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Show 24: Why Christians worship on Sunday, and why that is right · The Uncensored Catholic

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Hey, y'all, welcome today's show. You know, I've mentioned before that
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often have debates with people where I live because there's a large presence of Seven
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Day Adventis in the area. Elijah Hooves witnesses, a lot of Church of
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God, a lot of which you might call primitive Baptist or free will Baptist,
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a lot of people that kind of they don't have what you would consider
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an orthodox doctrine. Okay, and I am, you know, being an
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herbalist and writing a lot for preppers and homesteaders, you tend to encounter a
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lot of people online and any of your life that are just, let's say,
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very independent minded, but also very devout, and they tend to be
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what we would call Torah observant Christians. Torah observant that means that they follow
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the Mosaic law and believe in Jesus Christ's the Messiah. If you actually read
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the Bible from cover to cover, you'll find those are incompatible ideas expressly condemned
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in the Gospels. But for some reason they do embrace that. And they're
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very well meaning people. They're very devout, and they're very religious, and
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they make an argument that is really, really difficult for most Protestants to refute,
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and that is where in the Bible. If the Bibles or sole authority,
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where in the Bible's is say, Christians no longer celebrate the Jewish Sabbath,
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but Christians go church on Sunday. Well, the truth is, the
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Bible doesn't say that. You see, the Bible is not a manual for
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worship. The Bible does not contain all the teachings of Jesus and his apostles.
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The Bible specifically says what's written down here is so that you may believe
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the oral tradition and written tradition of the Catholic Church was taught to the early
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Church by the apostles of Jesus, passed down from generation and generation, and
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on the finer points of doctrine developed over time. I mean, the Bible
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says baptizing the name of the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit.
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But the Bible does not go into detail and explaining the nature of the Trinity.
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The Trinity is something that I guess I won't say all because there's so
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many Protestant denominations, like fifty thousand or so depending on how you count.
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Most Christians believe in the Trinity, the Father and the Son and the Holy
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Spirit, one God in three persons. But the Bible doesn't explained that doesn't
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explain the nature of it. It took hundreds of years actually of intense prayer
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and study for the Catholic Church to formalize and explain and define that doctrine.
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And that's really just one aspect. I've spoken to you before about how the
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Bible does not explain Christian marriage, that polygamy was no longer allowed, but
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that we could only have monogamy again. Actually, the first writings of the
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early Church, it was Pope Saint Clement, the third Pope, who formalize
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the definition of Christian marriage that all Christians now follow. There may be some
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French groups, and of course yes there are. There's the Olds Church,
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the Mormons. But Mormons, in no way, shape or form can you
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say that Mormon doctrine is compatible with traditional Christian doctrine. It's really Mormons are
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a Christian related group, Let's put it that way. You cannot fully believe
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if you don't fully believe in the divinity of Christ and the humanity of Christ
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as well. It's really hard to say that person is a Christian Mormons.
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I dated a Mormon girl for a while who she told me everything I needed
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to know about the LDS Church because she had studied it intensely and decided that
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Mormons were not Christian and that she was leaving that church and she wanted to
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join a Christian denomination, and her family went to extreme measures to prevent us
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from marrying and basically almost like kidnapping and brainwashing. So I got to learn
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a lot about the inside of the LDS Church, the way they think and
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what they actually believe as opposed to how it's presented. And you know,
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Jesus said, those who are not against be or for me. So there
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are many very good Mormons who do great charitable works, and to some extent,
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they believe in Jesus, you know, as opposed to the Jehovah's witnesses
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who do not believe in the divinity of Jesus. I would call them Christian
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related as well. They are witnesses for Jehovah, God the Father, and
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they will openly tell you Jesus the Son was not is not God, and
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anyone who worships Jesus is going to Hell. Well, Christians are Christians because
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we worship Christ. We believe in the divinity of Christ. That's really our
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foundational principle actually, and we believe in Christ's teachings and that those teachings are
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given to us through the Catholic Church. So when you're Torah observant or Seven
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day advents, et cetera Christian comes to you and says you're worshiping the devil
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because you don't go to the Jewish Sabbath. You go to church on Sunday.
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And anyone who goes to church on Sunday is worshiping the devil. It's
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very hard, honestly, to refute using just the words of the Bible,
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because, like I said, the Bible is not the first manual of Christian
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belief and religious instruction and the practice of our worship. The DDAK is the
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writings of the Twelve Apostles, the earliest, the oldest post biblical document.
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You can't convince someone who says the Bible alone no other authority using the DAK
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because they say it has no authority. That's not a logically tenable argument,
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because the same apostles who wrote the New Testament wrote or dictated the dd K.
