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00:03 by the friends of the Amazing Facts Ministry. 00:09 ♪♪♪ 00:14 Doug Batchelor : Jesus spoke a lot about the Sabbath, but He 00:16 never spoke about whether or not it should be kept. 00:18 He spoke about how it should be kept. 00:20 It was always presumed it would be kept because it's one 00:23 of the Ten Commandments. 00:24 God's not going to change one of the Ten Commandments 00:26 without making that very clear. 00:32 Doug: You know, as I was praying about what to share this week, 00:36 the Lord impressed me to talk about something that is very 00:40 basic and foundational, but I think it's good for us to be 00:43 reminded of these things. 00:46 Now, there's few things that are more important than 00:49 the Ten Commandments. 00:51 You know, there's one Jesus, one Bible, one Holy spirit, 00:55 but unfortunately, there are hundreds of different 00:58 Christian denominations. 01:01 And the different denominations argue about different 01:03 theological points. 01:06 I'm sure there's some that would disagree with us, but a lot 01:08 of them disagree with each other over everything from the mode 01:13 of baptism, whether or not you need to speak in tongues if you 01:16 received the Holy Spirit, whether or not the wine 01:19 during the communion should be fermented or unfermented, 01:24 whether or not you should do it every week or once a year. 01:26 There's just a whole plethora of different doctrines that 01:29 churches debate and argue about. 01:32 And some things are more important than others. 01:34 Even within our church you'll find some difference of opinion 01:38 on who comprises the 144,000, and understanding the seven 01:43 trumpets and Daniel 11. 01:45 And, you know, there are some things that maybe are not 01:47 essentials, but if there is anything that is an essential 01:51 to understand, I would think it would be, oh, what do God's 01:56 commandments say? 01:58 What is sin? 02:00 These things are priorities. 02:03 They're very important issues. 02:04 So with that in mind, is Sunday really sacred? 02:08 And we're going to begin at the beginning, 02:11 Genesis chapter 2. 02:13 God made the world in six days-- no really seven days, because He 02:15 wasn't done creating until after the full week. 02:20 He made one more thing, He made a day. 02:23 "Thus the heavens and the earth were finished, and all the host 02:26 of them. 02:27 And on the seventh day God ended His work which He had made, 02:31 and He rested the seventh day from all His work which 02:34 He had done. 02:36 And God Blessed the seventh day and sanctified it, made it holy, 02:40 because in it He rested from all His work which God created 02:43 and made." 02:44 He did not make it holy for himself. 02:45 He made it holy for man to remember. 02:47 The Bible says the Sabbath was made for man. 02:50 It doesn't say the Sabbath was made for Jews. 02:53 The word there is "anthropos," it means mankind, humanity. 02:58 And it's first time also you're going to find the word "seven" 03:02 mentioned three times. 03:03 It says seven, seven, seven, it's a number associated 03:05 with God. 03:07 The seventh day, the seventh day, the seventh day. 03:08 Very specific. 03:09 He get to the last book of the Bible, you have another 03:11 number associated with man, who was made on the sixth day, 03:14 and it's six, six, six. 03:15 So you've got this contest between the worship of God 03:18 and the worship of man that goes on through the Bible. 03:22 Now, you go to the Ten Commandments. 03:23 You find them in Exodus chapter 20, verse 8, "Remember 03:27 the Sabbath day to keep it holy. 03:28 Six days you should labor and do all of your work, 03:31 but the seventh day is the Sabbath 03:34 of the Lord your God. 03:36 In it you shall not do any work, your son or your daughter--" 03:37 so forth. 03:39 But very clearly says do all your work six days, seventh day, 03:42 holy time. 03:44 This is one of the Ten Commandments spoken 03:47 by God's voice. 03:49 They are not ten suggestions. 03:50 They're not 10 recommendations. 03:52 God spoke with His own voice, wrote with His own finger His 03:55 eternal law, moral law, for all His people, for all the world 04:00 for that matter. 04:01 So which day is the seventh day? 04:04 Some people say, "Well, you can't really know just using 04:07 the Bible." 