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Could I just share a topic with you?

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Since we grew up, certain speeches that say,

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Shalom, shalom, are the same word.

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And he said, and her, and his, and

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hers.

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And they're very much linked together.

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They say, shalom, shalom.

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And so that's what we're trying to do.

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And that's what we've been doing so far.

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Amen.

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Thank you.

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And Isaiah points to this.

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He says, shalom, shalom.

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Shalom, shalom.

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He's trying to say it on the East

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Coast, right?

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We welcome you to the house of the

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Lord.

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Isaiah.

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Thank you.

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I'm going to start with my mom and

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dad.

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Back, back, back.

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All right.

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I appreciate those thoughts.

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Appreciate the opening.

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I think very much touches on a characteristic

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of God.

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He will not be angry forever, the scriptures

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say.

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He is very much able to hold his

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peace.

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Really appreciated the ending thoughts there, Norman, about

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eternal rest and eternal unrest.

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And it very much ties in with things

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I want to talk about today.

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I want to wrap up this series that

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I started a few weeks ago about fulfilled

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in Christ.

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And this study has been a blessing to

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me.

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I hope it's been a blessing to you.

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It's been big.

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It's one of those things where I'm trying

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to cram the most important of the things

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in this message.

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We could just keep going on.

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About how Christ is the fulfillment of everything.

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And this all started out with a study

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of wanting to do a message of the

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Sabbath.

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Today's message is mostly about the Sabbath.

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As for wrapping up, the ways that we

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can be enlightened and inspired and encouraged by

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how Christ fulfills, there is no wrapping up.

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Maybe once Christ returns and wraps up the

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sky like a scroll and we sit at

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his feet, maybe then.

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There is just so much.

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Let's pray before we go on.

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Father in heaven, we thank you for this

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day, for this beautiful day and this place

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to gather and people to gather with.

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Thank you for the edification we've already received

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this morning.

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Help us to apply these things to our

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lives.

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We pray that you would help us now

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as we continue to look into your word,

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that your spirit could illuminate things

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for us and guide us into your ways.

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In Jesus' name we pray.

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Amen.

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So, I hope the skeleton we talked about

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in the first message has some flesh and

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hopefully we can blow some breath in it

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today or get it to see how it

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applies in our lives.

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Especially how this subject of the Sabbath should

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look today.

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I hope in the other two messages I've

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established that there is an old covenant and

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that there is a new covenant.

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Remember, a covenant is a relationship, it's a

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partnership, it's a binding agreement.

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And God communicates with his creation through a

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covenant.

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God did not break his covenants with Adam

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and Noah and Abraham and Moses and David,

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he's still keeping them.

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They are not destroyed as in demolished, they

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are fulfilled.

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They're fulfilled in Christ with such a glory

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that surpasses the glory of the old covenant,

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that the old fades away like the moon

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and the stars do when the sun comes

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up.

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I hope it is well established in our

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minds that the new covenant is not just

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a renewed covenant.

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It is the fulfillment of the shadows, the

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figures, the types and all those things of

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the old covenant.

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It comes with a new priesthood and as

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it says in Hebrews of necessity, when there's

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a change of priesthood there's a change of

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law.

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It comes with a new law and with

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a new lawgiver.

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minds that the old and the new covenant

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cannot be heirs together.

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Not any more than Isaac and Ishmael can

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be heirs together in the promise that Abraham

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had.

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The old and the new covenant cannot be

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heirs together.

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I hope it's established that the old covenant,

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its laws and precepts cannot lead us into

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Christ's promise.

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Any more than Moses was able to lead

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Israel into the land of Canaan.

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And that there's a distinction between the law

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and the prophets and the things that Jesus

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said.

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It is through that framework that we'll take

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a look at the Sabbath.

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Before I get into the Sabbath I want

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to talk a little bit yet about schoolmasters.

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Paul says this in Galatians 3.

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He says, but before faith came we were

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kept under the law, shut up unto the

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faith which should afterwards be revealed.

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Wherefore the law was our schoolmaster to bring

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us unto Christ that we might be justified

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by faith.

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But after that faith has come we are

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no longer under a schoolmaster for we are

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the children of God by faith in Christ

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Jesus.

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Every good schoolmaster will work himself out of

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a job.

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A good schoolmaster takes somebody without understanding and

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he teaches and he instructs and he brings

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him to this place where he has understanding

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and then he's not needed anymore.

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He's become useless.

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The person has gained what the schoolmaster can

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offer.

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And now the schoolmaster has worked himself out

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of this job.

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And that's what the Mosaic law should do

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for us.

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It should work itself into uselessness for us.

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The Mosaic law brings us to Christ but

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not into Christ.

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It brings a slave into freedom but not

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a free man into a conqueror.

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It brings us from negative to ground zero

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but not above that.

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So this is kind of how this works.

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You've got a man who's in the negative.

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He's a lazy thief and he goes around

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and instead of working with his hand he

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just robs for what he wants.

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And he hears the law of Moses that

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is severe enough to make the whole mountain

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shake.

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And he hears, Thou shalt not steal.

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And it convicts him.

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being a thief to this place where he

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now works with his own hands.

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sweat of his brow.

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He becomes an honest man, a just man.

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Or the murderer who went around killing people

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and shedding people's blood.

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He hears this trembling schoolmaster law says, Thou

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shalt not kill.

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And it convicts him and he comes to

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this place where he quits shedding blood.

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And you could do this down through all

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these laws.

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And if a man governs himself by these

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laws, if we govern ourselves, if we govern

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our families, if a nation governs by these

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laws, they'll be blessed.

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They'll really be blessed.

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They'll receive blessings.

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The law makes a man just, fair, right,

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equal.

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It is eye for eye.

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It is tooth for tooth.

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It is ox for ox.

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It is ass for ass.

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It is equal, just, and fair.

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That's what the law is doing.

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But here comes Jesus.

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And he brings the faith.

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He brings in the new covenant.

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And he writes on our heart a new

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commandment.

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He said this thing to the apostles just

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before he died.

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He said, A new commandment I give you,

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that you love one another the way I

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have loved you.

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And Jesus demonstrated that love by his selfless,

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sacrificial life.

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And he also taught about it.

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And so this is what this thief that

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had stopped stealing and now came to this

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place where he's working and not stealing anymore,

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he hears Jesus and he hears, If someone

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takes your coat, forbid him not to take

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your cloak.

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If someone steals your possessions, don't ask him

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back.

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He's like, What?

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You mean it's not good enough for me

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to just stop stealing?

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I'm also supposed to suffer it when someone

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steals what I have?

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That's what he's saying.

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Or the murderer, he hears Jesus, who quit

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murdering because he heard the schoolmaster.

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He hears Jesus say, Resist not the evildoer.

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If someone smites you on the right cheek,

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turn the other one.

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He hears him say, Be as a sheep

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that goes to the slaughter.

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And he's like, What?

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I mean, it's not good enough for me

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to just stop killing people?

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Taking people's lives?

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I'm supposed to suffer it if people want

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to take my life?

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This doesn't sound like blessings anymore.

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It starts sounding like suffering.

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Consider the rich young ruler who came to

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Jesus and he said, What must I do

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to inherit eternal life?

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And Jesus said, Well, what are the commandments?

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Thou shalt not steal, thou shalt not bear

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false witness, honor thy father and mother.

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And he's quoting Sinai, right?

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He's quoting the Decalogue, the Ten Commandments.

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And this rich young ruler says, I've kept

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all those from my youth.

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Jesus knew something.

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He knew that in spite of him keeping

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all these things from his youth, within him

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is a heart that has not been touched

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yet with the new covenant.

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He is not loving his neighbors as himself.

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In fact, he's a very rich man and

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he said something to this man that was

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never ever quoted in the Torah.

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He said, If you want to be perfect,

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go sell what you have, give it to

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the poor, come and follow me.

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And it was too much.

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This man walked away sorrowful.

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This was too much.

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This was not the blessing he was wanting.

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The old covenant can bring a man from

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a self-destructive life to a self-preserving

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life, but it cannot bring us to this

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selfless life of Christ.

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And it's where most people stop.

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It's where most people say, I'm good, I

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don't break the Ten Commandments, and life is

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a blessing.

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And they walk away from the message of

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the new covenant.

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It's why Jesus said, No one having drunk

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old wine straightaway desires new, for he says

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the old is better.

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That is the Mosaic Law.

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It is a schoolmaster, and if we are

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to enter the kingdom of God, it will

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work itself out of a job.

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It will work itself into uselessness.

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God can change his laws without changing his

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will.

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Just like we can change our rules for

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our children without changing our will.

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And we do this all the time.

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I'm sure all of us parents do.

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Let me give you an example.

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If I live along a real busy road,

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I make a rule for my little children,

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You shall not cross the road.

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Don't cross the road.

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It's a precept, it's simple, it's understandable, and

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that's my rule.

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But my will is, I don't want my

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child to get hit on the road.

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In fact, once my child is older, I

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not only allow him to cross the road,

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I'll sometimes command him to cross the road.

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I'll instruct him to cross the road.

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It's because at the heart of what I

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wanted was not that you can't be on

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the other side of the road or cross

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it, it's that I didn't want you hit.

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And you were not at a level, your

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heart, your comprehension was not there.

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But once that's there, I'll command you to

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do the very thing that I had commanded

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you not, and I have not changed one

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bit as a father.

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It's the same way with positive commands.

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I want my children to be thankful.

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And when somebody gives them something, I want

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them to say thank you.

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And if they don't say thank you, they

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can't have the thing that was given to

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them.

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But once they have a thankful heart, there's

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no need for that rule.

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They'll express their thankfulness in ways far beyond

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thank you.

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But I'm working towards something.

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There's a will and there's a command, and

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they're not always the same thing.

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The command is a means to an end

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and not the end in itself.

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God had to give commands to a people

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who were stiff-necked and rebellious and hard

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-hearted in the old covenant.

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But in the new covenant, there is a

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change of law.

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It says that in Hebrews that there's a

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change of law.

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Because we enter into this covenant with people,

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God enters into this covenant with people who

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have a willing heart and a willing mind

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and have a heart of flesh and not

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a heart of stone.

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Here in Hebrews 7, verses 17 to 19,

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where it's again talking about the priesthood, it

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says, For it is attested of him that

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you are a priest according to the order

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of Melchizedek.

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For on one hand, there is a setting

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aside of a former commandment because of its

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weakness and uselessness.

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For the law made nothing perfect.

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And on the other hand, there is a

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bringing in of a better hope through which

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we draw near to God.

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Justin Martyr says, For we too would observe

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the fleshly circumcision and the Sabbath and, in

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short, all the feasts, if we did not

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know for what reason they were commanded you,

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namely, on account of your transgressions and the

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hardness of your hearts.

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All right, how does this pertain to the

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Sabbath?

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In the first message, we talked about Sinai,

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Mount Sinai, where the children of Israel came

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there in the wilderness and the shaking and

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the thundering and the voice and how what

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was said there should not be taken lightly.

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The ten commandments that God orally spoke were

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later written into tables of stone with God's

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own finger.

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And the fourth commandment says, Remember the Sabbath

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day to keep it holy.

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Six days you shall labor and do all

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your work, but the seventh day is the

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Sabbath of the Lord your God.

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And then he references creation and says, For

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in six days God created heaven and earth,

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and on the seventh day he rested.

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A few chapters later there in Exodus, God

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expounded this further to Moses, and this is

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what he said.

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In chapter 31 of Exodus, verse 12, he

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says, Again the Lord spoke to Moses, saying,

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You shall direct the children of Israel, saying,

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See to it that you keep my Sabbaths,

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for it is a sign between me and

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you throughout your generations that you may know

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I am the Lord who sanctifies you.

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You shall keep the Sabbath, because this is

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holy for you to the Lord.

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Everyone who profanes it shall be put to

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death.

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For whoever works on it, thou shalt be

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cut off from among his people.

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Work shall be done for six days, but

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the seventh is the Sabbath, a holy rest

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to the Lord.

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Whoever works on the seventh day shall be

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put to death.

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Therefore the children of Israel shall keep the

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Sabbath to observe them throughout their generations as

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a perpetual covenant.

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It is a sign between me and the

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children of Israel forever.

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For in six days the Lord created heaven

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and earth, and on the seventh day he

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ceased and rested.

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It is a sign of a perpetual covenant.

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God says this is a sign between me

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and Israel forever.

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There's not too much ambiguity there.

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We know what this means.

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In the first message we talked about maybe

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there's ambiguity about what consists of work.

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But even that, the scripture has some pretty

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plain examples.

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We know that gathering is work.

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They were not to gather manna.

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The man gathering sticks was killed.

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You were not to kindle a fire, not

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to start a fire.

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That was considered work.

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You were not to carry a burden.

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That was considered work.

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And if you want to know how serious

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this is to God, let's look at that

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short account in Numbers where the man was

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gathering sticks.

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It says, Now while the children of Israel

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were in the desert, they found a man

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gathering wood on the Sabbath day.

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So those who found him gathering wood on

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the Sabbath day brought him to Moses and

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Aaron and to all the congregation and of

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the children of Israel.

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They put him under guard because they had

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not decided what to do with him.

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Then the Lord spoke to Moses saying, Let

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the man be surely put to death.

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All the congregation shall stone him with stones.

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So as the Lord ordered Moses, all the

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congregation brought him outside the camp and stoned

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him with stones.

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Whatever this thing is of keeping the Sabbath

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is not something God takes lightly.

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Or I should say of breaking the Sabbath.

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He does not take it lightly.

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This day is to be holy.

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That means it's supposed to be set apart.

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They were supposed to finish their work by

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the end of the sixth day so that

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on the seventh day it could be set

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apart as a day in which they abstain

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from their normal occupation.

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The Israelites were to walk in all these

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commands of the Lord and then they would

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be blessed.

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The blessings will find them, it says in

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Deuteronomy.

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You shall be blessed in the city.

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You shall be blessed in the country.

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Blessed be your ground.

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Blessed be your herd.

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Blessed be your flock.

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Blessed shall be your storehouses.

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You will lend to many and you will

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not borrow.

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You will be the head and not the

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tail.

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And you know what?

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It still works this way.

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If you put into practice these things, you

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get earthly blessings.

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If you work hard and if you are

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honest and if you live in a cleanly

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way and if you eat wholesome foods, generally

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speaking, you'll receive earthly blessings.

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It still works just like it did for

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Israel.

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But he also says this, in spite of

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the fact that you can work and receive

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all these blessings, your flocks, your herds, you'll

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get rich, you'll abound, he says, but don't

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forget me.

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I want you to give one-tenth of

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these blessings to the priests.

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You can keep your 90% for yourself,

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but I want 10% to go to

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the priests.

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And he says, I want you to take

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one out of seven days and I want

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you to stop your work.

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And I want you to dedicate that to

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me.

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Very, very interestingly, these things didn't apply to

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the Levites and the priests.

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The priests, who were set apart to do

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the Lord's work, they did not tithe and

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they did really not keep the Sabbath either.

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There were the daily offerings.

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Every day they brought in sheep and they

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killed them and they offered them up.

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And they offered up drink offerings and grain

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offerings.

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And on the Sabbath, in addition to the

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daily offering, they did more offerings.

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This included catching these animals, it included killing

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them, it included preparing them, kindling a fire,

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putting them on the altar.

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And any of you who have any experience

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butchering animals know that it's work.

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It is hard work.

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We start seeing that God must not be

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against laborious tasks on the Sabbath day.

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There must be something beyond that.

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It must be that that command, do not

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work, is not the end in itself.

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He must have a will that is greater

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than the command.

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And the prophet Isaiah starts eluding to this.

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In chapter 58 of Isaiah, and most of

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you are probably familiar with it, it's that

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chapter where he talks about the fast.

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He says, what is the fast that I

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desire?

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Is it for you to stop eating and

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afflicting yourselves?

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Is that the fast I've chosen?

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He says, no, the fast I've chosen is

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that you release the oppressed and you break

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every yoke and you undo the heavy burdens

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and the bonds of wickedness.

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And then at the end of that chapter,

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this is what he says.

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If you turn away your foot from the

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Sabbath, from doing your pleasure on my holy

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day, and call the Sabbath a delight, the

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holy day of the Lord, honorable, and shall

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honor him, not doing your own ways, not

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finding your own pleasures, not speaking your own

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words, then you shall delight yourself in the

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Lord, and I will cause you to ride

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on the high hills of the earth.

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I really think it's interesting how he says,

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don't seek your pleasures on my day.

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He's emphasizing in this whole chapter, Isaiah is

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emphasizing the spiritual and substantial value of these

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things.

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In fasting, he's saying, look, it's not so

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much about you guys not eating.

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What's really supposed to be happening is you're

551
00:24:47,950 --> 00:24:49,130
supposed to be forgiving.

552
00:24:49,690 --> 00:24:52,830
You're supposed to be releasing whoever you've got

553
00:24:52,830 --> 00:24:53,550
oppressed.

554
00:24:53,550 --> 00:24:57,670
You're supposed to be breaking the yokes of

555
00:24:57,670 --> 00:25:01,010
people that are under oppression.

