Caption transcript for The Holy Days of Our Lord (2012): “Sabbath” (10/11)

• 00:03 IT IS WRITTEN IN THE SCRIPTURES THAT WE SHOULD JOURNEY TO JERUSALEM THREE TIMES A YEAR.
• 00:08 WE ARE GOING UP TO THE CITY OF GOD,
• 00:10 TO JERUSALEM, TO CELEBRATE.
• 00:17 THE LORD TOLD THE CHILDREN OF ISRAEL TO HONOR SEVEN HOLY CELEBRATIONS EACH YEAR
• 00:22 INVOLVING THREE JOURNEYS TO JERUSALEM.
• 00:25 EACH FESTIVAL WOULD BE UNIQUELY FULFILLED IN THE COMING OF THE MESSIAH.
• 00:43 SHALOM AND WELCOME
• 00:44 TO ZOLA LEVITT PRESENTS
• 00:46 I'M MYLES
• 00:46 THIS IS MY WIFE KATHARINE
• 00:48 AND WE'RE CONTINUING IN OUR SERIES
• 00:49 "THE HOLY DAYS OF OUR LORD".
• 00:51 THIS WEEK WE'RE GOING TO BE SPEAKING ABOUT SHABBAT, THE SABBATH.
• 00:55 EXODUS CHAPTER 20, VERSE 8 TELLS US IN THE HEBREW,
• 00:57 (SPEAKING HEBREW)...
• 01:00 WHICH MEANS "REMEMBER THE SABBATH DAY AND KEEP IT HOLY".
• 01:04 IT'S SUPPOSED TO BE A SPECIAL DAY.
• 01:06 IT'S SUPPOSED TO BE A WONDERFUL DAY.
• 01:08 THE SHABBAT WAS ALWAYS INTENDED NOT TO BE A BURDEN BUT TO BE A DELIGHT.
• 01:11 IT'S TO BE A TIME WHERE YOU AND I CAN RELAX AND BREATHE
• 01:16 AND JUST RECEIVE FROM GOD HIS REST...
• 01:19 NOT TRY TO ACHIEVE REST.
• 01:20 EXACTLY
• 01:21 AND BECAUSE OF YESHUA WE CAN HAVE THAT REST ALL THE TIME.
• 01:24 BUT LET'S GO TO ZOLA AS HE TEACHES US ABOUT THE SABBATH FROM ISRAEL
• 01:27 ON LOCATION WITH ZOLA RIGHT NOW.
• 01:31 "REMEMBER THE SABBATH DAY TO KEEP IT HOLY"
• 01:34 "SIX DAYS YOU SHALL LABOR AND DO YOUR WORK"
• 01:37 "BUT THE SEVENTH DAY IS THE SABBATH OF THE LORD YOUR GOD."
• 01:41 "IN IT YOU SHALL DO NO WORK"
• 01:43 "FOR IN SIX DAYS THE LORD MADE HEAVEN AND EARTH, THE SEA AND ALL THAT IS IN THEM"
• 01:49 "AND RESTED ON THE SEVENTH DAY."
• 01:52 "THEREFORE THE LORD BLESSED THE SABBATH DAY AND HALLOWED IT."
• 01:57 SHALOM...HELLO AGAIN.
• 01:59 WELL THERE ARE PEACEFUL SPOTS IN ISRAEL.
• 02:01 YOU KNOW YOU WOULDN'T THINK SO FROM WATCHING THE NEWS
• 02:03 AND THE WAY THEY COVER THIS PLACE
• 02:05 BUT THERE ARE PLENTY OF PLACES...
• 02:06 WE'RE NEAR JERUSALEM REALLY...
• 02:08 UP KIND OF IN THE MOUNTAINS IN THE NORTH OF JERUSALEM...
• 02:11 A BABBLING BROOK...
• 02:13 PEOPLE COME HERE TO HIKE AND SO FORTH
• 02:15 AND PEOPLE COME HERE TO REST
• 02:17 AND THAT'S WHAT SABBATH IS ALL ABOUT.
• 02:20 I ONCE PICKED UP A TALMUD JUST FOR FUN BECAUSE THERE ARE SO MANY SABBATH LAWS IN JUDAISM
• 02:25 AND I WAS CURIOUS HOW THEY WERE ALL WRITTEN OUT AND SO ON
• 02:28 AND IF I REMEMBER RIGHT THERE WERE HUNDREDS OF CHAPTERS OF RULES, VERY COMPLICATED RULES.
• 02:35 YOU CAN WEAR A CERTAIN COAT BUT YOU CAN'T CARRY IT.
• 02:38 YOU CAN WALK SO MANY YARDS...
• 02:40 THIS AND THAT TO KEEP THIS DAY OF REST.
• 02:45 BUT THE BIBLE IN EXODUS 20, A FAMOUS PASSAGE,
• 02:49 IT SAYS SIMPLY THIS,
• 03:24 ONE OF THE SMALL CLAUSES IN THAT A STRANGER THAT'S AMONG YOU...
