12/15/04 & 12/19/04 - “CAN MAN BE TRUSTED?” Part 2 of 3
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Awesome Truths and Amazing Facts  
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Hello!  This is Richard Vaughn

My brothers and sisters in Jesus, “Awesome Truths and Amazing Facts” will continue this week with part 2 of “Can man be trusted?” In case you were shocked last week with my broadcast, then you are aware that you get no pleasing fables here, only Bible truth. And when people are not studying their Bibles, then truth has shocking effects. As I stated last week, we are living in the very last days before probation ends for this world, and I have promised to you, that I will 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. And that is to get you off of the broad way that leads to destruction, and get you onto the narrow way that leads to everlasting life.

Some say, Brother Vaughn, God is a God of love and your message last week seemed to be lacking in the area of love. Thank you for noticing friends, but listen, was God a God of love when He destroyed the earth in Noah’s time, by a flood? Well the answer was yes. But Noah could not be preaching all love sermons at a time he was to give a final warning about God’s cup being full, and that His wrath was about to be poured out on an evil and adulterous generation.

Well Jesus said in speaking to the disciples about our time, “As the days of Noah were, so shall the coming of the Son of man be.” We are living in a time where there seems to be no moral compass. Right is wrong and wrong is right. My brothers and sisters, Jesus will be coming soon. But before He comes, probation for this world would have ended and every living person will be in one of only two camps. Either they will have the Seal of God in their foreheads, or they will have the Mark of the Beast in their foreheads or hands. The greatest majority of Christians in the world and those listening to this program will receive the Mark of the Beast. They will feel the full wrath of God in the seven last plagues. The Bible is clear on this and on all the other false doctrines being taught in your churches today that Jesus warned us not to be deceived about. What doctrines you ask? I’ll give you a short list:
1.	The state of the dead. Long have Christians believed that you go straight to heaven or hell at death. False doctrine, they are in their graves until Jesus comes, a Bible fact.
2.	That Jesus will secretly rapture His church before the tribulation. False doctrine, there is no secret rapture, a Bible fact. 
3.	That Anti-Christ is future and will come after the rapture for a seven-year period. False doctrine, Anti-Christ has been here for centuries, a Bible fact.
4.	Hell is burning now and the devil is in charge. False doctrine, Hell is future and will happen after the millennium, a Bible fact.
5.	People will burn in a hellish torment throughout the ceaseless ages of eternity. False doctrine, that is an assault on the loving character of God. People will be destroyed and be as though they never were, that’s Bible fact.
6.	During the first three and a half years in the tribulation I will have a second chance. False doctrine, there is no second chance when Jesus comes, a Bible fact.
7.	Once I’m saved, I’m always saved, I can’t be lost. False doctrine, believe that and chances are you will certainly be lost, a Bible fact.
8.	There are people living on earth during the millennium. False doctrine, There will be no living persons on earth during the millennium, a Bible fact.
9.	The number 666 is the mark of the beast. False doctrine, no friends, the number 666 is only one of many identifying points of determining who the beast power is. It is impossible to know what the mark is if you don’t know who the beast is. And the beast is in power now, a Bible fact.
10.	Sunday is the Lord’s Day. False doctrine, God says Saturday the seventh day is the Lord’s Day, a Bible fact.
11.	It doesn’t matter what day you keep holy as long as you keep one. False doctrine, that kind of teaching will get the believer on the broad road to destruction, a Bible fact.
12.	Jesus nailed the Ten Commandments to the cross. False doctrine, the Ten Commandments will judge every person and the only law nailed to the cross was the ceremonial law of Moses, a Bible fact.
13.	We are in the dispensation of grace, ancient Israel was in the dispensation of law. False doctrine, every person since Adam fell, is saved by grace and thereby justified, but they must be living a sanctified life in obedience to the Ten Commandments, a Bible fact.
14.	We can speak with the spirits of departed loved ones. False doctrine, the only spirits mortal men speak with are demons impersonation deceased relatives or friends, a Bible fact.
15.	We can eat anything we want to today. The dietary laws in Leviticus no longer apply. False doctrine, eat the pig and you will certainly be destroyed when Jesus comes, a Bible fact.

And friends, that’s only 15 of the scores of false doctrines that are being taught from the pulpits of most Sunday keeping churches today. And I am going to deal with every one of them and the dozens of others I didn’t mention. And most of them are salvational issues. The problem is that most of these false doctrines can find no proof texts in the Bible. They have been spoken from the pulpits for so long now that the people believe them, as do the pastors who preach these untruths.

