:41:00.79\00:41:03.73
When you spend the day
with God on the Sabbath
00:41:03.76\00:41:07.10
and you put all those
earthly worldly things aside,
00:41:07.13\00:41:10.77
you become centered.
00:41:10.80\00:41:13.17
Things don't bug you like,
00:41:13.20\00:41:14.60
you know, your
tempers, you know,
00:41:14.64\00:41:15.97
not as short as
it might have been.
00:41:16.00\00:41:17.67
You have more patience
so I know with my kids I do.
00:41:17.71\00:41:20.68
And I've also
found as the father
00:41:20.71\00:41:23.45
and the husband of the home
00:41:23.48\00:41:25.25
that when my relationship
with God's not right,
00:41:25.28\00:41:28.45
it affects my
family, and my kids, my wife.
00:41:28.48\00:41:31.72
And it's not even that
I've been cross with them.
00:41:31.75\00:41:33.79
It's just, it seems
like we break the barrier,
00:41:33.82\00:41:36.69
and the enemy is allowed
to come in and affect our,
00:41:36.73\00:41:40.63
start affecting our
family but as a man,
00:41:40.66\00:41:43.03
as the husband and
father of the home...
00:41:43.06\00:41:44.40
The priest of home.
00:41:44.43\00:41:45.77
It's very important I
think for married couples
00:41:45.80\00:41:48.10
for the man to really
have that relationship with God
00:41:48.14\00:41:50.37
because the whole
family does suffer.
00:41:50.41\00:41:52.01
I mean, I actually see
it in my family and my kids,
00:41:52.04\00:41:54.88
when I'm not centered
00:41:54.91\00:41:56.24
and not having my
relationship with God.
00:41:56.28\00:41:58.35
That's important.
00:41:58.38\00:41:59.71
Going back to relationship,
00:41:59.75\00:42:01.08
if you don't
have a relationship,
00:42:01.12\00:42:02.45
what we're telling you
is of absolutely no value
00:42:02.48\00:42:04.35
because you can't
work your way into,
00:42:04.39\00:42:06.29
you cannot on watch
enough television to be saved.
00:42:06.32\00:42:09.79
This is all in the
context of a relationship
00:42:09.82\00:42:11.69
and like anniversary
00:42:11.73\00:42:13.83
or when you have a family member
00:42:13.86\00:42:15.66
you want to spend time with.
00:42:15.70\00:42:17.03
Imagine going to a
family member's house
00:42:17.07\00:42:19.47
and while they're
trying to share with you,
00:42:19.50\00:42:22.14
you've just been out,
00:42:22.17\00:42:23.51
"Hold on wait, wait, wait,
00:42:23.54\00:42:24.91
he's about to kick a field goal,
00:42:24.94\00:42:26.27
wait, wait, 'cause
he was on the news.
00:42:26.31\00:42:27.68
Wait, wait, gonna
go to the store as I,
00:42:27.71\00:42:29.98
wait a minute,
00:42:30.01\00:42:31.81
didn't even care about
communicating with me."
00:42:31.85\00:42:34.78
And God is saying
in the relationship
00:42:34.82\00:42:36.22
like anniversary.
00:42:36.25\00:42:37.59
Yes.
00:42:37.62\00:42:38.95
Anniversary
could be the worst day,
00:42:38.99\00:42:40.32
if the marriage
is horrible. Right.
00:42:40.36\00:42:41.69
Or the best day if
the marriage is good.
00:42:41.72\00:42:43.79
It's always the best
for us. Praise the Lord.
00:42:43.83\00:42:46.09
And the weekly if we
don't use the word anniversary,
00:42:46.13\00:42:48.16
what could we
use, weeklyversary?
00:42:48.20\00:42:50.13
No.
00:42:50.17\00:42:52.17
Yeah, that's good
word. That would be good.
00:42:52.20\00:42:53.94
every week the Lord
reminds us, "Hey, Gary.
00:42:53.97\00:42:56.37
Hey, Elizabeth. I'm here.
00:42:56.40\00:42:58.27
Got a whole lot of fun
things to share with you
00:42:58.31\00:43:00.44
but you got to...
00:43:00.48\00:43:01.88
Your things are not
fun compared to mine.
00:43:01.91\00:43:04.18
Let's go ahead and find out
what I want to share with you."
00:43:04.21\00:43:06.21
And matter of fact,
there's something else.
00:43:06.25\00:43:07.72
Now let's just hit what
we've talked about so far.