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But it does really confound the Protestant because the Protestant who says we're Christians,
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we go church on Sunday. When one of these people says to them,
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you shouldn't go church on Sunday, the Bible says you should go church
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on Saturday, really has no answer except you know, this, sir,
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tradition and this what we do, and no way of explaining why now obviously
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on its face, you know, you look and say, well, Sundays
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today Jesus rose from the dead. Sundays today we celebrate Easter. Pentecost was
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also on Sunday, the birth of the Church. That is an excellent argument.
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It's a very valid and truthful argument. But you will find when you're
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debating someone who says I only believe the words written down the Bible, that
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it's not an entirely convincing argument. And frankly, I don't know how one
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can convince a person such as that. I haven't been successful because I say
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here's the d dok. And they say I won't read it. Why won't
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you read it because it's not the Bible? And I say, well,
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okay, the Bible is not a history book. You know, it's not
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a newspaper. It doesn't tell you the daily events. If I handed you
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a historical document that said this happened on this day in the year one hundred
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twenty, would you read it? Yes, I would. Well, why
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won't you read the DC because I only believe it's in the Bible, and
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that's the only religious document I'll believe. Well, if that's where the person
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you know puts on the brakes and refuses to go any further, you're not
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gonna get anywhere. Seriously. I mean, you could say, here's popes
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Saint Clement, the third Pope writing the Apostles were still alive, he was
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ordained by Saint Peter. Nope, I won't read it. If they won't
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read it, that really is the end of the debate, and that generally
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is how those debates turn out. But as a Catholic, and this totally
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applies to Protestants as well, I know I have Protestants who listen to my
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shows. And when you're confronted by those people that say Sunday worship is the
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work of the devil, you need to be able to defend your faith.
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It needs me to be able to stand firm in it. So you're not
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swayed by that opinion, which is actually heretical, condemned by you know,
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Saint Paul in the Bible, making Christians abide by Jewish law, condemned by
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actually several of apostles in the Bible and all the early Church. You know,
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Saint Peter himself said, you know you're not to be bound by Jewish
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law anymore. Well, they will say, if you don't follow Jewish law,
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you worship the devil and you're going to hell. You cannot let that
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undermine your faith because well, if you say the Bible's sole authority, when
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someone says that you have to still abide by the Jewish law as a Christian,
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that's anti biblical and it's not the work of God. So you need
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to be firm and not be swayed. And today's show, I'm going to
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try to just go through a few points that will help you defend your faith
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or at least be firm in it and realize that, yes, you are
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by going to church on Sunday, even if it's not a Catholic church,
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you're still doing what Jesus and the apostles ask of you as a Christian.
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Granted I would prefer if you went to a Catholic church, but if you
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don't, you're still in closer communion with the Catholic Church through the teachings of
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the Apostles than those who reject Sunday worship. From the very beginning in the
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writings of the early Church fathers, we see that the Christian which was distinctly
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Christian both in belief and practice from Judaism. Christians did not observe the Jewish
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Sabbath. The Bishop Theophilus of Antioch wrote in one fifty a d that Christians
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observe Sunday as the Sabbath, while Jews still observes Saturday. Christians joined together
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for worship in Euchrists on Sunday because that was the day Christ rose from the
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dead. As I mentioned, every Sunday is a commemoration of the most holy
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day in history, Easter. Contrary to what Saven Day advent as to observe
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at Christians and certain other denominations teach, the proper day for Christian worship is
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Sunday, and the observance of Sunday in place of the Jewish Sabbath has been
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observed since the Apostles. From the very first day from Pentecost on, that's
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been the day Christians go to church to worship and share in the Euchrist,
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the breaking of bread, the holy communion. Not only does the Bible make
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clear that Christians no longer follow the Torah, the mosaic law, that it's
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a topic I'm going to get into more later. There's a lot more say
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about it. The early Church wrote about Christian worship extensively. Although such denominations
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believe they followed the Bible explicitly and the Catholicism is actually evil for observing Sunday,
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they failed to recognize that Jesus Christ is the living word of God.
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He was the very word given to Moses and written on the tablet of the
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Ten Commandments. They will point out that Jesus said not one iota of the
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law would change. However, they failed to recognize Jesus also said he was
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the lord of the Sabbath. He was the law. When Jesus said it
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and did it, that was the true meaning of the law. The law,
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as we were told in the Bible, was just a sign of things
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to come, and Jesus fulfilled what was to come, which makes sense that
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the Sabbath would be transferred to the next day because the next day is the
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first day of the week. It's the fulfillment of the old law, where
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the Sabbath on the last day into the new law the first day, the
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new day of worship. There's actually a lot of writings on that, you
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know, by some of the really great thinkers of the doctors of the Church.
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He made clear that the old law was no longer valid. He was
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establishing a new covenant. And Jesus alone is God, as I always said,
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as I always say, whatever Jesus said, dude, just do it.
