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It is probable that more
than a few of you

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who are watching this program,
have had experience

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with a counterfeit product or
currency at one time or another.

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I remember a time, many
years ago, when on a business

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trip to a large Asian city, being beset by individuals

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on the street
trying to convince

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me to buy a "genuine"
Rolex watch for $20.

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The watches looked
authentic,

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but anyone applying a bit of common sense would soon realize

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that any relation to a
real Rolex was at best,

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very superficial.

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They were of course cheap
counterfeits,

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along with the Gucci purses and
Armani sweaters

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that were available for
similar prices.

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In the dishonest world in
which we live,

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we are, unfortunately, assailed
by counterfeit products

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(obvious or not), and lies
that generate misguided

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ideas about everything
from climate, to health

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products, to what we end
up believing from news reports.

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The promotion of false
stories or ideas

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can be deliberately intended to
cover up the real

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story or truth.

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Is there a chance that we,
you and I, have at any time

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been a victim
of false stories

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or counterfeit products
or practices?

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Could you, even now, be a
victim of a cover-up

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that is hiding a
truth from you?

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Stay tuned!

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For centuries rulers and
their governments

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have struggled to prevent
counterfeiting

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of monetary currency.

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While counterfeiting
remains a problem today,

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the shift to electronic
currency transactions

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together with new designs
for bank notes

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have made the process of
counterfeiting

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much more difficult and thus
less profitable.

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Still, we face an
increasing barrage

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of counterfeit products
in our marketplaces.

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Various consumer products
of inferior quality

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are being sold falsely under
prestigious brand names.

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This is a violation of
trademark

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or patent protection.

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Often music is illegally
reproduced and sold

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in violation of copyright.

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All of this represents
counterfeiting and fraud.

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The OECD, in a report
published in April of 2016,

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indicated that up to 5% of all imports to the European Union

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are in fact
fakes or "knock-offs".

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The same report states the
value of this fraud totals

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nearly one half trillion
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These products
range from shoes,

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pharmaceuticals, toys,
baby formula and machine parts,

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to medical
instruments.

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The International
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for Standardization described
the effects in a 2014 paper:

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Thus, from an
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counterfeiting represents
a major threat

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to global economic health.

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But what of ideas?

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False ideas and rumors not
based in truth

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also can carry with them a
terrible cost

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and hideous consequences.

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Today it has become common
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as "fake news".

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Formerly we
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"Fake news" has been
around for a very long time.

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During the 14th and 15th
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struck Asia and spread to
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North Africa and Europe.

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It is commonly thought
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of the European population
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In England in the early
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that up to 50% of the
population was lost

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in a few years.

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This is likely the main
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the 100-years
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Relentlessly, the plague
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hamlet or village.

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Millions lost their lives
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What led to the incredible
spread of the "black death"?

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I should say there are
several theories

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as to what this disease
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In fact it was most likely
a series of diseases,

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hitting at different
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came and went over a period
of about 80 years.

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But what created the
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of outbreaks?

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Modern science now knows
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poor sanitation, and filth
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In the l4th century,
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were filthy, laden
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Human refuse was simply
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in London and Paris, and
became a breeding ground

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for rats, flies and other
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In the year 1346 a town
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near the present city of Strasburg,

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was hit with the plague.

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A Jewish physician living there, named Balavignus,

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felt that the miserable
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was a major factor in the
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He was familiar with the
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recorded in the days
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the first five books
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Based on this he
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movement among the Jews,
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of the city where Jews
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The rats, carriers of the fleas that carried bubonic plague,

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consequently left
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and moved into the "Gentile"
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In addition, to protect
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Jews often kept cats, an animal
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were superstitious
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The effects of Balavignus'
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by Dr. Donald T. Atkinson:

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Counterfeit news, that
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to a false story, is a
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In Thenon it resulted
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with Balavignus
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tortured and killed.

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I think we are all carrying,
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some ideas that we feel are true but are in fact false.

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Sometimes this is a result
of a misunderstanding,

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but all too often it is
a result of hearing something

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and believing
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or in some cases,
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because everyone else around
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In the next part of
our program I shall

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be examining a piece of our
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that does not rest on as
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as you may currently think.

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I shall be right back.

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In the first part of the
program today we examined

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the rather horrid
consequences of deception,

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the deliberate spreading
of a lie - the marketing

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of products or ideas as
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than that which is true.

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One interesting aspect of
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or idea is that it must be
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while at the same time covering
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Counterfeiting or
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is not only engaged in by those crating fake currency,

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products or news.

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It is unfortunately
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in by those we tend to trust the most.

