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00:26 Welcome again
00:27 to our audience here as well as to those 00:29 who are watching around the world 00:31 wherever you may be, a big warm welcome to you. 00:33 And looking forward to the second presentation 00:36 in this series "End-time Love and Loyalty," 00:40 and today's message is entitled, 00:42 "Lest We Forget." 00:43 A very important message that continues on 00:46 from where we were at our previous time together 00:50 when we looked at God's awesome plan 00:53 for our happiness and our peace. 00:57 As I pointed out, the message is entitled 00:59 "Lest We Forget." 01:00 And these are familiar words, 01:02 these three words are very familiar 01:03 to those who are living in Australia and New Zealand. 01:07 Every year on April 25, 01:09 we celebrate what we refer to as Anzac Day 01:13 here in Australia and New Zealand. 01:15 Australians and New Zealanders, 01:17 they came together during World War I 01:19 and forged a partnership in order to do battle, 01:23 in order to provide for the safety, 01:25 the security and the freedoms 01:27 that we have here in Australia and New Zealand. 01:30 And so wherever you go in Australia, 01:33 there are memorials that are established. 01:35 This memorial here is at RSL Club 01:38 or Returned and Services League Club 01:41 for past and present armed force men and women. 01:45 And we have... 01:47 We have these memorials with these words, 01:49 "Lest We Forget." 01:51 Lest We Forget, 01:52 we pause every year on April 25, 01:55 to remember those that have gone before us. 01:59 This year, I had the opportunity 02:01 here is one, 02:02 a memorial there in Mullumbimby, 02:06 Northern New South Wales, 02:08 "Lest We Forget" on that memorial 02:10 and as you can see the sign there, 02:11 "Sacred, War Memorial, Please Keep Off." 02:15 So everything associated with April 25 02:19 is very precious to Australians 02:21 and New Zealanders in particular, 02:23 as well as to many others 02:25 within the South Pacific Region, 02:27 who joined the Australian and New Zealand armed forces 02:31 in the battle during World War I in particular. 02:35 This year, I had the opportunity 02:37 of going to Anzac Cove there in Turkey. 02:41 Where the soldiers on April 25, 1915, 02:47 Australians and New Zealanders and others 02:49 came ashore and fought for that piece of territory 02:54 against the Turkey soldiers. 02:57 And here is a memorial 02:58 that I found while I was over there, 03:01 a commemorative memorial 03:04 from the year 2000 April 25, 03:08 when the Prime Minister, 03:10 the then Prime Minister of Australia, 03:13 John Howard 03:14 as well as the Prime Minister of the time of New Zealand, 03:18 Helen Clark came together, 03:20 and along with Turkish dignitaries 03:24 that were there to pay respect to the soldiers 03:27 that had passed away at that place. 03:30 As I stood there on Anzac Cove, 03:34 the place where those soldiers came aboard, 03:37 I thought of the many men who came upon those shores. 03:42 As you go through and as you take a look 03:45 at what is there in that place, 03:47 you'll come across these grave sites. 03:50 You'll come across some of the graves 03:52 of some of the soldiers 03:53 and I took a look at a few 03:55 and here are just a few to show you. 03:57 This one in particular 03:59 is of a young man, aged 18 04:03 who lost his life there on the battlefield, 04:06 a Private Burton, the words below, 04:09 "Only a boy but died as a man for liberty and freedom. 04:14 His Mum and Dad." 04:15 And here is another one from a 16-year-old teenager 04:20 who lost his life there at Gallipoli, 04:22 Private O'Donnell. 04:24 And you may not be able to see the words really well, 04:27 but they simply read down below, 04:29 "He sleeps where Anzac heroes came 04:34 to do and die." 04:36 So as far as Australians are concerned, 04:38 Anzac Day and Anzac Cove in Gallipoli 04:42 is very much part and parcel of our history, 04:46 not that we're glorifying war. 04:48 I would never do that, not even for one moment, 04:50 there is nothing... 04:51 there is nothing more horrendous in this world 04:54 than war and conflict, 04:57 and the resulting pain, and suffering and death. 05:00 But this is something very significant to Australians 05:03 when we pause and we have a day 05:06 that we commemorate each year. 05:09 These are some of the barracks or the foxholes, 05:13 as they were also known back then, 05:16 that I observed and it was a very sober, 05:18 a very surreal experience 05:20 being there at Gallipoli for me this year. 05:25 This is a memorial 05:27 that has been established there 05:29 with the various names of the soldiers 05:32 engrained in stone. 05:35 And the title on this memorial, 05:38 "Their Name Liveth For Evermore." 05:42 I am proud to be an Australian, very proud to be an Australian. 05:46 I'm blessed to be in Australia, 05:48 and my parents left their homeland of Macedonia, 05:53 and three months pregnant. 05:55 My mother jumped on a boat 05:57 and a month later, an Italian boat, 06:00 a month later along with my dad, 06:02 they landed in Melbourne and so I was born in Footscray 06:06 there in the western suburbs of Melbourne. 06:08 And I have been blessed for these past 48 years to live 06:13 in this wonderful country of Australia. 06:16 And so I'm proud and honored and thankful to God, 06:20 that I grew up in this wonderful country 06:22 where we have such freedom, 06:23 such liberties, such opportunities 06:27 to make so much of our lives in comparison 06:31 to where I would have grown up in Macedonia, 06:34 a far cry to the blessings and the wonderful privileges 06:39 that we have here in this country. 06:42 Anzac Day, a very special day 06:45 for Australians and New Zealanders 06:47 where we are reminded, "Lest We Forget" 06:50 are the words that are repeated 06:51 over and over again on April 25, 06:53 lest we forget the sacrifice 06:56 that was put in place so that we may enjoy freedoms 07:01 that we enjoy today. 