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These are the user uploaded subtitles that are being translated: 0:00:07.440,0:00:12.960 good morning praise the lord always so happy  to see young people making those decisions 0:00:13.520,0:00:18.800 for jesus and for eternity and i know there's  some others that are on the verge of that that 0:00:18.800,0:00:23.360 are studying now and we just continue to pray  for our young people have the next generation 0:00:23.360,0:00:28.960 commit their lives to the lord you know as  i was praying about what to share this week 0:00:30.080,0:00:32.880 the lord impressed me to talk about something that 0:00:34.160,0:00:38.880 is very basic and foundational but i think  it's good for us to be reminded of these things 0:00:41.120,0:00:47.920 now there's few things that are more important  than the ten commandments uh you know there is one 0:00:47.920,0:00:53.840 jesus one bible one holy spirit but unfortunately  there are hundreds of different christian 0:00:53.840,0:01:00.000 denominations and the different denominations  argue about different theological points 0:01:01.360,0:01:04.640 i'm sure there's some that would disagree with  us but a lot of them disagree with each other 0:01:05.280,0:01:10.880 over everything from the you know mode of  baptism whether or not you need to speak in 0:01:10.880,0:01:15.840 tongues if you receive the holy spirit whether  or not the wine during the communion should be 0:01:16.800,0:01:21.280 fermented or unfermented whether or not  you should do it every week or once a 0:01:21.280,0:01:26.160 year there's just a whole plethora of different  doctrines that churches debate and argue about 0:01:27.200,0:01:32.800 and some things are more important than others  even within our church you'll find some difference 0:01:32.800,0:01:40.080 of opinion on who comprises the 144 000 and  understanding the seven trumpets in daniel 11. and 0:01:40.080,0:01:45.920 you know there are some things that maybe are  not essentials but if there is anything that is 0:01:45.920,0:01:52.560 an essential to understand i would think it  would be oh what are god's commandments say 0:01:53.680,0:02:00.400 what is sin these things are are priorities  they're very important issues and so this morning 0:02:01.360,0:02:06.880 i thought i'd just remind you of  something that is an obvious departure 0:02:07.680,0:02:14.800 from what i see as biblical truth if jesus should  come to the sacramento area this morning and walk 0:02:14.800,0:02:19.600 up and down the streets of the city and see the  different churches that have the word christian on 0:02:19.600,0:02:28.400 them he would find 90 maybe 95 of the doors closed  on sabbath and i suppose that would grieve him 0:02:29.200,0:02:35.360 because the sabbath is one of the ten commandments  so our message today is sunday really sacred and 0:02:35.360,0:02:40.560 we're going to begin at the beginning some  of you know the story of the trojan horse 0:02:41.280,0:02:46.160 the trojan horse is a story and some of it we  believe is based on truth there may be some myth 0:02:46.160,0:02:53.040 mixed in there but according to the story the city  of troy was being besieged by the greeks the city 0:02:53.040,0:02:58.800 of troy was somewhere in the dardanella straits  there in turkey and for 10 years the greeks tried 0:02:58.800,0:03:03.440 to overthrow troy but they could not get through  their big walls and they were able to withstand a 0:03:03.440,0:03:10.560 siege someone came up with a clever plan and  they made a gigantic horse from some of the 0:03:10.560,0:03:15.680 wrecked ships that were on the shore a big  wooden horse they put it on large wheels 0:03:16.560,0:03:21.680 and they said it was an offering to the god  athena they were retreating from the battle and 0:03:21.680,0:03:29.840 during the night they pushed the horse up to the  gates of troy as an offering to athena that for 0:03:29.840,0:03:36.080 to forgive them that they were not able to conquer  the city of troy and they pretended to withdrawal 0:03:36.080,0:03:42.960 the ship sailed away they actually just sailed  around out of view and one man was left with a 0:03:42.960,0:03:46.720 horse that was tied up he was supposedly a  prisoner he was actually one of the greeks 0:03:47.360,0:03:52.640 he said yeah they made this great horse as  an offering to athena to get her favor they 0:03:52.640,0:03:56.000 knew it would be too big for you to get inside  your city and that's why they made it so big 0:03:57.760,0:04:01.280 well i said oh too big to get inside this  we got gates big enough to get this horse 0:04:01.280,0:04:07.920 inside well what they didn't know is that the  greeks had put a small force of elite soldiers 0:04:07.920,0:04:14.320 half a dozen soldiers inside the horse and they  said we want the blessing of athena on our city 0:04:15.280,0:04:21.600 and so they thought maybe if we get their blessing  of their gods inside our city that will be 0:04:21.600,0:04:27.840 safe in the future and so they brought  the trojan horse inside the city and 0:04:28.640,0:04:35.760 closed the gates well that night the greeks came  back and there was a signal given by the one 0:04:36.480,0:04:41.760 supposed slave who had come along with a  horse he shown a load a light the soldiers 0:04:41.760,0:04:46.000 were released from the horse they went and  they opened the gates of the city in time 0:04:46.000,0:04:53.520 for the greeks to come in and show a fell because  of the trojan horse now the moral of the story is 0:04:54.320,0:04:58.240 sometimes we bring in something from  the enemy and we think that it's going 0:04:58.240,0:05:03.440 to be a blessing that really contains a  curse it's like you're receiving a virus 0:05:04.880,0:05:12.080 into your church or into your city or your nation  by adopting something from the enemy and that'll 0:05:12.080,0:05:18.240 make more sense as we go along starting at the  beginning genesis chapter two god made the world 0:05:18.240,0:05:25.840 in six days no really seven days because he wasn't  done creating until after the full week he made 0:05:25.840,0:05:31.440 one more thing he made a day thus the heavens and  the earth were finished and all the host of them 0:05:32.160,0:05:38.240 and on the seventh day god ended his work which  he had made and he rested the seventh day from 0:05:38.240,0:05:44.640 all his work which he had done and god blessed  the seventh day and sanctified it made it holy 0:05:44.640,0:05:49.280 because in it he rested from all his work which  god created and made he did not make it holy for 0:05:49.280,0:05:55.200 himself he made it holy for man to remember  the bible says the sabbath was made from man 0:05:55.200,0:06:01.280 it doesn't say the sabbath was made for jews the  word there is anthropos it means mankind humanity 0:06:02.960,0:06:07.920 and it's first time also you're going to find  the word seven mentioned three times it says 0:06:07.920,0:06:12.240 seven seven seven it's a number associated with  god the seventh day the seventh day the seventh 0:06:12.240,0:06:17.280 day very specific you get to the last book of the  bible it's got another number associated with man 0:06:17.280,0:06:22.800 who was made on the sixth day and it's 666. so  you've got this contest between the worship of 0:06:22.800,0:06:28.240 god and the worship of man that goes on through  the bible now you go to the ten commandments 0:06:28.240,0:06:34.160 you find them in exodus chapter 20 verse eight  remember the sabbath day to keep it holy six days 0:06:34.160,0:06:39.840 you should labor and do all of your work but the  seventh day is the sabbath of the lord your god 0:06:39.840,0:06:44.800 in it you shall not do any work your son your  daughter so forth but very clearly says do all 0:06:44.800,0:06:52.880 your work six days seventh day holy time this is  one of the ten commandments spoken by god's voice 0:06:52.880,0:06:58.560 there are not ten suggestions they're not ten  recommendations god spoke with his own voice wrote 0:06:58.560,0:07:05.440 with his own finger his eternal law moral law for  all his people for all the world for that matter 0:07:06.400,0:07:12.640 so which day is the seventh day some people say  well you can't really know just using the bible 0:07:13.680,0:07:19.440 well let's start with the dictionary that's not  the bible dictionary seventh day saturday seventh 0:07:19.440,0:07:25.520 day of the week you go to the bible it tells us  that jesus was crucified on the preparation day 0:07:25.520,0:07:31.200 which we know to be friday then it says they  went home and they kept the sabbath according 0:07:31.200,0:07:36.560 to the commandment the seventh day and then he  rose they came to the tomb early sunday morning 0:07:36.560,0:07:40.800 the first day people call it easter sunday so  you can even look in the bible it's pretty clear 0:07:42.000,0:07:45.920 in a hundred and it's not this way in english  in english we call the seventh day saturday 0:07:46.960,0:07:54.160 but in a lot of other languages spanish how  do you say saturday sabado portuguese sabado 0:07:54.960,0:08:02.240 russian subota i got some russians here  and 105 languages of the world the word 0:08:02.240,0:08:06.320 for the seventh day of the week what we call  saturday is sabbath day isn't that interesting 0:08:07.120,0:08:11.840 so why is everyone going to church on sunday  is sunday sacred where did that happen 0:08:12.720,0:08:17.120 some say well the calendar was changed well there  have been a couple of changes to the calendar 0:08:17.120,0:08:23.520 here's an example of one when we went from the  julian calendar to the gregorian calendar in 1582 0:08:23.520,0:08:27.840 you'll notice what happened they added  10 days to compensate for the seasons 0:08:27.840,0:08:35.680 they also put in leap years so they'd keep things  on track and you went to october 1 2 3 4 15. 