00:43:07.75\00:43:09.48
Sabbath is holy.
It's about relationship.
00:43:09.52\00:43:11.99
Yes.
00:43:12.02\00:43:13.36
It's about not
turning the television off
00:43:13.39\00:43:15.22
because there's enough news.
00:43:15.26\00:43:16.59
You'll catch it
up when the sun sets
00:43:16.62\00:43:20.60
or in the next day.
00:43:20.63\00:43:21.96
And sometimes,
00:43:22.00\00:43:23.33
you have to shut your mind down.
00:43:23.37\00:43:24.70
Recently, honey,
00:43:24.73\00:43:26.43
on CNN they
pointed out there's a new,
00:43:26.47\00:43:29.14
it's not a law but
kind of like a parameter,
00:43:29.17\00:43:32.47
they're passing in Europe.
00:43:32.51\00:43:33.84
They're saying to people,
00:43:33.88\00:43:35.21
"When you leave work
and go home, unplug."
00:43:35.24\00:43:38.95
Not the Sabbath,
they're saying in the evenings,
00:43:38.98\00:43:41.38
when you go home, unplug.
00:43:41.42\00:43:43.08
Don't keep doing work
from your computer, turn off.
00:43:43.12\00:43:45.55
Don't keep checking
the office emails, unplug.
00:43:45.59\00:43:49.26
And the
commentators on CNN said,
00:43:49.29\00:43:51.43
"It would be wonderful
if they do that in America."
00:43:51.46\00:43:54.26
They were capitalistic.
00:43:54.30\00:43:55.96
But there's something
else, so let's talk about
00:43:56.00\00:43:57.40
what about people
00:43:57.43\00:43:58.77
in the
professional industry of health?
00:43:58.80\00:44:00.90
What about neighbors
that need, have needs?
00:44:00.94\00:44:03.57
Let's talk about
this one in Matthew.
00:44:03.61\00:44:04.94
Yes. Yes.
00:44:04.97\00:44:06.57
How it is important to do
good things on the Sabbath.
00:44:06.61\00:44:10.11
And Jesus brings us out.
00:44:10.15\00:44:11.65
This is actually a
two-program subject,
00:44:11.68\00:44:13.62
don't you think?
00:44:13.65\00:44:15.02
We might come back with
part two sooner or later.
00:44:15.05\00:44:17.65
But Matthew 12.
00:44:17.69\00:44:21.32
We're going to
look at verse 11 to 13.
00:44:21.36\00:44:24.33
"Then He said to them..."
00:44:24.36\00:44:27.33
What chapter? Matthew chapter...
00:44:27.36\00:44:28.70
Start from verse 9
because that really,
00:44:28.73\00:44:31.23
that pulls it all together.
00:44:31.27\00:44:32.60
Start from verse 9. Okay.
00:44:32.63\00:44:34.10
"Now when He had
departed from there,
00:44:34.14\00:44:36.30
He went into their synagogue.
00:44:36.34\00:44:39.17
And behold there was a
man who had a withered hand.
00:44:39.21\00:44:42.81
And they asked Him, saying,
00:44:42.84\00:44:45.15
'Is it lawful to
heal on the Sabbath?'
00:44:45.18\00:44:48.08
that they might accuse Him.
00:44:48.12\00:44:51.49
Then He said to them,
00:44:51.52\00:44:54.32
'What man is there among you
00:44:54.36\00:44:56.42
who has one sheep,
00:44:56.46\00:44:58.46
and if it falls into
the pit on the Sabbath,
00:44:58.49\00:45:01.93
will not lay hold
of it and lift it out?
00:45:01.96\00:45:07.04
Of how much more value
then is a man than a sheep?
00:45:07.07\00:45:12.74
Therefore, it is lawful
to do good on the Sabbath.'
00:45:12.77\00:45:17.05
" And verse 13.
00:45:17.08\00:45:18.41
"Then He said to the
man, 'Stretch out your hand.'
00:45:18.45\00:45:22.08
And he stretched it out,
00:45:22.12\00:45:23.49
and it was restored
as whole as the other."
00:45:23.52\00:45:27.86
Now we don't...
00:45:27.89\00:45:29.22
It was healed. He was healed.
00:45:29.26\00:45:30.59
And when did it
happen? On the Sabbath.
00:45:30.63\00:45:32.66
Wow, so what
principle are we getting here?
