Hello, everyone.
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Two men were arguing at
work about religion one day.
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Of course neither really knew
what they were talking about.
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But finally one
of them said, man,
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you don't know
anything about religion.
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I'll bet you $10 you can't
even repeat the Lord's Prayer.
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Replied the other,
oh, yeah, it's a bet.
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And he began to recite, I
pledge a legions to the flag
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of the United States of
America one nation under God,
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indivisible with liberty
and justice for all, amen.
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The first man looked
absolutely stunned and hesaid,
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I didn't think you could do it.
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Here's your 10 bucks.
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Well, we smile but unfortunately
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this story illustrates
just how little people today
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really know about God's word.
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But tonight, we're going
to dig up some deeply buried
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long forgotten gems
from the mine of God's truth.
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Please don't be
surprised or embarrassed
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if God's word
kind of undresses us,
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reveal certain
popular religious fallacies
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that many of us
may have believed
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without thinking this is true.
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But, you know, if the Bible
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does reveal
error in our thinking
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we have to thank
God, shouldn't we?
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Amen.
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We discovered last
night, that the scientific world
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is challenged
today like never before
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with its theory of evolution,
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first proclaim by Charles Darwin
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back in the year 1844
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which is
interesting that happens
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if the end of the 490
year prophecy we talked about.
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But scholars are now
writing books which contest
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and dispute present
thinking about macroevolution.
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Tonight right now the
Hubble Spacecraft up there
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is exploding theories
of evolution right and left
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about the origin of the stars.
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In fact, I get
the Los Angeles Times
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and I read an
article not too long ago
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that was just absolutely
devastating to evolution.
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In fact, one of the foremost
new thinkers for evolution,
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Phillip Johnson recently
wrote to provocative book called
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The Wedge of Truth.
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Where he indicates that
there suddenly seems to be
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renewed interest
among scientist in the ID,
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the intelligent design theory.
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He says, the more we reach
out into space the more we see
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evidence of a designer at
work in making the universe.
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I have a lot of medical
friends considered going to
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medical school
myself at school one time,
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but doctors would tell
you who were studying anatomy
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for any part of the human body.
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They admit that
the eye or the ear
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or the kidneys or the heart
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just could not
possibly how happened by chance.
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Well, now if there is design,
there has to be a designer.
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Amen.
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But if God created
all of these things,
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then how come He's so completely
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forgotten by today's generation?
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Tonight, I want
us to take our Bibles
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and discover some answers.
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Billy Graham
stated that God's last
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prophetic message to this world
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is found in the 14th chapter
of the Book of Revelation,
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where we find an angel
flies in the midst of heaven
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loudly
proclaiming the final warning
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message of
prophecy to all the world.
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In Revelation 14:17, it's says,
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"Fear God and give glory to Him,
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for the hour of His judgment
has come, and worship Him
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who made the earth, the heavens,
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the seas and the
springs of water."
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Worship Him, because
ladies and gentlemen,
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worship is the central issue
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in the entire great controversy.
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Worship Him because at the very
end of time when it's all over
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and everything finally
boils down to one issue,
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the question is going to
be, who are we going to worship?
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And the last warning message
here is not about Armageddon.
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It's not about 666,
it's not about left behind,
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it's about Jesus
and it's about worship.
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Amen.
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You see before Jesus comes,
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God's final SOS
prophetic judgment
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call from heaven
is to worship Him.
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He says, I have
authority to judge
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because I am Creator.
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And I think it's
very, very interesting
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it's precisely when
evolution is now teaching
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that we are just
the result of chance.
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And the beast power
of Revelation 13 says,
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Oh, come and follow
me and accept my mark.
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Forget the seal
the of the Creator.
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At this very time God
calls every one on planet earth
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to remember to worship
the Creator and His sign.
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Perhaps you're
saying but, Lonnie,
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how do I know what
the sign of creation is?
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Well, let's take a
look at some of the evidence
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tonight found way back there
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and the very first
chapter of the Book of Genesis.
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In fact, last
night we discovered
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the very first
thing the Bible tells us
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Genesis 1:1 is,
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"In the beginning God created
the heavens and the earth."
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God designed this world.
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By the way the
entire trinity was there.
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You understand what I
say, when I say trinity?
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Most Christians
would understand that.
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The God the Father was
there, Genesis 1:1 says.
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And then Genesis 1:2
says, "And the Spirit of God
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was hovering over the waters--
the face of the waters."
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The spirit that's the
third member of the godhead
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but we found out that
Jesus was involved too.
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Many texts of
scripture, John 1:3 says.
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"All things were
made through Him,
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" through Jesus "and without Him
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nothing was made that was made."
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Paul tells us in Ephesians
3:9, that Jesus is the one
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who put the finishing
brush strokes on the canvas.
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God created all
things through Jesus Christ.
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Amen.
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But Genesis tells
us how they did this.
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I want us to review
because this has something
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very important
to do with the final
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Armageddon issue of worship.
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In Genesis 1:3
let's review quickly,
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it tells us about
day one of creation.
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There it says, "Then God
said, 'Let there be,'" what?
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"'Light,' and there was light."
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We move down to Genesis 1:6,
day number 2, "Then God said,
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'Let there be a firmament
in the midst of the heavens'
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to divide the
waters from the waters."
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We would say that's our
ocean, that's our atmosphere,
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water above, water beneath.
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We go on to Genesis
1:9,10, day number three.
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It says, 'Then "God said,
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well, 'Let the
waters under the heavens
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be gathered
together in one place,
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and let the dry land
appear' and it was so.
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And God called
the dry land earth,
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and the gathering
together waters He called Seas
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and God saw that it was good."
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I want you to notice what
God did with the dry land.
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Genesis 1:11
says, "Then God said,
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'Let the earth
bring forth grass,
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the herb that yields seed,
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and fruit tree that yields fruit
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according to its kind,
whose seed is in itself
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and on the
earth,' and it was so."
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What day was this?
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Genesis 1:13
says, so the evening
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and the morning
were the third day.
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On the fourth
day, "God went back
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to kind of rearrange
and make permanent light."
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Genesis 1:14
says, "Then God said,
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'Let there be lights in
the firmament of the heavens
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to divide the
day from the night.'
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" Well, we would say
of course that's the sun,
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that's the moon.
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In fact Genesis 1:16 says,
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"Then God made two great lights,
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the greater
light to rule the day
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and the lesser
light to rule the night."
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And then parenthetically
the writer of Genesis--
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Oh, by the way, He
made the stars also.
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Amen.
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And then Genesis 1:19 says,
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"So the evening and the
morning were the fourth day."
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On day five, God
now turns His attention
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to the sea and to the air.
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Genesis 1:20,21, 23,
says, "Then God said,
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'Let the waters abound
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with an abundance
of living creatures,
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and let birds
fly above the earth
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across the face of the
firmament of the heavens.'
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So God created
great sea creatures
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and every living
thing that moves,
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with which the waters abounded,
according to their kind,
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and every winged bird
according to its kind.
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And God saw that it was good.
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So the evening and the
morning were the fifth day."
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Each day God's
unfathomable artistry created
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whole ecosystems step by step.
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Do you know, folks, God did not
create this magnificent world
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simply for the
birds and the fish.
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He created it, the
Bible says, to be inhabitant.
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So on the sixth day God
said in verses 24 and 25.
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"Let the earth now bring
forth the living creature
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according to its kind
cattle and creeping things
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and beast of the earth,
each according to its kind.
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And God so that it was good."
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But now comes the movement
God has been waiting for,
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the movement of
truth as we'd say.
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His crowning act, human beings.
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Genesis 1:26, "Then God said,
'Let us make man in our image,
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according to our
likeness, let them have dominion
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over the fish of the sea,
over the birds of the air,
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and over the
cattle, and over the earth
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and over every creeping
thing that creeps on the earth."
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Can you see the divine Creator
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stooping down there
perhaps in little mud,
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starting to do a
little sand castle work,
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trying to arrange some of the,
and maybe He makes something
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that looks like
he's got five legs.
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No, that's not gonna do,
let's take off three, you know.
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Let's make him a biped,
two and He forms handsome Adam.
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And like some women
have said, then God said,
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well, I think I can
do better than that.
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Let's do Eve, more
gorgeous than ever, perfect.
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Notice verses 28 and 31.
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"Then God blessed
them and God said to them,
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'Be fruitful and
multiply and fill the earth.
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Then God saw
everything that He had made,
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and indeed it was very good.
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And the evening and the
morning were the sixth day.'
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" Folks, this was
not Steven Spielberg's
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Hollywood science fiction
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that was putting
all these together.
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This was the real
thing absolutely awesome.
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The question is, how
did He do it so quickly?
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Well, the Bible gives an answer
and by the way this is why,
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we talked about the
subject last night creation,
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leads us to get down on
our knees and worship Him.
