The Fallen Booth of David and the Remnant

The title of my message is the Fallen Booth of

David and the Remnant. The noble aiat and Andre Guide

once wrote, one doesn't discover new lands without consenting to

lose sight for a very long time. Of the shore,

I mean to go into the future, to experience and

exciting tomorrow with God. We have to really turn our

back on what's behind failed ideas, failed understandings of God,

maybe tradition and the like, because the future is this

magnificent country that God has for us, but it requires

adventure faith. Now to the Late sty in Church. In

the book Revelation, Jesus is the beginning of the creation

of God. He says that in Revelation three fourteen, he's

the true Witness, the archad, the beginning, the ruler, the

beginning of the creation of God. That means that Jesus

Christ is our new genesis in life. You cannot start

over without Jesus Christ. If you're trying to have a

new life and you don't have Jesus Christ as the

weight of that new life, you got it all wrong.

The latest seeing condition at the end of time in

the Seventh Day Church of Revelation, the Seventh Church is

the Seventh day Church is a lot like the condition

of the Judaizers, who felt that their culture the relationship

to God because of Abraham. It gave them an inside

track to be saved without a personal relationship with God,

and that is a losing formula. They argued that without

circumcision Act fifteen, you cannot be saved. You have to

be a good Jewish Christian to be saved, not a

gentile Christian. No, we could say the same today. Now.

I believe the Sabbath is immensely important, so don't misunderstand

the statement. But we could say someone has to have

the Sabbath to be saved. Well, the book Revelation teaches

that there's a large class of Christians before the mark

of the Beast who are servants of God without the

Sabbath seal of God until the test comes, which means

there are committed people who love God who don't understand

the Sabbath. So we could say that today we could

say that without the Church you can't be saved. We

can make ourselves the sinner of the universe so that

people don't come to Jesus, they come to us. Without

the preacher, you can't be saved. That's what the medieval

church said. Without the pope or a priest forgiving you

of your sins, you can't be saved. Friends, without some

new idea that we come up with. Oh, I've got

the truth, you know. Some people say, well, you know,

they never had the gospel till I figured it out. Friends,

we are not the sinner of the universe. The Gospel

is the everlasting gospel that God gave to the apostles,

that was there all the centuries to our time. We

are saved by an ancient apostolic truth. Dear heart, we

are saved only through the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ. Period.

I want to say that again, we are saved only

through the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ. Period. The

end of story. That is our new beginning. When we

give up on us, is when God gets it done

in us. Friends, grace wasn't good enough for them Judaizers

at the Council of Jerusalem in Acts fifteen, or at

Antioch or anywhere else that they went. They wanted to

keep those gentiles who were turning to God through faith

in Jesus to stay away from their church unless they

made them Jewish Christians instead of Jesus Christians. Now there's

a problem when we think of the church as our

church and we behave like it is that way, it's

our church. I know one person who left Reaching Hearts

because they were very upset that we were in our

acting with Sunday keepers, and they said, that's my church.

And I heard that, and I thought to myself, what

a bad way to think. This is Jesus Church and Christ.

When he speaks of the Sabbath as the testimony of

Jesus in the Old Testament in Isaiah fifty six, he says,

my house shall be called a house of prayer for

all peoples. Friends, we are here to make a difference

in the world that Jesus died for. No church can

take the place of Jesus. After Paul rebuked Peter for

refusing to eat with the gentiles who had turned to Christ,

Peter changed his position disposition and aligned with Paul to

treat those dear gentile people with respect, to eat with them,

to fellowship with them, to not judge them because they

came from a different background. The grace of God won

that day at the Jerusalem Council in Acts fifteen, and

the Church became a multi ethnic Jews, Fish, and Gentile

church of one people, faithful to Christ one body. Now.

I don't know about you, but Jesus hates racism. Are

you aware of that? You can say amen to that

Christ hates racism, that there is no place for it

in the church. In fact, the first Angel's message of revelation, Hey,

I just want to say, Andrea, it's good to see

you in church here. He's their officer that guards our place.

We're glad you're here, Andrea. I'm just how many to

be grateful for our protector here? God bless you. Yeah.

I won't say anymore, but we're grateful for you. The

grace of God won over that day and it became

a multi ethnic church. And on Act fifteen eleven, Peter

laid out the cure that we can all experience in

a relationship with Jesus Christ, the magnificent gift of God's

indispensable grace. Let's look at verse eleven, he said, but

we believe that we shall be saved. How what does

it say in the text through the hell the grace

of the Lord Jesus, just as they will no different

way to get to heaven. The grace of God. What

does grace mean. It means unmerited kindness and favor. It

is the kindness of God that brings us to repentance.

