1 00:00:00,400 --> 00:00:03,200 As always is the case, I do consider it to be an honor to 2 00:00:03,200 --> 00:00:06,900 speak concerning the word of God, I want to say something 3 00:00:06,900 --> 00:00:09,800 about our brothers prayer. I appreciate everything he said. 4 00:00:10,400 --> 00:00:13,200 And one of the things he said, as he prayed to God regarding 5 00:00:13,200 --> 00:00:16,500 our worship, after that, he said, and help us to give you 6 00:00:16,500 --> 00:00:19,100 all that. We are all that we have. 7 00:00:19,100 --> 00:00:22,300 Give our all for you on this day. 8 00:00:23,500 --> 00:00:26,400 You know, that's very significant not long ago. 9 00:00:26,400 --> 00:00:29,200 I preached on the subject of the Sabbath and that was because 10 00:00:29,200 --> 00:00:32,700 there was a number of questions that had come up in some private 11 00:00:32,700 --> 00:00:35,600 Bible studies on the significance of days. 12 00:00:36,000 --> 00:00:38,000 And are we under the Sabbath at all? 13 00:00:38,000 --> 00:00:42,600 Should we keep any aspect of the Sabbath and Jesus is attitude or 14 00:00:42,600 --> 00:00:46,100 his demeanor, or his behavior regarding the Sabbath. 15 00:00:46,400 --> 00:00:50,400 And we talked about how Jesus Mark the transition even during 16 00:00:50,400 --> 00:00:55,600 his life from the Sabbath. To the Lord's day or to himself. 17 00:00:56,200 --> 00:00:57,600 I want to talk about some of these things. 18 00:00:57,600 --> 00:01:01,000 Concerning the Lord's day, I want to talk about Sunday. 19 00:01:01,000 --> 00:01:05,600 When did Sunday become the the Lord's Day in Revelation, 20 00:01:05,600 --> 00:01:09,400 chapter 1, And beginning in verse 9. 21 00:01:10,900 --> 00:01:14,500 I John both your brother and companion in Tribulation and 22 00:01:14,500 --> 00:01:18,100 Kingdom. And patience of Jesus Christ was 23 00:01:18,100 --> 00:01:20,500 on the island. That is called Patmos for the 24 00:01:20,500 --> 00:01:23,000 word of God. And for the testimony of Jesus 25 00:01:23,000 --> 00:01:28,400 Christ, and then he said, I was in the spirit on the Lord's day. 26 00:01:29,700 --> 00:01:33,200 You know, I can remember in the not-so-distant past times when 27 00:01:33,200 --> 00:01:37,300 you would see this, when Sunday actually mattered in our 28 00:01:37,300 --> 00:01:41,400 country, I remember growing up. I'm not That old that I can't 29 00:01:41,400 --> 00:01:43,400 remember. But I remember businesses in the 30 00:01:43,408 --> 00:01:45,600 home town that I grew up in Ojai. 31 00:01:46,000 --> 00:01:49,300 I remember in Oak View, I remember that I perhaps told 32 00:01:49,300 --> 00:01:53,100 some of these things to you over the years but I remember one 33 00:01:53,100 --> 00:01:56,400 particular business as you came into Oakview, it was a rental 34 00:01:56,400 --> 00:02:00,500 place where you'd rent equipment and there was a great big wooden 35 00:02:00,500 --> 00:02:04,200 sign on a chain link fence. And it said this open Monday 36 00:02:04,200 --> 00:02:09,500 through Saturday, but closed on Sunday for church. 37 00:02:10,800 --> 00:02:15,000 I remember when Sunday mattered in our country, I remember when 38 00:02:15,000 --> 00:02:17,900 there were things that shut down on Sunday. 39 00:02:18,500 --> 00:02:21,700 I remember, when you got your shopping done on Sunday, your 40 00:02:21,700 --> 00:02:25,500 yard work done, or I'm sorry on Saturday, your yard work got 41 00:02:25,500 --> 00:02:29,100 done on Saturday. I remember when Sunday didn't 42 00:02:29,100 --> 00:02:33,800 have all of those things and by the way, you know, in Youth 43 00:02:33,800 --> 00:02:38,000 Sports, there was a time when people didn't get coaches, 44 00:02:38,000 --> 00:02:41,500 didn't have practices on Day. They didn't have games on 45 00:02:41,500 --> 00:02:43,300 Sunday. You know what else? 46 00:02:43,700 --> 00:02:45,300 They didn't even have them on Wednesday. 47 00:02:46,000 --> 00:02:48,300 You know why? Because people in their minds 48 00:02:48,300 --> 00:02:51,600 understood that those that profess Christianity, there were 49 00:02:51,600 --> 00:02:53,900 going to be in Services, there were going to be worshipping on 50 00:02:53,900 --> 00:02:56,700 those days. It actually mattered and then 51 00:02:56,700 --> 00:03:00,100 all of a sudden they started having other aspects or other 52 00:03:00,100 --> 00:03:03,700 activities and they scheduled them on Sundays. 53 00:03:03,800 --> 00:03:05,400 Now, there's something every Sunday. 54 00:03:06,800 --> 00:03:09,000 You know, even in college, I remember in college, there was 55 00:03:09,000 --> 00:03:11,900 nothing scheduled on Sunday back in the 80s. 56 00:03:13,000 --> 00:03:15,600 Now everything's on Sunday. You know why? 57 00:03:16,200 --> 00:03:19,700 Because in our world and our society, Sunday became just like 58 00:03:19,700 --> 00:03:25,300 any other day. Sunday is the Lord's day. 59 00:03:26,100 --> 00:03:31,300 Sunday matters Sunday is not to be like any other day. 60 00:03:32,100 --> 00:03:35,700 I think it's sometimes a day that's treated very, casual like 61 00:03:35,700 --> 00:03:38,600 a drop by deal leaving the rest of Sunday. 62 00:03:38,600 --> 00:03:42,900 For whatever one man said, though, like a sponge with water 63 00:03:42,900 --> 00:03:45,700 squeezed out, this is the problem, by the way, in our 64 00:03:45,700 --> 00:03:48,100 country. And may I just say this to 65 00:03:48,100 --> 00:03:52,900 preface my comment hear people talk about what's wrong. 66 00:03:53,000 --> 00:03:54,800 In America. And what do people do? 67 00:03:54,800 --> 00:03:56,400 They go right to politics, right? 68 00:03:57,200 --> 00:03:59,900 Oh, it's the Republicans, it's the Democrats. 69 00:04:00,200 --> 00:04:02,600 It's the Liberals. It's the conservatives. 70 00:04:02,600 --> 00:04:06,300 Oh, no, it's those radicals, we talk about this one. 71 00:04:06,300 --> 00:04:08,100 And that one, and all that, that's not the problem in 72 00:04:08,100 --> 00:04:10,100 America. You know what, the problem in 73 00:04:10,100 --> 00:04:13,300 the United States of America is today, because we are on a 74 00:04:13,300 --> 00:04:17,700 50-year, as one man, said a 50-year experiment of living in 75 00:04:17,700 --> 00:04:20,600 a country without God, that's what's wrong. 76 00:04:21,600 --> 00:04:25,800 We forgot all about God, no prayer in school. 77 00:04:25,800 --> 00:04:29,200 No Ten Commandments, no, sermon at graduation. 78 00:04:30,400 --> 00:04:34,600 No respect for marriage and the home and this has contributed to 79 00:04:34,600 --> 00:04:37,800 many of the problems that exist today. 80 00:04:37,900 --> 00:04:42,100 That's what happens when God is removed from our life one 81 00:04:42,100 --> 00:04:45,500 teacher. For example, in an attempt to 82 00:04:45,500 --> 00:04:49,600 pull be politically correct, instructed her class to write an 83 00:04:49,600 --> 00:04:54,700 essay about the pilgrims on Thanksgiving as a assignment, 84 00:04:55,100 --> 00:04:59,200 her only requirements were these you can't mention anything about 85 00:04:59,200 --> 00:05:02,800 religion Ian, you can't say a thing about God and you cannot 86 00:05:02,800 --> 00:05:06,800 mention Church. This young girl taking a shot at 87 00:05:06,800 --> 00:05:09,100 being politically correct. Wrote The Following. 88 00:05:09,300 --> 00:05:12,300 I love this. The pilgrims came to these 89 00:05:12,300 --> 00:05:16,900 Shores seeking freedom of, you know what so that they can give 90 00:05:16,900 --> 00:05:21,000 thanks to, you know who so that we their descendants could 91 00:05:21,000 --> 00:05:23,700 worship each Sunday. You know where. 92 00:05:24,800 --> 00:05:29,300 Politically correctness, is the norm and the standard of today. 