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Father Sparrago, writing about eighteen ninety or so, said Sunday was appointed
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by the apostles as the day of rest instead of the Sabbath because Christ rose
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from the dead on Sunday. Sunday is a festival of the Holy Trinity.
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From the first day of the week, God the Father began the work of
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creation, God the Sun rose from the dead, and God the Holy Ghost
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descended upon the apostles. The apostles were authorized to transfer the day of rest
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from Saturday to Sunday because it was not so much in observance of the Sabbath
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as the observance of a fixed day in each week, upon which God insisted
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in the commandment. They were all the more at liberties to change the day,
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as the old law was but a shadow of the new. Sunday has
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called the Lord's day because it ought to be devoted to his service, and
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because he rose from the dead. Saint Justin writing in one thirty nine a
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d is the first to make use of the word Sunday. It is the
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name befitting the day whereupon the Lord, rising like the sun, rose from
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the grave in brilliance of his glorified humanity. On this day God made the
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light, the Holy Ghost came down in tongues of fire, and on this
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day we received spiritual enlightenment. The emperor Constantine the Great and joined the observance
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of Sunday as the day of rest throughout the Roman Pyre and Charlemagne caused those
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who violated to be fined. Many fringe Protestant groups will say, that's not
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you know the Church taught. It's what the Romans per Constantine taught. No,
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no, it's not. It is exactly what the Church taught. It's
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exactly what's said in the DK, written before the Bible was even completed.
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At least the Book of Revelation said yet to be completed, and Jesus gave
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to his apostles the power to bide and loose. They loosed us from the
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observance of the Jewish Sabbath and bound us to the observance of the Christian Sabbath.
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You can either believe Jesus gave them that power or Jesus lied, and
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therefore he's not God, because God cannot lie. God is omnipotent, He's
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not limited by human understanding. He alone had the authority to establish a new
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covenant, a new church, and a new law. This church, the
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Catholic Church that he founded, was given the only power, was the only
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power on earth, given his authority to teach on morals and doctrine, and
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the Catholic Church is a Sunday church. Those who insist that Christians must observe
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the Sabbath of the Jews are the very Judaizers condemned by Saint Paul in the
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Bible. They condemned true Christians for the crime against Mosaic law of which the
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Jewish authorities accused Jesus violation of the Sabbath. The Jewish subscribes and Pharisees and
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all those saddresses. The high people in the Church were outraged that Jesus healed
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on the Sabbath and that his disciples gathered grain on the Sabbath. They were
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violating Jewish law, and by that law could have been stoned to death.
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Jesus called them hypocrites, whitewashed tombs, and many other insults that are really
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surprisingly harsh. We don't think of Jesus, you know, criticizing and calling
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people names, But he he reserved his harshest criticism for these people, and
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both our Lord and his apostles to this day through the Church make clear that
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such people do not follow the law of Jesus and his church. What does
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the New Testament say about Sabbath and Sunday, Well, let's go to Matthew
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twelve one through eight. At that time, Jesus went through the cornfields one
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Sabbath day. His disciples were hungry, and we get to pick ears of
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corn and eat them. The Pharisees noticed it and said, look, your
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disciples are doing something that's forbidden on the Sabbath. But he said to them,
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have you not read what David did when he and his followers were hungry.
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How we went into the House of God and he ate the laws of
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the offering, although neither he nor his followers were permitted to eat them,
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but only the priests. Or again, have you not read in the law
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that on the Sabbath day the temple priests break the Sabbath without committing a fault.
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Now Here, I tell you, is something greater than the temple.
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And if you understood the meaning of the words mercy is what pleases me,
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not sacrifice, you would not have condemned the blameless, For the Son of
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Man is master of the Sabbath. One thing, those who deny the authority
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the Catholic Church through the apostles, I don't well know. Some of them
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do actually deny the authority of the apostles. They say that the apostles had
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no power to change anything, when Jesus actually expressly gave them that power.
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Well, they missed this point. I would say it just said. Jesus
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just said that the priests in the temple broke the Sabbath. In other words,
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they worked on the Sabbath day. Jesus established a new church with new
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priests. Not only does he say the Son of Man is lord of the
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Sabbath. It means Jesus is the Lord who appoints that day. He's the
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very word of God, and he can certainly alter it due to his will.
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He could change the whole universe if he wanted to. He said,
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you know, the stones would cry out to him. I mean all powerful,
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omnipotent. There's nothing all power and for an omnipotent that's bound by the
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written word. But his priests had authority to work on that day to do
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his will. And his priests are the priests of the Catholic Church, the
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Kingdom of God and his people, his followers have the duty to go to
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church on that day and receive the Eucharist, to do that work, to
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receive the holy that makes holy, or else, he says, we have
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no life in us. We only have the life of the spirit by going
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to church on Sunday and receiving the Eucharist. Matthew twenty eight one through two.
