11/26/06 - “Waking Up A Sleeping Christian World – Part 3” - 48L - FM
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Hello!  This is Richard Vaughn

This Week: “Waking Up A Sleeping Christian World - Part 3”
(Before we begin let us invite God’s presence)
Father, as we continue to study this most serious subject, I pray that your Holy Spirit is working on the hearts and lives of those who are hearing these messages. Help me today to make it so very 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; 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.

	Two weeks ago, I asked the question, “Are you aware that God is trying to wake up His church in these final days before the end of probation?” Were you also aware that God is trying to get His people to wake up from their coma like slumber and start keeping His seventh day Sabbath once again?
Here are 14 pretty amazing facts:
1.	Of the seven days in the week, the seventh day Saturday is the only day God ever blessed, sanctified and made holy. No other day is holy, therefore you can’t keep another day holy that’s not holy to begin with.
2.	Saturday has been the seventh day Sabbath since Jesus the Creator made it on the seventh day of Creation, approximately 6,000 years ago.
3.	Jesus kept the seventh day Sabbath when He walked this vale of tears over 1975 years ago and He kept over 1700 Sabbaths as our perfect example.
4.	The seventh day Sabbath was kept by the Apostles and the early Christian church into the fourth century after Christ. The New Testament writers wrote their gospels decades after the cross and never alluded to any change in the Sabbath.
5.	Luke, in the book of Acts, recorded over 84 Sabbath meetings held by Paul, and he recorded only one first day meeting in Acts 20:7 which was a Saturday night meeting by today’s reckoning of time.
6.	Jesus declared the Sabbath holy and if He were to change it, it would have to have been done prior to His death, as the New Covenant was sealed with His blood. 
7.	We are not to honor Jesus’ resurrection by attempting to keep holy a day that was dedicated by the Pagans to worship the sun. Jesus gave us baptism to celebrate His death, burial and resurrection. It is part of the New Covenant, as is communion.
8.	The Sabbath was changed by the Papacy in the fourth century, during the same period that they removed the second commandment forbidding worship of idols.
9.	Those who stand on the Bible and the Bible only must stand firm on God’s seventh day Sabbath, or they by default embrace the tradition of man, Sunday, the child of the Papacy.
10.	In John 5:39 Jesus admonished us to search the scriptures. The only scriptures were the Old Testament. In Isaiah 66 it says the Sabbath will be kept in the New Earth, as all flesh come to worship God in the New Jerusalem. Since we will keep it throughout eternity, don’t you think now would be a good time to start keeping it?
Sunday is a vain tradition, a commandment of man. Jesus said in Matthew 15:9 “But in vain they do worship me, teaching for doctrines the commandments of men.” Verse 6 says, “Thus have ye made the commandment of God of none effect by your tradition.” What are you standing on, the Bible or tradition? Who is your master? Church leaders or Jesus?
11.	There has never been a calendar change from the time of Jesus until now that has ever affected the weekly cycle. Jesus was under the Julian calendar, and in 1582 the Gregorian calendar went into effect, a change that made up for a 10 day loss caused by the Julian calendar. But the days of the week were unchanged. Thursday October 4, 1582 was followed by Friday October 15, 1582. The same seventh day Adam kept when he was a day old, was the same seventh day Moses kept when no manna fell, and was the same day Jesus kept as His custom was, and is the same seventh day in this year. An unbroken stream since Eden. God never lost track. 
12.	The Roman Catholic Church boastfully declares they changed it and that there is no scriptural authority for the change.  The Papacy is the little horn power of Daniel 7 and is the beast of Revelation 13 as we have studied in weeks past. Sunday worship is a mark of her power to overrule God and the scripture. When the National Sunday law is passed very soon, all Sunday keepers will then receive the mark of the beast. All who cling to the mark at that time will be lost and will have to endure God’s wrath in the seven last plagues. 
13.	The seventh day Sabbath is the seal of God as we have previously studied in prior broadcasts. Friends, the time of rejecting God’s seal in favor of holding to the first day tradition has got to end. You know the truth now and if you reject God’s fourth commandment, you no longer have a covering for this sin. You are in effect, turning your ear from hearing the law. Proverbs 28:9 states very clearly, “He that turneth away his ear from hearing the law, even his prayer shall be abomination.” Abomination in the eyes of God is a most detestable thing. 
14.	Did you know that Jesus tells us what to do if we love Him? Friends, do you really love Jesus? Jesus said in John 14:15, “If ye love me, keep my commandments.” Now He’s not asking you to make some grand pilgrimage to some far away holy land, He’s not asking you to do some great work or give a large amount of money to prove your love, no, no. He said if you really love Me, keep My commandments. There are ten He wrote in stone on Mt Sinai. In the New Covenant they are written in our hearts and minds. Most never knew, many have just plain forgotten, but Jesus says if you love me, Remember the Sabbath day to keep it holy. 

