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Amazing Facts | Doug Batchelor - The Mystery Of The Last Day (Part 1) | July 3, 2025
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- Announcer: coming to you from new york city, at the historic
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- Manhattan center with your host doug batchelor, join this
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- Exciting journey of discovery as we learn the truth about
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- Bible prophecy.
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- Explore the timeless wisdom of god's word and see how it
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- Relates to our lives today.
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- Stay tuned, your "amazing facts" adventure begins now.
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- Doug batchelor: tonight's study, i think, you're going to find to
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- Be a great blessing, but i always like to begin with an
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- Amazing fact.
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- You know, the world record for many years regarding the person
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- Who had stayed awake the longest under a measured experiment
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- Without sleep was randy gardner.
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- In 1963, he went for 11 days and 24 minutes without sleep.
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- After several days in the experiment, gardner displayed
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- Increasing cognitive dysfunction and problems with concentration,
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- Moodiness, memory, paranoia, hallucinations.
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- His record since was broken multiple times.
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- The last time it was robert mcdonald, he went 18 days and 21
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- Hours without sleeping.
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- He did it all at starbucks.
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- No, i made that up, that's not true.
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- But you know, since then, in 1997, guinness world records
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- Refused to accept any new attempts for health and
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- Safety reasons.
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- For decades after his first experiments, randy gardner
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- Struggled with severe insomnia,
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- It permanently damaged him.
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- People need rest.
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- Our lesson tonight is about rest and prophecy and how all of it
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- Ties together.
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- Now, we're going to be talking about one of the commandments
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- Tonight, in particular, the fourth commandment dealing with
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- The subject of the sabbath.
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- And you might be thinking, "pastor doug, how in the world
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- Does that fit into a prophecy seminar?"
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- Follow me very carefully.
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- If you read in revelation chapter 13, it tells us that
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- This beast power makes a law that whoever does not worship
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- The image of the beast should be killed.
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- Although that would be a problem for god's people because the
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- Bible is pretty clear in the ten commandments, it says in the
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- Second commandment, "you shall not make unto you any graven
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- Images, the likeness of anything in the heaven above, or the
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- Earth beneath, or the water under the earth, and bow down
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- Yourself to them and serve them: for i the lord your god am a
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- Jealous god, visiting the iniquity of the fathers on the
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- Children unto the third and fourth generation of them that
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- Hate me; and showing mercy unto thousands of them that love me,
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- And keep my commandments."
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- Notice, "love me and keep my commandments."
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- There's a commandment that says don't worship images.
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- You may remember in the book of daniel chapter 3, king
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- Nebuchadnezzar told everybody to bow down and worship the image
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- That he made or be killed, revelation is drawing from that.
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- But shadrach, meshach, and abednego, they said, "we ought
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- To obey god rather than men.
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- We will not break god's commandment, even if it's a
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- Government commandment."
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- You look in daniel chapter 6, the king of persia, darius, made
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- A law that said, you're not to pray to any god except the king
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- For 30 days.
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- Well, that's a problem for god's people because the first
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- Commandment, who knows?
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- Thou shalt not ma--have other gods before me.
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- Actually, the first commandment says, "and the lord god spoke
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- All these words, saying: 'i am the lord your god, that brought
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- You out of the land of egypt, out of the house of bondage.
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- You shall not have other gods before me."'
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- Daniel said, "i can't have another god before my god," and
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- He went to the lions' den and god delivered him.
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- It was a government law, worldwide law, this empire.
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- Shadrach, meshach, and abednego went to the fiery furnace, and
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- God delivered them.
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- In the last days, the devil is going to do the same
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- Thing again.
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- Have you read the book of esther?
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- There was a law made to exterminate all of god's people
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- Because mordecai would not bow down and worship haman, because
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- It broke the commandments of god.
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- The devil is going to do the same thing.
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- See, does everyone here know the devil wants you to sin?
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- That's why he tempts us.
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- What is sin?
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- The transgression of god's law.
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- But what the devil's going to do in the last days, he's going to
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- Be very sneaky.
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- He is going to create a law and it's going to be requiring
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- People to break the law of god, but it's going to seem like
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- They're obeying.
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- And he's going to look through the ten commandments and he's
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- Going to say, "can i make a law that tells everybody to lie?
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- That's going to be hard to sell.
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- Everybody to murder?
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- That won't work.
