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00:43 The first commandment is really vital. If we don't get 00:47 this commandment right, 00:49 it's downhill from there. 00:51 This is really the foundation of all the commandments. 00:56 We've no less days 01:00 to sing God's praise 01:04 than when 01:07 we'd first 01:09 begun. 01:14 Here He's actually saying: "Look, I did not come to 01:17 destroy the law. I came to magnify the law. " 01:20 I was lost... with loving hands 01:25 He reached for me. 01:29 So tenderly 01:32 He sought to give 01:35 me victory. 01:40 Today I would like to focus on the third commandment. 01:44 "Thou shalt not take the name of the Lord 01:47 thy God in vain... 01:50 for the Lord will not hold him guiltless 01:54 who taketh His name in vain. " 01:57 The glory of God's name is the most sacred trust 02:03 and He has given that trust to us. 02:07 Whoo! 02:11 Good morning and welcome to Spring Camp Meeting 2019. 02:15 Welcome to the 3ABN Worship Center. 02:18 I like that coming from the Previously On, Pastor 02:21 Wintley Phipps: "Whoo! " 02:24 Isn't that great? What a blessing! 02:26 Just the open is an inspiration! 02:27 We thank you for joining us on 3ABN. 02:30 Welcome to our local audience. 02:32 I'm going to ask our director, our camera crew: 02:35 let's get a wide shot and then we'll... 02:37 I know you still look like you're waving at me 02:38 but we'll wave at everyone that couldn't make it to Camp Meeting 02:41 OK? Here we go. Good morning. Let's wave. 02:43 All right. Good morning! Are you blessed? 02:46 AMEN! 02:48 Let's do it one more time so we can bring that audio up 02:50 for those that are missing this. All right. Are you blessed? 02:52 Yes! 02:55 OK... so for those of you at home 02:57 see what you're missing? Need to come here to 3ABN. 03:00 But we understand. Sometimes life is just that way 03:02 and you can't make it out. But we're being blessed here 03:04 at 3ABN Camp Meeting. And today... this is Friday, 03:08 the Preparation Day for the Sabbath. 03:10 We're going to be blessed with wonderful words from the Lord. 03:14 We appreciate the speakers that have committed 03:17 their hearts and lives to the ministry of God 03:20 and to the study of His Word. 03:22 And this morning is no exception. 03:24 We're going to be blessed by a message: The 4th Commandment: 03:27 a Temple in Time by Evangelist Ryan Day. 03:31 He's the assistant to Tim Parton 03:33 for our new music channel, so he wears many hats here at 3ABN. 03:38 But he has a passion for evangelism. 03:40 You've heard him speak before, of course. 03:42 God has given him a wonder- ful gift in music and song. 03:45 Wow! He can break the Word of God down. 03:47 And so we're blessed to have him here with us this morning. 03:49 But before he comes, we're going to have some music 03:53 by Celestine Barry-Dickens and her daughter Farrah. 03:57 And it's entitled It's My Desire. 04:28 It's my desire 04:33 to live for Jesus. 04:39 It's my desire 04:45 to live just for Him. Oh yes, 04:51 though oft I failed, 04:56 brought Him my shame 05:03 it's my desire 05:08 to live for Him. 05:15 It's my desire 05:20 to help someone today... 05:26 someone who may have failed 05:31 to see the way. 05:38 I, too, was once so lost 05:43 but I found my way to God. 05:49 It's my desire 05:54 to live for Him. 06:01 If you could see 06:04 where Jesus brought me from 06:07 to where I am today, 06:13 then you would know 06:16 the reason why 06:18 I love Him so! 06:24 You can take the world - 06:27 its wealth and riches - 06:30 and I don't need earth's power. 06:35 It's my desire 06:40 to live for Him. 06:47 If you could see 06:50 where Jesus brought me from 06:54 to where I am today, 06:58 then you would know 07:02 the reason why 07:04 I love Him so! 07:09 You can take the world - 07:13 its wealth and riches - 07:16 and I don't need earth's power. 07:21 It's my desire... 07:25 it's my desire... 07:32 it's my desire 07:40 to live 07:44 just for 07:48 Him! 07:56 Amen! Praise the Lord! Thank you, Celestine. 08:00 Is it your desire to serve Jesus? 08:02 Amen! Praise the Lord! We've got a packed house! 08:05 Nine o'clock in the morning! Praise God! 08:08 Amen... amen. Hey look, unless you stayed up late last night 08:12 you have no reason at all to be all calm and quiet on me 08:16 this morning, so I'm going to need your help presenting 08:19 this topic because we have a very exciting topic 08:21 this morning. We're going to continue our journey 08:23 in the Bible of the Ten Commandments. 08:25 We're taking on the topic or the subject of the 4th commandment 08:29 which obviously we're going to be talking about the Sabbath, 08:32 OK? And you know, this is going to be 08:36 a new one for me because I have never presented the topic 08:38 of the Sabbath in 45 minutes. 08:41 So I'm going to need you to pray for me; pray for that clock 08:44 and we're going to go ahead and get right into the Word of 08:47 God. It's going to seem like I'm auctioneering off this 08:49 particular subject. But praise the Lord it's being recorded 08:52 so you can go back and watch it over and over and over 08:55 and take notes. But before we go any further 08:58 what do we need to do? Pray. 09:01 Ah, we need God's presence; we need God's intelligence... 09:04 we need the Lord here with us this morning. 09:07 So I'm going to go ahead in prayer with Him right now. 09:11 Father in heaven, we praise You so much. 09:13 We thank you for this blessed day. 09:16 We thank you for another day of life, Lord. 09:19 And Lord, there's no doubt in our mind. We don't have to 09:21 question whether or not You are here. 09:23 We know that Your Spirit is with us 09:26 because You have told us that where two or three or more 09:28 are gathered in Your name there You are in the midst. 09:30 And so Lord, I pray that You will hide me behind Jesus 09:33 this morning. Every word, every thought, every idea 09:36 be that from Your Word... be that from Jesus. 09:38 We praise You, God, 09:40 for this opportunity to dissect Your Word. 09:42 We ask that You lead and guide us through this study 09:44 and I You give us the Holy Spirit so much 09:47 that every word, every idea that we hear this morning 09:50 that our hearts and minds will be open to it 09:53 and that we will receive the blessing from God. 09:54 We praise You and we thank you so much 09:57 for your never-ending love, grace, and mercy. 09:59 We ask this in Jesus' name, Amen! 10:03 Amen! Praise the Lord! 10:05 So we're going to go right to the book of Revelation 10:07 so if you have your Bibles... I hope you have your Bibles. 