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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Well, we want to
welcome all of you
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to 3ABN's Family Worship
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and to wish you all
a very happy Sabbath.
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We always
appreciate you joining with us
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as we welcome in the Sabbath.
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And tonight the subject
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that we want to talk
about is the Sabbath.
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We here at 3ABN realize
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that the vast
majority of our viewers
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aren't Seventh-day
Adventists and something
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that we as Seventh-day Adventist
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really see the significance of,
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see importance of
is keeping the Sabbath,
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of giving God this time,
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of honoring and worshipping Him.
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But we realize
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if you weren't
raised an Adventist,
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then there's a possibility
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that you don't really understand
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why we do, what we do.
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And we've dedicated
this program this evening
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to just
explaining to you, again,
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why we do, what we do.
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And I have got
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some of the 3ABN family with me,
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and I would like
to introduce them
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to you now.
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On my right, we have
Janelle and Don Owen.
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It's always so good to
have you worship with us
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on 3ABN Family Worship.
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Thank you for
inviting us. Thank you so much.
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And to my left
is Dee Hilderbrand.
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It's wonderful to be here.
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And, Dee, what
a joy to have you.
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Jonathan Babb,
thank you for joining us.
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Thank you.
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And, Gary Will, thank
you so much for being here.
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Thank you for having me.
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You know,
something we want to do,
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not just explain
why we do, what we do,
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but we also want to
explain how we do, what we do.
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And so what
I've tried to do here
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is have a cross-section.
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I've got a young couple
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that they have to
prepare for this Sabbath,
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I've got a family man
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who has young children,
I've got a single gentleman.
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And, you know, you
prepare for the Sabbath or just,
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and I know you
were raised in a home
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that kept the Sabbath.
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And then we've got my
sister Dee Hilderbrand...
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The elderly. The elderly.
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And so we just our prayer
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is it every one of us
will take something away
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from this program
that will help you draw
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closer to God
and really appreciate
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the beauty of
keeping the Sabbath.
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But before we go
into the program, Gary,
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will you please open in prayer.
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Sure.
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Dearly Father, we're so thankful
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that we can be here this
evening and open Your Word
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and learn a little
more about the relationship
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You want to have with us.
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Lord, You've set
aside a day that we can,
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that You want to spend with us.
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And we're thankful for that day
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that we can put aside
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our earthly
endeavors and pursuits
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and just spend it with You.
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And so we just ask that
You would be here with us
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this evening
and with our viewers
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that they might
have a special blessing
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that You've placed
on the Sabbath day.
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We pray this in
your precious name, amen.
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Amen.
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You know, what we're going to do
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is we're going to
look at the commandment
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where God Himself tells
us that we are to remember
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the Sabbath day to keep it holy,
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the blessing that is associated
with keeping the Sabbath
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and so many other
facets of keeping the Sabbath.
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But some years ago,
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I believe it was in
2008 and you may correct me.
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I might be wrong in that
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but I know it was
3ABN's 25th anniversary.
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We introduced a
music project to the world
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that I think was one of
the most impacting projects
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that we have been a part of.
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And one of the songs
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that David Huntsinger
wrote is "Remember the Sabbath",
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and it's sung by Reggie Smith.
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And I thought what better...
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There couldn't be a
more appropriate song
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to open up this program
than "Remember the Sabbath."
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Remember the Sabbath
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To keep it Holy
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Honor the day
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That our Lord commands us
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To cease our toiling
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And we obey
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That we may know Him
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And learn His patient ways
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Keeping the Sabbath holy
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In all
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Our days
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So enter His temple
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With high thanksgiving
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Worship the Lord
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And fill up this house
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With your voices ringing
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Let them be heard
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For we adore Him
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And lift our hearts in praise
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Keeping the Sabbath holy
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In all
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Our days
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Remember the Sabbath
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To keep it Holy Honor
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The day
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That our Lord commands us
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To cease our toiling
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And we obey And we obey
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That we may know Him
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And learn
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His patient ways
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Keeping the Sabbath holy
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In all
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Our days
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You know, I think you can see
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why that song
was so appropriate.
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"Remember the Sabbath",
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Reggie and Ladye Love
did such a beautiful job.
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And it always brings
my heart before the Lord.
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The whole project,
the whole Pillars project,
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such an
incredible number of songs
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that draw you
closer to the Lord.
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Yes.
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Well, again, we're
looking at remembering
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the Sabbath to keep it holy,
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the purpose for the
Sabbath why we do, what we do.
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And, Jonathan,
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there is a
commandment associated
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with keeping the Sabbath.
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Do you have that commandment?
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Yes, it's in Exodus 20:8-11,
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and I'm reading out
of the New King James.
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"Remember the
Sabbath day, to keep it holy.
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Six days you shall
labor and do all your work,
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but the seventh
day is the Sabbath
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of the Lord your God.
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In it you shall do no work, you,
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nor your son, nor your daughter,
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nor your male servant,
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nor your female
servant, nor your cattle,
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nor your stranger
who is within your gates.
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For in six days the Lord
made the heavens and the earth,
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the sea, and
all that is in them,
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and rested the seventh day.
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Therefore the Lord blessed
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the Sabbath day
and hallowed it."
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So he gave us a commandment.
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I believe it is
the Fourth Commandment.
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Remember the
Sabbath day to keep it holy.
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And He blessed the day
and He sanctified the day,
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and it's the only
day that is blessed
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and sanctified of the Lord.
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You know, when I was listening
to that song, I just...
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A scripture popped in my head.
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It was Psalm
46:10, powerful scripture.
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It goes very long
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with this whole
concept of the Sabbath,
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and it says something
there is a promise for us.
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Psalm 46:10, just let
me get there real quick.
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All right, Psalm 46:10 says,
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"Be still, and
know that I am God.
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I will be exalted
among the nations,
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I will be exalted in the earth!"
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And just thinking
about that Sabbath day,
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you know, exalting
the Lord as I said,
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you know,
remember the Sabbath day
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to keep it holy
and lift high His name,
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you know, and
praise Him and just...
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You know, we're talking
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about being
prepared for the Sabbath
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and how do we
actually view the Sabbath
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and just think about
that foreseeing the angels
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and to all of the universe
and talking and it's just huge.
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This Bible actually has
a little bit of commentary.
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This is an Andrew Study Bible
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and on those verses in Exodus
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that Jonathan read, it says,
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the word
"remember," the word implies
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that this Fourth Commandment,
the Sabbath was already known.
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Israelites would think of
its origin in Genesis 2:2-3
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and it's mentioned earlier
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in Exodus 16:5, 22-30.
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The command to remember
the Sabbath is explained
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with reference to
the Genesis creation.
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And there's
several more lines here
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that talk about that,
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but I thought
that was interesting
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that it mentioned
creation specifically.
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But the Sabbath is to
help us remember who we are.
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We are created in God's image.
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So He set the Sabbath
aside very specifically
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so that we would
reflect on who we were,
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that we were a creation
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and who He was and
what that relationship is.
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The Sabbath to me
is a relationship.
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Amen.
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Absolutely, and it's interesting
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that the Fourth Commandment
is read in the creation story,
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and that's where the
origin actually comes from.
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And we just
recently had Pastor Bohr
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on our network and he actually
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had some really
interesting insight
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about the Sabbath.
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I felt like and that
is, you know, we often think
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that Adam and Eve
kept the first Sabbath.
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But however, if you
look at the creation story,
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the Sabbath hadn't
actually been created
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the first day
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that they actually
spent on earth with God,
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it was actually
created in the evening.
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So it was after God
rested the Sabbath day.
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So and that's why the command
is written the way it is,
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like six days do
our labor and our work
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and then rest
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'cause that's
exactly what God had done.
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And so, I don't think
we can keep the Sabbath
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unless we've done that.
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You know, kept the
first six days of working
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just like God showed us
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how to and then
spend that relation,
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a lot of which is
about relationship.
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The Sabbath is all
about relationship.
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Relationships with that.
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So we can lay a foundation here
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that the reason
we keep the Sabbath,
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number one, and most important,
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God commanded us too.
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It is the Fourth Commandment
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and it starts out
with the word "remember,"
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and I appreciate
what you read there
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that it's something
that they were already doing.
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And so just remember
to keep the Sabbath holy.
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Now in keeping the Sabbath holy,
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Dee, is there a blessing
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that comes with
being obedient to God
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and keeping the Sabbath?
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You know, in Isaiah 58:13-14,
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it's very clear that says,
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"If you turn away
your foot from the Sabbath,
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from doing your
pleasure on My holy day,
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and call the Sabbath a delight,
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the holy day of
the Lord honorable,
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and shall honor Him,
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not doing your own ways,
not finding your own pleasure,
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nor speaking your own words,
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then you shall
delight yourself in the Lord.
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And I will cause you to ride
on the high hills of the earth,
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and feed you with the
heritage of Jacob your father.
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The mouth of the
Lord has spoken."
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And when God
speaks, it is, it becomes.
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So there is absolutely
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this incredible
blessing that God...
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The special
blessing of the Sabbath
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that
re-strengthens our relationship
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and the stronger
our relationship,
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the greater God
can work through us,
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the rest of the other six days.
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So there is definitely
a blessing in the Sabbath.
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I like that first part of 14,
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it says, you shall
delight yourself in the Lord.
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I mean I think about that
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that's where the
Sabbath is a delight
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as you mentioned earlier,
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it's relational
and I've been taking
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some of these people,
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I have been
doing Bible study with
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and showing them in the Bible,
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so many people get
confused in the Bible
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and why I share
this is all people see
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God in the Old
Testament is this horrible mean,
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vindicating person or entity,
then in the New Testament,
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see Jesus loving free going guy.
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Well, if you
take Him to the Bible
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through certain scriptures,
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you can see that actually
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when Adam first opened his eyes,
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the first person
he saw was Jesus.
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And if you believe in Jesus,
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you love Jesus, you
want to follow Jesus,
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then you can see in
Genesis 2 that Jesus is the one
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who was there
during the Sabbath.
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The very first
initiated Sabbath.
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I think that's a
really powerful key.
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A lot of people don't realize
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that Jesus was already
there in that Sabbath hours
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with Adam and Eve.
