The Sign and The Seal

Dear Father God. We need Jesus bad so that will be good. We

don't know how much of Seventh the avenis we need him, but we need

him a lot. And we need the real Christ, not a fake one.

So help us to see Christ and the Sign and the seal, to

know who he is and not be deceived. In Jesus' name, Amen,

the title of my message this morning is the Sign and the Seal. It

is about the Sabbath, but more than that, it's about Jesus. How

many times have we spoken of the Sabbath and we left Jesus out of the

mix. Is it possible to do that to get the right day but missed

the right person. Now I'm gonna quiz you who is the Lord of the

Sabbath in the Bible? Christ is now? In the ancient Akkadian Jewish world,

a personal seal with a person's name was used to authenticate a document or

an agreement or a letter by placing the name of the owner of the seal

on the seal, and thus when the seal was impressed in either wax or

was put into clay, it authenticated the document. It made the agreement firm

because the identity of the name on the seal was certain. In the ancient

world, there were cylinder seals used on rolled clay and simpler seals that were

placed on a ring. There were two different kinds of seals. I want

to show you some slides of these. Here on the screen. Ancient Akkadian

cylinder seal. You see it on the left. You see the clay.

When it's rolled out, it creates that message that you see which contains the

name of the author of the seal. Go to the next slide. You

see it again where it's rolled out. Here a copy of a cylinder seal

is rolled out. To show you that we can do this today. Continue,

here's a picture of an ancient seal. Continue, it's a cylinder seal.

There's another cylinder seal from the Acadian uh with the Akkadian language in it,

ancient Babylonian. Next there is is a little bit more. You can

see it, very nicely done seal. Move to the next slide. Another

one rolled out. You can get all that out of a seal. Continue,

see some of the images that has the name of the person of the

seal on it. Next slide, move to the next one. Now this

is a ring seal that was that's from ancient Judea, was found in Jerusalem.

Has the name of the person on the seal. Moved to the next

slide. Here's the same here's another one. Another picture of that. And

so when they took that ring, they'd put it into clay or whatever wax

and it would seal the name of the person in the document. Move to

the next slide. The next here's another one. It has the prints of

the city on it. The title of the person is on the seal.

Move to the next one. A little close up of that same thing.

It says literally the saw hot ear, which is the prince of the city

in Hebrew, so you know who it is, the prince of the city.

When he put his ring down and he pressed it into clay, and

that was on a document or something, it meant the prince of the city

he had authorized it. And here's another one, says ed and I who

asher alhabit. The name of the person is closed right there on the seal.

Keep moving so much like a modern signature, ancient seals had the primary

purpose of transferring the owner's name to a legal document. Are you with me?

The owner's name goes to the legal document an authentic seal before the name

of the owner of the seal. It bore the name of the owner of

the seal. It was the proof of the identity, of the authenticity of

the person making the area, agreement or the covenant. And if you were

the owner of the seal, you are the person named on the seal.

That's why a seal is so important in the Bible. When the Bible speaks

of the seal of God, God's name, God's identity is in play.

The wicked queen Jezebel took her husband Ahab's seal, and she wrote letters in

his name to have the vineyard of Nay both seized, and they both killed.

So she took the seal, she stole it, and she misrepresented him.

And so in first King twenty one ver say you have the story.

She wrote letters in Aheb's name, sealed them with his seal, and she

sent the letters to the elders and the nobles who dwelt with Nay both in

his city. And she wrote in the letters, proclaim a fast and set

Nay both on high among the people, and set two base fellows opposite him,

and let them bring a charge against him, saying you have cursed God

and the King, then take him out and stone him to the death.

Was that a proper use of a seal? Yes or no? No,

it was a misuse of the seal. So key pointing to umber one,

I have three key points here. I want to just right up front give

you Number one. No one can take God's seal from God and replace it

with another seal. Correct, No one has the right to do that.

Number two. Key point number two, God's seal must bear God's name and

you must be God himself to be the owner of God's seal. Does that

make sense? God's name on God's seal? Key point number three. The

lord of God's seal must be God himself, or he cannot be the lord

of the seal. So if you're the lord of the seal, who must

you be? God? That's right. In the Bible, God's seal will

be placed on the foreheads of God's people at the time of the end,

just before Jesus returns. God's seal is not some barcode conspiracy interacting with the

mark of the beast. It's not some secret society symbol that somehow appears at

the end and you got it, and you know some secret code. God's

seal authenticates God's name, and thus the seal points to the authority, the

legitimacy, the identity and ownership of God in our lives. So if we

have the Seal of the Living God, we have God's name, God's identity

in our lives, his rule. Is it important to have the Seal of

God? Yes? Or no? It would for those reasons. If God's

seal revised resides on your forehead, then God himself is truly in your mind

as king. His name is written on your forehead. Revelation seven one to

three. Let's take our bibles and turn there. After these things, I

saw four angels standing at the four corners of the earth, holding the four

winds of the Earth, that the wind should not blow on the earth on

the sea for any tree, goes on to say, after these things,

I saw another angel ascending from the east, having the seal. What does

it say in the Bible, the seal of who the Living God? So

God's not dead, God's not God on God's alive, the seal of the

Living God. And he cried with a loud voice to the four angels to

whom it was granted to harm the earth and the sea, Verse three,

saying, do not harm the earth or the sea or the trees till we

have sealed. Now, this is amazing, the servants of God on their

foreheads at the very end of time. There's a paradox and a challenge for

God in behalf of his people. On the one hand, the servants of

God who are Christians are indeed his people. They belong to God, and

the angels are holding back the four winds of strife because God loves his people

