Amazing Facts with Doug Batchelor

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00:02 - [Narrator] This presentation is brought to you
00:03 by the friends of the Amazing Facts ministry.
00:09 What do you think of when you hear the number 666?
00:13 Perhaps it conjures up ominous images of occult ceremonies
00:17 and the evil powers mentioned in Bible prophecy.
00:20 Some people have even refused phone numbers, license plates,
00:23 and credit cards that might contain the number 666
00:27 because of their fearful superstitions.
00:29 While we don't need to be afraid of the number 666,
00:32 it is interesting to note that mathematically,
00:35 666 is a very unique number.
00:38 It's the sum of the first 36 natural numbers,
00:42 meaning if you add one plus two plus three plus four
00:45 on up to 36, it adds up to 666,
00:49 and that would mean if you add up all the numbers
00:51 on a roulette wheel, it comes to 666.
00:54 It's also the sum of the squares
00:57 of the first seven prime numbers.
01:00 Furthermore, if you add together
01:02 the first six Roman numerals,
01:04 the total is, you guessed it, 666.
01:08 Even organic molecules are based on carbon 12
01:11 with six protons, six neutrons
01:14 in the nucleus surrounded by six electrons.
01:17 Revelation 13 speaks of a beast and a man
01:20 whose number is 666.
01:23 Obviously, it helps us to identify a power
01:25 that is opposed to God,
01:28 but what exactly is this power
01:30 and how can we avoid receiving its deadly mark?
01:34 Join me now as we explore the Bible facts
01:36 about the mark of the beast.
01:43 All right, we're going to be talking tonight
01:46 about the deadly mark,
01:47 talking about the mark of the beast
01:49 and not just the mark of the beast.
01:51 We're going to be talking also about the seal of God
01:54 and you've been waiting for this presentation.
01:57 The Bible tells us, in the book of Genesis,
01:59 Adam and Eve had two sons.
02:01 We alluded to this story a little earlier.
02:03 Their names were Cain and Abel.
02:07 You read in Genesis 4:2, "Abel was a keeper of sheep,
02:11 but Cain was a tiller of the ground,"
02:14 sort of like Jacob and Esau.
02:15 One took care of sheep and the other was a hunter.
02:18 Twins, but they were different.
02:19 The Bible doesn't tell us Cain and Abel were twins.
02:22 Cain was probably the the firstborn.
02:24 You see, the Lord established the sacrificial system
02:27 right after Adam and Eve's sin.
02:29 They tried to cover their sin with fig leaves
02:32 and God said that will not do.
02:34 And He covered them with skin
02:36 that required something to die.
02:38 God explained that the death of these lambs were a symbol
02:42 for when His Son would come as the Lamb of God
02:45 and the sacrificial system was established,
02:48 they would bring their sacrifices
02:49 to their gates of the garden of Eden.
02:51 They'd been evicted, but when the time came for them
02:55 to make an offering to the Lord,
02:58 Cain as a tiller of the land, he said, Look, Abel,
03:00 you keep sheep.
03:01 That makes sense for you to offer a lamb
03:02 that's kind of messy, I don't want to do that.
03:04 I'm a farmer, I'm going to offer fruit.
03:08 And Abel said with his brother,
03:09 he said, "But that's not what God told us to do.
03:11 We need to obey God."
03:13 We got to this problem because we didn't obey God
03:15 and he kind of aggravated him that his younger brother
03:20 was telling him what to do.
03:23 And eventually it says that now "Cain talked with Abel,
03:26 his brother and Cain rose up against Abel
03:29 his brother and killed him."
03:31 Here you have the first murder in the universe.
03:35 You've got two brothers ostensibly
03:37 worshiping the same God.
03:39 Cain made an offering to God.
03:40 He built an altar, he made a sacrifice,
03:43 but he's doing it his own way.
03:44 He's changed it, it's manmade worship,
03:47 and he now persecutes his brother.
