A platoon of new
recruits pile off the bus
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and loosely line up.
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The drill sergeant
starts in complaining
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that he hasn't even
been given men to work with.
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"You think you're
something" he shouts.
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"But you're nothing, nothing,
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absolutely nothing
and I'm in charge."
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"Big deal," says the
recruit at the end of the line.
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"So you're in
charge of nothing."
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I've heard it said that
if Jesus is not Lord of all,
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then He's not Lord at all.
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The Lordship of
Christ is in fact
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the crucible issue
for Christianity today.
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Was Jesus really
Emmanuel, God with us?
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And if He is God,
then is He Lord of all?
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One of the
doctrines of Jesus that caused
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a great deal of
political thunder was this.
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"The Son of man is Lord
- even of the Sabbath day."
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What most people
don't realize is that
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that claim is more than a claim
of Lordship over our hearts.
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It's also a claim of
Lordship of our time.
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There really is little
value in being in charge of,
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well, nothing.
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It really makes no
sense to say you're a parent
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when you have no children.
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Or to say you're the boss
when you have no employees.
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In Matthew 12:8, Jesus claimed
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to be Lord of
something, the Sabbath.
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But if there's no Sabbath,
He would be Lord of nothing,
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instead of Lord of something.
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So what is this
teaching of Jesus
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that caused such a commotion?
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What is this Sabbath?
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This 1/7th in time that
Jesus said He was Lord of.
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Stephen is standing by to
help us answer this question.
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Thanks, Charles.
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I'm standing on
the Mount of Olives
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just east of
Jerusalem to show you
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how far a
Sabbath day's journey is.
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It was permissible to
walk from Jerusalem to here
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and still keep the Sabbath holy.
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Originally, a Sabbath's
journey was just 2,000 cubits.
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But over time, it was modified
to 4,000 cubits or about 1 mile.
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While the concept
about Sabbath day's journey
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is mentioned in Acts 1:12,
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it's not a
commandment of scripture,
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but an added oral law of
the Rabbis or the Mishnah.
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Even in Christ's day,
the laws regarding Sabbath
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had been expanded.
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The Sabbath had become a
burden instead of a blessing.
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Man's addition
of legalistic rules
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regarding the
Sabbath has clouded the fact
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that the Sabbath is
really an issue of time.
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We live in time.
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Time is
represented all around us.
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From grandfather
clocks to iPhones,
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wristwatches, and timers,
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from timeouts to on
time, it's everywhere.
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Time is, in fact,
a created construct.
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It's the arena in which
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the game of life is
played out and experienced.
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Time is there just like
air, lived in and experienced,
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though not always in the
forefront of our consciousness.
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I'd like to share
a thought with you.
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For some, this
may be a new thought,
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but the God of all
creation, the God who organized
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the immensely
complex language of DNA,
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the God who sent His Son
to this planet to live for us,
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to die for us, wants
to spend time with you.
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In fact, the
creator of all things
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set aside a
certain time each week
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for intimate
communion and fellowship.
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This time is set more surely
than a doctor's appointment,
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the work schedule, or
even a family vacation.
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It's called Sabbath.
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Some people
have been misinformed
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about this time God set aside.
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They've been told that the
Sabbath is made for the Jews.
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I hear that all the time,
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but it couldn't be
further from the truth.
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To get this story straight,
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one need merely look
at the Book of Genesis.
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Man was created on
the sixth day of creation.
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The inspired author of
Genesis goes on to tell us
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in Chapter 2:3
that on the seventh day,
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God created the Sabbath,
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a space of time
to be used for rest.
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Okay, now don't miss this.
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If you drew a
timeline of creation,
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Adam and Eve
were created sometime
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during what we now call Friday.
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A few hours later at sunset,
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God invites
Adam and Eve to rest.
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Rest? Rest from what?
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They're not even 24 hours old.
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So you know
they're not at all tired.
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But Adam and Eve weren't being
asked to rest from anything.
