1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:02,900 It's wonderful to be with each and every one of you today. 2 00:00:02,900 --> 00:00:06,200 We're so glad that you're here. We have some visitors that are 3 00:00:06,200 --> 00:00:08,700 among us, and we would hope that you would feel as you are. 4 00:00:08,700 --> 00:00:13,100 And that is our honored guest. And we just simply say, welcome. 5 00:00:13,600 --> 00:00:16,400 As always is the case, I do consider it to be an honor to 6 00:00:16,400 --> 00:00:18,400 speak concerning the word of God. 7 00:00:18,900 --> 00:00:21,000 And I hope and pray. That what we have to consider 8 00:00:21,000 --> 00:00:24,600 for just a few minutes, this morning will be both edifying 9 00:00:24,900 --> 00:00:27,300 and encouraging to you in some way. 10 00:00:28,200 --> 00:00:30,800 You know, last Lord's day, I touched on a subject that I 11 00:00:30,800 --> 00:00:35,300 said, is a subject that oftentimes comes up in Bible 12 00:00:35,300 --> 00:00:39,400 discussions and that is the subject of Miracles and the sub 13 00:00:39,400 --> 00:00:43,100 and the subject of speaking in tongues and we exhausted that 14 00:00:43,100 --> 00:00:46,300 subject last Lord's day. But there's another one that 15 00:00:46,300 --> 00:00:49,300 comes up a lot. And in Bible discussions that I 16 00:00:49,300 --> 00:00:53,000 have with people, this comes up an awful lot and that is what 17 00:00:53,000 --> 00:00:56,400 about the Sabbath? Are we under any kind of Sabbath 18 00:00:56,400 --> 00:00:58,500 law today, does it apply to Today. 19 00:00:59,000 --> 00:01:01,800 So I wanted to talk about the very idea that I have on the 20 00:01:01,800 --> 00:01:05,000 screen. I want to talk about Jesus and 21 00:01:05,000 --> 00:01:09,500 his relationship to the Sabbath. What did Jesus do on the 22 00:01:09,500 --> 00:01:12,100 Sabbath? What did Jesus do about the 23 00:01:12,100 --> 00:01:14,500 Sabbath? First of all our text though 24 00:01:14,800 --> 00:01:18,200 will come from the book of Exodus chapter 20 and we want to 25 00:01:18,200 --> 00:01:23,500 begin reading there in verse 11. Remember the Sabbath day and 26 00:01:23,500 --> 00:01:27,800 keep it holy six days, you shall labor and do all your work. 27 00:01:28,700 --> 00:01:32,200 But the seventh day is the Sabbath of the Lord, your God, 28 00:01:33,100 --> 00:01:37,500 and in it, you will, you shall do no work, you nor your son, 29 00:01:37,900 --> 00:01:41,400 your daughter, nor your male servant, nor your female 30 00:01:41,400 --> 00:01:45,100 servant, nor your cattle, nor your stranger, who is within 31 00:01:45,100 --> 00:01:48,300 your gates. For in six days, the Lord made 32 00:01:48,300 --> 00:01:53,300 the heavens and the Earth, the Red Sea, and all that is in them 33 00:01:53,600 --> 00:01:57,600 and rested the seventh day. Therefore, the Lord blessed the 34 00:01:57,600 --> 00:02:01,500 Sabbath. Sabbath day and he hallowed it. 35 00:02:01,800 --> 00:02:04,700 As we noticed this subject, though, we want to notice it in 36 00:02:04,700 --> 00:02:09,600 the following way. Number one are Christians 37 00:02:09,600 --> 00:02:14,000 obligated to keep the Sabbath today, and I'm talking about the 38 00:02:14,000 --> 00:02:19,300 Sabbath of Old Testament. Judaism question, number two are 39 00:02:19,300 --> 00:02:23,900 Christians obligated to turn Sunday into some kind of Sabbath 40 00:02:23,900 --> 00:02:27,900 with similar restrictions. And thirdly. 41 00:02:27,900 --> 00:02:33,800 And finally, Are Christians to reject all Sabbath law and enjoy 42 00:02:33,800 --> 00:02:38,000 freedom from Sabbath law as to prescribing any specific 43 00:02:38,600 --> 00:02:41,100 restrictions. Well, first of all, when we do 44 00:02:41,100 --> 00:02:43,600 this, we want to consider three things. 45 00:02:45,100 --> 00:02:47,700 The first thing we want to consider is the seventh day of 46 00:02:47,700 --> 00:02:51,300 rest that God took after Creation in Genesis chapter 2. 47 00:02:52,200 --> 00:02:54,700 Then we want to notice this. We want to notice The 48 00:02:54,700 --> 00:02:59,500 Seventh-Day Sabbath under Mosaic law in Exodus chapter 20. 49 00:03:00,300 --> 00:03:04,600 And finally we want to notice what role that Jesus played in 50 00:03:04,600 --> 00:03:08,100 the transition of the old Covenant law to the New 51 00:03:08,100 --> 00:03:11,200 Covenant. So as we begin we begin in 52 00:03:11,200 --> 00:03:15,800 Genesis chapter 2. Now in This is chapter 2 the 53 00:03:15,800 --> 00:03:19,300 Bible is going to say that God rested but let me just say this 54 00:03:19,700 --> 00:03:24,000 in six days God created everything and as we go back to 55 00:03:24,000 --> 00:03:28,000 chapter 1, it says in the beginning, God created the 56 00:03:28,000 --> 00:03:31,400 heavens and the Earth. And in all things that God 57 00:03:31,400 --> 00:03:37,100 created he created, please get this everything in six days. 58 00:03:38,600 --> 00:03:42,600 Including man. In Genesis chapter 1 and verse 59 00:03:42,600 --> 00:03:46,300 26. The Bible says let us make man 60 00:03:46,300 --> 00:03:50,000 in our image, after our likeness. 61 00:03:50,400 --> 00:03:56,000 And the Bible says, male and female, he created he them. 62 00:03:56,700 --> 00:04:00,800 So what happens in Genesis chapter 2 when it talks about? 