all over the world, millions of Christians. But here's the paradox. On

the other hand, these servants of God are not ready for the second coming

of Christ. They're not ready for the time of the end because they do

not have the Seal of the Living God on their foreheads. Isn't that what

it's getting out here? Hold off, wait, the servants of God God

need the seal. So what does God do for his people, his servants

who do not have the seal, who do not have the seal? He

has four angels here holding back the winds of strife at the time of so

the time of trouble doesn't come, so that men and women everywhere have a

chance to receive the seal of the Living God. So is God merciful in

Revelation seven? Yes? Or no? Extremely merciful. So I asked the

question, what is this seal of God that the servants of God desperately need

at the time of the end. Would you like to note today? Okay,

let's you're gonna need your Bible. You're gonna need a notepad. If

you don't get it all, you go on line to YouTube, you follow

the message up. This is a very important topic, especially as we live

on the eve of the mark of the Beast and Bible prophecy. To answer

this question, let us take note of the fact that the ceiling Angel of

Revelation seven is coming from the rising of the sun. In the Greek language,

any translations will just say the east. The rise of the sun is

the Greek way of saying the east in relation seven to three. The Ceilian

angel is coming from the direction of the east. Now, when we begin

our day, what's the beginning of the day, the west or the east?

The east? Have you ever heard of the expression the dawn of time?

What does that mean? It means the ancient past, the beginning of

time, so the east is a natural metaphor for the start of something or

antiquity. In the Hebrew Bible, the word east is often used to mean

the ancient past. The Hebrew word is hetem, and from the east mahetam

may may olam is used in Micah five to two to describe where Christ came

from. Let's look at the verse. But you, o, Bethlehem of

Fratha, who are little to be among the clans of Judah, from you

shall come forth from me, one who's to the ruler in Israel, whose

origin is from of old. Now the Hebrew is maheeram, from the east,

from ancient days, literally from days of eternity, so you can go

back forever. And the Christ who came to Bethlehem came to us from forever,

not from some beginning, but from eternity, from the east, the

ancient past. And the same phrase mahatim is using Genesis to eight. And

the Lord God planted a garden in Eden in the east, but that's not

how the Hebrew reads. Literally, from the east, he planted the guard,

identical to Micah five two, which means he planeted it from the ancient

past. A preexistent world, a pre existent universe. God put a holy

place here that goes beyond the creation of the earth. And there heaven and

Earth met in a place called Eden, and there he put the man whom

he had formed. The word Eden is used in the Aramaic of the Book

of Daniel for a time, times and the dividing of times. Han't you

been online watched Elder John's presentations on prophecy. Raise your hand high, okay,

good, give me a second here. Thank you for putting them online.

Angels in the Glen dot Org. Now the word to eaten is using

the Aramaic for a time, times and inviting times. The arame goes dan,

the UF flagidon adon va adenin the uflagidon a time times and divide in

times. Why because the antichrist little hornpower would think to change times and law

in Satan's focused attack on God's holy Sabbath day. And so when that little

horn thinks to change times in law, we have the word for Eden right

in there in the Book of Daniel. When you attacked the Sabbath, you

speak out again against God Most High, look at you. On seven twenty

five. Now here's the prophecy that predicted in the Middle Ages that the seventh

day Sabbath would be attacked by the antichrist, little horned power that would take

the place of the Son of Man. Would you serve authority in the church

in the Middle Ages and would claim to change the law of God, specifically

the law of images in the Second Commandment, and also the Fourth Commandment,

which is the Sabbath Commandment. The only commandment of God says remember that is

the one they forgot. And Daniel predicted at Daniel seven twenty five, he

shall speak words against the most High, shall wear out the saints the most

high. He shall thank to change what change what? What does your Bible

say? Thank to change times and law? And they should be given it

as hand for a time, times in half a time literally and Eden to

Eden's and happened Eden. The word Eden literally means an appointed time. The

ancient Babylonian word adn knu with the ooh Akadian case ending that word means a

fixed set sacred time, often determined by astronomical principles. So the garden of

Eden the gan adon in Hebrew means literally the garden of the appointed time.

So when we have Eden the Bible. What shows up as soon as we

have Eden, What a pointed time do we have? In Genesis do we

have the seventh day Sabbath? The holy place in the east called Eden,

at the very dawn of time was the holy garden of God that God planted

from the east for his Sabbath day fellowship with the whole human race. Thus

Eden became the first physical sanctuary in space at the dawn of time, and

the Sabbath became the eternal day of worship as God's temple in time at the

dawn of time from the East in the garden of Eden, the garden of

the Appointed Time. And so Eden and Sabbath are fused. In the Book

of Genesis, the word Sabbath and Hebrew can be divided into three words that

mean eternal Father's house, sanctuary in time, a temple in time for the

place called Eden, the garden of the Appointed Time. Sabbath commandment has found

in the heart of God's law, pointing to God himself as the king of

the universe. It has his name in it. God himself is the creer

of the world. It has his name in it. And God himself is

the Holy one who has the legal, moral, and relational claim for worship

and ultimate spiritual authority in our lives. The Sabbath is not just the right

day. The Sabbath is the day that has all the characteristics of a covenant

seal within the covenant of God's holy Law, his eternal law, and the

Bible of seal is a sign and a sign as a seal. Some people

say, how do you know that, Well, I read my Bible.

