This, I have chosen for my 6,000th post. Many of you already know I am not a fan of lengthy posts but here I have elected to go against my normal style so, grab a beverage of your choice, a bag of chips, a box of chocolates, or juice something, sit back and enjoy for what you are about to read is going to set off a good number of you I’m sure. Do whatever it is you do when you are settling in for a good read. My point is many of you are in for a jolt. Before I continue, in the event this profession of faith may result in my termination from this site, I just want to say it has been my pleasure to be in your midst these past 22 months. Many of the associations I’ve made here will continue with me through life I’m sure. One more thing; please do not confuse this with “SDA” doctrine. God has “a people”. He does not have a “religion” or an “ism”. (Nothing against my Adventist friends.) God just IS. Also, bear in mind this is the first “sermon” I’ve ever given. It is my prayer that what follows will be read with an open mind as my profession of faith in the God I worship and not in the sense that I am trying to “convert” anyone. I cannot convert anyone. That is the job of the holy Spirit of God. (John 16:8) Conversion, for me, has been a gradual process. I feel my heart has always been “in the right place”, however, I also believe that Truth is revealed to each of us as we are ready and willing to receive It. Once we open our hearts to it, I believe we have an obligation to walk in the way of Truth. That is to say that yes, I believe we are saved through grace, the grace of what Jesus accomplished for us at the cross. Therefore we, as “Christians” are obligated to accept this “grace” and walk in the Light thereafter forever. It is difficult for me to understand how so many can regard themselves as “Christians” and not do so. I wonder how God feels. I wonder how He must have felt the day He removed all but eight of those He made in His image from the face of the earth. I wonder how He felt the day His Son gave up His life for mankind. I cannot imagine the pain Jesus suffered, not to mention the pain His Father must have felt that day. I wonder how He felt the day His Son made the decision to give up His immortality and take on humanity. When I consider the ultimate Sacrifice this entailed I consider the love for His creation this decision involved. “He was wounded for our transgressions…by His stripes are we healed.” When I consider the humiliation of His last day on earth and the 7 trials He suffered through (interesting number of trials), the lashings that tore His flesh, the crown of thorns, the slap in the face and the abuse He withstood for mankind, not only do I realize the perfect health He had to have been in to still be physically able to bear His own cross, but also the determination He held to lay down life itself (the only life that would suffice) that all who might believe on Him might inherit eternal life as well. Jesus drug Himself to the place of His crucifixion that you and I might one day live with Him, the Father, and all the holy angels in a perfect universe forever. That is just how much He loves all of us. That is how much He loved us that day and that is how much He loves us today. God’s love for us remains unchanged. God Is Love. I wonder if, when we rebel against His holy Law of Love, we are not keeping Him in that last day of His life on earth as one of us. How long will we continue to persecute Him and crucify Him? I wonder how God defines “Christianity”. My point in what you are about to read is there is no such thing as “legalism” in the eyes of God. There is only Love. Some will view this as highly opinionated and headstrong. I accept that. All I ask is that you “feel the love”… If we dare to worship God, we have the ire of the serpent upon us.

That being said, I offer the following:

“ And I will put enmity between thee and the woman, and between thy seed and her seed; it shall bruise thy head and thou shalt bruise his heel.” “In the sweat of thy face shalt thou eat bread, till thou return unto the ground” (Genesis 3:15, 19)

“And hallow my Sabbaths; and they shall be a sign between me and you, that ye may know that I am the Lord your God.” (Ezekiel 20:20)

“But God, who is rich in mercy for his great love wherewith he loved us, Even when we were dead in sins, hath quickened us together with Christ, (by grace ye are saved;) And hath raised us up together, and made us sit together in heavenly places in Christ Jesus: That in the ages to come he might shew the exceeding riches of his grace in his kindness toward us through Christ Jesus. For by grace are ye saved through faith; and that not of yourselves: it is the gift of God: Not of works, least any man should boast. For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus unto good works, which God hath before ordained that we should walk in them.” (Ephesians 2: 4-10)

“This then is the message which we have heard of him, and declare unto you, that God is light, and in him is no darkness at all. If we say that we have fellowship with him, and walk in darkness, we lie, and do not the truth: But if we walk in the light, as he is in the light, we have fellowship one with another, and the blood of Jesus Christ his Son cleanseth us from all sin.” (1 John 1: 5-7)

“The earth also is defiled under the inhabitants thereof: because they have transgressed the laws, changed the ordinance, broken the everlasting covenant.” (Isaiah 24:5)

“Hearken unto me, ye that know righteousness, the people in whose heart is my law; fear ye not the reproach of men, neither be ye afraid of their reviling.” (Isaiah 51:7)

“Thy righteousness is an everlasting righteousness, and thy law is the truth.” (Ps. 119:142)

“Thou art near, O Lord; and all thy commandments are truth.” (Ps. 119:151)

“Sanctify them through thytruth: thy word is truth. (John 17:17)

“Jesus saith unto him, I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the Father, but by me.” (John 14:6)

“Let us hear the conclusion of the whole matter: Fear God and keep His commandments, for this is the whole duty of man”… (Ecclesiastes 12:13)

“But when we are judged, we are chastened of the Lord, that we should not be condemned with the world”. (1 Corinthians 11:32)

You know what I think? I think people just flat out do not want to be responsible. The cross was only a symbol. If Christ were here today His death would be by the gas chamber, lethal injection or the electric chair. We’d still put Him to death the same as we are going to reject His Word until the day He returns in the clouds as King of Kings and Lord of Lords. He gave His life for us in order to preserve and defend the everlasting Word of His Father. God has a day the same as He has a people. Nothing changed at the cross. I stand by that statement. Something very significant to the salvation of mankind happened at the cross, indeed it did, but nothing changed. Our God is constant. Our God is perfect. Our God does not change nor will He ever change. Man has changed not only the Sabbath day, but also the reason for keeping it.