556
00:25:01,970 --> 00:25:04,230
That's what's really supposed to be happening.

557
00:25:04,550 --> 00:25:07,130
And concerning the Sabbath, it's not so much

558
00:25:07,130 --> 00:25:08,770
about no work.

559
00:25:09,750 --> 00:25:11,970
The real thing that's supposed to be happening

560
00:25:11,970 --> 00:25:16,950
is that you stop from your own ways.

561
00:25:20,970 --> 00:25:24,110
Stop, cease from your own pleasures and from

562
00:25:24,110 --> 00:25:25,190
your own pursuits.

563
00:25:29,480 --> 00:25:32,200
In other words, we should be resting from

564
00:25:32,200 --> 00:25:37,060
our own works to enter into his work.

565
00:25:40,410 --> 00:25:43,070
Let's look at one more prophetic word in

566
00:25:43,070 --> 00:25:45,050
the Old Testament about the Sabbath, and it's

567
00:25:45,050 --> 00:25:47,130
in Psalm 95.

568
00:25:52,700 --> 00:25:54,700
The word Sabbath is not used here.

569
00:25:55,460 --> 00:26:00,520
But in Psalm 95, starting in verse 6,

570
00:26:00,620 --> 00:26:02,540
it says, Come, let us worship and fall

571
00:26:02,540 --> 00:26:04,960
down before him, and let us weep before

572
00:26:04,960 --> 00:26:06,160
the Lord who made us.

573
00:26:06,480 --> 00:26:08,600
For he is our God, and we are

574
00:26:08,600 --> 00:26:10,640
the people of his pasture and the sheep

575
00:26:10,640 --> 00:26:11,380
of his hand.

576
00:26:11,780 --> 00:26:14,820
Today, if you hear his voice, do not

577
00:26:14,820 --> 00:26:16,700
harden your heart as in the rebellion.

578
00:26:17,320 --> 00:26:19,760
During the day of testing in the desert,

579
00:26:20,040 --> 00:26:22,300
where your fathers tempted me and tested me

580
00:26:22,300 --> 00:26:25,420
and saw my works, for forty years I

581
00:26:25,420 --> 00:26:27,400
was treated with contempt by that generation.

582
00:26:27,880 --> 00:26:29,900
And I said, they always go astray in

583
00:26:29,900 --> 00:26:31,840
their hearts, and they do not know my

584
00:26:31,840 --> 00:26:32,260
ways.

585
00:26:32,380 --> 00:26:35,620
So I swore in my wrath, they shall

586
00:26:35,620 --> 00:26:37,300
not enter my rest.

587
00:26:39,160 --> 00:26:40,680
Now, the reason we know that this is

588
00:26:40,680 --> 00:26:42,560
a prophetic word about the Sabbath is because

589
00:26:42,560 --> 00:26:44,880
it was revealed to the Apostle Paul, even

590
00:26:44,880 --> 00:26:46,420
though the word Sabbath is not here.

591
00:26:46,420 --> 00:26:59,730
So, yeah, you

592
00:26:59,730 --> 00:27:00,830
would disagree with what part?

593
00:27:00,950 --> 00:27:01,650
That it's not there?

594
00:27:02,130 --> 00:27:02,710
Okay.

595
00:27:04,010 --> 00:27:04,250
Okay.

596
00:27:04,950 --> 00:27:05,250
Okay.

597
00:27:05,930 --> 00:27:06,630
Fair enough.

598
00:27:07,610 --> 00:27:07,750
Yeah.

599
00:27:12,570 --> 00:27:18,510
So David here, he's making a reference to

600
00:27:18,510 --> 00:27:19,790
something that happened in the past.

601
00:27:19,790 --> 00:27:23,750
Back when God wanted to bring them into

602
00:27:23,750 --> 00:27:26,150
the land of Canaan, and they did not

603
00:27:26,150 --> 00:27:26,930
believe him.

604
00:27:27,230 --> 00:27:28,810
And then in his anger, he said, I

605
00:27:28,810 --> 00:27:31,270
swear in my wrath, they will not enter

606
00:27:31,270 --> 00:27:31,850
my rest.

607
00:27:32,430 --> 00:27:35,070
David is making reference to that while he's

608
00:27:35,070 --> 00:27:41,570
also prophetically saying, we are his people, the

609
00:27:41,570 --> 00:27:43,610
sheep of his pasture.

610
00:27:46,330 --> 00:27:49,650
In another psalm, David says, the Lord God

611
00:27:49,650 --> 00:27:52,550
has made us and not we ourselves.

612
00:27:52,990 --> 00:27:55,570
We are his people and the sheep of

613
00:27:55,570 --> 00:27:56,170
his pasture.

614
00:27:59,030 --> 00:28:01,430
I want you to think about that.

615
00:28:02,270 --> 00:28:04,750
He made us, not we ourselves.

616
00:28:05,630 --> 00:28:09,010
We are his people, the sheep in his

617
00:28:09,010 --> 00:28:09,430
pasture.

618
00:28:09,770 --> 00:28:11,530
That should give us a lot of rest

619
00:28:11,530 --> 00:28:12,290
for our soul.

620
00:28:12,590 --> 00:28:13,890
God made us, right?

621
00:28:13,890 --> 00:28:15,550
We don't have to make ourselves.

622
00:28:15,790 --> 00:28:17,210
He made us the way we are.

623
00:28:17,450 --> 00:28:18,850
He made our gender.

624
00:28:19,110 --> 00:28:20,530
He made the color of our hair.

625
00:28:20,650 --> 00:28:21,890
He made the color of our skin.

626
00:28:22,030 --> 00:28:23,290
He made the color of our eyes.

627
00:28:24,630 --> 00:28:26,750
He decided how tall we're going to be,

628
00:28:27,110 --> 00:28:28,650
how many limbs we're going to have.

629
00:28:30,990 --> 00:28:33,130
Caleb's limbs are shorter than mine, but he

630
00:28:33,130 --> 00:28:34,690
made him that way because he wanted him

631
00:28:34,690 --> 00:28:35,210
that way.

632
00:28:35,750 --> 00:28:37,270
And he made us the way he wanted

633
00:28:37,270 --> 00:28:37,810
to make us.

634
00:28:38,050 --> 00:28:40,610
And then he wants us to be in

635
00:28:40,610 --> 00:28:41,350
his pasture.

636
00:28:41,350 --> 00:28:46,390
Being in God's pasture means we have green

637
00:28:46,390 --> 00:28:49,210
pastures and still waters and everything is supplied

638
00:28:49,210 --> 00:28:49,610
for us.

639
00:28:49,650 --> 00:28:52,550
It should be a very restful thought that

640
00:28:52,550 --> 00:28:54,130
he made us and we are the people

641
00:28:54,130 --> 00:28:54,810
of his pasture.

642
00:28:56,910 --> 00:28:59,270
He made everything in six days.

643
00:28:59,830 --> 00:29:01,050
And in one place in the scripture it

644
00:29:01,050 --> 00:29:02,790
says, he made it for his pleasure.

645
00:29:05,090 --> 00:29:09,590
And then he rested from his creative works.

646
00:29:11,800 --> 00:29:16,720
He rested from making things and began to

647
00:29:16,720 --> 00:29:22,060
work at caring for creation.

648
00:29:22,220 --> 00:29:24,720
And he partnered up with man in the

649
00:29:24,720 --> 00:29:28,160
care of his creation to spread goodness over

650
00:29:28,160 --> 00:29:28,940
the whole earth.

651
00:29:31,800 --> 00:29:34,040
And David in this psalm is saying, today,

652
00:29:34,800 --> 00:29:39,660
if you hear my voice, if you hear

653
00:29:39,660 --> 00:29:41,280
this and if you want to enter this

654
00:29:41,280 --> 00:29:43,440
pasture, if you want to enter this rest,

655
00:29:43,700 --> 00:29:47,520
today, if you hear his voice, harden not

656
00:29:47,520 --> 00:29:48,080
your hearts.

657
00:29:48,920 --> 00:29:51,240
And what Paul writes in Hebrews about this,

658
00:29:51,320 --> 00:29:59,540
I think is very helpful in understanding the

659
00:29:59,540 --> 00:29:59,840
Sabbath.

660
00:29:59,840 --> 00:30:05,640
In Hebrews chapter 4, we'll read verses 1

661
00:30:05,640 --> 00:30:06,180
to 11.

662
00:30:07,380 --> 00:30:10,440
It says, Therefore let us fear, if while

663
00:30:10,440 --> 00:30:13,700
a promise remains of entering his rest, any

664
00:30:13,700 --> 00:30:15,380
of you may seem to have come short

665
00:30:15,380 --> 00:30:15,680
of it.

666
00:30:16,100 --> 00:30:18,240
For indeed we have good news preached to

667
00:30:18,240 --> 00:30:19,480
us, just as they also.

668
00:30:19,700 --> 00:30:21,580
But the word they heard did not profit

669
00:30:21,580 --> 00:30:24,740
them, because it was united by faith in

670
00:30:24,740 --> 00:30:25,600
those who heard.

671
00:30:26,120 --> 00:30:32,740
For we who have believed enter that rest,

672
00:30:32,800 --> 00:30:35,460
just as he has said, As I swore

673
00:30:35,460 --> 00:30:37,840
in my wrath, they shall not enter my

674
00:30:37,840 --> 00:30:38,200
rest.

675
00:30:38,700 --> 00:30:40,960
Although his works were finished from the foundation

676
00:30:40,960 --> 00:30:41,600
of the world.

677
00:30:42,180 --> 00:30:44,200
For he has said somewhere concerning the seventh

678
00:30:44,200 --> 00:30:46,160
day, and God rested on the seventh day

679
00:30:46,160 --> 00:30:47,040
from all his works.

680
00:30:47,180 --> 00:30:49,240
And again in this passage, they shall not

681
00:30:49,240 --> 00:30:50,060
enter my rest.

682
00:30:50,660 --> 00:30:52,800
Therefore, since it remains for some to enter

683
00:30:52,800 --> 00:30:54,600
it, and those who formerly had good news

684
00:30:54,600 --> 00:30:56,420
preached to them failed to enter because of

685
00:30:56,420 --> 00:31:00,020
disobedience, he again fixes a certain day, today,

686
00:31:00,960 --> 00:31:03,600
saying through David, after so long a time,

687
00:31:03,960 --> 00:31:07,440
just as had been said before, Today, if

688
00:31:07,440 --> 00:31:10,380
you hear his voice, do not harden your

689
00:31:10,380 --> 00:31:10,840
hearts.

690
00:31:11,600 --> 00:31:14,380
For if Joshua had given them rest, he

691
00:31:14,380 --> 00:31:16,240
would not have spoken of another day after

692
00:31:16,240 --> 00:31:16,540
that.

693
00:31:16,880 --> 00:31:19,480
So there remains a Sabbath rest for the

694
00:31:19,480 --> 00:31:20,360
people of God.

695
00:31:20,360 --> 00:31:22,820
For the one who has entered his rest

696
00:31:22,820 --> 00:31:26,100
has himself rested from his works, as God

697
00:31:26,100 --> 00:31:26,860
did from his.

698
00:31:27,820 --> 00:31:29,900
Therefore, let us be diligent to enter that

699
00:31:29,900 --> 00:31:33,520
rest, so that no one will fall through

700
00:31:33,520 --> 00:31:36,300
following the same example of disobedience.

701
00:31:37,420 --> 00:31:39,360
So when should we keep the Sabbath?

702
00:31:40,840 --> 00:31:41,440
Today.

703
00:31:42,560 --> 00:31:46,580
Any day that you can call today, that

704
00:31:46,580 --> 00:31:48,960
day, you should keep the Sabbath.

705
00:31:48,960 --> 00:31:50,900
How should we keep it?

706
00:31:51,660 --> 00:31:54,220
We should cease from our own works.

707
00:31:55,320 --> 00:32:00,840
We should cease from making things for our

708
00:32:00,840 --> 00:32:01,640
own pleasure.

709
00:32:06,430 --> 00:32:09,670
And we should enter into this rest with

710
00:32:09,670 --> 00:32:10,110
God.

711
00:32:10,790 --> 00:32:14,350
And this rest does not mean no physical

712
00:32:14,350 --> 00:32:14,810
work.

713
00:32:15,430 --> 00:32:16,690
Not at all.

714
00:32:17,910 --> 00:32:21,010
God kept right on working ever since he

715
00:32:21,010 --> 00:32:21,910
created the world.

716
00:32:23,930 --> 00:32:27,730
Like the priests in the temple, the work

717
00:32:27,730 --> 00:32:30,930
of the redemption of mankind is a nonstop

718
00:32:30,930 --> 00:32:31,390
thing.

719
00:32:31,510 --> 00:32:34,150
God has been working 24-7.

720
00:32:34,330 --> 00:32:35,150
He doesn't slumber.

721
00:32:35,290 --> 00:32:36,230
He doesn't grow weary.

722
00:32:39,740 --> 00:32:42,340
God keeps working every day, the work of

723
00:32:42,340 --> 00:32:42,760
the kingdom.

724
00:32:43,440 --> 00:32:44,900
Did you know that Jesus says that?

725
00:32:45,620 --> 00:32:50,160
Jesus says that God works on the Sabbath.

726
00:32:51,160 --> 00:32:54,040
There's that account in John 5, where there's

727
00:32:54,040 --> 00:32:57,880
this man laying beside that pool of Bethesda.

728
00:32:58,600 --> 00:33:03,680
And he's been crippled, ill for 38 years.

729
00:33:04,080 --> 00:33:06,240
And he's laying beside that pool, and he's

730
00:33:06,240 --> 00:33:07,900
wishing to get into that pool for healing.

731
00:33:08,580 --> 00:33:09,780
But he never makes it in.

732
00:33:09,800 --> 00:33:11,380
When the waters get stirred, he never makes

733
00:33:11,380 --> 00:33:11,860
it in first.

734
00:33:11,940 --> 00:33:13,240
And so he's laying there, and Jesus comes

735
00:33:13,240 --> 00:33:14,600
upon him, and he sees this man, and

736
00:33:14,600 --> 00:33:15,980
he says, you want to be healed?

737
00:33:16,420 --> 00:33:17,920
And he says, yes, I want to be

738
00:33:17,920 --> 00:33:19,520
healed, but I never make it into the

739
00:33:19,520 --> 00:33:19,640
pool.

740
00:33:19,640 --> 00:33:23,740
And Jesus says, rise up, pick up your

741
00:33:23,740 --> 00:33:25,580
bed, and walk.

742
00:33:26,220 --> 00:33:28,300
And this man, who's been crippled for 38

743
00:33:28,300 --> 00:33:30,880
years, gets up, and he picks up his

744
00:33:30,880 --> 00:33:33,400
bed, or his pallet, whatever it is.

745
00:33:33,460 --> 00:33:35,720
Some versions say pallet, some versions say bed.

746
00:33:35,780 --> 00:33:36,940
Some kind of a cot that he was

747
00:33:36,940 --> 00:33:37,680
on all these years.

748
00:33:37,740 --> 00:33:39,940
And he picks it up, and he takes

749
00:33:39,940 --> 00:33:41,940
this burden and starts walking down the street.

750
00:33:42,500 --> 00:33:44,080
And the Jews see it, and they say,

751
00:33:44,180 --> 00:33:46,180
hey, it's the Sabbath.

752
00:33:46,760 --> 00:33:48,780
It's not permissible for you to carry that

753
00:33:48,780 --> 00:33:49,020
thing.

754
00:33:50,480 --> 00:33:52,240
And he said, well, the guy that healed

755
00:33:52,240 --> 00:33:53,920
me, he told me to pick it up

756
00:33:53,920 --> 00:33:54,480
and carry it.

757
00:33:55,300 --> 00:33:58,120
And once they figured out who had healed

758
00:33:58,120 --> 00:33:59,520
him and who had said this, they came

759
00:33:59,520 --> 00:34:00,840
to Jesus accusing him.

760
00:34:01,680 --> 00:34:02,820
And what did Jesus say?

761
00:34:03,340 --> 00:34:06,600
He said, my father works hitherto, and I

762
00:34:06,600 --> 00:34:06,920
work.

763
00:34:08,730 --> 00:34:10,330
There's no mistaking this language.

764
00:34:10,330 --> 00:34:16,010
He is basically saying, my father is working

765
00:34:16,010 --> 00:34:19,230
straight through, even on the Sabbath, and I'm

766
00:34:19,230 --> 00:34:19,889
working too.

767
00:34:22,310 --> 00:34:24,310
It made the Jews even more furious.

768
00:34:25,010 --> 00:34:26,670
Not only was he breaking the Sabbath, he

769
00:34:26,670 --> 00:34:28,130
was making himself equal with God.

770
00:34:28,250 --> 00:34:29,850
Those are words from John, okay?

771
00:34:33,300 --> 00:34:39,199
In case, unless John would just be trying

772
00:34:39,199 --> 00:34:41,000
to say what the Jews are saying, John

773
00:34:41,000 --> 00:34:45,300
himself says, not only did he break the

774
00:34:45,300 --> 00:34:49,520
Sabbath, he made himself equal with God.