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- What if i tell everybody, remember the sabbath day, but
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- Don't do it on the seventh day, do it a different day, just
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- Change it a little bit?"
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- He's very clever.
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- And a lot of people are going to go,
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- "what difference does it make?
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- It's a little thing."
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- So follow me, and i think you're going to understand why this is
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- Going to be an issue in prophecy in the last days.
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- Question number 1, we're going to our lesson, did god make the
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- Sabbath only for israelites?
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- What does the bible say?
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- "he said unto them, 'the sabbath was made for the jew,'" that's
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- Not what it says.
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- This is on the seventh day of creation.
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- God made man in six days--on the sixth day, made the world in
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- Six days.
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- Then after he made man, and the word here in greek is
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- "anthropos," you've heard of anthropology, talking about
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- Humanity, not just one race of people.
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- Jesus said the sabbath was made for humans.
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- How many here are related to adam?
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- Then you fit, the sabbath was made for mankind, humanity, not
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- Man for the sabbath.
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- God did not make the sabbath and then make man to serve the
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- Sabbath, he made man and then made sabbath to be a blessing to
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- Man.
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- See how that works?
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- And you read in exodus 23, verse 12: "six days you shall do your
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- Work, and on the seventh day you shall rest, that your ox and
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- Your donkey may rest," and he says, "and your servant also and
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- The son of your female servant and that your stranger may be,"
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- What's the word?
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- "refreshed."
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- Now, do only jews need refreshment, or did the lord
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- Also include even animals in this commandment?
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- Does god even care about creatures?
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- So, do people need rest?
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- Yeah, when the lord said the sabbath was made for man, he
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- Meant for the human race, people need rest.
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- How many people are struggling with stress-related disease?
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- Some of you out there, struggling with stress.
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- When did god establish the sabbath?
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- Answer, "thus the heavens and the earth, and all the host of
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- Them, were finished.
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- And on the seventh day god ended his work which he had done, and
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- He rested."
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- Man is made in the image of god, we follow his example, he rested
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- As an example for us.
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- He rested on what day?
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- "the seventh day from all his work which he had done."
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- And i'm going to continue, it goes on to say, "and god blessed
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- The seventh day."
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- You know, right here in the beginning of the bible, a number
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- Is mentioned three times, seven, seven, seven, first book
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- Of the bible.
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- Go to revelation, the end of the bible, there's another number
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- Mentioned three times, six, six, six.
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- Seven is the perfect number of god and worship of god.
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- Six is the day that man was created, it's the number of man
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- And man-made worship, and this is a battle for worship that
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- You're going to see going on all through the bible.
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- Question number three, how has god demonstrated the importance
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- Of the holy sabbath?
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- If you have your bible, you'll not only find this in exodus
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- Chapter 20, verse 8, it's also in deuteronomy chapter 5.
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- You can find the ten commandments and you'll find
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- Them in partial places, several places.
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- In exodus chapter 20 verse 8, it is the longest of the ten
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- Commandments, it's the only commandment that begins with the
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- Word remember, and it is in the middle of god's law.
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- "remember the sabbath day, to keep it holy.
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- Six days you shall labor and do all of your work, but the
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- Seventh day is the sabbath of the" jews.
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- That's not what it says, "seventh day is the sabbath of
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- The lord your god.
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- In it you shall not do any work: you, nor your son, nor your
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- Daughter, nor your male servant, nor your female servant, nor
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- Your cattle, nor the stranger within your gates.
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- For in six days the lord made the heavens and the earth, and
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- The sea, and all that is in them, and he rested the
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- Seventh day.
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- Therefore the lord blessed the sabbath day and hallowed it."
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- This is what you call the fourth commandment.
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- Now, when god writes something in stone, how important is it?
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- I want you to think about what god did when he created the
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- Sabbath commandment.
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- Matter of fact, we're going to put it up here on the screen
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- Here just as a little visual so that you can all see this.
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- God had the ten commandments, were they written on paper,
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- Silly putty, or stone?
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- You want a little amazing fact, you know that old movie "the ten
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- Commandments" by cecil b. demille?
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- My mother was in that movie, it's a very small part.
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- When i watched it with the kids, i'd say, "there goes grandma,"
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- But she was in the movie.
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- And he said, "if you will not live by the law, you will die by
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- The law," and he throws the commandments down.
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- It's true that he threw it down and broke it.