63 00:04:00,800 --> 00:04:03,200 God, formed, Man, Out of the Dust of the ground. 64 00:04:03,300 --> 00:04:06,600 Don't be confused with that. All that means is that's a 65 00:04:06,600 --> 00:04:10,100 detailed description of what he already did. 66 00:04:10,200 --> 00:04:11,400 That's all. Means. 67 00:04:11,900 --> 00:04:14,500 So in general. He's the creation is given in 68 00:04:14,500 --> 00:04:19,000 chapter 1. Chapter 2 is given the detailed 69 00:04:19,000 --> 00:04:22,300 aspect that he did, so that's all that means, okay. 70 00:04:24,200 --> 00:04:28,100 On the seventh day though. In Genesis chapter 2, the Bible 71 00:04:28,100 --> 00:04:34,300 says that God rested. Now let me ask you this, let me 72 00:04:34,300 --> 00:04:39,000 ask you this, what kind of a rest did God have that he arrest 73 00:04:39,000 --> 00:04:43,000 because he was tired. No man gets tired. 74 00:04:44,000 --> 00:04:47,700 In fact, Jesus, when he came down to this low ground of sin 75 00:04:47,700 --> 00:04:49,700 sickness and sorrow did so In the Flesh. 76 00:04:49,700 --> 00:04:52,000 So you know what? Jesus got tired. 77 00:04:53,000 --> 00:04:56,300 Jesus knows our infirmities. Jesus knows the frailties In the 78 00:04:56,300 --> 00:04:58,900 Flesh. In fact, Jesus was tempted in 79 00:04:58,900 --> 00:05:03,900 all points, like, as we are yet without sin, so Jesus got tired 80 00:05:04,000 --> 00:05:07,400 when he was living on this Earth but not God. 81 00:05:08,200 --> 00:05:10,600 What kind of rested God take then? 82 00:05:10,600 --> 00:05:13,900 And this also proves that everything that was done in 83 00:05:13,900 --> 00:05:17,900 Genesis chapter one was everything because at the very 84 00:05:17,900 --> 00:05:22,700 beginning of chapter 2, it said on the seventh day, he rested. 85 00:05:23,100 --> 00:05:26,700 What kind of arrest was it? It was a rest of number one 86 00:05:26,800 --> 00:05:29,700 delight and satisfaction. That's number one. 87 00:05:30,900 --> 00:05:32,700 God looked at all that he created. 88 00:05:32,700 --> 00:05:37,900 Remember what he said, he said it is very good. 89 00:05:38,700 --> 00:05:42,800 So God said this. God looked upon everything that 90 00:05:42,800 --> 00:05:46,100 he created. So his rest was arrest of 91 00:05:46,100 --> 00:05:48,900 delight and satisfaction, what else? 92 00:05:49,200 --> 00:05:51,100 It was a rest because he was finished. 93 00:05:51,100 --> 00:05:54,100 In fact, that word actually means one of the definitions of 94 00:05:54,100 --> 00:05:57,700 that word in the original literally means we, he has 95 00:05:57,700 --> 00:06:02,000 ceased from working Now, why would he rested on the seventh 96 00:06:02,000 --> 00:06:05,300 day ceased from working and then kick it up again in the next 97 00:06:05,300 --> 00:06:09,700 chapter wouldn't make any sense at all everything that God 98 00:06:09,700 --> 00:06:14,500 created was created in six days and on the seventh day God 99 00:06:14,500 --> 00:06:17,400 rested. Okay, we get that. 100 00:06:18,200 --> 00:06:21,500 What about man? What about Adam and Eve? 101 00:06:21,600 --> 00:06:24,500 What about man did man? Rest on that day. 102 00:06:24,600 --> 00:06:28,600 Did God give that day as a human involvement in the garden? 103 00:06:28,800 --> 00:06:32,000 No. In fact, man was living in a 104 00:06:32,000 --> 00:06:37,700 Perpetual state of rest, man was living a life of rest. 105 00:06:37,800 --> 00:06:41,100 He was put down in a blissful Paradise in the Garden of Eden. 106 00:06:41,200 --> 00:06:44,800 His life was a life of rest. Do you know why? 107 00:06:45,000 --> 00:06:47,500 Because there was no work, why was there? 108 00:06:47,500 --> 00:06:51,400 No work because there was no sin. and if there was no work, 109 00:06:51,500 --> 00:06:55,700 there's no Sabbath Okay, maybe you're saying thinking this, oh, 110 00:06:55,700 --> 00:07:01,100 wait a minute, I read somewhere where it says that man had to 111 00:07:01,100 --> 00:07:02,800 tend the garden. That's true. 112 00:07:04,100 --> 00:07:07,000 There's a difference though between taking care or 113 00:07:07,000 --> 00:07:11,000 maintaining something and having to earn your living or your 114 00:07:11,000 --> 00:07:12,900 bread. By the sweat of your face. 115 00:07:12,900 --> 00:07:17,100 Big difference When sin came into the world and man was cast 116 00:07:17,100 --> 00:07:19,400 from the garden, everything changed. 117 00:07:19,400 --> 00:07:22,300 But in the garden before man, sinned. 118 00:07:22,400 --> 00:07:25,700 There was no work because there There was no sin and if there's 119 00:07:25,700 --> 00:07:28,900 no work, there's no Sabbath rest. 120 00:07:28,900 --> 00:07:34,700 So the only one that rested in Genesis chapter 2 was God. 121 00:07:35,700 --> 00:07:38,900 There is no human involvement in Genesis chapter 2. 122 00:07:39,000 --> 00:07:40,900 Now why do I make that such a big point? 123 00:07:40,900 --> 00:07:46,700 I'll tell you why. He give you a word sabbatarian 124 00:07:46,700 --> 00:07:50,700 ism. Is a word that is often used 125 00:07:50,700 --> 00:07:57,100 today with any type of religious affiliation that accepts or 126 00:07:57,100 --> 00:08:01,100 recognizes Sabbath the Sabbath and meaning Saturday, as a 127 00:08:01,100 --> 00:08:05,600 religious or set apart day, they're called sabbatarians, for 128 00:08:05,600 --> 00:08:08,000 example. And there are a number of 129 00:08:08,000 --> 00:08:11,000 religious affiliations that are sabbatarians. 