93 00:05:29,700 --> 00:05:33,700 But the question before us today is this is Sunday just an 94 00:05:33,700 --> 00:05:37,700 arbitrary day, filled with choices of whatever we wish or 95 00:05:37,700 --> 00:05:41,600 does Sunday matter. I want to submit to you that you 96 00:05:41,600 --> 00:05:45,600 Sunday does matter. And by way of review, we talked 97 00:05:45,600 --> 00:05:48,100 about some of these things when we dealt with the Sabbath. 98 00:05:48,100 --> 00:05:51,100 But let's just go to notice a couple of these things as we 99 00:05:51,300 --> 00:05:55,300 talk about the seventh day, observance, In Genesis chapter 100 00:05:55,300 --> 00:05:56,800 2. And the reason that I put that 101 00:05:56,800 --> 00:06:01,100 there is because sabbatarians or people that believe that we keep 102 00:06:01,100 --> 00:06:04,600 the Sabbath today. Say we still have to keep the 103 00:06:04,600 --> 00:06:09,300 Sabbath even as Christians because the Sabbath has always 104 00:06:09,300 --> 00:06:12,700 existed. In fact, the argument is it 105 00:06:12,700 --> 00:06:16,200 existed all the way back in Genesis chapter 2? 106 00:06:16,300 --> 00:06:20,400 Well, let's notice in the creation, the Bible says that 107 00:06:20,400 --> 00:06:24,400 God looked upon everything God, created everything Oh, and he 108 00:06:24,400 --> 00:06:29,600 did. So in six days, then as it were, 109 00:06:29,700 --> 00:06:33,900 he looked upon everything that he created, and he said it was 110 00:06:33,900 --> 00:06:36,800 very good. And the Bible says that on the 111 00:06:36,800 --> 00:06:40,900 seventh day, he rested on the seventh day. 112 00:06:42,600 --> 00:06:48,200 Because he was tired. No he rested a rest of delight 113 00:06:48,200 --> 00:06:50,400 and satisfaction for all that he created. 114 00:06:50,400 --> 00:06:54,000 That's number one. And number two, he rested in 115 00:06:54,000 --> 00:06:59,200 that, he was finished and God sent back and rested on the 116 00:06:59,200 --> 00:07:02,100 seventh day. Do you know that he was the only 117 00:07:02,100 --> 00:07:06,000 one that rested that day. Man, didn't need to rest on that 118 00:07:06,000 --> 00:07:10,500 day, because man in the garden was living a life of rest. 119 00:07:10,500 --> 00:07:13,700 In fact, it was a Perpetual state of rest. 120 00:07:13,700 --> 00:07:17,100 Do you know why? Because there was no work, why 121 00:07:17,100 --> 00:07:18,200 was there? No work? 122 00:07:18,200 --> 00:07:21,700 Because there was no sin. And if there was no sin, there 123 00:07:21,700 --> 00:07:22,400 was no. Work. 124 00:07:22,400 --> 00:07:25,200 If there was no work, there was no Sabbath. 125 00:07:25,900 --> 00:07:30,300 And in Genesis chapter 2, God was the only one that rested. 126 00:07:30,500 --> 00:07:32,000 Somebody might say, no, wait a minute. 127 00:07:33,400 --> 00:07:36,000 God told them to tend the garden. 128 00:07:36,000 --> 00:07:38,700 Didn't that work it. No, there's a difference between 129 00:07:38,700 --> 00:07:42,300 a chore and maintaining something and working by the 130 00:07:42,300 --> 00:07:45,900 sweat of your face, in order to earn your living or each your 131 00:07:46,000 --> 00:07:48,600 Brig. So in Genesis, chapter 2, only 132 00:07:48,600 --> 00:07:50,900 God rested. Let's go further, though. 133 00:07:51,400 --> 00:07:56,300 We skip to Exodus chapter 20, and after man was delivered from 134 00:07:56,300 --> 00:08:01,400 Egyptian bondage, God gave man a system of Sabbath's they were 135 00:08:01,400 --> 00:08:05,000 weekly, they were Lee and they weren't yearly. 136 00:08:05,200 --> 00:08:09,500 God also gave man to General Commandments, he said Thou shalt 137 00:08:09,500 --> 00:08:13,200 love the Lord thy God with all your heart, with all your soul, 138 00:08:13,200 --> 00:08:18,000 with all your mind and with all your strength and your neighbor 139 00:08:18,200 --> 00:08:21,600 as yourself. So these are two general 140 00:08:21,600 --> 00:08:26,100 Commandments then he gave a tenfold explanation of those two 141 00:08:26,100 --> 00:08:30,800 Commandments and we call those The Ten Commandments today. 142 00:08:31,500 --> 00:08:35,200 There was also the manifold explanation of all of this and 143 00:08:35,200 --> 00:08:38,500 it's found in the first five books of the law in the Old 144 00:08:38,500 --> 00:08:42,799 Testament, Genesis Exodus, Leviticus Numbers and 145 00:08:42,799 --> 00:08:48,700 Deuteronomy but In the Ten Commandments, the fourth 146 00:08:48,700 --> 00:08:51,200 Commandment was, they had to keep the Sabbath. 147 00:08:52,300 --> 00:08:56,600 Now, why did they do that? What was the effect of that? 148 00:08:56,600 --> 00:08:58,200 Well, first of all, God commanded that, and that's 149 00:08:58,200 --> 00:08:59,700 enough. But here's what they did on that 150 00:08:59,700 --> 00:09:03,500 day, it was a day to reflect on their creator. 151 00:09:04,200 --> 00:09:07,300 It was a day to reflect on all of creation and how everything 152 00:09:07,300 --> 00:09:12,300 that God created was perfect. And that it was only marred when 153 00:09:12,300 --> 00:09:15,600 man sinned it was a day to reflect on your creator. 154 00:09:15,800 --> 00:09:18,100 It was a day to reflect on the creation. 155 00:09:18,200 --> 00:09:21,100 What else? It was also a day to reflect on 156 00:09:21,100 --> 00:09:23,300 God. As the lawgiver. 157 00:09:23,400 --> 00:09:28,700 So they were commanded and God hallowed this day or elevated 158 00:09:28,700 --> 00:09:31,000 this day. And the people, the children of 159 00:09:31,000 --> 00:09:37,100 Israel had to recognize that day, that being the Sabbath day. 160 00:09:37,500 --> 00:09:42,600 Now remember this to this is my last slide from our previous 161 00:09:42,800 --> 00:09:47,900 lesson, a couple of months ago. But Jesus was the transition 162 00:09:47,900 --> 00:09:51,100 from the old to the new it may I just say too. 163 00:09:52,800 --> 00:09:55,100 There were two things that they hated about Jesus. 164 00:09:56,400 --> 00:09:59,400 Two things, especially the Pharisees hated about Jesus. 165 00:10:00,200 --> 00:10:03,900 Number one, because he said I am the Son of God they hated that 166 00:10:04,500 --> 00:10:07,100 and number two because of the way that he handled the Sabbath 167 00:10:07,900 --> 00:10:10,100 but Jesus said I'm greater than the Sabbath. 168 00:10:10,600 --> 00:10:16,200 He said I'm Lord even of the Sabbath, that's what Jesus said. 169 00:10:16,500 --> 00:10:20,300 So Jesus even while living did anything he wanted to do on the 170 00:10:20,300 --> 00:10:24,600 Sabbath because he was the transition from the old to the 171 00:10:24,600 --> 00:10:29,800 new now, Those Jews believe that their reference point between 172 00:10:29,800 --> 00:10:32,800 them self and God was the Sabbath and Jesus would teach 173 00:10:32,800 --> 00:10:36,400 them that the reference point between them self and God had to 174 00:10:36,400 --> 00:10:38,900 be Jesus himself. So here it is. 175 00:10:40,100 --> 00:10:44,300 When Jesus died on the cross and shed his blood, the transition 176 00:10:44,300 --> 00:10:47,200 from the old to the new was complete. 177 00:10:47,200 --> 00:10:51,300 What did the Sabbath represent? It was a prophetic type, if you 178 00:10:51,300 --> 00:10:57,600 will of futurist being heaven, in other words, Sabbath rest is 179 00:10:57,600 --> 00:11:03,400 a picture of Eternal rest. You remember when I said that 180 00:11:03,400 --> 00:11:06,300 when Man was created in the garden before sin, he lived in a 181 00:11:06,308 --> 00:11:11,800 Perpetual state of rest, okay? That's what we're going to get 182 00:11:11,800 --> 00:11:17,800 when we finally get to heaven, a place of Perpetual rest for all 183 00:11:17,800 --> 00:11:19,800 eternity. All right. 