• 03:28 HE'S NOT SUPPOSED TO WORK EITHER
• 03:30 AND YET A TRADITION HAS GROWN UP IN THE JEWISH COMMUNITY
• 03:34 TO USE A FRIENDLY GENTILE PERSON TO TURN THE LIGHTS ON,
• 03:39 FOR EXAMPLE, YOU CAN'T TURN LIGHTS ON.
• 03:42 THE GENTILE CAN ALSO, I DON'T KNOW, TURN ON THE TV PERHAPS THIS SORT OF THING,
• 03:49 BUT REALLY SCRIPTURALLY THAT ISN'T VALID.
• 03:52 THE TALMUD, AS I MENTIONED, IS A COMMENTARY ON SCRIPTURE, RABBINICAL WISDOM AND SO FORTH
• 03:59 THAT, TO TELL YOU THE TRUTH, IN RABBINICAL JUDAISM IT TAKES PRECEDENCE OVER THE BIBLICAL OR SCRIPTURAL JUDAISM.
• 04:09 YOU KNOW SOMEBODY COMMENTED
• 04:10 THAT SINCE THE FIRST CENTURY ONLY TWO KINDS OF JUDAISM HAVE SURVIVED...
• 04:14 THE KIND OF PHARISAICAL JUDAISM THAT WE FIND AMONG THE ORTHODOX AND MESSIANIC JUDAISM,
• 04:22 THE JEWISH BELIEVERS, THOSE WHO BELIEVE TO THE JEWISH MESSIAH IN THE FIRST CENTURY
• 04:26 ALSO HAVE COME DOWN TO US,
• 04:28 A REMNANT IN EVERY GENERATION,
• 04:30 AND A REMNANT TODAY.
• 04:31 WELL THE SABBATH IS BLESSED FROM CREATION.
• 04:34 IT HAS ALWAYS MARKED THE JEW WHEREVER HE WAS.
• 04:37 AND YOU KNOW GOD HONORED IT HIMSELF AND MADE THEM HONOR IT OUT IN THE WILDERNESS.
• 04:43 DURING THE EXODUS MANNA WAS ABSENT ON THE SABBATH.
• 04:46 MANNA CAME DOWN FROM HEAVEN TO FEED THE PEOPLE AS THEY WANDERED IN THE SINAI
• 04:50 BUT THERE WAS A DOUBLE PORTION ON FRIDAY
• 04:53 AND NO MANNA ON SATURDAY.
• 04:55 AND THAT OF COURSE OUTLINED VERY CLEARLY TO THEM
• 04:58 THEY COULDN'T EVEN GO TO THE WORK OF GATHERING THE STUFF
• 05:00 BUT THEY GATHERED IT ON FRIDAY
• 05:02 AND THEN THEY COULD EAT IT ON SATURDAY.
• 05:05 THE TRADITION TODAY, I COULD GO ON AND ON AND THIS PROGRAM COULD LAST A MONTH
• 05:10 BUT THE PRIMARY ONES, USUALLY TWO CANDLES ARE LIT
• 05:15 AND THE MOTHER OF THE HOUSE LIGHTS THEM,
• 05:18 SHE SAYS A BLESSING OVER THEM,
• 05:19 THERE'S VARIOUS TRADITIONS.
• 05:21 IN ONE SHE'S CASTING OFF EVIL SPIRITS.
• 05:24 IN ANOTHER, SINCE SHE'S NOT SUPPOSED TO KINDLE A FIRE ON THE SABBATH,
• 05:28 SHE LIGHTS THE CANDLES FIRST AT SUNDOWN,
• 05:31 THEN COVERS HER EYES SO SHE DOESN'T SEE THE FLAMES AND SAYS A BLESSING
• 05:36 AND THAT MAKES IT LEGAL.
• 05:38 SHE'S ACTUALLY HIDING THE FLAME FROM HER OWN EYES.
• 05:43 THESE ARE TRADITIONS.
• 05:45 THAT IS NOT SCRIPTURAL.
• 05:47 THERE IS A CUP OF SANCTIFICATION KIND OF THAT FATHER TAKES,
• 05:52 TWO "CHALLOT", THAT IS TWO...
• 05:54 THE BREAD CALLED "CHALLOT" IS MADE FROM AN EGG BATTER VERY RICH, VERY TASTY
• 06:00 AND IT'S THE SABBATH BREAD AND THERE ARE TWO LOAVES USED AT THE TABLE
• 06:05 AND THIS SIGNIFIES THE DOUBLE MANNA THAT GOD GAVE THEM WHEN THEY WERE OUT IN THE WILDERNESS.
• 06:12 NOW THEN, THEY CAN'T KINDLE A FIRE
• 06:14 SO THE RABBIS HAVE RULED THEY CAN'T PRESS AN ELEVATOR BUTTON,
• 06:19 THEY CAN'T START A CAR, THEY CAN'T STEP ON A PAD THAT OPERATES AN ELECTRIC DOOR...
• 06:24 ALL OF THAT IS KINDLING A FIRE IN THE RABBI'S VIEW.
• 06:27 I WOULD QUIBBLE ON THAT...