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They were being
asked to rest in something.
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They were being invited to rest
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in the finished
work of God's creation.
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And how many Jews
were in the Garden of Eden
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at the beginning of the world?
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None. Really, check it out.
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The Sabbath was
given to perfect people
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in a perfect world
with no taint of sin.
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The weekly
Sabbath was not a type
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or a shadow of things to come,
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but a living memorial of time
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in honor of
God's creative power.
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Genesis 2:2, 3 tells us.
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"And on the seventh
day God ended His work
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which He had made and He
rested on the seventh day
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from all His work
which He had made.
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And God blessed the
seventh day, and sanctified it,
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because that in it He had rested
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from all His work
which God created and made."
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It's important here to notice
that after creating for 7 days,
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the very first
thing God ever made holy,
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the very first thing He
ever sanctified was time.
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He called it Sabbath.
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Some have
suggested that the Sabbath
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was just a time for God to
rest, as stated here in Genesis.
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But to come to
that limited conclusion,
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you must ignore the
plain words of Jesus.
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That's so true, Stephen.
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And Jesus Himself stated
why He created the Sabbath.
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You'll find that
in Mark Chapter 2.
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Jesus was walking
with His disciples
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through a grain field
one Sabbath afternoon.
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His disciples were hungry,
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so they took some
grain in their hands.
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They brushed the
husks off and they ate it.
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This greatly
troubled the Pharisees
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not because the disciples were
stealing for its permissible
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according to God's law to
eat, to satisfy one's hungry.
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But to the Pharisees the
disciples were harvesting
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on Sabbath which was work.
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And working on
Sabbath is unlawful.
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The Jewish leaders had taken
the law and made it an idol.
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And they accused Jesus
of breaking the very law
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that He had given to Moses.
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And here is where Jesus
doctrines, His teachings
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create a great deal of
thunder in the Holy Land.
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He claimed to be the Lord,
the Creator of the Sabbath.
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And then Jesus says,
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about the day that He
created back in Genesis,
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"The Sabbath was made for man,
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and not man for the Sabbath."
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Now don't miss this.
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The Sabbath was not
merely for God to rest
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and the Sabbath was
not made for the Jews.
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Jesus taught it's
a doctrine of Christ
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that the Sabbath was
made for mankind, all of us,
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prefect people,
as well as sinners.
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Unfortunately,
traditions had grown up
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around the Sabbath that
made it a burden, even a curse.
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But Jesus, who is
the Lord of the Sabbath,
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came to put His law
back in its proper place.
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You see, the Sabbath is
not some burden to be borne.
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It's not a penance inflicted
upon us to create holiness.
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The Sabbath is God's gift
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of His personal
presence to all mankind.
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Even Moses knew this.
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When God sent him to Egypt
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to deliver the
Israelites from bondage,
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the very first
thing He did was to insist
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that they stop
working on Sabbath.
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Moses reminded
the children of Israel
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that this was God's Holy
Time; time set aside to rest.
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Rest from their slave labor? No.
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They were to rest
in His delivering power
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and His awesome might.
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God's people again
began keeping the Sabbath
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before they even left
Egypt and went to Sinai.
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This is why
Pharaoh began to complain.
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Exodus 5:5 says,
"And Pharaoh said,
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Behold, the people of
the land are now many,
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and you Moses and Aaron
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make them rest
from their burdens."
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The word rest here in Hebrew,
the word Shabath or Sabbath.
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At this point, the people hadn't
even gotten to Mount Sinai.
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The Ten Commandments had
not yet been written in stone.
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But God's people in
very generation have known
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that God desires to
spend intimate and special time
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each week with His children.
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This is why God gave His
people the Sabbath back in Eden.
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And this is why
the Lord of the Sabbath
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wrote with His own
finger this command in stone.
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"Remember the Sabbath
day, to keep it holy."
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The command begins
with the word remember,
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because they already
knew about the Sabbath.
