Participants: Pr. Doug Batchelor
Series Code: AA
Program Code: AA000006
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00:05 In a world surrounded by darkness,
00:08 there is a voice 00:10 that whispers to every young heart, 00:13 urging them to find the treasure of truth. 00:22 Those who follow the path will discover eternal riches 00:26 beyond their wildest dreams. 00:28 Join us now for an "Amazing Adventure, 00:31 A Journey for life with Jesus." 00:36 Good evening friends. 00:37 Welcome again to Amazing Adventure. 00:40 We are glad that you've joined us 00:41 wherever you are, you might be in a home, 00:43 may be in a church location, may be a school. 00:46 We are so glad that you're part of the program. 00:48 We would like to remind you 00:49 that tonight this is number 6 of a 10-part series. 00:53 So we've just passed the half-way mark. 00:56 There are still many more important truths 00:58 that we gonna discover on this adventure together. 01:02 We've been speaking from evening to evening 01:04 about these great lessons, 01:06 brand new lessons designed for this program. 01:08 You can order your lessons 01:10 from the Amazing Facts Kids website. 01:12 Tonight, we are going to be looking at a day with the King. 01:16 Well, children, let's stand as we sing 01:18 our theme song once more, "Life is an Adventure." 01:22 I'm gonna invite the Amazing Adventure' singers 01:24 to come forward and lead us. 01:34 Life is an Adventure Following the King 01:39 Every day with Jesus Makes us want to sing 01:44 Walking in the Spirit He will lead the way 01:49 With His Word to guide us Glowing deep inside us 01:54 Nothing can divide us Following the King 02:01 Life is an adventure Following the King 02:06 Every day with Jesus Makes us want to sing 02:11 Conquering with kindness Everywhere we go 02:16 Voices we are raising Jesus we are praising 02:21 Life is so amazing Following the King 02:26 Life is so amazing Following the King 02:35 Thank you very much. 02:36 Let's remain standing as we have our scripture reading. 02:39 Alexa is going to be reading to us 02:41 our scripture reading this evening is Where Alexa? 02:44 In Mathew 5:19, "Whoever therefore breaks 02:49 one of the least of these commandments, 02:52 and teaches men so, 02:53 shall be called least in the kingdom of heaven, 02:56 but whoever does and teaches them, 02:59 he shall be called great in the kingdom of heaven." 03:03 The person doing our prayer 03:04 this evening is Pastor Paul Hunt. 03:06 He is the senior pastor here at the Richardson Church. 03:09 Pastor Paul, thank you so much 03:11 for opening your church up for us for this meeting. 03:14 Absolutely my pleasure. 03:15 We've kind of rearranged your platform 03:16 just a little bit here, 03:18 but we really appreciate all your help. 03:20 Well, let's bow our heads and close our eyes 03:21 as Pastor Paul leads us in prayer. 03:24 Dear heavenly Father, we are so grateful to you 03:27 for this wonderful privilege of being able to join hands 03:30 as it were across the world, to study the word of Jesus. 03:33 As Pastor Doug speaks, heavenly Father, 03:36 change these young lives to form into Your will. 03:39 This is our prayer in Jesus name, amen. Amen. 03:43 Thank you very much. You children can take your seat. 03:45 Pastor Paul, before you go, 03:47 we've got something for you here as our thank you. 03:50 Now these are very rare, 03:51 I think Bonnie, there's only five of them, 03:54 so this is a rare hat that means several people thanking. 03:56 We have an Amazing Adventure cap, 03:58 well, this is for you. Thank you so much. 04:00 Thank you so much. We appreciate it. 04:03 I'm going to invite Pastor Doug 04:04 to come forward for our questions. 04:06 We've had a lot of questions, those who have been 04:09 sending their questions at the Amazing Facts website, 04:12 thank you very much. 04:13 We also have some video questions, 04:15 so let's start with the video question tonight. 04:18 Hi, my name is Kalicia, 04:21 I'm 9-years-old and my question is. 04:24 Why is the devil trying so hard to get rid off us? 04:28 Good question. 04:29 Why is the devil trying so harder to hurt 04:32 and get rid of us. 04:33 After all what did we ever do to him? 04:36 You remember, the devil really hates God. 04:40 He hates Jesus. 04:41 He is consumed with pride and jealousy. 04:45 The devil wanted Jesus' position. 04:47 He wanted to be God. 04:49 And he knows how much God loves you. 04:52 See, the devil was there, 04:54 he saw how much Jesus gave on the cross 04:57 because the devil was there 04:58 inspiring the people to torture and crucify Jesus. 05:02 And he knows that God loves you, 05:03 he knows that Jesus loves you 05:05 and he tries to hurt Jesus by getting you to sin. 05:09 He tries to hurt Jesus by hurting you. 05:13 If you got a favorite puppy or toy 05:16 or something that you really care about, 05:18 and someone wants to hurt you 05:20 and they wreck something you've created 05:22 or something that you love, 05:23 it hurts you by hurting something that you love, 05:26 and that's why the devil does that to us 05:28 because he just hates God, so. 05:31 And but the Lord will protect us if we ask Him to. Amen. 05:35 Well Pastor Doug, we have a question that's come in. 05:37 It says, how we're supposed to know 05:40 which voice is speaking to our hearts, 05:43 the voice of Jesus or Satan. Very good. 05:46 Well, sometimes you'll get impressions. 05:49 You'll feel like you are getting an impression, 05:51 you're sensing something in your mind or heart, 05:53 you might want to know, 05:54 Lord, is that You talking to me or is that another power. 05:57 How can you know the difference? 05:59 Well, first of all, 06:00 the Holy Spirit will never ask you to do 06:03 something different from the holy Bible. 06:06 If the holy Bible is telling you, 06:08 you know not to break God's commandments 06:12 or what God's will is, 06:13 and you feel like you're getting an impression 06:15 to do something contrary to the Bible. 06:18 That's not the Holy Spirit. 06:19 The Holy Spirit will always work in cooperation with God's Word. 06:24 And so sometimes you need to just look 06:26 for providence of God's leading, 06:28 you'll have a peace that you're doing 06:30 what God says in His word. 06:31 And that's all from the Holy Spirit 06:33 talking to you inside. 06:34 We generally know the difference. 06:37 All right, we have another video question at this time. 06:40 Hi, my name is Johnny, I'm 6-years-old. 06:43 My question is. 06:45 Why Jesus loves us more than our parents? 06:50 Well, that's a good question. 06:51 Johnny is wanting to know, 06:53 does Jesus loves children more than our parents? 06:56 Well, the Lord loves everybody. 06:58 But let me ask you a question. 07:00 Would you rather have a dog or a puppy? Puppy! 07:04 How many would rather have a puppy, 07:05 let me see your hands. 07:07 Well, isn't a puppy a dog? 07:09 What's the difference between a puppy and a dog? 07:12 They're younger, they're cuter. 07:15 Would you rather have a cat or kitty? Kitty. 