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Billions of people in the
world are missing out on
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the New Testament message
of abundant living.
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Human reason, including
non-biblical ideas of
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"human love," continues
to lead the world toward
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suffering, confusion,
and disaster.
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What is the true way to love
and peace in the world?
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Most professing Christians
know the answer, Matthew 22:37.
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Jesus Christ gave these
two principles to be
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obeyed by every
human being:
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"'You shall love the Lord
your God with all your
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heart, with all your soul,
and with all your mind.'
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This is the first and
great commandment.
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And the second is like it:
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'You shall love your
neighbor as yourself.'
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On these two commandments
hang all the Law
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and the Prophets."
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My friends, this is
the way to true life,
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meaning, and fulfillment.
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But why do so few
enjoy this true life?
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Because human beings do not
like to be told what to do.
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These are "commandments" and
humans resist commandments,
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including the
Ten Commandments.
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But many would rather
remain ignorant,
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because it suits their
selfish desires.
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Aldous Huxley, the famous
English author, expressed
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this perspective well:
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"Most ignorance is
vincible ignorance.
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We don't know because
we don't want to know.
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It is our will that
decides how and upon
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what subjects we shall
use our intelligence."
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That's from Ends and
Means, page 312.
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But there is a God, and He
commands us to love Him.
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The First Great Commandment
to love God is defined
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by the first four of
the Ten Commandments,
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and the Fourth Commandment
of the Ten emphasizes
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a weekly action
in loving God.
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Exodus 20:8-10,
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"Remember the Sabbath
day, to keep it holy.
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Six days you shall labor
and do all your work,
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but the seventh day is the
Sabbath of the Lord your God."
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Which day is the
Christian Sabbath?
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On today's program we'll be
offering a free study guide,
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by that title: Which Day Is
the Christian Sabbath?
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My friends, will
you love God?
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Will you obey the
Fourth Commandment?
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You need to know the true
Christian way of life
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and the true Sabbath
of Jesus Christ.
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Stay tuned.
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♪
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Billions of people all over
the world enjoy holidays.
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They celebrate secular holidays and religious holy days.
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Muslims worship on Friday
and follow the call to
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prayer five times a day.
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Jews around the world have
worshiped for thousands of
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years on the Sabbath, the
day that begins at sunset
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every Friday evening, and
continues through sunset
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on Saturday.
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Professing Christians meet
for Sunday church services,
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proclaiming theirs is the
true day for worship.
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The Sabbath controversy has
continued for centuries.
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Did the New Testament change
the Sabbath observance
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to Sunday worship?
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Should religious people set aside any special day as holy?
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Does your Bible command
us to observe Sunday,
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the first day of the week,
as a day of worship?
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Or should Christians observe
the seventh-day Sabbath?
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On today's program, we'll
answer that question
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from the Bible.
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And we'll be offering you
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guide that gives you the
biblical answers you need.
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It's titled: Which Day
Is the Christian Sabbath?
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This is a vital question for
all professing Christians.
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The most important
questions of life are
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answered in your Bible.
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And yet, we see religious
conflicts and differences
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even among professing
Christian denominations.
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Why do so many professing
Christians keep Sunday,
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while others keep
Saturday as the Sabbath?
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To answer the question,
let's look at the
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beginning of Christianity
as recorded in your Bible.
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If you have your Bible,
turn to Acts 13:42.
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In the first century AD, the
Apostle Paul had preached
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on the Sabbath in
the Antioch synagogue.
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His audience consisted of
both Jews and Gentiles.
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Notice that after the
Jews left the meeting,
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the Gentiles made a request.
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Now, this was years after
the death, burial, and
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resurrection of Christ.
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Surely, if Christians
were to keep Sunday,
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the Gentiles would have met
with the Apostle Paul
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the very next day, Sunday,
after they had met in
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the synagogue on Saturday.
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But did they?
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Acts 13:42,
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"So when the Jews went out of the synagogue, the Gentiles
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begged that these words
might be preached to them..."
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When? The next day,
Sunday? No.
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"The Gentiles begged
that these words might
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be preached to them
the next Sabbath."
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Read that again in
your own Bible.
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"The Gentiles begged
that these words might
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be preached to them
the next Sabbath."
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My friends, the New
Testament Church of the
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first century observed
the seventh-day Sabbath.
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Let's continue reading
in Acts 13:43,
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"Now when the congregation had broken up, many of the Jews
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and devout proselytes followed
Paul and Barnabas,
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who, speaking to them,
persuaded them to continue
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in the grace of God.
