6/18/06 - “GOD’S TEST OF LOYALTY” Part 12 - 25L  FM
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Hello!  This is Richard Vaughn

Today we will conclude our series titled, “GOD’S TEST OF LOYALTY” and today’s segment will be Part 12. Before we begin, let us seek God’s guidance, “Heavenly Father, we have identified in your word that the seal of God is in the fourth commandment and pertains to your seventh day Sabbath, and that those who have that seal will be saved. Father, we desire the seal of God. Help us to really understand what it is, so that we do not receive the mark of the beast, which all who cling to Sunday will receive, when these United States pass the National Sunday law. And once again we ask for the guidance of the Holy Spirit and we pray for wisdom, knowledge and understanding so that we may live in the center of Your revealed will, as we ask 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.

Today I am going to preach the strongest message I have preached to date. Why? Because you aren’t listening. How do I know you are not listening? Because you aren’t doing anything different in regards to how you worship the Lord. You’re clinging to the errors you have been taught and if you do not make decided change, you will be lost no matter how saved you think you are. Every Sunday keeping pastor, no matter how pious they may seem to be, are teaching error and God will deal with them. I try to reach those pastors who listen to this broadcast, but if they choose to stay tied to their pensions and pay checks; they will be just as lost as the most wicked among us. Now you listen today as if your eternal life depends on it, because it does. Christians today are spiritually worse off than old Israel ever was. They are ignoring glaring truth, just as if God didn’t mean what He said.

Friends, over the last 11 weeks, I have been shaking you with the truth from God’s word in regards to the most fearful warning in the Bible, that found in Revelation 14:9,10 Listen carefully, “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:”  

I have clearly identified from God’s Word, that the Beast power is the Papacy in Rome. It is the first Beast of Revelation 13 and it is the same little horn power of Daniel 7. 
In both cases I have given you from God’s Word, 12 unmistakable points of identification, that show it could be no other power on earth but the Papacy in Rome. It is only when you know who the beast is, that you can find out what the mark is. We have learned from God’s word that that mark is the change in God’s seventh day Sabbath that the Papacy changed from Saturday to Sunday over 16 centuries ago.

The mark of the beast is not some literal mark that you can see on someone’s forehead. Rather we have shown that God said the mark is in the forehead. That is the frontal lobes of your brain. That is where you think and reason. That is where your belief system is established. That is where you choose to follow God and the Bible or man and tradition. Now hear me carefully, if you continue to choose to honor Sunday as the day of worship, you are honoring man and tradition. You are honoring the Roman Catholic Church government, the Papacy, and its child, the Pagan day of worshipping the sun, Sunday. And if you cling to that belief until you die, you will be in constant violation of God’s fourth commandment. 1 John 3:4 says, “…sin is the transgression of the law.”

If you choose to ignore or reject this truth in relation to God’s revealed Word on this subject, if you say no to God’s seventh day Sabbath, the Bible clearly teaches that your prayers will be an abomination and Jesus says your worship is in vain. The Bible even calls such Christians liars. Here’s the proof:
Proverbs 28:9 “He that turneth away his ear from hearing the law, even his prayer [shall be] abomination.” I didn’t say it, God’s Word states it clearly. If you don’t want to listen to God’s law and the truth about His Ten Commandments, if you reject any of those ten, God says your prayer shall be an abomination. An abomination is the most detestable thing in God’s sight. Reject His seventh day Sabbath and Jesus says you worship in vain.  
Here’s the proof:
Matthew 5:18,19 “For verily I say unto you, Till heaven and earth pass, one jot or one tittle shall in no wise pass from the law, till all be fulfilled.  Whosoever therefore shall break one of these least commandments, and shall teach men so, he shall be called the least in the kingdom of heaven:”
Here Jesus tells us that every word in His Ten Commandments will be in force until heaven and earth pass away, and that any commandment breaker will be called the least in heaven, which means they will not be there. And especially anyone who teaches that God’s seventh day Sabbath is no longer valid. Sunday-keeping is tradition and look what Jesus said about tradition:
Matthew 15:9   “But in vain they do worship me, teaching [for] doctrines the commandments of men.”

If you want to keep on keeping the pagan Sunday, the child of the Papacy, Jesus says you are worshipping in vain. I’m not saying it, Jesus is. But you say everybody is keeping Sunday, and I don’t want to be peculiar. The majority of Christians are on the broad road keeping Sunday, but that road leads to destruction. Jesus says to follow Him means a sacrifice, but can any sacrifice you make compare to His in order to save you?