775
00:34:52,159 --> 00:34:53,600
And this brings us to another thing that

776
00:34:53,600 --> 00:34:55,739
Jesus said, and we'll read this in Matthew

777
00:34:55,739 --> 00:34:57,100
12.

778
00:35:00,840 --> 00:35:02,560
Starting in verse 1, it says, At that

779
00:35:02,560 --> 00:35:04,600
time Jesus went through the grain fields on

780
00:35:04,600 --> 00:35:06,860
the Sabbath, and his disciples became hungry and

781
00:35:06,860 --> 00:35:08,360
began to pick the heads of grain and

782
00:35:08,360 --> 00:35:08,720
eat.

783
00:35:09,860 --> 00:35:12,160
But when the Pharisees saw this, they said

784
00:35:12,160 --> 00:35:13,880
to him, Look, your disciples do what is

785
00:35:13,880 --> 00:35:15,400
not lawful to do on a Sabbath.

786
00:35:16,480 --> 00:35:18,360
And he said to them, Have you not

787
00:35:18,360 --> 00:35:20,680
read what David did when he became hungry?

788
00:35:21,300 --> 00:35:23,520
He and his companions, how he entered the

789
00:35:23,520 --> 00:35:25,560
house of God, and they ate the consecrated

790
00:35:25,560 --> 00:35:27,860
bread, which was not lawful for them to

791
00:35:27,860 --> 00:35:30,400
eat, him to eat, nor for those with

792
00:35:30,400 --> 00:35:32,500
him, but for the priests alone?

793
00:35:32,900 --> 00:35:34,660
And have you not read in the law

794
00:35:34,660 --> 00:35:36,640
that on the Sabbath, the priests in the

795
00:35:36,640 --> 00:35:38,640
temple break the Sabbath and are innocent?

796
00:35:39,400 --> 00:35:43,080
But I say to you that something greater

797
00:35:43,080 --> 00:35:44,220
than the temple is here.

798
00:35:45,860 --> 00:35:47,820
But if you had known what this means,

799
00:35:47,920 --> 00:35:51,320
I desire compassion and not a sacrifice, you

800
00:35:51,320 --> 00:35:53,360
would not have condemned the innocent.

801
00:35:54,540 --> 00:35:57,720
For the Son of Man is Lord of

802
00:35:57,720 --> 00:35:58,180
the Sabbath.

803
00:36:01,300 --> 00:36:04,640
Jesus is Lord of the Sabbath.

804
00:36:06,760 --> 00:36:11,200
If the showbread, which was to be holy,

805
00:36:11,340 --> 00:36:14,940
meaning set apart for the priests only, if

806
00:36:14,940 --> 00:36:18,480
it could be broken because of who David

807
00:36:18,480 --> 00:36:21,040
was, because of the greatness of David, if

808
00:36:21,040 --> 00:36:27,620
that law could be broken, or if because

809
00:36:27,620 --> 00:36:29,120
of the greatness of the temple and the

810
00:36:29,120 --> 00:36:32,120
priests, the Sabbath could be broken for that

811
00:36:32,120 --> 00:36:36,260
purpose, Jesus is saying there's something greater here

812
00:36:36,260 --> 00:36:38,440
than David or the temple.

813
00:36:39,960 --> 00:36:44,080
He was the very Lord of the Sabbath.

814
00:36:44,800 --> 00:36:48,280
He is the fulfillment of the Sabbath.

815
00:36:49,220 --> 00:36:52,680
It was one of those many statements that

816
00:36:52,680 --> 00:36:57,280
Jesus made where he injects himself into Scripture.

817
00:36:57,280 --> 00:37:00,620
Jesus said these many things that seem like

818
00:37:00,620 --> 00:37:03,400
really audacious statements.

819
00:37:04,100 --> 00:37:08,480
When he says things like, I am the

820
00:37:08,480 --> 00:37:08,800
way.

821
00:37:09,900 --> 00:37:11,160
I am the truth.

822
00:37:11,860 --> 00:37:12,960
I am the life.

823
00:37:13,820 --> 00:37:15,240
I am the resurrection.

824
00:37:15,520 --> 00:37:16,740
I am the bread of life.

825
00:37:16,920 --> 00:37:17,900
I am the word.

826
00:37:19,620 --> 00:37:20,280
Really?

827
00:37:22,280 --> 00:37:25,940
Every scribe, every rabbi has the right to

828
00:37:25,940 --> 00:37:27,200
expound on the Scriptures.

829
00:37:27,320 --> 00:37:29,500
He has the right to say, this is

830
00:37:29,500 --> 00:37:30,340
what the light is.

831
00:37:30,440 --> 00:37:31,560
This is what the way is.

832
00:37:31,720 --> 00:37:34,040
But no one has the right to say,

833
00:37:34,280 --> 00:37:34,660
the way?

834
00:37:35,000 --> 00:37:35,580
It's me.

835
00:37:36,540 --> 00:37:37,620
You want to know what the truth is?

836
00:37:37,820 --> 00:37:38,420
It's me.

837
00:37:39,920 --> 00:37:42,100
Those are just big, big statements.

838
00:37:45,580 --> 00:37:47,960
Here in this Matthew passage, I think this

839
00:37:47,960 --> 00:37:49,000
is what Jesus is doing.

840
00:37:49,000 --> 00:37:50,780
In fact, if you're open there to Matthew

841
00:37:50,780 --> 00:37:55,500
12, remember, chapter breaks weren't there.

842
00:37:56,320 --> 00:37:59,220
Look at the very end of chapter 11.

843
00:38:01,240 --> 00:38:03,020
This was at the same time.

844
00:38:03,060 --> 00:38:04,360
It says it's at the same time.

845
00:38:04,460 --> 00:38:05,560
This is what Jesus says.

846
00:38:06,200 --> 00:38:08,620
Come to me, all you who are weary

847
00:38:08,620 --> 00:38:12,200
and heavy laden, and I will give you

848
00:38:12,200 --> 00:38:12,580
rest.

849
00:38:13,460 --> 00:38:16,000
Take my yoke upon you and learn from

850
00:38:16,000 --> 00:38:17,820
me, for I am gentle and humble in

851
00:38:17,820 --> 00:38:20,320
heart, and you will find rest for your

852
00:38:20,320 --> 00:38:22,860
souls, for my yoke is easy and my

853
00:38:22,860 --> 00:38:23,680
burden is light.

854
00:38:27,040 --> 00:38:27,600
Really?

855
00:38:28,520 --> 00:38:29,860
On the Sabbath day?

856
00:38:30,520 --> 00:38:33,300
To Jews who were having a day of

857
00:38:33,300 --> 00:38:33,700
rest?

858
00:38:34,700 --> 00:38:37,700
He says, hey you, come to me if

859
00:38:37,700 --> 00:38:38,500
you want rest.

860
00:38:39,220 --> 00:38:42,720
You guys that are heavy laden, come here.

861
00:38:43,200 --> 00:38:43,940
I'll give you rest.

862
00:38:44,000 --> 00:38:44,960
My burden's light.

863
00:38:47,800 --> 00:38:49,580
Those were big statements.

864
00:38:51,100 --> 00:38:52,840
He is Lord of the Sabbath.

865
00:38:57,020 --> 00:38:59,260
Jesus, the Son of God, he is the

866
00:38:59,260 --> 00:39:00,580
fulfillment of all things.

867
00:39:00,680 --> 00:39:02,000
He is the promised seed.

868
00:39:02,120 --> 00:39:03,400
He is the rock in the wilderness.

869
00:39:03,620 --> 00:39:04,660
He is the new lawgiver.

870
00:39:04,820 --> 00:39:06,520
He is the priest, the prophet, the king,

871
00:39:06,640 --> 00:39:07,620
the lamb, the manna.

872
00:39:07,700 --> 00:39:08,480
He is our feast.

873
00:39:08,580 --> 00:39:09,600
He is our drink offering.

874
00:39:10,260 --> 00:39:12,140
He is our Sabbath rest.

875
00:39:13,880 --> 00:39:15,980
It can't be said much clearer than how

876
00:39:15,980 --> 00:39:17,440
Paul says it in Colossians.

877
00:39:18,080 --> 00:39:19,880
No one is to act as your judge

878
00:39:19,880 --> 00:39:23,940
in regard to food and drink or in

879
00:39:23,940 --> 00:39:26,000
respect to the feast, new moon, or Sabbath

880
00:39:26,000 --> 00:39:26,340
day.

881
00:39:26,600 --> 00:39:29,880
These things which are a mere shadow but

882
00:39:29,880 --> 00:39:32,460
the substance is Christ.

883
00:39:37,120 --> 00:39:41,500
Okay, I want to talk about, just briefly,

884
00:39:41,640 --> 00:39:43,960
talk about some of the common objections to

885
00:39:43,960 --> 00:39:44,560
this idea.

886
00:39:47,420 --> 00:39:49,260
It's one of the Ten Commandments.

887
00:39:49,260 --> 00:39:53,880
Are we allowed to break one and keep

888
00:39:53,880 --> 00:39:54,220
nine?

889
00:39:56,370 --> 00:39:59,070
I hope I've sufficiently covered that in contrasting

890
00:39:59,070 --> 00:40:00,890
the two covenants and the fading away of

891
00:40:00,890 --> 00:40:03,510
the old with the coming of the new.

892
00:40:04,390 --> 00:40:05,450
Objection number two.

893
00:40:06,070 --> 00:40:07,470
It's from the beginning.

894
00:40:08,590 --> 00:40:10,490
It's not just the Mosaic Law thing.

895
00:40:10,590 --> 00:40:12,330
There was this thing in the beginning where

896
00:40:12,330 --> 00:40:14,130
God worked six days and then rested.

897
00:40:14,770 --> 00:40:17,470
I hope I've sufficiently covered that with how

898
00:40:17,470 --> 00:40:18,870
God did not stop working.

899
00:40:18,870 --> 00:40:22,450
He stopped from His creative works.

900
00:40:22,910 --> 00:40:26,030
He stopped creating this whole thing for His

901
00:40:26,030 --> 00:40:30,350
pleasure and He started working on the care

902
00:40:30,350 --> 00:40:34,930
of redemption and the care of His creation.

903
00:40:37,740 --> 00:40:38,840
Objection number three.

904
00:40:39,100 --> 00:40:40,400
Jesus never broke the Sabbath.

905
00:40:41,200 --> 00:40:42,520
First of all, that's debatable.

906
00:40:42,820 --> 00:40:43,700
John says He did.

907
00:40:44,120 --> 00:40:46,780
But regardless, He is Lord of the Sabbath.

908
00:40:47,540 --> 00:40:48,240
He can make it.

909
00:40:48,280 --> 00:40:48,860
He can break it.

910
00:40:48,860 --> 00:40:49,560
He can change it.

911
00:40:49,680 --> 00:40:50,200
He can render it.

912
00:40:50,200 --> 00:40:54,060
He can render it useless and void and

913
00:40:54,060 --> 00:40:55,680
He can inject Himself into it.

914
00:40:56,000 --> 00:40:56,660
He's Lord of it.

915
00:40:57,060 --> 00:40:58,420
He can do with it whatever He wants.

916
00:41:00,100 --> 00:41:01,040
Objection number four.

917
00:41:01,900 --> 00:41:04,340
Why did Jesus say, pray that your flight

918
00:41:04,340 --> 00:41:05,300
be not on the Sabbath?

919
00:41:06,060 --> 00:41:08,400
If He was intending that we would keep

920
00:41:08,400 --> 00:41:10,240
the Sabbath, why did He say there in

921
00:41:10,240 --> 00:41:13,060
Matthew 24, I think, pray that your flight

922
00:41:13,060 --> 00:41:13,920
be not on the Sabbath?

923
00:41:16,980 --> 00:41:18,460
First, let me say we've got to be

924
00:41:18,460 --> 00:41:19,820
careful with that kind of reasoning.

925
00:41:19,820 --> 00:41:22,380
I'm not saying it's not a legitimate question.

926
00:41:22,480 --> 00:41:23,540
It is a legitimate question.

927
00:41:23,720 --> 00:41:26,620
But we have to be careful when we

928
00:41:26,620 --> 00:41:28,900
have an instruction and then we hear something

929
00:41:28,900 --> 00:41:30,960
that we say, well, why would He have

930
00:41:30,960 --> 00:41:32,500
said this if He meant this?

931
00:41:32,560 --> 00:41:35,060
People do this all the time with the

932
00:41:35,060 --> 00:41:37,860
thing that Jesus said about told His disciples

933
00:41:37,860 --> 00:41:38,700
go buy a sword.

934
00:41:39,360 --> 00:41:43,960
After He teaches everything about nonresistance and a

935
00:41:43,960 --> 00:41:45,460
lot of people say, well, if He meant

936
00:41:45,460 --> 00:41:47,740
that, He would not have said go buy

937
00:41:47,740 --> 00:41:48,140
a sword.

938
00:41:48,140 --> 00:41:49,980
You just have to be careful with those

939
00:41:49,980 --> 00:41:50,880
kind of reasonings.

940
00:41:51,820 --> 00:41:55,280
There may be a specific reason why Jesus

941
00:41:55,280 --> 00:41:58,780
said something for a specific time and we

942
00:41:58,780 --> 00:42:00,760
for sure can't build on silence.

943
00:42:01,380 --> 00:42:03,540
I'll tell you what my opinion is on

944
00:42:03,540 --> 00:42:04,520
why Jesus said that.

945
00:42:05,420 --> 00:42:07,800
He was talking about the destruction of Jerusalem

946
00:42:08,560 --> 00:42:12,060
and He's telling the people, these are the

947
00:42:12,060 --> 00:42:14,920
signs that are going to happen before Jerusalem

948
00:42:14,920 --> 00:42:17,960
gets destroyed and you guys need to flee.

949
00:42:19,380 --> 00:42:21,240
But pray that your flight be not in

950
00:42:21,240 --> 00:42:24,760
the winter or on the Sabbath and woe

951
00:42:24,760 --> 00:42:27,820
to you who are pregnant at that time.

952
00:42:29,140 --> 00:42:32,040
It's going to be real, real, real dire

953
00:42:32,040 --> 00:42:32,620
times.

954
00:42:33,580 --> 00:42:37,460
Now, the church at Jerusalem was mostly believing

955
00:42:37,460 --> 00:42:37,900
Jews.

956
00:42:41,250 --> 00:42:43,570
By becoming believers, it doesn't mean that they

957
00:42:43,570 --> 00:42:47,690
immediately stopped the customs, the practices that have

958
00:42:47,690 --> 00:42:51,270
been ingrained in them for generations and generations

959
00:42:51,270 --> 00:42:52,070
and generations.

960
00:42:52,930 --> 00:42:56,090
They may have had the liberty to do

961
00:42:56,090 --> 00:42:57,690
things on the Sabbath, but it doesn't mean

962
00:42:57,690 --> 00:42:59,010
that their conscience allowed it.

963
00:43:00,930 --> 00:43:05,290
It's never saying that it's wrong for you

964
00:43:05,290 --> 00:43:09,670
to rest one day out of the week.

965
00:43:09,790 --> 00:43:11,130
It's not wrong for you to keep the

966
00:43:11,130 --> 00:43:12,090
dietary laws.

967
00:43:13,070 --> 00:43:14,290
Those things aren't wrong.

968
00:43:14,350 --> 00:43:17,210
We don't see the disciples going around trying

969
00:43:17,210 --> 00:43:19,470
to convince believing Jews that they need to

970
00:43:19,470 --> 00:43:19,950
quit that.

971
00:43:20,290 --> 00:43:22,850
What we see is them fighting to keep

972
00:43:22,850 --> 00:43:26,530
the believing Jews from binding Gentiles and other

973
00:43:26,530 --> 00:43:28,890
believers to those things.

974
00:43:29,030 --> 00:43:31,130
Because it's not where salvation is found.

975
00:43:31,490 --> 00:43:34,250
It's not where the kingdom of God is.

976
00:43:42,510 --> 00:43:49,370
And I think, maybe that's all for that.

977
00:43:50,370 --> 00:43:54,010
Objection number five, the apostles kept the Sabbath.

978
00:43:56,220 --> 00:43:57,360
I don't know if they always did or

979
00:43:57,360 --> 00:43:57,640
not.

980
00:43:58,560 --> 00:44:00,200
But it really doesn't change that much.

981
00:44:01,440 --> 00:44:05,340
For one thing, we know the apostles had

982
00:44:05,340 --> 00:44:11,220
a practice of not putting an unnecessary stumbling

983
00:44:11,220 --> 00:44:12,520
block in front of people.

984
00:44:13,420 --> 00:44:14,840
Paul says, when I went to the Jews,

985
00:44:14,960 --> 00:44:15,660
I became a Jew.

986
00:44:16,200 --> 00:44:18,000
When I went to the Greeks, I became

987
00:44:18,000 --> 00:44:18,420
a Greek.

988
00:44:18,800 --> 00:44:20,540
I think when Paul was ministering to the

989
00:44:20,540 --> 00:44:22,600
Jews, if they had a rest day, he

990
00:44:22,600 --> 00:44:22,960
rested.

991
00:44:23,380 --> 00:44:24,960
He probably ate what they ate.