00:45:32.69\00:45:34.36
Is it good to, what
about people that have needs
00:45:34.40\00:45:37.10
that must be met,
should we wait till sunset
00:45:37.13\00:45:39.27
if they have these needs?
00:45:39.30\00:45:40.64
No.
00:45:40.67\00:45:42.00
Well, it goes
to show that, well,
00:45:42.04\00:45:43.44
God has given us a commandment.
00:45:43.47\00:45:45.24
He didn't tighten it down to
00:45:45.27\00:45:47.34
"It has to be this
way and no other way."
00:45:47.38\00:45:49.94
He left it nebulous, sort of,
00:45:49.98\00:45:51.51
open for each one to
judge and decide for himself.
00:45:51.55\00:45:55.18
Firefighters, doctors,
00:45:55.22\00:45:58.42
policemen, caregivers,
00:45:58.45\00:45:59.79
nursing homes,
00:45:59.82\00:46:01.16
I mean, there's
people who have needs
00:46:01.19\00:46:02.86
and God is saying,
00:46:02.89\00:46:04.76
"Don't neglect the one
who can't get to the kitchen
00:46:04.79\00:46:06.93
to feed fix the food.
00:46:06.96\00:46:08.30
Feed them.
00:46:08.33\00:46:09.66
Do the things. Help your people.
00:46:09.70\00:46:11.30
The Sabbath is
for man not for..."
00:46:11.33\00:46:13.03
You know, and so
what would it be like
00:46:13.07\00:46:15.70
if a child broke his arm
00:46:15.74\00:46:17.34
and there was no
doctor in the emergency room
00:46:17.37\00:46:19.37
to fix his arm?
00:46:19.41\00:46:20.74
God would be
saying, "I don't care.
00:46:20.78\00:46:22.44
I'm the boss.
00:46:22.48\00:46:23.81
Let him suffer for another day."
00:46:23.85\00:46:25.38
No, no, no, no, no, God is cool.
00:46:25.41\00:46:26.75
Come on.
00:46:26.78\00:46:28.12
What kind of God would that be?
00:46:28.15\00:46:29.48
Would it be a God that
00:46:29.52\00:46:30.85
we'd even want
to sort of I mean...
00:46:30.89\00:46:32.22
Would we want to spend
the day with a God like that?
00:46:32.25\00:46:33.59
No. You made the point.
00:46:33.62\00:46:34.96
If it falls in the ditch,
get him out, if it's thirsty,
00:46:34.99\00:46:36.86
take it to water.
00:46:36.89\00:46:38.23
Come on, now be sensible.
00:46:38.26\00:46:39.76
Where is your commonsense?
00:46:39.79\00:46:41.13
God has got commonsense.
00:46:41.16\00:46:42.50
And what's bringing,
00:46:42.53\00:46:43.87
what comes out here
is we had an instance
00:46:43.90\00:46:46.33
once I was on my way to church
in Brooklyn going to Bethel.
00:46:46.37\00:46:50.17
And there was a guy whose
car stalled in the intersection.
00:46:50.21\00:46:53.44
And I had my suit on.
00:46:53.48\00:46:55.54
I was going to
church. I was sharp.
00:46:55.58\00:46:58.65
And this guy
jumped out of his car.
00:46:58.68\00:47:00.42
And in Brooklyn, you
can't stall too long.
00:47:00.45\00:47:02.28
So...
00:47:06.25\00:47:07.59
Now you can, back
then you couldn't.
00:47:07.62\00:47:08.96
Well, back then, yeah.
00:47:08.99\00:47:10.33
It was kind of really rough.
00:47:10.36\00:47:11.69
So he stalled and he
jumped out of his driver side,
00:47:11.73\00:47:13.46
and he couldn't move
that car for anything.
00:47:13.50\00:47:17.47
It was a big car
Buick Electra 225.
00:47:17.50\00:47:20.00
So I was walking,
passing, I looked at him and he,
00:47:20.04\00:47:23.14
he kind of glanced at me
and when his eyes caught me,
00:47:23.17\00:47:25.11
I thought, "Go to church
00:47:25.14\00:47:26.81
and leave this guy
pushing his car here.
00:47:26.84\00:47:28.64
It's the Sabbath
00:47:28.68\00:47:30.01
or it's lawful to do
good on the Sabbath."
00:47:30.05\00:47:34.05
I got rolled up my sleeves
00:47:34.08\00:47:36.75
and got on the passenger
side and when I did that,
00:47:36.79\00:47:39.32
three other people,
00:47:39.35\00:47:40.69
somebody got in back and pushed,
00:47:40.72\00:47:42.09
and all together
00:47:42.12\00:47:43.46
we alleviated this man
suffering on the Sabbath.
