Sunday Sabbath?

Today I wanted to touch on just a major scripture and some other scriptures that people use, that the world uses for a Sunday Sabbath, a Sunday worship day. And so there are only a few, matter of fact there's actually eight, some say nine, that tell us about that. So we will, I want to go through that today because I want us to answer the question to ourselves, are we worshipping on the right day? Because people use certain scriptures to say we can do it any day, as I read this morning. So if you want to do Thursday according to that one scripture, you can do Thursday. Don't say you see you have too many people in the room with you, but that's kind of the analogy that's used at that time. So are you sure we're worshipping on the right day? Well, hopefully you're sitting here for that reason is that you've proved that. But can you prove it again and again? And what are the scriptures that mainstream Christianity use, either from the pulpit, from their brochures or their literatures, in case you've ever gotten any of those little pamphlets you can find?

I found one in the bathroom one time in a stop. Yes, and it was, are you saved? How do you know? Another one was how do you know that you are worshipping God properly? And properly meant starting tonight at midnight, going through 24 hours of that way. According to this little booklet, started to bring them because I started keeping them and I found out I had so many. And that's what really gave me the idea to do this series of sermons on the scriptures used to dispel, to besmirch, to try to point us out on where we're doing worshipping God on the wrong day. And that we're too dizzy, as one pamphlet said. So I decided I would do this and we even talked about we'll be typing something after the series so that you can actually put it in the back of your Bible because that's basically the only scriptures that they have is eight. I went through that this morning if you heard the sermon. There's only eight or nine.

That's the only thing they got because they had to go back and look at things and go, how do we justify changing and making Sunday the actual day of worship when at 3.25 they decided to change things. So I would like to go through those today and I'd like to use this book, the Bible, okay, because other people use other scriptures for doing this and they sometimes twist things around. There are eight Sunday scriptures where the first day of the week is mentioned or used as the reason for Sunday worship.

So you'd say, well, eight scriptures.

Yes, eight different places that people use the majority of this, so I want you to know that.

So let's jump into that, but I'd like to start out with saying that the Bible never calls the Sabbath the Jewish Sabbath.

You can't find it anywhere in there. So if we're judizing, we're judizing without judizing.

Because it never says one time that it's the Jewish Sabbath, but it does say that it is the Sabbath of the Lord, the Sabbath of God. So let's go to one of the most used, and I must say abused, scriptures in all the New Testament. Let's go, if you will, go with me. I'll be reading from the New King James Version, and that is Colossians 2. Colossians 2, three verses there as it lays it out.

Okay. Now, it's nice to have a little history behind it. So what is Paul confronting? Because he wrote them a letter. Why is he writing them a letter? Anybody care? Comment? Why would somebody write you a letter? For what? Yeah, Mary's never written me one of those yet.

Encouragement? Yes?

Expounding knowledge? Yes! Telling you what's going on in their life. Yes, what's going on all over the world. Because who was writing this? Paul. Paul? He was writing to the church of Colossae. And what's interesting about the book of Colossae is that this book contains 55 Greek words.

Not found in any of the other writings of Paul. Which some people say, it's not Paul. Somebody else has writing this and putting his name on it. No, it's Paul. As a matter of fact, he starts out, greetings! Paul! An apostle of Jesus. So why would you use other 55 words you don't use in any of the others?

Because there's something unique happening in that area, that church, in Colossae. And one of those is Gnosticism. And so, at another time we will go through that because that's a sermon in itself. I don't want to do that, but he was having to confront this Gnosticism, which is about knowledge. Gnosis. To know.

But I'm not going to go there because that's another sermon by itself. But I'd like to go to the Scripture that so many people use. You'll find it in brochures, you'll find it in booklets. Colossians 2 and verse 14. Here we go. Having wiped out the hand-written, handwriting of requirements that was against us, which was contrary to us, he has taken it out of the way having nailed it to the cross.

So we don't have to worry anymore. Grace saves us. How many of you heard that the Ten Commandments were nailed to the cross? This is the Scripture. That they put out so many times that this is it. Nailed it to the cross.

