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Well, sirs, here we are today in the Fourth Commandment.

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And this is in a series of heart-to-heart talks

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that I've been bringing you on God's 10 rules for living.

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Oh, I know we speak of them as the 10 commandments.

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But in reality, in these 10 commandments,

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God has given not only to the children of Israel,

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not only to Moses, but to you, to me, to all of humanity.

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Anyone who is a part of humanity has a part in these 10 rules

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for living.

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And remember, man did not make.

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These are God's rules.

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To break any one of them, man will suffer.

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Now, each one of God's 10 rules for living are vital.

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Know that one is just as vital as the other.

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But in giving them to Moses, God said more about the fourth

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commandment than any other.

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Take that into consideration before we begin our little

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heart-to-heart talk regarding this fourth commandment.

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Think of it.

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Of all the commandments, of all of these 10 rules for living,

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this one that we are about to go into,

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God said more about this one than any other.

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He needed only four words in regard to killing.

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Thou shalt not kill.

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But he used 94 words to tell us to remember the Sabbath day,

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to keep it holy.

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Now, in the first place, God tells us to remember.

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In a scientific sense, one never forgets anything.

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Never.

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Every thought we have is registered forever on our minds.

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But practically, we can forget almost everything.

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And you know that's the truth.

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We can forget dates.

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We can forget names.

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We can forget things that we're supposed to do.

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Man can even forget God if he desires to do so.

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Some things, you know, we forget on purpose

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because the remembrance of them is not pleasing.

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Other things we forget because our minds are preoccupied

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with other matters.

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And one of the things that we so often forget

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is to keep God's day.

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But God says that man needs to set aside a day each week

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to keep it holy.

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And to fail to keep that day holy is to suffer.

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If you fail to keep that one day holy,

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you will suffer in exactly the same way as you would suffer

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if you were to break any one of the other commandments.

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For not one commandment is more important than the other.

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To break any one of them, you suffer.

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All right, let me read you the 94 words

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that God used in this fourth commandment.

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Remember the Sabbath day to keep it holy.

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Six days shalt thou labor and do all thy work.

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But the seventh day is a Sabbath unto the Lord thy God.

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In it, thou shalt not do any work,

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thou nor thy son nor thy daughter, thy man servant,

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nor thy maidservant, nor thy cattle,

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nor thy stranger that is within thy gates.

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For in six days the Lord made heaven and earth,

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the sea and all that in them is,

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and rested the seventh day.

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Wherefore the Lord blessed the Sabbath day and hallowed it.

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Read it for yourself.

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It's in the 20th chapter of Exodus.

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And here in this fourth commandment,

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it provides for the perpetual maintenance of a symbol

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of the relationship that exists between God and man.

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For remember, the first four of the Ten Commandments

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of God's Ten Rules for Living

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refer to a relationship, deals definitely with a relationship

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between God and man.

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Therefore, we see immediately that this commandment

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deals definitely with that relationship

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between you and God, between man and God.

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At regular intervals through all the days,

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man is to turn wholly from that which is material

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to that which is spiritual.

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By the recurrence of the Sabbath,

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he is to be reminded that every day is measured and planned

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in the counsels of God.

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And it's just like that.

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In every hour of human life, the physical and the spiritual

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interact upon each other.

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And in the proper interrelation,

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each contributes to the strengthening of the other.

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You cannot separate the material from the spiritual

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or the spiritual from the material.

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And that is the reason that man has gotten himself

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into the mess that he is in today.

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That's the reason the world is in the condition

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that it is today.

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That's the reason nations are in the condition

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that nations are in today.

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My friend, that's the reason you as a family

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are in the condition that you are today.

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A little family, maybe a family of two, of three, of four,

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are the destiny.

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The reason you are in the condition that you are today,

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without the blessing of God, without the favor of God,

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without the smile of God, without the consciousness

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of God, without the presence, is because you have tried

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to live your life without the spiritual.

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It is all material.

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And as surely as the life of an individual

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or the life of a nation is all material without the spiritual,

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for you cannot separate one from the other.

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One complements the other.

