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Jack Graham - The Rest of Your Life

July 12, 2026 | 27:29

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Power Point with Jack Graham | Jack Graham - The Rest of Your Life | July 12, 2026

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There is no person that god cannot save.
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There is no promise that god will not keep.
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There is nothing that our god cannot do.
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Take your bibles, turn to exodus chapter
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20, where you will find the 10 commandments. verses 8-11.
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Remember the sabbath day. remember means to honor it.
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You could even say, put this first and keep it holy. to be
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Holy is to keep it separate. to keep it is to guard it. six days
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You shall labor and do all your work. but the sabbath day is a
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Sabbath and the word sabbath, shabbat, it means to cease.
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Literally, it means to stop. so keep this day, the seventh day,
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Which would be saturday on our calendar, keep it to the lord,
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Your god. on it, you shall do no work. and this not only includes
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You, but the legacy of your life, which is your family. so
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Not only you, but your son and your daughter and your male
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Servant and your female servant, and not only that, but your
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Work, your livestock or the sojourner who is within your
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Gates. so everybody in your family and anybody visiting your
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Family on the lord's day, the sabbath day, keep it. why? for
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In six days, the lord made the heavens and the earth, the sea
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And all that is in them. you see, this commandment, the
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Fourth commandment did not begin in the book of exodus, but in
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The book of genesis when god created on six days and on the
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Seventh day, he rested, he stopped. not because he was
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Tired, but because he was finished. the work was finished.
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And the earth and the sea and all that is in them, god is
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Creator, and he rested on the seventh day. therefore, the lord
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Blessed the sabbath day and he made it holy. god's day is a
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Holy day. now, in one sense, certainly as a christian, as a
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Follower of jesus, every day is a holy day. every day is to be
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Dedicated to the lord. but god has said six of these days, you
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Are to work, and then on the seventh day, on another day, a
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Day that i have given you a space and a place for grace, i
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Want you to stop working, cease striving what you're doing,
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And worship me.
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Now, work is not a curse. it was a part of the curse that the
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Ground would be difficult and labor would be hard as a result
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Of the failure, the fall of man, the sin of man. but there's
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Great value with work. and the bible, of course, teaches this,
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That we are to earn our living and earn our way, and that work
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Is beyond the work itself, but it is worship and it is witness.
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And our worship, or rather our work, is essential to a whole
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Life. can you imagine life without meaningful work?
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Engaging in what god has made you to do is very important.
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Now, your work, your job, you could say is what you're paid to
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Do. but your calling in life is what you are made to do. and god
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Has made you in christ jesus unto good works, and that
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Includes your job. now, i know that some people say, well, i
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Hate my job. well, if you are a christian and you are a follower
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Of jesus, then either get a new job, as god leads you, or learn
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To like your job, learn to love your job, because it's important
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That your work be meaningful, that you don't dread getting up
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In the morning, that you don't get up by an alarm clock, you
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Get up because you have a calling in your life. and you
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Get up and you pray like i taught several years ago, the
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Prayer of isaiah, who said, lord, here am i, send me.
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Because your work is your mission field.
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And it's an opportunity for you as a
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Christian to make a difference for jesus christ. so you can't
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Be that guy or that gal who hates your job, you're
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Miserable, and everybody knows it. six days, you shall labor,
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You shall work. in fact, in the new testament, the bible says,
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If a man will not work, neither shall he eat. the welfare system
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In america is totally broken. and it breaks the clear
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Direction of scripture that we gain our living, we make a life
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Through our work. now, not talking about those who can't
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Work, but those who won't work. if a man will not work, a woman
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Will not work, if that woman needs to work, neither shall
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They eat. and so, don't say, take this job and shove it, say,
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Take this job and love it. learn to love it. if you don't like
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Your job, you say, well, i got a cranky boss, my boss is a jerk.
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Well, really, if you are a christian, you work for god.
