4/02/06 - “GOD’S TEST OF LOYALTY” Part 1 - 14L-FM
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Hello!  This is Richard Vaughn

Today we will begin a new series titled, “GOD’S TEST OF LOYALTY” and today’s segment will be Part 1. Before we begin, let us seek God’s guidance, “Heavenly Father, as we open your word today, we especially ask for your Holy Spirit on this most important subject. Give us we pray wisdom, we desire knowledge and Lord increase our understanding so that we may live in the center of Your revealed will, bless us accordingly in Jesus Name, Amen.”
Right now, I continue to keep my pledge, to cry aloud and spare not, to lift up my voice like a trumpet and to show God’s people where they are transgressing God’s law.
I now have a new sense of urgency to reach Christians in all denominations and tell them why they are doing something that is breaking God’s law, and will cause them to be lost, no matter how convinced they are that they are saved. 99% of Christians throughout the world are doing it too. Friends I am talking about the mark of the beast and it is relative to God’s Ten Commandments. No one has it yet, but that will soon change, as something that will take place in these United States will usher it in, and it’s all in Bible prophecy.
People will be lost taking a stand for Satan’s banner, when they think their upholding God’s seal. But it will be God’s commandment that will be disregarded and by default they will have the beast’s mark in their forehead. This is so serious friends, and you better pay attention. I will make it so clear you can’t miss it, but if you do, you will certainly be lost.
Jesus Himself addressed this in Matthew 7:21-23. I have read this in previous broadcasts and it is time for everyone to wake up and listen with your understanding. Jesus is talking to the majority of Christians who are on the broad road, thinking they are secure. Jesus says, “Not every one that saith unto me, Lord, Lord, shall enter into the kingdom of heaven; but he that doeth the will of my Father which is in heaven.” Let me stop right here and say that we have discovered in the last few weeks that God requires obedience to His commandments, and that’s His revealed will. Going on Jesus says, “Many will say to me in that day, Lord, Lord, have we not prophesied in thy name? and in thy name have cast out devils? and in thy name done many wonderful works? And then will I profess unto them, I never knew you: depart from me, ye that work iniquity.” The iniquity is the transgressing God’s law that I am speaking about. There it is, He will tell the majority of Christians I never knew you. Why, because they refused to stop breaking His commandment. 
And friends you’re doing it right now. Your pastors are doing it. 99% of the Christian world is doing it and because of it, the commandment that is being broken, puts transgressing Christians on the broad road that leads to destruction that Jesus mentions in Matthew 7:13. God wants you on the narrow way, but Jesus said in verse 14 that few will find it.
God is no respecter of persons. It doesn’t matter how much money you have or how poor you may be, it doesn’t matter how educated you are or what little education you have, it doesn’t matter what church you attend, because your denomination can’t save you. It doesn’t matter what your social standing is or your political persuasion. It doesn’t matter what race you are, but it will matter how you run the race. As I brought out in the last broadcast, if we love Jesus, we will keep all ten of His commandments.
And so friends it is time for me to reveal to you which commandment you are all breaking. And if there are any pastors listening, it’s time for you to listen up, because if you don’t make a decided change for the sake of your flock, they will be lost and their blood is on you.
God is calling His people out of Babylon, that means out of confusion, and that call is given in Revelation 18:1-5 “And after these things I saw another angel come down from heaven, having great power; and the earth was lightened with his glory. And he cried mightily with a strong voice, saying, Babylon the great is fallen, is fallen, and is become the habitation of devils, and the hold of every foul spirit, and a cage of every unclean and hateful bird. For all nations have drunk of the wine of the wrath of her fornication, and the kings of the earth have committed fornication with her, and the merchants of the earth are waxed rich through the abundance of her delicacies. And I heard another voice from heaven, saying, Come out of her, my people, that ye be not partakers of her sins, and that ye receive not of her plagues. For her sins have reached unto heaven, and God hath remembered her iniquities.”  
I’m not going to beat around the bush here as I am going to identify the religious power that has made all nations drink of the wine of the wrath of her fornication. Friends, this religious power is the same little horn power of Daniel 7, it’s the same man of sin and son of perdition in 2 Thessalonians chapter 2, it’s the antichrist of 1 John chapters 2&4 and 2 John, it’s the first beast power of Revelation 13, it’s the Babylon of Revelation 14, 16, 17 & 18 and its the same Great Whore, the mother of harlots in Revelation 17, and that power is the head of the Roman Catholic church, it’s unmistakably the Papacy.
Now friends, I’m not talking about the Roman Catholic Church members, as there are over a billion of them throughout the world and many of them are sincere worshippers who love the Lord and many will come out of Babylon and join God’s remnant believers before the end. No I am talking about the antichrist power, the Papacy that deceives the whole world. She has almost all non-Catholic Christians deceived and I am going to prove it in the weeks ahead. Nothing you will see or hear will be as important to your salvation as these programs today and in the weeks ahead. And I pray that God has many Pastors listening, as they need to make decided changes before the time of probation ends for this generation.