992
00:44:25,200 --> 00:44:26,660
And he did not eat what they would

993
00:44:26,660 --> 00:44:27,220
not eat.

994
00:44:27,940 --> 00:44:30,520
When he went to the Greeks, as far

995
00:44:30,520 --> 00:44:33,820
as reasonably possible, he tried to adapt into

996
00:44:33,820 --> 00:44:36,500
their, not into their sins in no way

997
00:44:36,500 --> 00:44:38,360
at all, but he became a Greek.

998
00:44:38,540 --> 00:44:39,640
He spoke their language.

999
00:44:41,860 --> 00:44:46,100
He did not put an unnecessary stumbling block

1000
00:44:46,100 --> 00:44:46,700
in front of them.

1001
00:44:47,020 --> 00:44:48,200
And I think that's a good practice.

1002
00:44:48,200 --> 00:44:52,340
I think like, if we would go to

1003
00:44:52,340 --> 00:44:56,720
India and start ministering to the Hindus, and

1004
00:44:56,720 --> 00:44:59,460
we know they keep a cow sacred, we

1005
00:44:59,460 --> 00:45:01,160
should not go there and slaughter a cow

1006
00:45:01,160 --> 00:45:02,820
and invite them all to our beef roast?

1007
00:45:03,420 --> 00:45:06,320
That's not the way we do, right?

1008
00:45:06,640 --> 00:45:08,420
That's not the way the apostles did.

1009
00:45:09,280 --> 00:45:11,780
And I just think the believing Jews especially,

1010
00:45:11,920 --> 00:45:14,040
they kept on keeping these things.

1011
00:45:14,140 --> 00:45:16,580
And Jesus is telling them, like, you guys

1012
00:45:16,580 --> 00:45:18,180
pray that your flight be not on the

1013
00:45:18,180 --> 00:45:18,420
Sabbath.

1014
00:45:31,320 --> 00:45:36,720
What if someone comes around here and thinks

1015
00:45:36,720 --> 00:45:38,040
they should keep the Sabbath day?

1016
00:45:39,900 --> 00:45:43,340
First of all, I think we should try

1017
00:45:43,340 --> 00:45:45,880
to instruct him in the way more perfectly.

1018
00:45:48,460 --> 00:45:51,360
If he is teaching others to keep the

1019
00:45:51,360 --> 00:45:55,580
Sabbath day, that teaching needs to be withstood.

1020
00:45:56,360 --> 00:46:01,580
But if he, for his conscience sake, thinks

1021
00:46:01,580 --> 00:46:05,240
that he should keep this day just strictly

1022
00:46:05,240 --> 00:46:10,080
for personal reasons, he thinks there is some

1023
00:46:10,080 --> 00:46:12,000
virtue or some value that he gets personally.

1024
00:46:13,080 --> 00:46:14,940
Let me read you a quote from Justin

1025
00:46:14,940 --> 00:46:15,360
Martyr.

1026
00:46:15,980 --> 00:46:17,880
This would basically be how I feel about

1027
00:46:17,880 --> 00:46:18,220
this.

1028
00:46:18,620 --> 00:46:19,860
I don't know that I can say it

1029
00:46:19,860 --> 00:46:20,260
much better.

1030
00:46:21,040 --> 00:46:26,880
But if some, through weak-mindedness, wish to

1031
00:46:26,880 --> 00:46:29,580
observe such institutions as were given by Moses,

1032
00:46:30,100 --> 00:46:33,260
from which they expect some virtue, but which

1033
00:46:33,260 --> 00:46:35,600
we believe were appointed by reason of hardness

1034
00:46:35,600 --> 00:46:37,780
of the people's hearts along with their hope

1035
00:46:37,780 --> 00:46:40,960
in Christ, and wish to perform the eternal

1036
00:46:40,960 --> 00:46:43,580
and natural acts of righteousness and piety, yet

1037
00:46:43,580 --> 00:46:47,020
choose to live with the Christians and the

1038
00:46:47,020 --> 00:46:51,100
faithful, as I said before, not inducing them

1039
00:46:51,100 --> 00:46:53,480
either to be circumcised like themselves or to

1040
00:46:53,480 --> 00:46:55,240
keep the Sabbath or to observe any other

1041
00:46:55,240 --> 00:46:58,480
such ceremonies, then I hold that we ought

1042
00:46:58,480 --> 00:47:00,880
to join ourselves to such and associate with

1043
00:47:00,880 --> 00:47:03,320
them in all things as kinsmen and brethren.

1044
00:47:04,000 --> 00:47:07,840
But if, trifle, I continued, some of your

1045
00:47:07,840 --> 00:47:11,180
race, the Jews, who say they believe in

1046
00:47:11,180 --> 00:47:14,020
Christ, compel those Gentiles who believe in this

1047
00:47:14,020 --> 00:47:16,340
Christ to live in all respects according to

1048
00:47:16,340 --> 00:47:18,680
the law given by Moses, or choose not

1049
00:47:18,680 --> 00:47:21,800
to associate so intimately with them, I, in

1050
00:47:21,800 --> 00:47:23,880
like manner, do not approve of them.

1051
00:47:27,000 --> 00:47:30,420
I just think that's a reasonable approach that

1052
00:47:30,420 --> 00:47:35,140
we should have, even though there's always this

1053
00:47:35,140 --> 00:47:39,100
danger of somebody who does that to just

1054
00:47:39,100 --> 00:47:41,660
stray away from the foundation of Christ.

1055
00:47:42,220 --> 00:47:45,620
But, as Justin Martyr says, it's weak-mindedness,

1056
00:47:45,920 --> 00:47:48,080
but we need to be patient with weak

1057
00:47:48,080 --> 00:47:48,720
-minded people.

1058
00:47:54,200 --> 00:48:01,430
I don't really plan to expound much on

1059
00:48:01,430 --> 00:48:03,050
this, and I don't even think that I

1060
00:48:03,050 --> 00:48:06,330
need to in this congregation, but Sunday is

1061
00:48:06,330 --> 00:48:07,070
not the Sabbath.

1062
00:48:07,930 --> 00:48:09,330
I grew up thinking that.

1063
00:48:10,130 --> 00:48:11,370
I grew up being taught that.

1064
00:48:12,230 --> 00:48:14,250
And it would be, in the broad realm

1065
00:48:14,250 --> 00:48:16,550
of Christianity, it would be a belief that

1066
00:48:16,550 --> 00:48:20,110
somehow the fulfillment of the Sabbath is now

1067
00:48:20,110 --> 00:48:23,490
called the Christian Sabbath or the first day

1068
00:48:23,490 --> 00:48:23,870
of the week.

1069
00:48:24,070 --> 00:48:24,910
I don't think so.

1070
00:48:25,410 --> 00:48:26,550
I don't think so at all.

1071
00:48:26,550 --> 00:48:28,050
If you want to call this the Lord's

1072
00:48:28,050 --> 00:48:31,210
Day, and if you want to follow the

1073
00:48:31,210 --> 00:48:35,650
even Scripture and early Christian practice of coming

1074
00:48:35,650 --> 00:48:38,270
together that day to break bread, okay, that's

1075
00:48:38,270 --> 00:48:38,690
one thing.

1076
00:48:39,050 --> 00:48:44,310
But Sunday is not the fulfillment of the

1077
00:48:44,310 --> 00:48:44,570
Sabbath.

1078
00:48:51,020 --> 00:48:54,480
Is your Sabbath rest a day, or is

1079
00:48:54,480 --> 00:48:54,960
it a person?

1080
00:48:56,760 --> 00:48:58,540
Are you going to work six days for

1081
00:48:58,540 --> 00:49:00,440
yourself and devote one day to the worship

1082
00:49:00,440 --> 00:49:03,440
of God, or are you going to devote

1083
00:49:03,440 --> 00:49:05,900
every day that is called today to the

1084
00:49:05,900 --> 00:49:08,220
work that the Father and the Son are

1085
00:49:08,220 --> 00:49:09,660
actively engaged in?

1086
00:49:10,760 --> 00:49:13,140
Are you going to carry your own burdens

1087
00:49:13,900 --> 00:49:16,040
or cast them on Jesus and get in

1088
00:49:16,040 --> 00:49:18,000
His yoke and find rest for your souls?

1089
00:49:19,180 --> 00:49:20,980
Are you going to spend six days a

1090
00:49:20,980 --> 00:49:25,040
week gathering to store up for yourselves, or

1091
00:49:25,040 --> 00:49:27,140
are you going to forsake everything for the

1092
00:49:27,140 --> 00:49:28,480
furtherance of the kingdom of God?

1093
00:49:28,480 --> 00:49:31,040
Are you going to try to kindle your

1094
00:49:31,040 --> 00:49:37,420
own fires, meaning create your own spirituality, or

1095
00:49:37,420 --> 00:49:39,060
are you going to accept the fire that

1096
00:49:39,060 --> 00:49:40,220
Jesus already kindled?

1097
00:49:43,000 --> 00:49:45,340
The true Sabbath rest, as it already says

1098
00:49:45,340 --> 00:49:48,360
in the Old Covenant, is a perpetual sign

1099
00:49:49,420 --> 00:49:53,640
of having entered into the New Covenant with

1100
00:49:53,640 --> 00:49:54,080
Christ.

1101
00:49:55,200 --> 00:49:58,480
This is what Irenaeus says, and in Exodus

1102
00:49:58,480 --> 00:50:00,820
God says to Moses, You shall observe my

1103
00:50:00,820 --> 00:50:02,800
Sabbath, for it shall be a sign between

1104
00:50:02,800 --> 00:50:04,420
me and you for your generations.

1105
00:50:04,700 --> 00:50:07,440
But the Sabbath taught that we should continue

1106
00:50:07,440 --> 00:50:10,260
day by day in God's service.

1107
00:50:10,480 --> 00:50:13,060
For we have been counted, says the apostle

1108
00:50:13,060 --> 00:50:15,520
Paul, all the day long as sheep for

1109
00:50:15,520 --> 00:50:15,980
the slaughter.

1110
00:50:16,580 --> 00:50:21,000
This is consecrated, that is consecrated, and ministering

1111
00:50:21,000 --> 00:50:25,080
continually to our faith and persevering in it

1112
00:50:25,080 --> 00:50:28,580
and abstaining from all avarice and not acquiring

1113
00:50:29,540 --> 00:50:31,980
or possessing treasures upon her.

1114
00:50:32,660 --> 00:50:39,640
We are a royal priesthood who are actively

1115
00:50:39,640 --> 00:50:43,060
engaged in the work of God every day.

1116
00:50:44,500 --> 00:50:45,800
We ought to be.

1117
00:50:47,640 --> 00:50:49,400
But we need to be real honest with

1118
00:50:49,400 --> 00:50:55,720
ourselves when we ask ourselves, have we entered

1119
00:50:55,720 --> 00:50:57,680
into the Sabbath rest with the Lord in

1120
00:50:57,680 --> 00:50:58,260
the New Covenant?

1121
00:51:00,060 --> 00:51:02,680
Have we actually ceased from working for ourselves?

1122
00:51:04,200 --> 00:51:08,340
If we spend our life working and physically

1123
00:51:08,340 --> 00:51:12,100
laboring for the purpose of filling our barns

1124
00:51:12,100 --> 00:51:15,060
with earthly treasures and laying up a financial

1125
00:51:15,060 --> 00:51:17,660
retirement security or to use it for our

1126
00:51:17,660 --> 00:51:20,860
own pursuits and pleasures, we haven't entered His

1127
00:51:20,860 --> 00:51:21,640
rest at all.

1128
00:51:24,330 --> 00:51:26,130
It doesn't matter if we have the proper

1129
00:51:26,130 --> 00:51:28,670
understanding of the covenants and of the types

1130
00:51:28,670 --> 00:51:31,710
and of the shadows and of what the

1131
00:51:31,710 --> 00:51:33,710
real Sabbath is supposed to be.

1132
00:51:33,890 --> 00:51:36,550
If we just keep laboring away for our

1133
00:51:36,550 --> 00:51:39,330
own selves, we have not entered the Sabbath

1134
00:51:39,330 --> 00:51:40,190
rest at all.

1135
00:51:41,530 --> 00:51:44,010
It's like someone who gets a hold of

1136
00:51:44,010 --> 00:51:45,590
the fact that in the Old Covenant they

1137
00:51:45,590 --> 00:51:46,530
were supposed to tithe.

1138
00:51:47,130 --> 00:51:48,790
You were supposed to give 10% of

1139
00:51:48,790 --> 00:51:50,970
all these things you're blessed with.

1140
00:51:51,150 --> 00:51:53,170
You're supposed to give a tenth of that

1141
00:51:53,170 --> 00:51:54,410
for the use of God.

1142
00:51:54,790 --> 00:51:57,090
And it's like someone who gets a hold

1143
00:51:57,090 --> 00:51:58,690
of like, oh, in the New Covenant it's

1144
00:51:58,690 --> 00:51:59,550
not that way at all.

1145
00:51:59,630 --> 00:52:01,030
We're supposed to give it all.

1146
00:52:03,030 --> 00:52:07,810
And then you just keep on living, living

1147
00:52:07,810 --> 00:52:10,530
for yourself and you keep on gathering these

1148
00:52:10,530 --> 00:52:12,330
blessings and using them for yourselves.

1149
00:52:12,650 --> 00:52:14,870
And all that you have is an ideology.

1150
00:52:15,590 --> 00:52:19,310
All that you have is a neat and

1151
00:52:19,310 --> 00:52:23,770
somewhat proper ideology, but it's not the giving

1152
00:52:24,870 --> 00:52:26,810
that is meant at all in the New

1153
00:52:26,810 --> 00:52:27,110
Covenant.

1154
00:52:30,220 --> 00:52:31,360
It's a dead faith.

1155
00:52:37,710 --> 00:52:40,770
There's so much more that I was hoping

1156
00:52:40,770 --> 00:52:42,730
in the beginning to cover in this series.

1157
00:52:43,210 --> 00:52:45,250
The spiritual meaning of some of the dietary

1158
00:52:45,250 --> 00:52:47,070
laws and other laws in the Torah.

1159
00:52:48,530 --> 00:52:51,710
New wine in old wineskins and the blood

1160
00:52:51,710 --> 00:52:52,910
that ratified the New Covenant.

1161
00:52:53,210 --> 00:52:55,050
But time's just not going to allow for

1162
00:52:55,050 --> 00:52:55,410
all that.

1163
00:52:55,590 --> 00:52:56,530
I want to wrap this up.

1164
00:53:03,910 --> 00:53:06,410
These kind of things are treasures though.

1165
00:53:07,110 --> 00:53:08,490
And I would encourage you to dig them

1166
00:53:08,490 --> 00:53:08,770
out.

1167
00:53:10,310 --> 00:53:13,050
Jesus said, every scribe which is instructed in

1168
00:53:13,050 --> 00:53:14,630
the kingdom of heaven is like unto a

1169
00:53:14,630 --> 00:53:17,310
man that is a householder and he brings

1170
00:53:17,310 --> 00:53:20,110
forth out of his treasure things new and

1171
00:53:20,110 --> 00:53:20,590
old.

1172
00:53:22,070 --> 00:53:24,210
One of the early Christian writers, maybe Irenaeus,

1173
00:53:24,690 --> 00:53:27,750
said this undoubtedly means out of the Old

1174
00:53:27,750 --> 00:53:29,650
and the New Testament we can bring out

1175
00:53:29,650 --> 00:53:30,370
treasures.

1176
00:53:30,370 --> 00:53:35,250
We can bring out very, very valuable things.

1177
00:53:36,590 --> 00:53:38,670
And a scribe that is instructed in the

1178
00:53:38,670 --> 00:53:40,450
kingdom of God, Jesus said, will do that.

1179
00:53:45,140 --> 00:53:46,820
The conclusions that I have.

1180
00:53:48,880 --> 00:53:51,680
God is a covenant maker and He is

1181
00:53:51,680 --> 00:53:52,500
a covenant keeper.

1182
00:53:53,960 --> 00:53:56,460
He made the Old Covenant while He also

1183
00:53:56,460 --> 00:53:57,520
promised a New Covenant.

1184
00:53:58,440 --> 00:54:00,660
The Old Covenant were with signs.

1185
00:54:00,660 --> 00:54:03,300
For Abraham, the sign was circumcision.

1186
00:54:04,940 --> 00:54:06,980
Do we still need to be circumcised?

1187
00:54:09,040 --> 00:54:11,700
Yes, but not the shadow of the circumcision

1188
00:54:11,700 --> 00:54:14,080
which is the removing of the foreskin of

1189
00:54:14,080 --> 00:54:16,720
the flesh, but the circumcision of the heart,

1190
00:54:17,140 --> 00:54:19,680
the removing of the veil that blinds us.

1191
00:54:20,520 --> 00:54:23,280
That circumcision we still need to be circumcised

1192
00:54:23,280 --> 00:54:23,440
with.

1193
00:54:23,740 --> 00:54:26,580
The sign for the Mosaic Covenant was the

1194
00:54:26,580 --> 00:54:26,840
Sabbath.