130 00:08:11,300 --> 00:08:14,600 And the reason that I make this entire point is when you talk to 131 00:08:14,600 --> 00:08:18,100 a sabbatarian often times, they will say this. 132 00:08:18,400 --> 00:08:21,800 They will say, we have to keep the Sabbath because the Sabbath 133 00:08:21,800 --> 00:08:25,800 has always existed even back to Genesis chapter 2. 134 00:08:26,000 --> 00:08:29,500 And I've proven the point, I think know, the only one that 135 00:08:29,500 --> 00:08:33,200 rested in Genesis chapter 2 was God. 136 00:08:33,200 --> 00:08:36,700 Man did not rest because there was no work man. 137 00:08:36,700 --> 00:08:40,100 Did not rest because there was no sin and if no work and no 138 00:08:40,100 --> 00:08:43,299 sin, then no Sabbath. Okay? 139 00:08:43,600 --> 00:08:46,800 But there was a day though, there was a time in Exodus 140 00:08:46,800 --> 00:08:51,100 chapter 20, when God Would hallo the day or the Sabbath day. 141 00:08:51,800 --> 00:08:54,100 It's just back up in history, man. 142 00:08:54,100 --> 00:08:57,600 Sinned, he was cast from the garden and by the way I got to 143 00:08:57,600 --> 00:09:02,500 tell you a little side note here, not only not only is 144 00:09:02,500 --> 00:09:05,500 nothing said about man resting in Genesis 2. 145 00:09:06,300 --> 00:09:10,400 But there's not a day of rest described in all 50 chapters of 146 00:09:10,400 --> 00:09:12,900 the Book of Genesis. Not one thing. 147 00:09:14,000 --> 00:09:15,900 Exodus chapter 20 is different though. 148 00:09:15,900 --> 00:09:20,000 Because here comes a man, man. Now has sinned, man now is cast 149 00:09:20,000 --> 00:09:25,400 from the garden and all of that man is in Egyptian bondage for 150 00:09:25,400 --> 00:09:28,700 over 400 years. God sent Moses to deliver to 151 00:09:28,700 --> 00:09:33,800 deliver his people, right? God, is going to specify or 152 00:09:33,800 --> 00:09:37,900 bring together a system of Sabbath's now. 153 00:09:37,900 --> 00:09:41,800 Under the Old Law of Moses, and by the way, they were weekly, 154 00:09:42,400 --> 00:09:45,900 they were monthly And they were yearly. 155 00:09:45,900 --> 00:09:51,600 They were a system of holy days or a system of Sabbath days. 156 00:09:51,900 --> 00:09:55,600 This is different from obviously from creation because at 157 00:09:55,600 --> 00:10:00,100 creation there was no sin but under the Old Law of Moses when 158 00:10:00,100 --> 00:10:05,200 the Sabbath was given, it was an opportunity for man to recognize 159 00:10:05,200 --> 00:10:08,900 his sin. The law was brought in so man, 160 00:10:08,900 --> 00:10:12,400 could recognize his sins. Stay with me on that. 161 00:10:12,700 --> 00:10:16,400 What did God do? Do God gave to General 162 00:10:16,400 --> 00:10:20,300 Commandments and they were these, you shall love the Lord, 163 00:10:20,300 --> 00:10:24,200 your God with all your heart, with all your soul, with all 164 00:10:24,200 --> 00:10:26,400 your mind, and with all your strength. 165 00:10:26,400 --> 00:10:28,700 That's number one, General command. 166 00:10:28,800 --> 00:10:32,300 Number two, general command. And you are to love your 167 00:10:32,300 --> 00:10:34,800 neighbor as yourself. Okay. 168 00:10:35,300 --> 00:10:39,900 To General commands and watch this because then God gave a 169 00:10:39,900 --> 00:10:44,800 tenfold, explanation of those commands And that's called The 170 00:10:44,800 --> 00:10:48,800 Ten Commandments. But there's more. 171 00:10:49,900 --> 00:10:54,000 He also gave a manifold explanation of those commands in 172 00:10:54,000 --> 00:10:58,200 the pentateuch, or simply the first five books of the Bible, 173 00:10:58,500 --> 00:11:04,300 the books of the law. Genesis Exodus, Leviticus 174 00:11:04,500 --> 00:11:08,100 Numbers and Deuteronomy. And when I say manifold, I mean 175 00:11:08,100 --> 00:11:09,800 it's me. Many and various. 176 00:11:09,900 --> 00:11:15,300 Okay, system of Savas comes in and Exodus chapter 22, General 177 00:11:15,300 --> 00:11:18,400 commands, love God, and love your neighbor, a tenfold 178 00:11:18,400 --> 00:11:22,400 explanation, The Ten Commandments a manifold 179 00:11:22,400 --> 00:11:25,600 explanation, many and various things given in the law in the 180 00:11:25,600 --> 00:11:31,600 first five books of the Bible. But There's something specific. 181 00:11:32,700 --> 00:11:36,300 And it's the fourth Commandment. And that was to keep the 182 00:11:36,300 --> 00:11:40,000 Sabbath. They were to keep the Sabbath 183 00:11:41,100 --> 00:11:44,400 and you remember when I said it was the time for man to 184 00:11:44,400 --> 00:11:50,200 understand and reflect on that day, it was a day by the way, to 185 00:11:50,200 --> 00:11:53,200 do several things. Number one, it was a day from 186 00:11:53,200 --> 00:11:58,700 man to recognize creation. Number two, it was a way for man 187 00:11:59,000 --> 00:12:04,900 to recognize that sin damaged or marred that creation. 188 00:12:06,100 --> 00:12:08,700 Number three. It was a day for man to 189 00:12:08,700 --> 00:12:13,300 recognize his creator and that's God and fourthly. 