07:17 You know, the problem is, 07:20 we got a lot of children in the Batchelor's home 07:21 and they always want puppies and kitties, 07:23 but didn't they turn into dogs and cats? 07:26 And so you know the Lord really loves 07:28 and He protects the young. 07:29 And the Lord is the one 07:31 who made us feel this attraction for people 07:33 when they're young and even animals 07:35 when they're little, they're so cute. 07:37 And so the Lord loves everybody, 07:38 but He especially protects the children 07:40 because they are more innocent 07:42 and they're little more defenseless. 07:44 We have another question that somebody wrote in. 07:46 Is it true that the Bible says 07:48 that man can only live to a 120 years? 07:52 No, you're probably getting that from Genesis 6, 07:56 where God said to Noah that there would be 07:58 a 120 years before the flood. 08:00 God said My Spirit will not always strive with man, 08:04 his days will be 120 years, 08:07 but the average life now for people, 08:10 the Bible says is, three score and ten. 08:12 Who knows what a score is? 08:14 Score is an old English word for 20. 08:17 So three score is how much? 08:19 60 and 10. 08:22 Seventy is an average. 08:23 Matter of fact, many parts of the world, 08:24 70 is the average lifespan, and now with modern medicine 08:27 and good health practices you can live to 100. 08:30 But that was that just given in the Bible as an average. 08:32 Before the flood, I'm not going to tell you, 08:34 we were talking about that another night. 08:35 All right, very good. 08:36 We have one more video question I think this evening. 08:40 Hi, my name is Mikey McMierre. 08:42 I'm 9-years-old. And my question is. 08:45 Did Jesus baptized anybody? Good question. 08:49 We've a lesson coming on the subject of baptism, 08:52 and he's asking, did Jesus baptized anybody? 08:55 Well, we know, John the Baptist baptized people, 08:58 and probably John's disciples, 09:00 but you can read in the Bible, in the Gospel of John 4:1, 2 09:05 that Jesus baptized many but not personally, 09:08 His disciples did the baptizing. 09:11 And so Jesus may have baptized some of them, 09:13 may be He even baptized 09:15 some of His apostles that followed Him, 09:17 but there is no record in the Bible, 09:18 so we are not sure. 09:19 But we know that Jesus' apostles 09:21 did a lot of baptizing when He was teaching. 09:24 Well, thank you very much, Pastor Doug, 09:25 that's it for our Bible questions this evening. 09:27 Again if you have the Bible question, 09:29 you can go to the Amazing Facts Kids website 09:31 and type in your Bible question 09:33 and we'll try and get it on the air. 09:35 Our Amazing Adventure singers are bringing us 09:37 our special song this evening, 09:39 and I've enjoyed the music from evening to evening. 09:42 And that song is entitled ''Always the same.'' 09:56 I am His, He is mine 10:00 Jesus knows my name 10:04 I can rest in His arms 10:07 He's always the same 10:12 When I fall, when I call 10:16 Jesus takes my hand 10:20 Cleansing me, lifting me 10:24 He helps me to stand 10:28 Always the same 10:32 O praise His name 10:36 Jesus never changes 10:40 He's always the same 10:44 Always together His love is forever 10:52 Jesus never changes 10:56 He's always the same 11:02 In His love, I'm secure 11:06 We shall never part 11:10 In His Word I will trust 11:14 And give Him all my heart 11:18 In the dark of the night 11:23 When my heart would fear 11:27 Lovingly, tenderly 11:30 My Savior is near 11:35 Always the same 11:39 O praise His name 11:43 Jesus never changes 11:47 He's always the same 11:51 Always together 11:55 His love is forever 11:59 Jesus never changes 12:03 He's always the same 12:07 Join us. 12:09 Always the same 12:13 O praise His name 12:17 Jesus never changes 12:21 He's always the same 12:25 Always together 12:28 His love is forever 12:33 Jesus never changes 12:36 He's always the same 12:41 Jesus never changes 12:45 He's always the same 12:53 Amen. Good job. 12:57 That's a beautiful song, isn't it? 13:00 We're learning some new songs during this series. 13:03 Want to welcome everybody here at the Richardson Church. 13:06 We are so thankful for your faithfulness in coming 13:08 and joining us on this Amazing Adventure. 13:11 Also our friends, who are watching, 13:13 all these locations around the world. 13:15 Now I hear there is over 2,700, is that right, Pastor Ross? 13:19 Wow, praise the Lord. Some are joining along the way. 13:22 Some schools started on Monday, 13:25 because they've recorded the program 13:26 and they're doing it each day in their school 13:28 and it will take them of course two weeks to do it. 13:30 And we are hoping that you continue to use these programs, 13:34 they're great for VBS, for pathfinders, 13:37 for Sabbath schools, for church schools, 13:41 all kinds of programs. 13:43 We are all on this adventure together to get to heaven. 13:46 Now have you been doing your lessons? 13:48 I hope you are getting your lessons 13:49 as you leave the program, 13:51 the lessons help, give additional material, 13:53 it's a great amazing facts in the lessons and stories. 13:57 Tonight's lesson is dealing with the subject, 14:00 "A day with the king." A day with the king. 14:04 You know, I'm always interested in the Bible stories 14:07 and I especially marvel at the story 14:10 in the Bible about Solomon. 14:12 When Solomon was king, 14:14 Israel was at its zenith of glory. 14:17 You know, the Bible says, there was so much gold 14:19 and silver in the kingdom, 14:21 that silver wasn't even counted 14:23 as being worth anything, was like stones. 14:26 Because everyone was so wealthy, there was so much prosperity. 14:29 Solomon was a greatest and richest and the wisest king 14:32 that ever reigned in Israel. 14:35 And the word about his wisdom spread everywhere 14:40 and people came from all different 14:41 parts of the world. 14:42 One special queen came all the way to Jerusalem, 14:46 probably traveled hundreds of miles 14:48 with the caravan filled with gold 14:51 and she gave all these gifts to Solomon, 14:52 just to spend time and listen to his wisdom, 14:56 to spend that kind of time with the king. 14:58 Wouldn't you've liked to seen Israel 15:00 during the time of Solomon? 15:03 You know our family one time went to Washington D.C. 15:06 And we got the permission to visit the White House. 15:09 And that was kind of exciting, going through the White House. 15:12 Matter of fact, one of the security guards there, 15:14 the secret service people with their ear piece 15:16 you know, he went like this. 15:19 And I thought that may be one of our kids were misbehaving 15:21 or touching the valuable painting, 15:23 and I came over and I thought, 15:24 no, I'm in trouble now, what did we do. 15:26 He said, we enjoy your programs. 15:29 And I thought, oh that's exciting. 15:31 People in the White House are watching. 15:33 But you know it was fun seeing the White House 15:35 but we didn't get to see the president. 15:38 If I had a chance to either 15:39 see the White House or talk to the president, 15:42 I'd rather spent time with the president. 