03:49 The Bible says Abel's offering was accepted,
03:52 that bothered Cain when he saw fire come from God
03:54 and accept Abel's offering,
03:56 but it didn't accept his offering,
03:59 and he became so angry that he killed him.
04:02 Did he kill Abel for his badness or because of his goodness?
04:06 Why were the religious leaders so angry at Jesus
04:08 because of His badness or because His goodness made
04:11 their badness stand out?
04:15 If you have light in you,
04:16 it will reveal the darkness in others
04:18 and it will either convert them or really bother them.
04:23 And the Bible says, because of Cain's awful sin,
04:27 it says, "The Lord set a mark on Cain
04:29 lest anyone finding him should kill him."
04:32 And so you have here worship persecution
04:36 and a mark is placed on one group.
04:40 I'm going to read a passage to you
04:42 that explains why this subject is so important.
04:44 In Revelation 14:9,
04:47 "Then a third angel followed them saying with a loud voice,
04:51 'If anyone worships the beast in his image
04:54 and receives his mark on his forehead or on his hand,
04:57 he himself will also drink of the wine of the wrath of God
05:00 that is poured out full strength into the cup
05:04 of His indignation,
05:06 He will be tormented with fire and brimstone,
05:07 in the presence of the holy angels and in the presence
05:10 of the Lamb and the smoke
05:12 of their torment ascends up forever
05:14 and ever and they have no rest.
05:15 No rest, day or night who worship the beast in his image
05:20 and whoever receives the mark of his name.'"
05:23 Then it contrasts that with, "Here are those that keep.
05:27 Here is the patience of the saints.
05:29 Here are those who keep the commandments of God
05:31 and the faith of Jesus."
05:33 So when we're talking about this very important subject,
05:35 the reason we covered is the Lord
05:38 is making the very strongest possible arguments in
05:41 the last days and he's saying, "Do not worship the beast.
05:45 Do not receive the mark of the beast."
05:47 But everybody in revelation has a mark.
05:50 Turn with me please now to Revelation chapter 14,
05:52 and this will set the stage
05:54 and then we'll go from there into the slide program.
05:57 Revelation 7:1.
06:01 "After these things,
06:03 I saw four angels standing at the four corners of the earth,
06:06 holding the four winds of the earth."
06:08 Now everyone realizes these angels are symbols
06:10 of the four directions
06:12 of the earth, north, south, east, and west.
06:14 That no wind should blow upon the earth or on the sea
06:18 or any tree.
06:20 Those winds or storms was talking about trouble.
06:23 And I saw an angel ascend from the east
06:24 having the seal of the living God,
06:27 and he cried with a loud voice to the four angels
06:30 to whom it was granted to harm the earth and the sea saying,
06:33 "Do not harm the earth or the sea or the trees
06:35 till we have sealed servants of our God in their foreheads."
06:40 All right, question number one, with that background,
06:42 I think we can move along and it'll make more sense.
06:44 Who is protected through the seven last plagues?
06:47 So before these angels release the grip on the storm
06:49 and that storm is the plagues, what has to happen?
06:55 It says in Revelation 7:3,
06:56 "Do not harm the earth, the sea,
06:59 or the trees till we have sealed the servants
07:01 of our God on their foreheads.
07:04 Now with the mark of the beast, it says, hand and forehead.
07:07 With the seal of God, it just says forehead.
07:11 Question two, what is this seal?
07:15 Instead of focusing on the mark you don't want,
07:17 let's talk about the seal you do want, amen.
07:19 Then we'll get to the mark, look at the positive first.
07:22 What is this seal that the righteous have
07:25 in their forehead?
07:26 Well, you know the Bible tells us two or three places,
07:29 we are sealed with the Holy Spirit.
07:33 Everybody that has the mark of the beast
07:35 has got the spirit of the devil.
07:37 You already knew that,
07:38 everybody that has the seal of God has the spirit of God.