0:08:36.480,0:08:43.680 so did it change the calendar yes did it change  the weekly cycle not at all it went from wednesday 0:08:43.680,0:08:50.640 thursday friday sabbath saturday this weekly cycle  has never been changed by the calendar someone 0:08:50.640,0:08:55.680 wrote a letter to the u.s naval observatory  and they said have there been any changes in 0:08:55.680,0:09:01.040 the calendar through history that have affected  the weekly cycle they wrote back and they said 0:09:01.600,0:09:07.360 they don't know of any record of any change to the  calendar that has ever affected the continuity of 0:09:07.360,0:09:13.280 the weekly cycle and so when people say well the  challenge we don't know what day saturday and 0:09:13.280,0:09:17.040 sunday really are anymore because the calendar has  been changed i think it's always interesting that 0:09:17.600,0:09:21.600 uh they never have a problem with the calendar  until they learn the sabbath truth then they say 0:09:21.600,0:09:27.760 the calendar was changed we don't know and if you  don't believe that then you've got the evidence 0:09:27.760,0:09:34.080 of 15 million 16 million jews around the world and  i could see that some of them might be shipwrecked 0:09:34.080,0:09:38.240 on a deserted island and they lose track of the  time and say you know we don't remember what 0:09:38.240,0:09:46.480 day is saturday anymore but for the whole nation  to forget is very unlikely so with that in mind 0:09:47.440,0:09:52.240 what day is the lord's day now many christians  will say well you've got the sabbath day which 0:09:52.240,0:09:56.640 is what the jews kept and then you've got the  lord's day which is what christians teach and 0:09:56.640,0:10:02.480 they get this from revelation chapter one i'm  sorry uh yeah revelation chapter 1 verse 10 0:10:03.440,0:10:08.720 where john says i was in the spirit on the lord's  day and i heard a voice behind me like the sound 0:10:08.720,0:10:14.640 of a trumpet and so this is the beginning of  revelation and they say see that's the lord's day 0:10:15.520,0:10:20.160 but there's not a single verse in the bible that  says that that is referring to the lord's say in 0:10:20.160,0:10:27.360 fact it's the contrary john was imprisoned by rome  on the isle of patmos where they had minds and the 0:10:27.360,0:10:33.280 prisoners were required to work in the mines but  john refused to work on the sabbath day and that 0:10:33.280,0:10:38.800 is when the lord gave him the vision it doesn't  say anything in the text that this is now some new 0:10:39.440,0:10:43.440 different day of worship for the  children of israel or for the christians 0:10:44.160,0:10:50.960 what does the bible say is the lord's day isaiah  58 13 if you turn away your foot from the sabbath 0:10:50.960,0:10:57.520 from doing your pleasure on my holy day what day  is the lord's day sabbath day look at this one 0:10:57.520,0:11:02.480 exodus 6 we just read the 10 commandments 60 you  should labor and do all your work but the seventh 0:11:02.480,0:11:09.520 day is the sabbath of the jews is that what  it says seventh day is the sabbath of the lord 0:11:11.200,0:11:16.880 and jesus said the son of man is lord  of the sabbath all things that were made 0:11:16.880,0:11:21.440 were made by christ will that include  when he wrote the ten commandments yes 0:11:22.400,0:11:29.920 so if the sabbath is the lord's day why do  so many people worship on sunday you know 0:11:31.120,0:11:37.600 this was in our scripture reading jesus said  all too well you reject the commandment of god 0:11:37.600,0:11:44.320 that you may keep your tradition sunday keeping is  not based on scripture it is based on a tradition 0:11:44.320,0:11:49.360 now i'm going to prove it to you from the bible as  we go on here and from history uh some of you have 0:11:49.360,0:11:54.400 heard this interesting story from history where  i think with zern nicholas he looked out of his 0:11:54.400,0:11:59.520 palace walls one day and he noticed that this  guard had always been standing at this obscure 0:11:59.520,0:12:04.320 place on the wall there's no gate there was no  door and one day he was walking in the garden 0:12:04.320,0:12:09.040 he went up to the garden he said why exactly are  you standing here well the guard was very nervous 0:12:09.760,0:12:15.840 and he said well i have orders to stand here your  majesty and he said do you know why he said no 0:12:15.840,0:12:21.440 we've just always had someone here 24 hours a day  so he went to the captain now the czar was getting 0:12:21.440,0:12:26.320 very curious and he said why do we always have a  soldier standing at that particular remote spot in 0:12:26.320,0:12:31.200 the garden there's nothing there and he said well  we've it's just been a standing order for years 0:12:31.200,0:12:35.440 we've always had 24 hours a day a guard is to be  stationed there it's been mandated it's in the 0:12:35.440,0:12:41.520 archives so lazar went to look at the archives to  try and find out why is there a soldier there in 0:12:41.520,0:12:48.400 the archives that said a hundred years earlier  catherine the great was entertaining guests 0:12:48.960,0:12:54.240 one of her guests came a dignitary from another  country and gave her a gift of an exotic rose bush 0:12:55.440,0:12:58.880 they planted the rose bush and she  said i don't want this to be trampled 0:12:58.880,0:13:04.400 have a guard guard my rose bush well the rose  bush died five years after they planted it 0:13:05.760,0:13:10.640 but at that point they were in the habit of  guarding that spot and so for a hundred years 0:13:11.360,0:13:17.120 a guard was standing there without questioning  why he was standing there it was a tradition and 0:13:17.120,0:13:23.040 there are still traditions that christians guard  that there is no rhyme or reason for except that 0:13:23.040,0:13:30.480 it's a tradition there's no biblical reason for it  so some of the other scriptures that explain this 0:13:30.480,0:13:38.720 ezekiel 22 verse 26 and verse 31 her priests have  violated my law and profaned my holy things they 0:13:38.720,0:13:46.400 put no difference between the profane and the holy  they have hid their eyes from my sabbaths and i 0:13:46.400,0:13:52.560 am profaned among them therefore i poured out my  indignation on them you know one of the reasons i 0:13:52.560,0:13:56.960 was convinced of the sabbath truth is because  after i first learned these things i went to 0:13:56.960,0:14:03.840 my pastors i used to go to church on sunday i  was so into christianity i was going to several 0:14:03.840,0:14:08.080 different churches one church said we'd have a  wednesday night bible study i'd be there then 0:14:08.080,0:14:12.480 i'd go to another denomination i'd be at their  service another one would have a special early 0:14:12.480,0:14:16.000 morning service i went there i was going to four  or five different churches studying with all these 0:14:16.000,0:14:21.200 christian groups in southern california i was just  hungry i couldn't get enough but when i learned 0:14:21.200,0:14:26.560 the sabbath truth i'd ask the different pastors  i'd say so why do we go to church on sunday 0:14:27.680,0:14:31.440 and if you ask 10 different pastors  you would get 11 different answers 0:14:33.200,0:14:38.800 one would say these are just a few examples  doug we're no longer under the ten commandments 0:14:40.240,0:14:44.160 we're now under grace i said well what does  that mean does that mean that we don't need 0:14:44.160,0:14:48.080 to keep the ten commandments they said