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Colossians 3, 17 says, whatever you do in word or in deed, do it
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All in the name of the lord jesus christ, giving thanks to
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God the father through him. so yeah, your boss may be
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Difficult. you may not like your boss on your job, but when
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You're working for jesus, when you're on team jesus and you are
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Serving him, then whatever you are assigned to do, do it with
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All your heart. be the best at what you do. and i could say a
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Lot about that, but i just remind you that you spend a lot
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Of your time at work. so make the most of it, make the best of
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It. it is biblical, it is scriptural, it is critical that
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You work hard for your family, for your life, for your legacy.
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Work hard and do it for god's glory.
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Now, there is a warning in this,
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Before we move on to how we celebrate and consecrate the
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Sabbath, there is a warning against workaholism, which is a
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Common addiction among many people, including some
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Christians. because of your desire to acquire, you want more
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And more and much more, and then when you get more, you want
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More, and you're working and you're striving and you're
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Pressing and you're doing, and you're addicted to it. for some
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People, work is like a drug. it numbs the pain. it takes your
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Mind off something else, but that's no way to work. in fact,
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The psalmist said in psalm 127, it is vain to get up early and
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To stay up late, eating the bread of anxious toil. and then
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He says, for he gives his beloved sleep, rest. and that's
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What we're gonna talk about now, because he says, therefore,
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After you've worked six days hard on the seventh day, in this
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Case, the shabbat, but as far as christians go, we are going to
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Worship on the lord's day, because in the new testament,
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The sabbath for both jewish believers and christians,
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Followers of jesus, transitioned to the lord's day. why? because
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Jesus was raised from the dead on the first day. and while
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Christians, in the book of acts, worshiped daily, sharing their
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Bread from house to house, they worshiped every day, but they
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Also began worshiping on the lord's day. it was on the lord's
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Day that jesus first appeared to his disciples on resurrection,
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And then a week later, on the eighth day, after resurrection,
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There he is again. it was on the day of pentecost. they were on
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The lord's day when the holy spirit came and the church went
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Out and they changed the world. in the book of john, when john
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Gave the revelation, it says, i was in the spirit. when? on the
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Lord's day. so already, by the early days of the church, they
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Had moved from a jewish ceremonial sabbath to the
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Worship of jesus, the messiah, on the resurrection day.
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I know you would agree that our world is in trouble.
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It's in turmoil
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And although it is full of so many uncertainties,
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There is one answer for believer and followers of jesus
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Is the first place we should go, and that is the place of prayer
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Our concerns, our anxieties, our and fears to the lord in prayer.
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God is seeking people who will connect with him
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And connect with him very deeply to be plugged in to his spiritua
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That can transform our lives and people around us.
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That power can overcome any tria and transform our daily lives.
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Charlie kirk, our friend, was publicly assassinated september
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The 10th, 2025, last year. and, of course, we're all stunned and
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Still saddened. just 31 years of age, charlie made such a
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Difference in the world, politically, for sure, but
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Spiritually, he was impacting so many young people and families
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Across america, standing for truth and righteousness,
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Standing for what is right and righteous. and who knew that he
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Would be taken out so early? but he wrote a book that he gave us
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That came out after his death, just a few weeks ago, called
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Stop in the name of god. stop, and the subtitle is, why
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Honoring the sabbath will transform your life.
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There is a gentleman who prompted charlie kirk to begin
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Personally practicing a sabbath. he is a pastor in new york city.
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He is a trained attorney. he is also a communicator, a cultural
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Warrior. his name is david englehart. david and his wife,
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Bethany, and their children have been visiting our church. he
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Lives between here and new york. his church in new york, in
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Manhattan, is called christ the king church.
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I invited david to come up and have a talk with me, and you,
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About the sabbath day, because, again, you see it in the first
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Page or two of this book. it is david who advised charlie to
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Begin taking a sabbath. would you welcome david englehart with
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Me today? david, come on up.
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I love meeting new friends. and obviously pastors.
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And we have mutual friends here in the church.
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And all of a sudden, you showed up and we had a talk, and
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I'm saying, man, this guy, not only is highly spiritually
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Motivated and smart, he's sharp, he's a great communicator, and
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Then, lo and behold, i find out he is on the board of turning
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Point usa, one of charlie's great friends.