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This is a gift of time.
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God wants to use this
time to fellowship with us,
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to commune with
us in a special way.
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It's His
purpose to use this time
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to bring restoration in
our lives, to our homes.
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He wants to use this
time to heal marriages,
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to bless our communities.
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That's good news, Levi.
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But two questions
here beg to be asked.
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First, the Jews here in Israel
keep Saturday as the Sabbath.
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But how do we know that Saturday
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is the correct
day for the Sabbath?
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Maybe the weekly cycle has
been changed or lost track of.
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How can we know
that God's Sabbath
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is not Friday or
Sunday or Tuesday?
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To help me nail this
down, I've asked Shalom David,
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a Jew, who pastors
here in the Jerusalem
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how we can know
that our present Saturday
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is the Sabbath of Jesus.
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Well, first you
need to understand that
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history is written to give
us continuity with the past.
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In Exodus Chapter 16, we're told
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that God gave the
people bread to eat.
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Most people have heard
the story about their manna.
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But when you carefully read
the entire Chapter of Exodus 16,
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you discover that
God was testing them
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through this process.
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The manna God sent from Heaven
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would only fall for 6
days, Sunday through Friday.
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Each day, the children of Israel
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were to gather one omer or
about 3½ liter for each man.
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If they gather
more than the amount
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and try to keep it overnight,
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it would spoil
before the next day.
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On the seventh day, the Sabbath,
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no manna would
fall so that people
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were commanded
together two omers on Friday.
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But the extra omer of manna
gathered on the preparation day
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was miraculously preserved
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and was good to
eat on the Sabbath.
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If this happened just one
day or a month or two perhaps
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that would be miracle enough.
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But this went on for 40 years.
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52 times every year
God showed the people
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by miraculous means
what day was His Sabbath.
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2,080 times God made clear
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when He wanted to
spend time with His people.
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So how would that show us today
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that this Saturday,
now kept as Sabbath,
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was the same Saturday
Sabbath of the Exodus?
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Because in the 12th
Chapter at the beginning
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of the Exodus
journey into the wilderness,
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God gave them a new calendar
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which has been
continuously observed
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in the Jewish
community to this very day.
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There is absolutely no question
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that this
Saturday on your calendar
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is the same Sabbath
of the Jewish calendar
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from the Exodus
to this very day.
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Okay, our Saturday
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is the Sabbath of
the Old Testament.
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So here's the second question,
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there is extensive tradition
in the Christian world today
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that the Sabbath
was to be done away with
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in the new dispensation.
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Did Jesus really expect
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Christian people in
the new dispensation
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to keep Saturday as a holy day?
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Look, Jesus was a
prophet. Was He not?
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He predicted the
destruction of Jerusalem
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by the Romans in AD 70.
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This would not happen
for 40 years into the future.
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In preparing His people for
those terrible trying times,
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He told them to pray.
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"Pray ye that your
flight be not in the winter,
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neither on the Sabbath day."
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So if Jesus had no
intention of His disciples
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keeping the Sabbath
40 years into the future,
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then why would He
tell His disciples to pray
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that they would not
have to flee on the Sabbath?
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Exactly. That is
precisely the point.
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Using the manna, God
was testing the people,
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would they let Him be their God
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or would they make
gods of their own reason.
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And He is still testing
us to this very point today.
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What do we do with
the God of creation
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with Jesus and His Sabbath?
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Stephen, Levi, and
Andrea have helped us understand
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the history of the
Sabbath, this time He made holy,
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this time He
wants to spend with us.
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Time is one of the seven
fundamental physical quantities
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in the
international system of units.
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The great scientist, Sir
Isaac Newton believed that
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time is part of the fundamental
structure of the universe,
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a dimension in which
events occur in sequence.
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According to the
author of Genesis,
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time is marked and
measured by heavenly bodies.
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Days, months, and
years are all determined
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by the rotations and
circuits of the earth and moon
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in their journey through space.
