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Robert Jeffress - The Fourth Commandment - Value God's Day

January 25, 2026 | 29:0

Robert Jeffress - The Fourth Commandment - Value God's Day
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Dr. Robert Jeffress | Robert Jeffress - The Fourth Commandment - Value God's Day | January 25, 2026
  • ♪ music ♪
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  • From the pulpit
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  • Of the first baptist church of dallas, texas,
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  • This is "pathway to victory" with dr. robert jeffress.
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  • Hi, i'm robert jeffress,
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  • And welcome again to "pathway to victory."
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  • Busy people like you and me keep a packed schedule.
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  • Between work, family, and social obligations,
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  • Hardly a moment goes unaccounted for.
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  • So in our nonstop modern world,
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  • Is it realistic to set aside a day of rest?
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  • Today, we're going to look at the fourth commandment
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  • And learn why the sabbath is still relevant
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  • In the 21st century.
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  • My message is titled value god's day
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  • On today's edition of "pathway to victory."
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  • ♪ death could not hold you ♪
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  • ♪ the veil tore before you ♪
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  • ♪ silence the boast of sin and grace ♪
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  • ♪ the heavens are roaring ♪
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  • ♪ the praise of your glory ♪
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  • ♪ before you were raised to life again ♪
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  • ♪ you have no rival ♪
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  • ♪ you have no equal ♪
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  • ♪ now and forever ♪
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  • ♪ god, you reign ♪
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  • ♪ yours is the kingdom ♪
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  • ♪ yours is the glory ♪
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  • ♪ yours is the name ♪
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  • ♪ above all names ♪
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  • ♪ what a powerful name it is ♪
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  • ♪ the name of jesus christ ♪
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  • ♪ my king ♪
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  • ♪ what a powerful name it is ♪
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  • ♪ nothing keeps dead ♪
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  • ♪ what a powerful name it is ♪
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  • ♪ the name of jesus ♪
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  • ♪ you have no rival ♪
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  • ♪ you have no equal ♪
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  • ♪ now and forever ♪
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  • ♪ god, you reign ♪
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  • ♪ yours is the kingdom ♪
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  • ♪ yours is the glory ♪
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  • ♪ yours is the name ♪
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  • ♪ above all names ♪
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  • ♪ what a powerful name it is ♪
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  • ♪ the name of jesus christ ♪
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  • ♪ my king ♪
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  • ♪ what a powerful name it is ♪
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  • ♪ nothing compares to this ♪
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  • ♪ what a powerful name it is ♪
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  • ♪ the name of jesus ♪
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  • ♪ what a powerful name it is ♪
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  • ♪ the name of jesus ♪
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  • ♪ what a powerful name it is ♪
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  • ♪ the name of jesus ♪
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  • ♪ god, you reign ♪
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  • ♪ jesus ♪
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  • (audience applauds)
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  • Society is working hard to indoctrinate
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  • The hearts of our children and grandchildren.
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  • As parents and grandparents of faith,
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  • We must be the ones to share our christian beliefs
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  • And values with the next generation.
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  • In "the 10 commandments for kids,"
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  • Dr. robert jeffress shares 10 simple bible lessons
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  • That teach children the 10 commandments.
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  • Thank you for supporting the ministry
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  • Of "pathway to victory."
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  • ♪ music ♪
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  • ♪ music ♪
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  • I don't have to tell you
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  • We live in a harried and a hurry-up culture.
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  • Technology like cellphones and iphones
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  • Have allowed us to remain connected 24/7,
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  • Constantly receiving emails, texts, social media posts.
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  • All of that means we can go, go, go without ever stopping.
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  • But that's not necessarily a good thing, is it?
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  • I'm often reminded of the story
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  • Of the man who went to africa, a traveler,
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  • And he told his guide that he wanted to move at a fast pace
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  • And so the guide recommended they hire some local tribesmen
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  • To help carry all the stuff the man had brought over.
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  • So the man met with the group
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  • And he said, "now, we're going to go fast.
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  • We're going to get up before the sun rises.
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  • We're going to go all day and keep going until the sun sets."