07:03 Well, when it comes to... 07:04 when it comes to sacrifice, when it comes to gifts, 07:07 when it comes to love, when it comes to loyalty, 07:10 today we want to take a look at two incredible gifts 07:15 that God has given the human race 07:17 from the beginning of time gifts of love 07:20 to bless all of humanity, 07:22 for all of human history, 07:24 straight from the Garden of Eden. 07:28 We're going to begin with prayer 07:30 before we unpack one 07:32 and then especially the other one of these gifts, 07:36 and we're going to ask God 07:37 to bless our time together in His word. 07:39 So before we open His word, 07:40 let's pause and let's pray one more time. 07:43 Father in heaven, we thank You so much 07:44 that we can come before You 07:46 and as we are about to unpack Your Holy Word now 07:50 and discover these two wonderful gifts, 07:53 in particular this one wonderful gift 07:56 that most of humanity has forgotten. 07:59 We ask and pray 08:01 that You will bless our time together 08:02 in Your Word as we open Your Word, 08:03 open our hearts and our minds, 08:05 that we may be receptive 08:07 to what Your Holy Spirit wants to share with us this day 08:10 we pray in Jesus' name. 08:12 Amen. 08:14 Amen. 08:15 Well, as I pointed out, 08:16 God gave two precious gifts to the human race 08:21 at the beginning of time. 08:22 The first gift from the Garden of Eden 08:25 was the gift of marriage and family. 08:28 What a wonderful gift that is? 08:30 What a wonderful gift that is. 08:31 Notice what we read in Genesis 1:26-28. 08:36 We read these words, 08:37 "Then God said, 08:39 'Let us make man in Our image, according to Our likeness.' 08:42 So God created man in His own image, 08:44 in the image of God, He created him, 08:46 male and female, He created them. 08:49 Then God blessed them, and God said to them, 08:52 "Be fruitful and multiply, fill the earth and subdue it." 08:57 So right at the beginning of time, 08:58 God created the gift 09:02 and the institution of marriage. 09:04 That's where marriage comes from, 09:05 it comes from the Garden of Eden. 09:07 And as we have just read, 09:09 it was designed to be a blessing 09:11 to humanity for all time, 09:12 not just marriage, 09:14 but God also created the opportunity for you and I 09:18 to procreate in His image and to have children, 09:23 and to have families and to be blessed through that. 09:27 I'll never forget the day 09:30 when I got married, many moons ago, 09:33 almost 25 years ago when I got married 09:37 back on January 1, 1995. 09:42 Now who gets married on January 1, New Year's Day? 09:46 You know who? Those who have a bad memory. 09:49 I have a bad memory. Trust me on that one. 09:52 I forgot my wife's birthday once 09:55 and I learned a valuable lesson. 09:57 And this is a valuable lesson to whoever you... 09:59 to whoever you may be, 10:01 the best way to remember your wife's birthday 10:03 is to forget it once. 10:05 You'll never forget it again. 10:07 Well, it's not entirely my fault 10:09 that I forgot my wife's birthday 10:10 because she is born on December 23, 10:12 two days before Christmas, what was she thinking? 10:16 What was she thinking? 10:18 What hope do I have? 10:20 Anyway, I forgot it once and I haven't forgotten since. 10:22 Anyway, this was a wonderful day, 10:24 January 1, 1995. 10:25 We've known each other for about 12 months 10:27 and finally the day had arrived 10:29 and here I am staring down the aisle 10:31 as you do and here she is, 10:33 coming down the aisle, 10:36 walking with her father, 10:38 and here she is handed over to me. 10:41 And now she is in my possession and I'm not letting her go. 10:44 Amen. 10:45 I'm not letting her go anytime soon. 10:48 And here we are, we're standing at the altar 10:50 and here we are exchanging vows and exchanging rings, 10:55 and it didn't happen that quick... 10:56 it didn't happen that quick on the day. 10:58 And here we are with our wedding certificate, 11:02 all smiles and ready to face 11:05 the challenges of marriage. 11:09 And how we face them? 11:10 By the grace of God, we have for almost 25 years. 11:14 And it's wonderful. 11:16 And here we have is another photo of us there 11:20 and it was such a special and such a precious day. 11:24 And then a couple of years later 11:25 the Lord blessed us. 11:27 Well, He did say, "Be fruitful and multiply," 11:28 didn't He? 11:29 He told Adam and Eve be fruitful and multiply. 11:31 So our fruitfulness began two years later 11:35 when our firstborn Jamiely was born 11:38 and she was such a blessing. 11:39 And here she is sleeping in her little cot. 11:42 She used to love having her feet 11:43 outside the cot. 11:45 That was one of her favorite pastimes. 11:47 And she was good while she was asleep 11:49 and her feet were at the cot. 11:50 I didn't actually mind where her feet were 11:53 as long as she was asleep. 11:55 Because on other occasions, this is what it looked like. 11:58 Can you imagine that? Can you imagine that? 12:01 A screaming baby 3:00 a.m. 12:04 not much fun. 12:06 But we survived and I'm here to tell the story. 12:09 Marriage and family, it's such a blessing, 12:11 it's such a wonderful blessing that God gave to us 12:14 from the Garden of Eden. 12:16 This is his first gift, 12:18 and by and large, all of humanity, 12:22 for the last 6,000 years of human history, 12:26 have been blessed and partaken 12:29 of the gift of marriage and the family. 12:32 Isn't that right? 12:33 Our entire world society has been built 12:36 on marriage and the family 12:37 and so we thank God as a human race collectively 12:41 for this wonderful gift. 12:43 However, however, there is a second gift 12:49 from the Garden of Eden 12:51 that God gave to the human race 12:53 that sadly today has been forgotten 12:57 by the vast majority of earth's inhabitants. 13:02 Hence I've entitled this message, 13:04 "Lest We Forget." 13:06 Lest we forget, the second blessing 13:09 from the Garden of Eden. 13:11 So let's go back to the Garden of Eden. 13:13 When God created Adam and Eve, He created them 13:17 to live in perfect harmony with one another, 13:20 to live in perfect harmony with God as they created. 13:23 The one Who created them in His own image, 13:26 to live in perfect harmony with the animal kingdom 13:30 and with all of nature 13:31 and there was just complete harmony 13:33 that they enjoyed. 13:35 And the Bible describes what God said 13:38 at the end of the six days of creation. 13:41 Notice what we read in Genesis 1:31, 13:44 "Then God saw everything that He had made, 13:47 and indeed it was," what? 13:48 "Very good." 13:50 Up until this point in the story of creation, 13:53 after each day when God finished His creating, 13:56 God says, "It is good." 13:58 It is good. 13:59 It is good. It is good. 14:01 Six times God repeats that phrase, it is good. 14:06 And then at the end of the sixth day, 14:08 after God had created Adam and kept the best till last 14:13 by creating the woman Eve, 14:15 and all the men said, "Amen." 14:19 Then God said, "Behold, 14:21 it is very good, very, very good." 14:25 So the evening and the morning were the sixth day. 14:29 Now we know that we don't have six days in a week, 14:34 isn't that right? 