They are the same thing when they relate to the covenant of the Law of

God. So if I have the seal of God, I have the sign

of God. They are the same thing. Let me prove it to you

with an example from the book Romans. Romans four eleven. It says he

received circumcision, that this is not the eternal covenant. This is not the

creation covenant. It's the Abrahamic Covenant. But notice the relationship of a sign

to a seal. He received circumcision as a what what does it say in

your Bible as a sign or a seal of the righteousness which you had by

faith, which he was still while he was still uncircumcised. The purpose was

to make him the father of all who believe without being circumcised, and who

thus have righteousness reckoned to them. So in this verse makes it very clear.

A sign in a covenant is also a seal in a covenant. Now

we know that the Ten Commandments is a covenant. We also know that it

reflects the most ancient covenant, which is the Everlasting Covenant. So you have

to have a sign or a seal in a covenant which authenticates the legal document.

This covenant was the covenant Circumcisions, I said, and Circumcisions was both

a sign and seal. But Circumcision was not the old oldest covenant or the

most important coven in the Bible, the oldest, oldest covenant. I'm going

to ask you what do you think the oldest covenants called in the Bible?

What would be the name of it? You had to guess It's easy.

The Everlasting Covenant, is that right? The Eternal Covenant, the eternal Covenant.

Friends, I'm going to state a forthrightly, is God's name that is

God's law because God's law and God's name are the same thing, and it

is eternal. Did you hear what he just said, God's name, God's

law, same thing. So when we speak of the law of God.

We're not talking about rules on a page. We're talking about the character of

God in his heart. He is his law. You know the very first

words of patriarchs and prophets. How many times will we read over them?

The Conflict series begins with God's Love. It ends with God is love.

God is love, she says his nature. His law is love, has

ever been and will ever be. That's the everlasting covenant. Who God is

his law eternal, the eternal Covenant Jude Aromy four thirteen. At Sinai,

God told us what his covenant is. And he declared to you his covenant,

which he commanded you to perform. That is what what does it call

it? Here? The Ten Commandments? And he wrote them upon two tables

of stone. Stone is solid, stable and fixed. How many of you

have granted countertops at your house? Yeah? Granted? Now, ladies,

how many of you would rather have granted than for Micah? Raise your hand,

honestly high, Do not you'd rather have for Micah? How many hands

went up? Three or four? Granted? Raise your hands for Micah?

Got one? Two? You got two? In the back? Bless you

all with granted, will work with you get with you with for Micah.

Okay, Look, stone is solid, stable and fixed. It's permanent.

Well, my wife has challenged that thesis a little bit. She WHACKX a

little bit with her knife on the edge of it. So we got some

chips. But you know what, my wife is worth a lot more than

granted. I learned to repair it because she's precious. Now, when God

chose a stone to represent his law, it's the blue sapphire stone that God

was standing on the top of Mount Sinai, and it represents Jesus Christ.

True blue. The color of the law. The throne of God is blue

sapphire Psalms one hundred, nineteen fifty five. Now, notice that God's name

in God's Law same thing. I remember thy name in the night, Oh

Lord, and I keep thy wi thy law. So if you remember God's

name, what are you really doing? You're keeping his law. God's name,

God's law, same thing Genesis twenty one thirty three. And the question

is how long does God's name last? Is it just here and there?

Or what Abraham planted Tamars tree in Beersheba and called there on the name of

the Lord. Do you see that in your Bible. Lord, how is

it spelled in your bible capel l kepel o keppel r kepel d. Now

every time you see it that way in your Bible, that is Yahweh Jehovah.

It is the sacred name given to Moses. And out SINAI, God

says that name means I am who I am Yahweh. The Lord means I

am who I am? That's his name, I am who I am.

And notice it says there he called on the name of Yahweh Jehovah. I

am who I am God, the everlasting God. Now how long has God

been here for eternity? How long will God be for eternity? So how

long does God's name last? I am who I am forever, from the

past into the future. So if you have the name of Yahweh, you're

an eternal being. Am I right? Am? I correct? Okay?

Now the name of God used here is the Lord with all capital letters.

Now brought out what that means, and he means, I am who I

am jeh Jehovah Yahweh. That's another way of saying that God's name is God's

character in God's nature and Malachi three to six, God tells us that he

does not change. As God. His character is fixed. His moral nature

is unchangeable. It is consistent forever. Now there are some people say,

well, you know the law of God was nailed to the cross. Do

you ever hear that law of God has nailed across? Only one? Problem

with that? And then he says, done away with at least parts of

it, the parts we don't like. The problem with that is God is

his law. Now, God can change. His law is fickle right.

It can be applied here and differently there. Look at Malachi three six.

