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

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