¤ I WANT TO SPEND MY LIFE
¤ ¤ MENDING BROKEN PEOPLE ¤
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¤ I WANT TO SPEND
MY LIFE REMOVING PAIN ¤
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¤ LORD, LET MY
WORDS ¤ ¤ LET MY WORDS ¤
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¤ HEAL UP HEARTS THAT HURT ¤-¤ I
WANT TO SPEND MY LIFE ¤ ¤
MENDING BROKEN PEOPLE ¤
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¤ I WANT TO SPEND MY LIFE
¤ ¤ MENDING BROKEN PEOPLE ¤
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>> HELLO AND WELCOME
TO 3ABN "TODAY LIVE."
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THANK YOU FOR SKROIN -- JOINING
US, AND WE LOVE THIS THURSDAY
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EVENING, AND THE LIVE
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>> WE DO. >>
WHICHCO  CO-HOST, SISTER
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YVONNE, WE'RE
GLAD TO HAVE YOU HERE.
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>> IT'S GOOD TO BE HERE.
IT'S JUST -- IT'S JUST A SPECIAL
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TIME. >> IT IS.
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AND I THINK WE HAD BROTHER
BRADSHAW A COUPLE OF WEEKS AGO,
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AND ELDER CARTER LAST WEEK, AND
THIS WEEK WE'RE PRIVILEGED TO
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PASTOR STEPHEN BOHR, AND YOU ARE
PRESIDENT OF SECRETS UNSEALED.
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AND WE GO ALL THE WAY BACK --
I WENT TO WISCONSIN ACADEMY IN
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1967, 68. I THINK
WAS A JUNIOR, AND YOU
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WERE CLOSE TO THE SAME AGE.
AND WE MET EACH OTHER THERE.
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AND YOU CAME HERE FOR A SHORT
TIME, AND THROUGH MINISTRY LATER
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ON FOR MANY YEARS, SO NOW WE
GET TO WATCH YOU AT HOME ON TV.
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SO JUST TURN ON 3ABN
AND SEE PASTOR STEPHEN BOHR.
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STEPHEN IT'S SO
NICE TO HAVE YOU HERE.
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>> MY PLEASURE TO BE HERE.
YOU MAKE US SOUND LIKE WE'RE
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OLD. [ LAUGHTER ]
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>> IF I DO THE MATH -- I DON'T
DO THE MATH, NOT REALLY, I'M SO
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THANKFUL TO BE ALIVE IN
THE CLOSING MOMENTS OF EARTH'S
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HISTORY. SO
THANKFUL TO BE A PART OF THIS
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MOVEMENT, THE SEVENTH-DAY
ADVENTIST CHURCH, AND SO
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THANKFUL TO BE A PART 3ABN.
SO WATCH THE PROPHECY BEING
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FULFILLED RIGHT BEFORE OUR
EYES. I NEVER DREAMED WHAT IS
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HAPPENING RIGHT BEFORE OUR EYES,
SO TONIGHT WE'RE GOING TO BE
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DISCUSSING SOME VERY IMPORTANT
TOPICS, BUT PARTICULARLY
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TONIGHT, IN LIGHT OF SOME
-- QUITE A FEW THINGS THAT
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ARE HAPPENING, WE'RE -- WE HAVE
ASKED HIM TO BE HERE, AND WE'RE
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GOING TO STUDY ON
THE SEVENTH DAY SABBATH.
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THERE IS A GREAT INTEREST RIGHT
NOW, BECAUSE FOLK WERE SAYS WHO
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CARES. AS LONG AS
YOUR HEART IS RIGHT.
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WHATEVER FEELS GOOD DO IT.
BUT PEOPLE NOWADAYS SAY, WELL,
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I'LL JUST KEEP -- I'LL
GO THIS DAY OR THAT DAY.
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GOD DOESN'T REALLY CARE.
AS LONG AS WE KEEP ONE DAY.
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I THINK WE SHOULD KNOW.
IT'S LIKE SAYING GOD DOESN'T
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REALLY CARE IF
WE KEEP THE OTHER C
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COMEING --
COMMANDMENTS. WHAT DO YOU THINK?
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>> I THINK IT'S
REALLY IMPORTANT.
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WE NEED TO STUDY GOD'S
WORD AND SEE WHAT DOES GOD SAY?
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ALL OF MY STUDIES
SAY IT IS IMPORTANT.
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>> YEAH. AND THE
THING ABOUT -- ONCE YOU
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HAVE
EXPERIENCED IT -- >> UH-HUH.
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>> THEN YOU KNOW. >> SO TRUE.
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>> BUT EXPERIENCING THE SABBATH,
THEN YOU NEVER WOULD WANT TO BE
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WITHOUT IT. >> THAT IS SO TRUE.
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>> AMEN. >>
BECAUSE IT IS SUCH A BREAK
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FROM THE REST OF THE WEEK, GOD
KNEW WHEN HE CREATED US -- HE
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CREATED US TO NEED -- HE COULD
HAVE CREATED US WHERE WE NEVER
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NEEDED REST, BUT I THINK HE KNEW
WE WOULD STRAY AWAY FROM HIM IF
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HE DIDN'T TAKE A DAY, SO HE
SAID I'M GOING TO MAKE MY KOREA
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ACCUSATIONS SO THEY
DON'T FORGET WHO I AM.
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WE'RE SO THANKFUL
YOU ARE HERE TONIGHT.
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AND YOU DO SPANISH AND ENGLISH.
AND YOU ARE ON RADIO, YOU ARE
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ALSO A WRITER, MANY TALENTS,
MANY GIFTS, BUT WE LOOK UP TO
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YOU AS A MAN OF GOD. WE
REALIZE EVERYONE IS HUMAN,
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BUT LOOKING AT YOU, WE KNOW
YOU HAVE SPENT YOUR LIFE IN THE
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STUDY OF GOD'S WORTH, AND IF
THERE IS TRUTH TO BE FOUND, YOU
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ARE GOING TO FIND IT, BECAUSE
YOU ARE NOT EASILY -- HE WANTS
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TO GO AT IT, AND HE HAS
BEEN DOING IT FOR SO MANY YEARS,
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LITERALLY OPENING THE WORD AND
DISSECTING IT, AND MAKE IT SO WE
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CAN ALL UNDERSTAND IT.
WE'RE NOT ALL THEOLOGIANS, AND
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SOMETIMES IT'S HARD TO
UNDERSTAND, BUT YOU DO IT IN A
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WAY SO WE CAN ALL UNDERSTAND IT.
WE HAVE A SPECIAL OFFER TONIGHT
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>> YEAH. >> THE
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>> WE HAVE PEOPLE IN OUR CALL
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CENTER RIGHT NOW
AS WE ARE SPEAKING --
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>> THERE IT IS. >> WE
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>> WE WANT TO TELL YOU IN
ADVANCE, WE HAE FOLKS WHO IS
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WILLING TO ANSWER THE PHONES, SO
IF YOU HAVE QUESTIONS TONIGHT,
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NOW IS THE TIME TO DO IT.
YOU DON'T ALWAYS GET TO TALK
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DIRECTLY TO BROTHER
STEVE, BUT TONIGHT YOU WILL.
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WE WILL TAKE THESE QUESTIONS,
SO AS WE GET INTO THE TOPIC, AND
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YOU HAVE QUESTIONS IN YOUR HEART
AND MIND, BE SURE TO CALL US AT
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618-627-4651 OR EMAIL US -- AND
I THINK THEY WILL PUT THAT UP
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FOR YOU IN JUST A
MOMENT TOO -- I THINK IT'S --
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>>
LIVE@3ABN.TV. >> THERE YOU GO.
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LIVE@3ABN.TV. SO YOU
CAN EMAIL OR CALL, AND HE
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IS ON THE HOT SEAT
TONIGHT. [ LAUGHTER ]
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>> BUT BEFORE WE GET INTO
THIS, WE HAVE SPECIAL MUSIC.
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>> WE DO. >> AND
THE TITLE OF THE SONG IS
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"HE GREW THE TREE."
>> "HE GREW THE TREE."
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>> BEAUTIFUL SONG. >> UH-HUH.
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>> I FIRST HEARD IT IN THE '80S,
AND I WAS SURPRISED WHO SANG IT
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AT THAT TIME, WHO CAME OUT
WITH IT, I THINK IT WAS BARBARA
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MANDRELL. >> OH, OKAY.
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>> THE SONG SAYS NO ONE TOOK
HIS LIFE, WITH LOVE HE GAVE IT.
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SO HE GREW THE TREE THAT HE KNEW
WOULD BE USED TO MAKE THE OLD
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RUGGED CROSS. PAM
LISTER IS GOING TO BE
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SINGING IT. >> PAM LISTER.
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¤
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¤ ¤ HE GREW THE TREE ¤
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¤ HE KNEW WOULD BE USED TO
MAKE HIS OLD RUGGED CROSS ¤
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¤ NOTHING LOOK HIS LIFE
¤ ¤ WITH LOVE HE GAVE IT ¤
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¤ HE WAS CRUCIFIED ¤ ¤
ON A TREE THAT HE CREATED ¤
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¤ HE GREW THE TREE ¤ ¤
SO THAT WE MIGHT GO FREE ¤
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¤ WITH TEARS IN HIS
EYES ¤ ¤ GOD LOOKED DOWN ¤
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¤ SPAT UPON, REJECTED ¤-¤ HE
GREW THE TRUE ¤ ¤ HE KNEW WOULD
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BE ¤ ¤ USED TO MAKE
THE OLD RUGGED CROSS ¤
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¤ NOTHING TOOK HIS LIFE
¤ ¤ WITH LOVE HE GAVE IT ¤
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¤ HE WAS CRUCIFIED ¤ ¤
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¤ HE GREW THE TRUE ¤ ¤
SO THAT WE MIGHT GO FREE ¤
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¤ HE GREW THE TREE
¤ ¤ HE KNEW WOULD BE ¤
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¤ USED TO MAKE
THE OLD RUGGED CROSS ¤
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>> THAT'S
BEAUTIFUL. THANK YOU, PAM.
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WAS ABOUT THAT A NICE
JOB? >> SUCH A LOVELY SONG.
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>> GREAT WORDS. ISN'T
THAT A TREMENDOUS THOUGHT
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THAT HE GAVE HIS
LIFE >> THAT'S RIGHT.
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>> ON A TREE THAT
HE CREATED. >> YES.