184 00:11:20,700 --> 00:11:23,900 The New Covenant, though, Jesus brought in the New Covenant day 185 00:11:23,900 --> 00:11:27,200 and that is the first day of the week, and let me show you how it 186 00:11:27,200 --> 00:11:29,000 ought. Jesus makes the transition in 187 00:11:29,000 --> 00:11:33,500 Matthew chapter 28, and we begin there to her little flow here in 188 00:11:33,500 --> 00:11:36,800 verse 1. It says, after the Sabbath, It 189 00:11:36,800 --> 00:11:39,800 says, after the Sabbath the first day of the week began to 190 00:11:39,800 --> 00:11:44,000 Dawn, Mary Magdalene, and the other Mary came to see the tomb 191 00:11:44,200 --> 00:11:46,400 and we know what happened. There was the morning of the 192 00:11:46,400 --> 00:11:51,100 Resurrection. Now in verse number 9, it says, 193 00:11:51,100 --> 00:11:54,900 and as they went to tell the disciples behold, Jesus met them 194 00:11:54,900 --> 00:11:58,400 saying Rejoice. So they came and they held him 195 00:11:58,400 --> 00:12:02,500 by the feet and they worshipped him. 196 00:12:04,100 --> 00:12:08,500 Now, interestingly, it was early on Sunday morning. 197 00:12:09,900 --> 00:12:12,500 We're going to find that out to. We look at Luke 24 in Luke's 198 00:12:12,500 --> 00:12:17,300 account. So the Sabbath was over and 199 00:12:17,300 --> 00:12:20,500 those precious women went back to the Sepulchre, they went back 200 00:12:20,500 --> 00:12:25,000 to the tomb, more on that in a minute, they went to the tomb 201 00:12:25,700 --> 00:12:28,700 and all of a sudden the stone was rolled away. 202 00:12:29,500 --> 00:12:33,100 And they did evidence that Jesus is not there, Jesus is not in 203 00:12:33,100 --> 00:12:37,000 the Tomb. So the Bible says, as they went 204 00:12:37,000 --> 00:12:41,200 to tell the disciples that he had risen, Jesus met with them 205 00:12:41,200 --> 00:12:45,600 and said, rejoice and they came and they held Him by the feet 206 00:12:45,600 --> 00:12:49,600 and worshipped him. Just a little side note here. 207 00:12:50,900 --> 00:12:56,000 This is absolutely brilliant. God did all that, you know, who 208 00:12:56,000 --> 00:12:59,200 the first hand eyewitness testimony of the Resurrection, 209 00:12:59,200 --> 00:13:02,400 was it wasn't one of the Apostles. 210 00:13:03,100 --> 00:13:07,100 It was those precious women. It was the women that had no 211 00:13:07,100 --> 00:13:09,700 agenda, they had no agenda at all. 212 00:13:10,200 --> 00:13:13,000 They had nothing like that. It wasn't like one of the 213 00:13:13,000 --> 00:13:16,200 apostles who could be blamed for lying about it saying that he 214 00:13:16,200 --> 00:13:19,300 was risen and really they're just his followers. 215 00:13:19,300 --> 00:13:22,300 Therefore, they said that. No, it was these women, they 216 00:13:22,300 --> 00:13:26,100 were first hand eyewitness testimony to the resurrection, 217 00:13:26,200 --> 00:13:30,100 and when they saw Jesus, they fell down at his feet and they 218 00:13:30,100 --> 00:13:33,900 worshipped him. Yeah, there's a couple things 219 00:13:33,900 --> 00:13:37,700 that have to happen. In Prophecy, we have to 220 00:13:37,700 --> 00:13:39,700 understand two things have to happen. 221 00:13:39,700 --> 00:13:44,200 First of all, number one, when Jesus gave the prophecy as found 222 00:13:44,500 --> 00:13:49,400 in John chapter 12. And when Jesus gave that those 223 00:13:49,400 --> 00:13:53,100 words, when Jesus said, those words as Jonah was three days 224 00:13:53,100 --> 00:13:56,600 and I'm Excuse me, Matthew chapter 12, as Jonah was three 225 00:13:56,600 --> 00:13:59,900 days and three nights in the whales belly, that's the King 226 00:13:59,900 --> 00:14:02,000 James. The new King James says, in the 227 00:14:02,000 --> 00:14:06,900 belly of a great fish, so shall the son of man be also three 228 00:14:06,900 --> 00:14:09,300 days and three nights in the heart of the earth. 229 00:14:10,000 --> 00:14:14,000 Now notice what has to happen, he has to be dead three days. 230 00:14:14,200 --> 00:14:16,600 He has to be buried, all three days. 231 00:14:16,700 --> 00:14:20,700 He has to be raised on the third day and we find from the 232 00:14:20,700 --> 00:14:25,200 scriptures that third day was the first day of the week or it 233 00:14:25,200 --> 00:14:28,600 was Sunday had to happen. He had to die on the day of 234 00:14:28,600 --> 00:14:31,300 preparation. He had to be buried, still that 235 00:14:31,300 --> 00:14:33,400 day. He had to still be in the Tomb 236 00:14:33,400 --> 00:14:37,200 on the Sabbath day and he had to be raised on the first day of 237 00:14:37,200 --> 00:14:42,800 the week, that is the third day. You know, we find also in Luke 238 00:14:42,800 --> 00:14:48,600 chapter 23, We find that in verse 56. 239 00:14:49,500 --> 00:14:53,500 This is what they were doing. Then they returned and prepared 240 00:14:53,500 --> 00:14:57,300 spices and fragrant oils and they rested on the Sabbath 241 00:14:57,300 --> 00:15:01,600 according to commandment. Now, there was a reason that 242 00:15:01,600 --> 00:15:05,200 they didn't go on the Sabbath. They didn't go on the Sabbath 243 00:15:05,200 --> 00:15:06,700 because they kept the Commandment. 244 00:15:06,700 --> 00:15:09,600 They didn't know that the Sabbath day or the old Covenant 245 00:15:09,600 --> 00:15:12,500 day was nailed to the cross. They didn't know that at all. 246 00:15:12,600 --> 00:15:17,100 So they didn't go to the tomb on the Sabbath day, they rested on 247 00:15:17,100 --> 00:15:20,900 the Sabbath day as God said that they would do, and they did. 248 00:15:20,900 --> 00:15:23,500 So. According To the commandant now 249 00:15:23,800 --> 00:15:28,600 spices and fragrant oils. And we know that back then they 250 00:15:28,608 --> 00:15:33,000 didn't embalm bodies. In fact, as we know in The Story 251 00:15:33,000 --> 00:15:37,500 of Lazarus, he was buried the same day that he died and by the 252 00:15:37,500 --> 00:15:40,200 fourth day and it was hot there obviously. 253 00:15:40,600 --> 00:15:43,900 And by the fourth day when Jesus arrives, he says, take away the 254 00:15:43,900 --> 00:15:46,900 stone Martha. They're saying really but 255 00:15:46,900 --> 00:15:51,000 Master, it's been 4 days. The King James says he already 256 00:15:51,000 --> 00:15:55,200 stinketh. Or he already is decaying the 257 00:15:55,200 --> 00:15:58,800 decomposition process had already happens been four days. 258 00:15:58,800 --> 00:16:02,200 You know why they didn't embalm what they did though, they had 259 00:16:02,200 --> 00:16:05,800 fragrant oils and spices that they prepared the body and when 260 00:16:05,800 --> 00:16:09,700 they bear in Jesus, Remember, John's account says that. 261 00:16:09,700 --> 00:16:14,300 Nicodemus, brought 100 pounds and wrap the body of Jesus. 262 00:16:14,300 --> 00:16:16,000 When he was buried, we know that. 263 00:16:17,200 --> 00:16:21,100 We also know this to and by way of History, the only time they 264 00:16:21,100 --> 00:16:24,500 used a hundred pounds to bury somebody of those spices. 265 00:16:24,500 --> 00:16:29,000 The only time is when they buried a King, Jesus died 266 00:16:29,100 --> 00:16:32,500 between those two thieves, like prophecy said, he would, but he 267 00:16:32,500 --> 00:16:35,400 was buried, like, the king that he is king of kings and Lord of 268 00:16:35,400 --> 00:16:38,200 lords. But on the first day of the week 269 00:16:38,200 --> 00:16:40,700 here, come these women, and they're coming with fragrant 270 00:16:40,700 --> 00:16:45,400 spices and so forth for the body of Jesus continuing there. 271 00:16:45,600 --> 00:16:49,800 So it would retard. And the decomposition process 272 00:16:50,100 --> 00:16:54,600 and Luke, 24 and verse 1. It's a different day. 273 00:16:54,900 --> 00:17:01,100 Now, on the first day of the week, Now I'm the Sabbath they 274 00:17:01,100 --> 00:17:03,100 didn't, but on the first day of the week, very early in the 275 00:17:03,100 --> 00:17:07,000 morning they in certain other women with them came to the 276 00:17:07,000 --> 00:17:10,700 tomb, bringing the spices which they had prepared. 