14:35 How many days are in a week? 14:37 There are seven days in a week. 14:39 So if God had created everything in six days, 14:43 and He said it was very good, 14:45 well then what took place on the seventh day? 14:48 Let's keep reading. 14:49 Genesis 2:1, completes the end of creation. 14:54 Those six days with these words, 14:56 "Thus the heavens and the earth, 14:57 and all the host of them, were finished." 15:02 What would God erect as an eternal memorial 15:06 of His creative work? 15:08 Okay, God had finished creating the world. 15:11 And as you and I know, 15:14 that when an artist finishes creating his masterpiece, 15:19 what does he do? 15:21 What's the final act? 15:22 He signs off. 15:24 He signs off. 15:25 So we know who is the architect, 15:29 who is the master artist 15:32 behind this magnificent piece of art. 15:34 They sign their name at the bottom 15:38 of that piece of art, 15:40 to make it plain and obvious to all who will come afterward, 15:44 who is the one, 15:46 who is the orchestrator 15:48 behind this beautiful piece of art? 15:51 So how was God going to sign off? 15:55 How is He going to place His signature 15:57 on this world 15:59 that this world didn't come from evolution 16:01 that this world didn't come by chance, 16:05 that this world came by divine plan 16:11 and divine creation by a divine and loving God. 16:15 How would God do that? 16:17 Would He create a monument? 16:19 Would He create another big tree? 16:23 What would God do? 16:24 Instead of creating something, 16:28 God decided to create time and space. 16:32 Let's notice, 16:33 what we read in Genesis 2:2, 3. 16:37 "And on the seventh day God ended His work 16:39 which He had done, 16:40 and He rested on the seventh day 16:42 from all His work which He had done. 16:44 Then God blessed the seventh day 16:46 and sanctified it because in it, 16:48 He rested from all His work which God had created and made. 16:53 Here we are told that God blessed the seventh day, 16:58 just like God blessed Adam and Eve 17:00 at the very beginning of time, 17:02 and He said to them, "Be fruitful and multiply." 17:05 So too God blessed the seventh day. 17:08 And the Bible says, "God sanctified that day." 17:11 Now what does it mean to be sanctified? 17:13 It means to be set apart for holy use. 17:16 This is not a common day, like any other day of the week, 17:20 the seventh day, 17:21 according to what we have read, 17:22 according to what God Himself said, 17:24 was to be set apart for holy use, 17:26 just like marriage is set apart for holy use, isn't that right? 17:32 We refer to marriage often as holy what? 17:35 Matrimony or the sacred vows of marriage. 17:39 The scriptures, they are holy. 17:43 The Bible says that our body temples are holy. 17:48 The Bible refers to holiness as something 17:51 that has been set apart 17:53 by God for special use. 17:57 The Holy Place, the Most Holy Place 18:00 of the sanctuary was special 18:02 because that is where God resides 18:04 and so where God resides, 18:06 that that is especially connected with God 18:09 and the work of God, God says, that is holy, 18:12 that is special, that is sacred, 18:14 that has been set apart as a special blessing. 18:16 Now the Bible says that God rested. 18:19 God rested. 18:20 Now, does God need to rest? 18:23 What do you think? 18:24 Does God need to rest? 18:26 Does He rest because He's tired? 18:30 Was God tired after six days of work 18:32 that He needed to rest? 18:34 That is what the Bible says? 18:36 Isaiah 40:28, "Have you not known? 18:40 Have you not heard? 18:41 The everlasting God, the Lord, 18:43 the Creator of the ends of the earth," 18:45 that's what we've been looking at, 18:47 "neither fights, nor is" what? 18:49 "Neither nor is weary." 18:51 God didn't rest because He was tired. 18:55 Maybe Adam and Eve needed to rest, 18:56 maybe they were tired, 18:58 maybe they had had a hard week? 19:00 Hardly, what day were they created? 19:02 They were created on the sixth day? 19:06 They didn't need to rest either. 19:07 They hadn't done any work. 19:10 Why did God rest? 19:12 That word there rest is the word Shabbat. 19:14 It's where we get the word Sabbath from Shabbat, 19:17 which means to stop, to cease or to rest. 19:21 It means to exile. 19:23 It's like when you've been working hard 19:26 or you've been doing some serious exercise, 19:29 and you stop and you take a deep breath. 19:34 Have you ever done that? 19:36 Does it feel good? Does it feel good? 19:38 Yeah, many times. 19:40 It feels good, doesn't it? 19:42 Just to stop and to... 19:47 And when God stopped, and He said... 19:53 I can just imagine Him looking at all of creation, saying, 19:56 "Wow, this is so very good. 20:00 So very good." 20:02 I want to bless the human race 20:05 to never forget where they came from, 20:07 to never forget that I am the God 20:10 that wants to bless them in every sense. 20:12 And I am going to give them a day, 20:15 a wonderful day, 20:17 when they can spend time with me 20:19 and celebrate me as their loving Creator God. 20:24 You see, God knew that, 20:26 that which is most precious 20:28 in developing human to human relationships, 20:33 and God to human relationships 20:35 is a word beginning with T with four letters. 20:39 Can anyone guess? 20:41 Time, time. 20:46 Building healthy relationships require time? 20:51 God didn't set aside an hour every week, 20:53 He didn't set aside two hours every week. 20:56 God gave the human race 24 hours 21:00 to spend with one another. 21:03 Twenty four hours with one another, 21:05 as God's children, 21:07 24 hours with God as our ultimate God. 21:12 What a blessing. 21:13 What a blessing. 21:14 In fact, that word, there blessed. 21:17 When you read that word blessed for the Hebrew, 21:20 when the Hebrew hears the word blessed 21:24 and it's coming from God's lips, 21:27 the Hebrew mind, 21:28 the Hebrew thinking is 21:30 and he knows and she knows 21:32 that when God blesses, He blesses holistically. 21:35 Now what do I mean by holistically? 21:36 You and I are created holistic beings 21:39 in the image of God. 21:41 We are created to function optimally, 21:44 physically, emotionally/mentally, 21:48 spiritually and socially, 21:50 those four dimensions. 