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BIBLE
KNOWLEDGE!
SEVENTH
DAY ADVENTIST (SDA): “I’VE HEARD IF YOU DON’T KEEP THE SABBATH (SATURDAY) YOU
WON’T GO TO
HEAVEN -IS THAT CORRECT?”
CHRISTIAN
(C): Oh!
SDA: O yeah!
It says so
in the Bible you know!
C: Oh!
Really?
SDA: Yep! Every
Saturday
we all go to church.
C: Powerful
brother!
That’s commitment!
SDA: Oh yes, we
don’t miss
a Saturday.
C: May I ask
you a
question?
SDA: Sure!
C: What else
do you do
on a Saturday after church?
SDA: Nothing
mate! We all
just sit around, watch TV, have a few drinks and basically just relax,
enjoy
the family, like it says in the Bible. The big thing is not to do any
work on
Saturday.
Well I
mean that’s
what God did, didn’t he? He worked his backside off for six days and
then took
Saturday off. Makes sense doesn’t it?
I mean we
all love
God, he created the world, and what we like about God is this, he
doesn’t just
say ‘Do what I say’, he sets the example of NO WORK ON SATURDAY. That’s
what he
did … and we do likewise.
C: What
about Jesus?
SDA: Yep!
He did the
same. No work. Had a complete break from work on Saturday. It’s all
there in
the Bible you know. God’s truth … right there … written down. He was a
carpenter you know, downed the tools, and put his feet up just like God
his
Father. ‘Like father like son’ – there’s a lot in that saying you know?
C: Powerful!
C: So let’s
see if I
got this straight? To get to heaven all I have to do is go to church on
Saturday and do no work.
SDA: Yeh,
pretty much
brother.
C: So what
about sin?
Have you ever sinned? You know, done the wrong thing?
SDA: Ah yeah!
You know
wink-wink nudge-nudge! Can’t help it really. Look I wouldn’t tell the
Missus
what I get up to, if you know what I mean? But God’s a God of love and
he
forgives our sins! It all there in the Bible. And like father like son,
Jesus
went around forgiving our sins too.
C: You seem
to have an
amazing grip on the Bible?
SDA: Thanks
Pal!
C: So what
line of work
are you in again?
SDA: A
carpenter – just
like Jesus. How about that? I mean when I get to the pearly Gates,
he’ll be
there checking our bona fides, and I reckon … look he knows I’m not
perfect …
but he’ll take pity on me and let me in because I’m in the same line of
work as
he was. Know what I mean? Mates rates and all that.
C: So what
you’re
saying is that on Saturday you don’t do any carpentry work?
SDA:
“Absolutely not
brother! It says so in the Bible!
C: So I see
you have
a Ford Monaro car in the garage there.
Do you ever come out when sick of watching TV on Saturdays and work on
the
engine?
SDA: No
worries mate! But
I don’t call it work you see? I not doing my day job of carpentry. The
car is
just fun. I do it because I enjoy it. Carpentry isn’t fun. In fact I
hate it.
So I have fun with the car! It’s not work so I’m not breaking any rules
in the
Bible.
Now put it
this way,
if my six day a week job was as a Car Mechanic, then I would be doing
work on a
Saturday wouldn’t I? I see where you’re going with all this brother.
But I’m
not. Yes, the
Car Mechanic working on his car, indeed, someone else’s car on Saturday
would
be guilty? I mean is the Pope a Catholic?
C: I see.
Let me ask
you another question if I may? The man they caught picking up sticks on
the
Sabath, they ended up stoning the poor blighter! What do you make of
that? Have
you ever picked up sticks on Saturday?
SDA: All the
time Pal!
See that BBQ over there, we need wood for a cook up on Saturday lunch.
C: So what’s
the
difference between you and the stoned man in the Bible?
SDA: That was
his
profession, his actual day job. He was a professional wood gatherer and
he was
doing his day job on Saturday and he got caught out! I don’t earn my
living
from collecting wood – he did! He deserved to get it in the neck, if
you get my
drift?
C: Amazing!
Where do
you get this insight into the Bible?
SDA: The
elders champion!
The church elders! They’re great. They just explain any part of the
Bible to
us, so we don’t have to read it. I mean that’s their job. We give them
money to
tell us what the Bible means. It makes sense doesn’t it? You don’t go
and
defend yourself in court do you? Of course not, you hire a professional
lawyer
who does this week in and week out. That’s what the church elders are
there to
do for us.
C: I can see
where
you’re coming from. So what about the part where … and look I just
happen to
have a Bible here … and if I might quote it word for word
“And on
the sabbath day two lambs of the
first year without spot, and two tenth deals of flour for a
meat
offering, mingled with oil, and the drink offering
thereof:
This is the burnt offering of every sabbath, beside the
continual burnt
offering, and his drink offering. (Numbers 28:9-10)
So this is
what your
elders do as well on the Sabbath?
SDA:
Technically, you are
correct, but the elders came up with a solution. I mean for starters,
it’s
against the law to go around killing animals to spill their blood, and
anyhow,
God looks at the heart of his people. We don’t have to kill any animals
if
we’re sorry. Anyhow, no church is slitting animals throats out the back
are
they? I mean, that’s juts inhumane isn’t it?
C: So let me
ask you
another question. Is Jesus your Saviour?
SDA: No
worries champion.
He just went around doing good to everyone? You couldn’t get a nicer
bloke
could you? He saved the world doing this out of love. I mean, we are
just
trying to save the world too. He saved the world and being our father,
he shows
us how to save the world as well. Look we’re not perfect but we do our
best not
to harm anyone?
And we
give to the
Christmas Bowl appeal every year, we got a little orphan in Africa we
send money
to every month, and look, we give to the Scouts, Red Cross and Brownies
all the
time they knock on the door. And you know something brother, we
wouldn’t have
it any other way – it just makes you feel good.
I think
the question
will be when we all get to the Pearly Gates will be “Did you try and
save the
world?” Rather than the emphasis being on Jesus to save us, did we
follow his
example and be like him and save the world?
So I think
a lot of
churches have just missed the mark and are avoiding their
responsibilities
right at their front door. You know the old saying don’t you “They’re
too
spiritually minded to be of any earthly good.”
No
brother, we put
our money where our mouth is?
C: What
about where it
says you have to be perfect to get to heaven and never have done one
sin?
SDA: The
Elders said, the
Greek word is “anas-top-po-lopo-lo-us’ which means “Do your best and
leave the
rest” in the common jargon of today. I mean can you get better than
that. After
all the Bible was just written by men who were passing down spiritual
information the best they knew how?
I mean, no
plumber
uses hemp rope to seal up pipe joints anymore do they?
Of course
not, it’s
the finished product is what counts. Things change. Is the world
perfect? Of
course not, but we all have to have done our bit when we ‘pop-off’.
That will
be the
question “What did you try and do to make the world a better place.”
Well, I
got to get on with it, nice having a chat. You seem like a good bloke.
Might catch
up with you sometime.”
WHAT DOES
THE BIBLE
SAY ABOUT ALL THIS?
“For by
grace are ye saved through faith; and that
not of yourselves: it is the gift of God: Not of works, lest any man
should
boast.” (Ephesians 2:8-9)
“But to
him that worketh not, but believeth on him
that justifieth the ungodly, his faith is counted for righteousness.”
(Romans
4:5)
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Harley
Hitchcock
www.
AustralianBibleMinistries
.com
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