God is speaking for I the Lord. It's YAHWEH, L, O,

R, D, all capital letters, Jehovah. Do not change. Therefore

you o, sons of Jacob, what does it say? Consumed? The

fact that God cannot change is good for us. The fact that his law

is eternal and fixed is four are good. God's eternal character. In God's

eternal nature and law never ever change. And that is why God is consistently

merciful, consistently long suffering and kind, and also just in just the right

mix, so that mercy is the greater measure of his divine character. While

he is still a God of justice who will destroy the evil in the end

as the final mercy act of a loving, merciful God. Who is I

am? Who I am? I do not change. I am consistent as

a moral being, the everlasting covenant friends. In this sense is God's name,

and that eternal name Yahweh Jehovah, has always been in the eternal heart

of Jesus. Now hear me, because Jesus is Yahweh Jehovah, God two

in the one God. I'll prove that to you. I mean number two

here just too. He has the name by right Nextus thirty four six and

seven. When God revealed his glory to Moses, he proclaimed his divine name

Yahweh, Yahweh, the Lord, the Lord twice, a God who is

merciful and kind, the bounty in steadfast love and mercy, but who will

no means clear the guilty. God's name and God's glory cannot belong to anyone

but God, Jehovah Yahweh, God, the Lord God. And that's what

God says of himself. Turned to Isaiah forty eight, Verses eleven and twelve.

For my own sake, For my own sake, I do it,

for how should my name be profaned my glory I will not give to another.

Hearken to me, Oh Jacob and Israel, whom I have called I

am, he I am the first and the last. So what does God

call himself here? In verse twelve? I am, though what the first

and the last? In the book Revelation, God the Father will say that

in Revelation one of himself. He'll say it a couple other places, but

in Revelation twenty two, Jesus says this of himself, I am the first

and the last. I am the alpha and the omega. And the early

Christians would use alpha omega as the symbol for Christ. That's the language of

Yahweh Jehovah God in the Old Testament Isaiah forty four to six. Now here

becomes more clear, Thus says the Lord. And now look at this first,

that's Jehovah, all capital letters Lord, the king of the King of

Israel. That's God, the Father and his redeemer. And notice his title,

the Lord of Hosts. Now that's capital letters L R D. That's

Jehovah. So both the King of Israel and his redeemer, who's Jesus is

Yahweh the Lord. In Isaiah and they speak as one, I am the

first, and I am the last. Besides me, there is no God.

Now go down to Genesis forty eight fifteen, when Jacob was blessing his

grandchildren. He knew who Jesus was. He recognized him because he had fought

with him, and in the struggle of the night he prevailed, and his

name was changed. The pre existent Christ had taken the form of the Angel

of the Lord, the messenger from the Lord who is the Lord, who

is Jehovah. And he blessed Joseph and said, the God before whom my

fathers, Abraham and Isaac walk, the God who has led me all my

life long to this day. Now is that the God of creation? Yes?

Or no? Is the God who led Abraham, the God of Jenesis

one bedshet Badharah Eloheim in the beginning? God? Is that the same god?

Okay sixteen the Angel you see now, he said, the God.

But then he moved right to the the Angel Ah, the Angel who has

redeemed me from all evil. Blessed the lads. The God that had led

him was the Angel of the Lord. He clearly said. And this is

like the burnie when the Lord sees Moses. The Angel of the Lord calls

out to Moses. Because the Angel of the Lord is the Lord and the

Angel. When Abraham raised his hand to heaven to kill his son, the

Angel the Lord called from heaven, saying, now I know you fear God,

seeing you have not withheld your only son from me. The Angel the

Lord was Yahweh, an angel form, the messenger of Yahweh. Is Yahweh,

the God who has led me all my life long to this day,

the Angel who has redeemed me. Now who's the redeemer. It's in a

sense the Father and the Son. But here it's the Angel who has redeemed

me from all evil. Bless the lads, and in them let my name

be perpetuated. And in them let my name be the name of my father's

Abraham and Isaac, and let them grow in a multitude in the midst of

the earth. The Angel the Lord he redeemed Jacob was God in angel form,

before he was the Angel of the Lord, who is the Lord.

That eternal being was Jesus Christ, the Redeemer Yahweh, Lord God in Angel

form Isaiah sixty three nine. In all of their affliction, he was afflicted

and the Angel of his what what does it call it? Here his presence?

If this being shows up, God shows up. That's why he's the

Angel of His presence. He saved them, He's the Savior, and in

his love and his pity he redeemed them. He lifted them up and carried

them all the days of old. He was the good shepherd. That's why

David will say, Yahweh is my shepherd. The Lord is my shepherd.

Is the redeeming One, the redeeming Angel Galatians three thirteen. Now here's the

New Testament applies this word redeemer. Christ redeemed us from the curse of the

law. What does the text say there? Who redeemed Christ? Having become

a curse for us? For it is written everyone who hangs on a tree,

Christ redeemed us. Why because Jesus is Yahweh Jehovah God, and nothing

less than that will redeem you from the curse of the law. And John

seventeen, Jesus tells us that he legitimate. He possesses the name and the

glory that belong only to the One True God. And that is why Jesus

says in John seventeen to three. That eternal life is to know the One

True God and Jesus Christ, whom thou has sinned. That is the reason

why Jesus has the divine credentials to die on the cross to save us from

our sins. That is why Jesus can be the way to God as the

way, the truth and the life. Because Jesus is God. He is

God. God didn't put a demi god on the cross. You guys know

what a demi god is. You think of some demi gods in Greek mythology.

