The Sabbath Revival

So let's spo our heads and start the message of

the morning. Father God, thank you for Jesus. Thank you

that we have a faith that has been tried in

the fire and it's come out golden. And Jesus is

the gold, the man with the golden girdle, the gold

of Ephaz, which has made a person more precious than

gold to him. So help us today to understand. So

we don't come to church to look smart, We don't

come to church to look important. We come to church

for Jesus and help us to live for Him in

our communities and our mission in Jesus' name.

Amen.

The title of the message this morning is called the

Sabbath Revival. Our focus is in Acts thirteen. We are

in a series on the Book of Acts. Now what

book have I recommended for you to read as we

are going.

Through The Book of about Acts.

Acts of the Apostles by Ellen White, exactly the Sabbath Revival.

When Paul stood up at Antioch to speak in the

synagogue at Antiocha Pasidia, Paul motioned with his hand, and

he didn't proceeded to disclose the meaning of the Apostolic

Gospel for the people in that fertile field of labor.

It was a place that was ripe. For God's word

antioco pacitia means Antioch of the meadows. I said this

last week when I want to go to a place

with my wife. My wife's favorite spot is a custard

place in Colombia called meadows, and we go there and

she gets a vanilla custard with a cherry on top,

and I get chocolate custard with a cherry on top.

She gets a small and I get a large. Mentellingia

meadows is a good place to hang out for good reasons.

And so this place at antioqu Pasidia was a fertile

feel for Christ to open up the hearts of the world.

It represents the transition from Judaism to the gentile world.

It's the focal point where those who had opportunities begin

to attack those who receive opportunities.

The Holy Spirit had.

Led Paul and Barnabas to these fertile meadows, ripe and

ready for Jesus to make a difference. Friends, you can

work all your life, but if the ground is not right,

the seeds won't grow, the sheep won't feed, and it

won't make a difference. The Holy Spirit knows where fertile

meadows are found. In Paul's discourse at Antioch, we should

take note of the fact that his grand disclosure of

the gospel, and we find it right here in Act thirteen,

where he lays out the gospel, the gospel of Jesus

promised to the Patriarchs, the gospel of salvation through deliverance

by the power of God, the promise, the prophetic promise

of God. We should take note that it was a

Sabbath revelation, Acts thirteen. This is one of those huge

chapters hit our bibles that should zero us in to

the importance of the Seventh day Sabbath in gospel preaching

and teaching. I ask you the question this morning, why

is this Sabbath important? Is that okay? To ask why

is it important? The number seven Hebrew is a number

the chav The number seven Hebrew means oath. If I

already ask you next week, what does the number seven mean?

What would you say based on what I just said?

Oath?

Now in the Bible, an oath and a covenant. If

God is swearing an oath, God is making a covenant.

When God told, when God, when Abraham told abimelet to

get seven, you lambs. And there they swore an oath.

And they called that place Beersheba, because there they made

a covenant. Beersheba means well of the seven or well

of the oath, because the word seven is the same

word as the Hebrew word oath. So when God swears

an oath, what is he making with us? He's making

a covenant. And so the seventh day is the covenant day,

it is the oath day. It's the promised day when

God gets it done in our lives. When God rested

on the seventh day, he made an oath to bless

and save and bring real, real rest. Right there in

Genesis too, he blessed the sabbath day, he made it holy.

He rested from all his labor. And in Genesis too

to God finished his work on the seventh day, as

Jesus hung on the cross, as the sun was setting

and the Sabbath was coming. At sunset, Jesus said, it

is finished, and he rested in the tomb on the

seventh day. The one who made us saved us, the

one who created us redeemed us. And so the Sabbath

points back to creation and it's anchored in the Cross

of Calvary. So, friends, when you hold onto the Sabbath,

you're hanging on to that which points to Christ as

the creator of the world and as the redeemer of

the world. That's why Jesus is the Lord of the Sabbath.

The copy of the Ten Commandments in Exus twenty, creation

is given.

Is the reason for keeping the sabbath.

You reading Extus twenty, you keep the Sabbath because in

six days the Lord I mean Heaven, earth, the sea,

and all that.

Is in them.

So we keep the Sabbath because God is our creator.

In the copy of the Ten Commandments, how many of

you knew there's two copies ten Commandments in the Bible,

not just one Exus twenty And what's the other chapter

Deuteronomy five exactly and Deuteronomy five another copy of the

Ten Commandments is given, but it's a little different.

On the Sabbath.

The reason for keeping the Sabbath is that God has

saved us from slavery and He has redeemed us. And

so the Sabbath is not just about God being our creator.

The Sabbath is about God being our redeemer, the Lord.

Now the Lord of the Sabbath is Jesus, he says.

So he says, the Sabbath is the sabbath of the

Lord your God yahueh Elahim, the Lord your God, and

Christ has to have those credentials to be the Lord

of the Sabbath. It doesn't take rocket science to connect

Jesus' claim with the fourth commandment. So he put the

two degree together. We have learned that the Sabbath teaches

us that the one who made us saved us. The

Cross shows us the moment in time when Jesus said

it is finished, and when he died for our sins,

creation and the Cross converge, and Jesus is our new beginning.