• 06:28 I WOULD SAY THAT THE LAW IS...
• 06:30 ABOUT KINDLING A FIRE...IS ABOUT WOOD GATHERING AND CHOPPING.
• 06:33 BUILDING A FIRE IS A HARD JOB ESPECIALLY IN THE WILDERNESS.
• 06:37 IF I START TO BUILD A FIRE HERE
• 06:39 I'D HAVE TO GO OFF, FIND SOME TREES, CHOP THEM UP, BRING THEM DOWN HERE, GET GOING,
• 06:43 MAYBE IF I DIDN'T HAVE A MATCH AND HAD TO START A FRICTION FIRE, I WOULD REALLY HAVE TO WORK AT IT.
• 06:50 THAT TO ME IS THE WORK,
• 06:52 THAT'S AN OPINION, BUT THEY HAVE RULED THE FIRE ITSELF YOU CAN'T DO.
• 06:57 SO YOU HAVE WHAT IS CALLED A "SABBATH ELEVATOR"
• 07:00 HERE IN ISRAEL IN AN ORTHODOX HOTEL WHICH OUR TOUR GROUP USES,
• 07:04 IT'S A GOOD HOTEL,
• 07:06 BUT ON THE SABBATH OR ON PASSOVER, ON ANY HOLY DAY,
• 07:09 AN ELEVATOR OR TWO IS SET TO STOP AT EVERY FLOOR,
• 07:13 YOU DON'T HAVE TO PUSH A BUTTON,
• 07:15 YOU JUST GET IN ON ONE AND IF YOU'RE GOING TO 12
• 07:17 YOU JUST STAND THERE TILL THE THING GETS TO 12...
• 07:20 IT STOPS EVERY OTHER FLOOR,
• 07:22 THE DOOR SLOWLY OPENS,
• 07:23 IT WAITS AWHILE, THEN THE DOOR CLOSES,
• 07:26 THEN IT GOES UP TWO FLIGHTS AND SO ON...
• 07:28 YOU CAN GET OFF AT THE ONE BELOW YOUR FLIGHT AND WALK UP
• 07:31 OR THE ONE ABOVE YOUR FLIGHT AND WALK DOWN.
• 07:33 STILL I WOULD CHALLENGE THEM THAT THAT WALK ON THE STAIRS
• 07:35 TAKES MORE WORK THAN SIMPLY PUSHING THE ELEVATOR BUTTON.
• 07:40 BUT THAT'S THE LAW.
• 07:43 THEN THE LIGHTS...
• 07:44 THE LIGHTS ARE A PROBLEM.
• 07:46 WE USED TO HAVE...
• 07:48 I RAN INTO AN ORTHODOX RABBI ONCE WHO WATCHED MY PROGRAM ON SATURDAY MORNING,
• 07:53 WHAT USED TO BE ON FAMILY CHANNEL ON SATURDAY MORNINGS,
• 07:56 AND I QUESTIONED HIM...
• 07:58 HE HAD HIS HEAD COVERED...
• 07:59 I MET HIM HERE IN JERUSALEM BUT HE WAS FROM AMERICA...
• 08:01 I SAID, "WELL HOW DO YOU HAVE THE TV ON ON SATURDAY MORNING?"
• 08:03 AND HE CONFESSED THAT HE TURNED IT ON BEFORE SUNDOWN FRIDAY NIGHT TO FAMILY CHANNEL,
• 08:09 WHICH BACK THEN WAS CBN, CHRISTIAN BROADCASTING NETWORK,
• 08:12 AND LET THOSE CHRISTIAN PROGRAMS PLAY THROUGH THE ENTIRE NIGHT IN HIS HOME SO THAT AT 9:30 AM
• 08:19 WHEN I CAME ON IN EAST COAST TIME THAT HE COULD WATCH THE PROGRAM AND THAT'S WHAT HE DID.
• 08:25 I WAS VERY THRILLED BY THAT BUT HE LIKED MY POSITIVE VIEW OF ISRAEL.
• 08:29 WE HAVE A GREAT MANY JEWISH VIEWERS
• 08:31 MOST OF THEM NOT BELIEVING IN MESSIAH
• 08:34 BUT STILL IN ALL LOVING THE PICTURES OF ISRAEL AND MY ZIONISTIC ATTITUDE
• 08:39 AND I'M GLAD TO HAVE THEM.
• 08:42 THERE ARE OTHER LAWS I'M GOING TO GO INTO WHEN WE COME BACK IN BREAK, AFTER THIS.
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• 11:01 THANK YOU
• 11:02 NOW LET'S GO BACK TO THE PROGRAM
• 11:15 WELL HERE WE ARE IN A RESTFUL VALLEY ON A SABBATH DAY.
• 11:19 A DAY OF REST... THE ISRAELIS REST
• 11:22 THEY COME TO PLACES LIKE THIS...
• 11:23 PERFECTLY LEGAL TO REST OUT HERE.
• 11:25 BUT I WAS TELLING ABOUT THE RABBI AND THE TV TURNED ON, ON FRIDAY NIGHT
• 11:29 AND LET IT PLAY THROUGH THE NIGHT.