277 00:17:11,599 --> 00:17:13,700 Again, this was New Covenant day. 278 00:17:15,200 --> 00:17:16,700 It was the first day of the week. 279 00:17:17,300 --> 00:17:21,599 Notice this please. This New Covenant day, he was 280 00:17:21,599 --> 00:17:25,700 dead on Saturday. Okay New Covenant days. 281 00:17:25,700 --> 00:17:29,400 The first day of the week very significant he's dead on 282 00:17:29,400 --> 00:17:34,000 Saturday. Therefore the Sabbath also died 283 00:17:34,700 --> 00:17:39,300 on Saturday when Jesus was dead when he died on the cross. 284 00:17:39,300 --> 00:17:40,800 On the day of preparation on Friday. 285 00:17:40,800 --> 00:17:44,200 Still, what else? He's alive on Sunday. 286 00:17:44,400 --> 00:17:48,000 The first day of the week. So what do we know when Jesus 287 00:17:48,000 --> 00:17:51,800 died the Sabbath? It died but also when Jesus rose 288 00:17:51,800 --> 00:17:55,300 from the dead, he brought in the New Covenant day. 289 00:17:57,500 --> 00:18:01,900 That's not a day of tradition. We didn't just one day say, you 290 00:18:01,900 --> 00:18:03,300 know what we'll do, I'll tell you what, we'll do. 291 00:18:03,300 --> 00:18:05,500 We'll just go ahead and have church on Sunday. 292 00:18:07,000 --> 00:18:10,000 It's not tradition. We're going to find out this is 293 00:18:10,000 --> 00:18:13,900 mandated by God, but none of us is by accident. 294 00:18:14,100 --> 00:18:17,100 It All Began on the first day, or Sunday. 295 00:18:17,100 --> 00:18:23,200 The first day of the week notice also they travel that morning, 296 00:18:23,200 --> 00:18:27,100 there was a disciple by the name of cleopas and another disciple 297 00:18:27,100 --> 00:18:29,100 that we don't know who it was some Scholars. 298 00:18:29,100 --> 00:18:31,700 Think it might have been Luke because Luke wrote Luke. 299 00:18:31,700 --> 00:18:34,200 Therefore he didn't include his name, we don't know. 300 00:18:34,200 --> 00:18:36,500 It doesn't matter. Play a piss. 301 00:18:36,500 --> 00:18:40,100 There is going along with another disciple and they're 302 00:18:40,100 --> 00:18:42,600 leaving. I'm going on a trip of about 7 303 00:18:42,600 --> 00:18:47,100 miles and it's from Jerusalem to a little village called Emmaus. 304 00:18:47,400 --> 00:18:50,900 And they're walking along and they're talking about all these 305 00:18:50,900 --> 00:18:52,900 things. They're talking about the things 306 00:18:52,900 --> 00:18:56,000 that had happened. And the Bible says this as 307 00:18:56,000 --> 00:18:58,900 they're going along, they're speaking about the things that 308 00:18:58,900 --> 00:19:04,900 had happened on that journey and notice Jesus appears and after 309 00:19:04,900 --> 00:19:09,200 he said the words, he said, what manner of communications are 310 00:19:09,200 --> 00:19:13,100 these that you speak of and are sad and they said, oh, you must 311 00:19:13,100 --> 00:19:15,700 be a visitor around here and don't know what we're talking 312 00:19:15,700 --> 00:19:21,900 about and Jesus said what things And they said, well about Jesus 313 00:19:21,900 --> 00:19:24,700 of Nazareth how we thought he was a prophet. 314 00:19:24,800 --> 00:19:27,900 In fact, we thought he was going to restore Israel, we thought 315 00:19:27,900 --> 00:19:31,800 he's going to set up a kingdom and it's the third day and we 316 00:19:31,800 --> 00:19:33,600 don't even have the body of Jesus. 317 00:19:33,800 --> 00:19:37,700 So all of a sudden after Jesus allowed them to unburden their 318 00:19:37,700 --> 00:19:43,400 aching Hearts, it says this and beginning at Moses and all the 319 00:19:43,400 --> 00:19:46,200 prophets he expounded to them in. 320 00:19:46,200 --> 00:19:50,500 All the scriptures the things concerning himself. 321 00:19:51,900 --> 00:19:55,800 Did you get that? What happened on this day? 322 00:19:56,000 --> 00:19:59,300 It began with worship now, it's the first Sunday. 323 00:19:59,700 --> 00:20:01,800 Jesus is resurrected from the dead, okay? 324 00:20:02,500 --> 00:20:06,100 That morning began with worship those precious women, fell at 325 00:20:06,100 --> 00:20:07,900 the feet of Jesus and worshiped him. 326 00:20:08,000 --> 00:20:10,000 Little later that day, though, by the way, on this very 327 00:20:10,000 --> 00:20:12,900 significant day, it's about afternoon, no doubt time. 328 00:20:13,400 --> 00:20:18,600 Jesus shows up and he gives the first expository sermon, 329 00:20:18,800 --> 00:20:23,000 preached about himself, from the Old Testament scriptures on the 330 00:20:23,000 --> 00:20:24,900 same day. What a it day. 331 00:20:26,000 --> 00:20:31,700 Big day, New Covenant Day, first day of the week, very first, 332 00:20:32,400 --> 00:20:35,000 expository sermon being preached. 333 00:20:35,500 --> 00:20:39,100 It is a day of significance. May I also say to the greatest 334 00:20:39,100 --> 00:20:41,200 kind of preaching there is, is expository preaching. 335 00:20:42,200 --> 00:20:46,000 Use the holy spirit's outline, take the word of God and teach 336 00:20:46,000 --> 00:20:49,500 the word of God and expound upon it and explain the word of God. 337 00:20:49,500 --> 00:20:51,600 That's what Jesus did. What a great example, the 338 00:20:51,600 --> 00:20:54,100 greatest preacher, the world ever knew the greatest man that 339 00:20:54,100 --> 00:20:57,700 ever lived. He begins with Moses and all the 340 00:20:57,700 --> 00:21:02,700 prophets and he expounded to them in all the scriptures, the 341 00:21:02,700 --> 00:21:08,300 things concerning himself. Do you know what I think about 342 00:21:08,400 --> 00:21:09,800 sometimes? People are looking for an 343 00:21:09,800 --> 00:21:14,000 experience. Sometimes people are looking for 344 00:21:14,000 --> 00:21:18,500 some kind of special experience. Now picture in your mind's eye, 345 00:21:18,500 --> 00:21:23,200 you got two disciples Jesus appears before them and they 346 00:21:23,208 --> 00:21:26,700 don't know it's him. He preaches from the Old 347 00:21:26,700 --> 00:21:28,800 Testament, the things concerning himself. 348 00:21:29,800 --> 00:21:32,400 They come near to the little village. 349 00:21:32,700 --> 00:21:35,500 The Bible says he acts as though, he's going to keep going 350 00:21:35,500 --> 00:21:40,100 by and they compelled him to join them in the house. 351 00:21:40,200 --> 00:21:42,800 There's a picture there. There's a picture there. 352 00:21:42,800 --> 00:21:45,300 Jesus will never force himself on somebody. 353 00:21:45,400 --> 00:21:48,300 You have to invite him in. You have to want him and he 354 00:21:48,300 --> 00:21:52,000 standing at the door knocking, but the doorknob or the latch is 355 00:21:52,000 --> 00:21:55,800 on your side. They compel Jesus to join them. 356 00:21:55,800 --> 00:21:58,400 They still don't know which Jesus, they sit down in the 357 00:21:58,408 --> 00:22:03,300 Bible says they begin to eat and he reveals himself to them in 358 00:22:03,300 --> 00:22:07,500 the breaking of bread, sis. And then he was gone. 359 00:22:09,200 --> 00:22:12,700 Pretty good experience, right? Impressive. 360 00:22:14,400 --> 00:22:16,300 Let me talk about what was really impressive. 