00:47:43.49\00:47:46.39
And see what we
want to bring out is
00:47:46.43\00:47:48.00
while we don't
seek our own pleasure
00:47:48.03\00:47:49.90
and find our own words
00:47:49.93\00:47:51.27
and watch television
do all these things that,
00:47:51.30\00:47:52.83
draw our minds away from God,
00:47:52.87\00:47:54.97
Gary, point you
emphasized so much,
00:47:55.00\00:47:56.81
how will people know
about the Lord of the Sabbath?
00:47:56.84\00:47:58.67
Yes, a relation. Plus
He's revealed though us.
00:47:58.71\00:48:02.18
What about cooking, honey?
00:48:02.21\00:48:04.25
Well, you're supposed
to have your cooking done
00:48:04.28\00:48:08.98
by sunset Friday.
00:48:09.02\00:48:11.19
Have all your cooking
done, everything out of the way,
00:48:11.22\00:48:13.99
and that's what I do especially
when I'm having company.
00:48:14.02\00:48:16.83
I get everything out the way.
00:48:16.86\00:48:19.33
All the cooking
done 'cause on Sabbath,
00:48:19.36\00:48:23.63
I want to be free and
clear of doing all of that.
00:48:23.67\00:48:26.50
Even dishes, I don't
like to do on the Sabbath.
00:48:26.53\00:48:28.37
Right, we would
always wait till sunset.
00:48:28.40\00:48:30.11
We wait till out to
sunset to wash the dishes.
00:48:30.14\00:48:31.54
And so Sabbath is so special,
00:48:31.57\00:48:34.31
but someone may
ask the question,
00:48:34.34\00:48:37.88
when does Sabbath begin.
00:48:37.91\00:48:40.55
When does it begin?
00:48:40.58\00:48:41.92
Is it just Saturday morning?
00:48:41.95\00:48:43.72
You know, when does it begin?
00:48:43.75\00:48:45.49
Okay. Let's look
at Leviticus 23:32.
00:48:45.52\00:48:47.72
Okay.
00:48:47.76\00:48:49.09
It's on our syllables actually,
00:48:49.12\00:48:50.46
it's right
under the first point.
00:48:50.49\00:48:51.83
Oh.
00:48:51.86\00:48:53.19
If you look at that point there,
00:48:53.23\00:48:54.56
and the more I
look at this topic,
00:48:54.60\00:48:56.06
the more I'm convinced,
00:48:56.10\00:48:57.43
we got to touch this again.
00:48:57.47\00:48:58.80
Yeah.
00:48:58.83\00:49:00.17
There are some other principles,
00:49:00.20\00:49:01.54
Joe, you know,
have you noticed that?
00:49:01.57\00:49:02.90
Yeah.
00:49:02.94\00:49:04.27
We're kind of polishing the car,
00:49:04.31\00:49:05.64
we haven't even
gotten to see it.
00:49:05.67\00:49:07.01
Yeah.
00:49:07.04\00:49:08.38
So let's look at it
00:49:08.41\00:49:09.74
because it's a very
important relationship.
00:49:09.78\00:49:11.11
You have the Leviticus,
read that for us, honey.
00:49:11.15\00:49:12.48
"From evening to evening,
00:49:12.51\00:49:13.92
you shall
celebrate your Sabbath."
00:49:13.95\00:49:15.98
Okay, from evening to evening.
00:49:16.02\00:49:17.42
So what is, when is evening?
00:49:17.45\00:49:18.79
How do we know it's evening?
00:49:18.82\00:49:20.16
Right. When sun goes down.
00:49:20.19\00:49:21.79
How do we know,
when the evening ends?
00:49:21.82\00:49:23.76
When it rises.
00:49:23.79\00:49:27.06
So but notice what it says,
00:49:27.10\00:49:28.73
it didn't say,
from evening to morning.
00:49:28.76\00:49:30.13
No.
00:49:30.17\00:49:31.50
It says from evening to evening.
00:49:31.53\00:49:34.24
So how many hours
apart are the two evenings?
00:49:34.27\00:49:36.87
The way I like to see it is
when it when does the day end?
00:49:36.91\00:49:40.04
The day ends when
the sun goes down.
00:49:40.08\00:49:41.44
That's right.
00:49:41.48\00:49:42.81
That has to be the
beginning of the next day.
