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00:11 Hi, kids, you wanna hear an amazing fact?
00:14 You know God made the world in six days 00:16 and He rested the seventh. 00:17 Naturalists have observed several times in nature 00:20 where it seems like animals even take a day-off. 00:23 For example, you have Miles Wheeler. 00:26 He's an ornithologist and avid birdwatcher, 00:28 and an award winning nature photographer. 00:31 For over 18 years, he observed the birds that were migrating 00:34 in a cedar tree outside his home in Michigan. 00:38 And he tracked meticulously 00:39 how many birds were migrating. 00:42 After tracking the activity 00:43 of over 1,500 warblers for 18 years, 00:47 he was surprised to notice that there were very few birds 00:50 that were migrating every seventh day. 00:53 It seemed like the birds knew they should take a day of rest. 00:56 This might sound unusual, 00:57 but then you've got Lauren Cole, 00:59 who's the speaker/director of Desire Media 01:01 lives in Lakeview, Oregon. 01:03 He studied a family of beavers for 16 years. 01:07 And he was shocked to learn 01:08 that while they were busy six days a week, 01:10 they never worked on Saturday. 01:13 You know, the Bible says in the Book of Job, 01:15 that the animals seem to know who their Creator is 01:17 and listen to the voice of God. 01:19 Makes you wonder if maybe 01:20 the animals know something about resting 01:22 that people are forgetting. 01:24 We're gonna learn about it today. 01:25 So let's get on board and take an amazing adventure together. 01:46 Good evening, everyone, and welcome once again 01:48 to Amazing Adventure, A Journey for Life with Jesus. 01:52 I'd like to welcome all of the boys and girls 01:54 right here in Michigan, 01:55 and also those of you who are joining us 01:56 across the country and around the world, 01:58 part of our extended Adventure team 02:01 looking at some very important discoveries in the Bible. 02:04 And tonight we have a very important presentation. 02:07 Now before we get to our study, 02:09 we have a theme song that we'd like to sing. 02:11 And I think a number of you probably by now 02:14 could sing the song without even seeing the words. 02:16 How many think they could sing it without seeing the words? 02:19 All right, look at all those hands. 02:21 It's got a catchy tune 02:22 and it's called "Life is an Adventure." 02:24 But before we gonna sing our song, 02:26 we wanna invite Pastor Doug 02:28 to come up and join me here on stage. 02:30 And what are we gonna say 02:31 when Pastor Doug rings the bell? 02:33 Are you ready? 02:34 There you go. Here it is. 02:36 Good evening, Pastor. 02:39 All right. 02:41 We're gonna invite our song leaders to come up. 02:43 Why don't we stand kids and we'll sing our theme song 02:46 "Life is an Adventure." 02:55 Life is an adventure Following the King 03:00 Every day with Jesus Makes us want to sing 03:05 Walking in the spirit He will lead the way 03:10 With his words to guide us Glowing deep inside us 03:15 Nothing can divide us Following the King 03:21 Life is an adventure Following the King 03:27 Every day with Jesus Makes us want to sing 03:32 Conquering with kindness Everywhere we go 03:37 Voices we are raising 03:39 Jesus we are praising 03:42 Life is so amazing Following the King 03:49 Life is so amazing 03:51 Following the King 03:57 Amen. Thank you, boys and girls. 03:58 You may be seated. 03:59 And thank you to our Amazing Adventure singers up front. 04:03 Thank you. We're excited. 04:05 We've got some exciting things to do tonight. 04:08 And we're gonna get to some questions, 04:10 I think, Pastor Ross that have come in from kids 04:12 all over the country and even the world. 04:14 Yes, we got some great questions for this evening. 04:16 So we're gonna take a look at 04:18 our first video question for tonight. 04:20 Hi, my name is Amy. 04:22 And I'm nine years old. 04:24 And I'm from London, Ontario. 04:26 And my question is, 04:27 was the seventh-day Sabbath kept through all ages? 04:31 Good question that she had. 04:33 Will the seventh-day Sabbath 04:35 be kept throughout all ages, 04:37 meaning even in eternity? 04:39 You know, we're touching on that 04:41 in our study tonight. 04:43 But let's think about that for just a moment. 04:44 When God made the Sabbath, 04:46 was it before sin or after sin? 04:50 Before sin. Before sin. 04:52 Was it part of God's perfect plan then for the world? 04:56 And then it tells us in the Book of Isaiah, 04:58 that even in heaven, from 1, 05:00 it talks about, "'For as the new heavens 05:02 and the new earth that I will make 05:04 will remain before Me,' says the Lord." 05:06 Talking about the new heavens, new earth, 05:08 "Even so your seed and your name will remain. 05:11 And it will come to pass it from one Sabbath to another 05:13 shall all flesh worship before Me." 05:16 All flesh. That's everybody. 05:19 Does the Bible say the Sabbath was made for Jews? 05:22 Or does it say Sabbath was made for man, 05:24 meaning mankind for everybody? 05:27 Okay, our next question that we have this evening. 05:30 Hi, my name is Les. 05:31 And I'm 11 years old. And I live in North Georgia. 05:34 And my question is, 05:35 if Jesus sanctified Sabbath as the holy day as it says, 05:39 in Exodus 20, 05:41 then why do so many people worship on Sunday? 05:43 Boy, that's a good question. 05:45 I mean, if the Sabbath is the seventh-day of the week, 05:48 Saturday, why Pastor Doug, does it seem that 05:50 there's so many Christians around the world 05:52 that worship on the first day of the week, Sunday? 05:55 Yeah, now we didn't tell these kids what questions to ask. 05:57 They freely chose their own questions. 05:59 It is true that tonight 06:01 we're actually talking about that subject. 06:03 First of all, 06:05 just because a lot of people do something, 06:08 doesn't mean it's right. 06:11 You know, when Jesus was teaching, and preaching, 06:13 and doing miracles, 06:14 several people thought, 06:16 "This must be the Messiah!" 06:18 And some of the religious leader said, 06:20 "Well, if He was the Messiah, 06:22 then the other religious leaders and scribes 06:24 would also believe in Him. 06:26 Most of them don't believe in Him." 06:28 But sometimes the majority is wrong. 06:31 In fact, Moses said, "Do not follow a crowd to do evil." 06:35 Sometimes a crowd 06:37 is not the right group to follow. 06:39 You wanna find out what does the Word of God say? 06:42 And so we're gonna talk in our lesson tonight 06:44 about what happened 06:46 and how people started changing their practices, 06:49 how Christians started changing things over history. 06:51 Okay. And the next question that we have. 06:54 Hi, Pastor Doug. 06:55 My name is Brian. 06:56 I live in Vijayawada, India. 07:00 My question is, why God not allowed 07:03 Moses to enter into the Promised Land, Canaan? 07:07 Thank you. 07:08 All right, so question all the way from India. 07:11 And the question is, why didn't God allow 07:12 Moses to enter into Canaan? 07:14 Now you were in that part of India not too long ago. 07:16 It gets pretty warm, doesn't it? 07:17 It's pretty warm, this time of the year, 07:19 especially in India, it's hot. 07:20 So, you know what that's like. 07:22 You know, Moses great desire was that 07:24 he could actually be the one 07:26 to lead the children of Israel into the Promised Land. 07:29 He had led them for 40 years through the wilderness. 07:32 But near the end of their wanderings, 07:34 there was a trial, a test, 07:36 where they ran out of water again. 