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And that makes a
profound impact on people
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and they can go, "Oh, my
God, I've never seen it before."
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Now you can get a
more clear picture
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of how we should delight.
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I mean if we delight in Jesus,
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you want to delight
in keeping the Sabbath.
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You know, you made a
statement, the Old Testament,
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people have this image
of God in the Old Testament,
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that is different
from the image of God
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in the New Testament.
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Is there any
difference in the God
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of the Old
Testament with the God of...?
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Absolutely, none.
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What does Philip says to Jesus?
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Show us the Father.
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And what does Jesus says Philip,
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"Have I been with you so long?
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Do you not know
that if you've seen Me,
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you've seen the Father?
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The Father of the Old Testament
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and the Father
of the New Testament
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are one and the same.
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Absolutely, yeah.
Full of grace and love.
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And everything God says,
everything God tells us to do,
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this commandment
is for our own good.
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Everything God
does is redemptive
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to bring blessings
and joy, what does it say?
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How many of you
feel like your life
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doesn't have
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the blessings associated with it
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that you would
like for it to have?
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Listen at this.
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If you will delight
yourself in the Lord concerning
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keeping the Sabbath,
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"I will cause thee to ride
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upon the high
places of the earth."
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Do you want to ride
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on the high places of the earth?
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Be obedient to God's Word.
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"And feed thee with the heritage
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of Jacob thy father."
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That's a
wonderful promise, isn't it?
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Yes.
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In reading these,
our negative human nature
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kind of tends to
focus on the negative.
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And so it would be
tempting, in this verse,
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we just read to say,
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"Oh, well, I can do
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what I want to
do on the Sabbath,
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God is so
restrictive in everything.
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But you take
that in relationship
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with your spouse, or your kids,
or any relationships you have,
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if you're texting
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while they're
trying to talk to you
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or before you go to bed,
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if you get in
climbing bed with your wife
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and she's on Facebook
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and you're trying to
tell her about something,
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how interested
is she ain't really,
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you know, she is
not that interested
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in what you have to say.
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And God wants
that relation with us,
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so it's not a negative thing,
He's saying, put those aside.
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He's saying, actually,
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you know what, I
want to bless you
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if you spend time with Me
'cause God is a source of life.
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And if we spend time with Him,
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then we're drawing
from that source of life,
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and power, and light.
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And so, you know, it's
not a negative requirement
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that we put our things aside,
it's actually very positive
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'cause now we can
focus on that relationship
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He wants to have with us.
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You know, we want
to have a relationship
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with our children.
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And so are there not times
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when we want to
tell our children,
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"Put that cell phone down,
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put that video game down,
come, spend time with me."
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We do that because we
want to restrain something
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from our children
or we negative, no,
00:18:46.32\00:18:48.72
it's personal to
develop a loving relationship
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with our children.
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Gary, I want you
to look in Matthew 12
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because something that
I feel like occasionally,
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we're going to look
at verses 10 through 12.
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Occasionally, I have
felt that that we can be
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unjustly accused
of is "legalism."
00:19:07.08\00:19:10.98
This can be legalistic.
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And I want us to
look at some principles
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that Jesus Himself laid down
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concerning the Sabbath.
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So, Gary, if you will
read Matthew 12:10-12.
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Okay.
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And this is from
the King James Version.
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"And, behold, there was a
man which had his hand withered.
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And they asked him, saying,
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is it lawful to
heal on the Sabbath days?
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That they might accuse him.
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And he said unto them,
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What man shall
there be among you,
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that shall have one sheep,
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and if it fall into a
pit on the Sabbath day,
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will he not lay hold
on it, and lift it out?"
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And then verse 12,
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"How much then is a
man better than a sheep?
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Wherefore it is lawful to
do well on the Sabbath day."
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So it's lawful to
do good on the Sabbath?
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Affirmative, yes. Amen.
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I have an example of that.
00:20:04.93\00:20:06.53
I know you've got
some examples of that.
00:20:06.57\00:20:08.90
But what I want us to see is
00:20:08.94\00:20:12.64
that it's the latter
of the law that kills
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but what does the spirit do?
00:20:16.21\00:20:18.21
The spirit gives life
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and we are to remember
the Sabbath to keep it holy.
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We aren't to do
our own pleasure,
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but we are to do the
things of the Father.
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And do we do that
as a legalistic thing.
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No, we've seen
that it's relational,
00:20:31.49\00:20:34.86
it's an
outcropping of your heart,
00:20:34.90\00:20:36.93
it's an overflow from your heart
00:20:36.97\00:20:39.50
to be obedient to God.
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But it's lawful
to do good things.
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So what is good?
What are good things?
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Do you have an example?
Will you share about it?
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Well, I know at
church one day on Sabbath,
00:20:51.95\00:20:54.32
you know, there's lots of people
00:20:54.35\00:20:55.68
that have allergies out there.
00:20:55.72\00:20:57.05
So one of our young ladies
who is very careful usually
00:20:57.09\00:21:00.42
but she is like
only 10 or 11 years old.
00:21:00.46\00:21:03.29
She ate something
that she had an allergy to.
00:21:03.32\00:21:07.06
And we realized immediately
she is having an allergy
00:21:07.10\00:21:09.66
and they didn't have anything,
I don't know why, usually,
00:21:09.70\00:21:11.63
you're carrying some,
00:21:11.67\00:21:13.00
they didn't have
anything on Sabbath.
00:21:13.03\00:21:15.00
I ran, and I didn't
realize the pastor ran,
00:21:15.04\00:21:17.77
we almost
collided at the front door,
00:21:17.81\00:21:19.81
we were both headed
out to go get the Benadryl
00:21:19.84\00:21:24.58
and I let the pastor go.
00:21:24.61\00:21:27.78
But we were immediately,
you take care of that,
00:21:27.82\00:21:31.09
you don't say, "Oh, I'm
sorry, this is the Sabbath.
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I can't run up to the
store and buy something
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that's going to save a
life or at least make it
00:21:35.69\00:21:40.43
so that she didn't
have to go to the hospital."
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So that is doing good
00:21:43.16\00:21:45.47
and there was no question
in our minds of what the right,
00:21:45.50\00:21:48.77
the good thing to do
even though it was Sabbath.
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Yeah, and I know each of you
00:21:50.87\00:21:52.21
have examples I would
like for you to share.
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But I'm thinking
of some while back,
00:21:54.64\00:21:57.78
it might have been 2011, I
get my storm dates mixed up.
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We had all of
these tornadoes come
00:22:01.65\00:22:05.19
through Southern Illinois
00:22:05.22\00:22:07.99
and they came
through on Friday evening
00:22:08.02\00:22:12.73
and they were
called inland hurricanes.
00:22:12.76\00:22:16.06
Straight line hurricanes. Yes.
00:22:16.10\00:22:18.73
Anyway it was horrible to
have a station in this area.
00:22:18.77\00:22:23.47
And so on Sabbath morning,
00:22:23.51\00:22:27.08
you get up and there are people
that don't have electricity,
00:22:27.11\00:22:31.18
there are trees
fallen in their driveway
00:22:31.21\00:22:34.65
and they can't get out.
00:22:34.68\00:22:36.02
Do you know what a group
of Seventh-day Adventist,
00:22:36.05\00:22:40.26
Sabbath keepers did?
00:22:40.29\00:22:43.83
They got their chainsaws
00:22:43.86\00:22:46.03
and they went in and
they helped people out.
00:22:46.06\00:22:48.86
Helped them
00:22:48.90\00:22:50.23
and so that they could
get out of their house,
00:22:50.27\00:22:53.44
get their roads cleared
because what does Jesus say,
00:22:53.47\00:22:58.37
it's lawful to do
good on the Sabbath.
00:22:58.41\00:23:00.68
Now do we if we can avoid it,
do we go and do physical labor
00:23:00.71\00:23:06.51
unless it's doing good
and there's a purpose for it,
00:23:06.55\00:23:09.72
we wouldn't clean
our house on Sabbath.
00:23:09.75\00:23:12.12
When do we clean
our house, Janelle?
00:23:12.15\00:23:14.26
Any other time. I love that.
00:23:14.29\00:23:17.29
Any other time.
00:23:17.33\00:23:18.66
It's nice to do
it at Friday morning
00:23:18.69\00:23:20.03
and if you can,
00:23:20.06\00:23:21.40
so that you have
a nice house but...
00:23:21.43\00:23:22.90
Yeah, it's not
that we don't know
00:23:22.93\00:23:24.77
and we don't want to,
00:23:24.80\00:23:26.53
we're not to buy and
sell on the Sabbath, are we?
00:23:26.57\00:23:28.54
And I think there might be
00:23:28.57\00:23:29.90
some scriptures
you want to look at.
00:23:29.94\00:23:31.27
Actually, thank you. I
want you to go to that word.
00:23:31.31\00:23:33.91
Dee, you have that Benadryl
00:23:33.94\00:23:35.41
had to be
purchased on a Saturday...
00:23:35.44\00:23:36.78
Yes.
00:23:36.81\00:23:38.15
Because we don't say,
00:23:38.18\00:23:39.51
"What, you know, I
can't go buy anything
00:23:39.55\00:23:40.88
on the Sabbath.
00:23:40.92\00:23:42.25
Let the poor child die
or suffer or whatsoever."
00:23:42.28\00:23:43.89
It's horrible.
00:23:43.92\00:23:45.25
See, it's lawful to
do good on the Sabbath.
00:23:45.29\00:23:47.29
Christ like. Yeah, Nehemiah 13.
00:23:47.32\00:23:49.39
Now Nehemiah was...
00:23:49.42\00:23:51.03
This man was
powerful, I mean what he did.
00:23:51.06\00:23:53.66
His heart was so torn
by what he saw happening
00:23:53.70\00:23:56.46
in his hometown
that the king noticed
00:23:56.50\00:23:59.00
that something was going on,
00:23:59.03\00:24:00.37
so he send with all these wares
and money and halls to create
00:24:00.40\00:24:03.44
that he can rebuild Jerusalem
00:24:03.47\00:24:04.81
but at the end, they
finally got the gates
00:24:04.84\00:24:06.71
and the walls
restored and the reason why is
00:24:06.74\00:24:09.08
because they want to
keep up all these things,
00:24:09.11\00:24:10.65
they were going
to make them profane
00:24:10.68\00:24:12.21
or defile the Sabbath...