It's God's mercy that is the greatest quality of his character.

The grace of the Lord Jesus, Friend, God is not

a respective of persons, because God loves everyone as if

they were the only one in the whole universe. You

can say, well, pastor Mike, I don't feel loved. I

come to church, I don't feel important. I can't say

things right. Well, guess what, I love you, But who

loves you most Jesus loves you, and we're working at

loving you if we're not good at it, because the

church is a place where people should love others, no

matter where they've come from. Just because you are an

advent believer, how many of your advent believers believe in

the soon coming to Christ Seventh day advent believers, and

you believe in the Seventh Day Sabbath and Bible prophecy

and health reforeign principles and the right view of death,

the right understanding of hell as the destruction of the wicked,

and other important doctrines in the Bible. Your knowledge, as

good as it is, hear me, will not save you.

It will not save you. It will not put you

in a place of favor with God. It will not

earn you a right standing before God. Friends, if you

don't come to the cross and you're broken as a

sinner in need, there is no grace, because grace find

is found on our knees as we come to Jesus,

not because of how good we are or what we

have attained. When Peter spoke out at the Jerusalem Council,

you could feel the tension in the room. You could

tell that the Holy Spirit had led the leaders of

the church to do to the right conclusion, not some

independent believer coming up with truth and telling the church

that God led the leaders of the church to gospel

truth because God loves them too and Acts fifteen twelve.

And all the assembly kept silence, and they listened to

Barnabas and Paul as they related what signs and wonders

God had done through them Among the gentiles. It's hard

to argue with conversion stories. It's hard to argue with

people who are living in sin, who come to obedience

in their life and they love Christ. Peter opened the

door for the leaders of the church to listen to

Paul and Barnabas, these fringe evangelists who'd gone out into

the outback to win these people to Christ. And at

this point, these outsiders related how God had opened up

the world to Jesus, how God had broken down walls

to save the Gentiles, how God had used Jews to

save Gentiles. Horrors be this kind of thing had Jesus

written all over it. Christ met the woman at the

well abs Semari and his ministry a scandalous idea meeting

with a woman from Samaria. He shared the deepest truths

of the Gospel, the Siah Phoenician woman. Jesus went out

of his way to go to northern Palestine so we'd

run into her. She had a demon possessed daughter. She

came from devil Land. And what did Jesus do. Well,

he gave her a little hard time to test her faith.

He says, I wasn't sent to anyone with the lost

House of Israel. She said, yes, Lords, but even the

dogs eat the crumbs that fall from their master's tables.

In fact, the Jews called these kind of people dogs.

And you know what Jesus said, I'll have you at

my table anytime. He healed her daughter from demon possession,

a scandalous thing to do. The work of Paul and

Barnabas had Jesus written all over it. We know in

Galatians twelve two that certain men came up to Antioch

who knew Jesus, the brother of Jesus, that were sympathetic

with the Judaizers, and looked like James, the brother of Jesus,

was right in there with these perfectionistic Judaizers. Sadly, Peter

had fallen into the trap of the Judaizers. They had

convinced him to shift his understandings. Speaking of Peter's failure

to stand true for the Gospel, of Peter's failure to

not go in with the group, to not get politicized,

Paul rebuked Peter to his face at Antioch when these

Judaizers with Peter came to spy out the liberty that

these gentile Christians had in Christ Galatians two eleven. But

when Cephis that's another word for Peter, came to Antioch,

that's the Antioch of Syria, not Antioch in Asia minor

higher up. But when Cephus Peter came to Antioch. I

opposed him to his face because he stood condemned. That's

hard to do. Peter was one of the three top

disciples of Jesus Verse twelve. For when certain men came

from James he ate with the Gentiles, but when they

came he drew back and separate himself, fearing the circumcision Party.

Now what do we call that? What is that? He's

being political? I'm all right, isn't Peter being political? There? Yeah? Now,

the circum decision party thought they had Peter and James

in their pocket, therefore they could virtue signal a change.

Paul stood his ground against this nonsense. They were wrong,

and Paul was right. Peter and James were leaders in

the church, but they were not politicians. Christ was working

with them. They were growing. They had slippages. Now, when

we see leaders in our church accidentally or maybe intentionally,

get into this mode, what should we do for them?