07:39 And God told Moses to gather the people together 07:41 and to speak to the rock, 07:44 and that water would come out. 07:45 Well, Moses and Aaron were so frustrated 07:47 with the people's lack of faith. 07:50 Then Moses lost his temper, and he took his rod 07:53 and he struck the rock twice. 07:56 And he said, "Must we fetch water from the rock 07:58 for you rebels?" 08:00 And Moses lost his temper. 08:02 And God said, you know, Moses, I didn't tell you to do that. 08:05 You disobeyed in front of everybody what I told. 08:08 And I'm still gonna let you see the Promised Land 08:10 from a distance. 08:12 And you will be in heaven... 08:14 Matter of fact, 08:15 is Moses in heaven now? 08:17 Yes. 08:18 He is. 08:20 We read that, you know, 08:21 Bible tells us in Mark Chapter 9, 08:23 Moses and Elijah appeared to Jesus. 08:25 So Moses got to go to heaven. 08:27 He watched the people cross over, 08:29 but he personally could not lead them in 08:31 because he had disobeyed. 08:32 He lost his temper, and God needed to set an example 08:35 that we need to be faithful for our leaders. 08:37 That might be it for tonight. 08:38 That might be all the questions. 08:40 So a number of questions on the Sabbath, 08:41 and I think you're gonna be talking 08:43 more about that this evening, so. 08:44 We are. 08:45 Thank you very much, Pastor Ross. 08:47 All right, friends, are you ready? 08:49 Tonight we're gonna be talking about 08:51 a very important subject. 08:53 And I'll tell you why it's important. 08:56 Your life is made of time. 09:00 Benjamin Franklin, you all know who he is? 09:03 He's one of the only people who was not a president. 09:06 And I think there's two of them. 09:08 Alexander Hamilton, Benjamin Franklin, 09:10 whose picture is on our money. 09:13 And Benjamin Franklin, he said, 09:16 "Time is the stuff that life is made of. 09:21 You have so many breaths and so many heartbeats." 09:25 You know, it's sort of a rule of life that 09:28 the faster your heartbeats, the shorter your life. 09:31 I used to have pet mice. 09:32 I'd hold the mice in my hand, 09:33 I could feel their little hearts going. 09:37 And once I caught a hummingbird, 09:39 it got stuck in my garage 09:40 and kept trying to go out the window 09:42 and I was able to catch him alive, cute little hummingbird. 09:45 And I felt his little heart beating in my hand. 09:47 You know, they're hummingbirds, 09:48 just their hearts' just raised 09:50 because they eat sugar all the time. 09:51 So they're just... 09:53 And I can feel a little heart. 09:57 But an elephant, his heart goes... 10:03 And they live like 80 years. 10:05 And a blue whale can live longer than an elephant 10:08 and its heart goes... 10:13 That's even too fast. 10:15 So we've only got so many heartbeats. 10:17 What you do with your time every day 10:19 is what you're doing with your life. 10:21 If you're useful with your time, you have a useful life. 10:23 If you waste your time, you waste your life. 10:26 If you're gonna love somebody, 10:28 you do it in time. 10:30 Time is the stuff life is made of. 10:32 Our lesson today talking about "A Day with the King." 10:35 Wouldn't it be exciting if you can have a day 10:37 with the King of the universe? 10:39 You know, the Bible tells us 10:41 that there was a Queen of Sheba. 10:43 She had heard about King Solomon. 10:45 King Solomon was the most glorious, 10:48 earthly king of Israel. 10:50 When Solomon was king, 10:52 his robes were so beautiful 10:53 that even Jesus referred to 10:54 the beautiful clothing of Solomon. 10:57 And the Bible talks about 10:58 the kingdom was so rich during the time of Solomon, 11:01 that even silver was considered like stones, 11:05 because they had so much gold. 11:08 And Queen of Sheba heard about the wisdom of Solomon, 11:10 and she came from hundreds of miles away, 11:13 and brought a caravan with lots of gifts and money. 11:16 So she could spend time with Solomon 11:18 to learn about him and his wisdom 11:20 because she wanted to be a good queen. 11:22 She knew that would happen by spending time with him. 11:25 If you had an invitation 11:26 to spend time with a king or queen, 11:28 would you wanna do that? 11:31 Earlier this year, 11:32 Karen and I were invited to the White House. 11:35 But the president wasn't there. 11:37 We kind of thought it would be nice. 11:39 We met with some of his staff to talk about religious liberty 11:41 and it was fun to be in the White House. 11:43 Actually, we've been there a couple times. 11:45 But it really be nice to spend the day with a president 11:49 or with a queen. 11:50 You know, for her 80th birthday, 11:52 Queen Elizabeth II wanna do something special 11:55 for the children in England. 11:58 And so she invited, she had a lottery, 12:00 she invited 2000 children to join her 12:02 in Buckingham Palace. 12:04 They could pick one parent or grandparent 12:05 to bring with them, 12:07 and that she had a day of tea with the children 12:10 of the kingdom. 12:11 And they got to hang out with the Queen for a day. 12:14 Wouldn't that be exciting? 12:16 Well, you get to spend a day 12:19 with the King of the universe every week, 12:24 in a special way, 12:26 did you know that? 12:28 The Bible talks about that. 12:29 We're gonna get into our lesson now. 12:31 First question, 12:32 what day does Jesus, the King of the universe 12:35 want to spend with me in a special way? 12:38 Now Jesus said, I'm with you always. 12:40 Christ's presence is always with you, 12:42 but we're busy doing our work and our things. 12:44 He said, "I want a day that's like a special date 12:48 with you and me." 12:49 What is that day? 12:51 Exodus 20:8-11, 12:53 "Remember the Sabbath day, to keep it holy. 12:56 The Lord blessed the Sabbath day 12:59 and hallowed it." 13:00 The Lord has this day, it's called the Sabbath. 13:03 The word Sabbath means a rest. 13:06 And it's a special day of quality time with God. 13:11 And the Bible says it's to be a happy day. 13:14 Isaiah 58:13, "Call the Sabbath a delight." 13:17 It's a delightful day with the King. 13:20 Now, why else do we need the Sabbath? 13:23 People sometimes get tired. 13:25 Any of you ever stay up too late, 13:26 and then at school the next day, 13:28 you're a little sleepy. 13:31 I used to fall asleep in class, 13:33 and I didn't want my teacher to catch me. 13:34 I had one teacher when I went to military school, 13:37 if he saw me sleeping in class, 13:38 he kept a can on top of his desk. 13:40 Now they wouldn't allow this anymore, 13:42 but back when I was young, 13:43 teachers could even spank you. 13:45 But he kept a can on his desk, 13:47 and inside the can were nuts and bolts, 13:49 just a bunch of nuts and bolts. 13:51 And if he saw students sleeping, 13:53 this is military school. 13:55 They're pretty tough. 13:56 He would throw the can at you. 13:59 And that only happened once or twice 14:01 and you never went to sleep in his class. 14:04 So I learned to sleep 14:05 looking like I was reading the book. 14:07 I'd have a book and my head down like that, like... 14:12 'Cause I'd stay up too late the night before. 14:15 People need rest. 14:17 And God has a day of rest for us. 14:20 Do you have chores you have to do around your house? 14:22 Yes. 14:23 Do you know it's dangerous sometimes 14:24 to do your chores if you get too sleepy? 14:27 You could mow your toes in the lawnmower or something. 14:31 Everybody needs appropriate rest. 14:33 Do you know, 14:34 I think five of the major reasons that people die 14:39 are connected with something called stress? 