00:24:12.25\00:24:14.15
Let's see
verse, I wrote down 17,
00:24:14.18\00:24:16.95
I will just pick it
up from there, it says,
00:24:16.99\00:24:18.55
"Then I contended
with the nobles of Judah,
00:24:18.59\00:24:20.42
and said to them,
00:24:20.46\00:24:21.79
What evil thing
is this that you do
00:24:21.82\00:24:24.03
by which you
profane the Sabbath?
00:24:24.06\00:24:26.80
Did not your fathers do thus,
00:24:26.83\00:24:28.26
and did not our God
bring all this disaster on us
00:24:28.30\00:24:31.50
and on this city?
00:24:31.53\00:24:32.87
Yet you bring
added wrath on Israel
00:24:32.90\00:24:34.24
by profaning the Sabbath."
00:24:34.27\00:24:35.60
And verse 19,
00:24:35.64\00:24:36.97
"So it was, at the
gates of Jerusalem,
00:24:37.01\00:24:39.17
as it began to be
dark before the Sabbath,
00:24:39.21\00:24:41.31
that I commanded
the gates to be shut,
00:24:41.34\00:24:43.68
and charged that
they must not be opened
00:24:43.71\00:24:45.75
till after the Sabbath.
00:24:45.78\00:24:47.12
Then I posted
00:24:47.15\00:24:48.48
some of my
servants at the gates,
00:24:48.52\00:24:49.85
so that no
burdens," that's big word,
00:24:49.88\00:24:51.69
"would be brought
in on the Sabbath day."
00:24:51.72\00:24:53.46
Don't bring
burdens on the Sabbath day.
00:24:53.49\00:24:55.42
Verse 20, "Now the
merchants and sellers
00:24:55.46\00:24:57.13
of all kinds of wares
lodged outside Jerusalem
00:24:57.16\00:24:59.63
once or twice.
00:24:59.66\00:25:01.00
Then I warned
them, and said to them,
00:25:01.03\00:25:02.36
'Why do you spend the
night around the wall?
00:25:02.40\00:25:04.03
If you do so again, I
will lay hands on you!'
00:25:04.07\00:25:07.17
From that time on they
came no more on the Sabbath."
00:25:07.20\00:25:10.27
So Nehemiah is saying, hey...
00:25:10.31\00:25:11.77
It's chapter 13.
00:25:11.81\00:25:13.14
Yeah, chapter 13, verses 17-21,
00:25:13.17\00:25:16.24
is just a idea that the
Sabbath is very holy to God
00:25:16.28\00:25:19.41
and now we can easily get
lost in that line of gray area.
00:25:19.45\00:25:23.92
We think, well, we can get away
with this and God won't mind.
00:25:23.95\00:25:26.25
It's very important.
00:25:26.29\00:25:27.62
And I like
somebody mentioned earlier,
00:25:27.66\00:25:28.99
you know, about the
idea of, kind of, marriage,
00:25:29.02\00:25:30.69
I thought about
the relational thing is
00:25:30.73\00:25:32.16
it's one is God is
intimate and intentional,
00:25:32.19\00:25:36.13
and for us we need to be
intimate intentional back
00:25:36.16\00:25:38.37
'cause you're mentioning
about the cell phones,
00:25:38.40\00:25:39.73
somebody is and
you're trying to talk,
00:25:39.77\00:25:41.74
you know, like okay,
00:25:41.77\00:25:43.10
this is not
communicating obviously,
00:25:43.14\00:25:44.47
there's nothing getting through
00:25:44.51\00:25:45.84
but God wants to
communicate with us.
00:25:45.87\00:25:47.21
He does that more
importantly on a Sabbath,
00:25:47.24\00:25:49.24
that's the day we
can communicate with Him.
00:25:49.28\00:25:52.71
One of my answer
first for the Sabbath
00:25:52.75\00:25:54.18
that's her date with God.
00:25:54.22\00:25:55.82
All right. Yeah.
00:25:55.85\00:25:57.39
See that's almost
anyone you talk to.
00:25:57.42\00:25:59.52
If they talk about
a broken relationship,
00:25:59.55\00:26:02.99
what is the main
reason that it broke.
00:26:03.02\00:26:05.59
And usually it's
time spend together.
00:26:05.63\00:26:09.56
Spouses, children,
father, children relationship,
00:26:09.60\00:26:14.14
they never say,
they didn't buy me this
00:26:14.17\00:26:16.20
or it's always
they didn't spend time,
00:26:16.24\00:26:19.17
they didn't do things together.
00:26:19.21\00:26:21.31
So if earthly
relationships are broken
00:26:21.34\00:26:24.31
due to lack of
time spent together,
00:26:24.35\00:26:26.95
why would we think that
the relationship with God
00:26:26.98\00:26:28.82
would be any different
00:26:28.85\00:26:30.19
because we're
created in His image.
00:26:30.22\00:26:32.05
Yeah, I was
going a share a story
00:26:32.09\00:26:33.62
on something we
did on the Sabbath
00:26:33.66\00:26:35.06
which I'm not
saying to everybody,
00:26:35.09\00:26:36.42
it depends on
your walk with the Lord
00:26:36.46\00:26:37.79
where you're at
00:26:37.83\00:26:39.16
but we got to
do something called
00:26:39.19\00:26:40.53
the solar
eclipse here last year.
00:26:40.56\00:26:42.63
And Moonstock, Moonstock
had a Joann Bonifacio was born.
00:26:42.66\00:26:45.63
I'm sure many
of you are familiar
00:26:45.67\00:26:47.00
with this man's name.
00:26:47.04\00:26:48.37
But anyways
we're giving out books
00:26:48.40\00:26:49.74
and one of the young
men approached the tent,
00:26:49.77\00:26:52.04
and it was on the Sabbath day.
00:26:52.07\00:26:53.64
And I pray that
people understand
00:26:53.68\00:26:55.01
this God says to do
good, Jesus says to do good.
00:26:55.04\00:26:58.11
And this young
man needed a tent.
00:26:58.15\00:26:59.95
He didn't have a tent.
00:26:59.98\00:27:01.32
He came for a specific
band and actually canceled.
00:27:01.35\00:27:03.02
He flew all the
way from Kazakhstan
00:27:03.05\00:27:05.22
which is underneath Russia,
first time ever to America.
00:27:05.25\00:27:07.82
And so he came in and he
said, "I want to rent a tent."
00:27:07.86\00:27:10.59
Couldn't rent a tent, so
I heard his story, I said,
00:27:10.63\00:27:13.23
"Hey, let's go
and get you a tent."
00:27:13.26\00:27:15.50
I did not personally
purchase the tent but he did.
00:27:15.53\00:27:18.23
And then he want to do
00:27:18.27\00:27:19.77
some more
shopping somewhere else
00:27:19.80\00:27:21.14
and so I did, I
took him there and he,
00:27:21.17\00:27:23.17
his first time to America.
00:27:23.20\00:27:24.54
He says, "Don Owen, "I
want to tell you something,"
00:27:24.57\00:27:25.91
he says, "This is the
best day I've ever had."
00:27:25.94\00:27:27.74
And it turned out this
young man was a Muslim.
00:27:27.78\00:27:29.81
Oh, my. I did not know it.
00:27:29.84\00:27:31.25
Yeah, so the
next day we took him
00:27:31.28\00:27:32.61
to a Amtrak got him
up to go to Chicago.
00:27:32.65\00:27:36.48
But he was a
shock, when he found out
00:27:36.52\00:27:37.85
one of the guys was with us,
00:27:37.89\00:27:39.22
he said, he
want to give me money
00:27:39.25\00:27:41.42
for taking to places.
00:27:41.46\00:27:42.79
I said, "No, no, no." I said.
00:27:42.82\00:27:44.16
And one guy said,
"That's what we Christians do."
00:27:44.19\00:27:45.53
And this guy just went,
00:27:45.56\00:27:47.90
I don't know how
to respond to that.
00:27:47.93\00:27:49.90
At the Moonstock
gateway literature
00:27:49.93\00:27:53.13
and things like that and
Great Controversies and...
00:27:53.17\00:27:56.20
You were doing
good on the Sabbath...
00:27:56.24\00:27:57.57
Yeah.
00:27:57.61\00:27:58.94
And saying, this
is what Christians do
00:27:58.97\00:28:00.31
is good on the Sabbath.
00:28:00.34\00:28:01.68
He was 40. He
didn't know what to say.
00:28:01.71\00:28:03.04
The only thing
that came out his mouth
00:28:03.08\00:28:04.41
was just thank you, thank you.
00:28:04.45\00:28:06.88
Just blew him away.
00:28:06.92\00:28:08.28
But why did...
00:28:08.32\00:28:10.35
It was the next question,
why do we have the Sabbath?
00:28:10.39\00:28:13.32
Why did God create the Sabbath?
00:28:13.36\00:28:15.36
Well, I was thinking
that concerning Nehemiah,
00:28:15.39\00:28:20.26
He was very
adamant concerning those
00:28:20.30\00:28:23.67
that were being
disobedient on the Sabbath.
00:28:23.70\00:28:26.53
And my question would be
00:28:26.57\00:28:28.37
why was it so
vitally important to him
00:28:28.40\00:28:31.64
that he
strengthened the people out
00:28:31.67\00:28:33.78
and he gave them
stringent guidelines,
00:28:33.81\00:28:35.81
it's because He knows
00:28:35.84\00:28:37.71
that if we're
not obedient to God,
00:28:37.75\00:28:40.42
that God's hand of
blessing can't be on us.
00:28:40.45\00:28:42.78
I'm thinking of Deuteronomy
and there is this, oh, list,
00:28:42.82\00:28:48.12
that is
exceedingly long that says,
00:28:48.16\00:28:50.16
"If you are obedient to Me,
00:28:50.19\00:28:53.66
if you will keep My words
and obey My commandments,"
00:28:53.70\00:28:57.00
what happens to you?