07:41 You're not going to find anybody with the seal of God
07:43 that doesn't also have the spirit of God.
07:44 So that's the inner essence of that seal.
07:47 We have God's spirit in us.
07:49 "Grieve not the Holy Spirit,
07:51 we're with you are sealed for the day of redemption."
07:53 Paul tells us us,
07:55 but there's something more that's more specific.
07:57 What is this seal?
07:59 You look in Isaiah chapter 8:16, "Bind up the testimony,
08:03 seal the law among My disciples.
08:09 Everybody that has the seal of God
08:10 has the law of God in their hearts,
08:11 but there's more in the law.
08:14 What is a seal?
08:17 A seal biblically, contains three characteristics,
08:20 even in our world today.
08:23 When you go and you hear the President give a speech,
08:27 he'll come to the podium and it'll have the seal.
08:31 It'll say the president's name, it'll say a president,
08:35 his office, United States of America.
08:37 You got to Britain, it'll say Elizabeth, Queen England.
08:43 Wherever you have a government seal,
08:45 it's got three characteristics.
08:46 When there was a seal placed on the tomb of Jesus,
08:48 what did it say?
08:49 Remember, Pilate put a seal, Pontus Pilate, Governor Judea.
08:55 When there was a seal placed on the lions' den
08:56 then they took a stone,
08:58 they put it on Daniel's lions then
09:01 and it said Darius King, Mede-Persia.
09:04 It's got the name, their title, their territory.
09:09 All right, so you've got these three components in a seal.
09:13 Now here's the question.
09:15 Do you find the seal of God in the law of God?
09:19 Question number three,
09:21 which of the 10 commandments contains
09:23 all of the elements of a seal?
09:26 You read there in Exodus 20:11,
09:28 "For in six days the Lord," that's His name, Jehovah made,
09:34 that's his office.
09:35 He is the Creator and sustainer of all life,
09:38 the heavens and the earth and the sea
09:40 and all that is in them.
09:42 That's His territory, His name, His office, His territory
09:47 is in the middle of the law
09:48 in the longest of the 10 Commandments,
09:50 in the only commandment that begins with the word remember
09:54 and I think I shared this with you the night
09:55 that we talked about the Sabbath truth.
09:58 That's why this subject's important
09:59 is because in the world you've got the Holy Land there
10:03 in Israel and in the Holy Land you've got the holy city.
10:06 And in the holy city you've got the Holy Mount,
10:08 and on the Holy Mount you've got the holy temple.
10:10 And in the holy temple you've got the holy place
10:13 and within the holy place you've got the holy of holies.
10:16 And in the holy of holies you've got the holy arc.
10:18 And in the holy arc you've got the holy law.
10:20 And in the holy law you've got the word holy one time,
10:24 you know where that is?
10:26 Fourth commandment.
10:28 God is asking us to keep a special time holy
10:31 for His worship.
10:33 Now we should worship God.
10:35 Some people say, Oh Pastor Doug,
10:36 you guys, you worship God one day a week.
10:37 I worship God every day of the week.
10:40 That sounds very sanctimonious when you say it,
10:42 but it's really not valid
10:43 'cause God is the one who thought up
10:45 the idea of worshiping him in a special way,
10:47 one day a week, right?
10:49 And if you say I'm worshiping God seven days a week,
10:53 that's wonderful, I do too.
10:54 But if you're saying that you're keeping the Sabbath seven
10:57 days a week, you're not holy, you're lazy
10:59 because it says you're not supposed to work.
11:01 And so it is definitely itemized by God.
11:04 It's not the church's Id, the Sabbath was God's idea, right?
11:08 Let's keep that straight.
11:09 And so this is in the middle of God's law,
11:13 the seal of God's law is there,
11:16 people who love the Lord Jesus said,
11:17 'Come to me, I'll give you rest.'