1195
00:54:27,000 --> 00:54:28,400
Do we still need to keep the Sabbath?

1196
00:54:28,400 --> 00:54:31,600
Yes, but not the shadow of the Sabbath.

1197
00:54:31,940 --> 00:54:33,960
Not one day out of the week, but

1198
00:54:33,960 --> 00:54:35,500
the substance of the Sabbath.

1199
00:54:35,800 --> 00:54:37,060
The rest in Jesus.

1200
00:54:42,300 --> 00:54:44,980
What was delivered at Sinai when the whole

1201
00:54:44,980 --> 00:54:48,640
earth shook and trembled and smoked and there

1202
00:54:48,640 --> 00:54:49,460
was fire.

1203
00:54:52,140 --> 00:54:54,940
And that which was written in stone at

1204
00:54:54,940 --> 00:54:58,520
that time was a schoolmaster to bring us

1205
00:54:58,520 --> 00:55:01,000
to Christ and the New Covenant.

1206
00:55:01,920 --> 00:55:04,700
And the New Covenant is not like the

1207
00:55:04,700 --> 00:55:08,480
Old One where God takes Israel by the

1208
00:55:08,480 --> 00:55:11,380
hand and He takes them out there and

1209
00:55:11,380 --> 00:55:14,500
He tries to change their heart by taking

1210
00:55:14,500 --> 00:55:15,320
them first out there.

1211
00:55:15,480 --> 00:55:17,140
That's not the New Covenant.

1212
00:55:17,240 --> 00:55:17,980
That's the Old Covenant.

1213
00:55:18,180 --> 00:55:20,120
The New Covenant, He's going to start with

1214
00:55:20,120 --> 00:55:21,920
the heart and He's going to write that

1215
00:55:21,920 --> 00:55:24,360
new commandment into our hearts that we should

1216
00:55:24,360 --> 00:55:28,180
love one another as I have loved you.

1217
00:55:28,180 --> 00:55:32,320
And that glory of that new commandment so

1218
00:55:32,320 --> 00:55:35,220
far surpasses everything in the Old Covenant that

1219
00:55:35,220 --> 00:55:36,400
the old just fades away.

1220
00:55:36,600 --> 00:55:37,120
It's useless.

1221
00:55:47,060 --> 00:55:49,420
The glory of the new surpasses the glory

1222
00:55:49,420 --> 00:55:51,260
of the old so that the old disappears

1223
00:55:51,260 --> 00:55:53,880
or becomes obsolete as it says in Hebrews.

1224
00:55:55,840 --> 00:55:59,920
Our Sabbath rest is for today.

1225
00:56:00,800 --> 00:56:03,080
Every day that we can call today.

1226
00:56:03,740 --> 00:56:07,740
And it is a rest in Christ, the

1227
00:56:07,740 --> 00:56:10,620
only rock that cannot be shaken.

1228
00:56:11,700 --> 00:56:14,080
I'm going to wrap up by reading the

1229
00:56:14,080 --> 00:56:17,080
end of Hebrews 13 where it says, See

1230
00:56:17,080 --> 00:56:19,680
to it that you do not refuse him

1231
00:56:19,680 --> 00:56:24,060
who is speaking for if those did not

1232
00:56:24,060 --> 00:56:26,540
escape when they refused him who warned them

1233
00:56:26,540 --> 00:56:29,660
on earth much less will we escape who

1234
00:56:29,660 --> 00:56:31,840
turn away from him who warns us from

1235
00:56:31,840 --> 00:56:32,160
heaven.

1236
00:56:32,160 --> 00:56:34,940
And his voice shook the earth then but

1237
00:56:34,940 --> 00:56:38,520
now he has promised saying yet once more

1238
00:56:38,520 --> 00:56:41,120
I will shake not only the earth but

1239
00:56:41,120 --> 00:56:42,020
also the heaven.

1240
00:56:42,860 --> 00:56:45,800
This expression yet once more denotes the removing

1241
00:56:45,800 --> 00:56:48,480
of those things which can be shaken as

1242
00:56:48,480 --> 00:56:51,180
of created things so that those things which

1243
00:56:51,180 --> 00:56:52,940
cannot be shaken may remain.

1244
00:56:53,740 --> 00:56:56,920
Therefore since we receive a kingdom which cannot

1245
00:56:56,920 --> 00:56:59,980
be shaken let us show gratitude by which

1246
00:56:59,980 --> 00:57:02,660
we may offer to God an acceptable servants

1247
00:57:02,660 --> 00:57:06,800
with reverence and awe for our God is

1248
00:57:06,800 --> 00:57:07,980
a consuming fire.

1249
00:57:12,540 --> 00:57:14,060
I just want to open it up for

1250
00:57:14,060 --> 00:57:17,000
people to share if they want to and

1251
00:57:17,000 --> 00:57:26,810
correct if it's needed and God bless you

1252
00:57:26,810 --> 00:57:27,050
all.

1253
00:57:46,900 --> 00:57:51,020
I was thinking based on what you were

1254
00:57:51,020 --> 00:57:52,320
saying that you were showing the law of

1255
00:57:52,320 --> 00:57:55,880
Moses that the one tribe out of the

1256
00:57:55,880 --> 00:57:59,420
twelve the Levites were still working on the

1257
00:57:59,420 --> 00:58:01,460
Sabbath they were doing spiritual things for God

1258
00:58:01,460 --> 00:58:04,320
as it was given through Moses, the shadows.

1259
00:58:05,180 --> 00:58:08,040
And then here Peter tells us that all

1260
00:58:08,040 --> 00:58:11,860
of spiritual Israel are priests.

1261
00:58:11,980 --> 00:58:14,420
He says in 1 Peter 2 verse 4

1262
00:58:14,420 --> 00:58:16,400
Coming to him as a living stone rejected

1263
00:58:16,400 --> 00:58:18,940
indeed by men but chosen by God and

1264
00:58:18,940 --> 00:58:22,980
precious you all also as living stones are

1265
00:58:22,980 --> 00:58:24,900
being built up as a spiritual house.

1266
00:58:25,080 --> 00:58:29,920
So we individually collectively are the temple and

1267
00:58:29,920 --> 00:58:31,640
yet he goes on to say that we

1268
00:58:31,640 --> 00:58:32,860
are a holy priesthood.

1269
00:58:33,440 --> 00:58:36,000
So we're also individually priests in this temple

1270
00:58:36,000 --> 00:58:38,340
that we collectively make up which is the

1271
00:58:38,340 --> 00:58:41,040
body of Christ as Paul tells us to

1272
00:58:41,040 --> 00:58:43,600
offer up spiritual sacrifice acceptable to God.

1273
00:58:43,900 --> 00:58:49,940
So as you showed the priests do the

1274
00:58:49,940 --> 00:58:53,080
work in the temple on the Sabbath and

1275
00:58:53,080 --> 00:58:56,140
now, that was the shadow now the fulfillment

1276
00:58:56,140 --> 00:58:59,240
is we are priests doing the work in

1277
00:58:59,240 --> 00:59:01,020
the temple which is the family of God

1278
00:59:01,020 --> 00:59:04,320
on the Sabbath which is 24-7 as

1279
00:59:04,320 --> 00:59:05,600
I would understand it.

1280
00:59:06,680 --> 00:59:08,240
And one other thing I guess I wanted

1281
00:59:08,240 --> 00:59:11,380
to share was I think it's really excellent

1282
00:59:11,380 --> 00:59:14,240
the two writings that we have from Irenaeus

1283
00:59:14,240 --> 00:59:16,280
one of them is in the Antionicine Fathers

1284
00:59:17,140 --> 00:59:19,680
against heresies and then the other one was

1285
00:59:19,680 --> 00:59:21,700
found afterwards after it was published in the

1286
00:59:21,700 --> 00:59:22,460
mid-1800s.

1287
00:59:22,760 --> 00:59:25,000
So this one here in chapter 96 it

1288
00:59:25,000 --> 00:59:28,940
says he's going through all these explanations of

1289
00:59:28,940 --> 00:59:33,060
all these shadows and prophecies and things about

1290
00:59:33,060 --> 00:59:34,680
Christ in the Old Testament and he brings

1291
00:59:34,680 --> 00:59:36,220
it to a bear as he's coming to

1292
00:59:36,220 --> 00:59:36,800
a conclusion.

1293
00:59:37,420 --> 00:59:40,080
He says, this is chapter 96 Wherefore also

1294
00:59:40,080 --> 00:59:41,640
we need not the law as a tutor.

1295
00:59:42,200 --> 00:59:43,820
Behold, with the Father we speak and in

1296
00:59:43,820 --> 00:59:44,940
His presence we stand.

1297
00:59:45,540 --> 00:59:47,920
Having been children in malice but now having

1298
00:59:47,920 --> 00:59:50,280
grown up strong in all righteousness and soberness.

1299
00:59:50,760 --> 00:59:52,820
So no longer shall the law say do

1300
00:59:52,820 --> 00:59:55,060
not commit adultery to him who has no

1301
00:59:55,060 --> 00:59:57,860
desire at all for another man's wife or

1302
00:59:57,860 --> 00:59:59,620
thou shalt not kill to him who has

1303
00:59:59,620 --> 01:00:01,720
put away from himself all anger and all

1304
01:00:01,720 --> 01:00:03,300
enmity towards others.

1305
01:00:03,420 --> 01:00:05,920
Thou shalt not covet thy neighbor's field or

1306
01:00:05,920 --> 01:00:08,860
ox or donkey to those who have no

1307
01:00:08,860 --> 01:00:11,360
care at all for earthly things but store

1308
01:00:11,360 --> 01:00:12,360
up the heavenly fruits.

1309
01:00:12,940 --> 01:00:14,040
Nor an eye for an eye or a

1310
01:00:14,040 --> 01:00:15,520
tooth for a tooth to him who counts

1311
01:00:15,520 --> 01:00:18,400
no man his enemy but all men his

1312
01:00:18,400 --> 01:00:21,440
neighbors and therefore cannot stretch out his hand

1313
01:00:21,440 --> 01:00:23,000
at all for vengeance.

1314
01:00:23,600 --> 01:00:25,460
It will not require tithes of him who

1315
01:00:25,460 --> 01:00:27,900
consecrates all possessions to God leaving father and

1316
01:00:27,900 --> 01:00:29,780
mother and all his kindred and following the

1317
01:00:29,780 --> 01:00:30,360
word of God.

1318
01:00:30,880 --> 01:00:33,780
Therefore there will be no command to remain

1319
01:00:33,780 --> 01:00:36,040
idle for one day of rest to him

1320
01:00:36,040 --> 01:00:37,680
who perpetually keeps Sabbath.

1321
01:00:38,120 --> 01:00:40,600
That is to say who is the temple

1322
01:00:40,600 --> 01:00:43,480
of God which is man's body who does

1323
01:00:43,480 --> 01:00:45,740
service to God and every hour works righteousness.

1324
01:00:47,140 --> 01:00:49,240
I think that's a really great explanation as

1325
01:00:49,240 --> 01:00:49,400
well.

1326
01:00:51,200 --> 01:00:54,020
Thank you Brother Duane for three excellent blessings.

1327
01:00:54,300 --> 01:00:59,060
They were all blessings and learned some new

1328
01:00:59,060 --> 01:01:03,200
things and refreshed and bless you for expounding

1329
01:01:03,200 --> 01:01:05,780
or admonishing and warning us about the Sabbath.

1330
01:01:05,920 --> 01:01:10,180
Just like Paul did to Galatians who bewitched

1331
01:01:10,180 --> 01:01:10,460
you.

1332
01:01:11,400 --> 01:01:12,560
You've fallen from grace.

1333
01:01:13,320 --> 01:01:14,420
You're going to circumcise.

1334
01:01:14,620 --> 01:01:15,640
Well, you're lost.

1335
01:01:15,820 --> 01:01:16,400
You're lost.

1336
01:01:16,960 --> 01:01:17,640
You're gone.

1337
01:01:18,740 --> 01:01:20,380
Maybe if I'm taking this one out of

1338
01:01:20,380 --> 01:01:21,940
context brothers can help me.

1339
01:01:22,380 --> 01:01:27,920
In 2 Peter 3 verse 16 Peter says

1340
01:01:27,920 --> 01:01:31,720
that a lot of people they wrangle over

1341
01:01:31,720 --> 01:01:35,600
words and they teach things untaught and unstable

1342
01:01:35,600 --> 01:01:37,720
to their own destruction.

1343
01:01:38,500 --> 01:01:40,460
And I believe that would be all in

1344
01:01:40,460 --> 01:01:42,700
line with circumcision and the Sabbath.

1345
01:01:42,960 --> 01:01:46,640
If you're going to teach that you're going

1346
01:01:46,640 --> 01:01:48,740
to spiritual adultery.

1347
01:01:49,740 --> 01:01:50,500
Thanks Brother Duane.

1348
01:01:50,600 --> 01:01:51,200
Excellent lessons.

1349
01:01:51,300 --> 01:01:52,100
The Lord be magnified.

1350
01:01:54,960 --> 01:02:02,740
As you shared Justin Martyr's take there, that's

1351
01:02:02,740 --> 01:02:05,280
probably kind of the stand I have taken

1352
01:02:05,280 --> 01:02:06,620
for a long time.

1353
01:02:06,720 --> 01:02:08,700
If somebody has a personal conviction, they need

1354
01:02:08,700 --> 01:02:11,180
to do one of these things and he's

1355
01:02:11,180 --> 01:02:15,300
not going around teaching others that salvation lies

1356
01:02:15,300 --> 01:02:15,640
here.

1357
01:02:16,360 --> 01:02:22,220
But there was one instance when the religious

1358
01:02:22,220 --> 01:02:25,600
of the day were offended that a person

1359
01:02:25,600 --> 01:02:27,580
was helped on the Sabbath.

1360
01:02:28,220 --> 01:02:31,600
And the Lord became angry about that.

1361
01:02:31,780 --> 01:02:35,480
And so, I would just if you have

1362
01:02:35,480 --> 01:02:39,460
these convictions and you find a blessing in

1363
01:02:39,460 --> 01:02:45,060
them, praise the Lord, but don't circumvent the

1364
01:02:45,060 --> 01:02:47,700
greater blessing of helping another on the Sabbath.

1365
01:02:48,700 --> 01:02:50,240
That's a bigger blessing.

1366
01:02:50,240 --> 01:02:53,700
That's a better way.

1367
01:02:55,720 --> 01:02:59,880
So, if there are people that feel the

1368
01:02:59,880 --> 01:03:05,800
need to those things for their blessing, you

1369
01:03:05,800 --> 01:03:07,180
made a good point.

1370
01:03:07,660 --> 01:03:12,640
The disciples didn't go around making a big

1371
01:03:12,640 --> 01:03:15,900
issue out of these things for people who

1372
01:03:15,900 --> 01:03:20,120
had carried them from their previous religious settings

1373
01:03:20,940 --> 01:03:23,260
until they started trying to force them on

1374
01:03:23,260 --> 01:03:24,620
others and so on.

1375
01:03:24,760 --> 01:03:27,100
So, may the Lord give us grace and

1376
01:03:27,100 --> 01:03:30,040
help us to be watchful in these ways

1377
01:03:30,040 --> 01:03:37,060
and capture the greater blessing of the New

1378
01:03:37,060 --> 01:03:40,600
Covenant Sabbath of blessing wherever we can no

1379
01:03:40,600 --> 01:03:41,620
matter what day it is.

1380
01:03:42,180 --> 01:03:45,020
Don't let your personal conviction Sabbath get in

1381
01:03:45,020 --> 01:03:47,340
the way of doing good ever.

1382
01:03:48,680 --> 01:03:51,500
The Lord was very displeased with those who

1383
01:03:51,500 --> 01:03:55,760
would have had it that way.

1384
01:03:57,180 --> 01:03:59,580
It kind of turned on themselves because if

1385
01:03:59,580 --> 01:04:02,660
it would have been an ox and a

1386
01:04:02,660 --> 01:04:05,540
well or something, they would have broke their

1387
01:04:05,540 --> 01:04:07,100
Sabbath to deal with that.

1388
01:04:07,400 --> 01:04:11,560
But when somebody was healed, then there was

1389
01:04:11,560 --> 01:04:12,040
a problem.

1390
01:04:13,100 --> 01:04:15,760
So, may the Lord help us view these

1391
01:04:15,760 --> 01:04:17,680
things rightly and not be a stumbling block

1392
01:04:17,680 --> 01:04:19,120
to anyone.

1393
01:04:20,860 --> 01:04:25,940
I, too, am thankful for both messages.

1394
01:04:33,640 --> 01:04:36,600
Even before this morning when I was thinking

1395
01:04:36,600 --> 01:04:40,280
a little bit about Proverbs 21.3, I

1396
01:04:40,280 --> 01:04:44,560
thought, well, surely, there's some connection here between

1397
01:04:44,560 --> 01:04:51,460
to do righteousness and justice is more acceptable

1398
01:04:51,460 --> 01:04:52,820
to the Lord than sacrifice.

1399
01:04:53,700 --> 01:04:55,180
I think I see a connection.

1400
01:04:55,560 --> 01:04:56,540
I don't know if anybody else does.

