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00:01 Privileged to be here this morning.
00:02 Thank you for coming. 00:04 Look like we have a full house, huh? 00:06 And I am thankful to be in a house 00:07 of the Lord this morning. 00:08 How about you? Amen. 00:10 How you doing with the camp meeting so far? 00:12 Amen. 00:13 All right, how many it's your first time here? 00:15 Uh-oh! 00:16 I didn't want to see that, 00:18 I was hoping you were here all week, 00:19 but we welcome you today for sure. 00:22 And that was the setup, wasn't it? 00:24 I set you, I got you to comment and raise your hands, 00:26 shame on me. 00:27 But I am so... 00:29 How many have been here the entire 00:30 since Wednesday night? 00:31 Oh, well, look at all of this. 00:33 And the messages have been fantastic, haven't they? 00:37 Amen. 00:38 It's about time we do something on the three angels' messages. 00:41 If it's present truth, we should know about it, right? 00:45 The world should know about it, 00:46 but the world can't know about it 00:48 if we may be ever in our... 00:50 and I notice, I go to schools, I talk to young people, 00:54 I talk to sometimes older people, 00:56 and it's almost like a lot of us, 00:58 Seventh-day Adventist are in a rut. 01:01 Now Molly says a rut's nothing more than a grave 01:03 with two ends open. 01:05 So... But sometimes we are in a rut. 01:07 We are so busy with life, 01:10 we're so busy worrying about what somebody else is wearing 01:13 or how they look or what they're driving 01:15 that we forget about why God has put us here 01:18 on planet earth 01:19 in these closing moments of earth's history. 01:22 What a privilege and what a responsibility 01:24 to be Seventh-day Adventist Christians 01:27 literally in the closing moments 01:29 of earth's history. 01:30 It's amazing. It's awesome. 01:31 And every day we should thank God for this opportunity 01:35 that he's given us. 01:37 Jesus said, "Go ye into all the world." 01:40 When He said go ye and I said this over and over and over, 01:44 and I'm saying it for those who 01:46 maybe haven't thought about it or heard about it. 01:48 Dr. Thompson said it to me a long time ago, he said, 01:51 "Danny, when Jesus said, 'Go ye into all the world,' 01:54 He counted his resources in advance 01:56 and found that it wasn't wanting." 01:59 So that says that you and me can do anything 02:02 when we come in the name of the Lord. 02:04 We don't care how big the obstacles are, 02:08 it makes no difference because Jesus has said, 02:11 "Go ye into all the world." 02:13 He's the creator of the universe, 02:15 all power is in Him. 02:17 He says, "All power has given Me 02:18 in heaven and earth. 02:20 Go ye therefore." 02:21 So today, what an opportunity to be living in a time 02:25 that as I speak now, 02:27 this signal is going up 02:29 from this little former cornfield area 02:31 in Southern Illinois, 22,300 miles to space, 02:36 traveling around the world at the speed of light. 02:40 I mean, that's amazing, isn't it, 02:42 186,000 miles per second? 02:45 I mean, you think about that technology 02:48 when we started in 3ABN in the beginning, 02:51 there was very few satellites up in space, 02:55 there was only C-band, 02:57 and when we shot to satellite 02:59 about a million people in America 03:01 were able to watch 3ABN 03:04 because about a million people had the dishes. 03:07 People said, "Why are you doing all of that 03:09 if you're only going to reach a million people, 03:11 there's 200 plus million people in the United States." 03:14 Hey, you got to start somewhere, right? 03:17 I mean, you're going to be a bear, be a grizzly, 03:18 but sometimes you got to start out 03:20 with small beginnings. 03:21 So we just did what we knew to do. 03:24 We didn't know anything about technology, 03:26 but we went forward, God blessed and He honored. 03:29 I would have never dreamed back then 03:32 when we went on the air in 1986, 03:34 would have never dreamed that 33 years later 03:38 that I can take my smartphone, 03:41 had no such thing as smartphones, 03:44 I was always dumb 03:45 and the phones were smarter than me, 03:46 I'm still that way, they're still too smart for me, 03:48 but who would ever dream you could take your phone out 03:51 and look up 3ABN and say, 03:54 "Let's see which network do I want to watch today?" 03:56 Anywhere in the world, 03:58 take out your tablets, your iPads, 04:00 anywhere in the world and watch 3ABN. 04:03 You can use social media. 04:04 There're so many ways to get the gospel into all the world, 04:08 not only cable, television, satellite, 04:11 we have all of the social media now, 04:13 the 3ABN is trying to take advantage of, 04:15 also to get this gospel to the world. 04:19 Jesus... 04:20 In radio, of course, around the world. 04:22 Jesus is serious about coming back. 04:25 Heaven is not heaven until His people are home. 04:28 Do I need to say that again? 04:30 Heaven is not heaven until God's children are there. 04:34 Amen. 04:35 But today, something has to happen. 04:38 This gospel of the kingdom has to go into all the world 04:41 before Jesus will come back. 04:44 So today, we're going to talk about the New Covenant Sabbath. 04:47 There are different views concerning the New Covenant 04:50 which includes of course the New Covenant Sabbath 04:53 by Protestants and Christians, we're all aware of that, right? 04:56 The importance of this is simply this. 05:01 We all have to make a decision about the Ten Commandments. 05:05 Are we going to keep them? 05:07 Were they nailed to the cross? 05:08 What are we going to do with the Ten Commandments 05:11 that God established, 05:12 man didn't establish and God did, 05:14 so we have to make a decision. 05:16 Now modern day Christians including evangelicals, 05:20 Protestants consider themselves to be New Covenant Christians. 05:23 You ever talk to anybody 05:24 and you start to talk about the Sabbath and they say, 05:26 "Oh, I'm New Covenant, I'm New Covenant, 05:29 I don't go by the Old Testament"? 05:31 I mean, am I the only one or somebody had that happen? 05:34 Oh, several of you have. All right. 05:36 Well, we don't go by the Old Testament, 05:37 we're New Covenant, we're New Testament people. 05:41 And so that's their view of it, 05:44 then anything that happened back then, 05:45 that Old Testament, so I've asked people sometimes, 05:48 tried to be nice about it, 05:50 "You don't use the Old Testament?" 05:51 "Oh, I'm not under that at all." 05:52 I say, "Well, why do you have a Bible, 05:54 why don't you just carry the New Testament?" 05:56 because you have a whole, you know, 05:58 sometimes you have the whole Bible, 05:59 if you don't need the Old Testament, 06:01 why don't you just get rid of it?" 06:03 So they're quick to acknowledge the Sabbath, 06:05 what's the Sabbath of the Old Testament covenant. 06:07 Now I want to say, before I go any further, 06:10 God has people in all churches. 06:13 Because your Seventh Day Adventist 06:14 or any Sabbath keeper or any denomination, 06:16 you're not going to go to heaven by saying, 06:18 "Hey, guess what? I joined the church in 1984." 06:21 What's going to be important is 06:23 when did we join the Jesus, right? 06:24 When did we make Him the Lord of our life? 06:28 So when I'm talking here today, 06:31 I'm not talking to put people down, 06:33 but I want to talk just family, we want to talk family, 06:38 things that you probably encounter as well as I do, 06:42 and how do we deal with these. 