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The daily cycle
is predicated upon
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one earth rotation on its axis.
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A monthly cycle is determined
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by the sequence of the
moon waxing and waning.
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The yearly cycle
happens when our blue orb
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makes another
circuit around the sun.
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But can you tell me
why we have a 7-day week?
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It doesn't fit nicely into any
planetary structure or pattern.
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There is only one reason
for a 7-day week, just one
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because God in 6
literal days created our world.
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That's the reason He
gives in the Decalogue.
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He created everything and then
on the seventh day, He rested.
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He paused to spend time
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with His newest masterpiece,
His intelligent creation.
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And from that
time to the present,
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the weekly cycle has been
made up of 7 consecutive days.
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From that time to the present,
God has set aside a Sabbath,
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this weekly 24-hour period
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to spend with
those who love Him.
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This time retunes us.
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It balances our
spirits and opens the door
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of relationship between
the creator and His creation.
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This gift of time was a blessing
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to perfect people
in a perfect world.
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And it's still a blessing today
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for those who choose
to spend it with Him.
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Claudie English is God's friend.
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It's a simple,
uncomplicated relationship,
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but it wasn't always that way.
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In all his first 20 years,
Claudie had nothing do with God.
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He didn't have
anything against religion.
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He simply had no exposure to it.
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But one night, Claudie saw some
activity at the sports arena,
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thought there might
be a wrestling match.
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What he ended up attending
for the next 5 or 6 nights
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was some meetings
about Jesus and the Bible.
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Though he hadn't learned much,
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he was baptized
following those meetings.
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And in his heart, a
single-minded flame of resolve
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that was never
to be extinguished
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had been kindled in the
deepest core of his being.
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No matter what, he was
going to be faithful to God.
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He didn't know how.
He just knew he would.
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The second thing
he knew about religion
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was that from now on he
would be going to church
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on Saturday, the
Sabbath of the Bible.
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Shortly, after I was baptized,
I was drafting into the army.
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I thought, "Well, that
will interfere with my Sabbath,
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but I'm gonna keep
the Sabbath regardless."
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And keep the
Sabbath, Claudie did.
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From Sunday on Friday,
till Sunday on Saturday,
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he disqualified
himself from the army
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by not showing
up for roll calls.
00:17:19.79\00:17:22.16
In an uncompromising way,
Claudie had determined that
00:17:22.19\00:17:25.73
that time
belonged to his creator.
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I made them a good
soldier for 6 days a week,
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but the seventh
day wasn't theirs.
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It belonged to the Lord.
And I served Him that day.
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Claudie was deployed to
the front lines in Korea
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and assigned to the Medic corps
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driving into no man's
land to pick up the wounded.
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After receiving his orders,
00:17:49.55\00:17:51.72
he gave the
officers, God's orders.
00:17:51.75\00:17:55.34
I explained to them,
just before they left me,
00:17:55.37\00:17:59.34
I said, "I want ya'll
to send me relief up here,
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2 hours before sun
down every Friday evening.
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I'm a Seventh-day
Adventist Christian
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and that's the Sabbath."
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Even without a replacement,
Claudie prayerfully,
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but deliberately
walked off the front lines
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though he could have faced
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a court martial
or a firing squad.
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Claudie says that he left
God to take care of things.
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The whole time that I was there,
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I never had any problem
at all with the Sabbath.
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The Sabbath day
really means a lot to me.
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It means more to
me than anything else.
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The reason for that is
because I love the Lord
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and I want to
place Him in the things
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that I do and say every day.
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Pavel Goia was born in
communist Romania in 1964.
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Ceausescu's regime
didn't take well to Christians
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who put God and His
Sabbath above the state.
00:18:56.80\00:19:00.02
But Pavo was
raised by godly parents
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who taught him to pray and obey
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a living God who
looks after His children.
00:19:05.82\00:19:09.96
I was 17 when I decided to start
a business, glass business.