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YES. WHEN YOU THINK ABOUT THAT,
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THAT'S -- >>
GIVES YOU CHILL BUMPS.
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>> YEAH. >> HE GREW
THE SEED THAT HE KNEW
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WOULD BE USED TO
MAKE THE OLD RUGGED CROS.
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THAT'S LOVE. THAT'S LOVE.
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THAT'S AMAZING LOVE. >> YES.
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>> I'M SO THANKFUL
FOR THE LORD JESUS CHRIST.
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>> AMEN. >> AND FOR
HIS SACRIFICIAL PLAN
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OF SALVATION, THAT HE WAS
WILLING TO COME TO THIS EARTH
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AND GIVE HIS
LIFE FOR FALLEN MAN.
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AND HE SAYS IF YOU LOVE ME, KEEP
MY COMMNDMENTS, AND TODAY THERE
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IS SO MUCH GOING ON IN THE
CHRISTIAN WORLD TO SAY, WELL,
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YOU DON'T REALLY HAVE TO KEEP
HIS COMMANDMENTS, OR THEY ARE
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JUST ON OUR HEARTS, AND THE OLD
TESTAMENT -- AND SOME FOLKS SAY
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WE JUST HAVE TO KEEP NINE.
AND WE WANT TO GO BACK, I THINK
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THE BEST WAY PASTOR
BOHR IS GO BACK TO GENESIS.
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CAN WE BE CERTAIN THAT
THESE ARE LITERAL DAYS.
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>> OKAY. THIS IS A
FOUNDATIONAL QUESTION.
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IF THE DAYS OF CREATION WERE
NOT LITERAL, THEN I'M WASTING MY
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TIME HERE. BECAUSE
THE SABBATH IS BASICALLY
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DONE AWAY WITH UNLESS
YOU HAVE A LITERAL WEEK.
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>> OKAY. >> I HAVE
SOME NOTES THAT I'M
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GOING TO BE USING. WE
HAVE SEVERAL EVIDENCES THAT
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THE DAYS OF
CREATION WERE LITERAL DAYS.
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FIRST OF ALL, WE FIND EVERY TIME
IN THE OLD TESTAMENT THAT THE
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WORD DAY APPEARS WITH A NUMERAL,
LIKE DAY ONE OR FIRST DAY,
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SEC -- SECOND DAY, IT ALWAYS
REFERS TO A LITERAL 24-HOUR DAY.
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NO EXCEPTIONS. FIRST,
DAY, SECOND DAY, THIRD
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DAY, THAT IS A NUMERAL WITH THE
WORD DAY, SO IT MEANS IT IS A
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LITERAL DAY. SECOND
THE EXPRESSION EVENING
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AND MORNING. THAT
HAS TO DO WITH THE RISING
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AND SETTING OF THE SUN.
ALSO IN PSALM 33 THERE IS AN
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EXPRESSION OF IMMEDIACY.
HE SPOKE AND IT WAS DONE.
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AND IN THE CREATION STORY YOU
HAVE ALSO AN EXPRESSION WHICH IS
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VERY INTERESTING, AND IT WAS
SO, HE DID IT, AND IT WAS SO.
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ALSO THE FOURTH COMMANDMENT
MAKES IT VERY CLEAR THAT THE
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DAYS OF CREATION WERE LITERAL,
BECAUSE THE FOURTH COMMANDMENT
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TELLS US WE'RE SUPPOSED TO
WORK SIX, AND REST THE SEVENTH,
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BECAUSE GOD WORKED SIX
AND RESTED THE SEVENTH.
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SO OBVIOUSLY IF GOD EXPECTS US
TO FOLLOW HIS EXAMPLE, THE DAYS
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HE WORKED AND RESTED MUST BE
EQUIVALENT TO THE DAYS THAT WE
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HAVE AS WELL. THE
NEW TESTAMENT WRITERS
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UNDERSTOOD THAT
THE DAYS WERE LITERAL.
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JESUS FOR EXAMPLE, SAID HE WHO
MADE THEM IN THE BEGINNING MAE
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AND FEMALE CREATED THEM.
SO HE HAS TAKEN THE STORY OF
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CREATION LITERALLY. SO
WE HAVE PLENTY OF EXAMPLES
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THAT THE DAYS OF CREATION WERE
LITERAL, AND WE'RE GOING TO SEE
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WHY THAT IS IMPORTANT.
BECAUSE THERE ARE MANY THAT ARE
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SAYING WE CAME INTO CREATION
THROUGH EVOLUTION, AND THE DAYS
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WERE SYMBOLIC AND
REPRESENTED MANY, MANY YEARS.
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>> THERE ARE SO MANY YOUNG
PEOPLE IN PUBLIC SCHOOLS WHO ARE
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HEARING THE WORLD EVOLVED,
EVOLUTION STLL EXISTS -- AND
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IT'S JUST -- IT'S SO SAD TO ME,
BECAUSE YOU LOSE -- IF YOU DON'T
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HAVE THAT SENSE OF GOD IS
THE CREATOR, THEN PART OF YOUR
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IDENTITY IS
JUST MESSED UP TO ME.
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BECAUSE YOU -- YOU
KNOW, DID YOU COME FROM APES?
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DID YOU COME FROM A TAD POLE?
NO, WE WERE CREATED BEINGS IN
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THE IMAGE OF GOD, AND THERE ARE
SO MANY YOUNG PEOPLE WHO HAVE
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GROWN UP WITHIN THE PUBLIC
SCHOOL SYSTEM, WHO ARE NOT
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HEARING ANYTHING ABOUT
WHERE THEY REALLY CAME FROM.
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AND THAT'S JUST SAD TO ME.
>> IT RUINS THEIR SELF IMAGE.
00:17:01.92\00:17:05.42
>> YES. >> IT'S
NOT JUST IN SECULAR
00:17:05.42\00:17:08.99
SCHOOLS. UNDERSTAND
-- AND MAYBE YOU CAN
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EXPLAIN A LITTLE
BIT ABOUT THE -- POPE'S
00:17:11.06\00:17:15.83
RECENTLY -- THEIR -- THEIR VIEW
OF CREATION VERSUS EVOLUTION.
00:17:15.83\00:17:20.37
I MAY BE JUMPING AHEAD A LITTLE
BIT, BUT IT MIGHT BE A GOOD TIME
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TO -- TO LET US KNOW ABOUT THAT,
BECAUSE THAT WAS SURPRISING TO
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ME, FINDING OUT
-- >> YEAH, ME TOO.
00:17:28.98\00:17:32.05
>> -- YOU KNOW, THAT
-- THAT -- I'LL LET YOU
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GIVE IT TO US. >>
LET'S TAKE A LOOK AT IT.
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THIS IS GOING TO BE A SURPRISE
EVEN FOR THE LAYETTE IN THE
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ROMAN CATHOLIC CHURCH. BUT
TWO OF THE MOST INFLUENTIAL
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POPES IN THE LAST TWO
DECADES ARE JOHN PAUL II AND NOW
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FRANCIS. THE DAYS
OF CREATION WERE NOT
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LITERAL DAYS, AND THE BIG BANG
IS THE ORIGIN OF THE UNIVERSE,
00:18:02.78\00:18:06.95
AND THAT WE CAME AS A RESULT OF
A LONG PROCESS OF EVOLUTION IN
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THE COURSE OF MILLIONS OF
YEARS. AND I HAVE A COUPLE OF
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QUOTATIONS HERE. ONE IS
JOHN PAUL II, HE SPOKE TO
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THE PAPAL ACADEMY OF THE
SCIENCES, AND HE SAID THIS, IT
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IS INDEED REMARKABLE THAT THIS
THEORY THAT IS THE THEORY OF
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EVOLUTION -- HAS BEEN
PROGRESSIVELY ACCEPTED BY
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RESEARCHERS, FOLLOWING A SERIES
OF DISCOVERIES IN VARIOUS FIELDS
00:18:35.51\00:18:41.15
OF KNOWLEDGE. THE
CONVERGENCE OF ALL OF THESE
00:18:41.15\00:18:45.29
DIFFERENT SCIENCES NEITHER
SOUGHT FOR FABRICATED ARE THE
00:18:45.29\00:18:49.49
RESULTS OF WORK THAT WAS
CONDUCTED INDEPENDENTLY IS IN
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ITSELF A SIGNIFICANT
ARGUMENT IN FAVOR OF THE THEORY.
00:18:56.50\00:19:00.74
SO THEY HAVE ALL REACHED
THE CONCLUSION THAT EVOLUTION
00:19:00.74\00:19:04.14
ACTUALLY IS THE WAY WE
EXPLAIN THE ORIGIN OF MAN.
00:19:04.14\00:19:06.81
SO HE SAYS IT IS A SIGNIFICANT
ARGUMENT IN FAVOR OF THE THEORY.
00:19:06.81\00:19:13.42
FRANCIS THE FIRST
WAS EVEN MORE EXPLICIT.
00:19:13.42\00:19:17.42
THE BIG BANG WHICH WE HOLD TO BE
THE ORIGIN OF THE WORLD -- HE IS
00:19:17.42\00:19:24.26
SAYING THE ROMAN CATHOLIC CHURCH
HOLDS THE ORIGIN OF THE EARTH TO
00:19:24.26\00:19:29.63
BE THE BIG BANG, DOES NOT
CONTRADICT THE CREATOR, BUT
00:19:29.63\00:19:35.27
REQUIRES IT.
EVOLUTION IN NATURE IS NOT
00:19:35.27\00:19:40.41
INCONSISTENT WITH
THE NOTION OF EVOLUTION.
00:19:40.41\00:19:42.48
GOD BEGAN THE PROCESS, AND
INCORPORATED IN BEINGS, THE
00:19:42.48\00:19:48.32
CAPACITY TO EVOLVE IN THE COURSE
OF MILLIONS OF YEARS, AND THEN
00:19:48.32\00:19:51.39
HE SAID THIS -- THIS IS
-pAMAZING -- WHEN WE READ ABOUT
CREATION IN GENESIS, WE RUN THE
00:19:51.39\00:19:58.36
RISK OF IMAGINING GOD WAS A
MAGICIAN WITH A MAGIC WAND ABLE
00:19:58.36\00:20:02.93
TO DO EVERYTHING,
BUT THAT IS NOT SO.
