11/12/06 - “Waking Up A Sleeping Christian World – Part 1” - 46L - FM
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Hello!  This is Richard Vaughn

This Week: “Waking Up A Sleeping Christian World -  Part 1”
(Before we begin let us invite God’s presence)
Father, we begin to look at a most serious subject. Little do most Christians realize that the Christian Church is in a state of Apostasy far worse than ancient Israel ever was. Help me to make it clear to your people the true condition of your church today as we ask for Your special guidance to help us to understand this important truth. Give us we pray the Holy Spirit so that we may increase our knowledge, understanding, and live in the center of your revealed will as we ask this 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.

My brothers and sisters, please stop what you are doing, sit down and listen to today’s broadcast with no distractions. You may never hear a more important message. Are you aware that God is trying to wake up His church in these final days before the end of probation?
Did you know that Noah tried to warn God’s people for 120 years, and although he was a very articulate preacher, he could not convince a soul outside of his own immediate family of wife, his three sons and their wives? He could not convince his parents, his brothers and sisters, his aunts, uncles and cousins, his pastor, fellow church members or any of the millions of earth’s inhabitants at that time with God’s last day message of warning before probation would end the world as they knew it, just 1,656 years after creation. 
Why? Because the scientists all said it is virtually impossible for water, which is heavier than air, to rise and come down. It had never rained before, therefore Noah, who is not a scientist is wrong.
The boat builders said that Noah is not experienced in their craft, therefore they don’t believe his massive boat will be seaworthy as it has not undergone engineering tests. Plus the boat is so massive and so far from the water, how could he possible launch it. 
The religious leaders had the full confidence of their congregations as they told their members that God is a God of love and he wouldn’t allow such a catastrophe to come on men, women and little children. Any way they said, why are the majority of people rejecting his messages? Why is the hierarchy of the church calling this foolish man a cult leader with no followers? Surely the leadership can’t be wrong. And so the populous trusted that their pastors would not lead them wrong. The rebellion was not against Noah; it was against God.
Now here we are once again with world conditions absolutely deplorable. But the condition of the Christian church is even more deplorable. Most church goers today feel good about their church, but church and worship today is at best emotional religion void of substance. Religion in Christianity today has sunk to an all time low with God. His cup is about full and soon His mercy and grace will be withdrawn and His cup of wrath will be poured out on this world in the seven last plagues. 
Just as the religious leaders of Noah’s day were responsible for misleading the people, so today God indicts the pastors for deceiving God’s people. My brothers and sisters in Jesus, the message I give to you is not a popular one. It will not be soothing to your ears, but Christians need to hear it and make some real change and make it soon, because in the near future it will be forever too late to change sides.
Listen to God’s Word as He speaks about the cause of the apostasy today and the fact that the priests and pastors, the supposed shepherds of the flock are to blame. Malachi 2:7-9, “For the priest's lips should keep knowledge, and they should seek the law at his mouth: for he is the messenger of the LORD of hosts. But ye are departed out of the way; ye have caused many to stumble at the law; ye have corrupted the covenant of Levi, saith the LORD of hosts. Therefore have I also made you contemptible and base before all the people, according as ye have not kept my ways, but have been partial in the law.”      
Do you see? They have been partial in the law. Protestantism has thrown out the 4th commandment and only pays homage to the remaining 9. The Roman Catholic Papacy threw out the 2nd commandment and the 4th. Some have even stated that God’s Ten Commandments were nailed to the cross. But as we have seen in weeks past, The Ten Commandments are still in effect and God’s seventh day Sabbath is the true Lord’s Day. In John 5:39, Jesus said, “Search the scriptures; for in them ye think ye have eternal life: and they are they which testify of me.” Was He telling us to search the New Testament? No, because it would be decades before it was written. No we are to study the Old Testament and learn that we have over 160 references to keeping God’s seventh day Sabbath. And it is clearly revealed that in the new earth we will keep that same seventh day for eternity. Isaiah 66:22,23 “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.”