00:49:42.84\00:49:44.18
That's right.
00:49:44.21\00:49:45.55
So evening is the
beginning of the day.
00:49:45.58\00:49:47.22
Right. That's right.
00:49:47.25\00:49:48.58
Because, he said,
00:49:48.62\00:49:49.95
the evening and the
morning were the first day.
00:49:49.98\00:49:51.32
The evening came first. Yes.
00:49:51.35\00:49:53.05
Because the other day ended.
00:49:53.09\00:49:54.42
That's right.
00:49:54.46\00:49:55.79
So comes the evening as
the beginning of the day.
00:49:55.82\00:49:57.86
And it's a 24-hour
day to evening again
00:49:57.89\00:50:00.63
when the sun sets
and that day ends.
00:50:00.66\00:50:02.03
That's right.
00:50:02.06\00:50:03.40
You know, He
knows what He's doing.
00:50:03.43\00:50:04.77
I think Gary mentioned,
00:50:04.80\00:50:06.13
he thought about
what he's going up
00:50:06.17\00:50:07.50
for the Sabbath with
such so strict at times.
00:50:07.54\00:50:09.20
What is that?
00:50:09.24\00:50:10.57
I couldn't wait for
the sun to go down, yeah.
00:50:10.61\00:50:13.94
And even when we say
happy new year, what do we,
00:50:13.98\00:50:15.78
when do we do that?
00:50:15.81\00:50:17.15
New Year's Eve.
00:50:17.18\00:50:18.51
New Year's Eve.
00:50:18.55\00:50:19.88
Well, midnight.
00:50:19.91\00:50:21.25
Well, actually the
world does it at midnight.
00:50:21.28\00:50:22.62
Midnight, oh, we
do ours at sunset.
00:50:22.65\00:50:23.99
That's right.
00:50:24.02\00:50:25.35
Our New Year's Eve,
00:50:25.39\00:50:26.72
we had our New
Year's Eve program,
00:50:26.76\00:50:28.19
every year we have it sunset.
00:50:28.22\00:50:30.73
And Elizabeth was there.
00:50:30.76\00:50:32.09
Yes, I was there.
00:50:32.13\00:50:33.46
Enjoyed that.
That was a good time.
00:50:33.50\00:50:34.83
That was good.
00:50:34.86\00:50:36.20
So we looked at and said, "Okay,
00:50:36.23\00:50:37.57
4:36 is going to be a sunset."
00:50:37.60\00:50:39.30
That's what it was here
in the Central Time Zone.
00:50:39.33\00:50:41.34
And when the sun went
down, we said, "Happy New Year."
00:50:41.37\00:50:44.84
And now what do
they call 12:00 at night,
00:50:44.87\00:50:50.65
what do they
call that? Midnight.
00:50:50.68\00:50:52.01
Which means what?
00:50:52.05\00:50:53.38
The middle of the night. Yeah.
00:50:53.42\00:50:54.75
The middle of the night,
the night didn't start there,
00:50:54.78\00:50:56.28
it's the middle of the night.
00:50:56.32\00:50:58.45
And there was a time
00:50:58.49\00:50:59.82
when this Sabbath was
new to the early Adventists,
00:50:59.85\00:51:02.09
they didn't know when it began.
00:51:02.12\00:51:03.59
So they always go from
6 o'clock to 6 o'clock.
00:51:03.63\00:51:06.59
And then there are some
people that live in time zones,
00:51:06.63\00:51:08.76
we've got to address this.
00:51:08.80\00:51:10.13
What if you lived in Alaska?
00:51:10.17\00:51:11.77
Oh, yeah.
00:51:11.80\00:51:13.13
It's dark for six months. Yeah.
00:51:13.17\00:51:16.17
Can you imagine I
worked there for six months?
00:51:16.20\00:51:18.77
Or it's light for six months.
00:51:18.81\00:51:20.61
There's always an answer.
00:51:20.64\00:51:21.98
There's always an answer.
00:51:22.01\00:51:23.35
Take for example,
you know, in Alaska,
00:51:23.38\00:51:25.15
when the sun dips
and starts back up,
00:51:25.18\00:51:27.08
that's the change.
00:51:27.12\00:51:28.45
That's right. Okay.
00:51:28.48\00:51:30.25
And so you honor the Sabbath,
and in some of those places
00:51:30.29\00:51:33.22
people said, "Okay, if
6pm to 6pm the next day..."