00:20:02.93\00:20:05.67
HE CREATED HUMAN BEINGS AND LET
THEM DEVELOP ACCORDING TO THE
00:20:05.67\00:20:11.14
INTERNAL LAWS THAT HE GAVE
TO EACH ONE, SO THEY WOULD REACH
00:20:11.14\00:20:14.78
THEIR FULFILLMENT. SO
HE IS SAYING THAT WE SHOULD
00:20:14.78\00:20:17.65
NOT IMAGINE THAT GOD IS A
MAGICIAN WHO IS ABLE TO DO
00:20:17.65\00:20:22.55
EVERYTHING. >> OH, MY.
00:20:22.55\00:20:23.59
>> AND HE IS SAYING THAT THE BIG
BANG IS THE EXPLANATION FOR THE
00:20:23.59\00:20:27.89
ORIGIN OF THE UNIVERSE, SO THE
SCHOLARS OF THE ROMAN CATHOLIC
00:20:27.89\00:20:33.80
CHURCH, DO NOT BELIEVE IN THE
GENESIS STORY THAT THE STORY WAS
00:20:33.80\00:20:38.80
LITERAL. >> HUM.
00:20:38.80\00:20:39.47
>> BOTTOM LINE. >> SO
WHAT DOES THAT DO TO THE
00:20:39.47\00:20:43.27
FOUNDATION OF NOT ONLY THE WEAK,
BUT THE GENDERS TO -- NOT ONLY
00:20:43.27\00:20:49.91
THE SABBATH AND THESE OTHER
THINGS, I MEAN YOU THRO THAT
00:20:49.91\00:20:54.72
AWAY, YOU HAVE
THROWN AWAY FOUNDATIONS.
00:20:54.72\00:20:58.09
>> WELL, IF YOU THROUGH AWAY A
LITERAL SEVEN DAYS OF CREATION.
00:20:58.09\00:21:04.09
HETEROSEXUAL
MARRIAGE GOES BY THE WAYSIDE.
00:21:04.09\00:21:06.43
BECAUSE IT'S BASED
ON THE CREATION STORY.
00:21:06.43\00:21:10.07
ALSO GENDER
IDENTITY DISAPPEARED.
00:21:10.07\00:21:12.33
GOD CREATED MALE AND FEMALE.
BUT IF THE CREATION STORY DIDN'T
00:21:12.33\00:21:16.34
HAPPEN THE WAY IT SAYS, THEN YOU
CAN INVENT ALL KINDS OF GENDERS.
00:21:16.34\00:21:21.31
ALSO THE SABBATH GOES, BECAUSE
THE SABBATH COMMANDMENT IS BASED
00:21:21.31\00:21:25.78
ON THE IDEA THAT GOD WORKS SIX
LITERAL DAYS AND RESTS ON THE
00:21:25.78\00:21:31.19
SEVENTH DAY.
FURTHERMORE THESE POPES ARE
00:21:31.19\00:21:34.72
CONTRADICTORY IN THEIR THEOLOGY,
BECAUSE EVOLUTION REQUIRES THE
00:21:34.72\00:21:38.89
SURVIVAL OF THE FITEST.
AND FRACIS THE FIRST IS SAYING
00:21:38.89\00:21:42.53
THE RICH NEEDS TO HELP THE POOR,
BUT THAT TOTALLY GOES AGAINST
00:21:42.53\00:21:46.97
THE THEORY OF EVOLUTION THAT
HE STANDS FOR, BECAUSE EVOLUTION
00:21:46.97\00:21:52.44
TEACHES THE
SURVIVAL OF THE FITTEST.
00:21:52.44\00:21:55.04
THE STRONG WIN,
AND THE WEAK LOSE.
00:21:55.04\00:21:57.25
SO HE CONTRADICTS
HIS OWN PHILOSOPHY.
00:21:57.25\00:22:01.98
AND EVEN MORE IMPORTANTLY, YOU
KNOW, AS ADVENTISTS WE BELIEVE
00:22:01.98\00:22:06.22
THE SECOND COMING
OF CHRIST IS IMMINENT.
00:22:06.22\00:22:08.92
BUT IF YOU BELIEVE IN EVOLUTION,
HOW MANY MORE MILLIONS OF YEARS
00:22:08.92\00:22:12.63
DO WE HAVE TO WAIT UNTIL THE
PROCESS OF EVOLUTION REACHES ITS
00:22:12.63\00:22:17.47
CONCLUSION? IT
TOTALLY OBLITERATES THE
00:22:17.47\00:22:20.34
EMINENCE OF THE
COMING OF JESUS CHRIST.
00:22:20.34\00:22:23.10
IT TOTALLY OBLITERATES AND
IT DESTROYS, IT DESTROYS THE
00:22:23.10\00:22:28.41
CHARACTER OF
GOD. HIS OMNIPOTENCE.
00:22:28.41\00:22:31.55
ISN'T GOD POWERFUL ENOUGH
TO MAKE THINGS RIGHT -- TO MAKE
00:22:31.55\00:22:35.22
PERFECT THINGS
FROM THE BEGINNING?
00:22:35.22\00:22:38.05
>> SURE. >> DOES
HE HAVE TO USE A LONG
00:22:38.05\00:22:40.79
PROCESS? ISN'T HE
WISE ENOUGH TO MAKE
00:22:40.79\00:22:42.99
BEINGS THAT ARE PERFECT?
DOES HE HAVE TO USE A MECHANISM
00:22:42.99\00:22:47.60
WHERE THERE IS MUCH
DEATH AND SUFFERING.
00:22:47.60\00:22:50.70
DEATH LONG BEFORE
SIN CAME INTO THE WORLD?
00:22:50.70\00:22:54.60
WHAT DOES IT DO
WITH THE LOVE OF GOD?
00:22:54.60\00:22:58.34
YOU KNOW, HOW CAN GOD OBSERVE
THE SUFFERING AND THE PROCESS OF
00:22:58.34\00:23:02.28
EVOLUTION, ANIMALS KILLING
ANIMALS AND THIS CRUEL PROCESS
00:23:02.28\00:23:06.98
AND -- AND YET BELIEVE WHAT THE
BIBLE SAYS THAT GOD'S HEART IS
00:23:06.98\00:23:12.69
MOVED WHEN A SPAR
ROW FALLS OUT OF A TREE?
00:23:12.69\00:23:15.72
IT JUST DOESN'T SQUARE
WITH -- WITH A GOD OF LOVE.
00:23:15.72\00:23:18.79
>> RIGHT. AND HIS
OMNIPOTENCE AS YOU SAID
00:23:18.79\00:23:22.10
BEFORE. HE -- HE
SPOKE, AND IT WAS DONE.
00:23:22.10\00:23:24.57
HE COMMANDED AND IT STOOD FAST,
SO IT WASN'T -- IT DIDN'T
EVOLVE-INTO SOMETHING.
00:23:24.57\00:23:30.67
IT STOOD FAST
IMMEDIATELY. HE SPOKE IT.
00:23:30.67\00:23:33.44
IT HAPPENED. >> YEAH.
00:23:33.44\00:23:35.44
>> THAT'S THE -- ONLY NIP
IMPORTANT GOD THAT WE SERVE.
00:23:35.44\00:23:46.82
BUT IT'S INTERESTING THAT
EVERYTHING IS TWISTED NOWADAYS,
00:23:46.82\00:23:50.89
SO IF YOU ARE A CREATIONIST, YOU
ARE LOOKED AT AS BEING IGNORANT,
00:23:50.89\00:23:56.56
BECAUSE THE PREVAILING
IMPRESSION OF -- OF EDUCATED
00:23:56.56\00:24:01.60
PEOPLE IS EVOLUTION. >> UH-HUH.
00:24:01.60\00:24:05.27
>> SO IF YOU DON'T SUBSCRIBE
TO THAT -- THAT THEORY, THEN YOU
00:24:05.27\00:24:09.58
ARE LOOKED AT --
YOU ARE LAUGHED AT.
00:24:09.58\00:24:12.18
>> YEAH. >> IT'S
VEY INTERESTING TO ME
00:24:12.18\00:24:14.68
HOW SATAN HAS TAKEN -- THE GOOD
IS BAD, AND THE BAD IS GOOD.
00:24:14.68\00:24:19.42
>> OH, YEAH. >> YEP.
00:24:19.42\00:24:21.12
>> WELL, TAKE -- TO ME
ONE OF THE -- I THINK THE MOST
00:24:21.12\00:24:26.36
DEMEANING THING HE CAN SAY
IS GOD IS NOT A MAGICIAN WHO CAN
00:24:26.36\00:24:30.27
TAKE A MAGIC WAND. I'M
GLAD HE IS NOT A MAGICIAN,
00:24:30.27\00:24:34.47
AREN'T YOU? >> YEAH.
00:24:34.47\00:24:35.77
[ LAUGHTER ] >>
MAGICIANS -- THERE'S NO WAY
00:24:35.77\00:24:38.21
FOR SALVATION OF MAN. NO
MAGICIAN CAN COME UP WITH
00:24:38.21\00:24:43.01
THAT. ONLY A
CREATOR, GOD, CAN DO THAT
00:24:43.01\00:24:46.58
AND CREATE A PERFECT WORLD THAT
WE HAVE AN OPPORTUNITY AS FRAIL
00:24:46.58\00:24:51.15
HUMAN AGENTS WHO ARE BORN
TERMINALLY ILL, THAT WE HAVE THE
00:24:51.15\00:24:56.32
OPPORTUNITY TO SOME DAY
LIVE FOREVER IN A SINLESS WELL.
00:24:56.32\00:25:00.70
NO MAGICIAN CAN DO THAT.
>> WHAT HE IS REALLY SAYING IS
00:25:00.70\00:25:04.70
THAT GOD ISN'T POWERFUL ENOUGH
TO GET THINGS RIGHT FROM THE
00:25:04.70\00:25:08.37
START? >> YEAH.
00:25:08.37\00:25:10.34
>> GOD IS NOT O-- ONLY NIP
IMPORTANT, YOU KNOW, ISN'T GOD
00:25:10.34\00:25:24.45
POWERFUL ENOUGH TO GET
THINGS RIGHT FROM THE START?
00:25:24.45\00:25:26.99
>> YEAH, HE'S PUTTING
HIM ON THE LEVEL WITH MAN.
00:25:26.99\00:25:30.53
>> RIGHT. >> THE
WRIGHT BROTHERS STARTED
00:25:30.53\00:25:34.13
OUT TRYING TO FLY AN
AIRPLANE AND OVER DECADES IT WAS
00:25:34.13\00:25:40.37
PERFECTED AND NOW OVER
CENTURIES -- THAT'S KIND OF HOW
00:25:40.37\00:25:43.84
HE'S PUTTING GOD.