1401
01:04:58,300 --> 01:05:01,640
Like, if we apply what we heard today,

1402
01:05:02,280 --> 01:05:03,920
I think it would cover this.

1403
01:05:05,300 --> 01:05:06,260
At least some of it.

1404
01:05:06,300 --> 01:05:07,340
I'm not saying all of it.

1405
01:05:07,340 --> 01:05:13,420
But I think I see a very good

1406
01:05:13,420 --> 01:05:14,140
start for sure.

1407
01:05:18,120 --> 01:05:19,860
So, may the Lord bless us.

1408
01:05:21,240 --> 01:05:22,880
Yeah, Duane, I don't have anything to add,

1409
01:05:22,960 --> 01:05:26,700
but I sure appreciated those three messages.

1410
01:05:26,900 --> 01:05:31,700
I found them instructional and maybe a better

1411
01:05:31,700 --> 01:05:34,180
understanding of the separation of covenants and yet

1412
01:05:34,180 --> 01:05:37,460
how some of the underlying principles blend together

1413
01:05:37,460 --> 01:05:42,640
is still, I guess, a fairly recent thing

1414
01:05:42,640 --> 01:05:46,320
for me to have gotten a better grasp

1415
01:05:46,320 --> 01:05:46,580
of.

1416
01:05:46,880 --> 01:05:48,840
And I just really appreciate it.

1417
01:05:51,940 --> 01:05:55,580
And the Sabbath in particular is something that,

1418
01:05:56,560 --> 01:05:58,980
it'd be one of those things that seemed

1419
01:05:58,980 --> 01:06:03,780
to carry over from maybe my evangelical days

1420
01:06:03,780 --> 01:06:05,720
as something taught that we ought to do,

1421
01:06:05,720 --> 01:06:07,680
ought to have a rest on the Sabbath,

1422
01:06:08,340 --> 01:06:10,540
ought to keep it, ought to do it

1423
01:06:10,540 --> 01:06:11,060
on the day.

1424
01:06:11,280 --> 01:06:12,860
Maybe the day of the week is not

1425
01:06:12,860 --> 01:06:15,020
so important anymore, but ought to keep a

1426
01:06:15,020 --> 01:06:16,440
day of special rest.

1427
01:06:16,680 --> 01:06:19,980
But I find that, especially your challenge at

1428
01:06:19,980 --> 01:06:22,500
the end of really entering into the true

1429
01:06:22,500 --> 01:06:28,240
Sabbath, resting from creative works, resting from selfish

1430
01:06:28,240 --> 01:06:34,420
endeavors is a huge challenge compared to not

1431
01:06:34,420 --> 01:06:35,640
working on a certain day.

1432
01:06:36,600 --> 01:06:38,560
Seems like the Sabbath in particular is something

1433
01:06:38,560 --> 01:06:41,700
that Jesus really wanted to drive home to

1434
01:06:41,700 --> 01:06:43,700
the point where he violated it.

1435
01:06:43,880 --> 01:06:46,460
I know you said, John said, specifically that

1436
01:06:46,460 --> 01:06:49,920
he violated the Sabbath, but it seems to

1437
01:06:49,920 --> 01:06:53,260
me like Jesus almost went out of his

1438
01:06:53,260 --> 01:06:55,740
way to do it on multiple occasions.

1439
01:06:56,860 --> 01:06:59,120
Particularly, I guess, my favorite time that he

1440
01:06:59,980 --> 01:07:03,400
made people angry on the Sabbath is the

1441
01:07:03,400 --> 01:07:05,100
man with the withered hand because in one

1442
01:07:05,100 --> 01:07:07,060
of the accounts it says specifically that he

1443
01:07:07,060 --> 01:07:12,000
was angry at their silence when they couldn't

1444
01:07:12,000 --> 01:07:15,040
even answer a simple question about wouldn't it

1445
01:07:15,040 --> 01:07:16,920
be right to do good on the Sabbath

1446
01:07:17,620 --> 01:07:21,240
to take life or to make somebody whole.

1447
01:07:21,600 --> 01:07:26,240
Anyway, I just thoroughly appreciated all three messages.

1448
01:07:26,800 --> 01:07:27,600
Praise God.

1449
01:07:29,120 --> 01:07:30,300
Yeah, I think I wanted to share my

1450
01:07:30,300 --> 01:07:30,660
opinion.

1451
01:07:30,960 --> 01:07:33,080
I would differ with the way the traditional

1452
01:07:33,080 --> 01:07:36,640
way of translating this passage in, let's see,

1453
01:07:36,680 --> 01:07:38,480
was it John 5, was it?

1454
01:07:38,700 --> 01:07:41,120
Where they say that Jesus broke the Sabbath.

1455
01:07:41,580 --> 01:07:43,040
The word doesn't mean break.

1456
01:07:43,640 --> 01:07:44,480
It means loose.

1457
01:07:46,360 --> 01:07:49,000
And in the Sermon on the Mount, it's

1458
01:07:49,000 --> 01:07:50,420
not a typical way, but there is one

1459
01:07:50,420 --> 01:07:53,400
occasion where it seems like it's using the

1460
01:07:53,400 --> 01:07:56,460
same word in Matthew chapter 5 where it

1461
01:07:56,460 --> 01:08:00,100
says if anyone looses, I forget what command

1462
01:08:00,100 --> 01:08:02,380
he says, and he goes on and he

1463
01:08:02,380 --> 01:08:06,160
talks in a way, actually maybe I could

1464
01:08:06,160 --> 01:08:08,140
bring it up, but talks in a way

1465
01:08:08,140 --> 01:08:09,400
where it would not be good for this

1466
01:08:09,400 --> 01:08:10,880
man to loose this command.

1467
01:08:11,020 --> 01:08:11,620
I forget what it was.

1468
01:08:11,700 --> 01:08:12,780
He says this in the Sermon on the

1469
01:08:12,780 --> 01:08:12,940
Mount.

1470
01:08:13,720 --> 01:08:15,200
So it's usually, but that's not the typical

1471
01:08:15,200 --> 01:08:16,840
word that's used when you're talking about breaking

1472
01:08:16,840 --> 01:08:17,340
commandments.

1473
01:08:17,700 --> 01:08:19,800
Usually it's a word that would probably be,

1474
01:08:20,220 --> 01:08:22,040
or a lot of times be translated as

1475
01:08:22,040 --> 01:08:26,720
transgress or trespass, a command as opposed to,

1476
01:08:27,000 --> 01:08:28,880
if somebody's not talking about a command, somebody

1477
01:08:28,880 --> 01:08:31,359
might use different words to say doing evil,

1478
01:08:31,560 --> 01:08:34,399
different types of verbs for doing evil or

1479
01:08:34,399 --> 01:08:36,680
working unrighteousness or something, whatever.

1480
01:08:37,000 --> 01:08:38,240
But when you're talking about a command, typically

1481
01:08:38,240 --> 01:08:40,260
it's transgress or trespass.

1482
01:08:40,880 --> 01:08:42,779
This is what I think is happening.

1483
01:08:43,340 --> 01:08:46,600
In Mark chapter 7, there's a passage where,

1484
01:08:46,760 --> 01:08:47,740
in fact I think I got it up

1485
01:08:47,740 --> 01:08:51,700
on my phone, I could read it, where

1486
01:08:51,700 --> 01:08:54,340
Jesus is correcting the, hold on one second,

1487
01:08:55,439 --> 01:09:02,520
correcting the experts in the law that they're

1488
01:09:02,520 --> 01:09:05,859
understanding something wrongly with regard to food laws.

1489
01:09:06,060 --> 01:09:09,800
And as he says what he says, he

1490
01:09:09,800 --> 01:09:11,880
ends up talking about it and it says,

1491
01:09:12,319 --> 01:09:14,160
thus purifying all foods.

1492
01:09:14,580 --> 01:09:16,779
So by Jesus making this statement, just in

1493
01:09:16,779 --> 01:09:20,580
this conversational exchange, he actually was annulling something

1494
01:09:20,580 --> 01:09:22,080
and legislating something.

1495
01:09:22,359 --> 01:09:24,080
Doing away with the shadow and putting something

1496
01:09:24,080 --> 01:09:25,660
in place for the fulfillment of that.

1497
01:09:26,140 --> 01:09:29,640
Similarly here, this idea of loose, I'll give

1498
01:09:29,640 --> 01:09:31,279
you one example of how it could be

1499
01:09:31,279 --> 01:09:31,620
used.

1500
01:09:31,740 --> 01:09:34,140
Like we would say, like John the Baptist

1501
01:09:34,140 --> 01:09:38,140
said that he would not be worthy of

1502
01:09:38,140 --> 01:09:41,359
loosening the shoestrings on the sandals of Jesus.

1503
01:09:42,939 --> 01:09:44,640
Same exact verb, right?

1504
01:09:44,939 --> 01:09:48,680
So it's the opposite of binding something on

1505
01:09:48,680 --> 01:09:49,960
someone versus loosening.

1506
01:09:50,399 --> 01:09:52,319
And so when Jesus, when this says, when

1507
01:09:52,319 --> 01:09:56,620
John says that he loosened, not broke, loosened,

1508
01:09:56,640 --> 01:10:01,860
using this same verb, loosened the Sabbath, I

1509
01:10:01,860 --> 01:10:03,620
understand that similar in Mark 7.

1510
01:10:03,980 --> 01:10:08,060
That he actually was legislating and when he

1511
01:10:08,060 --> 01:10:11,580
made that statement, he was actually loosening the

1512
01:10:11,580 --> 01:10:19,580
Sabbath foreshadowing and binding the fulfillment and basically

1513
01:10:19,580 --> 01:10:20,260
fulfilling it.

1514
01:10:20,760 --> 01:10:23,100
I don't understand, I don't understand, I don't

1515
01:10:23,100 --> 01:10:25,200
see it, because I know we all struggle

1516
01:10:25,200 --> 01:10:26,900
with the idea, wait a minute, did Jesus

1517
01:10:26,900 --> 01:10:28,040
transgress the law?

1518
01:10:28,740 --> 01:10:30,120
Then how could he be the pure lamb

1519
01:10:30,120 --> 01:10:31,140
of God and take away the sin of

1520
01:10:31,140 --> 01:10:32,060
the world and go to the cross?

1521
01:10:32,200 --> 01:10:33,280
It makes no sense.

1522
01:10:34,000 --> 01:10:36,440
And I think the most reasonable understanding of

1523
01:10:36,440 --> 01:10:39,800
use of that verb is that he's loosening

1524
01:10:39,800 --> 01:10:43,000
the old, just like he did in Mark

1525
01:10:43,000 --> 01:10:45,740
7 about thus purifying all foods and stuff.

1526
01:10:50,000 --> 01:10:52,840
I was thinking about that word loose and

1527
01:10:52,840 --> 01:10:55,960
I remember, I think it was in, I

1528
01:10:55,960 --> 01:10:58,220
was asking Yolanda about the word loose in

1529
01:10:58,220 --> 01:11:00,200
Spanish and she said it meant light.

1530
01:11:00,560 --> 01:11:02,200
And I said well, maybe in the same

1531
01:11:02,200 --> 01:11:06,280
example it could represent bringing light into a

1532
01:11:06,280 --> 01:11:07,340
dark situation.

1533
01:11:08,580 --> 01:11:15,160
You know, Jesus was shedding light on this

1534
01:11:15,160 --> 01:11:18,760
established principle.

1535
01:11:19,680 --> 01:11:21,360
I think you're taking the Spanish word loose,

1536
01:11:21,460 --> 01:11:22,120
which means light.

1537
01:11:22,120 --> 01:11:22,620
Yeah.

1538
01:11:22,880 --> 01:11:23,580
The English word loose.

1539
01:11:24,340 --> 01:11:25,040
There's two different languages.

1540
01:11:25,380 --> 01:11:27,340
I know that, but it could be very

1541
01:11:27,340 --> 01:11:27,820
similar.

1542
01:11:28,520 --> 01:11:29,500
Yeah, but there's two different languages.

1543
01:11:30,100 --> 01:11:31,020
I understand that.

1544
01:11:31,380 --> 01:11:33,100
Maybe, maybe, maybe.

1545
01:11:34,800 --> 01:11:37,660
Yeah, I just want to say amen to

1546
01:11:37,660 --> 01:11:41,180
this message and the last two of the

1547
01:11:41,180 --> 01:11:49,960
whole series and I appreciate you doing this

1548
01:11:49,960 --> 01:11:52,160
and the effort that you put into it.

1549
01:11:54,900 --> 01:12:01,760
And I was sitting in pretty comfortable agreement

1550
01:12:06,640 --> 01:12:16,550
until we were challenged about whether we

1551
01:12:16,550 --> 01:12:20,990
just understand the Sabbath as an ideology or

1552
01:12:20,990 --> 01:12:24,450
whether we really have entered that Sabbath.

1553
01:12:26,630 --> 01:12:36,950
So that's, for me that's, it's not, I

1554
01:12:36,950 --> 01:12:41,010
mean the whole idea is not new, but

1555
01:12:41,010 --> 01:12:45,930
for me that's where, that's where the, where

1556
01:12:45,930 --> 01:12:48,930
the challenge is that I have to examine

1557
01:12:48,930 --> 01:12:52,070
myself and I certainly want to do that.

1558
01:12:52,830 --> 01:12:54,070
Anyway, God bless.

1559
01:12:55,230 --> 01:13:01,270
Yes, I want to give my amen just

1560
01:13:01,270 --> 01:13:05,890
in a very, very hearty way I guess.

1561
01:13:06,410 --> 01:13:07,970
Really just appreciate the efforts.

1562
01:13:08,370 --> 01:13:11,610
I like how the, seeing what Norman had

1563
01:13:11,610 --> 01:13:14,810
to say kind of flows with the Sabbath

1564
01:13:14,810 --> 01:13:19,530
rest that we heard of and some experiences

1565
01:13:19,530 --> 01:13:21,150
I've had in the past just kind of

1566
01:13:21,150 --> 01:13:23,150
came back to my mind being a young

1567
01:13:23,150 --> 01:13:27,390
boy growing up under a certain influence that

1568
01:13:27,390 --> 01:13:30,390
got you, I mean I never just heard

1569
01:13:30,390 --> 01:13:32,510
my parents say we're keeping the Sabbath, but

1570
01:13:32,510 --> 01:13:38,070
still direction was given in that way.

1571
01:13:38,470 --> 01:13:43,010
Like Saturday night comes around and it, not

1572
01:13:43,010 --> 01:13:44,970
always, but sometimes it was a flurry of

1573
01:13:44,970 --> 01:13:50,630
events of just getting everything precise, lined out,

1574
01:13:52,830 --> 01:13:57,330
brush and polish your suit, your shoes and

1575
01:13:57,330 --> 01:13:59,690
get your horse and get everything just nice

1576
01:13:59,690 --> 01:14:02,790
and ready and because of the day that

1577
01:14:02,790 --> 01:14:04,850
we can't do that and then we're really

1578
01:14:04,850 --> 01:14:08,510
ready to rest on that day, but then

1579
01:14:08,510 --> 01:14:10,850
still that day was not really that much

1580
01:14:10,850 --> 01:14:12,390
of a day of rest when you think

1581
01:14:12,390 --> 01:14:13,590
about things spiritually.

1582
01:14:15,890 --> 01:14:22,330
A little bit my experience, but so yeah,

1583
01:14:22,450 --> 01:14:25,850
so I liked how the two brother's thoughts

1584
01:14:25,850 --> 01:14:29,710
flow together and having rest, true peace of

1585
01:14:29,710 --> 01:14:30,030
mind.

1586
01:14:32,610 --> 01:14:35,270
Might sound like I'm speaking like I got

1587
01:14:35,270 --> 01:14:36,790
it now, but I don't.

1588
01:14:37,150 --> 01:14:40,710
I still have struggles in the area of

1589
01:14:40,710 --> 01:14:43,630
finding a true rest, just on a daily

1590
01:14:43,630 --> 01:14:53,410
basis, just finding confidence in going

1591
01:14:53,410 --> 01:14:53,910
forward.

1592
01:14:54,090 --> 01:14:56,390
It's just a hard thing to walk this

1593
01:14:56,390 --> 01:14:57,030
narrow path.

1594
01:14:58,150 --> 01:14:59,930
Appreciate the challenge at the end how that

1595
01:14:59,930 --> 01:15:00,450
we are.

1596
01:15:02,490 --> 01:15:04,410
I think Norman kind of covered my thoughts

1597
01:15:04,410 --> 01:15:04,630
there.

1598
01:15:05,030 --> 01:15:07,410
We're really comfortable up to this point of

1599
01:15:07,410 --> 01:15:11,490
being challenged on keeping the true Sabbath rest

1600
01:15:11,490 --> 01:15:12,730
and are we?

1601
01:15:13,530 --> 01:15:17,430
Am I doing this in all sincerity and

1602
01:15:17,430 --> 01:15:17,870
in truth?

1603
01:15:18,690 --> 01:15:20,930
And so I do appreciate that.