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After the Sabbath and toward the dawns of first Week, Mary of Magdala
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and the other Mary went to visit the Sepulture, and suddenly there was a
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violent earthquake. For the Angel of the Lord descended from having came and rolled
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away the stone that was on it. That's just more evidence that Jesus rose
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on Sunday. I don't think anyone really denies that, though I did actually
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have a debate with one of these tour observant folks that tried to tell me
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Jesus did not raise on the Sabbath because had he been, he couldn't have
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been in the tomb three days. Well, you know, according to Jewish
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tradition, a day actually begins at sunset. That's why we have vigil mass
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on Saturday. But because I couldn't get him to read any historical documents,
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and the Bible is not a history book with details such as that, he
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would not believe that Jesus was actually in the tomb three days, even though
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I gave him other Bible verses saying that Jesus was in the tomb three days,
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because he could not reconcile that with admitting that Sunday was the Jesus to
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day Jesus rose from the dead, even though it literally just said that.
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In Matthew again, we have Mark two twenty three through twenty eight. It
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happened that one Sabbath day he was taking a walk through the cornfields, and
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his disciples began to make a path by plucking years of corn. And the
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Pharisees said to him, look, what why are they doing? Something is
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forbidden, something on Sabbath day that is forbidden. And he replied, have
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you not read what David did? And in his time when he and his
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followers were hungry and went into the House of God, when Abiathos priests and
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he ate the loaves of the authoring, which were only the priests were allowed
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to eat, And how he also gave some to the men with him,
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and he said to them, the Sabbath was made from man, not man.
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For the Sabbath. The son of Man is master even of the Sabbath.
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So it's even more strongly stated in Mark two twenty three through twenty eight.
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Man was not bound by the Sabbath. The Sabbath was made for man
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and Jesus, as the son of Man is the master of the Sabbath.
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He would assign to his church what day the Sabbath would be celebrated, and
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it would be the day rose, and it would be the first day of
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the week, to show that it was a new covenant and a new practice.
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And as I said before Pentecost Sunday was also Sunday, just as Easter,
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so you know, just to like emphasize the Church was formed the birthday
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of the Church, which we celebrate just a couple of weeks ago. Well,
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we know two weeks ago, I guess now, Acts two, when
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Pentecost Day came around, they had all met together, when suddenly there came
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from heaven a sound as violent as of a violent wind, which filled the
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entire house in which they were sitting, and there appeared to them tongues of
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fire. They separated and came to rest on the head of each of them.
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They were all filled with the Holy Spirit and began to speak different languages
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as the Spirit gave them power to express themselves. Acts twenty seven. On
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the first day of the week, they met for breaking of bread. What's
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the first day of the week. It's Sunday. What's breaking of bread?
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It's the Eucharist. If only if only people understood that the breaking of bread,
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which is how Christians celebrate their worship service, was the euchriist the Holy
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Communion, we could clear up a lot of confusion with those who get confused.
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But they'll say, no, you're just having a meal. Well,
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but you know last week when we were talking about the Euchrist, it said,
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how this bread is truly the body of Jesus. The apostle said that
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Jesus said it, and it said that. You know, as the Christians
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had their meals, their worship service, their celebration, they would take bread
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and take it to sick people who couldn't be there. Why would you do
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that if it was just bread? I mean, a little tidy wafer is
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not a meal, you know, and was at Saint Paul. I think
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who said I think it could have been James. I'm not sure. I
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just referenced this a couple of days ago, but I'm losing track now.
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The reason many are sick among you and have even died, it is because
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you ate unworthily of the bread the body of Christ. That's not symbolic,
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and it wasn't just a meal. Actually seven twenty verse seven, I should
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say, on the first day of the week, that's Sunday, they met.
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We met for breaking a bread. Paul was due to leave the next
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day and he preached a sermon that went on to the middle of the night.
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That's when people preached. Was Sunday. That's the hollowly the priest gives.
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That's why Protestant mentors serves preach on Sunday Day. They're taking part in
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a Catholic tradition without even realizing it. Let's see what the Ddak says about
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As I said, this is the first post biblical document. It's not even
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post biblical because the apostles were still alive, several of them, and we're
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writing. And the Ddak meets the writing of the twelve. Whether they wrote
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in their own hand or dictated it really as an issue. We just know
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this was done literally before the Book of Revelation was even written. The Ddac
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says, a symbol on the Lord's Day, and break bread and offer the
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Eucharist. But first make confession to your faults, of your faults, so
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that your sacrifice may be a pure one. Anyone who has a difference with
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his fellow is not take part with you until they have been reconciled, so
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as to avoid any profanation of your sacrifice. For this is the offering of
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which the lords said, everywhere, and always bring me a sacrifice as undefiled.