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Amen.
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Psalm 33:8-9 says,
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"Let all the
earth fear the Lord,
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" or reverence Him,
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"let all the
inhabitants of the world
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stand in awe of Him.
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For He spoke, and it was done.
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He commanded,
and it stood fast."
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Back to Genesis 2:1 it says,
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'Thus the heavens and the earth,
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and all the host of
them, were finished."
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In six literal days,
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our Creator
brought into being shrubs,
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flowers, streams,
sunshine, glorious sunsets
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and magnificent
moon to enjoy the night.
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Fish that would-- I believe
that if we see something at
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Disney World and at SeaWorld
and some of these aquariums,
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Marine Land.
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You know, I
believe that Adam and Eve
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could have called those fish.
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They probably called
the birds of the air,
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they had them do trick for them.
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I mean, if we could do
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and thing what
they could have done.
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But best of all God created
two perfect people with whom
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He could
fellowship and walk and talk
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within the cool of the evening.
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Amen.
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Oh, but God wasn't finished yet.
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I want you to notice He
had one more crowning delight
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that He wanted to create.
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Genesis 2:2,3.
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"And on the seventh day
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God ended His
work which He had done
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and He rested on the seventh day
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from all of His
work which He had done.
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Then God blessed the seventh day
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and sanctified it, because in it
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He rested from all of His word
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which God had created and made."
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Now, folks, this
was something unique.
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This was something stunning,
extraordinarily profound.
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God created and
made and blessed a day.
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I mean, this was something
different from anything else.
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God did something
unique for this day.
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It says, He
sanctified it, the seventh day,
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that would mean He actually
put some of His divinity,
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His holiness into that 24 hour
period of time and the angels
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must have been
absolutely amazed and stunned.
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Wow, God didn't make holy
some thing like a building
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or a monument or pagoda
He created a palace in time,
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24 hours, holy,
like God is holy.
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And the Bible says, He
set that aside for a holy use.
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He did not do that
for Sunday or Monday
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or Tuesday or any day.
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This was different
from all the other days.
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He set aside one day as
holy dedicated totally to Him.
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It says, God
blessed the seventh day
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and sanctified it.
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By the way I have
a question for you.
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When God blesses something,
how long is it blessed?
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Forever. That's right.
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First Chronicles 17:27 says,
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"You have blessed, O Lord,
and it is blessed forever."
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Amen.
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But then God did something else.
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He went to brand
newly weds Adam and Eve,
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and He gave this
time to Adam and Eve
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as His personal
forever wedding present.
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Jesus said in Mark 2:27,
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"The Sabbath was made for man,
and not man for the Sabbath."
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Well, someone
says, I think I know
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where you're going with this,
but you really think, Lonnie,
00:15:06.94\00:15:09.26
it makes a
difference which day it is.
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I mean one day and
seven, what's the difference?
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Well, by the way,
ladies and gentlemen,
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if we're gonna take this
is as a popularity contest
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which day of the week
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should we probably
keep holy, everybody?
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If it's a
popularity contest? Not Sunday.
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Now we learned in Iraq
there that there are some people
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who keep Wednesday.
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But did you know that the day
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that we probably
should all keep it,
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if its popularity
contest is Friday.
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Because one quarter
of the world is Muslim,
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they keep Friday
as their holy day.
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So my question again,
does it make a difference?
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Well, anyone in the seven, do.
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You, young gentleman,
here that aren't married
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yet, I'm looking at
that row back in there, okay.
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You, sir, okay.
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Suppose it's your
wedding day, okay,
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but your fiancée
happens to have six more sisters
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and they're all look-alikes,
in fact they are septuplets,
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identical, it's
your wedding day.
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Now you selected
one, you set her aside,
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you quartered her,
you got to know her,
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through the wedding
service, you sanctified her,
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consecrated in holy matrimony.
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Well, after the ceremony
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you're visiting the
guests at the reception there
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and now you're ready to
go off on your honeymoon
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and so you say to a
little fellow there,
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that's taking
care of the car door
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and you say, hey, would
you run and get my wife?
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Little kid says, I
can't tell which one she is,
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I don't know, she
looks like all the others.
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Why you say it doesn't matter,
anyone on the seven will do.
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Will that work? No.
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Come on, folks, does
it make a difference?
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Yes, it makes a difference.
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You see God took one common
ordinary day of the seven,
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He chose it, He
sanctified it, He said it apart,
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He dedicated to Himself,
He blessed it, He hallowed it,
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not any day but the seventh day.
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Amen.
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And He said remember this day
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because in those
other six days I created.
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Now, folks,
listen you could worship
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any day of the week you want.
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You can worship every day.
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But one the
seventh day God says,
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you honor Me, as Creator.
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Now I have
another question for you.
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I don't see the young
man here in front tonight.
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Well, I'm gonna ask,
you folks right here.
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If God created the
world in three days,
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which day would be the Sabbath?
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Come on, the fourth.
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If God created the
world in four days,
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which day would be the Sabbath?
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The fifth.
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If He created in five
days, which day is the Sabbath?
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The only day that cannot be
the Sabbath is the first day.
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You see.
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And did you know that if
the Taliban and if Al Qaeda
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and if Saddam
Hussein had kept the Sabbath
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there wouldn't be
any terrorism attacks,
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there would be no
infidels on this planet,
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no skeptics and no crime.
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Because we'd all be
reminded each week of our roots
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and our
relationship to the Creator,
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that we were created
for something better.
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Amen.
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I want you to look at me
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with what happened
back in the Book of Genesis.
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The sad story there
in Genesis 2 and 3, 4.
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As sin increased on this planet,
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humans forgot about our Creator
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and when we
forgot about our creator,
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we forgot about the Sabbath.
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In fact we forgot our roots,
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we forgot where
we even came from
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and why we're here.
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Forgot how we shouldn't live,
completely forgot about God.
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The Bible says, we
began to worship idols
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and tramping off after
all sorts of other Gods.
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In fact when you
look at the record,
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it's interesting,
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every time God's
people forgot the Sabbath,
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it resulted in two things.
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They went right into captivity
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and they also lost the
prophetic gift of prophecy.
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Interesting.
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In fact, back at
the time of Moses,
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the Book of Exodus says,
00:19:12.29\00:19:13.33
that they had so
completely forgotten
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which day was the Sabbath,
00:19:15.12\00:19:17.47
that when God
pulled them out of Exodus
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there out of the
Sinai-- after the Sinai
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wilderness from
Egypt there at Mount Sinai,
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God provided three
miracles to help them
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get back to
worshiping Him as Creator
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and keeping holy His Sabbath.
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Bible is very clear about this.
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In fact, first miracle
God provided some miracle food
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which was called manna.
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You look at your
Bible and you get home
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and the King of
James look in the margin
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and it will have a
marginal reference,
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that word manna
really means, what is it?
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They came out and they saw this
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stuff on the ground, what is it?
00:19:53.49\00:19:55.37
And so they
named it, what is it?
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Manna.
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And that rain down
every day for 40 years.
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Exodus 16:4 says,
"Then the Lord said to Moses,
00:20:03.72\00:20:06.66
'Behold I will rain
bread from heaven for you.
00:20:06.69\00:20:09.63
And the people shall go
out and gather a certain quota
00:20:09.66\00:20:12.12
every day, that I may test them,
00:20:12.15\00:20:14.21
whether they will
walk in My law or not.'
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'' Manna every day, six
days a week, fresh, perfect.
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Bible says, it was
round like coriander seed,
00:20:21.65\00:20:25.50
sweet as honey, perfect
food, they can cook it, bake it,
00:20:25.53\00:20:29.08
whatever they
want it, eat it raw.
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But then a second
miracle, Exodus 16:5,6"
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And it shall be
that on the sixth day
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they shall prepare
what they bring in,
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and it shall be twice as
much as they gather daily.
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Then Moses and Aaron said
to all the children of Israel,
00:20:46.76\00:20:49.17
'At evening you shall know
that the Lord has brought you
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out of the land of Egypt.'
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" So each day miracle
Manna enough just for that day.
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But now notice what
happened on the sixth day,
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they get twice as much manna.
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Miracle two, Exodus 16:21-23.
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"So they
gathered it every morning,
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every man according to his need.
00:21:09.46\00:21:11.08
And when the sun came
hot, it came hot, it melted."
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That's an interesting miracle.
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Let it go out early enough
in the morning to make sure
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they get up and
time to get the manna
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or else it just disappeared.
00:21:19.42\00:21:22.64
And if they hoarded too much
00:21:22.67\00:21:23.70
and they try to keep
it over to the next day,
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what happened to that manna?
00:21:24.79\00:21:27.03
It bread worms and
stack. So you couldn't be a pig.
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You have to go out every day
and trust God, faith every day.
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We take a step at a
time every day, right?
