Participants: Chris Shelton (Host), Kenny Shelton
Series Code: BTLP
Program Code: BTLP000072A
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00:41 Hello, and welcome to "Behold the Lamb Presents."
00:44 I'm Chris Shelton your host and we cordially invite you 00:47 to stay tuned in for our study of God's word today. 00:51 We are going to look at a subject 00:53 that we've referred to quite often but, 00:56 perhaps have just not made it 00:58 the focal point of our time together 01:00 on "Behold the Lamb Presents." 01:02 But in reality it is a major issue for our day and age. 01:06 In fact, it is a vital part of God's last warning 01:10 to His remnant people as found partially 01:13 in the Book of Revelation chapter 14. 01:16 And here we find that three angels' messages 01:19 that are to be proclaimed around the world 01:22 with a loud cry warning God's people to come out of Babylon 01:27 or religious confusion and you will find here 01:30 an earnest call to worship God 01:32 who has made heaven and earth and the sea 01:36 for the judgment of this world has begun. 01:39 We are warned in Revelation 14 01:42 that if we do not come out of Babylon 01:44 and would rather choose to worship 01:46 the beast power and his image we will be tormented 01:51 with fire and brimstone 01:53 in the presence of the holy angels 01:56 and in the presence of the Lamb, Jesus Christ. 01:59 Upon close examination as we progress 02:03 through this study we will also discover 02:06 that to worship the creator God 02:09 we must also keep His Ten Commandment law 02:12 and at the heart of God's law 02:14 we find a commandment that men has thought to change, 02:18 cunningly change over the years. 02:20 Men over the decades have crafted arguments 02:24 as to why they choose to worship God 02:26 without keeping this portion of His law 02:29 and that being the fourth commandment. 02:33 Let's look at Exodus 20:8, 02:36 here it states that we are clearly, clearly it states 02:40 we are to "Remember the Sabbath day, 02:42 to keep it holy." 02:44 But God doesn't stop there. 02:46 He continues to tell us 02:48 how we are to keep it holy in verses 9 through 11. 02:51 I want you to look that up 02:52 when you have time for yourselves. 02:54 Therefore, we have developed this five part series 02:57 that we've entitled "The Sabbath, a Test of Faith" 03:02 and within this series we will be covering messages 03:05 that are entitled "The Origin of the Sabbath" 03:07 which is today's, "The Law and Grace" 03:10 "How to Keep the Sabbath" "Revelation 14" 03:14 and finally "Avoiding the Mark of the Beast." 03:16 You don't want to miss any of these messages. 03:20 But before as always we being the message 03:23 "The Origin of the Sabbath" with Pastor Kenny Shelton. 03:26 We are blessed to listen to a song that is entitled 03:30 "More Love to Thee" as performed 03:32 by the "Ouachita Hills Academy Bell Choir" 03:36 from 3ABN worship center. 06:01 Thanks for joining us once again here at "Behold the Lamb" 06:04 and as you've already heard 06:05 we have an exciting five part series. 06:08 You can't afford to miss one of that. 06:11 They all build on the other. 06:13 This is the first part "The Origin of the Sabbath" 06:16 and again we just know as we build upon this. 06:19 We are laying a platform of how the Sabbath began. 06:22 So those who are saying well, once again there is going to be 06:25 a Bible study about the Sabbath and going looking 06:27 from passage to passage oh, that be beautiful to do. 06:29 That's not the purpose of this message. 06:31 May approach it little bit differently than maybe 06:34 many of you have. 06:35 But I think this will be a great blessing. 06:38 It has been a blessing for me 06:39 and I want to pass that blessing on to you. 06:41 And I want to encourage you once again to that-- 06:44 you need to respond. 06:45 If you are hearing these things 06:47 and maybe for the very first time 06:49 so we want to be able to get back to those who, 06:53 you will say I've heard it over and over 06:55 but there is millions that have not. 06:57 So would you, you know, be gracious and let us-- 06:59 just, you know, kind of begin it 07:00 and look from an angle that we are doing it 07:03 to reach those who maybe, 07:04 maybe have never heard this before. 07:07 So we pray that it will be a blessing. 07:09 We need your prayers and so we just-- 07:11 we pray today that each one of us will be united together, 07:14 power of the Holy Spirit 07:15 would be poured out on as we look. 07:17 You know, we talked about the Sabbath. 07:18 You know, it's a test of faith for us. 07:20 And so I pray that you will be encouraged 07:22 about these five part series. 07:24 So if we miss a little some of you say oh, 07:26 he should have brought in this and he should-- 07:28 people are really good at that. 07:29 You know, and I'm pretty good myself looking back 07:31 and say well, we should-- remember there is five parts, 07:34 so lot of these issues that we are just covering one 07:37 if we don't get it by God's grace number two, 07:40 if not then number three, four and five. 07:42 So let's pray about it. Shall we? 07:43 We can't do this without praying 07:45 and we need your prayer along with us. 07:47 So I know that you are going to where you can 07:49 and I love it when you say, you know, pastor, 07:51 when you pray in kneel in front of my set 07:53 and I pray with you. 07:54 Thank you for doing that. Let's pray together, shall we? 07:59 Father in heaven, we thank You for the privilege of prayer. 08:02 We pour heart out to you right now and our mind. 08:06 Many times words just cannot express what's in, 08:10 in our hearts but You do, You read them 08:13 and so You know that we want this to be 08:15 an honor and glory for You. 08:17 We wanted to bring forth a God of heaven our Creator, 08:20 our Redeemer, our Sustainer. 08:22 We want to bring home the points 08:24 that will convict and convert hearts. 08:26 Only Your Holy Spirit can do that. 08:28 Lord, we stand before you bear today, 08:31 we have nothing which to offer 08:32 that's good within ourself but you do. 08:35 So I pray that you will take that 08:36 what we are ready to present now 08:38 by Your grace and Your strength 08:40 and that You will let the hearers hear exactly 08:42 what they need to. 08:43 Again we ask for that conviction 08:45 of the Holy Spirit. 08:46 Illuminate our hearts and our minds, 08:48 forgive me of any sin in my heart and life 08:50 anything that will separates. 08:52 I need to hear Your voice this morning 08:53 and I thank You in advance for in Jesus name, amen. 08:59 Again we thank you for tuning in, on such a regular basis. 09:02 You know, that's very, very important. 09:04 We believe that we need present truth messages. 09:08 We don't need some of those messages 09:09 that show water down 09:11 and they are soldiers for everyone. 09:13 I heard people say today that some of these message 09:15 that are found in the scripture and it just kind of blows 09:18 my mind if all right to say that. 09:20 They will say, you know, that's for this group only 09:22 or that's for the Baptist or that for the, 09:25 you know, the church of God, 09:26 that's for the Adventist folk, that's for us to enter. 09:29 If it's God's word it is not for a specific group, 09:32 it's for every one. 09:34 So let's obey-- if it comes 09:35 from the Bible everyone say 09:36 well, that's the message is just for the Adventist. 