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For I am a great king, says the Lord, and my name
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is the wonder of all nations. So Lord's day Sunday, the day Lord
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rose, the first day of the week. Go to confession first, so
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you can receive the euchrous worthily, reconcile with those you have difference with.
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Don't let there be division in the church. There's a lot of its little
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passage, isn't there. And don't profane the sacrifice by receiving it unworthily.
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And again it's a command of God everywhere, and always bring me a sacrifice,
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says undefiled from I am a great king, says the Lord. And
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my name is the wonder of nations. It's not up for debate, you
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know. Jesus made it pretty clear. And anything he didn't make clear,
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his apostles taught. And that's why we do it. One thirty a d.
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I think it's name is Mattheates MTE t e. S wrote the first
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explanation of how Christianity differed from other religions. He is believed of being a
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student of Saint Paul, and his tone is equally condemning of Jewish religious laws
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and practices as Saint Paul. These guys were a little harsh. You got
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to remember the Judaism. The Jews were trying to destroy them at the time,
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they were trying to kill them, and they were saying anyone who didn't
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follow Jewish law had to be executed. Well they were, you know,
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they were in a battle for their very survival, and so yeah, they
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could be a little harsh sometimes, mattheis said, And next, I imagine
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that most of that you are most desirous of hearing something on this point,
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that the Christians do not observe the same forms of divine worship as the Jews.
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The Jews, then if they abstain from the kind of service above described,
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and deem it proper to worship one God as being Lord of all,
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are right. But if they offer him worship in the way which we have
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described, they greatly err. For while the Gentiles, by offering such things
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to those that are destitute of sense and here furnished an example of madness,
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they, on the other hand, by thinking to offer these things to God
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as if he needed them, might justly reckon That reckon it rather an act
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of folly than divine worship. Well, remember in the Bible says the folly
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of the Cross, and how basically the Jews with think Christians were nuts,
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they were insane. Okay, that's what he's referencing here. For he that
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made heaven and earth and all that is therein and gives us all things of
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which we stand in need, certainly requires none of these things which he himself
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bestows on, such as thinking of furnishing them to him. He's saying the
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sacrifices in the temple, Jesus said, what I wanted was mercy. I
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don't want the blood of bulls and rams. But those who okay, let's
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see, but those who imagine that by means of blood and the smoke of
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sacrifices and burnt offerings, they offer sacrifices acceptible him, and that by such
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honors they show him respect. These, by supposing that they can give anything
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him, who stands in need of nothing, appears to me in no respect
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to differ from those who studiously confer that same honor on things destitute of sense
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and which therefore unable to enjoy such honors. He's essentially comparing Jewish temple worship
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to idol worship. And as at the time it was said, and this
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is also reference in the Bible that they had come to worship the temple more
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than the God whose temple it was. The temple had become more of a
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nationalistic or ethnic sign, a symbol. And that's, you know, probably
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why Jesus called them whitewashed tombs. So it was a symbolic outward appearance as
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opposed to the inward worship that he wanted. But as to their scrupulosity concerning
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meats and their superstitions as respect to the Sabbaths, and they're boasting about circumcision
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and their fancies about fasting and new moons, which are utterly ridiculus and unworthy
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of notice. I do not think that you require to learn anything from me.
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For to accept some of those things which have been formed by God for
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the use of men improperly formed, and to reject others as useless and redundant,
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how can this be lawful? And to speak falsely of God, as
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if he forbade us to do which is good on the Sabbath days, how
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is this not impious? And to glory in the circumcision of the flesh is
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proof of election, And as if on account of it they were specially beloved
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by God, how is that not a subject of ridicule, and as they're
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observing months of day and days as if waiting upon the stars and moon,
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and they're distributing, according to their own tendencies, the appointments of God and
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the vicissitudes of the season, some for festivities and others from warning. Who
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would deem this appoint a part of divine worship and not much rather a manifestation
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of folly. I suppose then you are sufficiently convinced that Christians properly abstain for
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the vanity and error common to both jew and gentile, and from the busy
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by spirit and vain boasting of the Jews. But you must not hope to
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learn the mystery of their peculiar mode of worshiping God from any mortal Okay,
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all that complex language people used to write in I'm a Southerner. I tend
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to be plain talking. What he's saying is by one thirty a d.
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Which is the very first generation after the Crucifixion, Death, Resurrection or Lord,
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Christians had abandoned all all laws tenets of Jewish worship. They did not
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observe the Jewish Sabbath, they did not preserve Jewish holidays. It's another big
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sticking point with the tour observed Jews. They did not observe Jewish sacrifices.
