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Robert Jeffress - Squabbling Over The Sabbath

July 28, 2025 | 29:0

Robert Jeffress - Squabbling Over The Sabbath
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Dr. Robert Jeffress | Robert Jeffress - Squabbling Over The Sabbath | July 28, 2025
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  • Male announcer: from the pulpit of the first baptist church
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  • Of dallas, texas, this is "pathway to victory"
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  • Jeffress: hi, i'm robert jeffress,
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  • And welcome again to "pathway to victory."
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  • For thousands of years, the sabbath has been considered
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  • A holy day.
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  • There are even some laws that prohibit buying and selling
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  • Certain items on sundays.
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  • But does god really expect us to keep the sabbath in
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  • Modern day?
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  • Or is honoring the sabbath just another way of being legalistic?
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  • Today, i wanna challenge you to look beyond the letter of
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  • The law to see the principle behind it.
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  • Jeffress: how would you react to the following situations?
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  • Situation number one: a friend or family member tells you that
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  • He's received a promotion that will result in a much-needed
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  • Increase in salary.
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  • The only catch is his new position will require him to
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  • Work every sunday and miss church on sunday.
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  • But the good news is your church has saturday night
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  • Worship services.
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  • So his question to you is, "is saturday night worship the same
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  • As sunday morning worship?
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  • Should i take this new position or not?"
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  • Situation number two: you've had a hectic week.
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  • You didn't have time to go by the hardware store to get a new
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  • Blade for your lawn mower.
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  • And so, sunday, while you're munching on a donut at sunday
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  • School, you just mentioned to a friend that as soon as church is
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  • Over, you're going by the hardware store to pick up
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  • A blade for your lawn mower.
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  • Your friend is horrified.
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  • "you're gonna shop on sunday?
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  • Don't you realize that by shopping on sunday, you're
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  • Encouraging a store to stay open?
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  • And that means employees will be missing church."
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  • How do you respond to that objection situation?
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  • Number three: your child has been offered a spot on a very
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  • Select sports team that travels out of town three or four
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  • Weekends every month.
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  • Being on the sports team will give your child a very good
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  • Advantage in securing a college scholarship.
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  • The only problem is he or she will be missing church almost
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  • Every sunday for a year.
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  • You're concerned, but the coach tries to allay your fears by
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  • Saying, "don't worry, we'll have a devotional thought on
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  • The field right before the game every sunday."
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  • Do you allow your child to participate or not?
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  • All of these situations have in common, the fact that they deal
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  • With the issues of the commandment: "remember
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  • The sabbath and keep it holy."
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  • Does that commandment apply to us today who live under grace
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  • And not the law?
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  • Are there principles that transfer to us even under
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  • The age of grace?
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  • You know, i would say outside of the issue of baptism or
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  • Eschatology, no issue causes more controversy in the church
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  • Than the issue of the sabbath.
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  • That shouldn't surprise us.
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  • The fact is jesus had his own share of squabbles about
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  • The sabbath.
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  • We're going to look at two of them today and learn some
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  • Invaluable principles that apply to us, 2,000 years later, of
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  • What we ought to do on that day of worship.
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  • Turn in your bibles to luke, chapter 6. as we've seen, jesus
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  • Was constantly doing battle against the pharisees, that sect
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  • Of judaism that was seeking to destroy him.
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  • We saw last time how they criticized jesus for hanging out
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  • With sinners.
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  • Well, who else does a savior hang out with except a sinner?
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  • That's why he came, not for the righteous, but for
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  • The unrighteous.
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  • And now we're going to see today, they also criticized
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  • Jesus for the way he kept, or didn't keep, the holy day of
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  • Worship called the sabbath.
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  • Now, before we get into luke 6, i wanna say just a word about
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  • The sabbath in general.
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  • First of all, it's meaning the word 'sabbath,' contrary to
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  • Popular opinion does not mean 'seventh.'
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  • Instead, it comes from the hebrew word 'shabbat,' which
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  • Means 'to cease' or 'desist' from any kind of work.
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  • In fact, somebody has said it means to cease from even
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  • Thinking about working.
