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This is the second in our heart-to-heart talk

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regarding the fourth commandment.

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And I'm in a series of messages with you now

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on God's 10 rules for living.

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I want to remind you once again

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

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But in giving them to Moses,

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God said more about this fourth commandment than any other.

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He needed only four words in regard to killing.

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

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to keep the Sabbath day holy.

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And we read it.

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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 manservant,

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nor thy maidservant, nor thy cattle nor thy stranger

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that is within thy gate.

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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 Sabbath day.

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Wherefore the Lord blessed the Sabbath day and hallowed it.

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Oh, this is glorious.

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This commandment has been spoken of

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as referring only to the Sabbath.

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And as I told you in our last little heart to heart talk,

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that if you were to stop 10 people

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and ask them the fourth commandment,

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I would say almost without exception,

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

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Because we have always thought of this fourth commandment

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as referring only to one day, the Sabbath day.

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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 the other six days.

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There are seven days in every week, not just one, seven.

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And this commandment does not refer to just one out of seven.

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This commandment takes in the whole seven days.

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And stripping the commandment for the moment

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of all the explanatory and the expulsatory sentences,

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it'll be found to consist of just two simple

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in the whole seven days.

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And it's made of just two simple injunctions.

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First, remember the Sabbath day to keep it holy.

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That's one day out of seven.

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Now here comes the second part of this commandment.

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Six days thou shalt labor and do all thy work.

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Therefore you have the complete week of every man's life.

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One part of this commandment is just as important

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as the other.

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The reason for this is found in the fact

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of the kinship of man to God,

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this relationship that God has with man.

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Every side of his nature,

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every part of man's nature is a result

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of divine thought and action.

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That's the reason I want you to know something.

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You are important to God.

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I don't care who you are.

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You may be unimportant to everybody else in the whole world.

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You may be steeped in sin.

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You may be so low that you have to reach

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up to touch bottom and yet I want you to know something.

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You are important to God because you are a part

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of God's great creation.

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He sees you as an individual.

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That's right.

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Every side of your nature is a result of divine thought

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and action is constructed upon the basis of thought.

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This wonderful command, this fourth commandment

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is constructed upon the basis of thought and action.

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And consequently, the threefold nature of man

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resulting in the one person fulfills its highest possibilities

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within this realm only.

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The first word of God therefore is six days

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thou shalt labor and do all thy work.

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The complex system of present day civilization

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makes it possible that some men may live without work.

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And it's just too bad.

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For in so doing, we have gone absolutely contrary

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to God's plan and purpose for man.

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And man always gets into trouble when he makes plans

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and laws and works for the people.

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He makes plans and laws and works contrary

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to the divine will and purpose of God.

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If the truth, our present day civilization

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has made it possible that not only scores hundreds

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but literally thousands and thousands

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right here in our own nature, over two million

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are unable to exist without working.

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And that's just the beginning.

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The youth of today have gotten the idea that it is smart.

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You are a success if you can live,

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have the pleasures of life and not have to work.

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But we're suffering from it.

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One of these days, the whole bottom is going to drop out.

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Why?

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Because we are living contrary

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to one of God's rules for living.

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It's like that.

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I'm telling you the truth.

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God has so ordained that man has got to work

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in one form or another.

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It is God's purpose for man to work.

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

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I'm telling you the truth.

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I want you to see something.

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Something that's very marvelous.

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Man needs bread.

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But God does not put bread in man's hand.

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Man must work for that bread.

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What does God do?

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The soil is stored with forces of life.

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But man has got to work for it.

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Man has got to labor with it

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before man's needs are fulfilled in that loaf of bread.

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The harvest comes by the way of human work.

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Man needs bread.

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He works upon the soil

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and the golden harvest is God's crown upon human labor.

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This act of labor is not the result of the fall.

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It is not the result of sin.

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It is part of the original intention.

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For man was placed in the Garden of Eden

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to dress it and to keep it.

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It was always a part of God's plan.

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Even before the fall of man.

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Even before the fall of man, that man was to work.

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Search the Bible, search the Word of God.

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Begin with Genesis all the way through

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to the last word in the book of the Revelation.

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You will not find premium on laziness.

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You will not find God's blessing upon a lazy man,

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a lazy woman.