14:42 Stress means people get too worried and too anxious, 14:46 and too worn out, and too tired, 14:48 and it shortens their lives. 14:51 Cancer, and heart disease, and diabetes, 14:54 and all kinds of problems, 14:55 high blood pressure all connected with stress. 14:58 God knows that we need a day of rest. 15:01 You know, the people who run the military, 15:04 they thought we wanna work those soldiers. 15:05 We wanna see what's the best work schedule for the soldiers. 15:08 And the military did an experiment. 15:11 And they said, "Let's see if we can get soldiers to rest 15:13 1 day every 12 days or 1 day every 10 days." 15:16 And they didn't do very well. 15:18 They experimented with all these different cycles, 15:21 they finally realize 15:22 the very best rest work schedule 15:25 for men and women 15:28 is one day every seven. 15:31 Well, that's how God designed us in the beginning. 15:34 Which day is the Sabbath day? 15:38 The Bible tells us, 15:40 "The seventh day is the Sabbath of the Lord your God." 15:44 All right, I'm gonna need a couple of volunteers 15:46 to come up here and help me. 15:48 I need three. 15:50 So, okay, you can be good. You can come up. 15:53 You got your orange pants, you get to hold the sun. 15:56 Young lady right here, please, over here, 15:58 and oh, I'll just grab one. 15:59 Well, you can come, you're close. 16:00 All right. 16:02 So let me just show you something. 16:03 I think it's really neat. 16:06 One of you gets to be the earth. 16:10 Let's see here. 16:13 Why don't you come over? You wanna be the earth? 16:15 You got to hold the world. 16:17 And one of you gets to be the sun. 16:24 You got the pants. You got to be the sun. 16:26 It'll be easy to spot. 16:27 You guys stand right in the middle. 16:29 Mr. Sun, what's your name? 16:30 Aaron. Aaron. Right. 16:32 Come and stand back a little bit. 16:33 Okay, 'cause the earth goes around the sun, right? 16:37 Now, are you in gymnastics or anything? 16:39 No? I'm in gymnastics. 16:41 You are. Yeah. 16:42 You looked athletic. Tell me, what's your name? 16:44 Michaela. Right. 16:45 Michaela, you're gonna go around the sun. 16:48 So I'd like for you to just go walk around the sun, 16:50 except, you can't just walk around the sun, 16:52 if you're in gymnastics. 16:53 Does the earth spin? 16:56 So you got to go like this, 16:58 while you go around the sun, okay? 17:00 So go ahead and go ahead and do that. 17:03 How long does it take? No. You're getting... 17:05 Don't get so close to the sun. You're gonna get burn. 17:07 Come back here. 17:09 You ought to know better than that. 17:10 You got sunscreen on. 17:11 All right, go ahead and start spinning, 17:13 go around the sun. 17:14 How long does it take for the earth 17:15 to go around the sun? 17:17 Three and sixty five. 17:18 Three and sixty five, one quarter days. 17:19 All right, very good. Michaela, you did a good job. 17:21 Now come over here. 17:24 You're the moon. Okay. 17:25 What's your name? 17:28 You got to look. You don't remember. 17:29 Okay, Savannah. All right. 17:32 Now the moon goes around the earth. 17:34 I want you to go around the earth. 17:37 While the earth is going around the sun, right? 17:39 So you got to keep going around the sun. 17:41 You got to go around the earth. No, you're losing the earth. 17:43 Get back. All right. 17:45 We're gonna have a planetary collision here. 17:50 Oh, man! The universe is gone. 17:52 Wankers here. Right, let me... 17:54 How many days does it take for the moon 17:56 to go around the earth, its cycle? 17:59 One cycle of the moon though. 18:02 A month is how many days? 18:05 Well, a month, the word month comes from moon, 18:07 it's about 28days. 18:09 Here's something I think you'll find interesting. 18:12 All the civilizations of the world, 18:14 even though they're separated, 18:16 they had a month 18:18 with about 28 days 18:19 because of the moon. 18:21 All of the civilizations around the world had a year, 18:25 with approximately 365 days in it, 18:29 some had 360 but they compensate, 18:31 because that's how long it took 18:33 for the earth to go around. 18:35 And, of course, everyone has a 24 hour day roughly 18:37 because that's how long it takes the day to rotate 18:40 or the earth to rotate on its axis. 18:42 What in the sun, moon and stars 18:45 gives the world a seven day week? 18:50 Nothing. 18:51 Why does the whole world have a seven day week? 18:58 The whole world gets their seven day a week 19:01 'cause in the beginning, God did. 19:03 Let's thank them. 19:07 You know, the most important decision 19:09 a young person can make 19:10 is that decision to follow Jesus 19:12 and begin that amazing adventure to eternity. 19:15 That's why we're so excited to tell you about 19:17 the new Amazing Adventure programs that are available. 19:21 During these nearly 10 hours 19:22 of exciting high definition programs, 19:24 the young people will do science experiments, 19:27 learn about history, nature, encounter some wild animals, 19:30 and most of all, 19:32 they'll learn about Jesus from the Word of God. 19:34 There's a beautifully illustrated Bible Study Guide 19:37 to go along with each of the video presentations. 19:40 These beautiful illustrated study guides 19:42 are full of pictures, and puzzles, and Bible stories. 19:45 They'll lead your kids through 19:46 an incredible journey with Jesus. 19:48 And for me, the most exciting thing 19:50 is this new Amazing Adventure series goes along 19:52 with the Amazing Facts Adventure Bible. 19:55 The Bible, the study guides, 19:56 the DVDs are all designed 19:58 to lead your young person 20:00 on a Journey for Life with Jesus. 20:02 Call the number on your screen 20:04 or contact us at afbookstore.com. 20:08 The whole world has a seven day week, 20:12 because the Bible is the only place you can train it to. 20:16 And we know what day that was. 20:17 You can read there and Mark 16:1-2. 20:20 "When the Sabbath was passed, 20:23 very early in the morning on the first day of the week, 20:27 they came to the tomb 20:28 when the sun had risen." 20:30 Now the days in the Bible began and ended at sundown, 20:34 but Jesus, He died on Friday, 20:37 He spent the Sabbath resting in the tomb, 20:40 He rose Sunday morning to continue 20:42 His work for us as our high priest. 20:45 All around the world, the seventh day of the week 20:47 is what we would call Saturday. 20:48 This is a quote right here 20:50 from the online Merriam-Webster Dictionary. 20:53 "Saturday, noun, 20:54 definition of the seventh day of the week." 20:57 Saturday is the day that falls between Friday, 21:00 the seventh day and the first day Sunday. 21:03 In the Bible, you do not find the word, 21:05 Sunday, Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, 21:07 Thursday, Friday, Saturday. 21:08 Those names come from Roman paganism. 21:11 Sunday's named after, what? 21:13 The sun. The sun. 21:15 Moon day, Monday. 21:17 Then, Tiwes was another god, 21:20 and you have Thursday was Thor's day. 21:22 Wednesday was really Odin's day, 21:24 and we've kind of corrupted it. 21:26 So it says Wednesday but it was Odin's day. 21:29 Friday was Freya's. Saturday was, what planet? 21:32 Saturn. Saturn. 21:33 So the Bible never uses any of the pagan names. 21:35 It numbered the days. 21:37 And what we would call the seventh day 21:40 is what now the world call Saturday. 21:43 Wanna hear something interesting? 21:44 In over 105 languages of the world, 21:48 the word for the seventh day of the week is Sabbath. 21:51 Who here can hablas espanol? 21:54 What's a Saturday? 21:56 Sabado. Sabado. 21:57 Anyone speak... 