09:38 Is it? 09:39 If it's from God's word, you know, it's for all of us. 09:42 So we will, we're searching the scripture 09:44 and so what we are going to do, you have your Bible 09:46 what I would like for you to do is to turn with me. 09:49 We need a good foundation, don't we? 09:51 And as we begin we go back to the Word of God. 09:54 May I encourage you this and we are talking about 09:56 the origin of the Sabbath, how it began? 09:58 We always go back. 10:00 You want to know what truth is. 10:02 If you really want to know what truth is what you do? 10:04 You always go back to the beginning 10:07 the way that God said it. 10:09 I cannot emphasis this enough go back the way 10:14 that God set it up before sin come in the world. 10:17 Why? 10:18 Because one day he is gonna go right back 10:20 and he is going to what? 10:22 He is-- we're gonna be 10:23 in that garden again. 10:24 We are gonna be just like it was before man sinned. 10:27 So we can learn that what truth is the way 10:30 that God set it up in the very beginning. 10:33 After all God's ways are best, isn't that right? 10:35 So let's go back, take your Bible 10:36 if you are going with me and I'm gonna turn mine 10:38 right now to the Exodus Chapter 20. 10:41 And if you allow me I will read these verses. 10:42 I know lot of you say, oh, we don't want to read. 10:44 I want to read these to you 10:45 and I pray that you have your Bible open, 10:47 you will read with me 10:48 because may people don't go back to the Old Testament 10:51 because they are told by the pastor 10:52 oh, we just, we're not gonna do that. 10:54 I want you to read the verse with me 8 through 11. 10:58 Okay, read that with me right now. 11:00 "Remember the Sabbath day, to keep it holy." 11:03 That's what the Bible said. 11:04 "Six days shalt thou labor, and do all thy work 11:08 but the seventh day 11:09 is the Sabbath of the Lord thy God." 11:12 Did you notice? Listen to every word carefully. 11:16 "Seventh day is the Sabbath of the Lord thy God." 11:20 Not a group, not a denomination as it were, 11:22 not-- e very-- 11:23 it's a Sabbath of Lord thy God. 11:26 "In it thou shalt not do any work, thou, nor thy son, 11:29 nor thy daughter, manservant," 11:31 the Bible says, "maidservant, nor the cattle, 11:34 stranger that is within thy gates" why? 11:38 Here's the reason why the Sabbath. 11:40 Because the Bible said 11:41 "For in six days the Lord made heaven and earth, 11:44 the sea, and all that in them is," 11:46 and notice what He did. 11:47 "And He rested the Sabbath day, wherefore the Lord" 11:50 notice what, "He blessed the Sabbath day, 11:52 and He hallowed it." 11:54 How beautiful when we read scripture 11:57 and it tells exactly why, why God did it 12:01 and who it did it for. 12:02 So I hope you are taking these things in 12:04 because remember we serve a God that doesn't change, right. 12:08 Anything coming out of His mouth 12:09 He cannot change or alter. 12:10 He is the same yesterday, today and forever 12:13 and you can't go wrong following God. 12:15 Can you? You just can't go wrong. 12:17 So we get back into just the simplicity of scripture. 12:22 Now, if your - you know, 12:23 you are with me in the Bible 12:24 so forth then let's go back to the Book of Genesis. 12:27 Shall we? 12:28 Now this is very, very important for us to do. 12:30 In the Book of Genesis 2:1-3. 12:33 Genesis Chapter 2 now where we are going to the back. 12:37 We're going to-- some of you may not know 12:39 that the Old Testament 12:40 so that's a first book of the Bible. 12:42 Genesis Chapter 2, we are going to the second chapter, 12:45 we are going to read verses 1 through 3. 12:47 This is very, very important. Notice this. 12:50 It says, "Thus the heavens and the earth were finished, 12:55 all the host of them." 12:58 Now notice "And on the seventh day God" 13:02 notice this, what did God "ended his work 13:05 which He had made and He rested on the seventh day 13:09 from all His work which He had made." 13:11 Verse 3 the Bible said, 13:13 "And God blessed the seventh day, 13:15 and He sanctified it" you can say well, why? 13:18 "Because that in it He had rested 13:21 from all the work which God created and made." 13:27 It's really simple when we look and just simple the Bible. 13:31 God created the heavens and the earth 13:33 and He was done with creation on six days 13:36 and on the seventh day God said I rested, 13:38 so I'm going to set aside a day the seventh day of the week 13:41 every on a weekly cycle so that you can remember 13:44 who did the creating and God rested. 13:46 He said set example that we should do. 13:48 The world is not doing it, you see. 13:50 That's a busiest day probably of the week 13:52 always it's on the Sabbath. 13:53 Why? 13:55 Because God said He wanted you to rest. 13:56 He wants to spend some time with you. 13:59 You will say today well, I understand the Sabbath. 14:01 I have heard some people say this. 14:02 I know about the Sabbath 14:04 because it was made for the Jews. 14:06 Just one passage and again they will be elementary to you 14:09 but Mark 2:27 talks about-- 14:12 we will read couple of verses there before and after. 14:14 If you want get the context of it. 14:16 The Bible simply said, "The Sabbath was made for man," 14:19 God made it. 14:21 He knew we need it and so He made it special 14:23 and then He did something special. 14:25 The Bible said that He blessed and He sanctified it. 14:29 we are going to look at some of those words in a moment 14:32 but I want you to again as you think about 14:34 these verses in Genesis 2:1-3 here we have something 14:39 that we call a weekly cycle, seven days, seven literal days 14:44 that the Bible says here. 14:46 Six for work, one for rest. 14:50 Now remember don't say bless your heart 14:52 some of you writing say, 14:53 well, I keep every day like a Sabbath. 14:55 You can't do that, number one. 14:56 Don't have time to go in, you can't. 14:58 Because you ever do any work you understand 15:00 there anything else. 15:01 Okay, so He says we have seven day cycle. 15:05 Now remember God preserved the seventh day 15:10 down through the history of time. 15:13 We can trace it in the Bible and we can trace it in history. 15:16 For those of you say, 15:17 well, time laws we don't know which day. 15:19 May I say today, many of you just looking 15:21 for excuse not to honor. 15:23 You might try to convince yourself, 15:25 you might try to convince others 15:26 but God has preserved the Sabbath 15:29 from the very beginning of creation. 15:31 He's preserved it. 15:32 Why would He give us something and then we can't find out 15:36 what day it is. 15:37 Say I want to bless the seventh day 15:39 but we can't figure it out, God wouldn't do that. 15:42 And you know what, He knew it didn't take very much 15:44 to confuse this all so He just says seven days, right, 15:47 and just put one day aside 15:49 so that we could get away from the world 15:50 and things are in the world. 15:52 Some will say, we just can't know 15:55 which day is the Sabbath? 15:57 Let's think it through today, 15:58 this is called the origin of the Sabbath. 16:00 Let's think it through a little bit, 16:01 just what I meant. 16:02 Would God give us a weekly cycle seven days 16:06 and not be able we couldn't track them, 16:09 that we couldn't keep track of them 16:11 when He said expressly the seventh day? 16:13 Why would God say that and then we can't figure it out? 16:16 Something is not right here. 16:18 This we do know that time is measured 16:22 by the heavenly bodies. 