Is that what the handwriting of requirements means? Well, in my margin, which is in my New King James version, which you will find in the New Living Translation and various translations, they have made this. It actually means certificate of debt. Certificate of debt. So let's finish this now. Having wiped out the handwriting of requirements that was against us, which was contrary to us, he has taken it out of the way. Having nailed it to the cross, having disarmed the principalities and powers, he made a public spectacle of them, triumphing over them in it. Therefore, since he did all this, let no one judge you in food or in drink, or regarding a festival, or a new moon, or Sabbath. So let no one judge you what you do.

So, Bill, if you run over somebody in the parking lot here, we can't judge you no matter what you do on the Sabbath. Everything is nailed to the cross, no matter what you do. I can slap Mary over here. No, you can't judge me according to the Scripture, because it's a Sabbath. You shouldn't judge me on the moon. Of course, you probably have to judge her for what she'd do to me.

But then it says something here that is used, and you have heard it so many times.

The festivals, the new moons, and the Sabbaths, what? They were a shadow. They were a shadow of things to come. Right? Anybody heard that?

Shadow. So it's not really real. But that's not what it says. Let's read what it says. Those, festival, new moon, Sabbath, which are, A-R-E, are, not done away with, are. Do we have that? Do you understand? Are. They are a shadow of things to come, but the substance of the body is Christ.

Tell anybody that wants to put that away and say, Well, we don't have to keep them anymore. They were just a shadow. No! They are! Here, they were keeping it.

They were keeping this. So what's he saying? Don't judge how. Well, it wasn't that the, the, the collagians were being judged how, not whether they observed it. Because they're, I don't know, I don't know, observe it this way. And as you find out, we've had people wondering, Well, wait a minute. You should do this over here. And then people come in and say, Well, it's just like the Sabbath today, isn't it? Well, you shouldn't even turn on your lights. You ought to light it by candle.

You should not watch TV. Even if your next door neighbor's house is on fire. You shouldn't do all these things because this is the way I understand the Sabbath. Is that what's in there? No. He said, Don't let, let no one judge you in food or in drink.

Whether you eat meat, as I talked about this morning, or whether you like vegetables. Hopefully you like both. But it's not for me to judge. I like meat. She likes vegetables more. So we compromise. We have meat and vegetables. So I eat a few vegetables and then I get to finish her meat. Except Brussels sprouts. Yeah, I won't eat those. So don't judge me, Bill, because I don't eat. Because I don't eat Brussels sprouts, which even Christ, you can't find that he or ever eat those.

Just saying, I can't find it in here. In food or in drink, are regarding a festival. How do you keep festivals? Not if. There was no question here as if you didn't. But as you can find, here that I found it very interesting, in chapter 2, same chapter, and verse 4 it says, Now, this I say, lest anyone should deceive you with, what persuasive words. Um, somebody was coming in the church. Would you believe that somebody would come in the church and have different ideas? Shock!

Shock! I've dealt with it ever since I've been in the church. It was back then. It is now. And guess what? It will be next week. And so, this is what was happening at Colossae. And so, here, as a matter of fact, I'll read chapter 8, because I didn't give this to Jeff for a reason. But in verse 8 of chapter 2, it says, Beware! You know when Paul uses that, he just does that, oh, you need to beware.

Lest anyone cheat you through philosophy and empty deceit, according to the traditions of... Man. Man. So there's a problem going on here, according to the basic principles of the world, and not according to Christ. So, someone, others, were teaching that, they were teaching different than the way Christ lived, and what he taught. Did he do away with the Sabbath? Huh? Did Christ do away with the Sabbath?

No! Did he do away with the Holy Days? No! So, this has been used so many times. Maybe your food. Did Christ ever have, like, I don't know, fried skunk? You ever ask, can I get that boiled place? Did he find any place where he ate unclean food?

No! So, is this talking about, well, I can eat anything I want now. Let me go down and give me a squid. Those just go down so easy, you know? That's not what... So, you see how people love this scripture, because there's so much in here, they can just...