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  • And the idea of the sabbath comes from the passage we read
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  • Just a few moments ago, the fourth commandment, found in
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  • Exodus 20, verses 8 to 11: "god said,
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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,
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  • But the seventh day is a sabbath
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  • Of the lord, your god.'"
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  • Verse 11: "for in six days the lord made
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  • The heavens and the earth, the sea and all that
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  • Is in them, 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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  • And god is saying, just as i created the world
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  • And finished all of my work in six days and rested on
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  • The seventh, you are to do all of your work for a week
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  • In six days, and you are to rest on the seventh day.
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  • What was the purpose of the sabbath?
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  • Listen: the sabbath was never meant to be a burden to
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  • God's people.
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  • It was to be a blessing to god's people.
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  • In mark 2:27, jesus made it clear that the sabbath was made
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  • For man and not man for the sabbath.
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  • The sabbath is god's gift to us.
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  • A number of years ago, i was riding around in a taxi cab in
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  • New york city and, trying to make conversation with the cab
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  • Driver, i asked him, "how many miles does this cab have on it?"
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  • By looking at it, it looked like it had a lot of miles on it.
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  • He said, "300,000 so far."
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  • I said "300,000?
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  • How do you keep this thing running after 300,000 miles?"
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  • He says, "it's real simple.
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  • I change the oil every 3,000 miles, i change the air filter,
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  • And i keep it lubricated."
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  • In other words, he was saying, "i follow the
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  • Maintenance schedule."
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  • Did you know god, our creator, has given us a maintenance
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  • Schedule, a program to ensure our physical, emotional,
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  • And spiritual health?
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  • And part of that maintenance program for us is observing
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  • The sabbath.
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  • That is, we are to do all our work in six days, and we're to
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  • Do something different on the seventh day.
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  • All of our work in six days, not in seven days, not in four days,
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  • But in six days we work, and the seventh is the sabbath day.
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  • It's a gift to us.
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  • Of course, the pharisees distorted that.
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  • They took what was a blessing and turned it into a burden.
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  • They came up with all of these manmade regulations about what
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  • You could and couldn't do on the sabbath.
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  • But the question is, what about the
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  • Old testament rules about the sabbath?
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  • Should we follow those as well?
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  • You know, as you look at the new testament, it is clear
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  • That once jesus was raised from the dead,
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  • The early church changed its day of worship from saturday, the
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  • Last day of the week, to sunday, the first day of the week.
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  • Mark down acts 20, verse seven, and 1 corinthians 16:2: sunday,
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  • The day christ was raised from the dead, became the day of
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  • Worship for christians.
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  • Nevertheless, there were some in the early church who weren't
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  • Comfortable with that change.
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  • They wanted to keep worshiping on saturday.
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  • They wanted to keep the old testament restrictions of
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  • The sabbath.
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  • So what were they to do?
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  • Do you worship on saturday or sunday?
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  • Well, paul addressed that issue head on in
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  • Colossians 2:16 and 17.
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  • He said: "therefore let no one act as your
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  • Judge in regard to food or drink or in respect
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  • To a festival or a new moon or a sabbath day,
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  • Things which are a mere shadow of what is to
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  • Come; but the substance belongs to christ."
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  • Paul was saying all these old testament laws,
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  • They were simply a shadow pointing to jesus christ.
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  • And now that jesus has come, there is no reason to go back
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  • And keep all of these old testament laws.
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  • But he also said, if you still wanna worship on the sabbath,
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  • Fine, worship on the sabbath.
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  • If you wanna keep these old testament dietary laws, go ahead
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  • And keep them.
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  • But don't judge others who choose not to keep them.
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  • You know, the same truth applies to us today.
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  • You know, if you don't wanna dance, fine, don't dance.
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  • Frankly, some of you shouldn't even try to dance.
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  • You know, it's a sin against god and man for you to try.
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  • If you don't wanna dance, fine.
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  • If you don't wanna go to the movies, fine.
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  • If you don't want to smoke cigars, fine.
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  • There are very good reasons not to do that, but don't make your
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  • Personal conviction, somebody else's obligation.
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  • That's legalism, that's what he's saying here.