16:24 Everybody knows that, we should know that. 16:26 Well, interesting. 16:28 See, God set this world, created this world 16:31 and can I say a globe? 16:33 He made this globe, He made this world 16:35 and He took it out of the space and He began to spin it. 16:40 Maybe we will get that its spinning. 16:42 Now it spins on its axis. 16:44 You say well what is the axis? 16:46 It's a line on which a turning body revolves, okay. 16:52 So He put it on axis, He's put in spin and so it's spinning. 16:56 So God then spins the world on a yearly course-- 17:02 interesting notice, on a yearly course 17:05 around the sun turn it together with the moon. 17:08 These called heavenly bodies. 17:11 We are talking what? 17:12 Origin of the Sabbath, we are saying God 17:14 then put something into the heavens 17:16 so that we could keep track of the time 17:17 so we wouldn't forget the seven day cycle. 17:20 That's interesting how different 17:22 the seven day weekly cycle 17:24 is from the monthly and from the yearly, 17:27 even from the daily, interesting. 17:30 All these others depend upon some 17:32 but the seven day cycle does not. 17:34 Stay with me, I want you to think with me. 17:37 So we have the heavenly bodies, 17:39 they are going to govern the earth 17:41 which we call day and night. 17:45 The Bible says in Genesis 1:14, 17:47 they would be fore signs, and for seasons and for what? 17:52 For days and for years. 17:55 And we know this 17:56 that the heavens are in perfect order. 17:59 Do we know that? Absolutely. 18:00 Right, God put them there. 18:02 God spoken them in existence 18:04 and they stay and they obey what's human beings don't. 18:08 They do exactly what God has designed them to do. 18:12 In fact, the astronomers, you know, 18:13 through their great telescopes, 18:16 some of you-- we call them stargazers, 18:18 some of you really love to view the heavens and things in it. 18:20 I know you are amazed by the greatness 18:22 and the goodness of God. 18:24 And so as we look at-- we begin to observe 18:27 the heavens and the stars and things that there, 18:30 are there they regulate our time, 18:33 seconds and minutes and hours. 18:37 And so as we see this there is something to it. 18:39 There-- what do we do? 18:41 Interesting, we set our watches or we say our clocks, 18:44 our phones, the time what, 18:48 but by the myth its right of heaven. 18:50 We set them with God's timepiece to make sure 18:53 they are perfect because it's always perfect, 18:55 it's always in order. 18:57 Kind of a interesting thought. 18:59 Now, some of you will say, well, 19:00 you know, I still can't quite get the date thing, 19:03 I can't-- Let me just read you, 19:04 I've got jotted down a couple things here. 19:06 I want to read to because it's very important. 19:08 It's very important that we understand this. 19:10 For those who say it can't be done 19:12 there has been changes in the weekly cycle. 19:14 There have been changes that we can't figure it out. 19:17 These are just two little letters, 19:18 two little accepts from letters from the two observatories, 19:22 kind of interesting. 19:23 Here's what one said. 19:24 This is a US Naval observatory says this. 19:27 "The chronological order of the specialist 19:30 have no doubt about the continuity 19:33 of the weekly cycle long before the Christian era." 19:38 Notice this, "And no calendar changes 19:41 in the past centuries have disrupted the weekly cycle." 19:48 The weekly cycle has been going on since God created, 19:51 right, in the first six days 19:53 and He rested the seventh, interesting. 19:55 Now let me give you another hear 19:56 from the Royal Greenwich observatory. 19:59 Notice what it says here. 20:01 And a letter was written and he said, 20:02 "We don't know of any change in the seven day cycle 20:06 which came down from the very earliest periods of time." 20:09 Notice this. 20:10 Further he states this, 20:12 it has been-- no, 20:13 "It has run independently of the month 20:16 and all the astronomical periods. 20:20 Therefore no astronomical evidence can be furnished 20:24 in the connection with the week." 20:26 Remember we talked about everything else 20:28 is kind of conditional. 20:30 You know, you have your days and your weeks, 20:33 your months and your years, you will see 20:35 how they hinge on something in just a moment. 20:37 But something about the seven day cycle, 20:39 the seven day cycle it doesn't-- 20:42 here the astronomers, I call them stargazers, 20:45 the people who study the heavens are saying, 20:46 well, the weekly cycle was just a little bit different 20:50 than all these other things 20:51 because they hinge on something else. 20:53 But the seven day cycle doesn't. 20:56 Wow, that's just what we've been reading, 20:58 that's what we've been studying here. 20:59 Awesome thoughts. 21:02 So how then is a day really measured? 21:07 Well, let's begin to think about it. 21:09 A day is measured by the earth's what? 21:12 Good, I heard some of you out, rotation. 21:14 Now you know, I'm just talking when I say 21:16 I heard that people right and say well, 21:18 you can't hear us talk. 21:19 No, but I know that you are asking those questions, 21:22 so they are very simple. 21:23 A day then is measured by the earth's what? 21:25 Rotation. 21:27 So what we have here is half of the world, we say the globe. 21:31 Half of it is in light and the other half is in good-- 21:35 in darkness, good. 21:38 Genesis 1:5 the Bible said God called 21:40 the light day and He called the darkness what? 21:43 Night. Okay, this makes sense here. 21:46 And so we know long ago 21:48 we know people really didn't need a clock, 21:50 they didn't really have watches but they understood 21:52 when the sun come up and when the sun went down, 21:54 very interesting the setting of the sun. 21:58 See a calendar day is what? 22:00 A calendar day is measured 22:01 by one complete rotation of the earth, 22:05 and interesting. 22:08 You would say one complete rotation? 22:10 And that includes what? 22:12 A night and then it includes the day. 22:15 You see the Hebrews if we go back far enough 22:17 we realize that Hebrews each full day ran from-- 22:21 notice this and this is Bible reckoning 22:24 from the evening to the, the morning. 22:27 That's how we-- right, 22:28 that's how we look at time. 22:30 So interesting thought that the time right, begin, 22:33 the day begins when the sun goes down, 22:36 not when the sun comes up. 22:38 So when we being to think about that 22:39 for those of you who say well, 22:41 how come your folks keep Sabbath on Friday sundown? 22:44 Oh, when the sun goes down on Friday 22:46 that's the beginning of Sabbath the 24 hour period of time. 22:49 We'll have time to talk more about this as we go. 22:51 So evening and morning, the dark part first. 22:55 Now I can read in the Bible 22:57 and you can too Leviticus Chapter 23 22:59 you can read verses 32. 23:01 You can read Mark Chapter 1 verses 21 and 32. 23:07 Mark Chapter 1-- Chapter 22 versus 6 and 7. 23:11 Okay, so we have them what we've been talking about 23:14 the day is measured by the earth's rotation. 23:17 Now, so we're gonna say now how about the monthly? 23:21 Okay, the month. 23:22 We look at the month, the month is governed by what? 23:24 The moon. 23:25 How many of you look out the window and-- 23:27 you know, night time and star you see, 23:29 the moon is in different, you know, phases of the month. 