00:51:33.25\00:51:37.33
And the Lord understands
00:51:37.36\00:51:38.69
because the principle
there is what matters, see.
00:51:38.73\00:51:41.60
It judges the heart. Yes.
00:51:41.63\00:51:43.70
I think, you know,
00:51:43.73\00:51:45.10
the preparation
getting ready for it,
00:51:45.13\00:51:46.97
that's what we try to,
00:51:47.00\00:51:48.34
we've been
really trying to do that
00:51:48.37\00:51:49.70
in our house so prepare.
00:51:49.74\00:51:51.11
And I called it
preparation day for the Sabbath.
00:51:51.14\00:51:53.51
So that you're not rushing
around to get things done,
00:51:53.54\00:51:56.68
and so it really almost
doesn't really matter what time,
00:51:56.71\00:51:59.08
you know, you
could see your, "Okay,
00:51:59.11\00:52:00.85
sun downs at 4:32
or 8:32 whatever."
00:52:00.88\00:52:03.82
But if it's almost if
you're looking at that time
00:52:03.85\00:52:06.62
what's the last
moment I can do something,
00:52:06.65\00:52:08.49
are you really prepared?
00:52:08.52\00:52:09.99
You know. That's a good point.
00:52:10.03\00:52:11.86
So it's nice to, you
know, be looking ahead so that,
00:52:11.89\00:52:15.36
you know, we do have
that preparation done
00:52:15.40\00:52:16.97
so that when the hours do come,
00:52:17.00\00:52:18.67
you can invite the angels
00:52:18.70\00:52:20.04
and God's
presence into your house.
00:52:20.07\00:52:21.67
Yes.
00:52:21.70\00:52:23.04
And, you know, the main reason
00:52:23.07\00:52:24.41
this is
something for those of us
00:52:24.44\00:52:25.77
who travel remember we
were in Herald Singers,
00:52:25.81\00:52:27.14
we traveled quite a bit.
00:52:27.18\00:52:28.51
And most of the places we went
00:52:28.54\00:52:29.88
to churches would
have meals for us,
00:52:29.91\00:52:31.25
but there were times
00:52:31.28\00:52:32.61
we would go to
church on Sabbath,
00:52:32.65\00:52:34.02
and we didn't eat
anything that morning
00:52:34.05\00:52:35.38
when we left the hotel,
and there would be no lunch.
00:52:35.42\00:52:38.39
Now did we have the
freedom on the Sabbath
00:52:44.63\00:52:48.06
to alleviate our own suffering?
00:52:48.10\00:52:49.60
Mm-hm.
00:52:49.63\00:52:50.97
Those were the odd
times, I always said,
00:52:51.00\00:52:52.33
"You know, we got
to find a place to eat.
00:52:52.37\00:52:54.47
We got to find something to eat.
00:52:54.50\00:52:55.84
We'll have no
energy by this evening."
00:52:55.87\00:52:58.31
Those are those times
with the principle applies
00:52:58.34\00:53:01.28
and The Lord understands that.
00:53:01.31\00:53:03.58
But don't make it so rigid,
00:53:03.61\00:53:05.68
or at the same time
don't become so relaxed
00:53:05.71\00:53:09.28
that you're at home and
you say, "Hey, tomorrow,
00:53:09.32\00:53:12.15
Gary, let's go out to
Applebee's for lunch."
00:53:12.19\00:53:15.09
Yeah.
00:53:15.12\00:53:16.46
Seeking thy own
pleasure. There you go.
00:53:16.49\00:53:18.56
Instead of pleasure with God.
00:53:18.59\00:53:19.93
Well, I don't think
that's so thankful that
00:53:19.96\00:53:21.56
Jesus and His ministry
00:53:21.60\00:53:23.06
and His life illustrated
proper Sabbath keeping.
00:53:23.10\00:53:24.87
Yes.
00:53:24.90\00:53:26.23
So that we could, you know,
have an idea of how to keep it,
00:53:26.27\00:53:29.40
rather than, you
know, being either too rigid
00:53:29.44\00:53:31.71
or too relaxed
like you are saying.
00:53:31.74\00:53:34.24
It's the talking to
my mind real quickly,
00:53:34.28\00:53:35.61
do you remember
the disciples on the,
00:53:35.64\00:53:36.98
they walk through
the field on the Sabbath
00:53:37.01\00:53:38.35
and they pick...
00:53:38.38\00:53:39.71
Yeah.
00:53:39.75\00:53:41.08
And they begin to eat
and what did the Jews say?