The cross was merely the device used in execution of the day. We killed Jesus and that’s what matters. If He had waited until today to make His first coming, would our reaction to His message not be the same? His teaching was so unlike the “explanations” of the scribes and Pharisees of His day that it arrested the attention of the people. The rabbis dwelled on tradition, human theory and speculation. All too often, that which had been taught and written “about” Scripture, by man, was put in place of Scripture itself. Why do we keep Him on the cross? He died once for all. Was that not enough? The day of our fall from grace the Lord presented Himself in the presence of our first parents, and the tempter, and addressed each of them individually. Here was first presented to mankind the Plan of Salvation. Salvation is not of works, rather unto them.

When man chose to sin against God, Jesus stepped in and presented Himself before the Father as the Perfect Sacrifice, the Only Substitution that could possibly be accepted as a Form of redemption. Jesus did not have to make the offer and God did not have to accept it. We were in immediate violation of the eternal Law of the Father the moment we went against His Word. “For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son”…Before that moment in history we were a lost people. Had Jesus not stepped in to intervene for us, we would have never been. What Jesus chose to do for us was to sacrifice Himself as a sin offering to the Father that His eternal Word might continue to stand as it has always stood from everlasting. (Alpha & Omega) “The Law of the Lord is Perfect, converting the soul”. When we, as followers of Jesus, convert to Him, we not only accept Him, but we also accept the Word of His Father as Truth. That is precisely why He gave His life for us, so that the everlasting Word of the Father would continue to be held above all else. The death of Jesus was our assurance that would be possible. So therefore, Jesus is our Salvation. However, in order to grasp hold of that salvation we must continue to honor the Word, the Law of the Father as it was before sin entered. This was true of His people before Sinai, it is true of His people since. Nothing changed at the cross. Christ was as good as already slain from the moment He agreed to become one of us and live among us. He gave His Word and His Word is Sure. He was slain from the foundation of the world. The Father is the Alpha and the Omega. The Father knew already what was to come. The Father, only, knows the outcome, not the angels, not even the Son. (Mark 13:32). Jesus possessed absolute faith in the Father and the outcome of His mission. One day Michael will stand up and announce; “it is done”. Between then and now only God, the Father, knows. When Jesus throws down the censor and makes that announcement this world will be in absolute turmoil. It will be coming apart at the seams. We cannot stand in the presence of the Holy Father without a Mediator. The holy Law of the Testament of the Father, over which Jesus presides as we write, is the Standard by which we are judged today. It is the Standard by which we adhere either to the Creator of the worlds or by which we deny He Who made us. It is the same Law contained in the ark of His Testament onto which the blood of the Son spilled the day He died. The stone tablets on which were written the same holy Law of the Father with His finger and delivered to His people in the day of Moses were not written that we may one day presume that anything “changed” at the cross. They were written in stone by Him to be “remembered” by His people for all time. That’s remembered and observed, for those who wish to believe that something “changed” at the cross. Nothing changed for us that day. God is the same yesterday, today and forever. It is we, who choose to believe lies taught by the master deceiver, that anything about the Father changed that day. I choose to obey God rather than man.

Christ wrote with His finger when He was among us. After He had knelt down and written the sins of a certain woman’s accusers in the dust, He turned to the woman and said; “…Neither do I condemn thee. Go and sin no more.” He did not say carry on in your unacceptable behavior, rather He commanded her to abide in the Law. I seriously doubt that woman was ever again caught in the act of adultery. That was the perfect example of obedience under grace. Grace AND obedience is the everlasting gospel.

My message is not delivered as popular opinion throughout so called “modern Christianity”. On the contrary, it is presented as a wake-up call for all who profess to believe in Jesus and what He did for mankind on a lonely hill long ago. Much of what many say and preach in the name of the Lord is very so. We must have the love of Jesus in our hearts in order to be a part of His Kingdom one day. That day is not yet. We remain in the fire. This is the time of testing and trying of our souls. There is much yet to come for surely we have not yet seen the worst of it. What lies ahead for us is hardly imaginable still at this time. We must prepare ourselves to let go of property and life itself. It’s all going to burn up anyway. Our reward is in heaven. We still, for the most part, have it pretty good. Life is comfortable. Life is still good for many millions. What Jesus did for us at the cross was to give us another chance at eternal life. He changed nothing. He upheld the will of the Father. “Nevertheless, not my will but Thy will be done”. It was not the will of the Son to change one iota of the will of the Father. Jesus would never have presumed His mission was to change the everlasting Law of the Father. On the contrary, His mission was to preserve and uphold that very Law that so many millions choose to believe was somehow “changed” by His death. His mission was to put it back to the way it was before sin entered so that we, today, might have the same right to eternal life with which we were created in the beginning… I anticipate coming together in heaven one day, from one Sabbath to another, to partake of the tree of life. What a day that will be!

