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 Please take out your copy of God's Word, which I hope you have with you.

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 It's well read and treasured in your heart this morning.

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 And turn with me to Exodus chapter 20.

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 Our primary text for today, although I'll go to a number of other texts,

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 is Exodus chapter 20, verses 8 through 11.

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 Before we read it together and get into a discussion of it,

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 I want to remind you where we've been.

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 Or inform you if you're a guest, you're with us today.

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 A careful study of the Sermon on the Mount brought us to Matthew chapter 5, verses 17 through 20,

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 where Matthew records Jesus saying,

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 Do not think that I have come to abolish the law or the prophets.

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 I have not come to abolish them, but to fulfill them.

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 For truly I say to you, until heaven and earth pass away,

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 not an iota, not a dot will pass from the law until all is accomplished.

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 Therefore, whoever relaxes one of the least of these commandments and teaches others to do the same

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 will be called least in the kingdom of heaven.

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 Whoever does them and teaches them will be called great in the kingdom of heaven.

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 For I tell you,

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 unless your righteousness exceeds that of the scribes and Pharisees,

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 you will never enter the kingdom of heaven.

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 And this text has caused us to ask the question,

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 what is the relationship between the Old Testament law and the gospel of Jesus Christ?

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 We have answered that question with two answers.

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 First, the Old Testament law is meant to bring us to Jesus Christ.

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 It fixes for us the holy standard that God requires

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 and exposes our failure to keep such a law.

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 It creates for us a problem that we might find the solution to said problem

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 in the person and work of our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ.

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 So that's one way that the law serves.

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 Secondly, having been set free from the burden of it,

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 the Old Testament law continues to serve as a guide for how our lives might please God.

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 So having been accepted by God in the perfect righteousness of Jesus,

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 we are gratefully obedient.

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 To the commands of God.

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 Now we have distinguished between some categories of Old Testament laws.

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 We have divided them into three parts.

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 And this is a common division found.

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 Those laws that are considered civil,

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 that were meant to govern Israel as a theocracy.

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 And so when Israel ceased to exist as a theocracy,

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 those laws no longer reign.

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 Ceremonial.

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 Ceremonial.

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 Ceremonial.

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 These are laws that are meant to foreshadow something greater that's found in Christ.

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 The sacrificial system, as an example.

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 The Day of Atonement.

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 And those sacrifices that were made on that day

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 find their fulfillment in Jesus Christ as the perfect sacrifice for all time.

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 And finally, those laws that are moral.

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 And that is these commandments that we are to keep perpetually.

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 The moral law finds its briefest summary in Matthew chapter 22,

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 verses 37 through 40,

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 where Jesus says,

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 You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart,

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 and with all your soul,

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 and with all your mind.

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 This is the great and first commandment.

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 And a second is like it.

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 You shall love your neighbor as yourself.

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 On these two commandments depend all the law and the prophets.

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 And Jesus here is citing from Deuteronomy 6.5 and Leviticus 19.18.

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 The moral law finds its more expanded summary in the Ten Commandments,

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 which is why we have found ourselves here in Exodus chapter 20,

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 considering these commands given to Moses on Mount Sinai,

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 written in stone, which is significant.

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 And we began considering them in detail last week.

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 And I'll insert at this point an apology for the fire hose of information

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 I gave you all last week.

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 But my hope was to get you to see the expanse of the commands that are given to us

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 that we might pick up the Bible and read and understand

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 and desire obedience to a most holy God.

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 The first four commandments outline what loving the Lord your God with all your heart,

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 with all your soul, and with all your mind looks like.

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 And the last six commandments outline what you shall love your neighbor as yourself looks like.

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 Now, I have informed you that there are many views on the relationship

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 between the Old Testament law and the gospel of Jesus Christ.

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 I purchased a book this week that I had to discipline myself not to open

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 because it was five competing views.

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 And one of those books well put together where someone writes

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 and somebody writes in response to their writing.

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 And I just went, nope, nope, nope.

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 I can't blow my brain open again on this matter.

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 You may remember the giant stack of books that I brought up on stage to make the point

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 that it's a big point of contention and a challenging one.

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 Some will say that the Old Testament law has no place in the life of the Christian

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 and will look instead to the commands of the New Testament.

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 This is not at all troubling

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 as nine of the commandments found in Exodus 20 are restated at some point

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 and in varying ways in the teaching of the New Testament.

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 It's not troubling until we consider the fourth commandment,

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 which we will do today and I believe also next Sunday.

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 Yeah, we're going to get into it next Sunday as well.

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 I won't cover all my notes today because of time.

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 Having stated that I believe that,

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 having been set free from the burden of the Old Testament law,

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 it continues to serve as a guide for how our lives might please God,

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 I believe that we are to keep it,

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 which includes the fourth commandment.

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 We don't merely dismiss one out of the ten and go,

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 well, these nine we'll keep active,

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 but this one we won't.

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 But what we must answer is,

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 how are we to keep the fourth commandment?

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 What does it look like for us to keep the fourth commandment?

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 So before we do that,

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 I want you to be reminded that the law was not given,

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 its intention was not to be a burden to God's people,

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 but it was intended to be loving instruction.

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 Listen to a sampling from Psalm 119

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 concerning the goodness of God's law.

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 The psalmist writes in verse 1,

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 Blessed are those whose way is blameless,

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 who walk in the law of the Lord.

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 Verse 14,

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 In the way of your testimonies,

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 I delight as much as in all riches.

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 Verse 35,

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 Lead me in the path of your commandments,

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 for I delight in it.

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 Verse 52,

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 When I think of your rules from of old,

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 I take comfort,

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 O Lord.

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 Verse 103,

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 How sweet are your words to my taste,

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 sweeter than honey to my mouth.

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 Verse 167,

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 My soul keeps your testimonies.

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 I love them exceedingly.

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 The psalmist tells us that God's law brings blessing,

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 is a delight,

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 is a comfort to the afflicted,

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 is tasty,

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 and that it is lovely.

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 This is the attitude that we should come to the fourth commandment with.

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 As we approach it to try to understand it,

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 we should understand,

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 the filter we place up is,

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 God loves us,

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 and cares for us,

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 and wants good for us.

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 We should not see it as burdensome,

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 but rather as aimed at our good,

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 and more importantly,

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 at His glory.

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 So,

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 Exodus chapter 20,

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 verse 8 through 11,

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 Beloved,

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 this is God's word to us.

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 It was written for His glory and our good.

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 We would all do well to listen to it,

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 in order to believe its promises,

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 and obey its commands.

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 Remember the Sabbath day,

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 to keep it holy.

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 Six days you shall labor and do all your work,

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 but the seventh day is a Sabbath to the Lord your God.

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 On it you shall not do any work,

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 you or your son or your daughter,

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 your male servant or your female servant,

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 or your livestock,

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 or the sojourner who was within your gates.

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 For in six days the Lord made heaven and earth,

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 the sea and all that is in them,

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 and rested on the seventh day.

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 Therefore the Lord blessed the Sabbath day,

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 and made it holy.

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 Now I just want to make a little bit of a note,

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 before moving on.

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 Of these commands etched in stone,

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 God spends more time,

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 more space,

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 stone space,

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 on this command,

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 than any other.

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 Isn't that just interesting?

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 Right?

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 It's the transition command,

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 from those devotions to God,

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 service to God,

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 and to those commands,

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 that are devotion and service to others.

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 That's all.

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 It's just a thought.

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 Now,

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 if you were to ask me,

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 Nathan,

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 are we meant to keep the fourth commandment?

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 I would say,

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 yes.

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 But if you ask me,

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 Nathan,

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 are we meant to keep the Sabbath?

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 I would say,

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 well,

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 we are meant to keep the fourth commandment.

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 And then I would proceed to answer a number of questions,

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 for our mutual benefit.

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 Question number one.

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 What does it mean to keep the fourth commandment?

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 What does it mean to keep the fourth commandment?

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 Now,

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 we have previously distinguished between some categories of Old Testament law,

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 civil,

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 ceremonial,

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 and moral.

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 I ran back through those for you just a moment ago.

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 The fourth commandment,

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 interestingly,

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 has elements of all three.

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 And this is important in our understanding of the commandment.

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 First,

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 it had some civil elements to it.

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 Israel as a nation state,

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 collectively rested on the Sabbath day,

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 on Saturday in their time.

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 Altogether,

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 stopped.

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 It was meant to be kept by all of them,

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 and therefore breaking it was punishable.

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 In fact,

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 it was a capital crime.

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 If you read in Nehemiah,

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 Nehemiah is furious with God's people when they break the Sabbath,

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 when people are so eager to get in and to trade,

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 to gain more for themselves.

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 He's absolutely furious with them that they would do such a thing.

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 So it has a civil element to it,

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 which is no longer the case in our day,

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 although we could all wish that it was,

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 that no one had to work when we gather as a church.

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 It also has a ceremonial element to it.

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 The Sabbath was meant to foreshadow the rest that is found in Christ.

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 The rest that those of us who are in Christ have and will have for eternity.