FIRST OF ALL IT WAS TRIAL AND
00:25:43.84\00:25:47.41
ERROR, AND HE DIDN'T DO SO
WELL -- I MEAN THAT'S PUTTING
00:25:47.41\00:25:50.78
HIM ON THE LEVEL OF MAN.
LET'S GO BACK TO GENESIS,
00:25:50.78\00:25:54.35
BECAUSE FOR ME, IF I DON'T
BELIEVE IN GENESIS, THEN I DON'T
00:25:54.35\00:25:57.95
BELIEVE THE REST OF THE BIBLE,
SO I THINK WE NEED TO ESTABLISH
00:25:57.95\00:26:01.42
THE FACT THAT THE GENESIS STORY
IS A LITERAL STORY, AND THAT YOU
00:26:01.42\00:26:05.03
ARE SAYING THAT THE DAYS ARE
LITERAL DAYS, AND BECAUSE FOR
00:26:05.03\00:26:09.36
ONE THING EVENING AND MORNING,
FIRST DAY, SECOND DAY, AND SO ON
00:26:09.36\00:26:14.77
UNTIL THE SEVENTH DAY, AND
EVENING AND MORNING IS MEASURED
00:26:14.77\00:26:19.21
BY THE SUNRISE AND
SUNST. NOW TELL US WHERE THE
00:26:19.21\00:26:23.81
SABBATH -- WAS IT INSTITUTED
THEN, OR HOW DID THE SABBATH
00:26:23.81\00:26:27.52
COME ABOUT? AND WHY
THE NEED FOR A SABBATH.
00:26:27.52\00:26:31.35
GOD WASN'T TIRED WHEN
HE WORKED. >> OBVIOUSLY.
00:26:31.35\00:26:35.42
[ LAUGHTER ] >> WELL,
MAYBE GOD GETS TIRED AK
00:26:35.42\00:26:37.89
CORING TO THE PAPAL VIEW,
BECAUSE GOD CAN'T DO EVERYTHING,
00:26:37.89\00:26:41.46
YOU KNOW. >> THERE YOU GO.
00:26:41.46\00:26:43.13
>> BUT THERE IS A TEXT IN THE
BIBLE THAT SAYS THAT GOD DOESN'T
00:26:43.13\00:26:47.97
GET WEARY. >> NOR
SLEEPS NOR SLUMBERS.
00:26:47.97\00:26:52.41
>> THAT'S RIGHT. LET
ME DRAW ATTENTION TO A
00:26:52.41\00:26:58.68
DEBATE THAT TOOK
PLACE LAST FRIDAY EVENING.
00:26:58.68\00:27:02.48
LET ME JUST SHARE WITH YOU FOUR
PREMISES THAT WERE USED BY THE
00:27:02.48\00:27:11.79
EVANGELICAL
AGAINST THE ADVENTIST VIEW.
00:27:11.79\00:27:14.73
NUMBER 1, HE STATED THAT GENESIS
TELLS US THAT IT WAS GOD WHO
00:27:14.73\00:27:20.54
RESTED ON THE 7TH DAY
GOD RESTED THE 7TH DAY.
00:27:20.54\00:27:26.01
SECOND, THE WORD THAT IS USED
FORREST REALLY MEANS TO CEASE.
00:27:26.01\00:27:31.21
WHEN I SAYS THAT GOD
RESTS, IT MEANS TO CEASE.
00:27:31.21\00:27:36.89
IT IS NOT TALKING ABOUT
THE QUALITY OF GOD'S REST.
00:27:36.89\00:27:40.26
NUMBER 3, THERE IS NO COMMAND
IN GENESIS THAT GOD TOLD MAN TO
00:27:40.26\00:27:44.59
REST AS WELL. >> THIS
IS WHAT HE IS SAYING --
00:27:44.59\00:27:47.23
>> YES, THIS IS
HIS POINT OF VIEW.
00:27:47.23\00:27:50.57
SO GENESIS SAYS GOD RESTED.
SECONDLY, THE WORD REST MEANS
00:27:50.57\00:27:58.31
TO-CEASE. NUMBER 3, THERE IS NO
COMMAND FOR MAN TO REST, SO HIS
00:27:58.31\00:28:02.14
CONCLUSION IS THAT THE SABBATH
IS NOT A CREATION INSTITUTION,
00:28:02.14\00:28:06.18
BUT WAS PART OF THE OLD COVENANT
THAT WAS ONLY FOR THE JEWS,
00:28:06.18\00:28:10.22
BECAUSE THERE IS NO COMMAND
FOR ADAM AND EVE TO KEEP THE
00:28:10.22\00:28:14.16
SABBATH, AND IT SAYS THAT GOD
WAS THE ONE THAT RESTED, AND IT
00:28:14.16\00:28:17.69
IS NOT TALKING ABOUT QUALITY
OF REST, IT IS TALKING ABOUT GOD
00:28:17.69\00:28:22.16
CEASING. >> OKAY.
00:28:22.16\00:28:22.83
>> I CAN AGREE WITH
THREE OF THE PROPOSITIONS.
00:28:22.83\00:28:26.90
I AGREE NUMBER 1, THAT THE
RECORD SAYS THAT GOD RESTED.
00:28:26.90\00:28:30.37
>> UH-HUH. >> I
CAN AGREE THAT THE WORD
00:28:30.37\00:28:33.81
REST SHOULD BE
TRANSLATED CEASE. >> UH-HUH.
00:28:33.81\00:28:37.21
>> AND I CAN AGREE THAT GOD DID
NOT GIVE ADAM AND EVA COMMAND
00:28:37.21\00:28:42.62
THERE IN GENESIS 2
TO OBSERVE THE SABBATH.
00:28:42.62\00:28:48.19
WHAT I CANNOT ACCEPT IS THE
CONCLUSION HE REACHES ON THE
00:28:48.19\00:28:52.06
BASIS OF THOSE THREE
POINTS THAT HE BRINGS OUT.
00:28:52.06\00:28:55.40
THERE IS A REASON WHY THE -- THE
STORY TELLS US THAT GOD RESTED
00:28:55.40\00:28:59.77
AND THERE'S A REASON WHY IT
DOESN'T SAY THAT GOD COMMANDED
00:28:59.77\00:29:05.47
MAN TO REST. SO MAYBE
WE CAN JUST TAKE THESE
00:29:05.47\00:29:09.38
PROPOSITIONS ONE
BY ONE -- >> OKAY.
00:29:09.38\00:29:10.95
>> -- AND TAKE A
LOOK AT THEM. >> LET'S DO.
00:29:10.95\00:29:14.92
>> THE CREATION STORY SAYS THAT
GOD RESTED ON THE SEVENTH DAY,
00:29:14.92\00:29:21.26
TRUE. IT IS TRUE THAT THE
WORD REST -SHOULD BETTER BE
00:29:21.26\00:29:27.46
TRANSLATED CEASE.
GENESIS 8:22, AFTER THE FLOOD
00:29:27.46\00:29:30.33
GOD TELLS NOAH THAT SEED TIME
AND HARVEST AND DAY AND NIGHT
00:29:30.33\00:29:37.31
WILL NOT CEASE FROM NOW ON.
AND THE WORD IS ALSO USED IN
00:29:37.31\00:29:43.91
JOSHUA 5:12 WHEN IT SAYS THAT
MANNA CEASED THE DAY AFTER THEY
00:29:43.91\00:29:49.28
ENTERED THE PROMISE LAND. IT IS
USED ALSO IN THE BOOK OF
-NEHEMIAH, CHAPTER 6, WHERE THE
00:29:49.28\00:29:59.39
ENEMIES ARE SAYING COME
AND TALK ABOUT THIS PROJECT.
00:29:59.39\00:30:05.33
AND NEHEMIAH SAYS I
CAN'T CEASE BUILDING THE WALL.
00:30:05.33\00:30:10.77
AND THEN IT SEEKS
ABOUT WHEN WARS WILL CEASE.
00:30:10.77\00:30:13.84
SO IT IS TRUE THAT IN GENESIS 2,
THE BEST TRANSLATION OF THE WORD
00:30:13.84\00:30:21.18
IS TO CEASE. HOWEVER
-- HOWEVER, WE NEED TO
00:30:21.18\00:30:25.62
ASK THE QUESTION, WHY DOES THE
GENESIS ACCOUNT TELL US THAT GOD
00:30:25.62\00:30:30.93
WAS THE ONE WHO CEASED, AND
HE DIDN'T TELL ADAM AND EVE, AT
00:30:30.93\00:30:36.60
LEAST EXPLICITLY
THERE, THAT THEY SHOULD CEASE.
00:30:36.60\00:30:40.74
SO BASICALLY THE IDEA IS THE
SABBATH WAS SOMETHING ALL ABOUT
00:30:40.74\00:30:45.27
GOD. IT WASN'T
ABOUT HUMAN BEINGS.
00:30:45.27\00:30:47.91
THE OLD COVENANT, THE SABBATH
FOR THE JEWS BEGINS IN EXODUS 16
00:30:47.91\00:30:52.38
WITH THE MANNA, AND THEN EXODUS
20, SO THE SABBATH IS FOR THE
00:30:52.38\00:30:58.22
JEWS, BECAUSE THERE I NO
COMMAND FOR ADAM AND EVE TO KEEP
00:30:58.22\00:31:07.50
THE SABBATH IN GENESIS.
THERE IS AN ANSWER TO ALL OF
00:31:07.50\00:31:12.97
THIS. >> TAKE YOUR TIME.
00:31:12.97\00:31:14.57
>> FOUR THINGS WE NEED TO
RECOGNIZE WHEN WE STUDY THE
00:31:14.57\00:31:17.97
STORY OF CREATION WITH
REGARDS TO THE SABBATH.
00:31:17.97\00:31:22.78
NUMBER 1, WHEN GOD CEASED, THERE
WAS NO SIN, AND THERE WERE NO
00:31:22.78\00:31:29.02
-pJEWS. THAT'S A
CRITICALLY IMPORTANT DETAIL.
00:31:29.02\00:31:30.92
>> NO SINS AFTER SIX DAYS OF
CREATION, GOD RESTED, THERE WAS
00:31:30.92\00:31:35.16
NO SIN -- >> AND
THERE WERE NO JEWS.