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And it was a co-op
where the government
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would get 65% of
your net clean profit.
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And you'd get just 35%.
And it was going pretty well.
00:19:20.93\00:19:25.31
When the President
asked me to work on Sabbath,
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I did explain that I
cannot because of my faith.
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And he made fun. He
said, "There's no God.
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In this country, we
don't believe in God."
00:19:33.53\00:19:36.95
And he said, "I
would like to see God."
00:19:36.98\00:19:38.39
Well, I went back
and talked to him.
00:19:38.42\00:19:40.98
And I told him, "I cannot come.
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I would be willing
to work a lot more."
00:19:42.94\00:19:44.91
He said, "No, you will come."
00:19:44.94\00:19:47.34
That Sabbath I
didn't go to work for sure.
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And the boss took full
advantage of the situation
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and delivered glass that had
been improperly stored outside.
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That glass was
virtually welded together
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and the crate
was totally rotten.
00:19:59.63\00:20:02.76
So he said, "You
have two options.
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You come to work on Sabbath
00:20:04.79\00:20:06.22
and I'll forgive you
or if not, you pay for it.
00:20:06.25\00:20:08.66
And if you cannot
pay, you go to prison."
00:20:08.69\00:20:10.49
Well, I prayed about it
and talked to him again.
00:20:10.52\00:20:13.48
And I said, "Let
me bring this glass
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back to the store
house, to the warehouse.
00:20:15.86\00:20:19.31
And I will double my work
and double the profit you have
00:20:19.34\00:20:22.35
and if you're not
happy, we talk then.
00:20:22.38\00:20:24.34
And he smiled and he said,
00:20:24.37\00:20:26.71
"You cannot transport this
glass because this is rotten.
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The boxes, the
crates are rotten.
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You don't know
what you talk about.
00:20:33.84\00:20:35.23
And if you try to
transport it, you will break it,
00:20:35.26\00:20:37.13
and then you do
have to pay for it."
00:20:37.16\00:20:39.17
And I said, "What do you lose?"
00:20:39.20\00:20:40.78
And he says, "Yeah,
somebody needs to pay for this.
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I guess, I don't lose anything.
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If you break it, you pay.
00:20:45.34\00:20:46.71
If you don't break it, you work.
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Yeah, do that."
00:20:48.14\00:20:49.51
So I hired a driver with
a truck that had a crane.
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And when he came and
saw the boxes, rotten boxes,
00:20:51.91\00:20:56.74
he refused to do it
because he was afraid,
00:20:56.77\00:20:58.90
he would be
responsible if they break,
00:20:58.93\00:21:00.87
and sure they would break.
00:21:00.90\00:21:02.47
So I had to write
a paper and sign that
00:21:02.50\00:21:04.87
I will take full responsibility
if something happens,
00:21:04.90\00:21:07.14
so he will not
have to pay for it.
00:21:07.17\00:21:08.89
Well, the boxes, each box
would be about 18 meters tall,
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22 meters wide or long,
22 to 24 sheets of glass,
00:21:15.00\00:21:20.67
each one 4
millimeters, all together
00:21:20.70\00:21:22.98
an average of more or
less 4,000 pounds a box.
00:21:23.01\00:21:28.76
The box would have some
wood shoulders here and here
00:21:28.79\00:21:33.98
that you put the
cables around and hook it,
00:21:34.01\00:21:36.38
lift it in the air, and
then load it in the truck.
00:21:36.41\00:21:40.26
Well, when the
driver put the hooks
00:21:40.29\00:21:44.62
around the
shoulders and lift it,
00:21:44.65\00:21:47.78
the box, the first one
00:21:47.81\00:21:49.59
when it was high enough
when he did the rotation,
00:21:49.62\00:21:52.72
the bottom of the box broke
because it was totally rotten,
00:21:52.75\00:21:56.89
the finger could go to the wood.
