1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:07,000 Wherever you are, I choose to believe that you are well by the grace of God, and I am 2 00:00:07,000 --> 00:00:09,500 happy for that. 3 00:00:09,500 --> 00:00:17,440 In Genesis chapter 2, reading 16 and 17, the Bible tells us, and the Lord God commanded 4 00:00:17,440 --> 00:00:23,780 the man saying of every tree of the garden thou mist freely eat, but of the tree of the 5 00:00:23,780 --> 00:00:27,640 knowledge of good and evil thou shalt not eat of it. 6 00:00:27,640 --> 00:00:32,980 But in the day thou eatest thereof thou shalt surely die. 7 00:00:32,980 --> 00:00:38,680 In that statement, we find obey and disobey. 8 00:00:38,680 --> 00:00:41,760 Eat or don't eat. 9 00:00:41,760 --> 00:00:46,400 Condense to one word, we find choices. 10 00:00:46,400 --> 00:00:50,160 Listen to the familiar wording of the forth commandment. 11 00:00:50,160 --> 00:00:53,760 Remember the Sabbath day to keep it holy 12 00:00:53,760 --> 00:00:58,200 Remember carries with it the possibility of forgetting. 13 00:00:58,200 --> 00:01:01,000 So again we have two choices. 14 00:01:01,000 --> 00:01:08,880 A person can remember at the request of God or a person can forget at his or her own impetus 15 00:01:08,880 --> 00:01:11,160 or leaning or preference. 16 00:01:11,160 --> 00:01:16,640 When the Bible says remember the Sabbath day to keep it holy. 17 00:01:16,640 --> 00:01:23,240 The choice is left to the believer, the individual to decide, will I obey or will I 18 00:01:23,240 --> 00:01:24,240 disobey? 19 00:01:24,240 --> 00:01:31,320 Obedience you see my listening friend is not something that happens automatically. 20 00:01:31,320 --> 00:01:41,480 Obedience must be a conscious process of choosing, choosing God's way as opposed to my 21 00:01:41,480 --> 00:01:43,480 way or your way. 22 00:01:43,480 --> 00:01:49,840 And anyway, opposed to God's way is really the devil's way, even though it may be expressed 23 00:01:49,840 --> 00:01:51,320 through us. 24 00:01:51,320 --> 00:01:54,520 There is a very powerful psychological principle. 25 00:01:54,520 --> 00:01:56,760 It's not everyone virtually. 26 00:01:56,760 --> 00:02:02,760 The more you do something, the better you become doing it, good or bad. 27 00:02:02,760 --> 00:02:05,040 This is how habits are formed. 28 00:02:05,040 --> 00:02:09,880 The more you observe the Sabbath from your heart. 29 00:02:09,880 --> 00:02:13,520 The more likely you are to continue doing that. 30 00:02:13,520 --> 00:02:20,080 The more you disobey by forgetting the forthcoming amendment, by forgetting the Sabbath. 31 00:02:20,080 --> 00:02:25,400 And when I say forget, Biblically to forget is to not act upon. 32 00:02:25,400 --> 00:02:28,240 Biblically to remember is to act upon. 33 00:02:28,240 --> 00:02:35,600 So God remembered Abraham and he sent Lot out of the fiery furnace of Sodom and Gomorrah. 34 00:02:35,600 --> 00:02:42,760 God remembered the sins of Babylon and God sent judgment Revelation 18. 35 00:02:42,760 --> 00:02:47,520 To remember, Biblically means to act upon. 36 00:02:47,520 --> 00:02:50,960 To forget then is to not act upon. 37 00:02:50,960 --> 00:02:56,120 Although you may know that the Sabbath is the Sabbath, by choosing not to observe 38 00:02:56,120 --> 00:02:58,920 it, you are simply choosing to forget it. 39 00:02:58,920 --> 00:03:05,120 My listening friend, obedience and disobedience are choices. 40 00:03:05,120 --> 00:03:10,080 So when God told Adam, you may eat of those trees, do not eat of this one. 41 00:03:10,080 --> 00:03:15,680 God presented Adam with choices and not even God could decide what choice Adam would 42 00:03:15,680 --> 00:03:23,760 made, not even Lucifer or Satan could decide or could have decided what choice Adam should 43 00:03:23,760 --> 00:03:25,480 make. 44 00:03:25,480 --> 00:03:30,800 Not even God my listening friend can decide for you or for me whether or not we will keep 45 00:03:30,800 --> 00:03:32,120 his Holy Sabbath Holy 46 00:03:32,120 --> 00:03:34,880 He presents the command to us. 47 00:03:34,880 --> 00:03:36,880 He tells us Remember. 48 00:03:36,880 --> 00:03:44,120 You and I now have to choose between remember by acting upon it, or forget by not acting 49 00:03:44,120 --> 00:03:45,120 upon it. 50 00:03:45,120 --> 00:03:49,640 As you keep the Sabbath holy today, as you contemplate keeping the Sabbath, if 51 00:03:49,640 --> 00:03:56,200 you're not a Sabbath keeper, remember, the more you choose to disobey God's command, 52 00:03:56,200 --> 00:04:02,120 whereas the fourth or the eighth or the sixth, the more difficult it will be for you somewhere 53 00:04:02,120 --> 00:04:05,120 down the lane to make a decision to turn around. 54 00:04:05,120 --> 00:04:09,880 It will not be impossible, just difficult and the challenge. 55 00:04:09,880 --> 00:04:15,040 On the other side, the bright side, the side that puts a smile on the face of God, 56 00:04:15,040 --> 00:04:22,720 the more you obey from your heart, the more likely you are to continue in that pathway 57 00:04:22,720 --> 00:04:24,720 of obedience. 58 00:04:24,720 --> 00:04:30,960 And so remember the Sabbath day to keep it holy, make a choice to remember to act 59 00:04:30,960 --> 00:04:36,320 upon it. As verily as God gave Adam an Eve choices. 60 00:04:36,320 --> 00:04:41,560 So very he gives you an me a choice when he tells us, remember the Sabbath day to keep 61 00:04:41,560 --> 00:04:42,560 it holy. 62 00:04:42,560 --> 00:04:47,400 Choose! obedience, I say again, is a choice. 63 00:04:47,400 --> 00:04:54,040 An obedient life is a life of constant choices to obey God to please God. 64 00:04:54,040 --> 00:05:00,360 May Lord smile upon you as he sees you obeying his seventh-day Sabbath, obeying his 65 00:05:00,360 --> 00:05:03,520 commandment, which was ordained to life. 66 00:05:03,520 --> 00:05:18,200 Happy Sabbath and God bless you.