04:09 Well, if we start with the dictionary, 04:10 that's not the Bible. 04:12 Dictionary: seventh day, Saturday, seventh day 04:15 of the week. 04:16 You go to the Bible, tells us that Jesus was crucified 04:19 on the Preparation Day, which we know to be Friday. 04:23 Then it says they went home and they kept the Sabbath 04:25 according to the commandment, the seventh day. 04:27 And then he rose. 04:28 They came to the tomb early Sunday morning, the first day. 04:31 People call it Easter Sunday. 04:33 So you can even look in the Bible. 04:34 It's pretty clear. 04:36 What day is the Lord's day? 04:37 Now, many Christians will say, Well, you've got the Sabbath 04:40 day, which is what the Jews kept, and then you've got 04:42 the Lord's day, which is what Christians teach. 04:45 And they get this from Revelation chapter 1, verse 04:48 10, where John says, "I was in the spirit on the Lord's day, 04:53 and I heard a voice behind me like the sound of a trumpet." 04:55 And so this is the beginning of Revelation. 04:59 See that's the Lord's Day. 05:01 But there's not a single verse in the Bible that says that that 05:05 is referring to the Lord's Day. 05:06 In fact, it's the contrary. 05:08 John was imprisoned by Rome on the Isle of Patmos where they 05:12 had mines. 05:13 And the prisoners were required to work in the mines, but John 05:16 refused to work on the Sabbath day, and that is when the Lord 05:20 gave him the vision. 05:21 It doesn't say anything in the text that this is now 05:24 some new different day of worship for the children 05:28 of Israel or for the Christians. 05:30 What does the Bible say is the Lord's Day? 05:33 Isaiah 58:13, "If you turn away your foot from the Sabbath, 05:37 from doing your pleasure on My holy day." 05:40 What day is the Lord's Day? 05:42 Sabbath day. 05:43 Look at this one, Exodus 6. 05:45 We just read the Ten Commandments, "Six days you 05:46 should labor and do all your work, but the seventh day is 05:49 the Sabbath of the Jews." 05:51 Is that what it says? 05:53 Seventh day is the Sabbath of the Lord. 05:57 "And Jesus said, 'The son of Man is Lord of the Sabbath.'" 06:02 All things that were made, were made by Christ. 06:04 Will that include when he wrote the Ten Commandments? 06:07 Yes. 06:08 So if the Sabbath is the Lord's Day, why do so many people 06:12 worship on Sunday? 06:15 Jesus said, "All too well you reject the commandment of God, 06:19 that you may keep your tradition." 06:21 Sunday keeping is not based on Scripture, it is based 06:24 on a tradition. 06:25 I'm going to prove it to you from the Bible as we go on here 06:28 and from history. 06:30 Some of you have heard this interesting story from history, 06:33 where I think it was Czar Nicholas, he looked out of his 06:35 palace walls one day and he noticed that this guard had 06:38 always been standing at this obscure place on the wall. 06:41 There's no gate. 06:43 There was no door. 06:44 And one day he was walking in the garden. 06:45 He went up to the garden and he said, "Why exactly are you 06:48 standing here?" 06:49 Well, the guard was very nervous, and he said, "Well, 06:52 I have orders to stand here, your majesty." 06:55 And he said, "Do you know why?" 06:57 He said, "No, we've just always had someone here 06:58 24 hours a day." 07:00 So he went to the captain. 07:02 Now, the Czar was getting very curious, and he said, "Why do we 07:04 always have a soldier standing at that particular remote spot 07:07 in the garden? 07:09 There's nothing there." 07:10 And he said, "Well, it's just been a standing order for years. 07:12 We've always had 24 hours a day a guard 07:14 has to be stationed there. 07:16 It's been mandated. 07:17 It's in the archives." 07:19 So the Czar went to look at the archives to try and find 07:21 out why is there a soldier there in the archives. 07:23 It said 100 years earlier Catherine the great was 07:28 entertaining guests. 07:30 One of her guests came, a dignitary from another 07:32 country, and gave her a gift of an exotic rosebush. 07:36 They planted the rosebush, and she said, "I don't want this 07:39 to be trampled. 07:40 Have a guard guard my rosebush." 07:43 Well, the rosebush died five years after they planted it, 07:47 but at that point they were in the habit of guarding that spot. 07:51 And so for 100 years, a guard was standing there 07:53 without questioning why he was standing there. 