06:43 So a lot of these folks say that they've been freed 06:47 from the legalistic keeping physically 06:51 of a Seventh-day Sabbath. 06:52 Have you heard that? 06:53 That's why, and we'll talk about it a little bit. 06:56 They say, "Well, the commandments 06:57 weren't nailed to the cross." 06:58 So I don't physically 07:00 need to keep the Seventh-day Sabbath, 07:03 you all are in the legalism, and I say, 07:06 "Really, I notice you go to church Sunday every week, 07:11 every legalistic week you go to Sunday. 07:14 You go to church on Sunday." 07:16 Now why do you do that? 07:18 Because they say, 07:20 "Well, Sabbath is just a spiritual rest, 07:23 you don't have to keep it, you know, 07:25 when God instituted it in that creation, 07:30 No one kept it till Moses, 07:32 and so it's just a spiritual rest 07:34 foreshadowing Jesus' coming and now I rest in Jesus." 07:38 Well, how can we not rest on Jesus on Sunday, right? 07:42 I'm going to quit, you all aren't with me, 07:44 all right? 07:45 You're with me? 07:46 No, I mean, is that a fair question? 07:48 Yes. Because isn't... 07:50 They say, "Well, we keep Sunday not as the Sabbath," 07:54 a lot of them say that now, 07:56 they used to back up until the 1960s or so, 07:59 all the television program sayings you watched always 08:01 talked about the Sabbath 08:04 and they inserted Sunday for the Sabbath. 08:07 But they've gotten more informed. 08:09 So as you get more informed, 08:10 you have to have a reason for what you do. 08:14 So here we have people who say, 08:18 "We honor the resurrection of Christ 08:23 by going to church Sunday 08:24 because he arose on the first day of the week." 08:26 Does everybody believe Christ 08:28 rose on the first day of the week? 08:29 What day is that? Sunday. 08:31 And these Evangelicals and Christians and Catholics 08:34 will tell you Sunday is the first day of the week. 08:36 So when you're having a Bible study 08:38 with somebody and they say, 08:39 "Well, how do you know Saturday is the Sabbath? 08:42 I mean, how do you know that that day of the week?" 08:44 I say well, number one, 08:45 the Catholics have been keeping up 08:47 for 2,000 years nearly, you know, 1800 whatever. 08:50 The Jews, I'm sure they never forgot 08:52 which day is Saturday. 08:54 You know, so if the Jews think Saturday is the Sabbath, 08:58 the Catholics think Saturday is Sabbath 09:00 and all the New Testament 09:02 Protestants say Sunday is the Sabbath... 09:07 Let me go back, the Catholics, 09:09 the first day of the week is Sunday, the Jews, 09:12 the seventh day of the week, Saturday. 09:14 And the Protestants nowadays even confirm that 09:17 Sunday is the first day of the week. 09:19 Then Saturday has to be the seventh day of the week 09:22 which is the Bible Sabbath. 09:25 Now you're with me? Everybody's with me. 09:26 I'm trying to get with myself actually, 09:29 I'm here to make sure we're doing this. 09:31 But they claim that it's a spiritual rest. 09:35 And so when you honor Sunday as the resurrection, 09:39 why isn't it just a spiritual rest? 09:43 That's what I ask people. 09:44 Well, how come you go to church Sunday? 09:46 Well, we honor, 09:47 but you're not supposed to physically do it. 09:48 It's a spiritual thing, right? 09:51 So why would you say Adventists shouldn't keep the Sabbath 09:54 because that's working our way into heaven, 09:56 but you all can keep Sunday, 09:58 and that's not working your way into haven, 10:00 just because you say it's honoring the resurrection, 10:04 but in fact, we want to honor what God says, am I right? 10:08 Now again, I don't mean to be critical 10:11 when I talk like this, 10:12 but I want to talk openly and honestly, 10:14 I find communications is the greatest tool 10:17 that God has given us. 10:19 So many of us don't want to offend anybody, right? 10:25 You don't have to raise your hands. 10:26 But how many of you have been talking to people 10:29 and you thought, "Wow, this is an opportunity, 10:31 I should... 10:33 No, I don't want to offend them. 10:34 I don't want to offend them." 10:37 I've told this story before, 10:38 but I went to a church in state way north of here, 10:43 and I don't stay in homes with people anymore. 10:46 Not that I don't love you when I travel, 10:48 but a lot of reasons, 10:50 I find I'm better off if I stay in a hotel, 10:52 and some of you are great and you're kind, 10:54 but sometimes people have agendas too. 10:56 So I was staying in the home of somebody. 10:59 And I thought, "Really nice, and it's a nice place," 11:02 and they support 3ABN, so I was staying in the home. 11:06 And the man came to me Friday evening, said, 11:09 "Brother Danny, when you're talking tomorrow 11:12 to our church, 11:13 I wonder if you could say something." 11:16 Uh-oh, I heard somebody say uh-oh. 11:18 I said, "Well, what have you got?" 11:21 He said, "We're having... 11:23 Our church is almost split. 11:25 There are people in our church that feel like 11:27 we should pass out the book to Great Controversy 11:30 all over this city. 11:31 But we have a lot of Catholics, we have a lot of Lutherans, 11:34 we have a lot of people here. 11:36 And so half the Church says, 'We don't want to do that. 11:38 That's like throwing it in their face. 11:40 That's like, you know, 11:41 the Great Controversy is pretty straightforward 11:44 and whatever it says.' 11:45 So half the Church says, 11:47 'Well, we don't want to do that.' 11:48 And the other half says, 'No, that's our responsibility, 11:50 that's our job to do it.'" 11:53 So he said, "Would you talk about that tomorrow?" 11:55 I said, "Sure, which side are you on?" 11:58 I asked him. 12:02 They just made me supper. 12:04 They're getting ready to make breakfast in the morning, 12:06 right? 12:08 And I'm going to spend Saturday night with them. 12:10 So I said, "Which side are you on?" 12:13 He said, "Well, I'm on the side that I think we just ought 12:16 to love people into the church." 12:19 And I said, "Oh, I'm with that. I'm fine. 12:21 Aren't you fine with loving people in the church, 12:24 just take it for what he said? 12:26 I'm fine with that, 12:28 just loving people into the church," 12:29 he said, "Oh, great. 12:31 So you'll tell them tomorrow that we shouldn't pass... 12:33 they'll listen to you, 12:35 we shouldn't pass out the books." 12:36 I said, "No, I'm with you, loving people into the church, 12:39 we need to tell them the truth." 12:41 So I'm sorry, but I'm on the other side. 12:44 And now if you want me to go home or go to a hotel, 12:47 I can go to hotel." 12:48 "No," he said, "You can stay here." 12:50 And I said, "If you don't want to cook breakfast, 12:53 I saw some Cheerios and I can make it. 12:55 I can go to my home, it's no big deal. 12:58 Give me that, some rice steam 12:59 and little bit of honey and walnuts, I'm great." 13:03 "No, no," they said, "You can do it." 13:04 So this is the thing. 13:06 Sometimes we're afraid that we're going to offend people. 13:09 So today, when we're talking, 13:11 if we don't do it, who's going to, right? 13:14 If we're not honest with people... 13:16 Thank you. 13:17 If we're not honest with people, who's going to be? 13:21 Those who have much are what? 13:25 Responsible for much. 13:27 Those who have little are responsible for... 13:29 Little. 