361 00:22:17,700 --> 00:22:21,100 This is what they said. They said this. 362 00:22:22,200 --> 00:22:26,600 And they said to one another did not our heart burn within us 363 00:22:26,600 --> 00:22:28,700 while he talked with us on the road. 364 00:22:29,100 --> 00:22:34,300 And while he opened the scriptures to us, Of all the 365 00:22:34,300 --> 00:22:37,800 things they could have been impressed by and impressed with. 366 00:22:38,100 --> 00:22:41,400 It wasn't the experience Jesus appeared before them and the 367 00:22:41,400 --> 00:22:44,700 first thing they said is didn't our hearts burn within us. 368 00:22:45,100 --> 00:22:50,200 When he showed us the scriptures along the way, But now it was 369 00:22:50,200 --> 00:22:54,000 time though. Is time to go to the upper room, 370 00:22:54,000 --> 00:22:58,400 we find and these disciples, by the way, they traveled seven 371 00:22:58,400 --> 00:23:03,300 miles to Emmaus. And I don't know about you, but 372 00:23:04,200 --> 00:23:08,700 I don't walk 14 miles a day. Back then no doubt. 373 00:23:08,700 --> 00:23:10,500 That's exactly how they got around. 374 00:23:11,100 --> 00:23:13,600 You know, if you're going to go 14 miles or seven miles in each 375 00:23:13,600 --> 00:23:16,700 Direction, you're getting in the car and you're firing it up and 376 00:23:16,700 --> 00:23:21,000 you're driving, you might ride a bike, I doubt you'd ride a 377 00:23:21,000 --> 00:23:23,400 skateboard and really you're probably not going to walk. 378 00:23:24,600 --> 00:23:27,500 They were so impressed with what Jesus had said to them. 379 00:23:28,200 --> 00:23:30,400 They couldn't wait. They had to leave Emmaus and go 380 00:23:30,400 --> 00:23:34,600 back to Jerusalem and go back to the upper room and tell them 381 00:23:34,600 --> 00:23:40,300 what they saw. And all of a sudden as they said 382 00:23:40,300 --> 00:23:43,100 these things, as they told the others Jesus himself stood in 383 00:23:43,100 --> 00:23:46,900 their midst and said peace to you. 384 00:23:48,700 --> 00:23:52,600 You know the Bible says also there That they were afraid 385 00:23:52,600 --> 00:23:54,200 because they thought they saw a ghost. 386 00:23:55,500 --> 00:23:58,800 They thought they saw a spirit and they were afraid. 387 00:24:00,400 --> 00:24:03,200 First of all, when Jesus says, peace to you, he wasn't wishing 388 00:24:03,200 --> 00:24:09,300 them a good day. He was giving them peace, he is 389 00:24:09,300 --> 00:24:12,400 the Prince of Peace. Therefore, he is the author of 390 00:24:12,400 --> 00:24:16,200 Peace. So the author of Peace was 391 00:24:16,200 --> 00:24:22,700 giving peace to them and they were afraid And they were scared 392 00:24:22,700 --> 00:24:26,100 because I thought wait a minute, there's a ghost Among Us and 393 00:24:26,100 --> 00:24:29,100 Jesus says get this is very important for another passage 394 00:24:29,100 --> 00:24:33,100 later on. He said, hey, you said handle 395 00:24:33,100 --> 00:24:37,500 me, touch me. He said, because the spirit 396 00:24:37,500 --> 00:24:40,900 doesn't have flesh and Bone. What he's saying is this, I'm 397 00:24:40,900 --> 00:24:44,400 here in the flesh. My body has been resurrected, 398 00:24:44,400 --> 00:24:47,600 and here I am. Look at my hands feel my hands 399 00:24:47,600 --> 00:24:52,100 handle me. And if I was a ghost, I wouldn't 400 00:24:52,100 --> 00:24:54,900 have bones. I wouldn't have flesh. 401 00:24:56,300 --> 00:25:01,700 Now then this is what happens, he said to them these words, he 402 00:25:01,700 --> 00:25:04,400 said these are the words that I spoke to you while I was still 403 00:25:04,400 --> 00:25:07,100 with you. That in all things must be 404 00:25:07,100 --> 00:25:09,400 fulfilled, which were written in the law of Moses and the 405 00:25:09,400 --> 00:25:12,400 prophets and the Psalms concerning me. 406 00:25:12,700 --> 00:25:15,200 And he opened their understanding that, they might 407 00:25:15,200 --> 00:25:18,500 comprehend the scriptures. What a great first Sunday. 408 00:25:19,600 --> 00:25:24,000 It began with worship later on there was an expository sermon 409 00:25:24,000 --> 00:25:27,200 about Jesus Christ from the Old Testament preached by the master 410 00:25:27,200 --> 00:25:28,700 of the greatest one that ever lived. 411 00:25:28,700 --> 00:25:31,100 We're still not done, it's still Sunday. 412 00:25:31,100 --> 00:25:33,500 It's Sunday night time and you know what the Lord is going to 413 00:25:33,500 --> 00:25:35,600 do. He appears before them and by 414 00:25:35,600 --> 00:25:39,100 the way, he erased, all doubt, when he said you have anything 415 00:25:39,100 --> 00:25:43,400 to eat and they gave him fish and honeycomb and he ate that. 416 00:25:43,400 --> 00:25:45,600 So obviously they were not afraid anymore. 417 00:25:46,000 --> 00:25:49,300 Then he says these words and he uses the law. 418 00:25:49,400 --> 00:25:55,200 Of Moses, the prophets and the Psalms the three distinct 419 00:25:55,500 --> 00:26:02,800 categories of the Old Testament. and he says concerning me, he 420 00:26:02,800 --> 00:26:07,600 opened up their understanding that they might comprehend the 421 00:26:07,600 --> 00:26:13,800 scriptures, what a great Sunday, What a great Sunday it was, but 422 00:26:13,800 --> 00:26:19,400 there's more then he says this. Then he said to them, thus it is 423 00:26:19,400 --> 00:26:22,200 written and thus, it was necessary for Christ to suffer 424 00:26:22,200 --> 00:26:25,300 and to rise from the dead. The third day, and that 425 00:26:25,300 --> 00:26:28,700 repentance and remission of sins should be preached in his name, 426 00:26:28,700 --> 00:26:32,600 to All Nations, beginning at Jerusalem and you are witnesses 427 00:26:32,600 --> 00:26:35,000 of these things. Behold I send the promise of my 428 00:26:35,000 --> 00:26:39,200 father upon you but Terry in the city of Jerusalem until you be 429 00:26:39,200 --> 00:26:45,000 endued with power from on high. So he said this is exactly what 430 00:26:45,000 --> 00:26:47,400 I've said to you before its time now. 431 00:26:47,500 --> 00:26:49,900 Now and you're going to preach repentance and remission of 432 00:26:49,900 --> 00:26:51,900 sins, you're going to do that. No one else you're going to get 433 00:26:51,900 --> 00:26:54,600 the baptism of the Holy Spirit, you're going to get the power of 434 00:26:54,608 --> 00:26:58,400 the Holy Spirit. I'm going to imagine. 435 00:26:58,400 --> 00:27:01,900 They went from scared to encouraged. 436 00:27:02,800 --> 00:27:05,800 This is quite a Sunday, launching New Covenant day. 437 00:27:07,000 --> 00:27:10,300 It's repeated over and over the phrase first day of the week 438 00:27:10,300 --> 00:27:14,000 over and over, because the first day of the week has great 439 00:27:14,000 --> 00:27:18,800 significance. Now notice also in John chapter 440 00:27:18,900 --> 00:27:24,000 20 in John chapter 20, this is John's account of the very same 441 00:27:24,000 --> 00:27:27,600 thing. And we want to talk about this 442 00:27:27,600 --> 00:27:29,700 because I don't want, I don't want us to think that there's a 443 00:27:29,708 --> 00:27:37,100 contradiction, okay? Jesus told them to handle me in 444 00:27:37,100 --> 00:27:43,300 one, passage in this passage. Jesus said, do not cling to me. 445 00:27:44,700 --> 00:27:48,900 Now is there a contradiction? No, first of all. 446 00:27:48,900 --> 00:27:53,600 He said do not cling to me for I have not yet ascended to my 447 00:27:53,600 --> 00:27:57,100 father. Now we know what that can't be. 448 00:27:58,000 --> 00:28:02,100 We know that that cannot be that he's talking about his Ascension 449 00:28:02,100 --> 00:28:05,700 and Acts chapter 1, his Ascension to his father in Acts 450 00:28:05,700 --> 00:28:09,300 chapter 1, 40 days later. We know it can't be that. 451 00:28:09,600 --> 00:28:12,000 Why? Because in between there, he 452 00:28:12,000 --> 00:28:16,000 told his disciples handle me. Me later and we'll get to that. 453 00:28:16,000 --> 00:28:20,400 He told Thomas put your hands in my hands. 