God’s Law is a Perfect Law. It just is. It is a wall of protection around us. That is the perfect order of the universe. There is so very much beyond the realm of this world that we simply cannot comprehend and will not comprehend until we see Him face to face. But there is one thing on which we can base our salvation and that is that the Law of the Lord is Perfect converting the soul. Always has been. Always will be. That, my dear friends, includes His holy Sabbath commandment to remember it. Jesus did not “change” that to “mean” anything other than just what the commandment says. The Sabbath commandment is a golden thread that runs the entire length of His Word. It was, has been and is made crystal clear. It is mankind, on the other hand, that has contributed its own interpretations to it and there are a plenty. Satan, himself, is the instigator of all these lies. It’s a question of obedience out of love, not obedience to gain something.

Now, do not take anything I have to say here personally. You are my fellow seekers of Truth. My message is to the many millions in the world today, who feel and sincerely believe with all their hearts they are walking in the footsteps of our Savior. To them I would say that Jesus walked in the Law of His Father. He kept the Sabbath despite what any might say to the contrary. He most assuredly did not change it to another day or to just any day or to no particular day at all. My God is a jealous God and a peculiar God and a particular God. Who is your God? Has He ever “changed” anything about His Word? I would only answer that with a resounding “Nay”! My God is I AM. He does not change! His Word is Sure. His Perfect Word was ingrained in me at my creation.

Adam and Eve spent their first day of life in Sabbath rest before taking up their work. When God set apart the 7th day and sanctified it, He was establishing an everlasting covenant between Him and us. It was a relationship by which we were to always be dependent on Him. When we chose to believe the lie of the tempter we chose to become dependent upon ourselves rather than to be dependent on Jesus. Thereby we forfeited the true rest the Sabbath symbolized. Mankind inherited its eternal rest in Jesus at creation. He was created into it. There was no “sweat of the brow” in the beginning. The life and death of Jesus in the world was for the express purpose of restoring this rest in Him that was lost at the fall. By so doing, He restored the significance of the Sabbath. He did not abolish it. There are two systems at war, a dragon, and a woman in white.

Many, it would seem, have grown so accustomed to hearing and believing lies that today their entire lives revolve around them. What may seem to millions as so very reasonable and understandable may well be the cause of the loss of their soul’s salvation. “We have accepted Christ!” they may exclaim. “And we thoroughly acknowledge Him and walk in His ways”! But do they really? My understanding is that the way of Jesus is the Way of His Father. He was sent here to DO the will of the Father, was He not? Did He not do the will of the Father while He walked among us? Did He really “fulfill” something at the cross to bring about any sort of “change” in the commandment of the Father? Might that “change” be something indicating a different sort of “spiritual” walk with God? Are we, “since the cross”, now “free” to “make” our own “rules”? Has God changed? I cannot accept that He has. Just how is it “OK” for me to honor the 7th day, Sabbath, if I so choose yet not required of the Father for all His people? What, exactly, makes us different in that respect in the eyes of the Father? Am I to presume we will all be “keeping the Sabbath” differently in Heaven? Not! If we are to be coming together in Heaven (according to Isaiah) from one Sabbath to another, then why should we not be acting like God’s people here? Is this not the time we have been so graciously given to be getting ourselves ready for our eternal inheritance?

I look forward to experiencing Heaven. There is nothing this world has to offer that binds me here. Nothing. Having said that, I wish to address all who would make the claim (against God) that we are living the eternal Sabbath of our Lord here today. To those who would say the Sabbath of our God was abolished, done away with, amended, or otherwise at “the cross” I say phooey! Absolute nonsense! The world, as a whole, has rejected its Creator. Sin has taken its toll from the moment man transgressed the holy Law of God. That was obvious in Adam’s first born and has remained so in the offspring of man throughout the ages. Do you not for a moment understand Adam’s grief in his transgression when he held the limp body of Abel in his arms and cried? Do you not think he wept for Cain as well? Have we not at some time or the other felt the same pain of sin? Sin is transgression of the Law. Why then do we continue to walk in its way when we know and understand full well the result is death? What part of not eating from the “forbidden tree” is any different from any other part of the eternal Law of God? How long halt we between two opinions? Do you really think the ten-commandment Law handed down to man at Sinai was something conjured up by the Creator for His creation at that time? Do you really believe it was something new He invented just for us and then for only a short while? Was there anything different about His people in that day than there is in us today? The only difference I see is that the blood of Jesus had not yet been spilled, thus the animal sacrifices. What is a few thousand years to God, Who has always existed? The Word handed down to His faithful servant, Moses, that day was the same Word pertinent to us, His chosen today. “If the Lord be God, follow Him”. If not then who cares? By all means do what you want to do and “BE FREE”! Free to do whatever you please anytime you want. Any day. Doesn’t matter according to the “new, amended” laws of Satan adopted by man. One day is no different from another according to him. Jesus says; “Blessed are they that DO His commandments.” Rev. 22:14.

