4-24-05 - “CAN MAN BE TRUSTED?” Part 3 of 3
Victory Ministries International presents:
Awesome Truths and Amazing Facts  
Treasures of awesome truths from God’s Word 
and facts that affect you!

Hello!  This is Richard Vaughn

My brothers and sisters in Jesus, “Awesome Truths and Amazing Facts” will conclude this week with part 3 of “Can man be trusted?” But first let us seek God’s guidance, “Heavenly Father, as we open your word today, it is for wisdom, knowledge and understanding that we ask of you, so that we may live according to your will, in Jesus Name, Amen.”

I am going 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.

It has been suggested by some people, that I have been a little hard on the pastors over the last two weeks, but it’s not me, I’m just reading scripture. Look, Jesus is coming soon and he wants everyone to be saved, including the pastors who are preaching error. The pastor is the shepherd of the flock and he or she must be ready at all times to defend the flock from all predators. The scriptures say 1 Peter 5:8 “Be sober, be vigilant; because your adversary the devil, as a roaring lion, walketh about, seeking whom he may devour:”

The pastors today must be studying the Bible like never before, especially now with probation for the world about to end. But my observation has been that they are reading many religious-type books, on a wide range of topics that allows for, and explains the confusion that flows from these ear-pleasing sermons, which do no more than to leave the soul starving for real truth. Truth is left trailing in the dust.

What has the Christian religion come to today? It’s no more than a Sunday social club where everyone gets together, dressed in their finest apparel and jewelry, singing, dancing, shouting, clapping and getting all worked up in an emotional frenzy, then they call that the presence of the Holy Spirit. But I am here to tell you that it is a supernatural spirit, but not God’s Holy Spirit. God’s Holy Spirit never dwells in a bedlam of noise. 

Then you find in the church, gossip, fault-finding and criticizing. Everyone seems to judge their own righteousness by others in the church. What is the problem here? It’s their focus. Focus should be on Jesus alone. Then one can see how truly unrighteous they really are.

Then the pastor gets up and starts preaching the errors. He’ll call Sunday the Lord’s Day when there is no scripture in the Bible that ties the Lord’s Day to the first day of the week. Listen to me now friends, if you can find a single scripture in the entire Bible, now are you listening? Find one scripture that shows where God changed His seventh day Sabbath to Sunday, I will meet you at the bank and hand you $5,000 in cash. You can ask your pastor’s help, to find one scripture, and if you do, the $5,000 is yours. Why do I make such an offer? Because that scripture is not in the Bible. God spoke the Ten Commandments on Mt. Sinai, wrote them on stone, and they became His fixed moral law until the heavens and the earth pass away. He said in Malachi 3:6 “For I am the LORD, I change not.” There you have it friends, and God did not change His seventh-day Sabbath from Saturday to Sunday.

So you say if God did not change it, who did? We are going to study God’s Sabbath in an upcoming broadcast, but for now, understand this, It was changed by the Roman Catholic Church in the 4th century after Christ. It is a tradition of man that has its roots in Paganism, and that’s all it is, a man-made tradition.

Here’s what Jesus says about tradition replacing God’s commandments. Mark 7:6-9,13 “He answered and said unto them, Well hath Esaias prophesied of you hypocrites, as it is written, This people honoureth me with their lips, but their heart is far from me. Howbeit in vain do they worship me, teaching for doctrines the commandments of men. For laying aside the commandment of God, ye hold the tradition of men,...  And he said unto them, Full well ye reject the commandment of God, that ye may keep your own tradition.”    Now verse 13, “Making the word of God of none effect through your tradition.” That’s Jesus talking friends.

When people learn the truth, that Sunday is not the true Lord’s Day, then they say it doesn’t matter what day you keep holy, just as long as you keep one. Or else they may say I keep everyday holy. Well I say it is impossible for anyone to keep Sunday holy. Why? Because Sunday is not holy to begin with. You cannot keep something holy that God did not make holy. In the entire Bible, God put His blessing on only one day and that’s the seventh day, Saturday. We will study this over the next few weeks and it will be crystal clear.

But for now I say with all the authority of the Bible, Sunday is not the Lord’s Day. Listen to what else Jesus says in Matthew 15:3,6,8,9,14   “But he answered and said unto them, Why do ye also transgress the commandment of God by your tradition?” “And honour not his father or his mother, he shall be free. Thus have ye made the commandment of God of none effect by your tradition.” “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.” 15:14 “Let them alone: they be blind leaders of the blind. And if the blind lead the blind, both shall fall into the ditch.” 

There you have from the mouth of Jesus. He was specifically citing the 5th commandment here, because everyone knew which day was the Sabbath. The Sabbath was not then in question. But the Pharisees had started a tradition that made void the 5th commandment and Jesus addressed it. He made it perfectly clear, that if people replace God’s commandment with man’s tradition, they worship God in vain. But He adds if the leaders encourage such worship, they are the blind leading the blind. This is serious business and you better take notice if you are serious about spending eternity with Jesus. 

