Transcription of 
Sabbath Day Sermon 179
Given by 
Lawrence A  Nowell
On October 13, 2012

1.)	This is The Obedient Church of God broadcasting Worldwide on the Internet.

2.)	“I can tell by your eyes that you’ve probably been crying forever,” Yes Father has been crying for 6,000 years because of your disobedience.

3.)	“The stars in the sky don’t mean nothing to you, they’re a mirror;” Genesis 1:14 means nothing to the Christians. 

4.)	“I don’t want to preach about it, how you broke God’s heart; but if I stay here just a little bit longer, if I stay, won’t you listen to God’s heart, God’s heart?”

5.)	“If I stand all alone,” Yes, The Obedient Church of God is standing all alone among all the other disobedient churches that move God’s Sabbath Day to Friday in half the world, and they can’t deny it, or else they are liars. 

6.)	We are the only congregation in the world including the Jewish congregation, we are the only ones who observe the Sabbath Day properly on the face of the earth.

7.)	“I don’t want to preach about it, how you broke God’s heart, but if I preach to you a little bit longer, if I preach won’t you listen to God’s heart, God’s heart, God’s heart, God’s heart?”  Won’t you listen to God’s heart?

8.)	 Bonjour Paree, France,sez six hours après midi le houre du dinier en France, six P.M. suppertime in Paris; nine A.M. on the West Coast: Los Angeles, Seattle; twelve noon on the East Coast: New York City, Washington D. C. Supper time, breakfast time, lunch time, the perfect time for your spiritual feeding to show you how you broke God’s heart. 

9.)	“How you broke God’s heart, if I preach to you a little bit longer, if I stay here won’t you listen to God’s heart, God’s heart?”

10.)	Yes indeed, won’t you listen, won’t you listen to Genesis 1:14, the first book in the Bible: Lights will mark days, “lights will mark days”-- not averaging calendars, not phony International Date Lines that move God’s Sabbath Saturday to Friday in half of the world. 

11.)	   We are the only congregation in the whole world that is keeping the Sabbath on the seventh-day throughout the world because our brethren in Pakistan, 200 plus of them, are waiting for tomorrow, are waiting for the sun to set before they keep the Sabbath. 

12.)	You can’t use the phony1883 Date Line, or else you are causing your members to sin by working on the Sabbath: that’s the great sign between you and God, that you have the mark of God on you, which is the Sabbath Day.

13.)	Well welcome to another fantastic broadcast of The Obedient Church of God; today is the thirteen of October [2012] after the holy day season. We are going to try to enforce you with some actual scriptural readings so you can get your civil year started on the right foot.

14.)	If there is time we are going to tell you more about prehistoric man, yes, “yes,” prehistoric man going way back 50,000 years. I don’t know any other minister who knows there was prehistoric man, and then there were Homo sapiens, which are Adam-type men; that God created Adam in the image of God.  But before that there was homo-erectus for 50,000 years. 

15.)	We’ll try to educate you so you don’t sound foolish when you speak to other people in other denominations or in scientific fields.

16.)	And we might even tell you about some of the Illuminati member methods; and we might tell you that the pyramid is a giant electrical generator, and we might tell you about the election. We might even tell you how Obama puts the hex sign on his audience; and I do not want to do this, but this is for illustration only.

17.)	I’ll tell you that when Obama went out in front of all his audience last week, and remember I told you I am always looking for the occult signs; President Obama put his two hands together like this and raised them in front of him and swept the whole room with that. That is the Illuminati sign.

18.)	Remember I told you I caught Obama on Letterman giving his satanic handshake with David Letterman, and it is not a normal handshake; it is a handshake that sometimes has one thumb over the knuckle of the other hand; aw, you don’t know what is going on in the world, you don’t know how this world runs. 

19.)	Only The Obedient Church of God does; and we are telling you; but the disobedient brat ministers, the “Billy goats,” won’t even follow the seventh-day commandment, and they call themselves Churches of God. Well, we have   better get started here.

20.)	“Behold the Day Will Come” is your last chance to sing this magnificent hymn in praise of your Father with Yeshua at his right hand side because the new moon is coming up; it could be a new moon on the 16th or the 17th depending on the sighting.

21.)	 The black of the moon is on the 15th, which is an excellent day to start a war in the Middle East because they can’t see the planes, they can’t see the troop movements, and they can’t do anything because it is black on the 15th.