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- You know what god said, "come back up, i'm going to give it to
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- You again."
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- He spoke it with his own voice, he wrote it with his own finger
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- To indicate the permanence of it.
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- And as i mentioned, it's the longest of the ten commandments.
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- Now, it's amazing to me that i can go to almost any church in
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- New york city--and i want to reiterate, there are good
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- Christian people in many denominations, y'all listening?
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- I used to teach sunday school in a methodist church, i used to
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- Attend pentecostal church, church of god, four
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- Square, baptist.
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- I--i've been in many different churches, john and i can tell
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- You some interesting stories of churches that we've been in and
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- Visited, and there are good people in many
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- Different churches.
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- I'm not here to condemn, is that clear?
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- I want to find out, what does the bible say?
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- I could go to virtually any church in town and the pastor
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- Would say, "well, preach what's on your heart."
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- I could preach on marriage and not committing adultery, and
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- People would squirm, but they'd say amen, right?
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- And i could preach on honoring your father and mother, amen.
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- I could preach on do not steal, amen, do not covet.
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- I--you go through the ten commandments, amen, amen.
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- You preached on idolatry, some people in some churches would be
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- A little uncomfortable with that because there's idols in
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- Some churches.
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- But then i say, "and remember the sabbath day, to keep it
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- Holy" and people say, "pastor doug, you're putting these
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- People under bondage, that is legalism."
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- What happened?
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- I was doing a seminar like this one time, i talked about this
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- Subject, and a pastor was in the audience and he stood up and
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- Interrupted me.
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- And i could tell he was rather agitated because his ears were
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- Red, and he said, "brother doug--" small town, he knew who
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- I was.
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- He said, "you're putting these people under a bondage
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- Of works."
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- I said, "wait a second, pastor."
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- I said, "i'm telling them to keep the sabbath, i'm
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- Encouraging them to rest.
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- You're telling them don't keep the sabbath, you're encouraging
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- Them to work."
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- And he said--i said, "do you think god wants us to keep the
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- Ten commandments?"
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- He said, "no," and then some of his members were there and they
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- Said, "huh?"
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- And he said, "well, yes," but he knew that would include the
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- Fourth commandment, he said, "nine of them."
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- That's what he said.
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- I said, "so you're telling me the one commandment that we're
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- Supposed to forget is the only commandment that begins with the
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- Word remember."
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- Maybe god said remember because he knew there was a risk that we
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- Would forget that commandment.
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- God's word is eternal.
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- Jesus said, "heaven and earth will pass away, my word will not
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- Pass away."
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- Jesus said, "think not that i have come to destroy the law.
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- I have not come to destroy, but to fulfill."
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- He said, "whosoever therefore will break one of the least of
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- These commandments," these are the words of jesus, "and teach
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- Men so, he will be spoken of as least in the kingdom of heaven:
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- But whoever will do and teach them will be great in the
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- Kingdom of heaven."
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- So why am i teaching it?
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- Because jesus told me to, you take that up with him.
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- This is his law, christ kept the law of god, and the devil's
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- Going to use this as a special test and attack in the
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- Last days.
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- Now, just use common sense, do people need rest today?
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- Do you realize that we are living at the time in the
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- History of humanity where more people are dying from stress
- 00:14:00.521 --> 00:14:03.825
- Than all of history combined?
- 00:14:03.825 --> 00:14:06.494
- The five top selling medications are stress-related.
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- Chronic stress is linked to the six leading causes of death,
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- Including heart disease, cancer, lung ailments, accidents,
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- Cirrhosis of the liver, suicide, according to the american
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- Psychological association.
- 00:14:24.512 --> 00:14:27.048
- And you know, things started changing back when thomas edison
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- Installed electric lights in new york city.
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- People used to go to sleep when the sun went down.
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- I mean, they might have the kerosene lamp, but, you know,
- 00:14:37.158 --> 00:14:39.460
- That was expensive.
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- And now because of artificial light, people are up all the
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- Time and they don't rest and they work and they work, and now
- 00:14:44.499 --> 00:14:47.368
- We got our work devices in front of us all the time and it is a
- 00:14:47.368 --> 00:14:53.041
- Stressed out world.
- 00:14:53.041 --> 00:14:55.476
- God said if we would take time every week and rest during the
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- Time he's blessed, it would lengthen your life.