Friends, Satan Hates God, he hates God’s law, and he especially hates God’s seventh-day Sabbath. So God’s seventh-day Sabbath became the special target that Satan set out to do away with. Has he been successful? He certainly has, as almost all the Christian world keeps Sunday as a day of worship, and there is nothing holy about it. God never blessed it. He never made it holy. And He never changed His day that He did bless and make holy. Listen, Jesus as the Creator made the Sabbath on the seventh day of creation. And He did three things. He rested, He blessed that day and He sanctified it or set it apart for holy use. 
On Mt. Sinai, Jesus wrote the words of the 4th commandment in stone, and He said Remember the Sabbath day, because He knew the time would come when an antichrist religious power was going to change the seventh-day Sabbath of God, into a tradition of worshipping on the first day of the week, Sunday, a carryover from paganism.
When Jesus was here as a man, He had kept over 1700 seventh day Sabbaths holy, and He said not one jot or title would pass from the law till the heavens are no more.
Friends the papacy is the beast power of Revelation and scripture says it gets its power from Satan himself. They changed the Sabbath in the 4th century after Christ and they boast about having changed it. They claim that changing God’s seventh day Sabbath from Saturday to Sunday is a mark of her ecclesiastical power, and that the Papacy can overrule God. Are you listening? I will prove it all.
Sunday worship is what Satan set out to accomplish and he has done a masterful job. People not only keep Sunday holy, they defend it. But no one can find anything in the Bible that shows God approved the change. I will give $5,000 to anyone who can prove, with the King James Version of the Bible, that the change, from the seventh-day Sabbath, to Sunday, was approved by God. It’s not in the Bible. Sunday is the mark of the beast and in subsequent programs I will prove it with scriptures. 
But first let me read you this warning from God’s word about receiving the mark of the beast. It is the most fearful warning in all the Bible and is found in Revelation 14:9-11 “And the third angel followed them, saying with a loud voice, If any man worship the beast and his image, and receive his mark in his forehead, or in his hand, The same shall drink of the wine of the wrath of God, which is poured out without mixture into the cup of his indignation; and he shall be tormented with fire and brimstone in the presence of the holy angels, and in the presence of the Lamb: And the smoke of their torment ascendeth up for ever and ever: and they have no rest day nor night, who worship the beast and his image, and whosoever receiveth the mark of his name.”
Listen to me now, as time is running out on this final generation. The warning is if you receive the mark in your forehead or your hand, you will be lost and you will suffer the wrath of God as poured out in the seven last plagues. The mark in the forehead is not a literal mark, rather your frontal lobes of your brain is in your forehead. This is where think and reason, it’s where your belief system is established. If you embrace Sunday, you will have the mark of the beast in your forehead. If you embrace God’s seal, which is His seventh day Sabbath, you will receive God’s seal in your forehead.
Very soon, the congress of the United States, by virtue of the image to the beast, which is Apostate Protestantism, is going to pass a National Sunday law that will force obedience to Sunday, fulfilling the prophecy of  Revelation 13:15-17. 
A time of great tribulation is coming upon God’s faithful people. Sunday keeping Christians will join in as persecutors and will believe they are doing right, when they are actually serving Satan.
God knew that there was going to be an antichrist power that would change His seventh day Sabbath from Saturday to Sunday. The 58th chapter of Isaiah was written for our time. Verse 1 reads, “Cry aloud, spare not, lift up thy voice like a trumpet, and show my people their transgression,” God is talking about the transgression His people would be doing, that will one day cause Jesus to tell Christians I never knew you. Here’s what He says in verse 12, “And they that shall be of thee shall build the old waste places: thou shalt raise up the foundations of many generations; and thou shalt be called, The repairer of the breach, The restorer of paths to dwell in.”
The breach spoken of here is the fact that the Papacy threw out God’s seventh day Sabbath and replaced it with the first day of the week, the pagan sun-day. He’s calling His people back, restoring the right paths to dwell in, repairing the breach in His law. 
Then verse 13 God says, “If thou turn away thy foot from the sabbath, from doing thy pleasure on my holy day; and call the sabbath a delight, the holy of the LORD, honourable; and shalt honour him, not doing thine own ways, nor finding thine own pleasure, nor speaking thine own words:”
He’s saying get your feet off the Sabbath, stop trampling it. It’s holy time. It’s a 24 hour period of time He has set aside to meet with His people. There are 168 hours in a week and God asks for 1/7th of your time. If you cannot do that now, how will you be able to do it in eternity. The only thing you can take to heaven is your character and if you don’t love Jesus enough to keep His seventh day Sabbath holy, He will say I never knew you.
Time is up today and over the next several weeks I am going to prove beyond every shadow of doubt what I have stated today. You need to listen as your eternal life will hinge on what you hear.   
	Next week “God’s Test of Loyalty” - part 2.
God bless you friends and study your Bibles daily,

Until next week, Jesus said in John 5:39, “Search the Scriptures, for in them ye think ye have eternal life: and they are they which testify of me”. Even so, Come Lord Jesus.