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 And it also has a moral element.

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 The Sabbath commandment comes smack in the middle of the Ten Commandments,

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 as I mentioned,

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 the other nine of which are plainly moral laws.

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 Old Testament prophets consistently emphasize matters of the heart,

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 moral laws,

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 above the ceremonial laws.

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 For example,

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 in Hosea chapter 6 and verse 6,

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 God says to the prophet Isaiah,

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 for I desire steadfast love and not sacrifice the knowledge of God rather than burnt offerings.

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 The prophets treated the Sabbath as if it was a matter of the heart,

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 commending the keeping of it again and again.

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 For example,

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 in Isaiah chapter 56 and verse 2,

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 blessed is the man who does this,

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 keeps the Sabbath,

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 and the son of man who holds it fast,

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 who keeps the Sabbath,

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 not profaning it,

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 and keeps his hand from doing any evil.

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 So the Sabbath commandment is a sort of ceremonial moral law.

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 If you can combine those two things together.

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 The fulfillment of the ceremonial portion,

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 having been fulfilled in Christ,

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 should find us expecting some change to the commandment.

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 An example of this would be circumcision to baptism.

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 The moral component should find us expecting to keep it.

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 I noted earlier that nine of the commandments found in Exodus 20

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 are restated at some point in the teaching of the New Testament.

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 The single exception being the fourth commandment.

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 Some argue that because the fourth commandment is not explicitly mentioned,

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 then it no longer has to be obeyed.

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 But it is also never explicitly abolished.

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 Why then would we assume that it is not to be obeyed?

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 This kind of logic will lead us to all sorts of errors.

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 So let me take you to a place in the New Testament

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 where the Sabbath is spoken of,

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 and it is spoken of much in the New Testament.

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 This will be one example.

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 Matthew chapter 12.

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 So please turn with me to Matthew chapter 12.

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 Matthew chapter 12.

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 Matthew chapter 12.

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 Matthew chapter 12.

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 Matthew chapter 12.

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 Matthew chapter 12.

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 Matthew chapter 12.

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 Matthew chapter 12.

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 Here Matthew records for us two circumstances that happened on the Sabbath.

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 So this has been on Saturday.

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 And the Pharisees' problem with what happened.

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 And then Jesus' response to it.

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 Luke records this for us as well.

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 In Luke's account, these two things happened on separate Sabbath days.

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 But he puts them together.

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 And I think Luke does so to really clearly make the point.

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 What is Jesus trying to teach us about the Sabbath?

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 About a day set aside in this way.

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 So beginning in verse 1.

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 At that time, Jesus went through the grain fields on the Sabbath.

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 His disciples were hungry.

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 And they began to pluck heads of grain and to eat.

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 But when the Pharisees saw it, they said to him,

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 Look, your disciples are doing what is not lawful to do on the Sabbath.

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 He said to them,

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 Have you not read what David did when he was hungry and those who were with him?

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 How he entered the house of God and ate the bread of the presence,

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 which it was not lawful for him to eat, nor for those who were with him, but only for the priests?

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 Or have you not read in the law how on the Sabbath the priests in the temple profane the Sabbath and are guiltless?

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 I tell you, something greater than the temple is here.

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 And if you had known what this means, I desire mercy and not sacrifice,

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 you would not have condemned the guiltless.

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 For the Son of Man is the Lord of the Sabbath.

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 He went on from there and entered their synagogue.

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 And a man was there with a withered hand.

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 And they asked him, Is it lawful to heal on the Sabbath so that they might accuse him?

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 He said to them, Which one of you who has a sheep, if it falls into a pit on the Sabbath,

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 will not take hold of it and lift it out?

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 Of how much more value is a man than a sheep?

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 So it is lawful to do good on the Sabbath.

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 Then he said to the man, Stretch out your hand.

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 And the man stretched it out and it was restored healthy like the other.

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 But the Pharisees went out and conspired against him how to destroy him.

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 So let me note a couple of things for you from this text.

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 First, Jesus does not abolish the Sabbath.

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 He does not say to the Pharisees, Oh, the Sabbath is no longer a thing.

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 He just simply says, I'm the Lord of the Sabbath.

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 I'm going to define what was always meant by the keeping of such a day.

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 Secondly, Jesus allows for work of necessity.

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 Now note that he does not refute that what the disciples were doing was not against the law.

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 What they were doing was working.

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 They were gleaning wheat and eating it.

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 And he goes on to use an example that's a clear infraction of the law where David and his men, having returned from battle, were hungry.

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 And they went and ate sacred bread.

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 They were not meant to eat.

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 And what is the point that Jesus makes here?

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 That this profaning of the Sabbath is okay in times of necessity.

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 That it's not okay for these disciples and David and his men to go hungry.

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 This is not the point of the keeping of this day.

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 That it's okay.

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 He actually calls the priestly duties a profaning of the Sabbath.

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 But they had work to do on this day in keeping the temple.

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 So he says and allows for work of necessity.

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 Now, would it have been better that David and his men and the disciples had packed bread along with them and had something to eat?

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 Surely it would have been.

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 But it was okay.

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 When they were hungry, they ate.

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 And we can give lots of application for this.

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 And I'll do so in brief this week and get into it more in particulars into next week.

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 We want to give allowance for people that we want working on the Lord's Day.

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 Military.

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 Police.

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 Are we glad that we can call 911 this morning?

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 I am.

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 Firemen.

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 I'm glad that we just don't have to let buildings burn to the ground on Sundays.

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 ER doctors and nurses.

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 Thankful that we can go from this place to a hospital and receive care.

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 Maybe in some cases of absolute necessity that the only job you can find is going to require of you to work on a Sunday.

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 But there is some space made here for necessity.

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 The third thing I want to note is that Jesus desires mercy.

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 Now the Pharisees failed to understand that the Sabbath was for mercy.

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 It was meant to be an expression of mercy to them.

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 And they were meant to be merciful to others.

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 The Pharisees had built up so many extra laws.

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 Things that they added on top of in order to define what it meant to rest.

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 They were just too uncertain about the fourth commandment.

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 And so they had to create a bunch of particular things and pressed upon everybody to obey them.

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 Laid up burdens on people in that way.

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 Some Pharisees held that.

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 You'll get a kick out of this.

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 I don't know if this happened often in their day.

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 But if a wall fell on top of someone on the Sabbath, only enough rubble could be removed to find out how badly the person was injured.

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 So you can lift those stones to just say, are you all right?

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 If he was not injured too badly, then he must be left until the Sabbath ended when the rescue could be completed.

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 They allowed for acts of mercy in absolute dire circumstance.

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 Like the person will die today if they don't receive care.

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 But otherwise, they had to wait.

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 Which is why it's significant that Jesus goes and heals a man with a hand that's withered.

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 And I take that to mean that he had broken it.

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 Maybe the bones were crushed.

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 He couldn't use his hand.

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 Which is not a necessary part of our body.

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 A very helpful part of our body.

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 But not a necessary part of our body.

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 And Jesus displays mercy.

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 So Jesus does not abolish the Sabbath.

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 Jesus allows for work of necessity.

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 And Jesus desires mercy.

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 So Jesus clarifies here.

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 And this is recorded by Matthew and by Luke to help us to understand the Sabbath itself.

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 Now the change that we do find to the Sabbath in the New Testament is the moving of the day of rest.

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 From Saturday as a time of rest and a remembering of their deliverance from Egypt.

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 To Sunday where early Christians set themselves apart from Judaism.

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 And met on this first day of the week in celebration of the resurrection of Jesus Christ.

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 Which occurred on a Sunday.

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 We can see this in Acts chapter 20 verse 7.

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 On the first day of the week when we were gathered together to break bread.

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 Paul talked with them and instructs them until midnight.

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 This day came to be known as the Lord's day.

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 We see that in Revelation chapter 1 verse 10.

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 John speaks of the vision that he has.

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 And he says,

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 I was in the spirit on the Lord's day.

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 There is evidence that this was the prominent practice of the early church.

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 Ignatius, who was a first century bishop, wrote,

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 Christians no longer observing the Sabbath, but fashioning their lives after the Lord's day.

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 On which our life also arose in him that we may be found disciples of Jesus Christ.

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 And Tertullian, who was a second century theologian,

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 wrote that for Christians, Sunday is a day of joy.

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 And that pagans would not celebrate anything on Sunday for fear

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 they might be mistaken for Christians.

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 So the church had clearly, not in entirety,

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 there was a lot of working out happening of this Sabbath, Saturday, Sunday relationship.

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 But certainly into the first and certainly in second century,

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 there was a transition that was happening.

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 And the early church was meeting in this way.

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 And so let me read to you from the London Baptist Confession of 1689.

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 I did not put this on the back of your bulletin.

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 You are welcome.

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 Briefly, as it is the law of nature,

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 that in general a proportion of time by God's appointment be set apart for the worship of God,

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 so by his word, in a positive moral and perpetual commandment,

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 binding all men in all ages,

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 he hath particularly appointed one day in seven for a Sabbath to be kept holy unto him,

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 which from the beginning of the world to the resurrection of Christ was the last day of the week.