00:21:56.92\00:21:58.97
And all that
glass fell from the box.
00:21:59.00\00:22:03.25
So in that instant, the
glass stopped in the air
00:22:03.28\00:22:07.54
and the box was over
moving slowly in the wind.
00:22:07.57\00:22:11.66
And there was nothing
under the glass, nothing over.
00:22:11.69\00:22:15.09
The driver asked
me, "What should we do?"
00:22:15.12\00:22:17.35
I said, "I don't know,
just lower the box back."
00:22:17.38\00:22:20.59
So as he was lowering
the box, the box was moving.
00:22:20.62\00:22:23.20
He asked me to hold it.
00:22:23.23\00:22:24.60
I caught the bottom of
the box, kept it still.
00:22:24.63\00:22:27.59
And as the box was
coming down, it got to the glass
00:22:27.62\00:22:30.67
and the glass
started to get inside
00:22:30.70\00:22:32.49
until the whole glass
got all together inside.
00:22:32.52\00:22:36.95
And he lowered it
down to the ground.
00:22:36.98\00:22:39.21
And then he put cables around.
00:22:39.24\00:22:41.33
And I remember the
President came to me.
00:22:41.36\00:22:44.17
He was pale. He was afraid.
00:22:44.20\00:22:46.84
And he said, "I want you to go.
00:22:46.87\00:22:50.34
You don't have to pay. You
don't have to go to prison.
00:22:50.37\00:22:53.11
You don't have
to work on Sabbath.
00:22:53.14\00:22:54.61
I just want you to
go away from this place.
00:22:54.64\00:22:56.80
Move, move, and don't
curse me or my family. Just go.
00:22:56.83\00:23:01.13
We don't want you close around.
00:23:01.16\00:23:02.96
We just-- please
stay away from us."
00:23:02.99\00:23:04.86
Sabbath is a
clear command from God.
00:23:04.89\00:23:08.16
And if we choose
to obey in faith,
00:23:08.19\00:23:10.11
He can use that for His
honor and for His glory.
00:23:10.14\00:23:14.92
In every religion,
men revere something,
00:23:14.95\00:23:18.48
shrines, cities, even people.
00:23:18.51\00:23:24.31
They kiss holy land.
00:23:24.34\00:23:26.85
They immerse
themselves in holy water.
00:23:26.88\00:23:30.10
Their ears clutch the
syllables of holy men.
00:23:30.13\00:23:34.61
Tangibles, touchables,
00:23:34.64\00:23:37.21
holy things that they
can see, revere, feel.
00:23:37.24\00:23:42.43
In Genesis, however, the
first thing declared holy
00:23:42.46\00:23:45.84
is not a hill, a
shrine, or a place,
00:23:45.87\00:23:49.22
but a block of
time, the seventh day,
00:23:49.25\00:23:52.51
"Then God blessed the
seventh day and sanctified it."
00:23:52.54\00:23:57.95
The word
sanctified is translated from
00:23:57.98\00:24:00.74
the "Hebrew as Qadash,
which means sanctify, hallow,
00:24:00.77\00:24:06.38
or to set apart for holy use.
00:24:06.41\00:24:10.08
Though creation
dealt with the heavens,
00:24:10.11\00:24:12.78
the earth, the birds, the sea,
00:24:12.81\00:24:14.71
and the beasts of the earth,
00:24:14.74\00:24:16.24
all things of space,
it was time not space
00:24:16.27\00:24:20.76
that God first
pronounced blessed and holy.
00:24:20.79\00:24:24.37
And this action makes
sense because besides space,
00:24:24.40\00:24:27.65
time is the dimension
in which God's creation,
00:24:27.68\00:24:30.89
the heavens, the
earth, the birds, the sea,
00:24:30.92\00:24:33.33
and the beasts
of the earth exist.
00:24:33.36\00:24:36.15
Also, if God had made
one specific place holy,
00:24:36.18\00:24:40.28
a hill, a spring, a city,
00:24:40.31\00:24:42.02
not all people would
have easy access to it.
