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Series Code: ICJ
Program Code: ICJ190015B
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00:01 So this genuine seal of God that we've been talking about
00:04 must be found then in God's Ten Commandments. 00:08 So let's talk a look at that. Where is it found? 00:11 So finding the seal in God's Ten Commandments, 00:14 we should be looking for one of those commandments 00:17 that talks about Yahweh God, that's His name, 00:20 His title is Yahweh Creator, and the territory would be 00:25 heaven, earth, and sea. 00:28 Well there is one of those commandments, 00:30 and it's the fourth one that contains all of those elements 00:34 that tell you that the Ten Commandments are authentic. 00:37 Now the first one says don't have any other gods before you. 00:40 The other one says this is the way you worship. 00:42 And the third one says, "Don't take My name in vain." 00:47 But this one, this one gives all of this together. 00:52 So you know the text, "Remember the Sabbath day 00:55 to keep it holy." 00:57 Then we have a reference to creation. 00:59 "Six days you shall labor and do all your work, 01:01 but the seventh day is the Sabbath of the Lord your God." 01:06 Yahweh Elohim. 01:08 "In it you shall do no work; you, nor your son, 01:11 your daughter, your male servant, your female servant, 01:14 or your cattle, or your strangers in your gates." 01:16 You're going to take this day off, it's a rest. 01:18 It's a recognition of the creation, and God as Creator. 01:22 "For in six days the Lord made..." 01:26 Yahweh Creator. 01:28 "...the Lord created the heavens and the earth, and the sea..." 01:33 And that's His territory, which is the universe. 01:38 The universe. 01:39 So the seal of God is found, no less, in the fourth commandment 01:45 of the Ten Commandments. 01:47 That's where we find it. 01:49 In the Old Testament, Yahweh God claims to own the Sabbath. 01:56 He claims ownership of the Sabbath. 01:58 Let's listen to what He says there. 01:59 And I'm just really kind of reading it 02:01 out of the fourth commandment. 02:03 But at the end of the fourth commandment it says, 02:05 "...but the seventh day is the Sabbath of the Lord your God." 02:09 So He owns it. 02:10 In the New Testament our incomparable Jesus, 02:15 our wonderful Jesus, the genuine Jesus, 02:19 the authentic Jesus, 02:21 he claims ownership of the Sabbath. 02:24 Listen to this in Matthew 12:8. 02:28 "For the Son of Man is Lord even of the Sabbath day." 02:32 You know, when He made that claim, they wanted to kill Him. 02:36 Do you know why they wanted to kill Him? 02:38 Because if you're the Lord of the Sabbath day, 02:40 if you claim that you own the Sabbath day, 02:43 you're the creator. 02:45 And they understood that. 02:47 And He is the Creator. He is God. 02:49 He was genuine. He wasn't the counterfeit. 02:53 So the Sabbath, the seventh day of the week, 02:56 is observed between Friday, when Jesus died, Good Friday, 02:59 and Sunday when He rose again. 03:01 That's the genuine Sabbath. 03:02 And it comes on our, what we call Saturday. 03:06 And it's really the seventh day. 03:07 Actually, the Bible only named one day of the week. 03:11 It called the others by number. 03:13 The first day, second day, third day, fourth day... 03:15 But the Sabbath day, He named it. 03:20 The seventh day of the week. 03:23 So He claims to have that authority, 03:26 and He claims the Sabbath as His own. 03:28 Who claims ownership of Sunday as the day of worship? 03:35 Who claims ownership of that? 03:37 Well, let's just listen. 03:39 This is that book again, Summary, very authoritative, 03:42 Summary on The Power of The Church, 03:44 showing its power as ecclesiastical authority 03:48 and as civil authority. 03:49 And this is what it says. 03:52 It says, "Resolved: the Sabbath day law..." 03:56 So they recognize that that's a law. 03:58 It's the law of God. 03:59 "The Sabbath day law," found in the Ten Commandments, 04:01 of course, "has been changed..." 04:03 By whom? 04:04 It says, "...has been changed by the Pope to the Lord's day..." 04:09 So authoritatively they claim, they make no bones about it, 04:12 "We changed this. We changed God's law." 04:15 Let me ask a question. 04:17 And I say this with sweet kindness. 