Fact remains, friends, one day IS different and set aside as special by the One Who MADE it special, set it aside, hallowed it, sanctified it and MADE it holy. I don’t dare deny that. I may not “keep” it holy all the time (and I don’t) but I don’t dare deny it as being so. My weakness ought not concern you. My soul’s salvation is between my Maker and me solely. I know that if I am faithful in confessing my sins He is faithful and just to forgive them. I also know there will come a day when I will be given the strength to honor His day in its fullness as I pray daily He will give me strength to overcome every other weakness in my life. That day is fast approaching for every one of us. I cannot be fully in tune with God until I will myself so. It is my prayer today that I be willing to be made willing to follow Him. Jesus says; “Do you love me”? I say; “Yes, Lord”. Jesus says; “Follow Me”. “I am the Way, the Truth, and the Life. No man cometh unto the Father but by me.” I may deny Him once, I may deny Him twice, I may deny Him three times but He is patient with me and He is faithful and just to forgive my sins and cast them into the depths of the sea remembering them no more. This I do know; He will lead us all into all Truth to either accept or deny for ourselves before we see Him. Jesus says; “I am the Gate.” Do all paths lead to God? Has there been compromise among the religions of the world? Does not compromise lessen the importance of Jesus when we ought to be elevating Him? It’s not enough to have faith in Jesus. We must have the faith OF Jesus. “Here is the patience of the saints: here are they that keep the commandments of God and the faith of Jesus.” (Revelation 14:12) The Jews wanted to keep the law and nailed Jesus to the cross. “Christians” rely on the merits of Jesus and nail His Law to the cross. The Law was not made to restrict us. It was made to protect us. The Law and the Gospel go together. If we want to choose Jesus as our Savior, we must be prepared to accept Him as our King. A king is a ruler and a ruler has rules. Our King is from everlasting and He does not change. My King has “a people” and His command to me is to come out of Babylon. “Babylon” is apostate religion.

It has been said that my aforementioned profession of faith that nothing changed at the cross, was the most “anti-Christ like” statement ever before read in these forums. Alas! It is being set forth in these forums and from the pulpits of the nations already! All who choose to believe that may want to take another look at what they are being spoon-fed by followers of anti-Christ. I offer no apology for what I’ve spoken here. One day Satan will reveal himself as an angel of light proclaiming to the world that the Sabbath of our Lord is no longer binding and has nothing to do with our salvation. For those who persist in insisting that the Sabbath has been abolished, is no longer in effect, or that we are now living in the eternal Sabbath, I can only pray that you look more deeply into the mirror of your soul to determine that truth, or untruth, for yourselves. Not to mention that it was ever “changed” from Saturday to Sunday. If you ask me (and I know nobody is) that was the boldest slap in the face “Christians” have ever delivered to the Father. How, therefore, can we call ourselves followers of Jesus when it was Jesus Who came here not only defend, but to give His life to uphold the Law of His Father? What a patient God we have! God’s end time message is to be separate. (2 Corinthians 6:17)

Truth hurts doesn’t it? Always has hasn’t it? Just like at creation, salvation begins not by doing something but by resting in the perfect, finished work Jesus accomplished in His life and death here. The Sabbath rest is not our rest; it is God’s. He gives it to us as a gift and we enter into it by faith. “For we which have believed do enter into rest, as he said, as I have sworn in my wrath, IF they shall enter into my rest: although the works were finished from the foundation of the world.” (Hebrews 4:3) That’s a big “if”.

Jesus says; “Come unto me all ye that labor and are heavy laden and I will give you rest”.
That is a rest from our futile efforts to save ourselves of ourselves. We cannot do it without His grace. We are given grace through Christ. It is a gift of God, through His only Son to us, and we are obligated to live in it as it was established from the beginning, from our very first day on earth. When we enter into His rest, we also cease from our own works as God did from His. (Hebrews 4:10)

Just imagine, if you will, for a moment the whole world honoring the 7th day Sabbath of our Lord. Would the world be not only a better place and a happier place but also a holier place? If the whole world would take the day off the “rest” of the Law of the Father would fall into place naturally. That is exactly the way it is going to happen one day. But not today… Jesus has not yet left the temple in Heaven. There is still time to repent and be baptized. There is still time to fall on our knees and give our lives over to the One Who is in control of the worlds. There is still time to “Go and sin no more”. The words I profess today may one day be the cause of my head coming away from my body. Not because of what I have said here today but because of what I will not say in that day. While it is true that man can remove my head from my body, there is nothing that can remove from me the Promise that a crown is laid up for me provided I am faithful and just to the end. I know that I will not live to see the end for I know that I am a sinner and that the wages of sin is death. I do know and believe with all my heart, however, that there will be a crown of righteousness awaiting me in the everlasting Kingdom celebrating the everlasting pure and holy Law of our God forever and ever. In that day my past will matter no more. I will have only eternity ahead of me. In that day the followers of Jesus and the Law of His Father will be equals forever and ever. We will know no more sin and there will be no more division over His holy Law, the Law that has existed always from the beginning of all His creation. The Law, that is indeed Himself. The Law that defines His very nature and is His character. It is His eternal nature and character. It has never been discounted by 10 %.