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- Let me tell you something in case you didn't know this.
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- How many of you have heard of something called the blue zones?
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- Let me see your hands.
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- National geographic did a study--and they are not a
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- Religious organization.
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- National geographic did a study, and then there have been several
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- Programs on it.
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- Individuals went around the world, they studied--there were
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- Pockets of people around the world that lived longer.
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- It was very common for them to live to be over 100 years of
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- Age, places like okinawa, japan, sardinia in the mediterranean,
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- And you know what the third place was?
- 00:15:39.754 --> 00:15:42.123
- Loma linda, california, and they thought, why loma
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- Linda, california?
- 00:15:46.661 --> 00:15:48.029
- They said, oh, they got a seventh day adventist hospital
- 00:15:48.029 --> 00:15:50.598
- There, and it's a seventh day adventist community and the
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- People are keeping the sabbath, and they are often living to
- 00:15:53.201 --> 00:15:56.170
- Over 100 years of age because they rest every week.
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- Not to mention a lot of them are vegetarians, but the sabbath had
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- A lot to do with their longevity.
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- Jesus said, "come unto me," matthew 11, "and i'll give
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- You" what?
- 00:16:09.484 --> 00:16:10.818
- "rest," jesus wants us to experience that rest, and the
- 00:16:10.818 --> 00:16:16.624
- Devil is robbing the culture of that peace and rest.
- 00:16:16.624 --> 00:16:19.694
- By the way, when moses came and he told the pharaoh, "let my
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- People go," before moses and aaron went to pharaoh, it says
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- He met--moses came, he met with the elders.
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- You find this in exodus chapter 5, i believe.
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- He met with the elders of israel.
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- He says, "the lord jehovah has met with us and told us he's
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- Going to deliver us, but we need to return to god, we need to
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- Recommit ourselves, we're wandering from the commandments
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- Of god.
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- The israelites are worshiping egyptian idols, and we're
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- Forgetting to rest on the sabbath day."
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- That's why when moses goes to the pharaoh, pharaoh said to
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- Moses, "i've heard what you're up to, you are making the people
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- To rest."
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- You know what the word is in hebrew?
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- Moses says, "you are causing the people to shabbat," that's what
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- It says.
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- He said, "i'm not going to let you rest.
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- In fact, i'm going to stop giving you straw for your
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- Bricks, you're going to have to gather your own straw, and i'm
- 00:17:14.115 --> 00:17:17.385
- Going to increase your workload."
- 00:17:17.385 --> 00:17:19.654
- Moses is christ, he says, "let my people go."
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- The pharaoh is the devil, he says, "work, work, work."
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- The devil wants us to be so busy with the cares of this life,
- 00:17:25.393 --> 00:17:28.596
- Even good things, you can work too much.
- 00:17:28.596 --> 00:17:31.332
- Jesus said, "beware lest your heart be overcharged with
- 00:17:31.332 --> 00:17:34.235
- Eating and drinking and the cares of this life, so that the
- 00:17:34.235 --> 00:17:37.472
- Second coming overtakes you unaware."
- 00:17:37.472 --> 00:17:41.809
- The devil doesn't want us to rest.
- 00:17:41.809 --> 00:17:44.112
- Do you know what it says about those who have the mark of
- 00:17:44.112 --> 00:17:45.880
- The beast?
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- They have no rest.
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- This is a bible prophecy subject, friends, can you
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- See that?
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- On what two precious things does god say the sabbath is a sign?
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- Answer, exodus 31:17: "it [the sabbath]
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- Is a sign between me and the children of israel forever; for
- 00:18:03.364 --> 00:18:07.802
- In six days the lord made," what's it say?
- 00:18:07.802 --> 00:18:11.506
- "the lord made the heavens and the earth."
- 00:18:11.506 --> 00:18:14.842
- Now, did he just do that for the jewish people or is that a sign
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- For all people to believe the word of god that he is
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- The creator?
- 00:18:19.747 --> 00:18:21.782
- Would you agree with me that a lot of people in the world no
- 00:18:21.782 --> 00:18:24.318
- Longer believe that god created?
- 00:18:24.318 --> 00:18:27.121
- They think we've all evolved from lower forms of life.
- 00:18:27.121 --> 00:18:31.159
- I used to believe that, now i can't believe i used to
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- Believe that.