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[Now, listen to this]
On the next Sabbath almost
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the whole city came together
to hear the word of God."
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Yes, it was the Apostle
Paul's custom to preach
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on the Sabbath as it
tells us in Acts 17:2.
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Many were converted
to Christianity and
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continued observing the
Fourth Commandment.
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Paul was very effective in
his preaching to both
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Jews and Gentiles as we
read in Acts 18:4.
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He was in Corinth
on this occasion:
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"And he [the Apostle Paul]
reasoned in the synagogue
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every Sabbath, and persuaded both Jews and Greeks."
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The Christians of the
first century AD observed
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the seventh-day Sabbath.
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But when was it
changed to Sunday?
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And who popularized
Sunday observance?
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The Catholic Encyclopedia,
on the topic of "Sunday,"
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states this: "Tertullian
(202 [AD]) is the first
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writer who expressly
mentions the Sunday rest:
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'We, however (just as
tradition has taught us),
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on the day of the Lord's
Resurrection ought to
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guard not only against
kneeling, but every
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posture and office of
solicitude, deferring even
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our businesses lest we give
any place to the devil.'"
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That was not until 202 AD,
more than 170 years after the
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death, burial, and resurrection
of the Savior, Jesus Christ.
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And it was not until the
fourth century AD that
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the Emperor Constantine
enforced Sunday worship
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throughout the
Roman Empire.
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Constantine had been a
pagan Sunday worshipper.
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He gave the following
edict in 321 AD:
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"On the venerable day of the
sun let all magistrates
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and people... rest"
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The sun-worshiping emperor
Constantine, declared
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Sunday to be
a day of rest.
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But what was the
justification for that?
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Even Tertullian, whom
we mentioned earlier,
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cited "tradition"
as his authority.
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Listen, what is your
foundation of truth?
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What is the source
of your religion?
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Is it tradition apart
from the Bible?
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Is it church authority
apart from the Bible?
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Or, is it the Bible itself?
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Jesus gave a very strong warning, when human
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traditions contradict the commandments of God.
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Turn to Mark the
seventh chapter.
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Many churches have followed
the wrong pathway, just as
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the Pharisees of Jesus' day.
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Mark 7:7.
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Jesus said, "In vain they
worship Me, teaching
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as doctrines the
commandments of men.
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For laying aside the
commandment of God,
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you hold the tradition
of men....
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All too well you reject
the commandment of God,
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that you may keep
your tradition."
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That is a warning I hope
all of us will heed.
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Jesus stated He is
Lord of the Sabbath.
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He observed the Sabbath
regularly and He did not
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break the Sabbath commandment
as some theologians assert.
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As He said in John 15:10,
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"I have kept My
Father's commandments."
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And we as Christians
must strive to follow
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our Savior's example.
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He warned us,
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"Not everyone who says to Me, 'Lord, Lord,' shall enter
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the kingdom of heaven,
but he who does the
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will of My Father
in heaven.'"
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Matthew 7:21.
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My friends, will you follow
the example of Jesus Christ
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and the instructions
of your Bible?
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Or will you follow
the tradition of men?
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Will you obey the
Fourth Commandment?
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There are eight places
in the New Testament
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that use the expression
"first day of the week."
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Were they Sunday
worship services?
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Were they memorials
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"Christ and His Disciples--Sabbath Breakers?"
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"Practice of the
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Did you know that both
Roman Catholic and
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Protestant authorities
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itself does not support
a Sunday observance?
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In the first part of our
program, we saw that the
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first Christians followed
Jesus' practice of keeping
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the seventh-day Sabbath.
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Turn in your Bible
to Mark 2:27.
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Jesus stated,
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"The Sabbath was made for man, and not man for the Sabbath."
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And notice what
Jesus did not say.
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He did not say, "The Sabbath
was made for the Jews."
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No, the Sabbath was
made for all humanity--
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for every man, woman, and
child on planet earth.
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That is what
Christ proclaimed.
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We've seen that Jesus
instructed His
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followers to keep the
Ten Commandments.
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He Himself observed the
seventh-day Sabbath,
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as did the Apostles.
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But is there other New
Testament evidence that
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Christians should
observe the Sabbath?
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Yes, there is.
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Turn in your Bible
to Hebrews 4.
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In this chapter, the
Sabbath is pictured as
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a type of the millennial
rest, as well as
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a memorial of God's
rest at creation.