Just how do we understand the word “grace”? I understand it to mean we are living in a grace period. If not for the grace of God we would all be lost anyway. It is only by the grace of God through faith in Christ that we are saved. Faith without “works” is dead. Just how much “work” do we place in the word “grace”? How much is necessary? I cannot answer that for you and you cannot answer that for me. We can choose to believe that which we will. We cannot “work” our way into Heaven. By the same token, we cannot be saved without the grace of God. If not for God sacrificing His only Son for us we would be lost. Why did He choose to do that? Why did He give up His only Son for our sake when He could just as well have ended it all with the introduction of sin in the world? Were we merely the unfortunate ones on whom the lot fell for the “binding” of Satan to one spot in the universe? Yes! And why? Because we made the choice to disobey the Word and we fell. And man was created in God’s image! He was made perfect and gifted with the power of choice. That choice on the part of man is the reason, the only reason Jesus had to present Himself before the Father as the spotless Lamb without blemish in our behalf. He still, today, presents Himself as the spotless Lamb without blemish before the Father in our behalf. It is His desire that no one be lost. It is by individual choice only that any will be lost. Jesus took on the form of humanity and fallen flesh to come, live among us, and show us that yes it is possible to live a sinless life. We too can overcome and not yield our choices to Satan. Jesus is our High Priest. He is not reigning today nor is He ruling over us. We remain under the rule of the Father. Jesus (the Son) is mediating in our behalf between us, and the Father. The Father is our Judge. What is unfolding in Heaven today is a most solemn ceremony. It is the ceremony of the Day of Atonement. We are the ones being judged. The judgment in Heaven is underway! Today is judgment day. When we see Jesus coming in the clouds, we will see Him as King of Kings and Lord of Lords. In that day the destiny of all will have been decided. This is the whole concept of the sacrificial services in the wilderness for the forty years His people wandered around lost and awaiting the Promise of crossing over Jordan. We are not yet there. We have not yet crossed over Jordan. We are still wandering. We have not yet seen the Promised Land. The day we see the Promised Land is the day our God will hand the scepter to His Son to reign over His Redeemed.

I declare here today that if we, as a world of people, had declared our faith and trust in the holy Law of our God, that we would have by now seen the glory of God face to face. Before that will be possible, we must accept Jesus as our Savior and make the choice to follow in His footsteps. It’s not so much that God is holding out for us, rather, it is more like He is waiting, patiently, for us to come to Him.

We cannot take the Kingdom of God by force. We can take it only through our love for the Father and what Jesus did for us “at the cross”. One day we will take what is rightfully ours through the sacrifice the Son made for us in His death. It is a gift. The gift of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ, our Lord. Just how are any of us deserving of such a fantastic gift? Because He first loved us, correct? If that is so then what must we do in order to receive such a gift? Believe on Him, correct? And just how do we express our belief on Him? By walking in His footsteps, correct? And just how do we do that? By walking in the Law of the Father, which He came to preserve. God is above all. He was above His children as they wandered through the wilderness ages ago and He presided over His Law of His covenant with His people when they conducted their services to Him. “Our Father, Who Art in Heaven”…

So then, one day, Jesus showed up and gave Himself up on a tree (the norm for capital punishment of the day). Just what did that signify? It signified a cessation of the ceremonial laws Israel had abided by until that day. It also signified that the everlasting Law of the Father would stand. His Son, Jesus, had just given His life for it. That much was made clear when the temple veil was rent in twain from top to bottom. His blood was spilled, however, on the ark of the Testament of His Father. That’s an everlasting Law, friends, vital enough to our salvation that the blood of the Lamb fell upon it. I hold to my belief that someday we are yet to see the unearthing of this precious treasure. For those who have hardened their hearts, it will mean nothing. It will be just another exciting find. The holy ten commandment Law of our Father is precisely what separates us from the world, the 4th commandment included in its original version, not amended in any way whatsoever. Nothing changed at the cross. We are saved only by our acceptance in what Jesus did for us when He gave His life for us, and our profession of faith in the Law He died to defend. Jesus is not the Father. But, He is the only Son of the Father. I imagine all Heaven as being very silent and reverent for the 72 hours Jesus rested in the tomb. I cannot imagine any sort of celebration until the Father called Him forth from the grave. In that moment, however, I imagine one of the greatest victory celebrations of all time, one that will only be matched by the celebration when He returns for His redeemed. And who are His redeemed? Those who keep the commandments of God and have the faith OF Jesus and the testimony of His Father are the redeemed. “Here are they which testify of me.” Then Jesus will present us before the Father without spot or wrinkle. Then we, the redeemed, will go on to receive the reward that is promised us in the Kingdom of God. Then and only then will this happen. We are not currently living in the everlasting Kingdom of God for there is nothing everlasting about sin or a sinful nature. Jesus says; “Be careful, lest anyone deceive you.”

The reward is ours. It is already given us. All we must do is lay hold on it and claim it as such. We have already accepted Jesus as our Savior. Now it is left up to us to abide in that Promise of eternal life by walking in His footsteps and living in the eternal Law of His Father. Ask, believe, and claim. It’s as simple as ABC. We claim eternal life by abiding in the original Law of the Father as set down in the beginning from the foundation of the world. God has not changed. God will not ever change. God is supreme. God is in control of the universe. Far be it from me to assume anything about His holy Word has been amended in any way. No man shall convince me otherwise. The woman of Babylon has hidden herself in a garb of “Christianity”.