What did Peter say about Paul's writings? Some were hard to understand, and men take them and twist them. They needed to, because there's... When you look, and there's only eight or nine scriptures in the entire Bible that people use, the same ones, every time, to show that they're righteous for what they do, and that we're unrighteous for what we do, because we follow this, and we are judicing.

So, I want to bring that out, because all that does is set up what I want to present. But I want you to think of one thing after I look at my watch. What time did services start? Two o'clock. Two o'clock, yes. See, I want to go back to where I was. Okay. So, I want us to think about something. Those Sunday verses, because... Can you give me anywhere in scripture where it says Sunday?

No? Nobody? Sunday. Sunday is never mentioned in the scriptures, is it? Neither is Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, but the seventh day isn't really called the seventh day, is it? It's called the Sabbath. There's a name. It has a name, yes. The other were number of days. So, Sunday is never mentioned in there, but we're going to go to the Sunday verses. Okay? So, follow me because we'll just go through the New Testament because these are the ones that are used. Matthew 28. Let's go to Matthew first. Matthew 28. Gee, that's probably already got me there before I'm even there.

Matthew 28 and verse 1. Now, after the Sabbath as the first day of the week began to dawn. So, what's the first day of the week? So, now that's it. So, now I'll meet you guys here tomorrow morning. That didn't satisfy you? I mean, here it is.

That's one of the verses that's used. But what's it talking about here? What's the time frame here? Okay. After the what? And the resurrection. This is talking about all about Christ's resurrection. Yes. When you look there, this doesn't have the little anybody in here.

And so people use that. And I did too at one time. Because day, because it said at the first of the week. We know this happened on when? The first day of the week, Sunday. So, even by leaving day out, we still know it's Sunday. And some people will argue, well, day's not in there. No, that's not legitimate. Because this is legitimate. We know.

We know that they saw him on Sunday. We know when he was resurrected. Right? Well, when they saw him, yes, but we know three days and three nights and he was put in the grave at what time, Frank? Sunset. Which means he had to be three days and three nights exactly, which would have been then brought back to life, resurrected when?

Sunset. Saturday. Sabbath. But when this happened, it was then morning. It was Sunday. First day of the week. Yes. Okay. So, we know this here is one of the verses that they used to say that Christ was resurrected on Sunday.

Does it say worship? No. As a matter of fact, they came to do some... if this was a holiday, they weren't really worshiping, were they? They were running around. Where is he? Where is he? They wanted to bring his spice. They wanted to bring his spice. He's got to be stinking by now. And so they were going to... what are they going to do with those spices? They were going to do some work. They were going to do some work. Would you do work on Sabbath? That's right. That's right. So, that doesn't work, but I've got another one that will. Let's go over to Mark 16. Mark 16. This one will convince you. Mark 16, because it is just loaded. Mark 16, verse 1 and 2. Now, when the Sabbath was passed, Mary Magdalene, Mary Magdalene, Mary the mother of James and Salome, bought spices that they might come and anoint him. Very early in the morning on the... what day? First day. Sunday. They came to do some work.

They came to the tomb when the sun had already risen.