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Hebrews 4:8.
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Speaking of the disobedience
of the ancient Israelites
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on their way to the promised land, Hebrews 4:8 states,
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"For if Joshua had given
them rest, then He
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would not afterward have
spoken of another day.
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[Now, listen, Verse 9] There remains therefore a rest
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for the people of God."
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The original Greek word for
the word "rest" in verse 9
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is "sabbatismos" which
means "a Sabbath-keeping"
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(according to Vine's Expository Dictionary of Biblical Words).
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Both the Revised Version
and the New International
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Version translate verse 9
as "a Sabbath rest."
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Yes, there remains a Sabbath
rest for the people of God,
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even to this day.
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Now, does this mean a symbolic rest--or a literal Sabbath rest?
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The Anchor Bible Dictionary cites several secular
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Greek writings, where "sabbatismos" literally
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means "Sabbath observance"
or "Sabbath celebration."
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My friends, there's no
question that this
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verse is a New Testament
statement on literal
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Christian observance
of the Sabbath.
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The context of Hebrews
the fourth chapter does
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speak both of symbolic
and literal rest.
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The Greek word "katapausis"
is also translated "rest"
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in this section.
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But notice what God says
of those who have now
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entered into God's rest,
that is--those who are
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converted, those who
will now follow Christ.
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Notice this important statement in verse 10 of Hebrews 4.
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"For he [the individual
Christian] who has entered
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His rest [God's rest] has
himself also ceased from
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his works [notice]
as God did from His."
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If we, as converted Christians, are to cease from our works
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just as God did from His,
we simply need to ask
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the question: how did God
cease from His works?
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Verse 4 of Hebrews 4
gives us the answer:
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"For He has spoken in a
certain place of the
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seventh day in this way:
'And God rested on the
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seventh day from
all His works.'"
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There's no guessing here.
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New Testament Christians
are supposed to rest
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just as God rested--
on the Seventh Day.
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The Bible is very clear.
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Both the Old Testament
and the New Testament
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give Christians the clear
example and instruction
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to keep the Sabbath Day holy.
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The scholarly Anchor Bible
Dictionary affirms the
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responsibility of New
Testament Christians
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to observe the Sabbath.
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It states: "Physical
sabbath-keeping on the
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part of the new covenant
believer as affirmed by
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'sabbath rest' epitomizes
cessation from 'works'
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(4:10) in commemoration
of God's rest at creation
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(4:4 = Gen 2:2) and
manifests faith in the
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salvation provided
by Christ."
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That's quite a
plain statement.
15:16.882 --> 15:18.917
Do you realize, my
friends, that the
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fourth commandment was
not instituted at
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Mount Sinai during the
time of Moses?
15:24.123 --> 15:27.426
It already existed at the
recreation as we read
15:27.493 --> 15:29.662
in Genesis 2:2.
15:29.728 --> 15:33.766
The fourth commandment states: "Remember the Sabbath Day."
15:33.832 --> 15:35.834
Exodus 20:8.
15:35.901 --> 15:40.406
God established the weekly Sabbath, not during Moses' time,
15:40.472 --> 15:45.678
God established the Sabbath more than 2,500 years before Moses.
15:45.744 --> 15:47.780
Your Bible proves that fact.
15:47.846 --> 15:52.618
The bottom-line question is:
who or what is your authority?
15:52.685 --> 15:54.119
Is it the Bible?
15:54.186 --> 15:57.623
Or some church and religion apart from the Bible?
15:57.690 --> 16:00.225
As we've seen, some
religious leaders,
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including Roman Catholic and Protestant, claim tradition or
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church administration, apart from the Bible, as their
16:08.100 --> 16:11.303
reason for keeping Sunday, rather than the Sabbath.
16:11.370 --> 16:13.972
My friends, you need to
prove for yourself, from
16:14.039 --> 16:17.409
your own Bible, which day
is the Christian Sabbath.
16:17.476 --> 16:19.745
To help you in your study,
I'd like to offer you this
16:19.812 --> 16:23.582
exciting, well documented,
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16:23.649 --> 16:25.851
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16:25.918 --> 16:30.122
Here on pages 36 and 37 are shocking admissions from Church
16:30.189 --> 16:34.393
leaders that the Bible truly teaches Sabbath observance.
