8/19/07 – 33LAW “God’s Big Mistake – Part 2”
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Hello!  This is Richard Vaughn

Today’s message is “God’s Big Mistake – Part 2”

Last week I made the following statement, I said that, “Almost the entire Christian world believes that God makes mistakes.” I even said, “Your own church is teaching and charging God with making mistakes.” We’re going to explore this further in part 2 this week, but before we begin, let us seek God’s guidance, “Heavenly Father, as we look at this most important subject regarding the Christian world charging You 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 line of reasoning is from flawed human reasoning. 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.
Last week I listed several respected religious men that have charged God with making a mistake, such as Billy Graham, Charles Stanley, T.D. Jakes, Robert Schuler, Pat Robertson, Jimmy Swaggart, Jesse Jackson, Jerry Falwell and a host of other respected religious leaders, including your pastor and his or her pastor before him or her.
God settles the issue in the scripture I quoted from Malachi 3:6, “For I am the LORD, I change not…” He doesn’t make mistakes.
And Psalm 89:34 reveals that God does not change what goes forth from His lips, “My covenant will I not break, nor alter the thing that is gone out of my lips.”  
As I brought out last week, the problem is that man did what God Himself could not do. Finite man assumed the authority of God and overruled Him by making a change in God’s Law that God Himself could not do. Therefore almost the entire Christian world is in rebellion against God and defends their unlawful position.
I clearly showed that before sin entered this world, and 2500 years before there was a Jew, that after six 24 hour days of creation, God did three things on the seventh day. We read that in Genesis 2 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.”
I pointed out that in Isaiah 66 verses 22 & 23 that we will keep the seventh day Sabbath in the new earth for eternity. It reads, “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.” 
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.” 
However it was in the 4th century after Christ that man, through the bishops at Rome changed God’s Sabbath to the Pagan Sun-day of worship, saying we will worship on Sunday in honor of the resurrection, without any scriptural authority.  
Twelve centuries after the Roman Catholic Church changed the day of worship to Sunday, the denominations that sprang out her went right on keeping the same counterfeit Sabbath that Rome created. 
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.” 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:”
James 2:10 says, “For whosoever shall keep the whole law, and yet offend in one point, he is guilty of all.”  
So you see Satan doesn’t care if you keep nine commandments, just as long as you trample all over God’s Holy Sabbath day and still you want to defend the devil’s counterfeit Pagan day of worshipping the sun, as if it were holy, which it is not.
Now listen to what the Roman Catholic Church says about this matter.
Converts Catechism of Catholic Doctrine, page 49, 
Question: What is the third Commandment?
Answer: The third commandment is, “Remember that thou keep holy the Sabbath day.”
Question: What is the third Commandment?
Answer: The third commandment is, “Remember that thou keep holy the Sabbath day.”
Question: Which is the Sabbath day?
Answer: Saturday is the Sabbath day.
Question: Why do we observe Sunday instead of Saturday?
Answer: We observe Sunday instead of Saturday because the Catholic Church in the Council of Laodicea,363 A.D., transferred the solemnity from Saturday to Sunday. – Peter Geierman, The Catechism of Catholic Doctrine.  (1951) page 50.
[Note-The Sabbath Commandment is the 4th commandment. The reason the Catholic Church has the Sabbath commandment as the third is because they removed the 2nd commandment that forbids worship of idols. To end up with ten commandments, they broke the tenth commandment into the 9th and 10th.]
Doctrinal Catechism written by Stephen Keenan:
Question: Have you any way of proving that the church has power to institute festivals of precept?
Answer: Had she no such power, she could not have done that which all modern religionists agree with her, she could not have substituted the observance of Sunday, the first day of the week, for the observance of Saturday the seventh day, a change for which there is no scriptural authority.
Chancellor C.F. Thomas, chancellor to Cardinal Gibbons has stated for the record, “Of course the Catholic Church claims it was her act. And the act is a mark of her ecclesiastical power and authority in religious matters.” 	 
From the Catholic Record, September 1, 1923, “The church is above the Bible, and this transference of Sabbath observance is proof of that fact.”
Listen to Father Enright, president of the Redemptive Fathers College. “There is but one church on the face of the earth which has power to make laws binding under pain of hell fire, for instance, the institution of Sunday. What right has any other church to keep that day? You answer, by virtue of the third commandment which says, “Remember that thou keep holy the Sabbath day.” But, Sunday is not the Sabbath. Any school boy knows that Sunday is the first day of the week. I have repeatedly offered a thousand dollars to anyone, who can prove to me from the Bible alone that I am bound to keep Sunday holy. There is no such law in the Bible. It is the law of the Holy Catholic Church alone. The Bible says Remember that thou keep holy the Sabbath day.” “The Catholic Church says NO, by my divine power I abolish the Sabbath day, and command you to keep holy the first day of the week. And lo, the entire civilized world bows down in reverent obedience to the command of the holy Catholic Church.”
Quoting now from Dr. Ray.  He wrote a book called, The Papal Controversy.   Quoting from page 179 (to Protestants), "From this same Catholic Church you have accepted your Sunday, and that Sunday as the Lord's day.  She is handed down as a tradition.  And the entire Protestant world has accepted it as a tradition for you have not an iota of Scripture to establish it."  "Therefore, that which you've accepted as your rule of faith, and adequate, as of course it is, as well as your Sunday, you have accepted on the authority of the Roman Catholic Church." 
Do you see why I say that almost the entire Christian world is charging God with making a mistake? Most of the non-Catholic Christians like to believe they stand on the Bible and the Bible only, but in order for non-Catholic Christians to stand on Sunday as a holy day, they throw out the Bible and embrace a Pagan tradition held dear by the Roman Catholic Church. 
If you want to hang on to that tradition, then remember what Jesus said in Matthew 15:9 “But in vain they do worship me, teaching for doctrines the commandments of men.”  Are you listening? Sunday is not God’s Sabbath, He never blessed it nor did He sanctify it. And just as long as Satan can get you to trample God’s Sabbath and uphold the devil’s counterfeit Sabbath, he has you breaking one commandment that means you’re breaking ten according to James 2:10. And according to 1 John 3:4, “Sin is the transgression of the law” and Romans 6:23 “For the wages of sin is death.” That means the second death and eternal separation from God. I preach my heart out week after week, trying to help you understand that probation will soon end for this world and commandment breakers will be lost no matter how saved they think they are.
Well time is up for this week. Next week we will conclude this study and I will give you statements from Protestant leaders 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.