23:32 And so that's what the month is governed by the moon 23:35 and what does that mean? 23:36 That means that's by the time required 23:39 for the moon to go once around the earth, 23:42 interesting. 23:44 If the visible phases that we have, 23:47 some of you will say yeah, but you remember, 23:48 some will say well, yeah, 23:50 its from the crescent to the full moon 23:53 and then from the full back to the crescent. 23:57 Now that's, now we use the calendar 23:59 in which to do that. 24:01 Very interesting the monthly. How about you thing about? 24:04 Okay, now we will get little bit deeper here. 24:06 We talked about three phases 24:07 now we are talking about the yearly. 24:09 We are talking about time, how it can be kept, 24:12 how it can be traced, how it hasn't been changed. 24:14 And remember because the heavenly bodies 24:16 are in perfect order, they lose a second 24:18 because God put them there and they are perfect. 24:21 So we look at the year measure what? 24:23 Measured by the sun, that's interesting. 24:26 So we have our spinning earth, right our globe, 24:29 it's spinning right 24:30 and it circles continuously right by the moon 24:34 and it travels around the course of what? 24:37 Of the sun. 24:39 So as it goes around that course we see it, 24:41 it makes the seasons, right, 24:44 spring and summer and oh, autumn and winter. 24:47 It's the four seasons. 24:49 So as we look at that we say oh, 24:51 okay, I can see what God is saying 24:53 so when that completion is made, 24:55 all way around that, that's we call it a year. 24:59 Wow. 25:01 So the days, the months, and the years 25:06 as we come together and we look at it 25:08 it's depending on other things that are going on 25:11 but somehow that weekly cycle is not. 25:15 I wonder why? 25:17 Only the week seven days had no natural landmarks. 25:24 Think about it. 25:25 You view the heavens there is landmarks 25:26 that are there but the weekly cycle of seven days 25:28 has no natural landmarks at all 25:30 when you look and you really study. 25:32 Now what do I mean by this? 25:33 Just look at just three things that we just talked about. 25:35 Why? 25:36 Because the daily rotation of our globe. 25:40 What does it do? It marks off the days. 25:43 Two, the monthly that we just talked about here 25:45 the circuit of the earth by the moon and number three, 25:49 is the yearly revolutions of the earth 25:51 and the moon around the sun. 25:54 Hope that make sense. These mark off our time. 25:59 Interesting. 26:01 But there is no astronomical cycle connected 26:06 with the seven day week. 26:08 Did you get that? 26:10 Now what you say, oh, astronomical that-- 26:12 listen, that astronomical is simply-- 26:14 it's a science of the study of some different things. 26:17 Notice, what does it study off? It's study of the stars. 26:20 It's a study of the planets, 26:23 all other heavenly bodies that are up there 26:25 so they are studying all of these things. 26:27 And what does it deal with? It deals with several things. 26:31 It deals of the size of them, it deals with the composite, 26:35 what they are made up of. 26:37 It deals with their motion. It deals with their positions. 26:41 But interesting the weekly cycle 26:43 there is nothing else, you know, 26:45 nothing that really depends upon. 26:48 Wow. 26:49 There must be something special 26:51 about the weekly seven day cycle? 26:54 Wow. 26:55 The Sabbath given in the beginning 26:58 and it was given by who? 26:59 Good, it's was give by God, the God of nature. 27:04 Definitely marked off as we see by giving-- 27:08 we'll go back to the Bible you'll say 27:09 but was it really marked off by something? 27:11 Absolutely. 27:12 If we go back we can look when God gave us the manna. 27:16 Oh, you remember that, sure. 27:17 Exodus 16:22-30. 27:22 Now remember he marked something off. 27:24 This was before the law-- 27:27 Ten Commandment law was given on Mount Sinai. 27:30 Does that make sense to you? 27:31 This was before. 27:32 Lot of people say well, there was never a Sabbath, 27:34 never observed of it until after God gave the law. 27:37 It shows the Ten Commandment, 27:38 the seventh day Sabbath was in operation 27:40 from the very beginning in creation. 27:42 And then so God began to make it off and He said, 27:44 okay, look, let's go back and it is giving of the manna. 27:49 And it's still identified certainly 27:50 in the New Testament so you can read a lot there. 27:52 Now, let's go back. 27:53 Because of our time we speed along. 27:56 But let's go back just a little bit and read, 27:58 you know, read the accounts. 28:00 Now, read the accounts of these things 28:02 that we are talking bout showing about the week. 28:06 Going back to the past and then to the present 28:09 and then future, interesting. 28:12 How do we go? What you are talking about? 28:14 Well, you can go back to the past, 28:15 you can go with certainly, you can take known dates 28:18 that are given in scripture and prophecy 28:20 and we can go back 28:22 and we being to trace certain periods of time. 28:25 See that helps us to realize no time has been lost 28:27 that we can, we can know 28:29 which day is the seventh day Sabbath, 28:32 beyond the shadow of the doubt. 28:34 So kind of interesting, you know, 28:36 thinking along this line for some reason we talk about. 28:41 The world has been-- can I use the word snookered? 28:44 The world has been snookered 28:46 when it comes to the real seventh day Sabbath. 28:48 It's been deceived, it's been cheated, interesting. 28:52 Why? 28:53 Well, we just read in Genesis 2:1-3, 28:56 the Sabbath was instituted, it was established, 29:00 it was set into operation in Eden before sin. 29:06 See, those are facts that we must approach 29:08 if we are honest in heart and we want to look 29:10 at how the origin of the Sabbath. 29:13 How did it begin? Who began? 29:15 Well, it's a very interesting here, 29:17 well, we have to just go back to the beginning we see. 29:21 Now think about, it was God, notice this, 29:23 it was honored of God the seventh day Sabbath, right. 29:26 It was set apart by God the Bible said. 29:29 It was set aside by divine appointment, 29:32 remember that and it was given then 29:35 to man, man, right. 29:38 God made the Sabbath for man. 29:41 And when He gave it to him 29:42 He said this is a perpetual covenant. 29:45 Man, what does that mean? 29:48 When it has to do with the Sabbath 29:50 it says here it means it's ceaseless. 29:52 It means it continues on. It's unlimited in time. 29:57 It's permanent, it's uninterrupted. 30:01 Wow. 30:03 It's a memorial of His creation, a finished creation. 30:08 So what is the Sabbath then based upon? 30:11 Please, think with me, you love Jesus, don't you? 30:14 You want to know about these things 30:16 and you've heard it. 30:17 I'm just amazed, I'm amazed. 30:20 Think with me for a-- I'm amazed with this. 30:22 Many people I talk to who go to church on a different day 30:28 and when you sit and talk to them it's very interesting 30:31 as I just did well not too long ago, 30:33 a couple of days ago and they said 30:36 there is no question which is the Sabbath day, 30:39 the seventh day, it's Saturday. 30:42 I knew that, they said when I was just a little guy. 30:45 My dad said, told me even that Saturday 30:48 is the seventh day of the week but we-- 30:50 I say, but we what? 30:54 Instituted in the garden, right. 