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If one is familiar with
the Bible, then the concept

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that one day of
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as a day of worship
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All too often however,
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religious ideas and
practices, such as which day

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is the day of
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traditions, assuming the
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is based actually
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In the case of most
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their accepted day of
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the first day of the week, or
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in the English
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I should interject
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particularly those printed for use in the European Union,

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one
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of the week is usually
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with Sunday being the last.

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These types of calendars
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innovation from the

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International Organization for Standardization (ISO).

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In 1988 the ISO issued a
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Sunday in fact has been
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of the week in Europe
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at least AD 325 and the
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of Roman Emperor Constantine.

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The peoples of ancient
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Babylon also had a
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from earliest antiquity, each
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in seven as a sacred day.

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In fact when you read the
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very far to find it
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that there was one day in seven
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differently from other
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This was reinforced in
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About 2500 years later,
Moses, receiving instruction

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from the same
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was given explicit instructions to tell all of the Israelites

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to be sure and keep that
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as a Sabbath or rest, and as a
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to their Creator.

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History bears out that the
seven-day sequence Israel

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started to keep that
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has been continuously preserved,
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as identified in
Exodus 20 is the day we call

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Saturday today.

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The Biblical record, even
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to the New Testament writings,
chronicles Jesus

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as observing the same Sabbath
while He was on the earth.

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The New Testament
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those of the Apostles, are
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with the special distinction they gave to observing

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the Sabbath Day, as was
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and was
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(while He was on the earth).

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In fact, in all they
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as numerous
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no hint suggesting the day of
worship should be moved

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to another day of the week.

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Note some of the teachings
of the Apostle Paul

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that can be read in
your own Bible.

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The Book of Acts records
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early in his ministry (and
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and resurrection), came to
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(west central Turkey today).

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Here there was a small
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where the vast
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Later we see the Apostle
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city of Corinth, in which
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congregation consisting of
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Here again Paul taught
both groups to observe

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the same day of the
week as a Sabbath.

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The scripture is very
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as in all other locations, kept the seventh day Sabbath

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and taught Jews and Gentiles
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In fact one can show from
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that Paul taught the observance
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In the final portion of
today's program,

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we will see that there is no
scripture contained

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in the biblical text authorizing
a change to the day,

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which the Scriptures stated,
should be held as a sacred day.

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We will also see some very
startling admissions

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from leading scholars
of religion.

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You may well be
very surprised.

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This answers the question
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as no other
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The booklet is very well
referenced

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and can be an excellent tool to inform

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yourself on this important question.

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Today we are examining
counterfeits.

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As you know, there many
such products claiming

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to be one thing when in
fact they are not.

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Some counterfeits look
very real, requiring great

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expertise and time to
determine the authenticity

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of the item.

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We have also raised the
question as to whether

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traditions, even very
sincerely held religious

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traditions, could in
fact be a counterfeit.

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For instance, we have seen
that the Bible,

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from cover to cover only instructs the observance

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of the seventh day of the week as a sacred day,

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and yet the vast majority of the
professing Christian world

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sincerely observes the
first day of the week.

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So what happened?

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The actual story is
very interesting.

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Thirty-five years after
the founding

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of the New Testament Church.

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In AD 31 war broke out
between the Jews and the Romans.

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The conflict ended in AD
70 with the destruction

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of Jerusalem and the Temple.

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Throughout the Empire
where Jews had formerly

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been highly favoured,
hostility grew.

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Later, between AD 132 and
AD 136, another even more

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serious Jewish revolt
occurred under the command

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of Simon Bar Kokhba.

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Huge losses occurred on
both sides, but in the end

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the revolt was crushed.

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Subsequently, after AD
136, prohibitions

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on Jewish worship were
imposed,

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including forbidding the observance of the Sabbath.

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Thus for the early
Christians, keeping the Sabbath

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was a problem,
making them look Jewish

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thus becoming targets
of persecution.

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Yet those who remained
faithful to what had been taught

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to them by the
Apostles continued

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to observe the Sabbath
on the seventh day.

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Historians
acknowledge this.

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This and similar records
show the keeping

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of the seventh-day Sabbath was
continuous in the Roman Empire,

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despite the risks,
up until the Council of Laodicea

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in AD 364, over 3 centuries after the original apostles.

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The Council of Laodicea
outlawed the keeping

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of the seventh-day Sabbath
in the Roman Empire,

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prescribing in many cases
a death penalty for violation.

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The Christians who kept
the Sabbath thus had to flee

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the Empire, leaving
behind a Church that enforced

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the observance of
the first day of the week.