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 And from the resurrection of Christ was changed into the first day of the week,

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 which is called the Lord's Day,

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 and is to be continued to the end of the world as the Christian Sabbath,

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 the observation of the last day of the week being abolished.

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 So I really want you to get on board with this.

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 And I don't want you to get on board with this because I need you here on Sundays.

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 I certainly don't want you to get on board with this because God can't do without your voice in the choir of the congregation.

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 But I want you to get on board with this because God intends it for your good.

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 And if you're a follower of Jesus Christ, he intends it for his glory.

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 He intends to set his people apart in very particular ways.

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 We are strange people for gathering together in this room,

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 doing the things we're doing on such a beautiful day.

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 If this doesn't have weight and meaning because we worship this risen Christ,

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 we should go hiking.

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 It is gorgeous outside today.

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 And we live in or close to Dahlonega.

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 So if you're feeling some defiance at this point,

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 maybe you've studied this matter for yourself.

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 There's some texts that are coming to mind.

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 You're going, wait, wait, Nathan.

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 Hang on.

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 I want to look at some of those difficult texts.

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 I really want to lay the issue to rest,

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 although I'm assuming it won't be laid to rest this morning.

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 We'll have many conversations following this about it.

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 But let's look together at some of those difficult texts.

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 Some of those go-to texts that people go to to say,

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 wait a minute, we don't have to keep the fourth commandment.

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 Many of these seem on their outset to run in contradiction to what I'm about to say.

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 First, let's look at the Pauline texts.

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 The first one, Romans chapter 14.

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 So turn there with me.

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 Romans chapter 14.

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 This may have come to your mind.

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 Verse 5.

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 Verse 5.

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 One person esteems one day as better than another,

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 while another esteems all days alike.

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 Each one should be fully convinced in his own mind.

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 And so, here in this context,

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 Paul is talking about not passing judgment on the weaker brother.

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 And many will run to this and say,

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 look, see, if someone thinks, right,

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 here I am representing the weaker brother this morning to you, right,

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 I think we ought to gather on a day,

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 and we ought to set it apart for rest and joy in the Lord.

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 Just let him think that.

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 And it's okay that you don't have such a narrow view.

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 This is what people will do with this text.

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 But the greater context of this passage concerns food.

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 Look at verses 3 and 4.

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 But not the one who eats despise the one who abstains.

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 But not the one who abstains pass judgment on the one who eats,

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 for God has welcomed him.

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 Who are you to pass judgment on the servant of another?

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 It is before his own master that he stands or falls,

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 and he will be upheld,

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 for the Lord is able to make him stand.

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 And then we see verse 5, right?

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 Now look at verse 6.

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 It is most likely that Paul is not addressing two separate matters here.

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 He is not addressing the matter of food and then the matter of a particular day of worship,

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 but rather he is addressing fasting.

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 And those who believe that there was a particular day on which they should fast.

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 I think that is a fairly plain reading of the text.

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 Now, if you can't get there with me,

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 if this text gives us any space for our understanding of the fourth commandment,

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 it would only be in the day selected.

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 And I'm okay with that.

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 Exodus chapter 20 verse 9 says,

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 Six days you shall labor and do all your work,

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 but the seventh day is a Sabbath to the Lord your God.

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 It doesn't define necessarily that it has to be Saturday.

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 In fact, some assume that the word Sabbath means Saturday,

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 and it doesn't.

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 It actually means week.

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 It's a very basic Hebrew word.

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 But no one would contend that we ought not gather as the church.

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 And if they do,

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 they could be corrected from Hebrews chapter 10, verse 24 and 25.

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 And let us consider how to stir up one another to love and good works,

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 not neglecting to meet together,

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 as is the habit of some,

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 but encourage one another,

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 and all the more as you see the day drawing near.

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 So you see, taking a day of rest and a day to gather with the church

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 is not meant to be done at your convenience.

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 It's meant to be even labored for,

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 set aside,

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 especially for the worship of God.

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 So you don't wake up in the morning and come if you feel like it.

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 I would never come.

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 You come because it's a good command for you to come.

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 Let's look at another text.

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 Galatians chapter 4,

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 verses 8 through 11.

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 And I'll have you know that as I've had conversations about the Sabbath

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 after the last couple of weeks,

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 every one of these has been brought up as a,

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 but what about,

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 hey, but what about Galatians 4?

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 So,

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 so here,

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 here are the answers to those questions.

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 And they're fair questions.

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 They're very fair questions.

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 If you want to come down to my study,

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 I'll show you the board that I actually printed all these texts

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 and put them on

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 to just like stand and look at them all.

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 Formally,

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 when you do not know God,

00:31:33.599 --> 00:31:35.459
 Paul writes to the Galatians,

00:31:36.459 --> 00:31:39.439
 you were enslaved to those that by nature are not gods.

00:31:40.039 --> 00:31:41.740
 But now that you have come to know God,

00:31:41.799 --> 00:31:43.480
 or rather to be known by God,

00:31:44.019 --> 00:31:45.539
 how can you turn back again

00:31:45.539 --> 00:31:49.579
 to the weak and worthless elementary principles of the world

00:31:49.579 --> 00:31:52.980
 whose slaves you want to be once more?

00:31:53.759 --> 00:31:58.119
 You observe days and months and seasons and years.

00:31:58.639 --> 00:32:02.339
 I am afraid I may have labored over you in vain.

00:32:02.879 --> 00:32:03.000
 Right?

00:32:03.000 --> 00:32:04.279
 So some will say,

00:32:04.460 --> 00:32:04.700
 wait,

00:32:04.920 --> 00:32:06.900
 he's talking about the observation of days.

00:32:07.019 --> 00:32:07.819
 And I agree,

00:32:08.000 --> 00:32:08.920
 he is.

00:32:09.099 --> 00:32:10.400
 He most certainly is.

00:32:10.559 --> 00:32:11.740
 And he very likely

00:32:11.740 --> 00:32:13.500
 is referring to

00:32:13.500 --> 00:32:14.660
 the Sabbath.

00:32:15.099 --> 00:32:16.539
 But what is the larger context

00:32:16.539 --> 00:32:18.420
 of Paul's letter to the church of Galatia?

00:32:19.059 --> 00:32:20.859
 They were being overrun

00:32:20.859 --> 00:32:22.519
 by what are known as the Judaizers.

00:32:22.980 --> 00:32:24.779
 Those who claim to be followers of Christ,

00:32:24.880 --> 00:32:26.819
 but said to Gentile believers,

00:32:26.819 --> 00:32:31.279
 you must come underneath the law of God.

00:32:31.279 --> 00:32:34.240
 You must be a keeper of the law of God

00:32:34.240 --> 00:32:36.319
 to be accepted by God.

00:32:36.419 --> 00:32:38.899
 They flipped the gospel upside down.

00:32:39.539 --> 00:32:39.619
 Right?

00:32:39.619 --> 00:32:41.099
 So that's not what I'm saying.

00:32:41.099 --> 00:32:41.379
 Right?

00:32:41.759 --> 00:32:43.119
 We're accepted by God,

00:32:43.199 --> 00:32:44.339
 by faith in Jesus Christ.

00:32:44.579 --> 00:32:45.779
 He is our righteousness,

00:32:45.779 --> 00:32:47.979
 and therefore we want to obey him.

00:32:48.279 --> 00:32:49.839
 They were flipping the whole thing around.

00:32:50.179 --> 00:32:50.479
 They're saying,

00:32:50.559 --> 00:32:50.639
 no,

00:32:50.679 --> 00:32:50.779
 no,

00:32:50.819 --> 00:32:51.000
 no.

00:32:51.279 --> 00:32:53.359
 You must be circumcised.

00:32:53.359 --> 00:32:55.879
 This was the major issue of the day.

00:32:56.159 --> 00:32:56.279
 Right?

00:32:56.359 --> 00:32:57.240
 You Gentile believers

00:32:57.240 --> 00:32:58.859
 must be circumcised

00:32:58.859 --> 00:33:01.159
 in order to be found in Christ.

00:33:01.859 --> 00:33:03.779
 This is what Paul is speaking against,

00:33:03.939 --> 00:33:05.899
 and he's giving further example of that

00:33:05.899 --> 00:33:07.379
 in talking about this observation

00:33:07.379 --> 00:33:09.579
 of days and months and seasons and years.

00:33:09.579 --> 00:33:11.319
 Not for obedience,

00:33:11.719 --> 00:33:13.019
 but for salvation.

00:33:13.439 --> 00:33:14.479
 You're keeping these things.

00:33:14.679 --> 00:33:14.779
 Right?

00:33:15.000 --> 00:33:17.119
 May it never be.

00:33:18.199 --> 00:33:19.639
 There's Galatians chapter 4.

00:33:20.959 --> 00:33:21.659
 One more.

00:33:21.819 --> 00:33:22.839
 Colossians chapter 2.

00:33:23.359 --> 00:33:24.959
 One more from Paul, anyway.