10:10 If you don't, hopefully the words of the text will be 10:13 up on the screen. But we're going to go directly 10:15 to the book of Revelation the 14th chapter. 10:18 I want to make this topic relevant for today 10:21 because in the world that we live in today 10:23 as soon as you say the word Sabbath 10:26 you've lost some people. 10:27 As soon as mention the word commandments 10:29 you've lost some people because again 10:32 some people find or feel that this particular topic 10:35 is irrelevant. That again "We're not under the law 10:38 we're under grace. " And of course the word is being twisted 10:41 and manipulated and taught in such a way 10:43 that God's Word, God's holy law, and especially His Sabbath 10:47 commandment has been forgotten. 10:49 And we're going to find out in just a few moments 10:51 that the very commandment that God said "Remember" 10:53 is the one it seems the world is forgetting every single day. 10:57 And so we're going to continue in God's Word. 10:58 Revelation the 14th chapter, and I'm going to take us directly 11:03 to those famous three angels' messages 11:05 and you're going to see why they're relevant, 11:07 why they're important today. 11:08 And I just want to say as a disclaimer: 11:10 some of you in here today may say: "You know what, Ryan? 11:12 I've heard this message 100 times. " 11:13 There may be those at home watching: 11:15 "I already know this message... I've heard it a million times. " 11:17 Well I promise you you probably haven't heard it 11:19 in the way that I'm going to present it this morning. 11:21 And even if you HAVE heard it it's good to hear it again, 11:24 right? Amen! It's good to hear it over and over and over. 11:26 And there may be someone here with us this morning 11:28 or someone watching at home that has not heard this 11:30 message, and I praise God for that because God's truth 11:33 will reach the world before Jesus comes back. Amen? 11:36 Revelation the 14th chapter and we're going to begin 11:39 with verse 6. And the Bible says, speaking of these three 11:43 angels' messages, we're going to look at the 1st angel's message. 11:46 Notice what the Bible says. 11:48 John is in vision and he says: 11:57 OK, so God is sending the everlasting gospel. 12:01 So is this a gospel message? Yes! OK, so far 12:04 what we're talking about is the everlasting gospel. 12:07 It lasts forever, and it's going to everyone 12:10 who dwells, notice, on the earth: 12:14 Does that include everyone here in Thompsonville? 12:16 Yes! Does that include everyone here in Illinois? 12:19 Does that include everyone on the planet? 12:21 Obviously this is a world-wide driven message. 12:24 We need to be reminded of this 12:26 because the everlasting gospel we are told is going to go 12:28 to all the world, right? 12:30 Amen. Let's be reminded of that. Let's go on... 12:32 The Bible continues to say in verse 7: 12:37 And I just want to highlight there: "Saying with a loud 12:39 voice. " The original Greek word here is a word... listen to what 12:42 it sounds like: megalófonos. 12:44 What does that sound like? 12:46 Megaphone. That's where we get such English words as 12:49 megaphone. And what's the purpose of a megaphone? 12:51 It's to project sound... to amplify sound. 12:55 And so does God want everyone to hear this message? YES! 12:58 OK. We're setting a foundation; hang with me. 13:00 It goes on to say: "Saying with a loud voice... " 13:10 So He's saying: "Reverence Me. Return to honoring Me. 13:13 Return to recognizing who I am as the All Sovereign God 13:18 that I am. " Why? Because we are living in a judgment time, 13:21 right? The Bible says the judgment time has arrived... 13:25 it "is come. " But notice what it continues to say: 13:36 "And worship... " In other words, return to worshiping 13:40 the Creator. " OK, are we all together so far? 13:44 Yes! OK... now this is important 13:47 because if this message is going to the entire world 13:49 and God is amplifying this message for the entire world 13:53 to hear and He's saying: "Hey! In these last days... " 13:55 We know that Revelation is relevant for the last days. 13:58 It's prior to the second coming of Jesus. Amen? 14:00 So He says: "Hey, I want you to return to worshiping Me 14:03 the Creator. " Now I believe 100% 14:07 as we're about to highlight in Scripture 14:09 that when it says returning to worship Him, the Creator, 14:12 it's talking about God. It's talking about the completeness 14:15 of the Godhead. Amen? But... I want to make very clear 14:18 something. This is probably the most vitally important point 14:21 that we're going to make in this entire presentation. 14:23 In fact, if you miss this point 14:24 you're not going to understand the significance and importance 14:27 of the rest of this message, OK? 14:29 When it says to return to worshiping Him 14:33 specifically within the Godhead who is Him? 14:38 Well I believe 100%, and I want to make this very clear 14:41 all of the Godhead in its completeness 14:43 was very much active in the creative work. 14:47 The Bible tells us that one specific individual 14:49 within the Godhead was the active member 14:52 who made the creative work happen. 14:54 OK? Now I want to highlight that. 14:56 We're going to turn over to our Bibles if you have it. 14:59 You'll probably see it on the screen. 15:00 Let's go to Ephesians chapter 3, Ephesians chapter 3, 15:05 and I want you to notice what the Bible says. 15:06 Paul writes here in Ephesians 3 beginning with verse 9. He says: 15:29 So when we read those famous words right there, 15:31 the very first words in the Bible: "In the beginning 15:34 God created the heavens and the earth. " 15:36 Who was the active individual who was speaking 15:38 this world into existence? 15:41 According to the book of Ephesians chapter 3 verse 9 15:44 we are told that Jesus Christ was the active member of the 15:47 Godhead who did that creative work. 15:49 Now I want to continue on to John chapter 1. 15:51 We're just highlighting some very important points here. 15:53 John chapter 1 verse 3 reminds us also... speaking 15:57 of Jesus Christ... the Bible says: 16:08 Did you catch that? 16:10 So who was it when the Bible says: "In the beginning God 16:13 created the heavens... " who was it that spoke this world 16:16 into existence? When we read that creation account 16:19 over in Genesis... and by the way, if you have your Bibles 16:21 you can go to Genesis right now. 16:22 Genesis chapter 1 and 2. 16:23 When we go to Genesis chapter 1 and 2 16:25 and we see God's amazing powerful creative work 16:29 on display there, who is it according to Scripture 16:32 was the active agent in making that creation happening? 