07:56 It was a tradition. 07:58 And there are still traditions that Christians guard that there 08:02 is no rhyme or reason for except that it's 08:04 a tradition. 08:06 There's no biblical reason for it. 08:08 So some of the other Scriptures that explain this, Ezekiel 22, 08:13 verse 26 and verse 31, "Her priests have violated my law 08:17 and profane My holy things. 08:20 They put no difference between the profane 08:22 and the holy. 08:24 They have hid their eyes from my Sabbaths, and I am profane 08:28 among them. 08:29 Therefore I poured out my indignation on them." 08:33 You know, one of the reasons I was convinced of the Sabbath 08:35 truth is because after I first learned these things, I went 08:37 to my pastors. 08:39 I used to go to church on Sunday. 08:41 I was so into Christianity I was going to several 08:45 different churches. 08:47 One church said we'd have a Wednesday night Bible study. 08:48 I'd be there. 08:50 And then I'd go to another denomination, 08:51 I'd be at their service. 08:53 Another one would have a special early morning service, 08:54 I went there. 08:56 I was going to four or five different churches, studying 08:57 with all these Christian groups in Southern California. 08:59 I was just hungry. 09:01 I couldn't get enough. 09:02 But when I learned the Sabbath truth, I'd ask the different 09:04 pastors and say, "So why do we go to church on Sunday?" 09:09 And if you ask ten different pastors, you would get 09:11 11 different answers. 09:14 One would say, these are just a few examples, "Doug, 09:18 we're no longer under the Ten Commandments. 09:21 We're now under Grace." 09:23 I said, "Well, what does that mean? 09:24 Does that mean that we don't need to keep the Ten 09:26 Commandments?" 09:27 They said, "Well, we're not under the law." 09:29 So what, wait, let me help me understand that. 09:30 "Is it okay now to kill?" "Well, no." 09:32 "Steal?" "No." 09:33 "Lying?" "No." 09:34 "Commit adultery?" "No." 09:36 What they really meant is there's one commandment you're 09:38 not supposed to remember anymore. 09:43 That's the Sabbath. 09:45 I said, "But isn't that the one that says remember?" 09:46 So that didn't make sense. 09:48 And so I talked to another one. 09:49 He said, "Because of the Resurrection, Jesus rose 09:51 on the first day of the week, and so it is the new 09:54 Christian Sabbath." 09:56 I said, "That sounds beautiful." 09:57 Said, "Where is the Scripture that tells us that?" 09:59 "Well, there is no specific Scripture, but we've had 10:02 a longstanding tradition." 10:04 As though there's some value in that. 10:06 And then I had another friend. 10:07 He was the most creative. 10:09 And he said, "Doug, back in the days of Joshua, you 10:12 remember Joshua prayed and the sun stood still. 10:15 Saturday turned into Sunday back then." 10:20 And I said, "Well, that's interesting. 10:21 I said, Except why did they continue to keep it 10:24 on the seventh day for another 1,500 years after that?" 10:28 And he couldn't answer that. 10:30 And they were all giving me difference that they didn't 10:31 agree with each other. 10:33 I said something's wrong. 10:34 They are hiding their eyes from a very obvious truth 10:39 because they have counted the cost of what will it mean if 10:43 I take a stand for this Biblical truth? 10:45 I'll lose my congregation. 10:46 I'll be very unpopular. 10:48 I know pastors that have taken a stand, and it cost them. 10:52 I know some pastors took a stand for the truth, and the majority 10:55 of the church followed them in the Sabbath truth. 10:59 Doug Batchelor: Don't go anywhere, friends. 11:01 In just a moment we'll return for the rest 11:03 of today's presentation. 11:05 You know, millions of sincere Christians assemble on the first 11:08 day of the week, but is that actually the true Bible Sabbath? 11:12 Does the Bible record a change in one of the Ten Commandments? 11:15 And if not, doesn't it seem important that we 11:18 should know for sure? 11:20 We have a special free resource we'd like to give you concerning 11:23 this topic, it's called "Is Sunday Really Sacred?" 11:28 This eye-opening book reveals some amazing facts regarding 11:31 what the Bible actually says about the Sabbath truth. 