Should we condemn them or pray for them? What should

we do? We should pray for them. God can lead

them to higher ground. They love Jesus too. They wanted

Jesus to have his way. Finally, James was the last

to speak, and he ended the argument for good that day.

In verse thirteen, after they finished speaking, James replied, brethren,

listen to me, it's my turn. Peter has spoken. Now

I'm going to speak. Verse thirteen, after they finished speaking,

James replied, brethren, listen to me, it's my turn. James

name in Hebrew means heal. Have you ever seen someone

named heel? See, James comes from the word jacob yajov

acheve is the word heel, so he was named the heel.

I mean how many James we have here, James, But

don't feel bad about your name. It means heal. And

by the way, it has to do with the messy

and a promise in a way too, and I could

tell you about that later. But the heel, like the

heel of your foot, means the tail end of something.

Of course, Jacob was holding the heel of his brother

when he was born. Acts fifteen fourteen. He speaks Simon,

that is Peter, Simeon, that is Peter. Has related how

God first visited the Gentiles to take out of them

a people for his name. James is saying a whole

lot here in this one verse. He's actually saying that

there has been evidence that gentile Christians have Our gentile

believers have been following God for a long time. And

James recognizes that there is a law of Moses out

there that was meant for the Jewish people until Christ came.

And James also knew that God has a name, Yahweh,

and that God's name is the same thing as God's

moral law for all humankind. The Ten Commandments literally is

defined by God himself to Moses in Exodus three. We

know what God's name is. In Ex's three, what does

he say? My name is what I am that I am?

Now in the Hebrew it says literally andrew just the

hair more up, just a hair more. And Hebrew he

says literally, I am thank you, I am who I

will be. And so what is God saying here? What

he's saying here is my name Yahweh, which has translated

Lord with all capital letters in your Bible, means I

am who I am. It is my nature, my character,

My name is who I am. So whenever we speak

of God's name, we're talking about his identity. His nature

is character of love, justice, and mercy. That is his name,

God's nature, God's name. According to Hebrews eight, when a

person is converted to God by accepting Jesus Christ. The

Holy Spirit writes the Ten Commandment Love of God where

on their hearts. So when the moral of God Law

of God is written on your heart, you have the

knowledge of God in your head. On your heart means

in your head. And that's why the Seal of the

Living God in the book Revelation is on the forehead,

because God's law goes in our minds, and that is

God's name. So in Deuteronomy six, the Ten Commandments are frontlets,

between your eyes and in your hand, and Revelation fourteen,

the seal of the Living God is on the forehead

because God's law goes on your hand. It's called the

name of God is on your forehead, the name of

the Lamb, the seal of God. Also Revelation seven. So

where does God's law go? Tell me on your where,

which means in your mind. Very good. Now, if God's

law is God's character, as the Bible teachers will look

at that, then that means that God puts God inside

your mind. The deepest principle in the Ten Commandment moral

law of God is the Gospel principle of mercy. It's

right there in the Tin Commandments. It's the most important

principle in God's law, and mercy is followed by justice.

They're both there. Hebrews eight ten. This is the covenant

that I will make with the House of Israel after

those days, says the Lord. We'll move to the next verse.

This is the covenant that will make with the House

of Israel after those days, says the Lord. I will

put my laws where what does it say? In their minds?

And I will write them where on their hearts. So

the mind is the heart, and I will be their God.

And what will they be? They will be my people.

So God wants to make a covenant, not by writing

it on stone, but by putting his law inside our minds.

And look at verse eleven. And they shall not teach

every one his fellow or everyone his brother's saying no,

the Lord. That's virtue signaling for all shall know me,

from the least of them to the greatest, which means

the law of God will be in their minds universally,

for I will be. And how does it get there?

How does God put his law in our hearts? How

do we get to where it's not on stone, it's

in our heads, Verse twelve. Here's hell, it's grace, for

I will be merciful toward their what how many of

you have iniquities you've committed in your life? Come on,

raise the hands, both of mine, go up. I will

be merciful toward their what their iniquities, and I'll remember

there what their sins? No more. That's how God writes

his law on us. We come to the cross. The

cross is the nexus of God and humanity, and there

the law of God goes. In the cross did what

Mount sne could never fully do. It showed us that

God is He is law, hanging on across the lawgiver

with the heart of mercy, seeking to save his children.