30:55 Appointed by God. 30:56 Made by God, gave to man, 30:58 commanded us to be obedient too. 31:02 But I'm almost shock that people say 31:03 that's not really an issue, we know what it is. 31:07 Well, what-- 31:08 there's something is missing here. 31:10 What is the Sabbath really based upon? 31:14 Remember, laws, regulation, rules, and people call them-- 31:18 keeping the Sabbath means nothing 31:20 if you don't know the God behind the Sabbath. 31:22 It means nothing, it's dos and don'ts. 31:24 You don't want it, it helped but you from doing 31:26 what you like to do and how you like to run, 31:27 what you like to buy, what you liked to do 31:29 until you know the God behind that Sabbath. 31:32 Why He instituted? 31:34 Oh, friend, it makes all the difference in the world. 31:37 Listen, that God of the universe 31:41 rested on that Sabbath day. 31:46 You know its very simple but please think with me, 31:48 it wasn't because He was tired, 31:50 it wasn't because He was worn out-- 31:52 He doesn't get worried, He doesn't get tired, 31:55 He doesn't need sleep but He did it for an-- 31:59 the God of the universe rested on it 32:02 and set an example that I need to do it, 32:04 I need to follow. 32:06 Wow, what a God we serve? 32:09 He rest, He blessed His Sabbath. 32:13 He blessed His rest day, the Bible says here. 32:16 He sanctified His day. 32:19 It set apart the Bible said for man. 32:22 We read that in Mark 2 32:23 or at least you look to that jot it down 2:27, 28. 32:26 Jesus the Son of God, who was the Creator 32:30 the Bible tells us in Genesis 1:1-3. 32:34 It was Jesus who appointed the original Sabbath. 32:40 Boy, I read it, I get just a little bit excited about it 32:43 because I'm saying wow, 32:45 what a good example that I have as a Christian? 32:50 What a good example that I can look to Jesus 32:53 who is the Author and finisher of our faith. 32:54 Why are we as Christian, some of you are very selective. 32:58 I serve Jesus, we follow in His footstep, 33:01 we are gonna make it to heaven, 33:02 we do what Jesus did, we are gonna make it. 33:04 You say, well how about the seventh day Sabbath? 33:06 Well, we don't do that. 33:07 Why? You are not following Jesus? 33:11 If we follow Jesus we will do what He did, 33:13 what He counsels to do in His word. 33:15 Would we not? 33:17 We are looking back at the beginning. 33:18 We want you to question why you go on another day? 33:23 Any other day that is not the seventh day 33:26 it has to be a counterfeit. 33:28 It has to be because God, He only blessed one day. 33:32 He only sanctified one day. 33:34 He only set apart for worship and holy use 33:36 a 24 hour period of time that belongs to Him 33:40 and He said My true followers will hear My voice 33:42 and they will respond. 33:44 They will rest with Me on that day. 33:45 They will rest in Me on that day. 33:47 They will be blessed in Me on that day. 33:50 Boy, how beautiful this is, please don't miss this. 33:54 it's not a bunch of dos and don'ts and I can't 33:56 and you will say, well, it's not a matter, 33:58 and you will keep it in order to be saved. 34:01 It's because you have a relationship with Christ, 34:03 you see you are willing to follow in His footsteps. 34:07 Why? 34:08 You say, whatever thing mean it was really that good 34:11 when God created it. 34:12 We need to take that in consideration 34:14 in Genesis 1:31, Bible says right here, 34:18 "God saw that every thing that He had made, 34:21 and, behold, it was very good." 34:24 Everything that He had made. 34:26 Now, that mean everything He made, 34:28 that mean the seventh day too? 34:31 Absolutely. 34:33 Everything that He made He says very good. 34:36 So we see that He rested and He wants us 34:39 to rest in the joy of His completed work. 34:43 He made this world. 34:45 Who he make it for? For us. 34:47 Everything that's in He made it for us. 34:50 He wants us simply to remember who He is. 34:53 And let me tell you the blessings will come 34:54 if you remember who He is, your Creator God. 34:59 He will bless you for it. 35:01 The world may count you as the strange thing 35:03 but God said I'll bless you for it. 35:05 A memorial Bible says of His creation. 35:08 It's a sign of God's power. It's a sign of God's love. 35:13 It's a sign that we are obedient to Him 35:15 because we love Him. 35:16 Not as if-- well, 35:17 if I do then He will take to heaven 35:19 and I'm going to do it because-- 35:20 No, willing you want to do it. Your love to do it. 35:25 Well, if the Bible because you can go into Psalms 111:4 35:29 the Bible says "He hath made His" listen 35:32 "He has made His wonderful works to be remembered." 35:37 Wow, He said He's made His wonderful works 35:40 to be remembered 35:41 and in the heart of the commandment 35:43 it says remember the Sabbath day to keep it holy. 35:46 Oh, friend, don't forget what He is saying. 35:48 Please don't forget. 35:50 "To be remembered" the verse goes on to say 35:52 "the Lord is gracious and full of compassion." 35:56 Oh, I hope you found that out. 35:57 If you don't know that today please get to know Him. 36:00 He is gracious. Praise God for His grace. 36:02 Praise God that He is gracious and long suffering. 36:05 Thank God He is full of compassion. 36:08 And so when I think about the Sabbath the day it brings, 36:11 the Sabbath brings our thoughts, you see, 36:14 into communion with the Creator. 36:18 You remember He want's us. Jesus prayed this. 36:20 Remember in John 17, He said He prayed Father 36:22 that we maybe one as they was one 36:25 the Father and the Son, that we maybe one with Him. 36:27 The Sabbath brings us in communion with Him. 36:29 When we let the world out, we throw the world out 36:32 because we've have enough for six days 36:34 and we spend that time with Him. 36:35 Clears our mind, clears our thinking, 36:37 energizes us spiritually 36:39 to do that work that God has called us to do, 36:41 to let our light shine before man. 36:44 Oh, friend, to me this is just exciting. 36:47 Bible reminds us that all things were made by Him. 36:52 Oh, notice it, all things were made by Him. 36:57 I've mentioned this before but I'll mention it again. 36:59 Remember, if all things were made by Him then what? 37:03 Let's just over few things, what? 37:04 Then He before all things. 37:08 It have to, isn't that right? Common sense, sure. 37:12 See no person needs to be confused here whether they-- 37:16 if they are Bible student or not. 37:19 I don't think God holds against us. 37:21 We try to use some logic and we try to think it through. 37:23 We read the scripture, we think it through. 37:25 We read some more, we think it through. 37:27 If He had created all things He had to be here 37:29 before all things. 37:32 Now I make this big statement that blow some of your mind. 37:34 Christ was God. 37:38 You say, how can that be, Christ is God? 37:41 Yeah, essentially in the full of sense, 37:46 in the highest sense and then we've been studying, 37:50 we will have studies out on that about the God head, 37:52 you don't want to miss those. 37:54 He was God from all eternity, yet he was a distinct person. 38:00 Yet He was-- the Bible said 38:01 He was one with the Father. 38:04 And He thought it not robbery to be equal with God. 38:09 Yeah, I know you read that in Philippians 2:6. 38:13 And also little bit more read Proverbs 8 when you time 38:16 and just jot down verses 22 through about 30. 