00:28:57.03\00:28:58.83
All things blessings
are poured out on you.
00:28:58.87\00:29:01.87
You're blessed in your garden,
00:29:01.90\00:29:04.51
and you're blessed
in your house in your,
00:29:04.54\00:29:06.78
the blessings of
God are just poured,
00:29:06.81\00:29:08.88
but if you are disobedient,
all these curses come on you.
00:29:08.91\00:29:13.35
Nehemiah wasn't trying
to be mean to the people,
00:29:13.38\00:29:16.62
he was putting...
00:29:16.65\00:29:18.12
Educating them.
00:29:18.15\00:29:19.49
Putting them in a position to be
00:29:19.52\00:29:21.32
the recipient of
all of these blessings.
00:29:21.36\00:29:24.09
We had the example of Balaam.
00:29:24.13\00:29:26.39
Balaam told the
king that the only way
00:29:26.43\00:29:28.80
you're going to get God
to curse these people is
00:29:28.83\00:29:32.20
if you can get
them to disobey God
00:29:32.23\00:29:33.94
'cause disobedience separates us
00:29:33.97\00:29:36.00
from the blessing God has.
00:29:36.04\00:29:38.17
He doesn't take His
hand away from us completely
00:29:38.21\00:29:40.28
so that we're left
abandoned to Satan,
00:29:40.31\00:29:42.98
but it does
separate from those blessings
00:29:43.01\00:29:44.68
and the Sabbath
00:29:44.71\00:29:46.05
is just one of those
extra blessings of communion.
00:29:46.08\00:29:49.05
I was talking with
my kids the other day
00:29:49.08\00:29:50.85
about the Sabbath
and how it's origin,
00:29:50.89\00:29:53.56
you know, God
created on the first day.
00:29:53.59\00:29:55.29
At the first day of creation
He created day to spend with us
00:29:55.32\00:29:58.09
and then you go back to
the Bible in Revelation,
00:29:58.13\00:30:00.46
you have God moving
His throne of the universe
00:30:00.50\00:30:05.63
to this planet that
we walk on is going to be
00:30:05.67\00:30:07.80
the throne of heaven.
00:30:07.84\00:30:09.64
And so the Bible starts
out with the relationship,
00:30:09.67\00:30:12.27
it ends with relation,
00:30:12.31\00:30:13.64
a close intimate
person to person relationship,
00:30:13.68\00:30:16.75
and God never wanted the
separation to happen for us
00:30:16.78\00:30:19.71
in the time that
we're living in now,
00:30:19.75\00:30:21.68
and that's why
He gave us the day
00:30:21.72\00:30:23.05
so that even though
00:30:23.08\00:30:24.42
we can't be face
to face with Him,
00:30:24.45\00:30:26.19
we can still have that communion
00:30:26.22\00:30:27.62
and that walk with
him through our life
00:30:27.66\00:30:29.59
and then we'll
receive those blessings
00:30:29.62\00:30:30.96
that we're talking about.
00:30:30.99\00:30:32.43
I was going to touch on Nehemiah
00:30:32.46\00:30:33.80
when you mentioned it,
00:30:33.83\00:30:35.16
what came in my
mind was a scripture.
00:30:35.20\00:30:36.53
It's 1 Corinthians 14:33
and in there it says that,
00:30:36.56\00:30:40.70
God is not...
00:30:40.74\00:30:42.07
He's not the author of confusion
00:30:42.10\00:30:43.77
but of order or peace.
00:30:43.81\00:30:45.84
And that's why He's
ordered these specific days,
00:30:45.87\00:30:48.44
six days shall you do labor,
00:30:48.48\00:30:49.81
on the seventh
day, you shall rest.
00:30:49.84\00:30:51.41
It's an order in which we need,
00:30:51.45\00:30:52.78
you know, they
actually try to change
00:30:52.81\00:30:54.15
the week to 10 days.
00:30:54.18\00:30:55.65
Didn't work?
00:30:55.68\00:30:57.02
No, it just totally
flopped in their face.
00:30:57.05\00:30:58.79
And so God has given us,
like as Pastor Lomacang says,
00:30:58.82\00:31:01.82
there's a circadian rhythm,
00:31:01.86\00:31:03.19
there is a rhythm
to things in that.
00:31:03.22\00:31:04.56
Sabbath is very
necessary for us to recharge
00:31:04.59\00:31:07.13
or if you want to be
blessed to be a blessing
00:31:07.16\00:31:09.36
during the week so.
00:31:09.40\00:31:10.73
And you're
talking about Nehemiah,
00:31:10.77\00:31:12.10
there's also, we read
earlier from Isaiah 58:13-14,
00:31:12.13\00:31:17.11
but earlier in that chapter,
00:31:17.14\00:31:19.31
actually, it's verse 12.
00:31:19.34\00:31:23.31
It says, "Those from among
00:31:23.35\00:31:24.68
you shall build
the old waste places,
00:31:24.71\00:31:27.22
and you shall raise up
00:31:27.25\00:31:29.55
the foundations
of many generations,
00:31:29.58\00:31:31.35
you shall be called
the Repairer of the Breach,
00:31:31.39\00:31:33.42
The Restorer of
Streets to dwell In."
00:31:33.46\00:31:35.76
And I think that's a
beautiful picture too
00:31:35.79\00:31:37.46
that's what I think of
when I think of Nehemiah,
00:31:37.49\00:31:40.03
that's what he was doing.
00:31:40.06\00:31:41.40
He was preparing the breach
and he was bringing them back
00:31:41.43\00:31:44.10
to what God had
intended for the Sabbath.
00:31:44.13\00:31:48.20
And, you know, Dee,
00:31:48.24\00:31:49.84
we were looking at
some of the aspects
00:31:49.87\00:31:54.71
that Jesus light down
concerning the Sabbath.
00:31:54.74\00:31:58.01
And in Matthew
2:27, there's a scripture
00:31:58.05\00:32:01.72
that I think would be
very appropriate here.
00:32:01.75\00:32:07.56
Matthew 2, I'm
not sure it was 27.
00:32:07.59\00:32:11.03
But what the verse
we're looking for is the one
00:32:11.06\00:32:13.53
that says, "And
He said unto them,
00:32:13.56\00:32:16.23
'The Sabbath was made
for man, and not man...'"
00:32:16.26\00:32:19.90
Mark 2:27. Right, Mark 2:27.
00:32:19.93\00:32:23.47
"The Sabbath was made for man,
and not man for the Sabbath."
00:32:23.51\00:32:27.11
That's right.
00:32:27.14\00:32:28.48
I don't even know
how to explain this
00:32:28.51\00:32:29.98
but the blessing is for men,
00:32:30.01\00:32:34.42
not for God, God
didn't do it for himself,
00:32:34.45\00:32:36.52
He did it for
us and I don't know
00:32:36.55\00:32:39.52
how He inhabits the Sabbath
00:32:39.55\00:32:42.29
and I don't know
how do you explain
00:32:42.32\00:32:43.96
that in human terms
00:32:43.99\00:32:46.09
but somehow time and
place is different for God.
00:32:46.13\00:32:50.07
But this 24 hours
00:32:50.10\00:32:52.80
that He created
for us to benefit,
00:32:52.83\00:32:55.90
He inhabits it.
00:32:55.94\00:32:57.27
So when you
move into the Sabbath
00:32:57.31\00:33:00.54
and like I say, I
don't know how to explain
00:33:00.58\00:33:03.08
that it's something
that you experience,
00:33:03.11\00:33:05.78
you move into the Sabbath
00:33:05.81\00:33:07.15
and He is there, He inhabits it.
00:33:07.18\00:33:09.78
So and when you live there,
00:33:09.82\00:33:14.09
you love Him and
you want to worship Him,
00:33:14.12\00:33:17.36
and it's your desire you
want to praise and worship Him
00:33:17.39\00:33:21.50
for what He did,
and it's just a place
00:33:21.53\00:33:24.67
that you inhabit
with Him somehow.
00:33:24.70\00:33:28.74
You have to experience it.
It's like the Grand Canyon.
00:33:28.77\00:33:32.24
The first time I went there,
00:33:32.27\00:33:33.61
I couldn't believe
the experience of it
00:33:33.64\00:33:36.41
and so after that
experience, I was like,
00:33:36.44\00:33:38.88
it's not something
you can take a picture of,
00:33:38.91\00:33:40.42
it's not you can take a video,
00:33:40.45\00:33:41.78
it's something
you have to experience
00:33:41.82\00:33:43.15
and the Sabbath is like that.
00:33:43.18\00:33:44.72
And something you
have to experience with God
00:33:44.75\00:33:47.52
and with your family and stuff.
00:33:47.56\00:33:49.42
Jonathan, you
know, we're talking about
00:33:49.46\00:33:51.89
the Sabbath being a
24 hour period of time.
00:33:51.93\00:33:56.00
When does the
Sabbath actually began
00:33:56.03\00:33:57.97
and when does it end?
00:33:58.00\00:33:59.33
It actually begins Friday
night at setting of the sun,
00:33:59.37\00:34:03.64
and then ends Saturday
00:34:03.67\00:34:06.78
or Sabbath night
at setting of the sun.
00:34:06.81\00:34:10.01
And I think that's really
nice because it allows us to,
00:34:10.05\00:34:15.52
we're going to be getting
into preparation on Friday
00:34:15.55\00:34:17.99
and it allows us to...
00:34:18.02\00:34:20.62
In my mind, gracefully
come into the Sabbath.
00:34:20.66\00:34:23.12
It's not
something that the Sabbath
00:34:23.16\00:34:25.56
doesn't come up on us
while we're in bed sleeping,
00:34:25.59\00:34:28.90
we prepare for it on Friday
00:34:28.93\00:34:30.97
and then we get
to experience it,
00:34:31.00\00:34:34.00
coming into it, and
enjoy it all day Sabbath,
00:34:34.04\00:34:37.57
and then
gracefully leave Sabbath.
00:34:37.61\00:34:39.54
We never truly,
00:34:39.57\00:34:41.24
you know, we see
the Sabbath ends,
00:34:41.28\00:34:42.84
but our communion
with God never ends.
00:34:42.88\00:34:45.11
That's right.