And they said among themselves, who will roll away the stone for us? But when they looked up, they saw and the stone had been rolled away for his very large. So it was done already. So, here you have Mary Magdalene, Mary the mother of James, also John, and Salome. They came here to gather to worship. Is that what it says? I mean, that's one of those... this is the Scripture they use, that, you know, sunrise services, you need to get... that's on Sunday. That's the reason that mainstream Christianity keeps Sunday is this verse. But that doesn't convince you. Let me give you another one. How about Luke? Luke 24. Luke 24. Luke 24. Verse 1. Now on the first day of the week, very early in the morning day, and certain other women with them came to the tomb, bringing spices which they had prepared. It's the same account that we just read, isn't it? But it's Luke's account that was written decades or two later than the other account. Which means what? Which brings us to a very important part. This was written decades after Christ died. Now, Matthew was also Mark. We know John was written fifty years, sixty years after Christ died. But here Luke was written around sixty, just before sixty, fifty, five to sixty A.D. is when this book of Luke was written. So if he wrote this let's say fifty, fifty eighty. When did Christ die? Thirty-one A.D. He's got twenty years here. For him to Luke to write what? On the Sabbath day, was the first day of the week they came. He didn't do it. Why not? Twenty years after Christ, if the church, the apostolic church in the first century had already changed and was keeping Sunday now instead of the Sabbath, what's Luke doing? Poor guy. He's just a doctor, pathetic. He didn't even know that they had already changed. He didn't know because they hadn't changed. Hadn't changed. So he wrote the...what did he write? On the first day of the week. Not the Lord's day, because he should on the Lord's day of the week, very early in the morning, didn't write that, did he? In, because I didn't give this to Jeff either, but let me turn there and read this. You can follow me if you want. Acts 13 because who wrote Acts? Luke. Luke. Acts 13 and verse 14. Luke 13 and verse 14. It says, and when they departed from Perga, they came to Antioch and Pisidia and went into the synagogue on the Sabbath day and sat down. Who's he talking about, Paul? Okay. Do you know this same act right here took place 15 years after Christ died? What was Paul doing on the Sabbath day? Maybe he was trying to convert all those Jews to come over to Sunday, do you reckon? But 15 years after Christ had died, here was Paul in a synagogue. He actually stayed there and Corinth, he stayed there for a year and a half, preaching every Saturday, every Sabbath.

But you know what amazing part was? Luke wrote the book of Acts in 60-61 A.D. 30 years after Christ died. 30 years after Christ died. Christ was resurrected. It would have been his job as a historian, as a follower of Christ, as a follower of Paul and everything else, wouldn't it have been right for him to correct it here? But he didn't, did he? Why? Because the church wasn't keeping Sunday. Yet these are the verses that mainstream Christianity uses. Let's go to John. Let's go to John. John 20. John 20. Verse 1. On the first day of the week, Mary Magdalene came to the tomb early while it was still dark and saw that the stone had been taken away from the tomb. John was written, was the last the Gospel's written. He wrote this in 80 to 90. 80. 60. 50 to 60 years after Christ's death and resurrection. Nothing John says here is about worshipping on Sunday. Yet this is one of the verses. There's five verses in the Gospels about the Sunday. This one and then go down with me to verse 19. Verse 19. Then the same day at evening being the, what does it say? First day? So he's being very specific here of what day it is. Here was his chance to go the Lord's day. But he didn't do it. He did not do it. In the book of Acts, just for your record, the book of Acts, Acts alone records over 80 Sabbath meetings. Some say 84, some say 85. It's over 80. That's the book of Acts. And yet in the entire New Testament, how many times is the first day of the week reference as a time? Eight. Eight times. Eight times! The eight times we just looked at five of them right there. That's what they use. Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John. And John did it twice.

Simply amazing that scholarship is this week when it comes to the first day of the week. But there's a reason for it. If you wanted to change something, if the whole order of God, which, how many scriptures are there? 33,000 verses. I forget what it is. You have all these verses and you can only come up with eight. You would think there would be a lot but you have to throw out the entire Old Testament because you know, as in those ignorant Jews.

But you come to the New Testament and what do they have? So this, what I just gave you is five of the reasons people keep and worship tomorrow morning. And their preachers will tell them. So now you know five of the eight and every one of those except for the last one, all four of those, if you want to do it, it's the first verse of the last chapter or two of the Bible.

So Matthew 28, Mark 16, Luke 24, John 21. They all start out because that's kind of like a new topic in there. And they all show that. So if somebody wants to teach you, it's very easy to go, oh well, I can tell you where the other ones are. But there's no way in there for worship. The one thing you must admit if you've studied this a lot is that the Catholics are more honest than any other religion in the entire world.

They said, we changed it. They have it written in the annals of Catholicism. They teach it at their universities. They're not ashamed of it. You can find it all over. But everybody else, they had to come up with because then they didn't want to when Martin Luther started his thing and they had the separation and split from the Catholic Church and you had all these Protestant churches then, they had to come up with a reason other than we changed it because they didn't.