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  • And the next day they did just that.
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  • Up early, push, push, push, push, exhausted at night.
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  • The second morning of the trip, the man was ready to go,
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  • But he noticed the porters
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  • Were sitting under a tree and not moving.
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  • He said, "it's time to get with it. let's go."
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  • They refused to move
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  • And finally he asked the guide what was going on.
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  • The guide said, "well, you pushed them so hard yesterday.
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  • They're waiting for their souls to catch up
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  • With their bodies."
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  • (audience laughs)
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  • (chuckles) you know, god has designated a way for us
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  • To wait until our souls catch up with our bodies.
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  • In fact, there's one day a week we're going to do that.
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  • It's called the sabbath,
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  • And it's the focus of the fourth commandment
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  • We're going to look at today.
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  • If you have your bibles turned to exodus chapter 20,
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  • Beginning with verse eight,
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  • As we look at the fourth commandment,
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  • Which in essence says we need to value god's day.
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  • Now, remember in our series on the 10 commandments,
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  • We saw these commandments were not given for god's benefit.
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  • God doesn't get anything out of the 10 commandments.
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  • They're made for our benefit.
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  • The first four commandments
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  • Deal vertically with our relationship with god.
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  • The final six deal horizontally with our relationship
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  • With other people.
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  • Let's look at the fourth and final command
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  • That deals with our relationship with god.
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  • It's found beginning in verse eight.
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  • "remember the sabbath day to keep it holy.
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  • Six days you shall do your labor and all of your work,
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  • But the seventh day is a sabbath of the lord your god.
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  • In it you shall not do any work,
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  • You or your son or your daughter,
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  • Your male or your female servant
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  • Or your cattle or your sojourner who stays with you,
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  • For in six days, the lord made the heavens and the earth
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  • And the sea and all that is in them
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  • And he rested on the seventh day.
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  • Therefore, the lord blessed the sabbath day
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  • And made it holy."
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  • God is basically saying there's one day a week
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  • That we're not to do any work.
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  • We're not even to think about working.
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  • Instead, we're to substitute for work
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  • Rest, relaxation, and focusing on god.
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  • Now, before we look at the meaning
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  • And the application for us today,
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  • I want to make three observations
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  • About this fourth commandment.
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  • Write them down on your notes so you remember them.
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  • First of all, more space is devoted
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  • To this command than any of the other 10.
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  • Now, that's interesting when you think of it.
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  • More space is devoted
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  • To remembering the sabbath
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  • Than there is to adultery, theft, murder,
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  • Or any other sin that's talked about.
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  • That tells you this is something important to god.
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  • It's not optional, it's essential.
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  • The second observation is
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  • Jesus never repeated this commandment.
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  • Did you know of the 10 commandments,
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  • Jesus repeated nine of them in the new testament,
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  • But there's one commandment he didn't repeat,
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  • And it was this one,
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  • To remember the sabbath,
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  • And it's not because it's not important,
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  • But here's the reason.
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  • The sabbath for the jews was the seventh day of the week,
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  • Saturday, but after christ rose from the dead,
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  • The day changed from saturday to sunday.
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  • But even though the day changed,
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  • The principle has not changed.
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  • We're still to set aside one day a week
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  • In order to focus on our relationship with god.
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  • That's what the sabbath is about.
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  • The third observation i would make is
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  • This commandment is only one
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  • Of two commandments stated positively.
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  • Two are positive, eight are negative.
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  • Thou shall not commit adultery,
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  • Literally in hebrew, no adultery, that's all it says.
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  • Thou shall not commit murder.
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  • In hebrew, no murder.
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  • No, no, no, no.
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  • Have you ever heard people say,
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  • "you christians are too negative.
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  • You need to quit being so negative"?
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  • Well, god's negative about some things.
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  • He says, "no, no, no, no."
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  • But when it comes to the sabbath, it's positive.
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  • Remember the sabbath and keep it holy.
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  • It is a positive command, again,
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  • For our benefit, not for god's.
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  • Look at what jesus said about the sabbath.