11:20 What did we learn about those who worship the beast?
11:22 They have no rest.
11:24 Day or night,
11:26 the Sabbath is a sign of the rest that we have in Christ,
11:29 every week, amen.
11:31 And people think about it like it's a burden,
11:32 it's a blessing and it's also very important
11:35 in the last days, it talks about who we worship.
11:37 Why has God given this special sign of His power?
11:42 Let's look at some of these verses.
11:44 Ezekiel 20:12.
11:46 I also gave them my Sabbath to be a sign,
11:49 like a seal between Me and them that they might know
11:53 that I am the Lord that sanctifies them.
11:55 Does God only sanctify Jews or does every believer need
11:59 the sanctification of the Holy Spirit?
12:01 The Sabbath is a sign.
12:03 First thing that God did after He made Adam and Eve,
12:05 He made a day and He made it holy, He sanctified it.
12:09 He made their marriage holy.
12:11 There are two institutions that God gave us out of Eden,
12:13 the Garden of Eden marriage, holy and a day that is holy.
12:20 Do you realize that you can't experience love without time?
12:23 All love requires time to express it, isn't that right?
12:29 Your life requires time.
12:32 So if you believe that the Lord sanctifies,
12:34 then this is an important truth.
12:37 Again, Ezekiel 20:20,
12:39 "Hallow My Sabbaths and there'll be a sign
12:41 between Me and you that you might know
12:43 that I am the Lord, your God."
12:45 He says it's a sign also says it's a sign
12:48 that He is the Creator.
12:50 He not only sanctifies us, but He creates us.
12:54 Exodus 31:13, "Surely My Sabbaths, you shall keep
12:58 for it as a sign between Me and you
13:00 throughout your generations that you might know
13:03 that I am the Lord who sanctifies you."
13:06 Several times God says, it's a sign, it's a sign.
13:09 Don't forget this.
13:10 And the very fact that the children of Israel
13:12 were told to remember it means it existed
13:15 before it was given on Mount Sinai
13:18 when they were raining bread down from heaven.
13:20 In Exodus chapter 16, that's before Exodus 20,
13:22 where God gives the 10 commandments.
13:24 It tells us that He said there's not going to be any
13:28 bread on the seventh day because that's My Sabbath.
13:30 Where'd that come from?
13:31 Back in Genesis chapter two, it was made for man.
13:35 That's not how you spell Jew, M-A-N, it's mankind,
13:40 that's talking about humanity.
13:42 Don't go anywhere, friends, in just a moment,
13:45 we'll return with the rest of today's presentation.
13:47 The mark of the beast is probably the most controversial
13:51 and feared subjects from the book of Revelation.
13:55 Some say it's a numbered tattooed in our foreheads
13:58 or a computer chip embedded in our hands.
14:01 Others suggest the number is being secretly introduced
14:04 in the world now through a super ID credit card.
14:08 But if you're confused or even a little apprehensive
14:10 about this ominous issue, you don't have to be anymore.
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14:52 Let's return to today's presentation
14:54 and learn some more Amazing Facts from the word of God.
14:59 Number seven, is either the mark of the beast
15:03 or the seal of God visible?
15:05 This is where I want you to pay special attention.
15:08 Look in Hebrews 10:16 that "Says the Lord:
15:14 I will put My laws in their hearts and in their minds,
15:18 I will write them."
15:20 The law of God in the heart and in the mind.
15:23 Is that physical or is that something inside, spiritual
15:26 Exodus 13:9,
15:28 "It shall be assigned to you on your hand
15:34 and a memorial between your eyes."
15:35 What do you call this spot between your eyes?
15:38 Your forehead.
15:39 What did David use to bring down Goliath?
15:43 A rock. And where'd it hit him?
15:45 Between the eyes.
15:46 See for the Jew, this is between the eyes.
15:49 It's not talk about where your glasses hang.
15:52 It's talking about in the hand and in the forehead.