If it means hell itself for God, and God is

there and a hell hotter than the hell at the

end of the millennium, dying for our sins, reconciling us,

dealing with every infraction in one human life, as if

eternity stops. Christ processes thousands of years of sin until

he says it is finished. Mercy, forgiveness, law and across

the Lawgiver. And go back to that slide we missed

real quick. Just pop back. God is love. You see

the law is the character of God. God is love.

The law of God is the law of love. And

patriarchs and prophets first law and says, God is love

his nature. His law is love. It has ever been

and ever will be. That is the ever lasting covenant

of God's name, his law of Love, Acts fifteen fourteen.

Moving back Simeon, that is, Peter has related how God

first visited the Gentiles to take out of them a

people for his name. James is saying that God called

Gentiles out of paganism to keep the moral ten commandment

law of God. That is God's name. Now think about it,

God says, I am who I am? YAHWEH is my name.

James knew that God's name and God's Law is the

same thing. And so when he says a people for

his name, he's saying, a people who will keep the

ten Commandment law of God because of Jesus. That's what

he means. Now look at Psalms one hundred and nineteen,

verses fifty five to fifty seven. Now David says, I

remember thy name in the night. You see that, I mean,

you see that? And then what does he say, O Lord,

and keep thy What So when you remember God's name,

what are you doing? Come on, You're keeping his law.

So when you call him the name of the Lord,

you're calling on the character of God, embodying the ten

commandments revealed at the Cross of Christ is justice and mercy.

And when you think and remember his name, you are lawkeepers.

You keep the ten Commandments. So if you set aside

one command of the decalogue, you're setting aside God's name.

You're profaning his name. He goes on to say, this

blessing has fallen to me, and I have kept thy precepts.

Now is it a blessing to keep God's law or

a curse? Based on that verse? Help me, it's a blessing.

Now go to verse fifty seven. The Lord is my portion.

And how's it spelled? Lord? That's the word yahweh, the

divine name. The Lord is my portion. And what does

that mean? I promise to keep thy words. We get

God when we have the love of God written on

our hearts and minds. We have God in our lives,

That's what he's saying. So can the law of God

be set aside in our lives? If we are to

have God's name? No, we should call in the name

of the Lord. When you remember the Lord by name,

you are actually saying, Lord, I want to obey you.

I want to follow your will because of the Cross.

Quoting Amos nine eleven to twelve and Acts fifteen five,

James continues refuting the Judaizers with a Bible proof from

prophecy that supports his position. And some people say, well,

you know, I just want Jesus in my life. I

don't want this prophecy stuff. Every time I hear that,

I say, that's an unconverted Christian. That's a person doesn't

care about God's word very much, doesn't recognize that prophecy

is the testimonium of Jesus. Therefore they don't want to

hear what Jesus has to say. But that is not

the way the early Church worked. They wanted prophecy because

it pointed Jesus Acts fifteen, verse fifteen. Look what it says,

and with the words of the prophets agree that it

is written. And with this the words of the prophets

agree as it is written. After this, I will return.

I will build the dwelling of David, which has fallen.

I will rebuild its ruins. I will set it up

that the rest. Now that's the Greek word for remnant,

that the remnant of men may seek the Lord, and

all that is all the gentiles who are called by

my name, says the Lord, who has made these things

known from of old. The early Apostolic Church was comprised

of Jews and Gentiles who kept the ten Commandment law

of God because they were a people who were called

by God's name. Do you see how that works? If

you call on the name of the Lord, if you

remember God's name, you keep his law. David's House failed

in his day in the Old Testament. They fell in

the disobedience, idle worship, this, that, and everything else. And

finally Christ came at the end of the whole awful story,

and as the one faithful Israelite hanging on a cross,

he became all that was left of Israel faithful to God.

And out of the one faithful, true Israelite, the true

vine God established the Christian of Church. If the words

of Christ Father forgive them, they know not what they do,

and forgiveness changes hearts. David's House failed in his day,

but Jesus didn't fail. Christ came as the son of David,

the son of God and the Son of Man in

three capacities. As the son of David, he raised up

the Royal House of David. As the son of God,

he saved us from our sins by divine power. As

the Son of Man, he saved the Gentiles, who are

also human beings, sons of Adam and Eve. Just like

the Jewish people. Jesus came to save the whole world.