190 00:12:13,300 --> 00:12:17,500 It was a time for man to recognize that God was the 191 00:12:17,500 --> 00:12:22,400 lawgiver, all of that. On the Sabbath. 192 00:12:23,500 --> 00:12:29,600 Now what I'm saying is it was a day of conviction, it was a day 193 00:12:29,600 --> 00:12:34,300 of gratitude and it was a day of penitence. 194 00:12:34,600 --> 00:12:38,300 Now what about the nature between the new and the old this 195 00:12:38,300 --> 00:12:42,200 is very important. Okay, there was a time when God 196 00:12:42,200 --> 00:12:45,500 hallowed that day and that was very important but that was 197 00:12:45,500 --> 00:12:47,700 under the old. And we want to notice the 198 00:12:47,700 --> 00:12:51,000 relationship between the old and the new. 199 00:12:51,200 --> 00:12:55,400 And here it is the old versus Has the new, what we find is 200 00:12:55,400 --> 00:12:58,900 this, we find that there are something that is very 201 00:12:58,900 --> 00:13:02,600 significant that the old was nothing, but a shadow of 202 00:13:02,600 --> 00:13:06,100 something else. And so notice this, let's just 203 00:13:06,100 --> 00:13:11,400 back up. God said in the day the day was 204 00:13:11,400 --> 00:13:16,200 given, in Exodus chapter 20, but there would be a time when the 205 00:13:16,200 --> 00:13:20,500 old would be done away with and the new would take its place and 206 00:13:20,500 --> 00:13:23,800 the new was superior to the old in Way. 207 00:13:25,700 --> 00:13:29,700 Let's talk about Jesus, let's talk about what Jesus did. 208 00:13:29,900 --> 00:13:33,700 Let's talk about Jesus marking the transition between the old 209 00:13:33,700 --> 00:13:36,000 and the new. Let's talk about some examples 210 00:13:36,000 --> 00:13:39,300 of that. In Matthew chapter 12, I love 211 00:13:39,300 --> 00:13:41,800 this. And first of all, remember this 212 00:13:41,800 --> 00:13:49,100 to folks remember The two things that the Jews hated about Jesus 213 00:13:50,600 --> 00:13:53,000 number one, because he said I am the son of God. 214 00:13:54,300 --> 00:13:57,500 And number two, because of how he handled the Sabbath. 215 00:13:59,000 --> 00:14:00,800 So, we asked ourselves the question. 216 00:14:01,100 --> 00:14:03,800 What did Jesus do about the Sabbath? 217 00:14:04,300 --> 00:14:06,500 I'll tell you what he did about the 7th and this is not an 218 00:14:06,500 --> 00:14:11,600 off-the-cuff flippant, remark? This is the conclusion that I 219 00:14:11,600 --> 00:14:14,800 come to based upon my study of the subject. 220 00:14:14,900 --> 00:14:16,800 What did Jesus do about the Sabbath? 221 00:14:16,800 --> 00:14:20,500 Jesus, did anything, he wanted to do on the Sabbath? 222 00:14:20,600 --> 00:14:22,200 Okay, keep that in the back of your mind. 223 00:14:22,200 --> 00:14:24,600 We're going to find out why. But what about this? 224 00:14:24,800 --> 00:14:28,000 What about Matthew chapter 12? You remember that narrative? 225 00:14:28,700 --> 00:14:31,900 Jesus on the Sabbath and I believe that to be totally on 226 00:14:31,900 --> 00:14:36,100 purpose. Jesus on the Sabbath is walking 227 00:14:36,100 --> 00:14:39,000 through the grain Fields with his disciples, right? 228 00:14:39,000 --> 00:14:43,000 It's on the Sabbath day and all of a sudden, the disciples got 229 00:14:43,000 --> 00:14:46,200 hungry so they pluck the heads of the grain, right? 230 00:14:46,400 --> 00:14:49,400 And they ate that remember what the Pharisees said, the 231 00:14:49,400 --> 00:14:53,500 Pharisees said, wait a minute. They're doing wrong. 232 00:14:53,500 --> 00:14:58,000 They don't keep the Sabbath why you can only you couldn't travel 233 00:14:58,000 --> 00:15:00,400 on a journey, only a Sabbath Day's Journey. 234 00:15:00,400 --> 00:15:01,700 They were doing that through the field. 235 00:15:01,700 --> 00:15:06,000 Number two, they couldn't prepare the food or harvest 236 00:15:06,000 --> 00:15:09,100 anything on the Sabbath. All of that had to be done the 237 00:15:09,100 --> 00:15:11,400 day before on the day of preparation. 238 00:15:11,900 --> 00:15:15,000 So the Pharisees are looking to Jesus and looking to the 239 00:15:15,000 --> 00:15:18,400 disciples and they're saying they did not keep the Sabbath. 240 00:15:18,400 --> 00:15:21,300 They've done terrible wrong. You know what Jesus said, I love 241 00:15:21,400 --> 00:15:27,600 This he said this in verses 3 and 4, but he said to them, have 242 00:15:27,600 --> 00:15:30,000 you not read what David did when he was hungry? 243 00:15:30,800 --> 00:15:35,000 He and those who were with him how he entered the house of God, 244 00:15:35,000 --> 00:15:39,600 and ate the showbread, which was not lawful for him to eat, nor 245 00:15:39,600 --> 00:15:42,900 for those who were with him. But only for the priests. 246 00:15:43,400 --> 00:15:45,800 In other words, they're they're complaining about the disciples 247 00:15:45,800 --> 00:15:49,100 and Jesus haven't yet. Heard that David. 248 00:15:49,900 --> 00:15:53,700 And then he says this. Or have you not read in the law 249 00:15:53,700 --> 00:15:56,400 that on the Sabbath? The priests in the temple. 250 00:15:56,400 --> 00:15:58,400 Profane the Sabbath and are blameless. 