This subject of the holy 7th day Sabbath of our Lord is vital to our salvation. We must acknowledge and adhere to its importance and revere it as holy to the Lord as we do the remainder of His Law. How is it that only one of the ten has been tossed out? How indeed? And, when I say, “tossed out” I mean to say just that. There is no other explanation suitable for me. Who is man to take one precept of the holy, everlasting Law of God and toss it to the wind? “Oh”, you say, “but we haven’t done that!” Well, somebody has. Who is “somebody” exactly? Jesus? God? He, Who does not change has changed nothing in the six thousand years of the history of this world. He is coming back one day to lay claim to His redeemed. Will you be among that number? “Many are called but few are chosen.” Do we really seek to know God, or do we merely follow the crowd and profess popularly accepted doctrine? When we praise God all the day long yet all the while turning our backs on His commandment, whom are we glorifying?

Some will say, “Well, where is all this written?” To that I would reply, where was Adam’s Hope when he was holding the body of his son? I would also say, for all who seem to need written proof of these things, when Satan reveals himself as an angel of light they will fall on their faces and worship him. Perhaps I should clarify that. I don’t mean to say written proof, for we have that throughout the written Word. What I mean to say is “spelled out”. Jesus did not “spell out” His message to the rulers of the day. He has given us sufficient information on which to base our faith. He kept it simple. Even a child can understand the message of salvation. Thomas was rebuked for his doubt yet praised for his faith. When we become Christian, we must be willing to change.

Adam, who walked and talked in the garden with our Lord daily, understood all there is to know of God and His love for mankind and all His creation. Adam knew the truth and he disobeyed. When we disobey we are no different from Adam. Sin originated in Eve’s mind, when her thoughts turned from God. From there she was lured away into the arms of the deceiver. The same thing happens over and over again in our lives today. The fact that salvation was in place before our first parents were removed from their Eden home cannot be denied. The safeguard was laid before mankind was made. This is the cause for which Abel gave his life. His sacrifice of one of his prize lambs on the altar pointed forth to the death of our Savior. Yes, Cain’s offering was one of the best fruits of the land. That, however, was not according to the commandment. Cain’s offering was not accepted. By the same token, the best of your fruits offered on the first day of the week is not according to the commandment. Nor is the best of your intentions on any other day of the week other than that day set aside by our God in the beginning. It does make a difference. One obeyed. One did not. One gave his life for Jesus. The other was banished. Abel’s obedience cost his life to his brother. Am I my brother’s keeper? The end of time is to be just as the beginning of time. Brother against brother. Abel was a shepherd. So was David. Jesus came from the lineage of David, the shepherd king.

Volumes have been written in an attempt to explain away the holy Sabbath of our Lord. Millions have fallen for it. Those who rise up against the New Jerusalem in the last day to launch their last great defiant attack against God and His saints will be as the sands of the seashore. They will know in their hearts already they are a lost bunch. Nevertheless, they will rise up in rebellion only to go out in a great fireball, along with their chosen leader, and will exist no more forever. It will be a consuming fire, one that burns up the fuel until there is no more fuel to burn. Obedience is the theme of salvation. Commandment keeping is a sign of obedience. They are the Seal of God. “If you love me, keep my commandments”. If you do not, then what does it matter? It matters this: The Seal of God contains His name, His title and domain. This is set forth in the fourth commandment. This is the very reason it is the most contested of the ten by the deceiver. Satan knows better than anyone this is the one Law by which all can come to Jesus. Therefore, he has set forth to discount its relevance to our lives as “Christians” today. Anyone who claims to be a follower of Christ, yet denies the sacredness of the 7th day Sabbath, is not a Christian and there is no truth in him. Now, before you go off on that statement, please understand God does have sheep who, are yet out of His fold. They are following Him to the best of their knowledge. “Other sheep I have, them also I must bring, and there shall be one fold and one shepherd.” God will deal with ignorance. He will not deal with rebellion. As some have said, if we are living up to all the Truth we are given in this life, we will learn the rest in Heaven. Yes, it is absolutely true many may consider themselves Christian. They have been raised in God-fearing families, as were their fathers before them. They have attended church on Sunday faithfully all their lives. They have done and continue to do many good deeds for their fellow man and the less fortunate. Many tithe faithfully. None of that makes them any less a pagan once the Light has been revealed to them and they continue to reject it. I’m certain Cain was a good man also until it came to that one act of disobedience. It was only one act of disobedience that brought about mans downfall in the beginning. It remains the same today. Nothing changed at the cross. We were created subservient to the Creator and we remain obligated to live in His Law. It is a Law of Love. If we really love Him, we will live according to His will for us. It is a Law of freedom. Eternal freedom, that is…The Word Which created all things is that which speaks life to the soul.