00:33:40.839 --> 00:33:41.740
 Colossians chapter 2,

00:33:41.819 --> 00:33:42.919
 verse 16 and 17.

00:33:43.679 --> 00:33:44.240
 Paul writes,

00:33:44.339 --> 00:33:44.519
 Therefore,

00:33:44.719 --> 00:33:46.279
 let no one pass judgment on you

00:33:46.279 --> 00:33:47.879
 in questions of food and drink

00:33:47.879 --> 00:33:50.199
 or with regard to a festival

00:33:50.199 --> 00:33:52.479
 or a new moon or a Sabbath.

00:33:52.480 --> 00:33:54.240
 Your translation might say Sabbaths.

00:33:54.299 --> 00:33:56.400
 There were multiple keepings of these.

00:33:57.539 --> 00:33:59.440
 These are a shadow of the things to come,

00:33:59.799 --> 00:34:02.500
 but the substance belongs to Christ.

00:34:02.920 --> 00:34:03.059
 Okay?

00:34:03.160 --> 00:34:03.880
 So many will take this,

00:34:03.940 --> 00:34:04.660
 and I can understand it,

00:34:04.680 --> 00:34:05.420
 but many will take this and say,

00:34:05.519 --> 00:34:05.720
 See,

00:34:06.500 --> 00:34:07.920
 no one can pass judgment over me.

00:34:08.039 --> 00:34:09.880
 No one can expect that I would keep a day

00:34:09.880 --> 00:34:11.699
 set apart for the Lord.

00:34:11.760 --> 00:34:12.440
 But once again,

00:34:13.240 --> 00:34:15.219
 Paul is battling a particular heresy

00:34:15.219 --> 00:34:16.579
 of the day.

00:34:16.579 --> 00:34:18.360
 And we don't know exactly what it was.

00:34:18.360 --> 00:34:20.519
 Some letters we know,

00:34:20.639 --> 00:34:21.099
 Ephesians,

00:34:21.239 --> 00:34:21.739
 Galatians.

00:34:22.299 --> 00:34:23.059
 In this case,

00:34:23.099 --> 00:34:24.860
 it seems to be some kind of

00:34:24.860 --> 00:34:27.159
 Jewish asceticism.

00:34:28.559 --> 00:34:29.920
 If you read on down

00:34:29.920 --> 00:34:31.059
 in Colossians chapter 2,

00:34:31.099 --> 00:34:32.440
 verse 20 and verse 21,

00:34:33.460 --> 00:34:33.940
 Paul says,

00:34:34.119 --> 00:34:35.420
 If with Christ you died

00:34:35.420 --> 00:34:37.299
 to the elemental spirits of the world,

00:34:37.480 --> 00:34:37.840
 why,

00:34:37.980 --> 00:34:39.599
 as if you were still alive in the world,

00:34:40.159 --> 00:34:41.799
 do you submit to regulations?

00:34:41.800 --> 00:34:44.060
 These are the things being applied to them

00:34:44.060 --> 00:34:46.300
 by these Jewish ascetics.

00:34:47.080 --> 00:34:48.120
 Do not handle,

00:34:48.620 --> 00:34:49.640
 do not taste,

00:34:50.220 --> 00:34:52.140
 do not touch.

00:34:52.740 --> 00:34:53.580
 So if you read carefully

00:34:53.580 --> 00:34:55.140
 through Colossians chapter 2,

00:34:56.060 --> 00:34:57.340
 you'll see that Paul is addressing

00:34:57.340 --> 00:35:01.160
 this very particular type of heresy

00:35:01.160 --> 00:35:03.740
 that was being applied as well

00:35:03.740 --> 00:35:05.460
 to these festivals,

00:35:05.800 --> 00:35:06.320
 new moon,

00:35:07.380 --> 00:35:08.080
 Sabbaths.

00:35:08.140 --> 00:35:08.820
 Once again,

00:35:09.260 --> 00:35:10.960
 it's not explicitly say

00:35:10.960 --> 00:35:12.559
 that we're no longer

00:35:12.559 --> 00:35:13.780
 meant to keep

00:35:13.780 --> 00:35:15.699
 the fourth commandment.

00:35:16.659 --> 00:35:17.599
 And then finally,

00:35:17.760 --> 00:35:18.840
 turn to Hebrews chapter 4.

00:35:32.480 --> 00:35:34.800
 The logic of the author of Hebrews

00:35:34.800 --> 00:35:36.559
 really, really begins

00:35:36.559 --> 00:35:38.340
 at the end of chapter 3.

00:35:39.380 --> 00:35:40.059
 I could argue

00:35:40.059 --> 00:35:41.320
 at the beginning of chapter 1,

00:35:41.420 --> 00:35:42.920
 but for the sake of time,

00:35:42.960 --> 00:35:44.340
 I'm just going to read verses 9 and 10.

00:35:45.440 --> 00:35:46.159
 So Hebrews chapter 4,

00:35:46.199 --> 00:35:47.000
 verses 9 and 10,

00:35:47.119 --> 00:35:47.900
 I invite you to look

00:35:47.900 --> 00:35:48.820
 at the larger context.

00:35:50.860 --> 00:35:51.480
 Verse 9,

00:35:51.579 --> 00:35:52.139
 So then,

00:35:52.799 --> 00:35:54.380
 there remains a Sabbath rest

00:35:54.380 --> 00:35:55.259
 for the people of God.

00:35:55.840 --> 00:35:57.279
 For whoever has entered

00:35:57.279 --> 00:35:58.320
 God's rest

00:35:58.320 --> 00:35:59.799
 has also rested

00:35:59.799 --> 00:36:00.940
 from his works

00:36:00.940 --> 00:36:02.599
 as God did

00:36:02.599 --> 00:36:03.960
 from his.

00:36:05.079 --> 00:36:05.920
 And this text

00:36:05.920 --> 00:36:07.659
 does not abolish

00:36:07.659 --> 00:36:08.599
 the Sabbath.

00:36:08.599 --> 00:36:10.319
 The writer of Hebrews

00:36:10.319 --> 00:36:11.159
 is writing

00:36:11.159 --> 00:36:12.779
 to a predominantly

00:36:12.779 --> 00:36:13.619
 Jewish audience

00:36:13.619 --> 00:36:14.159
 to be sure

00:36:14.159 --> 00:36:14.880
 that they enter

00:36:14.880 --> 00:36:15.500
 the rest

00:36:15.500 --> 00:36:16.900
 that could be theirs

00:36:16.900 --> 00:36:19.199
 in Jesus Christ.

00:36:19.559 --> 00:36:20.400
 And he uses,

00:36:20.659 --> 00:36:21.599
 he quotes from Psalm

00:36:21.599 --> 00:36:22.159
 and he uses

00:36:22.159 --> 00:36:23.719
 the Old Testament

00:36:23.719 --> 00:36:24.319
 example

00:36:24.319 --> 00:36:25.519
 of the generation

00:36:25.519 --> 00:36:26.539
 that came out of Exodus

00:36:26.539 --> 00:36:27.139
 with Moses

00:36:27.139 --> 00:36:28.639
 and didn't get to go

00:36:28.639 --> 00:36:29.739
 into the promised land.

00:36:29.880 --> 00:36:30.900
 They had to stay

00:36:30.900 --> 00:36:31.980
 in the wilderness

00:36:31.980 --> 00:36:35.139
 as a warning to them.

00:36:35.279 --> 00:36:36.019
 Don't be like

00:36:36.019 --> 00:36:37.019
 that generation.

00:36:37.019 --> 00:36:38.980
 Be like the generation

00:36:38.980 --> 00:36:40.059
 that was faithful

00:36:40.059 --> 00:36:40.920
 and believed

00:36:40.920 --> 00:36:41.880
 and entered

00:36:41.880 --> 00:36:43.880
 into the rest.

00:36:45.079 --> 00:36:46.380
 He is exhorting them

00:36:46.380 --> 00:36:47.519
 to stop keeping

00:36:47.519 --> 00:36:48.219
 the law

00:36:48.219 --> 00:36:49.300
 to be accepted

00:36:49.300 --> 00:36:49.840
 by God

00:36:49.840 --> 00:36:50.679
 but to be accepted

00:36:50.679 --> 00:36:51.239
 by God

00:36:51.239 --> 00:36:51.800
 in the person

00:36:51.800 --> 00:36:52.199
 and work

00:36:52.199 --> 00:36:53.860
 of Jesus Christ.

00:36:54.539 --> 00:36:55.900
 He is employing

00:36:55.900 --> 00:36:57.719
 the ceremonial aspect

00:36:57.719 --> 00:36:58.920
 of the fourth commandment

00:36:58.920 --> 00:37:00.199
 as was intended

00:37:00.199 --> 00:37:01.619
 to point them

00:37:01.619 --> 00:37:02.920
 to Jesus.

00:37:02.920 --> 00:37:05.599
 which brings me

00:37:05.599 --> 00:37:06.320
 to the next question

00:37:06.320 --> 00:37:07.059
 I would answer

00:37:07.059 --> 00:37:08.000
 if you asked me.