well  we're not under the law so wait let me help 0:14:48.080,0:14:53.360 me understand that is it okay now to kill  well no steal no lie no commit adultery no 0:14:54.480,0:14:59.200 what they really meant is there's one commandment  you're not supposed to remember anymore 0:14:59.200,0:15:01.840 that's the sabbath i said but isn't  that the one that says remember 0:15:03.440,0:15:06.640 so that didn't make sense and so  i talked to another one he said 0:15:07.680,0:15:13.040 because of the resurrection jesus rose on the  first day of the week and so it is the new 0:15:13.040,0:15:17.280 christian sabbath i said that sounds beautiful  said where is the scripture that tells us that 0:15:18.320,0:15:22.720 well there is no specific scripture but  we've got a long-standing tradition as 0:15:22.720,0:15:27.200 though there's some value in that and then i  i had another friend he was the most creative 0:15:28.400,0:15:32.880 and he said doug back in the days of joshua you  remember joshua prayed and the sun stood still 0:15:34.000,0:15:36.640 saturday turned into sunday back then 0:15:38.560,0:15:43.920 and i said well that's interesting i said except  why did they continue to keep it on the seventh 0:15:43.920,0:15:49.360 day for another 1500 years after that and he  couldn't answer that and they were all giving 0:15:49.360,0:15:54.560 me differences they didn't agree with each other i  said something's wrong they are hiding their eyes 0:15:55.680,0:16:01.440 from a very obvious truth because they have  counted the cost of what will what will it 0:16:01.440,0:16:06.320 mean if i take a stand for this biblical truth  i'll lose my congregation i'll be very unpopular 0:16:06.960,0:16:12.320 i know pastors that have taken a stand and it  cost them i know some pastors took a stand for 0:16:12.320,0:16:18.080 the truth and the majority of the church  followed them in the sabbath truth and so 0:16:18.080,0:16:25.520 it's always better so what we're going to do now  if we want to know why why would any christian 0:16:25.520,0:16:31.520 keep sunday instead of the sabbath the first day  instead of the seventh we're going to look at 0:16:31.520,0:16:35.840 every reference to sunday except you realize the  word sunday does not appear in the new testament 0:16:37.280,0:16:42.000 sometimes you'll hear the word sundry if you're  reading the king james sundry is not sunday 0:16:43.040,0:16:48.880 sunday's means different god in various times and  sundry manners spoke to the prophets in time past 0:16:48.880,0:16:56.320 that means different manners so if you look at  every reference to the first day of the week 0:16:56.320,0:17:02.320 which is what we commonly refer to as sunday  you might find if there's a change there's 0:17:02.320,0:17:06.560 eight references in the new testament and nobody's  gonna argue the old testament because it's very 0:17:06.560,0:17:10.560 clear it's a seventh day there so we're going  to take them one by one does that sound fair 0:17:11.280,0:17:15.760 and we'll look at them and see what the bible  says look at the first four references are 0:17:15.760,0:17:21.600 simply historical they are talking about the  time of the resurrection matthew 28 verse 1 0:17:22.720,0:17:28.720 in the end of the sabbath uh my friend harold  camping i say that a little bit sarcastically 0:17:28.720,0:17:34.320 i apologize harold camping was the founder of  family radio good radio station i listened to them 0:17:34.320,0:17:38.720 but he used to answer bible questions and  he would always when people asked about the 0:17:38.720,0:17:42.640 sabbath he would go to this verse he said see  what it says right there the end of the sabbath 0:17:42.640,0:17:47.200 that means the sabbath is now over you don't  need to keep the sabbath anymore so that's not 0:17:47.200,0:17:53.200 what it's saying it's saying that that week after  the crucifixion after the sabbath was over it's 0:17:53.200,0:17:57.360 saying that they came early in the morning on the  first day of the week you tried to build a whole 0:17:57.360,0:18:02.000 doctrine i told you there's 11 different answers  if you ask 10 different pastors the reason why 0:18:03.040,0:18:06.880 as it began towards the first day of the week  now is that a new command to keep the first day 0:18:08.000,0:18:12.320 do you find built into that anything that says  now we have a new sabbath day it's on the first 0:18:12.320,0:18:17.840 day no it's a simple historical record now did  was it important that jesus rose on the first 0:18:17.840,0:18:25.600 day of the week absolutely does that make it a  new sabbath was there anything wrong with the 0:18:25.600,0:18:33.360 seventh day where god had to now change it no was  the seventh-day sabbath chosen before or after sin 0:18:34.880,0:18:38.080 before sin it's part of god's perfect  plan there's nothing wrong with it 0:18:39.200,0:18:46.080 did god do important things on thursday was  the lord's supper important that's thursday 0:18:46.080,0:18:49.760 does it make it a new sabbath  how important is the crucifixion 0:18:51.440,0:18:56.960 what day of the week was that friday is that  a new sabbath not for us it is for the muslims 0:18:59.120,0:19:03.760 so the lord does different things but he didn't  command us to keep any other day than the first 0:19:03.760,0:19:10.640 day that would be like saying i made a mistake  with the seventh day um now it's the first mark 16 0:19:10.640,0:19:15.680 9 a very similar reference now when jesus was  risen on the first day of the week he appeared 0:19:15.680,0:19:20.560 first to mary magdalene do you find built into  this verse that it's there's a new commandment 0:19:22.160,0:19:28.160 no there's nothing there simply the record of  what happened john 20. very similar the first 0:19:28.160,0:19:32.640 day of the week comes mary early while  it was still dark she came to the tomb 0:19:33.760,0:19:39.760 and just again a historical record there's no  new voice from a mountain no new finger writing 0:19:39.760,0:19:46.960 new law in stone saying now the first day is to be  our new sabbath nothing of the sword mark 16 1-2 0:19:46.960,0:19:52.320 now when the sabbath was passed mary magdalene  mary the mother of james and siloam brought spices 0:19:52.320,0:19:58.320 that they might come and anoint him now this to  me is actually proof that the seventh day was 0:19:58.320,0:20:05.120 still important if jesus had taught the apostles  that they didn't need to keep the sabbath anymore 0:20:05.120,0:20:09.040 or the seventh day wasn't going to  be important it was not going to be 0:20:09.040,0:20:15.600 meaningful for them why was it so important  to the disciples that they would not finish 0:20:15.600,0:20:22.160 embalming his body on friday when the sun  was going down they knew jesus would not be 0:20:22.160,0:20:26.000 pleased with that there was a lot of work  involved in it they said let's wait until 0:20:26.000,0:20:31.680 after the sabbath is past that's why they waited  because the sabbath was important you know jesus 0:20:31.680,0:20:36.720 even kept the sabbath in his death he died friday  rested through the sabbath rose after it was over 0:20:37.600,0:20:43.120 and so the idea that it's been done away with  just doesn't hold water no new commandment here 0:20:45.360,0:20:49.840 okay oops i got i got two  gotta back up ones all right 0:20:51.760,0:20:56.080 very early in the morning on the first day of the  week they came to the tomb when the sun had risen 0:20:56.080,0:21:02.400 again it's just telling us what happened there and  then the next reference is in luke luke 23 verse 0:21:02.400,0:21:09.120 56 says they returned and they prepared spices  and fragrant oils they rested on the sabbath day 0:21:09.120,0:21:14.000 according to the commandments so they prepared  that was the preparation date they got everything 0:21:14.000,0:21:18.560 ready that's what we would call friday they  they kept the sabbath according does he say 0:21:18.560,0:21:24.080 the jewish law luke was a gentile he says the  sabbath he states that like every christian will 0:21:24.080,0:21:28.400 know about this and he's writing this years after  the crucifixion he could have said the old jewish 0:21:28.400,0:21:33.280 sabbath he says according to the commandment not  the old commandment it's all stated as though 0:21:33.280,0:21:38.320 it's still in existence now on the first day of  the week very early in the morning they came to 0:21:38.320,0:21:44.800 the sepulcher the tomb is there anything in here  that says and god established a new sabbath day 0:21:45.840,0:21:49.360 so we're looking at all the references to the  first day we're looking for that commandment 0:21:49.360,0:21:54.400 i know one evangelist was very