13:31 What would you say 13:32 when it comes to spiritual food, 13:33 spiritual discernment, 13:35 with Seventh-day Adventist Christians, 13:37 would we be on the side 13:38 if we have little or we have much? 13:39 Much. 13:41 All right, if we have much, what are we supposed to do? 13:43 What's the principle of 13:44 when you have a lot of something? 13:46 You share it, all right? 13:48 Are we all together so far? Yes. 13:50 So we want to share what God has given us, 13:53 but I do want to say this, 13:54 Sunday has nothing to do with the New Covenant. 13:58 Plainly speaking, 13:59 Sunday worship has nothing to do 14:00 with honoring our Lord's death or the resurrection 14:03 is not based on any Bible instruction. 14:06 When Jesus died on the cross, the New Covenant was ratified. 14:09 When was it ratified? 14:11 It's important that we know this. 14:13 It was ratified when? 14:14 When he died on the cross. 14:16 Was it ratified on Sunday, the following Sunday? 14:18 No. 14:19 When was it ratified? Okay. 14:22 I may be a little redundant, 14:23 but maybe we need to be today, okay? 14:26 Now, reason this is important is nothing can be added 14:29 to a covenant once it's ratified. 14:32 You know what the word ratified means, right? 14:34 Makes an agreement. 14:36 Sunday keeping cannot be added to the New Covenant 14:38 because it was not in the New Covenant 14:40 when Christ died. 14:42 What day did He die on? He died on Friday. 14:45 What did He do over Sabbath? Rested. 14:47 And what did He do on Sunday. Arose. 14:49 Arose from the tomb, right? 14:51 So Christ is alive. 14:54 Don't want to knock this off. 14:55 Okay. Christ is alive. 14:57 So He rose from the tomb. 15:01 I hit a button and I had about one hundred faces 15:05 that were either smiling or crying on here. 15:09 And then I looked into the audience 15:11 and saw the same thing. 15:19 We're going to have a fun time, aren't we? 15:23 Okay, so we're going to go back now to... 15:27 when was it? 15:28 When was the New Covenant ratified? 15:31 Ratified on Friday. 15:32 When did Sunday keeping take effect? 15:36 Before or after? 15:38 After. 15:39 Well, that's not very hard to understand, is it? 15:42 So how can Sunday worship be part of a New Covenant? 15:47 Are you with me? 15:48 Somebody finish it for me. 15:50 How can Sunday worship be part of a New Covenant 15:52 if it wasn't ratified before? 15:57 When did Sunday worship become... 16:01 where people did it all the time, Sunday keeping, 16:03 when did that happen? 16:05 Generations after Christ's death, is that right? 16:08 Okay. So are we together now? 16:10 I mean, if I'm wrong, well, don't tell me now 16:13 because all of it'll be a bad time, 16:15 we're on the air, but think about it. 16:17 Tell me afterwards, but I'm trying to get something 16:21 across here that people say, 16:23 "I'm a New Covenant Christian, I believe that you don't... 16:27 the Ten Commandments have been done away with, 16:30 I don't have to keep that old law 16:32 because that old law was nailed to the cross 16:35 and so I just keep Sunday in honor of the resurrection 16:40 because I go by the New Covenant." 16:42 No, honestly, if you go by the New Covenant, 16:45 you will still keep Seventh-day Saturday Sabbath 16:49 because Seventh-day Saturday Sabbath 16:52 was still the covenant when Christ died. 16:55 That Sabbath was the Sabbath of Adam, of Abraham, of Moses, 17:01 of Isaac, of Jacob, 17:02 on down through the ages the Sabbath of Jesus. 17:06 And when Jesus died, 17:07 it had nothing to do with doing away 17:09 with something He instituted at creation. 17:13 Now we're going to talk a little bit about people 17:15 and I don't know I've got a bunch of pages here 17:18 about the Old and New Covenant. 17:19 Do I really need to go into that today? 17:22 Because I have all the scriptures 17:23 of what they are and maybe I need to 17:25 or maybe I should just say we have a book, 17:28 we have number of books here at 3ABN 17:30 that would explain to you the Old and the New Covenants 17:33 and of what they mean to us. 17:35 Quickly, briefly, 17:37 let me rather than to read it all, 17:39 a covenant is a contract. 17:40 The dictionary says, "It's a contract, agreement, 17:43 and undertaking a commitment, 17:45 a guarantee, a warrant, a pledge, 17:46 a promise, a bond, indenture." 17:49 There's so many things that it is, 17:50 but a covenant or an agreement is between two parties. 17:54 So now in the Old Testament, God said to Moses, 18:00 "I want to make a covenant with the people 18:02 of children of Israel, and I want to bless them." 18:05 Hey, if he's going to bless somebody, why not those folks, 18:08 they've been in bondage for how many years? 18:10 Hundreds of years, right? 18:11 They were slaves in bondage. 18:13 Moses gets them out. God frees them. 18:16 God says, "I want to make a covenant with you. 18:18 I want to bless these folks. 18:20 You've been in a horrible situation 18:22 for hundreds of years. 18:24 You don't even know who I am." 18:25 They didn't have a chance to go to church on Sabbath, 18:28 they didn't have a chance to read the Ten Commandments, 18:30 to read the Bible. 18:31 They didn't have the Scriptures. 18:33 They didn't have any, they were slaves. 18:35 So God says, "I want to bless those people." 18:38 In that just like God to take care of those 18:40 who maybe haven't been able to take care of themselves. 18:43 He says, "I want to bless those people." 18:44 So you go tell them that I want to bless them. 18:47 And if they agree to this, 18:49 then we're going to make a covenant. 18:50 So he goes and tells them, Moses, and the people, 18:53 you can look at in Exodus 19 chapter 18:57 when you get a chance 18:58 or you can look it up now, it's fine with me. 19:00 But you can look it up. 19:01 But what he says, "And Moses went up..." 19:03 let's read it, in Exodus 19:3-6. 19:06 "And Moses went up unto God, 19:07 and the Lord called him and to a mountain, saying, 19:09 'Thus shall thou say to the house of Jacob, 19:12 and tell the children of Israel, 19:14 if you will obey My voice, 19:16 indeed, and keep My covenant, 19:18 then you shall be a peculiar treasure 19:20 unto Me above all people, 19:22 for all the earth is Mine, 19:24 and you shall be unto Me a holy nation, 19:26 these are the words which thou shall speak 19:30 unto the children of Israel.'" 19:32 Now as soon as Moses spoke those, the people said what? 19:36 "We will do what God says. 19:38 We will do what God says." 19:40 But the problem turned out to be 19:42 they tried to do it in the flesh. 19:44 They didn't say with God's help, 19:46 they will do it, they just said, 19:49 "We will do these things." 19:51 As soon as their affirmative answer went back to God, 19:55 that was the basis for the Old Covenant 19:57 was set up, 19:58 but before it could go into formal operation, 20:00 there had to be a ritualistic system, 20:03 and that was there had to be some shedding of blood. 20:06 So Moses went out, they had built 12 altars 20:10 to represent the tribes of Israel. 20:12 They sprinkled blood, they got an ox, 20:14 and the young men went out, the Bible says, 20:16 "They spread this blood, 20:18 and then they spread it on the people." 20:20 Once that happened, guess what? 20:23 The covenant was ratified, all right? 20:26 Some of you are with me. 20:28 So what it took was a commitment, 20:30 God made a commitment, 20:31 and then the children of Israel made a commitment. 