00:37:09.019 --> 00:37:09.400
 Nathan,

00:37:09.619 --> 00:37:10.240
 are we meant

00:37:10.240 --> 00:37:10.920
 to keep the Sabbath?

00:37:11.960 --> 00:37:12.900
 I would say,

00:37:13.159 --> 00:37:13.539
 well,

00:37:14.500 --> 00:37:14.820
 we are meant

00:37:14.820 --> 00:37:15.019
 to keep

00:37:15.019 --> 00:37:15.840
 the fourth commandment

00:37:15.840 --> 00:37:17.440
 and then I would

00:37:17.440 --> 00:37:19.000
 also ask

00:37:19.000 --> 00:37:19.380
 and answer

00:37:19.380 --> 00:37:20.119
 this question.

00:37:20.800 --> 00:37:22.099
 Why should we keep

00:37:22.099 --> 00:37:23.780
 the fourth commandment?

00:37:24.880 --> 00:37:26.000
 The fourth commandment

00:37:26.000 --> 00:37:26.500
 begins

00:37:26.500 --> 00:37:27.539
 with the word

00:37:27.539 --> 00:37:28.860
 remember.

00:37:28.860 --> 00:37:30.700
 And the Westminster

00:37:30.700 --> 00:37:31.800
 Larger Catechism

00:37:31.800 --> 00:37:33.500
 in question 121

00:37:33.500 --> 00:37:34.099
 says,

00:37:34.380 --> 00:37:35.240
 why is the word

00:37:35.240 --> 00:37:35.860
 remember

00:37:35.860 --> 00:37:37.579
 set in the beginning

00:37:37.579 --> 00:37:39.840
 of the fourth commandment?

00:37:40.000 --> 00:37:40.579
 And I'll give you

00:37:40.579 --> 00:37:41.099
 their answer

00:37:41.099 --> 00:37:41.880
 in brief.

00:37:42.200 --> 00:37:42.780
 Number one,

00:37:43.240 --> 00:37:43.599
 partly

00:37:43.599 --> 00:37:45.440
 because of the

00:37:45.440 --> 00:37:46.579
 great benefit

00:37:46.579 --> 00:37:47.960
 of remembering it

00:37:47.960 --> 00:37:49.720
 and secondly,

00:37:50.380 --> 00:37:51.260
 partly

00:37:51.260 --> 00:37:52.539
 because we are

00:37:52.539 --> 00:37:53.820
 very ready

00:37:53.820 --> 00:37:54.940
 to forget it.

00:37:55.940 --> 00:37:57.059
 We are such

00:37:57.059 --> 00:37:58.559
 slow learners.

00:37:58.860 --> 00:38:00.320
 And we are so

00:38:00.320 --> 00:38:01.160
 quick

00:38:01.160 --> 00:38:02.300
 to forget.

00:38:03.260 --> 00:38:04.280
 We are to remember

00:38:04.280 --> 00:38:05.440
 to keep

00:38:05.440 --> 00:38:06.480
 the fourth commandment

00:38:06.480 --> 00:38:08.140
 in order to

00:38:08.140 --> 00:38:09.240
 remember.

00:38:10.360 --> 00:38:11.420
 This is a day

00:38:11.420 --> 00:38:12.220
 set apart

00:38:12.220 --> 00:38:13.019
 for the worship

00:38:13.019 --> 00:38:14.120
 of God.

00:38:14.800 --> 00:38:15.440
 To be gathered

00:38:15.440 --> 00:38:16.380
 together with the church

00:38:16.380 --> 00:38:17.880
 to learn

00:38:17.880 --> 00:38:19.180
 and to be reminded

00:38:19.180 --> 00:38:21.220
 that we have

00:38:21.220 --> 00:38:22.000
 rest

00:38:22.000 --> 00:38:23.480
 in Christ.

00:38:25.000 --> 00:38:26.059
 The wicked

00:38:26.059 --> 00:38:28.019
 cannot rest.

00:38:28.019 --> 00:38:29.679
 Isaiah 5720

00:38:29.679 --> 00:38:30.139
 says,

00:38:30.599 --> 00:38:31.179
 but the wicked

00:38:31.179 --> 00:38:32.219
 are like

00:38:32.219 --> 00:38:33.320
 the tossing

00:38:33.320 --> 00:38:34.199
 sea,

00:38:34.400 --> 00:38:35.579
 for it cannot

00:38:35.579 --> 00:38:36.619
 be quiet

00:38:36.619 --> 00:38:37.599
 and its waters

00:38:37.599 --> 00:38:38.639
 toss up

00:38:38.639 --> 00:38:39.259
 mire

00:38:39.259 --> 00:38:40.559
 and dirt.

00:38:41.119 --> 00:38:41.960
 But beloved,

00:38:42.139 --> 00:38:43.059
 this is not

00:38:43.059 --> 00:38:43.900
 us.

00:38:45.059 --> 00:38:45.440
 We do not

00:38:45.440 --> 00:38:45.920
 have to

00:38:45.920 --> 00:38:46.480
 frantically

00:38:46.480 --> 00:38:47.719
 work

00:38:47.719 --> 00:38:49.480
 to be valued

00:38:49.480 --> 00:38:50.480
 in this world.

00:38:50.699 --> 00:38:51.639
 If we are in

00:38:51.639 --> 00:38:52.259
 Christ,

00:38:52.480 --> 00:38:53.219
 we are

00:38:53.219 --> 00:38:54.139
 gods.

00:38:54.139 --> 00:38:56.259
 Jesus says

00:38:56.259 --> 00:38:56.619
 in Matthew

00:38:56.619 --> 00:38:57.179
 chapter 11,

00:38:57.259 --> 00:38:57.799
 verse 28,

00:38:57.940 --> 00:38:58.819
 come to me

00:38:58.819 --> 00:39:00.039
 all who labor

00:39:00.039 --> 00:39:00.719
 and are heavy

00:39:00.719 --> 00:39:01.159
 laden

00:39:01.159 --> 00:39:01.859
 and I

00:39:01.859 --> 00:39:02.799
 will give

00:39:02.799 --> 00:39:03.239
 you

00:39:03.239 --> 00:39:04.779
 rest.

00:39:05.819 --> 00:39:06.859
 God knows

00:39:06.859 --> 00:39:07.359
 how very

00:39:07.359 --> 00:39:07.900
 fragile

00:39:07.900 --> 00:39:08.739
 we are.

00:39:09.099 --> 00:39:09.819
 And God

00:39:09.819 --> 00:39:10.539
 knows

00:39:10.539 --> 00:39:11.519
 how much

00:39:11.519 --> 00:39:12.319
 we need

00:39:12.319 --> 00:39:13.679
 to stop

00:39:13.679 --> 00:39:14.379
 and to

00:39:14.379 --> 00:39:15.179
 remember

00:39:15.179 --> 00:39:17.079
 I am

00:39:17.079 --> 00:39:17.460
 righteous

00:39:17.460 --> 00:39:19.000
 in Christ

00:39:19.000 --> 00:39:20.039
 because of

00:39:20.039 --> 00:39:20.519
 God's

00:39:20.519 --> 00:39:20.879
 loving

00:39:20.879 --> 00:39:21.480
 kindness

00:39:21.480 --> 00:39:22.739
 to me.

00:39:23.219 --> 00:39:23.579
 I need

00:39:23.579 --> 00:39:24.099
 to remember

00:39:24.099 --> 00:39:24.579
 that for

00:39:24.579 --> 00:39:25.099
 all of my

00:39:25.099 --> 00:39:25.460
 failures

00:39:25.460 --> 00:39:25.960
 of last

00:39:25.960 --> 00:39:26.299
 week

00:39:26.299 --> 00:39:27.259
 and I

00:39:27.259 --> 00:39:27.519
 need to

00:39:27.519 --> 00:39:27.799
 remember

00:39:27.799 --> 00:39:28.239
 that for

00:39:28.239 --> 00:39:28.799
 all my

00:39:28.799 --> 00:39:29.399
 hopes

00:39:29.399 --> 00:39:30.940
 of next

00:39:30.940 --> 00:39:31.339
 week.

00:39:32.559 --> 00:39:33.199
 And we

00:39:33.199 --> 00:39:33.460
 see the

00:39:33.460 --> 00:39:34.139
 example of

00:39:34.139 --> 00:39:34.779
 this given

00:39:34.779 --> 00:39:35.339
 to us

00:39:35.339 --> 00:39:36.139
 by God

00:39:36.139 --> 00:39:36.859
 himself.

00:39:37.679 --> 00:39:38.119
 In Exodus

00:39:38.119 --> 00:39:38.699
 chapter 20,

00:39:38.759 --> 00:39:39.539
 verse 11,

00:39:39.539 --> 00:39:41.159
 for in

00:39:41.159 --> 00:39:41.840
 six days

00:39:41.840 --> 00:39:42.400
 the Lord

00:39:42.400 --> 00:39:43.219
 made heaven

00:39:43.219 --> 00:39:43.739
 and earth

00:39:43.739 --> 00:39:44.259
 the sea

00:39:44.259 --> 00:39:44.759
 and all

00:39:44.759 --> 00:39:45.079
 that is

00:39:45.079 --> 00:39:45.440
 in them

00:39:45.440 --> 00:39:46.380
 and rested

00:39:46.380 --> 00:39:47.719
 on the

00:39:47.719 --> 00:39:48.480
 seventh day.