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It is noteworthy that the
Apostle Jude, writing

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about 40 years after the
death of Christ, states:

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Jude's comment is quite
definitive -

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there were to be no changes in the doctrines of the Church

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that had been delivered
and confirmed by Christ

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and the Apostles.

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Whatever was written in
the Scriptural canon

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was the final word on
beliefs and practice.

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Thus to make a change in a
day of worship

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that is not stated in Scripture
is a serious matter.

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Long ago, about 930 BC,
upon the death of King Solomon,

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the nation of
Israel was torn by civil war.

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The conflict resulted in
the nation being divided,

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with Judah and Benjamin
forming the nation of Judah

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in the south, and
the remaining ten tribes

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forming the nation of
Israel in the north.

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The first king of the
northern nation was the general

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of the Israelite
army, Jeroboam I.

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He was a very able man,
but feared that the Israelites

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would go to
Jerusalem to worship

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on the holy days Israel
was commanded by God to observe,

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as are noted
in Leviticus 23.

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So he made the choice of
creating,

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against God's direction, two centers of worship

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in his territory, and moved the main fall holy day period

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by one month.

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The story is contained
in 1 Kings 12.

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Jeroboam was warned by God
to repent of this,

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but he refused, and this led
all Israel into sin.

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God was not amused.

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Later in 721 BC Israel was
completed destroyed

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by the armies of Assyria.

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This comment is recorded
in 2 Kings 17:21:

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Clearly man does not have
the authority to change

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a holy day that
God has ordained.

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Thus it is interesting
that even the scholars

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of many large Christian
denominations will admit

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that there is no Biblical
authority for changing the day

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of worship from the
seventh day

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to the first day of the week.

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Note some rather
stunning admissions:

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The following was written
in a text entitled

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"Faith of our Fathers", first
published in 1876,

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by a senior expert in Roman
Catholic doctrine,

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James Cardinal Gibbons:

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Leading Methodist
theologian and author

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Dr. Clovis Chappell, and
author of over 35 books

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expounding the Methodist
perspective on faith,

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wrote the following:

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In other words, each of
these men,

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experts on the Biblical text, are admitting that the Bible

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does not authorize a
change of the day of worship

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that
God commanded.

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We saw what God thought
of Jeroboam's decision.

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We have seen what the
Bible teaches on this subject.

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A question each of us then
needs to ask, is:

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Is there a chance we have been
deceived by a counterfeit,

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which has been covered
up by the promotion

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of theology that is not
based on the Bible?

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God's Law is very clearly
stated in the Scripture.

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Just as was the case with
the early Christians,

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keeping that Law takes
courage, but exercising

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that courage comes with
the approval and support

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of the Lord God
of the Universe.

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Welcome to Tomorrow's
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your questions,
straight from the Bible.

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Some have taken Paul's
instructions to the Romans

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to mean that the Sabbath
can be observed on any day

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one deems appropriate.

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Is that what he
was really saying?

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Does it matter which day
Christians keep holy?

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Let's review Paul's
statement and notice

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first that he does not use the
word Sabbath

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once in this passage.

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Romans 14:5

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New converts who were not
yet spiritually strong

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were being intimidated and
judged for abstaining

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from activities that were
neither condemned nor commanded

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as part
of the law of God.

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Notice verse 1:

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Notice the dispute arose
concerning doubtful things.

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Observance of God's
Sabbath

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is one of the Ten Commandments.

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Would we count any other
commandment

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as a "doubtful thing"?

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It is likely similar
to the situation

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in 1 Corinthians 8 where Paul
dealt with the issue

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of eating meat which had
been offered to idols.

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Some, who were not yet
mature in the faith,

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didn't fully understand
that those idols

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were nothing and so refrained
from eating meat entirely.

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We know from Luke 18:12
that the Pharisees

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commended themselves for
fasting twice a week.

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Is it a stretch to believe
that some were teaching

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that certain foods should
be avoided on certain days

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or some days were better
for fasting than others?

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Even today, there is a
large denomination

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which professes Christianity and
many adherents refuse

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to eat meats on a particular
day of the week,

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a day that even that church
does not observe as holy.

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Paul made his thoughts on
God's law and commandment

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clear, they were not
"doubtful things"

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Paul encouraged patience
with those who were new

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to the faith.

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If you read thought the
book of Acts,

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you'll see that he consistently
taught,

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even the predominantly Gentile
congregations on a specific

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day of the
week, the Sabbath.

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A key purpose of God's law
is to teach us that He declares

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right from
wrong, holy from unholy.

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It is not left for everyone to choose for themselves.

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