20:34 Now it was signed, sealed, and delivered 20:38 if you were by the sprinkling of blood. 20:43 Now could anything be added after that? 20:46 No. It couldn't be added, right? 20:48 God wouldn't do it because he told him but... 20:49 People, we can't add it. 20:51 Somebody said "Well, why can't you?" 20:53 Let's say that I go to bank tomorrow, 20:56 Monday, I'll go Monday, 20:57 since it's closed on Sunday 20:59 because an honor to the resurrection. 21:01 I'll go to the church, I'll go to bank on Monday, 21:06 and I'll ask to borrow $10,000. 21:09 And so they look at my credit and say, 21:11 "It's fair, it's good enough, we'll give you that loan, 21:14 we'll give you the $10,000 at 5% interest." 21:18 So I said, "That's a little bit high, 21:19 but I'm kind of in a jam, 21:21 I need it, so give me your contract." 21:24 So they just happen to have contracts written up 21:26 for any amount you want or capable of getting, right? 21:29 So they get it, and what I do to ratify it? 21:32 I sign it. 21:34 Now as soon as I sign that, 21:36 that contract is ratified. 21:41 But this is on Monday, but Tuesday, 21:44 let's say Monday night I talked to my brother Kenny, 21:46 he says, "Huh, I went to the same bank 21:49 I got a loan for 2% interest." 21:53 So I go back Tuesday and say, 21:55 "Well, you know what, I'm just going to pay you 21:58 from now on 2% interest instead of 5%." 22:01 Now when I get out of court because I'll be sued, 22:06 what's the court going to say to me? 22:09 You cannot add anything to this contract 22:14 after it was ratified, after you signed it. 22:16 Are we making any sense at all, are we? 22:18 I'm trying to get it in a way that we can all understand it. 22:22 That is really very simple. 22:24 We looked at the Old Covenant, when that blood was sprinkled, 22:28 the God then is dead after 22:31 that is when God took Moses to the... 22:33 had him come to the mount 22:34 and gave him the Ten Commandments 22:36 which were a part of that Old Covenant. 22:38 So now let's go look at the New Covenant. 22:42 Most of the time folk go to Hebrews, 22:45 we can go to the 8 chapter starting with verse 6. 22:48 "But now has he obtained more excellent ministry 22:52 by how much he is also the mediator 22:54 of a better covenant, 22:56 which was established upon better promises, 22:58 for if that first covenant had been faultless, 23:01 then should no place have been sought for the second, 23:04 for finding fault with them, he said, 23:07 'Behold the days come,' saith the Lord, 23:09 'When I will make a New Covenant 23:11 with the house of Israel and with the house of Judah, 23:14 not according to the covenant that I made 23:17 with their fathers in the day when I took them by the hand 23:20 to lead them out of the land of Egypt 23:22 because they continued not,'" they what? 23:24 "They continued not in my covenant, 23:26 and I regarded them not." 23:29 The covenant was broken, says the Lord. 23:31 "'For this is the covenant that I will make 23:33 with the house of Israel after those days,' 23:35 saith the Lord, 23:37 'I will put my laws in their mind 23:39 and write them in their...'" 23:40 Hearts. 23:42 "And I will be to them a God 23:44 and they shall be to me a people." 23:46 Wow, what a beautiful promise and I'm thankful to be living 23:50 under New Covenant, aren't you? 23:52 I am so thankful that Jesus shed His blood 23:55 on the cross of calvary. 23:57 Does that mean that no one before Christ's death 23:59 will ever be saved to go to heaven? 24:02 Absolutely not. Absolutely not. 24:04 And it's very important to understand that. 24:06 I'm so thankful that we have a New Covenant, 24:09 but the difference in the Old and the New Covenant... 24:12 Now what made the New Covenant... 24:14 I think we spoke about it already. 24:15 Christ shed blood 24:17 on the cross of Calvary that Friday, 24:19 ratified the New Covenant, nothing can be added to it. 24:23 I know that's redundant, but it's an important point 24:26 I want you to go away with. 24:28 Nothing can be added to it. 24:30 Sunday keeping cannot be considered 24:32 when somebody says to you, 24:34 "You ought to live under the New Covenant, 24:36 I mean, the New Testament." 24:37 So I honor Sunday and you can say, 24:40 "No, honestly, that's not part of the New Covenant. 24:42 You do live in the New Covenant area, 24:45 but Sunday worship is not part of that Sunday." 24:48 They're honoring the resurrection formerly by 24:50 as though it's biblical 24:52 is not part of that New Covenant. 24:55 In fact, the New Covenant... 24:59 or let's talk about this for a moment, 25:00 this really hit me like a ton of bricks. 25:03 People say, "Well, you know, we live under the New Covenant, 25:07 so we don't have to keep those old commandments anymore." 25:12 You ever hear that? Yeah. 25:14 I was at a church, 25:16 a big Baptist church with Melody, 25:19 when she was about, I don't know, 15, 16 years old. 25:24 And it was in Tennessee. 25:26 And they asked us to come and sing. 25:28 I didn't know them. 25:29 Got there and it is a pretty big church, 25:30 1,000 and 1,500 people. 25:33 They said, "We heard you on the radio 25:34 and we heard your testimony. 25:36 Melody's mother had been killed in an automobile accident, 25:39 1982, and we just wanted you there." 25:42 So we went to the church and we sang. 25:45 After the church was over, the pastor said, 25:47 come back in the study, 25:49 they had taken up an offering for us 25:50 and they took up their Sunday morning offering 25:53 for the church as well. 25:54 So they said, "Come back in the room, 25:56 and before you leave, 25:58 and we'll give you your offering 25:59 that we took up for your music." 26:01 So I said, "Fine." So I went back in the room. 26:04 Here's the offering for our music 26:05 was a few couple little plates, right? 26:08 Over here was their Sunday school offering, 26:10 and it was big. 26:11 There were several people counting all of that. 26:14 So the pastor came up to me, and he said, 26:17 "I didn't know till just now somebody said, 26:20 you're a Seventh-day Adventist." 26:23 I said, "Yeah, that's true." He said, "What? 26:25 You don't seem like a Seventh-day Adventist." 26:28 I said, "What are we supposed to be like?" 26:32 He said, "Well, you all keep that old law. 26:35 You keep that old Ten Commandment law." 26:37 And I said, "Yeah, don't you?" 26:39 "No." I said, "Why not?" 26:41 He's said, "Man, we've been liberated, 26:43 look at Colossians, 26:44 the old law was nailed to the cross." 26:47 And I said, "Really? 26:49 So we don't have to keep the Ten Commandments." 26:51 "No." 26:52 I said, "I'm glad to know that." 26:53 I said, "Thank you, pastor, you've helped me, 26:55 and honestly," I said, "You enlightened me greatly." 26:58 And he was shocked. 27:00 You know, you try to get somebody 27:01 convert them to your theology. 27:03 It's usually not that easy, right? 27:06 But I was with him. 27:07 You know why? 27:09 Because they piled up the offering, put it in a bag, 27:11 the churches, they piled up my little one. 27:13 So as I'm talking to him, 27:15 I walked over and I picked the big bag, 27:17 put it under my arm. 27:18 I said, "Thank you. God bless you." 27:20 And I started walking out of the church. 27:23 I had it under my arm. 27:26 "Brother Shelton." 27:28 I was no longer that old Adventist. 27:29 So brother Shelton, we're brothers now, 27:33 put me on a guilt trip. 27:34 "Brother Shelton, just a minute, just a minute." 