251 00:15:58,400 --> 00:16:02,000 Do you know why they were working in the temple on the 252 00:16:02,000 --> 00:16:05,600 Sabbath? So Jesus is saying this, if you 253 00:16:05,600 --> 00:16:08,600 want to get down to the nitty-gritty, if you really want 254 00:16:08,600 --> 00:16:11,500 to get down to that, haven't you heard that the priest himself 255 00:16:11,500 --> 00:16:16,300 also profane the Sabbath, but they're blameless and there's 256 00:16:16,300 --> 00:16:19,800 going to be a reason why? There's going to be a reason 257 00:16:19,800 --> 00:16:24,900 why, but in verse 8, Jesus did anything that he wanted to do Y 258 00:16:25,100 --> 00:16:32,200 for the son of man is Lord even of the Sabbath now. 259 00:16:34,200 --> 00:16:37,100 I like this right here. I like Mark's account. 260 00:16:38,200 --> 00:16:40,200 Because Mark chapter 2, says this. 261 00:16:41,400 --> 00:16:46,900 Mark chapter 2, says the Sabbath was made for man and not man for 262 00:16:46,900 --> 00:16:50,000 the Sabbath. Therefore, the son of man is 263 00:16:50,000 --> 00:16:53,600 also Lord of the seventh. Okay. 264 00:16:54,000 --> 00:16:58,300 Are you getting the picture? Now, one of the problems that 265 00:16:58,300 --> 00:17:03,300 they had, one of the problems that they had, is understanding 266 00:17:03,300 --> 00:17:07,300 the reference point between themselves and God and what they 267 00:17:07,300 --> 00:17:12,300 didn't recognize is Jesus was going to be the transition from 268 00:17:12,300 --> 00:17:17,700 the old to the new They thought that the transition they thought 269 00:17:17,700 --> 00:17:20,800 that the reference point between them self in, God was the 270 00:17:20,800 --> 00:17:24,800 Sabbath under the Old Law, what they fail to recognize is, and 271 00:17:24,800 --> 00:17:28,500 Jesus was transitioning. This idea they failed to 272 00:17:28,500 --> 00:17:32,500 recognize it was Jesus. That was the reference point or 273 00:17:32,500 --> 00:17:36,300 would be the reference point between them and God. 274 00:17:36,500 --> 00:17:41,300 Jesus says, no man comes unto the father except by or through 275 00:17:41,500 --> 00:17:44,300 me so we're going to get down to this chart. 276 00:17:44,300 --> 00:17:48,200 A little A bit more later. But notice this Jesus did 277 00:17:48,200 --> 00:17:51,700 whatever he wanted to. Because he was the transition 278 00:17:51,700 --> 00:17:55,800 from the old to the new. The old was a shadow of 279 00:17:55,800 --> 00:17:57,800 something that was coming. That was greater. 280 00:17:58,000 --> 00:18:02,800 And the new was the substance or the reality, and the new is 281 00:18:02,800 --> 00:18:07,100 greater than the old. The newest greater than the old. 282 00:18:09,000 --> 00:18:10,700 Jesus did whatever he wanted to on the Sabbath. 283 00:18:10,700 --> 00:18:13,000 Let's go back to our passages. What about this? 284 00:18:14,200 --> 00:18:18,300 I preached on this all over the country, this passage Not going 285 00:18:18,300 --> 00:18:21,900 to go into it in great detail. But I'm going to say this really 286 00:18:21,900 --> 00:18:27,200 quickly at the pool of Bethesda. The man was crippled man needed 287 00:18:27,200 --> 00:18:29,600 to be healed, right? Angel goes down and stirs the 288 00:18:29,600 --> 00:18:33,500 water once a day when the water is stirred. 289 00:18:33,600 --> 00:18:36,300 The first one down to the water, gets the miracle gets healed. 290 00:18:36,800 --> 00:18:42,100 Jesus on the Sabbath on purpose. Walks up to this man on the 291 00:18:42,100 --> 00:18:46,100 Sabbath on purpose and says don't you want to be healed and 292 00:18:46,100 --> 00:18:48,400 the man said, I don't have anybody to take Me down there 293 00:18:49,200 --> 00:18:51,600 and I try to get down there. But by the time that I do, 294 00:18:51,600 --> 00:18:53,900 somebody beats me to it and they get healed. 295 00:18:53,900 --> 00:18:58,500 And I do not Jesus could have done anything that he wanted to 296 00:18:58,500 --> 00:19:00,000 do. He could have said anything he 297 00:19:00,000 --> 00:19:03,300 wanted to say. Jesus told the man take up your 298 00:19:03,300 --> 00:19:06,300 bed and walk. Why did he say that? 299 00:19:08,000 --> 00:19:11,400 God commanded, there were specific restrictions to a 300 00:19:11,408 --> 00:19:14,600 person living under the law of Moses on the Sabbath. 301 00:19:14,700 --> 00:19:16,700 They were to do. No servile work. 302 00:19:16,900 --> 00:19:21,800 They were to have other specific restrictions but Peyton based 303 00:19:21,800 --> 00:19:26,100 upon the codification of rabbinic tradition rabbinic 304 00:19:26,100 --> 00:19:29,700 tradition. Counted at least 39 more things 305 00:19:29,900 --> 00:19:32,100 that were forbidden on the Sabbath. 306 00:19:32,100 --> 00:19:35,900 God didn't say that man said that rabbinic tradition said 307 00:19:35,900 --> 00:19:39,300 that do you know what one of them was It was carrying your 308 00:19:39,300 --> 00:19:43,900 bed on the Sabbath. Jesus took a shot at their 309 00:19:43,900 --> 00:19:46,300 rabbinic tradition. He healed The Man by saying, 310 00:19:46,300 --> 00:19:49,500 take up your bed and walk. You know, why he was greater 311 00:19:49,500 --> 00:19:52,400 than the Sabbath. He was Lord of the Sabbath and 312 00:19:52,400 --> 00:19:56,200 he was the transition from the old to the new. 313 00:19:56,800 --> 00:19:59,400 What about this? What about Galatians chapter 4? 