They knew it was changed by the mothership. The Catholic Church. And so, it's easy when I'm explaining to somebody or when they call me and ask me about something especially about the psal, I say, have you studied Catholicism? No. Go! Go study it. You'll find all about Saturday and Sunday. You want this question answered? The Catholics answer it as much as we do of why it was changed. And they're proud of it because they had the authority to change it.

They said the Pope was a vicar of Christ sitting in Christ's seat so I can change. So with that said, I'd like to go to Acts 20. So we actually looked at 5 and now we're going to look at this other one in Acts 20. This is the sixth one that they use. Acts 20. And this is one of my favorite names if I ever have a son I'm going to name him Eudicus. Eudicus. I didn't check with Mary first. But that would work for a daughter even if we had a daughter.

Come over here, Eudicus. I am from Tennessee. Yes. Yes, true. So let's hear in Acts 20 and verse 7. This is a scripture also that to mainstream Christianity that proves that they were meeting on Sunday and Paul was going to do this. Of course, little do they know that it doesn't line up with Paul's other teachings but that doesn't matter because you can just take one scripture out of context. You can take one story and you can make it fit any way you want it to fit.

But the interesting part is that Luke here is the writer. He's writing everything down. So according to mainstream Christianity and those keeping Sunday, here's the thing Paul no longer keeps the Sabbath of the Holy Days because he did this is just going to prove it. So he didn't have any of this. So here he said, yes. Yes. Yeah, it morphed, I'd say. Verse 7 Now on the first day, and see people want to say well it doesn't say the day, day was added, but this is Luke, the same Luke who said day later. So it is Sunday. It is Sunday.

On the first day of the week when the disciples came together to worship and to study the Bible, Paul, ready to depart the next day, spoke to them and continued his message until midnight. Doesn't say that, does it? To break bread. Ampe had us over at the house one time and she didn't say, would you and Mary like to go and break bread? She said, no, you want to come over for dinner? And then they said, do you want to break bread? Because you clearly broke bread most of the time.

And so it makes it, if you go with this story of what they're saying, so the only time you could break bread is on the Sabbath. So that means you had to fast six days a week. I know this sounds sarcastic, which it is, and it's cynical, but it doesn't make sense. And that's what I'm just saying. I just look at it from a layman's point and go, break bread? We know what that means. Do you want to break bread? So let's go. Let's see them break bread. So now on the first day of the week when the disciples came together to break bread, Paul, ready to depart the next day, which would have been what day?

Continued his message until midnight. So any of you think that I speak long? You'd be thankful Paul's not here today. Well, they'd run us out. We'd have to go out into the parking lot. Yeah. Thankfully there's no second story here. There were many lamps in the upper room where they were gathered together, and in a window set a certain young man named Eudicus.

Eudicus, who was sinking into a deep sleep. You ever had one of those? Any of you ever slept through a fell asleep during a sermon? Let me ask you this. Is there anybody here who hasn't slept? And I can't raise my hand. Fallen asleep during a sermon. Why did you fall asleep during a sermon? Anybody? I'll be honest. He's not going to strike lightning. He's not going to come down. You're tired? Tired? Anybody yet bored? Now that's a kid growing up in the church, and you were like, okay. Okay. Yes? Too many late nights. You're tired. You're working. Boring. Yes. And so this young man was one of those.

Like us. Who was sinking into a deep sleep. He was overcome by sleep. So who said they were tired? You know? You ever had that time where you just could not stay awake? It was just like, you know, and it helps as we speakers learn to put inflection in our voice. Lower down, and then just like bring up different things. Try to keep you awake. Yes, a monotone, speakers, which we typically don't like.

So, he's overcome by sleep, and as Paul continued speaking, I mean, this is midnight. So even if they got together for breaking bread in the evening, this man can speak. This man can talk. And he's talking and talking and talking. So, he fell down from the third story and was taken up dead. Me and Paul from that window there, he fell from three stories up, which is typically 27 to 30 foot tall, right, Jeff?