00:53:41.12\00:53:42.45
Oh, word. Yeah.
00:53:42.48\00:53:43.82
They were breaking the Sabbath.
00:53:43.85\00:53:45.65
The Lord said
these guys are hungry.
00:53:45.69\00:53:47.96
If they what...
00:53:47.99\00:53:49.52
Didn't you ever read a
boy Deva went to the temple
00:53:49.56\00:53:51.99
and ate the
bread on the Sabbath?
00:53:52.03\00:53:53.56
He was hungry.
00:53:53.60\00:53:55.03
So this is the
principle being pointed out,
00:53:55.06\00:53:56.46
the Sabbath is not a
burden, can we say Amen to that?
00:53:56.50\00:53:58.97
Amen.
00:53:59.00\00:54:00.34
It's the Sabbath is delight.
00:54:00.37\00:54:01.70
I want to, I want
to, you know, Joe,
00:54:01.74\00:54:03.07
our time is going by so quickly.
00:54:03.10\00:54:04.44
Oh, going to say, I
wish we had more time.
00:54:04.47\00:54:05.81
We could do this topic again.
00:54:05.84\00:54:07.18
You have a point
you want to make though?
00:54:07.21\00:54:08.54
Oh, don't judge other people
00:54:08.58\00:54:11.18
what they're
doing on the Sabbath
00:54:11.21\00:54:12.55
because you
can't read the heart.
00:54:12.58\00:54:14.62
Okay, I'll just
give you a quick example,
00:54:14.65\00:54:16.89
two men they both have
daughters nine years old.
00:54:16.92\00:54:20.49
You're not supposed to go
snorkeling on the Sabbath.
00:54:20.52\00:54:23.43
Don't you dare,
00:54:23.46\00:54:24.79
you're seeking
your own pleasure.
00:54:24.83\00:54:26.19
So there's the two men
00:54:26.23\00:54:27.56
with their two
daughters in this, in this lake,
00:54:27.60\00:54:30.00
and they're each
doing their thing,
00:54:30.03\00:54:31.43
and one of them, I
tell everybody, okay,
00:54:31.47\00:54:33.97
they're
sinners, they're sinners.
00:54:34.00\00:54:35.44
"Excuse me," God
say, "wait a minute,
00:54:35.47\00:54:38.24
let me do the judging."
00:54:38.27\00:54:40.14
Because one of them
splashing water on his skin,
00:54:40.18\00:54:42.74
splashing back in their
being frolicking having okay,
00:54:42.78\00:54:45.11
and that's play.
00:54:45.15\00:54:46.68
Okay, that's
seeking your own pleasure.
00:54:46.72\00:54:48.18
The other one sets her
and tells his daughter,
00:54:48.22\00:54:51.25
"I'm going to
go, we're going down,
00:54:51.29\00:54:53.42
and I'm going to
point at something
00:54:53.46\00:54:54.79
I want you to pay
attention to what I point at
00:54:54.82\00:54:56.73
and study it."
00:54:56.76\00:54:58.09
And they will come back.
00:54:58.13\00:54:59.46
So they come back up
and they sit on the rock,
00:54:59.49\00:55:00.83
he points to
the fish down there,
00:55:00.86\00:55:02.20
and they come back up,
00:55:02.23\00:55:03.57
sit on rock, and then
he says to his daughter,
00:55:03.60\00:55:04.97
"Did you notice that,
that fish had no scales?
00:55:05.00\00:55:09.00
Did you notice that,
00:55:09.04\00:55:10.37
that fish's mouth
wasn't on the front
00:55:10.41\00:55:12.07
but on the bottom of his face?"
00:55:12.11\00:55:14.48
That is what God created
00:55:14.51\00:55:16.81
to clean up the
bottom of the lake,
00:55:16.85\00:55:18.48
don't eat those.
00:55:18.51\00:55:19.85
That's why he
gave them no scales
00:55:19.88\00:55:21.22
so you'd know not to eat them.
00:55:21.25\00:55:23.05
This is the second book.
00:55:23.08\00:55:24.65
This is learning about God
00:55:24.69\00:55:26.25
and loving him
for what he's done.
00:55:26.29\00:55:28.52
How is that a sin?
00:55:28.56\00:55:30.29
And, you know,
that's a very good point
00:55:30.33\00:55:31.83
because you can walk out
into the forest and see birds,
00:55:31.86\00:55:34.36
but what if you want to find out
00:55:34.40\00:55:35.73
about fish on the Sabbath?