All this talk of taking our eternal Sabbath rest in Him is sweet. It really is. But, by holding in contempt His day set aside for us in the beginning, we deny and defy Him. The Sabbath day was a part of creation week. Just because everybody else is ignoring it, doesn’t make it right to do so. Why not just a six day week? Salvation is not only about the death of Jesus on the cross. It is about Him giving His life in defense of the everlasting Law of the Father. When we throw ourselves at the foot of the cross, we commit ourselves to walking in the Light of the Father. He came here to redeem us from our sin, our original sin. What gives us the right to persist in it? Had there not been original sin there would have been no need for a Savior. We would continue to enjoy the company of the Son of God on our daily walk with Him in the cool of the evening. That is exactly what I look forward to in eternity from one Sabbath to another. Not just an eternal Sabbath but, from one Sabbath to another. Not merely an eternal Sabbath but an eternity of Sabbaths. Jesus is coming soon and will set up an eternal Kingdom but that time is not yet. The whole world is yet to wonder after the beast. The beast hates Truth.

When we receive the gift of His righteousness we receive the gift of His rest. This is the blessing of the Sabbath. It is a memorial to the work of creation. Remember?

So then I must ask why did Jesus give Himself up for us? Why did He give up immortality to take on our sin and become one of us? Why did He do that? Why? Why was it necessary? I believe it is because we broke the Law of the Father in the beginning. So, why then would the Son of God have to give His life if not in order to redeem us from transgression of the Law and restore it to its fullness? Do you really believe Jesus died so we would no longer have to keep the Law? “Go and sin no more”. There is no other name under heaven given amongst men whereby we may be saved but the name of Jesus. My Jesus has never forced me to do anything. He is the most fantastic being in the universe. Love is the character of God and love is the only thing that will conquer sin. Love comes from the freedom of choice. If Jesus Christ is not the Victor we may as well be dust. I’ve read the end of the story and I know Jesus wins in the end. Who are we to exalt ourselves above the Son of God by taking it upon ourselves to set up a false Sabbath? There is only one Sabbath and it does make a difference. My God died for me. We are right at the end of time. “Come out of her my people”. The Truth has set us free. What a privilege it is for us to have a daily walk with Him. His Law must be restored.

God can set so many of our selfish rituals straight. God found rest in man and man can find rest in God in spite of all that is going on around us. “Moreover also I gave them my Sabbaths to be a sign between me and them that they may know that I am the Lord that sanctify them.” Is it possible that somebody else could be our god? God has a mark and that mark is the Sabbath. The beast also has a mark and it is not a computer in Brussels. God is interested only in our character and our allegiance. Who has authority in your life? I am a child of God and I must live by His rules that I may know that He is the Lord that sanctifies me. “Therefore you shall lay up these words in your hearts and in your souls, and bind them for a sign upon your hand, so that they may be as frontlets between your eyes.” The commandments must be placed in my hand AND in my forehead. I must act and think accordingly. It has nothing to do with a bar code on a can of beans not to mention a “chip”. “O that there were such an heart in them that they would fear me and keep ALL my commandments always, that it might be well with them, and with their children for ever!” (Deut. 5:29) Does He say just nine of them or all of them? So then, why do so many “Christians” keep Sunday? So called because this day was anciently dedicated to the sun or its worship? That’s what it is. It’s the day of the sun and the first day of the week. Not the 7th day of the week. The beast causes all to receive a mark in their right hand OR in their forehead. God’s mark is to be in the right hand AND in the forehead. God is not satisfied with halfway service. It must be all or nothing. (“I would rather you were hot or cold”…) You cannot attack the authority of God on the strength of any other commandment except the Sabbath. You can only attack the authority of God on the strength of the Sabbath because that is what determines the authority. “And the dragon gave him his seat and power and great authority”.

Jesus never nailed the Sabbath to the cross. The weekly Sabbath was instituted in Eden and points back to creation. It existed before sin. It reminds us of where we come from. The new covenant is taking the Law of God and putting it into the heart, into the mind, onto the hand, into the forehead. Blessed are they that DO His commandments. Obedience is going to be a test just as it was in the beginning. Nobody now has the mark of the beast. But when that law comes, then will the decision be made. There is a system on this earth that lays claim to the fact that it stands above God, that it is higher than God and that it has authority in your life over and above God and very soon this test will come to a point where this authority will be tested and our allegiance will be on the line. We will be asked to choose one or the other. The Sabbath stands for all the Law because the authority of the Law is based on the seal. The Sabbath is merely the authentication of the whole Law. We must develop Christ like characters. By having the right relationship with God, we will also keep His Law. There is no such thing as a “Jewish Sabbath”. The Sabbath was instituted in Eden, long before there was ever a Jew. The Sabbath given to us in Eden is the same Sabbath we have today for all God’s people. My God is no respecter of persons. He commands my obedience. He doesn’t just desire it He expects it. The result of our original sin is enough to say that goes without saying…

In the beginning God created… Each day had a specific purpose that was accomplished in it. And, on the 7th day He rested from that which He had made and MADE the 7th day holy. He made it for you and He made it for me. He did not make us for it. He made it to last forever. I believe it will. I’m staking my soul’s salvation on it. If it was good enough for the children of Israel, it’s good enough for me. I believe we are a part of true Israel today. The choice remains ours to either accept or reject His holy Law. This is my testimony and I’m standing by it. I’d much rather have you angry with me today than to have you curse me tomorrow with the words; “Johnny, you knew all these things way back when and you did not tell us”! God bless us all in these end times. May God give us each the strength, the faith, the courage, and the trust in Him and His Word to bear witness to Him in the hard times ahead. God bless you all. I love you.

