8/12/07 – 32LAW “God’s Big Mistake – Part 1”
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Hello!  This is Richard Vaughn

Today’s message is “God’s Big Mistake – Part 1”

Last week I made the following statement, I said that, “If you have been listening to these broadcasts for sometime, then you had heard many of the last day deceptions that Jesus warned against in Matthew 24, that we have used the Bible to expose week after week.” I went on to ask, “Do you know what is really sad? Most of the Christian world embraces Satan’s lies as if they were gospel truth. Sadly, these false doctrines in the churches today are based more on traditional teachings, rather than God’s revealed truth in scripture.” 

Well today I will expose one more of Satan’s gross deceptions because he has almost the entire Christian world believing that God makes mistakes. You heard me right. Let me bring this home to you. Your own church is teaching and charging God with making mistakes. You say “Pastor Vaughn, bite your tongue, we teach no such thing.” Oh no, well we’ll see about that but first, before we begin, let us seek God’s guidance, “Heavenly Father, as we look at this most important subject regarding the Christian world charging God with making a big mistake, I pray that You bless those listening today with the guidance of the Holy Spirit, so that we may understand that you are not a God of mistakes as that is a human flaw. 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.
Pastor Vaughn, surely you’re not serious about the Christian world charging God with making a mistake are you. Yes I am, in fact Billy Graham has said so, Charles Stanley, T.D. Jakes, Robert Schuler, Pat Robertson, Jimmy Swaggart, Jesse Jackson, Jerry Falwell and a host of other respected religious leaders have all charged God with making a big mistake, including your pastor and his pastor before him or her.
But I ask you, does God make mistakes? Does He say something important, only to realize thousands of years later He made a big mistake and then goes about fixing the problem. We let’s turn to the Bible and see what God says.
Malachi 3:6, “For I am the LORD, I change not…” That sounds to me like God must get it right the first time and therefore doesn’t make mistakes.
Psalm 89:34 says, “My covenant will I not break, nor alter the thing that is gone out of my lips.”  Alter means change, so God is saying that what He has said He does not change. It is not subject to alteration. It’s official and stands on its own. Now if He said something, and He can not change it, does that give man the right to overrule God and change what God cannot change? Well you say, "Come on Pastor Vaughn, of course man can not overrule God." 
But I say that man not only has overruled God, but almost all of Christendom accepts the fact that man has changed what God cannot. You have and everyone that goes to your church has not only accepted man’s absurd challenge to God’s authority, but you defend the right to charge God with making a mistake that man needed to correct.
All right Pastor Vaughn, what are you getting at? Do you really want to know? I don’t think so, because if I tell you and show you in God’s Word, you are going to reject what I show you even though it is God speaking through His word.
Evolutionists believe it took multiplied millions of years for earth to evolve into the state that we find it today. Thousands of thick books have been written trying to prove the evolutionist theory. How does God answer the evolutionist? He settles how all things came to be with the first ten words of the Bible. Genesis 1:1 “In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth.” That’s it, and the next 30 verses state what God did in the six, 24 hour days of Creation.
Those of you who think it took God longer than 24 hours He has a word for you in Psalm 33: verses 6 & 9. “By the word of the LORD were the heavens made; and all the host of them by the breath of his mouth. For he spake, and it was done; he commanded, and it stood fast.”
Now let’s go to chapter 2 and discover what Christianity says is God’s big mistake. Here it is in verses 2 & 3, “And on the seventh day God ended his work which he had made; and he rested on the seventh day from all his work which he had made. And God blessed the seventh day, and sanctified it: because that in it he had rested from all his work which God created and made.”
Did you catch God’s mistake? It says He had finished creation in the previous six days and rested on the seventh day; then He made the mistake of blessing the seventh day and even sanctified it, which means He set it apart for holy use. How could God make such an error? 
And you know what? Since so many people call Saturday, which is the seventh day, the Jewish Sabbath, God blessed and sanctified the seventh day 2,500 years before there was a Jew. Not only that, He made the seventh day Sabbath before sin entered the world. Evidently God did not realize His mistake in 4004 BC when the earth was created.