38:19 Read those sayings when you have time. 38:22 So we realize that we studying scripture here 38:24 and we are studying about the origin the Sabbath 38:26 that we need to understand that relationship of God, 38:28 of Christ and why the Sabbath was made. 38:32 You see, Christ, He was equal with the Father. 38:35 Bible said before 38:36 the foundation of the world 1 Peter 1:20. 38:40 "Testimonies to Minister" page 264 says this. 38:44 Notice this, listen, "The Son of God was given to die 38:49 before the foundation of the world." 38:52 See all that does it just confirm 38:53 what the scripture has already told us. 38:55 It's in harmony with scripture. 38:57 So the seventh day Sabbath then located where? 39:01 In the very heart of the Commandments of God 39:04 as we've been talking of Mark 2:28 reveals 39:07 the Son of man is Lord also of the Sabbath, interesting. 39:12 He is the author of it. He is the protector of it. 39:16 He is the maker as it were. 39:18 So the Sabbath we know as we look in scripture 39:21 Exodus 20:10 tells us that the Sabbath, 39:24 is the Sabbath of the Lord Jehovah God. 39:30 Think about if God's created, He's protected it, 39:33 He's made it for you, He's made it for me, 39:35 He gave it to us as a gift 39:38 because He knew that we needed it. 39:40 The Sabbath belongs to Him. 39:42 He is Lord, is He not? 39:44 It's His day, it's the Lord's day. 39:47 And friend, don't, please don't, 39:49 this is sad when you look at Sunday or Monday or Tuesday 39:51 and say that is Lord's day. 39:53 That's an impossibility. 39:54 The Lord's day is the seventh day of the week. 39:58 The Bible is clearer on that. 39:59 Don't let the devil come in to try to change 40:01 some of the words around and confuse our thinking on it. 40:04 Man has done that, the Bible is not confused at all on it. 40:06 God's not confused and you need not be confused either. 40:10 Sabbath should be, you know, 40:12 it should be revealed in our lives. 40:15 You think, well, people look at me 40:16 little bit strange and odd. 40:17 Let them look. 40:19 Maybe that will be the only thing 40:20 that will help to change their hearts and life 40:22 and ask a question as why? 40:26 Sabbath for given for man's benefit, we know that. 40:29 It was beginning in the, the beginning 40:30 is for the highest good of mankind. 40:33 God loves you, 40:34 He wants a very best for you and me. 40:37 He wants us to have that fellowship together. 40:40 He want's to give us that rest that we need. 40:44 Friend, that's not all spiritual, physical. 40:47 All the things that the piles on you during the week 40:51 God wants to take all of those off, 40:52 cast your burden He says on Me. 40:56 And we find out of course, 40:57 many centuries later as we study the weekly-- 41:00 the weekly Sabbath was reaffirmed at Mount Sinai. 41:03 You remember that? 41:05 We've been talking about all these things here, 41:06 it was done before the law, 41:07 you know, given on Mount Sinai. 41:10 This of this it was given on Exodus 20:8-11 41:13 we read and Exodus 31:16, 17 41:16 you can read all of these verses. 41:19 Now what does God do? 41:20 God looks down the stream of time, 41:22 He sees what's going on. 41:23 He says, I'm gonna give My people, 41:24 My people an organized system of worship. 41:29 Wow, what a thought. 41:31 God's people need to be organized. 41:32 He said, I'm gonna give them a organized system 41:34 so that they will be consistent every week, 41:37 every Sabbath, every seventh day of the week. 41:41 He wants us to be consistent. Some of you are not consistent. 41:45 You will have three or four Sabbath 41:46 and you attend church one time, you think that's good enough. 41:48 That's not consistency at all. Think about it. 41:51 Remember the Sabbath was placed where? 41:54 In the middle of the moral Ten Commandment law. 41:57 Which was given by what? Given by God to man. 42:00 These are principles are eternal, 42:02 they last forever, their applications then we say, 42:05 we look them, we say well, 42:06 they are based on our relationship with God 42:08 and our fellow man. 42:10 Isn't that right? 42:11 Have you read that in Matthew 22:36-40? 42:15 On this two hang all the law. Sure you read that. 42:18 So the Sabbath in, the origin of it reminds us of what? 42:22 That Christ is our Creator. 42:26 He wants to care for us. He is our Redeemer. 42:29 He is our sustainer. He is our provider. 42:32 How many people sing about it and they, 42:33 you know, praise about it and they say He is here 42:35 but we don't follow His example. 42:37 What's wrong? 42:39 But He came-- that love 42:41 that He showed became, He showed that love 42:44 more and more and more as Calvary, sin. 42:49 He showed up and He said I'm gonna be your Redeemer. 42:52 Wow. 42:54 Because of sin came in these thing 42:57 we call the ceremonial services. 43:00 See, we get confused sometime in this world 43:02 from the moral law, form the ceremonial law. 43:06 Many people read passages 43:08 that pertain to the ceremonial law 43:10 which end up at the cross 43:11 because all the ceremonial things, 43:13 you know, that were in the law of God all these things, 43:16 all pointed to Jesus coming right, 43:18 living the prefect life and dying for us 43:20 and after He came there was no use to do it. 43:23 The gospel going to the gentiles by Paul. 43:25 Paul was this transitioning period 43:27 and things were written there in the New Testament 43:29 we say sometime oh, it can cause confusion. 43:31 There is no need as long as we realize 43:33 the moral Ten Commandment law is by itself over here, 43:36 unchangeable, can't change it. 43:39 Has heaven and earth will pass away before that does 43:41 and then you have the ceremonial laws over here. 43:44 I wonder if I read some of them to you today. 43:47 If you would know the difference and you can say, 43:49 well, that's the moral law, oh, no, that's the ceremonial law. 43:52 Most people cannot by the way, they just can't do it. 43:57 But we need to be studying to show ourself approved. 44:01 We need to understand about the sacrificial services 44:03 and all those things that pointed to Christ. 44:07 We need to understand those today. 44:09 Simply the prefigure the coming, 44:11 there are shadow of things to come of Jesus 44:14 coming and dying for us. 44:16 You need to have your Bible and pencil and paper 44:17 we may ask you a question here in just a moment 44:20 because I'm thinking now about the ceremonial services. 44:23 We said, what happened? 44:24 Right when Christ died they seized. 44:28 But the word that was spoken, 44:29 that was given by God can never come to an end. 44:32 It's above all ceremonial rights. 44:35 All the practices of the Jewish nation. 44:39 You'll say well, how can this be? 44:42 Well, number one from the fact the Bible said 44:44 that the seventh day Sabbath was established before sin. 44:50 Interesting. 44:51 Ceremonial was after sin, 44:53 seventh day Sabbath was before sin 44:55 so it was perfect, everything was good, right. 44:58 Now think about-- here's cause confusion 45:00 that we talked about. 45:01 Maybe we'll have time the way we can do that, 45:03 confusion between the moral and the ceremonial law. 45:06 You have your Bible maybe you like to turn with me, 45:08 you can turn with me to Book of Colossians. 45:12 I hear this read all the time, people are confused 45:15 and I think maybe you know, maybe honestly so. 45:19 And you know, so we need to study it, 45:22 we need to look at it. 45:23 Book of Colossians 2:14-17. 