Zeus is one, you know, came from Cronos and all that.

God didn't put a demi god on the cross of Calvary. A demi god

like Zeus, Pollo for Odin, or any other demi god who is birthed

in time or before time, or who emanated from God to become a god.

That's how the gods showed up in pagan religions. It's a pagan idea

to become God. That way to birth a god from God is not what

the Bible teaches, and then worship him after he's created. The Bible and

the Spirit of Prophecy teaches clearly that Jesus has always been God. He's always

been with God, one in the Father and one with the Fathers. From

all eternity. It has always been this way. Now I'm want to prove

it to you desire Age's page nineteen, Spirit of Prophecy. But that's slide

on the screen. Thank you. His name should be called Emmanuel God with

us. The light of the knowledge of the glory God is seen in the

face of Jesus Christ. Now here's the blue. The days of eternity,

the Lord Jesus Christ was one with the Father. He was the image of

God, the image of his greatness and majesty, the outshining of his glory.

So how long back was Jesus this, according to her statement from the

days of eternity, there's no beginning to this relationship, is what she's saying.

He was the image of God, the image of his greatness and majesty.

He has always been the outshining of his glory. God has never been

dark. The light that comes from the Father is Christ. It has always

been that way. It was to manifest this glory that he came to our

world, to the sin darkened earth. He came to reveal the light of

God's love to be what what does she call him to be? God with

us? Therefore was prophesied of him. His name should be called Emmanuel.

She's working right out of the Bible here, very good use of the Bible.

Now, I think perhaps the most important document that Eli White has ever

produced on this topic. Write this down in your note review. In Herald

April five, nineteen oh six, she summarizes in a sense her work in

Patriarchs and Prophets, where she interacts with Proverbs eight. She summarizes her work

in John one after the tsire of Ages. It's really a magnificent completion of

her understanding life, understanding of who Jesus is. And I'm going to read

three paragraphs of this because it's amazing. But while God's word speaks of the

humanity of Christ when upon the earth, it also speaks decidedly regarding his pre

existence. So she's saying the Bible doesn't leave this for doubt. Here the

word, now, how is the word spelled in her writing there capitalized just

or no. That's because it's Jesus. The word existed as a divine being

even as the what she calls him, the eternal Son of God, as

a divine, being a person. He was always the eternal son of God,

she says, in union and oneness with his Father, from everlasting.

Now this is amazing. He was the mediator of the covenant, from how

long back eternity in the past, he was always the mediator of the covenant,

the one in whom all nations of the earth, both Jews and Gentiles,

if they accepted him, were to be blessed. Now, she quotes

John one, the word was with God. The word was God before men

or angels were created. The word was with God and was God. She's

right in sync with John one one moved to the next paragraph. The world

was made by him, and without him was not anything made that was made.

She's quoting John one one. And if Christ made all things, she

writes, he existed. And what does it say before all things? The

words spoken in regards to this are so decisive that no one need be left

in doubt. Christ was God, essentially, writes and in the highest sense

he was God from all eternity, God over all blessed forevermore. Now you

see I put that in red there? Do you see that that statement is

a direct quote from Romans nine to five, where she's applying that verse to

Jesus eternal deity. Moved to the next page. Nope, go back,

Yes, next light, the Lord Jesus Christ, the divine Son of God,

existed from what does she say? Eternity? But how did he exist

from eternity? A distinct person, yet one with a father. So when

we speak of the personhood of Jesus as the second person the God had,

according to sister White, that was from eternity. And look what she says

next. He was the surpassing glory of heaven. He was the commander of

the heaven intelligence, and the Adora car homage of the angels was received by

him as his right. This was no robbery of God. And then she

quotes Proverbs eight, which is often used by people. Honestly, so who

don't understand Proverbs eight. They argue that Christ was born in eternity based on

their misreading Proverbs eight. Look how sister White reads this, and I can't

read the whole article to you, But she says this was no robbery of

God. Then she quotes Proverbs eight. The Lord possessed me in the beginning

of his way, he declares, before his works of old, I was

set up from her lasting from the beginning, or even the earth was.

Now, that's how she interpreted those scriptures. She affirmed that Jesus was a

distinct person, second person of the God had from all eternity co equal with

the Father in the highest sense. So a view that departs from that you

really have to throw the spirit of prophecy out to get there. You can't

take a text in her writings out of context. She seals her understanding with

that very clear state as she approaches the end of her life, so we

are in no confusion about where she's coming from. So in one Corinthians five

nineteen, Paul says God was in Christ on the cross, dying for our

sins, reconciling us to himself. And Ephesians four three two Paul says that

God in Christ forgave us on the cross because no one less than God is

good enough to save us. The one who made us saved us. Christ

is God, because Jesus says in John fourteen ten that the Father is and

the Son, and the Son is in the Father. Friend. God gave

God on the cross of Calvary, and nothing less from God can atone for

the broken law of God won't work. So if you have an inadequate Christ,

you have no cross, no atonement, no freedom from sin. We

are still in our sins. God gave God on the cross. God was

in Christ as nature, as law is, love, has ever been,

ever will be. It was in Jesus hanging on the cross. God said

to Moses and the bush, I am who I am is my name and

God's law and God's name, or the same thing as God says in Psalms

one hundred, nineteen fifty five. So when Jesus die on the cross,

the living Lord, the living Law of God, died on the cross for

our sins. Do you get that? That's why Jesus' death is good enough

to wash away our sins by his blood the law of God in Jesus,

that is, Jesus atoned for the broken law of God. It wasn't the

law that was broken at the cross. It was the Son of God broken.