15:45 You know, I heard a few years ago, 15:47 in 2006 Queen Elizabeth, for her 80th birthday, 15:50 she opened up Buckingham palace and she invited children 15:54 from all over British empire to come 15:57 and help celebrate her birthday with her. 16:00 How would you like to have a day with the king 16:03 or queen or president? 16:05 All special personal attention, 16:07 be able to come and sit at their table 16:09 and eat with them and talk with them, 16:11 wouldn't that be exciting. 16:13 Well, you know, you do. You do have a chance. 16:16 The Bible says, that God, 16:18 not the King of England or the Queen of England 16:23 or the president of the United States, 16:24 but the God, the King of the whole universe, 16:27 the whole cosmos. 16:29 He loves you so much, 16:30 He wants to have a special appointment 16:31 with you every week. 16:34 You know what's that called? The Sabbath. 16:37 It's one of the Ten Commandments 16:39 a lot of people have forgotten about, 16:41 that is very important to the Lord. 16:43 Now let me tell you why? 16:45 You live in something called time. 16:50 We live in time. 16:51 How many of you have a watch on. 16:53 Some of you got a watch on. 16:56 Your watch doesn't change time, 16:59 it tells you how much time there is. 17:01 You remember the illustration with the candles last night. 17:05 Trying to illustrate that we only get 17:06 so much time in our lives. 17:09 When two people fall in love, 17:10 it's because they spent time together. 17:13 And it's so important for us to have time with God, 17:17 so our love for God will grow. 17:19 The devil does not want us to have 17:21 our special time with God, and so he has got 17:24 one of the Ten Commandments under attack. 17:26 And it's the fourth commandment, 17:28 it's called the Sabbath day. 17:30 Well, let's get to question number 1. 17:31 We' will talk about more of this as we get into the lesson. 17:35 What day does Jesus, the King of the Universe, 17:38 want me to spend with Him? 17:41 Answer is in Exodus, this is the Ten Commandments, 17:44 Chapter 20: 8, 11. 17:48 "Remember the Sabbath day, to keep it holy. 17:51 The Lord blessed the Sabbath day and hallowed it." 17:54 That means He made this day, holy. 17:57 Now is Sabbath supposed to be an exciting day, 17:59 a happy day or a sad day? Happy day. 18:01 If you got to spend the day with the king, 18:03 isn't that exciting? Yes. 18:06 The Bible says, in Isaiah 58 18:08 "We should call the Sabbath a delight." 18:10 When some thing is delightful as that, exciting. 18:14 You know what else the Sabbath is for? 18:16 Do people need rest? 18:18 Not only do you need rest every night, 18:20 your parents have to sometimes tell you to go to bed 18:22 when you don't want to go to bed, 18:23 if you want to stay up. 18:24 Why did they tell you to go to bed? 18:27 Because they love you 18:28 and they know you need rest and if you don't get rest, 18:30 sometimes you don't do well at school the next day. 18:33 May be you are crabby 18:34 or you get tired from doing your chores, 18:38 and you need rest. 18:39 Well, not only does your body need physical rest, 18:43 your soul, your spirit, your mind needs spiritual rest. 18:49 And God has outlined in His word a time every week. 18:53 When we put aside mowing the lawn, 18:56 we put aside our homework, 18:59 you don't have to go to the mall and watch mama shop. 19:03 It's a time to rest. 19:05 And spent time with the Lord and with your family 19:08 and a time to recharge your batteries, spiritually. 19:12 Number 2. Which day is the Sabbath? 19:16 And does it matter? 19:18 The Bible says, Exodus 20, I heard many of you 19:20 knew the answer to that, say it with me, 19:22 "The Seventh day is the Sabbath of the Lord your God." 19:28 Now how many days in a month? 19:32 30. About 30. 19:34 Do you know why? 19:37 Because much of the world, all these civilizations, 19:40 they had a month with about 27 to 30 days 19:43 because that's how long it takes for the moon 19:46 to go through a complete cycle 19:47 from full moon back to full moon. 19:50 That's where you get the word month from moon. 19:54 How many days in a year? 19:58 Some of you got that one wrong. 20:00 365 you know why? 20:02 Because it takes 365 days, 20:05 matter of fact I got a world back here. 20:08 It takes 365 days for the earth 20:11 to go completely around the sun. 20:14 I may use this again later, we'll see what happens. 20:20 How many days in a week? 20:22 Seven. Why? 20:27 Anything in the sun, moon or stars 20:29 that give us the seven day week? 20:31 Everywhere in the world, 20:34 the countries have a seven day week, why? 20:37 There's one place you can trace, a seven day week too. 20:41 It's not in the stars it's in the word, 20:44 even in countries like China, 20:46 where they don't believe in the Bible, 20:48 in some of the communist countries 20:50 and countries of other religions, 20:52 they still have a seven day week. 20:54 It's because in the Bible, 20:56 God created the world in seven days 20:58 and all the nations of the world adopted that. 21:01 And God set aside one day as a special day of rest 21:04 and it's the seventh day. Let's read about this. 21:06 In Mark 16:1 and 2 we're going to find out 21:08 what day is the seventh day. 21:11 "Now when the Sabbath was past..." 21:14 he's talking about after Jesus died 21:16 and He was raising from the dead. " 21:20 Very early in the morning, on the first day of the week," 21:24 the Bible tells us "they came to the tomb 21:26 when the sun had risen." 21:28 Now who knows what day of the week 21:30 did Jesus rise from the dead? Sunday. 21:33 Sunday, that's right, 21:34 that's the first day of the week. 21:36 If you look in any dictionary 21:37 it will say Sunday, the first day of the week. 21:39 If you look on a normal calendar, 21:41 it will show first day of the week, Sunday. 21:43 Jesus rose Sunday morning 21:45 and what we would call the morning 21:47 of the first day of the week. 21:48 What day then is the seventh day? 21:52 Saturday. 21:53 Matter of fact, if you don't believe Pastor Doug, 21:54 you can look in the encyclopedia, 21:56 you can look in the dictionary, 21:58 it will say seventh day, 21:59 Saturday, seventh day of the week. 22:02 Now God says, that He's blessed the seventh day 22:05 and He wants us to remember the seventh day 22:07 but lot of people are forgetting about that, 22:10 and that's a very important truth 22:11 the Lord wants us to learn, 22:13 because the more time we spend with God, 22:16 the more we know Him, 22:17 the more we know Him, the more we love Him. 22:20 The more we love Him, the better we serve Him. 22:22 The devil does not want you to know the truth about this 22:24 because he doesn't want you to have 22:26 the power of love for the Lord. 22:29 You know something interesting, In 105 languages of the world, 22:34 the way you say the seventh day of the week 22:37 is the word for Sabbath day. 22:40 Matter of fact, I speak in Russian it's Subbota. 22:43 Who here speaks Spanish? 22:44 We get some of you speak Spanish. 