27:37 I said, "Yes, sir." 27:39 "I'm sorry, you got the wrong offering." 27:41 I said, "No, I got the right one." 27:42 "No, no, no, yours is this one." 27:44 He said, "This offering." 27:46 I said, "Well, I know that's what is meant to be. 27:47 But I'm just going to take this one." 27:50 "Well, you can't do that." 27:52 He said, "You can't..." 27:54 And I said, "Really?" I said, "Why not?" 27:58 Hello. 28:02 I said, "Why not?" 28:04 He said, "Well, you can't take..." 28:05 I said, "Oh, would that be called stealing?" 28:08 And he just looked at me like a deer in headlights. 28:14 So he said, "I get your point. 28:16 Can I have my offering back?" 28:21 I said, "Okay." 28:26 You know what I'm saying, things that people do, right? 28:30 We say now why in the world do people want to say 28:33 that the commandments were nailed to the cross? 28:38 Why? I found there's only... 28:40 Now I could be wrong, and you all can tell me later. 28:42 But I found there's really only a couple reasons 28:45 why people don't want to keep the commandments of God. 28:49 I only know two, I'm sure there's more. 28:52 It's either ignorance or rebellion. 28:55 Now don't be offended anybody watching, 28:57 ignorance is nothing bad. 28:58 I'm ignorant about a lot of things. 29:00 But it's not being dumb or not being, you know, 29:03 it's nothing like people say, "You think I'm stupid?" 29:05 "No." I said, "You're ignorant." 29:07 Ignorant just means... 29:10 but I'm ignorant too, right? 29:12 So I'm not pointing fingers, 29:14 three of them just coming back at me when I point. 29:16 No, there's a difference, you know, and being ignorant 29:19 just simply means we don't know. 29:21 So when we're ignorant, 29:23 God says in the Bible that he did what? 29:26 He winked in our time of ignorance, am I right? 29:29 So there's nothing wrong with that. 29:31 But it seems to me 29:32 that it's either rebellion or ignorance 29:35 why people don't keep the commandments of God, right? 29:39 So we go... 29:41 What I decided to do, I said, 29:42 "Well, let's see what's so bad," 29:44 now see if I can find a little note 29:45 because I want this to really hit you. 29:48 I said, "Okay, let's see 29:50 what's so bad about the Ten Commandments." 29:54 Because he took me this pastor 29:57 and others have taken me to Colossians 2, 29:59 you know, 14 or 16, 17 and 18. 30:03 And it says, "Blotting out the handwriting 30:07 of the ordinances that was against us, 30:10 which was contrary to us, 30:12 and took it out of the way, nailing it to the cross." 30:15 Right there, they say is doing away 30:18 with the Seventh-day Sabbath. 30:19 Now what part of the Ten Commandments 30:21 was man's law that needed to be nailed to the cross? 30:26 I can't... Let's find out. 30:28 Let's go over them. 30:30 "Thou shall have no other gods before Me." 30:32 That probably should be nailed to the cross, right? 30:35 No, nothing wrong with that. 30:37 "Thou shall not make unto thee any graven images." 30:40 Nail that to the cross? 30:42 "Thou shall not take the name of the Lord in vain." 30:45 Do we nail that to the cross? 30:47 "Remember the Sabbath day to keep it holy." 30:50 God gave us that just so we would remember Him 30:52 and not get so caught up, 30:54 the children of Israel for another 400 years, 30:56 they forget Him every week, 30:57 we come back and remember who our Creator God is. 31:01 That doesn't sound so bad. 31:02 Sounds like that's a good thing. 31:04 Remember the Sabbath day. 31:05 Okay, let's nail this one to the cross. 31:07 "Honor thy father and mother." 31:09 No, can't do that. 31:11 "Thou shall not kill. 31:13 Thou shall not commit adultery. 31:15 Thou salt not steal. 31:18 Thou shall not bear false witness. 31:20 Thou salt not covet." 31:23 Is somebody listening? Are you with it? 31:25 I'm trying to find out which one of these laws 31:28 was so against us that Jesus needed to die 31:31 on the cross to do away with them. 31:33 If the Ten Commandments were so bad, 31:35 why did Paul say in Romans 7:12, 31:37 "The law is holy, 31:38 and the commandment holy and just and good"? 31:40 If the Ten Commandments were so bad, 31:42 why would Paul say in Romans 3:31, 31:45 "Do we then make void the law through faith? 31:48 God forbid, we establish the law." 31:51 If the law is so bad and commandments are so bad, 31:53 why does Jesus say in John, "If you love Me..." 31:58 "Keep My commandments." 31:59 "If you love Me..." "Keep My commandments." 32:01 Who said that? Jesus. 32:02 When did He say? 32:04 In the Old Testament or the New Testament? 32:05 New Testament. 32:06 Jesus said, "If you love Me, keep My commandments." 32:10 So we have the Creator of the universe 32:12 and the New Testament saying, "If you love..." 32:14 He wasn't saying, He could have said, 32:17 "I'm going to die." 32:18 Now think about it. 32:19 Thursday before the crucifixion, 32:21 He met with the disciples in the upper room. 32:24 Did He say, "I'm going to die, 32:27 I'm going to be underground three days, 32:28 I'm going to rise again. 32:30 But after I do, I want you to do 32:32 away with the commandments 32:34 and I want you to keep Sunday in honor of my resurrection"? 32:38 No. He could have. 32:40 It could be right in the Bible 32:42 because he did tell them something. 32:44 He's told them about communion and said, 32:45 "Do this in remembrance of Me," right? 32:49 So He could have said, 32:53 "Keep Sunday after I arise." 32:56 But there's a reason He didn't do it. 32:58 Let me finish. 33:01 If the commandments are so bad and so much against us, 33:04 why does Matthew 15:9 say, 33:06 "But in vain do they worship Me, 33:07 teaching for doctrines commandments of men"? 33:10 Why did Jesus say in Matthew 5:17? 33:12 "Think not I come to destroy the law or the prophets, 33:15 I have not come to destroy but to fulfill." 33:18 This is so simple that it's elementary. 33:20 Now I say this as kindly as I can. 33:22 This is so simple that it's elementary, 33:26 think about it. 33:29 Why do New Testament Christians continue to say 33:31 that Jesus's death put an end to the commandments? 33:37 He says, "I come not to..." 33:39 Destroy. 33:41 Not, did he say not, 33:42 it looks like capital to me, all capitals. 33:44 "I come not to destroy but to fulfill," right? 33:49 He says, "I come to fulfill." 33:51 In other words, He came to earth 33:52 and shed His blood 33:54 to fulfill the promise of the Old Testament 33:56 and the promises in the New Testament 33:58 where He told His disciples that he would fulfill 34:00 the prophecies of the Old Testament 34:03 by dying as a propitiation for our sins. 34:06 Now this could not mean God's Ten Commandment law 34:09 because God's Ten Commandment law 34:11 was not against us, right? 34:13 God's Ten Commandment... 34:15 Christ fulfilled the obligations 34:16 of the ceremonial law 34:18 by becoming the perfect Lamb slain 34:21 for the sins of the world. 34:22 Christ fulfilled the obligations of the law 34:25 of the Ten Commandments 34:26 by His perfect obedience to his precepts. 34:28 There are those New Testament Christians 34:31 who want to point out to us, and we mentioned a while ago, 34:34 but let's go into a little bit further, 34:36 Colossians 2:16, 17, 34:38 "Let no man therefore judge you, of me, or drink, 34:41 or in respect of a holy day, 34:44 or the new moons or the Sabbath, 34:45 which are a shadow of things to come, 34:48 but the body of Christ." 