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  • Now, even though we're not under those old testament
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  • Restrictions, i do believe there's some very valuable
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  • Principles for us about the sabbath we can observe today.
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  • But before we look at those principles, let's look very
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  • Quickly at jesus's sabbath squabbles.
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  • There were two of them uh in which jesus was confronted
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  • With the sabbath.
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  • First of all, i call the case of the hungry disciples.
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  • It's found in verses 1 to 5 of luke 6.
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  • Look at verse 1: "now it came about that on
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  • A certain sabbath, jesus was passing through
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  • Some grainfields, and his disciples were
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  • Picking and eating the heads of grain,
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  • Rubbing them in their hands.
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  • But some of the pharisees said, 'why do you do
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  • What is not lawful on the sabbath?'"
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  • But the pharisees added to god's law and they said on the
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  • Sabbath, you couldn't reap, thresh, winnow, or prepare any
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  • Kind of food on the sabbath day.
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  • And therefore, the disciples were breaking the
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  • Pharisees' rule.
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  • How did jesus answer?
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  • Look at verses 3 and 4: "and jesus answered
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  • Them and said, 'have you not even read what
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  • David did when he was hungry, he and those who
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  • Were with him; how he entered the house of god,
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  • And took and ate the consecrated bread,
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  • Which is not lawful for any to eat except the
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  • Priests alone and he gave it his companions?'"
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  • Now, this is a reference to 1 samuel 21.
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  • David and his men were fleeing king saul.
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  • They were hungry, they had no place to eat.
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  • So, they go into the tabernacle, they see those 12 loaves of
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  • Bread, the showbread, that were dedicated to god, and they
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  • Ate it.
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  • Now, 1 samuel 22, chapter 22, and gives a strong inference
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  • That the priest had inquired of god of whether this was okay
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  • Or not.
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  • But nevertheless, they ate this bread, showing that god is more
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  • Interested in the spirit of the law than the letter of the law.
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  • And that's what jesus said.
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  • But somebody might say, "well, jesus, if you just start
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  • Interpreting god's law however you want to, that leads
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  • To chaos."
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  • Well, look at what jesus said in verse 5:
  • 00:12:03.412 --> 00:12:04.780
  • "and he said to them, 'the son of man is lord
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  • Of the sabbath.'"
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  • Jesus was saying, "hey, don't forget who i am,
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  • I'm god.
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  • I'm the one who wrote this law to begin with.
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  • I can interpret it any way i want."
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  • And by saying such a thing, he enraged the pharisees.
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  • We find the second sabbath squabble beginning in verse 6,
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  • The case of the handicapped man.
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  • Look at this in verse 6: "and it came about on
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  • Another sabbath, that jesus entered the
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  • Synagogue and was teaching; and there was
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  • A man there whose right hand was withered.
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  • And the scribes and the pharisees were
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  • Watching him closely," literally in greek, they
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  • Were spying on him, "to see if he healed on
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  • The sabbath, in order that they might find
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  • Reason to accuse him."
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  • They were really worried that jesus was actually
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  • Gonna do something nice
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  • For somebody on the sabbath, and heal this man.
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  • Look at how jesus responded, verse 8: "but
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  • Jesus knew what they were thinking, and so
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  • He said to the man with the withered hand,
  • 00:13:06.375 --> 00:13:08.010
  • 'rise and come forward!'
  • 00:13:08.010 --> 00:13:09.578
  • And so the man rose and came forward.
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  • And then jesus said to them, 'i ask you, is it
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  • Lawful on the sabbath to do good or to do harm,
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  • To save a life or to destroy it?'"
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  • You see, the old testament law said you weren't
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  • To work on the sabbath.
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  • However, if you had a sheep that was lost or was injured, you had
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  • The freedom to rescue it.
  • 00:13:33.235 --> 00:13:35.104
  • Now, here's the point: if you can do that for an animal, if
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  • You can rescue and help heal an animal, don't you think you
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  • Ought to be able to do it for another human being?
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  • I mean, why is it people would care more about animals than
  • 00:13:44.680 --> 00:13:47.616
  • They do human beings who are created in the eyes of god, in
  • 00:13:47.616 --> 00:13:52.254
  • The image of god?