454 00:28:20,600 --> 00:28:22,900 Touch me. So we know it can't be that. 455 00:28:24,100 --> 00:28:26,600 And I'll tell you, you can read all kinds of commentaries and 456 00:28:26,600 --> 00:28:29,200 they'll tell you all kinds of things about this. 457 00:28:30,000 --> 00:28:32,600 I'm going to tell you, I agree with what the old-time preachers 458 00:28:32,600 --> 00:28:35,600 used to preach. I think this is right in the 459 00:28:35,600 --> 00:28:38,400 words of my father-in-law of us is free, okay? 460 00:28:38,800 --> 00:28:41,200 But I think, I think the old-time preachers were right 461 00:28:41,200 --> 00:28:42,500 about this. I remember Linwood used to 462 00:28:42,508 --> 00:28:48,100 preach about this, what he was talking about is and that phrase 463 00:28:48,100 --> 00:28:51,700 right there, literally means stop clinging to me in the 464 00:28:51,700 --> 00:28:56,500 original, What it means. It didn't mean don't touch me. 465 00:28:56,500 --> 00:29:00,100 It meant they were touching him and he says, stop clinging to 466 00:29:00,100 --> 00:29:03,400 me. Now, the phrase, therefore I 467 00:29:03,408 --> 00:29:05,100 have not yet ascended to my father. 468 00:29:05,100 --> 00:29:07,800 I think this is the phrase, I agree with this. 469 00:29:08,600 --> 00:29:11,900 You remember under the law of Moses, the high priest took the 470 00:29:11,900 --> 00:29:16,800 blood of the sacrifice, to the holy of holies, that the Ark of 471 00:29:16,800 --> 00:29:20,100 the Covenant, in the presence of God and brought the blood, 472 00:29:20,100 --> 00:29:22,800 sacrifice for the sins of the people. 473 00:29:23,000 --> 00:29:28,900 Into the place where God was or God's presence was, if that is 474 00:29:28,900 --> 00:29:32,500 the prophetic type, then the Fulfillment of that prophetic 475 00:29:32,500 --> 00:29:37,400 type is Jesus ascending to his father as our high priest and 476 00:29:37,400 --> 00:29:40,700 bringing the blood sacrifice to the presence of God. 477 00:29:40,700 --> 00:29:45,000 All that's free. But it makes sense. 478 00:29:46,400 --> 00:29:51,300 It makes sense. It is the antitype of what has 479 00:29:51,300 --> 00:29:55,500 been done under the Old Law. No contradiction just simply 480 00:29:55,500 --> 00:29:59,900 means stop clinging to me. Now, another interesting thing 481 00:29:59,900 --> 00:30:06,400 is found in John chapter 20, When they came to the Sepulchre, 482 00:30:06,400 --> 00:30:09,400 they came to the to the grave and they went in there and they 483 00:30:09,400 --> 00:30:15,800 found the handkerchief. some translations, say napkin and the 484 00:30:15,800 --> 00:30:20,400 handkerchief was placed over his face and when they got in there 485 00:30:20,400 --> 00:30:24,300 and his body was gone and they found the Linens in one place, 486 00:30:25,200 --> 00:30:29,400 it says that the handkerchief or the napkin was placed in another 487 00:30:29,400 --> 00:30:35,500 place and it was folded Now I'll just tell you what, I read about 488 00:30:35,500 --> 00:30:39,400 that, I read that. There is a tradition says, I 489 00:30:39,400 --> 00:30:43,500 guess, you might say, but very customary back then when 490 00:30:43,500 --> 00:30:48,100 somebody would sit at the table and eat when they were finished 491 00:30:48,200 --> 00:30:51,600 eating, but they had to get up from the table, they would take 492 00:30:51,600 --> 00:30:54,100 their napkin and their handkerchief, whatever it was 493 00:30:54,100 --> 00:30:58,000 and they would throw it down with all of the other Linens, 494 00:30:58,000 --> 00:31:02,300 all kind of piled there and it was basically, to say I'm done, 495 00:31:02,800 --> 00:31:06,400 I won't be a back. But then I had read by way of 496 00:31:06,400 --> 00:31:09,600 custom Jewish custom, what they did is when they were going to 497 00:31:09,600 --> 00:31:12,500 get up from the table. But they were going to return. 498 00:31:12,500 --> 00:31:15,500 They folded the napkin. They kept it separate from the 499 00:31:15,500 --> 00:31:19,300 other Linens and it was a sign saying I'm not finished. 500 00:31:19,400 --> 00:31:23,000 I'm coming back. When they got in there and they 501 00:31:23,000 --> 00:31:25,700 open it looked into the grave and found that the body of Jesus 502 00:31:25,700 --> 00:31:28,500 was gone. They saw the Linens but 503 00:31:28,500 --> 00:31:32,600 separate. Folded was the handkerchief 504 00:31:33,900 --> 00:31:37,200 saying I'll be back. I will return. 505 00:31:39,200 --> 00:31:41,700 Jesus is one day going to come back. 506 00:31:42,900 --> 00:31:45,100 I want to notice something in verse 24, please. 507 00:31:46,800 --> 00:31:50,700 Thomas called the twin one of the twelve was not with them 508 00:31:50,700 --> 00:31:54,600 when Jesus came my whole life. I've heard doubting Thomas 509 00:31:54,600 --> 00:31:58,500 doubting Thomas, doubting Thomas and yeah I guess he doubted. 510 00:31:59,700 --> 00:32:02,400 But you know Thomas did not get the information that the others 511 00:32:02,400 --> 00:32:06,100 got. The others were afraid and Jesus 512 00:32:06,100 --> 00:32:11,600 proved that it was him. Maybe in his mind he reflected 513 00:32:11,600 --> 00:32:14,300 back and he thought about what Jesus had told them. 514 00:32:14,300 --> 00:32:17,100 When he walked on the face of the Earth, beware of those that 515 00:32:17,100 --> 00:32:21,700 come and say they're me, beware of those that would come those 516 00:32:21,700 --> 00:32:25,800 false teachers, just maybe. So on this particular occasion, 517 00:32:25,800 --> 00:32:28,100 guess what? Thomas was not there. 518 00:32:28,100 --> 00:32:35,700 He didn't see that he missed out. you know, I thought of this 519 00:32:35,700 --> 00:32:42,200 this morning, I thought about this day, this great day. 520 00:32:44,100 --> 00:32:49,500 And Thomas missed out. You know, I think that's kind of 521 00:32:49,500 --> 00:32:51,200 what happens when we miss services. 522 00:32:52,500 --> 00:32:56,400 We miss out. We just miss out. 523 00:32:58,200 --> 00:33:00,400 He missed out on here in the Lord. 524 00:33:00,400 --> 00:33:04,100 Preached a sermon and teach the word of God. 525 00:33:05,200 --> 00:33:09,100 He missed out on seeing Jesus. That was presented before them. 526 00:33:09,200 --> 00:33:12,000 He missed that too. He missed all of that. 527 00:33:12,100 --> 00:33:16,000 He wasn't there. Think that's sometimes what 528 00:33:16,000 --> 00:33:20,200 happens to us, but that's not all in John chapter 20 verse 26. 529 00:33:22,100 --> 00:33:25,700 After eight days, his disciples were again inside and Thomas 530 00:33:25,700 --> 00:33:27,900 with them. Jesus came and the doors being 531 00:33:27,900 --> 00:33:31,400 shut and stood in the midst and said, peace to you. 532 00:33:31,400 --> 00:33:35,200 Now, what day was that? Now remember we're talking about 533 00:33:35,200 --> 00:33:37,800 the significant of days, significance of days. 534 00:33:38,100 --> 00:33:41,300 We're talking about that, we're talking about, it's the Lord's 535 00:33:41,300 --> 00:33:42,500 day is the first day of the week. 536 00:33:42,500 --> 00:33:44,100 We're talking about this first Sunday. 537 00:33:44,200 --> 00:33:47,100 Okay. And Thomas is not there, but 538 00:33:47,100 --> 00:33:50,900 then it says this after 8 days. What day was that? 539 00:33:52,200 --> 00:33:54,900 Eight days later. Would have been the first day of 540 00:33:54,900 --> 00:33:57,400 the week. Also, it would have been Sunday, 541 00:33:57,500 --> 00:33:59,900 you know why? Because that's exactly how the 542 00:33:59,900 --> 00:34:01,100 Jews. Counted the days. 543 00:34:01,400 --> 00:34:05,600 You count the day you're on Sunday, Monday, Tuesday, 544 00:34:05,600 --> 00:34:08,699 Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday, Sunday, after eight 545 00:34:08,699 --> 00:34:10,199 days. The Lord could have done 546 00:34:10,199 --> 00:34:12,800 anything that he wanted to do. He could have appeared before 547 00:34:12,800 --> 00:34:15,900 Thomas any other day. He waits till win. 548 00:34:16,199 --> 00:34:19,199 Eight days later. First day of the week Sunday. 