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Good spiritual lesson.
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And it says, "So it
was on the sixth day,
00:21:38.66\00:21:40.96
that they gathered
twice as much bread,
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two omers for each one.
00:21:43.65\00:21:45.25
And all the rulers
of the congregation,
00:21:45.28\00:21:47.06
it says came and told Moses.
00:21:47.09\00:21:49.38
And then he said to them,
00:21:49.41\00:21:51.98
'This is what the Lord has said,
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''Tomorrow is a Sabbath rest,
a holy Sabbath to the Lord.
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So bake what you'll bake
today Friday the sixth day,
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boil what you will boil,
and lay up for yourselves
00:22:02.41\00:22:05.73
all that remains, to
be kept until morning.'
00:22:05.76\00:22:09.97
" When miracle
number 3 took place.
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Wow, it didn't breed worms.
00:22:12.73\00:22:17.29
Miracle, it was
fresher than ever.
00:22:17.32\00:22:19.70
You see when you
keep God's Sabbath
00:22:19.73\00:22:21.84
things happen, miracles happen.
00:22:21.87\00:22:23.80
Amen. Amen.
00:22:23.83\00:22:24.86
Exodus 16:25, 26
00:22:24.89\00:22:27.56
"Then Moses
said, 'Eat that today,
00:22:27.59\00:22:30.82
today is the
Sabbath for the Lord,
00:22:30.85\00:22:32.55
today you will not
find it out in the field.
00:22:32.58\00:22:34.74
Sixth day you shall gather
it, but on the seventh day,
00:22:34.77\00:22:37.47
the Sabbath,
there will be none.'
00:22:37.50\00:22:40.08
" And presto, I
mean, without refrigerators
00:22:40.11\00:22:42.32
that manna was miraculously
preserved on Sabbath.
00:22:42.35\00:22:47.83
But I want you to
notice what happened.
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Some people always know
a little better than God.
00:22:50.46\00:22:53.43
They certainly knew better
than Moses, they'd learned,
00:22:53.46\00:22:55.23
they've gone out
early in the morning
00:22:55.26\00:22:56.32
and they have got too
much or they didn't get enough
00:22:56.35\00:22:59.52
and we're gonna keep an extra
manna around on for Sabbath.
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It says, someone out on
the Sabbath to gather manna,
00:23:02.99\00:23:06.67
and they had their
cooking and frying utensils
00:23:06.70\00:23:08.99
and they're baking utensils,
00:23:09.02\00:23:10.27
they were intentionally
disobeying God you see.
00:23:10.30\00:23:13.18
Notice Exodus 16; 28-30.
00:23:13.21\00:23:16.21
"And the Lord said to
Moses, 'How long do you refuse
00:23:16.24\00:23:19.13
to keep My
commandments and My laws?
00:23:19.16\00:23:20.93
See!
00:23:20.96\00:23:21.99
The Lord has
given you the Sabbath,
00:23:22.02\00:23:24.33
therefore He gives
you on the sixth day
00:23:24.36\00:23:26.37
bread for two days.
00:23:26.40\00:23:27.89
Let every man
remain in his place,
00:23:27.92\00:23:30.31
let no man go out of his
place on the seventh day."
00:23:30.34\00:23:33.90
So they finally caught on.
00:23:33.93\00:23:36.36
"And it says, the people
rested on the seventh day.'
00:23:36.39\00:23:40.74
' Now later on when they
finally got to Mount Sinai
00:23:40.77\00:23:45.21
so that they
wouldn't ever forget again
00:23:45.24\00:23:47.41
God chiseled back in
stone with His own finger
00:23:47.44\00:23:50.98
and He made a special forever
promise in Exodus 20:8-11.
00:23:51.01\00:23:55.94
He said, I want you to "Remember
00:23:55.97\00:23:58.01
the Sabbath
day, to keep it holy.
00:23:58.04\00:24:00.44
Six days you shall
labor, do all of your work,
00:24:00.47\00:24:02.85
but the seventh day is
the Sabbath" of the Jews.
00:24:02.88\00:24:08.10
Does say that, does it?
00:24:08.13\00:24:09.78
Whose Sabbath is
it? Whose day is it?
00:24:09.81\00:24:14.76
It's the "Sabbath
of the Lord, your God.
00:24:14.79\00:24:17.39
In it you shall not
do work, you nor your son
00:24:17.42\00:24:20.51
nor your daughter
nor your male servant,
00:24:20.54\00:24:22.13
or your female
servant, nor your cattle,
00:24:22.16\00:24:24.15
nor your strangers within
your gates four and six days,
00:24:24.18\00:24:27.30
the Lord made the
heavens and the earth,
00:24:27.33\00:24:30.04
the sea and all that is in them
00:24:30.07\00:24:31.81
and He rested
on the seventh day,
00:24:31.84\00:24:33.90
therefore the Lord
blessed the Sabbath day
00:24:33.93\00:24:37.03
and hallowed it."
00:24:37.06\00:24:38.70
By the way if you
like to read the King James
00:24:38.73\00:24:41.08
and you
carefully count the words
00:24:41.11\00:24:42.73
in the Ten
Commandments in Exodus 20
00:24:42.76\00:24:45.93
you'll notice that the
Sabbath is right in the center
00:24:45.96\00:24:50.65
or the heart of
those ten precepts.
00:24:50.68\00:24:53.35
In fact, the word the Sabbath,
seventh day is the Sabbath,
00:24:53.38\00:24:58.33
is the center word
of the Ten Commandments.
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That's because the
Sabbath is God's flag, His flag.
00:25:01.54\00:25:07.86
Now every country has a flag.
00:25:07.89\00:25:10.53
We have a flag here tonight,
we happened to be worldwide
00:25:10.56\00:25:13.38
but I'm gonna
use the illustration
00:25:13.41\00:25:14.88
of an American flag.
00:25:14.91\00:25:17.94
Now suppose in America here,
00:25:17.97\00:25:20.42
I take an
ordinary piece of red cloth
00:25:20.45\00:25:23.23
and I just dropped it
right here on the platform.
00:25:23.26\00:25:26.54
Well that's all right.
Nobody is gonna get up set.
00:25:26.57\00:25:29.57
Let's suppose I take an
ordinary piece of white cloth
00:25:29.60\00:25:33.61
and I just dropped that
right here on the platform
00:25:33.64\00:25:35.60
but I walked on it now I even
trampling my shoes off here,
00:25:35.63\00:25:40.37
nobody is excited,
nobody gets worried.
00:25:40.40\00:25:42.70
Let's take an ordinary
piece of blue cloth down now
00:25:42.73\00:25:46.50
and I drop this down
and not only walk on it,
00:25:46.53\00:25:50.03
I've bend down here, now even
shine my shoes a little bit,
00:25:50.06\00:25:53.12
nothing wrong.
00:25:53.15\00:25:55.19
But now let's say that we
take an ordinary piece of red,
00:25:55.22\00:25:58.56
white and blue cloth and I sew
these pieces of cloth together
00:25:58.59\00:26:05.62
into the stars and
stripes, all glory.
00:26:05.65\00:26:11.09
Then suppose that I
drop that flag down here.
00:26:11.12\00:26:14.13
Well, it's just an
ordinary piece of cloth
00:26:14.16\00:26:17.34
and I walked on it,
I shine my shoes on it,
00:26:17.37\00:26:20.77
does it make a difference,
ladies and gentlemen?
00:26:20.80\00:26:22.74
Yes.
00:26:22.77\00:26:23.80
Every red blooded American
00:26:23.83\00:26:25.49
would do
something about it, why?
00:26:25.52\00:26:28.58
Because now that is
our country's symbol,
00:26:28.61\00:26:31.61
of everything we
stand for as Americans.
00:26:31.64\00:26:34.07
Amen.
00:26:34.10\00:26:35.17
Now it's just an
ordinary piece of cloth
00:26:35.20\00:26:38.89
but we have made
it something special.
00:26:38.92\00:26:42.66
God took an ordinary day
one of seven, He blessed it,
00:26:42.69\00:26:47.58
He sanctified it, He hallowed it
00:26:47.61\00:26:49.70
and He made it
His flag, His Sabbath.
00:26:49.73\00:26:54.40
A symbol of His creative power
00:26:54.43\00:26:56.97
and of our forever
fellowship with Him,
00:26:57.00\00:26:59.30
a symbol of salvation,
00:26:59.33\00:27:01.79
that He's King of
Kings, Lord of Lords,
00:27:01.82\00:27:04.17
God Creator of the universe
is just an ordinary day?
00:27:04.20\00:27:08.56
Yes, it is.
00:27:08.59\00:27:10.79
Might not even
look any different
00:27:10.82\00:27:13.14
but any day won't do, will it?
00:27:13.17\00:27:15.99
Because He made it
something special forever.