1604
01:15:21,070 --> 01:15:29,600
I wanted to, well, I guess it'd be

1605
01:15:29,600 --> 01:15:32,240
something like just let myself be stretched in

1606
01:15:32,240 --> 01:15:42,220
those areas and be more about focusing on

1607
01:15:42,220 --> 01:15:46,200
the, okay, I can easily agree with all

1608
01:15:46,200 --> 01:15:47,620
of the points were made good and right

1609
01:15:47,620 --> 01:15:48,860
and I can just easily agree with that,

1610
01:15:48,960 --> 01:15:50,800
but I want to take it to heart

1611
01:15:50,800 --> 01:15:55,160
how we are supposed to keep the Sabbath

1612
01:15:55,160 --> 01:15:58,180
as much as we're supposed to be circumcised

1613
01:15:58,180 --> 01:16:02,720
with the true circumcision from God, not the

1614
01:16:02,720 --> 01:16:05,340
shadow, but so I want to let those

1615
01:16:05,340 --> 01:16:06,780
things be a challenge for me and work

1616
01:16:06,780 --> 01:16:07,200
them out.

1617
01:16:07,500 --> 01:16:08,060
Praise God.

1618
01:16:09,600 --> 01:16:12,160
Yeah, Brother Dwayne, I thought that was excellent.

1619
01:16:13,280 --> 01:16:15,460
Thank you for your labors in that.

1620
01:16:15,880 --> 01:16:17,040
God bless you for that.

1621
01:16:18,060 --> 01:16:21,240
Also, I was definitely challenged as well, what

1622
01:16:21,240 --> 01:16:23,320
Otley and Norman just brought up there.

1623
01:16:23,560 --> 01:16:27,200
That's a good challenge for us to take

1624
01:16:27,200 --> 01:16:27,680
heed to.

1625
01:16:30,320 --> 01:16:33,340
I want to remind us what Paul writes

1626
01:16:33,340 --> 01:16:34,340
here in Philippians.

1627
01:16:36,480 --> 01:16:38,940
Speaking of people that would try to force

1628
01:16:38,940 --> 01:16:42,180
us to keep this old law, he says,

1629
01:16:42,360 --> 01:16:43,660
Beware of these dogs.

1630
01:16:43,920 --> 01:16:45,520
Beware of evil workers.

1631
01:16:46,600 --> 01:16:48,060
Beware of the concision.

1632
01:16:49,020 --> 01:16:51,080
You know, these people that try to force

1633
01:16:51,080 --> 01:16:53,100
you to keep this old covenant alive.

1634
01:16:55,040 --> 01:16:57,420
You know, John, the book of John says

1635
01:16:57,420 --> 01:17:01,160
that Jesus was the word made flesh.

1636
01:17:01,420 --> 01:17:03,100
He was the Torah made flesh.

1637
01:17:03,180 --> 01:17:04,560
He was the law made flesh.

1638
01:17:05,240 --> 01:17:06,800
And he was born under the law.

1639
01:17:06,900 --> 01:17:07,640
He walked in it.

1640
01:17:07,640 --> 01:17:08,820
He was it.

1641
01:17:08,940 --> 01:17:10,400
He was a representation of it.

1642
01:17:10,580 --> 01:17:12,240
And he was the fulfillment of it.

1643
01:17:13,640 --> 01:17:18,380
And what happened to him, he was the

1644
01:17:18,380 --> 01:17:19,040
old covenant.

1645
01:17:19,620 --> 01:17:21,520
And it was nailed to the cross and

1646
01:17:21,520 --> 01:17:22,080
died.

1647
01:17:22,700 --> 01:17:26,380
Just like Romans 7 says, A wife is

1648
01:17:26,380 --> 01:17:28,560
bound by that law of her husband as

1649
01:17:28,560 --> 01:17:29,340
long as he's alive.

1650
01:17:29,440 --> 01:17:32,280
Well, that husband has been dead, was crucified

1651
01:17:32,280 --> 01:17:33,100
and dead.

1652
01:17:33,360 --> 01:17:35,540
Just like the Scriptures say that we are

1653
01:17:35,540 --> 01:17:37,160
now dead to the law, that we can

1654
01:17:37,160 --> 01:17:41,560
be married to another, which was Christ, which

1655
01:17:41,560 --> 01:17:42,180
is Christ.

1656
01:17:43,060 --> 01:17:45,220
Christ resurrected the new covenant.

1657
01:17:47,680 --> 01:17:50,280
And there's one more representation that I just

1658
01:17:50,280 --> 01:17:50,680
love.

1659
01:17:50,800 --> 01:17:52,940
You know, several years ago, Katie asked me,

1660
01:17:53,300 --> 01:17:55,640
Dad, why was Jesus baptized?

1661
01:17:56,560 --> 01:17:58,880
Well, again, he was this old covenant in

1662
01:17:58,880 --> 01:17:59,440
the flesh.

1663
01:17:59,820 --> 01:18:03,480
And Jesus being baptized, it's not because he

1664
01:18:03,480 --> 01:18:04,300
had sin.

1665
01:18:04,300 --> 01:18:09,520
His baptism is a representation of this old

1666
01:18:09,520 --> 01:18:12,040
husband, this old covenant being put to death

1667
01:18:12,040 --> 01:18:13,600
and a new one being resurrected.

1668
01:18:15,080 --> 01:18:19,200
And that we can be with this new

1669
01:18:19,200 --> 01:18:20,780
Savior, Jesus.

1670
01:18:21,420 --> 01:18:22,660
That's one of my favorites.

1671
01:18:22,860 --> 01:18:24,060
But thank you very much.

1672
01:18:24,760 --> 01:18:25,600
Praise the Lord.

1673
01:18:26,900 --> 01:18:29,460
Yeah, I would like to say amen, Dwayne.

1674
01:18:30,540 --> 01:18:32,560
Thank you for your labors on this.

1675
01:18:32,560 --> 01:18:35,980
I was really blessed today by it.

1676
01:18:38,330 --> 01:18:41,400
Like Aaron was saying, woe to them who

1677
01:18:41,400 --> 01:18:44,840
tell people you have to keep this old

1678
01:18:44,840 --> 01:18:45,640
covenant Sabbath.

1679
01:18:47,060 --> 01:18:53,040
And I think that's so true because they're

1680
01:18:53,040 --> 01:18:55,860
misleading people to what it really is.

1681
01:18:56,440 --> 01:18:59,980
So now we can say, oh, you do

1682
01:18:59,980 --> 01:19:01,980
keep the Sabbath, man, but it's so much

1683
01:19:01,980 --> 01:19:02,360
better.

1684
01:19:02,620 --> 01:19:05,640
Look, it's every day, like when we truly

1685
01:19:05,640 --> 01:19:08,500
believe we're truly born again, like we have

1686
01:19:08,500 --> 01:19:09,260
this rest.

1687
01:19:09,620 --> 01:19:13,000
Like Jesus said, he that eats of my

1688
01:19:13,000 --> 01:19:15,040
flesh and drinks of my blood will live

1689
01:19:15,040 --> 01:19:15,580
forever.

1690
01:19:16,400 --> 01:19:19,700
So it's like by faith on them words,

1691
01:19:20,520 --> 01:19:25,160
by moving in righteousness, like there's this rest

1692
01:19:26,160 --> 01:19:29,080
that for the soul, not the peace that

1693
01:19:29,080 --> 01:19:32,400
the world gives, but like this eternal peace

1694
01:19:32,400 --> 01:19:36,140
is really, oh, it's so magnificent.

1695
01:19:37,020 --> 01:19:39,860
I think it overwhelms the heart.

1696
01:19:40,880 --> 01:19:43,220
You know, like it's like, oh, like God

1697
01:19:43,220 --> 01:19:43,940
is so wonderful.

1698
01:19:44,200 --> 01:19:48,980
It's like, I don't know how to explain

1699
01:19:48,980 --> 01:19:49,160
it.

1700
01:19:49,380 --> 01:19:50,340
He's so wonderful.

1701
01:19:50,480 --> 01:19:51,900
It just overwhelms the heart.

1702
01:19:52,400 --> 01:19:54,380
And I was very blessed.

1703
01:19:54,580 --> 01:19:55,860
So God bless you guys.

1704
01:19:57,180 --> 01:19:58,720
Yeah, I just had the idea that like

1705
01:19:58,720 --> 01:20:06,140
people today like not getting it.

1706
01:20:06,340 --> 01:20:08,040
Like, oh, what a blessing we can rest.

1707
01:20:08,440 --> 01:20:10,120
Oh, one day a week, oh, we get

1708
01:20:10,120 --> 01:20:10,580
to rest.

1709
01:20:10,960 --> 01:20:12,060
But it was a burden.

1710
01:20:13,080 --> 01:20:15,600
Like, oh my, I got this to do.

1711
01:20:15,660 --> 01:20:16,540
I got this to do.

1712
01:20:16,660 --> 01:20:18,020
Like, how am I going to get ahead?

1713
01:20:18,120 --> 01:20:19,100
Like I can't work today.

1714
01:20:19,200 --> 01:20:20,960
Like, man, that's a whole day wasted.

1715
01:20:21,300 --> 01:20:23,740
Like it was a tax for them.

1716
01:20:23,860 --> 01:20:25,380
Like every day they could build their own

1717
01:20:25,380 --> 01:20:28,480
kingdom, but that day, oh, they couldn't get

1718
01:20:28,480 --> 01:20:29,260
ahead that day.

1719
01:20:30,040 --> 01:20:33,240
Just like the 10%.

1720
01:20:33,240 --> 01:20:34,820
Like it was a tax.

1721
01:20:35,020 --> 01:20:35,640
Like it was taxing.

1722
01:20:35,760 --> 01:20:39,560
And like, I'm not going to try to

1723
01:20:39,560 --> 01:20:42,500
think of other examples, but like I think

1724
01:20:42,500 --> 01:20:43,660
there's lots of ways in which the old

1725
01:20:43,660 --> 01:20:47,100
covenant, oh, circumcision, like not a blessing.

1726
01:20:47,580 --> 01:20:51,140
Like there was ways that God taxed his

1727
01:20:51,140 --> 01:20:53,840
people and the new covenant were like free.

1728
01:20:55,640 --> 01:20:56,640
We're free of that.

1729
01:20:56,640 --> 01:21:02,280
There's no more, not just like we're free

1730
01:21:02,280 --> 01:21:04,500
of the tax, but we're free of the

1731
01:21:04,500 --> 01:21:07,060
whole monetary system, so to speak.

1732
01:21:07,900 --> 01:21:09,960
I had this idea that's pretty basic, but

1733
01:21:09,960 --> 01:21:13,180
it'd be like if every day we get

1734
01:21:13,180 --> 01:21:14,420
up in the morning and we play Monopoly

1735
01:21:14,420 --> 01:21:17,860
all day long and there's rules and you

1736
01:21:17,860 --> 01:21:20,680
land in a certain spot, you got to

1737
01:21:20,680 --> 01:21:21,220
pay money.

1738
01:21:21,480 --> 01:21:23,540
And if you buy this thing and you

1739
01:21:23,540 --> 01:21:26,020
can get ahead and every day you're trying

1740
01:21:26,020 --> 01:21:28,580
to win Monopoly, win Monopoly.

1741
01:21:29,200 --> 01:21:31,900
And then one day this guy comes along

1742
01:21:31,900 --> 01:21:33,540
and he's like, okay, stop.

1743
01:21:34,280 --> 01:21:35,220
Let's go outside.

1744
01:21:35,760 --> 01:21:36,880
And it's like real life.

1745
01:21:37,780 --> 01:21:40,640
And you're like, but what about Monopoly money?

1746
01:21:40,700 --> 01:21:41,680
Like it was a game.

1747
01:21:41,920 --> 01:21:43,360
Like it was, I was trying to teach

1748
01:21:43,360 --> 01:21:47,560
you some lessons, but it's not real.

1749
01:21:48,000 --> 01:21:50,240
Like it's, you're done with that stuff.

1750
01:21:50,420 --> 01:21:53,160
Like we're not, you're not trying to build

1751
01:21:53,160 --> 01:21:53,880
your kingdom anymore.

1752
01:21:53,880 --> 01:21:55,220
You're not trying to build your bank account

1753
01:21:55,220 --> 01:21:55,500
anymore.

1754
01:21:55,580 --> 01:21:58,200
That stuff, it's all, like if we have

1755
01:21:58,200 --> 01:22:00,760
the right mindset, like money is just this

1756
01:22:00,760 --> 01:22:04,720
stuff and a house is just, it's all

1757
01:22:04,720 --> 01:22:05,260
just temporary.

1758
01:22:05,560 --> 01:22:09,940
It's all just like this little phase that

1759
01:22:09,940 --> 01:22:13,480
God had them, this phase that he had

1760
01:22:13,480 --> 01:22:18,660
them in is I think about like a

1761
01:22:18,660 --> 01:22:22,120
temporary sort of game to teach lessons.

1762
01:22:22,120 --> 01:22:24,620
And if we think of it that way,

1763
01:22:24,700 --> 01:22:33,860
it'd be like, the misunderstanding of that, the

1764
01:22:33,860 --> 01:22:36,120
place of the old covenant, like how silly

1765
01:22:36,120 --> 01:22:37,520
it seems like to keep the covenant.

1766
01:22:37,740 --> 01:22:39,680
It'd be like, it'd be like me insisting

1767
01:22:39,680 --> 01:22:45,400
that, no, I'm supposed to collect $200 when

1768
01:22:45,400 --> 01:22:47,820
I pass go and be like, man, grow

1769
01:22:47,820 --> 01:22:48,140
up.

1770
01:22:48,460 --> 01:22:49,740
Like that was just a game.

1771
01:22:49,820 --> 01:22:51,220
Like we're done with that.

1772
01:22:51,220 --> 01:22:52,860
Like this is, this is real life.

1773
01:22:56,660 --> 01:22:58,980
Caring about, caring about monopoly money, like look

1774
01:22:58,980 --> 01:23:00,260
how much monopoly money I have.

1775
01:23:00,320 --> 01:23:01,500
Like a little child might come up and

1776
01:23:01,500 --> 01:23:02,920
like, look at all my monopoly dollars.

1777
01:23:03,040 --> 01:23:03,960
And you'd be like, that's cute.

1778
01:23:04,060 --> 01:23:07,840
But like, it's a, in the real world,

1779
01:23:07,920 --> 01:23:08,680
it has no value.

1780
01:23:08,800 --> 01:23:12,360
And in God's world, you know, money, that's

1781
01:23:12,360 --> 01:23:14,200
the story of the unjust servant.

1782
01:23:14,340 --> 01:23:17,260
Like the guy just wrote off debts because

1783
01:23:17,260 --> 01:23:19,140
that wasn't really value.

1784
01:23:19,140 --> 01:23:21,400
What was really value was the relationships that

1785
01:23:21,400 --> 01:23:24,000
he was building with these people that he

1786
01:23:24,000 --> 01:23:25,560
was writing off their debts.

1787
01:23:28,980 --> 01:23:32,820
Another thing about, when you said the thief,

1788
01:23:32,980 --> 01:23:34,400
like the law can just bring him to

1789
01:23:34,400 --> 01:23:35,280
this even place.

1790
01:23:35,740 --> 01:23:37,520
But what exceeds that is when, is when

1791
01:23:37,520 --> 01:23:40,740
we start giving, like really, really just giving

1792
01:23:40,740 --> 01:23:41,280
our all.

1793
01:23:41,700 --> 01:23:43,400
And you can almost depict it as a

1794
01:23:43,400 --> 01:23:47,160
man that like, like just sets out to

1795
01:23:47,160 --> 01:23:48,400
look for people to help.

1796
01:23:48,400 --> 01:23:50,840
Like, like just look for homeless.

1797
01:23:51,000 --> 01:23:52,860
Like he's in his car, driving around.

1798
01:23:53,280 --> 01:23:54,700
And man, where are these homeless people?

1799
01:23:54,860 --> 01:23:57,280
Someone, surely someone needs to hear about the

1800
01:23:57,280 --> 01:23:57,560
Lord.

1801
01:23:57,940 --> 01:23:59,540
Just searching for people to help.

1802
01:24:04,570 --> 01:24:05,630
Yeah, I just had a thought.

1803
01:24:05,730 --> 01:24:07,130
I appreciate what Buddy was saying because that

1804
01:24:07,130 --> 01:24:08,390
kind of triggered some thoughts too.

1805
01:24:08,730 --> 01:24:10,030
Yeah, I mean, I spent two years in

1806
01:24:10,030 --> 01:24:15,090
Israel where every Friday, early afternoon, one, two

1807
01:24:15,090 --> 01:24:17,210
o'clock, everything starts shutting down.

1808
01:24:17,310 --> 01:24:19,950
Now, of course, I wasn't observing Shabbat as

1809
01:24:19,950 --> 01:24:21,350
a lot of the religious people were there

1810
01:24:21,350 --> 01:24:21,830
in Jerusalem.

1811
01:24:24,410 --> 01:24:26,550
but you can't, you know, if you need

1812
01:24:26,550 --> 01:24:28,570
to go shopping, you can't do anything.

1813
01:24:28,810 --> 01:24:29,810
You're like handcuffed.