15:54 Now I'm going to show you a few other verses on this.
15:56 Look at Isaiah 59:6.
16:01 "There are works or works of iniquity
16:02 and the act of violence is in their hand."
16:04 So in the Bible, when it says in the hand,
16:07 represents your actions.
16:09 In the forehead, your thoughts and your worship.
16:13 If I say, "Can you please lend me a hand?"
16:15 You don't unscrew your hand and throw it to me, right?
16:17 It means can you give me some action.
16:20 Let me give you a couple more verses.
16:21 If you go in your Bible to the book of Deuteronomy,
16:23 one of the most important scriptures for the Jewish nation
16:26 was the great Shema
16:28 that you would find in Deuteronomy 6:4.
16:32 But I want you to notice here what it says right after that.
16:34 Deuteronomy chapter five, they have the 10 commandments,
16:37 Deuteronomy six, this is all one message.
16:41 So Moses is not stopped and is part of a continuation
16:44 of the 10 Commandments being repeated.
16:45 "Hear all Israel, the Lord our God, the Lord is one.
16:49 You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart,
16:51 with all your soul,
16:53 with all your strength and these words
16:54 that I command you today."
16:55 Now, Jesus said the greatest commandment,
16:57 is loving the Lord, right?
16:58 That was it, the greatest commandment.
17:00 What does He say immediately after that?
17:02 These words I command you today,
17:03 He just recited the 10 commandments.
17:05 Chapter five will be in your heart.
17:07 Now, when He says in your heart,
17:09 does that mean you make an incision in your chest
17:11 and you peel it open and you put the law in there
17:14 and sew it up?
17:15 Or is it a metaphor?
17:17 Metaphor, right?
17:18 Keep reading.
17:19 You shall teach them diligently to your children.
17:22 Verse seven, talk of them when you sit in the house,
17:24 when you walk by the way, when you lay down,
17:26 when you rise up the law of God,
17:28 you shall bind them for a sign.
17:31 It's like a seal, bind them for a sign on your hand.
17:34 They shall be as frontlets between your eyes.
17:37 Friends, this is just so easy when when you think about it,
17:40 God is saying over and over in His word,
17:42 the law of God is to be in your actions,
17:46 in your hands and in your forehead, in your mind.
17:49 And it starts by being in your heart.
17:51 If first it is in your heart,
17:53 it'll then be in your hand and in your head, right?
17:56 And so if you do not have the law of God in your heart,
18:00 in your hand, in your head, in the last days,
18:01 you'll have the mark of the beast in your forehead
18:03 or in your hand.
18:06 Quite simply,
18:07 there's going to be two kinds of worship in the last days.
18:10 There's going to be laws that will compel us to worship,
18:13 that is going to require us to violate the law of God.
18:18 And we're going to have to make the same decision
18:19 that Daniel and Esther and Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego
18:23 they all made.
18:24 Does anybody have the mark of the beast now?
18:29 Not yet, when will it become official?
18:35 You look in Revelation 13, it says,
18:36 "No man might buy or sell except the one who has the mark
18:39 or the name of the beast or the number of his name."
18:42 See, the anti-Christ power is going to try to compel people
18:47 to worship a certain way.
18:50 Now in Daniel chapter three, it was the second commandment,
18:54 Daniel chapter six.
18:55 It was the first commandment and the last days
18:57 the issue is going to revolve around the fourth commandment.
19:00 The fourth commandment is the seal of God
19:04 and the beast power is going to be saying,
19:06 No, you cannot worship on the day God said,
19:08 you've got to worship on the day that we set aside.
19:12 What was God's criticism against His ancient pastors
19:15 and priests?
19:17 He said, "You have caused many to stumble at the law.
19:20 You have not kept My ways,
19:22 but you have shown partiality in the law."
19:25 Hosea 4:6,
19:27 "My people are destroyed for a lack of knowledge."