00:31:35.16\00:31:38.09
BECAUSE ADAM AND
EVE WERE NOT JEWS.
00:31:38.09\00:31:40.23
>> THAT'S RIGHT. >> OKAY?
00:31:40.23\00:31:42.03
SO WHY IS THAT IMPORTANT? IF
WE CAN SHOW THAT GOD GAVE THE
00:31:42.03\00:31:46.43
SABBATH TO ADAM AND EVE
BEFORE SIN, AND BEFORE THE JEWS
00:31:46.43\00:31:50.64
EXISTED, THEN ALL OF THE
ARGUMENTS THAT WERE USED BY THIS
00:31:50.64\00:31:55.74
EVANGELICAL SAYING THE
SABBATH IS OF THE OLD TESTAMENT
00:31:55.74\00:32:02.75
DISAPPEAR. THE
FIST POINT WE NEED TO
00:32:02.75\00:32:04.79
NOTICE IS THAT WHEN GOD RESTED
ON THE SABBATH -- WHEN GOD
00:32:04.79\00:32:08.56
CEASED, THERE WAS NO
JEW, AND THERE WAS NO SIN.
00:32:08.56\00:32:14.73
SECOND, THE CREATION
STORY IS ALL ABOUT GOD.
00:32:14.73\00:32:17.27
THE WORD GOD IS USED 31
TIMES IN THE FIRST CHAPTER.
00:32:17.27\00:32:22.77
AND IN GENESIS 2:2-3,
GOD -- CREATION AND REST IS
00:32:22.77\00:32:32.51
ATTRIBUTED TO GOD TEN TIMES.
SO THAT'S 41 TIMES IN GENESIS
00:32:32.51\00:32:41.79
1:1 THROUGH 2-3, 41 TIMES GOD
IS-MENTIONED AS THE ONE WHO
WORKED SIX DAYS, AND AS THE ONE
00:32:41.79\00:32:48.70
WHO RESTED THE SEVENTH
DAY. LET ME READ GENESIS 2:2-3.
00:32:48.70\00:32:56.81
WE CAN'T READ THE
WHOLE FIRST CHAPTER.
00:32:56.81\00:32:59.34
WHAT I WAT US TO CATCH THE
PICTURE OF IS THE CREATION STORY
00:32:59.34\00:33:02.41
IS ALL ABOUT GOD.
IT'S NOT ABOUT MAN.
00:33:02.41\00:33:04.88
>> YES. >> IT SAYS
IN GENESIS 2:2-3, AND
00:33:04.88\00:33:09.55
ON THE SEVENTH DAY, GOD ENDED
HIS WORK, WHICH HE HAD DONE, AND
00:33:09.55\00:33:17.09
HE RESTED ON THE SEVENTH DAY,
FROM ALL OF HIS WORK, WHICH HE
00:33:17.09\00:33:23.43
HAD DONE. THEN GOD
BLESSED THE SEVENTH DAY
00:33:23.43\00:33:26.17
AND SANCTIFIED IT, BECAUSE
IN IT, HE RESTED FROM ALL OF HIS
00:33:26.17\00:33:31.61
WORK, WHICH GOD
HAD CREATED AND MADE.
00:33:31.61\00:33:33.54
SO THERE'S NO
REFERENCE TO MAN HERE.
00:33:33.54\00:33:36.44
BECAUSE GOD WAS THE ONE
WHO WORKED SIX DAYS AND CREATED
00:33:36.44\00:33:40.28
EVERYTHING, AND GOD WAS THE ONE
WHO RESTED AFTER HE CONCLUDED
00:33:40.28\00:33:44.39
HIS WORK THE
SIX DAYS. >> UH-HUH.
00:33:44.39\00:33:46.82
>> SO POINT NUMBER
1, NO JEW AND NO SIN.
00:33:46.82\00:33:51.53
POINT NUMBER 2, THE FIRST WEEK
OF THE HISTORY OF THIS WORLD IS
00:33:51.53\00:33:55.53
ABOUT GOD. GOD
WORKED SIX, AND GOD RESTED
00:33:55.53\00:33:58.60
ON THE SEVENTH. THIRD,
AND WE'RE WORKING TOWARDS
00:33:58.60\00:34:03.37
ANSWERING WHY GOD DID NOT
COMMAND ADAM AND EVE TO -- TO
00:34:03.37\00:34:07.74
CEASE FOR SABBATH.
NUMBER 3, AND THIS SURPRISED ME
00:34:07.74\00:34:12.21
A FEW YEARS AGO. I HAD
READ THE CREATION STORY
00:34:12.21\00:34:15.85
MANY, MANY TIMES, BUT I FOUND
SOMETHING VERY INTERESTING, AND
00:34:15.85\00:34:20.02
THAT IS THAT GOD DID NOT MAKE
THE SABBATH HOLY UNTIL IT ENDED.
00:34:20.02\00:34:24.89
>> UH-HUH. >> GOD
RESTED ALL DAY SABBATH.
00:34:24.89\00:34:28.86
HE RESTED ALL DAY SABBATH.
AND THEN WHEN THE SABBATH ENDED,
00:34:28.86\00:34:33.34
HE BLESSED AND MADE IT HOLY.
AND THAT'S CRUCIALLY IMPORTANT.
00:34:33.34\00:34:38.24
LET'S READ GENESIS 2:3, AND
THEN EXODUS 20:11 AND PROVE THAT
00:34:38.24\00:34:43.61
POINT FROM THE BIBLE. >>
THEN GOD BLESSED THE SEVENTH
00:34:43.61\00:34:48.02
DAY AND SANCTIFIED IT, BECAUSE
IN IT HE RESTED FROM ALL OF HIS
00:34:48.02\00:34:52.69
WORK WHICH HE
HAD CREATED AND MADE.
00:34:52.69\00:34:56.73
THE WORD RESTED,
SAYS IT WAS PAST.
00:34:56.73\00:34:59.26
AT THE END. >> WHY
DID HE BLESS THE SEVENTH
00:34:59.26\00:35:02.76
DAY AND MAKE IT
HOLY? BECAUSE HE RESTED.
00:35:02.76\00:35:05.43
>> HE RESTED
FROM ALL OF HIS WORK.
00:35:05.43\00:35:07.60
>> SO HE RESTED, AND BECAUSE
OF THAT HE MAKES THE DAY HOLY.
00:35:07.60\00:35:11.74
SO HE RESTS AND THEN THE
DAY BECOMES HOLY AFTER HE RESTS.
00:35:11.74\00:35:17.11
EXODUS 20:11 HAS THE SAME IDEA.
THIS IS THE CONCLUSION TO THE
00:35:17.11\00:35:25.29
FOURTH
COMMANDMENT. EXODUS 20:11.
00:35:25.29\00:35:28.69
>> FOR IN SIX DAYS THE LORD MADE
THE HEAVENS AND THE EARTH, THE
00:35:28.69\00:35:32.93
SEA AND ALL THAT IS IN THEM,
AND RESTED THE SEVENTH DAY,
00:35:32.93\00:35:37.20
THEREFORE THE LORD BLESSED
THE SABBATH DAY AND HELD IT.
00:35:37.20\00:35:40.67
>> NOW IS THAT CLEAR? >> UH-HUH.
00:35:40.67\00:35:42.97
>> IT SAYS GOD MADE EVERYTHING
IN SIX DAYS, RESTED THE SEVENTH
00:35:42.97\00:35:48.08
DAY, THEREFORE, THE LORD BLESSED
THE SABBATH DAY AND MADE IT
00:35:48.08\00:35:52.38
HOLY. SO GOD
RESTED ALL DAY SABBATH,
00:35:52.38\00:35:55.68
AND THAT'S WHAT MADE THE
SABBATH-HOLY WAS GOD'S REST. AT
THE END OF THE SABBATH, THAT
00:35:55.68\00:36:02.49
FIRST SABBATH,
NOW THE DAY IS HOLY.
00:36:02.49\00:36:05.03
THAT'S AN
IMPORTANT POINT TO REMEMBER.
00:36:05.03\00:36:06.66
>> UH-HUH. >> THE
FOURTH POINT THAT WE NEED
00:36:06.66\00:36:10.40
TO TAKE INTO ACCOUNT IS THAT,
AFTER GOD RESTED ON THE SEVENTH
00:36:10.40\00:36:15.70
DAY, AND MADE THE SABBATH DAY
HOLY, AND BLESSED THE SABBATH
00:36:15.70\00:36:21.14
DAY, GOD HAD CREATED THE WEEK.
BECAUSE USUALLY WE THINK OF GOD
00:36:21.14\00:36:27.42
CREATING THINGS. BUT
GOD ALSO CREATED A WEEK OF
00:36:27.42\00:36:30.55
SEVEN DAYS. AND IF
I CAN READ A STATEMENT
00:36:30.55\00:36:33.02
FROM THIS FANTASTIC BOOK
PATRIARCHS AND PROPHETS, PAGE
00:36:33.02\00:36:38.96
111, AND OF COURSE THIS COMMENT
IS FIRMLY BASED ON SCRIPTURE,
00:36:38.96\00:36:43.26
BECAUSE WE JUST NOTICED THAT GOD
WORKED SIX, GOD RESTED ON THE
00:36:43.26\00:36:48.44
SEVENTH, AND AFTER HE
RESTED HE MADE THE DAY HOLY.
00:36:48.44\00:36:51.64
SO HE CREATED THE WEEK.
LIKE THE SABBATH THE WEEK
00:36:51.64\00:36:56.18
ORIGINATED AT CREATION, AND IT
HAS BEEN PRESERVED AND BROUGHT
00:36:56.18\00:36:59.68
DOWN TO US
THROUGH BIBLE HISTORY.
00:36:59.68\00:37:01.35
THAT'S WHY WE HAVE
A WEEK OF SEVEN DAYS.
00:37:01.35\00:37:03.99
>> UH-HUH. >> IT
CONTINUES SAYING GOD
00:37:03.99\00:37:07.46
HIMSELF MEASURED OFF THE FIRST
WEEK AS A SAMPLE FOR SUCCESSIVE
00:37:07.46\00:37:14.00
WEEKS TO THE CLOSE OF TIME.
VERY CLEAR, SIX DAYS, RESTED THE
00:37:14.00\00:37:20.17
SEVENTH. WE STILL
HAVE A WEEK OF SEVEN
00:37:20.17\00:37:22.00
DAYS. IT
CONTINUES SAYING LIKE EVERY
00:37:22.00\00:37:24.84
OTHER, IT CONSISTED
OF SEVEN LITERAL DAYS.