Just like Moses took the tables of the Law and he threw them and

broke them at the foot of the mountain. Christ was broken, and we

break bread to symbolize the brokenness of Christ. If Jesus is in God,

friends, you have a weak cross that doesn't save you one lick. And

you have a non savior who did not atone for the broken law of God

because he's unable to. And that means you are still in your sins with

no atonement for the judgment day. This is why the subject matters. On

the cross, the law of God was shattered because Jesus' body, Jesus' heart,

God's heart was broken because of our sins. Don't let anyone tell you

that any part of God's tend commandment law is done away with. Have you

ever heard that? Don't let him say that to you. I mean,

they can say it, but don't believe it. And don't let anyone get

you to believe that Jesus is not God for real, because that's just as

bad. God didn't nail his holy, perfect Law to the cross. God

knailed to the cross, the lawgiver. He nailed the law, the living

Law, who is the Law of Love, bleeding out for the sins of

the world, making peace with his precious blood, the blood of the ever

lasting Covenant on the cross Hebrews thirteen twenty. Now may the God of Peace

who brought again from the dead, our Lord, Jesus the Great shepherd of

the sheep, by the blood of what what does it call it? Here?

Of the Eternal Covenant, God's name, God's law. It's ever been

so. When Jesus died, he couldn't shed the blood of the eternal covent

unless he's God. And so he God bled out and died in Jesus twenty

one to equip you with everything good that you may do as will. That's

the ten Commandment's working in you, that which is pleasing in sight through Jesus

Christ, to whom be glory forever and ever Amen. Jesus' blood could not

ratify the Eternal Covenant as God's law and name, as the Book of Hebrew

says, unless God's seal is on the Son of God. Turn me to

the John six twenty six and twenty seven. Our children read it. It

was also here read this morning beautifully in our scripture reading thank you. Jesus

answered them, truly, truly, I say to you, you seek me

not because you saw signs, but because you ate your feel of the loves.

Some people come to churches just for the potlucks. Some people come to

churches just where you can get out of the church. That happened to Christ

too. But he says, look, this is what matters. In verse

twenty seven, do not labor for the food which parises, but for the

food which endures to eternal life, which the Son of Man will give to

you. And here's the key phrase, for on him God, the Father

has set his seal. So who possesses the seal the living God? According

to this verse, Jesus Christ does seal of God that belongs to God belongs

to Jesus Christ. Also, because Jesus is God, Jesus is the lord

of the seal. Remember that a sign and a seal are the same thing

in Romans. For eleven, God sign is God seal Exodus thirty one thirteen.

Now Here is his sign and seal identified in scripture. Say to the

people of Israel, you shall keep my sabbaths, for this is what What

does it say? It is a sign between me and you throughout your generations,

that you may know something that I What does it say? In other

words, you may know me my name the Lord Yeahweh Jehovah all capital letters

sanctifies you. We are set apart by the knowledge of God. The sabbath

is the sign that God is Yahweh, the eternal God, the Loving God,

the God who is law. The sacred name of the Lord, Yahweh

Jehovah is God's Law, God's eternal covenant. I am who I am?

So how do we know God by his personal name? God said he gave

He gave the Sabbath as a sign so we'd know him as Yahweh. The

Sabbath is the creation covenant NEXTUS thirty one. In fact, the words seven

and Hebrew means oath, and it's used synonymously with covenant in Genesis twenty one,

when Abraham dug the well there at Bearsheba, which means well of the

seven or well of the oath. The Sabbath is also in the context of

the Bible, not just the creation covenant when He made the covenant creation,

but it is the sign of the eternal covenant that is God's name, God's

law, his character. Remember that a seal must bear the name of the

one who owns the seal. The Sabbath is the sign and seal of the

everlasting Covenant, as it bears God's name, his credent, his identity,

his claim on our lives. In worship and obedience, The Sabbath is the

only command which God says remembered, because it's the only one in which they

deliberately forgot it. In the Christian world, the servants of God across the

world no longer keep it. Let's look at Exodes twenty verses eight through eleven.