1814
01:24:30,010 --> 01:24:32,190
And it made me think, partly what Buddy

1815
01:24:32,190 --> 01:24:35,310
was saying, is just how many people for,

1816
01:24:35,750 --> 01:24:38,150
you know, 1,500 years, at least since

1817
01:24:38,150 --> 01:24:39,270
the time of Moses up until the time

1818
01:24:39,270 --> 01:24:42,990
of Jesus, to where their neighbor on, on

1819
01:24:42,990 --> 01:24:44,790
Sabbath, on Shabbat said, hey, could you help

1820
01:24:44,790 --> 01:24:45,570
me with such and such?

1821
01:24:45,610 --> 01:24:46,150
Did this happen?

1822
01:24:46,530 --> 01:24:47,990
No, no, I can't, we can't work on

1823
01:24:47,990 --> 01:24:48,550
Sabbath, sorry.

1824
01:24:49,050 --> 01:24:51,530
So, there was this shutting down of doing

1825
01:24:51,530 --> 01:24:53,230
good and helping your neighbor, which is the

1826
01:24:53,230 --> 01:24:55,830
fulfillment of the law on this day.

1827
01:24:56,130 --> 01:24:59,410
And I'm sure how much God saw that.

1828
01:24:59,430 --> 01:25:00,770
That probably triggered a lot of what he

1829
01:25:00,770 --> 01:25:04,330
said through the prophet Isaiah in chapter one.

1830
01:25:04,510 --> 01:25:07,110
He starts off, all these works of the

1831
01:25:07,110 --> 01:25:13,530
law, fastings, sacrifices, circumcision, all these ordinances, and

1832
01:25:13,530 --> 01:25:14,850
then he picks it up and he really

1833
01:25:14,850 --> 01:25:17,430
gives light to it as Dwayne brought out

1834
01:25:17,430 --> 01:25:17,990
in chapter 58.

1835
01:25:18,690 --> 01:25:19,890
He's like, is this the kind of fast

1836
01:25:19,890 --> 01:25:20,910
that I want you to do?

1837
01:25:21,610 --> 01:25:23,770
Where you, you know, let's see, let me

1838
01:25:23,770 --> 01:25:24,410
read it actually.

1839
01:25:24,990 --> 01:25:25,630
It's really good.

1840
01:25:26,410 --> 01:25:27,910
And then he goes on and he ends

1841
01:25:27,910 --> 01:25:30,450
up, starts referring to the Sabbath as well.

1842
01:25:30,790 --> 01:25:32,010
He said, why have we fasted?

1843
01:25:32,150 --> 01:25:33,630
They say, and you have not seen.

1844
01:25:33,770 --> 01:25:34,770
They're saying this to the Lord.

1845
01:25:35,850 --> 01:25:37,030
Why have we afflicted our souls?

1846
01:25:37,090 --> 01:25:38,210
You don't take notice.

1847
01:25:38,730 --> 01:25:41,330
In fact, in the day of your fast,

1848
01:25:41,370 --> 01:25:43,770
you find pleasure and exploit all the labors.

1849
01:25:43,890 --> 01:25:45,510
That's what he says further down with the

1850
01:25:45,510 --> 01:25:45,770
Sabbath.

1851
01:25:46,050 --> 01:25:48,390
He's like, stop doing your own pleasures.

1852
01:25:49,350 --> 01:25:51,770
And anyway, verse four, indeed you fast for

1853
01:25:51,770 --> 01:25:52,810
strife and debate.

1854
01:25:53,430 --> 01:25:56,070
So you're fasting so you can apparently get,

1855
01:25:56,270 --> 01:25:59,010
you know, irritated because of lack of food

1856
01:25:59,010 --> 01:26:01,050
and you're in strife and debate with each

1857
01:26:01,050 --> 01:26:03,450
other and the fists of wickedness you bring

1858
01:26:03,450 --> 01:26:04,170
on each other.

1859
01:26:05,650 --> 01:26:07,490
You will not fast as you do this

1860
01:26:07,490 --> 01:26:09,310
day to make your voice heard on high.

1861
01:26:09,410 --> 01:26:10,050
In other words, you're not going to be

1862
01:26:10,050 --> 01:26:10,350
heard.

1863
01:26:10,770 --> 01:26:12,290
I'm not going to hear your prayers when

1864
01:26:12,290 --> 01:26:13,590
you're being this way towards each other.

1865
01:26:13,670 --> 01:26:16,750
Even though you're being idle or, you know,

1866
01:26:16,790 --> 01:26:18,170
when you're fasting and doing without food, you

1867
01:26:18,170 --> 01:26:20,010
think you're really doing something awesome.

1868
01:26:21,710 --> 01:26:22,750
Is it a fast that I have chosen,

1869
01:26:22,830 --> 01:26:24,030
a day for a man to afflict his

1870
01:26:24,030 --> 01:26:24,250
soul?

1871
01:26:24,390 --> 01:26:25,950
Is it to bow down his head like

1872
01:26:25,950 --> 01:26:29,390
a bulrush to spread out sackcloth and ashes?

1873
01:26:29,890 --> 01:26:33,330
Would you call this day a fast, an

1874
01:26:33,330 --> 01:26:34,530
acceptable day to the Lord?

1875
01:26:34,810 --> 01:26:36,870
Is not this the fast that I have

1876
01:26:36,870 --> 01:26:40,350
chosen to loose, there's that word, to loose

1877
01:26:40,350 --> 01:26:42,570
the bonds of wickedness, to undo the heavy

1878
01:26:42,570 --> 01:26:45,410
burdens, to let the oppressed go free, and

1879
01:26:45,410 --> 01:26:46,590
you break every yoke?

1880
01:26:47,090 --> 01:26:48,610
Is it not to share your bread with

1881
01:26:48,610 --> 01:26:52,430
the hungry and to bring into your house

1882
01:26:52,430 --> 01:26:53,730
the poor who are cast out?

1883
01:26:53,950 --> 01:26:56,190
When you see the naked, then you cover

1884
01:26:56,190 --> 01:27:00,390
him and hide yourself from your own flesh?

1885
01:27:00,470 --> 01:27:02,010
In other words, your fellow Israelites, you're hiding

1886
01:27:02,010 --> 01:27:02,690
from them?

1887
01:27:02,970 --> 01:27:03,590
They have need?

1888
01:27:04,110 --> 01:27:05,590
Kind of like John says in 1 John,

1889
01:27:06,050 --> 01:27:07,150
you see your brother in need and you

1890
01:27:07,150 --> 01:27:08,930
say, hey, go well, be warm, well fed.

1891
01:27:09,130 --> 01:27:10,830
You don't do anything to help him?

1892
01:27:11,170 --> 01:27:12,450
How can the love of God be in

1893
01:27:12,450 --> 01:27:12,550
you?

1894
01:27:12,550 --> 01:27:13,870
That's what he's saying here.

1895
01:27:14,030 --> 01:27:17,310
And he's showing clearly, this is not the

1896
01:27:17,310 --> 01:27:17,670
fasting.

1897
01:27:17,830 --> 01:27:19,790
And further down, this is not the Sabbath

1898
01:27:19,790 --> 01:27:20,670
that I want.

1899
01:27:20,790 --> 01:27:24,750
So I'm just thinking about, probably from my

1900
01:27:24,750 --> 01:27:29,230
own experience in Israel, I'm sure people, it

1901
01:27:29,230 --> 01:27:30,310
occurred to me while I was in Israel,

1902
01:27:30,390 --> 01:27:32,670
I'd never thought of this before, how ridiculous,

1903
01:27:32,850 --> 01:27:33,830
I know I've shared this with you all

1904
01:27:33,830 --> 01:27:36,170
before, I'll say it again, how ridiculous it

1905
01:27:36,170 --> 01:27:38,030
is for somebody to think that God was

1906
01:27:38,030 --> 01:27:39,930
saying, one day a week, I want you

1907
01:27:39,930 --> 01:27:42,810
to stop keeping the law, which is to

1908
01:27:42,810 --> 01:27:44,030
love your neighbor as yourself.

1909
01:27:44,210 --> 01:27:46,070
Don't keep the law on the Sabbath.

1910
01:27:46,970 --> 01:27:50,190
I mean, what a ridiculous interpretation of him

1911
01:27:50,190 --> 01:27:51,090
saying, do no work.

1912
01:27:51,650 --> 01:27:51,890
So anyway.

1913
01:27:52,770 --> 01:27:54,230
I did have a few more thoughts.

1914
01:27:55,810 --> 01:27:57,810
I wanted to emphasize a little more on,

1915
01:27:58,990 --> 01:28:00,570
or bring to our attention, a little more

1916
01:28:00,570 --> 01:28:03,710
the idea of, I guess I got a

1917
01:28:03,710 --> 01:28:09,790
little glimpse of like the will of God

1918
01:28:11,210 --> 01:28:15,810
and the whole law was not, I forget

1919
01:28:15,810 --> 01:28:19,290
how it got described now, and Buddy kind

1920
01:28:19,290 --> 01:28:21,610
of alluded to that too and it made

1921
01:28:21,610 --> 01:28:24,790
me think that this is very important that

1922
01:28:24,790 --> 01:28:26,970
we get a hold of the real thing,

1923
01:28:27,150 --> 01:28:29,550
what the will of God is, and not

1924
01:28:29,550 --> 01:28:36,930
get bogged down in keeping the laws, even

1925
01:28:36,930 --> 01:28:42,950
though those laws were for a time, but

1926
01:28:42,950 --> 01:28:43,670
to be free.

1927
01:28:44,610 --> 01:28:47,690
That was the other thing, like free to

1928
01:28:47,690 --> 01:28:48,030
what?

1929
01:28:48,170 --> 01:28:49,270
Free to serve Christ.

1930
01:28:49,450 --> 01:28:53,470
Free to walk in His light and free

1931
01:28:53,470 --> 01:28:57,470
to, or free from the law to do

1932
01:28:57,470 --> 01:29:01,790
the will of the Father.

1933
01:29:01,890 --> 01:29:03,310
I'm not sure if I'm getting that together,

1934
01:29:03,310 --> 01:29:08,490
but another thing I've been thinking about was

1935
01:29:08,490 --> 01:29:16,560
Paul kept the Sabbath perhaps, but in Acts

1936
01:29:16,560 --> 01:29:20,260
18, it just sounds like he was very

1937
01:29:20,260 --> 01:29:20,620
busy.

1938
01:29:21,780 --> 01:29:24,460
Every Sabbath he would argue in the synagogue

1939
01:29:24,460 --> 01:29:26,480
and would try to convince Jews and Greeks.

1940
01:29:28,060 --> 01:29:31,120
Like every Sabbath he was just arguing.

1941
01:29:33,040 --> 01:29:34,920
I don't know, maybe you all don't get

1942
01:29:34,920 --> 01:29:37,640
tired of arguing, but it makes me very

1943
01:29:37,640 --> 01:29:37,960
tired.

1944
01:29:40,380 --> 01:29:41,320
It's hard work.

1945
01:29:46,000 --> 01:29:50,820
Anyways, let's take advantage of these things.

1946
01:29:50,980 --> 01:29:52,080
I think that's what Paul was doing.

1947
01:30:06,500 --> 01:30:15,140
The blood of Jesus was purified.

1948
01:30:19,340 --> 01:30:27,580
Peace, perfect peace, find only

1949
01:30:27,580 --> 01:30:31,360
peace, friend.

1950
01:30:32,320 --> 01:30:41,280
You know where the peace has led

1951
01:30:41,280 --> 01:30:44,920
to, friend.

1952
01:30:45,920 --> 01:30:54,780
Peace, perfect peace, with sorrows

1953
01:30:54,780 --> 01:31:04,280
turning round, on Jesus, who

1954
01:31:04,280 --> 01:31:12,160
took up the compass round.

1955
01:31:13,160 --> 01:31:22,500
Peace, perfect peace, with love was

1956
01:31:22,500 --> 01:31:32,380
far away, in Jesus' keeping

1957
01:31:32,400 --> 01:31:39,420
we are safe and made.

1958
01:31:40,420 --> 01:31:49,940
Peace, perfect peace, our future

1959
01:31:49,940 --> 01:31:58,820
all unknown, Jesus we

1960
01:31:58,820 --> 01:32:08,480
know and He is on the throne.

1961
01:32:10,200 --> 01:32:19,320
Peace, perfect peace, there shall reign

1962
01:32:19,320 --> 01:32:28,860
just and right, Jesus Christ, and

1963
01:32:28,860 --> 01:32:36,980
Christians all in time.

1964
01:32:37,980 --> 01:32:47,740
Filled with guilty heart, first struggled to

1965
01:32:47,740 --> 01:32:56,620
just ease, and Jesus, Father

1966
01:32:56,620 --> 01:33:04,400
to confer, perfect peace.

1967
01:33:05,400 --> 01:33:13,980
Pray that nevermore the gateways try to

1968
01:33:13,980 --> 01:33:23,340
enter therein to, leave your flesh upon

1969
01:33:23,340 --> 01:33:31,440
the gate, for the sanctified and true,

1970
01:33:31,440 --> 01:33:40,220
press onward the prize and calling, things

1971
01:33:40,220 --> 01:33:49,140
forgiven which are behind, pearls of greatest

1972
01:33:49,140 --> 01:33:58,340
price, our promise, Jesus, see and you'll

1973
01:33:58,340 --> 01:33:59,760
find.

1974
01:33:59,760 --> 01:34:08,260
Lay aside each weight that hinders, on

1975
01:34:08,260 --> 01:34:17,100
yourself both night and day, stride with prayer

1976
01:34:17,100 --> 01:34:25,440
and prayer and crying, don't be fearful or

1977
01:34:25,440 --> 01:34:34,820
afraid, be ye strong and stride with courage,

1978
01:34:35,240 --> 01:34:43,880
though the devil and his foes, seem so

1979
01:34:43,880 --> 01:34:53,580
many yet remember, they with us are still

1980
01:34:53,580 --> 01:34:55,880
the most.

1981
01:34:55,880 --> 01:35:05,260
Be ye zealous, O dear brothers, be your

1982
01:35:05,260 --> 01:35:13,780
first love kindled bright, let your single

1983
01:35:13,780 --> 01:35:20,820
heart look bright on, let it not turn

1984
01:35:20,820 --> 01:35:29,920
left or right, Be ye zealous, O dear

1985
01:35:29,920 --> 01:35:39,640
sisters, though the world despises you, we

1986
01:35:39,640 --> 01:35:47,780
by meat and waters, found of sweet God's

1987
01:35:47,780 --> 01:35:52,980
beauty, shining through.

1988
01:35:54,520 --> 01:36:00,900
The love of God is greater power, there's

1989
01:36:00,900 --> 01:36:07,120
no more pen can ever tell, it goes

1990
01:36:07,120 --> 01:36:15,020
beyond the highest star, and reaches to the

1991
01:36:15,020 --> 01:36:17,120
lowest hell.

1992
01:36:17,440 --> 01:36:24,680
The guilty bear of hell prepared, God gave

1993
01:36:24,680 --> 01:36:32,760
his Son to win, his erring child he

1994
01:36:32,760 --> 01:36:40,460
reconciled, and pardoned from his sin.

1995
01:36:40,460 --> 01:36:46,800
The love of God, our rich and pure,

1996
01:36:47,340 --> 01:36:56,940
how measureless and strong, it shall forevermore

1997
01:36:56,940 --> 01:37:06,220
endure, the saints and angels' song, When holy

1998
01:37:06,220 --> 01:37:14,100
times shall pass away, and earthly thrones and

1999
01:37:14,100 --> 01:37:20,780
kingdoms fall, when man new here begins to

2000
01:37:20,780 --> 01:37:27,700
pray, on rocks and hills and mountains tall,

2001
01:37:27,700 --> 01:37:34,820
God's love so sure, shall still endure, all

2002
01:37:34,820 --> 01:37:44,480
measureless and strong, redeeming grace, pure and

2003
01:37:44,480 --> 01:37:51,320
great, the saints and angels' song.

2004
01:37:51,700 --> 01:37:57,340
The love of God, our rich and pure,

2005
01:37:58,200 --> 01:38:07,600
how measureless and strong, it shall forevermore

2006
01:38:07,600 --> 01:38:14,720
endure, the saints and angels' song.

2007
01:38:15,660 --> 01:38:22,160
When we leave the ocean bill, and where

2008
01:38:22,160 --> 01:38:29,460
the skies of parchment lay, where every star

2009
01:38:29,460 --> 01:38:35,840
on earth a quill, and every man a

2010
01:38:35,840 --> 01:38:42,060
scribe a train, to write the love of

2011
01:38:42,060 --> 01:38:51,200
God above, would any ocean cry, nor could

2012
01:38:51,200 --> 01:38:57,360
the scroll contain the whole, the stretch from

2013
01:38:57,360 --> 01:39:01,340
sky to sky.

2014
01:39:02,000 --> 01:39:07,540
The love of God, our rich and pure,

2015
01:39:08,300 --> 01:39:18,000
how measureless and strong, it shall forevermore

2016
01:39:18,000 --> 01:39:24,960
endure, the saints and angels' song.