dramatic when he  would preach on this subject he would you know 0:21:54.400,0:21:59.360 bring a thousand dollars and he'd put it up up  front for everyone to see it he said i'm going 0:21:59.360,0:22:06.240 to give this away to anybody tonight that can show  me this missing text in the bible what i want from 0:22:06.240,0:22:12.400 you is to show me one commandment in the bible to  keep the first day as the new christian sabbath 0:22:13.440,0:22:17.840 of course everybody's very quiet because it's not  there and he always got to take his money home 0:22:19.280,0:22:24.880 so he was happy doing that now  we'll go to the sixth reference text 0:22:25.760,0:22:30.400 referring to the first day of the week and it  talks is it a new sabbath day this is talking 0:22:30.400,0:22:35.440 about the day of the resurrection it says then  that same day at evening now wait what day is this 0:22:37.040,0:22:39.840 first day when does a day  begin and and in the bible 0:22:41.680,0:22:44.960 so when it's talking about the same day  that christ rose first day of the week 0:22:44.960,0:22:52.160 evening it's getting ready to turn into monday  see what's happening when the doors were shut 0:22:52.160,0:22:57.920 the disciples were assembled for to to inaugurate  a new sabbath is that why they're assembled 0:22:58.720,0:23:04.320 it says they're assembled for fear of the jews  the jews were saying the body was stolen they 0:23:04.320,0:23:09.840 thought they were going to come looking for them  and jesus came met with him said peace to you 0:23:10.480,0:23:17.120 now you also look later i think it's verse 26  in the same chapter it says eight days later 0:23:17.120,0:23:22.640 he met with him again this time thomas  is there what is eight days after sunday 0:23:24.720,0:23:31.680 seven days after sunday would be what sunday  eight days after sunday is monday so he 0:23:31.680,0:23:39.120 also meets with them on a monday is that a new  sabbath so the idea because jesus did something 0:23:39.120,0:23:43.440 and met with the disciples he met with them by the  sea when they were fishing obviously if they were 0:23:43.440,0:23:48.720 fishing it wasn't the sabbath but he met with him  then too he met with them over a period of 40 days 0:23:48.720,0:23:56.400 after the resurrection does this seventh passage  say that sunday is holy and that passage is 0:23:58.400,0:24:03.840 first corinthians 16 verse 2 we've only got one  more after this now this is one some people use 0:24:03.840,0:24:10.400 they say this is proof that the disciples were  now keeping sunday as a new christian sabbath 0:24:10.400,0:24:16.000 paul says on the first day of the week and the way  it actually reads in the original on the beginning 0:24:16.000,0:24:23.200 of the week let each one of you lay something  aside storing up as he may prosper that there 0:24:23.200,0:24:28.960 be no collections when i come paul is on his  way through asia he's on his way to jerusalem 0:24:28.960,0:24:33.920 to take a special offering from the churches  in jerusalem he's making haste there's a famine 0:24:33.920,0:24:39.520 they're hungry and he said look at the beginning  of the week they used to get their accounts in 0:24:39.520,0:24:44.400 order in the first of the week everybody said  something aside when you've done your bookkeeping 0:24:44.960,0:24:50.880 so there is no church offering when i come  it's actually saying the very opposite this 0:24:50.880,0:24:56.880 is not talking about passing the plate sunday  morning he's saying the beginning of the week 0:24:56.880,0:25:01.040 lay something aside so that we don't have  a collection when i come it's ready to give 0:25:01.040,0:25:07.360 to me and i'm making haste and i'm on my way  does this is this the new sabbath commandment 0:25:08.560,0:25:14.160 does he say anything here about now do not work  on that day make sure that we gather together for 0:25:14.160,0:25:21.040 worship on that day it has it's just a practical  um recommendation that they set aside an offering 0:25:21.040,0:25:27.680 for collection purposes all right does the eighth  is question seven this is the eighth now and 0:25:27.680,0:25:32.320 the final reference to the first day of the week  that you're going to find in the bible and people 0:25:32.320,0:25:38.160 work real hard to make hay out of this one  um is it saying that sunday is a new holy day 0:25:38.160,0:25:42.560 let's look at it together it's acts 20 verse 7. if  you've got your bibles i recommend you turn there 0:25:43.200,0:25:50.240 acts 20 verse 7 luke is telling a remarkable  story we'll find out why he's telling the story 0:25:51.360,0:25:57.120 now on the first day of the week yes that would  be sunday when the disciples came together to 0:25:57.120,0:26:01.680 break bread there you got it they came together  breakfast they're having a communion service 0:26:03.040,0:26:06.640 they're gathering on the first day  and they're having a communion service 0:26:06.640,0:26:12.000 this must be evidence that they now are  worshiping on the first day it is the new 0:26:12.000,0:26:18.560 sabbath i respectfully disagree i don't think  that's what they're saying at all it says paul 0:26:18.560,0:26:24.480 is ready to depart the next day he speaks to  them and he continues his message till midnight 0:26:25.920,0:26:33.840 now when does the first day begin sundown so  when it says that they're meeting on the first 0:26:33.840,0:26:37.840 day of the week and it's an evening meeting  what this is is a saturday night meeting 0:26:39.600,0:26:43.920 and why is he talking so long because  he's not he's beginning a journey the 0:26:43.920,0:26:49.680 next day if sunday is a new sabbath why is  he beginning a journey let's keep reading 0:26:51.280,0:26:56.720 first of all the scholar horatio hackett said the  jews reckoned the day from evening to morning that 0:26:56.720,0:27:01.200 on that principle the evening of the first day  of the week would have been our saturday night 0:27:01.200,0:27:07.040 by the way this uh scholar is not a member of our  church he's just being honest the apostle held 0:27:07.040,0:27:13.280 his last religious service on saturday evening and  consequently resumed his journey on sunday morning 0:27:13.280,0:27:20.640 commentary on the book of acts so acts 20 says a  young man named eutychus was sitting in the window 0:27:20.640,0:27:25.680 who's sinking into a deep sleep he falls  down from the third story and he's taken 0:27:25.680,0:27:29.360 up dead because paul was long in preaching  which is a good recommendation for pastors 0:27:29.360,0:27:33.840 not to preach too long because it  can be lethal when that happens 0:27:36.240,0:27:42.640 so paul goes down he embraces the young man  he says his life is still in him eutychus 0:27:42.640,0:27:47.760 is resurrected luke is telling this story  because he's saying a resurrection took place 0:27:47.760,0:27:52.320 notice what happened when they came up after  eutychus is resurrected they broke bread now 0:27:52.320,0:27:56.400 they're breaking bread again they eaten and  talked a long while even till daybreak they 0:27:56.400,0:28:02.640 stayed up all night long they eat bread  twice and then paul depart the next day 0:28:03.520,0:28:09.920 oh by the way breaking bread in acts  24 46 do you only break bread on uh 0:28:11.600,0:28:17.520 what does breaking bread mean is it always a  communion service so continuing daily with one 0:28:17.520,0:28:22.640 accord in the temple and breaking bread  daily in the temple daily breaking bread 0:28:22.640,0:28:27.360 from households jesus said give us this day our  daily bread breaking bread did not always mean a 0:28:27.360,0:28:32.640 communion service it meant eating you remember on  the road to emeas he went in and broke bread with 0:28:32.640,0:28:38.320 them they were eating and that was a sunday night  which would have been monday so it's not saying 0:28:38.320,0:28:43.440 anywhere in these verses that sunday is now a  new sabbath they ate their bread with gladness 0:28:43.440,0:28:48.320 simplicity of heart the next day paul said goodbye  to them he began a journey that would have been 0:28:48.320,0:28:55.120 sunday would that be when you begin a long epic  journey no the prior day sabbath he spent with him 0:28:55.120,0:29:00.560 all day and that evening he preached eutychus fell  out the window he's resurrected that's why luke is 0:29:00.560,0:29:06.800 telling the story he's not telling the story to  say a new sabbath was inaugurated in acts chapter 0:29:06.800,0:29:13.760 20. wouldn't god have told us if one of the ten  commandments had been changed what do you think 0:29:15.120,0:29:20.560 how many of you heard that they've changed the  law now highway 65 you can go 