  • 00:13:52.254 --> 00:13:53.789
  • And yet you've seen that same hypocrisy today.
  • 00:13:53.789 --> 00:13:57.059
  • Then jesus sticks the knife in even deeper.
  • 00:13:57.059 --> 00:14:00.262
  • He said, "by the way, pharisees, is it better to save a life or
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  • Destroy it on the sabbath?
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  • You're all concerned what i'm doing on the sabbath.
  • 00:14:07.136 --> 00:14:10.105
  • What are you doing?"
  • 00:14:10.105 --> 00:14:11.473
  • And what they were doing was plotting to kill the son of god.
  • 00:14:11.473 --> 00:14:15.744
  • So what he's saying is, who's really doing good and who's
  • 00:14:15.744 --> 00:14:18.847
  • Really doing evil here as well?
  • 00:14:18.847 --> 00:14:21.283
  • Verse 10: "and after looking around at them
  • 00:14:21.283 --> 00:14:23.585
  • All, he said to him, 'stretch out your hand!'
  • 00:14:23.585 --> 00:14:26.455
  • And he did so; and his hand was restored.
  • 00:14:26.455 --> 00:14:29.491
  • But they themselves were filled with rage, and
  • 00:14:29.491 --> 00:14:32.394
  • Discussed together what they might do to jesus."
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  • No, look, i understand, 2,000 years later,
  • 00:14:35.698 --> 00:14:39.368
  • Most of you are not wrestling whether or not you can pluck
  • 00:14:39.368 --> 00:14:42.104
  • A head of wheat from somebody's field.
  • 00:14:42.104 --> 00:14:44.340
  • You're not trying to determine whether or not you ought to heal
  • 00:14:44.340 --> 00:14:46.575
  • Somebody of a withered hand.
  • 00:14:46.575 --> 00:14:48.944
  • But i believe god's word is given to us for a reason.
  • 00:14:48.944 --> 00:14:51.747
  • I believe in this story and in god's word, we find some
  • 00:14:51.747 --> 00:14:55.050
  • Invaluable, lasting principles that ought to help us in our own
  • 00:14:55.050 --> 00:14:58.954
  • Walk with god.
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  • And so i wanna close today briefly with three lasting
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  • Lessons that come from this passage about our observance of
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  • The sabbath.
  • 00:15:07.896 --> 00:15:09.231
  • First of all, principle number one: recognize the difference
  • 00:15:09.231 --> 00:15:12.568
  • Between legalism and obedience.
  • 00:15:12.568 --> 00:15:16.538
  • You know, whenever i speak out against legalism, i'm hesitant
  • 00:15:16.538 --> 00:15:20.309
  • To do so because i know people will misunderstand.
  • 00:15:20.309 --> 00:15:23.078
  • People confuse legalism with obedience.
  • 00:15:23.078 --> 00:15:25.614
  • When we talk about legalism, we're not talking about god's
  • 00:15:25.614 --> 00:15:28.617
  • Laws, we're talking about manmade laws.
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  • And we are to avoid those because we live under grace.
  • 00:15:32.254 --> 00:15:36.291
  • But a lot of times, people confuse that with obedience, and
  • 00:15:36.291 --> 00:15:40.162
  • They use god's grace--listen to this--as an excuse for
  • 00:15:40.162 --> 00:15:44.600
  • Immorality, self-indulgence, non-involvement in god's
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  • Kingdom's work.
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  • Don't operate according to a lower standard, we have a
  • 00:15:50.706 --> 00:15:53.675
  • Higher standard.
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  • Grace imposes a higher standard of obedience, not a
  • 00:15:55.411 --> 00:16:00.949
  • Lower standard.
  • 00:16:00.949 --> 00:16:02.317
  • Didn't jesus say that?
  • 00:16:02.317 --> 00:16:03.652
  • He said, "the old testament said, 'you shall not
  • 00:16:03.652 --> 00:16:05.521
  • Commit adultery.'
  • 00:16:05.521 --> 00:16:06.922
  • But i say to you, whoever looks on somebody with lust is guilty
  • 00:16:06.922 --> 00:16:10.959
  • Of adultery."