314 00:20:00,800 --> 00:20:04,300 What about Galatians chapter 4? Again, the transition? 315 00:20:04,800 --> 00:20:08,600 Okay, the transition? And when you look at, this 316 00:20:08,600 --> 00:20:13,100 passage notice this please. The transition from the old to 317 00:20:13,100 --> 00:20:15,800 the new. Now, notice Jesus died on the 318 00:20:15,800 --> 00:20:18,600 cross. Okay, this is after he was 319 00:20:18,600 --> 00:20:23,200 living, he died on the cross, he shed his blood for the sins of 320 00:20:23,208 --> 00:20:26,700 the world. He was buried on the third day. 321 00:20:26,700 --> 00:20:30,000 He rose again. He spends 40 days with his 322 00:20:30,000 --> 00:20:34,400 disciples, he sends the Holy Spirit after he ascended into 323 00:20:34,400 --> 00:20:37,000 heaven. In Acts chapter 1, the Holy 324 00:20:37,000 --> 00:20:40,600 Spirit was there on Pentecost day, guess what gospel is 325 00:20:40,608 --> 00:20:42,900 preached. Churches, established. 326 00:20:44,900 --> 00:20:49,600 Transition complete. Complete. 327 00:20:51,500 --> 00:20:55,800 So what he started by way of the transition as he was living 328 00:20:55,800 --> 00:21:00,500 under the Old Law, as he would be the reference point, it was 329 00:21:00,500 --> 00:21:02,400 completed in his death. Burial. 330 00:21:02,400 --> 00:21:06,500 Resurrection, the sending of the Holy Spirit and the 331 00:21:06,500 --> 00:21:12,000 establishment of the church But Galatians chapter 4. 332 00:21:15,000 --> 00:21:16,200 First of all, I have to say that. 333 00:21:16,200 --> 00:21:20,100 If you look at Romans 14, somebody might say what about 334 00:21:20,100 --> 00:21:21,600 Romans 14? Okay? 335 00:21:21,700 --> 00:21:25,800 I don't have time to go into Liberties very deeply here, 336 00:21:26,200 --> 00:21:29,200 okay? But Liberties are things that we 337 00:21:29,200 --> 00:21:31,400 are given the freedom to decide whether we're going to 338 00:21:31,400 --> 00:21:35,500 participate in or whether we're not When the church was 339 00:21:35,500 --> 00:21:40,000 established, you remember that all of those thousands of people 340 00:21:40,000 --> 00:21:43,300 that were converted. At the beginning they were all 341 00:21:43,300 --> 00:21:46,500 of Jewish descent. They all had Jewish blood 342 00:21:46,500 --> 00:21:49,400 running through their veins or they might have even been those 343 00:21:49,400 --> 00:21:52,500 that were proselytes or converted to Judaism. 344 00:21:53,100 --> 00:21:56,700 Do you know what those under the law of Moses under Judaism, you 345 00:21:56,700 --> 00:21:59,800 know what they have? Always done observed the 346 00:21:59,800 --> 00:22:03,500 Sabbath. So Paul was dealing with this. 347 00:22:04,100 --> 00:22:07,500 Words Jesus nailed it to his cross and did away with it. 348 00:22:08,200 --> 00:22:12,000 But if a person had a conscience against letting the Sabbath go 349 00:22:12,000 --> 00:22:14,600 by the wayside Paul said, leave him alone. 350 00:22:15,100 --> 00:22:17,300 Let him do it, it doesn't matter. 351 00:22:18,300 --> 00:22:23,500 Okay, until you try to bind it on Christians. 352 00:22:24,200 --> 00:22:28,500 Now, that matters. But if a person was keeping the 353 00:22:28,500 --> 00:22:33,100 New Testament law and living as a Christian as the Bible says 354 00:22:33,400 --> 00:22:36,500 but they also kept the Sabbath. So what? 355 00:22:37,700 --> 00:22:40,000 So what? It's a liberty, it doesn't 356 00:22:40,000 --> 00:22:45,000 matter but Galatians chapter 4 is totally different Galatians. 357 00:22:45,000 --> 00:22:49,300 Chapter 4 is a bunch of people that were trying to bind the 358 00:22:49,300 --> 00:22:52,600 aspects of the Old Law on Gentile converts. 359 00:22:52,700 --> 00:22:56,300 So that's why he dresses that in Galatians chapter 4, notice. 360 00:22:56,300 --> 00:23:01,400 This but now after you have known God or rather are known of 361 00:23:01,400 --> 00:23:06,200 God, how is it that you turn again to the weak and beggarly 362 00:23:06,200 --> 00:23:09,300 elements? To which you desire again to be 363 00:23:09,300 --> 00:23:14,100 in bondage, You observe days and months and seasons and years. 364 00:23:14,100 --> 00:23:18,300 I'm afraid of you lest I have I'm afraid for you. 365 00:23:18,500 --> 00:23:22,800 Lest I have labored for you in vain, you know, it's 366 00:23:22,800 --> 00:23:26,200 interesting. We can beggarly means worthless. 367 00:23:28,200 --> 00:23:32,700 It means worthless. Those days that no longer 368 00:23:32,700 --> 00:23:35,900 exists, those days that were under the shadow, not the 369 00:23:35,900 --> 00:23:37,600 substance. Those days that were under the 370 00:23:37,600 --> 00:23:41,600 law of Moses, what they are now is they're worthless. 371 00:23:42,500 --> 00:23:44,300 They don't matter because there's something greater, 372 00:23:44,700 --> 00:23:49,700 there's something, greater that exist weak and beggarly elements 373 00:23:49,700 --> 00:23:56,000 mean worthless. Now, Colossians chapter 2. 374 00:23:56,700 --> 00:23:59,300 Please get this. This drives the point home 375 00:24:00,500 --> 00:24:05,200 Beginning in verse 14. Having wiped out the handwriting 376 00:24:05,200 --> 00:24:10,200 of requirements that was against us, which was contrary to us, 377 00:24:10,700 --> 00:24:13,600 and he has taken it out of the way, having nailed it to the 378 00:24:13,600 --> 00:24:18,100 Cross, having disarmed, principalities and Powers. 