22:02 Sobota, right? 22:04 Seventh day of the week. 22:05 And in Portuguese, and then 105 languages. 22:08 Why do all these countries that were separated 22:10 at the Tower of Babel, 22:12 their word for Saturday is Sabbath day? 22:16 'Cause it was the day that God gave to Adam and Eve. 22:19 It's a day God wants to spend with you in a special way, 22:21 and He wants to bless you. 22:23 So our third question, 22:25 where did the Sabbath come from? 22:27 And how long has it been a special day for our King? 22:31 Well, you read in Genesis 1:1, 22:34 "In the beginning, 22:35 God created the heavens and the earth." 22:37 So how far back does the Sabbath go? 22:40 Beginning. Beginning. 22:42 Before sin or after? 22:43 Before. Before. 22:44 That's part of God's perfect plan. 22:47 You mean even before sin, God wanted man to rest? 22:51 Did Adam get real tired and exhausted 22:53 and he couldn't wake up? 22:55 You know, the Bible says 22:56 in heaven you will run and not beweary. 22:58 You will walk and not faint. 23:00 Part of the reason that God had the Sabbath 23:02 is because He wanted to spend time with Him. 23:04 How many of you remember reading in the Bible 23:06 when God was walking in the garden, 23:08 and he called, "Adam, where are you?" 23:11 God used to spend time, 23:13 personal time with Adam and Eve every Sabbath. 23:16 What a wonderful honor to think about that. 23:19 Now, did God give that up 23:20 or does He still want quality time with us? 23:23 Y'all know what quality time is. 23:26 Like, 23:28 I'm sure this conversation happens in many families. 23:32 Sometimes Mrs. Batchelor will say to Pastor Doug, 23:36 "Doug, we need to spend more time together." 23:39 And I say, 23:40 "Oh, I was home all last week." She said, "Yeah. 23:43 And you were in the office working on your computer." 23:46 I said, "Well, you were in the house too." 23:48 But we weren't spending quality time together. 23:52 Quality time means that I carve out time 23:54 where I'm not doing other things, 23:55 but I'm just spending time with her, 23:58 communicating with her, enjoying her company. 24:01 And that's what God wants. 24:04 Sometimes we get so busy, 24:05 "Lord, I want this, and Lord, I want that, 24:06 and give me this, and give me that." 24:08 And we don't ever wanna just spend time with God 24:10 and say, "Lord, what can I do for You?" 24:13 God loves us. He wants us to... 24:16 You ever heard of love at first sight? 24:18 Yes. 24:19 Now you look at somebody and you go, 24:21 "Ah, that's the person I'm gonna marry." 24:23 The first time you see him. 24:28 I think that can happen. 24:31 A lot of times it's not love at first sight, 24:33 it's kind of lust at first sight 24:34 or someone's really infatuated. 24:36 Most of the time when people get married, 24:39 every now and then you'll hear a story someone will say, 24:42 "I met this person yesterday and we got married today." 24:46 You know, typically, those weddings, 24:48 those marriages don't last very long. 24:51 If you wanna love someone... 24:52 How do you fall in love with someone? 24:55 You'll look at a picture of them go... 24:57 Wow! 24:59 No. 25:01 You fall in love with somebody 25:02 because you talk to them and they talk to you, 25:05 and you love who they are. 25:07 You might also like how they look, 25:09 but you wanna love who they are. 25:11 How do we talk to God? 25:14 How does He talk to us? 25:18 The Holy Spirit, 25:19 He speaks to us through His Word, 25:21 hopefully through pastors preaching sermons 25:23 and Christian teachers. 25:26 But we listen to God and He talks to us 25:28 and we fall in love with Him. 25:30 God picked a day for us to have quality time with Him. 25:34 And He wants us to remember that. 25:36 "And on the seventh day, 25:38 God ended His work which He had done, 25:41 and He rested on the seventh day 25:42 from all His work which He had done." 25:45 So the Bible tells us, 25:47 you notice right there in the beginning, 25:48 it tells us that He created the Sabbath day, 25:49 and it says, "God blessed and sanctified it. 25:52 Because in it He rested from all the work 25:55 which God created and made." 25:57 Three times it says the seventh day, 25:59 the seventh day, the seventh day. 26:02 Now, there's a number in Revelation 26:04 that's supposed to be the number for the beast 26:06 who knows what that number is? 26:07 666. 666. 26:11 Become an ominous number. 26:13 Did you know 26:15 that if you add 1 plus 2, plus 3, plus 4, plus 5, 26:18 plus 6, plus 7, up to 36, 26:22 it adds up to 666. 26:23 So if you add all the numbers together up to 36, 26:26 something else about 666, you'll find interesting. 26:28 If you add up the Roman coins, 26:32 the Romans had the Roman numerals 26:34 one through six. 26:36 Or you add up the first six Roman numerals rather, 26:39 the I, the V, the X, the D, 26:44 and I'm leaving one out, they add up to 666. 26:48 So it's kind of interesting, 26:50 that's an amazing mathematic number. 26:51 You know that, 26:53 the number seven is God's number. 26:57 There's a lot of ways you see seven in nature. 27:01 You know, one of the strongest signs that you have, 27:05 one of the strongest structures in the world. 27:08 I need a volunteer. 27:10 Just one. Just one. 27:11 Young lady right here. All right, yeah. 27:15 Now, you don't like candy, do you? 27:20 You know what that is? 27:24 That's Mr. Ross was kind enough to bring us 27:27 some actual wax that's been built by bees. 27:30 You know what's on there? 27:31 Honey. 27:33 What do bees make? What's your name? 27:35 Moriah. Moriah. 27:36 That's a beautiful name. 27:37 I like that name. 27:39 You know what it means? 27:40 God will provide. 27:42 That's what that name means. 27:43 But this is honey and it is very sweet. 27:46 But you know that the bees are incredible engineers, 27:49 one of the strongest structures. 27:51 Now if you look right here, 27:52 you can see that the bees they have, 27:56 there's lots of little circles, 27:57 but the circles are surrounded by circles. 27:59 It's one of the strongest designs in nature. 28:04 You've got six hexagons, 28:08 surrounded by one hexagon, the seventh. 28:12 Do you know what our week is? 28:13 Our week is six days surrounded by a seventh day. 28:18 Did you wanna taste some of that? 28:20 Sure. All right, tell you right here. 28:24 Now they tell me this honey 28:26 is in this comb 28:27 is about 20 years old. 28:30 But honey is not supposed to... 28:33 That's right from the bee. 28:34 Tell me if it's sweet or not. 28:36 Still sweet? 28:38 Ain't that good? You know what? 28:39 The Sabbath is sweet too. 28:41 You get to keep the spoon. 28:42 Let's give her a hand. 28:45 All the nature you can 28:46 find the number seven is very interesting. 28:48 You know, most animals 28:50 when they're pregnant before they lay their eggs 28:52 or have their babies, 28:53 they have their babies in divisions of weeks. 28:56 It's often one week, two weeks, three weeks, 28:58 but it seems like the gestation for creatures 29:00 is divided even in seven day cycles. 29:05 Question number four, 29:06 does God want everybody to worship Him on the Sabbath? 29:09 And what do the Ten Commandments say? 29:11 So we're covering two things in this question. 29:12 First of all, 29:14 the Sabbath was made for Jews. 29:17 Is that what it says? 29:18 And a lot of people say, 29:20 now my mother was Jewish, 29:22 and she was not very religious Jew, 29:24 but most Jews around the world still keep the Sabbath 29:28 on the original seventh day, 29:30 the Orthodox Jews. 29:32 But some people say, 29:33 "Well, the seventh day Sabbath, that's for Jews." 29:36 The first day Sabbath, that's for Christians. 