Remember the Sabbath day. That's like saying, remember our anniversary? Have

you ever forgotten your wife's anniversary? I have erred in this way before,

and there is lots of grief that follows. I must say, okay,

because my precious wife is deserving of a good memory. Right, remember the

Sabbath day to keep it holy. Six days shalt thou labor and do all

they work? But the seventh day is the Sabbath of who. Now here's

the name within the Covenant seal? What does it say? The Lord thy

God? And how is Lord spelled there cab It's Jehovah Yahweh. So the

Sabbath belongs to who, Jehovah Yahweh, Lord God. In it, thou

shalt not do any work. Thou are and a son or their daughter,

the manserve and their maid servant, they cattle. Are they strangers within their

gates? For in six days. What does it say the Lord, the

Lord made heaven and earth. It's Jehovah Yahweh. It's capitalized the see and

all that is in and the rest of the seventh day. Where for the

Lord Jehovah Yahweh again blessed the Sabbath day and hallowed it. Now you will

find the word Yahweh used three times in the Sabbath commandment, not one,

not two, three times. Verse ten says, but the seventh day is

the Sabbath of Yahweh alahen the Lord thy God. That means you have to

be the Lord with all capital letters Jehovah Yahweh God, to be the Lord

of the Sabbath. Am I right. Jesus has these divine credentials to be

the Lord thy God of the Sabbath day. This is why what he says

in Matthew Mark and Lucas Radical Matthew twelve eight. For the son of Man

is lord even of the Sabbath. Mark. Therefore, the son of Man

is also lord of the Sabbath Luke six five. And he said to them,

the son of Man is also a lord of the Sabbath. Friends of

Jesus is lord of the Sabbath, and this statement applies to him in the

Fourth Commandment, Verse ten of Exodus twenty. But the seventh day is the

Sabbath of the Lord thy God. Christ is nothing less than the Lord thy

God. To make the claim he did three times in the Gospels, the

seal of God that vallitates God's law is the Sabbath. And God has his

seal upon the son of Man. Because God's name God's law are in Jesus,

the Son of Man, and the book of Genesis. As soon as

you have the Sabbath day appear on the seventh day, the divine name Yahweh

or Jehovah spelled as the Lord in all capital letters appears for the very first

time, glued to the Sabbath day. Just like the mark of the beast

is glued to the name of the beast in Revelation is a counterfeit. You

have the Sabbath day glued to the name Jehovah. It appears for the very

first time when the Sabbath comes online. Look at Genesis two to one.

Thus the heavens of the earth were finished and all the host of them.

And on the seventh day, God in his work what she had done,

he rests in the seventh day. The word seven means oath day. That's

the covenant day from all his work which he had made, and God blessed

the seventh day, which means in Hebrew the oath day or covenant day.

He's safetified it because that in it he rested from all his works with God

had created made. Now verse four. As soon as you have the Sabbath,

notice what happens to the name Yahweh. The very first time it appears

in the Bible is in verse four. These are the generations of the heavens

and the earth when they were created in the day the Lord God made the

earth and the heavens. As soon as you have the seventh Day as the

sign of the everlasting coven, you have God's name showing up as Lord Jehovah

Yahweh. God. Sabbath is the sign and seal of the Lord God that

validates his eternal law, that communicates his divine claim and purpose in our lives.

This is why we need to honor the edges of the Sabbath to really

it's keeping. Jesus is the Lord of the Sabbath. Because Jesus is the

Lord God who finished the work of creation on the Sabbath day. The one

who made us saved us, the one who is the Law of God died

because it was broken. And as the sun was setting on Good Friday,

it was the Sabbath day. It was coming. And it says they rested

according to the commandment, and we were at home in Eden because of the

Cross of Christ. The Seal of God is the seal of the Son of

God, because the Son of God is the Lord Jehovah Yabah, God who

is worthy of worship, the Lord of the Sabbath. Remember, the seal

of Revelation seventh three must go on the foreheads of the servants of God who

do not yet have the Seal of God. It must go on the forehead,

just like God's name and the name of the Lamb Revelation fourteen one.

The name of God and the Lamb is on the forehead. The seal of

God goes on the forehead. Deuteronomy six. God's ten commandment. Law goes

on the forehead, as frontlets between your eyes, and it goes in your

hand. God's Law belongs there not the mark of the beast, as the

counterfeit the mark of the beast goes on the fore in the hand where God's

law should go, the Sabbath seals should go. That completes the unity of

the law for the final Christians. At the time of the end Deuteronomy six,

God's ten commandment law was given to function as a sign on the forehead.

Verse four. Here of Israel, the Lord our God is what What

does it say? Now? The King James will just say one, and

it's both the right The revised here is working off the Greeks of Tuagen,

which also reflects some Hebrew manuscripts and the Dead Sea scrolls. It means the

same thing, one but one, yahweh implied. And thou shalt love the

Lord, thy God with all thine heart, with all thy soul, with

all thy might. What. Because God's law is one, the Father and

the Son are one. We are to obey God as they are one.

And these words which I command you this day shall be in thine heart,

and thou shalt teach them diligently to that children shall talk of them when that

citizen in the in that house, and when thou walk us by the way,

when they last down, and when they rise us up. Children are

to learn the Bible and the Word of God verse eight. And thou shalt

bind them for a What what does it say in the Bible? A sign

where on your hand, and they shall be as frontlence between your eyes,

as a jewel. Right here, look, God's law goes in the forehead

and the hand. The mark of the beast is usurping the place of God's

law, God's sabbath side and other things. The Beast and the Revelation is

the Antichrist kingdom power in the world order. And like Jesus, the Antichrist,

Beast and Revelation thirteen has a pre existence before his antichrist phase of forty

two prophetic months, which is three and a half years, mimicking jesus ministry.

Christ's death, the beast is wounded to death. Christ was resurrected.