22:46 How do you say Saturday in Spanish? 22:49 Sabado, oh, a lot of you knew that, Sabado right. 22:52 And it's not only that way in Spanish, 22:55 in English, rather in Russian 22:57 and many different languages, about 105 languages, 23:01 their word for Saturday 23:03 is the equivalent of Sabbath day. 23:05 Matter of fact in Persian, their word for seventh day 23:08 is the pleasantest day of the week. 23:11 And so, this goes all the way back to the Tower of Babel. 23:14 When everybody kept the same day, 23:17 but something happened. Question number 3. 23:20 Where did the Sabbath came from 23:23 and how long has it been a special day for our king? 23:25 We're going to go to the Bible for our answer. 23:28 All the way back, you get your Bibles. 23:30 All the way back in the very beginning of the Bible, 23:32 who knows what the first book of the Bible is? 23:34 Genesis. 23:35 Genesis in chapter 1 of the Bible, 23:38 you could read of course verse 1, 23:41 "In the beginning" you could read it off the screen 23:43 if you don't have the Bible with you, 23:44 those who are watching. 23:46 "In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth." 23:51 Now you go to Chapter 2, and it says in verse 2, 23:56 "And on the seventh day God ended His work 24:00 which He had done" 24:03 And so right at the very beginning 24:05 God established the Sabbath. 24:07 That was part of God's perfect plan. 24:09 Now did Adam and Eve when God made the Sabbath. 24:13 Was there any sin in the world? No. 24:15 That was part of God's perfect plan long before sin 24:20 and God never changed it, 24:21 it's still part of His perfect plan. 24:23 And it says "That God rested on the seventh day 24:27 from all His work which He had done." 24:30 Did God rest because He was tired? No. 24:32 Does God ever get tired? No. 24:34 We'd be in trouble if God got tired 24:37 and didn't take care of us. 24:38 God rested as an example for you and me. 24:41 He spent special time with Adam and Eve on that time. 24:44 Then the Lord did something else, 24:46 "Then God blessed the seventh day 24:48 and He sanctified it, 24:50 because in it He rested from all His work 24:52 which God created and made." 24:54 Now I want you to notice something. 24:56 Three times in the beginning of the Bible, 24:58 it says, the seventh day, 25:00 the seventh day, the seventh day. 25:03 When God does something three times like that, 25:05 that's a symbol. 25:06 The number 3 is a symbol for God like that. 25:09 Because you got God the father, 25:10 God the Son, God the Spirit, the angels say holy, holy, holy. 25:14 God says, the seventh day, the seventh day, 25:16 the seventh day in the beginning of the Bible, 25:18 and in the end of the Bible, there's a number for the beast. 25:20 Who knows what that number is for the beast? 25:23 666, that's right. 25:26 Front of the Bible, the God says the seventh day, 25:28 the seventh day, the seventh day 25:29 and at the end of the Bible it's going 666, 25:30 that's a number for man. 25:32 The number for God is a special number of 7. 25:36 And so this is a very important thing for us to learn. 25:39 Number 4. 25:41 Does God want everyone to worship Him 25:43 on the Sabbath day? 25:44 Now what do the Ten Commandments say? 25:47 First of all Jesus says in Mark 2:27. 25:52 I hope you can all read this, "The Sabbath was made for Jews." 25:57 Is that what it says? 25:59 Isn't that how you spell Jews, M-A-N. 26:04 No, you remember Jesus was a Jew 26:06 and He preached to Jewish people. 26:08 And some folks have said, well, since Moses was a Jew 26:10 and he wrote the Ten Commandments, 26:12 Sabbath is just for Jews. 26:14 Did Jesus say it was for Jews or for man, 26:16 many mankind, many humans. 26:19 How many humans here? 26:22 Did anyone not raise their hand? 26:24 Any aliens here? No, I know you'd do that. 26:29 All right let's go back, 26:30 let's read what the Ten Commandments say? 26:33 Exodus 20:8. Now this will be reverent. 26:37 "Remember the Sabbath day, to keep it holy." 26:40 You know why God said remember, 26:43 because He knew that people would forget. 26:46 Do you know that God didn't say, 26:48 remember the Sabbath day and make it holy. 26:51 It already is holy. He said, we keep it holy." 26:56 We can't make it a holy, 26:57 God says it is holy and I want to keep it the way I made it. 27:00 "Six days you shall labor and do all of your work, 27:03 but the seventh day 27:05 is the Sabbath of the Jewish people" 27:07 is that what it says? No. 27:09 oh, no it says, "The Sabbath of the Lord, your God. 27:14 In it you shall not do any work, 27:16 you, or your son" He wants the children to rest. 27:20 'Or your daughter, nor your male or female servants, 27:24 nor your cattle nor the stranger" 27:26 he even wants the animals. 27:27 Back then they used to ride the horses to pull the plough, 27:30 and the donkeys and the oxen and the goats, 27:32 and they all got to rest. 27:36 So if the Lord even wants the animals to rest, 27:38 do you think Sabbath is just for Jews 27:40 or is it for all the world. All the world. 27:44 "Nor the cattle, nor the stranger 27:46 who is within your gates, for here's why." 27:49 For in six days the Lord made the heavens 27:52 and the earth and the sea, 27:53 and all that is in them, and he rested the seventh day. 27:58 Therefore the Lord blessed the Sabbath day 28:01 and hallowed it." 28:02 God did something very special to this day, 28:05 He didn't do to any other day. 28:06 Now I'm so thankful, 28:07 that the Batchelor family is able to join me, 28:10 I like to invite, Steven 28:12 if you could grab that table for me. 28:14 Steven Batchelor is here 28:15 and if Mrs. Batchelor could come up front, 28:17 maybe she's going to help me with an illustration. 28:20 And I like to demonstrate something for you here 28:23 that will help you understand 28:25 that there is a difference in days. 28:29 And I'll let you- this is Mrs. Batchelor. 28:31 Can you all say, hi, Mrs. Batchelor?" 28:32 Hi, Mrs. Batchelor. Okay. 28:34 This is Steven Bathcelor. 28:36 You say hi, Steven. Hi, Steven. 28:39 I wanted him to help 28:40 even though he is a little lower than the average age 28:43 for the Amazing Adventure Kids, okay. 28:46 So here we've got seven cups. 28:49 And I'm going to ask Mrs. Batchelor 28:50 to help me with this illustration 28:52 because I'm afraid 28:53 that I would spill something here. 28:55 Let me see, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7. 28:57 1, 2, 3, 4,5,6,7 28:59 just want to double check, okay. 29:01 Now, each one of these represents the day of the week. 29:04 And on the first day, 29:05 let's put a little water in the first day, 29:06 who knows what God made the first day? 29:09 What did He made? Light. 29:13 First day, God made light. 29:15 All right on the second day, 29:17 God, He separated the atmosphere, 29:24 the clouds and the land and He created the atmosphere. 29:27 The third day God created the land 29:30 and He made the vegetation. 29:32 On the fourth day, God made the sun, 29:35 the moon and the stars. 