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They had the Eucharis as opposed to symbolic sent offerings and peace offerings. They
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did not observe Jewish dietary practices. They ate pork. If they wanted to
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eat pork, it was not a big deal. They ate shellfish. And
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they didn't practice circumcision. Christians were really help spoken against circumcision for quite a
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while. I'm not really sure how that practice got back into modern practice.
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It's it's absolutely unnecessary and frankly injurious to a child. But anyway, to
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the Magnesians, Saint Ignatious specifically explain why Christians should no longer keep the Jewish
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Sabbath, but must worship Christ on Sunday. This is say Ignatious. He's
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one of the most important figures in the early Church. Again, I mean,
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he's maybe the third, second, or third of all the post Apostolic
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Church followers to write, and he wrote a lot of letters. He was
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a bishop, and he said, be not deceived with strange doctrine, or
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give heed to fables and endless genealogies. That's a quote from the Bible and
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things in which the Jews make their boast. Old things are passed away.
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Behold, all things have become new. That's a quote from Jesus. For
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if we still live according to the Jewish law and the circumcision of the flesh,
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we deny that we have received grace. For the divinest prophets lived according
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to Jesus Christ. On this account also they are persecuted, being inspired by
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grace to fully convince the unbelieving that there is one God, the Almighty,
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who has manifested himself by Jesus Christ's son, who is his word, not
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spoken, but essential. For he is not the voice of an articulate utterance,
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but a substance begotten by divine power, who has in all things pleased
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him that sent him. If therefore, those who are brought up in the
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ancient order of things have come to the possession of a new hope, no
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longer observing the Sabbath, but living observeth in observed of the Lord's day,
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on which also our life has sprung up by him and by his death,
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whom some deny, by which mystery we have obtained faith, and therefore to
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endure that we may be found the disciples of Jesus Christ, our only master.
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How shall we be able to live apart from him, whose disciples,
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the prophets themselves and the spirit did wait for him as their teacher. And
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therefore he whom they rightly waited for being come raised him from the dead.
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If then those who were conversant with ancient scripture came to the newness of hope
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expecting the coming of Christ. As the Lord teaches us what he says.
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Again, if ye had believed Moses, ye would have believed me, for
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he wrote of me and again for your father Abraham rejoiced to see my day,
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and he saw it and was glad. For before Abraham I was how
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shall we be able to live without him? The prophets were his servants,
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and he foresaw him, and foresaw him by the spirit, and waited for
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him as their teacher, and expected him as their Lord and savior, saying
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he will come and save us. Let us therefore no longer keep the Sabbath
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after the Jewish manner, and rejoice in days of idleness. For he that
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does not work, let him not eat. It's another Bible quote, for
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say, the Holy Oracles in the sweat of thy face, shall they eat
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thy bread? It's from Genesis. But let everyone if you keep the Sabbath
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after a spiritual manner, rejoicing in meditation on the law, not in relaxation
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of the body, admiring the workmanship of God, and not eating things prepared
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the day before, nor using lukewarm drinks. Remember, you couldn't cook on
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the Jewish Sabbath, and so he would saying you could actually cook and eat
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that day, and walking within a prescribed space. They had limits on how
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far you could walk on the Sabbath, nor finding delight and dancing and plaudits
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which have no sense in them. And after the observance of the Sabbath,
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let every friend of Rice keep the Lord's Day as a festival, the resurrection
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Day. The queen in chief of all the days of the week, celebrate
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on Sunday. I mean it was Sunday. It's supposed to be a day
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with family and feasting after Mass. Looking forward to this, the prophet declared
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to the end for the eighth day on which our life both sprung up and
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again, and the victory of her death was obtained in Christ, whom the
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children of Perdition, the enemies of the Savior, deny whose God is their
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belly, whose mind earthly things, who are lovers of pleasure, not lovers
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of God, having a form of godliness, but denying the power thereof These
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make merchandise of Christ, corrupting his word and giving up Jesus to sail.
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They are corruptors of women, in covetousness, and covetous of other men's possessions,
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swallowing up wealth insatiably from whom you may be delivered by the mercy of
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God through our Lord Jesus Christ. Let us not there therefore be insensible to
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His kindness, For were He to reward us according to our works, we
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should cease to be. If thou Lord shalt mark iniquities, who Lord shall
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stand belt was King David who said that let us therefore prove ourselves worthy of
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that name which we have received. For whosoever is called by any other name,
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besides this is not by God, for he has not received the prophecy
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which speaks thus concerning us. Concerning us, the people shall be called by
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a new name, which the Lord shall call them, and shall be a
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holy people. This was first fulfilled in Syria. Disciples were called Christians at
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Antioch when Paul and Peter were laying the foundations of the Church lay aside.