04:20 Does anyone have the right to change the law of God? 04:25 If you change the law of God, 04:28 aren't you making yourself greater than God? 04:32 I mean, aren't you putting yourself in place of God? 04:36 If you say you can change His law that He made, 04:40 aren't you inserting yourself in place of God? 04:47 Well, the Bible would not be happy with anyone doing that. 04:52 But let's go ahead and look at some other claims 04:55 of the papal power. 04:58 This is again Cardinal Gibbons, very famous cardinal, 05:01 and he says, "Of course the Catholic church 05:04 claims the change was her act. 05:07 And the act is a mark of her ecclesiastical power." 05:13 In other words, "We have the power to do that." 05:15 They claim to actually have the religious power, 05:18 the ecclesiastical power, to change the law of God. 05:21 Again I say with sweet kindness, no you don't. 05:26 You can think to do it, 05:27 you can put civil law behind you, 05:30 you can try to force this on people, 05:32 as has been done, people have paid with their lives for this, 05:37 but you don't have the power to change God's law. 05:42 Ultimately, you lose. 05:45 You may win for a while. 05:47 You may look like you're the victor, like Babylon. 05:49 She sits and she says, you know, "I'll never be a widow. 05:52 I'm never going to suffer any sorrow." 05:54 But the next chapter tells about her terrible destruction. 05:59 You cannot fight against God. 06:02 Not the papacy, not any minister, not any church, 06:07 not any government. 06:09 Ultimately you may think to change His law, 06:11 but you will lose. 06:14 You will have an epic fail, epic failure. 06:22 Dr. Hiscox, he's the author of the Baptist manual. 06:25 Let's talk about Protestants. 06:26 Why haven't Protestants changed this? 06:28 Why do they still hang on to it? 06:30 Well Dr. Hiscox tells us what happened here. 06:34 He says this, he says, "What a pity that it," Sunday, 06:39 "comes branded with the mark of paganism..." 06:43 He got it right. 06:45 "...christened with the name of the sun god, 06:48 when adopted and sanctioned by the papal apostasy..." 06:53 And then he says this, and it's heartbreaking, 06:56 "...and bequeathed as a sacred legacy to Protestantism." 07:00 It was one of those things that the Protestants did not change. 07:03 Some tried, but they just didn't do it. 07:06 And they quit growing in Scripture 07:09 and understanding the truth of the Scripture. 07:13 Well people say, "Well you know, does that mean that everybody 07:15 that's keeping Sunday has the mark of the beast?" 07:18 No, not yet. 07:21 This thing doesn't really become the mark of the beast 07:24 until it's enforced, until this image to the beast 07:29 that's going to be made, it is not made yet, but when it's made 07:33 and when it has life, in other words when it's empowered, 07:37 this image, this unique thing that's coming 07:40 that will include all apostate Christianity, 07:44 then it's going to become the mark of the beast. 07:48 Because they're going to see in this an opportunity 07:51 to do something really great. 07:53 People are going to think it's great. 07:55 And they're not going to understand people 07:57 that don't go along with it. 07:59 They're going to be very upset. 08:00 The only way you'll make it through this 08:02 is if you have something else the saints had; 08:06 the faith of Jesus. 08:09 In fact, the words, "faith of Jesus," 08:13 the word, "of," really isn't there. 08:14 Some translate it, "faith in Jesus," "faith of Jesus." 08:17 Either way is fine. 08:19 But the truth is that it actually says, "faith Jesus." 08:22 Unless you have this living Christ, 08:25 this Jesus living in you by faith, 08:27 unless the Holy Spirit is in you, 08:29 you won't have the power to do this. 08:31 By the way, nobody keeps any of God's commandments 08:34 without the living Christ who has paid for their sins, 08:38 who has earned their salvation. 08:39 This is the incomparable Jesus. 08:41 He does everything for us. 08:43 He not only pays for our sins, 08:47 He not only cancels out our debt, 08:50 but He empowers us so that we come in harmony 08:54 with the law of God. 08:56 And when we come in harmony with the law of God, 08:58 we may not be in harmony with the world around us, 09:00 this selfish world, but we come in harmony with the universe. 