The beast gets resurrected as deadly wound is healed. So the beast is Antichrist.

The whole world that the time of the end will worship the beast,

who's the counterfeit to Christ. Now think about this. The mark is the

mark of the beast. Right the beast is Antichrist. What is the mark

of Jesus Christ, the seal of Jesus Christ, the sign of Jesus Christ.

It's the Sabbath. The mark of the beast is direct attack upon the

Sabbath. You know, they the first commandment. They worship the beast.

They violated second commandment, the image of the beast, Third Commandment. The

name of the beast God's name. Fourth Commandment. The mark of the beast.

The sighing of God is the Sabbath. The mark of the beast issues

a direct attack on the fourth Commandment at the time of the end. Think

about this. The mark of the beast is the opposite of the seal and

sign of God. The mark belongs to the beast as Antichrist. The sign

and seal belong to Jesus Christ. The beast is the Antichrist's power at the

end. That means the beast has a counterfeit Sabbath as a sign and seal.

That is the mark of its authority, and with it people are led

away from Jesus. When people will choose the mark of the beast, and

that issue has not yet occurred at the end of time, they will in

the future choose the beast instead of Jesus and the dragon instead of God the

when those honors started. Christians who do not yet have the Seal of God,

who study their Bibles, who are led in love to see Jesus as

the Lord of the Sabbath, when they discover that there are ten commandments in

not nine, and the fourth commandment is the Forgotten Commandment, they will turn

their hearts toward God to Jesus. And when you have the sign and seal

of the Son of Man, it means that you have Jesus, the law

of Christ, the spirit of Christ is in your heart. I'm going to

be very direct here. There are some sabbath keepers today who believe in the

Sabbath day Sabbath, but they deny that Jesus is the Lord God of the

Sabbath, as the Bible clearly teaches. So let's say you have the Sabbath

right on the day, but you just can't accept Jesus for his divine credentials.

Thus the Seal of God isn't his seal. Thus he's not the Lord

of the Sabbath. How do they do that, Well, they deny it

by claiming that Jesus is not Yahweh Jehovah God. He's not an eternal being

that he isn't God from all eternity. He doesn't possess the divine credentials to

die on the cross. He's a demi god of sorts. And when they

do that innocently so they have done exactly what the beast power will do at

the time of the end. They have stripped Jesus of his right to be

the lord of our life. They've forgotten that the one who made us saved

us, that he is Yahweh Jehovah, God like his father, and that's

why he shares the throne of God in Revelation twenty two to one, because

he is God. The Sabbath is the sign of the Living God, is

the sign that points to Jesus. But if it doesn't, if you don't

get who Jesus is, it doesn't mean anything. The seal doesn't get on

your forehead if you deny the name of the one who bears the seal.

Friends, if you have the Sabbath and you don't have Jesus as the Lord

God of the Sabbath, you have nothing in the Sabbath, and the seal

of God doesn't work for you. In the mark of the Beast. Really,

I would like to finish this message by listening to Jesus again. Take

your bibles. Turn to John sixth seventh twenty nine. Do not labor for

the food which perishes, but for the food which endures, to eternal life,

which the Son of Man will give to you. See he can give

you eternal life, for on him has God the Father set his seal.

Then they said him, what west we do to be doing the works of

God? And Jesus answered them, this is the work of God that you

believe in him whom he has sinn. They're heavenly. Father. When Satan

attacked you for the creation of the world, when he claimed that you and

your law are not the same thing, that you're just a tyrant, that

you don't have sufficient capacity to give. You can receive worship, but you

can't give. And Father, who had thought that a lamb, who had

thought that a lamb would answer the question of who you are, thank you

that Jesus is more than just a savior. He's the Savior. He is

the I am who I am God, the glory of SINAI at the cross,

the Lord. There are times in life where we can't understand the complexity

of your nature. None of us. He are a physicists to deduce exactly

how this is. But Lord, when we look at the cross and we

hear the words of Jesus, Father, forgive them, they know not what

they do. Lord, if we're listening right, you know this. You

are speaking through Jesus because you are forgiving them. Thank you that God in

Christ forgave us. And Lord, maybe go from this place not arrogant because

we know something others may not, but help us to keep our eyes on

Jesus and by so doing, to keep her eyes on you and to cherish

your presence in our life. Father, thank you that we don't deny you.

By affirming who Jesus is, we affirm you. And Lord, how

the Father and the Son are one, we don't know, but we do

know. Jesus says. It's so so, Father, I laid down my

theologian's hat, and I just thank you for the simple word of God.

Help us to live it, to know it, and to be found in

Christ. Forgive every one of their sins. Lord. It could be that

someone here today is saying, Father, I need to surrender to Jesus today,

and I've not. You're that person. You raise your hand right now

to God. You raise your hand. If you have been walking away from

Christ to Christ has been diminished in your life life by worldly living, and

you've got to renew your life. Raise your hand and say, Lord,

that's me. I need Jesus. And if you just need Jesus forever and

ever, you don't will ever lose Him as the Great I am. Raise

your hand to God. Now, Father, you've heard the different commitments.

If some brother or sister here needs to be baptized soon, may them get

with me and Mervyn john Dom and let's get it going for them. But

Father, save your people in Jesus' name. Amen,