16:36 That was a little weak... let's try that one more time. 16:39 Who was it? JESUS! It was Jesus, OK? 16:42 Now there's a reason why I'm emphasizing this. 16:45 Because when you're studying the fourth commandment, 16:48 when we're considering the importance and significance 16:51 of the Sabbath commandment, 16:53 you cannot... What word did I just use? 16:55 You cannot separate the Creator from the Sabbath. 17:01 You can't separate Jesus 17:03 from the seventh-day Sabbath. 17:06 But yet we have a whole lot of people in the last days 17:09 as the devil is working hard to diminish the power, 17:12 the sovereignty, and the creative, powerful work of God. 17:15 The devil is working hard to try to separate Jesus 17:18 from His holy day. Amen! 17:20 OK, so let's make that very very clear: 17:22 Jesus is Creator. So we're in Genesis chapter 2 17:25 beginning with verse 1. So in all of the verses in chapter 1 17:29 we see God creating on this day, the first day, the second day, 17:32 the third day, fourth, fifth. 17:34 Sixth day He creates man in His image. 17:36 And then we come to Genesis chapter 2 verse 1. 17:39 Notice what the Bible says: 17:49 And by the way, who finished them? 17:51 Jesus. Whoo! That sounds good. I like that name. 17:54 Jesus was the One who finished the work. 17:56 Now I just want to pause for a moment and clarify something. 18:00 When it says that day one came and God created 18:03 the Bible says: "The evening and the morning was the 1st day. " 18:07 "The evening and the morning was the second day. " 18:09 "The evening and the morning was the... " There's a pattern here. 18:11 You know what that communicates? 18:13 I believe with all my heart, mind, and soul we can take that 18:15 literal to believe that God created the world 18:18 and all that in them is in six literal 24-hour days. 18:22 Amen! OK... we don't have to go into the Bible 18:24 and manipulate and twist the Word of God into believing 18:27 that somehow it took thousands and thousands of years. 18:29 God could have created the world in 1 single day if He wanted to. 18:32 But He did it in 6 days because He knows His perfect plan. 18:35 He is perfect. Now we come to the 7th day. 18:39 Notice what the Bible says beginning in verse 2 18:42 of chapter 2 of Genesis. The Bible says: 19:13 Are we together so far? 19:14 OK, so I want you to notice this. This has been highlighted 19:17 many times but I'm going to re-emphasize it because it's 19:19 vitally important. Notice how we have 3 things mentioned here. 19:23 First of all, there's the repeat 3 times of "the seventh day, " 19:26 "the seventh day, " "the seventh day. " 19:29 What day is the Sabbath accord- ing to the creative chapters 19:32 of Genesis? THE seventh day. 19:34 We're going to come back to that in just a moment 19:36 but also notice God did three things on the seventh day 19:40 that He didn't do on any of the other six days. 19:43 All right. First, number one, He rested. 19:47 All right. Then He blessed. 19:50 And then the third one - probably the most important 19:52 one - He sanctified. 19:54 Now what does sanctified mean? 19:56 It means that He set it apart for holy use. 20:00 That means that God said: "This day is special. " 20:04 All right, now this day... 20:06 Now the other days were special in and of themselves. 20:08 We don't want to ignore that, OK? 20:10 All days are very special. But when it came to the 7th day 20:12 God said: "Ah, I've got to set this one aside. 20:14 This one is My holy, blessed day. " 20:18 So I just want to say right out front: where was 20:21 the Sabbath instituted? Before there ever was a Jew. 20:26 Before there ever was a Jew God had sanctified and made 20:30 holy the seventh day of the week. 20:33 Now I just want to pause and really quickly state this. OK? 20:36 You might be saying right now: "Ryan, it's very easy for you 20:38 to preach such a message be- cause you're a SDA Christian. " 20:42 And I say: "Praise the Lord and I'm proud of it! " Amen? 20:45 However, I haven't always been a SDA Christian. 20:49 For more than 17 years of my life my family and I were 20:52 Sunday-keeping Christians. 20:54 We believed 100% that the first day of the week - 20:58 Sunday - was the Biblical Sabbath. 21:01 That's what we were taught. That was the tradition we were 21:03 raised in. However, when the Holy Spirit came 21:08 and we emptied our mind of man-made ideas and theories 21:12 and we simply said: "Lord, we want to know what Your Word says 21:15 on this subject. " When you take the Bible 21:18 for what it actually says you will see that there is power 21:22 in the Word of God. You don't need some man to tell you 21:25 what it says. God's Word tells it to you for sure! 21:28 In fact, if you were isolated on an island somewhere 21:30 you would not come to the conclusion that any other day 21:33 of the week other than the 7th day of the week 21:35 was the Sabbath. Now I tell you: if you go into any other church 21:40 today other than a Biblical, Sabbath-keeping church 21:43 you can preach... I could stand up behind the pulpit 21:46 and preach a sermon on the first commandment. 21:49 And I could say something like 21:52 "You know, the Lord tells us that we should 21:56 honor Him and we should recognize Him ONLY 22:00 as the all-sovereign God for the first commandment teaches us 22:03 that we shall have "No other gods before Him. " 22:06 And I guarantee when I walk out of that church 22:07 I'm going to get a nice pat on the back. Praise the Lord, 22:09 Amen, Hallelujah! 22:11 I might preach a sermon on the second commandment 22:13 that says we should not bow down to any graven images 22:16 or idols because only God deserves worship 22:19 according to the second commandment 22:21 and I would get an "Amen... preach it brother! " 22:24 I might preach a sermon on, I don't know, the 5th commandment. 22:27 It says: "Honor your father and mother that your days may be 22:30 long upon the earth. " And I promise you, 22:32 every parent in that room is going to be "elbowing" 22:34 their children and saying: "Brother, sister, 22:37 you'd better listen to this brother 22:39 because you'd better believe 9 of those 10 commandments 22:42 today... most Christians believe that 9 of those 10 commandments 22:46 are still in effect today. 22:48 But for some reason the 4th com- mandment is the one commandment 22:51 that the devil is attacking most. That's right! 