80 miles an hour 0:29:21.360,0:29:27.040 isn't that exciting did you hear that how many  of you believe me nobody believes a pastor 0:29:29.040,0:29:35.680 why don't you believe me because you know  that if the state is going to change a major 0:29:35.680,0:29:41.520 law that would affect everybody's lives they  are responsible to thoroughly announce that 0:29:41.520,0:29:44.880 and advertise it to avoid accidents  right everyone's going to know about that 0:29:46.160,0:29:51.920 now when god gave the sabbath commandment he  spoke with his i wish they would go 80 miles 0:29:51.920,0:29:55.920 an hour and 65 because it is sure slow after  church when you get out there by pleasant growth 0:29:56.960,0:30:02.240 but after um god gave the sabbath he  speaks it with his voice he writes it 0:30:02.240,0:30:08.320 with his finger in front of an entire nation  if he's going to change that don't you think 0:30:08.320,0:30:13.360 there'd be something in the new testament  there there'd be some com some battle 0:30:13.360,0:30:19.680 look at all the argument that the jews had with  the christians over circumcision you find that 0:30:19.680,0:30:24.320 discussed all through the writings of paul  there was a great debate over there they had 0:30:24.320,0:30:28.640 a great debate about whether or not you could eat  food sacrificed to idols or not but you realize 0:30:28.640,0:30:33.520 there's never a debate about whether or not you  should keep the sabbath jesus spoke a lot about 0:30:33.520,0:30:37.280 the sabbath but he never spoke about whether  or not it should be kept he spoke about how it 0:30:37.280,0:30:42.240 should be kept it was always presumed it would  be kept because it's one of the ten commandments 0:30:42.800,0:30:46.320 god's not going to change one of the ten  commandments without making that very clear 0:30:47.760,0:30:52.560 paul said i have not shunned to declare to you  the whole counsel of god now paul is giving the 0:30:52.560,0:30:57.840 whole counsel of god why did paul never say  anywhere by the way the new christian sabbath 0:30:57.840,0:31:03.840 is the first day of the week none of them say  that and yet what does most of the world do 0:31:05.200,0:31:08.640 could the disciples have changed  the sabbath even if they wanted to 0:31:09.520,0:31:16.160 does even a disciple have the authority to do that  no paul said you shall not add to the word that 0:31:16.160,0:31:21.440 i command you nor take away from it that you may  keep the commandments of the lord your god which 0:31:21.440,0:31:28.720 i command you in revelation 22 19 if anyone takes  away from the words of the prophecy of this book 0:31:29.280,0:31:33.440 god will take away his part from the book  of life we cannot change the word of god 0:31:34.000,0:31:37.920 some people think oh the sabbath thing you're  making a big deal out of a little thing 0:31:37.920,0:31:42.160 friends i disagree i think this is the biggest  kind of thing that christians ought to stand 0:31:42.160,0:31:49.040 for it is one of the commandments of god someday  we'll all be judged by the commandments it says 0:31:49.040,0:31:54.560 so do and so speak that those will be judged by  the law of liberty that's what james tells us 0:31:55.520,0:32:02.400 jesus said heaven and earth matthew 5 18 will pass  away before one jotted tittle passes from the law 0:32:03.920,0:32:08.800 and then christ said whoever will think to break  one of the least of these commandments and do so 0:32:08.800,0:32:13.840 he'll be spoken of as least in the kingdom of  heaven these are very important issues to god 0:32:16.480,0:32:24.880 my how do christians remember jesus death is it  a new sabbath day or did christ give us something 0:32:25.920,0:32:32.560 the bible tells us that romans chapter 6 verse  3 do you not know that as many of us as were 0:32:32.560,0:32:38.800 baptized into christ jesus were baptized into his  death has christ given us something to remember 0:32:38.800,0:32:47.120 his resurrection yes is it a new sabbath no what  is it baptism therefore we were buried with him 0:32:47.120,0:32:52.400 through baptism into death just as christ was  raised from the dead by the glory of the father 0:32:52.400,0:32:59.600 even so we should walk in a newness of life the  death burial resurrection of the lord is not 0:32:59.600,0:33:07.920 replaced by a new sabbath day it is memorialized  by baptism is a reminder of the resurrection 0:33:08.560,0:33:14.880 colossians 2 12 buried with him in baptism in  which you also were raised with him through faith 0:33:14.880,0:33:20.000 in the working of god who raised him from the dead  isn't that clear say amen you're i think you're 0:33:20.000,0:33:26.400 very quiet today so how does the bible refer to  the first day of the week is it a new sabbath 0:33:27.680,0:33:32.640 ezekiel 46 1 thus says the lord god the gateway  of the inner court that faces towards the east 0:33:32.640,0:33:38.880 shall be shut during the six working days but the  sabbath it will be opened the first day of the 0:33:38.880,0:33:46.800 week is called the what it's a regular working day  now you may be in a country where you can actually 0:33:48.880,0:33:52.800 be prosecuted for breaking what they call  blue laws there are some countries where 0:33:53.680,0:33:58.800 i know a lady her father was put in jail in canada  because he was out working in his field on sunday 0:34:00.160,0:34:05.840 there were times where you weren't  allowed to work on sunday the laws of men 0:34:07.360,0:34:11.760 so if sunday keeping isn't in the bible  and i think i tried to establish that 0:34:12.400,0:34:23.920 where did it come from well it comes from just as  the name implies sun worship uh for years in rome 0:34:24.640,0:34:28.880 and they get it from the babylonians and it goes  all the way back to egypt one of their principal 0:34:28.880,0:34:34.960 gods was ra the god of the sun and around the  ancient world they understood something miraculous 0:34:34.960,0:34:41.600 happened with photosynthesis when the days get  longer and when the sun shines plants come out 0:34:41.600,0:34:46.480 life comes out the other animals and herbivores  do better and all of a sudden everything springs 0:34:46.480,0:34:52.080 into life by virtue of sun i understood there's a  mystery there photosynthesis is an amazing thing 0:34:52.080,0:34:58.080 we even get electricity from sunlight now don't  we solar panels right so they they knew there was 0:34:58.080,0:35:02.320 power in the sun but instead of worshipping the  one that made the sun they started worshiping the 0:35:02.320,0:35:07.600 sun and moses said do not lift up your eyes  and worship the sun the moon and the stars 0:35:07.600,0:35:16.320 like the heathen do by the time of christ in rome  their sun worship was one of the principal gods 0:35:16.320,0:35:22.960 and what was gradually happening is as the  church grew eventually by the time of paul 0:35:23.600,0:35:30.640 there were soon more gentiles believing in  christ than there were jews and pretty soon 0:35:30.640,0:35:35.520 there are a lot more gentiles in the church than  jews and the gentiles wanting to reach their 0:35:36.320,0:35:44.080 pagan friends they said let's make as many  accommodations as we can to try to reach them and 0:35:44.080,0:35:49.840 so for a while in rome they actually they worship  the day of the sun on the first day of the week 0:35:50.400,0:35:56.000 and um many christians they worshipped on the  sabbath they said you know we'll get a lot more of 0:35:56.000,0:36:01.200 them to join our church if we will also recognize  sunday they thought they were being evangelistic 0:36:02.080,0:36:09.440 and it came in like a trojan horse the jews were  very unpopular you realize that 70 a.d the romans 0:36:09.440,0:36:15.680 destroyed jerusalem for the rebellion and it was  a very expensive war you know the romans had to 0:36:15.680,0:36:22.240 fight three years against masada and it was a very  expensive war the romans were so tired of the jews 0:36:22.240,0:36:26.320 that when they finally conquered jerusalem they  decimated the people it was a terrible siege 0:36:27.280,0:36:33.040 the christians wanting to distance themselves  from the jews who had become very unpopular 0:36:33.920,0:36:40.160 and they thought they were legalistic they said  well we we actually we worship on the lord's day 0:36:40.160,0:36:44.400 and because jesus rose on the first day of the  week and he started to manufacture theology that 0:36:44.400,0:36:50.960 had no bible basis at all let me go and prove this  to you matthew 15 verse 9 and in vain they worship 0:36:50.960,0:36:54.320 me teaching the doctrines of the commandments  of men i got to say something right here 0:36:55.040,0:36:57.680 