34:50 The ceremonial laws including the yearly Sabbaths 34:54 because if you read it 34:55 and do more than surface reading, 34:56 you'll find there are a number of Sabbaths. 34:59 There are ceremonial Sabbaths, seven of them, 35:00 there's all throughout the Passover, 35:02 you see these ceremonial Sabbaths. 35:05 And what did they do? 35:06 They pointed to Jesus, right? 35:09 So these, the offerings 35:11 were discounted at Christ's death 35:13 as they foreshadowed the cross, notice in verse 16, it says, 35:17 Sabbath days with an S, 35:19 not God's seventh day Sabbath but the ceremonial Sabbath. 35:25 Do we got... Do we have that? 35:27 So you can see how people when you first read it say, 35:29 "Well, don't judge me, eat or drink or whatever..." 35:33 No, these were all ceremonial laws 35:36 set up that would be done away with, 35:38 would be nailed to the cross. 35:40 These were the ordinances 35:41 that were against us, all right? 35:44 So the Sabbath was that creation, 35:50 God owns it. 35:51 It came before sin and will remain long after sin. 35:54 You see, think about this. 35:56 In Genesis 2:1-3, 35:59 God institutes the seventh day Sabbath, right? 36:03 Now the ordinances that were nailed against us 36:07 were ceremonial laws, 36:09 but they weren't given 36:10 till after sin came into the world. 36:13 So when was the Sabbath given? 36:15 Was sin already in the world? No. 36:18 So if they're not part of the ceremonial system, 36:22 the Sabbath is before sin, 36:24 how can it be part of the ceremonial law 36:26 that's nailed to the cross? 36:28 Does that make any sense to somebody? 36:31 I mean, it should make sense to us. 36:33 How can it possibly be? 36:34 It was at the end of creation week, 36:38 on the seventh day God rested from all His work, 36:40 He instituted it then. 36:42 There Adam hadn't sinned, Adam and Eve hadn't sinned. 36:46 So now when we're looking down the stream of time, 36:50 it's pretty simple for us to see, 36:52 you know what, this wasn't... 36:53 this is what it was talking about. 36:55 The ceremonial laws were nailed to the cross. 36:59 I see my time is quickly running out on me. 37:02 But I think we should... 37:03 We've talked about it, and I haven't read it. 37:05 So let's do Exodus 20:8-11, 37:08 I want you to read it and say it with me out loud. 37:11 "Remember the Sabbath day to keep it holy. 37:15 Six days shall thou labor, and do all thy work. 37:19 But the seventh day is the Sabbath," of who? 37:22 "The Lord thy God, in it thou shall not do any work, 37:28 thou, nor thy son, nor thy daughter, 37:31 thy manservant, thy maidservant, 37:34 nor thy cattle, 37:35 nor thy stranger that is within thy gates, 37:38 for in six days," how many days? 37:40 Six days. 37:42 "The Lord made the heaven and the earth, the sea, 37:45 and all that in them is, and He rested the seventh day. 37:50 Therefore, the Lord blessed 37:52 the Sabbath day and hallowed it." 37:55 So the Ten Commandments were kept before 37:58 and I'm going to start winding down on this 38:00 because here's one of the things 38:01 that people say, I watched a... 38:04 They call it a debate not too long ago 38:06 with an Adventist pastor 38:09 and a person who was a Sunday pastor. 38:13 And they had a debate on Facebook, 38:15 and I was very disappointed in the debate. 38:17 It wasn't that the Adventist pastor 38:19 didn't have or couldn't have, 38:22 if you're going to get in debate, 38:24 you might as well win it, right? 38:25 No, whether you should get in one or not, 38:26 that's up for grabs. 38:28 But if you get in one, 38:29 you want to make sure you win it, 38:31 don't get into something you can't win. 38:32 Now if we can't win a discussion 38:36 on the Seventh-day Sabbath, we should close the doors. 38:40 Oh, some of you don't agree with that, right? 38:42 I mean, honestly, if Seventh-day Adventist, 38:44 if Seventh-day Adventist, 38:46 if we can't win a discussion 38:49 or least prove our discussion without a doubt, 38:54 we need to close our doors. 38:56 This debate that I watched was set up 39:00 where they ask a question, 39:01 one man had two minutes like the Adventist guy 39:05 had two minutes to answer it, 39:06 then they give the other person one minute to answer. 39:10 He might say something ridiculous. 39:11 But then you move to the next question. 39:13 That's not a very good format. 39:15 But one of the things that they say is 39:18 and I want to put this out here, 39:20 well, the reason that we don't keep the Sabbath today 39:24 is because it's a spiritual rest 39:27 and from creation all the way from creation 39:32 of seventh day all the way to Moses, 39:34 no one kept the Sabbath. 39:39 Now they kept the other Ten Commandments, 39:41 but they didn't keep the Sabbath. 39:42 They say there is no proof in the Old Testament 39:45 that God directed anybody to keep the Sabbath, 39:49 but he did all of the other nine commandments, 39:53 that's a huge point. 39:54 If they're right, 39:56 we might want to relook at our doctrines, right? 40:01 There is no proof is what they say, 40:03 and this man has said it, others have said it. 40:05 "There is no proof from creation 40:09 when Sabbath was instituted 40:11 that any command to keep the commandments 40:15 the Sabbath until Moses." 40:19 Well, let's find out if that's true. 40:21 Okay, let's go to Genesis 26:5. 40:25 Genesis 26:5 tells us that Abraham obeyed God's voice, 40:30 kept His charge, God's commandments, 40:32 and His statutes, and His laws. 40:35 Now ain't that interesting? 40:36 How many references he makes? 40:38 Genesis 26:5 tells us that Abraham obeyed God's voice, 40:44 kept His charge, kept God's commandments, 40:47 His statutes, and His laws. 40:50 It sounds kind of like overkill to me. 40:53 I mean, why in the world 40:55 you're going to say all those things. 40:56 Why not just say he kept the commandments 40:58 or he kept the covenant? 41:00 They didn't do it. 41:01 I think God knew in advance that down the stream of time, 41:04 there would be people trying to say, 41:06 "That didn't mean the Ten Commandments, 41:08 you can get out of this one." 41:10 I mean, how are you going to get out of this? 41:12 It named everything, right? 41:13 It says that Abraham obeyed God's voice, 41:18 if he obeys Him, what's he going to do? 41:19 Keep His commandments. 41:20 But he says, he kept His charge and God's commandments 41:24 and His statues and His laws. 41:27 That left nothing out, right? 41:28 Abraham did it all. 41:29 Whatever was there, Abraham did it all. 41:32 And you can know that the Ten Commandments 41:34 were a part of that. 41:35 So God knew and I think that's why 41:39 that's so strong in there, God knew... 41:40 But here's what people say, 41:42 and I want to talk about this for just a minute. 41:44 It would be foolish for anyone to suggest 41:46 that no one kept the Sabbath until Moses, 41:50 very foolish. 41:53 God instituted it, why institute it 41:55 if he didn't want anybody to keep it? 41:57 But how can humans negate, 41:59 make void or have the nerve to ignore the Sabbath 42:01 of the Lord thy God? 42:02 It's not His... 42:04 The commandment says, Sabbath, not ours, 42:05 the Sabbath of the Lord thy God. 42:07 In other words, who are we to place oneself 42:09 above God by ignoring 42:11 or trying to change His commandments, 42:13 including His holy Sabbath? 