• 11:31 SOME PEOPLE DON'T USE LIGHTS AT ALL SO AS NOT TO VIOLATE THE SABBATH
• 11:35 OR THEY TURN THEM ON BEFORE SABBATH
• 11:38 AND A FUNNY CASE HAPPENED IN ISRAEL A FEW YEARS AGO.
• 11:42 THEY STARTED BRINGING THE ETHIOPIAN JEWS TO ISRAEL.
• 11:45 YOU KNOW ISRAEL'S THE ONLY COUNTRY
• 11:47 THAT EVER BROUGHT BLACK AFRICANS TO THEIR SOCIETY FOR ANYTHING BUT SLAVES.
• 11:51 THESE JEWS...
• 11:53 THAT IS THEY WEAR "TALLIT", THEY KEEP THE SCRIPTURAL LAWS,
• 11:58 THEY KNOW THE SCRIPTURE, THEY KNOW THE TORAH.
• 12:00 THEY WERE SEPARATED FROM THE REST OF JUDAISM SOME 3,000 YEARS AGO
• 12:03 BUT THEY OBSERVE THE LAW BECAUSE THEY'VE READ THE LAW AND THAT WAS BEFORE 3,000 YEARS AGO.
• 12:09 THE EXODUS WAS ABOUT 3,500 YEARS AGO.
• 12:11 AND THEY USED NO LIGHTS ON THE SABBATH.
• 12:14 THEY KEEP IT VERY STRICT; THEY SIT IN THE DARK ON SATURDAY.
• 12:18 IN THE DAYLIGHT YOU COULD READ BY A WINDOW I SUPPOSE BUT OTHERWISE NO LIGHTS.
• 12:23 AND THE RABBIS OF JERUSALEM TOLD THEM WHEN THEY SAW THEM DOING THIS,
• 12:28 "WELL LOOK YOU CAN HAVE A FRIENDLY GENTILE TURN ON THE LIGHTS",
• 12:31 YOU CAN SET A TIMER, THEY HAVE TIMERS TO TURN THE LIGHTS THESE DAYS AND SO YOU COULD DO THAT,
• 12:39 THEN THEY GAVE THEM VARIOUS IDEAS OF HOW TO GET AROUND THIS
• 12:44 AND THAT'S WHAT THE ETHIOPIANS SAID,
• 12:45 THEY SAID, "WE KNOW HOW TO GET AROUND THE LAW, WE'RE TRYING TO KEEP IT."
• 12:48 OH BOY, THAT STARTED AN ARGUMENT.
• 12:50 OH, THERE'S OTHER THINGS LIKE THE "ERUV", YOU'RE ONLY SUPPOSED WALK SO FAR ON THE SABBATH
• 12:56 BUT PEOPLE LET'S SAY WHO LIVE IN A MODERN APARTMENT COMPLEX
• 12:59 OF MOTHER AND FATHER LIVE IN THIS WING
• 13:02 AND THE DAUGHTER MARRIED WITH THE GRANDCHILDREN IS OVER HERE
• 13:06 AND THEY GO BACK AND FORTH AND BACK AND FORTH
• 13:08 ESPECIALLY ON A SABBATH DAY WHEN NOBODY GOES TO WORK THEY WANT TO VISIT AND THOSE WALKS ADD UP.
• 13:14 SO SOMEBODY CAME UP WITH THE IDEA
• 13:16 THAT THEY COULD PUT KIND OF A STRING AROUND THE APARTMENT COMPLEX...
• 13:19 IT BECAME AN IMAGINARY STRING...
• 13:21 BUT IT'S CALLED AN ERUV, AND WITHIN THAT ERUV THEY CAN WALK AS FAR AS THEY LIKE.
• 13:26 WELL I DON'T HAVE TO TELL YOU WHAT HAPPENED NEXT.
• 13:28 THE ERUVS GOT BIGGER.
• 13:30 THERE'S AN ERUV AROUND THE WHOLE OF JERUSALEM WOULD YOU BELIEVE IT?
• 13:33 AROUND THE WHOLE JEWISH COMMUNITY IN BROOKLYN AND ON IT GOES.
• 13:37 WAYS TO GET AROUND THE LAW AND NOT TO KEEP IT.
• 13:41 THE TIMERS ARE USED TO DO EVERYTHING FROM SOUP TO NUTS,
• 13:45 PREPARE WHOLE MEALS AND SO FORTH.
• 13:47 THE TIMER KINDLES THE FIRE,
• 13:51 THEN THE PERSON SETS THE TIMER BUT THEY SET IT BEFORE THE SABBATH.
• 13:57 AGAIN IT SEEMS SO LEGALISTIC AND THAT'S WHAT IT IS IN MY VIEW
• 14:01 AND A LOT OF PEOPLE'S VIEWS.
• 14:04 THIS IS WHAT HAPPENS WHEN YOUR LAWYERS GET CONTROL OF YOUR SOCIETY.
• 14:07 THE RABBIS ARE REALLY NO LONGER TEACHERS.