29:38 On the firth day, God made the creatures in the sea 29:41 and the creatures in the air, 29:42 meaning the fish and the birds. 29:45 On the sixth day, God made the animals, 29:49 the land animals and He also made man 29:52 and as a crowning act of His creation 29:54 God made woman, right. 29:57 Okay, but God wasn't done. 29:59 How many days in the week? Seven. 30:01 What did God make on the seventh day? 30:05 He didn't make anything you can touch, 30:08 He didn't make anything you can see. 30:11 Oh, but He did. 30:14 God did something special to the seventh day. 30:17 It says that He made it, 30:18 that must have been magic water. 30:21 The Bible says, God rested on that day, 30:25 God blessed that day, and God sanctified that day. 30:29 That day is different than every other day, isn't it? 30:33 Can you see the difference? Yes. 30:35 And He's got something very sweet for you, 30:37 in that day that He doesn't want you to miss. 30:40 But the devil wants you to forget about it, 30:41 now I haven't thought about it, 30:42 how we're going to get rid of all these. 30:44 You can pour that all back in there dear. 30:47 Except this one. 30:50 And I'm going to go on with my lesson here. 30:52 All right, now is the Sabbath just for Jews? 30:55 Listen to what it says in Isaiah 56: 6, 7 31:00 "Also the sons of the foreigner." 31:03 These are people who aren't even part of the Jewish nation. 31:06 That means children from all over the world too," 31:09 Who join themselves to the Lord, to serve Him, 31:11 and to love the name of the Lord, 31:14 it says to be His servants, 31:16 everyone who keeps from defiling the Sabbath, 31:19 And holds fast My covenant." 31:22 This is for people everywhere." 31:23 Even them I will bring to my holy mountain, and make." 31:27 Can you read that word "Make them joyful 31:31 in My house of prayer." 31:33 He says the sons of the strangers, foreigners, 31:35 people from all over the world. 31:37 The Sabbath was for everybody and it still is. 31:41 Now some people thought, well didn't Moses, 31:44 didn't he write the Ten Commandments, 31:45 and didn't he give it to the Jewish nation. 31:47 Didn't the Sabbath begin with Moses? 31:50 No, Sabbath goes back to Adam and Eve. 31:53 And I can prove that the Sabbath day 31:54 actually began long before, 31:57 they got to Mount Sinai and God wrote it with His finger 32:00 and spoke with His voice. 32:02 You remember when Moses brought the children of Israel 32:05 across the Red Sea 32:07 and they went into the wilderness 32:09 and they had no food. 32:10 And the people got hungry, so what did God do? 32:14 Manna came down from heaven. 32:16 Matter of fact, six days a week, 32:18 manna came down from heaven, 32:19 they gather it, and they eat it. 32:22 And I suppose those children had fun going out 32:24 and just picking their breakfast up 32:26 off the ground in the little bushes out there, 32:29 these little round things that tastes like honey wafers 32:32 and then they would eat them. 32:34 But on the seventh day, there wasn't any. 32:39 They get twice as much on Friday. 32:41 Well, some of them went out 32:42 looking for on the seventh day and they didn't find it. 32:44 Let me read this to you, Exodus 16:25," 32:47 Then Moses said, Eat that today, 32:50 for today is a Sabbath to the Lord, 32:53 today you will not find it in the fields." 32:56 They would gather twice as much of the manna on Friday 32:59 and they were would not be any of it on the Sabbath day. 33:02 Now notice something. 33:04 In Exodus 16, that's when you find the story about the manna 33:08 and God is talking about the Sabbath, 33:11 as though they know what it is. 33:12 He has not given them the Ten Commandments yet, 33:14 the Ten Commandments don't come until Exodus 20. 33:18 And so I think it's very clear from the Bible that 33:22 the Sabbath goes all the way back. 33:24 All right, question number 5. 33:26 Why do so many people worship God on Sunday now? 33:30 Have the Ten Commandments been changed? 33:34 Does the Lord change? 33:35 Didn't the Bible say, I'm the Lord, I change not. 33:39 Jesus Christ is saying yesterday, today, 33:41 and forever in the Book of Hebrews. 33:44 But many people haven't heard the truth. 33:45 I remember I grew up, and you know what? 33:49 My mom is Jewish, 33:51 and I should have known about the seventh-day Sabbath 33:53 but when I first became a Christian, 33:55 I never heard of it. 33:56 And a lot of dear Christian people 33:58 don't know about it. 33:59 Some pastors do know 34:00 but they're pretending they don't see it. 34:02 It's a very plain truth. 34:04 Matter of fact, there's a church, 34:06 here that keeps the Sabbath day. 34:07 There's another denomination across the street 34:09 that keeps the Sabbath day. 34:11 More and more churches around the world 34:13 are learning the truth about the Sabbath. 34:15 Before Jesus comes back, 34:16 a lot of people are returning to the Bible truth. 34:19 It says in Ezekiel 22:26, 34:22 "Her priests have violated My law 34:25 and profaned My holy things." 34:28 Even some pastors and priests are hiding their eyes from it. 34:32 It says they have hidden their eyes from My Sabbaths." 34:36 God foretold in the Bible long time ago, 34:38 that this was going to happen. 34:40 You know why? 34:41 Sometimes it's easier to give a person some money 34:45 than to give them your time. 34:47 There are some dads, 34:48 it's easier to give their children 34:50 a birthday present than to give them a day. 34:53 And God says if you show me that you love Me, 34:55 give Me your time. 34:57 You know what life is made of? Life is made of time. 35:02 And every Sabbath when we give the Lord our time, 35:05 we are giving Him our life. 35:06 I believe He gives us more life and longer life 35:09 when we give Him our time. 35:10 You know why so many people die in the world today. 35:13 It's called stress. 35:15 And people get all tighten, 35:16 they get indigestion and they get heartburn, 35:18 because there's so much pressure 35:19 and so many worries and lot of its 35:21 because people have forgotten about the Sabbath day. 35:23 And God says, "Give Me your time and rest, 35:27 I'll help you get stronger, again." 35:30 It's like after a good night sleep, 35:31 you wake up, you feel really good. 35:33 And you got lots of energy. 35:34 God wants us to have spiritual energy too. 35:37 Mathew 15. 35:39 Jesus said, a lot of people are keeping other days 35:42 but it's just a tradition. 35:44 "Why do you also transgress the commandment of God 35:48 because of your tradition?" 35:49 That's Mathew 15:3. 35:51 Some people are breaking the commandments of God, 35:53 and keeping other days, 35:55 when God says they should keep the seventh day holy, 35:57 and it does matter. 35:59 Did God blessed the first day of the week? 36:01 Doesn't say anywhere in the Bible, 36:02 He blessed the first day? 36:04 Doesn't say anywhere in the Bible 36:05 He sanctified the first day or made it holy. No. 36:09 God has taken one day and He's made it a special day, 36:13 He says, "My covenant I will not break, 36:16 nor alter the word that has gone out of My mouth." 