That's what the Sabbath is all about. Friends, Christ was

buried just in time to rest on the Sabbath day,

to give us a new beginning on Sunday morning. And

some people say, well, how do you know that. Shouldn't

the Sabbath start in the morning. Some people think that, well,

there's one verse in Luke twenty three fifty four which

should end that It's as very clear as they were

burying Jesus on Friday, Good Friday. It says the Sabbath

was about to begin, and that was sunset. So the

Sabbath doesn't start Saturday morning. The Sabbath starts when Luke says.

It starts in Luke twenty three fifty four when the

sun was setting, and they put Jesus in the tomb

to keep the Sabbath, because had they not got him

him there by sunset, they would not have kept the

Sabbath from their thinking. And so the Bible's clear it

starts with sunset. How do we know that because of

the death baring resurrection of Christ. We don't have to

be geniuses to figure out that. As they kept the

Sabbath by placing him in the tomb because it was

coming right away, It says in Luke twenty three fifty four,

we should be ready for the Sabbath.

In the same way. Sunday is the eighth day.

And when I say that, well, one, two, three, four, five, six, seven,

and what's the next number eight? But it's also the

first of the next week, and so the early Christians

thought of Sunday as the eighth day. The first day,

Sunday is the eighth day, and it is the new

beginning day. It's the day in which everything gets starting over,

the week starts over. It's also the day of the Resurrection.

It's the new life day when Christ came to life. Now,

Christ's name in the Greek according to Gomatria, which is

the assigning of numerical values to letters, Christ's name is

not six sixty six like the beast. Jesus' name is

eight eight eight our new beginning. On steroids, you see,

eight means the new beginning. Eight eight eight means God

gets done a new beginning, three eighths our new beginning.

Many Christians day believe that they can set aside the

Sabbath and rest in Christ on their own terms. Have

you ever heard that, Well, I'll just pick a day

that I want to read. I'll just choose how I

want to rest. I'll make Jesus my rest every day.

They give all kinds of stuff like that. There's a

problem with this idea. It is not Jesus or his

Father's solution for your life, it's yours. In the Gospel

of God, the Sabbath teaches us the vital truth that

we are finished by faith.

Before we start.

We rest in Jesus's power as our creator and redeemer,

in his finished work for us. If we don't start

with completeness, if we don't start with cessation and rest our,

life is undone. There is no peace. There is no

peace for the wicked. The Bible says, because they stir

up muck all the time. We need to have something

solid in our lives that when God got it done,

we rest in Jesus's power as our creator and redeemer.

When Christ died on the cross, the book of Hebrews

starts by saying he set down at the right hand

of God, which means he got it done for us.

I've heard all kinds of preachers, all kinds of philosopher,

king theologian types tell me and us and people in

the church that somehow the cross wasn't good enough, that

somehow it wasn't it wasn't it didn't achieve enough, that

we need another generation to win the war because Jesus

really couldn't quite get it done.

That's nonsense.

Hebrews one says he has sented to God, he set

down at the right hand of God, quoting Psalms one

hundred and ten, where it says rule in the midst

of your enemies until I make your enemies a footstool

for your feet. God isn't waiting for you and me

to prove something Jesus could not prove. God is waiting

for you and me to surrender to Jesus, to be

found in Christ, to walk with Christ, to be obedient

to Christ. Not because we can prove a thing, but

because we owe a lot to the one who got

it done.

For us on the Cross of Calvary.

Gospel of God, the Gospel of Jesus, the Gospels that

does not provide a platform for more worry in our

lives where we have to figure out how to fix ourselves.

The Gospel is the gospel of peace and rest that

is unleashed by the power of the Holy Spirit. In

Jesus and Hebrews four, the Sabbath is a sign of

the Gospel. So you know, if Paul wanted to argue

that the Sabbath is done away with, all he'd have

to do is say the Sabbath is done away with.

Then he'd be disagreeing with Jesus. It doesn't do that.

In Hebrews four, the Sabbath is marshaled as an argument

for this for the Gospel, and you don't use something

that's done away with as an argument for the gospel.

Hebrews four. Let's look at it. Sabbath teaches us gospel

truth that God Sabbath rest remains Hebrews four, Verse four.

I'll clip through this, for he God, God has spoken

of the seventh day in this way, and God rested

on the seventh day from all his works.

That's quoting Genesis.

Two, verse five, and again in this place he said

they shall never enter my rest. Now he's talking here

about the failure of the Jewish people to enter into

the rest of Palestine. They were disobedient, they didn't have

a relationship with God. Verse six. Since therefore remains for

some to enter it in no other thereds. The same

kind of disobedience that we saw in the Old Testament,

we see it today. Paul says, in my day back then,

and those who formally received the good news failed to

enter because of disobedience. Verse seven. Again he sets a

certain day. And let's go back to verse six. It

says they failed to enter because of what what does

it say because of disobedience? Now, friends, faith and obedience

are the same thing. Now, God realizes our faith is faulty.

He realizes our obedience were growing in it. But friends,

we're either moving in the world or we're moving in

the wrong direction. And so disobedience here defines the faithless generation.

Verse seven, again he sets a certain day to day. Now,

he's saying, in the present year, the time we're living

in right now is a time of tremendous gospel opportunity,

he says, saying through David so long afterwards, and the

words already quote today. When you hear his voice, do

not harden your hearts. If you're here, it felt God

speaking to you, and you knew God was saying, come

into a deeper relationship with me.

You ever felt that, well you should. I have.

I'll put both hands up, you know, because I have.