• 14:09 WHEN IN THE NEW TESTAMENT THEY CALL THE LORD "RABBI" THEY MEAN "TEACHER"
• 14:14 AND THAT'S WHAT THE WORD MEANS.
• 14:16 AND WHEN I WENT TO HEBREW SCHOOL AS A CHILD WE CALLED THE HEAD TEACHER "RABBI".
• 14:21 BUT YOU KNOW THEY REALLY APPLY THE LAW THESE DAYS.
• 14:25 JUDAISM HAS COME DOWN TO RULES AND REGULATIONS AND A PERFORMANCE BEFORE GOD.
• 14:30 "OBEDIENCE IS BETTER THAN SACRIFICE" THEY SAY
• 14:33 AND SO THEY CARRY OBEDIENCE TO A TREMENDOUS MEASURE
• 14:35 NOT BEING ABLE TO SACRIFICE BECAUSE THERE'S NO VALID TEMPLE IN JERUSALEM...
• 14:40 GOD CHOSE A MOUNTAIN, MT. MARIAH...
• 14:42 THAT'S THE ONLY PLACE SACRIFICE IS REIFICATIOUS
• 14:44 AND THESE FELLOWS WHO HAVE THE LAW ALMOST CLUB THE PEOPLE WITH THE LAW.
• 14:50 WELL PROPHETICALLY THE NEW TESTAMENT IS NOT UNDER THE LAW AT ALL
• 14:56 AND PAUL INSTRUCTS THE CHURCH IN A COMPLETELY DIFFERENT WAY.
• 14:59 COLOSSIANS 2:16 AND 17...
• 15:01 LET ME TELL YOU A STORY AND THEN I'LL GIVE YOU THIS VERSE.
• 15:04 ONCE I WAS TEACHING IN A SMALL TOWN IN TEXAS
• 15:08 AND A MAN CAME UP TO THE PLATFORM AFTER THE SERVICE
• 15:11 AND ALMOST WITH WET EYES, AN OLDER MAN AT 70 YEARS OLD,
• 15:15 HE SAID, "YOU KNOW BROTHER LEVITT",
• 15:17 HE SAID, "I'M IN THE CAFETERIA BUSINESS AND I HAVE TO SERVE PEOPLE ON SUNDAY'S"
• 15:22 "AND THE PASTOR IN MY CHURCH GLARES AT ME FROM THE PULPIT... ALMOST EVERY SUNDAY"
• 15:28 "AND IT PREACHES AGAINST WORKING ON THE SABBATH AND I DON'T KNOW WHAT TO DO."
• 15:33 "HE PERSONALLY WILL COME INTO ONE OF MY CAFETERIAS AND I HAVE SERVED HIM MYSELF"
• 15:38 "AND HE STILL DISAPPROVES OF MY WORK."
• 15:40 "HE CAN EAT BUT I CAN'T WORK."
• 15:42 AND I BROUGHT UP COLOSSIANS 2:16 AND 17 WHICH SAYS THIS,
• 16:01 I'VE MADE THIS POINT IN SO MANY DIFFERENT LESSONS...
• 16:03 THOSE FESTIVALS, THE SABBATH, ALL THE THINGS WE'RE TEACHING IN THIS WHOLE SERIES...
• 16:08 WE CALL IT "SHADOWS OF HIM TO COME"
• 16:11 AND THAT'S WHAT THEY ARE.
• 16:13 AND SO THIS MAN DID NOT...
• 16:16 WELL, FIRST OFF, SUNDAY WASN'T THE SABBATH WAS IT?
• 16:18 SATURDAY IS THE SABBATH.
• 16:20 SECONDLY, IS THE LORD SAYS IN MARK 2:27 AND 28,
• 16:23 "THE SABBATH IS MADE FOR MAN, NOT MAN FOR THE SABBATH."
• 16:28 THE SABBATH IS OVERWHELMING MEN HERE IN JERUSALEM
• 16:32 AND THAT'S EASY TO SEE.
• 16:33 IT IS NOT REPEATED IN THE NEW TESTAMENT.
• 16:36 I KNOW I'LL GET A THOUSAND LETTERS AND YOU WILL TEACH ME TO KEEP THE SABBATH AND SO FORTH.
• 16:40 AND LET ME REMIND YOU IT SAYS "LET NO MAN INSTRUCT YOU AS TO SABBATH DAY"
• 16:44 SO I MAY NOT ANSWER THOSE LETTERS.
• 16:46 BUT IT IS NOT REPEATED IN THE NEW TESTAMENT.
• 16:48 IT'S THE ONLY ONE OF THE 10 COMMANDMENTS NOT REPEATED
• 16:51 BECAUSE THE SABBATH IS A TYPE OR A SYMBOL OF REST.
• 16:54 AND THE LORD HIMSELF SAYS, "I WILL GIVE YOU REST".
• 16:58 IF WE HAVE REST FROM HIM THEN WE DON'T PERFORM THIS PICTURE OF REST FROM THE OLD COVENANT
• 17:04 OR AS DR. MCCALL PUTS IT,
• 17:06 "WHEN I TRAVEL I CARRY A PICTURE OF MY FAMILY AND I LOOK AT THEIR PICTURE."