29:40 But where in the Bible does it say that? 29:43 Can you show me a command anywhere in the Bible 29:46 to keep the first day of the week? 29:48 The Sabbath was made for man and that word there Anthropose. 29:51 It means mankind humanity. 29:53 Sabbath is made for everybody. 29:55 Doesn't everybody need rest? 29:57 Yeah. 29:58 How does God want us to respond? 30:01 It says in the commandment, 30:02 "Remember the Sabbath day, to keep it holy." 30:06 Now if I was to hand you a candle, 30:09 and I was to tell you, 30:10 I want you to keep this candle burning for me. 30:12 And I hand you the candle and the candle is dead, 30:14 it's not lit. 30:16 Wouldn't you wonder, 30:18 "Why is Pastor Doug telling me to keep the candle burning? 30:20 Candle is not burning." 30:23 I would tell you to keep it burning, 30:24 if it's already burning, right? 30:27 So when God says keep the Sabbath holy, 30:29 you know what that means, it's holy. 30:31 He made it holy. 30:32 He wants us to keep it the way He already made it. 30:35 And some people think that, 30:36 "Well, it was made years later just for the Jewish nation." 30:40 Now, what the Bible teaches, 30:42 six days, here's the commandment, 30:44 "Six days you should labor and do all of your work, 30:47 but the seventh day is the Sabbath of the Jews." 30:51 Sabbath of who? 30:52 "The Lord, your God." 30:54 Is He your Lord too? 30:56 Yes. 30:57 "In it you shall not do any work. 30:59 You or your son, 31:01 or your daughter, your family," shouldn't work, 31:03 "or your male servant," 31:04 that means even employees, 31:06 "or your female servant or your cattle," 31:08 even your animals, they used to plow with the oxen 31:11 and work the donkeys, He said, 31:12 even your animals need to rest. 31:14 God cares about animals. 31:16 "And the stranger within your gates." 31:17 Anyone in your home should respect 31:20 your laws in your home. 31:22 Why? 31:23 "For in six days the Lord made the heavens and the earth 31:26 and the sea, and all that is in them, 31:29 and He rested the seventh day. 31:31 Therefore the Lord blessed the seventh day 31:34 and He hallowed it." 31:35 Now you notice there's some special things 31:37 that God did to this day, 31:38 He didn't do it in the other day. 31:40 I'm gonna need a table up here and I gonna need one volunteer. 31:44 So... 31:48 Let me see. I'll come around the side here. 31:51 Let's get another odd boy. I've been neglecting the boys. 31:53 Right off the front here. All right, come on. 31:54 Don't worry, there's more. 31:56 There's more, more involvement. 31:58 All right, Pastor Ross is gonna help me. 32:00 And what was your name? 32:02 Micah. Micah? 32:03 Oh, that's a good name. 32:05 All right. 32:07 Here we go. 32:12 Now how many days in the week? 32:14 Seven. Seven days in the week? 32:16 Do you know your Bible pretty well, Micah? 32:20 And let's see here. 32:23 You think you could safely pour water in that first cup? 32:27 Can you pour water and tell me at the same time 32:29 what did God do on the first day? 32:31 What did He make? That's good. That's enough. 32:34 What did God make the first day? 32:37 Wanna help him? 32:38 On the first day God said, "Let there be..." 32:39 Light. Light. Is that right? 32:41 Now, I know you got the pressure of the cameras 32:42 it's hard to remember all that. 32:44 All right, you know what He made on the second day? 32:51 Separated, He made the heavens. 32:53 He separated the waters above below. 32:54 He made the atmosphere, the heavens, right. 32:56 Why don't you put something in the second day here? 33:00 Don't put too much water in the second day, 33:01 even those water. 33:03 All right. 33:04 Third day. 33:07 Vegetation. 33:10 Plants. Plants, isn't that right? 33:12 Yeah? 33:14 All right, so let's make the plants. 33:17 Okay. 33:18 And fourth day. 33:22 You guys, come on you got to read your Bible. 33:24 Sun, moon, and stars. 33:26 All right. 33:29 All right, that's good. 33:31 Lot of stars. 33:34 The fifth day He made the animals. 33:36 Okay, what did He make on the fifth day? 33:39 Animals! That's right. 33:41 Let's give him a hand. 33:43 Okay. 33:46 Now, He made the fish and the birds. 33:48 I didn't say which animals. That's right. 33:50 Correct. Fish and the birds. All right. 33:52 And then, 33:53 He made the land animals on the sixth day, all right? 33:59 And what was the final animal that God made? 34:05 Woman? 34:08 That's right. 34:10 Well... 34:12 Yeah. 34:13 You know, God made... Now this is really true. 34:16 God started making things that were simple. 34:19 And then He starts making plants, 34:21 things start getting very complex 34:22 and the sun, moon and stars, 34:24 and then He starts making the birds and the fish, 34:26 and then He makes the animals, 34:27 then He makes man in His own image. 34:29 And God says, "I'm gonna make 34:30 something extremely complicated." 34:33 And then He made girls. 34:36 All right. 34:37 They are the last thing He made. 34:39 Okay. 34:41 And then what did God make on the seventh day? 34:45 He made time! 34:46 All right, let's go ahead. 34:48 Let's see what happens here. 34:51 All right, that's good. 34:53 Now, why is that different? 34:57 You wanna taste that? Do you trust me? 35:00 You don't trust Pastor Doug. 35:02 You think I'd poison you 35:03 in front of everybody on television. 35:04 Boy, well, I think you can try it. 35:06 I will. It's got a lot of vitamin C. 35:09 Does that taste like water 35:11 or it tastes a little different? 35:12 Different. Little bit different. 35:14 Little bit sweet, little bit sour. 35:15 Yeah. Okay. 35:16 Is there something different about the Sabbath day? 35:19 What did God do differently? 35:20 It tells us that God on the seventh day, 35:23 He rested on that day, 35:25 He blessed that day, 35:27 He sanctified that day. 35:29 Do you see the difference, 35:31 something He did to this day, 35:33 He did not do to any other day? 35:35 He created things on that day, on the all the days, 35:37 but in this day, He made a day to be a day 35:40 of blessing, rest, holiness, sanctification. 35:44 Let's give Micah a hand. 35:45 Thank you very much for helping us 35:48 to do that illustration. 35:51 Also, not only is the Sabbath made 35:54 to be a blessing for everyone, 35:56 God says it's not just for Jews, it's for everyone. 35:57 Listen to this verse, Isaiah 56:6-7, 36:02 "Also the sons of the stranger 36:05 that join themselves to the Lord to serve him, 36:08 and to love the name of the Lord, 36:10 to be his servants, 36:11 everyone that keeps the Sabbath day from polluting it, 36:14 and keeping my covenant. 36:16 Even them," He says, even the sons of the strangers, 36:18 anybody that comes to join Israel, 36:21 "Even them I will bring to my holy mountain 36:24 and make them joyful." 36:26 Bible's called a blessing, 36:29 says, the Sabbath is a delight, 36:31 and those who keep it are, what? 36:33 Joyful. 36:35 Is the day supposed to be a burden or a blessing? 36:37 Blessing. A blessing. That's happy. 36:39 Jesus said, "Blessed are you." 36:41 He made the Sabbath to be a blessing, 36:42 that special day with Him. 36:44 And he said, "Six days you shall gather, 36:47 but on the seventh day, there'll be none." 36:49 Now there's no question about the Sabbath 36:51 being from the beginning. 36:53 Who knows what chapter 36:54 you'll find the Ten Commandments? 36:57 Exodus. Exodus Chapter? 36:58 Twenty. Twenty. Good job. 37:01 But you know what 37:03 they were keeping the Sabbath before Exodus 20. 