HOW CAN YOU GET GOD TO TALK TO YOU? WHAT DOES THE BIBLE SAY ABOUT THE SINGLE, NON-MARRIED PERSON? WHAT IS THE REAL REASON THE SABBATH DAY CHANGED FROM SATURDAY TO SUNDAY?
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We're going to do email now.
Let's do some email.
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This is what you've been
waiting for, everybody.
All right, Lori writes in, "How
can you get God to talk to you?
People say He speaks
to your heart,
but we humans like to think
He is speaking when He may not
be saying anything."
There was his song
a little while ago,
"Turn Your Radio On"--
you remember that one?
But God is-- in the
airwaves right now,
there are all kinds of messages.
You just need a receiver.
And God is speaking
all the time.
He's everywhere.
And all you have to do
is get your own receiver.
You say, how do you you
get God to speak to you?
He's speaking constantly.
But he'll speak
to the inner man.
He'll speak to your
inner conscience.
And the Bible says
let the peace of God
be an umpire in your heart.
But God will speak.
How do you get Him-- where's
the first thing He speaks?
He speaks out of
the written word.
The Bible is the word of God.
And so you begin to
get into the Bible,
and that's where you
hear the voice of God.
And He will not
say anything that's
contrary to what's in the word.
All right?
It's that still,
small voice, right?
It's not usually in the storm.
It's the still--
Well, that's the way
He spoke to Elijah.
There was a storm and He
just said everything--
and He wasn't in any of that.
But the still, small voice.
You're exactly right, Wendy.
Amen.
OK.
What else?
All right.
This viewer says, "Where
does the Bible say anything
for the single non-married
person and what does it say?
It seems everything pertains
to married relationships.
What about the single
people who desperately
want the 'normal' married life?
Job's wife was and still
is a good example of that.
King Solomon and his 1,000
wives and his father, David,
lived fantasies and wickedness,
yet they were favored by God.
Who can be judged for adultery
more than the two of them?
Should not all people who
ignore the word of God
suffer worse than Job ever did?
Yet most single people
do suffer worse than Job.
I need some direction."
Did you write that?
You know, I did not.
And I was just going to say
I don't think most people--
most single people are
suffering worse than Job.
Yes.
I certainly don't feel I am.
I don't think so but anyhow--
But I know what
he's saying, yeah.
There are days where
you're feeling--
The Bible's been very
clear about what to do.
I mean, the apostle
Paul was single
and he wrote to married
people, as a matter of fact,
telling about
marital relationship
but he had a gift from God.
And he said-- the Bible says
some people have this gift
and some don't.
And some are
operated on by people
and they are
therefore nonsexual.
And others have a
gift that they can
abstain from a
sexual relationship
and live a single
life unto the Lord.
We've got nuns and the
religious orders who
are living single for the Lord.
So I don't know what it
is direction you need,
but I'll give you
this-- the Bible says
it's better to marry
than to burn with desire.
So if you've got this
thing burning in you
and you've got all kinds of
hormones running in your body
and you just feel
compelled to do something,
well, the Bible says
it's better to marry
than to burn with desire.
So I'm quoting
from the scripture.
All right.
What's next?
All right.
Bev says, I have a question
regarding the Sabbath.
God rested on the seventh day.
I've seen no
evidence in the Bible
that it was changed to Sunday.
I've heard that since
Jesus was raised on Sunday,
that's why the Sabbath
was changed to Sunday.
I also heard that it
was Constantine's rule
to change from Saturday.
What's the real reason?
Well, I think that the
early Christians began
to meet together to celebrate
the Resurrection, which
took place apparently on
the day after the Sabbath.
And you know it was--
and the Sabbath was
the seventh day.
But I don't think that we need
to get all hung up on days,
you know.
There are three different days.
You know, the Muslims
have got one day,
the Jews have got one day, the
Christians have got one day.
You've got Friday,
Saturday, and Sunday.
I mean, you know, three days.
But the biggest thing is
there is a day of rest.
And what the important
thing is that you and I need
a day of rest.
And the Sabbath, Jesus
said, was made for man,
not man for the Sabbath.
So we must-- if we
don't take a day of rest
before long, we get
torn all to pieces.
And you've got a
society right now that's
running 24/7 and no day off.
The department stores
are operating on Sunday.
People are frantically
seeking pleasure on Sunday.
And even when they
go to church, they're
working their heads off.
So the big thing about
Sunday and Sabbath is a rest.
A day of rest.
And he said, you know, God--
I don't think God
himself ever rests
because he's eternal spirit
but he stopped creating.
The creation was over
and on the seventh day,
he didn't create anymore.
He'd done six.
He created this
wonderful universe.
So I think, you know,
the fact that it's
Saturday, the fact
that it's Sunday,
the fact that it's
Friday, I don't
think it makes any difference.
The question is, can we
have one day and that's--
Amen.
Right now it's Sunday.
You're exactly right.
I saw this huge debate
on social media recently
and people were
arguing about it should
be Saturday because
of this and that
and that's so--
that's just legalism.
It is.
You're right.
God just wants us to--
just whatever day, pick it.
Taking a day is important.
Do you do it?
Yeah.
Oh, yeah.
Sunday is my day.
OK.
Sunday is my day.
Well, I see.
All right.
And everything goes
better when I do it,
so I'm going to
stick to Sundays.
All right.