A Sermon by Reverend Hollis Ray Mathis

reetings, holy children of God, in the wonderful name of our lord and saviour Jesus, the Christ. The sermon subject for today is:

The Sabbath Day

LISTEN CAREFULLY SAINTS OF GOD, ARE THE SEVENTH DAY ADVENTIST RIGHT, SHOULD WE AS CHRISTIANS ASSEMBLE ON THE SABBATH DAY? I THINK NOT.JESUS CHRIST CAME INTO THE WORLD, AND OFFERED HIMSELF ON CALVARIES CROSS THAT WE MIGHT HAVE LIFE, AND HAVE IT MORE ABUNDANTLY. THE HOLY BIBLE IS ACTUALLY TWO WILLS. IF A MAN MAKES TWO WILLS, AND THEN DIES, IT IS ONLY THE LAST WILL AND TESTAMENT THAT IS VALID.

Heb:9:16: For where a testament is, there must also of necessity be the death of the testator.

Heb:9:17: For a testament is of force after men are dead: otherwise it is of no strength at all while the testator liveth.

SINCE THE DEATH OF CHRIST JESUS ON CALVARIES CROSS THE NEW TESTAMENT IS IN FORCE. THE OLD TESTAMENT IS HISTORY AND PROPHECY. THE OLD TESTAMENT LOST ITS POWER WHEN JOHN THE BAPTIST CAME PREACHING IN THE WILDERNESS. SINCE THAT TIME THE KINGDOM OF GOD IS PREACHED, AND MEN PRESSED INTO IT.

Lk:16:16: The law and the prophets were until John: since that time the kingdom of God is preached, and every man presseth into it.KJV)

THE LAW OF MOSES̀ IS KNOWN AS THE LAW OF SIN, AND DEATH. BECAUSE THE LAW OF MOSES̀ HAD TO BE KEPT TO THE LETTER. AND IF A MAN BROKE THE LAW OF MOSES̀ THEY WENT UNDER THE CURSE, A SENTENCE OF CONDEMNATION.

Rom:7:5: For when we were in the flesh, the motions of sins, which were by the law, did work in our members to bring forth fruit unto death.

Rom:7:6: But now we are delivered from the law, that being dead wherein we were held; that we should serve in newness of spirit, and not in the oldness of the letter.

Rom:7:7: What shall we say then? Is the law sin? God forbid. Nay, I had not known sin, but by the law: for I had not known lust, except the law had said, Thou shalt not covet.

LET ME GIVE YOU AN EXAMPLE OF WHAT IT MEANS TO KEEP THE LAW TO THE LETTER. FOR EXAMPLE, IF THERE IS A LAW THAT SAYS,YOU CAN ONLY DRIVE IN A CERTAIN SPEED ZONE FIFTEEN MILES PER HOUR, AND YOU DRIVE SIXTEEN MILES PER HOUR YOU HAVE BROKEN THE LAW. AND UNDER THE LAW OF MOSES̀, TO BREAK THE LAW BROUGHT THE CURSE, OR THE SENTENCE OF CONDEMNATION. LET ME SHOW YOU HOW BREAKING THE LAW OF MOSES, BROUGHT NOT ONLY SPIRITUAL DEATH, BUT THE PHYSICAL DEATH. WHEN GOD BROUGHT THE CHILDREN OF ISRAEL OUT OF EGYPTLAND, THEY HAD NO LAWS, NO RULES OF CONDUCT, THAT THEY MIGHT KNOW HOW TO ACT TOWARD GOD, OR MAN. THEREFORE GOD GAVE THEM TEN LAWS, TEN RULES OF CONDUCT, TEN COMMANDMENTS. AND, THE FORTH COMMANDMENT WAS,

Ex:20:8: Remember the sabbath day, to keep it holy.