22:54 That is the one commandment that as I begin to talk to 22:57 ministers, as I begin to talk to more and more Christians today, 23:00 they come up with all of these excuses. And my heart breaks 23:04 because I used to be one of 'em! 23:06 You see, when we take on man-made ideas 23:09 and theories and we let it cloud out our mind 23:12 and we don't take a "Thus saith the Lord" for what it says 23:14 my friends, the devil can... he can creep his way in 23:16 and he can set up camp and he can cause major confusion. 23:22 One of the most... I just want to address this one out front... 23:25 when you start talking about the Biblical Sabbath 23:28 the number one excuse you're going to get up front 23:31 or the number one remark that you're going to get up front is 23:33 "Well, Ryan, I hear what you're saying about that Sabbath. 23:36 That's a great thing and all, but that's a Jewish thing. " 23:40 "That's a Jewish thing. The Sabbath was created 23:44 for the Jews. " Well I want to remind you 23:46 if there was any one right now in all of Scripture, 23:49 if you could take your finger and point to one person 23:51 or you could say one person's name 23:53 in all of Scripture who would know which day the Sabbath is 23:57 who would that be? 23:58 How about the Creator? Jesus Christ, right? 24:01 Jesus of all people, because He created the Sabbath 24:05 He would know which day of the week the Sabbath is. 24:07 He would know who He created it for, right? 24:10 Mark chapter 2 verse 27... notice what Jesus says. 24:14 He says: "The Sabbath was made for the Jews and not the Jews 24:18 for the Sabbath. " Is that what the Bible says? 24:22 That is not what the Bible says. 24:24 Jesus says: "The Sabbath was made for? " "for man 24:29 and not man for the Sabbath. " 24:31 And that word for man in the original Greek 24:33 is the word pronounced "Anthropos. " 24:36 Anthropos... and it's where we get our English word 24:41 in the study of anthropology. What is anthropology? 24:44 It's the study of mankind. Anthropos 24:47 in the original Greek simply means human being, mankind. 24:51 So of all people in the Bible Jesus - the Creator - would 24:54 know whom He created the Sabbath for. 24:57 And He tells us right here: "Look, I created it for 25:00 all mankind. " Does that include me? 25:02 Does that include you? 25:04 Does that include everyone at home watching 25:05 and everyone around the world? 25:07 My friends, God has provided us a blessing of the Sabbath. 25:09 Are we going to partake of that blessing? 25:12 That's the question. 25:14 Nowhere in the Bible... and I'm making this bold statement 25:17 because it is true: nowhere in the Bible is the 7th day called 25:20 the Sabbath of the Jews. 25:22 It is not a Jewish Sabbath, my friend. 25:25 It is the Sabbath of the Lord and He has created it 25:28 for every single person. It points to His creative power. 25:32 It's a memorial for the Creator of the universe. 25:35 And my friends, when we go out... and this is where my 25:37 heart breaks... because when we go out and we teach people 25:39 that the Sabbath is no longer in effect, 25:42 that we don't have to observe the Sabbath, 25:44 and we're teaching people to not observe that which God said 25:47 remember to do, what we're telling people to do 25:49 is to forget about the Creator 25:52 and the creative power that He has. 25:54 We're telling people to forget about Jesus. 25:57 And I don't think there is any Christian in the world, 25:59 genuine Christian in the world, that would want to promote 26:03 such as message as to forget about our Savior. Amen? 26:06 Powerful! Powerful! Exodus chapter 20. 26:11 We're going to go there. 26:12 And why would we go to Exodus chapter 20? 26:14 Because that is where we find the record 26:17 of the Ten Commandments verbally spoken by God. 26:20 And we're going to go to verses 8 through 11. 26:23 This is where the Sabbath commandment is recorded. 26:26 And you will see here very clearly that this is the longest 26:29 of the Ten Commandments. 26:31 And it has a very interesting nature about it 26:35 'cause it's quite different than the rest of the commandments. 26:38 Notice what the Bible says in Exodus chapter 20 26:43 verses 8 through 11. 26:46 The Bible says: 26:59 Wait! Whoa! Whose Sabbath is it? 27:02 Whoo! It's God's Sabbath! 27:06 Guess what? You don't have a Sabbath. 27:08 You don't have... I get those... 27:11 Again, it's one of those things as I'm traveling and I'm 27:14 preaching this message many times I have people that 27:16 come up to me. You know, very nice sometimes... 27:18 sometimes not so nice... And they'll say to me: "Ryan, 27:21 you know, I hear what you're saying. It's great that you 27:24 keep... you're convicted in keeping the Biblical Sabbath.,, 27:27 the seventh day... the Jewish Sabbath. 27:30 But your Sabbath is Saturday; my Sabbath is Sunday. " 27:34 And I get where they're coming from 'cause these are 27:36 some of the excuses I used to play with in my mind. 27:40 But I'm quick to remind them: "No disrespect, 27:43 but you and I... we don't have a Sabbath. " 27:46 "We don't have a day we can call our day. " 27:49 Hallelujah! It's HIS day... it's HIS Sabbath! 27:52 And only He, the Creator of the universe, 27:54 can determine which day is His day. 27:56 All right? Let's continue reading. 27:58 We just said: "It is the Sabbath of the Lord thy God. " 28:28 Do those words sound familiar? 28:30 Where it said: "In six days the Lord made the heavens 28:34 and the earth and the sea... " That sounds just like almost 28:37 word for word what we just read earlier 28:38 in the first angel's message 28:40 where it says return to worship- ing Him who made the heavens 28:44 and the earth and the sea and the fountains of waters. 28:45 That almost exact usage of words and phrases 28:48 taken directly from the fourth commandment. 28:50 So is the fourth commandment relevant for Christians 28:52 in the last days? Yes! You'd better believe it is. 28:54 Right here we just read it. Notice how God starts with 28:57 "Remember. " Eight of the Ten Commandments start with 29:01 "Thou shalt" or "thou shalt not. " 29:03 You know, so God is simply saying: "Look, I want to set you 29:05 free from this; I want to set you free from that. " 29:08 "I want to set you free from this and that. " 29:09 "I want to set you free; I want to bring you out 29:11 of the house of bondage. " 29:12 When He gets to the Sabbath commandment He says: 29:14 "You know what? I want to set you free from having to work 29:17 all the time. I want to set you... 29:19 I want to give you rest where you can commune with Me; 29:22 where you can commune with each other, your brothers & sisters 29:24 in Christ. " And He says: "Look... remember it. " 29:27 And as I stated earlier today we live in a world where 29:30 the very commandment that God said "Remember" 29:33 is the commandment that more and more Christians today 29:35 are deceived into believing that we should forget! 