• 17:09 "BUT WHEN I'M HOME WITH THEM I DON'T LOOK AT THEIR PICTURE I LOOK AT THEM."
• 17:13 WHEN I'M BEFORE MESSIAH, IF I'M IN THE OLD TESTAMENT, I KEEP THE SABBATH CAUSE I NEED THE REST.
• 17:19 WHEN I HAVE THE MESSIAH I HAVE THE REST...EVERY DAY OF THE WEEK IS THE SABBATH IN EFFECT.
• 17:24 PAUL SAID, "PRAY WITHOUT CEASING".
• 17:27 LIKE ALL OF THE FESTIVALS THE SABBATH IS A TYPE OF OUR LORD JESUS CHRIST, OUR MESSIAH,
• 17:32 AND KEEPING THE SABBATH IS AS OFFENSIVE TO THE CROSS
• 17:36 AS KEEPING ANY FESTIVAL TO TRY TO PLEASE GOD.
• 17:39 NOW, WITH THAT SAID,
• 17:41 IF YOU WISH TO SET UP A PASSOVER,
• 17:43 IF YOU WISH TO HAVE A SABBATH,
• 17:44 IF YOU WISH TO KEEP THE FEASTS,
• 17:46 THEY'RE GOD'S LAWS, THERE'S NOTHING WRONG WITH THEM.
• 17:48 THERE'S NO PUNISHMENT AND THERE'S NO CREDIT,
• 17:50 THAT IF YOU WISH TO PERFORM THEM, THAT'S UP TO YOU.
• 17:53 I TEACH IT ALL THE TIME THESE FEASTS, THE SABBATH, THE PASSOVERS AND SO FORTH.
• 17:58 THERE'S A FUNNY STORY ABOUT SUNDAY NOT BEING EQUAL TO SABBATH.
• 18:03 I MAY HAVE TOLD IT BEFORE.
• 18:05 I TRACED IT BACK TO ITHACA, NEW YORK WHERE I WENT TO COLLEGE FOR A WHILE
• 18:08 AND THEY SAY IT REALLY HAPPENED.
• 18:10 THERE WAS A CHURCH WITH A CONFECTIONARY SHOP ACROSS THE STREET FROM IT
• 18:13 AND IN THAT CONFECTIONARY...
• 18:15 AND THIS IS ABOUT 1880 OR 90...
• 18:17 THEY SERVED THESE DELICIOUS NEW CONFECTIONS CALLED "ICE CREAM SODA".
• 18:22 AND PEOPLE WERE SO EXCITED ABOUT HAVING A SODA
• 18:25 THAT THEY WERE RUNNING OUT OF CHURCH AFTER THE SERMON AND MEETING TO HAVE A SODA
• 18:29 AND FINALLY THE CHURCH FATHERS APPROACHED THE DRUGGIST AND THEY SAID,
• 18:33 "THIS ISN'T RIGHT...ANYWAY SODA WATER IS INTOXICATING AND YOU CAN'T SERVE IT ON THE SABBATH."
• 18:38 HE SAID TO THEM, "IT'S NOT INTOXICATING IT'S NOT EVEN PLAIN WATER WITH BUBBLES."
• 18:43 SO THEY NEGOTIATED AND HE DECIDED...
• 18:45 OKAY, ON SUNDAY HE WOULD SERVE THIS SODA WITHOUT THE SODA WATER.
• 18:49 AND HE HAD JUST A SCOOP OF ICE CREAM AND THE SYRUP... NO SODA WATER.
• 18:52 AND HE CALLED IT "A SODA FOR SUNDAY".
• 18:55 THEN IT BECAME CALLED SLOWLY JUST A "SUNDAY".
• 18:58 AND THEN THE CHURCH FATHERS CAME BACK AND SAID,
• 19:01 "YOU CAN'T NAME A SIMPLE CONFECTION AFTER THE SABBATH"...
• 19:04 THEY WEREN'T RIGHT...
• 19:05 IT WASN'T THE SABBATH...
• 19:06 BUT OKAY..."YOU CAN'T NAME IT AFTER THE LORD'S DAY."
• 19:09 SO THEY NEGOTIATED AGAIN AND HE DECIDED TO CHANGE THE SPELLING
• 19:12 AND THAT IS HOW WE GOT THE "ICE CREAM S...U...N...D...A...E",
• 19:17 THE "ICE CREAM SUNDAE".
• 19:27 YOU KNOW YOU HEAR IN ISRAEL PEOPLE SAY "SHABBAT SHALOM" ON FRIDAY
• 19:30 IN ORDER TO GREET ONE ANOTHER WELCOMING THE SABBATH
• 19:33 AND WISHING ONE ANOTHER A PEACEFUL SABBATH.
• 19:36 WHAT AMAZING PHENOMENON THAT YOU EXPERIENCE IN ISRAEL WHEN YOU COME WITH US
• 19:39 IS THE QUIETING DOWN OF THE ENTIRE COUNTRY.