549 00:34:19,199 --> 00:34:22,400 Pretty significant. Could have done anything you 550 00:34:22,400 --> 00:34:24,300 wanted to, I think that's pretty significant. 551 00:34:25,900 --> 00:34:28,300 You know, that's really not hard for us to grasp either. 552 00:34:28,300 --> 00:34:29,500 Because you might say, hey, Frank. 553 00:34:29,500 --> 00:34:32,500 What are you doing? I held an AA meeting eight days. 554 00:34:32,699 --> 00:34:35,300 Yeah, Sunday, Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, 555 00:34:35,300 --> 00:34:38,300 Saturday, Sunday. Same thing. 556 00:34:40,100 --> 00:34:42,199 What happened? His disciples were again inside 557 00:34:42,199 --> 00:34:44,400 and Thomas with them. Jesus came and the doors being 558 00:34:44,400 --> 00:34:47,600 shut stood in the midst and said, peace to you. 559 00:34:48,000 --> 00:34:54,900 What else the church was born on this day on the day of Pentecost 560 00:34:55,600 --> 00:35:01,700 and a passage taken in The Book of Leviticus chapter 23, what's 561 00:35:01,700 --> 00:35:05,800 Pentecost Leviticus chapter, 23, verses, 15 and 16? 562 00:35:07,000 --> 00:35:09,700 And you shall count for yourselves from the day after 563 00:35:09,700 --> 00:35:14,000 the Sabbath from the day that you brought the Sheaf of a wave 564 00:35:14,000 --> 00:35:15,700 offering. Seven. 565 00:35:15,700 --> 00:35:19,900 Sabbaths shall be completed count, 50 days to the day after 566 00:35:19,900 --> 00:35:23,600 the seventh Sabbath, then you shall offer a new grain offering 567 00:35:23,600 --> 00:35:28,000 to the Lord. So notice Seven sabbaths would 568 00:35:28,000 --> 00:35:31,300 be complete seven times. Seven is forty-nine, there would 569 00:35:31,300 --> 00:35:37,000 be a Passover. Jesus died on Passover Sabbath. 570 00:35:37,800 --> 00:35:43,000 He spends 40 days with his disciples. 10 days later was 571 00:35:43,000 --> 00:35:47,300 Pentecost day and that was the first day of the week that was 572 00:35:47,300 --> 00:35:52,300 Sunday and at 9 a.m. the great event begins. 573 00:35:55,800 --> 00:35:59,700 What else did they do? Gospel sermon is being preached 574 00:36:00,000 --> 00:36:04,100 churches, established. They worshipped and they 575 00:36:04,100 --> 00:36:07,300 continued steadfastly in the apostles Doctrine and fellowship 576 00:36:07,300 --> 00:36:10,600 and in Breaking of bread and in prayers. 577 00:36:11,400 --> 00:36:15,300 Again, this is the Lord ordaining this day. 578 00:36:16,500 --> 00:36:19,800 The first day of the week is very significant and really in a 579 00:36:20,000 --> 00:36:22,600 conversation in a Bible study not long ago. 580 00:36:23,900 --> 00:36:27,700 Somebody asked, well, what was the acts that show us in the 581 00:36:27,700 --> 00:36:31,300 Bible that the first day of the week is significant? 582 00:36:31,300 --> 00:36:33,900 Why is that? What were showing is we're 583 00:36:33,900 --> 00:36:37,000 showing everything is happening on the first day of the week, he 584 00:36:37,000 --> 00:36:39,200 was raised from the dead. The first day of the week. 585 00:36:39,200 --> 00:36:41,100 He was worshipped the first day of the week. 586 00:36:41,100 --> 00:36:43,900 He preached an expository sermon on the first day of the week, he 587 00:36:43,900 --> 00:36:47,600 expounded from the Old Testament scriptures and explain them that 588 00:36:47,600 --> 00:36:49,300 night on the first day of the week. 589 00:36:49,400 --> 00:36:52,400 Eight days later, he waste to the first day of the week and 590 00:36:52,400 --> 00:36:55,700 appears before his Disciples and Thomas is present. 591 00:36:55,700 --> 00:36:59,500 Then he ascends to Heaven 10 days later. 592 00:37:00,600 --> 00:37:04,000 Pentecost day and the church was established. 593 00:37:04,600 --> 00:37:08,300 The gospel was preached. The Holy Spirit came and they 594 00:37:08,300 --> 00:37:14,200 continued and they worshipped on this day and Hebrews chapter 10 595 00:37:15,000 --> 00:37:19,500 and verse 25. Now, understanding these were 596 00:37:19,500 --> 00:37:23,000 Hebrew Christians. That were greatly being 597 00:37:23,000 --> 00:37:25,800 persecuted for their faith. And by the way, historically, 598 00:37:27,000 --> 00:37:29,600 many of the Hebrew Christians, because of the great 599 00:37:29,600 --> 00:37:33,000 persecutions that were happening in their life because they were 600 00:37:33,000 --> 00:37:34,600 Christians, you know what they did? 601 00:37:34,700 --> 00:37:37,300 They turn their back and go back to the ways of Moses. 602 00:37:38,100 --> 00:37:39,400 In fact, that's why they did that. 603 00:37:39,500 --> 00:37:41,000 They thought, wait a minute. It's a lot easier that we'll 604 00:37:41,000 --> 00:37:42,500 just go back to the law of Moses. 605 00:37:43,400 --> 00:37:46,800 So, the writer of Hebrews writes, this inspired by the 606 00:37:46,800 --> 00:37:49,800 Holy Spirit. He said, wait a minute, not 607 00:37:49,800 --> 00:37:51,700 forsaking the assembling of ourselves. 608 00:37:51,800 --> 00:37:55,400 Of us together, don't do it. He said, as the manner of some 609 00:37:55,400 --> 00:38:00,500 is, Very significant day, very significant day of worship. 610 00:38:01,600 --> 00:38:05,000 Assembling ourselves together. But exhorting, one another and 611 00:38:05,000 --> 00:38:07,100 so much the more as you see the day approaching. 612 00:38:07,100 --> 00:38:11,200 Now, there are various schools of thought about what the day is 613 00:38:11,200 --> 00:38:14,000 of the day. Approaching some say, the day is 614 00:38:14,000 --> 00:38:17,100 the first day of the week. Some say, the day is the end of 615 00:38:17,100 --> 00:38:18,900 time. I happen to believe, 616 00:38:18,900 --> 00:38:22,900 contextually the day approaching happens to be the destruction of 617 00:38:22,900 --> 00:38:27,500 Jerusalem, so just a few short years before ad 70. 618 00:38:27,700 --> 00:38:30,800 When this letter was written, it was to encourage Hebrew. 619 00:38:31,300 --> 00:38:34,600 Has to keep the faith and continue to worship and don't 620 00:38:34,600 --> 00:38:38,600 turn your back on worship as you see that day approaching. 621 00:38:38,900 --> 00:38:44,200 But either way, guess what, that day is still the first day of 622 00:38:44,200 --> 00:38:47,600 the week Acts 20 and 7. Now, on the first day of the 623 00:38:47,600 --> 00:38:51,200 week, when the disciples came together, to break bread, Paul 624 00:38:51,200 --> 00:38:53,900 ready to depart the next day, spoke to them and continued his 625 00:38:53,900 --> 00:38:56,900 message until midnight. Can you imagine if one of us 626 00:38:56,900 --> 00:39:01,800 start doing that till midnight? I'm going to tell you something. 627 00:39:03,400 --> 00:39:06,600 Nobody has ever said to me, okay? 628 00:39:07,700 --> 00:39:09,000 You know, I like tearing your Frankfort, man. 629 00:39:09,000 --> 00:39:12,000 You don't talk long enough. I don't think I've ever heard 630 00:39:12,000 --> 00:39:16,000 that. I've heard a little bit of the 631 00:39:16,000 --> 00:39:20,100 flipside man Frank's getting a little long-winded these days. 632 00:39:21,600 --> 00:39:25,300 Oh man. Yeah kind of long never do. 633 00:39:25,300 --> 00:39:28,000 Have I ever heard somebody say what you really need to do is 634 00:39:28,000 --> 00:39:30,900 just preach way longer. In fact, take us to midnight, 635 00:39:31,000 --> 00:39:34,500 absolutely not. What I'm saying is it was the 636 00:39:34,500 --> 00:39:38,900 first day of the week. It wasn't the day or the hour 637 00:39:38,900 --> 00:39:41,600 for the Lord. It was the day for the Lord and 638 00:39:41,600 --> 00:39:44,600 in this we don't know what time they started or they assembled. 