379 00:24:18,500 --> 00:24:22,100 He made a public spectacle of them, triumphing over them in 380 00:24:22,100 --> 00:24:25,100 it. So let no one judge you in food, 381 00:24:25,100 --> 00:24:31,500 or in drink regarding a festival or of a new moon, or a Sabbath. 382 00:24:32,600 --> 00:24:36,800 Which are a shadow of things to come, but the substance is of 383 00:24:36,800 --> 00:24:40,600 Christ. How can you not? 384 00:24:40,600 --> 00:24:42,600 Look at that and say what it means? 385 00:24:43,100 --> 00:24:44,800 It means we're not under the Sabbath anymore. 386 00:24:45,700 --> 00:24:47,900 It means from a religious perspective, we don't keep the 387 00:24:47,900 --> 00:24:52,000 Sabbath anymore or any other aspect of the Old Law. 388 00:24:52,500 --> 00:24:55,900 In fact, these things are under the old law where a shadow or a 389 00:24:55,900 --> 00:25:00,300 picture of something else but the substance to reality is 390 00:25:00,300 --> 00:25:03,800 Christ. Notice this police notice this 391 00:25:03,800 --> 00:25:07,000 again because the Sabbath was a shadow. 392 00:25:07,000 --> 00:25:09,800 Now remember this go back to Genesis chapter, Chapter two, 393 00:25:09,800 --> 00:25:13,400 okay. God created everything in Six 394 00:25:13,400 --> 00:25:15,300 Days on the seventh day he rested. 395 00:25:15,700 --> 00:25:17,100 Okay. So what did he do? 396 00:25:17,300 --> 00:25:23,000 He laboured And he rested. Under the Old Law of Moses were 397 00:25:23,000 --> 00:25:28,900 they do six days, they laboured seventh day, they rested. 398 00:25:30,000 --> 00:25:33,400 But all of these were a shadow or a picture of something that's 399 00:25:33,400 --> 00:25:36,200 greater. What am I talking about? 400 00:25:36,300 --> 00:25:41,600 I'm talking about the Sabbath was a shadow of future rest. 401 00:25:42,900 --> 00:25:44,900 I'm going to tell you if this doesn't encourage you, when we 402 00:25:44,900 --> 00:25:48,400 get through this last point, I don't know what will if this 403 00:25:48,400 --> 00:25:52,500 doesn't encourage you as a child of God, to stay in there and 404 00:25:52,500 --> 00:25:55,300 keep on fighting and keep on living the Christian Life, to 405 00:25:55,300 --> 00:25:57,700 get to the end, I just don't know what else to say. 406 00:25:59,600 --> 00:26:03,100 The Sabbath was a shadow of future rest in Matthew chapter 407 00:26:03,100 --> 00:26:08,900 11, look at this and verse 28. Come to me, all you that labor 408 00:26:08,900 --> 00:26:13,100 and are heavy laden and I will give you rest. 409 00:26:14,500 --> 00:26:18,600 In Hebrews chapter 4, beginning in verse 9. there remains 410 00:26:18,600 --> 00:26:24,000 therefore a rest for the people of God for, he who has entered 411 00:26:24,000 --> 00:26:30,000 his rest has himself also ceased from his works, as God, did from 412 00:26:30,000 --> 00:26:35,600 his First Corinthians 15:58. Therefore my beloved Brethren be 413 00:26:35,600 --> 00:26:39,500 steadfast immovable, always abounding in the work of the 414 00:26:39,500 --> 00:26:45,400 Lord knowing that your labor is not in vain in the Lord. 415 00:26:46,400 --> 00:26:50,300 I don't know why people have a hard time in the world. 416 00:26:50,400 --> 00:26:52,500 I don't understand this. Why? 417 00:26:52,500 --> 00:26:57,900 They have a hard time with the concept of a Christian needing 418 00:26:58,000 --> 00:27:01,400 to work? Everybody understands that 419 00:27:01,400 --> 00:27:04,500 concept. You have a job you get hired by 420 00:27:04,500 --> 00:27:07,900 an employer, you got to work. You're young and you go to 421 00:27:07,900 --> 00:27:08,700 school. What you got to do? 422 00:27:08,700 --> 00:27:11,500 You got to work? If you're involved in an 423 00:27:11,500 --> 00:27:16,200 extracurricular activity, like a sport, you have to work and 424 00:27:16,200 --> 00:27:18,400 everybody understands that concept. 425 00:27:18,400 --> 00:27:22,500 But what people do is in the world, they want to be when it 426 00:27:22,500 --> 00:27:26,100 comes to religion, that's free. No work. 427 00:27:27,400 --> 00:27:31,500 It's never been that way. God worked in genesis created 428 00:27:31,500 --> 00:27:34,100 everything. Then he rested man worked in 429 00:27:34,100 --> 00:27:37,900 Exodus and the seventh day he rested and you know what those 430 00:27:37,900 --> 00:27:40,000 things were, a shadow of something else. 431 00:27:40,300 --> 00:27:44,300 All those things that we noticed were a shadow of something else. 432 00:27:44,500 --> 00:27:47,500 Notice. Jesus says, I will give you rest 433 00:27:47,500 --> 00:27:50,700 Hebrews 4 there. Remains a rest for the people of 434 00:27:50,700 --> 00:27:55,500 God first Corinthians 15:58. He said, be immovable and abound 435 00:27:55,500 --> 00:28:00,900 in the work of the Lord. All right. 436 00:28:03,200 --> 00:28:09,000 Here's this diagram again. Jesus was the transition. 437 00:28:10,000 --> 00:28:13,100 From the old from the old to the new even while living. 438 00:28:14,500 --> 00:28:18,100 The transition was complete when the church was established in, 439 00:28:18,100 --> 00:28:21,500 Jesus had died before that. And all of that transition 440 00:28:21,500 --> 00:28:27,300 complete And if the Sabbath was a shadow of something better. 