00:34:45.15\00:34:46.48
You know, we're going to look
at Sabbath preparation again.
00:34:46.51\00:34:50.42
I've got all these
different age groups
00:34:50.45\00:34:52.22
so that we can
speak to everyone I hope.
00:34:52.25\00:34:54.99
But, you know, Dee,
you touched on something,
00:34:55.02\00:34:58.79
Gary, you reiterated it,
00:34:58.83\00:35:01.53
of experiencing the
truth of the Sabbath,
00:35:01.56\00:35:04.80
the blessing of the Sabbath.
00:35:04.83\00:35:06.17
Now until you
have it's not a clue
00:35:06.20\00:35:09.17
what you're talking about.
00:35:09.20\00:35:11.87
Jonathan, I'm
going to ask you this
00:35:11.91\00:35:13.61
because I know
your mother and dad
00:35:13.64\00:35:15.54
and I know your whole family.
00:35:15.58\00:35:18.65
Tell me the first time
you experienced the Sabbath?
00:35:18.68\00:35:22.98
Can you go back that far?
00:35:23.02\00:35:24.85
I don't think I could
point to a specific time
00:35:24.89\00:35:28.02
as to when I experienced Sabbath
00:35:28.06\00:35:29.76
because for me,
00:35:29.79\00:35:32.53
my family has always
been Seventh-day Adventists.
00:35:32.56\00:35:34.70
We've always
followed that growing up.
00:35:34.73\00:35:37.67
So I can't really
point to a specific time
00:35:37.70\00:35:40.50
that I even remember it.
00:35:40.54\00:35:42.14
It's just something
we've, our family has been,
00:35:42.17\00:35:45.31
you know, taken
part of all growing up.
00:35:45.34\00:35:49.38
And even now,
00:35:49.41\00:35:53.45
I like Friday,
00:35:53.48\00:35:55.82
I'm preparing my house
00:35:55.85\00:35:57.49
and you're doing
what I need to on Friday.
00:35:57.52\00:36:00.06
But then as sundown comes,
00:36:00.09\00:36:02.36
getting close to Sabbath,
I just feel like I can relax.
00:36:02.39\00:36:05.63
You know, I can put
everything out of my mind,
00:36:05.66\00:36:08.46
everything else
away and just relax
00:36:08.50\00:36:11.43
and come into the Sabbath.
00:36:11.47\00:36:12.80
Did you...
00:36:12.83\00:36:14.17
Because of your
family in the way
00:36:14.20\00:36:15.54
you grew up
doing it all the time,
00:36:15.57\00:36:16.91
did you just kind of
grow into the relationship
00:36:16.94\00:36:19.77
and then at some
point you just recognize
00:36:19.81\00:36:23.04
that it's your relationship
00:36:23.08\00:36:24.55
that you're
experiencing instead of...?
00:36:24.58\00:36:26.95
Yeah, I don't
think that would be...
00:36:26.98\00:36:28.32
Yeah, may be why you can't point
00:36:28.35\00:36:29.68
to an exact Sabbath,
is that it was a growing,
00:36:29.72\00:36:32.69
a walk with the Lord
that became your own?
00:36:32.72\00:36:34.06
Right.
00:36:34.09\00:36:35.42
You know,
initially it would have been,
00:36:35.46\00:36:37.53
you know, I did it
'cause my family did it.
00:36:37.56\00:36:40.60
And but at certain point,
00:36:40.63\00:36:43.30
you know, just
somewhere along the way,
00:36:43.33\00:36:46.17
it moves from being something
00:36:46.20\00:36:47.54
that my family does
to something that I do.
00:36:47.57\00:36:50.67
Yeah, I know that
you live on your own now
00:36:50.71\00:36:52.41
if I understand correctly,
00:36:52.44\00:36:53.98
and so no longer
are you following
00:36:54.01\00:36:57.05
what mom and dad
is doing at home,
00:36:57.08\00:36:58.88
but you're
establishing your own patterns.
00:36:58.91\00:37:01.58
And that's where
you know whether or not
00:37:01.62\00:37:04.59
it took root in your heart
00:37:04.62\00:37:06.55
or whether you are
just following your parents,
00:37:06.59\00:37:11.56
which there's nothing wrong
00:37:11.59\00:37:12.93
with doing what your
parents show you today.
00:37:12.96\00:37:14.90
But at some point it has
to take root in your heart.
00:37:14.93\00:37:17.83
You don't truly know most time,
00:37:17.87\00:37:19.67
you know, what
you're going to believe
00:37:19.70\00:37:21.14
and what you're going to follow
00:37:21.17\00:37:22.50
until you don't have
anybody else telling you
00:37:22.54\00:37:26.37
what to do.
00:37:26.41\00:37:28.28
See, it's very different for you
00:37:28.31\00:37:30.51
and also different
for me from other people
00:37:30.55\00:37:32.38
because you used to
celebrate the Sabbath
00:37:32.41\00:37:35.08
in a family
group, there was six...
00:37:35.12\00:37:38.02
How many of you? Six.
00:37:38.05\00:37:39.39
Six of you.
00:37:39.42\00:37:40.76
Now there is one
and you're a young man,
00:37:40.79\00:37:43.32
I'm older and
there's just one of me,
00:37:43.36\00:37:46.56
and it's totally different
celebrating the Sabbath
00:37:46.59\00:37:49.80
alone without
another person there
00:37:49.83\00:37:52.93
or a couple or a
family or children.
00:37:52.97\00:37:56.60
You have to have a discipline
00:37:56.64\00:37:59.97
because there is no
accountability partner
00:38:00.01\00:38:04.18
that is human, okay?
00:38:04.21\00:38:07.22
And the thing is where
the relationship comes in
00:38:07.25\00:38:10.62
is that why do you prepare.
00:38:10.65\00:38:12.59
Why do we prepare?
00:38:12.62\00:38:14.36
So you want to
prepare for the Sabbath,
00:38:14.39\00:38:16.39
so when you fall
in love with the Lord
00:38:16.42\00:38:18.99
so deeply and so much,
00:38:19.03\00:38:20.76
you want to be prepared
to have that time with Him
00:38:20.80\00:38:23.93
and so you don't
want your secular duties
00:38:23.97\00:38:26.67
or your physical needs
to interfere with that time.
00:38:26.70\00:38:30.07
And if you don't
prepare as best you can
00:38:30.11\00:38:33.74
because stuff happens,
00:38:33.78\00:38:35.81
then you have to
take part of that time.
00:38:35.84\00:38:39.38
Let's say you went out on a date
00:38:39.41\00:38:41.85
and you're out there
having this wonderful time
00:38:41.88\00:38:43.99
and Donald all of a sudden says,
00:38:44.02\00:38:45.85
"Oh, I forgot, I have
to interrupt this date
00:38:45.89\00:38:48.02
and go take care of this."
00:38:48.06\00:38:49.82
Now how would
you feel about that?
00:38:49.86\00:38:52.46
So that's kind of
what we do with the Lord.
00:38:52.49\00:38:56.16
We interrupt our time
together to go do something
00:38:56.20\00:38:59.33
'cause we weren't prepared.
00:38:59.37\00:39:00.70
Yeah, I wanted us to look
at preparation for the Sabbath
00:39:00.74\00:39:05.01
and we're going to
call it Preparation Day.
00:39:05.04\00:39:07.94
I want us in Exodus 16
00:39:07.98\00:39:10.55
because there are
some scriptures there
00:39:10.58\00:39:13.21
that I want us to look at
00:39:13.25\00:39:16.08
and Preparation Day.
00:39:16.12\00:39:20.12
Janelle, tell me
what Preparation Day is?
00:39:20.16\00:39:23.32
It's the time that
we have to get ready
00:39:23.36\00:39:25.93
for the Sabbath,
leading up to the Sabbath.
00:39:25.96\00:39:29.23
It's cleaning the house,
it's getting the food ready,
00:39:29.26\00:39:32.70
it's getting your clothes ready
for the next day for church.
00:39:32.73\00:39:36.64
It's all those
practical needs that we have.
00:39:36.67\00:39:39.67
So those would be the
things that we do on Friday.
00:39:39.71\00:39:42.64
We use Friday in
the Old Testament.
00:39:42.68\00:39:47.32
The pattern that was
laid down was on Friday.
00:39:47.35\00:39:50.82
You prepare for the
Sabbath and I wanted to...
00:39:50.85\00:39:55.26
We're going to
look at other scriptures
00:39:55.29\00:39:56.62
but I wanted to read
00:39:56.66\00:39:57.99
verse 23 in Exodus 16.
00:39:58.03\00:40:02.90
It's, "Then he said to them,"
and this is Moses talking,
00:40:02.93\00:40:06.80
"This is what
the Lord hath said,
00:40:06.84\00:40:09.97
Tomorrow is the Sabbath rest,
a holy Sabbath to the Lord.
00:40:10.01\00:40:15.61
Bake what you will bake today."
00:40:15.64\00:40:17.91
Now he is talking
to the preparation day,
00:40:17.95\00:40:20.62
preparation day being Friday.
00:40:20.65\00:40:22.98
He is talking to them on Friday.
00:40:23.02\00:40:25.02
"And boil what you will
boil and lay up for your seethe,
00:40:25.05\00:40:29.29
all that remains to
be kept until morning."
00:40:29.32\00:40:32.39
So the instruction...
00:40:32.43\00:40:34.86
Now where do we
get these instructions?
00:40:34.90\00:40:37.07
They are from Moses'
but God spoke this to Moses
00:40:37.10\00:40:40.57
and he is saying, on Friday,
the day before the Sabbath.
00:40:40.60\00:40:45.11
Take care of all of
this get your house in order
00:40:45.14\00:40:48.78
as you were saying,
get your clothes in order
00:40:48.81\00:40:51.28
but get your
food in order as well.
00:40:51.31\00:40:53.82
I was going to say can we
take this a little step further?
00:40:53.85\00:40:55.88
Sure.
00:40:55.92\00:40:57.25
Put yourself
spiritually in order.
00:40:57.29\00:40:58.62
And spiritually in
order. That's key. That's huge.