00:39:49.119 --> 00:39:49.279
 Therefore,

00:39:49.440 --> 00:39:49.759
 the Lord

00:39:49.759 --> 00:39:50.599
 blessed the

00:39:50.599 --> 00:39:51.259
 Sabbath day

00:39:51.259 --> 00:39:52.199
 and he

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 made it

00:39:52.719 --> 00:39:53.559
 holy.

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 And we

00:39:54.159 --> 00:39:54.480
 read about

00:39:54.480 --> 00:39:54.840
 this in

00:39:54.840 --> 00:39:55.139
 the beginning

00:39:55.139 --> 00:39:55.619
 of Genesis

00:39:55.619 --> 00:39:56.639
 chapter 2

00:39:56.639 --> 00:39:58.300
 verses 1

00:39:58.300 --> 00:39:59.679
 through 3.

00:40:00.340 --> 00:40:00.619
 We see

00:40:00.619 --> 00:40:00.860
 that he

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 rested

00:40:01.480 --> 00:40:02.840
 from all

00:40:02.840 --> 00:40:03.340
 the work

00:40:03.340 --> 00:40:03.779
 he had

00:40:03.779 --> 00:40:04.179
 done at

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 the end

00:40:04.400 --> 00:40:05.139
 of verse

00:40:05.139 --> 00:40:05.440
 2.

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 So God

00:40:06.440 --> 00:40:06.880
 blessed

00:40:06.880 --> 00:40:07.259
 the seventh

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 day and

00:40:07.779 --> 00:40:08.300
 made it

00:40:08.300 --> 00:40:09.039
 holy because

00:40:09.039 --> 00:40:09.579
 on it

00:40:09.579 --> 00:40:09.940
 God

00:40:09.940 --> 00:40:10.279
 rested

00:40:10.279 --> 00:40:10.980
 from all

00:40:10.980 --> 00:40:11.599
 his work

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 that he

00:40:12.259 --> 00:40:12.860
 had done

00:40:12.860 --> 00:40:14.519
 in creation.

00:40:15.639 --> 00:40:16.659
 Now remember

00:40:16.659 --> 00:40:17.139
 in the

00:40:17.139 --> 00:40:17.460
 Genesis

00:40:17.460 --> 00:40:18.079
 account

00:40:18.079 --> 00:40:18.440
 what's

00:40:18.440 --> 00:40:18.860
 happening

00:40:18.860 --> 00:40:19.360
 in

00:40:19.360 --> 00:40:20.820
 chapter 1.

00:40:21.539 --> 00:40:22.159
 The God

00:40:22.159 --> 00:40:22.779
 with powerful

00:40:22.779 --> 00:40:23.420
 words is

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 speaking and

00:40:24.259 --> 00:40:24.739
 on a day

00:40:24.739 --> 00:40:25.460
 he makes

00:40:25.460 --> 00:40:26.159
 and then

00:40:26.159 --> 00:40:26.539
 on another

00:40:26.539 --> 00:40:27.420
 day he

00:40:27.420 --> 00:40:27.820
 makes

00:40:27.820 --> 00:40:28.119
 and then

00:40:28.119 --> 00:40:28.480
 on another

00:40:28.480 --> 00:40:29.500
 day he

00:40:29.500 --> 00:40:29.820
 makes.

00:40:29.900 --> 00:40:30.239
 For six

00:40:30.239 --> 00:40:30.659
 days we

00:40:30.659 --> 00:40:31.179
 see this

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 and we

00:40:31.539 --> 00:40:31.980
 see this

00:40:31.980 --> 00:40:32.559
 repetition

00:40:32.559 --> 00:40:33.279
 of a

00:40:33.279 --> 00:40:33.759
 phrase

00:40:33.759 --> 00:40:34.639
 throughout

00:40:34.639 --> 00:40:35.000
 Genesis

00:40:35.000 --> 00:40:35.759
 chapter 1

00:40:35.759 --> 00:40:36.119
 in verse

00:40:36.119 --> 00:40:36.699
 4 and

00:40:36.699 --> 00:40:37.340
 verse 10

00:40:37.340 --> 00:40:38.099
 verse 12

00:40:38.099 --> 00:40:39.279
 verse 18

00:40:39.279 --> 00:40:40.440
 verse 21

00:40:40.440 --> 00:40:41.179
 and verse

00:40:41.179 --> 00:40:42.159
 25

00:40:42.159 --> 00:40:43.179
 and that

00:40:43.179 --> 00:40:43.860
 phrase is

00:40:43.860 --> 00:40:44.619
 and God

00:40:44.619 --> 00:40:45.759
 saw that

00:40:45.759 --> 00:40:46.960
 it was

00:40:46.960 --> 00:40:47.799
 good.

00:40:48.139 --> 00:40:49.279
 God saw

00:40:49.279 --> 00:40:49.960
 that it

00:40:49.960 --> 00:40:51.179
 was good.

00:40:51.639 --> 00:40:52.319
 So did

00:40:52.319 --> 00:40:53.219
 God need

00:40:53.219 --> 00:40:53.679
 rest?

00:40:53.759 --> 00:40:54.279
 Of course

00:40:54.279 --> 00:40:54.699
 not.

00:40:55.119 --> 00:40:55.219
 Right?

00:40:55.719 --> 00:40:56.539
 God is

00:40:56.539 --> 00:40:57.659
 a say.

00:40:58.079 --> 00:40:58.480
 He has

00:40:58.480 --> 00:40:59.500
 limitless

00:40:59.500 --> 00:41:00.679
 power.

00:41:00.679 --> 00:41:02.460
 God

00:41:02.460 --> 00:41:02.579
 but he

00:41:02.579 --> 00:41:03.239
 saw that

00:41:03.239 --> 00:41:03.440
 it was

00:41:03.440 --> 00:41:03.980
 good

00:41:03.980 --> 00:41:04.259
 and

00:41:04.259 --> 00:41:04.859
 therefore

00:41:04.859 --> 00:41:05.599
 set

00:41:05.599 --> 00:41:05.879
 as an

00:41:05.879 --> 00:41:06.259
 example

00:41:06.259 --> 00:41:06.579
 for

00:41:06.579 --> 00:41:07.159
 us

00:41:07.159 --> 00:41:07.919
 to

00:41:07.919 --> 00:41:08.579
 rest

00:41:08.579 --> 00:41:09.480
 in

00:41:09.480 --> 00:41:10.659
 goodness.

00:41:12.079 --> 00:41:12.339
 What

00:41:12.339 --> 00:41:12.579
 happens

00:41:12.579 --> 00:41:12.839
 in Genesis

00:41:12.839 --> 00:41:13.399
 chapter 3?

00:41:13.539 --> 00:41:14.039
 Things are

00:41:14.039 --> 00:41:14.599
 not so

00:41:14.599 --> 00:41:15.019
 good

00:41:15.019 --> 00:41:16.039
 anymore.

00:41:16.980 --> 00:41:17.159
 Mankind

00:41:17.159 --> 00:41:17.599
 rebels

00:41:17.599 --> 00:41:17.980
 against

00:41:17.980 --> 00:41:18.559
 God.

00:41:19.679 --> 00:41:19.960
 And Jesus

00:41:19.960 --> 00:41:20.299
 says in

00:41:20.299 --> 00:41:20.519
 John

00:41:20.519 --> 00:41:21.139
 chapter 5

00:41:21.139 --> 00:41:21.779
 verse 17

00:41:21.779 --> 00:41:22.599
 my father

00:41:22.599 --> 00:41:23.379
 is working

00:41:23.379 --> 00:41:24.339
 until now

00:41:24.339 --> 00:41:25.279
 and I

00:41:25.279 --> 00:41:26.000
 am

00:41:26.000 --> 00:41:27.339
 working.

00:41:27.340 --> 00:41:29.019
 So it

00:41:29.019 --> 00:41:29.500
 would seem

00:41:29.500 --> 00:41:31.320
 that on

00:41:31.320 --> 00:41:31.640
 the seventh

00:41:31.640 --> 00:41:32.180
 day God

00:41:32.180 --> 00:41:33.340
 rested and

00:41:33.340 --> 00:41:33.840
 then he

00:41:33.840 --> 00:41:34.300
 got back

00:41:34.300 --> 00:41:34.880
 to work.

00:41:36.140 --> 00:41:36.740
 Remaking

00:41:36.740 --> 00:41:37.360
 things

00:41:37.360 --> 00:41:38.260
 good.