00:37:24.84\00:37:28.91
SIX DAYS WERE EMPLOYED IN THE
WORK OF CREATION, AND HERE COMES
00:37:28.91\00:37:32.51
THE KEY POINT. SIX
DAYS WERE EMPLOYED IN THE
00:37:32.51\00:37:35.95
WORK OF CREATION. UPON
THE SEVENTH, GOD RESTED,
00:37:35.95\00:37:40.42
AND THE THEN BLESSED THIS DAY
AND SET IT APART A DAY OF REST
00:37:40.42\00:37:48.30
FOR MAN. VERY
CLEARLY IT SAYS GOD RESTED
00:37:48.30\00:37:51.43
AND HE THEN BLESSED THIS DAY AND
SET IT APART AS A DAY OF REST
00:37:51.43\00:37:56.67
FOR MAN.-NOW THE QUESTION IS,
BACK TO THE ORIGINAL QUESTION,
00:37:56.67\00:38:03.21
WHY DIDN'T GOD COMMAND ADAM AND
EVE TO KEP THAT FIRST SABBATH OF
00:38:03.21\00:38:08.18
CREATION WEEK? WELL,
NOW I WANT TO GIVE YOU
00:38:08.18\00:38:10.79
SEVERAL REASONS. >> OKAY.
00:38:10.79\00:38:14.09
>> NUMBER 1, GOD COULD NOT GIVE
ADAM AND EVE THE SABBATH BEFORE
00:38:14.09\00:38:20.06
HE MADE IT. >> UH-HUH.
00:38:20.06\00:38:22.56
>> HUM. >> GOOD POINT.
00:38:22.56\00:38:24.37
>> AND WE KNOW HE MADE IT,
BECAUSE THE SABBATH WAS MADE FOR
00:38:24.37\00:38:30.24
MAN. >> UH-HUH.
00:38:30.24\00:38:32.47
>> SO COULD GOD GIVE THE SABBATH
TO ADAM AND EVE AND TELL THEM TO
00:38:32.47\00:38:36.34
KEEP THE SABBATH
BEFORE HE MADE IT?
00:38:36.34\00:38:38.15
HE COULDN'T GIVE THEM
WHAT HE HAD NOT MADE YET.
00:38:38.15\00:38:41.35
POINT NUMBER 1. >> OKAY.
00:38:41.35\00:38:43.28
>> POINT NUMBER 2, WE ALREADY
NOTICED THAT HE MADE THE SABBATH
00:38:43.28\00:38:47.76
HOLY WHEN IT ENDED, WHICH MEANS
THAT GOD COULD NOT HAVE TOLD
00:38:47.76\00:38:52.13
ADAM AND EVE TO KEEP THAT
SABBATH HOLY BEFORE IT WAS HOLY.
00:38:52.13\00:38:55.90
>> RIGHT. >> RIGHT.
00:38:55.90\00:38:57.00
>> IS THAT
MAKING SENSE? >> UH-HUH.
00:38:57.00\00:38:59.30
>> YES. >>
FURTHERMORE, WE'RE TOLD THAT
00:38:59.30\00:39:02.84
GOD BLESSED THE
SABBATH DAY AND MADE IT HOLY.
00:39:02.84\00:39:06.21
GOD DOESN'T NEED A DAY THAT
IS BLESSED AND HOLY FOR HIMSELF.
00:39:06.21\00:39:10.25
>> RIGHT. >> UH-HUH.
00:39:10.25\00:39:12.38
>> POINT NUMBER 4, GOD ACTUALLY
NEEDED TO GIVE ADAM AND EVE THE
00:39:12.38\00:39:19.19
EXAMPLE OF HOW TO OBSERVE THE
SABBATH BEFORE HE COULD EXPECT
00:39:19.19\00:39:23.32
THEM TO OBSERVE
THE SABBATH. >> OKAY.
00:39:23.32\00:39:27.23
GOOD. >> AND
THERE'S THIS QUOTATION IN
00:39:27.23\00:39:30.23
THIS DEVOTIONAL BOOK LIFT HIM
UP, WHICH EXPRESSES ITS WELL.
00:39:30.23\00:39:34.67
GOD MADE MAN IN HIS OWN IMAGE
AND THEN GAVE HIM AN EXAMPLE OF
00:39:34.67\00:39:39.54
OBSERVING THE SEVENTH DAY, WHICH
HE SANCTIFIED AND MADE HOLY.
00:39:39.54\00:39:45.38
WHAT IS MORE IMPORTANT WHAT
PARENTS TELL THEIR CHILDREN, OR
00:39:45.38\00:39:50.25
WHAT THEY
EXEMPLIFY TO THEIR CHILDREN.
00:39:50.25\00:39:56.32
>> GREAT POINT. >>
NUMBER 1, THE SABBATH WAS
00:39:56.32\00:40:01.10
MADE FOR MAN. NUMBER
2, THE SABBATH WASN'T
00:40:01.10\00:40:04.60
HOLY UNTIL IT ENDED.
IN THE BIBLE GENESIS 2 AND
00:40:04.60\00:40:10.71
EXODUS 20. HE
COULDN'T TELL THEM KEEP THE
00:40:10.71\00:40:15.28
HOLY DAY HOLY UNTIL IT WAS HOLY.
NUMBER 3, HE COULD NOT TELL THEM
00:40:15.28\00:40:20.65
KEEP THE SABBATH WHEN
THE SEVENTH DAY IS STARTING.
00:40:20.65\00:40:26.19
BECAUSE THEY WOULD SAY
HOW? HE HAS TO EX-EXEMPLIFY THE
00:40:26.19\00:40:31.89
SABBATH AND THEN TELL THEM
NOW YOU DO HOW YOU SAW ME DO IT.
00:40:31.89\00:40:38.53
NUMBER 4, THE FOURTH COMMANDMENT
DOES NOT COME ABOUT UNTIL THE
00:40:38.53\00:40:45.54
SECOND SABBATH OF HUMAN HISTORY.
YOU ARE SAYING WAIT A MINUTE.
00:40:45.54\00:40:49.74
IS THIS SOME KIND OF
HERESY? NO, IT'S NOT HERESY.
00:40:49.74\00:40:56.38
WHY DIDN'T GOD TELL ADAM AND EVE
TO CEASE BECAUSE THIS INDIVIDUAL
00:40:56.38\00:41:02.66
SAYS THAT THE WORD MEANS
CEASED, SO WE'LL TAKE HIM IN HIS
00:41:02.66\00:41:08.40
ARGUMENT. AND IT
WAS GOD WHO CEASED.
00:41:08.40\00:41:12.10
HE DIDN'T TELL
ADAM AND EVE TO CEASE.
00:41:12.10\00:41:16.04
WHY DIDN'T HE TELL
ADAM AND EVE TO CEASE.
00:41:16.04\00:41:22.61
WHY DID HE CEASE
FROM? >> HIS WORK.
00:41:22.61\00:41:26.08
>> AND THEY HADN'T YET
WORKED. ARE YOU WITH ME?
00:41:26.08\00:41:31.29
>> ABSOLUTELY. >> SO
IT STARTS WITH THE SEC
00:41:31.29\00:41:34.99
SABBATH IN HUMAN HISTORY,
BECAUSE GOD WORKS SIX, RESTS THE
00:41:34.99\00:41:39.76
SEVENTH, AT THE END OF THE
SABBATH, HE MAKES IT HOLY, AND
00:41:39.76\00:41:43.20
THEN HE SAYS TO ADAM AND EVE
NOW, YOU SAW ME DO IT, NOW YOU
00:41:43.20\00:41:48.27
GO AND WORK SIX, AND THEN NEXT
SABBATH, YOU ARE GOING TO REST
00:41:48.27\00:41:52.71
THE WAY YOU SAW
ME REST. >> UH-HUH.
00:41:52.71\00:41:55.54
>> LET'S READ EXODUS 20:8-11.
REMEMBER THE SABBATH DAY TO KEEP
00:41:55.54\00:42:04.09
IT HOLY. SIX DAYS
YOU SHALL LABOR AND DO
00:42:04.09\00:42:07.32
YOUR WORK, BUT THE SEVENTH
DAY IS THE DAY OF YOUR GOD.
00:42:07.32\00:42:12.49
IN IT, YOU SHALL DO NO WORK.
NOW COMES THE REASON WHY GOD
00:42:12.49\00:42:22.37
SAYS, YOU KNOW, THAT YOU
ARE SUPPOSED TO KEEP THE SEVENTH
00:42:22.37\00:42:25.91
DAY. >> UH-HUH.
00:42:25.91\00:42:27.84
>> VERSUS 11, FOR IN SIX DAYS,
THE LORD MADE THE HEAVENS AND
00:42:27.84\00:42:32.55
THE EARTH, THE SEA, AND ALL
THAT IS IN THEM, AND RESTED THE
00:42:32.55\00:42:39.15
SEVENTH DAY, THEREFORE THE LORD
BLESSED THE SABBATH DAY AND HELD
00:42:39.15\00:42:43.93
IT. THE FOURTH
COMMANDMENT CANNOT
00:42:43.93\00:42:46.56
APPLY TO ADAM AND EVE,
THAT FIRST SABBATH, BECAUSE THE
00:42:46.56\00:42:51.23
COMMANDMENT SAYS WORK SIX AND
REST THE SEVENTH, AND THEY HAD
00:42:51.23\00:42:54.50
NOT WORKED SIX. BUT THE
FOURTH COMMANDMENT MAKES
00:42:54.50\00:42:58.47
IT CLEAR THAT BEGINNING WITH THE
SECOND WEEK, GOD EXPECTED THEM
00:42:58.47\00:43:01.91
TO FOLLOW HIS
EXAMPLE. IS THAT MAKING SENSE?
00:43:01.91\00:43:05.15
>> UH-HUH. >> NOW,
SOME PEOPLE MIGHT SAY,
00:43:05.15\00:43:08.45
WELL, IS THE SABBATH OF
CREATION, THE SAME SABBATH OF
00:43:08.45\00:43:11.89
THE FOURTH
COMMANDMENT? OF COURSE IT IS.
00:43:11.89\00:43:15.06
LET'S NOTICE SOME COMMONALITIES
BETWEEN THE SABBATH IN GENESIS,
00:43:15.06\00:43:18.79
AND THE SABBATH IN EXODUS 20.