11:35 And what God's word has to say may truly surprise you. 11:38 To get your free copy, call the phone number on your screen 11:42 and ask for offer number 150 or visit the web address. 11:46 And after you read this incredible resource, make sure 11:49 and share it with a friend. 11:51 Well, let's get back to today's presentation and learn some more 11:54 amazing facts from the Word of God. 11:57 Doug: So what we're going do now, if we want to know why 12:02 would any Christian keep Sunday instead of the Sabbath, 12:06 the first day instead of the seventh. 12:09 We're gonna look at every reference to Sunday, except you 12:12 realize the word Sunday does not appear in the New Testament. 12:15 Sometimes you'll hear the word "sundry" if you're reading 12:17 the King James. 12:19 Sundry is not Sunday. 12:21 Sundries means different. 12:23 God in various times and sundry manners spoke to the prophets 12:26 in time past. 12:27 That means different manners. 12:30 So if you look at every reference to the first day 12:33 of the week, which is what we commonly refer to as Sunday, you 12:38 might find if there's a change. 12:40 There's eight references in the New Testament. 12:42 And nobody's going to argue the Old Testament because it's 12:44 very clear it's the seventh day there. 12:46 So we're going to take them one by one. 12:48 Does that sound fair? 12:49 And we'll look at them and see what the Bible says. 12:52 Look at the first four references are simply 12:54 historical. 12:55 They are talking about the time of the Resurrection. 12:58 Matthew 28, verse 1, "In the end of the Sabbath--" 13:03 Harold Camping was the founder of Family Radio. 13:05 Good radio station, I listened to them. 13:08 But he used to answer Bible questions, and he would always-- 13:11 when people asked about the Sabbath, he would go 13:13 to this verse. 13:14 He'd say, "See what it says right there? 13:15 The end of the Sabbath. 13:17 That means the Sabbath is now over. 13:18 You don't need to keep the Sabbath anymore." 13:20 That's not what it's saying. 13:21 It's saying that that week after the crucifixion, 13:24 after the Sabbath was over, it's saying that they came early 13:28 in the morning on the first day of the week. 13:29 He tried to build a whole doctrine. 13:31 I told you there's 11 different answers if you ask 10 different 13:34 pastors, the reason why. 13:36 "As it began towards the first day of the week." 13:38 Now, is that a new command, to keep the first day? 13:41 You find built into that anything that says now we have 13:44 a new Sabbath day? 13:45 It's on the first day. 13:46 No, it's a simple historical record. 13:48 Now did--was it important that Jesus rose on the first day 13:51 of the week? 13:53 Absolutely. 13:55 Does that make it a new Sabbath? 13:57 Was there anything wrong with the seventh day where God 14:00 had to now change it? 14:02 No. 14:03 Was the seventh day Sabbath chosen before or after sin? 14:08 Before sin. 14:10 It's part of God's perfect plan. 14:11 There's nothing wrong with it. 14:12 Did God do important things on Thursday? 14:16 Was the Lord's Supper important? 14:18 That's Thursday. 14:20 Does it make it a new Sabbath? 14:21 How important is the Crucifixion? 14:25 What day of the week was that? 14:26 Friday. 14:28 Is that a new Sabbath? 14:29 Mark 16:9, a very similar reference, "Now when Jesus was 14:33 risen on the first day of the week, He appeared first 14:35 to Mary Magdalene." 14:37 Do you find built into this verse that there's 14:39 a new commandment? 14:42 No, there's nothing there, simply the record 14:44 of what happened. 14:46 John 20, very similar, "The first day of the week comes Mary 14:49 early while it was still dark. 14:51 She came to the tomb." 14:53 And just again a historical record. 14:56 There's no new voice from a mountain, no new finger 14:59 writing new law in stone saying, "Now the first day is to be our 15:02 new Sabbath." 15:04 Nothing of the sort, Mark 16:1 and 2, "Now when the sabbath was 15:08 passed, Mary Magdalene, Mary the mother of James and Salome, 15:11 brought spices, that they might come and anoint Him." 15:14 Now, this to me is actually proof that the seventh day was 15:18 still important. 