are there going to be a lot of people  in heaven that went to church on sunday 0:36:58.800,0:37:03.520 millions millions and millions of sunday keeping  christians are going to be there because they did 0:37:03.520,0:37:09.920 not know are there going to be people in heaven  that own slaves you don't want to say yes but 0:37:09.920,0:37:16.240 you know it's true otherwise you just kicked  abraham out of heaven right and david and jacob 0:37:17.200,0:37:22.240 are there going to be people in heaven  that had multiple wives at one time yes 0:37:24.000,0:37:28.800 god winks at the times of ignorance but when we  know the truth we need to walk in the church so 0:37:28.800,0:37:33.360 yes there's gonna there's good i believe there  are spirit-filled godly christian heaven-bound 0:37:33.360,0:37:39.040 people in many sunday churches that maybe don't  understand these things sin is knowing to do good 0:37:39.040,0:37:45.760 and not doing it the bible says if we continue  in sin after we receive a knowledge of the truth 0:37:45.760,0:37:52.000 hebrews chapter 10 verse 26 there is no more  sacrifice and so when we understand and then 0:37:52.000,0:37:56.240 we say i'm going to do what tradition says instead  of what the word of god says that's serious then 0:37:57.840,0:38:04.400 the earliest recognition of the observance of  sunday it's a constitution of constantine in 321 0:38:04.400,0:38:09.680 a.d enacting that all the courts of justice  and inhabitants and towns and the workshops 0:38:09.680,0:38:13.600 were to rest on sunday here's  the decree of constantine 0:38:14.160,0:38:20.880 on the venerable day of the sun is that s-o-n  like son of god or is it s-u-n like sun in the sky 0:38:22.000,0:38:26.480 it's the sun see constantine knew the  romans still were involved in sun worship 0:38:26.480,0:38:30.000 first day of the week that's where it gets  its name you know where monday gets his name 0:38:32.400,0:38:39.840 in spanish lunes right which is that's where  you get lunatic it's true they people thought 0:38:39.840,0:38:44.800 with full moon people went crazy and um the  different days of the week were named after 0:38:44.800,0:38:50.720 the different greco-roman gods and somewhere a  viking god got in there thursday was thor's day 0:38:51.680,0:38:58.400 but uh wednesday was owen's day friday was frida  saturday saturn and so they were named after the 0:38:58.400,0:39:03.840 different heavenly gods and the pagan gods so  he says on the venerable day of the sun let the 0:39:03.840,0:39:09.040 magistrates and the people residing in the city's  rest let all the workshops be closed it was to 0:39:09.040,0:39:14.240 be a sabbath but they did give permission for the  farmers to milk their goats and do their farm work 0:39:14.240,0:39:21.200 on sunday the church made a sacred day of sunday  largely because it was the weekly festival 0:39:21.200,0:39:27.040 of the sun for was a definite christian  policy to take over the pagan festivals 0:39:27.680,0:39:33.040 endeared to the people by tradition and to give  them a christian significance arthur wiggle 0:39:33.040,0:39:37.760 paganism in our christianity the author of this  is not a member of my church he's just writing 0:39:37.760,0:39:43.600 history another example of that they started  to allow idolatry because they said look the 0:39:43.600,0:39:52.240 pagans all love their idols they got their idols  of venus and the uh uh um what what is it called 0:39:52.240,0:40:02.400 athena mercury apollos jupiter and so they just  said mary peter james john and they they gave them 0:40:02.400,0:40:06.880 all christian names they said well we'll it'll  make it easier for them to transition we want to 0:40:06.880,0:40:12.000 make it easy so they compromise to try and make it  easy for them to join the church and they started 0:40:12.000,0:40:16.800 to pretty soon they gave up the bible sabbath and  the church leaders say we will feast on sunday 0:40:17.680,0:40:23.920 made it very attractive to the pagans that come  in but we will fast on the sabbath now after a 0:40:23.920,0:40:28.000 while of fasting on the seventh day feasting  on the first day which day would you enjoy 0:40:29.920,0:40:34.960 you can see that over time the sabbath became very  unpopular because first of all they said it was 0:40:34.960,0:40:40.880 it's the jewish sabbath and and then they started  to say oh we feast on sunday and gradually it was 0:40:40.880,0:40:48.800 abandoned by the fifth century soseman stated that  most churches such as constantinople met both on 0:40:48.800,0:40:56.320 sabbath the first day and saturday evening but  that in roman alexandria met only on the first day 0:40:56.320,0:41:01.760 saturday evening and no longer on the sabbath so  you start tracking the history and the the church 0:41:01.760,0:41:06.880 fathers say that there was a gradual transition  had nothing to do with the teachings of jesus or 0:41:06.880,0:41:12.720 the apostles it is a man-made tradition that god's  people have drifted from the commandments of god 0:41:13.600,0:41:18.800 but in the last days we should be returning now  here are some quotes just from church history 0:41:18.800,0:41:25.040 this is the catholic society encyclopedia volume  four the church after changing the day of rest 0:41:25.040,0:41:29.680 from the jewish sabbath or the seventh day of  the week to the first made the third commandment 0:41:29.680,0:41:35.200 refer to sunday as the day to be kept holy as  the lord's day now i took this picture this is 0:41:35.200,0:41:40.080 a picture a granite copy of the ten commandments  in front of a catholic church here in sacramento 0:41:40.080,0:41:43.920 if you look real close you'll see a picture of  me and my t-shirt taking a picture reflected 0:41:45.680,0:41:52.160 this is and i zoomed in a little bit i want you  to notice something here they don't have the 0:41:52.160,0:41:55.840 second commandment the second commandment they  make don't take the name of the lord your vain 0:41:55.840,0:41:59.840 that's supposed to be the third commandment  they delete the commandment about idolatry 0:41:59.840,0:42:05.040 it's totally not there they take the fourth  commandment and they make it the third commandment 0:42:06.320,0:42:12.560 and then in order to keep ten commandments they  then take the tenth commandment and they divide 0:42:12.560,0:42:16.400 it they instead of thou shalt not covet they say  don't covet your neighbor's wife and don't cover 0:42:16.400,0:42:20.560 your neighbor's house and they should make a 13  commandments don't cover your neighbor's donkey 0:42:20.560,0:42:24.480 too they should have made a third one out of  that but they tried to maintain the number 10 0:42:25.200,0:42:31.760 says the beast power would think to change times  and laws and they certainly did that what do 0:42:31.760,0:42:36.640 sunday churches say about this problem now friends  stay with me i'm going to do some reading here 0:42:38.320,0:42:44.400 i i'm going to just read quotes from other  churches scholars official statements so you know 0:42:44.400,0:42:51.360 they know that something is wrong baptist from  the baptist manual there is no scriptural evidence 0:42:51.360,0:42:56.080 of the change of the sabbath institution from  the seventh to the first day of the week that's 0:42:56.080,0:43:01.680 pretty clear amen no scriptural evidence another  baptist commentary this is called the lord's day 0:43:01.680,0:43:09.200 in our day by william owen carver there was never  any formal or authoritative change from the jewish 0:43:09.200,0:43:15.600 seventh-day sabbath to the christian first the  observance it's not there alexander campbell 0:43:15.600,0:43:19.360 one of the leaders in the church of christ i  do not believe the lord's day was changed from 0:43:19.360,0:43:25.840 the seventh day to the first day catholic this is  from the book cardinal james gibbons faith of our 0:43:25.840,0:43:31.120 fathers you may read the bible from genesis  to revelation you'll not find a single line 0:43:31.120,0:43:37.120 authorizing the sanctification of sunday the  catholic church for over a thousand years before 0:43:37.120,0:43:43.600 the existence of a protestant by virtue of her  own divine mission changed the day from saturday 0:43:43.600,0:43:50.160 to sunday they freely admit that they were there  the holy uh the holy day the sabbath was changed 0:43:50.160,0:43:55.680 from saturday to sunday the day of the lord  not based on scriptural authority but from the 0:43:55.680,0:44:00.320 church's sense of its own power catch the rest  of this people who think the scriptures should 0:44:00.320,0:44:04.800 be their sole authority should logically become  seventh-day adventists and keep it saturday