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Tell us how, first of all, a little bit about you. you grew
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Up in church, in a preacher's home, and then you were a
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Minister, and then a lawyer, and a cultural advocate. so, tell us
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About yourself. what happened? how does a preacher become a
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Lawyer? well, first, i'm a new yorker, i grew up in church.
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My dad's a great pastor, and i was on staff at a church very
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Much like this, in portland, oregon, in my 20s. and then,
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Later 20s, at a different church. and, toward the end of
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That term, i just kept feeling this desire to go back to
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School. and one morning, i woke up really early, and i was
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Praying, and i just felt this voice inside of the lord to say,
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I want you to go back to law school. and i'm like, that's
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Weird. jesus, you need to walk in here with a gavel if this is
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Really you. i don't know, it just was out of the blue. and i
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Went to my office that day, opened up my bible to my daily
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Bible reading, which we should all participate in, amen? amen.
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And it was 2 chronicles chapter 19, and the heading of that
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Chapter says, king jehoshaphat appoints judges and advocates
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For the people of god. i didn't know there was anything good
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About lawyers in the bible. i thought it was just jesus
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Yelling at lawyers in the new testament. there's actually a
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Portion for the placement of both judges and advocates for
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The people. that was the portion of scripture i opened up to that
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Morning. i said, okay, god, it looks like i'm going to law
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School. and so then my wife and i and boys, we went to law
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School. and i think really the lord training me in law for how
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To rightly divide the word of truth. and to make a case for
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Christ. that's exactly right. and to stand alongside charlie
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And tpusa and have a certain set of teaching to talk about things
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Like law, organizational structure, all of that kind of
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Stuff. but even as we get into the sabbath, why god's law is
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Incredibly important and a blessing to us if we can rightly
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Discern it. and it not become a taskmaster to us, but a teacher
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That leads us into the blessing that god would have for us.
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Beautiful. and of course, when we talk about the 10
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Commandments and america, we are talking about the moral legal
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Foundation of our country, right? as a lawyer, would you
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Speak to that? i mean, do you se the 10 commandments as a
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Foundational basis for our legal system in the western world?
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Absolutely. one of my favorite classes was a class called the
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Christian foundations of law. so where we spend all this time in
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Leviticus and numbers and deuteronomy, and we're studying
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The law and then how it's played out right now through aquinas
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And blackstone and how we currently, our legal system is
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Based upon the biblical legal system. and the more we
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Understand god's law, the more blessing we have. you talked
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About people turning to tv in the 50s, right? and then all of
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A sudden, people were missing the moral teaching of the
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Church. they started listening to the moral teaching of the
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Secular world. then in 1969, it's no coincidence that we have
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The sexual revolution. and then now it's no coincidence that
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Boys don't know if they're girls or boys because we've stopped
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Upholding and honoring god's moral law. and so that's one of
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The things that we're getting back to. that's true.
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Tell me more about charlie and how did you get to know charlie?
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You know, he was in your office and he was
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Struggling just physically and otherwise. and you gave him, and
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Charlie gets credit to this guy right here for the inspiration
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To write this book and to personally practice the sabbath.
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How did that happen? well, i met charlie because i met erica,
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Erica kirk before she was erica kirk. she was living in new york
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City and i was working on a conservative news project and
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Trying to get her involved. and she said, you know, i met a boy
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And i'm moving to phoenix. that boy happened to be charlie kirk.
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And so we lost erica to charlie, but later, a year later, she
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Said, you have to come on a show and just talk about god stuff.
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We were in the middle of new york city, 2020, new york city
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Was shut down. blm riots were happening all over the city. and
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I was saying to our church and churches, this is a demonic idea
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And it's bringing division and hatred and you can judge the
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Tree by the fruit and the fruit is rioting and strife and broken
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Relationships. this is not of the kingdom of god. anyway, i
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Went on charlie's show and i told that story based out of
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Galatians. and he said, englehart, you're brilliant.
