VictorySeventh-dayAdventistChurch
January 14, 2006
QUESTIONS AND EXCUSES
SCRIPTURE LUKE 14 : 18
WHEN JESUS WAS HERE ON EARTH MANY, CAME TO HIM ASKING QUESTION. CHRIST SHOWED THE WAY OF SALVATION, TO ALL SINCERE SEEKERS
[2] THROUGH GOD’S WORD, THE BIBLE, WE HAVE BEEN GIVEN THE ANSWERS TO ALL QUESTIONS, VITAL TO OUR SALVATION. [ IN SABBATH WITNESSING
[A] ONE OF THE MOST OFTEN REPEATED QUESTIONS **IS, HAS THE WEEK BEEN CHANGED IN OUR CALENDAR?
[B] THE ANSWER IS NO!” THE HOLY BIBLE, [1] THE MOST UNVARYING CALCULATIONS OF MATHEMATICS, ALL PROVE THAT NO TIME HAS BEEN LOST.
[C] THE SAME CYCLE OF TIME, THE SAME SEVEN-DAY WEEK THAT THE CREATOR
STARTED WITH WE HAVE TODAY
*** IF ANY TIME HAD BEEN LOST, OR THE WEEKLY CYCLE , OF SEVEN DAYS BEEN CHANGED FROM *** EDEN TO THE TIME OF MOSES, THE GIVING OF MANNA IN THE WILDERNESS, WOULD HAVE RE-ESTABLISHED THE SEVEN DAY
CYCLE. WHY DO I SAY THAT? Read later EXO: 16 12 to 27 tells this Record [say twice]
[1] FOR 40 YEARS, OR 2,080 WEEKS, GOD WORKED A NUMBER OF MIRACLES!”
[2] EVERY WEEK THERE BY POINTING OUT THE IDENTICAL SEVENTH DAY 2,080 TIMES.
[3] IN THE WILDERNESS THE MANNA FELL ON EACH OF THE FIRST FIVE DAYS OF THE WEEK, A MIRACLE!” [4] THEN ON THE SIXTH DAY A DOUBLE PORTION FELL. THIS WAS ANOTHER MIRACLE!”
[5] THE UNUSED PORTION KEPT OVER TO THE SEVENTH DAY. IT DID NOT SPOIL.
[6] THE SEVENTH DAY , NO MANNA FELL [ NO GATHERING- { NO} WORK ON SABBATH ]
[C] THUS GOD EMPHASIZED, THE SACREDNESS OF THE SABBATH, AND CLEARLY MARKED THE IDENTICAL SEVENTH DAY EACH WEEK
*** BUT WHAT ABOUT TIME SINCE JESUS ? [1] WHAT ABOUT THE CALENDER HAS NOT IT BEEN CHANGED? IT IS TRUE THE CALENDER WAS CHANGED BUT THIS IS HOW.
[1] THE ORDER OF DAYS HAVE NEVER BEEN INTERRUPTED
[2] WHEN GREGORY X111 (12) REFORMED THE CALENDAR , IN 1582, THURSDAY , OCTOBER 4, WAS FOLLOWED BY FRIDAY , OCTOBER 15th
[3] SO IN ENGLAND, 1752, WEDNESDAY , SEPTEMBER 2nd, WAS FOLLOWED BY THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 14th.
...... PICTURES OF THESE CALENDERS CAN BE FOUND
[4] IN OTHER WORDS IMMEDIATELY FOLLING THURSDAY OCTOBER 4 , WAS FRIDAY THE FIFTEENTH, INSTEAD OF FRIDAY THE FIFTH !”
[5] THE WEEKLY CYCLE WAS NOT AFFECTED THE DAYS, OF THE WEEK FALL EXACTLY AS BEFORE.
[A] PROBABLY THE NEXT QUESTION THAT COMES TO OUR MIND IS.
[1] HOW DID JESUS REGARD THE FIRST DAY OF THE WEEK?”