00:27:16.02\00:27:21.10
Amen.
00:27:21.13\00:27:22.16
And yet, you know, what,
00:27:22.19\00:27:24.23
billions today
just trample God's flag.
00:27:24.26\00:27:27.98
They care nothing
about His holy Sabbath.
00:27:28.01\00:27:31.55
And, friend, I want
to tell you something.
00:27:31.58\00:27:34.38
God's voice of prophecy
foretold that this would happen
00:27:34.41\00:27:39.37
that God's flag
would be trampled.
00:27:39.40\00:27:43.06
But it also said
that in the very last days
00:27:43.09\00:27:45.21
down here where we live tonight
00:27:45.24\00:27:46.47
in the tippy-toes of
Daniel 2 that big image.
00:27:46.50\00:27:49.00
The voice of
prophecy speaks again
00:27:49.03\00:27:51.02
and says that God
is going to raise up
00:27:51.05\00:27:52.72
a special people
to restore God's flag
00:27:52.75\00:27:57.91
and fly again the ends
and of His creative power.
00:27:57.94\00:28:01.40
And tonight this very
voice of prophecy speaks
00:28:01.43\00:28:05.44
in this meeting
fulfilling Isaiah Chapter 58.
00:28:05.47\00:28:10.53
God's prophetic
Isaiah, the gospel prophet,
00:28:10.56\00:28:14.71
it says, in the very end of time
00:28:14.74\00:28:16.82
you'll see that
there's a great big breach
00:28:16.85\00:28:19.11
a whole gauged out
in the Ten Commandments
00:28:19.14\00:28:22.22
that the Sabbath has
been literally forgotten.
00:28:22.25\00:28:25.70
But God promises
and pleads in Isaiah 58,
00:28:25.73\00:28:28.81
people in Carolina
or over in Australia,
00:28:28.84\00:28:32.82
South America, the
Islands of the Sea,
00:28:32.85\00:28:35.10
people I want
you in the last days
00:28:35.13\00:28:38.08
to get back to repair
00:28:38.11\00:28:40.47
and rebuild
these old waste places.
00:28:40.50\00:28:43.35
Notice Isaiah 58:12.
00:28:43.38\00:28:45.92
You he said, "You shall
raise up the foundation,
00:28:45.95\00:28:49.28
" or we could say
00:28:49.31\00:28:50.34
you're gonna raise up
the flag of many generations
00:28:50.37\00:28:54.41
and you shall be called
the Repairer of the Breach,
00:28:54.44\00:28:57.35
the Restorer of
Paths to Dwell in."
00:28:57.38\00:29:01.06
And He says, if you
do this with God's flag
00:29:01.09\00:29:03.89
I'm gonna promise you something,
00:29:03.92\00:29:05.01
verses 13:14, notice.
00:29:05.04\00:29:07.88
"If you cease to
tread the Sabbath underfoot,
00:29:07.91\00:29:12.13
" know what its saying there?
00:29:12.16\00:29:13.85
If you take your foot
off from My flag God says,
00:29:13.88\00:29:16.73
stop walking on it
00:29:16.76\00:29:18.08
"and keep My holy day
free from your own affairs,
00:29:18.11\00:29:21.41
if you honor it, not by
applying your own trade,
00:29:21.44\00:29:25.18
nor seeking your own interest
00:29:25.21\00:29:26.54
or attending to
your own affairs,
00:29:26.57\00:29:28.92
then you shall find
your joy in the Lord."
00:29:28.95\00:29:33.71
God promises you
delight yourself in the Lord,
00:29:33.74\00:29:36.26
He'll even cause you to ride
00:29:36.29\00:29:37.66
on the high places of the earth.
00:29:37.69\00:29:39.51
Isaiah 56:7,8 "Everyone
that keepeth the Sabbath
00:29:39.54\00:29:44.37
will I bring to
my holy mountain,
00:29:44.40\00:29:46.96
and make them joyful
in my house of prayer
00:29:46.99\00:29:49.50
for mine house shall be called
00:29:49.53\00:29:50.57
in house of
prayer for all people."
00:29:50.60\00:29:52.44
Remember on the opening
night we talked about Armageddon
00:29:52.47\00:29:55.67
that big mountain of God versus
00:29:55.70\00:29:57.44
this little Mountain of Megiddo.
00:29:57.47\00:30:00.15
God says I'm gonna
bring you to My mountain
00:30:00.18\00:30:01.83
if you get back to God.
00:30:01.86\00:30:04.06
By the way nowhere
in all of the Bible
00:30:04.09\00:30:05.65
is this seventh day ever
called the Sabbath of the Jews.
00:30:05.68\00:30:12.86
Jesus made it crystal clear.
00:30:12.89\00:30:14.85
He said, "I made the Sabbath
00:30:14.88\00:30:16.83
back in the
beginning for all mankind,
00:30:16.86\00:30:20.55
not man for the Sabbath."
00:30:20.58\00:30:23.08
Exodus 20:10 says,
00:30:23.11\00:30:24.75
the seventh day is
the Sabbath of whom?
00:30:24.78\00:30:28.37
The Lord.
00:30:28.40\00:30:29.43
You know, that's why Jesus says,
00:30:29.46\00:30:31.56
I made the Sabbath, it's My day.
00:30:31.59\00:30:35.03
By the way when the
Pharisees were criticizing Jesus
00:30:35.06\00:30:37.52
for breaking the
Sabbath, at least they thought
00:30:37.55\00:30:39.15
He wasn't keeping like
they thought He should.
00:30:39.18\00:30:41.23
He said, you don't tell me
00:30:41.26\00:30:42.39
how to keep the
Sabbath, that's My day.
00:30:42.42\00:30:46.07
The Son of Man He
said in Matthew 12:8,
00:30:46.10\00:30:48.59
"Is Lord even of
the Sabbath, I made it."
00:30:48.62\00:30:52.42
And that's why
Revelation 1:10 says,
00:30:52.45\00:30:54.75
"That the Sabbath
is the Lord's Day."
00:30:54.78\00:30:58.44
Amen.
00:30:58.47\00:30:59.76
But now can I get very personal?
00:30:59.79\00:31:02.47
Let me tell you
why this Sabbath.
00:31:02.50\00:31:04.52
Never Sunday,
never Wednesday or Friday
00:31:04.55\00:31:06.73
really becomes
very intimate for me.
00:31:06.76\00:31:09.90
You see it's a very special
secret sign between God and me.
00:31:09.93\00:31:16.53
It's not only God's
sign that He's creator
00:31:16.56\00:31:18.50
and I'm glad to
worship Him as Creator
00:31:18.53\00:31:20.30
but I wasn't there
when He created the world.
00:31:20.33\00:31:23.07
But it is now become
another sign, the Bible says,
00:31:23.10\00:31:25.97
it's not of the
sign He's creator,
00:31:26.00\00:31:27.75
it's the sign He is my redeemer
00:31:27.78\00:31:30.65
that I've been
born again, recreated.
00:31:30.68\00:31:33.02
Ezekiel 20:12, 20
00:31:33.05\00:31:34.70
are some of my
favorite text in the Bible.
00:31:34.73\00:31:36.99
He says,
"Moreover also I gave them"
00:31:37.02\00:31:39.32
or I gave Lonnie "my Sabbaths,
00:31:39.35\00:31:42.20
to be a sign
between Me and them,
00:31:42.23\00:31:44.90
that they might
know that I am the Lord
00:31:44.93\00:31:47.08
that sanctifies them."
00:31:47.11\00:31:48.77
Amen.
00:31:48.80\00:31:49.83
Folks, that's why I
couldn't do without the Sabbath.
00:31:49.86\00:31:52.61
It's the sign of my redemption.
00:31:52.64\00:31:56.83
Ezekiel 20:20 and he says, Lon,
00:31:56.86\00:31:59.82
hallow my
Sabbath so keep them holy
00:31:59.85\00:32:02.02
and they'll be a
sign between Me and you,
00:32:02.05\00:32:05.31
that you may know that
I am the Lord your God.
00:32:05.34\00:32:09.69
In fact, ladies and gentlemen,
00:32:09.72\00:32:10.88
this is one of
the greatest reasons
00:32:10.91\00:32:12.91
why we will be keeping
Sabbath when we get to heaven.
00:32:12.94\00:32:18.74
Now you say, why on the earth
00:32:18.77\00:32:19.95
that we need a
Sabbath in heaven,
00:32:19.98\00:32:21.68
will we need time off?
00:32:21.71\00:32:22.74
Will we get tired? No.
00:32:22.77\00:32:25.00
But after gazillions
and gazillions of years
00:32:25.03\00:32:28.19
the Sabbath will
be the only reminder
00:32:28.22\00:32:32.03
that we have of creation
00:32:32.06\00:32:34.82
and also that will be
the only real reminder
00:32:34.85\00:32:37.11
we have of
redemption other than the nail
00:32:37.14\00:32:39.40
prints in His hands.