When you hear that voice, listen to it. Do not

harden your hearts. The Holy Spirit is mediating the word

of Christ, who is the word of God to you

on your conscience.

Verse eight.

For if Joshua had given them the rest, Now Joshua

was the old word for Jesus, Yes, shoe are for

if you shoe had given them rest. In other words,

when Joshua brought them into the Promised Land, if that

had been the rest that really worked, God would not

speak later of another day. It somehow didn't happen as

it should have back then verse nine. So then there

remains what kind of rest? The Greek is sabbatismos, a

sabbath rest for the people of God. How many of

you want to rest in your own works or rest

in God's sabbath rest for you? See the Gospel rest

is is pictured as a seventh day sabbath rest that

we need in God. The sabbath teaches us the Gospel truth,

and hear this, we are finished by faith before we start.

Adam and Eve's first full day of life was rest,

and from that sabbath rest they had a new beginning.

That's how it works in our life too. We don't

strive to earn acceptance in the Gospel. We don't do

something to prove to God that we're worthy of being

loved by faith. We rest in God's acceptance of us,

earned by Jesus in his perfect life, his amazing death on.

The cross of Calvary for our sins.

You know, some people get all nervous when you say that, well, Jesus, Jesus,

Jesus couldn't have died for my sins. That's a pagan idea.

Dear heart, Jesus died for your sins. Every sin you've

ever committed, occurring to Isaiah fifty three, was funneled through him.

God caused to meet in him all our sins. Peter

says he bore our sins in his body on the cross.

That is nonsense theology. Christ died because your sins were

a great barrier that kept you from being resurrected. Unless

he dealt with the broken law and the impact of

your sins, he had no right to pull you out

of the ground in a resurrection. He couldn't raise the

wicked or the righteous. And this is why the devil

opposed Christ when he resurrected Moses in the Book of

Jude because it looked illegal to do that. Christ had

to deal with the law by atonement. Satan hates the

Sabbath day I'll tell you why, because he hates the

cross of Christ. He knows that if he can attack

the Sabbath do away with it, he will remove the

most powerful ordinance, the most powerful institution in God's eternal

law that keeps us in a saving relationship with God

the Father, his son, Jesus Christ, and the Holy Spirit

He knows that the Sabbath is the Holy Spirit day

because God breathes into it his own presence, his Holy Spirit,

life and friend. When you receive God, you receive the

Spirit of God. So he hates the Sabbath Access thirty

one sixteen. Therefore, the people of Israel shall keep the

what what does it say the Bible? They shall keep

the Now, Paul says, the Israel of God is the

church he identifies in Galatians as God's people. Therefore, the

people of Israel that's God's people, shall keep the Sabbath,

observing the Sabbath throughout their generations as a what what

does it call it? As a perpetual covenant. You see

that Now the Hebrew is breeched alarm. It's literally ever

lasting covenant. You can't do away with an everlasting covenant

verse seventeen. It how do me see the word it

in verse seventeen. Now, that's not what the Hebrew says.

The Hebrew is the word she. You know that write

that down.

She not it she. It's the pronoun she. It's feminine.

She is a sign forever between me and.

The people of Israel that in six days the Lord

made heaven earth from the seventh say he rested and

was refreshed. That's the way my translation has it. And

he gave to Moses when he had made an end

of speaking with him upon Mount Sign at the two

tables of the testimony. Tables of stone, we know they're

blue sapphire stone in Exous twenty four written with the

finger of God. Now in both Exus thirty one thirteen

and Exus thirty one seventeen, which we just read, the

Sabbath is called a she in the Hebrew language, not

in it or a he as a Hebrew pronoun, but

she much like a queen, a queen.

You don't mistreat a queen, do you? Or do you?

You don't mistreat a queen.

In verse seventeen, a masculine verb is used for the

King of the Sabbath, who is God, literally he meaning

God rested, and he was filled in the Hebrew with

breath or spirit life nefish, the word for.

His soul is used.

God was filled with life, with breathing life on the

seventh day.

That means the Sabbath is the holy spirit day.

There are seven eyes of God, which are the seventh

spirits of God. The seventh day is the Holy Spirit.

Day seventh means the complete spirit of God, the totality

of God. If you want a relationship with God, you

need the Holy Spirit in your life. God has set

aside the Sabbath for our personal renewal and revival. The

Sabbath mediates the Holy Spirit. It's the institution where God

meets with us in the cool of the evening. In

the cool of the evening, the Lord was walking in

the midst of the garden when the breeze was their

Holy Spirit presence. We need the Sabbath. The Sabbath revival

is placed in the heart of the ten Commandment law

of God to ensure that we stay with God every

week in a relationship with Jesus renewed on the Sabbath day.

Every week we have a revival. Every week we have

a revival until the end of time. Friends, do you

realize if you're in a revival every week with God

and you walk with God for the week, you'll be saved.

You won't be lost, because life eternal is to know God.

In John seventeen three and Jesus Christ, whom he has sent,

God gave us the Sabbath to have a lock tight

velcrow relationship with them. So people say, oh, the Sabbath

is you ever hear people say the Sabbath is a

legalistic Jewish relic.

You ever hear him say that?