15:20 If Jesus had taught the apostles that they didn't need to keep 15:23 the Sabbath anymore, or the seventh day wasn't going 15:26 to be important, it was not gonna be meaningful for them, 15:31 why was it so important to the disciples that they would 15:34 not finish embalming His body on Friday when the Sun 15:39 was going down? 15:41 They knew Jesus would not be pleased with that. 15:42 There was a lot of work involved in. 15:44 And then they said let's wait until after the Sabbath 15:46 has passed. 15:48 That's why they waited because the Sabbath was important. 15:51 You know, Jesus even kept the Sabbath in His death. 15:53 He died Friday, rested through the Sabbath, rose 15:55 after it was over. 15:57 And so the idea that it's been done away with 15:59 just doesn't hold water. 16:01 No new commandment here. 16:03 "Very early in the morning on the first day of the week, 16:05 they came to the tomb when the sun had risen." 16:08 Again, it's just telling us what happened there. 16:11 And then the next reference is in Luke. 16:13 Luke 23 verse 56 says, "They returned, and they prepared 16:17 spices and fragrant oils. 16:19 They rested on the sabbath day according to the Commandments." 16:22 So they prepared. 16:23 That was the Preparation Day. 16:25 They got everything ready. 16:26 That's what we would call Friday. 16:28 They kept the Sabbath according-- 16:30 Does he say the Jewish law? 16:32 Luke was a Gentile. 16:33 He says the Sabbath. 16:34 He states it like every Christian will know about this. 16:36 And he's writing this years after the Crucifixion. 16:39 He could've said the old Jewish Sabbath. 16:41 He says according to the commandment, 16:42 not the old commandment. 16:44 It's all stated as though it's still in existence. 16:47 "Now on the first day of the week, very early 16:49 in the morning, they came to the sepulchre," or the tomb. 16:52 Is there anything in here that says, "And God established a new 16:56 Sabbath day?" 16:57 So we're looking at all the references to the first day. 17:00 We're looking for that commandment. 17:01 I know one evangelist was very dramatic. 17:03 When he would preach on this subject, he would bring $1,000 17:07 and he put it up front for everyone to see it. 17:11 He said, "I'm going to give this away to anybody tonight that can 17:14 show me this missing text in the Bible. 17:17 What I want from you is to show me one commandment in the Bible 17:21 to keep the first day as the new Christian Sabbath." 17:25 Of course, everybody's very quiet because it's not there. 17:28 And he always got to take his money home. 17:31 So he was happy doing that. 17:34 Now we'll go to the sixth reference text referring 17:38 to the first day of the week. 17:39 And it talks--is it a new Sabbath day? 17:42 This is talking about the day of the Resurrection. 17:43 It says, "Then that same day at evening--" 17:46 Now, wait, what day is this? 17:49 First day. 17:50 When does a day begin and end in the Bible? 17:53 So when it's talking about the same day that Christ 17:55 rose, first day of the week, evening, it's getting ready 17:58 to turn into Monday. 18:00 See what's happening? 18:02 "When the doors were shut, the disciples were assembled 18:07 to inaugurate a new Sabbath." 18:09 Is that why they're assembled? 18:10 It says, "They were assembled for fear of the Jews." 18:14 The Jews were saying the body was stolen. 18:16 They thought they were going to come looking for them. 18:18 And Jesus came, met with them, and said, "peace to you." 18:22 Now, you also look later, I think it's verse 26 in the same 18:26 chapter, it says, "Eight days later He met with them again." 18:30 This time Thomas is there. 18:33 What is eight days after Sunday? 18:36 Seven days after Sunday would be what? 18:39 Sunday. 18:40 Eight days after Sunday is Monday. 18:43 So He also meets with them on a Monday. 18:46 Is that a new Sabbath? 18:48 So the idea because Jesus did something and met 18:51 with the disciples-- 18:53 He met with them by the sea when they were fishing. 18:54 Obviously, if they were fishing, it wasn't the Sabbath. 18:57 But He met with them then too. 18:58 He met with them over a period of 40 days 19:00 after the Resurrection. 19:03 Does this seventh passage say that Sunday is holy? 19:07 1 Corinthians 16, verse 2. 19:09 We've only got one more after this. 19:11 But this is one some people use. 19:12 They say this is proof that the disciples were now keeping 19:16 Sunday as a new Christian Sabbath. 