Ex:20:9: Six days shalt thou labour, and do all thy work:

Ex:20:10: But the seventh day is the sabbath of the Lord thy God: in it thou shalt not do any work, thou, nor thy son, nor thy daughter, thy manservant, nor thy maidservant, nor thy cattle, nor thy stranger that is within thy gates:

Ex:20:11: For in six days the Lord made heaven and earth, the sea, and all that in them is, and rested the seventh day: wherefore the Lord blessed the sabbath day, and hallowed it

SAINTS OF GOD, HOW SERIOUS A SIN WOULD IT BE TO WORK ON THE SABBATH, UNDER THE LAW OF MOSES̀. TO LABOR ON THE SABBATH IS THE DEATH PENALTY. LET ME MAKE THIS VERY CLEAR, IF YOU GO TO ISRAEL, BE VERY CAREFUL WHAT YOU DO ON THE SABBATH DAY. LET ME READ FROM THE LAW OF MOSES̀ CONCERNING WORKING ON THE SABBATH.

Nm:15:32: And while the children of Israel were in the wilderness, they found a man that gathered sticks upon the sabbath day.

Nm:15:33: And they that found him gathering sticks brought him unto Moses and Aaron, and unto all the congregation.

Nm:15:34: And they put him in ward, because it was not declared what should be done to him.

Nm:15:35: And the Lord said unto Moses, The man shall be surely put to death: all the congregation shall stone him with stones without the camp.

Nm:15:36: And all the congregation brought him without the camp, and stoned him with stones, and he died; as the Lord commanded Moses.

CHILDREN OF LIGHT, WHEN GOD CREATED ADAM, AND BREATHED INTO HIS NOSTRILS THE BREATH OF LIFE, ADAM AND ALL MANKIND WAS ALIVE. THEN GOD GAVE ADAM A COMMANDMENT.

Gn:2:15: And the Lord God took the man, and put him into the garden of Eden to dress it and to keep it.

Gn:2:16: And the Lord God commanded the man, saying, Of every tree of the garden thou mayest freely eat:

Gn:2:17: But of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, thou shalt not eat of it: for in the day that thou eatest thereof thou shalt surely die.

HOLY CHILDREN THAT COMMANDMENT WAS GIVEN TO KEEP ADAM ALIVE, BUT IT ACTUALLY BROUGHT DEATH. FOR THE WAGES OF SIN IS DEATH.

Rom:7:8: But sin, taking occasion by the commandment, wrought in me all manner of concupiscence. For without the law sin was dead.

Rom:7:9: For I was alive without the law once: but when the commandment came, sin revived, and I died.

Rom:7:10: And the commandment, which was ordained to life, I found to be unto death.

Rom:7:11: For sin, taking occasion by the commandment, deceived me, and by it slew me.

REMEMBER THIS, CHILDREN OF GOD, WE ARE NOT UNDER THE LAW OF MOSES̀ WE ARE NOT UNDER THE LAW OF SIN AND DEATH. BUT WE ARE UNDER THE LAW OF THE SPIRIT OF LIFE WHICH IS IN CHRIST JESUS. WE, THE CHILDREN OF GOD, THAT HAVE BEEN BAPTIZED INTO CHRIST, ARE IN THE BODY OF CHRIST. NOT IN THE WORLD, BUT IN THE SPIRIT. THE LAW OF MOSES̀ IS STILL IN EFFECT OUTSIDE OF CHRIST. AND BY THE LAW OF MOSES̀ NO FLESH SHALL BE JUSTIFIED.

Rom:8:1: There is therefore now no condemnation to them which are in Christ Jesus, who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit.

Rom:8:2: For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus hath made me free from the law of sin and death.

IF A PERSON DOES NOT KEEP THE LAW OF MOSES TO THE LETTER, HE GOES UNDER THE CURSE OR THE SENTENCE OF CONDEMNATION. BECAUSE OF THIS ONE COMMANDMENT.

Dt:27:26: Cursed be he that confirmeth not all the words of this law to do them. And all the people shall say, Amen

NOTICE THIS SAINTS OF GOD, THE LAW, AND THE PROPHETS WERE UNTIL JOHN THE BAPTIST CAME PREACHING IN THE WILDERNESS SINCE THAT TIME THE KINGDOM OF GOD IS PREACHED, AND MEN PRESSED INTO IT. SINCE THE LAW OF MOSES̀ IS NOT IN EFFECT FOR RIGHTEOUSNESS, JESUS CHRIST COMMANDS A MAN THAT HE HAS HEALED TO TAKE UP HIS BED, AND WALK, ON THE SABBATH DAY; WHICH WAS CONTRARY TO THE LAW OF MOSES.