36:19 Now I'll tell you what? 36:20 Not only are two of the Batchelor boys here today, 36:23 but Pastor Ross has his son, 36:24 he's got two of his boys with him, 36:25 but I'm going to bring Justin up for this illustration. 36:28 I hope you guys don't mind. 36:29 And I'm going to ask him to go into the mystery box here, 36:32 and see if you find something 36:33 that looks like a party could happen. 36:36 Go and open up all the way. What do we got there. 36:40 Go ahead, let's pull that out of there. 36:41 See if you can get there out of there 36:42 in one piece. All right. 36:45 You can hang on here, I'll tell you what, 36:46 let's do this, if you don't mind. 36:49 Just leave that right there for a second. 36:50 Go ahead, let's take that, that's good. 36:53 You guys want to have a quick party. Yeah. 36:55 All right, let's-- we gonna take and let see. 36:58 Matter of fact we might even have a few extra ones we do. 37:00 All right, let see now just a second here. 37:03 We're not- we're not quite then. 37:08 I want to have a party here. 37:11 I'll get this thing over my glasses, 37:13 here we go. All right. 37:18 Now, I'm sure that's all natural ingredients. 37:24 You got talking to my tie here Justin when is your birthday? 37:28 September 16. 37:30 What's today? September 17. 37:33 I tell you what, 37:35 today we're going to celebrate your birthday, 37:37 and let me see here, I'll get this, hang on a second. 37:40 Oh, come on don't do that to me. 37:46 Wow, it's a flamethrower. 37:48 All right, go ahead blow your kazoo there. 37:52 Blow hard. 37:53 You want to celebrate blow hard for a second. 37:57 That will work. All right, now that's good. 38:00 Now we're going to sing 38:01 happy birthday to Justin real quick okay. 38:04 Happy birthday to you, happy birthday to you, 38:10 happy birthday dear Justin, happy birth day to you. 38:18 All right, you know what that means. 38:20 Now, all right, all right, all right. 38:23 I trust you guys. 38:25 Now that, what's the date today? 38:28 September 17. 38:29 When is his birthday? September 16. 38:32 So from now on his birthday is going to be September 17, 38:35 is that okay. No. 38:38 Well, we just sang to you and we just blew our kazoos 38:40 and you got the balloon and it says happy birthday. 38:42 So we're going to vote to change your birthday to the 17th. 38:45 No. Why not? 38:49 Because I wasn't born today. 38:51 What day were you born? Sixteenth. 38:53 So no matter how aloud we sing, 38:55 you won't change that, ha. Nope. 38:56 Your mom, she won't understand. 38:58 John, can we just change it now to the 17th. 39:01 Officially we'll just write it up we all sang, 39:04 all right you get the point. 39:06 You can't change it, 39:07 doesn't matter what tradition does. 39:09 You want to blow that out, it's safer, blow it out. 39:11 Just pray it doesn't get you, okay. 39:12 You can take that with you, back to your dad. 39:16 Can I have this? 39:17 You can take that, don't blow on it. 39:18 All right, let's collect our kazoos. 39:22 Oh, I knew I was forgetting something. 39:26 Well, do you see now just because every body decides, 39:30 well everybody is now keeping the first day as the Sabbath 39:33 or you know, in the Muslim world, 39:35 they keep the sixth day, Friday as the Sabbath. 39:38 Does that change God's law? No. 39:41 You mean, can people all vote to change the law of God? 39:45 Will it change the Ten Commandments? 39:47 God doesn't change, remember what needs changing? 39:51 We need to change, God is perfect. 39:54 What is a Christian? Question number 6. 39:56 A Christian follows Jesus, right. 39:59 Did Jesus keep the seventh day Sabbath? 40:02 We got several verses here, Luke 4:16. 40:07 "As His custom was, that means His behavior, His pattern, 40:10 he went into the church the synagogue on the Sabbath day 40:14 and stood up to read the scripture." 40:17 What is a custom? 40:18 Is a custom something you do 40:19 one time or many times. Many times. 40:21 A custom means it's a habit, your pattern. 40:23 Ever since Jesus was a little boy, 40:25 He went to the synagogue every Sabbath day 40:28 and He would read the Bible and He's praying, 40:29 He's with His family. That was His custom. 40:32 The Bible never says, that Jesus gave that up either. 40:35 And again Mark 6:2 40:38 "And when the Sabbath had come, 40:41 he began to teach in the synagogue." 40:44 Jesus went to church every Sabbath day. 40:46 What day of the week did He go? 40:48 First day, second day, third day, 40:50 fourth day, firth day, sixth day, or seventh day. 40:53 Seventh day, why seventh day? 40:55 That's the day that He blessed and made holy. 40:59 Now, let me get you to think about something. 41:02 Who is it that wrote the Ten Commandments? 41:05 Jesus did with His own finger. 41:08 See Jesus has got the sun and it's His creation, 41:12 the Bible says in 1 John or in the Gospel of John, 41:15 all things that were made, were made by Him, 41:19 nothing was made without Him that was made, 41:21 including the law of God. 41:23 So when Jesus made the Sabbath it was perfect. 41:26 Why would He change it? Question number 7. 41:30 Should we keep Sunday as the Sabbath day 41:32 because Jesus rose on that day? No. 41:36 Now is it important that Jesus rose on Sunday? 41:38 It's important that Jesus rose. 41:40 Who knows what day of the week did Jesus die on the cross? 41:44 Friday, that's good. 41:46 Is that an important day? 41:47 Wasn't that important? Yes. 41:49 And what day did Jesus have, 41:51 what evening was it when He had the last supper. 41:54 Thursday night, well, we would call Thursday night. 41:56 Is that important too? Yes. 41:58 Jesus did important things on many days, 42:01 but where in the Bible does He tell us 42:03 that makes it a new Sabbath day. 42:06 He doesn't. 42:08 The only day that Jesus set up 42:09 is the Sabbath is the seventh day. 42:12 So let's go on, should we keep Sunday 42:15 because Jesus rose on that day. 42:16 Did the apostles worship on Sunday? 42:19 Let's find out what the Bible says. 42:20 Acts17:2, "Then Paul, as his custom was, 42:26 he went to them for three Sabbaths 42:28 and he reasoned with them out of the Scriptures." 42:31 Paul is the Apostle Paul. 42:33 Paul then he becomes an apostle until years after Jesus died. 42:37 So long after Jesus died, 42:39 the apostles are still keeping the seventh day Sabbath. 42:42 And again it says, "He reasoned in the synagogue every Sabbath, 42:45 not just for Jews, he persuaded both Jews and Greeks." 42:50 Now I'm sort of half and half. 42:52 I'm half Gentile, my father was a Baptist 42:54 and my mother was a Jew. 42:56 And so I can speak for both perspectives on this. 43:00 Again Acts 13:42, 43:03 "So when the Jews went out of the synagogue, 43:06 it says the Gentile, 43:07 a Gentile is anybody who is not a Jew. 43:10 The Gentiles begged that these word might be 43:12 preached to them the next Sunday." 43:14 What does it say? The next what? 43:18 Even the Gentiles, the non Jews, 43:21 knew that Paul was going to be in the church to synagogue 43:25 on the seventh day, not on Sunday. 