00:40:58.65\00:41:01.09
You know, yeah,
definitely the physical almost,
00:41:01.12\00:41:02.79
I think the spiritual even more
00:41:02.82\00:41:04.16
'cause you're coming
into a holy communion
00:41:04.19\00:41:06.23
with the holy God
and He wants nothing
00:41:06.26\00:41:08.16
but the best that we
have to offer Him so.
00:41:08.20\00:41:09.63
Okay.
00:41:09.66\00:41:11.00
So we're again,
we're talking to those
00:41:11.03\00:41:15.77
that may not have ever
had teaching on the Sabbath.
00:41:15.80\00:41:20.98
I hope you watch
3ABN long enough,
00:41:21.01\00:41:22.64
you'll get a lot a
teaching on the Sabbath.
00:41:22.68\00:41:25.55
But this preparation day
00:41:25.58\00:41:28.05
and I want to
start with you, Gary,
00:41:28.08\00:41:29.85
because I know, yourself
00:41:29.88\00:41:33.49
and your wife and your children,
00:41:33.52\00:41:36.12
you prepare, you make sure
00:41:36.16\00:41:38.86
that come sundown
on Friday afternoon
00:41:38.89\00:41:42.66
that all is in order.
00:41:42.70\00:41:45.07
Well, my understanding
00:41:45.10\00:41:46.43
that Jews had
their weekly system
00:41:46.47\00:41:51.27
always looking
towards the Sabbath day.
00:41:51.31\00:41:54.21
They didn't
reckon time like we do,
00:41:54.24\00:41:56.31
we have, you know, Monday,
Tuesday, Sunday and all that.
00:41:56.34\00:41:58.98
They were like the
first day to the Sabbath,
00:41:59.01\00:42:01.48
the second day to the Sabbath,
00:42:01.52\00:42:03.22
and I think
we've lost some of that
00:42:03.25\00:42:04.59
in our western thinking
00:42:04.62\00:42:05.95
because we're all
into the day in the moment
00:42:05.99\00:42:09.29
what we have to do today
and we're not really thinking
00:42:09.32\00:42:11.36
about what's
coming next so much.
00:42:11.39\00:42:14.70
And that the Jews
were always thinking
00:42:14.73\00:42:16.63
of the Sabbath day and
preparing for physically,
00:42:16.67\00:42:19.90
spiritually, mentally,
00:42:19.93\00:42:21.97
and I think
00:42:22.00\00:42:23.34
that's a good
example for us today
00:42:23.37\00:42:25.31
even is we can take
our lives and order them
00:42:25.34\00:42:28.21
so that we're
always looking to the day
00:42:28.24\00:42:30.05
we're going to
get to spend with God.
00:42:30.08\00:42:31.85
And so with my family
00:42:31.88\00:42:33.65
what we like to do
is on Friday evening,
00:42:33.68\00:42:37.19
we like to have
everything prepared,
00:42:37.22\00:42:38.95
the house
prepared, and everything,
00:42:38.99\00:42:41.19
and we start off
with maybe some songs.
00:42:41.22\00:42:44.53
We would let the kids pick
some songs they like to sing,
00:42:44.56\00:42:47.30
we get the hymnal out,
00:42:47.33\00:42:49.16
wear the pages
out on the hymnal,
00:42:49.20\00:42:51.37
the kids will maybe
share a memory verse
00:42:51.40\00:42:53.27
that they've learned that week
00:42:53.30\00:42:55.37
or let them do
the reading of that,
00:42:55.40\00:42:56.74
we're reading that week.
00:42:56.77\00:42:58.11
So what you're doing
00:42:58.14\00:42:59.47
is you're
involving the children.
00:42:59.51\00:43:00.84
Absolutely.
00:43:00.88\00:43:02.21
Which, Jonathan,
I think you will say
00:43:02.24\00:43:03.58
that that trained you
00:43:03.61\00:43:04.95
so that when you're no
longer with mom and dad,
00:43:04.98\00:43:07.18
you can still take the practice.
00:43:07.22\00:43:08.98
Absolutely.
00:43:09.02\00:43:10.35
And I appreciate
what Jonathan said
00:43:10.39\00:43:11.72
because he's actually doing
00:43:11.75\00:43:13.32
what you a parent
wants their child to do
00:43:13.36\00:43:15.16
and that's to continue
on that Sabbath keeping
00:43:15.19\00:43:19.79
that you started in the
home, however, when I left home,
00:43:19.83\00:43:22.73
I didn't want to have
anything do with that.
00:43:22.76\00:43:24.17
I was raised
Seventh-day Adventist,
00:43:24.20\00:43:25.63
I was going to church,
but I stopped attending.
00:43:25.67\00:43:27.54
And so nowadays, I
don't want to go to church
00:43:27.57\00:43:29.20
or to keep the Sabbath holy
00:43:29.24\00:43:30.71
because of
something my parents did,
00:43:30.74\00:43:32.91
I love spending
time with the Lord,
00:43:32.94\00:43:34.58
I love this
especially I love the blessing
00:43:34.61\00:43:36.38
that Dee was talking about that
00:43:36.41\00:43:38.01
you get when you
spend that time with God.
00:43:38.05\00:43:40.32
And it's
interesting the thing you said
00:43:40.35\00:43:41.68
about the dark coming
00:43:41.72\00:43:43.99
before the light
part of the day is,
00:43:44.02\00:43:46.72
you know, God doesn't
surprise like certain morning,
00:43:46.76\00:43:48.66
you know, all of
sudden it's Sabbath.
00:43:48.69\00:43:50.26
He actually gives us
rest, let's our bodies,
00:43:50.29\00:43:53.80
our minds heal over the night
00:43:53.83\00:43:56.06
so that when we
wake up in the morning,
00:43:56.10\00:43:57.90
we're prepared,
our mental abilities,
00:43:57.93\00:44:00.47
our physical
abilities is prepared to spend
00:44:00.50\00:44:02.37
that day with Him.
00:44:02.40\00:44:03.74
And I love the fact
that the darkness does come
00:44:03.77\00:44:05.87
before the light.
00:44:05.91\00:44:07.24
I like what too, and I
like what you're talking about
00:44:07.28\00:44:08.94
with the Jewish
system of keeping time
00:44:08.98\00:44:11.35
and we're so used
to our fast paced world
00:44:11.38\00:44:14.78
and, you know, we
have the 24 hours,
00:44:14.82\00:44:17.22
but in our minds, the
way our days normally go
00:44:17.25\00:44:19.85
is the 24 hours
morning and night,
00:44:19.89\00:44:22.22
but the way the Sabbath
is designed sunset to sunset,
00:44:22.26\00:44:26.83
takes us back to creation.
00:44:26.86\00:44:28.56
And how, you know, the
Jews always did everything,
00:44:28.60\00:44:31.10
you know, according to creation
and how the moon and the sun
00:44:31.13\00:44:33.97
and everything was
designed and so it not only
00:44:34.00\00:44:38.34
and, you know,
remembering creation
00:44:38.37\00:44:39.94
in that aspect
00:44:39.97\00:44:41.31
but just
remembering what God did for us.
00:44:41.34\00:44:44.15
You know, I have to admit
00:44:44.18\00:44:45.51
that I haven't always come
00:44:45.55\00:44:50.69
into the Sabbath the way
00:44:50.72\00:44:52.05
that God wants us
to because sometimes,
00:44:52.09\00:44:54.22
you know, we're doing
things at the last minute
00:44:54.26\00:44:56.02
and it's like
00:44:56.06\00:44:57.39
it's not the way God
intended for it to happen.
00:44:57.43\00:45:00.80
But, you know, that's the...
00:45:00.83\00:45:02.36
I think we could easily
fall into that as humans is,
00:45:02.40\00:45:05.00
you know, kind
of like I got this
00:45:05.03\00:45:06.47
and this and this to do
and I'm trying to get ready.
00:45:06.50\00:45:09.04
And, you know, I was
raised in an Adventist home
00:45:09.07\00:45:11.77
but then fell away,
00:45:11.81\00:45:14.01
you know, due to some things
that happen in our family.
00:45:14.04\00:45:16.64
But we had been out
of church for a long time
00:45:16.68\00:45:19.38
and then we started
keeping the Sabbath again,
00:45:19.41\00:45:21.25
it was really awkward for me
and I'm like, I don't remember
00:45:21.28\00:45:23.72
what we do and this and that
00:45:23.75\00:45:25.35
and but through God
working in both of our lives
00:45:25.39\00:45:29.26
and, you know,
just reading and stuff,
00:45:29.29\00:45:30.93
we found a better way to do it.
00:45:30.96\00:45:34.13
And so now it's
more of a blessing
00:45:34.16\00:45:37.03
than just trying to,
00:45:37.07\00:45:38.40
you know, scramble
and get things done,
00:45:38.43\00:45:39.90
of course that
happens every now and then.
00:45:39.93\00:45:41.40
It's just human, you know.
00:45:41.44\00:45:43.04
But and there have been
times when, you know, that group
00:45:43.07\00:45:47.04
wants to go, eat out,
00:45:47.08\00:45:48.54
you know, Saturday
night, and it's like,
00:45:48.58\00:45:49.91
well, no, we go
away for the Sabbath,
00:45:49.94\00:45:51.51
and that's not
the wrong attitude.
00:45:51.55\00:45:52.88
You know, and I
have found myself there,
00:45:52.91\00:45:54.55
I have found myself
there before but that's not
00:45:54.58\00:45:57.29
what God wants
that to be for us,
00:45:57.32\00:45:58.99
He wants us to have
that blessing and spend
00:45:59.02\00:46:01.06
that time with Him and that's,
00:46:01.09\00:46:02.62
you know, just
like one little section
00:46:02.66\00:46:04.43
of our week.
00:46:04.46\00:46:05.79
And it's a sanctuarian time,
00:46:05.83\00:46:07.50
but sometimes we can
make it more of like,
00:46:07.53\00:46:09.66
well, but I want to do
this and I want to do that,
00:46:09.70\00:46:13.10
but God wants so
much more for us.
00:46:13.13\00:46:15.80
I was going to mention too
just what you're talking about,
00:46:15.84\00:46:17.77
I was never raised Adventist,
00:46:17.81\00:46:19.14
so I don't know what
keeping the Sabbath mainly.