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  • Verse 23, "and it happened
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  • That jesus was passing through the grain fields
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  • On the sabbath
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  • And his disciples began
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  • To make their way along while picking the heads of grain.
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  • And the pharisees were saying to jesus,
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  • 'look, why are your disciples
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  • Doing what is not lawful on the sabbath?'"
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  • Now, look at what jesus said.
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  • He said, "the sabbath was made for man
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  • And not man for the sabbath."
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  • So the son of man is warred even of the sabbath.
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  • That's key to understanding this.
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  • We were not made to fit into the sabbath regulations.
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  • The sabbath was given for our benefit.
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  • Well, that raises some questions
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  • About the fourth commandment.
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  • Let me answer a few of them.
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  • First of all, what is the sabbath?
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  • I used to think that the word sabbath
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  • Meant sabbath, as in saturday.
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  • It doesn't.
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  • The word literally means to resist,
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  • To cease from any kind of labor.
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  • Somebody has said it's not only ceasing from labor,
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  • It's to cease from any thought of labor,
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  • Making your to-do list for tomorrow,
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  • Any kind of labor, you're to cease one day a week from.
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  • Second question, what does it mean to remember?
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  • Why did he say, "remember the sabbath"?
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  • Well, that word means recall from memory.
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  • But you may be thinking, "well, wait a minute.
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  • If these are 10 new commandments god is giving,
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  • How are they to remember something
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  • That didn't exist before?"
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  • Well, the fact is it did exist in israel.
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  • In exodus 16,
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  • Remember the children of israel had left egypt.
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  • They were in the wilderness
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  • And god said, "i will provide for you manna
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  • To eat every day.
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  • I'll give you enough manna,"
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  • Your daily bread, so to speak.
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  • But then he gave this command
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  • In exodus 16:22-26.
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  • "now, on the sixth day, they gathered twice as much bread."
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  • That's friday.
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  • They gathered twice as much bread as they needed.
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  • "and then moses said to them,
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  • 'this is what the lord meant.
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  • Tomorrow is a sabbath observance,
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  • A holy sabbath to the lord.
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  • Bake what you will bake and boil what you will boil,
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  • And all that is left over,
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  • Put aside and kept under morning.'
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  • So they put it aside until the seventh morning
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  • As moses had ordered."
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  • In other words, god said,
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  • "on fridays, you're to take as much manna
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  • As you need for both days
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  • And save it so that you do no work on the seventh day."
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  • And then when we get to exodus 20,
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  • God enshrines this principle as a part of the top 10.
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  • Remember that sabbath and keep it holy.
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  • Thirdly, what is the penalty for violating the sabbath?
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  • Well, under the old testament,
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  • Individuals who violated the sabbath were stoned to death.
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  • Numbers 15.
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  • That was the old testament.
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  • You may be thinking, "well,
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  • I'm sure glad i don't live under those restrictions
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  • Where you get stoned to death for breaking the sabbath."
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  • Well, there may not be that punishment
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  • For breaking the sabbath, but listen to me.
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  • We all pay a penalty when we violate this principle.
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  • When we refuse to focus on god once a week
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  • And refresh ourselves emotionally and physically,
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  • We pay a price for it,
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  • And that's why we are to keep the fourth commandment.
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  • Let me give you several reasons
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  • Specifically for obeying the sabbath today.
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  • First of all, the sabbath affirms human dignity.
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  • Write that down. it affirms human dignity.
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  • Before the sabbath, god gave the sabbath,
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  • Human beings were nothing
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  • But beast of burden who worked 24/7.
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  • Think about the israelites in egypt
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  • As slaves for over 400 years.
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  • They had no sabbath.
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  • They got no rest, no ceasing of work.
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  • The only rest they would get was when they died.
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  • When you don't take a sabbath,
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  • You're no better than an indentured servant.
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  • I mean, the millionaire who worked seven days a week
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  • Is just as enslaved
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  • As the day laborer who has no money at all.
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  • But the sabbath reminds us that we are more than animals.
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  • God has created other aspects of our life
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  • That we're to enjoy.
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  • That's healthy living,
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  • And that's what the sabbath is all about.