[2] AFTER THE CROSS, DID JESUS ALWAYS APPEAR ON THE FIRST DAY? HE ROSE ON IT
[3] THE ANSWER TO THIS QUESTION IS ALSO, NO: THE SCRIPTURE RECORD DOES NOT SUPPORT SUCH A VIEW. [2] THE ASCENSION TOOK PLACE FORTY DAYS AFTER THE RESURRECTION
[3] THE NEW TESTAMENT RECORDS BUT, THREE MEETINGS OF ANY KIND ON THE FIRST DAY OF THE WEEK DURING THESE FORTY DAYS
*** FIRST LETS TURN TO JOHN 20 : 19
[19] THEN THE SAME DAY AT EVENING BEING THE FIRST DAY OF THE WEEK, WHEN THE DOORS WERE SHUT WHERE THE DISCIPLES WERE ASSEMBLED FOR FEAR OF THE JEWS, CAME JESUS AND STOOD IN THE MIDST, AND SAITH UNTO THEM, PEACE BE UNTO YOU.
*** NOTICE THAT THE DISCIPLES WERE GATHERED NOT TO WORSHIP, BUT FOR FEAR OF THE JEWS
[2] UNTIL THE MASTER PROVED THAT HE WAS CHRIST , THEY DID NOT BELIEVE HE HAD BEEN RESURRECTED!”
[3] NO MENTION IS MADE HERE OF THIS BEING A DAY OF WORSHIP!”
*** THE NEXT APPEARANCE WAS EIGHT DAYS LATER TURN TO JOHN 20: 26
[26] AND AFTER EIGHT DAYS AGAIN HIS DISCIPLES WERE WITHIN, AND THOMAS WITH THEM: THEN CAME JESUS, THE DOORS BEING SHUT, AND STOOD IN THE MIDST, AND SAID, PEACE BE UNTO YOU.
*** THE THIRD MEETING, HIS DISCIPLES WERE FISHING IN GALILEE.
[A] THE BIBLE SAYS . IN JOHN 21 : I LET TURN THERE
[4]
JOHN 21 : 1
[1] AFTER THESE THINGS JESUS SHEWED HIMSELF AGAIN TO THE DISCIPLES AT THE SEA OF TIBERISS; AND ON THIS WISE SHEWED HE HIMSELF
*** THERE IS NO INDICATION THAT THIS WAS ON THE FIRST DAY OF THE WEEK
[2] NOTE, AT THIS TIME THE DISCIPLES WERE FISHING !”
[3] THERE IS NO BIBLE PROOF THAT CHRIST, REGULARLY MET WITH HIS DISCIPLES ON THE FIRST DAY OF THE WEEK.!”
*** HAVE YOU HEARD, YOU HAVE YOUR DAY AND I HAVE MIND?”
[1] MAY EACH MAN SELECT HIS OWN DAY?
*** YES HE MAY, BUT IS IT OK?
*** TURN IF YOU WILL TO EXODUS 20 : 11
[11] FOR IN SIX DAYS THE LORD MADE HEAVEN AND EARTH, THE SEA, AND ALL THAT IN THEM IS, AND RESTED THE SEVENTH DAY WHEREFORE THE LORD BLESSED THE SABBATH DAY AND HALLOWED IT.
Loud [1] THE FACT THAT MUHAMMADANS CONSIDER FRIDAY HOLY, DOES NOT MAKE IT A HOLY DAY!”
[2] NOR, THAT THE PAGANS CONSIDER SUNDAY A HOLY DAY, IT DOES NOT MAKE IT HOLY !”
[3] NO MAN CAN MAKE A DAY HOLY!”
[4] ONLY GOD CAN SANCTIFY, OR MAKE A DAY SACRED AND HOLY!” A HOLIDAY YES, NOT A HOLYDAY
[5] THE SEVENTH DAY SABBATH IS THE ONLY DAY GOD BLESSED AND HOLLOWED.
*** DID YOU KNOW, THE SEVENTH DAY WAS SET ASIDE FOR ALL ETERNTIY?
[5]
[1] THIS IS CLEARLY SEEN WHEN WE READ , THAT THE REDEEMED OF ALL AGES WILL MEET AROUND THE THRONE OF GOD, EVERY SEVEN DAYS, LET US READ ISAIAH 66: 22- 23
[22] FOR AS THE NEW HEAVENS AND THE NEW EARTH, WHICH I WILL MAKE, SHALL REMAIN BEFORE ME, SAITH THE LORD, SO SHALL YOUR SEED AND YOUR NAME REMAIN.