21:53 And so when God blesses us, 21:55 He blesses us in all four of those dimensions. 21:58 So when we take a look at the Sabbath 22:00 and when God blessed this day, 22:03 and gave it as a gift to the whole human race, 22:06 He wants us to enjoy holistic health and well being 22:10 with one another, with God, 22:13 health wise physically 22:15 and also mentally, and emotionally. 22:18 Does that make sense, yes or no? 22:20 That is the blessing associated with this precious day. 22:22 I could spend a lot more time 22:24 unpacking the holistic blessing that God has 22:27 and we're gonna do that in an upcoming program, 22:31 where we're gonna talk about health and well being, 22:33 so stay tuned for that. 22:35 As we continue, Jesus says in Matthew 11:28, 22:41 "Come to Me, all you who labor 22:43 and are heavy laden, and I will give you," what? 22:46 "I'll give you rest." 22:48 I'll give you rest. 22:49 If there is something we desperately need today 22:53 in our world, and that is rest, 22:54 isn't that right? 22:56 We desperately need rest. 22:59 Families today are struggling, 23:02 marriages are struggling, 23:04 children are struggling to connect with parents. 23:08 There are struggles between friends, 23:10 there are struggles to connect with God. 23:13 And God is saying, "I'm giving you an opportunity 23:15 to come to me and to find rest, 23:19 to find that holistic rest 23:23 that we can only find in Jesus Christ. 23:26 I find it interesting 23:27 when I take a look at the Ten Commandments. 23:30 There are two commandments in the very center of God's law 23:34 that stand out from all the other commandments. 23:38 Have you noticed? 23:39 Eight of the ten commandments begin with thou shalt not, 23:44 thou shalt not, thou shalt not, eight of them. 23:49 But there are two 23:50 that don't begin with thou shalt not. 23:53 The fourth commandment begins with the word remember. 23:57 "Remember the Sabbath day to keep it holy." 24:01 Why did God say remember? 24:03 Could it be lest we forget? 24:07 His blessing that He gave us 24:09 at the beginning of time to bless us? 24:12 Could it be God said remember back to your Creator? 24:16 Let's read the passage. 24:19 In Exodus 20:8-11, 24:21 "Remember the Sabbath day, to keep it holy. 24:24 Six days you shall labor and do all your work, 24:26 but the seventh day is the Sabbath 24:28 of the Lord your God. 24:30 In it you shall do no work: 24:32 You, nor your son, nor your daughter, 24:33 nor your male servant, nor your female servant, 24:35 nor your cattle, 24:37 nor your stranger who is within your gates. 24:39 For in six days, 24:40 the Lord made the heavens and the earth, the sea, 24:43 and all that is in them, 24:44 and rested the seventh day. 24:46 Therefore the Lord blessed the Sabbath day and," did what? 24:49 "And hallowed it." Set it apart for holiest. 24:51 So here in the Ten Commandments, 24:53 God in the very center of His law, 24:55 He placed that Sabbath blessing 24:59 that He gave to the entire human race 25:02 at the very beginning of time in the Garden of Eden. 25:04 God is saying, "Remember, when I gave it to you, 25:07 at the very beginning of time, when I created this world." 25:09 It's to continue to be a blessing to you. 25:12 I shared that there are two commandments 25:14 that stand out from the rest. 25:17 This is the first one, 25:18 remember the Sabbath day to keep it holy. 25:20 The second one is commandment number five, 25:23 honor thy mother and thy father. 25:28 Two commandments that come to us 25:30 directly from the Garden of Eden, 25:31 you think about it? 25:33 Where does marriage and the family come from? 25:36 From the Garden of Eden, isn't that right? 25:38 And what's the fifth commandment? 25:40 The fifth commandment is all about 25:42 honoring marriage and the family. 25:44 Honor your mother and your father. 25:48 The fourth commandment, 25:49 it comes to us from the Garden of Eden, 25:51 "Remember, your Lord 25:54 and where you came from each and every day." 25:57 And so marriage and the Sabbath... 26:00 marriage, and the family, and the Sabbath, 26:02 they work together, they go hand in hand 26:05 like a hand in a glove. 26:08 That was right, yeah. 26:10 Like a hand in a glove. 26:12 And guess what the enemy 26:13 is seeking to destroy above all. 26:16 He's seeking to destroy both these institutions 26:18 that God gave to the human race 26:20 from the Garden of Eden, marriage and the family, 26:23 and I don't need to, 26:24 I don't need to convince you of that. 26:27 And this one day in the week 26:28 that connects us with one another, 26:30 and connects us with God 26:32 and enables us to recognize 26:35 who it is that we worship, 26:37 our Creator and loving God 26:39 who made us in His image. 26:41 Very, very powerful. 26:44 Let's continue. 26:46 We discover the question before us, 26:51 "When does the Sabbath begin and when does it end? 26:55 Notice what we read in Scripture. 26:58 Leviticus 23:32, 27:01 "From evening to evening, 27:03 you shall celebrate your Sabbath." 27:06 From evening to evening, 27:09 you shall celebrate your Sabbath. 27:11 God has thought of everything. 27:14 They didn't have watches back then. 27:16 Adam and Eve didn't have a watch. 27:18 Children of Israel didn't have a watch. 27:21 People haven't had a watch for almost 6,000 years. 27:25 That's only a recent phenomena, isn't that right? 27:28 They certainly didn't have an iWatch, did they? 27:34 God said the Sabbath will begin 27:37 on Friday night when the sun sets 27:42 and the Sabbath will end on Saturday night 27:44 when the sun sets once again. 27:47 You don't need a watch to know when the Sabbath begins. 27:50 You just need to have your eyes open, 27:53 you need to be able to see when the sun is setting, 27:58 that's when the Sabbath is beginning. 28:00 And when the sun is setting, that is when this... 28:04 and that is when the Sabbath is ending. 28:07 Without God's creation week, 28:11 we would not have a seven day week. 28:14 There's no reason for a seven day week. 28:16 There's no planetary reason. 28:18 There's no reason based on our solar system, 28:21 based on the laws of the solar system. 28:25 There's a reason why we have a month, 28:27 isn't that right? 28:28 Due to the moon 28:30 going around the earth once every 28 and a bit days. 28:34 There's a reason why we have a day 28:35 a 24-hour a day, 28:37 because the earth rotates on its axis 28:39 once every 24 hours. 