Johnny C

P.S. It’s all to the glory of God. He made His wonderful Law to be remembered and observed. “How readest thou?” “What saith the Scripture?”

If I may leave you with a few quotes:

“Let no man deceive you by any means: for that day shall not come, except there come a falling away first, and that man of sin be revealed, the son of perdition; Who opposeth and exalteth himself above all that is called God…” (2 Thessalonians 2:3,4)

“Sunday is our mark of authority… The Church is above the bible, and this transference of Sabbath observance is proof of that fact.” (Catholic Record Sept.1, 1923)

“She took the pagan Sunday and made it the Christian Sunday…and thus the pagan Sunday, dedicated to Balder (Baal) became the Christian Sunday sacred to Jesus.” (Catholic World, March 1984, p.809).

“Of course the Catholic Church claims that the change was her act, and the act is a MARK of her ecclesiastical power.” Faith of our Fathers (Cardinal Gibbons)

“The Bible says remember that thou keep holy the Sabbath day. The Catholic Church says No! By my divine power I abolish the Sabbath day and command you to keep holy the first day of the week. And lo the entire civilized world bows down in reverent obedience to the command of the holy Catholic Church.” (Father Enright American Sentinal June 1893.)

“And the dragon gave him his seat and power and great authority”… Could this be another god on earth who sets up himself in the temple of God claiming to be God?

Pope Pius, 1566, commanded by council of Trent. “It pleased the church of God that the religious celebration of the Sabbath day should be transferred to the Lord’s Day (Sunday).” Chatechismus Romanus, 1867, Chap. 3.

“Sunday is a Catholic institution and its claims to observance can be defended only on Catholic principles… From the beginning to the end of Scripture there is not a single passage which warrants the transfer of weekly public worship from the last day of the week to the first.” Catholic Press (Sydney) August 25 1900.

“You may read the Bible from Genesis to Revelation, and you will not find a single line
authorizing the sanctification of Sunday. The scriptures enforce the religious observance of Saturday.” James Cardinal Gibbons, The Faith of our Fathers, p. 89.

“The Christian Sabbath is therefore to this day the acknowledged offspring of the Catholic Church, as spouse of the Holy Ghost, without a word of remonstrance from the protestant world.” (The Catholic Mirror, Sept.23, 1893)

“If Protestants would follow the Bible, they should worship God on the Sabbath Day. In keeping the Sunday they are following a law of the Catholic Church.” Albert Smith, Chancellor of the Archdiocese of Baltimore, replying for the Cardinal in a letter dated February 10, 1920.

“Protestantism, in discarding the authority of the Roman (Catholic) Church, has no good reasons for its Sunday theory, and ought logically to keep Saturday as the Sabbath.” John Shea in the American Catholic Quaterly Review. January 1883.

“Not the Creator of the Universe, in Genesis 2:1-3, but the Catholic Church can claim the honor of granting man a pause to his work every seven days.” S.C. Mosna. ‘Storia della Domenica’, 1969, pp. 366-367.

“Reason and common sense demand the acceptance of one or the other of these alternatives: either Protestantism and the keeping holy of Saturday, or Catholicity and the keeping holy of Sunday. Compromise is impossible.” The Catholic Mirror, December 23, 1893.

“Other churches are no sisters of ours, the Vatican insists.” September 5, 2000.

“It must be always clear that the one, holy, catholic and apostolic universal church is not the sister, but the mother of all the churches.” Cardinal Ratzinger. 9/4/2000.

Ratzinger?

“Most Christians assume that Sunday is the biblically approved day of worship. The Roman Catholic Church protests that it transferred Christian worship from the biblical Sabbath (Saturday) to Sunday, and that to try to argue that the change was made in the Bible, is both dishonest and a denial of Catholic authority. If Protestantism wants to base its teachings only on the Bible, it should worship on Saturday.” (Immaculateheart.com December 2003)

Here lies Rome’s challenge to “Christians”. They are arrogant about it and are throwing down the gauntlet. They prove, from the Bible, that the 7th day Sabbath is the day of the Lord so they can claim that they changed it.

“But the Protestant says: How can I receive the teachings of an apostate Church? How, we ask, have you managed to receive her teachings all your life, in direct opposition to your recognized teacher, the Bible, on the Sabbath question.” (The Christian Sabbath, 2nd Ed.; Baltimore; The Catholic Mirror, 1893 p. 29,30).

Editor’s Note; “…It was upon this very point that the Reformation was condemned by the Council of Trent…”

The whole Reformation failed at the Council of Trent because of the Sabbath issue!

It is also interesting to note that in Egypt when a law was made and implemented to prevent God’s people from keeping the Sabbath, the plagues came. We have the promise, however, they will not come nigh the dwelling of those whom He has sealed.

May the Holy Spirit of God move upon our souls as we continue to study His Word is my prayer today. JESUS SAVES! Follow Him and seek to obey the commandments of the Father. Those are His terms. “To the Law AND to the Testimony.” (Isaiah 8:20) We must prayerfully ask ourselves; are we “Christian” or are we pagan? “These are they which testify of me”. We are indeed free. Free to do as we so choose.