Listen to the prophet Jeremiah in chapter 23:1-4 “Woe be unto the pastors that destroy and scatter the sheep of my pasture! saith the LORD. Therefore thus saith the LORD God of Israel against the pastors that feed my people; Ye have scattered my flock, and driven them away, and have not visited them: behold, I will visit upon you the evil of your doings, saith the LORD. And I will gather the remnant of my flock out of all countries whither I have driven them, and will bring them again to their folds; and they shall be fruitful and increase. And I will set up shepherds over them which shall feed them: and they shall fear no more, nor be dismayed, neither shall they be lacking, saith the LORD.

God is pronouncing the pastors unfaithful for not feeding the flock real truth. And so we have here a prophecy that God will have a remnant people in the last days, with pastors that will feed them. Who will this remnant people be? The answer is in Revelation 12:17 “And the dragon was wroth with the woman, and went to make war with the remnant of her seed, which keep the commandments of God, and have the testimony of Jesus Christ.” and Revelation 14:12 “Here is the patience of the saints: here are they that keep the commandments of God, and the faith of Jesus.” God’s remnant people of theses last days will be commandment keepers, all ten, including God’s seventh-day Sabbath.

We do not love and worship Jesus by getting worked up into an emotional frenzy on a day He never made holy. We love Jesus by doing what He said for us to do in John 14:15, Jesus said, “If ye love me, keep my commandments.”

This is made clear in 1 John 2:3,4 “And hereby we do know that we know him, if we keep his commandments. He that saith, I know him, and keepeth not his commandments, is a liar, and the truth is not in him.” Now that’s strong language but it’s clear. If you are not keeping all of God’s commandments God says you are a liar and the truth is not in you.

Listen carefully again to Jeremiah, chapter 50:6 “My people hath been lost sheep: their shepherds have caused them to go astray, they have turned them away on the mountains: they have gone from mountain to hill, they have forgotten their restingplace.” What is the restingplace God gave His people? It’s the seventh-day Sabbath. Listen to Genesis 2:1-3   “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.”

Who was the Sabbath of rest made for? Mark 2:27,28 gives us the words of Jesus, listen carefully, “And he said unto them, The sabbath was made for man, and not man for the sabbath: Therefore the Son of man is Lord also of the sabbath.” Jesus identifies here the real Lord’s Day and it is the restingplace Jeremiah said would be forgotten. And that is why when Jesus, the Creator, gave the Ten Commandments on Mt. Sinai, he started the 4th Commandment with the word Remember. He knew the man of sin, Paul spoke of, was going to come and change it. Wake up people, Jesus is coming real soon and He will save nobody in their sins. Sin is breaking God’s law and James says if you break one, you break them all. That includes which day you worship God.   
 
Now I ask you, how can you possibly call a pastor by God’s name Reverend, when he or she stands in the pulpit lying to you about the Lord’s Day and then says it makes no difference which day you keep holy? Not only that, but many other lies that many believe to be Bible doctrine.

Listen to God’s inspired writer in Proverbs 12:17,19,22 “He that speaketh truth showeth forth righteousness: but a false witness deceit.” Verse 19 “The lip of truth shall be established for ever: but a lying tongue is but for a moment.” Verse 22 “Lying lips are abomination to the LORD: but they that deal truly are his delight.”

Brother Vaughn, are you saying my pastor is a liar? No I am not. God is. I’m reading the Bible, not giving you personal opinion. Opinions, speculation and conjecture come from the pulpit, but real truth comes from God’s Word. Trust no man. Psalm 146:3 “Put not your trust in princes, nor in the son of man, in whom there is no help.” That’s clear.
  
Keep listening to Awesome Truths and Amazing Facts, as I will expose every one of these false teachings that have been kindled from the hellish torch of Satan. Satan wants all of humanity to be lost, and he’s done a pretty good job. Almost the entire Christian world alive today will be lost for eternity. Why do I say almost? Because there will be a small remnant who will hear God’s voice and they will break with the confusing errors and join God’s remnant people. Jesus said many shall be called, but few shall be chosen. In Noah’s time there was only a remnant of 8 people out of billions. 

Why am I so passionate about this message. Because I don’t want to see you lost. I was once content to be an elder as a supporting role to a pastor. But at the age of 63, God called me to become a pastor, since the pastors in my own denomination were failing to do their duty to God. I have never been to a seminary, but folks the seminary today is the cemetary; it’s where the truth died. God tells me to warn the people, to cry aloud and spare not. Now at age 66 with 46 years of intense Bible study I am doing what He called me to do.

Time is up for this week, so be listening to Awesome Truths and Amazing Facts next Sunday at 8:45 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.