00:41:39.380 --> 00:41:40.039
 God has

00:41:40.039 --> 00:41:40.720
 worked and

00:41:40.720 --> 00:41:41.280
 is now

00:41:41.280 --> 00:41:42.320
 working so

00:41:42.320 --> 00:41:43.220
 that we

00:41:43.220 --> 00:41:44.800
 can rest.

00:41:47.200 --> 00:41:47.740
 Martin

00:41:47.740 --> 00:41:48.320
 Luther said

00:41:48.320 --> 00:41:49.579
 and I will

00:41:49.579 --> 00:41:49.940
 add at this

00:41:49.940 --> 00:41:50.360
 point that I

00:41:50.360 --> 00:41:51.039
 don't completely

00:41:51.039 --> 00:41:51.400
 agree with

00:41:51.400 --> 00:41:51.780
 Martin Luther

00:41:51.780 --> 00:41:52.200
 in his view

00:41:52.200 --> 00:41:52.980
 of the law

00:41:52.980 --> 00:41:53.519
 but I really

00:41:53.519 --> 00:41:53.960
 like what he

00:41:53.960 --> 00:41:54.260
 said about

00:41:54.260 --> 00:41:54.880
 this commandment.

00:41:55.160 --> 00:41:55.480
 This is on

00:41:55.480 --> 00:41:55.900
 your bulletin

00:41:55.900 --> 00:41:56.400
 if you care

00:41:56.400 --> 00:41:56.780
 to look at

00:41:56.780 --> 00:41:56.960
 it.

00:41:57.340 --> 00:41:57.579
 He said

00:41:57.579 --> 00:41:58.100
 the spiritual

00:41:58.100 --> 00:41:59.500
 rest which

00:41:59.500 --> 00:42:00.539
 God particularly

00:42:00.539 --> 00:42:01.260
 intends in

00:42:01.260 --> 00:42:01.920
 this commandment

00:42:01.920 --> 00:42:02.640
 is this

00:42:02.640 --> 00:42:03.579
 that we

00:42:03.579 --> 00:42:03.960
 not only

00:42:03.960 --> 00:42:04.539
 cease from

00:42:04.539 --> 00:42:05.079
 our labor

00:42:05.079 --> 00:42:05.820
 and trade

00:42:05.820 --> 00:42:06.620
 but much

00:42:06.620 --> 00:42:07.019
 more

00:42:07.019 --> 00:42:08.039
 that we

00:42:08.039 --> 00:42:08.680
 let God

00:42:08.680 --> 00:42:09.360
 alone work

00:42:09.360 --> 00:42:09.900
 in us

00:42:09.900 --> 00:42:10.280
 and that we

00:42:10.280 --> 00:42:10.860
 do nothing

00:42:10.860 --> 00:42:11.660
 of our own

00:42:11.660 --> 00:42:12.340
 with all

00:42:12.340 --> 00:42:13.740
 our powers.

00:42:15.180 --> 00:42:15.460
 And John

00:42:15.460 --> 00:42:15.920
 Calvin is

00:42:15.920 --> 00:42:16.980
 helpful to

00:42:16.980 --> 00:42:17.420
 us here

00:42:17.420 --> 00:42:18.160
 in answering

00:42:18.160 --> 00:42:18.760
 the question

00:42:18.760 --> 00:42:19.500
 why do we

00:42:19.500 --> 00:42:20.640
 keep the

00:42:20.640 --> 00:42:20.940
 fourth

00:42:20.940 --> 00:42:21.519
 commandment.

00:42:21.620 --> 00:42:22.400
 He has

00:42:22.400 --> 00:42:22.840
 said that we

00:42:22.840 --> 00:42:23.320
 observe the

00:42:23.320 --> 00:42:23.800
 Lord's day

00:42:23.800 --> 00:42:24.940
 for three

00:42:24.940 --> 00:42:25.340
 reasons.

00:42:26.480 --> 00:42:26.940
 Number one

00:42:26.940 --> 00:42:29.240
 to depict

00:42:29.240 --> 00:42:30.579
 spiritual

00:42:30.579 --> 00:42:31.340
 rest.

00:42:31.860 --> 00:42:32.820
 We have

00:42:32.820 --> 00:42:33.280
 spiritual

00:42:33.280 --> 00:42:34.400
 rest and

00:42:34.400 --> 00:42:34.740
 so in

00:42:34.740 --> 00:42:35.480
 setting a

00:42:35.480 --> 00:42:36.019
 day a

00:42:36.019 --> 00:42:36.220
 week

00:42:36.220 --> 00:42:36.740
 aside

00:42:36.740 --> 00:42:37.179
 we're

00:42:37.179 --> 00:42:37.780
 depicting

00:42:37.780 --> 00:42:39.099
 that rest.

00:42:39.480 --> 00:42:40.179
 We are

00:42:40.179 --> 00:42:40.880
 saying as a

00:42:40.880 --> 00:42:41.500
 people we

00:42:41.500 --> 00:42:42.220
 do not have

00:42:42.220 --> 00:42:42.559
 to labor

00:42:42.559 --> 00:42:43.539
 seven days

00:42:43.539 --> 00:42:44.400
 a week

00:42:44.400 --> 00:42:45.400
 because God

00:42:45.400 --> 00:42:45.679
 is our

00:42:45.679 --> 00:42:46.900
 God and

00:42:46.900 --> 00:42:47.139
 he has

00:42:47.139 --> 00:42:47.720
 finished a

00:42:47.720 --> 00:42:48.760
 work on

00:42:48.760 --> 00:42:49.440
 our behalf.

00:42:49.820 --> 00:42:50.519
 We show

00:42:50.519 --> 00:42:51.480
 it to the

00:42:51.480 --> 00:42:52.039
 world

00:42:52.039 --> 00:42:53.559
 as a

00:42:53.559 --> 00:42:54.559
 day that

00:42:54.559 --> 00:42:54.840
 we can

00:42:54.840 --> 00:42:55.239
 rest.

00:42:55.579 --> 00:42:55.739
 So we

00:42:55.739 --> 00:42:56.059
 depict

00:42:56.059 --> 00:42:56.460
 spiritual

00:42:56.460 --> 00:42:56.800
 rest.

00:42:57.440 --> 00:42:57.679
 Secondly

00:42:57.679 --> 00:42:59.440
 Calvin says

00:42:59.440 --> 00:43:00.300
 to preserve

00:43:00.300 --> 00:43:01.940
 ecclesiastical

00:43:01.940 --> 00:43:02.579
 order.

00:43:03.460 --> 00:43:04.039
 Church order.

00:43:04.739 --> 00:43:05.619
 That is to

00:43:05.619 --> 00:43:06.420
 say we

00:43:06.420 --> 00:43:07.199
 have a

00:43:07.199 --> 00:43:07.539
 day,

00:43:07.820 --> 00:43:08.340
 prominent

00:43:08.340 --> 00:43:09.880
 day in

00:43:09.880 --> 00:43:10.380
 which we

00:43:10.380 --> 00:43:11.099
 meet.

00:43:13.619 --> 00:43:14.500
 I have to

00:43:14.500 --> 00:43:14.900
 catch you

00:43:14.900 --> 00:43:15.519
 guys up a

00:43:15.519 --> 00:43:16.139
 lot on

00:43:16.139 --> 00:43:16.539
 where we've

00:43:16.539 --> 00:43:17.139
 been in

00:43:17.139 --> 00:43:17.659
 our sermons

00:43:17.659 --> 00:43:18.480
 because a

00:43:18.480 --> 00:43:18.759
 lot of you

00:43:18.759 --> 00:43:19.159
 aren't here

00:43:19.159 --> 00:43:19.980
 every Sunday

00:43:19.980 --> 00:43:20.619
 when we

00:43:20.619 --> 00:43:20.899
 gather.

00:43:22.059 --> 00:43:22.799
 How wonderful

00:43:22.799 --> 00:43:23.199
 would it be

00:43:23.199 --> 00:43:23.639
 if I said

00:43:23.639 --> 00:43:24.059
 and we

00:43:24.059 --> 00:43:24.579
 left off

00:43:24.579 --> 00:43:25.059
 on verse

00:43:25.059 --> 00:43:25.440
 and just

00:43:25.440 --> 00:43:25.719
 got to

00:43:25.719 --> 00:43:25.960
 go.

00:43:26.539 --> 00:43:27.099
 Not spend

00:43:27.099 --> 00:43:27.359
 the first

00:43:27.359 --> 00:43:27.719
 ten minutes

00:43:27.719 --> 00:43:28.259
 summarizing

00:43:28.259 --> 00:43:29.019
 where we've

00:43:29.019 --> 00:43:29.679
 been.

00:43:31.119 --> 00:43:31.819
 It is good

00:43:31.819 --> 00:43:32.259
 for us to

00:43:32.259 --> 00:43:32.759
 have a day

00:43:32.759 --> 00:43:33.139
 where we

00:43:33.139 --> 00:43:33.679
 intend,

00:43:33.799 --> 00:43:34.339
 we plan,

00:43:34.440 --> 00:43:34.759
 we set

00:43:34.759 --> 00:43:36.299
 aside to

00:43:36.299 --> 00:43:36.679
 be gathered

00:43:36.679 --> 00:43:37.719
 together as

00:43:37.719 --> 00:43:38.980
 God's people

00:43:38.980 --> 00:43:39.579
 that we can

00:43:39.579 --> 00:43:40.379
 count on

00:43:40.379 --> 00:43:41.859
 being together.