00:46:19.17\00:46:21.44
What's that day? Saturday?
00:46:21.48\00:46:23.51
But it's a learning process,
00:46:23.55\00:46:25.38
it really is and I'm
thankful that Lord is patient,
00:46:25.41\00:46:27.68
I mean I was 40
years just now learning,
00:46:27.72\00:46:30.15
you know, still
learning what the Sabbath is,
00:46:30.19\00:46:31.55
I'm only, what, nine years
00:46:31.59\00:46:32.92
into being a
Seventh-day Adventist,
00:46:32.95\00:46:34.46
I'm still learning
what the Sabbath is
00:46:34.49\00:46:35.99
and I'm really enjoying it.
00:46:36.02\00:46:37.36
When we first came to Lord,
00:46:37.39\00:46:38.73
we actually didn't
want to go to church,
00:46:38.76\00:46:40.10
we want to stay home
00:46:40.13\00:46:41.46
as well, we can
fellowship at home, no big deal,
00:46:41.50\00:46:43.06
you know, no
one's going to miss us
00:46:43.10\00:46:44.43
and then the Lord has
really pick my heart says,
00:46:44.47\00:46:46.63
you need to fellowship,
and you get with people,
00:46:46.67\00:46:48.57
you need to be, you
know, encourage people,
00:46:48.60\00:46:51.11
you need to be encouraged
00:46:51.14\00:46:52.47
and come
together, come together.
00:46:52.51\00:46:54.21
Sabbath is a
family. It's family time.
00:46:54.24\00:46:56.81
It's family with God's people.
00:46:56.85\00:46:58.41
And it's been such a blessing
to learn and like you said,
00:46:58.45\00:47:01.42
we do ever our stumbling moments
00:47:01.45\00:47:02.78
but God is there
to pick up the pieces
00:47:02.82\00:47:04.39
and He's patient
with us, you know.
00:47:04.42\00:47:05.89
He might be in the same position
00:47:05.92\00:47:07.32
we were in, and He's patient.
00:47:07.36\00:47:09.19
See, I think when we take...
00:47:09.22\00:47:11.46
We need to know what
the Sabbath is all about,
00:47:11.49\00:47:13.76
what the commandment says,
00:47:13.80\00:47:15.90
we need to educate
ourselves on all the details...
00:47:15.93\00:47:17.50
Why we do, what
we do. What we do.
00:47:17.53\00:47:19.87
However, and until you
00:47:19.90\00:47:22.34
'cause I wasn't
raised Adventist either,
00:47:22.37\00:47:23.87
I didn't know the
Sabbath, What do you do?
00:47:23.91\00:47:26.04
Yeah.
00:47:26.07\00:47:27.41
You have to learn
what the Sabbath is
00:47:27.44\00:47:28.78
and its purpose
00:47:28.81\00:47:30.15
and all of those things
logically, intellectually...
00:47:30.18\00:47:32.78
Intellectually.
00:47:32.81\00:47:34.15
But you have to move the
Sabbath to a relationship
00:47:34.18\00:47:37.85
before you understand
what you can and can't do.
00:47:37.89\00:47:42.06
It's not a list
of laws and rules.
00:47:42.09\00:47:46.06
It does have its
parameters that shows us
00:47:46.09\00:47:49.06
what it's about
and why it's about,
00:47:49.10\00:47:50.50
but then its relationship.
00:47:50.53\00:47:52.13
And our
preparation on Friday, to me,
00:47:52.17\00:47:56.87
our preparation shows
00:47:56.91\00:47:59.27
or the lack of
preparation shows our priority.
00:47:59.31\00:48:02.98
That's right.
00:48:03.01\00:48:04.35
So our priority
is our relationship
00:48:04.38\00:48:06.75
with the Lord.
00:48:06.78\00:48:08.12
You know, I'm thinking,
again, we're talking with people
00:48:08.15\00:48:12.05
are what we're
doing this program,
00:48:12.09\00:48:15.22
our hearts cry is
00:48:15.26\00:48:16.59
that we're
helping people understand,
00:48:16.62\00:48:18.49
the importance,
00:48:18.53\00:48:19.86
the significance of
keeping the Sabbath,
00:48:19.89\00:48:22.03
and the blessing
that's on the Sabbath,
00:48:22.06\00:48:25.27
and then how to do it.
00:48:25.30\00:48:27.94
And so here's just something,
00:48:27.97\00:48:33.34
Donald, I feel we can do.
00:48:33.38\00:48:35.14
We can go before God and
say, "God, in our honesty,
00:48:35.18\00:48:37.91
I have never kept the Sabbath,
00:48:37.95\00:48:39.45
didn't even know
we were supposed to.
00:48:39.48\00:48:42.28
But, Lord, if you show me,
00:48:42.32\00:48:44.39
if You'll give
me Your direction,
00:48:44.42\00:48:46.29
I feel like..."
00:48:46.32\00:48:47.66
And, you know,
I'm convinced of this.
00:48:47.69\00:48:49.02
God will chase
you down to bless you.
00:48:49.06\00:48:50.83
If you open yourself
up to God inside, God,
00:48:50.86\00:48:53.76
you teach me, He is going to see
00:48:53.80\00:48:56.83
that you are given
the proper instruction
00:48:56.87\00:48:59.00
and He will be the
one that directs you.
00:48:59.03\00:49:01.67
God loves you.
00:49:01.70\00:49:03.04
Everything He
does is for your good.
00:49:03.07\00:49:05.74
And, you know, there...
00:49:05.77\00:49:07.11
I wanted to
touch on this one thing
00:49:07.14\00:49:09.64
and it's guarding the
borders of the Sabbath.
00:49:09.68\00:49:12.21
Now there's this lady,
her name is Laura Ford.
00:49:12.25\00:49:14.62
Yes.
00:49:14.65\00:49:15.98
Oh, she was my mom
in the Lord for so long.
00:49:16.02\00:49:18.35
She's such a precious lady.
00:49:18.39\00:49:20.32
And she gave me
this terminology,
00:49:20.36\00:49:23.19
guard the borders,
00:49:23.22\00:49:24.59
guard the
borders of the Sabbath.
00:49:24.63\00:49:26.53
And I wanted if any of
you would like to just address
00:49:26.56\00:49:29.80
what that means,
Gary, in your understanding,
00:49:29.83\00:49:32.63
what does it mean to guard
the borders of the Sabbath?
00:49:32.67\00:49:35.70
Oh, merely it comes
to mind is a city that,
00:49:35.74\00:49:38.11
you know, back in the
day where they had gates
00:49:38.14\00:49:40.31
and soldiers on the
wall and things like that.
00:49:40.34\00:49:42.84
I think in our
modern times guarding
00:49:42.88\00:49:45.58
the avenues or the
borders of the Sabbath
00:49:45.61\00:49:48.18
is not allowing those
things that will take us away
00:49:48.22\00:49:51.72
and take our
attention from the relationship
00:49:51.75\00:49:54.59
God wants to have with us.
00:49:54.62\00:49:57.46
So you're saying that,
00:49:57.49\00:49:58.83
if that
television except for 3ABN
00:49:58.86\00:50:02.63
could be a stumbling
block to you on the Sabbath
00:50:02.66\00:50:06.20
that your favorite program comes
00:50:06.23\00:50:08.34
on right at sundown.
00:50:08.37\00:50:10.54
So what do you do? You
turn your television off.
00:50:10.57\00:50:12.97
That's guarding the borders.
00:50:13.01\00:50:15.14
Jonathan, would you
like to address that?
00:50:15.18\00:50:17.38
Yeah, for, you
know, I was thinking,
00:50:17.41\00:50:20.42
you know, we talked about Friday
00:50:20.45\00:50:21.78
being the Preparation Day,
00:50:21.82\00:50:23.15
but as Gary
mentioned in the Jewish
00:50:23.18\00:50:26.69
all week is Preparation Day.
00:50:26.72\00:50:28.92
Friday is just
00:50:28.96\00:50:30.29
for our very final
last few things we need to.
00:50:30.33\00:50:33.60
Gary, if you waited
till Friday to do preparation
00:50:33.63\00:50:36.67
with your whole family,
00:50:36.70\00:50:38.03
there's no way you
could get it all done.
00:50:38.07\00:50:40.77
So we prepare during
the week and then on Friday,
00:50:40.80\00:50:44.97
we do what we need to,
of the last final things.
00:50:45.01\00:50:48.88
And I like to, you
know, I know when sundown is
00:50:48.91\00:50:52.51
but instead of doing
00:50:52.55\00:50:53.88
what I want to do right up
to, whoa, it's sundown time,
00:50:53.92\00:50:58.15
back it up another hour.
00:50:58.19\00:50:59.85
And to help come
into the Sabbath,
00:50:59.89\00:51:02.96
and, for me, not always,
00:51:02.99\00:51:07.40
not being told
what to do anymore.
00:51:07.43\00:51:11.03
Fellowship is very important.
00:51:11.07\00:51:12.63
You know, if we're
alone left to our own devices,
00:51:12.67\00:51:16.07
you know, Satan
hits us with everything.
00:51:16.10\00:51:18.91
So we have a group
of us on Friday nights,
00:51:18.94\00:51:23.41
we meet together
00:51:23.45\00:51:25.05
and we seeing for
hour an hour and a half,
00:51:25.08\00:51:28.18
usually right up
starting before sundown,
00:51:28.22\00:51:32.22
right up through sundown
singing praises and hymns
00:51:32.25\00:51:35.52
and sharing
testimonies and stories.
00:51:35.56\00:51:38.16
And so it's not just
me trying to figure out
00:51:38.19\00:51:41.13
how to bring in the Sabbath.
00:51:41.16\00:51:42.63
I'm bringing it in with
a group of other people,
00:51:42.66\00:51:45.97
other people that are
single, married couples,
00:51:46.00\00:51:48.30
just a group of people
and that is such a blessing.
00:51:48.34\00:51:52.77
Thank you, Jonathan,
00:51:52.81\00:51:54.14
you know that is
such a beautiful concept
00:51:54.18\00:51:55.88
and something
that you've said, Dee,
00:51:55.91\00:51:57.91
it's not as much fun to welcome
in the Sabbath by yourself.