I like him to answer the God who spoke its SINAI,

who wrote with his own finger that, and see how

he responds. That's an insult to the God of the

universe to make a statement like that. Seventh Day is

the revival day. Jesus knew this, and that is why

Jesus just before he died. Jesus commanded his disciples to

keep the seventh day Sabbath. Most people read right through

Matthew twenty four ignore the Bible. Instead of changing the Sabbath,

Jesus reaffirmed the Sabbath for every believer all the way

down the timeline to the Second Coming. Let me show you.

Turn to Matthew twenty four in your Bible. I'll have

the verses on the screen. I like this verse. But

he who endures to the end might be saved. What

I didn't read that?

Right?

He who endures to the end will be saved. That's

the language of certainty. Go to the next verse, and

this Gospel of the Kingdom might be preached throughout the

whole world. What will be preached? You're correcting me as

a testimony to all nations. Then the end might come?

So is that? Is that what it says will come?

Now, these are four statements of certainty, will be saved,

will be preached, the Gospel will come, and so on.

So statements of certainty. I think I said four. Let

me see count those up. One, two, Yeah, well, I

mean it's three. Hey, I'm not great at math because

I'm reading in real time, but you get the point. Certainty,

not uncertainty, and both exous thirty one. Excuse me, with

all this context, Paul preached at that synagogue in Antiocha,

Pasidia with apostolic power.

On what day, on the Sabbath day.

There's a reason why this great discourse on the Gospel

is on the Sabbath day, because it's a Sabbath revival.

Acts thirteen twenty six. Brethren, Paul's preaching sons of the

family of Abraham. He's not denigrating the Jewish nation and

those among you that fear God. Not everybody does to

us has been sent the message of this salvation. God

has given the Jewish people the Gospel before he gave

anybody else, Ball says. Look at verse twenty seven. He continues,

for those who live in Jerusalem, and they're rulers because

they did not recognize him or understand the utterances of

the prophets which are read every Sabbath fulfilled these by

condemning him has always been a fatal error. To ignore

the Sabbath and Bible prophecy. They go together. Daniel seven

twenty five, the Book of Daniel. It says that the

little horn Antichrist's power would think to change times and law.

He'd attack the Sabbath in God's law. I mean he

Christians ignore prophecy. They don't understand the warnings of God

to retain the Fourth Commandment. The Jewish people the time

of Jesus were too busy to understand Bible prophecy. All

they had to excuse as well. Only the great minds

can understand prophecy. I'm not smart enough to get it,

so they didn't study.

Look.

Last call to this world's foiund in the sixth plague

of the book Revelation is a call for the evangelical

world to wake up and understand prophecy. It's also a

call to the sabbath keeping world to keep their clothes on,

have the righteousness of Christ, and not to slip into legalism.

That's what Christ says just before he returns a dual

love call to the church. And so they failed to

recognize the power of the Word of God in prophecy

that pointed to Jesus. Thus they ran rough shot over.

The Gospel Verse twenty eight continues, though they could charge

him with nothing deserving death, yet they asked Pilot to

have him killed.

That's awful.

And when they have fulfilled all that was written of him,

see they were fulfilling Bible prophecy, Paul says. They took

him down from the tree and lady him in a tomb.

They wanted to bury him and get him out of

their lives. Jesus was laid in a tomb, and Jesus

rested on the in the tomb on He was laid

in the tomb.

Just before the Sabbath, according.

To Luke, so they could keep it because it was

starting at sunset.

He was in the tomb keeping.

The Sabbath in the dark hours of the Sabbath and

the light hours of the Sabbath, or else the new

Testament makes no sense. And thus we know that the

Sabbath day is a full twenty four hour period. We

don't have to go back to creation. We go to

the cross. It defines it. Christ was laid in the tomb,

he rested, just as he did a creation at the

dawn of time. Now, the next word in Acts thirteen

thirty is the word butt. It's a huge butt that follows.

And this is one you should take this. I don't

know if you like mark. He may mark their bibles

up here. You mark your bible up a little bit.

I have great highlighters that don't bleed through, but this

is one to highlight, maybe to mark Acts thirteen thirty.

But God raised him from the dead.

Hey, you like that?

Now, Christ said he raised himself. Yeah, you destroy this

temple in three days and I will raise it up. Now, God,

the Father, God, the Son, God Holy Spirit raised Christ

from the dead. They were all together. The life that

was in Christ reached out to the call of God Almighty,

the Father, who said, thou art my son to day

have forgotten thee Thou art a priest forever after the

order of Kezidak, got sworn an oath and will not relent.

The Book of Hebrews says that is the language of resurrection.

When God yanked his son out of the grave, and

the son came, and the father came, and they met

in the flash of light, that was Christ coming to

life on resurrection morning.

Only God can do that. God raised him from the dead.

Friends, Since God raised Jesus from the dead, God can

raise you from the dead. You are not trapped by

your sins. You are not in the control of your past.

I mean, every week it seems somebody in my life

tries to remind me where I came from. You ever

had somebody do that to you? You know you came

from the awful background. You know this, and that I

don't care where I came from. You know where I'm going.

I'm going to heaven. I'm going to heaven because Jesus

died for my sins. I have an atonement that covers

my family, that places me in a right standing before God.

And I don't give two sins what someone thinks of me.

If Christ thinks that I'm his, that's the defining moment

and point in my.

Life, and it should be for all of us. Friends.

Because the law was broken the Law of God has

kept human beings in the grave, whether good or bad,

with no resurrection unless the broken law can be atoned.

For there was no permanent resurrection for anyone because the

law had been broken, had been broken without atonement.