00:32:39.43\00:32:41.51
And every week
throughout eternity
00:32:41.54\00:32:44.21
God's forever sign will be there
00:32:44.24\00:32:46.31
that we were born again.
00:32:46.34\00:32:47.76
That we've been saved,
00:32:47.79\00:32:48.95
that we were
recreated in Jesus' image.
00:32:48.98\00:32:52.27
You say, well, Lonnie,
does the Bible say that?
00:32:52.30\00:32:55.22
Yes, listen, Isaiah 66:22 and 23
00:32:55.25\00:32:59.91
reminding us of
His forever sign.
00:32:59.94\00:33:02.03
"For as the new
heavens and the new earth,
00:33:02.06\00:33:05.10
which I will make, shall remain
before me, saith the Lord,
00:33:05.13\00:33:08.87
so shall your seed
and your name remain.
00:33:08.90\00:33:12.03
And it will come to pass,
00:33:12.06\00:33:13.09
that from one
new moon to another,
00:33:13.12\00:33:15.32
and from one Sabbath to another,
00:33:15.35\00:33:16.90
shall all flesh come to worship
before me, saith the Lord."
00:33:16.93\00:33:20.03
Amen.
00:33:20.06\00:33:21.09
Throughout eternity,
we'll celebrate and honor
00:33:21.12\00:33:24.62
Jesus as Creator
and as a Redeemer.
00:33:24.65\00:33:31.08
I wish we could take you
to our home on a Friday night.
00:33:31.11\00:33:35.36
Jeannie and I are
by ourselves there.
00:33:35.39\00:33:39.06
At sunset Friday night
we have a little tradition,
00:33:39.09\00:33:42.39
we borrowed some other people
who have told us about this.
00:33:42.42\00:33:45.46
We usually light
candles to signify
00:33:45.49\00:33:49.17
that Sabbath has come
because Leviticus 23:23 says,
00:33:49.20\00:33:53.13
that's when God's Sabbath begins
00:33:53.16\00:33:55.71
at sunset beautiful time,
00:33:55.74\00:33:58.18
not at midnight
when nobody is awake,
00:33:58.21\00:33:59.70
you don't know
what comes or goes.
00:33:59.73\00:34:01.47
His time is from evening
to evening, sunset to sunset.
00:34:01.50\00:34:04.70
And on Friday night
Jeannie always make sure
00:34:04.73\00:34:07.12
that she has a
very special prayer
00:34:07.15\00:34:09.62
and she has the best of food
00:34:09.65\00:34:11.38
and Jeannie is a
wonderful cook by the way.
00:34:11.41\00:34:14.64
Special music plays on
our stereophonic system.
00:34:14.67\00:34:17.65
It's a very special
time for Jeannie and me
00:34:17.68\00:34:19.55
and for our family
for celebrating holy time.
00:34:19.58\00:34:22.71
Amen.
00:34:22.74\00:34:23.95
Now doesn't it seem reasonable
that if Sabbath was celebrated
00:34:23.98\00:34:28.95
way back there
before sin even came,
00:34:28.98\00:34:32.61
and if that it's
going to be celebrated
00:34:32.64\00:34:34.53
when the earth is
made new in heaven,
00:34:34.56\00:34:36.75
that God's people
shouldn't celebrate it now?
00:34:36.78\00:34:40.35
By the way, if there's
still any question about
00:34:40.38\00:34:43.71
which day to keep,
you know, something,
00:34:43.74\00:34:47.18
you're always safe to
follow Jesus' example.
00:34:47.21\00:34:50.12
Amen.
00:34:50.15\00:34:51.18
And Luke 4:16 says,
"So He came to Nazareth,
00:34:51.21\00:34:56.02
where He had been brought up.
00:34:56.05\00:34:57.31
And, as His custom was,
00:34:57.34\00:34:59.59
He went into the
synagogue on the Sabbath day,
00:34:59.62\00:35:02.98
and He stood up for to read."
00:35:03.01\00:35:04.66
Jesus' custom was to
go to church on Sabbath.
00:35:04.69\00:35:07.80
By the way He's a perfect model,
00:35:07.83\00:35:11.19
a perfect example in all things.
00:35:11.22\00:35:13.29
You can never follow Jesus
and not make it in the kingdom.
00:35:13.32\00:35:18.22
Listen, if you have a
Webster's Dictionary at home,
00:35:18.25\00:35:20.91
you go home tonight,
you look up the name Sabbath
00:35:20.94\00:35:24.96
and it will say this Sabbath Day
00:35:24.99\00:35:27.22
"seventh day of
the week (Saturday)."
00:35:27.25\00:35:32.96
In Spanish the word is
Sabado. Russian, Subato.
00:35:32.99\00:35:38.40
Many different
languages same thing it means
00:35:38.43\00:35:40.44
Sabbath or rest day.
00:35:40.47\00:35:42.21
By the way the Sabbath day
is to be a very, very happy day.
00:35:42.24\00:35:46.34
If I guess supposed to be the--
00:35:46.37\00:35:47.84
the best day of the
week, a day of joy, why?
00:35:47.87\00:35:50.61
Well, you know what?
00:35:50.64\00:35:51.67
Because it's a date with God
and a date with our families.
00:35:51.70\00:35:58.17
We have a lot to learn
from the moment, friends,
00:35:58.20\00:36:01.37
family nights, Monday nights.
00:36:01.40\00:36:03.40
Sabbath is God's family day.
00:36:03.43\00:36:06.18
God says, delight yourselves
on this day and He says,
00:36:06.21\00:36:10.87
you know, if you're
miserable, if you get bored,
00:36:10.90\00:36:13.07
you're not keeping the Sabbath.
00:36:13.10\00:36:15.96
You girls listening over here,
00:36:15.99\00:36:17.23
I'm gonna talk
to you for a minute.
00:36:17.26\00:36:20.11
Would you girls like to go
out on the date with a bored,
00:36:20.14\00:36:25.22
someone always looking
his watch every few minutes
00:36:25.25\00:36:27.77
or maybe going around the corner
00:36:27.80\00:36:29.26
and talking on his cell phone,
00:36:29.29\00:36:31.66
like a-- boy, I wonder
when this is gonna be over.
00:36:31.69\00:36:35.19
You know, I'm afraid that
00:36:35.22\00:36:36.25
God goes through
this a lot on Sabbath.
00:36:36.28\00:36:39.03
People at church
with their cell phones,
00:36:39.06\00:36:41.66
looking at the clock,
dads watching football,
00:36:41.69\00:36:45.68
moms at the mall shopping,
00:36:45.71\00:36:47.09
hey, that's no good date unless
you can really be together
00:36:47.12\00:36:52.75
and focus on each
other and enjoy each other.
00:36:52.78\00:36:53.97
The Sabbath should be the
most exciting day of our lives.
00:36:54.00\00:36:56.84
In fact, Jews look
forward to the Sabbath so much
00:36:56.87\00:37:01.74
that when it finally came
00:37:01.77\00:37:03.53
they wept that
they were so happy.
00:37:03.56\00:37:07.59
Some very interesting
people have discovered this
00:37:07.62\00:37:12.51
and I like to
share a few things--
00:37:12.54\00:37:14.31
surprise a few of you.
00:37:14.34\00:37:16.81
Often Jeannie and I
fly in the United Airlines.
00:37:16.84\00:37:19.47
I happened to be
flying the particular month
00:37:19.50\00:37:21.48
when this issue of
Hemisphere Magazine
00:37:21.51\00:37:23.39
was in the pouch
in the passenger seat.
00:37:23.42\00:37:25.61
I pick this up myself.
00:37:25.64\00:37:27.74
I was scanning through
the articles and here's one
00:37:27.77\00:37:31.32
on Ancient Wisdom not written
by a Seventh-day Adventist
00:37:31.35\00:37:35.04
but written by
someone who's discovered,
00:37:35.07\00:37:36.98
he is a young yuppie.
00:37:37.01\00:37:38.33
"Sabbath, if you and your family
00:37:38.36\00:37:41.58
are drowning in
the sea of to-do lists
00:37:41.61\00:37:44.25
by doing nothing, I just say,
00:37:44.28\00:37:47.11
try doing nothing for
just one day in the week."
00:37:47.14\00:37:49.34
And he's talking
about the Sabbath.
00:37:49.37\00:37:50.49
Well, that was interesting to me
00:37:50.52\00:37:51.88
and then I got
home from a travel trip
00:37:51.91\00:37:53.28
one time with Jeannie
00:37:53.31\00:37:54.49
and we're going togrocery store
to restock up our refrigerator
00:37:54.52\00:37:56.98
and this issue of
Readers Digest happened to be
00:37:57.01\00:37:59.53
in the stand at the checkout,
00:37:59.56\00:38:01.77
it's got Meryl Streep's
picture on the front cover.