Christ chose the Gentiles to come out of darkness after

the Cross to become part of the people of God.

Peter said in First Peter, you were once no people,

but now you are God's people. You once are in darkness,

but now you're in light. You are a chosen nation,

a holy people. Radical for Jewish thinking. In Jesus Day,

when Israel failed in the Old Testament, God called a

remnant from the gentiles called by his name. Now, let's

just plug it in. What does God's name mean? God's

what character and his start with a nail? His law?

So if gentiles are called by his name and they're

called out, what are they keeping? Now? They're keeping what

the Ten commandments? They're keeping the law of God commandment

keeping Christians. The modern day heresy that teaches people that

the Ten Commandment Law of God was nailed to the cross.

You ever heard that, or that it's somehow set aside

or one portion of it is set aside. Is a

satanic attack on God's name. It's defying who God is.

It has brought confusion into the Christian Church. In fact,

by adopting this principle, many churches cannot sort through the

Bible correctly, and they have become what the Bible calls Babylon,

a confusion at the time of the end, leading men,

women and children to disobey the clear word of God

found in the Ten Commandments. God says, thou shalt not,

and they say, I will go ahead and do it.

God says, remember the Sabbath days that they say forget,

that's not God speaking. Those ministers who teach this satanic

lie are accountable to God Almighty for the souls of

those dear people they have led to ruin to be lost,

who have profaned the name of the Lord. God would

have us come to the cross and accept the name

of the Lord and have his law written on our hearts.

In Romans ten four, Christ is the end of the

law for righteousness for all who believe, so we can

be saved by grace, in the forgiveness of God, to

be pardoned not by works, but by faith in Jesus

Christ our sacrifice. That's the Gospel. But in Romans three

thirty one, Paul is equally clear that even though Christ

is the end of the law for righteousness, Christ is

not the end of the law as a moral standard

in the church. Paul is very clear the law is

not destroyed by the Gospel. The law is established in

a right setting by the Gospel Romans three thirty one.

Do we then overthrow the law by this faith? And

what does he say? By no means? On the contrary,

what do we do pol the law? So those early

Christians were commandment keeping Christians. They didn't have this crazy

theology that we see in the evangelical world in many

places that God's law has been done away with. They

affirmed the name of the Lord the law of God.

James agrees with Paul in his own epistle, where he

himself rebukes hypocrites for showing partiality when everyone is important

to God because of God's character James one twenty three.

He says this, for if anyone is a hearer of

the word and not a doer. He's like a man

who observes his natural face in a mirror Verse twenty

four James two twelve. So speak and so act as

those who to be judged under the law of and

what does it call it? Liberty? Does God's law enslave us?

Or rightly understood? Does God's law expose us to God's

mercy and justice which brought us to the cross? It's that,

and so speak and so act as those who be

judged under the law of liberty. When God clears your

name and the judgment, he won't clear your name by

doing a way of the law. He'll clear your name

because Jesus died for every one of your sins without

setting aside the law, so that God can pardon you

and uphold his moral law. That's awesome. It will be

legal for you to have eternal life. It will not

be a violation of God's law to forgive you, because

Grace found a way so that justice and mercy kiss

at the Cross of Calvary. Friends, when you call on

God's name for mercy, you're actually calling on the name

of the lawgiver, who is the law, the embodiment of

the law in character and nature and love. We need

to study James and Paul together, not a part. Martin

Luther called the Epistle of James an epistle of straw

because it emphasizes obedience. Well, you make bricks with straw,

don't you right? And James house was built on the rock,

which are the words of Christ. He was the brother

of Jesus. He was found on the rock. James and

Paul are not in disagreement. James spoke in Acts fifteen

nineteen to twenty. He settled the score. He stood with

his friend Paul and barnabas with Peter now united. He said, Therefore,

my judgment is that we should not trouble those of

the gentiles who turned to God. In other words, we

shouldn't give them a hard time because they're new believers.

But we should write to them to abstain from the

pollution of idols. That is a violation of what commandment,

Come on, help me second commandment. And from unchastity, that's

a violation of what commandment, the ninth Commandment. And for

what is strangled and from blood, that's the violation of

the health principles recognized at Mount Sinai. And also with

Noah in the clean uncleaned, the stick distinctions, and also

the blood. What he's saying is health principles matter. In

the Proclamation of the Gospel. James is saying that those

new gentile believers need to keep the ten commandments and

the health principles of the Tarra that apply to all humankind.