- 00:18:34.495 --> 00:18:35.830
- Because life is so complex, the idea that the complexity of life
- 00:18:35.830 --> 00:18:39.500
- Happened by accident is really absurd.
- 00:18:39.500 --> 00:18:42.703
- You don't get organization and design and interworking system
- 00:18:42.703 --> 00:18:47.441
- That i--did you know that they've studied one cell of a
- 00:18:47.441 --> 00:18:54.015
- Human being, one single cell of a human being now with an
- 00:18:54.015 --> 00:18:58.452
- Electron microscope?
- 00:18:58.452 --> 00:19:00.154
- And they've come to the conclusion there are more
- 00:19:00.154 --> 00:19:03.424
- Machines and more activity and more interworking systems in a
- 00:19:03.424 --> 00:19:07.028
- Single cell of life than--this is the illustration, i did not
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- Invent it--the doctors are saying there is more activity in
- 00:19:10.531 --> 00:19:14.835
- A single cell of life than new york city at rush hour.
- 00:19:14.835 --> 00:19:21.042
- How could that ever happen by accident?
- 00:19:21.042 --> 00:19:24.912
- We are fearfully and wonderfully made.
- 00:19:24.912 --> 00:19:27.114
- Every sabbath day we are remembering that we are a
- 00:19:27.114 --> 00:19:29.884
- Creation of god, made in the image of god.
- 00:19:29.884 --> 00:19:33.487
- And you know, one reason i think that so many young people are
- 00:19:33.487 --> 00:19:35.957
- Misbehaving and destroying themselves, when we started
- 00:19:35.957 --> 00:19:39.794
- Teaching that we all evolved from monkeys, the suicide rate
- 00:19:39.794 --> 00:19:42.930
- Shot up, they lost the purpose of life.
- 00:19:42.930 --> 00:19:47.435
- When you tell young people there's a god, he's got a
- 00:19:47.435 --> 00:19:49.503
- Purpose for you, you are created in his image, that's a whole
- 00:19:49.503 --> 00:19:52.607
- Different destiny for young people.
- 00:19:52.607 --> 00:19:55.443
- So god says one reason for the sabbath is we remember he
- 00:19:55.443 --> 00:19:59.313
- Created us, amen?
- 00:19:59.313 --> 00:20:02.350
- It's a miracle, it's a marvel.
- 00:20:02.350 --> 00:20:04.785
- Every sabbath day we remind ourselves that he is our
- 00:20:04.785 --> 00:20:08.055
- Creator, and you know what else that means?
- 00:20:08.055 --> 00:20:10.791
- He's the boss.
- 00:20:10.791 --> 00:20:13.094
- He is the creator, we are the creation.
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- He makes the rules, we follow.
- 00:20:15.997 --> 00:20:18.899
- What else does the bible say the sabbath is a sign of?
- 00:20:18.899 --> 00:20:21.435
- Ezekiel 20, verse 12: "moreover i gave them my sabbaths, to be
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- A sign."
- 00:20:25.740 --> 00:20:27.608
- Now, i want to stop before i even finish this.
- 00:20:27.608 --> 00:20:30.678
- You know, in revelation, what do people get in the forehead?
- 00:20:30.678 --> 00:20:39.420
- Mark, what's it called?
- 00:20:39.420 --> 00:20:43.924
- Some are saying mark, some are saying seal.
- 00:20:43.924 --> 00:20:46.327
- Everybody thinks about the mark of the beast
- 00:20:46.327 --> 00:20:48.229
- In the last days in the forehead.
- 00:20:48.229 --> 00:20:49.563
- That's true, there is a mark of the beast in the hand or in the
- 00:20:49.563 --> 00:20:52.333
- Forehead, but they forget that the righteous also gets
- 00:20:52.333 --> 00:20:55.202
- Something in the forehead, it's the seal of god, and that word
- 00:20:55.202 --> 00:20:59.340
- Is a sign, god places a sign.
- 00:20:59.340 --> 00:21:04.011
- Look what it says here, "moreover i gave them my
- 00:21:04.011 --> 00:21:06.013
- Sabbaths, to be a sign between me and them, that they
- 00:21:06.013 --> 00:21:09.784
- Might know."
- 00:21:09.784 --> 00:21:11.118
- The bible says eternal life is knowing jesus, "that they might
- 00:21:11.118 --> 00:21:14.155
- Know that i am the one who," what?