Jn:5:1: After this there was a feast of the Jews; and Jesus went up to Jerusalem.

Jn:5:2: Now there is at Jerusalem by the sheep market a pool, which is called in the Hebrew tongue Bethesda, having five porches.

Jn:5:3: In these lay a great multitude of impotent folk, of blind, halt, withered, waiting for the moving of the water.

Jn:5:4: For an angel went down at a certain season into the pool, and troubled the water: whosoever then first after the troubling of the water stepped in was made whole of whatsoever disease he had.

Jn:5:5: And a certain man was there, which had an infirmity thirty and eight years.

Jn:5:6: When Jesus saw him lie, and knew that he had been now a long time in that case, he saith unto him, Wilt thou be made whole?

Jn:5:7: The impotent man answered him, Sir, I have no man, when the water is troubled, to put me into the pool: but while I am coming, another steppeth down before me.

Jn:5:8: Jesus saith unto him, Rise, take up thy bed, and walk.

Jn:5:9: And immediately the man was made whole, and took up his bed, and walked: and on the same day was the sabbath.

Jn:5:10: The Jews therefore said unto him that was cured, It is the sabbath day: it is not lawful for thee to carry thy bed.

Jn:5:11: He answered them, He that made me whole, the same said unto me, Take up thy bed, and walk.

Jn:5:12: Then asked they him, What man is that which said unto thee, Take up thy bed, and walk?

Jn:5:13: And he that was healed wist not who it was: for Jesus had conveyed himself away, a multitude being in that place.

WE, AS CHRISTIANS ARE NOT TO SHAPE OUR LIVES ACCORDING TO THE OLD TESTAMENT. THERE ARE MANY RIGHTEOUS ACTS RECORDED IN THE OLD TESTAMENT, BUT WE AS CHILDREN OF GOD, CANNOT BE MADE RIGHTEOUS BY THE LAW OF MOSES. IF A MAN COULD HAVE BEEN MADE RIGHTEOUS BY THE LAW OF MOSES, THEN CHRIST IS DEAD IN VAIN.

Gal:2:21: I do not frustrate the grace of God: for if righteousness come by the law, then Christ is dead in vain. (KJV)

IF A MAN PREACHES WRONGLY FROM THE OLD TESTAMENT, HE WILL HAVE GOD̀S CHILDREN STONING WITCHES, STONING STUBBORN CHILDREN, STONING MEN AND WOMEN IN ADULTERY, CIRCUMCISING, OFFERING UP SACRIFICES UNTO GOD; ALL THESE THINGS WE, AS CHRISTIANS ARE NOT TO DO. SINCE WE ARE NOT TO SHAPE OUR LIVES BY THE OLD TESTAMENT. IF, YOU ARE A NEW CONVERT YOU MAY WONDER WHY THE OLD TESTAMENT WAS RECORDED. THE OLD TESTAMENT WAS OUR SCHOOLMASTER TO BRING US UNTO CHRIST. SINCE CHRIST HAS COME WE ARE NO LONGER UNDER THE SCHOOLMASTER.

Gal:3:22: But the scripture hath concluded all under sin, that the promise by faith of Jesus Christ might be given to them that believe.

Gal:3:23: But before faith came, we were kept under the law, shut up unto the faith which should afterwards be revealed.

Gal:3:24: Wherefore the law was our schoolmaster to bring us unto Christ, that we might be justified by faith.

Gal:3:25: But after that faith is come, we are no longer under a schoolmaster.