16:34.460 --> 16:37.129
These leaders admit that
their decision to transfer
16:37.196 --> 16:40.299
Sabbath observance to
Sunday was based on
16:40.366 --> 16:44.136
supposed Church authority,
not on Biblical authority.
16:44.203 --> 16:47.072
Why do most professing
Christians keep Sunday,
16:47.139 --> 16:49.942
when God's fourth commandment instructs us to keep
16:50.008 --> 16:52.411
the Sabbath, the seventh
day of the week?
16:52.478 --> 16:55.080
This study guide will give
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16:55.147 --> 16:57.616
biblical information that
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16:57.683 --> 17:00.452
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My friends, we can be very thankful that original
17:39.491 --> 17:42.861
Christianity, the Christianity of the first century, which
17:42.928 --> 17:46.765
observed the fourth commandment, has continued to this day.
17:46.832 --> 17:49.234
Biblical Christianity
has continued in spite
17:49.301 --> 17:51.403
of persecutions through
the centuries.
17:51.470 --> 17:54.039
For example, in the
seventeenth century,
17:54.106 --> 17:56.942
Sabbatarian Christians
were persecuted in England
17:57.009 --> 17:59.878
and searched for religious
freedom in the new lands,
17:59.945 --> 18:01.914
the colonies of
North America.
18:01.980 --> 18:06.318
The royal charter of 1663
granted by Charles II
18:06.385 --> 18:09.054
of England, guaranteed
religious freedom to
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the colony of Rhode Island.
18:10.923 --> 18:13.292
That charter can be seen
today in the Providence,
18:13.358 --> 18:14.993
Rhode Island statehouse.
18:15.060 --> 18:17.629
Stephen Mumford and his
wife came to Newport,
18:17.696 --> 18:21.934
Rhode Island in 1665 in
search of religious freedom.
18:22.000 --> 18:25.337
They were the first Christian Sabbath keepers in America.
18:25.404 --> 18:28.240
As their group expanded
and grew, they needed
18:28.307 --> 18:30.108
a larger meeting hall.
18:30.175 --> 18:34.046
The Sabbatarians built a
large meeting hall in 1729.
18:34.112 --> 18:37.883
It is now preserved by the Newport Historical Society.
18:37.950 --> 18:40.285
If you're ever in Newport,
Rhode Island, you'll
18:40.352 --> 18:42.488
want to visit this
historic building.
18:42.554 --> 18:45.657
In fact, the oldest Jewish
synagogue in America is located
18:45.724 --> 18:49.027
right next door to the Christian Sabbath meeting hall.
18:49.094 --> 18:52.531
In the Newport Sabbatarian
meeting hall is a raised pulpit.
18:52.598 --> 18:55.534
Behind the pulpit are two
large plaques inscribed
18:55.601 --> 18:57.236
with the Ten Commandments.
18:57.302 --> 19:00.439
At the bottom of the second plaque is the Apostle Paul's
19:00.506 --> 19:05.410
bold statement of Romans 3:31
in the King James Version,
19:05.477 --> 19:09.081
"Do we then make void
the law through faith?
19:09.147 --> 19:12.551
God forbid: yea, we
establish the law."
19:12.618 --> 19:15.053
Yes, these New Testament
Christians affirmed
19:15.120 --> 19:17.523
their allegiance to
Christ's statement,
19:17.589 --> 19:21.226
"But if you want to enter into life, keep the commandments"
19:21.293 --> 19:23.629
That's Matthew 19:17.
19:23.695 --> 19:26.198
Sabbatarian church
records, preserved in
19:26.265 --> 19:29.401
the Newport Historical
Museum, contain members'
19:29.468 --> 19:31.336
names and contributions.
19:31.403 --> 19:34.139
Most significantly the
church describes itself in
19:34.206 --> 19:37.809
those records as "keeping
the commandments of God,
19:37.876 --> 19:41.346
and the faith of Jesus,
and in particular the
19:41.413 --> 19:43.415
Lord's 7th Day Sabbath."
19:43.482 --> 19:46.151
In eighteenth century
Rhode Island, there were
19:46.218 --> 19:49.488
other prominent Sabbatarians, including two governors of the
19:49.555 --> 19:53.392
Rhode Island colony, Richard
Ward and his son Samuel--
19:53.458 --> 19:56.061
and even the first president
of Brown University,
19:56.128 --> 19:58.897
James Manning, was
a Sabbatarian.
19:58.964 --> 20:01.600
Sadly, many over the
centuries have chosen
20:01.667 --> 20:05.003
human tradition over
God's plain teachings.
