1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:06,480 Greetings to you my dear friend, I sincerely hope all is well with you and with your children 2 00:00:06,480 --> 00:00:13,920 by the grace of God who never fails us. In Genesis 3:15 the Bible says, 3 00:00:13,920 --> 00:00:19,920 "and I will put enmity between thee and the woman between thy seed and her seed. 4 00:00:19,920 --> 00:00:25,760 It shall bruise thy head and thou shalt bruise his heal." This is called the Adamic 5 00:00:25,760 --> 00:00:34,240 Covenant, a covenant God made with Adam and through Adam to the whole world. God tells Adam what 6 00:00:34,240 --> 00:00:43,520 He will do. I will put enmity between thee and the woman. In Genesis chapter 9 we have the covenant 7 00:00:43,520 --> 00:00:49,840 God made with Noah, from verse 11. "And I will establish my covenant with you. 8 00:00:49,840 --> 00:00:56,000 Neither shall all flesh be cut off anymore by the waters of a flood. Neither shall there any more be 9 00:00:56,000 --> 00:01:01,680 a flood to destroy the earth. And God said, this is the token of the covenant which I make 10 00:01:01,680 --> 00:01:08,480 between me and you and every living creature that is with you for perpetual generations. I do 11 00:01:08,480 --> 00:01:16,400 set my bow in the cloud and it shall be for a token of a covenant between me and the earth. And it 12 00:01:16,400 --> 00:01:22,720 shall come to pass when I bring a cloud over the earth that the bow shall be seen in the cloud. 13 00:01:22,720 --> 00:01:28,640 And I will remember my covenant which is between Me and you and every living creature of all 14 00:01:28,640 --> 00:01:36,320 flesh. And the waters shall no more become a flood to destroy all flesh". In this covenant God 15 00:01:36,320 --> 00:01:44,320 tells Noah what He will do. He will put a bow in the sky to remind Noah that he would no more 16 00:01:44,320 --> 00:01:51,840 send a flood to destroy the earth. In Genesis 12, we have the Abrahamic covenant, reading from 17 00:01:51,840 --> 00:01:56,960 verse 1, "Now the Lord had said to Abraham, get thee out of thy country and from thy 18 00:01:56,960 --> 00:02:02,800 kindred and from thy father's house unto a land that I will show thee. And I will make of thee a 19 00:02:02,800 --> 00:02:08,960 great nation and I will bless thee and make thy name great and thou shall to be a blessing. And I 20 00:02:08,960 --> 00:02:16,160 will bless them that bless thee and curse him that curse thee and in thee shall all families of the earth 21 00:02:16,160 --> 00:02:22,880 be blessed." In this covenant God tells Abraham what he will do. In each of the three 22 00:02:22,880 --> 00:02:31,360 covenants it is God who lays out the items of the covenant. The human being either accepts 23 00:02:31,360 --> 00:02:39,760 through obedience or rejects through disobedience. In Exodus 19 and 20 we have what 24 00:02:39,760 --> 00:02:46,480 may be called the Mozaic covenant in that covenant God, gives the ten commandments and the Israelites 25 00:02:46,480 --> 00:02:53,520 were either to obey or disobey. By the way that covenant is for the entire world because thou shall not 26 00:02:53,520 --> 00:03:01,200 kill applies to the whole world. God gave ten principles. These are the principles He writes on 27 00:03:01,200 --> 00:03:08,480 the heart of a person in the new covenant. By the way the new covenant is the way Abraham was saved, 28 00:03:08,480 --> 00:03:15,200 it's the way Paul was saved because God only has one way to save. When you hear the old covenant 29 00:03:15,200 --> 00:03:21,120 this was on the agreement the Israelites made with God. Not God with them he accepted it but they 30 00:03:21,120 --> 00:03:29,600 made it with him. What am I trying to say?-- when God makes a covenant He decides the details of the covenant. 31 00:03:29,600 --> 00:03:38,320 We accept through obedience or reject through disobedience. The new covenant which saved Abraham, 32 00:03:38,320 --> 00:03:44,080 which saved Adam which saved Paul, which saved anyone who was saved because as I said God only has 33 00:03:44,080 --> 00:03:52,880 one way to save. That covenant is The Law the decalogue, The Ten Commandments ommandments. 34 00:03:52,880 --> 00:03:59,440 We either obey them or we disobey them but it is God who outlines the items of that agreement. 35 00:03:59,440 --> 00:04:06,480 The Ten Commandments which includes the Sabbath. At no time when God makes a covenant 36 00:04:06,480 --> 00:04:14,160 can human being contribute to God's details. God contributes to details we contribute obedience 37 00:04:14,160 --> 00:04:21,280 or disobedience. My friend, as you keep this Sabbath holy remember you are simply saying I accept 38 00:04:21,280 --> 00:04:27,920 the details of God's covenant of salvation which he writes on my heart the ten commandments. 39 00:04:27,920 --> 00:04:34,960 I cannot change them you cannot change them because no human being adds to the details of God's 40 00:04:34,960 --> 00:04:42,000 commandments. May Lord bless you and doubly bless your children as you honor the details of the new 41 00:04:42,000 --> 00:05:01,520 covenant the ten commandments God bless you and Happy Sabbath.