2/16/05 & 2/20/05 - “GOD’S TEST OF LOYALTY” Part 3
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Hello!  This is Richard Vaughn

Today we will continue our series titled, “GOD’S TEST OF LOYALTY” and today’s segment will be Part 3. Before we begin, let us seek God’s guidance, “Heavenly Father, as we open your word today, we ask once again for the guidance of the Holy Spirit as we continue with this most important subject. Lord we pray for wisdom, Lord we desire knowledge and Father increase our understanding so that we may live in the center of Your revealed will, for we ask these things in Jesus Name, Amen.”
Friday night February 25th at the Best Western in South Hill, Evangelist Ron Rogers is going to begin the seminar that will explain the mysteries in the two books of Daniel and Revelation. Your understanding of these two books will be made clear. Mark your calendar for Friday night February 25th and please see me as I will be at this seminar and I want to meet you personally.
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 slow down the pace of my presentation friends, as I don’t want anyone to be lost, because God doesn’t want you to be lost. When God gave His Son it was to save us from sin. But He can’t save us in sin. There are a lot of false doctrines today, throughout the Christian world that are accepted as Bible truth. But friends they are nothing more than Satan’s lies disguised as truth. Here are the facts:
God cannot lie. He is the Father of truth. Satan thrives on error, and he is the Father of lies. Look at the first big lie he told on planet earth. I am starting in Genesis 3:3. Eve told the serpent, “But of the fruit of the tree which is in the midst of the garden, God hath said, Ye shall not eat of it, neither shall ye touch it, lest ye die.” That was the test of obedience given to Adam and Eve. That was the truth from God. Eat it and die. Now here comes the lie in verse 4, “And the serpent said unto the woman, Ye shall not surely die:”  
Who told the truth? Did Adam and Eve die? They failed the test of loyalty and God had to remove them from the garden, which gave them access to the tree of life. They were sinners in need of a Savior.
Now we are going to look at Satan’s lie that has almost the whole Christian world caught up and believing as if it were Bible truth. We must now look at Genesis 2 verses 1-3. God had just completed the six literal 24-hour days of creation. It reads, “Thus the heavens and the earth were finished, and all the host of them.  
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.”  
	Listen now, this is when God finished creating in six days, then rested from His work. Why? Did God need rest? No. He was making something very special for His people and it would be a 24hour weekly appointment with Him and His people. Resting from labor is the key element. Then notice the next thing He did, He blessed the seventh day. In the entire Bible there is no other day of the week that He blessed. Think about this, can man change the day and make another day blessed? No sinful man cannot make a day blessed. 1 Chronicle 17:27 says, “for thou blessest, O LORD, and it shall be blessed for ever.” And so friends when God blessed the seventh day which today is Saturday, it is still the only blessed day of the week, and it will be forever. 
	Now look at the third thing He did in verse 3, He sanctified it. That means He set it apart for holy use. Man cannot make a day holy, only God can. Now we will fast forward to Mt. Sinai. Moses went up on the mountain to receive the Ten Commandments. 7 of the 10 commandments begin with the instruction, “thou shalt not.” The first commandment says, “Thou shalt have no other gods before me.” The fifth commandment begins, “Honor thy father and thy mother.” But look at the 4th commandment. It starts with the word remember. What does remember mean? It means don’t forget! Why would God say remember the Sabbath day? Because they would forget it back then, and they have forgotten it today, and it’s been forgotten for the last 16 centuries. 
	The Bible says in 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:”
He said the seventh day, not a seventh day. Which seventh day did He mean? The seventh day of creation which today is Saturday.
Now some of you may be thinking it doesn’t really matter what day you keep holy, as long as you keep one day holy? Watch out, because that is not God’s truth. God told us to remember the seventh day He blessed and made holy. Where in the Bible does it say it doesn’t really matter what day you keep holy? Friends that’s Satan’s clever lie and millions believe it.
You need to listen, because very soon, following a great disaster that is going to hit the United States this year, in 2005, coupled with the natural and man made disasters, religious leaders are going to call for a National Sunday law to appease God’s wrath on this immoral, God forgetting nation. It will pass and George Bush will sign it. I don’t know when either event will happen, but heaven has given this warning 5 years ago, and when it does happen, there will be a very short time to prepare before probation ends for this planet earth, then God’s mercy and grace is removed, and His wrath is poured out in the seven last plagues. 
