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

1. Thy Word Is Truth.
John 17:17 ______________ them by the truth; your _______ is truth.

2. Truth Has Great Value.
Proverbs 23:23 Buy the truth and do not sell it; get wisdom, __________________ and _______________________.

3. Jesus Is the Same Yesterday, Today and Forever.
Hebrews 13:8 Jesus Christ is the same ________________ and today and ____________.

4. God Will Not Break His Covenant.
Psalms 89:34 I will not violate my ______________ or alter what my lips have ____________.

5. The Commandments Were Written with the Finger of God.
Exodus 31:18 When the LORD finished speaking to Moses on Mount Sinai, he gave him the two tablets of the ________________, the tablets of stone ________________ by the finger of God.

6. Jesus Came to Fulfill Not Change the Law.
Matthew 5:17 "Do not think that I have come to abolish the Law or the ______________; I have not come to abolish them but to ____________ them.

7. The Seventh-Day Sabbath Hallowed, Sanctified and Blessed in Eden.
Genesis 2:1-3 Thus the heavens and the earth were ________________ in all their vast array. [2] By the seventh day God had ______________ the work he had been doing; so on the seventh day he rested from all his work. [3] And God blessed the seventh day and made it holy, ____________ on it he rested from all the work of ______________ that he had done.

8. Jesus Kept the Sabbath.
Luke 4:16 He went to ______________, where he had been brought up, and on the Sabbath day he went into the ________________, as was his custom. And he stood up to read.

9. Paul Kept the Sabbath.
Acts 13:42-44 As Paul and Barnabas were leaving the ________________, the people invited them to speak further about these things on the next Sabbath. [43] When the _____________________ was ________________, many of the Jews and devout converts to Judaism followed Paul and Barnabas, who talked with them and urged them to continue in the grace of God. [44] On the next Sabbath almost the whole city ______________ to hear the word of the Lord.

10. Early Christianity Predicted Apostasy.
Acts 20:28-31 Keep watch over yourselves and all the flock of which the Holy Spirit has made you ________________. Be ________________ of the church of God, which he bought with his own blood. [29] I know that after I leave, savage wolves will come in among you and will not spare the flock. [30] Even from your own number men will arise and distort the truth in order to draw away ________________ after them. [31] So be on your guard! ______________ that for three years I never stopped ____________ each of you night and day with tears.

11. Truth Will Be Cast to the Ground.
Daniel 8:12 Because of rebellion, the host [of the saints] and the daily sacrifice were given over to it. It ________________ in __________________ it did, and truth was thrown to the ground.

12. An Attempt Is Made to Change God's Law.
Daniel 7:25 He will speak against the Most High and ____________ his saints and try to change the set times and the laws. The saints will be __________ over to him for a time, times and half a time.

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

Exodus 20:8-11 "______________ the Sabbath day by keeping it holy. [9] Six days you shall labor and do all your work, [10] but the seventh day is a Sabbath to the LORD your God. On it you shall not do any work, neither you, nor your son or ______________, nor your __________________ or ___________________, nor your animals, nor the alien within your gates. [11] For in six days the LORD made the heavens and the earth, the sea, and all that is in them, but he rested on the seventh day. ________________ the LORD ____________ the Sabbath day and made it holy.

14. God's People Will Receive the Seal of God Before the End of Time.
Revelation 7:1-3 After this I saw four angels ______________ at the four corners of the earth, holding back the four winds of the earth to ____________ any wind from ____________ on the land or on the sea or on any tree. [2] Then I saw ____________ angel coming up from the east, having the seal of the living God. He called out in a loud voice to the four angels who had been given power to harm the land and the sea: [3] "Do not harm the land or the sea or the trees until we put a seal on the ________________ of the ______________ of our God."

15. God's Last Message Calls Us to Worship the Creator and to Keep His Commandments.
Revelation 14:7 He said in a loud voice, "Fear God and give him glory, because the hour of his ______________ has come. Worship him who made the heavens, the earth, the sea and the ____________ of water."

16. God's People Are Faithful to Him.
Revelation 14:12 This calls for patient ________________ on the part of the saints who obey God's _____________________ and remain faithful to Jesus.

Next Bible Study: 21-Sabbath Keeping

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