God wants everyone to be healthy, happy, obedient Christians who

honor his name. Now, some people say, Pastor Mike, what

about clean unclean foods? Is there anything new Testament about that? Well,

if you go to Revelation chapter eighteen one to three,

you'll see the fourth Angel's message, the loud Cry message.

It talks about Babylon. It talks about Babylon having unclean

birds representing demons in it. See the principle of what

you can eat is given in the Bible. Every clean

animal was placed on an altar by Noah, which means

it could be offered to God as something holy. We

are God's temple in the Church, are holy. We're not

to bring into our bodies that which God would say, no,

I don't want it on an altar. So clean foods

outlined in scripture are allowed with not the blood in it.

And that's what James is affirming here. He's simply summarizing

it by that one statement. God wants everyone to be happy,

healthy and holy. Who wants to be a Christian and

not be happy, healthy and holy? What about you? I

want to be happy. I don't want to get cancer

before my time. My dad died of complications of cancer.

I'm highly prone to it genetically. At Male Institute, there's

an Amy Oxen Tank who is a specialist and a

kind of cancer that kills people early in our family.

So I have to be careful. You see. I want

to do everything I can to obey God's word and

not be judgmental, and let God lead me with my

genetics to optimize my life to the glory of God.

And so in my family system, I'll be frank with you.

My father was an alcoholic, my brother was an alcoholic.

My uncle was an alcoholic. My brother died of alcoholism

that led to opioids in suicide. Why do I want

alcohol in my life? Should I be drinking as a Christian? Yes?

Or no? I mean it'll kill me. I mean I

remember pleading with my brothers, just pleading with him get

off this stuff. But once he gets a hook. It's

hard to do, and I prayed and prayed and prayed. Look,

God wants us, through the Holy Spirit to be free

from this. Now there's no place for us to get

to condemn people who are struggling. Do we want people

in the church who are struggling with this? Yes or no? Yes?

And you know I'm not looking down on anybody. Has

anybody here ever been messed up in that air in

your life? I can raise my hand. I used to smoke.

A little bit hard to believe, isn't it. I used

to drink a lot, and when I was a teenager,

I would say I qualified as an alcoholic. God freed

me from that, but it wasn't easy. I had to

pray and struggle and didn't help me when people were

looking at me like there was something wrong with me.

I needed love and encouragement. I needed the Cross to grow.

So do people in the church. Acts fifteen twenty one.

Now James says this. He says, the ultimate evidence that

they're following God's name, that they're actually converted, is that

they keep the Seventh Day Sabbath, which is Saturday between

Good Friday and Resurrection Sunday morning. Look at Acts fifteen

twenty one. For from early generations Moses has had in

every city those who preach him. For he has read

what does it say in the Bible? Help me with this?

He has read every Sabbath in the synagogue and Hebrews four.

Paul uses the seventh day Sabbath as an argument for

the Gospel of Jesus Christ that brings rest in peace Hebrews.

Four nine. So then there remains a sabbath rest sabbatistma

for the people of God. For whoever enters God's rest

also ceases from his labors, as God did from his.

And so let us therefore strive to enter that rest,

that no one may fall by the same sort of disobedience.

Paul is saying that the Sabbath is a sign of

the Gospel. It's an argument for the gospel. Now, if

the sabbath's done away with, how can it help you

understand the gospel. You see, the Sabbath was kept by

those early Christians. He's not proving the sabbath here, he's

assuming the sabbath. That the Sabbath is rock solid, constant.

It is a symbol of the rest we have because

we come to the Cross of Christ. It points to

the savior of the world. You can't call that legalistic.

You can't use the Sabbath as an argument for the Gospel.

If it's done. Away with the Sabbath is the weekly

sign and seal that Jesus got it done at the cross.

That is why Paul says, there remains a sabbath rest

for the people. God. Now, what did Jesus say on

the cross his last words? You know it by memory.

He said, it is finished, quoting the Sabbath at creation

in Genesis two, when it says God finished his work.

Paul says in Hebrews one, when he had got it done,

when he made a purification for sins. When he finished it,

he rose and he sat down at the right hand

of God Almighty. Because God has produced for you and

me a right now righteousness, Daniel calls it, and everlasting righteousness.

That's good today and every day for the rest of

your life, if you have Jesus. The sabbath points to that.