I have stated that Sunday keeping is the mark of the beast. I have also stated that the Roman Catholic Church government, the Papacy is the antichrist little horn power of Daniel 7, and the antichrist first beast of Revelation 13. I am going to prove this with the Bible beyond any shadow of doubt. Now listen carefully, I am not talking about the Roman Catholic Church people. I believe that there are millions of faithful people that are going to soon come out of that Babylonian confusion and God will save them. The Papacy is the Great Whore of Revelation 17:1 and the Sunday keeping Protestant churches are the daughter harlots in Revelation 17:5. What is a whore? A whore is one who has proven to be unfaithful. How has the Papacy proven itself unfaithful? Because it usurped authority that did not belong to it, and it changed God’s law. It took the fourth commandment where God said remember the seventh-day Sabbath, and in its place it put the pagan first day that was the day to worship the sun god. 
The Sunday keeping Protestant churches are called the daughter harlots by God, because they continued this unfaithfulness to God, and continue to keep the counterfeit Sabbath which indirectly gives worship to Satan, who gave the Papacy its power, seat and authority. I will prove this as well, as right now I need to lay the foundation. You will see it all in the scriptures as we study today and the weeks ahead.
My brothers and sisters in Christ, I care about you and your soul salvation. You may not be aware of it, but the most fearful warning in all the Bible is found in Revelation 14:9,10. This is present truth and it is directed at us who live in the final generation. It says, “And the third angel followed them, saying with a loud voice, If any man (now that is generic, any man is any man, woman or child) If any man worship the beast and his image, (we worship the beast when we keep its traditions and forget God’s commands) If any man worship the beast and his image, (his image is apostate Protestant America that is going to pass the National Sunday law) If any man worship the beast and his image, and receive his mark in his forehead, (This is not a literal mark on the forehead, God says it is in our forehead and that is your frontal lobes of your brain, that is where the seat of your understanding and belief system is established. The mark is Sunday Worship, and if you continue to cling to that belief, after the National Sunday law comes in, you will have the mark of the beast) continuing the warning, 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, (That’s the seven last plagues) which is poured out without mixture (That means without mercy) 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:” 
Friends, please understand why I am so passionate about this. Satan has almost the whole world deceived on this issue. And the world continues its day to day business, just like they did in Noah’s day, and the flood destroyed them.
Sunday-keeping is only a tradition and Jesus said in Matthew 15:8,9 “This people draweth nigh unto me with their mouth, and honoureth me with their lips; but their heart is far from me. But in vain they do worship me, teaching for doctrines the commandments of men.”
Do you want to be lost? Then listen to Jesus. Sunday is a tradition of men and Jesus said, “…in vain they do worship me, teaching for doctrines the commandments of men.”
In Isaiah 58:13 God says, “If thou turn away thy foot from the sabbath, from doing thy pleasure on my holy day;”  Friends God is telling us to stop trampling His Sabbath and honor Him by keeping it. It is one of His Ten Commandments, and if we are not keeping His Sabbath Holy, we are commandment breakers. Look what it says in Proverbs 28:9 “He that turneth away his ear from hearing the law, even his prayer shall be abomination.” And friends what God calls an abomination is something that is so grotesque and detestable, that God abhors it, therefore if we are to please God, we should have nothing to do with anything God calls an abomination. That includes not listening to the truth about his law. I repeat Proverbs 28:9 “He that turneth away his ear from hearing the law, even his prayer shall be abomination.”

There are some religious teachers that teach Jesus did away with the law of God, the Ten Commandments, and nailed it to the cross. That is a lie of Satan. The law that was nailed to the cross was the Law of Moses that dealt with religious ceremony, feast days and animal sacrifices.
Listen to the words of Jesus in Matthew 5:17-19. Verse 17, “Think not that I am come to destroy the law, or the prophets: I am not come to destroy, but to fulfil. Jesus did not destroy the law of God and the prophecies concerning Himself, no He says He came to fulfill them. He kept the Ten Commandments and He is our example. He fulfilled all the prophecies concerning Himself.  Now verse 18, “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.” There in the words of Jesus, the Ten Commandments, right down to the dotting of an “i” and the crossing of a “t” will stand until the heavens pass, and that hasn’t happened yet. That means God’s 4th commandment to keep His seventh day Sabbath holy is still in effect. Now listen to verse 19. “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:” To be called least in the kingdom of heaven means you won’t be there. Neither will the teachers and pastors who teach you that it doesn’t matter which day you keep holy. That’s Satan’s lie. Verse 19 finishes by saying “but whosoever shall do and teach them, the same shall be called great in the kingdom of heaven.”
Time is running out on planet earth, and also on today’s program.  
Next week “God’s Test of Loyalty” - part 4.
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.