45:28 You know these but listen many honest hearted people do not. 45:32 They said, "The blotting out of the handwriting 45:34 of the ordinances that was against us, 45:36 which was contrary to us, took it out of the way, 45:39 nailing it to his cross, 45:42 and having spoiled principalities and powers, 45:45 he made a shew of them openly, 45:47 triumphing over them in it." 45:50 The Bible goes on to say, notice this. 45:52 "Let no man therefore judge you in meat, 45:55 or in drink, or in respect to a holyday, 45:58 or of the new moon, or of the Sabbath days." 46:00 Interesting. 46:01 Verse 17 says 46:03 "Which are a shadow of things to come, 46:04 but the body is of Christ." 46:06 Many people say well, the Ten Commandment law 46:08 and maybe honestly so best they, 46:09 he was nailed to the cross. 46:11 Friend, if I ask you today, does that pertaining to God's 46:13 Ten Commandment moral law or the ceremonial law? 46:16 You got to come to grips with it. 46:19 Well, certainly it says, here what was it-- 46:21 it was blotting out of the handwriting 46:23 of the ordinances that was against us, 46:26 nailing it to the cross, notice this. 46:30 So what would be therefore it says you the meat 46:32 and the drink offerings and so-- 46:34 those were things what? 46:35 That were instituted in the ceremonial law 46:37 that they observed pointing to Christ 46:39 but after He come well, 46:41 those things were nailed to the cross with Christ 46:43 when He was nailed. 46:44 It says the new moons and the Sabbath they-- 46:46 not these seventh day cycle, the seventh day of the week 46:49 but those seven special days 46:50 that they had they called Sabbath. 46:52 So we look say, oh, 46:54 that pertained the moral law at all then. 46:56 Does it? Wow. 46:57 You can also read that also in Ephesians 2:15, 47:02 take time to do it. 47:03 We can't do it because our time 47:04 just really going by here quickly. 47:07 What if I gave you another one, 47:08 maybe let's say Luke Chapter 23? 47:10 Oh, we're don't have time. 47:11 If don't get any further I still want to do this 47:13 because I want to hear what your opinion. 47:15 I want to hear what you had to say about it. 47:17 So would this be moral law or this be the civil law 47:21 that we are talking, the ceremonial law? 47:23 So notice this, let's look at Luke Chapter 23-- 47:26 I turn here my Bible quickly as I can. 47:28 Luke chapter what? 47:29 Good verse 23, gonna read verses 52, 47:33 23 I'm gonna read verses 52, 47:39 okay through 56. 47:41 Notice this, it says, "This man went unto Pilate," 47:44 talking about the death of Christ. 47:45 The burial of Jesus. 47:46 Notice it says "This man went unto Pilate, 47:48 he begged the body of Jesus. 47:50 And he took it down, and he wrapped it in linen, 47:53 he laid it in a sepulcher that was hewn in stone, 47:56 wherein never man before was laid." 47:58 Notice this, oh, 47:59 "And that day was the preparation day, 48:02 and the Sabbath drew on. 48:04 And the women also, which were came 48:06 with him from Galilee, followed after, 48:08 and beheld the sepulcher, and how his body was laid." 48:11 Notice verse 56 "And they returned, 48:13 and prepared spices and ointments, 48:16 and rested the Sabbath day 48:18 according to the commandment." 48:20 Interesting, no confusion in the Bible. 48:22 Bible certainly can be, 48:23 you can trace time isn't that right? 48:26 Now would you say that was ceremonial 48:28 or is that part of the Ten Commandment moral law? 48:31 You had to say oh, that's commandment 48:33 because God said He rest on the Sabbath. 48:35 Crucified on Friday, right, died, rested in the tomb, 48:39 rose on the first day of the week. 48:41 So that passage there it had to do certainly with the moral. 48:43 That's simple enough, you understand 48:45 but we have to make-- we make a difference in those 48:48 so that we don't become confused 48:51 and many people are today. 48:53 Now God has a plan. He had a plan for Israel. 48:56 He gave them the Sabbath. 48:57 He gave them Ten Commandment law 48:58 because they were special and better than anyone else. 49:00 Now He put that and He said this is your job. 49:02 I want you to give it to the world. 49:03 Take it and let it change you 49:05 and then give this message to the world 49:08 and they begin to keep it well all into themselves. 49:11 Friend, how about us today? 49:12 Are we doing what God want's us to do? 49:15 Are we really worshippers of the true God? 49:18 Are we really keeping that which He said is the sign 49:21 and seal of His people in His last days? 49:23 Do you really know how the Sabbath really began 49:25 and why it began and who was the author of it? 49:29 And what He asked us to do as His children? 49:32 You know, that could be quite a challenge today. 49:36 Most of even call self Sabbath keepers, 49:39 we have a hard time keeping the Sabbath holy. 49:42 Twenty four hour period of time remember 49:44 belongs to the Creator, doesn't belong to you. 49:47 We are going to be covering a lot of things 49:49 about Sabbath keeping, how to keep the Sabbath 49:50 law and grace in this series. 49:52 So below thanks need to be said, 49:54 it's going to be said by the grace of God 49:55 that I wanted just kind of build this foundation 49:58 that we've been doing in Genesis Chapter 2. 50:01 God said He just simply ended His work 50:03 on the sixth day He rested the seventh. 50:05 What more do we need, 50:07 what does that mean for us today? 50:09 Is that mean anything special to you today? 50:13 Simply for God has said what, He seized His work, 50:17 things that He had done. 50:19 He seized from creating. 50:22 Shouldn't we not seize the work 50:23 that we do during those six days? 50:26 And again it's a whole period, 50:27 whole 24 hour period of time it was devoted to rest. 50:31 With order that you are church going to doing good, 50:33 it's God's day. 50:34 Anything you do on the Sabbath must be what? 50:36 Around centered, around God and it need to be holy things 50:40 and good things that pertain to Him. 50:41 If it pertains to yourself you are breaking the Sabbath. 50:44 We will whole lot more in that. 50:47 I want you to think along with me, rest, praise God. 50:52 So He said He rested on the Sabbath. 50:54 He said, He blessed it. 50:57 He couldn't have blessed the sixth day of the week, 51:00 could He? 51:02 He didn't blessed it. 51:03 I couldn't have been Friday 51:05 because He said the seventh day, 51:07 Friday is a sixth day is what it says. 51:10 Plus on the Sabbath day the Friday had already passed 51:14 so He is not putting blessing on something 51:15 that's already been passed 51:17 but present and then into the future. 51:19 Once He blesses its blessed forever the Bible tells us. 51:23 Wow, seventh day. 51:27 Think about it the day that He blessed, He set apart 51:31 and He tells us how we need to be 51:32 keeping it as His people. 51:35 Do you think maybe in this life as we go through 51:37 and we keep thinking well, we just go through, 51:39 we can't do the best we can and we stumble through it 51:41 and we kind of do what we want to do all the time 51:43 and the heaven's gonna be our home. 51:46 Does God as our Creator have a right 51:48 to maybe just set up some test for us 51:50 to see whether we love Him or we just, 51:52 oh, boy, little bit windy? 51:55 We talk about Him, you know, 51:57 we quote scripture and we go to church and, 52:00 but have you really made that commitment to Him? 52:03 Are you blown about by every wind of doctrine? 