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Therefore the evil, the old, the corrupt, Lovin and be ye changed
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into the new living of grace, abiding Christ the stranger may not have dominion
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over you. It is absurd to speak of Jesus Christ with the tongue and
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cherish the mind, a mind and cherishing the mind a judaism, which has
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now come to an end. Where there is Christianity, there cannot be Judaism.
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For Christ is one in whom every nation that believes, in every tongue
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that confesses, is gathered unto God. And those that were of a stony
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heart have become the children of Abraham, the friend of God, and in
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his seed all have been blessed who are ordained to eternal life in Christ.
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I mean, I think it makes it pretty or unclear right there. He
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said, Nope, nope, no more Jewish Sabbath, no more Jewish law.
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Where Christianity exists, Judaism cannot exist. He doesn't mean the two can't
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live side by side, as we certainly can, but he means in the
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heart of the Christian there is no longer a Jewish law to be observed.
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In fact, it is anathema to Christianity to continue to follow the Mosaic the
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Torah law to the trillions, he said even more succinctly, on the day
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of Preparation. Then at the third hour he received the sentence from Pilot Highlight.
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The Father permitted that to happen. At the sixth hour he was crucified.
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At the ninth hour he gave up the ghost, and before sunset he
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was buried. During the Sabbath he continued under the earth and the tomb which
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Joseph of Arimathea had laid him. At the dawning of the Lord's Day,
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he arose from the dead, according to what was spoken by himself. As
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Jonah was three days and three nights in the wales bellies, so shall the
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Son of Man be also three days and three nights in the heart of the
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earth. The day of Preparation then comprises the passion. The Sabbath embraces the
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burial. The Lord's Day contains the resurrection. The Sabbath of the Jews was
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made dead by Jesus. The Sabbath embraces the burial. That was the day
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he laid at rest in accordance with the law. Actually, I mean it's
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very another one of those important interesting points that many of the saints have pointed
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out. And on the New Day, the following day is the Resurrection,
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where the new man under the new law celebrates the new Sabbath of the Lord.
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Sunday, Saint Justin Martyr wrote, I don't even know two decades later.
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I mean, they're pretty much contemporaries. And as I've said, he's
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his rights, just fantastic. He was a Greek philosopher who became a Christian
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and was really the first apologist. And in his dialogue with Trypho, a
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religious Jew who had no regard for Christianity whatsoever, he brought Tripho in to
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conversion. He convinced the Jews by arguing from the scriptures from the Old Testament
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proving that Jesus was Lord. And he said specifically of the Sabbath, because
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Tripho said, you cannot, you cannot be a godly people. You don't
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observe our Jewish Sabbath. You're going to hell in other words, and he
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said, no, the Law of Moses is known more. Jesus is the
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completion of the law He's the perfection of the law. And we are now
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under a new covenant and a new law, he said. And afterwards,
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and we afterwards continually remind each other of these things. And the wealthy among
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us help the needy, and we always keep together and for all things wherewith
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we are supplied. We bless the maker of all through his son Jesus Christ,
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and through the Holy Ghost. And on the day called Sunday, all
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who live in cities are in the country gather together in one place, and
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the memoirs of the apostles or the writings of the prophets are read as long
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as time permits. Then when the reader has ceased, the president, he
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is the leader of the priest, essentially, the leader of the worship,
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verbally instructs and exhorts to the imitation of these good things. It's a homely
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in other words, they read the Bible. Then they give a hoamling what
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is this? I'm like sounds like mass doesn't. Then we all rise together
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and pray. And as we before said, when our prayers ended, bread
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and wine and water are brought, and the President, in like manner,
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offers prayers and thanksgivings. This way of speaking means presider. It means the
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one presiding over the ceremony. It's the priest. Okay, I know it's
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an odd word in our in our modern parlance, but that's what he means.
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And the president and men are offers prayers and thanksgiving according to his ability,
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and the people are sent saying amen. And there is a distribution to
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each and a participation of that over which thanks has been given. And to
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those who are absent, a portion is sent by the deacons, you know,
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just like we do now. We take some of the Eucharist to the
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sick and the shut ends that can't make it in the mass, and they
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who are well to do and willing give what each thinks is fit. In
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other words, there was an offertory, and what is collected is deposited by
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the president who suckers the orphans and widows, and those who, through sickness
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or any other cause, are in want, and those who are in bonds,
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and the strangers sojering among us, and in a word, takes care
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of all who are in need. Very important. That's actually how the church
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established and grew. They took care of the sick and the poor and travelers.
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They did charitable acts for non Christians and thus converted ancient Rome and Greece.