00:38:01.80\00:38:05.23
Inside I was
scanning it through here
00:38:05.26\00:38:06.99
and here's another
article by somebody,
00:38:07.02\00:38:08.46
not a Seventh-day Adventist.
00:38:08.49\00:38:09.61
"Stop the week
life is what's happening
00:38:09.64\00:38:12.21
when you're too busy to notice."
00:38:12.24\00:38:13.87
An article by a young person
00:38:13.90\00:38:15.74
who has
discovered God's Sabbath.
00:38:15.77\00:38:19.05
Well, maybe
you're more familiar with
00:38:19.08\00:38:20.79
USA Today
Magazine, the newspaper.
00:38:20.82\00:38:23.67
This is the weekend
edition sometime ago.
00:38:23.70\00:38:26.97
The lead article,
"Whatever happened to Sunday
00:38:27.00\00:38:28.87
or the Sabbath
or a day of rest."
00:38:28.90\00:38:31.18
The lead article is
remember the Sabbath.
00:38:31.21\00:38:35.40
People are discovering
00:38:35.43\00:38:36.46
this is not written
by Seventh-day Adventist,
00:38:36.49\00:38:38.37
these are written by people
00:38:38.40\00:38:39.43
who are discovering
this from God's word.
00:38:39.46\00:38:41.06
I get something else as a little
00:38:41.09\00:38:42.93
instead of reading
all of the journals,
00:38:42.96\00:38:44.68
I don't have time
and not at home enough
00:38:44.71\00:38:46.13
I get something
called Bottom Line
00:38:46.16\00:38:47.81
some of you maybe
familiar with this.
00:38:47.84\00:38:49.14
Nice digest of the news
00:38:49.17\00:38:50.57
and I was scanning
through here one evening,
00:38:50.60\00:38:52.70
here's Wayne Muller explains
"The awesome power of rest"
00:38:52.73\00:38:56.42
and he's talking
about the Sabbath.
00:38:56.45\00:38:59.87
I get Billy Graham's magazine,
00:38:59.90\00:39:02.85
here he's talking
about a time for rest,
00:39:02.88\00:39:04.77
the time for worship,
he's talking about the Sabbath.
00:39:04.80\00:39:06.38
I even get copies from time
to time of the Catholic Digest.
00:39:06.41\00:39:09.86
"A time for rest"
talking about the Sabbath.
00:39:09.89\00:39:13.90
But what really
was surprising to me
00:39:13.93\00:39:15.72
was to go to
Andrews University one year
00:39:15.75\00:39:18.14
and I noticed that this poster
00:39:18.17\00:39:19.87
was hanging up
all over the campus
00:39:19.90\00:39:21.59
because they were featuring
one of the finest musicians
00:39:21.62\00:39:25.04
that we have today a
gospel contemporary artist.
00:39:25.07\00:39:27.73
If you want to see some deep
00:39:27.76\00:39:29.66
profound moving
songs in the lyrics,
00:39:29.69\00:39:33.02
listen to Michael Card.
00:39:33.05\00:39:35.25
Michael Card has
told his friends,
00:39:35.28\00:39:37.80
he's not an Adventist
00:39:37.83\00:39:39.55
but he's told his
friends in the music word,
00:39:39.58\00:39:41.38
"I have discovered a time
00:39:41.41\00:39:42.66
when I can finally
have time for my family,
00:39:42.69\00:39:44.92
I don't have to be flying,
I do have to go anywhere,
00:39:44.95\00:39:47.13
don't call me from Friday night
00:39:47.16\00:39:48.54
sundown to
Saturday night sundown,
00:39:48.57\00:39:50.03
I won't answer the
phone, I won't answer the fax,
00:39:50.06\00:39:52.04
we do not turn
on the television,
00:39:52.07\00:39:53.39
we don't turn on the radio,
00:39:53.42\00:39:54.55
that's time for my family and me
00:39:54.58\00:39:56.77
we've discovered
God's palace in time."
00:39:56.80\00:39:59.73
Amen.
00:39:59.76\00:40:00.79
Michael Card is keeping
00:40:00.82\00:40:01.85
the Seventh-day
Saturday Sabbath.
00:40:01.88\00:40:03.95
He has told that to another
Christian recording artist
00:40:03.98\00:40:06.31
that most of you who go to
any church would recognize,
00:40:06.34\00:40:09.00
his name is Steve Green.
00:40:09.03\00:40:11.18
Steve Green keeps the
seventh day Bible Sabbath.
00:40:11.21\00:40:14.76
Over 12 million Christian people
00:40:14.79\00:40:18.33
have discovered Sabbath
00:40:18.36\00:40:19.69
as the most
exciting day of their lives.
00:40:19.72\00:40:22.60
In fact, it's very interesting
that's some Catholics,
00:40:22.63\00:40:25.13
Lutherans, Methodists are
starting Saturday services,
00:40:25.16\00:40:31.27
mostly for
convenience, not necessarily
00:40:31.30\00:40:33.07
because they believe in Sabbath.
00:40:33.10\00:40:34.13
They want their
members to come to church,
00:40:34.16\00:40:35.90
not go to the Sunday bowl games.
00:40:35.93\00:40:38.75
But let me clarify something.
00:40:38.78\00:40:40.79
Folks, Sabbath
is not a day to say,
00:40:40.82\00:40:43.76
well, hey, God,
okay, let's get together
00:40:43.79\00:40:46.39
and do what I like to
do, I like to go fishing.
00:40:46.42\00:40:48.78
I like to play golf
with You on Sabbath.
00:40:48.81\00:40:50.68
I want to watch
TV. Let's go surfing.
00:40:50.71\00:40:52.41
No, God wants us to use that day
00:40:52.44\00:40:54.77
to develop character in
us, morality, integrity,
00:40:54.80\00:41:00.22
to take quality
time with our families
00:41:00.25\00:41:03.43
and to reach out
and bless other people.
00:41:03.46\00:41:06.20
It's a time to get
out in nature for sure.
00:41:06.23\00:41:09.26
But Jesus
completely revolutionized
00:41:09.29\00:41:11.59
Sabbath's deeper meaning
when He said in Matthew 12:12.
00:41:11.62\00:41:14.99
"It is lawful to do
good on the Sabbath."
00:41:15.02\00:41:19.23
He wants you to take a break
from the rat race of this life.
00:41:19.26\00:41:22.54
Take time to go
over to the hospital.
00:41:22.57\00:41:25.40
Take your kids
to the nursing home
00:41:25.43\00:41:26.91
and having take
their pets along.
00:41:26.94\00:41:28.48
By the way those senior citizens
00:41:28.51\00:41:29.85
just love it when
you bring your pets.
00:41:29.88\00:41:32.00
Jesus says, go out and
minister to people on Sabbath.
00:41:32.03\00:41:34.55
Heal, help broken
people feel whole again,
00:41:34.58\00:41:37.61
get radical as the kids
would say, be different.
00:41:37.64\00:41:42.42
Sabbath is a day,
you see, to recreate life
00:41:42.45\00:41:46.10
because that's what Jesus did.
00:41:46.13\00:41:47.33
Ann Landers used to
say, every single American,
00:41:47.36\00:41:49.94
every person have
to do one good deed--
00:41:49.97\00:41:52.79
a good deed everyday.
00:41:52.82\00:41:55.05
Kind of like the boys scouts,
00:41:55.08\00:41:56.24
girl scouts,
only she always said,
00:41:56.27\00:41:58.87
you can't tell
anybody about it, okay.
00:41:58.90\00:42:01.74
If you tell somebody
about your good deed,
00:42:01.77\00:42:03.11
it doesn't count.
00:42:03.14\00:42:05.26
That's what God
wants to do in the Sabbath.
00:42:05.29\00:42:06.74
You see, folks, the
Sabbath is more than
00:42:06.77\00:42:08.73
just a difference of a day.
00:42:08.76\00:42:10.84
It is an experience,
a different way of life.
00:42:10.87\00:42:13.49
You stop the rat race on Sabbath
00:42:13.52\00:42:15.17
and you focused on
setting people free
00:42:15.20\00:42:17.30
from loneliness and guilt
and estrangement and prejudice,
00:42:17.33\00:42:21.63
we free up ourselves to
recreate in the image of God
00:42:21.66\00:42:26.02
that's what Sabbath is,
00:42:26.05\00:42:27.77
not just a 24
hour nap on Saturday.
00:42:27.80\00:42:31.88
But I want you to come
with me for a moment to Calvary
00:42:31.91\00:42:33.94
and stand next to the cross,
00:42:33.97\00:42:36.73
the most sacred
emblem of all Christendom.