29:38 My friends, we are to stand bold on the Word of God 29:41 and preach this truth. 29:42 God's Sabbath has not been done away with. 29:44 In fact, we are to remember it now more today than any 29:46 time before. Amen! And there is no doubt as to 29:50 which day the Sabbath day is 29:52 because we can take the Word of God for what it says. 29:55 Right there in the very command- ment, in verse 11 it says: 29:58 "For in six days the Lord made heaven and earth, 29:59 the sea, and all that in them is and He rested... " 30:02 Which day? 30:03 "THE seventh day. " And I just want to highlight this. 30:05 I'm going to take a note from Pastor Doug Batchelor's book 30:08 here. I like the illustration he used. He says: "Look, 30:10 if I told you to go grab me a chair, 30:15 if I told you to go grab me a chair, 30:18 is that specific? " 30:20 No! You can go in this room and grab me any old chair 30:22 in the room. But if I looked at you and said: 'Hey, 30:24 go grab me THE chair, " 30:27 now that's specific, right? 30:28 Was God specific when He told us which day is His holy day? 30:32 You'd better believe He is. 30:33 And again it goes back to that... I have many Christians 30:36 today... again, they mean well but I have many people tell me 30:39 "Hey, it's OK to keep Sabbath but just pick the day 30:42 that works best for you. " 30:44 "You know. just whatever day works best for you. " 30:46 I've had people say: "Well, my work week starts on Monday 30:49 and therefore it's best for me to go ahead and observe Sabbath 30:53 on Sunday. " I've had people say: 30:54 "You know, I have a weird work schedule and sometimes my 30:57 Sabbath might be Tuesday or my Sabbath might be Thursday. 31:00 Or you know what? I might keep a Friday Sabbath 31:03 but you know sometimes it doesn't work out for me 31:05 to keep the Biblical timing. " My friends, at the end of the 31:07 day again we don't have a Sabbath. 31:09 It's the Lord's Sabbath, and He has told us very clearly 31:12 that His day is THE 7th day. Cam we go changing that? 31:17 NO! Can we uproot it and move it to some day of the week 31:21 that we think fits our schedule best? 31:23 No my friends. In fact, there's no doubt 31:26 which day the Sabbath day is. It's right there in the Bible. 31:28 It's clearly illustrated. One good illustration is 31:32 Jesus Christ's death, burial, and resurrection. 31:36 Jesus, we are told, died on Preparation Day. 31:40 Preparation Day in the Bible was always the 6th day. 31:45 And all Christians believe and call it "Good Friday" 31:48 when it comes to that Easter weekend. 31:50 And I'm not promoting the paganistic belief 31:54 or practice of Easter, but I'm just stating 31:56 that most Christians today would probably admit 31:59 that they believe Jesus Christ resurrected on the 1st day 32:02 that they call Easter? Easter Sunday. 32:05 So if Jesus Christ was buried on Good Friday - 32:08 which is Preparation Day - 32:10 and He was resurrected on Easter Sunday, the 1st day of the week. 32:14 guess what that means. And how ironic and very appropriate 32:17 Jesus rested in the tomb on the 7th day of the week, 32:21 the Sabbath. Praise the Lord! The Bible is so clear. 32:24 We don't have to go creating theologies or ideologies 32:27 on this. God is very clear in His Word. 32:32 You know, who is our example? 32:35 Isn't Jesus supposed to be our example? 32:38 You know, at the end of the day if you are doubting all of this. 32:41 Let's say there's someone watching at home right now... 32:44 You may be in this room right here and say: "I hear what 32:46 you're saying, Ryan, but it's just not computing with me 32:49 as much as I thought it would. " Well you can be safe on this: 32:52 the Bible tells us that at the end of the day 32:54 Christ is our example. 32:57 Did Jesus keep the Sabbath Day holy? 33:02 If He knew that He had plans 33:05 to show up and delete or omit or get rid of the Sabbath Day, 33:10 would He have kept such a thing that He was intending 33:13 to get rid of? I don't think so. In fact, we have evidence 33:17 in the Bible... The Bible tells us in Luke chapter 4 33:19 verse 16, speaking of Jesus. It says: 33:35 So Jesus kept holy the Sabbath Day. 33:37 And you say: "Ryan, He did that because He was a Jew. " 33:40 We've already established nowhere in the Bible does 33:42 the Bible call the Sabbath the Sabbath of the Jews, right? 33:44 So this is not a Jewish Sabbath but let's just play with that 33:47 for a moment. You say: "Well Ryan, but Jesus kept it 33:49 because Jesus was a Jew. And He kept the feast days 33:52 and He did all that but obviously after He would die 33:55 He Himself in heaven and nowhere else here on earth 33:59 would He expect His new Christian followers 34:02 after His death to continue to keep the Sabbath. " 34:05 Well... well... 34:09 let me show you something. 34:11 If we go over to Matthew 24, 34:14 and I want you to see this. Turn with me to Matthew 24. 34:16 We're in the gospel of Matthew the 24th chapter. 34:19 And if you know anything about the 24th chapter of Matthew 34:22 then you know that this is the famous "Olivet discourse. " 34:25 This is the message that Jesus would have given the disciples 34:28 one week prior to being crucified on a cross. 34:32 And He's laying out for them the final events 34:35 of earth's history prior to the second coming of Jesus. 34:39 And He says here in the 20th verse of Matthew 24... 34:43 again, speaking of the last days, notice what He says here: 34:46 In fact, in this particular text He was talking about 34:50 the time in which Jerusalem would be destroyed 34:53 and the temple would be ransacked and destroyed. 34:55 And we know historically this happened in 70 AD. 34:59 So the events that Jesus is talking about in this chapter 35:02 actually is going to occur many many years after He had died. 35:06 So for those Christians who believe: "OK, when Jesus died 35:09 the law is made void; the Sabbath has been done away with" 35:12 well it's quite interesting. If Jesus was intending to 35:14 do away with the Sabbath notice what He tells 35:17 His church leaders. Right here in Matthew 24 35:20 verse 20 speaking of the time in which they would have to 35:24 prepare for the destruction of Jerusalem in 70 AD 35:27 notice what He says: 35:35 Now notice this would have happened around 70 AD 35:39 give or take. So we know very clearly 35:41 this is some 39 years or so after Jesus would have died 35:45 He's simply telling them: "Look, when it comes close to that time 35:49 I'm going to expect that you're still going to be keeping 35:51 the Sabbath, and you'd better pray that Titus & his Roman army 35:54 don't show up on the Sabbath. " 35:56 "So pray that you don't have to flee in the winter 35:59 or on the Sabbath. " This is proof to the fact that 36:01 the Creator of the universe still would have been expecting 36:05 His followers, His church, and especially His church leaders 36:09 to be honoring and observing the fourth commandment 36:11 that is the Sabbath commandment. Amen? 36:13 In fact, if you jump over... This wasn't just His immediate 36:17 twelve disciples but also all of His disciples, 36:20 all of His apostles including Paul Acts chapter 17 verse 1 36:24 talking about the early church history. 