28:43 There's the reason why we have a year, 28:46 because the earth rotates around the sun 28:49 once every 365 and a quarter days. 28:54 But is there a reason based on the planetary cycles 28:58 that we have a seven week? 29:01 No, there isn't. 29:03 The only reason that we have for it 29:05 is that God gave it to us 29:07 so that each and every Sabbath day 29:09 we would remember Him as our Creator God. 29:12 That is the reason 29:13 why God has given us this wonderful blessing. 29:16 And it comes to us from the Garden of Eden. 29:19 A few years ago, including this year, 29:21 it was my second trip to Israel. 29:23 I had the opportunity of going to one of my favorite 29:26 if not my favorite city in the world, Jerusalem. 29:29 I love the Old City of Jerusalem. 29:32 And as I walked into the Old City, 29:37 you walk in through those old gates, 29:39 hundreds of years old, 29:41 the city's been rebuilt a number of times. 29:44 I had the opportunity go 29:46 to what is referred to as The Western Wall. 29:50 Some refer to it as the Wailing Wall, 29:53 there in Jerusalem, 29:55 where Orthodox Jews come and they pray 29:59 and they seek the Lord 30:00 and they come and they fellowship. 30:02 And I had the opportunity of being there 30:04 on a Friday evening 30:06 as the Sabbath was beginning. 30:09 And boy, oh, boy, were there celebrations, 30:12 great celebration singing, 30:15 and dancing, and sharing scripture 30:18 and just welcoming the Sabbath day. 30:22 And here we have a photo 30:24 that I took of these fancy dancy hats 30:28 that these Jewish men wear, a very expensive hats. 30:33 Someone told me that some of the hats 30:35 are like $2,000, very expensive. 30:37 And so they put on these hats specifically for Sabbath, 30:41 Shabbat as the Hebrews would say. 30:44 And they say to one another, 30:45 as they greet one another in the streets. 30:48 And I had the opportunity 30:49 to greet a number of them and they looked at me 30:51 because I didn't have my little Hebrew skullcap. 30:54 I didn't have that on 30:56 and so they were really surprise 30:57 when I greeted them with Shabbat shalom. 31:00 Shabbat shalom, that's Sabbath peace, 31:04 Sabbath peace. 31:06 And the peace is once again that holistic peace, 31:10 is that holistic blessing 31:11 that they are wanting for one another, 31:14 Sabbath peace, Sabbath blessing, 31:16 and so that was a wonderful blessing. 31:18 And there are many today sadly 31:21 that believe that the Sabbath 31:25 is only for the Jewish people. 31:28 They understand the Jews worship 31:29 each and every Sabbath, they keep the Sabbath 31:31 and they keep it very stringently, 31:33 many of them. 31:35 And they asked the question, 31:36 well, "Isn't the Sabbath day only for Jews?" 31:40 Only for Jews? 31:42 Well, we have discovered that well 31:45 and truly before there was a Jew on planet earth 31:47 and Abraham is the Father of the Jewish Nation. 31:50 Well, before Abraham, 31:53 who was around 4,000 years ago, 31:57 the Sabbath existed some 2,000 years prior to that 32:00 in the Garden of Eden. 32:03 They were no Jews in the Garden of Eden, 32:04 the last time I checked, 32:06 and Jesus made that absolutely plain and obvious. 32:10 Notice these words from Jesus. 32:12 In Matthew Chapter... 32:13 Sorry, in Mark 2:27, 28. 32:17 Jesus says, "The Sabbath was made for who? 32:20 "Made for man and not man for the Sabbath. 32:23 Therefore the Son of Man is also Lord of the Sabbath." 32:26 That word the man, I looked at word man up, 32:29 and the original word for men in the Greek, 32:33 the language of the New Testament 32:35 is anthropos, anthropos. 32:39 What word in English do we get from anthropos? 32:42 Anthropology. 32:44 And what's anthropology defined as? 32:46 The study of human beings or the study of humanity, 32:50 that's anthropology. 32:52 And so Jesus is saying 32:54 that the Sabbath was made for humanity, 32:59 not just the Jewish people. 33:01 Why would God want to bless 33:03 only one group of people on the planet? 33:06 Does that sound like the God that you know? 33:08 Certainly doesn't sound like the God that I know? 33:11 The God that I know wants to bless all of humanity. 33:16 In fact, if the Sabbath is only for Jews, 33:22 and that comes to us from the Garden of Eden, 33:25 then we could logically conclude 33:27 that marriage and the family is only for Jews, 33:31 because that too comes from the Garden of Eden. 33:36 I don't know about you, 33:37 but I want to hang on to marriage and the family. 33:40 I'm enjoying marriage and the family, 33:42 thank you very much. 33:43 I'm not giving that up anytime soon. 33:47 These two institutions as we have discovered, 33:50 go hand in hand, 33:52 marriage and the family, and the Sabbath. 33:55 And God's aim is that through these two blessed institutions, 33:59 we will not only draw closer to one another, 34:04 but we'll draw closer to God. 34:06 And it's fascinating when you take a look 34:08 at the Ten Commandments, 34:10 we discovered that there are two commandments 34:13 that are different from the others, 34:14 isn't that right? 34:16 Commandment number what? 34:17 Four, "Remember the Sabbath day to keep it holy." 34:20 And commandment number five, 34:21 "Honor thy mother and thy father." 34:25 We are dealing with love and loyalty 34:28 in this series, isn't that right? 34:30 Love and loyalty, 34:31 they come together in these two precious commandments. 34:34 In fact, I need to give credit to a person 34:38 that works at 3ABN called Rosemary 34:40 for this little insight. 34:41 She shared with me once upon a time 34:43 that the words Lord thy God appear 34:47 in the first four commandments 34:49 and of the six they only appear in commandment number five, 34:53 Lord thy God. 34:54 It's as if, God is connecting marriage and the family 34:58 with the other four commandments 35:00 that specifically speak of him, 35:02 because God knows that the only way 35:05 marriage and family will prosper 35:07 in that holistic sense is 35:09 if we include the Lord thy God in the family unit. 35:16 And the main reason, 35:18 and I make no apologies for saying this, 35:20 the main reason why families are fragmented today, 35:24 why society is falling apart today? 35:27 Is because society and families, 35:30 mothers and fathers have sadly turned their backs 35:35 on the Lord their God, 35:37 who wants to bless them, 35:39 who wants to prosper them, 35:41 and we are suffering the consequences. 