00:43:42.159 --> 00:43:42.339
 And so

00:43:42.339 --> 00:43:42.940
 having a day

00:43:42.940 --> 00:43:43.299
 like this

00:43:43.299 --> 00:43:44.039
 preserves

00:43:44.039 --> 00:43:45.759
 ecclesiastical

00:43:45.759 --> 00:43:47.119
 order.

00:43:48.440 --> 00:43:48.920
 And thirdly

00:43:48.920 --> 00:43:50.420
 to provide

00:43:50.420 --> 00:43:51.820
 relief from

00:43:51.820 --> 00:43:52.200
 our labor.

00:43:53.079 --> 00:43:53.680
 We are

00:43:53.680 --> 00:43:54.240
 fooling

00:43:54.240 --> 00:43:55.039
 ourselves if

00:43:55.039 --> 00:43:55.599
 we do not

00:43:55.599 --> 00:43:56.079
 think that

00:43:56.079 --> 00:43:56.940
 we need

00:43:56.940 --> 00:43:58.639
 physical rest.

00:43:59.680 --> 00:44:00.400
 The Lord's

00:44:00.400 --> 00:44:01.059
 day reminds

00:44:01.059 --> 00:44:01.980
 us that

00:44:01.980 --> 00:44:02.760
 we are

00:44:02.760 --> 00:44:03.619
 human.

00:44:04.000 --> 00:44:04.360
 We are

00:44:04.360 --> 00:44:05.079
 not God.

00:44:05.800 --> 00:44:07.300
 We must

00:44:07.300 --> 00:44:08.420
 rest.

00:44:08.519 --> 00:44:09.099
 We must

00:44:09.099 --> 00:44:09.599
 rest from

00:44:09.599 --> 00:44:10.039
 the labor

00:44:10.039 --> 00:44:11.079
 of the

00:44:11.079 --> 00:44:11.400
 week.

00:44:11.559 --> 00:44:11.840
 That we

00:44:11.840 --> 00:44:12.220
 might be

00:44:12.220 --> 00:44:12.780
 refreshed.

00:44:13.400 --> 00:44:13.700
 As the

00:44:13.700 --> 00:44:14.119
 Puritans

00:44:14.119 --> 00:44:14.619
 said,

00:44:14.820 --> 00:44:15.079
 we need

00:44:15.079 --> 00:44:15.680
 to recreate

00:44:15.680 --> 00:44:16.119
 and by

00:44:16.119 --> 00:44:16.659
 that they

00:44:16.659 --> 00:44:16.880
 meant

00:44:16.880 --> 00:44:17.900
 recreate.

00:44:17.900 --> 00:44:19.260
 in order

00:44:19.260 --> 00:44:19.519
 that we

00:44:19.519 --> 00:44:19.900
 might be

00:44:19.900 --> 00:44:20.400
 strengthened

00:44:20.400 --> 00:44:20.860
 for the

00:44:20.860 --> 00:44:22.019
 work of

00:44:22.019 --> 00:44:23.240
 next week.

00:44:23.360 --> 00:44:23.840
 So we

00:44:23.840 --> 00:44:24.340
 do this

00:44:24.340 --> 00:44:24.720
 to depict

00:44:24.720 --> 00:44:25.340
 spiritual rest,

00:44:25.440 --> 00:44:26.119
 to preserve

00:44:26.119 --> 00:44:26.920
 ecclesiastical

00:44:26.920 --> 00:44:27.139
 order,

00:44:27.480 --> 00:44:27.760
 and to

00:44:27.760 --> 00:44:28.220
 provide

00:44:28.220 --> 00:44:29.240
 relief

00:44:29.240 --> 00:44:30.220
 from our

00:44:30.220 --> 00:44:30.440
 labor.

00:44:30.840 --> 00:44:31.059
 Now,

00:44:31.880 --> 00:44:32.380
 I'm running

00:44:32.380 --> 00:44:32.820
 out of time.

00:44:33.579 --> 00:44:34.099
 Next week,

00:44:34.139 --> 00:44:34.480
 I want to

00:44:34.480 --> 00:44:35.480
 answer with

00:44:35.480 --> 00:44:36.500
 much greater

00:44:36.500 --> 00:44:37.539
 specificity the

00:44:37.539 --> 00:44:38.119
 question,

00:44:38.820 --> 00:44:39.920
 how should

00:44:39.920 --> 00:44:40.320
 we keep the

00:44:40.320 --> 00:44:41.019
 fourth commandment?

00:44:41.440 --> 00:44:42.420
 So cliffhanger

00:44:42.420 --> 00:44:43.420
 for you there.

00:44:43.720 --> 00:44:44.160
 I want to get

00:44:44.160 --> 00:44:44.599
 more into the

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 particulars of

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 how it is

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 that we

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 ought to

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 set aside

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 a day

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 for rest

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 and the

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 worship of

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 God.

00:44:52.000 --> 00:44:52.799
 In closing,

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 we must be

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 careful that

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 we do not

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 do what the

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 Pharisees had

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 done with

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 the fourth

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 commandment.

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 It is not

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 meant to be

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 burdensome,

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!

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 But joyful!

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 That's all I want

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 to read for our

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 benefit,

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 Psalm 92,

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 and you can

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 certainly go

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 there with me.

00:45:11.460 --> 00:45:12.239
 Psalm 92,

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 a psalm

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 that in the

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 original text

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 has a title.

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 And not all

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 psalms have

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 titles.

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 This one does.

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 And it is

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 simply a

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 psalm,

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 a song

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 for the

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 Sabbath.

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 And the

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 psalmist

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 writes,

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 it is good

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 to give

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 thanks to

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 the Lord,

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 to sing

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 praises to

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 your name,

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 O Most

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 High,

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 to declare

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 your steadfast

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 love in the

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 morning and

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 your faithfulness

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 by night,

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 to the music

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 of the lute

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 and the harp,

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 to the melody

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 of the lyre.

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 For you,

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 O Lord,

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 have made me

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 glad by your

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 works.

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 At the works

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 of your hands

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 I sing

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 for joy.

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 How great

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 are your works,

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 O Lord,

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 how your

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 thoughts are

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 very deep.

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 The stupid

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 man cannot

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 know,

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 the fool

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 cannot

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 understand

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 this,

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 that though

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 the wicked

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 sprout like

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 grass and

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 all evildoers

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 flourish,

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 they are doomed

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 to destruction

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 forever.

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 But you,

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 O Lord,

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 are on high

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 forever.

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 For behold

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 your enemies,

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 O Lord,

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 for behold

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 your enemies

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 shall perish,

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 all evildoers

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 shall be

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 scattered.

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 But you

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 have exalted

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 my horn

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 like that

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 of the wild

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 ox.

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 You have

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 poured over

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 me,

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 fresh

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 oil.

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 My eyes

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 have seen

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 the downfall

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 of my

00:46:38.559 --> 00:46:38.900
 enemies.

00:46:39.039 --> 00:46:39.599
 My ears

00:46:39.599 --> 00:46:40.019
 have heard

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 the doom

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 of my

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 evil

00:46:41.699 --> 00:46:42.900
 assailants.

00:46:43.859 --> 00:46:44.559
 The righteous

00:46:44.559 --> 00:46:45.559
 flourish like

00:46:45.559 --> 00:46:46.460
 the palm tree

00:46:46.460 --> 00:46:47.179
 and grow

00:46:47.179 --> 00:46:48.099
 like a cedar

00:46:48.099 --> 00:46:48.759
 in Lebanon.

00:46:49.500 --> 00:46:49.960
 They are

00:46:49.960 --> 00:46:50.599
 planted in

00:46:50.599 --> 00:46:50.940
 the house

00:46:50.940 --> 00:46:51.339
 of the Lord.

00:46:51.420 --> 00:46:52.159
 They flourish

00:46:52.159 --> 00:46:53.219
 in the courts

00:46:53.219 --> 00:46:54.259
 of our God.

00:46:54.759 --> 00:46:55.420
 They still

00:46:55.420 --> 00:46:55.940
 bear fruit

00:46:55.940 --> 00:46:56.659
 in old age.

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 They are

00:46:57.119 --> 00:46:57.940
 ever full

00:46:57.940 --> 00:46:58.619
 of sap

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 and green.

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 To declare

00:47:00.699 --> 00:47:01.859
 that the Lord

00:47:01.860 --> 00:47:02.940
 is upright.

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 He is my

00:47:04.360 --> 00:47:05.460
 rock and

00:47:05.460 --> 00:47:06.200
 there is no

00:47:06.200 --> 00:47:07.079
 unrighteousness

00:47:07.079 --> 00:47:08.079
 in him.

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 Let's pray

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 together.

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