[23] AND IT SHALL COME TO PASS, THAT FROM ONE NEW MOON TO ANOTHER AND FROM ONE SABBATH TO ANOTHER SHALL ALL FLESH COME TO WORSHIP BEFORE ME, SAITH THE LORD
*** NOW FOR OUR NEXT QUESTION
[A] DOES PAUL SAY THE SABBATH WAS NAILED TO THE CROSS?
[1] THOSE WHO HAVE THOUGHT THAT PAUL TAUGHT THIS DOCTRINE CITE THIS STATEMENT FROM HIS LETTER OF THE COLOSSIANS:
** LETS LOOK AT COLOSSIANS 2 14- 17
[14] BLOTTING OUT THE HANDWRITING OF ORDINANCES THAT WAS AGAINST US, WHICH WAS CONTRARY TO US, AND TOOK IT OUT OF THE WAY NAILING IT TO HIS CROSS;
[15] AND HAVING SPOILED PRINCIPALITIES AND POWERS, HE MADE A SHEW OF THEM OPENLY, TRIUMPHING OVER THEM IN IT
[16] LET NO MAN THEREFORE JUDGE YOU IN MEAT, OR IN DRINK, OR IN RESPECT OF AN HOLYDAY, OR OF THE NEW MOON, OR OF THE SABBATH DAYS
[17] WHICH ARE A SHADOW OF THINGS TO COME; BUT THE BODY IS OF CHRIST.
[6]
*** A CAREFUL READING OF THESE VERSES
[1] REVEALS THAT PAUL WAS REFERRING TO THE CEREMONIAL SABBATHS OR REST DAYS OF THE CEREMONIAL LAW, SOMETIMES REFERRED TO AS THE [1] HANDWRITING OF ORDIANANCES!”
[2] THIS LAW OF ORDINANCE, WITH ITS CEREMONIAL FEAST DAYS, THEY HAD SABBATH DAYS
[3] ALL POINTED TO JESUS WHO WOULD DIE ON CALVARY FOR THE SINS OF THE WORLD!”
[3] WHEN HE DIED ON CALVARY. THAT SYSTEM AND, THOSE FEAST DAYS, NATURALLY CAME TO AN END!”
**** THESE DAY WE SEEM, TO HEAR A LOT ABOUT THE LORDS DAY
*** IS NOT SUNDAY THE LORD’S DAY?”
[1] THE TEXT THAT IS OFTEN USED BY THOSE WHO WOULD HAVE US BELIEVE THAT SUNDAY IS THE LORDS DAY IS FOUND IN REV 1 : 10
[10] I WAS IN THE SPIRIT ON THE LORD’S DAY, AND HEARD BEHIND ME A GREAT VOICE, AS OF A TRUMPET
**** EVERY SINCERE CHRISTIAN WANTS TO KNOW WHAT IS THE LORDS DAY.
[A] HERE ARE THREE SCRIPTURE TO GIVE THE ANSWERS
[1] EXODUS 20:10 BUT THE SEVENTH DAY IS THE SABBATH OF THE LORD THY GOD.
[1] IF THE CREATOR IS YOUR LORD HIS DAY IS THE SEVENTH DAY OF THE WEEK
[2] MARK 2 : 28 [28] THEREFORE THE SON OF MAN IS LORD ALSO OF THE SABBATH.
[3] HE IS LORD OF THAT DAY
THIRD IS ISAIAH 58 : 13 LETS TURN THERE
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ISAIAH 58 : 13
[13] IF THOU TURN AWAY THY FOOT FROM THE SABBATH, FROM DOING THY PLEASURE ON MY HOLY DAY; AND CALL THE SABBATH A DELIGHT, THE HOLY OF THE LORD HONORABLE; AND SHALT HONOR HIM, NOT DOING THINE OWN WAYS .NOR FINDING THINE OWN PLEASURE, NOR SPEAKING THINE OWN WORDS; Pause
*** CALL THE SABBATH A DELIGHT, DO WE DO THAT?” Enerate VERSE 14
[14] THEN SHALT THOU DELIGHT THYSELF IN THE LORD; AND I WILL CAUSE THEE TO RIDE UPON THE HIGH PLACES OF THE EARTH, AND FEED THEE WITH THE HERITAGE OF JACOB THY FATHER FOR THE MOUTH OF THE LORD HATH SPOKEN IT.,
*** WHAT A PROMISE!” Enerate
**** EXCUSES ARE SOMETIMES OFFERED
[1] IN THE DAYS OF JESUS, HE FOUND PEOPLE. QUICK TO MAKE UP EXCUSES
[2] EXCUSES TO SIDESTEP, GOD’S PLAIN COMMANDS AND, TO REJECT HEAVEN’S INVITATION.