35:45 If only we took the time to read 35:50 and to follow the instructions 35:52 that God has given us in this book. 35:57 If only things would be very different, 36:00 very, very different in our homes, in society 36:06 and in the world at large. 36:09 Jesus was asked on one occasion 36:13 regarding His Sabbath keeping practices. 36:16 Well, He was more than just asked. 36:18 He was accused of being a Sabbath breaker. 36:21 And in Matthew 12:12, Jesus said, 36:23 "It is lawful to do," what? 36:26 "To do good on the Sabbath." 36:28 In the New Testament, we discover on seven occasions 36:31 Jesus healed individuals on the Sabbath. 36:35 There are seven Sabbath miracles, 36:38 where Jesus healed Sabbath... 36:40 Sorry, seven is God's perfect number. 36:43 It's the number of completeness, 36:45 seven days in a week, 36:46 its wholeness, completeness, fullness. 36:49 What Jesus was trying to tell us 36:51 was that the Sabbath is a day to continually do good, 36:55 help people in need, 36:56 go and visit someone who is sick 36:57 and we have the time. 36:59 We have the time. We don't need to work. 37:01 We don't need to work, 37:02 we don't need to be out shopping. 37:04 We can be out visiting the sick, 37:06 we can be praying for people, we can be encouraging people, 37:08 we can be worshiping God, our Lord and our Savior. 37:15 I want to share with you six points 37:18 of what the Sabbath reminds me of. 37:21 Firstly, the Sabbath reminds me that God is my Creator. 37:26 I came into existence from a loving Creator God, 37:31 I have meaning, I have purpose. 37:33 The second reason, 37:36 for the Sabbath for me 37:38 is that God wants to have 37:40 an intimate relationship with me. 37:42 God loves me that much that He set aside time, 37:45 every week, every week, 37:47 not once a year, like my anniversary, 37:50 not once a year like my birthday, 37:51 not once a year like Anzac Day, 37:54 but every week, He loves me so much, 37:57 He wants to spend a whole day with me every week 38:00 and bless me in a very special way. 38:02 Thirdly, Sabbath reminds me that God is my Savior. 38:07 Notice these words from Exodus 20:1, 2, 38:13 "And God spoke all these words, saying: 38:15 'I'm the Lord your God, 38:16 who brought you out of the land of Egypt, 38:18 out of the house of bondage.'" 38:22 Before God gives His Ten Commandments to His people, 38:25 the first thing He says, 38:27 "I've brought you out of bondage, 38:28 I've brought you out of slavery." 38:29 The Sabbath reminds me 38:31 that through Christ, I've been forgiven. 38:34 Through Christ, I've been set free 38:36 from the burden of sin. 38:37 Through Christ, I'm no longer a slave 38:40 to guilt, and sin, and Satan. 38:44 I have been set free from the bondage 38:47 that I have been under, 38:49 by grace through faith as a gift from God. 38:54 Notice these words, in Deuteronomy Chapter 5, 38:56 where Moses here gives a different context 39:01 for the Sabbath. 39:02 Powerful words from Deuteronomy 5:12, 15. 39:05 "Observe the Sabbath day, to keep it holy, 39:08 as the Lord your God commanded you..." 39:09 He was speaking directly to the children of Israel. 39:12 "And remember that you were a slave 39:14 in the land of Egypt, 39:15 and the Lord your God brought you out from there 39:18 by a mighty hand and by an outstretched arm, 39:21 therefore the Lord your God 39:22 commanded you to keep the Sabbath day." 39:25 So not only is the Sabbath a reminder 39:27 that we have been created by a loving God, 39:30 but it's a reminder 39:31 that we have been saved by a loving God. 39:36 The Sabbath fulfills both of these precious blessings 39:41 that come directly from God, 39:42 He's our Creator as well as our Savior. 39:48 Fourthly, the Sabbath reminds me 39:50 that I belong to God. 39:54 In the Western world, in particular in many cultures, 39:59 when two people at the altar 40:01 choose to live with one another 40:05 for the rest of their lives, 40:07 through sickness and in health, and good times and in bad, 40:10 for richer and for poorer, until what? 40:14 Until death do us part, they give one another what? 40:17 They give one another wedding rings, don't they? 40:20 It's an outward sign, an outward sign 40:22 that they belong to one another 40:25 for everyone to see. 40:28 My wife wears her wedding ring, I lost mine. 40:31 That's another story for another day. 40:34 My wife wears a wedding ring as a reminder to everyone 40:38 that she is off limits. 40:39 She doesn't... 40:41 she belongs to someone. 40:42 She's already taking... 40:44 she's already been taken care of. 40:47 It's fascinating that God says, 40:50 "My Sabbath will be a reminder that you belong to Me." 40:52 Notice these words, Ezekiel 20:12, 40:55 "Moreover I also gave them My Sabbath, to be a" what? 40:59 "A sign between them and Me, that they might know 41:02 that I am the Lord who sanctifies them." 41:04 The Sabbath is an outward sign between God and His people, 41:08 that He sets them apart as holy as belonging to Him. 41:13 Number five, the Sabbath reminds me 41:16 that my allegiance is to God. 41:19 Let's notice these words again 41:21 from Genesis 2:3 where the Bible says, 41:23 "Then God blessed the seventh day 41:25 and sanctified it, 41:26 because in it He rested from all His work 41:28 which God had created and made." 41:30 There are three things that God did 41:32 on the Sabbath day 41:34 that He did not do on any one of the other six days. 41:38 God blessed this day unlike any of the other six days. 41:42 God sanctified it, as we've discovered, 41:44 set it apart for holy use. 41:46 It's not an ordinary day, it's holy, it belongs to God. 41:49 And He gives it to us as a gift, 41:51 as a holy gift. 41:53 And He rested from all of His work. 41:56 Let me illustrate how this is so significant. 42:01 Let me illustrate. 42:04 Imagine with me, 42:06 and I'll come and just take some materials with me. 42:09 Imagine with me, I was a mechanic, 42:13 a motor mechanic, a backyard mechanic, 42:16 and I was working on my car. 42:17 And one day, I'm working on my car 42:20 and I'm using this white rag, 42:23 finished working with until it's all oily 42:27 and just dirty, and I'm done with it. 42:30 So I put that in my box of old rags. 42:33 And I pick up another one and I keep working, 42:36 I pick up this blue rag, 42:39 and I'm working away using it 42:41 until it's no longer any use to me, 42:44 there's just oil everywhere. 