52:07 See this is awesome times in which we live. 52:10 God has set out a special message 52:12 for this hour of world's history 52:14 and He challenges us today. 52:15 He said, I will give you the grace, 52:16 I'll give you the strength 52:19 and yet many of us will say yeah, 52:20 we realize we need to keep by God's grace all ten 52:23 but you know, we just do the best we can. 52:24 No. 52:25 God says, I'm gonna give you victory, 52:27 a victory, complete victory in your life. 52:29 He enables us just like Jesus. 52:32 He was enabled what? 52:33 He gained the victory through His father. 52:35 Same things offered to us today. 52:36 Well, we accept that. 52:39 After all He said I set this day apart 52:41 and I set you apart. 52:43 You are to be different. 52:45 If you look around and you are just like 52:46 the rest of the world something is wrong. 52:49 You are talking like them, eating like them, 52:51 dressing like him, speaking like-- 52:52 going the same places they go. 52:54 You are not a follower of Christ. 52:55 He said, my people will be a particular, peculiar people. 53:00 I'm not talking about so different that-- 53:02 I'm talking about that 53:03 they are gonna represent Jesus Christ. 53:05 Jesus was different when He walked. 53:06 Jesus walked the earth 53:08 there was something special about Him. 53:10 He didn't have to say anything. 53:11 He just walked by and people detected something special, 53:14 a father in Him. 53:17 Christ said no longer I but Christ. 53:18 When will that be with you? When will that be with me? 53:22 God said I've sanctified this day 53:24 and I gave it to man and its good for man. 53:28 It will be a blessing for man. 53:31 It originated with what? God. 53:33 Originated in creation. 53:36 It originated before there was sin 53:39 and He said, oh, this is good. 53:41 And notice this, 53:42 and then He commanded us to keep it holy. 53:47 This is not if you feel like it 53:49 or if you think well we can what to-- 53:51 God commanded. He challenged it. 53:53 Put it in the heart of His law. 53:55 Why? It's simply just a test. 53:57 Not a means of salvation. 53:58 Salvation comes because we accept Christ 54:00 in our heart, in our life. 54:01 We accept His sacrifice, we are cleansed from sin. 54:04 But then He said, well I'm gonna-- 54:05 here's a test for My people. 54:06 My people hear My voice, My sheep hear and they follow. 54:12 Friend, are you a follower of Jesus Christ? 54:16 See, all the human race received this command 54:19 through Adam and Eve. 54:20 It's not for this denomination, 54:22 not for this group of people it's for the whole human race. 54:27 See as soon as it was given to Adam, notice this, 54:31 soon as it was given to Adam 54:32 he had to begin to count the days 54:35 until the next Sabbath, interesting. 54:38 So there we see the weekly cycle, 54:39 the seven day cycle. 54:41 It owes its origin where? 54:43 In these facts, they go back into creation. 54:46 Sabbath established in Eden, kept by Adam and Eve, 54:51 kept by the patriarchs and the prophets 54:53 and the people of God. 54:55 Even through the dark ages and a wonderful example, 54:58 no other, no better than Jesus Christ our Lord. 55:01 He came to this world, 55:02 He observed the seventh day-- weekly Sabbath. 55:06 He is Lord of the Sabbath. 55:08 Friend, today we run out of time 55:11 but I want to encourage you, 55:12 you need to get this whole series. 55:13 We're just touching on some things 55:15 but there is five parts in it. 55:16 You need to get all of them 55:18 and let them be a one upon other. 55:19 If you believe in I need to know 55:21 about the origin of the Sabbath, 55:23 I need to know about law and grace, 55:25 I need to know how to keep the Sabbath, 55:27 it will be pleasing to God, 55:28 I need to know the message of Revelation 14 little better, 55:31 I need to know about the mark of the beast. 55:33 I want to pray with you right now. 55:36 These are life and death issues. 55:37 This is not just touring around with something. 55:39 We need to pray right now. 55:40 Would you pray with me as I kneel? 55:44 Merciful Father in heaven, 55:45 we thank You for Your precious word. 55:46 We thank You, we thank You that You made this special dad. 55:50 You made it for man. 55:51 You knew we need this time with You. 55:53 So matter of our love and our obedience to You, 55:55 we want to be, we want to do what You've asked us to. 55:58 Give us that strength, give us that ability. 56:00 Not that looking around the world but to look to Jesus, 56:03 the author and finisher of our. 56:04 I thank You for the Sabbath day, 56:05 for the seventh day of the week. 56:07 Thank You for Your people who observe it 56:08 and for those who were here and make that change now. 56:11 In Jesus name we pray and for His sake, amen. 56:15 You know, what a privilege it is, 56:17 lot of times you hear different, you know, 56:18 people come in preachers and teachers and they, 56:21 and they begin to bring different things up. 56:22 You know, you have the opportunity 56:24 to jot things down and then do your own study. 56:27 See if its not, well, 56:28 you are not being told the truth here. 56:29 Not some little flimsy thing its going, 56:31 not some of that lukewarm or some sugar coated thing 56:34 that really get down at the word of God 56:35 and say how can I be pleasing in the sight of God? 56:38 Friend, we encourage you to send those cards, 56:40 those letters and you know, 56:41 we can only continue on as you support this ministry. 56:45 So I pray that you will. 56:46 We will be praying for you, you pray for us 56:47 and we look forward to spending some more time with you. 56:53 Hello, and welcome back. 56:54 I recently was blessed to discuss the Sabbath issue 56:57 with acquaintance of mind. 56:59 After discussing just a small part of the Bible 57:02 upon this subject she concluded by saying 57:05 but that really changes your life. 57:08 I answered and said, yes, it does. 57:11 God is calling for us to change your lives 57:14 but He will never ever force us to do so. 57:17 He simply gives us a choice and explains 57:20 what will happen to us for eternity 57:23 depending upon the choices that we make right now. 57:27 Our prayer for you today 57:29 is that you will make the decision to follow Jesus. 57:33 Yes, your life will be changed. 57:35 Praise God, it will be changed for the better 57:38 and we hope that you will order this five part series 57:41 to help keep these scriptures fresh and alive in your mind 57:46 as we continue this study entitled 57:48 "The Sabbath a Test of Faith." 57:51 Your order will also help to enable us 57:53 to continue to bring you these messages 57:56 just like the one you heard today. 57:58 This five part series is being offered to you 58:01 for a love gift of just $35 58:04 or more here in the United States. 58:06 Of course, outside of the US 58:08 we have to charge additional shipping fees. 58:11 But simply contact us by calling our ministry Herrin 58:15 in the US at 618-942-5044 that's Central Standard Time 58:21 or write us at Behold the Lamb Ministries, 58:24 PO Box 2030, Herrin, IL 62948. 58:28 You may also email us 58:30 at BeholdtheLambMinistries @yahoo.com 58:33 or visit us on our website 58:35 at www.BeholdtheLamb Ministries.com. 58:40 My dear friends, may God richly bless 58:42 you and yours until we meet again. |
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