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Please travel with me everywhere i go. and so i was like, kind of
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Blown away. and then i started traveling with charlie probably
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Every other week for the next two years and became one of his
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Close friends and counselors. and a year later, he came to my
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Office and he was just burnt out completely and totally. back
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Pain, tremendous back pain for a 28-year-old guy is rare. but the
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Weight of dealing with, we'd be in a car and president trump
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Would call yelling on the speakerphone, really fun. and a
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Large organization and tens of millions of dollars for a young
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Man that's a lot of weight. and i just said, charlie, are you
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Keeping the sabbath? because in law school, i learned this
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Lesson that if you wanna work really hard and be at the top of
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Your class and you keep working and you don't stop, you burn out
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And it harms you. i did a message on god's patterns of
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Rest. did you know in the bible there are 30 days of festivals
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In the old testament? imagine having 30 days of vacation. it's
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Like we're europeans or something, you know? yeah, i'd
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Like 10 days off. god's patterns of rest are way better than
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Ours. god's patterns of work are way better than ours too because
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When we work unto the lord, we're more efficient, we work
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Harder, we have more energy. and then when we rest, we're
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Supposed to rest better as well. and so god's principles of
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Sabbath, i challenged charlie, and i think it was literally two
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Weeks later, partially because of dennis prager, a lot of
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Prager inside of him, he just said, i'm gonna do it. and
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Charlie was so hyper-disciplined, like from
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That next saturday through the rest of his life, he was a
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Keeper of the sabbath. yeah, and so what, and charlie talks about
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What that looked like in his life, how he practiced a day of
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Rest with his family and with the lord. but for you and for
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All of us, what's the practical measure of that? what does that
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Look like to practice a sabbath as a christian? we just read
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Exodus chapter 20. it says, six days you shall labor, and on the
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Seventh, you shall do no work. and we know in genesis, god
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Says, hey, i'm designing the world, and i'm gonna create it
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In six days, and then i'm gonna take a day off to show you how
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To behave, how to live your life in these patterns.
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Genesis chapter one, it says
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He puts the moon, the sun, stars in the sky to show us
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Patterns of time, it says, and sacred seasons in the king james
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Version. it's beautiful that god cares about time, ordered time,
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Constructed time to show us how to live our lives. my daughter
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Goldie and i, yesterday we were throwing the frisbee out in the
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Backyard, and she said, i said, goldie, throw it like this. and
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I said, point your finger at the person you're gonna throw the
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Frisbee to. you know, because it's like when you're a kid,
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It's going off, and you gotta walk a mile. just like i was
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Showing goldie how to throw the frisbee, god was showing us how
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To rest. i was saying, what a beautiful night it is, and we
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Can't see the air around us, but there's all of these molecules
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Of oxygen, and there's a molecular world that we're
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Swimming through, and if you throw the frisbee the right way,
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It gets perfectly to the other person, because it's swimming
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Through this molecular environment. and oftentimes, we
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Forget that god's moral law is the construct of the universe
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That we walk through, and we walk in patterns and ways that
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Create friction in the world around us. we're trying to throw
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The frisbee the right way, we're trying to live our lives the
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Right way, but we're rejecting god's law and order and
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Patterns, and we're missing the blessing that he would have for
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Us in things like sabbath and rest. and if we trust the lord,
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Then we say, okay, god, i'm gonna try this thing your way,
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And then watch it bring blessing into our lives. oh, that's
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Really good, and so the value, and just stay up here with me
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This time, we're gonna finish together, but the value, then,
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Of the sabbath, how does this work in your life? well, first
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Of all, if you take a day to worship, and as i mentioned, for
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Christians, that day is the lord's day, is the resurrection
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Day. you mentioned that a rabbi said something about, if you're
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Taking a day off, then do something different than your
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Work. if you're gonna work six days, then let your sabbath day
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Or your rest day, what did that rabbi say about your work
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And your rest? he said that if you work with your mind, you
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Should rest with your body, and if you work with your body, you
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Should rest with your mind. i like that.
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I enjoy my family, i enjoy my go and i rest on the sabbath.