He even stated in Isaiah 66 verses 22 & 23 that we will keep the seventh day Sabbath in the new earth. Listen to His words, “For as the new heavens and the new earth, which I will make, shall remain before me, saith the LORD, so shall your seed and your name remain. And it shall come to pass, that from one new moon to another, and from one sabbath to another, shall all flesh come to worship before me, saith the LORD.” What was God thinking? Surely man can make God realize his blunders.
God has said very clearly that Saturday is the Lord’s Day. Exodus 20:10 “But the seventh day is the sabbath of the LORD thy God.” Then in Isaiah 58:13 He said, “If thou turn away thy foot from the sabbath, from doing thy pleasure on my holy day…”
Jesus even claimed to be Lord of the Sabbath day, therefore the Lord’s Day. That is confirmed in Matthew 12:8, “For the Son of man is Lord even of the sabbath day.” 
You know what everyone seems to be missing? Their missing the fact that the seventh day Sabbath has never been changed by God. Jesus kept 1700 seventh day Sabbaths when He walked in this vale of tears. Paul kept the seventh day Sabbath along with the disciples of Jesus. There is not one scripture in the Bible that says God changed the seventh day from Saturday to the first day of the week Sunday.
It was man who over ruled God in the 4th century after Christ and changed God’s Sabbath to the Pagan Sun-day of worship. What excuse did the bishops at Rome give so as to accommodate the numerous pagans that were flooding the church? We will worship on Sunday in honor of the resurrection.  
But God says, “For I am the LORD, I change not…” “My covenant will I not break, nor alter the thing that is gone out of my lips.”  God made no mistake, but religionists say today that God must have made a mistake.
Here are the facts. The Roman Catholic Church changed the day of worship to Sunday and twelve centuries later all the denominations that sprang out of the Roman Catholic Church went right on keeping the same counterfeit Sabbath that Rome created. Not until the 19th century did anyone have the courage to repair the breach made in God’s Holy law. The prophet Isaiah prophesied of such a repair in chapter 58. Verse 1 says, “Cry aloud, spare not, lift up thy voice like a trumpet, and show my people their transgression…” So God is pointing out the fact that His people are in transgression of His law. What transgression are they in? Verse 13 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:” So God’s people are breaking His 4th commandment to keep holy the seventh day. 
The Catholic Church made the breach in God’s law by changing the Sabbath from Saturday to Sunday and God is calling His people to repair that breach 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.”
There you have it. Satan hates God, he hates God’s law and he particularly hates God’s Sabbath because it points back to a six day creation, when he wants the Christian church to believe in evolution. Satan wanted the Christian church to be breaking just one of God’s Ten Commandments unknowingly, that way they would be guilty of breaking all ten. James says so in James 2:10 “For whosoever shall keep the whole law, and yet offend in one point, he is guilty of all.”  
So you see, he doesn’t care if you keep nine commandments, just as long as you trample all over God’s Holy Sabbath day and you defend his counterfeit Pagan day of worshipping the sun.
But you say Brother Vaughn, what difference does it make which day you keep as long as you keep one? I ask you, where did God say that it doesn’t matter, when He said “Remember the Sabbath day, to keep it holy.” Exodus 20:8. And why did He say remember, do you think He knew His professed followers would forget?
You may say, “I keep every day holy.” Pardon me but that is impossible. You cannot keep anything holy that’s not holy to begin with. God made only one day holy, the rest he called six working days. Exodus 20:9 “Six days shalt thou labour, and do all thy work:” Exodus 20:11 points us back to creation and it shows that He made the seventh day holy, “For in six days the LORD made heaven and earth, the sea, and all that in them is, and rested the seventh day: wherefore the LORD blessed the sabbath day, and hallowed it.  
Well time is up for this week. Next week we will continue this study with part 2 and I will give you statements from the Catholic Church on this important subject. If you would like to worship with seventh day Sabbath-keepers, come to the Victory Seventh Day Adventist Church new location at the Hampton Inn Conference suite in South Hill, VA at the exit 12 interchange of Interstate 85. We meet at 10:00 am and will be meeting there until out new building has been completed.
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”. Come Lord Jesus.