42:46 And it's, it's no good. 42:48 And then I'll put that in my box of old rags. 42:51 I pull out another rag, a red one this time. 42:55 And I used that until it comes to the point 42:58 where it's passed its use by date. 43:01 Then I take these three rags 43:04 and I decide I'm gonna have a big fire, 43:09 burn a whole bunch of rubbish. 43:10 And I take these three old rags 43:12 and I throw them in the fire and I burn them. 43:15 Would you have a problem with that? 43:18 No, I wouldn't have a problem with it. 43:19 They're just three old oily rags. 43:22 Who cares? 43:24 Who cares? 43:25 Imagine with me now. 43:27 I have these three different bits of material, 43:34 call them rags, call them material. 43:36 And I decide now to take these three bits of material, 43:43 red, white and blue, 43:44 and I decide to make this. 43:51 I decide to make this 43:54 out of those three different materials, 43:58 an Australian flag. 44:00 Now imagine with me, 44:03 I took this and I also burnt this 44:05 with the rest of my rubbish in the backyard, 44:08 would you have a problem with that? 44:11 I would. 44:12 I would have a huge problem with that, 44:13 not only is it illegal and you can be fined, 44:17 and rightly so. 44:18 But what you are doing is, 44:20 you are desecrating a symbol, an outward symbol 44:23 that represents the nation that you belong to, 44:28 the land that you are privileged to live in. 44:30 And trust me, 44:32 I've been to many parts of the world. 44:33 Australia is a blessed nation, 44:35 New Zealand is a close second, a very close second. 44:39 I've lived there for six years also. 44:43 The Sabbath is different 44:46 from all the other days of the week, 44:48 because on that day, God invested His blessing, 44:53 He invested His divine rest 44:56 and He invested His Holiness into that day. 45:00 Can you see that it is different? 45:04 It is very different. 45:07 The Sabbath reminds me 45:11 that I have been set apart 45:15 by God for holy use. 45:18 And finally, the Sabbath reminds me 45:22 that God will take care of me. 45:26 If you go home and you read the story there 45:28 in Exodus Chapter 16, 45:30 you'll discover that God fed the children of Israel 45:34 as He took them out of Egypt, 45:37 and they were in the wilderness. 45:39 They were fed by God for 40 years 45:43 with manna from heaven. 45:45 And the manna fell every six days, 45:48 it fell for six days straight and guess what? 45:51 It didn't fall on Sabbath. 45:53 On Sabbath, there was no manna from heaven. 45:56 So what were they going to eat on Sabbath? 45:58 They were going to collect twice 46:00 as much on Friday. 46:02 Every other day, 46:03 if they kept the manna, 46:05 for the next day, it would go off. 46:08 There'd be worms, 46:10 it would not be fit for human consumption. 46:12 But on Sabbath that manna tasted just as sweet 46:17 and I like to think even sweeter. 46:20 Even sweeter than it tasted on Friday, 46:22 when they first ate it. 46:23 For 40 years, 46:25 God reminded the children of Israel 46:26 that I will take care of you. 46:28 Now there may be some here, 46:29 there may be some who are watching, 46:31 who are wondering, 46:32 how on earth can I keep the Sabbath 46:35 only to let go of my job? 46:37 I mean, I'll get the sack, 46:38 my boss will just sack me 46:40 and say, "Too bad so sad, 46:42 plenty more out there that I can hire 46:44 if you don't want to work on the seventh day Sabbath 46:48 in order to honor your God, 46:51 you'll have to find somewhere else to work 46:53 and there may not be much work? 46:55 My friend, wherever you are, 46:56 I want to encourage you, God will take care of you. 46:58 God will take care of you, He will not let you go. 47:00 If you put your faith and trust in Him, 47:02 He will take care of you. He will take care of you. 47:09 What did Jesus do? 47:10 Let's ask the question. What did Jesus do? 47:12 You notice what the Bible says in Luke 4:16, 47:15 "So He came to Nazareth, where He had been brought up. 47:19 And as His custom was, 47:21 He went into the synagogue on the Sabbath day, 47:24 and stood up to read." 47:25 Jesus went to church on Sabbath. 47:27 He went to church. 47:28 It wasn't just Jesus, if we continue to read 47:31 the Apostle Paul, he describes his custom, 47:34 "Then Paul, as his custom was, 47:36 went in to them, and for three Sabbaths 47:39 reasoned with them from the Scriptures." 47:41 All the way through the New Testament, 47:43 God's holy Sabbath day is observed 47:47 by His faithful commandment keeping people, 47:52 all through the New Testament, all through the New Testament. 47:56 I'd be thinking, well, why do most people worship 47:58 on the first day of the week? 48:00 Well, you'll have to come back for our next presentation, 48:02 and we're gonna deal with that then. 48:04 But I want to take a look at this incredible promise 48:06 in Hebrews Chapter 4. 48:07 Notice what we read in Hebrews 4:4, 9. 48:11 This is in the New Testament. 48:14 And I believe this is the Apostle Paul, 48:15 who wrote these words and many others do too. 48:19 "For He," speaking of God, 48:21 "has spoken in a certain place 48:23 of the seventh day in this way: 48:26 'And God rested on the seventh day 48:28 from all his works.' 48:30 There remains therefore a rest," 48:33 for the people of who? 48:36 "For the people of God.'" 48:37 This is New Testament, 48:39 and I looked up that word remains 48:42 and in the original that word remains 48:44 is in the continuous tense. 48:47 Do you know what the word continuous tense means? 48:49 It means that it's continuous. 48:52 It's forever. 48:54 It remains forever and ever, and ever and ever. 48:59 The Sabbath is God's rest to the human race 49:03 for all of eternity 49:04 and we'll discover what the Bible has to say 49:07 about that in just a moment. 49:09 Let's notice what we read in the Book of Revelation. 49:12 By the way, Revelation, Revelation 49:16 was a book that God gave to John the Revelator. 49:20 He says, on the Lord's Day. 49:23 On what day? 49:24 On the Lord's Day, and according to Jesus, 49:27 the Son of Man is Lord of the Sabbath. 49:31 So John received the Book of Revelation, 49:34 which is a book focused on worship, 49:38 on the day of worship, 49:40 the seventh day Sabbath, 49:42 that's just a powerful thought. 49:43 But notice what we find once again 49:45 in the three angels' messages, Revelation 14:7. 49:49 We've been there before, we'll go there again, 49:51 saying with a loud voice, that megaphone voice, 49:54 "Fear God and give glory to Him, 49:57 for the hour of His judgment has come," 49:59 and notice these words now, 50:00 "and worship Him who made heaven and earth, 50:02 the sea and the springs of water." 