But Paul went down, fell on him, and embracing him said, do not trouble yourselves, for his life is in him. Now, when he had come up, broken up, had broken bread, he'd break bread again. Does that mean it's another service? Broken bread and eaten and talked a long while even till daybreak, he departed. And they brought the young man in alive, and they were all a little comforted.

So, I've kind of made light of this situation which wasn't with Eudecus, but I think the part that we see is the context of it. Because to do this and to say that this was on a Sunday, and this is one of the scriptures they used to prove the Sabbath, I mean that Paul kept Sunday, which means he would have abandoned the Sabbath, he would abandon everything Jewish. Even though later on he said, I'm a Hebrew of Hebrews, that doesn't matter, you can use that one. But let's go just a few verses down here.

And verse 13, then we went ahead and he sailed and Paul was taken aboard, and then it says they met in 15, it shows all the places that they went to, and then verse 16 says, for Paul, remember Luke is writing this, for Paul had decided to sail past Ephesus so that he would not have to spend time in Asia, for he was hurrying to be at Jerusalem if possible on when? Pentecost. So not only is Paul saying 15 years after Christ died that he wanted to be in Jerusalem by Pentecost, he also said, what?

Luke was saying he wanted to be there and his reference was he wanted to be there by Pentecost because he was going to keep what? Pentecost. So it just doesn't make sense. It doesn't fit. It just doesn't fit.

So, let's go to another verse. So now we're up to seven. This is the seventh verse. It's 1 Corinthians 16. 1 Corinthians 16, which most of you know about the church at Corinth and the issues and the worldliness and everything else. But in 1 Corinthians 16, verse 1, now Paul set up the church. He was there teaching, as you can read in Acts, he taught there for a year and a half the things of God as it says in Acts in Corinth.

So he helped found this church and now he got them up and running, which you could actually turn to Acts 18 and read about him setting up the church if you want to because there wasn't a church before he got there and set it up in Acts 18. But then he comes down to this letter in Corinth after teaching them and setting up the church and says it now, verse 16, now concerning the collection for the saints as I have given orders to the churches of Galatia so that you must do also on the first day of the week let each one of you lay something aside and bring up as he may have prospered so that there will be no collections when I come.

This is what on the first day of the week here he was telling them to gather things together. What was Paul saying? He's saying on the first day of the week I want you to work and get this stuff together. I want you to work! I want you to gather this stuff together! I want you to do physical labor! All of you! Does that make sense? On the Sabbath? Does that sound like Paul? No. But on the first day of the week why was Paul doing this? He said, so when I come there are no collections and when I come whoever you approve of your letters I will send them and bury gifts.

He's going to come in and get some work done. He's got a job to do. It's interesting that somebody brought this up because with me when I go to the islands, whether it's Trinidad, St. Lucia, Tobago, wherever I go, we always have Sabbath services. I usually have a Bible study and we meet afterwards and have questions or anointings and so forth just to what we do. Almost every time on Sunday we'll get together to meet.

We break bread, yes. Well, break pizza usually is what it is. Yes, it is bread. And we discuss things. We also have projects. We go over the books. We have the council because each church in the Caribbean has their own council. So I have to be part of those meetings and so forth. And we do that. And we also go out and if we help people, I've gone out on Sunday and worked on the widows this is what we do. This is no different than it is right here. But people use that. That's their next to the last or next to the main scripture they use.

This is their strong one right here because they collect. Now I also find this interesting because you can actually go down four verses to chapter 16 and verse 8. But I tarry in Ephesus until, what's your word say? Pentecost. Why would he use Pentecost? He may not even keep him Pentecost. Right? But he does.

He is keeping it. It's just further proof that I'm going to be here. That I'm keeping the Sabbath and the Holy Days. Something easy to prove. The first day of the week is called Sunday after the venerated sun. Many people, even in the New Age religions today just replace the year with an O.

That's why they do it. Because it's a sun day. The sun of God day. So let me ask you this. Where in the Bible, this question I ask many people, talk to me about this. Where in the Bible is Sunday or the first day of the week sanctified? Where is it sanctified? And almost all the answers go back to Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John, those verses. Sanctified? What does sanctified mean? It means to what? Set apart for a special purpose. The Sabbath has been set aside by whom? It is holy by whom? I can't make Thursday holy because I don't have that power. Only God can make something holy.