09:04 Because the universe is in harmony with God's law, 09:07 because God's law is the guarantor of life. 09:11 So this only becomes the mark when it is enforced. 09:16 But you know, I still want to do the will of God 09:18 in my personal life. 09:20 The Bible says, "To him who knows to do good 09:22 and doeth it not, to him it is sin." 09:24 So if I know something is right, 09:26 if I'm convicted by the Holy Spirit in studying Scripture 09:29 and testing it by Scripture, then I should step out 09:33 and do it and obey it. 09:36 Because there's peace in that. 09:38 I should have enough faith in Jesus, faith in Scripture, 09:41 to obey what it teaches me. 09:44 Well, we are certainly headed into 09:46 some very interesting things. 09:47 And sometimes people say to me, "So are there things on the 09:50 horizon that would make something come of this?" 09:55 Well, I can tell you I believe there certainly is. 09:58 First of all, the world is in a great deal of trouble. 10:01 It's got so many troubles, it needs solutions to it. 10:05 One of the big troubles that we hear a lot about nowadays 10:10 is a thing called natural disasters. 10:13 Now both the Bible and, I think, other careful thoughtful authors 10:18 who know the Bible predict that in the end of time 10:21 before Jesus comes there's going to be 10:23 terrible natural disasters. 10:26 And we can already see that, of course, on the horizon. 10:29 One of the things that people talk about 10:31 today is climate change. 10:32 Now I'm not here to debate climate change 10:34 one way or the other. 10:36 But I'm here to tell you that natural disasters are coming. 10:39 And the pope's Academy of Sciences and Social Sciences 10:43 put out a paper, and it was called, 10:46 Climate Change and the Common Good. 10:48 Now that, "common good," gets used over and over again. 10:51 "What we need to do," they say, "is for the common good 10:54 so that everybody can live." 10:56 Now this is what they go on to say, 10:57 "A Statement of the problem," talking about climate change, 11:00 and the demand for a solution." 11:02 Here is why it gets very interesting. 11:05 "Climate change is a global problem..." 11:08 Global. Did you catch that? 11:09 "...whose solution depends on coming together 11:15 for the common good." 11:17 A global solution to climate change. 11:22 How does that happen? 11:24 And it says, "As early as 2100," that's not that long from now, 11:28 there will be irreversible and catastrophic climate impacts, 11:33 raising the question..." 11:34 Talking about fear. 11:35 "...raising the question whether civilization as we know it 11:39 can be extended beyond this century." 11:42 So we're going to see catastrophic natural disasters. 11:47 People are going to see Sunday, taking that one day a week off, 11:51 as a quick fix for climate change. 11:53 By the way, they think it would fix it. 11:55 Everybody just take that day off would fix it, 11:58 solve the economic crisis, solve the family crisis 12:01 where people can get together with family, 12:04 relieve the burdens of the poor that are working 12:06 seven days a week, and help fix what the government can't fix 12:10 with its secular tools. 12:12 Climate change is an opportunity for the papacy, 12:16 with Protestants, and atheists, and secularists support. 12:20 That's why if the world is going to... 12:22 If they think the world is going to end, 12:24 they're going to see this as some kind of 12:25 marvelous solution that's so easy to do. 12:30 We're going to see some strange things, 12:32 and we're going to see global power being gained. 12:37 The word, "cross," in the Greek language adds up to 777. 12:44 777 is the number of faith, trust, in the Lord Jesus. 12:52 And it's in contrast to 666 that doesn't trust the Lord. 12:58 Everybody is going to be faced with a question. 13:00 You can't escape. 13:02 No one is going to escape. 13:03 The real issue is, are we going to trust this Book? 13:09 Are we going to trust our wonderful Savior? 13:12 Are we going to trust the Ten Commandments? 13:16 Are we going to trust this God who loves us? 13:19 Are we going to trust this incredible, marvelous Jesus? |
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