THE CHILDREN OF ISRAEL THAT KEEP THE LAW OF MOSES ASSEMBLE ON THE SABBATH DAY TO WORSHIP. BUT, WE THE BORN AGAIN CHRISTIANS, ASSEMBLE ON THE FIRST DAY OF THE WEEK. FOR IF WE BUILD AGAIN THAT WHICH WAS DESTROYED WE MAKE OURSELVES A TRANSGRESSOR. IN THESE VERSES OF SCRIPTURE I AM ABOUT TO READ, WHEN IT MENTIONS THE WORD Í LAW Í IT IS SPEAKING OF THE LAW OF MOSES.

Gal:2:18: For if I build again the things which I destroyed, I make myself a transgressor.

Gal:2:19: For I through the law am dead to the law, that I might live unto God.

Gal:2:20: I am crucified with Christ: nevertheless I live; yet not I, but Christ liveth in me: and the life which I now live in the flesh I live by the faith of the Son of God, who loved me, and gave himself for me.

Gal:2:21: I do not frustrate the grace of God: for if righteousness come by the law, then Christ is dead in vain. (KJV)

BELOVED NOTICE HOW THE NEW TESTAMENT CHRISTIANS ASSEMBLE ON THE FIRST DAY OF THE WEEK.

1Cor:16:2: Upon the first day of the week let every one of you lay by him in store, as God hath prospered him, that there be no gatherings when I come. (KJV)

Jn:20:19: Then the same day at evening, being the first day of the week, when the doors were shut where the disciples were assembled for fear of the Jews, came Jesus and stood in the midst, and saith unto them, Peace be unto you. (KJV)

Acts:20:7: And upon the first day of the week, when the disciples came together to break bread, Paul preached unto them, ready to depart on the morrow; and continued his speech until midnight.(KJV)

LET ME MAKE THIS VERY CLEAR, SOME CHRISTIANS WILL ESTEEM ONE DAY ABOVE ANOTHER, OTHER CHRISTIANS WILL ESTEEM EVERY DAY ALIKE. NEITHER ARE TO JUDGE THE OTHER.

Rom:14:4: Who art thou that judgest another man's servant? to his own master he standeth or falleth. Yea, he shall be holden up: for God is able to make him stand.

Rom:14:5: One man esteemeth one day above another: another esteemeth every day alike. Let every man be fully persuaded in his own mind.

Rom:14:6: He that regardeth the day, regardeth it unto the Lord; and he that regardeth not the day, to the Lord he doth not regard it. He that eateth, eateth to the Lord, for he giveth God thanks; and he that eateth not, to the Lord he eateth not, and giveth God thanks.

Rom:14:7: For none of us liveth to himself, and no man dieth to himself.

Rom:14:8: For whether we live, we live unto the Lord; and whether we die, we die unto the Lord: whether we live therefore, or die, we are the Lord's.

HOLY CHILDREN I BELIEVE THAT THE SABBATH WAS A SHADOW OF THAT WHICH WAS TO COME, AND THAT IS CHRIST.

Col:2:16: Let no man therefore judge you in meat, or in drink, or in respect of an holyday, or of the new moon, or of the sabbath days:

Col:2:17: Which are a shadow of things to come; but the body is of Christ.

SAINTS OF GOD, WHEN YOU SEE EVIL THINK MONEY. WHY WOULD MEN WANT TO DRAG YOU BACK UNDER THE LAW OF MOSES̀? MANY WILL TRY TO DRAG YOU BACK UNDER THE LAW SO THEY CAN PREACH THE TITHING LAWS TO YOU. BUT COME INTO THIS KNOWLEDGE CHILDREN OF GOD. KINGS DO NOT TAX THEIR OWN CHILDREN, THEY TAX CHILDREN OF STRANGERS. SINCE WE, THE BORN AGAIN CHILDREN OF GOD, HAVE BEEN ADOPTED INTO THE FAMILY OF GOD, AND OUR FATHER IS KING OF ALL KINGS. WE HAVE BECOME ROYALTY. IF YOU ARE A MAN AND HAVE BEEN ADOPTED INTO THE FAMILY OF GOD, YOU HAVE BECOME A PRINCE. IF YOU ARE A WOMAN YOU HAVE BECOME A PRINCESS.


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