37:05 Moses went to the Pharaoh said, "Let my people go." 37:08 And the Pharaoh said, 37:09 "Moses, you're making the people Shabbat." 37:11 That's the word. 37:12 He said, "You're telling them to Shabbat." To Sabbath. 37:16 "You're telling them to rest." 37:17 They knew what Sabbath rest was. 37:19 Then when the man that fell from heaven, 37:22 six days a week, but God said, 37:23 "Get twice as much on sixth day, Friday, 37:27 there'll be none on Sabbath." 37:29 So you can save some over. 37:30 That's why we get all our preparation done 37:32 on the sixth day so we can rest, 37:34 no stress on the Sabbath. 37:37 That's Exodus 16 is the manner. 37:40 The Ten Commandments don't even come till Exodus 20. 37:43 Sabbath goes all the way back to Adam and Eve 37:45 in the Garden of Eden when God blessed it. 37:48 So here's a question. 37:50 Why do many people worship God on Sunday now? 37:54 Have the Ten Commandments been changed? 37:57 Now we've talked about 37:59 the law of the King the other day, 38:00 do you remember? 38:01 Remember the girls and others trying to erase the stone? 38:05 Can you erase something spoken by God's voice, 38:09 written by God's finger 38:12 as part of His eternal plan? 38:14 Why would God change the Sabbath? 38:16 Was there something wrong with the seventh day? 38:20 Does the law of God, 38:21 does the Ten Commandments need changing? 38:24 Now the reason I'm spending time 38:26 talking about this evening is because 38:29 a lot of Christians are confused about 38:31 some of the commandments. 38:33 Some Christians think it's okay to pray to statues. 38:36 But the Bible says in the Second Commandment, 38:38 "You shall not make a graven image, 38:41 or the likeness of anything in the heaven above, 38:43 the earth beneath, of the water under the earth, 38:45 you shall not bow down yourself to them or serve them. 38:48 For I the Lord your God, I'm a jealous God, 38:51 visiting the iniquity of the father's upon the sun's 38:54 under the third and fourth generation of those 38:55 that hate Me and showing mercy 38:57 under thousands of those that love Me 39:00 and keep My commandments." 39:01 How do we keep His commandments? 39:03 Love Him and keep His commandments. 39:04 So some people forgot about that commandment. 39:06 But do you know one of the main commandments 39:08 Christians are neglecting? 39:11 Which commandment is the Sabbath? 39:12 Fourth. Fourth. 39:14 First four commandments talk about 39:16 our love relationship with God, 39:18 who He is, what His name is, 39:20 how to worship Him, when to worship Him. 39:23 And God said, "Remember, I blessed this day 39:25 I made an appointment to worship you." 39:27 But lot of Christians have been ignoring it. 39:30 And it's interesting, 39:31 they try to get rid of the whole Ten Commandments 39:33 because of the Sabbath. 39:35 See, I could stand up in most churches in Michigan, 39:38 and I could preach about 39:41 honor your father and mother. 39:43 And they say amen. 39:44 I could preach and say don't steal. 39:46 Amen. 39:48 Don't kill. Amen. 39:49 Don't covet. Amen. 39:51 Even though they do some of these things. 39:52 That's amen. 39:53 But then I say remember the seventh day Sabbath, 39:55 they go "We're not under the law. 39:57 Ten Commandments are done away with". 39:59 They have no problem with the Ten Commandments 40:01 until they learn the Sabbath truth. 40:04 Then they realize it's right in the middle. 40:07 I was doing a meeting 40:08 where I was talking about the Sabbath one time. 40:11 And a pastor was there who went to church on Sunday. 40:14 And he interrupted me. 40:16 He said, "Pastor Doug, 40:18 you're putting all these people under bondage, 40:20 telling them they have to keep the law." 40:22 And I said, "Brother, 40:23 do you believe God wants us to keep the Ten Commandments?" 40:26 He said, "No". 40:28 And some of his members were in the congregation, they went, 40:31 they didn't think their pastor would say 40:33 it's okay to break the Ten Commandments. 40:35 And he heard them and he said, "Well, yes." 40:38 And then they realized what, 40:39 but the Sabbath is part of the Ten Commandments. 40:41 And then he said, "Nine of them, 40:43 we're supposed to keep nine of the Ten Commandments." 40:46 And so I said, 40:47 "You mean the one commandment you're saying we should forget, 40:50 is the only commandment 40:52 that begins with the word remember." 40:55 Why would God tell us to forget 40:57 the only one that He says remember, 40:58 maybe God said Remember, 41:00 because He knew people would forget. 41:02 What do you think? 41:05 And Bible says in Ezekiel 22:26, 41:07 "Her priests have violated My law 41:10 and profane My holy things. 41:12 They've hidden their eyes from my Sabbaths." 41:16 Yes, even some pastors and priests, 41:18 they say we don't want to see this commandment 41:20 because it goes against our tradition. 41:22 But what's more important, the traditions of man 41:26 or the Commandments of God? 41:29 The Commandments of God. 41:30 Peter told the judges of Israel, 41:32 he said, "It's more important that we obey God than man." 41:37 How many of you remember the story 41:39 where Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego. 41:42 They had Jewish names Hananiah, and Mishael, and Azariah. 41:45 They would not bow down to the king's image. 41:46 Why? 41:48 'Cause one of the Ten Commandments says 41:49 don't make an image and bow down. 41:51 They were ready to die and go to the furnace, 41:53 rather than disobey. 41:54 Don't you want that kind of faith? 41:56 So the king threw them in the furnace. 41:59 They said, "It's more important to obey God than man." 42:01 Even the king, 42:03 king threw them in the furnace and Jesus delivered them. 42:06 Then another king came along Darius, he told Daniel, 42:09 you can't pray to anybody but me for 30 days. 42:12 First commandment says, "You will not have other gods." 42:15 Daniel said more important to obey God than men, 42:18 even though everybody else was bowing down 42:20 and everybody else was breaking the commandments. 42:22 Daniel said, "I will not." 42:23 He was thrown in the lions' den. 42:26 Jesus came and delivered him in the lions' den. 42:29 We're going to be tested in the last days 42:30 on this commandment too. 42:32 So we need to be faithful. 42:34 Jesus asked, 42:36 "Why do you transgress the commandment of God 42:38 because of your tradition?" 42:40 God does not want us to break His commandments 42:43 in order to follow some popular tradition. 42:46 All right, I need, 42:48 maybe I'll get four or five volunteers. 42:51 Okay, we're gonna go out here. 42:53 Have you been up yet? 42:54 All right, you come on up? 42:56 Let me go here. 42:57 Well, you can come, you had your hand up first. 43:02 Young man there. 43:03 You? Okay. You asked? 43:06 I see, how many is that, four? 43:08 All right you. 43:10 I'm sorry, that's very indiscriminate. 43:12 I know, there's no method to my madness 43:13 of how I pick young people. 43:15 You guys like birthday parties? 43:17 Yes. All right. 43:18 Did you know we're gonna celebrate a birthday today? 43:22 So, if you want to get into the spirit of the birthday, 43:26 I'm gonna need some help here. 43:29 All right, let's see. 43:32 Y'all need to put on some of your birthday glasses here. 43:34 Hand them, you hand them out. 43:35 What's your name? Trey. 43:37 Trey? Yeah. 43:38 All right, I need a birthday hat. 43:39 What's your name? 43:41 Giana. Giana? 43:42 You're gonna put one of those on, Giana, 43:44 you know, put them on. 43:45 Put that under your chin. 43:46 All right, and your name? Dennis. 