  • 00:14:14.276 --> 00:14:16.779
  • Second reason we observe the sabbath
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  • Is the sabbath affirms the family.
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  • You know, when people take a day off from working,
  • 00:14:21.850 --> 00:14:23.986
  • They usually use it to reconnect with friends
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  • Or family members.
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  • The sabbath allows us to do that.
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  • You ask the husband or wife of a workaholic,
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  • "would your relationship improve
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  • If your spouse took a day off a week?"
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  • They would say, "yes."
  • 00:14:39.201 --> 00:14:41.637
  • You know, even in today's technological world,
  • 00:14:41.637 --> 00:14:44.673
  • There's more stress in today's world
  • 00:14:44.673 --> 00:14:49.345
  • Than there was a hundred years
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  • When people only exerted physical energy,
  • 00:14:50.846 --> 00:14:53.549
  • Again, because of that ability to remain connected 24/7.
  • 00:14:53.549 --> 00:14:58.253
  • And when we do, when we refuse the sabbath,
  • 00:14:58.253 --> 00:15:01.690
  • It affects our most important relationships.
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  • You may know the name of william wilberforce.
  • 00:15:04.493 --> 00:15:07.896
  • He was a member of the british parliament.
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  • He led the abolition of slavery in great britain.
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  • He worked tirelessly six days a week,
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  • But he was very regimented about taking off the sabbath day.
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  • And in fact, in one of his spiritual journals, he wrote,
  • 00:15:23.412 --> 00:15:26.382
  • "blessed be god for this day of rest
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  • And religious occupation
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  • Wherein earthly things assume their true size
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  • And comparative insignificance.
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  • Ambition is stunted
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  • And i hope my affections in some degree
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  • Rise to things above."
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  • I love that phrase.
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  • The sabbath is where earthly things
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  • Assume their true size.
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  • Six days a week, worldly things have our occupation.
  • 00:15:54.977 --> 00:15:58.914
  • We think the most important thing in life
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  • Is this telephone call that i'm about to make
  • 00:16:00.983 --> 00:16:05.220
  • Or this task that needs to be completed
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  • Or this goal that needs to be accomplished,
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  • Because it's what is in front of us.
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  • But on the sabbath day, when we focus on god,
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  • Everything gets put into proper perspective.
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  • Wilberforce had a friend
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  • Who abandoned his family
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  • By taking his own life,
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  • And he said his friend didn't observe the sabbath.
  • 00:16:27.509 --> 00:16:30.712
  • In fact, he made this observation about his friend.
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  • "with peaceful sundays, it's highly probable
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  • That the strings would've never snapped in this man
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  • As they did from overtension."
  • 00:16:41.090 --> 00:16:44.093
  • In other words, if he had obeyed god, observed the sabbath,
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  • He wouldn't have taken his own life.
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  • That's an extreme example, but it's true.
  • 00:16:50.399 --> 00:16:53.135
  • You know, you can only remain in tension
  • 00:16:53.135 --> 00:16:55.804
  • For so long without serious ramifications.
  • 00:16:55.804 --> 00:16:58.640
  • You can take a rubber band
  • 00:16:58.640 --> 00:16:59.942
  • And you can stretch it as far as it will go
  • 00:16:59.942 --> 00:17:02.144
  • And hold it that way for a while,
  • 00:17:02.144 --> 00:17:03.812
  • But eventually it will snap, and so do we.
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  • Let me encourage you with this truth.
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  • Exodus 31:17 in talking about the sabbath god said,
  • 00:17:09.318 --> 00:17:13.455
  • “for in six days the lord made the heaven and earth,
  • 00:17:13.455 --> 00:17:17.493
  • But on the seventh day he ceased from labor and was
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  • Refreshed.”
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  • Underline that word “refreshed.”
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  • You know the sabbath isn't about what you don't do,
  • 00:17:27.736 --> 00:17:30.506
  • It's also about what you do to refresh yourself.
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  • Now we're going to talk about spiritually refreshing
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  • Yourself in a moment, but the sabbath isn't about
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  • Going to church 24/7 on sundays it's about finding
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  • Other things that refresh you as well in addition to
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  • Being with god's people.