36:26 Again, many years after Christ has died. 36:28 It says in Acts 17:1: 36:47 Who is them? Paul has been preaching 36:49 and witnessing to non-Jews. 36:53 Whoo! And three Sabbath days. 36:56 You know, he could have easily said: "Look, this Sabbath 36:59 isn't for you non-Jewish folk. 37:02 This Sabbath is just for us Jews so we'll meet you guys 37:06 on Sunday, the first day. " 37:08 No, no, no... in fact, notice also Acts 18:4 37:12 one chapter over. It says: "And he... " speaking of Paul, 37:22 Again, Paul understood that when Jesus said 37:26 He made the Sabbath for man and not man for the Sabbath 37:28 he understood that was a world-wide thing that included 37:32 everyone. The Sabbath was for every single person. Amen? 37:35 Praise God! Amen! 37:37 Let's talk about ultimately the true significance of the Sabbath 37:40 for a moment because my time is just 37:42 tick tick tick ticking away. 37:44 Am I talking too fast for you guys? 37:46 No. All right. 37:49 Ezekiel chapter 20. I love this passage 37:54 because now the Sabbath becomes extra personal. 38:00 Up to this point we've been just trying to establish 38:03 the validity because there's a lot of questions, 38:06 there's a lot of excuses the devil has put out there 38:10 in the hearts and minds of many people. 38:11 And so far we've just kind of been quickly building a general 38:15 validity - a Biblical validity - for Sabbath keeping. 38:18 But now I want to start making it personal 38:22 because the Bible is a personal book 38:26 and we serve a personal God. Amen? 38:29 Ezekiel 20:12. Again, God Almighty Himself 38:34 speaking to us, and notice what He says here: 38:44 Whose Sabbath again? 38:46 It's His... He's clear on it. 39:06 Did you catch that? 39:07 Not only did God bless and make holy 39:11 His seventh-day Sabbath back at creation 39:15 now He turns to His people 39:17 and He says: "Look, I love you 39:22 and I made this day specifically to be a special sign. " 39:27 A special... In fact, it's interesting. 39:29 In the original Hebrew here it's the Hebrew word oth. 39:34 Oth... O-T-H. 39:37 Very simple: oth. 39:39 And when you look up the meaning of that Hebrew word 39:42 you know what it can also mean? 39:43 A mark. 39:49 Now that's another message. 39:51 You're stopping now... we're not here to talk about "no" mark. 39:55 But I want you to get this: 39:57 In the Hebrew He says: "It's My special mark. " 40:02 "It's My special sign between you and Me. " 40:06 He says: "That you might know 40:09 that I am your God and that I might know that you are My 40:12 people who I want to sanctify. " Get that. 40:14 Sanctify. "I sanctify My holy day. 40:17 Guess what? When you accept and keep and observe 40:20 My holy day... " God says... "I'm going to sanctify you. " 40:25 Whoo! Did anybody comprehend what I just said? 40:28 Amen! He says: "I want to make you holy. " 40:31 "I see that when you observe and keep My holy day 40:34 because you want to commune with your brothers and sisters 40:37 in Christ and you want to commune with Me as your God 40:40 I will set you apart for a holy use. " 40:43 How many want to be set apart for a holy use today? 40:46 Every hand in the room should go up! 40:47 Amen. In fact, He says this a second time. 40:51 Notice what He says in Ezekiel chapter 20 verse 20. 40:55 He repeats it: 41:06 How do you truly come to know that He is the true sovereign 41:09 God? He says: "I've given you a sign. " 41:12 "Lord, how do I know You're the true all-sovereign Creator? " 41:15 He says: "I've given you a sign! " 41:17 "I've given you My holy day, and when you observe and keep 41:21 My holy day you're recognizing Me 41:24 as the Creator of the universe. " 41:27 "You're recognizing Me as the Savior and Lord of your life 41:31 and I'll know that you are My people 41:33 and I'll know that you know I'm your God. " 41:35 Whoo! Man, that gets me excited! 41:38 Man, I tell you: every time I look at this message 41:41 at the end of the day... Now I'm just going to give you 41:44 a little quick personal testimony 'cause my time is... 41:46 Pray for that clock now. "God, slow that clock down. " 41:50 So get this... get this: 41:53 I'm a non-Sabbath-keeping Christian. 41:56 My dad who is with me today, he's here in the crowd, 41:59 my dad was a Pentecostal minister for many years. 42:02 And I watched as my dad went from church to church 42:05 to church after he learned this incredible message. 42:08 And he would preach the Sabbath. 42:10 He would preach all these great pillars of faith 42:13 that he was learning from the Adventist church 42:15 and every single time... I don't know... it was crazy. 42:18 We'd go to one church. He'd preach and they'd say: 42:20 "Get out of here. " 42:21 We'd go to another church. He'd stand up and preach 42:24 and they'd say: "Get out of here... we don't want to 42:25 hear that. " He was going for... He was preaching 42:27 the everlasting gospel and he was getting the "boot" 42:31 out of church. You know, so I didn't understand that 42:34 growing up. I studied this through and I thought: "Man! " 42:36 To me it sounded weird in the beginning. 42:38 In the beginning I thought: "Man, dad's just being weird. 42:41 Why can't we go to church on Sunday like everybody else? " 42:43 "I just want to go to church; I want to be normal. " 42:46 I remember the first time I went to a SDA church. 42:49 I stepped foot in the church; I thought: "These people are 42:51 weird! " 42:54 And what really put it on top: one of my very first times 42:58 back to the SDA church after a long stint 43:00 I came back to the church one day and it was the end of 43:03 the service and they invited me. They said: 43:06 "Today is special fellowship dinner. " 43:12 They said: "Would you like to come down and fellowship 43:16 and eat with us? " I'm like: "All right, sure... 43:18 what's on the menu? " 43:20 "We're having haystacks! " 43:30 I remember with a smile on my face 43:32 thinking: "These people eat hay? " 43:44 But I've come to learn... 