God’s word says that if you say you know Him, know Jesus that is, and don’t keep His commandments, which include keeping His seventh day Sabbath, you don’t really know Him and you are a liar. 
Here’s the proof:
1 John 2:3,4   And hereby we do know that we know him, if we keep his commandments. He that saith, I know him, and keepeth not his commandments, is a liar, and the truth is not in him.

That’s strong language and it was written by John under the inspiration of God’s Holy Spirit. But it goes to the heart of the issue. Is your worship lip service or do you love God enough to do what He says?
Jesus said in John 14:15, “If ye love me, keep my commandments.”
We don’t keep the commandments in order to be saved. We keep them because we are saved. Jesus was on Mt. Sinai when He wrothe the Ten Commandments in stone. And when Jesus wrote the fourth commandment, He knew the Christian church was going to be under the attack of Satan, He knew Satan would get the church to change His Sabbath into the counterfeit, Pagan Sun-day Sabbath of Satan. That’s why He started the fourth commandment with the word “Remember”. 

Exodus 20:8-10 “Remember the sabbath day, to keep it holy.  Six days shalt thou labour, and do all thy work: But the seventh day [is] the sabbath of the LORD thy God:
Right there in the 4th commandment is the command to remember to keep His Sabbath Saturday holy, and to work on Sunday through Friday. 
God wants His church in the last days to put His seventh day Sabbath back into its rightful place of honor.  

Indeed God is a God of love and mercy. The cross has proven that. But God requires obedience from all those who claim to be in the family of God. Once again through His servant John in the very last chapter of the Bible, is the clear words that only commandment keepers, that’s all ten including the 4th commandment, will gain entrance to the New Jerusalem city of God. Listen to Revelation 22:14 “Blessed [are] they that do his commandments, that they may have right to the tree of life, and may enter in through the gates into the city.”  

That scripture says commandment keepers will be saved. Commandment keepers in this final generation will be seventh day Sabbath keepers. They will receive the seal of God. They will vindicate God’s character before the universe. 

But God who is a God of love, grace and mercy, is also a God of wrath. His cup is just about full. How much longer do you think God is going to tolerate those who say they are His children, while they defiantly reject His Sabbath?

God has sent this Revelation 14 warning against receiving  the mark of the beast. Revelation 17 is about the judgment of the Great Whore, the mother of Harlots, and that being this Roman Catholic government system called the Papacy. The Harlots are her defiant little daughters who came out of her. Those are the Sunday-keeping Protestant churches that form the image to the beast.

Revelation 18 calls for all of the people God calls “My People” to come out of Babylon, out of confusion, before He pours out His wrath in the seven last plagues.

All that have the mark of the beast will suffer God’s wrath in the plagues and be lost. The mark of the beast will be imposed very soon when the National Sunday law is passed. 

If your ears are open and God’s message is reaching your heart, now is the time to begin keeping God’s seventh day Sabbath. Now is the time to get grounded in the truths that have been forsaken by most of the Sunday keeping churches today. 

An elderly Baptist woman told me recently that she has know ever since she was a little girl, that you do not ever want to get the mark of the beast. Now that she knows who the beast is and that the mark of the beast is Sunday worship, at 84 she chooses to follow Jesus all the way and is becoming a seventh day Sabbath keeper.

Come grow with these seventh day Sabbath keepers who are coming out of the Baptist church, out of the Methodist and Lutheran and Presbyterian churches, out of the Pentecostal and Roman Catholic churches and into the remnant church God has raised up in these last days, described in Revelation 12:17, “And the dragon was wroth with the woman, and went to make war with the remnant of her seed, which keep the commandments of God, and have the testimony of Jesus Christ.”
He described them again in Revelation 14:12, “Here is the patience of the saints: here [are] they that keep the commandments of God, and the faith of Jesus.” 

Worship with us this next seventh day Sabbath, Saturday, at Victory Seventh Day Adventist Church, 117 W. Danville Street, in South Hill, VA.
Our church family meets in the old bank building on the corner of South Hill Avenue, right next to Frank Harris’ attorney’s office, which is near the library.

Time is up so be listening Next week for “Are the Dead Really Dead” - part 1.
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.