holy 0:44:06.080,0:44:12.720 well they admit it i appreciate that catholic  services appeal 1995 from uh catholic saint 0:44:12.720,0:44:18.080 catherine catholic church saint claire boulevard  uh you got one from the anglican church 0:44:18.720,0:44:22.160 and where are we told in the scriptures  that we're to keep the first day at all 0:44:22.160,0:44:27.520 we're commanded to keep the seventh day but we are  nowhere commanded to keep the first day the reason 0:44:27.520,0:44:32.640 why we keep the first day of the week holy instead  of the seventh is because the church has enjoined 0:44:32.640,0:44:38.400 it i say it's something that church fathers did  but they have no right to change the law of god 0:44:39.520,0:44:44.160 is did god say i'll bless whatever day you  pick or did he say you keep my day and he 0:44:44.160,0:44:49.760 told us what his day is it's the sabbath of the  lord is there any command episcopal rights does 0:44:49.760,0:44:54.720 any command in the new testament to change the  day of the week of rest from saturday to sunday 0:44:55.280,0:45:02.000 none that's their manual of christian doctrine  methodist harris franklin rawl he's a methodist 0:45:02.000,0:45:06.720 theologian take the matter of sunday there is  no passage telling christians to keep the day 0:45:08.160,0:45:13.840 so what is apostle paul saying in romans 14. i  hear people whenever they learn the sabbath truth 0:45:13.840,0:45:18.480 they say well wait a second now we don't really  need to keep any day and they go right to two 0:45:18.480,0:45:22.640 verses romans 14 colossians 2. we're going to look  at them real quick because we're not afraid of any 0:45:22.640,0:45:29.200 of these verses romans 14 verse 5 and 6 paul  says one person esteems one day above another 0:45:29.200,0:45:34.320 another esteems every day alike let each  one be fully convinced in his own ma 0:45:34.320,0:45:39.840 in his own mind so you want to keep  sunday you keep sunday i'll keep saturday 0:45:40.880,0:45:45.760 you know i've never heard a sunday pastor  stand up and tell his congregation you keep 0:45:45.760,0:45:51.760 whatever day you want to keep they don't ever  say you want to go sabbath it's fine well there 0:45:51.760,0:45:57.120 might be some but there are actually some sunday  churches having services on two days a week now 0:45:58.080,0:46:01.600 because more of them are learning that more their  members are asking questions because they're 0:46:01.600,0:46:07.840 watching amazing facts programs i know one pastor  that told me you're causing me a lot of problems 0:46:10.640,0:46:15.520 but this is simply saying they're talking about  the jewish ceremonial laws that if you want to 0:46:15.520,0:46:21.040 keep passover the jews that were very scrupulous  about keeping the annual feasts he said look if 0:46:21.040,0:46:24.880 you want to keep that day keep it to the lord but  don't make other people keep it i tell christians 0:46:24.880,0:46:30.400 that some people say are we supposed to celebrate  christmas i said look if you want to remember the 0:46:30.400,0:46:34.880 gift of god giving the son that's up to you  don't tell someone else they have to there's 0:46:34.880,0:46:39.840 no scripture command about it if you're going to  do it don't do it for elves in santa claus do it 0:46:39.840,0:46:45.680 for jesus coming into the world so this you know  it's up to you what you want to do that's how i 0:46:45.680,0:46:51.520 would use that would god ever say concerning the  sabbath i realized i had a man stoned to death 0:46:51.520,0:46:56.320 for breaking the sabbath in the old testament but  if you want to keep it it's up to you is that the 0:46:56.320,0:47:02.960 same god no it's one of god's commandments sin  is the transgression of the law he who observes 0:47:02.960,0:47:07.120 the day observes it to the lord he who does not  observe the day to the lord he does not observe it 0:47:08.400,0:47:15.600 so what is meant in colossians 2 verse 14 through  16. now we're going to look at that real quick let 0:47:15.600,0:47:19.360 me read it to you notice now you can you can look  it up in your bible i want you to follow these 0:47:19.360,0:47:25.360 words carefully because someone's going to ask  you about this having wiped out the handwriting 0:47:25.360,0:47:31.520 of ordinances notice his handwriting of ordinances  that was against us notice the word against us 0:47:32.080,0:47:37.840 which was contrary to us and he took it out of the  way having nailed it to the cross having disarmed 0:47:37.840,0:47:44.640 prison principalities and powers he made a public  spectacle of them triumphing over them in it now 0:47:44.640,0:47:49.360 what is he talking about when he says having  abolished the handwriting and the ordinances 0:47:49.920,0:47:56.800 look in second chronicles 33 verse 8 that you  take heed to do all that i have commanded them 0:47:56.800,0:48:02.880 according to the whole law and the statues and  the ordinances by the hand of moses you got two 0:48:02.880,0:48:09.200 laws friends you have the ten commandments and the  ordinances given by moses ten commandments hand of 0:48:09.200,0:48:15.200 god ordinances handwriting of moses notice that  distinction paul in colossians is talking about 0:48:15.200,0:48:22.720 the ordinances deuteronomy 4 13 so he declared to  you his covenant that he commanded you to perform 0:48:22.720,0:48:28.400 even the ten commandments that's clear right  and he wrote them on two tables of stone and 0:48:30.240,0:48:36.080 in addition to that the lord commanded me at that  time to teach you statutes and judgments that you 0:48:36.080,0:48:40.000 might observe them those are the ordinances in  the land that you cross over to possess they're 0:48:40.000,0:48:47.040 written by a man's hand on paper second kings 21  8 only if they are careful to do all that i have 0:48:47.040,0:48:53.760 commanded them and according to all the law that  my servant moses commanded them you've got the ten 0:48:53.760,0:49:00.560 commandments and the law of moses two separate  distinct laws god kept them separate you've got 0:49:00.560,0:49:07.120 the ark of the covenant what's inside the ark ten  commandments but what about the ordinances take 0:49:07.120,0:49:13.840 this book of the law put it in the side of the ark  there's a pocket on the outside of the covenant of 0:49:13.840,0:49:19.760 the lord your god that it might be there as a  witness against thee he says blotting out the 0:49:19.760,0:49:25.760 handwriting of ordinances that were against us so  what's nailed to the cross the ten commandments 0:49:26.800,0:49:33.680 or the ceremonial sabbaths that you find in the  bible colossians 2 16 and 17 notice so let no one 0:49:33.680,0:49:41.920 judge you in food or drink or regarding a festival  or new moon or sabbath small less plural sabbath 0:49:41.920,0:49:47.680 now he tells you what kind of sabbath sabbaths  which are a shadow of things to come but the 0:49:47.680,0:49:53.920 substances of christ there were certain sabbaths  that came after sin they were annual feasts that 0:49:53.920,0:50:00.560 were shadows foretelling the coming of christ they  were nailed to the cross the handwriting of moses 0:50:00.560,0:50:05.360 not the sabbath that was part of creation the  bible says in heaven we're going to keep that one 0:50:05.920,0:50:10.080 from one sabbath to another all flesh  will come and worship before the lord 0:50:10.080,0:50:16.000 it's the annual sabbath that paul is talking  about and you know i just went through for my own 0:50:16.000,0:50:20.880 edification last night i looked up these verses  i went through all of the protestant scholars 0:50:21.920,0:50:29.840 matthew henry adam clark john gill um james's  faucet and brown spurgeon you can look at them all 0:50:29.840,0:50:35.600 they all understand the sabbaths that were nailed  to the cross were ceremonial sabbaths it's only 0:50:35.600,0:50:39.840 recently that theologians are saying that one  of the commandments was nailed to the cross 0:50:40.480,0:50:46.320 none of the protestant puritan fathers believed  that and so it's just a heresy that's come in 0:50:47.200,0:50:51.200 does revelation say god's people will be  keeping his commandments in the last days 0:50:51.200,0:50:56.240 why am i preaching this because before jesus comes  there's got to be a revival three angel's message 0:50:56.240,0:51:02.000 is calling people to return to the creator right  worship him who made that means you're going to 0:51:02.000,0:51:08.000 remember the creator remember the day he set  aside for that revelation 12 17 the dragon was 0:51:08.000,0:51:13.280 wroth with the woman and went to may war with the  remnant of her seed that keep the commandments