43:28 So they said, well, we know what day the Sabbath is, 43:29 can you talk to us again next Sabbath. 43:31 They didn't say next Sunday. 43:32 And this is long after Jesus had risen and gone to heaven. 43:36 Matter of fact, Jesus, prophesying 43:38 about the end of time. Listen to what Lord said. 43:42 There might be a time when we got to run for our lives 43:44 because of the tribulation and problems, 43:47 He said "Pray that your flight." 43:50 Now flight there doesn't mean, your American airlines flight, 43:53 it means flight means like you're running, 43:55 you flee for your life. 43:57 "Pray that your flight may not be in winter 43:59 or on the Sabbath day." 44:02 Did Jesus looking down in prophecy, 44:04 He know that God's people would still be keeping the Sabbath. 44:07 This is important for the Lord 44:08 because He loves us and He wants time with us. 44:12 The Bible promises blessings to those who keep the Sabbath. 44:16 Don't you want that blessing? 44:18 The day is not cursed. God says He blessed the day. 44:22 And some people come to- they come to church every week 44:25 and they miss the blessings. 44:26 "If you turn away your foot from the Sabbath, 44:29 I'm in Isaiah 58:13, 44:31 "From doing your pleasure on My holy day." 44:34 It's not a day for doing our regular activities, 44:36 its holy day for God. 44:38 He says, therefore, you will call the Sabbath a delight., 44:42 God calls the Sabbath, My holy day. 44:46 And again Jesus says in Mark 2:28, 44:49 "Therefore, the Son of Man is Lord of the Sabbath." 44:54 God tells us that He is the Lord of the Sabbath day. 44:57 It's very important to Him. Question number 8. 45:01 If God didn't change 45:02 the seventh day Sabbath day to Sunday 45:04 then how did this happen? 45:06 Why are they so many people 45:08 around the world that go to church 45:10 on the first day of the week on Sunday 45:12 and they call it a Sabbath 45:14 but it's not the day that God set aside. 45:16 Well, you look in history it will tell you. 45:19 Jesus knew this was going to happen. 45:21 He knew that there would be a sinister power 45:23 that would try to change it. 45:24 Daniel 7:25 said "This beast power would think 45:28 or intend to change times and laws." 45:31 You know there's only one of the Ten Commandments 45:34 that is both a law and a time, which commandment is that? 45:39 The fourth commandment about the Sabbath day. 45:40 The Sabbath's a time and it's a law. 45:43 And Bible foretold this was going to happen. 45:46 There was a Roman emperor 45:47 that came along by the name of Constantine. 45:50 And you know for while there in Rome, 45:53 Christianity was illegal. 45:55 If you are Christian, you have to hide your religion, 45:57 it was very unpopular. 45:58 Christians were being fed to the lions. 46:01 Some of the Roman emperors tried to kill all the Christians 46:03 they would throw them in the arena 46:06 to be trampled by elephants or they burned them to death. 46:11 Many of the Christians developed cities 46:12 underground called catacomb because they had to hide, 46:15 their religion was against the law. 46:17 But it was so true and it was changing hearts 46:19 and it gave them such peace, 46:21 that it kept growing and spreading, 46:23 more and more people wanted to be Christians, 46:24 because Christians were happy. They had peace. 46:27 So Constantine became emperor 46:30 and the Romans in Rome the pagans, 46:34 they worshipped the sun, and the moon and the stars. 46:36 That's where you get the word Sunday. 46:38 That was the day they worshipped the sun. 46:40 Monday was the day they worshipped the, 46:42 who knows, the moon. 46:45 Saturday was the day 46:46 for worshipping the planet Saturn. 46:50 Thursday was the day of Thor, 46:52 the God of thunder, 46:53 that all these different pagan Gods they worshipped. 46:56 In the Bible the days don't have names 46:58 like that, they are numbered. 46:59 First day, six, second day, third day, fourth day, 47:01 fifth day, the sixth day, 47:03 Friday is called the preparation day 47:05 and then the Sabbath day. 47:07 Well Constantine's empire was split between pagans 47:10 and Christians and he said look, 47:12 Christians aren't hurting anybody, 47:13 we may as well legalize their religion. 47:16 So he made a law legalizing Christianity 47:19 and he is the one who established 47:20 Sundays as the day of worship. 47:22 This is right from the encyclopedia Britannica. 47:24 That was not written by Pastor Doug 47:26 or by Pastor Doug's church, 47:27 it's written by people who were just writing history. 47:31 It says "The earliest recognition 47:33 of the observance of Sunday 47:35 is a constitution of Constantine, 47:38 this Roman emperor in 321 A.D. 47:41 that means A.D. means anno Domini 47:43 or after the death of Jesus. 47:45 321 years after Jesus, they started changing it, 47:50 little by little and the Jews were not popular. 47:53 And some of the Christians said, 47:54 we don't want to worship the same day as the Jews. 47:56 We want to do something new and different. 47:58 Let's start worshipping on the same day 48:00 the pagans worshipped the sun, 48:02 and little by little over hundreds over years, 48:05 many of the Christians gave up the day God blessed 48:08 and started observing the day 48:09 that was blessed and worshipped by the pagans, 48:11 worshipping the sun. 48:14 And you can also read in Mathew 15:9. 48:18 Lot of people might be very sincere 48:23 but it says here Jesus said "In vain they worship Me, 48:27 teaching as doctrines the commandments of men." 48:30 Some people are teaching manmade things 48:32 but they are not God's will and it hurts the Lord. 48:36 So can we know what day that day is? 48:39 Luke 23, "The day Jesus died was called the Preparation day." 48:43 Well, who knows what day that is? 48:45 "Friday and the Sabbath drew near." 48:49 And then it says in the Bible from evening to evening 48:53 were to celebrate our Sabbaths. 48:56 Hi, let me see, you are real close. 48:58 Mitchell, come up, come here. 49:00 I'm sorry. 49:02 All right. 49:04 You remember this light. Yeah. 49:06 Go over there little ways, further back by the guitar, 49:09 and light at the world. All right. 49:12 Here we are in Texas, see the tape, can you all see. 49:15 Yeah, there on the screen. 49:16 As the world turns, when the sun goes down, 49:20 you are in the dark part right here. 49:22 You can see over here, 49:23 it's getting into the light part here. 49:26 When the day ends, is that sun down, 49:28 this is when a new day begins. 49:31 As the sun comes up, day is already been going. 49:35 You are supposed to keep the Sabbath 49:36 when it comes to you. 49:37 When it Sabbath here in Texas, 49:39 it may not be in the other parts of the world. 49:41 But you keep the Sabbath when it comes to you. 49:44 Because the world is always turning like this 49:46 and the sun shining on it. 49:48 That's a pretty bright light, isn't it? 49:49 You are enjoying that. 49:51 Okay, I just wanted to give you a little visual 49:53 to help understand that. 49:54 The Bible says, from evening to evening 49:57 you celebrate yours, that was good job, 49:59 Mitchell, I appreciate that. 50:04 So you know when Jesus died. 50:08 Jesus died right about sundown. 