00:51:57.95\00:52:01.85
It is important that
we do things together
00:52:01.88\00:52:05.29
in that family environment,
in that family setting.
00:52:05.32\00:52:08.36
And so what a beautiful concept,
00:52:08.39\00:52:11.36
find friends of like
faith and join together.
00:52:11.39\00:52:16.36
It'll encourage you
and it'll encourage them.
00:52:16.40\00:52:19.20
Yes.
00:52:19.23\00:52:20.57
I'm very grateful
that Jonathan does this
00:52:20.60\00:52:22.54
'cause quite often we do it down
00:52:22.57\00:52:23.91
by the pavilion with the
fire and Jason makes the fire.
00:52:23.94\00:52:27.88
I try to protect the borders
00:52:27.91\00:52:29.61
by not necessarily knowing
what time Sabbath starts.
00:52:29.64\00:52:33.18
Sometimes it's...
00:52:33.21\00:52:34.55
We go look and say,
00:52:34.58\00:52:35.92
well, Sabbath is
it 6:38 or whatever,
00:52:35.95\00:52:39.05
I try to just do my day,
00:52:39.09\00:52:41.19
so okay, well, by 6
o'clock I want to be done
00:52:41.22\00:52:43.39
with what I'm going to do.
00:52:43.43\00:52:45.03
And I use my eyes...
00:52:45.06\00:52:46.59
The Israelites
didn't have clocks.
00:52:46.63\00:52:48.90
When did the sun go down?
00:52:48.93\00:52:50.27
When is...
00:52:50.30\00:52:51.63
I just look and see
when Sabbath starts.
00:52:51.67\00:52:54.30
And then at the
end of the Sabbath
00:52:54.34\00:52:56.67
if you have plan
on Saturday night,
00:52:56.71\00:52:58.84
whatever it's like,
00:52:58.87\00:53:00.21
well, we'll go
when Sabbath is over.
00:53:00.24\00:53:02.24
We don't set an exact time.
00:53:02.28\00:53:04.21
So guarding the borders
00:53:04.25\00:53:05.58
is not being legalistic by what,
00:53:05.61\00:53:08.28
by the clock, it's by our eyes
and our hearts when sundown is.
00:53:08.32\00:53:12.49
You know, I
appreciate the point.
00:53:12.52\00:53:14.19
I feel like Dee
has made repeatedly.
00:53:14.22\00:53:16.69
It's an issue of the heart.
00:53:16.73\00:53:18.29
It's an outcropping
of your love for God
00:53:18.33\00:53:21.20
and what your priority
00:53:21.23\00:53:25.63
that you've
established in your life.
00:53:25.67\00:53:28.57
And we're rapidly
running out of time
00:53:28.60\00:53:31.44
and I feel like
00:53:31.47\00:53:32.81
each one of you
may have something
00:53:32.84\00:53:34.18
that you would like to
share just in closing thoughts.
00:53:34.21\00:53:37.35
Gary, do you have
any closing thoughts.
00:53:37.38\00:53:39.31
Yeah, I was just thinking
about what Dee was saying,
00:53:39.35\00:53:41.52
and when my wife
and I were dating,
00:53:41.55\00:53:46.82
I couldn't and I didn't say,
00:53:46.86\00:53:48.46
oh, well, you know,
the date's going to be
00:53:48.49\00:53:51.16
over in 30 minutes, you know.
00:53:51.19\00:53:53.60
And so and then
go our separate ways.
00:53:53.63\00:53:56.06
I wanted to spend
time in her presence,
00:53:56.10\00:53:57.97
I wanted to talk and
communicate with her.
00:53:58.00\00:54:01.47
And so the Sabbath is like that.
00:54:01.50\00:54:03.30
If it's truly the relationship
we've been describing here,
00:54:03.34\00:54:06.31
you're not going to be
looking at your watch going,
00:54:06.34\00:54:08.14
okay, God, you got 30
more minutes, you know.
00:54:08.18\00:54:10.68
And then I'm on my
own doing my own thing.
00:54:10.71\00:54:13.35
So, you know, that's I
felt like guarding the border
00:54:13.38\00:54:15.82
of the Sabbath is
just what you described,
00:54:15.85\00:54:17.99
don't pay attention to the time.
00:54:18.02\00:54:20.22
Don't leave the
letter of the law.
00:54:20.26\00:54:21.59
Exactly.
00:54:21.62\00:54:22.96
Be the spirit
of the whole issue.
00:54:22.99\00:54:24.96
And, you know, I'm thinking too
that how important it is to God
00:54:24.99\00:54:29.83
that we do spend time with Him
00:54:29.86\00:54:31.23
and not be in a
hurry to get away
00:54:31.27\00:54:33.17
to get out of His presence.
00:54:33.20\00:54:35.47
Janelle, do you
have a closing thought?
00:54:35.50\00:54:37.01
You know, I'm thinking of others
00:54:37.04\00:54:40.84
that may need to come
into a closer relationship
00:54:40.88\00:54:43.51
with the Lord and they
just don't know how, Janelle?
00:54:43.55\00:54:45.61
Yes, I was thinking
earlier of maybe a single mom
00:54:45.65\00:54:48.72
that has just
heard of the Sabbath,
00:54:48.75\00:54:50.75
that maybe she works 8:00
to 5:00 Monday through Friday
00:54:50.79\00:54:54.36
and it's hard for her to
have that preparation time.
00:54:54.39\00:54:57.69
We have the luxury
here working at 3ABN,
00:54:57.73\00:55:00.10
we have Fridays off
but not everyone has that.
00:55:00.13\00:55:02.56
And so maybe that
single mother can pray
00:55:02.60\00:55:06.23
and ask God how
He would have her
00:55:06.27\00:55:09.24
to order that Friday.
00:55:09.27\00:55:11.04
May be her manager
could let her off earlier.
00:55:11.07\00:55:13.51
In some cases a
pastor can write a letter
00:55:13.54\00:55:16.31
to the manager for that.
00:55:16.34\00:55:18.71
And so maybe that's a
way that that could happen
00:55:18.75\00:55:21.25
so that you could have
that extra time on Fridays.
00:55:21.28\00:55:23.62
Yes.
00:55:23.65\00:55:24.99
And something that we got
00:55:25.02\00:55:26.35
to convinced
everyone around here
00:55:26.39\00:55:27.72
is if you pray and you ask
God to undertake on your behalf,
00:55:27.76\00:55:31.83
He will be so happy too.
00:55:31.86\00:55:33.50
Anyone else have
closing thoughts?
00:55:33.53\00:55:35.63
To me that's important is,
00:55:35.66\00:55:38.70
if we feel like
we're having a hard time
00:55:38.73\00:55:41.40
keeping the Sabbath,
that's not our issue,
00:55:41.44\00:55:45.01
that's God's issue
00:55:45.04\00:55:46.41
and all we need to
do is let him know that,
00:55:46.44\00:55:49.28
hey, we're
struggling, we need your help
00:55:49.31\00:55:51.31
and he'll make all things right.
00:55:51.35\00:55:53.68
And I too I want to mention also
00:55:53.72\00:55:55.75
that I may have
grown up Adventist
00:55:55.78\00:55:57.99
but that doesn't mean
00:55:58.02\00:55:59.35
I don't still
struggle with the Sabbath.
00:55:59.39\00:56:01.02
You know, every,
like Donald said,
00:56:01.06\00:56:02.96
every week I'm
learning and struggling,
00:56:02.99\00:56:05.76
how can I keep the
Lord's Sabbath this time?
00:56:05.79\00:56:08.93
What does it mean to
spend the time with Him,
00:56:08.96\00:56:12.33
so we're always learning.
00:56:12.37\00:56:14.27
How you grow into
making the Sabbath,
00:56:14.30\00:56:16.10
a delight.
00:56:16.14\00:56:17.47
Yes.
00:56:17.51\00:56:18.84
I like the scripture, I'm
just gonna read real quick.
00:56:18.87\00:56:20.21
"The angel of the Lord encamps
all around those who fear Him,"
00:56:20.24\00:56:23.45
that is god,
"and delivers them."
00:56:23.48\00:56:24.98
I think about the
Sabbath how it can deliver us
00:56:25.01\00:56:26.95
from this world.
00:56:26.98\00:56:28.32
It's kind of like
you're spending actual time
00:56:28.35\00:56:29.68
with entire universe
and being in that presence.
00:56:29.72\00:56:32.09
And once you, I mean
think about you've got angels
00:56:32.12\00:56:34.12
and you got would set us
00:56:34.16\00:56:35.49
from all these different things,
00:56:35.52\00:56:36.86
and once you
wanted to spend the time,
00:56:36.89\00:56:38.23
even angels fall
prostrate before the Lord.
00:56:38.26\00:56:39.79
So I think we should so.
00:56:39.83\00:56:42.20
Well, we have found tonight
that there is the commandment
00:56:42.23\00:56:46.74
that commands us to remember
the Sabbath to keep it holy.
00:56:46.77\00:56:51.44
We have found in Isaiah
00:56:51.47\00:56:53.98
that a tremendous blessing comes
00:56:54.01\00:56:56.95
with keeping the Sabbath.
00:56:56.98\00:56:58.95
He will...
00:56:58.98\00:57:00.75
That the feed with
the heritage of Jacob,
00:57:00.78\00:57:03.59
the father.
00:57:03.62\00:57:04.95
You will ride on the high places
00:57:04.99\00:57:06.52
of the earth and that's
just being obedient to God.
00:57:06.55\00:57:10.19
And, you know, our heart's cry
00:57:10.23\00:57:12.29
is that each one of us
have learned something tonight.
00:57:12.33\00:57:15.40
I've learned
from each one of you.
00:57:15.43\00:57:17.43
And that this
word is taking root
00:57:17.47\00:57:19.73
in our heart and it's growing
and it's producing bountifully
00:57:19.77\00:57:23.00
for the Kingdom of God.
00:57:23.04\00:57:24.44
And each one of
here want to wish
00:57:24.47\00:57:27.41
each one of you a
very happy Sabbath.
00:57:27.44\00:57:31.41