639 00:39:44,600 --> 00:39:47,300 Originally we just know it was the first day of the week. 640 00:39:47,300 --> 00:39:49,900 It was on Sunday. It was the time of the bread 641 00:39:49,900 --> 00:39:53,200 breaking service and incidentally little side note. 642 00:39:55,100 --> 00:39:58,100 If the Lord Wills Don King and I will leave for the Philippines 643 00:39:59,400 --> 00:40:04,400 in January again. Okay and customarily. 644 00:40:04,400 --> 00:40:06,200 They don't they don't have what we have. 645 00:40:06,200 --> 00:40:09,600 In terms of we have Sunday morning services at 10:30 and 646 00:40:09,600 --> 00:40:11,100 that's our bread, breaking service. 647 00:40:11,400 --> 00:40:14,800 And then later on at 5:00 here plans road, we have another 648 00:40:14,800 --> 00:40:18,100 service but it's not a bread breaking service. 649 00:40:19,000 --> 00:40:22,300 Some people have 2 o'clock, 3 o'clock Services, 130 Services, 650 00:40:22,300 --> 00:40:24,900 whatever it is in the afternoon on Sunday, okay? 651 00:40:25,500 --> 00:40:27,700 That's kind of our custom of doing that. 652 00:40:28,600 --> 00:40:30,500 In the Philippines. They don't have that on the 653 00:40:30,500 --> 00:40:33,700 Lord's day, whatever time that they decide to meet it, is their 654 00:40:33,700 --> 00:40:37,700 bread breaking service. So, whatever time it was here, 655 00:40:37,800 --> 00:40:39,500 no doubt. They only met once. 656 00:40:39,900 --> 00:40:42,400 But the only time that or the time that it was here, whatever. 657 00:40:42,400 --> 00:40:45,400 That was, it was the first day of the week for the purpose of 658 00:40:45,400 --> 00:40:49,600 breaking bread and Paul went on and preach to midnight and we're 659 00:40:49,600 --> 00:40:52,400 so thankful when eutychus fell out of the window dead, we're 660 00:40:52,400 --> 00:40:54,000 lucky. He got brought back to life. 661 00:40:55,800 --> 00:40:58,800 But that's what happened on that particular day. 662 00:40:59,300 --> 00:41:04,300 It's the first day of the week. It's the day of worship. 663 00:41:05,500 --> 00:41:10,200 Now, I'm not saying this. I'm not saying that you can't 664 00:41:10,200 --> 00:41:14,900 enjoy other things on this day. And there are no real. 665 00:41:14,900 --> 00:41:19,400 There are no restrictions. In the New Testament concerning, 666 00:41:19,600 --> 00:41:23,900 what you are not allowed to do on the first day of the week. 667 00:41:25,100 --> 00:41:28,100 You can go to work if you if you if your boss schedules you and 668 00:41:28,100 --> 00:41:30,300 you say listen I have to be there to assemble with the 669 00:41:30,308 --> 00:41:34,500 church at 10:30 but by 12:30 or so, by the time we're done, I 670 00:41:34,500 --> 00:41:36,000 can drive over there. I'll go to work. 671 00:41:36,000 --> 00:41:38,100 There's nothing wrong with that. There's no restrictions 672 00:41:38,100 --> 00:41:42,100 regarding that. But the question is this, if you 673 00:41:42,100 --> 00:41:46,800 had your druthers, if you have the choice, what choice would 674 00:41:46,800 --> 00:41:48,900 you make? And I know this, I know this, I 675 00:41:48,900 --> 00:41:51,600 understand this, sometimes things happen that are beyond 676 00:41:51,600 --> 00:41:54,300 our control and sometimes we're doing. 677 00:41:54,300 --> 00:41:57,500 Absolutely all that we can I'm not talking about that, I'm not 678 00:41:57,500 --> 00:42:00,200 talking about extenuating circumstances and I'm not 679 00:42:00,200 --> 00:42:02,900 talking about when you're just you're traveling and you're on a 680 00:42:02,908 --> 00:42:05,600 trip somewhere. I'm talking about your daily 681 00:42:05,700 --> 00:42:07,800 life. There's a difference between 682 00:42:08,000 --> 00:42:09,800 can't and won't. Aunt. 683 00:42:12,100 --> 00:42:20,700 Big difference. Just apply it as you can but the 684 00:42:20,700 --> 00:42:24,400 Lord knows whether you can or whether you want. 685 00:42:26,600 --> 00:42:28,300 Are we giving him as our brother parade? 686 00:42:28,300 --> 00:42:33,500 Everything we have on this day. Let's go back to our 687 00:42:33,500 --> 00:42:35,700 introductory text and I'm just about finished. 688 00:42:37,400 --> 00:42:41,800 Here it is. John said, I John both your 689 00:42:41,800 --> 00:42:44,900 brother and companion in Tribulation and Kingdom. 690 00:42:44,900 --> 00:42:48,000 And patience of Jesus Christ was on the island. 691 00:42:48,000 --> 00:42:51,000 That is called Patmos for the word of God, for the testimony 692 00:42:51,000 --> 00:42:55,300 of Jesus Christ. I was in the spirit on the 693 00:42:55,300 --> 00:42:59,300 Lord's day, okay? That's our introductory text, by 694 00:42:59,300 --> 00:43:02,000 the way, this day has a name, it's the Lord's Day. 695 00:43:03,000 --> 00:43:05,700 It's the Lord's day. Something else. 696 00:43:05,700 --> 00:43:08,800 Very significant happened in the same Revelation letter on the 697 00:43:08,800 --> 00:43:10,000 same day. I thought it was kind of 698 00:43:10,008 --> 00:43:11,900 interesting. I'll pass it along. 699 00:43:12,100 --> 00:43:14,200 It's found right here in verse 20. 700 00:43:15,300 --> 00:43:19,100 The Mystery of the Seven Stars, which you saw in my right hand 701 00:43:19,500 --> 00:43:24,000 and the Seven, golden cat, lampstands the Seven Stars are 702 00:43:24,000 --> 00:43:28,600 the Angels of the seven churches and the Seven lampstands which 703 00:43:28,600 --> 00:43:32,400 you saw are the seven churches, isn't it? 704 00:43:32,500 --> 00:43:38,700 It interesting. that the One Vision about the church 705 00:43:40,200 --> 00:43:47,100 happened, On the Lord's Day. New Covenant day. 706 00:43:48,800 --> 00:43:50,800 It. So it's a significant day. 707 00:43:52,000 --> 00:43:55,800 It's not the Lord's hour. It's the Lord's Day. 708 00:43:57,400 --> 00:44:00,000 Is your heart centered on worship on this day. 709 00:44:01,000 --> 00:44:04,600 Is your heart centered today on the remembrance of our savior 710 00:44:06,200 --> 00:44:08,100 does worship. Means something to you. 711 00:44:09,200 --> 00:44:10,900 Would you rather be somewhere else? 712 00:44:12,600 --> 00:44:15,100 I have a friend of mine that was as an outdoors person. 713 00:44:16,100 --> 00:44:19,700 He doesn't profess to be anything religiously and I'm 714 00:44:19,700 --> 00:44:23,700 saying this in closing. But I remember he wrote 715 00:44:23,700 --> 00:44:27,400 something in a little book and it said, and you probably heard 716 00:44:27,400 --> 00:44:33,700 this phrase. He said, it's better to be in 717 00:44:33,700 --> 00:44:35,800 the mountains, thinking about God. 718 00:44:37,600 --> 00:44:41,900 Then it is to be in church. Thinking about the mountains. 719 00:44:44,000 --> 00:44:47,700 And while that may be true. It's not good to be here, 720 00:44:47,700 --> 00:44:49,200 thinking, of something else. I'm going to tell you. 721 00:44:49,200 --> 00:44:52,700 There's nothing more important than our being here to worship 722 00:44:52,700 --> 00:44:55,700 God. And it's not about me and it's 723 00:44:55,700 --> 00:44:57,700 not about you. It's not about us. 724 00:44:57,700 --> 00:45:02,200 It's about God. We are here for God today. 725 00:45:02,200 --> 00:45:06,300 On his day, are you here today? You're not a Christian. 726 00:45:08,600 --> 00:45:10,600 If you're not a child of God, you need to be one. 727 00:45:11,300 --> 00:45:15,400 We can assist you in that. Come believing in Jesus. 728 00:45:15,700 --> 00:45:20,100 Repent of your sins confess, his name as the Son of God and be 729 00:45:20,100 --> 00:45:23,200 baptized in water for the remission of your sins and added 730 00:45:23,200 --> 00:45:28,400 to the body of Christ today. 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