- 00:21:14.155 --> 00:21:16.857
- "i sanctify them," that means i make them holy.
- 00:21:16.857 --> 00:21:22.296
- Now think about this, friends, if i were to ask you right now,
- 00:21:22.296 --> 00:21:27.702
- Where on the planet is the holy land, what would you say?
- 00:21:27.702 --> 00:21:33.074
- Israel, sure, right answer, that's what most people would
- 00:21:33.074 --> 00:21:35.509
- Say, right?
- 00:21:35.509 --> 00:21:36.844
- Muslims, jews, christians, we call it the holy land.
- 00:21:36.844 --> 00:21:40.114
- If i were to say, where in the holy land--what do you call the
- 00:21:40.114 --> 00:21:43.517
- Holy city?
- 00:21:43.517 --> 00:21:45.753
- Jerusalem, right answer.
- 00:21:45.753 --> 00:21:48.122
- It gets a little harder, stay with me.
- 00:21:48.122 --> 00:21:50.524
- If i were to say, where in jerusalem is the holy mount,
- 00:21:50.524 --> 00:21:54.462
- What's it called?
- 00:21:54.462 --> 00:21:56.731
- Mount moriah, sometimes called mount zion.
- 00:21:56.731 --> 00:22:00.534
- And what is on the holy mount?
- 00:22:00.534 --> 00:22:02.303
- The holy temple.
- 00:22:02.303 --> 00:22:05.973
- And in the holy temple, when you first enter the first apartment,
- 00:22:05.973 --> 00:22:10.478
- It's called the what?
- 00:22:10.478 --> 00:22:12.546
- The holy place, and then after you leave the holy place, you go
- 00:22:12.546 --> 00:22:17.952
- Into the inner sanctum, it is called the what?
- 00:22:17.952 --> 00:22:21.522
- The holy of holies or the most holy place, and why is it called
- 00:22:21.522 --> 00:22:26.994
- The most holy place, there's only one thing in the room?
- 00:22:26.994 --> 00:22:31.165
- The holy ark of the covenant, right?
- 00:22:31.165 --> 00:22:35.269
- And what is in the holy ark of the covenant?
- 00:22:35.269 --> 00:22:39.006
- The holy law of god, written by a holy god with his finger.
- 00:22:39.006 --> 00:22:44.245
- And in the holy law, you find the word holy one time,
- 00:22:44.245 --> 00:22:50.217
- "remember the sabbath day, to keep it holy," you know why?
- 00:22:50.217 --> 00:22:56.490
- Because god is love.
- 00:22:56.490 --> 00:23:00.694
- How do you experience love without time?
- 00:23:00.694 --> 00:23:07.368
- You show me a couple that's having problems in their
- 00:23:07.368 --> 00:23:09.437
- Relationship and someone's going to say, "we don't spend any
- 00:23:09.437 --> 00:23:11.872
- Time together."
- 00:23:11.872 --> 00:23:13.507
- And they're not talking about being in the same house, karen
- 00:23:13.507 --> 00:23:16.110
- Will sometimes say to me--i know you've never had these
- 00:23:16.110 --> 00:23:18.846
- Conversations in your family.
- 00:23:18.846 --> 00:23:21.115
- She'll say, "doug, we're not spending time together."
- 00:23:21.115 --> 00:23:23.317
- I'll say, "i was home all day yesterday."
- 00:23:23.317 --> 00:23:24.752
- She says, "yeah, you were in your office."
- 00:23:24.752 --> 00:23:26.253
- I'll say, "yeah, but i texted you."
- 00:23:26.253 --> 00:23:30.357
- She's, "no!
- 00:23:30.357 --> 00:23:31.959
- What about our date nights, you know?
- 00:23:31.959 --> 00:23:34.662
- What about quality time?"
- 00:23:34.662 --> 00:23:37.097
- You ever heard that?
- 00:23:37.097 --> 00:23:38.966
- God says, "i love you, i want to walk and talk with you in
- 00:23:38.966 --> 00:23:43.304
- The garden."
- 00:23:43.304 --> 00:23:44.672
- God came looking for adam and eve in the garden, they ran from
- 00:23:44.672 --> 00:23:47.274
- God because they were naked and they sinned.
- 00:23:47.274 --> 00:23:49.076
- God didn't run from us, he wants holy time with us.