50:10 You want to hear something amazing, 50:12 Jesus even kept the Sabbath in His death. 50:17 See Jesus spent His life working to save humanity. 50:20 When He died on the cross, 50:21 you know one of the last things He said, 50:24 He said, "It is finished." And then He died. 50:28 He said ''Father, into your hands 50:29 I commit my spirit'' and He died. 50:31 He went to sleep, 50:33 and He rested through the Sabbath, 50:36 He kept the Sabbath even in His death. 50:38 And then He rose Sunday morning, not to rest, 50:41 he rose Sunday morning 50:42 to continue His work for us as high priest. 50:46 That's how important it is to Jesus. 50:47 And the disciples would not finish embalming 50:50 or wrapping up Jesus' body. 50:51 Friday afternoon, they said the sun is going down, 50:54 we're not quite done mummifying or wrapping up His body, 50:57 we'll come back Sunday morning. 50:59 Because the disciples knew, 51:00 that would not make Jesus happy 51:02 to continue working on the Sabbath day, 51:04 even that labor of love. 51:06 So it says, "They returned and prepared spices 51:09 and fragrant ointments, and they rested." 51:12 Notice here. 51:13 "They rested the Sabbath according to the commandment." 51:17 Was the commandment important to Jesus, 51:20 was it important to His disciples? 51:22 "Now on the first day of the week, 51:23 they came to the tomb." 51:25 And praise the Lord He had reason, 51:27 He began His work, 51:29 in heaven He's our high priest 51:30 and He's alive there watching over us right now. 51:33 So the preparation day is Friday, 51:35 that sometimes people call it good Friday. 51:38 Sabbath, Jesus slept He rested in the tomb. 51:41 He rose after the Sabbath on Sunday the first day. 51:44 Saturday is the seventh day. That's the Sabbath day. 51:47 There is no question about it. 51:49 No calendar change has affected that. 51:52 What makes the Sabbath so special to God and to us? 51:56 The Bible says "The Lord blessed the Sabbath day 51:59 and he hallowed it." It's His holy day. 52:02 It's a day He wants us to remember Him. 52:05 Did you know that we're even going to keep 52:07 the Sabbath in heaven? 52:10 You're aware of that, question number 10. 52:12 Even in heaven, we're going to keep the Sabbath day, 52:14 after Jesus comes. 52:17 For instance, how many know did they- 52:20 did Adam and Eve keep the Sabbath 52:21 in the Garden of Eden. Yes. 52:24 Did Moses and the children of Israel 52:25 keep the Sabbath in the wilderness? Yes. 52:28 All through the Old Testament. 52:29 Did Jesus and the apostles keep the Sabbath? Yes. 52:33 The Bible tells us that even in the new heavens 52:36 and the new earth that God is going to make, 52:39 it says "For as the new heavens and the new earth 52:42 that I will make shall remain before me says the Lord, 52:45 so shall your descendants and your name remain. 52:47 And it shall come to pass, 52:50 that from one Sabbath to another, 52:52 shall all flesh come and worship before the Lord." 52:57 Even in heaven we are going to come and worship God. 52:59 And guess who the preacher is going to be there? 53:03 Jesus and nobody is going to sleep 53:05 during the church service there, right. 53:08 You know I heard about a boy named, Bobby, 53:11 who one day was playing 53:12 with his grandfather's special gold watch, 53:14 little gold watch that had a flip keys on it. 53:18 And his mom said he had to go feed the chickens. 53:20 So he stuck the watch inside his shirt pocket 53:22 and he went out to feed the chickens, 53:23 he forgot it was there. 53:24 And he loved to jump in the hay, 53:26 so he was jumping from the loft down into the piles of hay 53:29 and he was playing and pretty soon, 53:31 he thought, where's grandpa's watch, 53:34 his gold watch? 53:36 What am I gonna do, and he looked 53:37 all through the hay and he couldn't find it, 53:39 and he was frantic, he thought I'll be in 53:41 so much trouble, that was grandpa's special watch, 53:43 he got it when he retired from the railroad, 53:45 I am in big trouble now. 53:48 And he was frantically looking all through the hay 53:50 and digging around and he couldn't find it. 53:53 Finally he got on his knees and he is sobbingly, he prayed. 53:56 And he said, oh Lord I'm sorry 53:58 I was careless with grandpa's watch. 54:00 Please help me know where it is. 54:02 Help me find it. 54:04 And then while he was on his knees quietly praying, 54:06 he heard, tick, tick, tick, tick, 54:11 and what do you think it was. 54:13 When he was finally quiet, he heard it. 54:16 And he had to be real still 54:18 and he started sifting through the hay 54:20 and he quietly listened and he sifted little more 54:23 and he nailed it down into pretty soon he dug aside 54:26 and it tick, tick, tick, and it was real loud 54:29 and he found the watch. 54:32 But he'd been so frantic looking before, 54:34 he couldn't find that treasure. 54:36 You know sometimes the devil tries to keep us so frantic. 54:40 Some homes today are just so much noise 54:43 and the television is always going 54:44 and the video games 54:45 and there's just always thing happening. 54:48 And the devil wants to create so much noise, 54:50 we can't hear the Lord's speaking to us, 54:53 God has given us a day of rest to be still 54:56 and to hear His voice, to recharge our batteries, 55:00 to get a blessing to prepare us for heaven. 55:02 Every Sabbath is a little bit of heaven here now. 55:06 And God wants you to have that blessing friends. 55:09 He wants you to have that rest on that holy special day. 55:13 How many of you would like to have that blessing, 55:16 that God has on the Sabbath day, 55:18 to hear His voice and to be ready for His coming. 55:22 Let's pray now and ask Him. 55:23 To enjoy that, Jesus said, "Come to me 55:26 and I will give you rest. 55:30 That's what the Sabbath is all about." 55:32 Let's pray. 55:34 Father in heaven, we're so thankful for the truth 55:36 that You love us and You want us to love You. 55:40 That's why You have given us this holy day, 55:42 to set aside time to get to know You better 55:45 and love You more. 55:46 And as we love You more Lord, to serve You better. 55:49 I pray You'll bless all those who are watching 55:51 and especially the children 55:53 that they will love that special time, 55:55 a day with the king that You've provided for them. 55:58 Fill them with Your Spirit, 55:59 continue to pour out with Your Spirit 56:01 and Your blessings in this series, 56:03 that there might be a great revival 56:04 of young people to serve You. 56:06 We ask this now in Jesus name, amen. 56:11 God bless you friends, 56:13 you don't want to miss our next meeting. 56:15 We are going to talk about God's super food. 56:17 And you're going to really enjoy the lesson tomorrow. 56:20 God bless you those who are watching. 56:22 Don't forget you can still bring your friend. 56:24 We'll see you then. |
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