When Jesus died on the cross of Calvary, John.

One twenty nine says, behold the lamb of God, who

takes with the sin of the world, world, the endemic

sin of the world. Christ was crucified near the altar

of the red heifer, which means the atom heifer in Hebrew,

and heifer is feminine. The Adam and Eve sacrificed for

contacting the dead. We have contacted Adam and Eve and

our Dna were dead in sin. Christ died for the

collective sin of the human race on Calvary's cross, so

he has the new atom. He would have the right

and the authority to resurrect every human being, good or evil,

and thus he can bring judgment to the world. But

Jesus didn't die just to make a point. Some people said, well,

you know, Jesus just dot to show us that he

loves us. Well, Jesus did that when he healed. I mean,

it doesn't look very loving when you're getting whacked to death.

It is a revelation the love of God. I get that. Friends.

Jesus died because there was no other way to deal

with the broken law of God than to deal with

it through blood atonement. And he shed his blood. And

I'm not ashamed of the blood of Christ. It's not

an ugly or evil thing. It is thet beautiful color

in the world. I'm sorry I had.

To keep.

Get emotional about that, all right. Jesus died to deal

with my stuff and your stuff, the ugly stuff that

keeps us away from God. When we are baptized, and

it says in Roman Si, into Christ's death bear on resurrection,

our past has dealt with, our present is accepted, and

the future is defined by the road of acceptance. The

medieval Catholic Church taught falsely that we are only accepted

at the end of a long purification process that ends

in perfection. That's Roman Catholic theology from the Council of Trent.

The Reformers died in the flames for the simple teaching

of Christ our righteousness that through justification by faith, by

accepting Christ as your savior, you're accepted at that moment

in time, your heart has regenerated, as John Calvin wrote

beautifully in his Third Is Volume three of the Institutes

of the Christian Religion, exitting scripture correctly, and we are

at that moment a child of God. And it's the

joy of acceptance that changes the life. It's the kindness

of God that brings us to repentance. Friends, I am

grateful for the death of Baryl and the resurrection of Jesus.

Paul calls that the Apostolic Gospel Friend Jesus wasn't resurrected

to be a ghost. Some people think you die, you

go to heaven, you're ghosts. He appeared in bodily form

to many. The Greek for a peer used in Acts

thirteen thirty one is the Greek word from which we

get a word optics.

They could see.

Him with their eyes, they could touch him, as John says,

with their hands the word of life. He was manifested

Acts thirteen thirty one. And for many days he appeared.

That's the word optically, appeared to those who came up

him from Galilee to Jerusalem, who are now his witnesses

to the people. Friend, we have a new Testament in

our Bible, that is an eyewitness account that Jesus was

raised from the dead, that Jesus descended to heaven, to

the right hand of God, and they saw him go

without a rocket ship. I mean, you know their struggle.

Was there anything? You know?

You hear all these physicists.

I go in line, I watch these physicist youtubes videos

and they they said, well, we don't know if there's

anything like anti gravity. Now I know there is. You

know why because I see it right there in Act one.

He went up, it's anti gravity. We have a new

Testament in our hand that tells us the truth. Now,

those early Christians were not afraid to die. Sure, they

were afraid to die in the sense it hurts, but

they knew if they died for Christ, they would live

again because Christ died and came to life, and no power,

no intimidation in the Roman world, would keep them from

proclaiming Christ to their world. You can call it what

you like, but the early Church called this victory, the

victory of Jesus, the Gospel, the good News, the Younglian

We don't get out of the ground and resurrection morning

because we're good people. Did you know that? How me

think you get out of the groun because I'm a

good person. You're going to get out of the ground

because you're Christ. If you belong to Christ, he defines

your futures no longer about you. We will be raised

at the end of time because Jesus was raised in time.

We will be accepted in the judgment day because He

went to the judgment day at the cross.

For us.

The gospel is good news that Jesus died for me

and you, that Jesus was buried to take away my sins,

and that Jesus was raised for my acceptance, my justification

from broken law. That's what one Corinthians fifteen, and that's

what Romans for teach.

So clearly.

That is why Romans eight to one says there is

no condemnation for those who are in Christ. Jesus, you

ever been hard on yourself? Come on, have you ever

been heard of yourself? Can you think of where you've

let the Lord down? And yeah, how many of you

feel like you've let the Lord down once in your life?

Keep your hands high, every hands you go up.

We all have. That's a healthy admission.

I can't stand being around people who think they never

let the Lord down the God's gift of the human race,

and they virtue signal all the time about how bad

I am. In their minds. They don't have to tell

me I'm bad. I'm a sinner, but I'm a saint

called and saved by grace. To obey, but not out

of fear, out of gratefulness. There is therefore now no

condemnation to those who are in Christ Jesus Roman's eight

one friend. Jesus got it done for you and me

on Calvary's cross, and that is why we live for

him in a state of acceptance. And OBEEDI is through

the power of the Holy Spirit, not our own power.

And that is why we share the good news of

the Gospel of Christ with others in need, because the

truth is not depressing. The truth is not about some

miserable road we have. The truth is about what Jesus

has done for us, and what Jesus will do through us,

but not us Acts thirteen thirty two. And so Paul says,

and we bring you the good news. If you ever

had someone stand up by the way, I have a

lot to speak to you today. I'm gonna talk to

you about the bad news in the Bible. You have

someone to do that. I heard that once. Who wants

to listen to bad news from the pulpit. Look, even

when God disciplines us, it's good news because he wants

to bring us Jesus. So Paul says, we bring you

the good news that what God promised to the fathers

verse thirty three, this he has fulfilled to us their

children by doing.