• 19:42 IT'S QUITE SOMETHING.
• 19:44 I IMAGINE IT'S WHAT AMERICA WAS LIKE 100 YEARS AGO ON A SUNDAY
• 19:47 WHEN COMMERCE WOULD CEASE AND PEOPLE WOULD HONOR GOD IN THEIR OWN WAY.
• 19:51 THE WHOLE COUNTRY GETS QUIET AND RESTFUL.
• 19:54 YOU CAN REALLY FEEL A CHANGE IN THE ATMOSPHERE AS THE SHABBAT APPROACHES.
• 19:58 IN ORDER TO MORE UNDERSTAND THE SABBATH
• 20:01 WE WERE ABLE TO CATCH UP WITH AND SPEAK TO RABBI HENRY NOACH
• 20:06 WHO'S GOING TO EXPLAIN TO US A LITTLE BIT MORE ABOUT SABBATH.
• 20:11 FIRST OF ALL WE LIGHT...
• 20:14 OR RATHER THE WIFE LIGHTS THE SHABBAT CANDLES
• 20:20 JUST AS THE FIRST ASPECT OF CREATION WAS THAT OF LIGHT... RIGHT?
• 20:26 GOD SAID "VAYEHI-OR",
• 20:29 "THERE SHOULD BE LIGHT".
• 20:30 LIKEWISE IN INAUGURATING THE SHABBAT
• 20:33 WE BEGIN WITH THE LIGHTING OF THE CANDLES...THE LIGHT.
• 20:36 WE SANCTIFY THE SHABBAT THROUGH A BLESSING WHICH IS UTTERED.
• 20:45 IT IS A BLESSING WHICH IS ACTUALLY DERIVED FROM THE TEXT OF THE LAST VERSE OF CHAPTER 1
• 20:54 AND THE FIRST FEW VERSES OF CHAPTER 2
• 20:56 OF THE BOOK OF GENESIS...
• 21:00 A BLESSING OF SANCTIFICATION OF THE SHABBAT OVER BREAD AND OVER THE WINE.
• 21:06 (SINGING)
• 21:09 WHY OVER WINE?
• 21:11 WHY OVER BREAD?
• 21:13 THE VINE GROWS...
• 21:17 IT IS REALLY AN EXTENSION OF GOD'S CREATION
• 21:21 BUT MAN MUST ACT UPON IT IN ORDER TO TRANSFORM IT INTO WINE.
• 21:27 LIKEWISE WHEAT OR CORN GROWS...
• 21:31 IT IS AN EXTENSION OF GOD'S CREATION OF THE NATURAL ORDER
• 21:34 BUT MAN OF COURSE FROM THE WHEAT TRANSFORMS IT AND MAKES IT INTO BREAD.
• 21:41 SO IT IS ALSO AN EXPRESSION OF THIS PARTNERSHIP BETWEEN MAN AND GOD...
• 21:46 THE BREAD AND THE WINE.
• 21:48 WHEN WE SAY THE BLESSING OVER THE BREAD AFTER WE HAVE SAID THE SANCTIFICATION BLESSING,
• 21:58 THE "KIDDUSH" OVER THE WINE,
• 21:59 WE DO NOT RECITE THE BLESSING ON ONE LOAF OF BREAD BUT ON TWO.
• 22:05 AND THIS IS IN REFERENCE TO THE TWO PORTIONS OF THE MANNA WHICH FELL ON FRIDAY
• 22:12 BUT WHICH SUFFICED FOR FRIDAY AND FOR SHABBAT
• 22:16 BECAUSE OF COURSE AS WE READ IN THE BIBLE
• 22:18 WE WERE NOT ALLOWED TO GO OUT TO GATHER THE MANNA IN THE FIELD,
• 22:23 SO THERE IS HERE LIKEWISE AN ALLUSION TO GOD'S BOUNTIFUL CARE FOR HIS CREATURES HERE...
• 22:30 A REMEMBRANCE OF THE MANNA WHICH CAME FROM HEAVEN.
• 22:36 AND ONE LAST THING I THINK IS EXTREMELY IMPORTANT...
• 22:40 MANY PEOPLE LOOK UPON THE SHABBAT AS SOMETHING VERY RESTRICTIVE.
• 22:47 WHAT...I CAN'T WATCH TELEVISION?
• 22:49 WE CAN'T TUNE INTO THE INTERNET?
• 22:52 WE CAN'T TURN ON OUR STEREO OR OUR RADIO?
• 22:58 WHAT I THINK THEY DO NOT REALIZE IS THAT WE HAVE BECOME ENSLAVED...
• 23:05 I MEAN WE IN GENERAL TO ALL OF THESE EXTERNAL THINGS WHICH WE THINK WE CANNOT LIVE WITHOUT.
• 23:14 BUT ON THE SHABBAT WE DO NOT NEED THESE THINGS,
• 23:18 OR RATHER, WE MUST REFRAIN FROM ANY FORM OF DEPENDENCE ON THESE EXTRANEOUS OBJECTS
• 23:25 SO THAT WE FOCUS UPON OUR SPIRITUAL DEVELOPMENT
• 23:30 AND NOT ONLY OUR SPIRITUAL DEVELOPMENT
• 23:32 BUT WE FOCUS UPON ONE ANOTHER...