00:55:35.76\00:55:37.47
You know, that for
those who live near a lake,
00:55:37.50\00:55:39.07
for those who live in
your beautiful location.
00:55:39.10\00:55:40.70
But I'm just saying...
00:55:40.74\00:55:42.07
Flexible, all I'm saying
is watch out for the heart.
00:55:42.10\00:55:44.27
The heart... That
will be the judging.
00:55:44.31\00:55:45.64
The heart is the
most important thing
00:55:45.67\00:55:47.01
in matter of fact, honey,
00:55:47.04\00:55:48.38
there's a text in
the Ezekiel 20:20.
00:55:48.41\00:55:50.71
I want to share
with our listeners
00:55:50.75\00:55:52.15
and our viewers
before we go away
00:55:52.18\00:55:54.05
because the Sabbath
is a, it's a huge sign,
00:55:54.08\00:55:58.45
it's a beautiful sign.
00:55:58.49\00:55:59.82
It says, "Hallow my Sabbaths,
00:55:59.85\00:56:01.82
and they will be a
sign between me and you,
00:56:01.86\00:56:05.63
that you may know that
I am the Lord, your God."
00:56:05.66\00:56:10.07
Wow.
00:56:10.10\00:56:11.57
Gary, Elizabeth, Nancy,
Joe, I think the clock just,
00:56:11.60\00:56:16.57
they oiled at the clock
today just a little way from us.
00:56:16.60\00:56:19.51
But let's kind a
recap a few points here,
00:56:19.54\00:56:21.91
one very important point,
00:56:21.94\00:56:23.48
The Lord made the Sabbath
as a blessing to mankind.
00:56:23.51\00:56:26.31
Can we all agree with? Amen.
00:56:26.35\00:56:27.68
He said the
Sabbath is made for man
00:56:27.72\00:56:29.75
and not man for the Sabbath.
00:56:29.78\00:56:31.12
He said, "Remember the
Sabbath to keep it holy."
00:56:31.15\00:56:33.56
It's a day He sanctified
00:56:33.59\00:56:35.22
and when you are
involved in sanctified activity,
00:56:35.26\00:56:37.66
touching someone else's life,
00:56:37.69\00:56:39.43
alleviating someone suffering,
learning about God and nature,
00:56:39.46\00:56:43.67
turning off the school books
00:56:43.70\00:56:45.47
and turning on the holy book,
00:56:45.50\00:56:47.64
turning off CNN,
and ABC, and NBC,
00:56:47.67\00:56:49.60
and allowing the Lord's
music to permeate your home,
00:56:49.64\00:56:52.44
sit with your children,
00:56:52.47\00:56:53.88
get your meals
ready before the Sabbath,
00:56:53.91\00:56:56.04
all that
washing and the clothing
00:56:56.08\00:56:57.91
that you want to do,
00:56:57.95\00:56:59.48
wait till Sunday to do that.
00:56:59.51\00:57:00.85
That's right.
00:57:00.88\00:57:02.22
It's God's special time,
00:57:02.25\00:57:03.59
and if you
really have a thriving
00:57:03.62\00:57:05.15
or want to have a thriving
relationship with Jesus,
00:57:05.19\00:57:08.02
understand the principles
00:57:08.06\00:57:09.39
and follow the
examples of Jesus.
00:57:09.42\00:57:11.43
You know, Gary, you know,
00:57:11.46\00:57:13.23
fell if we follow
the examples of Jesus,
00:57:13.26\00:57:15.46
if we do what Jesus did,
00:57:15.50\00:57:18.30
you'll never be lost.
00:57:18.33\00:57:19.67
Amen.
00:57:19.70\00:57:21.04
So who's our example, honey?
00:57:21.07\00:57:22.40
Jesus is always our example.
00:57:22.44\00:57:23.77
And why should we keep
the commandments because what?
00:57:23.81\00:57:25.14
We love him.
00:57:25.17\00:57:26.51
Amen. Amen.
00:57:26.54\00:57:27.88
Friends, if you love the Lord,
00:57:27.91\00:57:29.24
learn about Him through His word
00:57:29.28\00:57:30.61
and the blessing
will always come to you,
00:57:30.65\00:57:32.91
happy Sabbath. Happy Sabbath.
00:57:32.95\00:57:34.55
Until we see you again.
00:57:34.58\00:57:35.92
Amen.
00:57:35.95\00:57:37.29