What What does it say? Bye what raising Jesus?

As also it has written the second Psalm, thou art

my son today have begotten thee I will focus on

that in a future sermon, But here the focal point

is that in the resurrection of Jesus, the world has changed.

Good news has come to us. We are no longer

ruled by the fear of death. Lives are changed. And

as for this fact verse thirty four, that he raised

him from the dead, no more to return to corruption.

He's spoke in this.

Way, I will give you the holy and sure blessings

of David, dear heart. Christ will never die again. Hebrews

seven tells us he has the power of an indestructible life.

Therefore he is able to say for all time those

who come to God through Him, Since he always lives

to make intercession for us. Christ resurrections proof we have

a high priest. Christ's resurrection is proof that life has won.

Death has been defeated. Jesus is not subject to death anymore.

Jesus is the one who holds the keys the death

and the grave and the book of Revelation. So if you

hold the hand of the one who holds the keys,

you will not be dominated by your own death. You

have a future. My father died a repentant man with

lots of character flaws, so I guess he doesn't pass

the perfection test, but he died having a copy of

the Desire of Age is the last chapter read to

him in his dying moments, to my father and your father,

to my God and your God. And that chapter is

about the acceptance that we have in Jesus. And if

I'm telling you, if my dad can't make it with

all his flaws, holding on to Jesus, religion is a sham.

My dad died in Christ. I would rather die in

Christ and not be all that sure of how good

I am, but real confident of Him, than to think

I'm the most perfect person on planet Earth and have

none of Jesus in my life. Jesus is the good

news I need thirteen thirty eight. Let it be known

to you, brethren, that through this man, forgiveness of sins

is proclaimed to you, and by him, everyone that believes

is freed from everything from which you could not be

freed by the law of Moses. Friends, the law doesn't

set you free. Jesus sets you free. The law doesn't

forgive you the lawgiver who is God, and Jesus, they

forgive you. The law cannot get you out of the

ground in resurrection morning, but Jesus can and will, because

he atoned for the law. The power of sin is

the law, it says in one Corinthians fifteen. But the

power of God for a new life is in Jesus,

the lawgiver.

Friends.

Paul is here saying that Jesus is the end of

the law as a means of proving our righteousness so

we can be saved. Jesus is not the end of

the law is a moral standard. Christ is the end

of the law for righteousness. Big difference. No Christian will

be saved he relies on the law to be his

or her Sae period Romans three twenty for no human

being will be justified in his sight by works of

the law, since through the law comes the knowledge of sin.

Is that a good verse? Is it?

He said, Look, you're not gonna be saved because you're

a good lawgiver, lawkeeper. Uh huh verse twenty one. But

now the righteousness of God has been manifest. He's quoting

Dane on nine twenty four seventy week prophecy. But now

the righteousness of God has been manifested apart and also

Isaiah fifty three. They merge, But now the righteousness of

God has been manifested apart from the law. Although the

law and the prophets spear witness tood and he'll say

later on, there's nothing wrong with the law, it's holy

justin good Do we then make void the law through faith?

No God forbid we establish it. But he's saying, is

that's not where God's righteousness comes from. The righteousness we

need for the judgment day doesn't come because we're good lawkeepers.

But now the righteousness of God has been manifested. To

go back to verse two, in the slight has been

manifested apart from the law, although the law and the

prophets bear witness to it. Next verse verse twenty two,

the righteousness of who? What does it say to say

your righteousness? Whose righteousness?

That verse? God's?

Now, if you have to pick between God's righteousness and

your righteousness, which one is good? Come on, answer up

God's righteousness. That's the righteousness that matters the righteousness of God.

How through faith in Jesus Christ. See Christ is our

ticket to righteousness. No Christ, no righteousness through faith in

Jesus Christ. For whom, for the perfect, for the people

who have achieved some kind of great holiness, for all

who believe, Oh, for all who believe. For there's no distinction.

I don't know about you, but I like that since

all have sin verse twenty three and fall short of

the glory of God. Here's what happens. They are justified

the Greek means legally acquitted by His kindness as grace,

as a gift through the redemption which is in Christ.

Jesus.

Now that verse makes me want to worship God. That

verse makes me want to bow down and say thank

you Lord for loving me. And love is law keeping.

Because God is love and his law is love. We

cannot love unless we come in humility and we're broken,

and we give up on ourselves, and we give into

the truth of a loving, kind, justifying God, who then

grows us and keeps us as his family Romans ten four.

For Christ is the end of the law that everyone

who has faith and believe. That's a lousy translation. It's

the revised standard version. The New King James version hits

the Greek on the nail. For Christ is the end

of the law for righteousness to everyone who believes. And

actually I have the New King James in my manuscript

for that reason, so that's ignored.

That verse will pass it on. I'll quote it.

For Christ is the end of the law for righteousness

to everyone who believes. Now, the Greek word for end

means goal. The purpose and end of the law is

to bring us to Christ. The law is not a

good judge. Well, excuse me. The law is a good judge.

The law is a good moral standard, isn't it?

Yes or no? Yeah?