42:16 Now evangelical Christians claim the Sabbath 42:18 is a Jewish Sabbath for the Jews only. 42:21 We've already read where that's not true, right? 42:23 It says that's the Sabbath of whom, the Lord thy God. 42:28 So what I want to talk about here in just a little bit, 42:31 I actually wrote it down. 42:32 And I thought, you know, Thank You, Lord, 42:34 this is really interesting. 42:37 Have you ever thought about this? 42:39 It just popped into my head. 42:40 Maybe I probably heard Stephen Bohr 42:42 or somebody else say it, 42:43 and I thought, well, the light went on. 42:44 I thought it was something, 42:46 I probably heard it from somebody else. 42:48 But they say, "Well, the reason no one kept the Sabbath 42:53 in the Old Testament 42:55 is because there's no record of it." 42:58 And all of a sudden it occurred to me, 43:01 this is before Moses, well, 43:03 show me the record of the other commandments. 43:08 Now think about it for a minute. 43:09 Show me the record of the other commandments, 43:12 just the same way, 43:13 do it the same way you're going to do the Sabbath. 43:16 Okay? 43:17 Now God told in Genesis 35:1 to 4, 43:21 long before Moses, 43:22 God told Jacob to have his people 43:24 put away their strange gods. 43:26 There's no record that I see if this written, 43:28 a commandment that says, 43:30 "Thou shall not make unto thee any graven images," 43:33 before the time of Moses. 43:34 But God held him accountable 43:36 because they were breaking His laws. 43:37 Am I right? 43:39 Adam and Eve broke the first commandment, 43:40 "Thou shall have no other gods before me," 43:42 when they serve the serpent Satan 43:44 instead of their Creator. 43:46 There's no mention in the Bible that Adam and Eve 43:48 were looking at the Ten Commandment law 43:50 and said, "Oh, you know, let me see 43:53 the third, fourth, command..." 43:54 there's no record that but there was a record, 43:57 there is a law 43:58 because where there's no law there's no sin. 44:00 Am I right? 44:01 There's no law, there's no sin. 44:03 So Adam and Eve, once they disobeyed God, 44:09 that meant death for the whole human race. 44:11 God held us accountable. 44:12 He would not have held them accountable, were there no law? 44:16 Are we together on that one, right? 44:18 I don't think there was a written down law, 44:20 there's no record in the Bible, Adam and Eve had a written law. 44:23 Now Leviticus 18:21-23, 44:26 "For all these abominations have the man of the land done 44:29 which were before and the land is defiled." 44:33 This was done long before Moses, 44:35 yet it's still sin. 44:36 God said, "Neither shall thou profane the name of thy God, 44:40 I am the Lord." 44:41 I don't see any record of, 44:42 "Thou shall not take the name of the Lord thy God in vain." 44:45 Are you starting to see what I'm saying? 44:47 There is no commandment. 44:48 No, of course, they weren't written, 44:50 but were they there? 44:52 Were they there? 44:54 Would the only commandment that God said 44:56 remember would that be the one He would take out 44:58 if He were to take one out. 45:00 That would be... 45:02 No, I can't even say that about God. 45:04 I'll start making a joke like, that wouldn't be the... 45:06 No, He wouldn't do that. 45:08 God would never do, He did it 45:10 because He knew people would forget. 45:13 Now they say, but there's no record of people 45:15 keeping the Sabbath. 45:17 Well, in the same vein, yes, there is. 45:20 Exodus 16th chapter, 45:21 we find that God is telling Moses 45:23 that He's sending manna for the people to eat 45:26 and that Moses should tell the people together, how much? 45:29 Twice as much on what day, the sixth day of the week 45:32 because of the seventh day 45:34 would be the Sabbath of the Lord. 45:37 Now when was this? 45:39 Exodus 16. 45:40 When was Exodus... 45:41 When did Ten Commandments come? 45:43 Exodus 20, right, came afterwards. 45:46 Exodus 16:25 to 30, and Moses said, 45:49 "Eat today, 45:51 for today is the Sabbath unto the Lord." 45:53 Verse 28, "And the Lord said unto Moses, 45:55 how long refugee to keep My commandments, and my laws." 45:59 Does it sound like it's something new? 46:01 I mean, He hadn't given him yet 46:03 according to all these other people, right? 46:06 To these people saying, 46:08 "Oh, well, the Sabbath wasn't there. 46:09 No one kept it. 46:11 There's no record of it." 46:12 When God's to hold you accountable 46:14 for something you can know 46:15 that He's already told you what it is. 46:18 He doesn't sound very happy when He says, 46:21 "How long do you profane my Sabbath?" 46:25 See that the Lord has given you the Sabbath, 46:27 who gave it to them? 46:28 Therefore, He gave it to you, on the sixth day, 46:30 the bread of two days, 46:32 "Abide ye every man in his place, 46:34 let no man go out of his place on the seventh day." 46:37 So the people of God rested on the seventh day. 46:40 Now there was no record of the Sabbath commandment 46:43 written down at that point. 46:44 That may be true. 46:45 Yet God said to Moses, 46:47 "How long do you profane my Sabbath?" 46:50 God was holding him accountable. 46:52 So obviously, 46:54 the Ten Commandments were in effect, 46:56 they always have been, 46:57 because they're transcript of God's character, 46:59 if we know God, we will know the Ten Commandments. 47:02 Am I telling the truth? 47:06 I'm going to have to end here because my time has run out. 47:09 But people will say, when they use this logic, 47:14 "Well, it doesn't say so, I didn't read it," 47:17 where it said, "Remember the Sabbath day," 47:18 these are the same type of people 47:21 who they will use logic to say it's okay 47:23 to destroy your body with drugs like opioids or heroin. 47:26 Why? 47:27 Because there's no direct command in the Bible 47:29 regarding these drugs, right? 47:31 There's no direct command in the Bible that says, 47:33 "I can't shoot somebody 47:35 if I'm mad at my neighbor with my gun," right? 47:38 Well, guns weren't invented then. 47:40 "So maybe I'm okay to do it because it didn't say 47:43 a direct command in the Bible doesn't tell me 47:45 not to shoot my neighbor." 47:47 Then if I'm really upset, 47:48 "There's no direct command in the Bible that says, 47:50 I can't take my neighbor if I'm mad at him 47:53 up in an airplane 3,000 feet and drop him off, 47:56 push him out 47:57 because there's no direct command 47:59 in the Bible to do so," 48:00 because there were no airplanes back then. 48:03 By now somebody is saying, 48:05 "This guy's really ridiculous," right? 48:07 Everyone knows this would be a sin against the neighbor. 48:10 Why? 48:11 Because the principles 48:13 of the Ten Commandments spell out 48:14 this is sin against our neighbor. 48:16 So everything doesn't have to be written down. 48:18 When you look at the principles of God, 48:21 the Sabbath was instituted at creation 48:24 along with marriage. 48:26 I don't have time to go into all of that. 48:28 But the Sabbath was instituted at creation 48:32 and all Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, 48:36 all of the people kept God's seventh commandment. 48:40 Moses and the children of Israel 48:42 were commanded by God to keep His commandments. 48:45 When Jesus came to earth, He kept the commandments. 48:49 He said, "If you love Me..." 48:51 "Keep My commandments." 48:53 "If you love Me..." 48:54 "Keep My commandments." 48:57 Keep my... 48:58 Am I missing something? Or is that really simple? 