50:04 There's a call to the entire human race, 50:07 this message is not to be shared 50:10 in a section over here or in a corner over there, 50:12 this message is to go to the whole world. 50:14 We discovered that in our previous presentation, 50:16 Revelation 14:6, it says very clearly, 50:19 "This is the everlasting gospel 50:20 that needs to go to every nation, 50:22 kindred, tongue and people." 50:23 And the message is, worship Him. 50:27 I find it fascinating, that in light of the words, 50:30 worship Him who made heaven and earth, 50:33 at the very end of time, 50:34 we have the Genesis, 50:37 the beginnings of the modern day atheistic, 50:42 the modern day evolutionary philosophy, 50:48 and way of thinking and way of teaching 50:51 through Charles Darwin, the pioneer, the father 50:57 of the evolutionary model of creation 51:00 and how we came to be. 51:02 It's fascinating to me, 51:04 that we are living in a day and age 51:07 when evolution seems to be the flavor of the month, 51:11 certainly in our higher education institutions 51:14 and God is calling us. 51:16 God is calling the world to worship the Creator God 51:20 that we came about through divine creation, 51:24 we came about from a loving God Who loved us, 51:27 Who created us in His image. 51:30 Darwinism, evolution is the complete opposite 51:36 that you came to be by chance, 51:38 that you don't have a purpose. 51:42 You certainly don't have any future 51:43 because there is no future. 51:46 You're here for a moment and you're gone the next, 51:49 make the most of it, 51:50 you have only one life, live life now 51:53 because you don't have any more, 51:55 there is no God. 51:56 There is no Creator, there is no future. 52:01 And at a time in earth's history, 52:03 when we desperately needed to go back to our Creator, 52:07 God gave a message, 52:08 "Worship Him who made heaven and earth, 52:10 the sea and springs of water." 52:11 Notice these scriptures, where John is quoting from 52:15 in Revelation 14:7. 52:16 He's quoting from Revelation... 52:18 Sorry, Exodus 20:8, 11. 52:20 "Remember the Sabbath day to keep it holy. 52:22 For in six days, the Lord made 52:23 the heavens and the earth, the sea, 52:25 and all that is in them." 52:28 So here we have, once again, the call back to creation, 52:32 the call to honor God and remember the Sabbath day 52:36 straight out of the fourth commandment. 52:39 Well, I want to share with you once again, 52:43 God's end time people in Revelation 14:12, 52:45 "Here is the patience of the saints, 52:47 here are those who keep the commandments of God 52:50 and the faith of Jesus." 52:52 I wanna share with you 52:53 this interesting outline of the Sabbath, 52:57 the Bible and the Sabbath. 52:59 Notice, in the beginning God created the day. 53:02 He gave it to the human race at Mount Sinai. 53:05 God commanded it by saying, 53:07 "Remember the Sabbath day to keep it holy." 53:09 In His life Jesus worshiped on it. 53:11 In His death Jesus observed it. Now we haven't looked at that. 53:14 Let me just touch on that just for a moment. 53:17 On what day did Jesus die? 53:20 Friday, it was Friday afternoon, 53:22 the Bible says at 3 pm 53:25 that Jesus breathed His last and He died. 53:28 What were the final words of Jesus before He died? 53:31 He cried out, "It is finished." 53:36 And He died. 53:37 And He rested in the grave during the Sabbath. 53:40 And when did He rise again? 53:42 On the first day of the week 53:45 to continue His work of redemption, 53:47 to continue His work of reconciling us to God. 53:52 What did Jesus say? 53:54 What did the Creator say? 53:55 And God created through His Son Jesus Christ, 53:58 according to John 1, and according to Hebrews 1, 54:00 and according to Colossians 1. 54:02 What did the Creator say 54:04 at the end of the creation week? 54:08 Finished, it is finished. 54:11 And it was all very, very good. 54:14 Isn't that powerful? 54:16 Jesus rested after creation. 54:18 He rested after He bought us back. 54:23 The New Testament Church continue to observe it. 54:26 God's last day people will keep it, 54:28 according to the Book of Revelation 54:29 and the Sabbath will remain forever and ever. 54:32 How do we know that? 54:34 Notice what we read 54:35 in Isaiah, 66:22, 23. 54:40 "For as the new heavens and the new earth 54:42 which I will make shall remain before Me," 54:44 says the Lord, 54:45 "so shall your descendants and your name remain. 54:48 And it shall come to pass that from one New Moon to another, 54:51 and from one Sabbath to another, 54:52 all flesh shall come to worship before Me," 54:55 says the Lord. 54:56 Isn't that a powerful promise? Isn't that a powerful promise? 55:00 We will continue to worship our Creator and our Savior, 55:04 every seventh day Sabbath, 55:07 all flesh, that's what the Bible says, 55:09 "All flesh will come before God 55:12 and worship Him from one Sabbath to another," 55:15 recognizing that we are only there, 55:18 because of His creative power and His redemptive power. 55:23 And every Sabbath, we are reminded 55:25 that we belong to a God who created us 55:28 and a God who redeemed us. 55:33 So Jesus says, in John 14:15, 55:39 "If you love Me, keep My commandments." 55:42 If you love Me, keep My commandments. 55:44 Once again, it boils down to love and loyalty. 55:49 Love and loyalty. 55:50 And why wouldn't you want to enter into the blessing 55:54 that God has in store for you? 55:56 If God says, "I'm gonna bless you," 55:58 guess where I'm gonna be in the queue? 55:59 I'm gonna be right at the front of the queue. 56:02 I want to receive God's blessings 56:04 and He wants to bless me and He wants to bless you. 56:06 I want to encourage you 56:08 to enter into the rest that Jesus offers 56:10 to enter into the Sabbath rest and be blessed. 56:12 Let us pray together. 56:13 Father in heaven, 56:15 we thank You so much for Your blessings, 56:16 we ask and pray 56:17 that You will continually pour out Your blessing, 56:21 Your Sabbath blessing upon us. 56:22 Thank you for marriage and the family. 56:24 Thank you for the Sabbath. 56:25 Thank you for how these 56:27 two divine institutions work together, 56:29 in order to bless us this day and forevermore, 56:32 and we thank you for that in Jesus' name. 56:35 Amen. |
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