**** IN THE PARABLE OF THE GREAT SUPPER, THE MASTER INVITED GUESTS
[2] BUT THEY ALL BEGAN TO MAKE EXCUSES, PLEASE READ LATER LUKE 14 16 to 24
[3] WE FIND MANY PROFESSING CHRISTIANS TODAY, JUST AS ANXIOUS TO DO THE SAME.
[A] LETS GO OVER SOME OF THE MOST COMMON EXCUSES AND ANSWER THEM WITH THE BIBLE.
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[1] EXCUSE, - I DON’T BELIEVE IN THAT OLD JEWISH SABBATH
*** LETS READ MARK 2 : 27
[27] AND HE SAID UNTO THEM. THE SABBATH WAS MADE FOR MAN, AND NOT MAN
FOR THE SABBATH,
*** LETS READ EXODUS 20: 10 AND JUST THE FIRST SENTENCE
[10] BUT THE SEVENTH DAY IS THE SABBATH OF THE LORD THY GOD
[A] THE BIBLE SAYS ITS THE SABBATH OF THE LORD THY GOD!”
[B] THE BIBLE SAYS THE SABBATH WAS MADE FOR MAN!”
[C] THE BIBLE NEVER CALLED THE SABBATH JEWISH!”
*** ANOTHER EXCUSE ***
[1] I AM AFRAID OF NEW DOCTRINES
[2] THE SABBATH DATES FROM CREATION.
[A] FOR OUR PROOF , WE FINE RECORD OF CREATION GENESIS GENESES 2- 1 to-3
[1] THUS THE HEAVENS AND THE EARTH WERE FINISHED, AND ALL THE HOST OF THEM.
[2] AND ON THE SEVENTH DAY GOD ENDED HIS WORK WHICH HE HAD MADE; AND HE RESTED ON THE SEVENTH DAY FROM ALL HIS WORK WHICH HE HAD MADE.
[3] AND GOD BLESSED THE SEVENTH DAY, AND SANCTIFIED IT; BECAUSE THAT IN IT HE HAD RESTED FROM ALL HIS WORK WHICH GOD CREATED AND MADE.
[A] EXCUSE !” MY MOTHER KEPT SUNDAY LETS LOOK AT JOHN 9 : 41
[41] JESUS SAID UNTO THEM, IF YE WERE BLIND, YE SHOULD HAVE NO SIN; BUT NOW YE SAY, WE SEE; THEREFORE YOUR SIN REMAINETH.
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[1] GOD WILL HOLD HER ACCOUNTABLE ONLY, FOR THE LIGHT SHE HAD,
[2] OBEDIENCE IS MORE IMPORTANT THAN EARTHLY RELATIVES!”
[3] BUT JESUS SAYS TO US. WALK IN THE LIGHT *** LETS READ JOHN 12 35
[35] YET A LITTLE WHILE IS THE LIGHT WITH YOU , WALK WHILE YE HAVE LIGHT, LEST DARKNESS COME UPON YOU; FOR HE THAT WALKETH IN DARKNESS KNOWETH NOT WHITHER HE GOETH
**** THE NEXT VERSE JESUS TELLS US
[36] WHILE YE HAVE LIGHT, BELIEVE IN THE LIGHT, THAT YE MAY BE THE CHILDREN OF LIGHT
[B] THERE WILL ONLY CHILDREN OF LIGHT SAVED FROM PLANET EARTH!”
***** EXCUSE!” ALMOST EVERYONE KEEPS SUNDAY
*** CHRIST SAYS IN MATTHEW 7 13 : 14 Lets turn
[13] ENTER YE IN THE STRAIT GATE; FOR WIDE IS THE GATE; AND BROAD IS THE WAY, THAT LEADETH TO DESTRUCTION, AND MANY THERE BE WHICH GO THEREAT; **
[14] BECAUSE STRAIT IS THE GATE, AND NARROW IS THE WAY, WHICH LEADETH UNTO LIFE, AND FEW THERE BE THAT FINE IT.