But the law cannot atone for the crimes you have

committed against God. The law is a lowsy savior. The

lawgiver is God, and that is why God was in Christ,

not counting our trespasses against us. When you come to

the cross of Christ. You don't see a broken law

on Calvary's cross. You see a broken lawgiver on Calvary's cross,

dying and crying out in the night because he loves us. Father,

forgive them. They know not what they do. And Acts

thirteen forty Paul warned the people of the Synagogue of

Antioch to not try to treat this gospel lightly, and

don't think that God wouldn't judge them just because they're

the Jewish people, just because they have all these advantages.

They may be keeping the Sabbath, but if they aren't

keeping Christ in their hearts, if they don't value the Gospel,

they're dead in the water. Acts thirteen forty one.

Behold you, scoffers, and wonder and perish, for I do a.

Deed in your days, a deed you will never believe

if one declares it to you. As they went out,

the people begged that these things might be told them

the next Sabbath. Now every preacher would like someone to say, Pastor,

he talked about Jesus this week, he talked about the

Gospels and prophecy. Come back and tell us more next Sabbath.

Here's what a good gospel. Preacher doesn't want to hear. Pastor,

we're sick of prophecy. Pastor, quit talking about the Sabbath.

You know all this gospel stuff that Jesus died for

our sins. Now give us some good philosophy. I'm telling you,

those people wanted the word of God. See this was

the meadows of Basidia, the fertile ground for Bible truth.

In X thirteen forty two. Notice here that the devout

Jewish converts wanted Paul to return the next Sabbath to

share the gospel and prophecy. They wanted more of the

gospel priest on the Sabbath day because of the revival,

the Sabbath revival that had occurred. The Sabbath day, friends,

is the revival day, the seventh Day, the Oath Day,

the Covenant day, when God gets it done in our lives,

when he finishes his work, when he renews us verse

forty three. And when the meeting of the synagogue broke up,

many Jews and devout converts to Judaism follow Paul and Barnabas,

who spoke to them and urged them to continue in.

The grace of God. And that is what Paul's encouraging them.

You're not saying, well, by the way, you just do

your best to just be perfect all Or does he

say do your best to not forget that God loves you?

What's he doing there? If you continue the grace of God?

What's the focal point of your experience? How bad it

is or how good God.

Has been to you in Jesus. Come on, it's the latter,

isn't it.

How many of you are grateful this morning that Christ

has forgiven every one of your sins? Can you tell

him that by raising your hand. It's a huge reality

for us to latch onto God forgave me. At this point,

the focus is on the Jews, but it quickly shifts

to the Gentiles verse forty four. The next Sabbath, almost

the whole city gathered together hear the word of God.

So now it's not just the synagod, it's the whole

town verse forty five. Well, not yet, friends, Lifeless Christian

preaching will not attract the world to Jesus, nor will

lifeless christless lives attract others to Jesus as well. The

Jews in Anyhock didn't want the people to know of

about Jesus, who is greater than the law friend. Just

because we keep the Seventh Day Sabbath on Saturday, it

does not mean that we own the Sabbath, that we're

in charge of it, and it has no place in

the world. God has given us the knowledge of the

Sabbath so we can know Jesus better, but we don't

own it. I've moved around to a number of churches

outside of Aventism Seventh Day Adventism. I want to confess

to you in my interactions at WAVA with David Ruhlmann

and many others, I found Christians that far exceed the

piety of the brightest and best preachers in Aventism. I've

seen it people who have an advanced sense of God's presence,

who are holy spirit, godly people, but they do not

have the Sabbath. Doctor David Rouman was a Sabbath keeper

at Wava. He had had an experience of Sabbatarianism in

his life, but not everyone. And you know, these dear

people are not people, They're God's people. In fact, they

have much to teach us on what it means to

be Christians. And I remember distinctly the love that was

given to me during my hard years of ministry, when

I was banished for turning in my associate demonized across

the world field and God brought these godly people into

my life who would not let me slip into a

state of discouragement, but gave me an opportunities to preach

and teach the truth. I'd never forgive what doctor Ruhlmann

did one day when he called me into his office.

His pastor Mic had been getting all these negative messages

on the radio about your preaching. Chuck Swindall just preached

on the stay of the dead pretty much. People are ghosts.

They go to heaven right away and the big tonguel

of light things. And I had preached a sermon right

beside it where I talked about the Bible teaching of

death the living. No, they will die. The dead know nothing.

To be absent from the body, present with the Lord

doesn't mean you go straight to heaven. It means you're

present in the future resurrection. So it's the timing that matters.

But he says, you know, I don't know how to

soar through that. You may be right, you may be wrong.

But he says, one thing I know is you lift

up Jesus. You take us to the Cross of Christ,

and you're doing it more than many of us are.

And I'm not going to take you off the radio

because we need the Jesus that is proclaimed. And I

learned something from that. I learned as important as it distinctive,

is like the Sabbath. It's more important to lift up

Jesus or nothing works. Nothing works.

It is the.

Kindness of God that brings us to repentance. What Paul says,

Acts thirteen forty five. The next Sabbath, almost the whole

city gathered together hear the word of God. But when

the Jews saw the multitudes, they were filled with what's

the word jealousy, and they contradicted what was spoken by

Paul and reviled him lifeless Christless preaching goes nowhere. The

people who heard Paul found in Jesus something more profound

than the Law. They found the lawgiver, and the Jews

and Antioch didn't want the people to know about Jesus,

who's greater than the Law. It's all about them, friends,

it's not about us. Because we have a knowledge of

the Sabbath. The Bible refers to those people who do

not have a knowledge of the Sabbath at the time

of the end. As the servants of God who do

not yet have the seal of God, the Sabbath seal,

they are His people. They have done great works for

God than the Reformation. There is no criticism of God.