441 00:28:28,800 --> 00:28:32,400 And the shadow was found under the Old Law, which is this. 442 00:28:34,600 --> 00:28:38,700 Sabbath rest. And if Sabbath, rest along with 443 00:28:38,700 --> 00:28:42,300 everything else, under the old was a picture or a shadow of 444 00:28:42,300 --> 00:28:44,300 something that would be greater and better. 445 00:28:46,100 --> 00:28:49,900 That means that the new is heaven and Heaven, rest, 446 00:28:50,200 --> 00:28:54,700 Heavenly rest is the reality. I got to ask you something, 447 00:28:54,700 --> 00:28:59,100 please, why in the world would you want that? 448 00:29:00,500 --> 00:29:04,600 The Shadow. When you can have heaven. 449 00:29:06,700 --> 00:29:11,100 Why would you want to do that? Why would you want to resurrect 450 00:29:11,100 --> 00:29:15,200 some aspect of the Old Law when all of that was just a picture 451 00:29:15,200 --> 00:29:17,000 or shadow of something that's far greater? 452 00:29:18,800 --> 00:29:24,300 Heaven is real. And the Bible says, therefore, 453 00:29:24,300 --> 00:29:26,800 there is a rest for the people of God. 454 00:29:27,900 --> 00:29:30,600 What do you got to do? First, you got to roll up your 455 00:29:30,600 --> 00:29:35,300 sleeves and go to work. You got to be all you can be for 456 00:29:35,300 --> 00:29:38,100 the cause of Christ. What does that mean? 457 00:29:38,300 --> 00:29:40,700 That means whatever. It is in Your Capacity within 458 00:29:40,700 --> 00:29:42,600 the role that you can have in serve. 459 00:29:42,600 --> 00:29:44,900 You have to give all you can to the cause of Christ. 460 00:29:44,900 --> 00:29:47,600 That's what that means. Got to give your life over to 461 00:29:47,600 --> 00:29:50,400 the Lord got to put him first in your life. 462 00:29:53,300 --> 00:29:57,400 But Heaven is real. Can you imagine being a 463 00:29:57,400 --> 00:30:01,400 Christian going through hard times in life and not having any 464 00:30:01,400 --> 00:30:07,800 hope at all? as I close James Kaufman one 465 00:30:07,800 --> 00:30:13,500 time said he said when I was young when I thought of Heaven. 466 00:30:15,100 --> 00:30:21,800 I thought of some Far Away place. with domes and Spires I 467 00:30:21,800 --> 00:30:24,100 thought about a place where Angels would be there, but 468 00:30:24,100 --> 00:30:27,800 they'd be tripping about. I thought about all of those 469 00:30:27,800 --> 00:30:29,800 things and I thought about it being so far away. 470 00:30:31,100 --> 00:30:35,100 But then he said but my baby brother died and then I started 471 00:30:35,100 --> 00:30:39,100 thinking a little differently. I started thinking about heaven 472 00:30:39,100 --> 00:30:41,400 as a place with a street of gold. 473 00:30:42,700 --> 00:30:47,500 I started thinking about heaven as a place with pearls on Gates. 474 00:30:48,800 --> 00:30:51,300 I thought about a place that wasn't quite so far away, 475 00:30:52,300 --> 00:30:54,800 because I thought of that place of Domes and spires, but I 476 00:30:54,808 --> 00:30:58,600 thought of it this way too. There's one tiny little face 477 00:30:58,700 --> 00:31:03,100 that I knew that will be there and then he says, but the 478 00:31:03,100 --> 00:31:06,400 reaper, the great Reaper continued his work. 479 00:31:07,900 --> 00:31:11,500 And I lost my wife. And I lost my children. 480 00:31:13,000 --> 00:31:15,400 And I lost my friends, one by one. 481 00:31:17,000 --> 00:31:22,900 And as the lone leaf on a tree remains that was me all alone. 482 00:31:24,800 --> 00:31:27,500 So then I think a heaven today I think a bit differently. 483 00:31:29,000 --> 00:31:32,200 Oh, I think of a beautiful place, I think of a beautiful 484 00:31:32,200 --> 00:31:34,700 place, but I see it. So personally, I think about it 485 00:31:34,700 --> 00:31:39,800 as a place of the grandest reunions ever found I think 486 00:31:39,800 --> 00:31:42,500 about a place where we'll be able to be in heaven together 487 00:31:43,200 --> 00:31:46,300 and those separated from loved ones for a Time someday. 488 00:31:46,300 --> 00:31:50,300 We'll be together. he said, simply put when I think of 489 00:31:50,300 --> 00:31:57,200 Heaven now, I think of home. Me ask you something, where you 490 00:31:57,208 --> 00:32:00,900 going? Are you working to get? 491 00:32:02,000 --> 00:32:05,000 Home. Because I'm going to tell you, 492 00:32:05,300 --> 00:32:07,100 there's nothing in this world that matters. 493 00:32:08,300 --> 00:32:12,300 If we miss heaven. And there's nothing so great 494 00:32:12,900 --> 00:32:15,800 that it will ever take the Precedence or the priority of 495 00:32:15,800 --> 00:32:19,800 our labor to get to him. Sometimes it's difficult. 496 00:32:19,900 --> 00:32:21,500 Sometimes it's hard. That's all right. 497 00:32:22,300 --> 00:32:24,100 You stay in there. You stay in the fight. 498 00:32:25,300 --> 00:32:29,700 So we can get home one day and have rest that's been promised 499 00:32:29,700 --> 00:32:32,200 to the people of God. I'm finished this morning. 500 00:32:32,200 --> 00:32:34,000 Thank you so much for your kind listening. 501 00:32:35,400 --> 00:32:38,400 I hope something was said that was edifying and encouraging to 502 00:32:38,400 --> 00:32:40,400 you. 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