49:01 It's really simple, isn't it? 49:03 If you love Me, keep My... 49:04 I'm glad, you know, 49:06 I have to be a rocket scientist to figure it out. 49:07 But here's what I found out. 49:09 If people are looking for truth, they will get it. 49:12 If you're not looking for truth, you won't get it. 49:15 I'm so thankful for some of these musicians and writers 49:20 that I'm working with 49:21 to see the changes in their lives 49:24 when I assigned them Daniel revelation, 49:28 that wasn't by accident, God prompted me to do that. 49:31 I said, "Well, if these folks are on our team, 49:33 that's going to be a great asset to this world." 49:36 And you know what? It's happening. 49:38 It's absolutely happening. 49:40 So enclosing the Ten Commandments, 49:42 all of God's Ten Commandments are in effect today, 49:45 including the seventh day Sabbath. 49:47 Which day is the New Covenant Sabbath? 49:49 Saturday. 49:51 Which day is the New Covenant Sabbath? 49:53 Saturday is the New Covenant Sabbath of our Lord, 49:56 therefore it remains throughout eternity. 49:58 Isaiah 66, so Jesus kept it, 50:01 after the resurrection of Jesus, 50:03 according when other folks say 50:05 that the resurrection now 50:07 we're honoring the New Covenant. 50:08 But what did the disciples keep? 50:10 Sabbath. 50:12 All right, when they wrote their books of Matthew, Mark, 50:15 Luke, and John 40, 50, 60 years later, 50:17 was there any mention, 50:19 it should have been a major point to say, 50:22 "I know we always kept the Sabbath. 50:24 But since Christ died, 50:25 you got to keep the first day of the week Sunday," 50:27 didn't happen, did it? 50:29 They didn't do it because they kept the Sabbath. 50:33 Now they kept it. 50:34 And we're told in Isaiah 66, 50:36 that we will keep the Sabbath throughout eternity. 50:40 Sunday is the first day of the week. 50:41 Saturday is the seventh day. 50:43 And yet Protestants, mostly evangelicals, 50:46 have set it aside for hundreds of years. 50:49 And they still want to use the Bible 50:53 to say, "This is why we do it." 50:55 But the truth is 50:56 and this is another whole sermon. 50:58 In fact, we have a book, 50:59 so those of you watching today around the world, 51:01 if you want a book we have one, 51:02 Shelly Quinn and I wrote 51:04 called Ten Commandments Twice Removed. 51:05 We have one called Spiritual Vigilantes, 51:07 we'll give it to you free if you want it, 51:10 and you will read it. 51:12 We want you to have the truth. 51:13 But the reason that people go to church on Sunday, 51:18 the Protestants... 51:19 Do you know what the word Protestant means, 51:21 means to protest. 51:22 What are you protesting? 51:24 Catholicism. That's when... 51:28 give you a history lesson, because you all know, 51:29 but to discovery of America and they say, 51:32 forgive me, American Indians. 51:33 But when I'm talking about... 51:35 when people came across, 51:36 so we know it wasn't discovered. 51:37 There were people here, 51:39 but they fled persecution, right? 51:41 They fled persecution, they came here to this land, 51:44 and that's how the... 51:46 In America, we began to see religious freedom coming up. 51:49 Now people want to say, 51:51 "Well, we're doing this because of the Bible." 51:54 But here's what I respect about the Catholic Church, 51:57 the Catholic Church says, 52:00 "There is no biblical reason 52:01 for anybody to keep Sunday holy." 52:04 The Catholic Church says that. I got to... 52:07 I have to respect them, 52:08 and that they're straight up front 52:10 and tell the truth. 52:11 They're not saying, "Well, I think 52:12 this Scripture means this. 52:14 Well, maybe this scripture justifies 52:16 doing with the Sabbath and this one's telling..." 52:18 The Catholic Church says, "We change the Sabbath, 52:20 we have the authority to do so, 52:22 that's the mark of our authority." 52:24 We have the information, you write to 3ABN, 52:27 there's numbers of books and literature, 52:28 we can give you 52:30 that we're not talking bad about people, 52:31 that I'm sure there are going to be 52:33 many Catholics in heaven. 52:34 Praise God for that. 52:35 I'm thankful for that. 52:37 But the truth is, today, 52:41 we have to live up to all the light that we have. 52:43 We are responsible to tell our friends and neighbors 52:46 what's going to be happening in the near future 52:48 is Satan is trying to take their life, 52:50 trying to keep us from making heaven our home. 52:55 So the Catholic Church says 52:57 Sunday, the first day of the week, 53:00 is our day. 53:02 We set it aside, 53:04 any Protestants who claim to keep 53:08 Sunday from the Bible, 53:13 there's no biblical reference for it. 53:15 And they actually say 53:16 in one of the statements we have, 53:18 they ought to be something like, 53:20 they ought to become Seventh-day Adventists 53:22 if you're going to go by the Bible 53:24 and the Bible only. 53:26 I could go on. I've gone too long right now. 53:28 And I've realized that our time is running out. 53:30 And I just want to... 53:32 Today, hopefully, 53:33 what I've given it's all jumbled up to me 53:36 and maybe to you too, but I'm asking that you pray 53:38 and ask the Holy Spirit because here's what I found, 53:41 no matter what I say, no matter what I do, 53:46 I've asked God, 53:47 "You take these words 53:50 and You let them go to the ears of those who need to hear it. 53:53 But let them hear Your words." 53:56 So sometimes, the only reason I have confidence 53:58 to get up and speak at all, I walk away, 54:01 shaking my head and saying, 54:02 "I don't think it made any sense." 54:05 People will come up and say, "That's exactly what I needed." 54:08 And I'd say, "Thank you, Lord, 54:09 because I knew it wasn't my words. 54:11 God did answer the prayer that I ask Him to." 54:15 I'm going to do something a little different here today. 54:18 I'm going to take just a little bit of time, 54:20 I'm going to ask Yvonne to come out and sing a song 54:24 and Tim is going to be playing. 54:26 And I want Yvonne to, as she sings, 54:30 I want us to really think about our life 54:31 and our relationship with Jesus. 54:33 We have a mountain of truth, folks, and we're sitting on it, 54:38 we're sitting on it. 54:40 Now is not the time to be sitting. 54:42 Now is the time to be going. 54:44 "Go ye into all the world." 54:46 So I'm going to ask today, that as Yvonne sings, 54:50 you think about your own life 54:51 and your own relationship with the Lord Jesus Christ. 54:55 Yvonne. 55:04 The Savior is waiting 55:10 To enter your heart 55:16 Why would you let Him 55:21 Come in? 55:25 There's nothing in this world 55:30 To keep you apart 55:36 What is your answer 55:41 To Him? 55:47 Time after time 55:52 He has waited before 55:57 And now He is waiting 56:03 Again 56:08 To see if you're willing 56:14 To open the door 56:19 Oh, how He wants 56:24 To come in 56:35 If you'll take one step 56:38 Toward the Savior 56:42 My friend 56:44 You'll find His arms 56:48 Open wide 56:53 Receive Him and your hate 57:01 Will end 57:04 Within your heart 57:09 He'll abide 57:15 Time after time 57:19 He has waited before 57:23 And now He is waiting 57:28 Again 57:33 To see if you're willing 57:38 To open 57:41 The door 57:47 Oh, how He wants to come 57:54 Oh, how He wants to come 58:02 Oh, how Jesus 58:06 Wants to come 58:13 In 58:23 Amen. |
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