43:48 Dennis? 43:50 Okay, you put on your glasses, put on your birthday hat. 43:53 And when I say, when I give you the signal, 43:55 I say Happy Birthday, 43:57 then you blow on your little horns 43:58 and we're gonna celebrate a birthday here. 44:01 Your glasses won't stay on? 44:03 Don't worry, you don't have to wear your glasses 44:04 if they don't cooperate. 44:06 Pastor Doug know once they had to, 44:08 here pass out some of these little birthday whistles 44:11 so you give, make sure everybody gets 44:12 one of birthday whistles here. 44:14 What else are we missing for a birthday? 44:16 Cake. Need a cake? 44:19 Maybe, maybe Mrs. Batchelor knows 44:20 where we can find a cake. 44:24 Okay, there it is. 44:31 And we got a balloon, 44:34 go and put the cake on the table. 44:35 On the table? Yeah. 44:41 And here we go. 44:43 Hello. All right. 44:48 Hang on here. 44:53 What was your name again? Giana. 44:54 Giana, why don't you come up here, Giana? 44:56 You can stand right here. 45:00 Squeeze real hard right, get that candle lit, 45:03 All right. 45:04 When I say count to three 45:05 we're gonna sing happy birthday to Giana. 45:08 How old are you? 45:10 Eight. You're eight? 45:11 Well today you're gonna be seven. 45:13 And when's your birthday? June 2nd. 45:16 June 2nd? All right. 45:20 So here we go. 45:22 Happy birthday to Giana, okay? 45:25 Happy birthday to you 45:29 Happy birthday to you. 45:33 Happy birthday, dear Giana. 45:38 Happy birthday to you. 45:50 Let's hope we don't start a fire here. 45:53 Now you're not, you look a little confused Giana. 45:55 No, I'm not. 45:56 You don't mind if we change your birth day, do you? 45:58 Yeah. You do? 46:00 But we just celebrated, 46:02 now that we celebrated your birthday 46:04 on the 19th of June, 46:05 your parents won't mind if we move your birthday. 46:07 From now on it'll be the 19th 46:08 because we celebrated. 46:10 Can we do that? No. 46:14 But we just had a party. 46:17 Don't you want the cake? 46:23 She's giving. 46:25 She's given. I'm very proud of her. 46:26 She's giving the right answer. 46:28 You can't just claim someone else's birthday changes 46:32 because he's celebrated. 46:34 If people are celebrating, 46:36 if people change the day that God has blessed, 46:38 does that change it? 46:40 No. 46:42 And so, but you are going to get to keep the cape 46:44 and you get to keep your real birthday. 46:46 Your parents will be happy about that. 46:47 Okay, Mrs. Bat, you want to blow out the candle? 46:49 I know you're eight years old. 46:51 Go ahead. 46:53 Come on, put your heart into it. 46:54 You may as well spit on it. It's yours. 46:56 It doesn't matter. It's okay. 46:58 All right. Mrs. Batchelor would wrap it up, 46:59 and if your parents let you have it, you can have that. 47:01 Let's give them all a hand. Okay? 47:06 Yeah, did you guys get the point of my illustration? 47:09 Yes. 47:10 Just because everybody gets together and we decide 47:13 we're going to pick another day and celebrate a day. 47:15 You can't change the day of Giana's birthday 47:17 and you can't change the day 47:19 that God had for the birthday of the world. 47:22 What was the day that God picked 47:24 for the birthday of the world? 47:26 Seventh day he celebrated with man, the creation. 47:29 And some of the world are trying to change that, 47:32 you can't do that. 47:34 God says, 47:35 "My covenant I will not break 47:38 or alter the word that has gone out of my lips." 47:41 God says, "I'm not going to change my word." 47:44 Question six. 47:46 Did Jesus keep the seventh day Sabbath? 47:49 What does the Bible say? Absolutely. 47:52 "As his custom was, he went into the synagogue, 47:54 that's the church, on the Sabbath day, 47:56 and he stood up to read." 47:58 A custom is something you do on a regular basis. 48:00 Ever since being a child, 48:01 Jesus went to church, they closed the carpenter shop 48:04 every Sabbath. 48:06 He kept the Sabbath day. 48:07 "And when the Sabbath had come, 48:09 He began to teach in the synagogue," Mark 6:2. 48:14 Shouldn't we keep Sunday as the Sabbath 48:16 because Jesus rose on that day? 48:18 No. No? 48:20 Where's... Now did Jesus rise on Sunday? 48:23 He did. 48:24 Is that a good thing that He rose? 48:26 Amen. 48:27 But does it make a new Sabbath? 48:29 No. No. 48:30 Who knows what day of the week, 48:31 did Jesus have the last supper with His disciples? 48:35 Friday, Thursday. 48:37 Thursday night, technically after sundown, 48:39 it would have been Friday, 48:41 but it was Thursday night. 48:42 Then He was... 48:44 Does Thursday become a new Sabbath? 48:45 No. 48:46 What day of the week did He die? 48:48 Friday. 48:49 Does Friday become a new Sabbath? 48:51 Jesus did important things on many days. 48:54 He even met with the disciples once on Monday 48:56 after the resurrection, 48:58 but that doesn't make it a new Sabbath. 49:00 There's only one day God has blessed and sanctified. 49:02 And even the apostles kept that day. 49:05 "Paul went in as his custom was, 49:07 and three Sabbath days 49:09 he reasoned with them from the scriptures. 49:12 And he reasoned in the synagogue 49:13 every Sabbath, not just for the Jews. 49:16 He persuaded Jews and Greeks, 49:18 the Jews and the Gentiles." 49:20 Paul was in church every Sabbath, 49:22 Peter, Luke, the apostles, 49:24 they all kept the seventh-day Sabbath. 49:27 So when the Jews went out of the synagogue, 49:29 the Gentiles asked that these words 49:31 might be preached to them the next Sabbath, 49:34 and Jesus looking down at the end of time in prophecy, 49:37 when you have to run for your life, 49:39 because Christians are being persecuted. 49:41 He said, "Pray that your flight," 49:43 that doesn't mean your airplane flight. 49:45 It means fleeing for your life. 49:47 Pray that you will not have to flee 49:49 in the winter or on the Sabbath. 49:51 Christ expected His people that love Him 49:54 to be keeping the Sabbath 49:55 all the way down to the end. 49:57 He said, "If you turn away your foot From the Sabbath, 50:00 from doing your pleasure on My Holy Day," 50:03 what does He call the Sabbath? 50:04 God says, "The Sabbath is My Holy Day." 50:08 Jesus said, "The Son of Man is Lord of the Sabbath." 50:11 Some people say, 50:12 "Well, Sunday is the Lord's Day." 50:14 It doesn't say that anywhere in the Bible. 50:16 Show me one place in the Bible that says, 50:18 Sunday is the Lord's Day. 50:20 See, I'm being quiet. 50:22 Show me one place in the Bible 50:23 where we are commanded to keep the first day holy. 50:27 No. No? The first day. 50:30 No, there's no place. 50:33 So if God didn't change the seventh-day to Sabbath, 50:35 the Sunday, how did it happen? 50:37 Now let's look at history real quick. 50:40 It says that this beast power would come. 50:43 And he would think to change times and laws. 50:47 And during the time of a Roman Emperor 50:49 named Constantine. 50:51 I'll give you a little history. 50:52 You remember reading 50:54 where the Romans used to kill the Christians. 50:55 They'd feed them to the lions. 50:57 They trampled them with elephants in the Coliseum. 51:01 They'd be killed by gladiators. 51:03 It was terrible. A lot of Christians died. 51:05 But the more they persecuted the Christians, 51:08 the more the church grew. 51:09 They were very brave. 51:11 Constantine came along, he was a politician. 51:13 He said, you know, 51:15 he was the emperor, the king. 51:16 He said, "The Christians aren't really hurting anybody," 51:18 and his own mother became a Christian. 