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  • Is there a hobby you enjoy?
  • 00:17:48.991 --> 00:17:50.759
  • Spend some time on that.
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  • Maybe you enjoy a sport, maybe you like running or
  • 00:17:52.427 --> 00:17:54.930
  • Walking, maybe you want to watch that football game,
  • 00:17:54.930 --> 00:17:58.634
  • Maybe you want to go to the movie that's ok.
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  • Don't tell anybody, but do it.
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  • You may run into me there.
  • 00:18:05.340 --> 00:18:06.708
  • Who knows?
  • 00:18:06.708 --> 00:18:07.476
  • I don't know.
  • 00:18:07.476 --> 00:18:10.045
  • No, it's a time to refresh ourselves emotionally and
  • 00:18:10.045 --> 00:18:13.849
  • Physically as well as spiritually.
  • 00:18:13.849 --> 00:18:16.718
  • And that leads to the third reason to observe the sabbath.
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  • The sabbath affirms our need for god.
  • 00:18:19.788 --> 00:18:22.090
  • We are trichotomous beings,
  • 00:18:22.090 --> 00:18:24.259
  • We are body, soul, but we are also spirit,
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  • And there needs to be a time that we worship god.
  • 00:18:27.663 --> 00:18:31.099
  • Now, some christians say, "well,
  • 00:18:31.099 --> 00:18:32.801
  • I don't need a church for that.
  • 00:18:32.801 --> 00:18:34.369
  • I've got jesus, i've got my bible.
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  • I'm just going to have my private time
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  • Out on the lake," or so forth.
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  • No.
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  • If you've ever said that
  • 00:18:41.210 --> 00:18:42.444
  • Or know of those who have said that,
  • 00:18:42.444 --> 00:18:44.379
  • Let me give you two very quick scripture verses
  • 00:18:44.379 --> 00:18:47.282
  • To help remind us about the importance of corporate worship.
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  • One is hebrews 10:24-25.
  • 00:18:51.453 --> 00:18:55.557
  • The writer said, "let us consider
  • 00:18:55.557 --> 00:18:57.459
  • How to stimulate one another to faith in good deeds."
  • 00:18:57.459 --> 00:19:01.697
  • That word stimulate literally means to irritate, to provoke,
  • 00:19:01.697 --> 00:19:06.268
  • But not in a negative way.
  • 00:19:06.268 --> 00:19:08.704
  • It's like a little piece of sand in an oyster
  • 00:19:08.704 --> 00:19:12.040
  • That irritates that oyster until it produces a pearl.
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  • When we get together as christians,
  • 00:19:15.510 --> 00:19:17.579
  • We encourage one another.
  • 00:19:17.579 --> 00:19:19.281
  • We provoke one another to greater faith.
  • 00:19:19.281 --> 00:19:21.516
  • There needs to be a time we come together
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  • And remind ourselves
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  • That there's something bigger than us individually.
  • 00:19:26.154 --> 00:19:28.357
  • We're a part of a body, the body of christ,
  • 00:19:28.357 --> 00:19:30.959
  • And we serve a god who is in control of everything
  • 00:19:30.959 --> 00:19:34.062
  • That's happening in the world, in general,
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  • And in our world specifically.
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  • That's what the sabbath does when we worship together.
  • 00:19:39.234 --> 00:19:43.005
  • In luke 4:16,
  • 00:19:43.005 --> 00:19:44.773
  • Corporate worship was even important to jesus.
  • 00:19:44.773 --> 00:19:48.110
  • Luke says, "and jesus came to nazareth
  • 00:19:48.110 --> 00:19:50.879
  • Where he had been brought up,
  • 00:19:50.879 --> 00:19:52.447
  • And as was his custom,
  • 00:19:52.447 --> 00:19:53.882
  • He entered the synagogue on the sabbath
  • 00:19:53.882 --> 00:19:56.685
  • And stood up to read."
  • 00:19:56.685 --> 00:19:59.021
  • Going to worship was a custom for jesus.