• 23:34 THE FAMILY...OUR FRIENDS.
• 23:37 FOR EXAMPLE, THERE IS A COMMANDMENT TO THE EFFECT
• 23:39 THAT WE ARE NOT ALLOWED EVEN TO PICK A FLOWER.
• 23:42 IT IS CONSIDERED A FORBIDDEN LABOR AND YET THIS IS NOT REALLY A LABOR, IT'S NOTHING ARDUOUS.
• 23:49 BUT WHAT IT REPRESENTS IS THAT MAN ON THIS DAY ABOVE ALL
• 23:54 MUST NOT ALIENATE HIMSELF FROM THE NATURAL ORDER.
• 23:59 IT IS THE DAY OF HARMONY BETWEEN ONE ANOTHER WITHIN THE CONTEXT OF THE FAMILY,
• 24:04 WITHIN THE CONTEXT OF THE COMMUNITY,
• 24:06 BUT ALSO WITHIN THE CONTEXT OF MAN'S RELATIONSHIP WITH THE ENVIRONMENT...
• 24:10 A DAY OF HARMONY BETWEEN MAN AND HIS WORLD
• 24:13 WHICH OF COURSE IS A NEARER IMAGE OF THIS HARMONY BETWEEN MAN AND GOD.
• 24:34 (ZOLA PLAYING FLUTE)
• 25:56 THAT WAS ZOLA IN ISRAEL PLAYING THE MUSIC THAT WE LOVE TO HEAR.
• 26:00 IT'S SO MEANINGFUL TO HEAR SHABBAT MUSIC ON THE SABBATH.
• 26:04 AND THAT FLUTE IS SO SWEET TO HEAR IN THE LAND OF ISRAEL.
• 26:08 YOU KNOW MYLES SABBATH WAS MADE FOR A TIME OF REST,
• 26:12 NOT A TIME TO BE BURDENSOME,
• 26:14 NOT A TIME TO BE OVERWHELMED WITH A BUNCH OF RULES,
• 26:16 BUT A TIME WHERE WE CONNECT WITH GOD
• 26:19 AND WE CONNECT WITH ONE ANOTHER IN A FRESH WAY.
• 26:22 ISN'T IT AMAZING HOW AS WE BEGAN TO KEEP SHABBAT
• 26:24 AND WE BEGAN TO INVITE OUR FRIENDS OVER,
• 26:27 EVERY TIME YOU WOULD LIGHT THE CANDLES
• 26:28 THE PEACE OF THE LORD WOULD COME INTO OUR HOME
• 26:30 AND THAT WAS SO SURPRISING IS
• 26:32 THAT THEY WOULD BRING THEIR UNBELIEVING JEWISH FRIENDS... "PRE-BELIEVERS" WE'LL SAY.
• 26:36 THE MOST AMAZING THING WOULD HAPPEN.
• 26:38 WE WOULD BRING PEOPLE INTO OUR HOME...
• 26:39 SOMETIMES UP TO 80 PEOPLE CAME TO OUR HOME...
• 26:42 WE WOULD HAVE A SHABBAT TIME
• 26:44 AND AS THE CANDLES WERE LIT AND AS THE SERVICE WENT FORWARD
• 26:47 AND THE TIME WAS SPENT TOGETHER
• 26:49 THE PEACE OF THE LORD WAS THERE
• 26:50 AND WE SAW ISRAELITES,
• 26:53 WE SAW JEWISH FOLKS COME TO FAITH IN YESHUA
• 26:55 AS THEY MADE THE CONNECTION BETWEEN THE FEASTS OF THE LORD AND SHABBAT AND YESHUA HIMSELF
• 27:01 BECAUSE HE IS OUR PEACE...
• 27:03 HE IS OUR REST.
• 27:04 AND PEOPLE WOULD EXPERIENCE THAT...
• 27:05 THEY WOULD COME TO FAITH.
• 27:07 IT WAS JUST AN AMAZING TIME THAT WE'D EXPERIENCE IN OUR VERY HOME
• 27:10 AND NOW IN OUR CONGREGATION AS WELL.
• 27:12 WE CONTINUE TO BRING YOU THESE SHOWS
• 27:14 BECAUSE OF YOUR GIFTS OF FUNDS
• 27:16 SO WE REALLY ASK YOU TO SUPPORT US,
• 27:18 HELP US TO DO THIS
• 27:19 BECAUSE WE BELIEVE THIS IS THE TIME,
• 27:21 THIS IS THE HOUR
• 27:23 WHEN THESE MESSAGES NEED TO GO FORWARD IN THE WORLD.
• 27:25 SO UNTIL WE SEE YOU AGAIN
• 27:28 WE WANT TO ASK YOU TO
• 27:30 SHA'ALU SHALOM YERUSHALAYIM...
• 27:32 PRAY FOR THE PEACE OF JERUSALEM.