- 00:23:49.076 --> 00:23:54.281
- The devil does not want us to have a holy time with god
- 00:23:54.281 --> 00:23:57.218
- Because then you'll know him, then you'll love him, then
- 00:23:57.218 --> 00:23:58.886
- You'll serve him, so he attacks this commandment because if you
- 00:23:58.886 --> 00:24:04.258
- Destroy the time, you destroy the relationship.
- 00:24:04.258 --> 00:24:07.561
- Does that make sense?
- 00:24:07.561 --> 00:24:09.530
- That's why it is very important to god and to his people.
- 00:24:09.530 --> 00:24:12.766
- And in the last days, god's people are going to return to
- 00:24:12.766 --> 00:24:16.370
- The faith that was once delivered to the saints, we're
- 00:24:16.370 --> 00:24:20.107
- Going to all come back to bible religion, amen?
- 00:24:20.107 --> 00:24:24.211
- The bible says it's a sign, it's a seal, a mark of his authority.
- 00:24:24.211 --> 00:24:29.316
- Number five, the bottom line is if you are a christian, you
- 00:24:29.316 --> 00:24:33.254
- Follow who?
- 00:24:33.254 --> 00:24:34.655
- You follow christ.
- 00:24:34.655 --> 00:24:36.223
- What day did jesus keep holy?
- 00:24:36.223 --> 00:24:38.893
- It says, "he came to nazareth," luke chapter 4, verse 16: "he
- 00:24:38.893 --> 00:24:43.464
- Came to nazareth, where he had been brought up.
- 00:24:43.464 --> 00:24:45.499
- And as his custom was, he went into the synagogue on
- 00:24:45.499 --> 00:24:50.905
- The," when?
- 00:24:50.905 --> 00:24:52.239
- "the sabbath day."
- 00:24:52.239 --> 00:24:53.574
- What was jesus's pattern, his custom?
- 00:24:53.574 --> 00:24:56.143
- "and he stood up to read," he used to go to
- 00:24:56.143 --> 00:24:58.312
- Church and he read and they knew him.
- 00:24:58.312 --> 00:24:59.647
- Sometimes they'd have him do the scripture reading.
- 00:24:59.647 --> 00:25:02.917
- When christ began his ministry, he went to nazareth, he went
- 00:25:02.917 --> 00:25:05.920
- Into the temple, he stood up to read the scriptures, he gives an
- 00:25:05.920 --> 00:25:08.489
- Example of it.
- 00:25:08.489 --> 00:25:09.823
- He even read from the prophecy, so even jesus did pro--taught
- 00:25:09.823 --> 00:25:12.760
- Bible prophecy.
- 00:25:12.760 --> 00:25:15.329
- So jesus, he went to church every sabbath.
- 00:25:15.329 --> 00:25:17.932
- Doug: friends, i hope you've been blessed by today's message,
- 00:25:19.199 --> 00:25:21.969
- But really the reason we do this is so that people might
- 00:25:21.969 --> 00:25:24.772
- Know christ.
- 00:25:24.772 --> 00:25:26.106
- You know, information is not going to save us, it's a
- 00:25:26.106 --> 00:25:28.642
- Relationship with jesus, the one who died on the cross for
- 00:25:28.642 --> 00:25:31.378
- Your sins.
- 00:25:31.378 --> 00:25:32.713
- You must personally accept him, and that's the most important
- 00:25:32.713 --> 00:25:35.549
- Thing and why we do these programs.
- 00:25:35.549 --> 00:25:37.685
- If you've not asked him into your heart before, then i'd
- 00:25:37.685 --> 00:25:40.387
- Encourage you to do it right now.
- 00:25:40.387 --> 00:25:42.089
- His arms are open wide, just come to him as you are and
- 00:25:42.089 --> 00:25:45.392
- Ask him.
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- Doug: hi, friends, i trust you being blessed by what
- 00:25:47.127 --> 00:25:49.263
- You're watching.
- 00:25:49.263 --> 00:25:50.598
- If you want to be doubly blessed, then you're going to
- 00:25:50.598 --> 00:25:52.466
- Want to get the "prophecy odyssey" study guides that go
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- Doug: as we just discovered,
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- The book of revelation describes a final war over
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- Worship, so perhaps it really does matter how and when we
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- Worship god.
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- Doug: what you've seen just now is only part one in
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- This presentation.
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- Make sure and join us for part two in our next broadcast for
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