James is saying the same thing as Paul. Right here,

Acts fifteen twenty one. Go back in your Bible's Acts

fifteen twenty one. For from early generations, Moses has had

in every city those who preach him, For he has

read every what Sabbath in the synagogues gentiles, hearing of

the word of God, and the Sabbath day before Jesus

ever came that. Isaiah fifty six tells us that the

great gathering of the Apostolic Church, that God would give

him the Sabbath. It's predicted right there. In Isaiah's sixty

six twenty three, he says, from new moon to new moon,

from Sabbath to Sabbath, all flesh will come and bow

down before me the final gathering. In Isaiah's sixty sixth

the Gospel gathering is a Sabbath gathering, just like the

Apostolic Church. James is saying that those dear gentile Jewish believers,

those dear gentile believers are called by God's name just

like the Jewish believers are, because they keep the law

of God, especially the seventh day Sabbath that comes right

after Friday, just before Sunday. They keep the Sabbath day,

the Sabbath. They are called by His name. They honor

His law. Now, at the very end of time, the

Sabbath will become the sign of obedience. In the Mark

of the beast test when the whole world kingdom order

will set aside the law of God and the Sabbath

of the Fourth Commandment. Now I need about five more minutes.

Would you give it to me? Because we had some

things that pushed us over, and I don't like going over.

But let's just pray, Lord focus us in Jesus name. Amen.

The Bible teaches that the Sabbath of the Fourth Commandment

is the question to unite the hearts of God's dear

wading saints. Why because it will be the sign of

loyalty to God in opposition to the mark of the Beast.

The sign and the mark are in opposition the beast's power.

The world kingdom order will impose the beast's name, that is,

the Beast's law. Laws will be passed that violate the

law of God. The mark of the Beast is a

law movement. When legislation will be passed that says, you

do what we say, not what God says. And thus

the ten Commandments will be on trial. On one side

will be the mark of the beast. Group on the

other side will be those who follow Jesus and the Lamb.

And they're described in Revelation fourteen eleven and twelve. Here's

the mark of the beast group in verse eleven, and

the smoke of their torment goes up forever and ever,

and they have no rest. Now that's the Greek word

for sabbath rest anna pausus in Greek, they have no

sabbath rest day or night. It's the same word where

Jesus says, all you who are weak and are heavy laden,

come unto me, and I will give you rest. And

then he talks about the Sabbath in chapter twelve immediately following.

That is the Greek word for sabbath rest. Go back

verse eleven, go back, slide back, and they have no

rest day or night. Those worshipers the Beast and his image,

whoever receives, is what the mark of his name, the

mark of his law. By analogy verse twelve, here are

those on the God's side. Here's a call for the

endurance of the saints, those who keep will. What does

it say the commandments of God and the faith of Jesus.

The worshipers of the Beast will stand opposite those who

have the Sabbath sign and seal the Living God. Verse twelve.

Here is a call for the endurance of the saints.

Those who keep the commandments of God and the faith

of Jesus. God raised up the fallen booth of David

through the remnant of the Gentiles, who kept the law

of God became sabbath keepers, and thus they were called

by his name. The Sabbath was lost in the fourth

of sixth centuries. Why because of legalism. The Sabbath wasn't

lost for any other reason. They got legalistic with it.

Who wants to keep the Sabbath in a legalistic way?

The Orthodox Church of the East did that, but because

of worliness. Legalism goes to the right of things, but

to the left comes worliness. Alexandria and Rome and other places.

They had other reasons for giving up the Sabbath Ezekiel

twenty twelve. Here's what God says. Moreover, I gave them

my Sabbath as a what what does it say in

your Bible? A sign between me and them that they

might know that I am the Lord who sanctifies them.

In other words, we can know God's name by a

sabbath surrendered relationship to God and Jesus. That's really what

is behind this statement. The Sabbath is a sign that

points to God's law, God's character, his name, his loving

nature Verse thirteen. But the House of israebelled against me

in the wilderness. They did not walk in my statutes.

They rejected my ordinances, by whose observance man shall live,

and my sabbath they greatly profaned. Like Israel in the

Old Testament, the New Testament Church and Revelation twelve goes

into the wilderness. In the Middle Ages, in Revelation twelve sixteen,

the woman of the Church flees into the wilderness for

twelve one hundred and sixty years of the Middle Ages.

The Church lost the Sabbath in many parts of the

world at the beginning sixth century thereabouts and on friends.