[B] THAT’S, *** BAD NEWS FOR MOST PEOPLE..
( JESUS SAYS FEW!” ) THINK ON THAT
*** EXCUSE!” IT IS INCONVENIENT TO KEEP SATURDAY AS SABBATH. [2] I HAVE SO MUCH TO TAKE CARE OF. Lets read MATTHEW 16: 24
[24] THEN SAID JESUS UNTO HIS DISCIPLES; IF ANY MAN WILL COME AFTER ME LET HIM DENY HIMSELF, AND TAKE UP HIS CROSS, AND FOLLOW ME;
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[A] JESUS SAY TAKE UP YOUR CROSS, AND, DENY YOURSELF!” [B] *** ANT, THAT, WHAT, HE DID OUT ON CALVARY FOR US!” [C] IF THE EXCUSE IS, IT INTERFERES WITH MY JOB AND FAMILY SUPPORT [D] JESUS ANSWER IS FOUND IN MARK 8 36 LETS TURN THERE MARK 8:36
[36] FOR WHAT SHALL IT PROFIT A MAN, IF HE SHALL GAIN THE WHOLE WORLD, AND LOSE HIS OWN SOUL?
[C] JESUS SAYS IN MATTHEW 6: 33 YOU CAN TURN THERE
[33] BUT SEEK YE FIRST THE KINGDOM OF GOD, AND HIS RIGHTEOUSNESS; AND ALL THESE THINGS SHALL BE ADDED UNTO YOU.
[1] SEEK FIRST THE KINGDOM OF GOD. NOTHING ELSE REALLY MATTERS [2] NOT JOB, FRIENDS, NOT FAMILY [3] BUT, IF YOU WOULD LIVE, IN THIS EVIL WORLD, AS GOD TELL YOU. TO
[4] IT WILL BRING TROUBLE AND DIVISION
[5] IT WILL BRING REPROACH AND SCORN.
**IN MATTHEW 10, 34 to 36, WE ARE TOLD A MANS; FOES MAY BE THOSE OF HIS OWN HOUSEHOLD MATTHEW 10 34 TO 38
[34] THINK NOT THAT I AM COME TO SEND PEACE ON EARTH; I CAME NOT TO SEND PEACE; BUT A SWORD. [35] FOR I AM COME TO SET A MAN AT VARIANCE AGAINST HIS FATHER, AND THE DAUGHTER AGAINST HER MOTHER, AND THE DAUGHTER IN LAW AGAINST HER MOTHER IN LAW [36] AND A MAN’S FOES SHALL BE THEY OF HIS OWN HOUSEHOLD.
ENEATE
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******* IN CLOSING
[1] TIME IS SHORT, AND THERE IS ONE EXCUSE WE ALL MAY BE TEMPTED TO USE SOON WHEN
[1] OUR COUNTRY HAS PASSED THE SUNDAY LAW!”
[2] DO WE, DO AS THOSE BEFORE US WHO TRIED KEEP BOTH DAYS , ONE OPENLY THE OTHER SECRETLY!”
[2] DO WE, DO AS THOSE BEFORE US WHO KEPT SUNDAY BUT SAY, GOD KNOWS MY HEART!” YES HE KNOWS THE HEART OF MEN
[2[ LETS READ WHAT HE SAYS ABOUT THE HEART OF MEN
MATTHEW 15: 19
[19] FOR OUT OF THE HEART PROCEED EVIL THOUGHTS, MURDERS, ADULTERIES, FORNICATIONS, THEFTS, FALSE WITNESS, BLASPHEMIES;
[3] EXCUSES!” DO WE eee GIVE HIM EXCUSES?”
[4] I THINK NOT!”
[5] LET US MAKE SURE, THAT OUR LOVE FOR GOD, SHALL LEAD US TO GIVE UP ALL TO FOLLOW CHRIST.!”
[6] ONLY THEN!” WILL WE HEAR THE INVITATION FROM THE LIPS OF OUR SAVIOR, COME , YE BLESSED OF MY FATHER, INHERIT THE KINGDOM PREPARED FOR YOU!”.
**** IF IT IS YOUR INTENTION TO HEAR THAT , WOULD YOU PLEASE STAND
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HYMN 672 : SPIRIT OF THE LIVING GOD
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