43:47 a haystack... for those at home that may be watching 43:49 and those here today you say: "What in the world 43:51 is a haystack? " It's basically a vegetarian taco salad. 43:54 And by the way, it's one of my favorite meals today. 43:56 Praise God! I love haystacks! 43:59 But I remember... I remember when I first decided 44:03 "I'm going to study this message out" 44:05 'cause I had heard what my father was saying... 44:07 He was pleading with me: "Son, you need to keep 44:09 the Sabbath. " 'Cause I was coaching basketball and I was 44:11 having games on Saturday. 44:14 I was attending all kinds of events and going out. 44:16 I was a DJ. Well I was doing my DJ thing 44:20 for 4-1/2 years as a professional DJ on 44:22 Friday nights and Saturdays. And I remember my dad would 44:24 plead with me: "Son, I wish you would keep the Sabbath. " 44:27 So one day I decided: "I'm going to look at this thing. 44:30 I'm going to study this out. " 44:31 So as I began to study it it kind of turned... In the 44:34 beginning my purpose was to try to prove to my dad 44:36 that we don't have to be weird any more. 44:39 We can keep Sunday like everybody else. 44:43 But as I began to study the Word of God for myself 44:46 and as I began to really look at what the Word was saying 44:49 the Lord began to confirm more and more in my own heart 44:52 and mind, and at the end of the day I began asking this question 44:56 "If the Bible says all this stuff 45:00 about the seventh-day Sabbath, 45:03 then why Sunday? " 45:05 "Why do we keep the first day rather? " 45:08 "Why does everyone out there... how do they not see this? " 45:12 And I began... God began to dial in my understanding. 45:17 You see, in Isaiah 58 verse 13... 45:20 Now this particular passage is not going to be on the screen 45:23 but I want you to hear this. I added this at the last moment. 45:26 Isaiah 58:13... this is God Himself speaking. 45:29 And this is what He says. He says: "If thou turn away 45:32 thy foot from the Sabbath 45:33 and from doing thy pleasure on My holy,,, MY holy day... " 45:37 He says... Notice: Jesus says in Mark chapter 2 verse 26: 45:40 "Therefore the Son of Man is Lord of the Sabbath. " 45:42 You see, God's holy day is the Sabbath Day. 45:45 And I remember asking myself: "Why Sunday? " 45:47 because I had been taught growing up that Sunday 45:50 was the Lord's Day. 45:52 But when I was readin' the Bible 45:54 I could see God Himself - 45:56 Jesus the Creator... the all-sovereign God Himself - 46:00 saying: "Hey! the Sabbath is My holy day. " 46:04 I began to scratch my head saying: "Where in the world 46:06 do we get this idea that Sunday is God's holy day? " 46:10 That's what I was taught growing up. 46:11 I believed it because you hear other people saying it. 46:14 You know? But when you really study it through 46:16 Historically you want to know when Sunday became 46:21 called "the Lord's day? " 46:22 Check this out. 46:24 Historia Ecclesiastica. 46:26 Council of Laodicea page 739. 46:29 "In the year 325... " I added this in, too. 46:32 "In the year 325... that's AD... Sylvester, 46:35 bishop of Rome, changed the title of the first day 46:39 calling it 'the Lord's day. ' " 46:40 Now you've got to understand the significance of this 46:42 because back in 325 AD 46:44 there was only one Christian church. 46:48 You know, all these different thousands of denominations 46:50 that exist today? They didn't exist back in this time. 46:53 The Protestant Reformation had not occurred at this time. 46:56 And so there was one Christian church, and when the leader 46:59 of that church - the Pope - stood up and said: "Hey! 47:02 Now we're going to call the Lord's day the first day of the 47:05 week" they had a little bit of an influence 47:09 to continue to believe that because back in the day 47:13 if you went against this you were persecuted. 47:17 If you decided to stand on what the Bible said 47:20 and you went against the church, 47:22 it was like in their minds going against God Himself. 47:26 And so they just traditionally began to switch their thinking 47:30 and their ideas about this. 47:31 And many many many generations would go by, 47:34 many many different centuries would go by, 47:37 and more and more people - your ancestors, my ancestors - 47:41 over a period of time began to adopt the tradition 47:44 that Sunday was the Lord's day and that Sunday was the new 47:48 Sabbath day. My question is: what does the Bible say? 47:52 What does the Bible say? I want to give you 47:55 a little bit of a historical background on this 47:56 because we're coming toward the end of our presentation here 48:00 but I want you to understand this. 48:01 The Ancient Church by Dr. W. D. Killen, pages 15-16. 48:06 Notice what this historian states: 48:24 You say: "Ryan, how in the world did this whole Sunday 48:27 kind of counterfeit Sabbath idea 48:30 come into effect? " We just heard by the historian 48:32 over a period of time between the time in which the early 48:35 apostles had died and the conversion of Constantine 48:38 the Great, the Roman Emperor, 48:39 around the early 300's AD 48:42 these paganistic practices and substitution 48:47 began to creep into the church. 48:49 Paul didn't know these; Peter didn't practice these. 48:51 None of the early apostles and early Christians practiced this. 48:54 It crept in over time and as he said claimed the rank 48:57 of divine institution. 48:59 And then we come to March 7, 321 AD 49:03 where Constantine the Great, the Roman Emperor, 49:06 decided that he was going to make a nice political move 49:10 because half of his kingdom was Christian, half of his 49:12 kingdom was pagan. And so he decided: "You know what? 49:15 I want to try to bring them together. I want to try to be 49:18 the man over all the people. " And so he says: 49:21 "You know what? I'm going to make a change. " 49:23 And so on March 7, 321 AD 49:25 he passes the first civil Sunday law. 49:30 You can start to see this effect in history. 49:33 Slowly but surely it creeps its way into a solid tradition. 49:37 And then at the Council of Laodicea around 363-364 AD 49:44 some 49 years after Constantine the Great 49:49 would make that first civil Sunday law 49:51 the leadership of the one Christian church 49:54 which would become known as the Roman Catholic church 49:57 they put this in their Council or Synod of Laodicea. 50:01 Canon #29 stated this and made it law within the church: 50:24 Now is that in harmony with the Bible? 