20:05.070 --> 20:08.740
The noted Catholic theologian, James Cardinal Gibbons,
20:08.807 --> 20:10.876
wrote this bold statement:
20:10.943 --> 20:14.513
"But you may read the Bible
from Genesis to Revelation,
20:14.580 --> 20:17.583
and you will not find a
single line authorizing
20:17.649 --> 20:20.118
the sanctification of Sunday.
20:20.185 --> 20:23.188
The Scriptures enforce the
religious observance of
20:23.255 --> 20:26.491
Saturday, a day which
we never sanctify."
20:26.558 --> 20:29.328
That is a quote from Gibbons' The Faith of Our Fathers,
20:29.394 --> 20:32.464
first published in 1876.
20:32.531 --> 20:35.601
In other words, Gibbons
is saying, if the Bible is
20:35.667 --> 20:39.638
your authority, you have no basis for observing Sunday.
20:39.705 --> 20:42.608
The Scriptures, as he
states, "enforce the
20:42.674 --> 20:45.077
religious observance
of Saturday."
20:45.143 --> 20:47.145
We agree with his statement.
20:47.212 --> 20:49.881
What Gibbons and other
Catholic authorities state,
20:49.948 --> 20:52.618
is that it is the authority
of the Catholic Church
20:52.684 --> 20:55.621
that changed observance in
the Christian world from
20:55.687 --> 20:59.691
Saturday to Sunday, not the
New Testament scriptures.
20:59.758 --> 21:02.160
And that occurred in the
Council of Laodicea in
21:02.227 --> 21:04.396
the middle of the
fourth century.
21:04.463 --> 21:07.866
Furthermore, here is an admission by Harold Lindsell,
21:07.933 --> 21:11.370
editor of Christianity Today magazine and Southern Baptist
21:11.436 --> 21:15.107
minister (November 5, 1976):
21:15.173 --> 21:18.510
"There is nothing in Scripture that requires us to keep
21:18.577 --> 21:21.713
Sunday rather than Saturday
as a holy day."
21:21.780 --> 21:24.616
So, will you keep the
seventh-day Sabbath?
21:24.683 --> 21:27.219
It is a memorial of the
Creation, and points to
21:27.285 --> 21:30.122
the true God and true
Creator of the Universe.
21:30.188 --> 21:32.557
The book of Hebrews in
the New Testament also
21:32.624 --> 21:35.394
emphasizes the Sabbath
as a foreshadowing of
21:35.460 --> 21:38.664
the millennial Sabbath,
the 1,000-year reign of
21:38.730 --> 21:40.666
Jesus Christ on the earth.
21:40.732 --> 21:44.202
The seventh-day Sabbath has
deep meaning for Christians.
21:44.269 --> 21:46.805
To help you learn more about that meaning, I'd like to
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offer you the exciting, well-documented, free study guide
21:50.008 --> 21:53.645
by the title: Which Day
Is the Christian Sabbath?
21:53.712 --> 21:56.114
There are eight places in
the New Testament that use
21:56.181 --> 21:58.650
the expression "first
day of the week."
21:58.717 --> 22:00.986
Were they Sunday
worship services?
22:01.053 --> 22:03.855
Were they memorials
of Jesus' death?
22:03.922 --> 22:06.358
This free booklet will
answer those questions.
22:06.425 --> 22:08.794
Here are some of the
subheads: "Which Day Is
22:08.860 --> 22:10.495
the Biblical Sabbath?"
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"Christ and His Disciples: Sabbath Breakers?"
22:13.231 --> 22:15.667
"Was Jesus Resurrected
on Sunday?"
22:15.734 --> 22:18.437
"Practice of the
Original Apostles."
22:18.503 --> 22:21.239
This inspiring free booklet
will also give you many
22:21.306 --> 22:23.709
biblical references and
quotes we haven't had time
22:23.775 --> 22:25.844
to include in this program.
22:25.911 --> 22:28.780
Did you know that both Roman Catholic and Protestant
22:28.847 --> 22:32.617
authorities admit that the
Bible itself does not
22:32.684 --> 22:34.720
support a Sunday observance?
22:34.786 --> 22:36.588
You need to read
those authoritative
22:36.655 --> 22:38.256
and historic quotes.