19:19 Paul says, "On the first day of the week--" and the way it 19:21 actually reads in the original, "On the beginning of the week 19:26 let each one of you lay something aside, storing up as 19:30 he may prosper, that there be no collections when I come." 19:34 Paul is on his way through Asia. 19:36 He's on his way to Jerusalem to take a special offering 19:39 from the churches in Jerusalem. 19:40 He's making haste. 19:42 There's a famine. 19:43 They're hungry. 19:44 And he said, "Look, at the beginning of the week," 19:47 they used to get their accounts in order in the first 19:49 of the week. 19:50 Everybody set something aside when you've done your 19:52 bookkeeping so there is no church offering when I come. 19:57 It's actually saying the very opposite. 19:59 This is not talking about passing the plate 20:01 Sunday morning. 20:03 He's saying, "The beginning of the week, lay something aside 20:07 so that we don't have a collection when I come. 20:09 It's ready to give to me. 20:10 And I'm making haste. 20:12 And I'm on my way." 20:14 Is this the new Sabbath commandment? 20:17 Does he say anything here about, "Now, do not work on that day. 20:21 Make sure that we gather together for worship 20:23 on that day." 20:25 And it's just a practical recommendation that they set 20:28 aside an offering for collection purposes. 20:32 And this is the eighth now in the final reference 20:35 to the first day of the week that you're going to find 20:36 in the Bible. 20:38 And people work real hard to make hay out of this one. 20:41 Is it saying that Sunday is a new holy day? 20:43 Let's look at it together. 20:45 It's Acts 20, verse 7. 20:46 If you've got your Bibles, I recommend you turn there. 20:49 Acts 20, verse 7. 20:50 Luke is telling a remarkable story. 20:54 We'll find out why he's telling the story. 20:57 "Now on the first day of the week--" yes that would be 21:00 Sunday, "when the disciples came together to break bread." 21:03 Ah, ah, you got it? 21:05 They came together to break bread. 21:06 They're having a communion service. 21:08 They're gathering on the first day, and they're having 21:11 a communion service. 21:12 This must be evidence that they now are worshiping 21:16 on the first day. 21:18 It is the new Sabbath. 21:19 I respectfully disagree. 21:20 I don't think that's what they're saying at all. 21:23 It says, "Paul is ready to depart the next day. 21:26 He speaks to them, and he continues his message 21:29 until midnight." 21:31 Now, when does the first day begin? 21:36 Sundown. 21:37 So when it says that they're meeting on the first day 21:39 of the week, and it's an evening meeting, what this is is 21:42 a Saturday night meeting. 21:45 And why is he talking so long? 21:47 Because he's not-- he's beginning a journey 21:49 the next day. 21:51 If Sunday is the new Sabbath, why is he beginning a journey? 21:54 Let's keep reading. 21:57 First of all, the scholar Horatio Hackett said, "The Jews 22:00 reckon the day from evening to morning, that on that 22:03 principle the evening of the first day of the week 22:05 would have been our Saturday night." 22:07 By the way this scholar is not a member of our church. 22:10 He's just being honest. 22:11 "The apostle held his last religious service on Saturday 22:15 evening, and consequently resumed his journey 22:17 on Sunday morning." 22:19 Commentary on the Book of Acts. 22:21 So Acts 20, it says, "A young man named Eutychus was sitting 22:25 in the window, who's sinking into a deep sleep. 22:28 He falls down from the third story, and he's taken up dead 22:31 because Paul was long in preaching," which is a good 22:33 recommendation for pastors not to preach too long because it 22:36 can be lethal when that happens. 22:42 So Paul goes down. 22:43 He embraces the young man. 22:46 He says his life is still in him. 22:47 Eutychus is resurrected. 22:50 Luke is telling this story because he's saying 22:52 a resurrection took place. 22:53 Notice what happened. 22:54 "When they came up after Eutychus is 22:56 resurrected, they broke bread." 22:58 Now they're breaking bread again. 22:59 They "Eaten and talked a long while, even till daybreak." 23:02 They stayed up all night long. 23:03 They eat bread twice and then Paul departed. 23:07 The next day--oh by the way, breaking bread in Acts 20:46, 23:13 you only break bread on--what does breaking bread mean? 23:18 Is it always a communion service? 