19:29 He said His people, today it would be Christians.
19:31 Why are they destroyed?
19:33 Because you've rejected knowledge.
19:35 I'll reject you from being a priest for Me
19:37 because you have forgotten the law of your God.
19:41 I will forget your children. This is pretty serious.
19:45 It's one of the prophets
19:46 that lived lived just before the time of Jesus.
19:48 And He said the people were forgetting the law of God.
19:51 How did God's ancient leaders regard
19:53 the great things from His law?
19:56 He says,
19:58 "I've written to them from the great things of My law,
20:00 but they were counted as a strange thing."
20:04 What specific solemn rebuke did God give religious leaders
20:07 regarding His Holy Sabbath?
20:09 Answer, He says,
20:11 You have despised My holy things
20:13 and you've profaned My Sabbath.
20:16 Again, Ezekiel 22:26,
20:18 "Her priests have violated My law
20:20 and profaned My holy things.
20:22 They have not distinguished
20:23 between the holy and the unholy."
20:26 My friends, I don't ever want to apologize
20:28 for telling you that God said,
20:29 "Blessed are the pure in heart, they will see God."
20:31 God is calling us the holiness.
20:34 Jesus will cover you with His blood
20:36 and give you His holiness as a gift.
20:38 But He wants us to then grow in sanctification
20:41 and learn how to live holy lives
20:43 where we are dedicated to Him.
20:44 We are doing our best, that's why we sing that song.
20:47 Make me willing to do your will.
20:48 What is the will of God?
20:50 I love to do Thy will, Thy law is in my heart.
20:53 That's what it says in the Psalms, Psalm 40:7.
20:56 And so we're talking about living holy lives,
20:59 but this is what was forgotten.
21:02 They're not distinguishing between the holy and the unholy,
21:05 God said that I have blessed, God.
21:08 Think about how big God is.
21:10 Think about how powerful God is.
21:12 I have blessed the seventh day, He commands,
21:16 "Remember the seventh day, keep it holy."
21:19 He's wanting this quality time with us.
21:22 But a lot of religious leaders back in the Old Testament,
21:26 they haven't changed much, Christ time, New Testament,
21:29 they go through the motions.
21:30 They got a form of godliness,
21:32 but they lack the power thereof.
21:36 Number 10, what two things
21:38 does the Antichrist power attempt to change?
21:42 You read in Daniel 7:25,
21:43 it describes as little horn Antichrist power
21:45 does all the things you find there in Revelation 13.
21:48 And Revelation 17, it speaks great words, exalts himself,
21:53 persecutes the saints, speaks words of blasphemy.
21:56 And it says, well think to change, what?
22:00 Times and laws.
22:01 Now, which one of the commandments
22:03 is both a time and a law.
22:05 There's only one commandment and they freely admit.
22:08 Now can any man change the law of God
22:11 or did they think to?
22:14 You can attempt it, you can't change the law of God.
22:17 God's got the original written in heaven,
22:18 you can't reach it.
22:20 And so Jesus said,
22:21 "Heaven and earth will have to pass away
22:23 before one shot or one tittle in any wise passes
22:25 from the law."
22:26 And by the way, Jesus said,
22:28 "Whosoever will break one of this,"
22:29 This is Matthew chapter 5 also,
22:31 whoever will break one of the least of these commandments
22:33 and teach men so he will be called least
22:35 in the kingdom of heaven.
22:37 That means they'll be spoken of as the lowest
22:38 in the kingdom of heaven.
22:40 They're not in the kingdom.
22:41 People in the kingdom of heaven speak of them
22:43 as the lowest kind of person.
22:44 But whoever will do and teach My law
22:48 will be called great friends.
22:50 I not only want to do it, I want to teach it.
22:51 And the Lord says,
22:53 "Those that teach it will be called great
22:54 in the kingdom of heaven."
22:56 So if you say, why are you making an issue out of this?