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One strengthens the other.

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Of this fundamental law of human nature,

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the Sabbath is the perpetual symbol.

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For the days of earthly probation,

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the value of the Sabbath is created

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by the intervening days.

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The light of the seventh is a perpetual suggestion

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of their true meaning and final import.

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The right understanding of this relation

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is all important to a true conception of the meaning

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and the method of the fourth commandment.

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Consider something, something that is most important.

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This commandment is twofold.

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I know that when one thinks of the fourth commandment,

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they only think of it in the light of the Sabbath.

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If you were to stop 10 people and ask them,

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what is the fourth commandment, without hesitation,

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they will say, remember the Sabbath day to keep it holy.

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That's it.

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My friend, this is a mistake.

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The full weight of that part of it,

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which refers to the seventh day, is only appreciated

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as it is remembered that one half of this commandment

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has to do with six days.

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This commandment is twofold.

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And stripping the commandment for the moment

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of all the explanatory and expository sentences,

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it will be found to exist of two simple injunctions.

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For this rule for living has two separate parts.

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You are not to keep one part of it

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without keeping the other.

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One part of this commandment is just as important as the other.

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First it begins, remember the Sabbath day to keep it holy.

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That's one part.

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Don't stop there.

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Remember I told you there were 94 words in this commandment.

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Not just seven, 94.

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Here's the second part.

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Six days helped thou labor.

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Uh-oh, somebody says I knew there was a catch in it.

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That's right.

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Do you want to know something?

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You cannot keep God's Sabbath day.

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You are not fulfilling this, his fourth rule for living,

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unless you have kept the rest of the commandment,

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unless you have worked six days.

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Oh, somebody says I wish my wife hadn't heard that.

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That's right.

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I'm going to tell you something.

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The will of God for a man is that he should work.

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Not one day a week, not two days a week, not three days a week.

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And that is why we are continuing to get into even a

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deeper mess than we've already gotten ourselves into.

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Man is doing everything he possibly can.

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Now my friend, I believe in you, yous.

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Yous are wonderful.

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But when you try to get men to the place in their lives,

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when they are only working four days a week, three days a week,

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you're asking for trouble.

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You're going absolutely contrary to the word of God.

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God's plan for man is six days a week.

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The same as coming here as a slave driver, your old-fashioned.

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I don't care what you call me.

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These are not my words.

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These words come from the highest authority

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in heaven and earth.

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These are God's words that I'm giving you.

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This is a part of God's plan for man which constitutes a happy

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life, a successful life, which will give joy,

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which will give contentment, which will give peace, success.

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We've gotten to the place where man is doing everything under

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God's heaven to get out of work.

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Over two million people being supported by the government

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when according to God's rules, every one of these two million

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should be out working six days a week.

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It's like that.

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The will of God for man is that he should work.

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It is also that after the seventh day,

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he should cease his work and back day worship.

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I can prove to you that it is a part of God's original plan that

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man was to work.

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I'll go into this a little deeper in our next

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heart-to-heart talk by just one giving this word.

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Man was placed in the Garden of Eden.

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Oh, that Garden of Eden was wonderful.

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It was beautiful.

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Beyond our wildest imagination.

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But I don't believe that you could find a rocking chair any

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place in the Garden.

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God never produced a lazy Adam or a lazy Eve.

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He placed man in the Garden, read the scripture,

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and this is what it says, to dress it and to keep it.

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Even the Garden of Eden and all of its beauty,

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God himself having prepared it.

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I'll go a little further than that.

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I believe that when we come to the place where we are abiding

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in our eternal home, that which will be heaven forever and ever

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to God's redeemed, there will still be work to do.

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So if you don't want to work, don't plan to go to heaven.

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That's right.

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That's it.

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Sure, my friend.

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He gave this gorgeous garden.

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He could have so purposed and planned that man would not have

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to support himself.

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That man would not have to work.

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But he knew human nature well enough to know that if man did

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not work, man would get into trouble.

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Human nature has not changed.

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It's still the same today.

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Unless man is busy six days a week,

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that man sooner or later will get into trouble.

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Amen.