00:42:36.76\00:42:39.88
You know that in the
world's greatest emergency
00:42:39.91\00:42:41.80
the true meaning of the
Sabbath was demonstrated
00:42:41.83\00:42:43.88
by those
disciples and the women.
00:42:43.91\00:42:45.44
Do you remember what they did?
00:42:45.47\00:42:46.79
We just
celebrated here with Easter.
00:42:46.82\00:42:48.19
Luke 23:56 says,
"And they returned
00:42:48.22\00:42:51.78
and they prepared
spices and ointments,
00:42:51.81\00:42:54.51
and rested the Sabbath
according to the commandment."
00:42:54.54\00:42:58.85
You see, the
tamper with the Sabbath
00:42:58.88\00:43:01.46
will be to tamper
with Calvary itself.
00:43:01.49\00:43:04.19
In fact that's why
the Book of Acts records
00:43:04.22\00:43:06.07
Paul and the
disciples kept the Sabbath.
00:43:06.10\00:43:09.58
Folks, for 6,000 years
the Sabbath runs like a thread
00:43:09.61\00:43:14.37
from Genesis all the way
to the Book of Revelation,
00:43:14.40\00:43:17.51
where in chapter 14,
as Billy Graham says,
00:43:17.54\00:43:19.67
it describes those who are
patiently waiting for Jesus,
00:43:19.70\00:43:23.02
God's final last
day called out once,
00:43:23.05\00:43:25.85
those who prepared to
meet Jesus when He comes
00:43:25.88\00:43:28.14
right here at the end of
time, right near Armageddon.
00:43:28.17\00:43:30.23
Revelation 14:12
says, "Here they are,
00:43:30.26\00:43:32.23
here's the
patience of the saints.
00:43:32.26\00:43:34.36
They keep the commandments
of God and the faith of Jesus.
00:43:34.39\00:43:38.10
Amen.
00:43:38.13\00:43:39.16
But you know what settles
this for me tonight, friend?
00:43:39.19\00:43:41.94
Jesus says in John
14:15 and John 15:14.
00:43:41.97\00:43:45.42
Lon, "If you love me,
you will keep My commands."
00:43:45.45\00:43:49.40
And one of those commandments
is to remember the Sabbath day,
00:43:49.43\00:43:53.10
His forever special sign.
00:43:53.13\00:43:56.25
The question is,
am I willing to trust?
00:43:56.28\00:43:58.32
Am I willing to follow Jesus?
00:43:58.35\00:43:59.71
Willing to obey just
because God asked me to?
00:43:59.74\00:44:03.87
You see the
highest act of moral choice
00:44:03.90\00:44:06.63
is to do
something for someone else
00:44:06.66\00:44:08.94
just because they asked you to.
00:44:08.97\00:44:12.98
You see, well, Lonnie, what
I'm hearing tonight is so new.
00:44:13.01\00:44:15.97
What about all those wonderful
00:44:16.00\00:44:17.19
people out
there in our community
00:44:17.22\00:44:18.46
who sincerely keep
Sunday or another day?
00:44:18.49\00:44:22.70
And I can
understand but, you know,
00:44:22.73\00:44:24.37
what, friend, God
knows their hearts
00:44:24.40\00:44:26.20
and in fact, He
says in Acts 17:30.
00:44:26.23\00:44:30.13
"In the past God
overlooked such ignorance,
00:44:30.16\00:44:34.00
but now He commands all
people everywhere to repent."
00:44:34.03\00:44:37.68
Don't you like that? He
wings at past ignorance.
00:44:37.71\00:44:42.56
But when we know the truth
00:44:42.59\00:44:43.87
He expects us to start
walking in the light of truth.
00:44:43.90\00:44:46.47
He says I'll help you.
00:44:46.50\00:44:48.32
So tonight I'd
like to invite you
00:44:48.35\00:44:51.00
to make a decision
to keep the Sabbath.
00:44:51.03\00:44:53.58
Million of
others have but tonight
00:44:53.61\00:44:55.32
God is talking to you.
00:44:55.35\00:44:56.45
He's inviting you,
placing a new responsibility
00:44:56.48\00:44:59.57
upon your heart to
obey what you now know.
00:44:59.60\00:45:04.02
A quick story here.
00:45:04.05\00:45:06.28
Many of you remember
about 10, 15 years ago,
00:45:06.31\00:45:08.59
a favorite Saturday
night television show.
00:45:08.62\00:45:10.72
It was a crime syndicates show
staring Tellie Savalas, Kojak,
00:45:10.75\00:45:16.95
you know, the bald headed actor.
00:45:16.98\00:45:19.03
Tellie Savalas died
unfortunately of lung cancer
00:45:19.06\00:45:21.83
but of cancer and then
but he confessed this story
00:45:21.86\00:45:24.41
to the tabloids before he died.
00:45:24.44\00:45:26.41
He said I was so
popular and so famous
00:45:26.44\00:45:28.16
that we did an episode or
two in Greece and he said--
00:45:28.19\00:45:31.09
I was revered there as an actor.
00:45:31.12\00:45:32.97
And he was flying
from Los Angeles to Athens,
00:45:33.00\00:45:35.12
a 15 hour flight.
00:45:35.15\00:45:36.69
He said I checked in
an airline and he said,
00:45:36.72\00:45:39.38
I didn't want
anybody to bother me,
00:45:39.41\00:45:40.68
I had my script, I had all the--
00:45:40.71\00:45:42.34
I had to memorize the script.
00:45:42.37\00:45:43.69
So he said I put up
a new paper like this.
00:45:43.72\00:45:46.34
As I sat there and
everybody was checking in,
00:45:46.37\00:45:48.67
I was in first class, I
didn't want anybody to recognize
00:45:48.70\00:45:50.71
because they all
knew my bald head.
00:45:50.74\00:45:52.75
So he said, sat there
until the plane was all filled
00:45:52.78\00:45:54.89
and he said, finally
when I realized the closure
00:45:54.92\00:45:57.51
were ready to fly, he
said, I put the newspaper down.
00:45:57.54\00:46:00.40
He said a gentleman was just
putting his coat and his hat,
00:46:00.43\00:46:03.41
very, very
dignified, very military like
00:46:03.44\00:46:06.24
and he was
sitting down beside me,
00:46:06.27\00:46:08.73
well, if it
isn't Tellie Savalas?
00:46:08.76\00:46:11.04
Oh, I can't believe it.
00:46:11.07\00:46:12.10
What luck I'm gonna
have the next 15 hours
00:46:12.13\00:46:14.09
to sit next to you and talk.
00:46:14.12\00:46:16.10
Well, Tellie said I was myth
00:46:16.13\00:46:17.39
because I didn't
want to talk to anybody.
00:46:17.42\00:46:18.77
I didn't want to see anybody.
So he said, I just ignored him.
00:46:18.80\00:46:21.50
I turned my shoulder to
him, I looked at the window.
00:46:21.53\00:46:25.10
But five or six
hours into the flight,
00:46:25.13\00:46:27.08
the gentleman turned
over and he said, Mr. Savalas,
00:46:27.11\00:46:29.65
I don't want to bother
you but my kids and my family
00:46:29.68\00:46:32.74
will get such entertainment--
00:46:32.77\00:46:34.23
you bring us
such joy in our home
00:46:34.26\00:46:35.53
on Saturday night in Greece.
00:46:35.56\00:46:36.65
I just got to tell you
that you mean a lot to us.
00:46:36.68\00:46:38.59
Thank you for what you do.
00:46:38.62\00:46:40.02
Tellie said again I was so
myth that he would bother me.
00:46:40.05\00:46:42.80
I turned my shoulder to
him and never even acknowledged
00:46:42.83\00:46:44.97
that a human being
had just spoken to me.
00:46:45.00\00:46:48.69
He said, finally about
six hours out of Athens
00:46:48.72\00:46:51.47
the gentleman
pulled a pencil out of his
00:46:51.50\00:46:53.20
or pen out of his pocket,
00:46:53.23\00:46:54.76
he said we're just
being served in first class
00:46:54.79\00:46:56.78
to get all kinds of
meals and they give you a menu.
00:46:56.81\00:46:59.39
So the gentleman had
the menu and he said to me,
00:46:59.42\00:47:01.27
Tellie, he said, I
really won't bother you anymore
00:47:01.30\00:47:03.20
but if you really don't mind,
00:47:03.23\00:47:05.99
my kids won't believe
that I sat next to you.
00:47:06.02\00:47:08.97
They would be thrilled--
00:47:09.00\00:47:10.13
would you just mind
signing your autograph here?
00:47:10.16\00:47:13.39
Tellie said, I
pushed that pen away
00:47:13.42\00:47:15.12
and I turned and I
looked at the window,
00:47:15.15\00:47:16.54
I never even spoke to him.