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That's what our sabbath is. and charlie was
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Very, very disciplined, and i have to admit, i don't do this
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As i should, but charlie would actually put up his phone. how
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Are we distracted and are always on? and back to that workaholism
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Thing, if you're the kind of person that's sinking into the
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Bathroom on off hours and checking your emails, you got a
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Problem. so let's put up our work, your phone, and then this
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Constant trolling and scrolling and doom scrolling and all that.
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I mean, don't you think we would be better off if we put our cell
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Phones down a little bit and instead of looking at our cell
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Phones, start reading our bibles? i think so. now there's
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Some people who think that you should, by law, as a christian,
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Keep the saturday sabbath. yeah, the problem,
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And i have some wonderful seventh-day adventist
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Friends, but the problem is one of their founders, ellen g.
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White, the main founder. the main founder, yeah, the founder.
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She said that the catholic church is gonna take over and
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Become the antichrist, take over the whole world and be the
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Antichrist, and they're gonna force you to go to church on
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Sundays. so going to church on sundays is actually the mark of
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The beast, which is a wild idea. we obviously don't believe that.
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Here's the problem, though. the fundamental problem is the
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Hyper-focus on law, that a law would justify you before god.
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This is a problem the sadducees made. this is a problem the
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Pharisees made, that hyper-focus on law. like we were just
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Because they're not allowed to do that. because if the law
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Justifies you, then you better hyper-focus on it, because there
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Is no salvation apart from you and your works. that is the
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Opposite message of christianity. that is the
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Opposite promise of jesus, that jesus justifies us, he makes us
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Right with god, he atones us so that we can be with god, who is
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All good and all benevolent and all loving and wonderful and
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Beyond our dreams, which is why the bible says that the sabbath
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Is merely a shadow. it's a good principle to keep in your life
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So you don't get burnt out, but it's not. 2, look it up, verses
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16 and 17. it's a shadow. but it's not the substance. but not
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The substance. go ahead, sorry to interrupt you. it's christ.
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Got a good back and forth. you got two preachers up here, it's
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A deal, it's a deal. the thing that i love about the fourth
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Commandment and this transition between honoring god and then
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The rest of kind of how to live your life is it is a doorway
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Back into loving god. the sabbath rest is now not what you
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Do, it's who you know. that's right. jesus. and you may be
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Here today and you may be burnt out and you may be trying to be
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The best student or the best employee or even the best parent
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And you may be exhausted. and let me tell you something,
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Following the sabbath will help you. it will not get you to
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Heaven. that's right. it will assist your life because god's
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Laws bring blessing. we live in a relativistic world. we don't
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Believe that god's laws are as important as they are. they're
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The substructure of the universe. they're very
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Important. but they don't get you to heaven and they don't
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Give you ultimate rest. i'll tell you what gets us to heaven
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Is when jesus died on the cross and he cried out one word in his
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Language to telestai, finished. it is finished. so what did god
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Do? god finished the work. that's why jesus is the lord of
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The sabbath. he said the sabbath is made for people. people are
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Not made for the sabbath. all the rules, the regulations, the
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To-do list, none of that gets anybody to heaven. religion
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Doesn't get anybody to heaven. keeping the sabbath, you might
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Stay a little longer on earth because there's actually data to
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Show you'll live longer.
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Your family in the process. no. do what god says. and not only
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That, but it will calm your mind. did you know that? when
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You take time out physically, it helps you physically,
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Emotionally. it will heal your body. amen. your body will heal
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When you take time to do what god says to do. it is a fact.
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And it will prepare you for the ultimate sabbath, the soul rest.
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Rest in peace, what does that mean? you don't have to have a
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Tombstone to rest in peace, david. you can rest in peace
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Right now, because what did jesus say? come unto me, all you
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That labor and are heavy laden, and i will give you rest. rest
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For your soul. and the ultimate rest, because of what jesus did
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When he finished, just as god finished the work of creation,
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Jesus finished the work of salvation. he finished, he rose
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Again, therefore he is the lord of the sabbath.
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And he's lord of all.
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Jack Graham - The Rest of Your Life

July 12, 2026 | 27:29

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