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  • The new testament is a higher standard of behavior.
  • 00:16:12.327 --> 00:16:16.131
  • Listen, grace is not an excuse for disobedience to god.
  • 00:16:16.131 --> 00:16:20.869
  • Remember the principle behind the sabbath?
  • 00:16:20.869 --> 00:16:24.239
  • No, we're not under the old testament restrictions about
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  • What to do on the seventh day, but the principle still applies.
  • 00:16:27.176 --> 00:16:31.680
  • There needs to be one day a week when we focus on our
  • 00:16:31.680 --> 00:16:35.551
  • Relationship with god.
  • 00:16:35.551 --> 00:16:37.352
  • And by the way, we don't do that by ourselves, we do it in the
  • 00:16:37.352 --> 00:16:40.622
  • Community of other believers.
  • 00:16:40.622 --> 00:16:43.959
  • In hebrews 10, verses 24 and 25, the new testament gives us the
  • 00:16:43.959 --> 00:16:48.197
  • Standard: "and let us consider how to stimulate
  • 00:16:48.197 --> 00:16:51.934
  • One another to love and good deeds, not
  • 00:16:51.934 --> 00:16:55.637
  • Forsaking our own assembling together, as is
  • 00:16:55.637 --> 00:16:58.807
  • The habit of some, but encouraging
  • 00:16:58.807 --> 00:17:01.110
  • One another; and all the more
  • 00:17:01.110 --> 00:17:03.078
  • As you see the day drawing near."
  • 00:17:03.078 --> 00:17:05.214
  • But look, this passage is not saying you can
  • 00:17:05.214 --> 00:17:07.516
  • Never ever miss a sunday.
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  • It's not saying that.
  • 00:17:09.418 --> 00:17:11.320
  • The key word is 'habit.'
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  • What is your habit on sunday?
  • 00:17:14.022 --> 00:17:16.658
  • If you find yourself being gone from here as much as you're
  • 00:17:16.658 --> 00:17:19.394
  • Here, or you find yourself being gone more than you're here,
  • 00:17:19.394 --> 00:17:24.366
  • You're not obeying god.
  • 00:17:24.366 --> 00:17:26.435
  • First of all, you're robbing yourself of the spiritual
  • 00:17:26.435 --> 00:17:29.972
  • Encouragement we all need that comes from being with god's
  • 00:17:29.972 --> 00:17:32.774
  • People, singing together, hearing god's word, praying
  • 00:17:32.774 --> 00:17:36.445
  • Together, encouraging one another.
  • 00:17:36.445 --> 00:17:38.280
  • You are robbing yourself of the spiritual resource you need that
  • 00:17:38.280 --> 00:17:42.351
  • Comes from fellowship.
  • 00:17:42.351 --> 00:17:44.319
  • But when you're not here, you're also robbing other people of
  • 00:17:44.319 --> 00:17:47.389
  • What they need.
  • 00:17:47.389 --> 00:17:48.724
  • You heard me say a few weeks ago, when you're not here on
  • 00:17:48.724 --> 00:17:50.959
  • Sunday morning, that's one less voice praising god in song.
  • 00:17:50.959 --> 00:17:54.863
  • That's one less prayer being offered during the invitation.
  • 00:17:54.863 --> 00:17:58.233
  • That's one less spiritual gift being operated and exercised in
  • 00:17:58.233 --> 00:18:02.037
  • The body of christ.
  • 00:18:02.037 --> 00:18:03.372
  • Your absence has an impact, just not on you, but on others
  • 00:18:03.372 --> 00:18:07.676
  • As well.
  • 00:18:07.676 --> 00:18:09.011
  • And that's why we need to make our presence in church an
  • 00:18:09.011 --> 00:18:13.448
  • Absolute priority.
  • 00:18:13.448 --> 00:18:15.817
  • You cannot pull your kids out of church and not have some
  • 00:18:15.817 --> 00:18:19.321
  • Serious consequences.
  • 00:18:19.321 --> 00:18:21.390
  • You know, i had somebody hand me a couple of years ago an
  • 00:18:21.390 --> 00:18:26.361
  • Editorial, an op-ed piece, not from the "baptist standard," but
  • 00:18:26.361 --> 00:18:31.266
  • From "sports illustrated."