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  • Let me ask you this.
  • 00:20:03.125 --> 00:20:04.393
  • If jesus the son of god needed worship,
  • 00:20:04.393 --> 00:20:08.096
  • Being with other believers, to remain spiritually hydrated,
  • 00:20:08.096 --> 00:20:12.934
  • How much more important is it for you and me?
  • 00:20:12.934 --> 00:20:17.439
  • By the way, when we don't come to worship,
  • 00:20:17.439 --> 00:20:20.842
  • Not only hurts us, it hurts other people around us.
  • 00:20:20.842 --> 00:20:24.279
  • When you're not here in your pew on sunday mornings,
  • 00:20:24.279 --> 00:20:27.382
  • That means there's one less voice
  • 00:20:27.382 --> 00:20:29.017
  • In this place praising god.
  • 00:20:29.017 --> 00:20:31.586
  • There's one less person here encouraging other christians.
  • 00:20:31.586 --> 00:20:35.524
  • There's one less spiritual gift being utilized.
  • 00:20:35.524 --> 00:20:38.427
  • There's one less person sitting under the preaching
  • 00:20:38.427 --> 00:20:41.129
  • Of god's word to transform their lives in the world.
  • 00:20:41.129 --> 00:20:44.833
  • Some people say, "well, pastor,
  • 00:20:45.467 --> 00:20:46.802
  • I'll have to be honest with you.
  • 00:20:46.802 --> 00:20:47.969
  • No offense intended,
  • 00:20:47.969 --> 00:20:49.237
  • But i just don't get anything out of church.
  • 00:20:49.237 --> 00:20:52.407
  • I just don't get anything out of it."
  • 00:20:52.407 --> 00:20:54.443
  • Have you ever felt that way?
  • 00:20:54.443 --> 00:20:56.211
  • I have found that a lot of times,
  • 00:20:56.945 --> 00:20:59.281
  • People don't get anything out of church
  • 00:20:59.281 --> 00:21:01.083
  • Because they don't put anything into it.
  • 00:21:01.083 --> 00:21:03.985
  • You know, occasionally i'll run into somebody
  • 00:21:03.985 --> 00:21:06.054
  • And they'll have a sheepish look on their face
  • 00:21:06.054 --> 00:21:08.090
  • And they'll say, "pastor, i'm sorry,
  • 00:21:08.090 --> 00:21:09.891
  • I've kind of been out of church for a while."
  • 00:21:09.891 --> 00:21:13.128
  • They think i'm angry with them.
  • 00:21:13.128 --> 00:21:14.496
  • I'm not angry with them, but i feel sorry for them,
  • 00:21:14.496 --> 00:21:18.767
  • Because they've deprived themself of the one solution
  • 00:21:18.767 --> 00:21:23.038
  • To handle the physical, emotional,
  • 00:21:23.038 --> 00:21:25.073
  • And spiritual dehydration
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  • We're all subject to.
  • 00:21:28.610 --> 00:21:30.479
  • You know, cholera is a very dreaded disease.
  • 00:21:31.413 --> 00:21:34.483
  • Thousands die from it every year.
  • 00:21:34.483 --> 00:21:37.419
  • But the cholera victims don't die from poison in the body.
  • 00:21:37.419 --> 00:21:41.323
  • They die from dehydration.
  • 00:21:41.323 --> 00:21:44.292
  • Fortunately, modern medicine
  • 00:21:44.893 --> 00:21:46.461
  • Has provided the machinery for intravenous influx
  • 00:21:46.461 --> 00:21:51.099
  • Of liquids that the cholera victim needs.
  • 00:21:51.099 --> 00:21:54.970
  • But the question came, what do you do in countries
  • 00:21:54.970 --> 00:21:57.072
  • That don't have that kind of machinery?
  • 00:21:57.072 --> 00:22:00.208
  • Finally, a solution was found.
  • 00:22:00.842 --> 00:22:03.345
  • It was called oral rehydration.