51:21 So he said, 51:22 "I've had a vision that we're supposed to conquer 51:24 under the sign of the cross, 51:26 and I'm legalizing Christianity." 51:28 And he just declared to the whole nation, 51:30 he says, you can all be Christians, 51:32 but he was really a pagan king, 51:34 he worshiped other gods. 51:36 And all of a sudden all these pagans came into the church 51:38 and they started taking pagan practices with them. 51:42 For example, Constantine established Sunday 51:45 as a day of worship, 51:47 and here it is from Encyclopedia Britannica, 51:49 page 654, 51:51 the earliest recognition of the observance of Sunday 51:54 is a constitution 51:56 of Constantine in 321 AD. 52:01 He enacted an edict 52:02 saying that all the courts of justice 52:04 and inhabitants of the towns 52:05 and workshops were to be at rest on Sunday. 52:07 This is over 300 years after Jesus. 52:11 Men started changing or trying to change the law of God. 52:15 Jesus said, "In vain they worship Me, 52:18 teaching as doctrines the commandments of men." 52:22 God doesn't want us changing His commandments. 52:24 Now we know what day the Sabbath 52:26 is because the Bible says in Luke 23:54, 52:29 "The day when Jesus was crucified 52:31 was the preparation day, 52:33 and the Sabbath drew on. 52:35 And they returned and prepare the spices and ointments, 52:38 and they rested the Sabbath day according to the commandment." 52:42 You know, the disciples of Jesus loved Jesus so much, 52:44 that even when they were going to wrap His body 52:46 after He died in the tomb, 52:48 they said they weren't going to do that on the Sabbath. 52:52 They would wait till Sunday morning 52:53 because they knew Jesus would not approve of them 52:55 doing that kind of work. 52:57 They thought that's too much work for Sabbath. 52:58 We'll come back Sunday after the Sabbath. 53:01 His disciples thought it was so important. 53:03 They would not even finish that labor of love 53:06 because they knew that would displease Jesus. 53:08 So the first day of the week 53:10 they came back to finish wrapping His body 53:11 and putting on the ointments, 53:13 and they came to the tomb 53:15 and praise the Lord, He rose. 53:16 So what's the day? 53:18 You got Friday, sixth day, preparation day. 53:21 Sabbath day is what we call Saturday, 53:23 first day when He rose is Sunday. 53:26 After Jesus comes will we keep the Sabbath? 53:29 Now we know Adam kept it in the Garden of Eden. 53:33 Sabbath was made for man. 53:35 We know Moses and the people of Israel kept it. 53:38 We know Jesus and the apostles kept it, 53:40 but then you look in, it tells us in Isaiah 66:22, 53:44 "For as the new heavens and the new earth 53:46 which I will make will remain before me, says the Lord, 53:49 so shall your descendants and your name remain, 53:52 and it will come to pass from one Sabbath to another." 53:56 Well, all flesh, does it say all Jews? 54:00 All people come and worship before Me. 54:03 How many want to go to heaven 54:04 and worship before Jesus in heaven? 54:06 Spend a day with the King? 54:07 If you want to worship before Him there in heaven, 54:09 maybe you should start worshipping 54:11 before Him here, now. 54:13 Sabbath is called The Holy Convocation. 54:15 That means it's a day for us to come together 54:17 with Jesus to worship corporately, collectively. 54:22 So do you love Jesus? 54:24 Do you want to keep that seventh-day Sabbath? 54:26 Remember what our commandment... 54:28 What our memory verse was, "Whoever therefore breaks 54:30 one of the least of these commandments, 54:32 and teaches men so, 54:34 he will be called least in the kingdom of heaven. 54:36 But whoever does them and teaches them, 54:39 you know why Pastor Doug talks about this? 54:40 Because Jesus said, "If you even do and teach 54:43 the least of them, 54:44 you will be great in the kingdom of heaven." 54:46 And Jesus said, "If you love Me, 54:48 you'll do" what? 54:49 "Keep My commandments." 54:51 I got a funny story for you. I'll end with. 54:54 How many of you know the American presidents? 54:56 You know most of them? 54:58 You're really good if you know all, what are there? 54:59 Forty something five of them now. 55:01 Forty five. Forty five presidents, yeah. 55:04 Mrs. Batchelor and I met maybe three of them. 55:08 Well, one was a vice president. I take it back. 55:11 But I'll tell you later. 55:13 But, how many of you heard 55:15 of President David Rice Atchison? 55:20 He was only president for one day. 55:21 There's a picture of his tombstone 55:24 where he's buried, says President of the United States 55:28 for one day. 55:30 You know how that happened? 55:32 Because years ago, 55:33 when the term for President Polk 55:35 came to an end, 55:36 he was the 11th president. 55:38 It ended on a Saturday. 55:42 President Zachary Taylor 55:43 did not want to be inaugurated on Sunday 55:46 because he thought Sunday was the Sabbath. 55:47 He says, "That's too much activity 55:49 and fanfare for the Sabbath day. 55:50 I want to rest that day. 55:52 I'll get inaugurated on Monday." 55:53 Well, government got together and says 55:55 we can't have a day without a president. 55:57 We've got to have someone be president. 55:59 Well, since the real president, vice president were retiring, 56:01 the next person in line 56:03 was the president pro tem 56:05 who was the chief of the Senate, 56:06 David Rice Atchison. 56:09 He was told you're going to be president for 24 hours. 56:13 But the sad thing was he was so busy Saturday 56:16 doing all the final work 56:18 for the end of President Polk's term, 56:20 legislation and writing bills and sending messages 56:22 and doing all the tying up the loose ends. 56:24 He worked and worked. 56:25 He went to sleep Saturday night. 56:27 He slept for 24 hours. 56:32 And he snored through his entire presidency. 56:37 For years, he told people he said, 56:39 I know I was president for one day, 56:42 but I'll make you a promise. 56:44 I had the most honest presidential administration 56:47 of any president, 56:48 because he was sleeping, he couldn't do anything wrong. 56:51 How sad to be president for a day and miss it, 56:54 because you snored. 56:56 Some people are missing a day with the King 56:59 that He's picked for you. 57:01 Do you want to keep that day? 57:29 You know, the most important decision 57:31 a young person can make 57:32 is that decision to follow Jesus 57:34 and begin that amazing adventure to eternity. 57:37 That's why we're so excited to tell you 57:39 about the new Amazing Adventure programs that are available. 57:43 During these nearly 10 hours 57:44 of exciting high definition programs, 57:47 the young people will do science experiments, 57:49 learn about history, nature, encounter some wild animals, 57:52 and most of all, 57:54 they'll learn about Jesus from the Word of God. 57:56 There's a beautifully illustrated Bible Study Guide 57:59 to go along with each of the video presentations. 58:02 These beautiful illustrated study guides 58:04 are full of pictures, and puzzles, and Bible stories. 58:07 They'll lead your kids through 58:08 an incredible journey with Jesus. 58:10 And for me, the most exciting thing 58:12 is this new Amazing Adventure series 58:14 goes along with the Amazing Facts Adventure Bible. 58:17 The Bible, the study guides, 58:18 the DVDs are all designed 58:21 to lead your young person 58:22 on a Journey for Life with Jesus. 58:24 Call the number on your screen 58:26 or contact us at afbookstore.com. |
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