He will lead them to truth. But guess what we

better have Jesus or we're not the people of the truth.

In verse forty five, the Greek says, they blaspheme Paul.

They curse Paul for teaching Jesus and the truth of

the Gospel that they need to hear in the Sabbath Revival.

They started swearing and cussing him out. These are religious people,

So I once had that happened to me. I had

a church leader call me on the phone and literally

do the same because I was holding a standard I

needed to hold to protect a person. Unbelievable what a

church person can do if they're unconverted. So how did

they handle being blaspheed? They cranked it up to become

more bold. Look at verse forty six, and Paul and

Barnabas spoke out boldly, saying it was necessary that the

word of God should be spoken first to you, since

you thrust it from you and judge yourselves unworthy of

internal life. Behold, we turn to the gentiles. This is

the point where the shift becomes the world, where it

moves from Judaism to the entire world verse forty seven.

For so the Lord has commanded as saying, I upset

you to be a light for the gentiles, that you

may bring salvation to the other most parts of the earth.

Don't think for a minute that one church can contain

the glory and the goodness of God. We are messengers,

but we are not the good news.

Dear heart.

God has a way of bringing the truth to people

need when certain ones who think they own the truth

obstruct the truth. I am gladly a member of the

Seventh day Aventist Church because that movement.

This movement is.

Identifiable in Daniel twelfth and Revelation twelve as a prophetic movement.

But I also realizes that the challenges that are facing

our movement based on prophecy. The seventh Church of the

book Revelation, the Church of Late to Sea is the

Seventh Day Church. Without Christ, We're dead in the water.

There has to be a Sabbath revival of Apostolic gospel, godliness,

and adventism. I have sadly met people in my church

who think they own the truth of the Sabbath, and

they boast about it, but they don't talk about Jesus

and his love for me. Think they own the sabventh

Day like the Jews did back there at the at

the Synagogue of Antiochimasiti. They think they're saved by keeping

the law. They're saved by reaching some great standard of

perfection at the end, and thus they've aligned with Roman

Catholic theology and their ignorance that they've never read the

decrees of the Council of Trent. Friends, the Sabbath revival

in Acts thirteen didn't bring people to the Law as

their savior. It brought them to Jesus as their savior,

and thus the Law became this standard that they wanted

to keep because of grace and kindness. The Sabbath revival

at Antiochhapacity have brought both Jews and Gentiles to Jesus

to experience God's grace. I'm grateful for the Sabbath day.

I don't know. Have you have a hard week this week? Anybody?

Rough week?

I went a little over today. Rough week? We came

here today to hear God's word, to let the Lord

save us and renew us all over again, like he

did at the dawn of time, and like he did

on the cross. The Sabbath Revival in Acts thirteen forty eight.

It shows us how the story all ends, and we'll

wrap it up verse forty eight. And when the Gentiles

heard this, they were glad. Now, when we hear the

gospel and prophecy, what should be our response?

Come on, should be.

Glad and amen happy, And they glorified the word of God.

They didn't say, well, you know too much Bible preaching

the word of God. And as many as were being

ordained to eternal life believed. You see, when you believe,

you are dainned to eternal life. So let's believe. And

the word of God spread throughout all the region. But

the Jews incited the devout women of high standing, see

gossip got it going, and the leading men of the city.

Political activity got going, and they started up persecution against

Paul and Barnabas, and they drove them out of their district.

And so where did they go?

They wherever the Lord let them, doing more of the same,

sharing Jesus sharing Jesus, and we have a new Testament today.

We have a history of their victory that should make

a difference in our lives. God, bless you, dear have

any Father. I don't know about the rest of everybody

here because I can't read minds, but I know there

are times in my life when I don't feel good

enough at all to be saved. Maybe somebody else has

felt that way this week. Maybe it's because they just

have a temperament that's self doubting. Maybe it's because they

were abused, or maybe it's because some church members are

just gossiping about them and trying to wreck them unconverted

church members.

It could be anything. I don't know.

It could be just an evil, cruel world coming at them. Lord,

I bow my head as we end this message. I've

gone a little long, but I couldn't help it because

I'm not ashamed of the Gospel. I wanted to make

it clear today that we're not saved, Lord, you know

by how good we are, or saved by how good

you are. And Lord, I want to raise my hand

to you right now and say, Lord, I want to

rededicate my life to you as a faulty man in

need of grace. I want to continue in the grace

of God and dear Lord. If there's anyone else here

with my eyes bowed and they closed, my head bowed,

but they just raise their hands and say me too.

That's me, me too, Lord and Father. I thank you

that as.

My hands reached to heaven, you've reached down through the

Holy Spirit, the hand of God to hold me and

to hold us. You take that dear person who knows

they need to be baptized here, reach out to me

or Elder Mervyn John so they can be baptized, or

Elder John Dom. But Lord, for the person needs to

be renewed. May they feel it, may they know it?

And Father, Before a person is baptized, they're accepted by faith.

May they not leave here broken hearted. In Jesus' name, Amen,