	Rome says, “Of course the Catholic Church claims the change was her act. . .  AND THE ACT IS A MARK of her ecclesiastical power and authority in religious matters.”  Thomas, H. F., Chancellor of Cardinal Gibbons, in answer to a letter regarding the change of the Sabbath.
	Again Rome says, “It’s (Sunday’s change for Saturday) the mark of our authority to over-rule God’s law.”  Father Enright C.S.S.R., president of the Redemptorist College, Kansas city, MO., History of the Sabbath, page 802.
	And this, “Sunday is our mark of authority.  . .  The church is above the Bible, and this transference of Sabbath observance is proof of that fact.”  The Catholic Record, September 1, 1923
	And still one more, “It was the Holy Catholic Church that changed the day of rest from Saturday to Sunday, the first day of the week.  And it not only compelled all to keep Sunday, but at the council of Leeds, A.D. 364, anathematized (that means they pronounced a curse upon them), those who kept the Sabbath, and urged all persons to labor on the seventh day under pain of anathema.”  Father Enright.

	Modern religionists of all Christian persuasions agree that Saturday is the seventh day Sabbath of the Bible. Listen to this from Dr. D.B. Ray, Who wrote a book called, The Papal Controversy. 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.”
	Nothing states it better than did Dr. Edward Hiscox, the author of the Baptist manual. Listen closely to what he said in a paper before a New York ministers conference, November 13, 1893. “There was and is a commandment to keep holy the Sabbath day, but that Sabbath day was not Sunday. It will be said, however, with some show of triumph that the Sabbath was transferred from the seventh to the first day of the week. Earnestly desiring information on this subject, which I have studied many years, I ask, where can the record of such a transaction be found? Not in the New Testament, absolutely not. There is no scriptural evidence of the change of the Sabbath institution from the seventh to the first day of the week. Of course, I quite well know that Sunday did come into use in early Christian history as a religious day, as we learn from the Christian fathers and other sources. But what a pity that it comes branded with the mark of paganism, and christened with the name of the sun god, when adopted and sanctioned by the Papal apostasy and bequeathed as a sacred legacy to Protestantism.”
 	
	So there you have it. The Roman Catholic Church admits changing God’s seventh day Sabbath for which there is no Biblical authority and many Protestant leaders confirm the fact that Sunday is not the Sabbath of the Bible. Man is powerless to make a day holy, but under Satan’s influence, man has wrestled authority from God and started a tradition that most of the Christian church in rebellion holds today as if it had God’s approval. The majority disagreed with Noah, but who was right. Are you going to side with the majority knowing the facts? 

	Well the clock says we’re out of time for this week. We will conclude this important subject next week, “Waking Up A Sleeping Christian World - Part 4”

	If you want some more information or even Bible studies, contact me by writing to: Pastor Vaughn that’s V-A-U-G-H-N, at PO Box 727, South Hill, VA 23970. Once again that’s Pastor Vaughn that’s V-A-U-G-H-N, at PO Box 727, South Hill, VA 23970.  

	And 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. And 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.