50:26 No it's not... but it goes on to say: 50:33 And what that meant back in the day 50:35 is if you were a Bible Christian and you went to a priest 50:38 or you went to a Pope or a cardinal or a bishop 50:40 or whoever in your church and you said: "Uh, 50:42 hey, pastor, brother, priest, 50:45 I'm reading my Bible and my Bible says that the 7th day 50:48 is the Sabbath and I want to be a Bible Christian. " 50:51 You see, when they say anathema from Christ or shut out 50:55 from Christ, what that means is you would be excommunicated. 50:59 But in these days excommunicated meant 51:01 you were a heretic... you had a demon. 51:04 And so they were going to exorcise the demon out of you. 51:07 And many times that meant taking you down into a dark dungeon, 51:10 torturing you until you almost die and leave just enough life 51:12 in you to take you out and burn you alive at a stake. 51:16 This tradition would be estab- lished over many many centuries 51:20 and so you can imagine why your ancestors, my ancestors 51:22 would eventually adopt this idea that Sunday 51:25 is the Lord's day. Until about the mid-1800's 51:28 God woke some people up. 51:31 Whoo! I said: "God woke some people up 51:34 in the mid-1800's. " 51:36 And He pointed them back to the Bible 51:38 and they began to preach that message. And here we are today 51:41 proclaiming it from the roof- tops. From everywhere else 51:44 we're proclaiming the message. Notice the Christian Sabbath 51:47 page 16. This is actually coming from a non-Adventist source 51:50 here. 52:00 Now I know this is a secular statement, but I want to make 52:03 this very clear. The Bible says that they would 52:05 "think to change it... " Whoo-ee! 52:10 You know what the Lord said? He said they might think 52:14 they're going to change it... Whoo! 52:17 "They may think to change My day, but guess what? 52:21 They can't change it because it's solid. It's in stone! " 52:26 "It's written in our hearts" He says. 52:29 Oh, I love this statement! Prepare yourself. 52:31 If you're not sitting down, sit down because it's going to 52:33 get exciting right here. I love this quote! 52:35 This is actually from a Catholic source. 52:37 This comes from the St. Catherine Catholic Church 52:39 Sentinel May 21, 1995. 52:42 Notice what it says: 52:57 They admit it! Whoo! The staunch promoter of Sunday-keeping 53:01 is Catholic. They're probably the #1. 53:03 And even they admit you're not going to find it in Scripture. 53:06 And they say... notice: "And from the church's sense 53:10 of its own power... " 53:12 Did God give His people 53:14 or the church power and authority to change His Word? 53:18 NO! Whoo-ee! 53:20 Oh my goodness. Notice what he goes on to say: 53:38 Whoo! Praise the Lord! 53:41 Now I want to make it clear 53:44 I believe that the Lord is at work among all churches. 53:46 OK? God's got good people, Spirit-filled people, 53:49 that He's leading in all churches. I don't believe 53:51 that only SDA's will make it into the kingdom 53:54 'cause I believe right now there's some demonic people 53:56 in the Seventh-day Adventists. I'm just going to tell you. 53:59 You know, there's some tares in the Adventist church. 54:01 I love my church! 54:03 I believe this is the church that's closest to the Bible. 54:06 But just as there will be people who will make it 54:08 into the kingdom of God from other churches 54:10 there will be some people from the Adventist church 54:12 that won't make it into the kingdom of God. 54:13 We want to make that clear. 54:15 We are to be a people of the Bible. 54:17 Notice... Oh, I love this next quote. Whoo! 54:20 This comes from the Catholic Universe Bulletin 8-14-42. 54:24 Notice what they say in their own bulletin. They say: 54:34 Notice what it goes on to say: 54:48 Whoo! Now I had a couple more quotes 54:53 but I'm going to skip down to a couple of the last scriptures. 54:58 I want to go to John 14:15. 54:59 John 14:15. In fact, most of you can quote this. 55:03 Let's get to the heart of the matter in closing. 55:06 Are we saved by the keeping of the commandments? No! 55:10 Are we saved because we've got the Sabbath day right? No! 55:14 Absolutely not. We're saved 55:15 by the grace of Jesus Christ. Let's make that clear. 55:19 But if you are saved, you know what Jesus says? 55:23 "If you love Me, keep My commandments. " 55:28 My friends, is the Sabbath an issue of legalism? 55:32 NO! Is it an issue of do this or else? 55:35 No, no, no, no. Our loving, kind God says: 55:38 "If you love Me, keep My commandments. " 55:42 Amen! I have people all the time that say: "Ryan, 55:44 am I going to miss out on the kingdom of God 55:45 because I didn't get the day right? Because I didn't 55:47 keep the Sabbath right on the right day? " 55:49 I say: "No, no, no, no. You're not going to miss out on 55:51 the kingdom of God because you broke the Sabbath commandment. 55:52 You're going to miss out on the kingdom of God because 55:54 you didn't love God enough to keep the commandments. 55:56 You're going to miss out on the kingdom of God because 55:58 you didn't love Him or know Him enough 56:00 to keep the commandments. 56:02 You didn't know the God of the commandments! " 56:06 Just like Adam and Eve didn't miss out on the garden 56:08 because of one piece of fruit. 56:10 It was about love... it was about love. 56:14 I want to say this in closing: 56:16 are we going to keep the Sabbath in heaven? 56:18 Yes! Whoo! Here we go... stay with me. 56:21 Isaiah 66:22 56:39 Folks, get this... get this: 56:41 when the disciples came to Jesus 56:43 they said: "Teach us how to pray. " 56:45 You know what His prayer was? 56:47 "Our Father, 56:51 which art in heaven... " You know it. 56:54 "Hallowed be Thy name. " 56:57 Notice this next part: "Thy kingdom come, 57:00 Thy will be done... " Where? 57:04 "on earth as it is... " Where? 57:08 If we're going to be keeping Sabbath in heaven, 57:11 Jesus said: "Pray that you'll keep it on earth 57:14 as you will in heaven. " Praise God! 57:16 Don't we serve a mighty God? Amen! 57:18 I can't wait till I get to worship with Jesus 57:20 on the Sabbath in heaven 57:22 every single week. Amen? 57:24 Praise the Lord! Let's go to the Lord in prayer. 57:26 Praise you, God. Thank you, Lord, for a wonderful wonderful 57:30 message. Praise you, God, for Your Sabbath rest. 57:34 You are Lord; You are Sovereign 57:35 and I pray that this message will reach the whole world. 57:38 I pray that someone has been blessed and brought to the truth 57:41 because of this message this morning. 57:43 Prepare our hearts. Lead us to Jesus. 57:46 Turn our eyes upon Jesus in these last days. 57:48 We pray and ask this in Jesus' holy name, Amen. |
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