  • 00:18:31.266 --> 00:18:33.769
  • And it was about the increasing propensity of having games on
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  • Sunday and what parents needed to do about it.
  • 00:18:37.339 --> 00:18:41.109
  • And this writer talks about what one city decided to do.
  • 00:18:41.109 --> 00:18:45.347
  • He says, "well, the religion bosses have decided that they're
  • 00:18:45.347 --> 00:18:49.218
  • Not going to take it anymore.
  • 00:18:49.218 --> 00:18:51.153
  • Spiritual leaders in this town got together recently and
  • 00:18:51.153 --> 00:18:54.823
  • Appealed for sports leagues to stop scheduling games before
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  • Noon on sunday.
  • 00:18:59.061 --> 00:19:00.629
  • A meeting between them and area youth coaches is set for may.
  • 00:19:00.629 --> 00:19:04.700
  • We'll see who kneels first, but don't bet on the coaches doing
  • 00:19:04.700 --> 00:19:09.871
  • The right thing.
  • 00:19:09.871 --> 00:19:11.240
  • If they could, they'd have your kids running stairs on
  • 00:19:11.240 --> 00:19:14.676
  • Christmas morning.
  • 00:19:14.676 --> 00:19:16.645
  • What has to happen is parents have to start saying no, not to
  • 00:19:16.645 --> 00:19:22.150
  • Their kids, but to their kids' coaches.
  • 00:19:22.150 --> 00:19:25.320
  • One man said, 'i told my boy's coach he wouldn't be playing
  • 00:19:25.320 --> 00:19:28.657
  • On sundays.'
  • 00:19:28.657 --> 00:19:29.992
  • And the coach looked shocked.
  • 00:19:29.992 --> 00:19:31.860
  • I said, 'you act like nobody's ever said that to you before.'
  • 00:19:31.860 --> 00:19:35.230
  • And the coach said, 'honestly, nobody has.'
  • 00:19:35.230 --> 00:19:38.567
  • Well, i'm with the holy men," this writer says.
  • 00:19:38.567 --> 00:19:41.236
  • "not that i'm the reverend lovejoy, but i just feel sorry
  • 00:19:41.236 --> 00:19:44.139
  • For these kids who get nothing but organized sports crammed
  • 00:19:44.139 --> 00:19:47.743
  • Down their gullets 24/7.
  • 00:19:47.743 --> 00:19:50.178
  • My lord, even god took a day off.
  • 00:19:50.178 --> 00:19:54.950
  • Kids might weep with joy just to get a day off from sports.
  • 00:19:54.950 --> 00:19:59.121
  • If they don't spend it at church, maybe they'll spend it
  • 00:19:59.121 --> 00:20:01.323
  • Getting to know their siblings' names again or swing in a
  • 00:20:01.323 --> 00:20:04.760
  • Hammock without hearing a coach screaming, 'get your hips into
  • 00:20:04.760 --> 00:20:08.930
  • It, samantha.'
  • 00:20:08.930 --> 00:20:10.699
  • Hey, you do what you want.
  • 00:20:10.699 --> 00:20:13.402
  • But just remember, when little billy has two free throws to win
  • 00:20:13.402 --> 00:20:17.272
  • Or lose a game on some sunday morning, good luck finding
  • 00:20:17.272 --> 00:20:21.109
  • Somebody who will answer your prayers."
  • 00:20:21.109 --> 00:20:24.313
  • Now, that's from "sports illustrated."
  • 00:20:24.313 --> 00:20:26.882
  • We who are the church of god need to stand up and say no
  • 00:20:26.882 --> 00:20:30.085
  • To this.
  • 00:20:30.085 --> 00:20:31.453
  • And let me say to you parents: your greatest responsibility,
  • 00:20:31.453 --> 00:20:35.691
  • My greatest responsibility to you as a parent, is to instill
  • 00:20:35.691 --> 00:20:39.795
  • Biblical spiritual truth into the lives of our children.
  • 00:20:39.795 --> 00:20:44.333
  • That is the reason god gave these children to us.