  • 00:22:03.345 --> 00:22:05.781
  • Doctors found that by preparing a simple solution
  • 00:22:05.781 --> 00:22:09.518
  • Of water, sugar, and salt, taking it orally is enough
  • 00:22:09.518 --> 00:22:13.989
  • To replenish the fluids the body needs.
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  • You don't need any machinery.
  • 00:22:16.291 --> 00:22:18.260
  • You know, god, thousands of years ago came up
  • 00:22:19.161 --> 00:22:21.263
  • With a solution
  • 00:22:21.263 --> 00:22:23.498
  • For the physical, emotional, spiritual dehydration
  • 00:22:23.498 --> 00:22:27.502
  • We experience every week.
  • 00:22:27.502 --> 00:22:30.038
  • That solution is the sabbath.
  • 00:22:30.038 --> 00:22:33.775
  • It's a time for us to resist work,
  • 00:22:33.775 --> 00:22:37.245
  • To refresh our emotions,
  • 00:22:37.245 --> 00:22:40.115
  • And to renew our relationship with god.
  • 00:22:40.115 --> 00:22:44.152
  • Remember the sabbath
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  • And keep it holy.
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  • The sabbath is our prescription
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  • To cure the busyness of life.
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  • Don't forget to take it.
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  • Well, in closing today, let me say award of encouragement
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  • And thanks to those of you who support "pathway to victory."
  • 00:23:04.206 --> 00:23:07.375
  • Every day we send our television
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  • And radio programs all around the world,
  • 00:23:09.344 --> 00:23:11.913
  • And the results have been remarkable.
  • 00:23:11.913 --> 00:23:14.516
  • We are so encouraged by a growing audience who tell us
  • 00:23:14.516 --> 00:23:18.186
  • How god is using the bible teaching they hear
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  • On "pathway to victory" to alter their choices
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  • And to transform their lives.
  • 00:23:24.125 --> 00:23:26.228
  • So thank you for being
  • 00:23:26.228 --> 00:23:27.762
  • Among those who support "pathway to victory."
  • 00:23:27.762 --> 00:23:30.465
  • Together, as partners in ministry,
  • 00:23:30.465 --> 00:23:32.334
  • We are piercing the darkness with the light of god's word.
  • 00:23:32.334 --> 00:23:36.872
  • Now, stay right there.
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  • I'll be back with more "pathway to victory"
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  • In just a moment.
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  • It doesn't matter how young they are,
  • 00:23:42.677 --> 00:23:44.479
  • The battle is already underway
  • 00:23:44.479 --> 00:23:46.214
  • For the hearts of our children.
  • 00:23:46.214 --> 00:23:48.049
  • Do we really want public school curriculum
  • 00:23:48.049 --> 00:23:50.418
  • And popular culture teaching our young ones
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  • What is right and wrong?
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  • In "the 10 commandments for kids,"
  • 00:23:54.523 --> 00:23:56.658
  • Dr. robert jeffress shares 10 simple bible lessons
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  • That teach children the 10 commandments
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  • And lay a foundation of biblical values in their hearts.
  • 00:24:01.863 --> 00:24:05.333
  • The most important thing we can do
  • 00:24:05.333 --> 00:24:07.168
  • For the children in our lives
  • 00:24:07.168 --> 00:24:09.004
  • Is to teach them to love and follow god.
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  • I know i'm speaking to someone
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  • Who's feeling worn down today.
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  • Maybe you've been working too many hours
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  • Or scheduling too many activities.
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  • Remember, god made the sabbath not for his benefit,
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  • But for ours.
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  • It's okay, in fact, it's necessary
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  • To take some god-ordained rest.
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  • Well, over the centuries,
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  • People have conjured up some wild theories about heaven.
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  • So next week, we're going
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  • To begin debunking those popular myths
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  • And replacing our thinking about heaven
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  • With the truth of god's word.
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  • Stay tuned for a preview of my series,
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  • A place called heaven.
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  • Is heaven a real place
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  • Or is it simply a state of mind?
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  • Now, to whom should we turn to in the bible
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  • To find out if heaven is really real or not?
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  • It seems like a good place to start
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  • Would be with the only person
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  • Who has actually lived in heaven
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