>> RIGHT BEFORE YOU GO TO THAT.
00:43:18.79\00:43:23.23
YOU SAID MARK 2:27, RIGHT,
28, AND IT SAYS SABBATH WAS MADE
00:43:23.23\00:43:27.97
FOR -- >> MAN.
00:43:27.97\00:43:29.37
>> MAN. >> SO FOR
ANYBODY TO SAY, WELL
00:43:29.37\00:43:32.84
THAT -- THIS IS NEW TESTAMENT,
IT'S NOT OLD TESTAMENT, RIGHT?
00:43:32.84\00:43:38.01
MARK IS NEW TESTAMENT, AND STILL
WE'RE TOLD IN THE NEW TESTAMENT
00:43:38.01\00:43:42.52
THE SABBATH WAS MADE FOR MAN.
IF THE SABBATH WAS DONE AWAY
00:43:42.52\00:43:47.46
WITH AT THE CROSS, WHY ARE
WE HEARING THAT THE SABBATH WAS
00:43:47.46\00:43:51.03
MADE FOR MAN? IT
DIDN'T SAY FOR THE JEWS.
00:43:51.03\00:43:53.70
IT DIDN'T SAY FOR THE
PEOPLE IN THE OLD TESTAMENT.
00:43:53.70\00:43:56.83
IT SAID FOR MAN, WHICH I
WOULD SAY INCLUDES ALL OF US.
00:43:56.83\00:44:00.70
>> SURE. AND IT PROVES MY POINT.
00:44:00.70\00:44:03.00
>> YEAH. >>
BECAUSE GOD WORKED SIX.
00:44:03.00\00:44:05.27
HE DID ALL OF THE WORK. HE
RESTED THE SEVENTH DAY, MADE
00:44:05.27\00:44:09.34
IT HOLY, AND THEN HE --
HE -- SEE, HE CREATED THE
00:44:09.34\00:44:13.38
SABBATH, SO NOW HE SAYS TO ADAM
AND EVE, NOW I'M GIVING YOU THE
00:44:13.38\00:44:17.65
WEEK, AND NOW YOU ARE WORK SIX
THE WAY THAT I DID, AND THE NEXT
00:44:17.65\00:44:22.12
SEVENTH DAY, YOU ARE GOING
TO REST THE WAY YOU SAW ME REST.
00:44:22.12\00:44:25.56
SO -- SO NOW WE KNOW THE REASON
WHY GOD DID NOT COMMAND ADAM AND
00:44:25.56\00:44:30.63
EVE TO CEASE ON THAT FIRST
-SABBATH, BECAUSE THEY COULD NOT
CEASE, BECAUSE THEY HADN'T
00:44:30.63\00:44:37.37
WORKED. >> RIGHT.
00:44:37.37\00:44:38.07
>> SO THIS ARGUMENT, BASED
ON THE OLD COVENANT, SAYING
00:44:38.07\00:44:42.68
THAT -- YOU KNOW, BECAUSE
THERE'S NO COMMAND FOR ADAM AND
00:44:42.68\00:44:46.11
EVE TO KEEP THE SABBATH, THE
SABBATH IS FOR THE JEWS, DOESN'T
00:44:46.11\00:44:51.02
HOLD ANY WATER. ONCE
YOU UNDERSTAND THIS, THE
00:44:51.02\00:44:53.46
WHOLE ARGUMENT AND THE
DEBATE FALLS BY THE WAYSIDE.
00:44:53.46\00:44:57.36
>> UH-HUH. >> NOW,
WE NEED TO TAKE A LOOK
00:44:57.36\00:45:00.46
AT A FEW OTHER
THINGS HERE. >> GOOD.
00:45:00.46\00:45:03.26
>> A FEW OTHER IMPORTANT THINGS.
WE HAVE NOTICED SO FAR NUMBER 1,
00:45:03.26\00:45:07.87
GOD COULDN'T GIVE THE SABBATH TO
ADAM AND EVE UNTIL HE MADE IT.
00:45:07.87\00:45:11.51
NUMBER 2, IS GOD DIDN'T NEED
TO BLESS AND MAKE A DAY HOLY FOR
00:45:11.51\00:45:17.48
HIMSELF. NUMBER 3,
GOD MADE THE SABBATH
00:45:17.48\00:45:20.55
HOLY WHEN IT ENDED, SO HE
COULDN'T TELL ADAM AND EVE TO
00:45:20.55\00:45:24.95
KEEP THE
SABBATH WHEN IT STARTED.
00:45:24.95\00:45:27.92
NUMBER 4, GOD COULD NOT TELL
THEM TO KEEP THE SABBATH
WITHOUT-FIRST EXEMPLIFYING IT.
00:45:27.92\00:45:38.63
AND IT BEGINS WITH THE SECOND
WEEK OF HUMAN HISTORY, BECAUSE
00:45:38.63\00:45:48.14
THEY HADN'T WORKED SIX.
NOW THE QUESTION IS -- AND THIS
00:45:48.14\00:45:52.08
COMES UP ALL THE TIME -- IS
WHETHER THE SABBATH OF GENESIS
00:45:52.08\00:45:56.48
IS THE SAME SABBATH
OF EXODUS. >> RIGHT.
00:45:56.48\00:46:01.52
UH-HUH. >> AND OF
COURSE IT IS, BECAUSE
00:46:01.52\00:46:02.86
YOU HAVE THESE -- THE
FOLLOWING COMMONALITIES.
00:46:02.86\00:46:06.59
NUMBER 1, IN BOTH CASES
IT'S A MEMORIAL OF CREATION.
00:46:06.59\00:46:11.20
SECONDLY, THE SABBATH
COMES AFTER SIX DAYS OF WORK.
00:46:11.20\00:46:16.00
THREE, THE SABBATH IS
THE SEVENTH DAY OF THE WEEK.
00:46:16.00\00:46:20.68
AND FOUR, WE HAVE TOLD IN BOTH
TEXTS THAT GO RESTED, BLESSED,
00:46:20.68\00:46:27.55
AND SANCTIFIED THE
SABBATH. >> UH-HUH.
00:46:27.55\00:46:29.92
>> RIGHT. >> SO THERE'S CLEAR
00:46:29.92\00:46:33.76
COMMONALITIES BETWEEN
GENESIS AND -- EXODUS.
00:46:33.76\00:46:41.90
BUT NW THERE IS ANOTHER
IMPORTANT POINT IF YOU WENT TO
00:46:41.90\00:46:47.70
THE ORIGINAL
LANGUAGE. AND YOU CAN.
00:46:47.70\00:46:50.81
THE WORD REST IN GENESIS,
RESTED, IS NOT THE SAME WORD,
00:46:50.81\00:46:55.44
REST IN THE FOURTH COMMANDMENT.
IN GENESIS WHERE IT SAYS THAT
00:46:55.44\00:46:59.51
GOD RESTED, IT'S THE WORD
-SHALLOT, WHICH EMPHASIZES THAT
HE CEASED HIS WORK OF CREATING.
00:46:59.51\00:47:09.66
AND THEN YOU WONDER, YOU SAY,
WHAT DID GOD DO THE SEVENTH DAY?
00:47:09.66\00:47:14.20
WE KNOW THAT HE CEASED.
WE KNOW HE DIDN'T CREATE
00:47:14.20\00:47:17.67
ANYMORE. BUT CAN WE
HAVE AN IDEA OF WHAT
00:47:17.67\00:47:20.20
GOD DID ON SEVENTH DAY WHILE HE
WAS CEASING FROM HIS WORK A OF
00:47:20.20\00:47:29.51
COURSE THOSE INDIVIDUALS WHO
ARGUE AGAINST THE SABBATH, THEY
00:47:29.51\00:47:32.25
MAKE A BIG POINT OF THIS THING,
WELL, THE WORD SABBATH IS NOT
00:47:32.25\00:47:37.75
THE SAME IN GENESIS AS EXODUS,
SO YOU DON'T HAVE THE SAME
00:47:37.75\00:47:42.09
SABBATH. WELL, THE
FACT IS, THERE IS A
00:47:42.09\00:47:44.26
REASON WHY IN THE FOURTH
COMMANDMENT, MOSES, WHO WROTE
00:47:44.26\00:47:51.40
EXODUS, WHY IN GENESIS HE USED
SHALLBOT, AND IN EXODUS CHAPTER
00:47:51.40\00:48:01.44
20, HE USED THE
WORD [ INAUDIBLE ].
00:48:01.44\00:48:03.95
BECAUSE THAT
DOES NOT MEAN CEASE.
00:48:03.95\00:48:06.11
IT DESCRIBED QUALITY
OF REST, HOW GOD RESTED.
00:48:06.11\00:48:10.49
BECAUSE IN EXODUS 20, THE
OBJECTIVE IS THAT GOD IS GIVING
00:48:10.49\00:48:14.59
AN EXAMPLE OF THE QUALITY
OF REST FOR MAN TO FOLLOW HIS
00:48:14.59\00:48:20.60
EXAMPLE. THAT'S THE EMPHASIS.
00:48:20.60\00:48:24.00
AND, YOU KNOW, I CAN GIVE
YOU EXAMPLES -- ACTUALLY THERE'S
00:48:24.00\00:48:27.90
THREE THINGS, THE WORD NOWAK IN
THE FOURTH COMMANDMENT IS USED
00:48:27.90\00:48:33.21
IN SEVERAL TEXTS --
MAYBE WE CAN READ THESE TEXTS.
00:48:33.21\00:48:36.31
THE WORD NOWAK MEANS TO REST
AFTER MUCH ACTIVITY, AND IT IS
00:48:36.31\00:48:43.15
FREQUENTLY CONNECTED WITH THE
IDEA OF FEASTING, GLADNESS, JOY,
00:48:43.15\00:48:50.83
HAPPINESS, AND SO LET'S NOTICE
SEVERAL VERSES WHERE THE WORD IS
00:48:50.83\00:48:55.26
USED, SO WE CAN
CATCH THE NUANCE OF IT.
00:48:55.26\00:49:04.94
PROVERBS 29:17. >> OKAY.
00:49:04.94\00:49:08.58
IT SAYS CORRECT YOUR SON
AND HE WILL GIVE YOU REST.
00:49:08.58\00:49:13.92
YES, HE WILL GIVE
DELIGHT TO YOUR SOUL.