22:58 Jesus told me to.
22:59 He says, We need to exalt the law.
23:02 The law, you know why the devil hates the law?
23:04 Sin is the transgression of the law.
23:07 When we see the law of God, we see our sin.
23:09 When we see our sin, we realize we need a savior
23:13 and we go to Jesus for forgiveness.
23:15 It is perfectly healthy and appropriate
23:17 for someone to preach the law.
23:19 If it brings conviction,
23:20 it then drives you to Christ for forgiveness.
23:24 The Bible says we must humble ourselves
23:26 under the mighty hand of God.
23:27 Cry out loud, weep.
23:28 And then James says, "And he will lift you up."
23:30 He doesn't leave you in a state of repentance forever.
23:33 He wants you to then be lifted up
23:34 and have the joy of the Lord.
23:36 The gospel is good news,
23:37 but first those seeds sprout through tears
23:40 and people need to be aware of their sins.
23:43 - [Congregant] Amen.
23:45 - Friends, in the last days,
23:47 God is calling his people back to the book.
23:49 What do you say?
23:50 - [Congregant] Amen.
23:51 - And the doctrines of devils
23:53 have crept into the church over time.
23:54 People have drifted away from a thus sayeth the Lord
23:57 and taken up these man-made traditions
24:00 and they've tried to sanctified man-made traditions,
24:03 make them holy and only God can make these things holy.
24:05 My father was a multi-millionaire
24:08 and I really wanted more time with my father.
24:12 He was a workaholic, like many multi-millionaires.
24:15 And it was much easier for my father to give me a donation
24:18 than to give me his time.
24:20 And a lot of people,
24:21 it's easier for them to go to church
24:24 and make an offering than to give God a day.
24:27 It really tells who you worship
24:29 if you're willing to give God a day as holy.
24:32 - [Congregant] Amen.
24:34 - And it's not a recommendation. He says this is a commandment.
24:36 You know the Bible says if you break one commandment,
24:37 you're guilty of all, the book of James.
24:39 Whosoever shall break one commandment is guilty of all.
24:42 You can't go into the courtroom and say,
24:44 Your honor, I realize I murdered somebody,
24:46 but I'm keeping the other nine commandments.
24:49 He's going to say, "Oh, you got to pay for that though."
24:52 And the sin is a transgression of the law, right?
24:55 So it does matter.
24:57 I think we underestimate how the Lord feels about this.
25:01 "If you turn away your foot from the Sabbath,
25:02 from doing your pleasure on My Holy day
25:04 and call the Sabbath a delight.
25:07 It's not a burden, friends, it's a blessing.
25:08 Holy day of the Lord, honorable,
25:13 then you will delight yourself in the Lord.
25:16 He's blessed it, He didn't curse it.
25:18 He wants you to receive that blessing
25:20 and you will because He's promised it.
25:23 When you decide to accept Jesus
25:24 and fully follow Him, what happens?
25:27 You can read in His word, "Take My yolk upon you,
25:31 learn from Me, for I am gentle and lowly in heart
25:34 and you will find rest under your souls."
25:37 We want you to have that rest.
25:39 The Bible tells us in Revelation 15:2,
25:42 "And I saw something like a sea of glass mingled with fire
25:46 and those who had gotten the victory over the beast
25:49 and over his image and over his mark
25:51 and over his number of his name,
25:52 standing on the sea of glass, having the harps of God."
25:56 Now, before you can say no to the mark of the beast,
26:00 you need to say yes to the seal of God.
26:03 If what you've heard is true,
26:07 it's so important that you respond and then God can release
26:08 his power in your life.
26:09 Some of you're thinking, oh Lord,
26:11 I don't know how I'm going to follow you in this area.
26:15 If you surrender to the Lord and say, Lord,
26:17 I want to follow you, God will open the door.
26:19 Don't worry how you're going to obey him.
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26:23 without giving you the power to obey.
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