of 0:51:13.280,0:51:18.960 god and have the testimony of jesus blessed are  they that do his commandments that they might 0:51:18.960,0:51:23.520 have a right to the tree of god and they  may enter in through the gates of the city 0:51:24.240,0:51:31.760 and again it says hebrews 5 9 and being made  perfect he became the eternal author the author of 0:51:31.760,0:51:38.080 eternal salvation unto all them that obey him you  know all over north america there's train tracks 0:51:38.080,0:51:41.840 we have train tracks you ever heard the train go  by while we're doing the service right here train 0:51:41.840,0:51:48.080 tracks right out there you know how wide they  are they are four feet eight and a half inches 0:51:49.200,0:51:53.280 all across north america they've got to have  train tracks the same size and the trains 0:51:53.280,0:51:59.440 don't fit the tracks do you know why they're  four feet eight and a half inches because when 0:52:00.160,0:52:05.360 we made our trains in america they use the  same jigs and machinery they use for the wagons 0:52:07.280,0:52:14.160 so why are the wagons in america why were they  axle length four feet eight and one half inches 0:52:14.160,0:52:20.800 because when the people came over from england  that was the size of their wagons they used the 0:52:20.800,0:52:24.640 same machinery the same measurements that were on  their wagon some of them were shipped over and so 0:52:24.640,0:52:29.680 they all made them the same length why were all  of the wagons in england that length because all 0:52:29.680,0:52:34.960 of the wagons in europe were that length why were  all of the wagons in europe four feet eight and 0:52:34.960,0:52:40.240 a half inches because they found if they did not  make them four feet eight and a half inches long 0:52:40.800,0:52:47.120 the wheels did not fit in the stone ruts on  the main roads in europe and it would break 0:52:47.120,0:52:50.880 them off because they were always fighting  the ruts in the road it broke off the wheels 0:52:50.880,0:52:55.440 so they had to make them four feet eight and a  half inches it's really a bad length for train 0:52:55.440,0:52:59.760 you would like to have wider wheels on a train  they wouldn't tip over near as often going around 0:52:59.760,0:53:04.960 to turn too fast didn't we just lose a train you  heard about it in england or no in washington 0:53:06.320,0:53:14.400 why were the ruts that size because the  romans built the roads and the roman 0:53:14.400,0:53:18.880 chariots were four feet eight and  one half inches the chariot wheels 0:53:21.040,0:53:22.960 do you know why the roman  chariot wheels were that wide 0:53:24.880,0:53:29.520 because that's how wide they needed to be to  accommodate the rear end of two chariot horses 0:53:31.280,0:53:41.840 so the trains all over north america have  been governed by the rear end of two horses 0:53:42.400,0:53:47.600 it's interesting how you get stuck on something  that's hard to change but if you should try to 0:53:47.600,0:53:51.360 change them now you realize you go to china  and japan they're bullet trains you know why 0:53:51.360,0:53:56.720 they're ahead of us on bullet trains because  they don't follow the roman chariot size 0:53:57.680,0:54:04.240 and they were able to get to it faster than that  so so god wants us to continue obeying jesus said 0:54:04.240,0:54:10.240 matthew 7 21 not everyone that says unto me lord  lord will enter into the kingdom of heaven but he 0:54:10.240,0:54:15.680 that does the will so it's one thing to say i know  that that's very interesting pastor doug but are 0:54:15.680,0:54:22.000 you going to be here of the word or a doer of the  word what is the will of god i delight to do your 0:54:22.000,0:54:28.800 will oh my god your law is within my heart when  the law of god love for your neighbor first four 0:54:28.800,0:54:34.880 commandments is love for god last six commandments  our love for your fellow man the law is summed up 0:54:34.880,0:54:40.720 in love and though if we love him jesus said why  do you call me lord lord and do not the things 0:54:40.720,0:54:47.520 i say he said if you love me do what keep my  commandments he doesn't want us to just be hearers 0:54:47.520,0:54:54.800 of the word he invites us come unto me all you who  are weary and heavy laden and i will give you rest 0:54:56.480,0:54:59.440 and he wants you to have the rest i want to  read something to you i thought that was very 0:54:59.440,0:55:05.840 interesting in conclusion here take my yoke  upon me you will find rest for your souls 0:55:05.840,0:55:12.960 sabbath is all about enjoying that rest have  you ever heard the poem of the crooked calf path 0:55:16.160,0:55:23.360 one day through a primal wood a calf walked home  as good calves should but made a trail all bent 0:55:23.360,0:55:32.000 askew a crooked trail as all calves do since then  300 years have fled and i assume the calf is dead 0:55:32.640,0:55:38.880 but still he left behind his trail and herein  lies my zany tail the trail was taken the very 0:55:38.880,0:55:45.120 next day by a lone dog that passed that way  and then a wise bellwether sheep pursued the 0:55:45.120,0:55:51.040 trail over veil and steep and drew the flock  behind him too as good bellwethers always do 0:55:51.920,0:55:59.280 and from that day or hill and glade through those  old woods a path was made and many men wound in 0:55:59.280,0:56:05.200 and out and dodged and turned and bent about and  uttered words of righteous wrath because it was 0:56:05.200,0:56:11.120 such a crooked path but still they followed  do not laugh the first migrations of the calf 0:56:12.240,0:56:18.400 and through this winding wood they stalked  because he wobbled when he walked the forest 0:56:18.400,0:56:24.320 path became a lane that bent and turned and  turned again this crooked lane became a road 0:56:24.320,0:56:30.400 where many a poor horse with his load toiled on  beneath the burning sun and traveled three miles 0:56:30.400,0:56:37.920 in one and thus a century and a half they trod  the footsteps of that calf the years passed on and 0:56:37.920,0:56:44.720 swift this swiftness fleet the road then became  a village street and this before men were aware 0:56:45.360,0:56:52.560 it became a city's crowded thoroughfare and soon  the central street was this of renowned metropolis 0:56:53.120,0:56:59.840 and men two centuries and a half trod in the  footsteps of the calf each day a hundred thousand 0:56:59.840,0:57:06.560 route followed that zigzag calf about or this  crooked journey went to traffic of a continent 0:57:07.200,0:57:11.840 a hundred thousand men were led by  one calf near three centuries dead 0:57:12.480,0:57:19.200 they followed still his crooked way and lose one  hundred years a day for thus such reverence is 0:57:19.200,0:57:26.560 lent to well-established precedent a moral  lesson here this might teach why i ordained 0:57:26.560,0:57:32.800 are called to preach for men are prone to  go it blind along the calf paths of the mind 0:57:33.840,0:57:40.560 and work away from sun to sun to do what other men  have done they follow on the beaten track and out 0:57:40.560,0:57:47.120 and in and forth and back and still their devious  course pursue to keep the path that others do 0:57:48.560,0:57:52.960 they keep the path a sacred groove  along which all their lives they move 0:57:53.520,0:57:58.880 and how the wise old wood gods laugh  who saw the first primeval calf 0:58:02.000,0:58:08.240 you get that it starts with a calf  meandering through the woods and then 0:58:08.240,0:58:12.400 followed by a dog and then the sheep and then  a man because it's a little easier going down a 0:58:12.400,0:58:17.440 beaten trail and pretty soon everybody's winding  along and they're paving this weaving road 0:58:19.600,0:58:25.440 and maybe that's what's happened to the church  is people are following a tradition of men and 0:58:25.440,0:58:30.800 not the commandments of god what does the lord  want us to do oh but lord i might be different 0:58:31.920,0:58:35.840 jesus said you follow me you're going to be  different but how could all the churches be 0:58:35.840,0:58:39.440 wrong well that's what they said about the  religious leaders in christ's time if he's 0:58:39.440,0:58:44.080 the messiah why doesn't everyone else believe  in him you're going to be a bible christian 0:58:44.080,0:58:50.800 you need to follow the bible follow the word of  god so is sunday sacred now it's just another 0:58:50.800,0:58:55.840 working day there's only one day in the bible god  is blessed that's the seventh-day sabbath amen 0:58:56.800,0:59:03.840 you want to be a a doer of the word  and not just to hear friends amen 0:59:08.160,0:59:08.660 you 71161