00:49:13.92\00:49:16.12
>> OH. >> THAT'S WHAT YOU CALL A
00:49:16.12\00:49:21.42
SYNONYMOUS PARALLELISM.
THERE ARE THREE BASIC TYPES,
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SYNONYMOUS PARALLELISM, AND
SYNTHETIC WHERE THE THIRD LINE
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OR SECOND LINE COMPLETED
THE IDEA OF THE FIRST LINE.
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IT SAYS DISCIPLINE YOUR SON AND
HE WILL GIVE YOU REST, AND THEN
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IT EXPLAINS WHAT KIND OF
REST? >> DELIGHT TO YOUR SOUL.
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>> SO WHAT KIND OF REST
IS IT? >> DELIGHTFUL REST.
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>> IT'S A DELIGHTFUL REST.
LET'S GO TO ESTHER -- AND THIS
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IS TALKING ABOUT WHEN THE
JEWS WERE DELIVERED FROM CERTAIN
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DEATH. A DEATH
DECREE HAD BEEN GIVEN
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AGAINST THE ENTIRE NATION.
AND THE JEWS ESTABLISHED A FEAST
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TO CELEBRATE THEIR DELIVERANCE,
AND THIS FEAST IS CALLED PURIM.
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AND THE WORDS THAT
ARE CONNECTED WITH PURIM.
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ESTHER 9:17-18, AND THEN
WE'LL JUMP DOWN TO VERSUS 22.
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THAT IS NOT ONE OF THE
EASY BOOKS TO FIND IN THE BIBLE.
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ESTHER 9:17-18,
AND THEN VERSE 22.
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>> THIS WAS THE 13TH DAY OF THE
MONTH OF ADAR, AND ON THE 14TH
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OF THE MONTH THEY RESTED AND
MADE IT A DAY OF FEASTING AND
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GLADNESS. >> THE
WORD RESTED IS THE SAME
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WORD IN THE FOURTH COMMANDMENT?
DID THEY GO TO BED OR CEASE WHAT
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THEY WERE DOING? NO,
A DAY OF FEASTING AND
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GLADNESS. SO WE
START TO CATCH A PICTURE
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OF WHAT GOD DID
ON THE SEVENTH DAY.
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IT WASN'T JUST THAT HE CEASED,
BUT THERE IS JOY AND GLADNESS
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ASSOCIATED WITH IT.
NOW READ VERSE 18 AND 22.
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>> THE JEWS ASSEMBLED TOGETHER
ON THE 13TH DAY AS WELL AS ON
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THE 14TH AND ON THE 15TH OF THE
MONTH THEY RESTED AND MADE IT A
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DAY OF FEASTING AND
GLADNESS. >> THERE IT IS AGAIN.
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VERSE 22. >> ON THE
DAYS IN WHICH THE JEWS
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HAD RESTED FROM THEIR ENEMIES AS
THE MONTH THAT WAS TURNED FROM
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SORROW TO JOY FOR THEM, THAT
THEY SHOULD MAKE THEM DAYS OF
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FEASTING AND JOY OF SENDING
PRESENTS TO ONE ANOTHER AND
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GIFTS TO THE POOR. >>
SO WHAT IDEA IS ASSOCIATED
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WITH THE WORD REST? >>
FEASTING AND JOY, GLADNESS.
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>> BY THE WAY, THAT'S THE REASON
WHY JEWS DO NOT FAST ON SABBATH,
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BECAUSE THE SABBATH IS NOT A
DAY FOR FEASTING -- FOR -- FOR
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FASTING, IT'S A
DAY FOR FEASTING.
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THAT DOESN'T MEAN WE NEED TO
BE GLUTTONS, BUT IT'S A DAY OF
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CELEBRATION.
GLADNESS, HAPPINESS, JOY, IS
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WHAT IS INVOLVED. >>
YES, WHEN WE WERE IN ISRAEL,
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AND THE SABBATH WAS COMING ON,
AND WE WERE BY THE WHALING WALL,
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AND THE JEWISH PEOPLE THERE WERE
ACTUALLY HAVING -- LIKE A PARTY.
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THEY WERE CELEBRATING.
THEY WERE CELEBRATING THE
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ONCOMING OF THE
SABBATH. >> YEAH.
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>> IT WAS BEAUTIFUL.
>> YEAH, IT'S NOT A DAY OF
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MOURNING AND SADNESS.
LIKE THE FARAHSIES MADE IT.
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THE SABBATH OF THE PHARAOHSIES
WAS NOT THE SABBATH OF THE LORD.
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SO YOU HAVE THIS WORD --
IN ISAIAH 58 IT SAYS THAT THE
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SABBATH IS A
DELIGHT. >> WHERE IS IT?
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>> ISAIAH 58:13. >>
THAT WAS WHAT I ALREADY
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OPENED TO BEFORE -- >> READ IT.
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>> IT IS 58 -- >> 58:13.
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>> I SAID THERE
IS WHEE HE IS GOING.
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AND I DIDN'T KNOW
THESE OTHER TEXTS --
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>> YOU HAVE BEEN
AROUND ME TOO MUCH.
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>> YOU WENT DEEPER THAN I
DID. I WENT STRAIGHT RIGHT HERE.
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>> OH, YES. >> SO
WITHOUT MY GLASSES
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HERE -- IF YOU TURN
AWAY -- >> DO YOU WANT --
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>> NO, NO. WATCH THIS.
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TURN AWAY FROM THE SABBATH FROM
DOING YOUR OWN PLEASURE ON MY
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HOLY DAY AND CALL
THE SABBATH -- A WHAT?
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>> DELIGHT. >> -- A DELIGHT.
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THE HOLY DAY OF THE LORD,
HONORABLE AND SHALL HONOR HIM,
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NOT DOING YOUR OWN WAYS,
NOR FINDING YOUR OWN PLEASURES.
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SO THAT'S GREAT -- NOW THAT
TEXT GOES EXACTLY ALONG WITH THE
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OTHER -- THE
FEASTING, BEING DELIGHTFUL --
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>> THE WORD DELIGHT, REST.
>> IT'S THE SAME REST AS KEEPING
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THE SABBATH HOLY. >>
SO DO WE START CATCHING A
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PICTURE OF WHAT
GOD'S REST WAS LIKE?
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BY THE WAY GOD DID NOT CELEBRATE
AT CREATION BY HIMSELF.
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THE WHOLE UNIVERSE
CELEBRATED. GO TO JOB 38:4-7.
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SO THIS IDEA -- ALL
ADVENTISTS THEY ARE LEGALISTS --
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>> 38 YOU SAID? >> 38:7.
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THE SABBATH IS A DAY OF MISERY,
A DAY OF RESTRICTIONS, IT
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DOESN'T FIT WITH
THE BIBLICAL PERCEPTION.
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READ VERSE 4 SO WE GET
THE CONTENT OF CREATION.
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>> OKAY. WHERE
WERE YOU WHEN I LAID THE
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FOUNDATIONS OF THE
EARTH? TELL ME IF YOU HAVE
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UNDERSTOODING. WHO
DETERMINED ITS MEASUREMENTS.
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SURELY YOU KNOW. OR
WHO STRETCHED THE LINE UPON
00:54:55.19\00:54:59.46
IT, TO WHAT WERE ITS FOUNDATIONS
FASTENED, OR WHO LAID ITS
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CORNERSTONES WHEN THE
MORNINGSTARS SANG TOGETHER AND
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ALL SHOUTED FOR JOY. >>
SO IT WASN'T JUST A DAY OF
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HAPPINESS FOR THE LORD, IT
WAS FOR THE ENTIRE UNIVERSE.
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>> YES. BEAUTIFUL.
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>> THAT'S NEAT. >> AND
NOT ONLY THE MEANING OF
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NOWAK, IN GENESIS -- THE
EMPHASIS IS THAT GOD CREATED NO
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MORE, HE CEASED
ON THE SEVENTH DAY.
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BUT IN EXODUS, THE EMPHASIS IS
NOWAK WHICH IS ASSOCIATED WITH
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FEASTING AND HAPPINESS AND JOY,
BECAUSE IN EXODUS GOD IS SAYING,
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I WORKED SIX, AND THE
SEVENTH DAY I NOWAKED.
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I KNOW I'M INVENTING A WORD,
NOWAKED, BUT THE WHOLE HEAVENLY
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UNIVERSE CELEBRATED.
AND THEN EXODUS 31:17.
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>> OKAY. >> WE'RE
-- WE'RE STUDYING NOW
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WHAT GOD DID ON THE SEVENTH
DAY TO EXEMPLIFY TO MAN WHAT GOD
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WANTED MAN TO DO. >>
31:17, IT IS A SIGN BETWEEN
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ME AND THE CHILDREN OF ISRAEL
FOREVER, FOR IN SIX DAYS THE
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LORD MADE THE HEAVENS AND EARTH,
AND ON THE SEVENTH DAY HE WAS
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RESTED AND WAS REFRESHED.
>> I BET YOU CAN'T GUESS WHAT
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THE WORD RESTED IS
IN HEBREW. IT'S SHABOT.
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BUT IT ADDS SOMETHING THERE.
GOD RESTED AND WHAT ELSE DID HE
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DO? >> AND WAS REFRESHED.
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>> HE WAS
REFRESHED. INTERESTING.
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NOW WHAT DOES THE
WORD REFRESHED MEAN?
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IT IS A HEBREW WORD
WHICH MEANS TO TAKE A BREATH.
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>> OKAY. SPEAKING OF THAT --
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[ LAUGHTER ] >> I
NEED YOU TO PAUSE.
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BUT WHAT THEY TOLD ME EARLIER,
AND I DIDN'T WANT -- YOUR PHONE
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NUMBER HAS BEEN OVERWHELMED
"HIDDEN SABBATH TRUTHS," SO THEY
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ARE SAYING HAVE PATIENCE.
THEY ARE SAYING DON'T GIVE UP,
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STAY ON THE LINE,
AND THEY'LL GET TO YOU.
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559-264-2300. OKAY.
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SO WE'RE JUST GOING TO
TAKE A BREAK -- THIS IS REALLY
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INTERESTING. >> IT IS.
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THIS IS RICH. >> SO
WE'RE STARTING TO OPEN UP
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SOME THINGS THAT I
THINK ARE REALLY GOD FOR US.
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SO FOR THOSE OF YOU
AT HOME, DON'T GO AWAY.
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WE'LL BE BACK
IN JUST A MOMENT. ¤
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