20-An Attempt to Change God's Law - KJV

1. Thy Word Is Truth.
John 17:17 _Sanctify_ them through thy truth: thy _word_ is truth.

2. Truth Has Great Value.
Proverbs 23:23 Buy the truth, and sell it not; also wisdom, and _instruction_, and _understanding_.

3. Jesus Is the Same Yesterday, Today and Forever.
Hebrews 13:8 Jesus _Christ_ the same _yesterday_, and to day, and for ever.

4. God Will Not Break His Covenant.
Psalms 89:34 My _covenant_ will I not break, nor alter the _thing_ that is gone out of my lips.

5. The Commandments Were Written with the Finger of God.
Exodus 31:18 And he gave unto Moses, when he had made an end of _communing_ with him upon mount Sinai, two tables of _testimony_, tables of stone, written with the finger of God.

6. Jesus Came to Fulfill Not Change the Law.
Matthew 5:17 Think not that I am come to destroy the law, or the _prophets_: I am not come to destroy, but to _fulfil_.

7. The Seventh-Day Sabbath Hallowed, Sanctified and Blessed in Eden.
Genesis 2:1-3 Thus the heavens and the earth were _finished_, and all the host of them. [2] And on the seventh day God ended his work which he had made; and he rested on the seventh day from all his work which he had made. [3] And God blessed the seventh day, and _sanctified_ it: _because_ that in it he had rested from all his work which God _created_ and made.

8. Jesus Kept the Sabbath.
Luke 4:16 And he came to _Nazareth_, where he had been brought up: and, as his custom was, he went into the _synagogue_ on the sabbath day, and stood up for to read.

9. Paul Kept the Sabbath.
Acts 13:42-44 And when the Jews were gone out of the synagogue, the Gentiles besought that these words might be preached to them the next sabbath. [43] Now when the _congregation_ was broken up, many of the Jews and _religious_ _proselytes_ followed Paul and Barnabas: who, speaking to them, _persuaded_ them to continue in the grace of God. [44] And the next sabbath day came almost the whole city together to hear the word of God.

10. Early Christianity Predicted Apostasy.
Acts 20:28-31 Take heed therefore unto yourselves, and to all the flock, over the which the Holy Ghost hath made you _overseers_, to feed the church of God, which he hath _purchased_ with his own blood. [29] For I know this, that after my _departing_ shall grievous wolves enter in among you, not sparing the flock. [30] Also of your own selves shall men arise, speaking _perverse_ things, to draw away _disciples_ after them. [31] Therefore watch, and _remember_, that by the space of three years I ceased not to warn every one night and day with tears.

11. Truth Will Be Cast to the Ground.
Daniel 8:12 And an host was given him against the daily sacrifice by reason of _transgression_, and it cast down the truth to the ground; and it practised, and _prospered_.

12. An Attempt Is Made to Change God's Law.
Daniel 7:25 And he shall speak great words against the most High, and shall wear out the _saints_ of the most High, and think to _change_ times and laws: and they shall be given into his hand until a time and times and the _dividing_ of time.

13. Seal the Law Within God's People.
Isaiah 8:16 Bind up the _testimony_, seal the law among my _disciples_.

Exodus 20:8-11 Remember the sabbath day, to keep it holy. [9] Six days shalt thou labour, and do all thy work: [10] But the seventh day is the sabbath of the LORD thy God: in it thou shalt not do any work, thou, nor thy son, nor thy _daughter_, thy _manservant_, nor thy _maidservant_, nor thy cattle, nor thy _stranger_ that is within thy gates: [11] For in six days the LORD made heaven and earth, the sea, and all that in them is, and rested the seventh day: _wherefore_ the LORD blessed the sabbath day, and _hallowed_ it.

14. God's People Will Receive the Seal of God Before the End of Time.
Revelation 7:1-3 And after these things I saw four angels _standing_ on the four corners of the earth, holding the four winds of the earth, that the wind should not blow on the earth, nor on the sea, nor on any tree. [2] And I saw _another_ angel _ascending_ from the east, having the seal of the living God: and he cried with a loud voice to the four angels, to whom it was given to hurt the earth and the sea, [3] Saying, Hurt not the earth, _neither_ the sea, nor the trees, till we have sealed the _servants_ of our God in their _foreheads_.

15. God's Last Message Calls Us to Worship the Creator and to Keep His Commandments.
Revelation 14:7 Saying with a loud voice, Fear God, and give glory to him; for the hour of his _judgment_ is come: and worship him that made heaven, and earth, and the sea, and the _fountains_ of waters.

16. God's People Are Faithful to Him.
Revelation 14:12 Here is the _patience_ of the saints: here are they that keep the _commandments_ of God, and the faith of Jesus.

Next Bible Study: 21-Sabbath Keeping

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