  • 00:20:44.333 --> 00:20:48.370
  • And for you to not have your child here, to ensure some kind
  • 00:20:48.370 --> 00:20:52.474
  • Of hope for success in the sports world is going to lead to
  • 00:20:52.474 --> 00:20:55.944
  • Destruction and lie.
  • 00:20:55.944 --> 00:20:57.279
  • The final lasting lesson i want to talk about today is: resist
  • 00:20:57.279 --> 00:21:00.682
  • The urge to impose your convictions on others.
  • 00:21:00.682 --> 00:21:04.686
  • In issues that the bible doesn't address directly, the gray area,
  • 00:21:04.686 --> 00:21:08.857
  • So to speak, resist the urge to impose your conviction
  • 00:21:08.857 --> 00:21:12.494
  • On others.
  • 00:21:12.494 --> 00:21:13.862
  • The two most famous preachers of the 19th century was the
  • 00:21:13.862 --> 00:21:17.299
  • American evangelist, d.l. moody, and the london pastor,
  • 00:21:17.299 --> 00:21:21.136
  • Charles haddon spurgeon.
  • 00:21:21.136 --> 00:21:22.971
  • One day, d.l. moody decided he would travel to london to meet
  • 00:21:22.971 --> 00:21:26.641
  • Mr. spurgeon in person.
  • 00:21:26.641 --> 00:21:28.844
  • He arrived in london, went to spurgeon's home, knocked on
  • 00:21:28.844 --> 00:21:31.480
  • The door.
  • 00:21:31.480 --> 00:21:32.814
  • When the door opened, d.l. moody was shocked to see the
  • 00:21:32.814 --> 00:21:35.751
  • Legendary charles spurgeon standing there smoking a cigar.
  • 00:21:35.751 --> 00:21:42.591
  • D.l. moody said, "how could you, a man of god, smoke that?"
  • 00:21:42.591 --> 00:21:49.364
  • Spurgeon took the stogie out of his mouth, started tapping the
  • 00:21:49.364 --> 00:21:53.034
  • Rather large stomach of d.l. moody and said, "how could you,
  • 00:21:53.034 --> 00:21:57.672
  • A man of god, be so fat?"
  • 00:21:57.672 --> 00:22:03.912
  • You know, jesus said, "before you take the speck out of your
  • 00:22:03.912 --> 00:22:07.549
  • Brother's eye, remove the plank out of your own eye."
  • 00:22:07.549 --> 00:22:12.387
  • Look, in these areas that the bible doesn't give specific
  • 00:22:12.387 --> 00:22:15.757
  • Direction on, try to learn the principles from god's word that
  • 00:22:15.757 --> 00:22:20.061
  • Are behind those regulations.
  • 00:22:20.061 --> 00:22:22.497
  • Pray for god's leadership and how you should act and behave,
  • 00:22:22.497 --> 00:22:27.836
  • But resist the urge to make your conviction, somebody
  • 00:22:27.836 --> 00:22:31.740
  • Else's obligation.
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  • If we do that, we'll all live happily together.
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  • Jeffress: the sabbath is god's gift to us,
  • 00:22:43.251 --> 00:22:45.754
  • Not a burden to bear.
  • 00:22:45.754 --> 00:22:47.656
  • And i hope today's message has helped you understand the
  • 00:22:47.656 --> 00:22:50.158
  • Difference between legalism and true obedience to god.
  • 00:22:50.158 --> 00:22:54.663
  • Well, here on "pathway to victory," we keep god's word at
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  • Well, the sermon on the mount is often regarded as the greatest
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  • Message ever preached.
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  • In it, jesus commanded his followers to love their enemies
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  • But are such lofty ideals truly practical in today's world?
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  • And yes, it's difficult.
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  • Stepping out to witness god's grandeur, from the majestic
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  • Glaciers to soaring eagles.
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  • These moments in god's creation will deepen your faith in
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  • Jeffress: we'll explore god's word together against the
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  • Backdrop of his most impressive handiwork.
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  • I promise, you'll return home with memories that will last a
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  • Lifetime and a heart renewed by god's presence.
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