00:24:42.05\00:24:45.14
They would have to
travel to worship there.
00:24:45.17\00:24:48.10
But time comes to us
instead of us going to it.
00:24:48.13\00:24:52.74
Once a week, at
1,000 miles per hour,
00:24:52.77\00:24:55.81
the approximate speed at which
the earth rotates on its axis,
00:24:55.84\00:24:59.66
the Sabbath circles the globe,
00:24:59.69\00:25:02.45
arriving on one sun
down, leaving on the next.
00:25:02.48\00:25:06.16
The seventh day
washes over the planet
00:25:06.19\00:25:08.71
each week like a
huge cleansing wave.
00:25:08.74\00:25:11.92
We never have to seek
it, the day always finds us.
00:25:11.95\00:25:15.93
Meanwhile, holy
cities can be burned.
00:25:15.96\00:25:19.26
Holy people can be killed.
Holy shrines can be looted.
00:25:19.29\00:25:23.28
But time is
beyond fire and knife,
00:25:23.31\00:25:26.63
no man can touch
much less destroy it.
00:25:26.66\00:25:29.96
Therefore, by
making a special time holy,
00:25:29.99\00:25:33.23
God has made the
Sabbath invincible,
00:25:33.26\00:25:36.34
placing it in an element
00:25:36.37\00:25:37.74
that transcends
any devices of mankind.
00:25:37.77\00:25:41.31
Armies can sack cities,
rulers can ban pilgrimages,
00:25:41.34\00:25:45.99
but no military
tank, no swirl of ink
00:25:46.02\00:25:49.43
can keep away the seventh day.
00:25:49.46\00:25:51.98
We can no more stop the Sabbath
than we can the sun rise.
00:25:52.01\00:25:56.38
God protected this memorial
from the objects of space,
00:25:56.41\00:26:00.34
which are vulnerable to man
00:26:00.37\00:26:02.40
by placing it in
time, which is not.
00:26:02.43\00:26:06.06
Finally, men can
avoid holy things.
00:26:06.09\00:26:09.27
They can hide from
objects, people, places,
00:26:09.30\00:26:11.82
but they cannot flee from time.
00:26:11.85\00:26:15.11
We can ignore it. Be
ignorant of it, hate it.
00:26:15.14\00:26:19.04
But the Sabbath always comes
and nothing, no one can stop it.
00:26:19.07\00:26:25.33
Skipping over
it, no man yet beyond
00:26:25.36\00:26:27.68
the destructive grasp
of all, the Sabbath stands
00:26:27.71\00:26:31.16
as the universal yet invincible
00:26:31.19\00:26:33.64
memorial of God's
work in making mankind.
00:26:33.67\00:26:37.66
Framed in time, the most
basic element of God's creation,
00:26:37.69\00:26:42.13
the Sabbath more than
any other biblical symbol,
00:26:42.16\00:26:45.60
points us to the
essence of our existence,
00:26:45.63\00:26:48.98
that we are the
handy work of God.
00:26:49.01\00:26:53.19
Thus as the prime
symbol of our roots,
00:26:53.22\00:26:56.21
the Sabbath tells
us also who we are,
00:26:56.24\00:26:59.52
why we are and
where we are going,
00:26:59.55\00:27:02.93
all in a mere 24 hours.
00:27:02.96\00:27:06.16
So is Jesus, Lord of the
Sabbath or Lord of nothing?
00:27:06.19\00:27:12.89
Is He Lord of your life?
00:27:12.92\00:27:15.59
You can't say, yes, He
is the Lord of my life,
00:27:15.62\00:27:18.93
if He's not Lord
of your 1/7th in time.
00:27:18.96\00:27:22.79
Will you spend
that time with Him?
00:27:22.82\00:27:25.45
He's waiting to spend
each Sabbath with you.
00:27:25.48\00:27:30.80