So, as I look at the clock, and it's winding down, we have to go to the last one. Very, very, very, very, very very important. This is the one most used. In every booklet that I got on why Sunday is kept. Go with me to Revelation 1 and verse 10. Revelation 1, thank you, Jeff. Revelation 1 verse 10. I was in the Spirit on the Lord's day. That's it! That's the big, you know, do you have a drumroll?

That's it. That's the main Scripture. That's the key Scripture that everyone that keeps Sunday uses. I was in the Spirit on the Lord's day. One translation says during, I was in the Spirit during the Lord's day. Well, there's a lot of debate because you can go back to Scriptures and say, well, the Lord's day, what is the day of the Lord? Day of the Lord is a year of recompense. All this stuff.

People want to say, and I've heard ministers do this, and they want to say, yeah, but this was like he was getting a vision of everything's going to happen on the day of the Lord.

Well, Revelation takes place over weeks, months, and even years. Everything takes place in there. You can't get all that done in a day. They had a vision on it, but what does it mean? I was in the Spirit on the Lord's day. I can't recognize that teaching because it just doesn't make sense. It's not logical. Well, it talks about the day of the Lord just before Christ comes back.

When Christ comes back, we already went through there. How long is it going to take when the plagues are poured out and when this is going to be done and the four horsemen and then they're writing and all this kind of stuff and then He even gives times. So what does this mean? It means exactly what it says it means. And to make a proof of that, Matthew 12 and verse 8, For the Son of Man is what's it say?

He's Lord of the Sabbath. How about Mark? Therefore the Son of Man is also what? Lord of Sunday? No, it doesn't say that. It's Lord of the Sabbath. So by the mouth of two or three witnesses, is a matter established? Okay, Jeff, roll it about Luke. And He said to them, The Son of Man is...and who's saying this? Yeah, Princely, Jesus is saying that. God is saying it. And I say it Sunday, and I say it the first day of the week, of the Sabbath.

Because as the Word, He created it all the way back, whether you want to go to Genesis 1.14 or all the way to Exodus. 20. That's Him, the Word that became Christ. He is the Lord of the Sabbath. So, how would you explain it? When does it take place? When I was in the Spirit on whose day? Lord's day. Is there any other day except that? I never could find it.

So we have three witnesses. Just right there. From Matthew, Mark, and Luke. We have...we can turn to... I got one in my billfold. He's got one right there. A calendar. Now, you can look up in various languages. I think the last time I checked, you're the language expert here. You want to know Greek? You want to know any of that? How many do you speak? Russian? No, just leave it to Russians.

I was going to give you credit to doing all of them and they could come up and talk to you the rest of the day. He's a translator. It's amazing because the last time I checked, there were over 70 different languages than Hebrew that recognize the seventh day as Sabbath. It's even spelt. Whether it's Spanish, whether it's all these, they recognize it because what?

Because of calendar. It's easy for us to look at it there. Sabaton. Yes. And I mean, I give you...we might do this sometimes and show you the different languages and how they all relate back. How is that possible when the rest of the days are like that? There's no other day of the week like that.

So who is the Lord of the Sabbath? I think Jesus Christ. So how can a day be holy that was never proclaimed holy? How? It can't unless you lie. Unless you lie and you make it up. And that's what happened. So who made Sunday holy? I think we've discussed that. Nobody. And the only one that could was just a human man. And that, a human man, made Sunday holy. God made the Sabbath holy.

So let us study this. Let us know the Word of God. And what's interesting as we looked in the...we looked at the eight examples. Eight times is the first day of the week. How many times? I fed Jeff the wrong number here. How many times is the Sabbath mentioned in the New Testament? No. Fifty-nine. Fifty-nine times. I meant to say fifty plus.

Because people argue about this or that. Each one. But over fifty times compared to eight times. Where's the preponderance of evidence? Just in the numbers alone. But where are they for us? They're in this book. All you have to do is read it.