00:47:16.57\00:47:18.93
So he said, he
didn't bother me again,
00:47:18.96\00:47:20.36
till finally we
landed in Athens,
00:47:20.39\00:47:21.67
that we're moving
toward the jet way
00:47:21.70\00:47:23.08
when the plane
pulled off to the right
00:47:23.11\00:47:24.95
and he said, I
looked at the window
00:47:24.98\00:47:26.43
and there are all
kinds of people out there,
00:47:26.46\00:47:27.98
hundreds of
them, thousands of them
00:47:28.01\00:47:30.36
and they look like
military and police
00:47:30.39\00:47:32.09
and honored guard
and there was the press
00:47:32.12\00:47:33.47
and television
cameras and he said,
00:47:33.50\00:47:34.53
as we pulled to the stop,
00:47:34.56\00:47:35.59
they start roll out a
big red carpet toward me.
00:47:35.62\00:47:37.81
And he said, I thought, oh, no,
00:47:37.84\00:47:39.02
somebody send a word ahead
00:47:39.05\00:47:40.10
and I'm gonna
have to meet the press.
00:47:40.13\00:47:42.11
I'm a big star here.
00:47:42.14\00:47:43.73
And he said, right then
the plane pulled to a halt
00:47:43.76\00:47:46.24
and the captain's voice
came over the intercom said,
00:47:46.27\00:47:48.57
ladies and gentlemen,
this is your captain speaking,
00:47:48.60\00:47:50.39
welcome to Greece, Athens,
00:47:50.42\00:47:52.02
the birth place of the
cradle of western civilization.
00:47:52.05\00:47:55.33
We're so glad you're here.
00:47:55.36\00:47:56.39
Ladies and gentlemen,
00:47:56.42\00:47:57.45
I hope you will remain
in your seats for a moment.
00:47:57.48\00:47:58.90
You've noticed that we
pulled off to the side,
00:47:58.93\00:48:00.64
something very
special is about to happen.
00:48:00.67\00:48:02.81
You see we've a
celebrity on our plane.
00:48:02.84\00:48:05.10
Well, we've very special guest.
00:48:05.13\00:48:07.39
He said, he's been
away from our country
00:48:07.42\00:48:09.12
for a number of
months on a medical emergency
00:48:09.15\00:48:12.09
and the whole country is
so happy to have him back
00:48:12.12\00:48:14.35
that the heads of
state, the Supreme Court,
00:48:14.38\00:48:17.13
the heads of the military,
the army, the navy, the police,
00:48:17.16\00:48:20.07
they are all here and
the television cameras
00:48:20.10\00:48:21.99
have come to
welcome home their king.
00:48:22.02\00:48:26.43
Tellie said at that moment
this man next to me stood up,
00:48:26.46\00:48:29.60
he reached for his
coat, put on his royal hat,
00:48:29.63\00:48:32.83
he straightened his uniform,
he walked out of the door,
00:48:32.86\00:48:35.39
as the band split
the air and welcomed home
00:48:35.42\00:48:38.35
the king of
Greece, his Royal Highness.
00:48:38.38\00:48:42.43
And Tellie confessed
later, he said, just to think,
00:48:42.46\00:48:45.49
to think, I could
have sat next to a king.
00:48:45.52\00:48:49.18
I could have got
acquainted with the king.
00:48:49.21\00:48:51.90
I could have been
a friend of a king
00:48:51.93\00:48:55.63
but I was too much into myself.
00:48:55.66\00:49:02.78
God says on the
seventh day Sabbath,
00:49:02.81\00:49:05.33
we can ride next to the
king, we can walk, talk,
00:49:05.36\00:49:09.24
get acquainted with
the Creator the King,
00:49:09.27\00:49:11.71
but too much, too many of
us are too much into ourselves.
00:49:11.74\00:49:17.67
Tonight is your way
the eternal consequences
00:49:17.70\00:49:19.64
if your
decision for Jesus Christ
00:49:19.67\00:49:21.28
wondering and pondering.
00:49:21.31\00:49:23.23
What day shall I keep?
00:49:23.26\00:49:24.82
They are those out
there, Sunday who will say,
00:49:24.85\00:49:27.48
well, come on, we're
the more popular group,
00:49:27.51\00:49:31.70
join us it's
easy, it's convenient,
00:49:31.73\00:49:35.04
it's traditional, it's
popular, we're in the majority.
00:49:35.07\00:49:37.54
But, friend, look
again and look to Jesus
00:49:37.57\00:49:40.02
who lifts His nail scarred hands
00:49:40.05\00:49:42.23
of all ages and Jesus says,
00:49:42.26\00:49:44.13
if you love Me
keep My commandments.
00:49:44.16\00:49:47.52
And He generally
calls us, friend, follow Me.
00:49:47.55\00:49:51.93
My friend George Vandeman
was preaching on this subject
00:49:51.96\00:49:53.99
one night and as
he made his appeal
00:49:54.02\00:49:55.44
he noticed a young man
slip out of the audience
00:49:55.47\00:49:58.08
into the darkness
and he was weeping
00:49:58.11\00:49:59.46
and George
Vandeman slipped out too
00:49:59.49\00:50:01.04
and as he approached this man,
00:50:01.07\00:50:02.36
the young man
took him by the collar
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and he said, George, all
my life I prayed for truth
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but I never thought to ask
God how much it would cost.
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Friend, it would
you cost you something,
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but it will be one of
the most important decisions
00:50:15.38\00:50:17.16
you make in your life.
00:50:17.19\00:50:18.52
I know you will say,
Jesus I'll stand with you,
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I'll put you first,
00:50:20.61\00:50:21.99
I'll raise up
your flag in my life,
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I'll follow you all of the way.
00:50:23.98\00:50:26.17
And if this is your
decision, make it tonight,
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just now as we pray.
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Precious Lord, tonight we're
learning that You created us
00:50:32.22\00:50:36.44
for something
better, heavens special sign.
00:50:36.47\00:50:41.47
There are sincere individuals
here tonight for whom this is
00:50:41.50\00:50:44.97
kind of brand new,
it's kind of disturbing,
00:50:45.00\00:50:48.30
but the voice
of prophecy speaks.
00:50:48.33\00:50:51.77
And it's exciting
and thrilling to realize
00:50:51.80\00:50:53.59
this is a revelation of truth
00:50:53.62\00:50:55.03
and we want to follow
Jesus no matter what the clause.
00:50:55.06\00:50:58.99
Like the big decision
to stop our regular work,
00:50:59.02\00:51:01.07
start keeping your neglected
Sabbath but You promise
00:51:01.10\00:51:03.93
that You're
there right beside us,
00:51:03.96\00:51:06.28
you'll give us
all the help we need.
00:51:06.31\00:51:07.46
So with our heads
bowed I want us to take those
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response cards right now,
pass them down row captains.
00:51:09.62\00:51:13.77
Make you decision as
to what you'd like to do
00:51:13.80\00:51:15.69
in terms of following in
Jesus' steps and say, Lord,
00:51:15.72\00:51:19.28
help me to keep
Your Sabbath day holy.
00:51:19.31\00:51:21.50
Would you do that
just now as Joey sings?
00:51:21.53\00:51:24.11
Why don't you give Him
first place in your heart?
00:51:29.42\00:51:36.97
Don't turn away
from His love depart
00:51:37.00\00:51:44.28
You will find
happiness right from the start
00:51:44.31\00:51:50.64
If you will give Him
first place in your heart
00:51:50.67\00:51:56.82
Are you longing for
someone to guide you each day?
00:51:56.85\00:52:04.08
Someone who knows
every step of the way
00:52:04.11\00:52:10.71
Are you wondering why
there are clouds in your sky?
00:52:10.74\00:52:17.54
I have an answer for you
00:52:17.57\00:52:23.93
Why don't you give Him
first place in your heart?
00:52:23.96\00:52:30.95
Don't turn away
from His love depart
00:52:30.98\00:52:37.85
You will find
happiness right from the start
00:52:37.88\00:52:44.13
If you will give Him
first place in your heart
00:52:44.16\00:52:50.76
Will you give Him first place
00:52:50.79\00:52:55.01
In your heart?
00:52:55.04\00:52:59.77
I hope you
prepared your response.
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Number one, I want to follow
Jesus regardless of the cost.
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Number two, I want to keep holy
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the seventh day
Saturday as the Bible Sabbath.
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And number three,
maybe you would like to mark
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I need more information.
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Tonight we've a
special gift for everyone here,
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it's called the
Repairing of Sam Brown
00:53:17.52\00:53:19.34
which he will answer
many of the questions
00:53:19.37\00:53:20.90
you might have.
00:53:20.93\00:53:23.09
You should have
pass in response cards,
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all the downlink locations.
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Remember next
Wednesday night our subject,
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"Whatever Happened
To Right and Wrong."
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Thank you, everyone.
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Remember, God
really does love you.
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Good night.
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