22:38.323 --> 22:40.726
You need this free study
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22:40.792 --> 22:42.160
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22:42.227 --> 22:44.196
You need this
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22:44.262 --> 22:47.265
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22:47.332 --> 22:50.736
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22:53.138 --> 22:55.307
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22:55.373 --> 23:00.679
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On today's program, we've
discussed the Sabbath
24:05.510 --> 24:08.446
controversy that has
continued over the centuries.
24:08.513 --> 24:11.950
Jesus and the first-century apostles, church leaders
24:12.017 --> 24:15.787
and Christians, observed
the seventh-day Sabbath.
24:15.854 --> 24:18.957
Church leaders in the following centuries departed from
24:19.024 --> 24:22.093
scriptural authority and substituted tradition
24:22.160 --> 24:25.263
and church administration
as their authority.
24:25.330 --> 24:28.667
But as we've seen, the New Testament enjoins Christians
24:28.733 --> 24:31.937
today to observe the
seventh-day Sabbath.
24:32.003 --> 24:35.273
When was the seventh-day
Sabbath established?
24:35.340 --> 24:38.376
It was established at the
foundation of the world.
24:38.443 --> 24:41.780
As Jesus said, "The
Sabbath was made for man,
24:41.847 --> 24:45.984
and not man for the
Sabbath" (Mark 2:27).
24:46.051 --> 24:48.653
My friends, Christ and
the Apostles observed the
24:48.720 --> 24:52.023
seventh-day Sabbath, and
the biblical holy days.
24:52.090 --> 24:55.360
The Scriptures admonish us
to follow their example.
24:55.427 --> 24:58.096
The Apostle Paul wrote
to the Church at Corinth,
24:58.163 --> 25:02.000
"Imitate me, just as I
also imitate Christ"
25:02.067 --> 25:04.236
1 Corinthians 11:1.
25:04.302 --> 25:07.973
The Apostle Peter exhorted us to follow the example of Christ.
25:08.039 --> 25:10.475
1 Peter 2:21,
25:10.542 --> 25:14.145
"For to this you were called, because Christ also
25:14.212 --> 25:17.449
suffered for us, leaving
us an example, that you
25:17.515 --> 25:19.217
should follow His steps."
25:19.284 --> 25:23.054
In observing the New Testament Passover, Jesus instructed
25:23.121 --> 25:25.523
His disciples to
follow His example,
25:25.590 --> 25:28.927
even by practicing the
foot-washing service.
25:28.994 --> 25:33.164
Jesus said in John 13:15,
25:33.231 --> 25:36.835
"For I have given you an example, that you should
25:36.902 --> 25:38.770
do as I have done to you.
25:38.837 --> 25:41.306
Most assuredly, I say
to you, a servant is
25:41.373 --> 25:43.942
not greater than his
master; nor is he who
25:44.009 --> 25:46.378
is sent greater than
he who sent him.
25:46.444 --> 25:50.382
If you know these things, blessed are you if you do them."
25:50.448 --> 25:53.551
We look forward to the day
when all peoples and
25:53.618 --> 25:56.554
all nations will do
as Christ says.
25:56.621 --> 25:59.858
The Messiah will establish
world peace, world government,
25:59.925 --> 26:05.130
true education, and the biblical way of truth, love, and life.
26:05.196 --> 26:08.133
All nations will observe
the ten commandments.
26:08.199 --> 26:10.702
They will observe the
weekly Sabbath and the
26:10.769 --> 26:12.304
biblical holy days.
26:12.370 --> 26:15.307
What a wonderful, peaceful,
and prosperous world
26:15.373 --> 26:17.475
it will be for
all people.
26:17.542 --> 26:19.911
Will you obey the
fourth commandment?
26:19.978 --> 26:24.082
Will you follow our Lord's
instructions in Matthew 19:17?
26:24.149 --> 26:26.551
Jesus told the young
rich man and us:
26:26.618 --> 26:30.655
"But if you want to enter into life, keep the commandments."
26:30.722 --> 26:33.892
God's commandments are a
joy for true Christians.
26:33.959 --> 26:35.560
As the Apostle John wrote,
26:35.627 --> 26:39.064
"For this is the love of God, that we keep His commandments.
26:39.130 --> 26:41.466
And His commandments
are not burdensome"
26:41.533 --> 26:47.038
(1 John 5:3)--or "not
grievous," as the KJV has it.
26:47.105 --> 26:49.841
The seventh-day Sabbath
brings joy to those
26:49.908 --> 26:52.177
who observe it as
God commands.
26:52.243 --> 26:54.879
You need this inspiring
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