The mark of the Beast struggle in Revelation thirteen is

a sabbath struggle because the sabbath is the question to

unite the hearts of God's dear wedding saints. It is

the sign and the seal within God's law that says

we have his name on our foreheads, that we know him,

we have his character, that if we abide in a

worship rest faith relationship with Jesus, we are sealed with

the seal of the Living God. The remnant Church in

the book Relation at the time of the End is

like the remnant Church in Acts fifteen. It keeps the Sabbath.

The remnant Church is the commandment keeping church, like the

early Apostolic Church, because the remnant Church possesses the Sabbath,

sign and seal. God's Covenant in Deuteronomy four thirteen is

the Ten Commandments. The everlasting Covenant is God's name, which

is God's law in God Christ died in Hebrews thirteen

to ratify the Everlasting Covenant, to put the law of

God on an eternal setting. In our hearts and minds

Revelation twelve seventeen. A few verses we land the dragon

was angry with the woman, symbolizing God's people went off

to make war with the remnant of our seed, not

the remnant in Acts fifteen. The remnant at the time

of the end like those gentiles who keep the commandments

of God and have the Testament of Jesus Christ. Revelation thirteen.

We have the mark of the beast struggle lamb like beast,

a fake Christian kingdom which is our country that eventually

moves dragon like will impose the mark of the beast,

not God's Sabbath sign, but the other. Now, I'll tell

you how you can figure this out. It says they

worship the beast. What commandment is that? A violation of?

Help me first? And second they build an image to

the beast. What commandment is that a violation of? If

you know the Ten Commandments, Commandment number two, the name

of the beast. Now, what commandment is that? Undermining the

third commandment? God's name? And then the mark of the

beast instead of God sign. What commandment is that? Going after?

That's right? The fourth commandment. I gave them my sabbath

to be a sign. The sabbath is the bulwark against atheism,

it's the bulwark against legalism. It's a sign of righteousness

by faith. And so he goes on to say, keep

the commandments of God and the faith of Jesus. Revelation

fifteen two. Now here's the picture of those who will

gain the victory of the mark of the beast. And

I saw what appeared to be a sea of glass

mingled with fire, and those whould conquer the beasts and

its image that's the mark of the beast. Test and

the number of its name, standing beside the sea of glass.

Some translations say, on the sea of glass, with harps

of God in their hands verse three, verse three, and

they sing the song of Moses, which means they honor

the law, the sern of God, and the song of

the Lamb. They honor salvation, saying, great and wonderful are

thy deeds, O, Lord God Almighty. Now that great and

wonderful thy deeds is a direct quote from Psalms ninety two,

which is the Sabbath song in the Book of Psalms. O, Lord, God,

the Almighty, Just and true are thy ways, O King

of the Ages verse four. Who shall not fear and

glorify thy? What name? Now? What is God's name? Same

thing as what God's law his nature? So here are

commandment keeping people who have gained the victory of the

mark of the beast. O Lord, for Thou art holy,

All nations shall come and worship Thee, for they judgments

have been revealed. Now that right there is a direct

quote of Isaiah's sixty six twenty three. It shall come

to pass from new moon to new moon, from sabbath

to sabbath, all flesh shall come and bow down before me.

The victory song we see over the mark of the

beast in Revelation fifteen is a Sabbath victory song. The

people who go through that issue at the very end

are men and women who have come to Jesus and

who keep the whole love of God. Not as legal ASTs.

They keep the law of God. Why because they're forgiven people.

They love the Lord. They're not thinking of themselves as

super important. They are grateful off the charts that once

they were in darkness, God has brought them into the light,

and so they choose to keep the whole love of God.

That is why the Sabbath is the question to unite

the hearts of God's dear waiting saints, because He did

the same thing in Acts fifteen in the Apostolic Church.

Dear Heavenly Father, we are grateful for Jesus and Father,

it's possible to be seventh day Christians and run all

over the Sabbath and treat it awful. Help us Lord

to remember the Sabbath day, to keep it holy, because

we want Jesus in our life. Help the pastor do

better in this regard. Help our members too. But Father,

I just pray for everyone here today that they will

leave here knowing that every seventh day, early in the morning,

this church opens, the Bible is studied, songs are sung,

and lives can be changed. So Lord, renew us in

our prayer this coming Monday, renew us to be reconverted Christians,

to love you, not to be judgmental, mean Christians. And

thank you for the great Sabbath truth that points to

Jesus in his name. Amen.