Saith the Lord, not Pastor Vaughn. If we will be keeping the Sabbath in eternity, don’t you think we should start showing God that we do love Him and we will begin honoring His Sabbath here and now? Jesus was the Creator God, He made the Sabbath and rested on it after His work of creation; He wrote the 4th commandment in stone on Mt. Sinai; He kept the Sabbath more than 1,700 times when He was on earth; and then He rested in the tomb on the Sabbath, from His work of redemption.
Once God winked at those who violated His law with Sabbath desecration for they truly did not know, their pastors would not tell them and they had not the resources. But this, the final generation is without excuse for they have the time and the resources to learn the truth. But they will not, they prefer rebellion. Listen to God’s word as He describes this generation in Isaiah 30:9,10, “That this is a rebellious people, lying children, children that will not hear the law of the LORD: Which say to the seers, See not; and to the prophets, Prophesy not unto us right things, speak unto us smooth things, prophesy deceits:”   
That’s what you want. You don’t want truth. You love deception and that’s what your pastors give you. You say what deception does our pastor teach us? For one thing they say that Sunday, the day the pagans worshipped the sun, brought into the church by the Papacy, for which God never authorized, they say is the Lord’s Day. That is lie #1. Exodus 20:10 says, “But the seventh day is the sabbath of the LORD thy God:” And Matthew 12:8 Jesus said, “For the Son of man is Lord even of the sabbath day.”
Jesus our example and Creator worked on the first day of creation and He calls Sunday through Friday six working days in Ezekiel 46:1, “Thus saith the Lord GOD; The gate of the inner court that looketh toward the east shall be shut the six working days; but on the sabbath it shall be opened.”
Lie #2. They allow you to believe Satan’s lie in Genesis 3:15, that when you die you either go straight to heaven or straight to Hell. But as we have studied, when you die you are in an unconscious state that Jesus called sleep, and will be so until you wake up in either the first or second resurrection Jesus described in John 5:28, 29. No one gets their reward before they appear before the judgment seat of Christ and it is at His second coming that He comes to give all their reward. Revelation 22:12, “And, behold, I come quickly; and my reward is with me, to give every man according as his work shall be.” The only ones we know that went to heaven are Enoch, Elijah and Moses, plus those who were specially resurrected at Christ’s death. I believe they are the 24 elders in Revelation.
4 times in Matthew 24 Jesus warned you about end time deceptions and you are caught up in them. Lie #3. You are taught that those who go to hell; go there at death and will burn in torment throughout the ceaseless ages of eternity. That is not so and we have proven that in weeks past, as the lost will be destroyed by fire, at the end of the thousand years, will be ashes along with Satan and the fallen angels, and all the lost will be as if they never were.
I could continue to list lies, but you need to wake up today. You are in what the Bible calls Babylon. That means confusion. The lies came from Satan, were passed down through Paganism, were embrace by Rome and bequeathed as a legacy to her daughters, the Protestant churches. But God is giving a final call to His people to come out of Babylon. He saying separate your-selves now before you suffer the punishment reserved for the Great Whore church in Rome. Here is God’s call in Revelation 18:4-10, “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. Reward her even as she rewarded you, and double unto her double according to her works: in the cup which she hath filled fill to her double. How much she hath glorified herself, and lived deliciously, so much torment and sorrow give her: for she saith in her heart, I sit a queen, and am no widow, and shall see no sorrow. Therefore shall her plagues come in one day, death, and mourning, and famine; and she shall be utterly burned with fire: for strong is the Lord God who judgeth her. And the kings of the earth, who have committed fornication and lived deliciously with her, shall bewail her, and lament for her, when they shall see the smoke of her burning, Standing afar off for the fear of her torment, saying, Alas, alas that great city Babylon, that mighty city! for in one hour is thy judgment come.”   
Friends if you do not hear God’s call and respond, than you are primed and ready to receive the mark of the beast. Anyone who receives the mark of the beast will be lost and suffer God’s wrath in the seven last plagues. 
	Well the clock says we’re out of time for this week. We will continue this study next week. Remember, you are always welcome to worship with us each seventh day Lord’s Day at the Victory Seventh Day Adventist Church located at 117 W. Danville Street in the center of South Hill, VA. It’s time to visit wouldn’t you say. Choose ye today whom you will serve.

Next Week: “Waking Up A Sleeping Christian World -  Part 2” I will continue to press with this most important message I have ever delivered and you need to listen as probation on this old world is nearly over.

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.