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The word does say that a father

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who provides not for his own family

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is worse than an individual.

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That father is to work.

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That father is to make a living.

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It doesn't say that it is the purpose and plan of God

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that the government should keep a man's family.

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It doesn't say that.

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It doesn't say that.

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It doesn't say that.

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It doesn't say that.

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It doesn't say that.

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There's no place in the Bible

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that says that a man is to be kept.

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It does say that man is to work with his hands.

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That's the word.

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In the process of the centuries,

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men have been discovering the secrets of God

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long locked in the treasury of nature.

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All of these rightfully understood and applied

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minister to the possibilities of increased power

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to do the work that provides for the needs of the human race.

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God has put these things there.

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They're in the earth.

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God has made provision for them.

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They are all a part of God's plans and God's purposes.

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They are hidden to the sight of man,

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and man must work.

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Work to bring them forth.

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To that side of the commandment,

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the vast mass of human beings are obedient,

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not willingly always, but of necessity.

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This being granted the infinite love

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in perfect understanding of the need of his own creation

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provides that every seventh day,

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man should lay aside the tools of his craft

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and enter into the upper reaches of his life's possibilities.

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It's well worth a careful note

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that the old essential Hebrew idea of the Sabbath

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was not that of gloom,

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but rather a gladness.

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See that?

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Oh, to me that's glorious.

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The Sabbath was a day of delight,

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a holiday, a day in which man ceased from his toil.

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And he came to a place of worship.

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Men joined together, a day of gladness

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in giving praise unto the giver

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of every good and perfect gift.

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Thanking God for his blessings upon him

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during his six days of labor.

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That's the reason I say to you again, believe me,

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no man can keep the Sabbath

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without having kept the other six days in labor.

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Neither can you keep the other six days

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without keeping the Sabbath.

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The Sabbath.

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Don't you see something that's very beautiful?

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Oh, to me this is very exciting.

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One compliments the other.

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He who never works is unfitted for worship.

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And he who never pauses to worship

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is rendered incapable of works.

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And there you are.

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Paul saw it.

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And this is what he said in 1 Corinthians 16 chapter.

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Up on the first day of the week,

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let every one of you laid by him in store

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as God have prospered him.

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Six days you work.

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Six days you earn your living.

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The seventh day, a day of gladness.

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When you lay aside all work, you worship God.

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You give thanks unto him.

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It's a recognition of the sovereignty of almighty God,

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the one who's giving you the strength to work.

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You recognize the mighty creator.

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You recognize the fact that it was his sunshine.

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It was his rain.

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After all, he was the one who made the grain grow.

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He was the one who kept the body intact.

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He was the one who gave the strength in that body of yours.

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And upon the first day of the week,

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that seventh day, you and I are to come.

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A day of rest, a day of gladness, a day of honoring him.

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A day when you acknowledge his sovereignty.

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A day when you acknowledge your utter dependence upon him.

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A day when you bring into the storehouse the first fruits,

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the best, as God hath prospered you.

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It's a time when our souls catch up with our bodies.

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Catch up with our bodies.

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A long time ago, oh, it's been years ago,

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I remember something that someone said.

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An old man said one of the most profound things,

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probably not knowingly, but these are his words.

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I let my mules spend one day a week outside the mines

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to keep them from going blind.

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Think of it.

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Think about those words.

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I let my mules spend one day a week outside the mines

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to keep them from going blind.

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Many a man has gone blind in soul

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because he's forgotten to remember.

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Many a man has gone blind in soul

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because he has not come out into the sunshine of God's love.

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He has forgotten to remember that Sabbath day,

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that day of worship, that day of gladness,

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that day when he acknowledges the sovereignty of Almighty God.

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When he acknowledges the sovereignty of Almighty God.

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If a precious miner has to bring his mules

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from out of the darkness of the coal mines

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one day a week to keep their sight intact,

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how much more should you, should I?

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Thoughts of God's great creation

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come from out of the material and into the light of the Spirit.

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It's only then that we'll have the brightness

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and the light of his glory in our soul.

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No, you cannot separate these two commandments.

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They are one.

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And the man who bows down to nothing

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can never bear the burden of himself.

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Amen.