We are about to open God’s Word so please bow with me as we seek the Lord’s understanding in our study. “Heavenly Father, it is for understanding of Your Word that we petition you today. Grant us the gift of the Holy Spirit to help us understand the scriptures that we will be studying today. In Jesus name, Amen”

The last broadcast the topic was, “Can man be Trusted?” Part 1. 
We know from our first study that the Bible can be Trusted, and God the Father, Jesus His Son and the Holy Spirit can all be trusted. Now “Can man be trusted?” Part 2. Last week I stated that most Christians believe that man can be trusted, because they believe that the man, or the woman in the pulpit, would never lead them in any direction but truth.

But God’s Word showed us otherwise and we will add to the scriptures I quoted last week, on this critically important subject. Are you aware that there is a false Ecumenical movement abounding throughout the Christian world, even as I speak. It’s a love and unity message, but it’s straight from the gates of hell. How do I know it’s false and from Satan?
Because brothers and sisters it has thrown obedience to the trash pile. There is nothing wrong with true unity and true love, but Jesus said in John 14:15, “If you love Me, keep My commandments.” It was Jesus on Mt. Sinai who spoke those Ten Commandments and wrote them in stone. And it was Jesus who showed us by example that we can keep them with power given from on high. But today’s ecumenical movement says just love one another and don’t worry about the law. That’s the voice of Satan because grace does not excuse obedience. Friends no true child of God  keeps God’s commandments in order to be saved, we keep them because we are saved. 

Listen, this is the only life and the only chance we have to get it right. Once Jesus comes, or if we should pass before then, our choices in this life will have determined our eternal destiny. Don’t leave that decision to a pastor. Revelation 3:11 says, “Behold, I come quickly: hold that fast which thou hast, that no man take thy crown.”  

Now let’s open God’s Word and see what else He says about the pastors  who offend God. Isaiah 56:10 “His watchmen are blind: they are all ignorant, they are all dumb dogs, they cannot bark; sleeping, lying down, loving to slumber.” Is God graphic or what. That’s not me calling pastors dumb dogs, that’s God’s language. He is calling sleep-loving pastors blind, ignorant, dumb dogs that cannot bark. And if they are not heralding truth, then they are speaking falsehoods, and therefore aptly described.

We have to get out of this mindset that the pastor will guide us safely to the other shore. There is a place for pastors, but it is not to take our place in the study of God’s Word. God explains in His Word why most of His people will be lost. Hosea 4:6, “My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge: because thou hast rejected knowledge, I will also reject thee, that thou shalt be no priest to me: seeing thou hast forgotten the law of thy God, I will also forget thy children.” Now that’s pretty strong, but it is to the point. God’s people will be destroyed for lack of knowledge. They’re not studying. If their not working, they’re busy with their amusements or they’re eating or sleeping. But they’re not studying. They go to their churches on Sunday morning and somehow think God should be impressed. But God says He will reject us because we reject knowledge and forgot His law. There was a time that God would overlook a person’s ignorance of His will, Acts 17:30, “And the times of this ignorance God winked at.” But such is not the case with this rebellious generation of the last days. We have the resources and we have the time. But we are choosing to divert time in God’s Word, to stay entertained by all the pollution the world offers. Wake up people your eternity is at stake.
Now listen to this from Proverbs 30:5,6 “Every word of God is pure: he is a shield unto them that put their trust in him. Add thou not unto his words, lest he reprove thee, and thou be found a liar.”

In His mercy God is warning pastors to treat the pure Word of God with reverence, not to change it one iota, and not to add to it words that are not there, otherwise that person is a liar. And all liars will die the second death.  

Yet pastors stand in the pulpits week after week and tell the same lies that they have been taught, and on and on it goes, year after year, generation after generation. But folks, we are in the last generation and probation on this old world is about to end. You may say, “Can you give me an example of my pastor telling a lie.” Well in the previous 15 examples, if you have heard any of those preached from the pulpit, you have heard the lies that the devil would have that person preach, and the lies he would have you believe. But what says the Bible, I ask you? Can you give me an “It is written” to answer false teaching? That’s how Jesus met the devil and that’s how we should too.

But I will give you another example, when you go to a funeral service, have you ever heard a minister say, Brother so-and-so is in glory now with Jesus? If you have you have heard that, that is the devil’s lie told to Eve in Genesis 3:4 “Ye shall not surely die.” Friends, I will cover this subject thoroughly in upcoming broadcasts and you will get the clear truth from God’s word. Suffice it to say that for now, when we die we sleep the sleep of death until the first or second resurrection. That’s in the Bible.

Time is up already and it seems like we just started. We will conclude this subject next week, before we start tackling all the false doctrines circulating in the Christian world today.

Just a reminder, “Awesome Truths and Amazing Facts” is brought to you twice a week on this station. Wednesday mornings at 8:30 am, and then Wednesday’s programs are repeated Sunday mornings at 9:00 am. 
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.