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I mean, yeah, that's really very important. I mean, I
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know, well, okay, let me just put it this way. I
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was in a church one time I worked in the church was a Methodist church,
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and the priest, i mean the minister, the Methodist minister put in
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the bulletin how you should give out of your need because it's your duty to
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support the minister and his family. Well, that minister and his family were
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living in pretty good luxury. In fact, I don't think any one of
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them, which is about he his wife, and their seven adopted sons,
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so they got were the five it was five adopted sod So anyway, they
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got moneys through the state, and that was probably the only reason they adopted
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them. They were all at least over two hundred and fifty three hundred pounds
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and driving Cadillacs and doing pretty well. So people got a little annoyed at
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being continually done for money, as they said, you know, that's really
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not what the offera tory was for. There's a reason a Catholic priest's tastes
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about poverty. The money's actually supposed to go to the poor and the widows
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and the orphans. And you know, frankly, if more of the money
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in the Catholic Church was going to the poor and the widows and the orphans
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right now, we'd probably be in a little bit better place. You know.
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I remember there was a priest one time that really just laid He's like,
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this is the wealth of the Catholic Church, and I'm sorry it's being
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misspent. We need It's good. We need to have these beautiful churches dedicated
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to God. We need to have this artwork dedicated to God. But we
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need to be spending less on luxury and more on the sick of the poor
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and the abandon And he made a very convincing argument, a very convincing argument.
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And once again I will say, do not give money to Catholic charities
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who are using it to break the law and facilitate human trafficking and child sex
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slavery. Give money to those Catholic charities, Not Catholic charities you know with
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big capital letters, but those charities like Hands Together for Haiti that actually takes
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money and gives to starving people. Be careful who you give money to.
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Next time the second collection comes by your church for Catholic Charities. Write a
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note on a piece of paper saying, not one cent for the irmoral,
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evil organization called Catholic Charities, which is facilitating drug trafficking, women smuggling,
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and the worst abuses of children and women. My opinion, you can agree
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or not take it or leave it all right. So to finish what he
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said, after he said giving money to those who were in need, he
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said, but Sunday is the day on which we all hold our common assembly.
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Think about this now, this is what essay, one seventy a d
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something like that, all Christians on earth went to Mass on Sunday. We
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all hold our common assembly. There was no fringe group, there was no
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sect, there was no you know, group that was truly Christian. And
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all the other Christians weren't as some remnant as they say, No, this
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was the first church. You can't have a remnant from the first. And
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universally all Christians hold our common assembly assembly on Sunday, because, as he
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said, this is the first day on which God, having wrought a change
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in the darkness and matter, made the world, and Jesus Christ, our
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Savior, on the same day, rose from the dead for he was crucified
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on the day before that of Saturn or Saturday, and on that day after
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that of Saturn, which is the day of the Sun. Having appeared to
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his apostles and disciples, he taught them these things, which we have submitted
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to you also for your consideration. So we can look there at Saint Justin
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Martyr, we can go back to the DK. We can see what was
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foreshadowed. I guess you would say in the Bible. When the apostles wrote
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the Bible, they did not write it as a manual for Christian worship.
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They wrote it so you would believe in God and through God, believe in
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them and their authority that He granted them for their church. So it's really
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very clear. And as I said, if you're talking with someone who is,
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you know, a very zealous person, what is it Jesus zealots or
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vexations on the soul? I believe, well, the actually Jesus words,
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they're not going to listen to you. You're going to have to convince them
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to read the earliest writings of the Church. If they will not believe anything
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that's outside of the pages of the Bible, good luck with it. So
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all we can do is treat them charitably and be nice and be friends with
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them, and work together where we can and disagree respectfully on the things we
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can't pray for them. That's always part of our charity as Christians, as
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Catholics is to pray for even the worst people. And usually these people are
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pretty good. But I mean, you're gonna have to figure out if you're
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going to actually do what Jess said, figure out how to pray for Charles
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Manson and Adolf Hitler. Okay, that is something we're supposed to do at
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our charity. Maybe not specifically by name, but I mean people that are
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easily even that bad. But usually these are pretty good people. They just
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are very opinionated and very misguided and not narrow minded, but absolutely closed minded.
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You could not break into that mind with a hammer and a chisel and
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a crowbar. So just say, I'm sorry. We're gonna have to agree
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to disagree. If you're interested in knowing why I believe what I believe and
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practicing how I do, I'm glad to tell you. But otherwise I don't
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believe what you're saying is of God, because you know God can't be in
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disagreement with his church, and he guaranteed the church against all error and good
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luck to convinced with them on that either. But through the example of your
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life, and your charity, and your goodness and your kindness to others,
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you may convince them far more than any of your words ever will. So,
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as always in the words of Saint Padrepia, pray, hope and don't
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worry, and I will talk to you tomorrow.