23:20 "So continuing daily with one accord in the temple, 23:24 and breaking bread daily in the temple." 23:27 Daily breaking bread from house to house. 23:29 Jesus said, "Give us this day our daily bread." 23:31 Breaking bread did not always mean a communion service. 23:34 It meant eating. 23:35 You remember on the road to Emmaus he went in and broke 23:38 bread with them. 23:39 They were eating. 23:40 And that was a Sunday night, which would have been Monday. 23:42 So it's not saying anywhere in these verses that Sunday is 23:46 now a new Sabbath. 23:48 They ate their bread with gladness, simplicity 23:49 of heart. 23:51 The next day Paul said goodbye to them. 23:52 He began a journey, that would have been Sunday. 23:55 Would that be when you begin a long epic journey? 23:57 No. 23:59 Prior day Sabbath he spent with them all day, and that 24:01 evening he preached. 24:03 Eutychus fell out the window. 24:04 He's resurrected. 24:06 That's why Luke is telling the story. 24:07 He's not telling the story to say a new Sabbath was 24:10 inaugurated in Acts chapter 20. 24:14 Wouldn't God have told us if one of the Ten Commandments 24:16 had been changed? 24:19 What do you think? 24:20 How many of you heard that they've changed the law now? 24:23 Highway 65, you can go 80 miles an hour. 24:27 Isn't that exciting? 24:28 Did you hear that? 24:29 How many of you believe me? 24:31 Nobody believes a pastor. 24:34 Why don't you believe me? 24:36 Because you know that if the state is going to change 24:40 a major law that would affect everybody's lives, they are 24:44 responsible to thoroughly announce that and advertise it 24:48 to avoid accidents, right? 24:49 Everyone's going to know about that. 24:52 Now, when God gave the Sabbath, He speaks it with His voice. 24:54 He writes it with His finger in front of an entire nation. 24:58 If He's going to change that, don't you think there'd be 25:01 something in the New Testament? 25:03 There'd be some battle. 25:06 Look at all the argument that the Jews had with the Christians 25:09 over circumcision. 25:12 You find that discussed all through the writings of Paul. 25:15 There was a great debate over that. 25:17 They had a great debate about whether or not you get eat 25:18 food sacrificed to idols or not. 25:21 But you realize there's never a debate about whether or not 25:23 you should keep the Sabbath. 25:25 Jesus spoke a lot about the Sabbath, but He never 25:27 spoke about whether or not it should be kept. 25:28 He spoke about how it should be kept. 25:35 male announcer: Don't forget to request today's life-changing 25:37 free resource. 25:39 Not only can you receive this free gift in the mail, you can 25:41 download a digital copy straight to your computer 25:44 or mobile device. 25:45 To get your digital copy of today's free gift, simply 25:48 text the keyword on your screen to 40544 or visit the web 25:52 address shown on your screen and be sure to select 25:55 the digital download option on the request page. 25:58 It's now easier than ever for you to study God's word 26:01 with "Amazing Facts" wherever and whenever you want, and most 26:05 important, to share it with others. 26:11 announcer: What if you could know the future? 26:14 What would you do? 26:16 What would you change? 26:19 To see the future, you must understand the past. 26:23 male: Alexander the Great becomes king when he's only 18. 26:26 But he's a military prodigy. 26:29 male: 150 years in advance Cyrus had been named. 26:34 male: Nebuchadnezzar built the city as a showcase 26:36 to the entire world. 26:39 male: Rome was violent, they were ruthless, 26:42 they were determined. 26:46 announcer: This intriguing documentary hosted by Pastor 26:49 Doug Batchelor explores the most striking Bible prophecies that 26:53 have been dramatically fulfilled throughout history. 26:58 "Kingdoms in Time," an extraordinary adventure 27:01 through the Bible's most amazing fulfilled prophecies. 27:05 Are you ready? 27:09 narrator: In six days God created the heavens 27:12 and the earth. 27:13 For thousands of years man has worshipped God on the seventh 27:17 day of the week. 27:18 Now each week millions of people worship on the first day. 27:23 What happened? 27:24 Why did God create a day of rest? 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