22.)	 But what do you know? You don’t know what is going on in the world. You don’t know anything; and you won’t listen to The Obedient Church of God. You will just dish The Obedient Church of God; you will mock The Obedient Church of God when you know nothing, less than nothing. You can’t even get Genesis 1:14 right and stop moving the Sabbath Day to Friday from the seventh-day where it should be. 

23.)	The fourteen day is Sunday. That is when our Pakistani brethren will be having services, but why on Sunday? Because that in the seventh-day in Pakistan. But again we’ll have some ministers saying Oh, you are going to worship on Sunday, why on Sunday? You fools, “dumbkoffs:” you have to wait until the sun sets; it is the seventh-day, not Sunday. That’s called Sunday, but that’s the nomenclature of the present civilization.

24.)	  Enough! You can see we have as usual more information to give you in the announcements. But first we have prayer in the Throne Room, which none of the Churches of God have the brains to do before you present your sacrifice to Father you introduce yourself and you open in prayer. You don’t sing your songs first and then have the prayer.

25.)	 Face the north heavens, raise your arms outstretched, head bowed and eyes closed. 

26.)	“Almighty, most-merciful, loving Father praise, glory,  power and dominion and rulership to Yeshua and yourself as you reign throughout the Universe. 

27.)	“We thank you for your Sabbath-day, we thank you for the continued beautiful weather here on the hill, we thank you for your beautiful leaves and all their colors.

28.)	“Thank you for all your squirrels that are shaking down and grabbing all your acorns, Father, for the winter; they’ve been working hard. It must be going to be a cold winter by the number of acorns they’ve been gathering.

29.)	“Protect your people; protect The Obedient Church of God. Help us to get through this winter and help us, indeed, get through the Tribulation, which should be coming in 2013, the start of the seven years. 

30.)	“Well, Father, we ask your inspiration on this service. 

31.)	“We also ask your protection on the brethren in Pakistan, a very dangerous area where eight of them got murdered four years ago when a 1000-person mob attacked them as Christians. So we remember them always in the opening prayer, Father. We ask your protection, your hand on them.

32.)	   “Put your hand on this service, to guide this service, to inspire the speaking and the topics. We have so many folders left over from the feast; help us with the one that are salient that you want us to speak on.

33.)	“Inspire the hearing of the people; inspire the listening on the tapes when most people listen. Help us to get everything in order so that we can be continuing your work in spite of all the problems going on and the machinations of Satan going on against us at this time regarding government authorities.

34.)	“So, Father, we ask this all in Yeshua’s holy name and we give you all praise and glory through Yeshua ha Mashiach, our soon arriving King, who will lead all of the world into your commands. Selah. Amen.” 

35.)	Yes, Yeshua will lead the world into the same commands that The Obedient Church of God is leading you into, starting with the Sabbath Day after the sun sets [after sixth-day] in the whole world. 

36.)	Now in praise “Behold the Day Will Come;” you’ll want to sing out. This is your last chance to sing these particular hymns; it is page 120, and page 119 in other hymnals.
Yes, we have the original copy of the 1934 hymnal with the words that are more powerful before the words were “watered-down.” Here is for camera one to see the beautiful fuchsia color for people on the audio opermodum  

37.)	“Behold the Day Will Come”: your sacrifice to the Lord, the fruit of your lips. You better sing out unless you want to embarrass yourself before God who will ask why didn’t you sing praises to me. 

38.)	This is a worship service only. This isn’t a Bible Study. This is an actual worship service that will be played in Pakistan and other countries tomorrow after the sun sets. So sing out “Behold the Day Will Come” in honor of Yeshua ha Mashiach, out great king.

39.)	What a magnificent hymn that is. He is King over all the earth; it couldn’t get any better than that as we stand here and sing praise to Father. 

40.)	Now turn to page 121, page 78 in other hymnals, “He Shall Reign Forevermore” and this speaks about Yeshua and this speaks about us and how we are struggling on in this evil, evil world as we groan for the return of Yeshua and as the whole creation groans for the return of Yeshua. Sing out “He Shall Reign Forevermore.”

41.)	Yes indeed He shall reign forevermore just like in the first hymn of praise to Yeshua. Now turn to page to number 61, page number 96 in other hymnals, “Unless the Lord Shall Build the House.”

42.)	And if you are going to be a disobedient brat and sing this song, you are in big trouble with God because that means you are two- faced, by not letting Father build the house; and you are building it with a phony International Date Line and a phony averaging calendar. 

43.)	You call yourself the Living Church of God but you are dead; the same with United, Philadelphia Church of God, and Triumph Prophetic Ministry who move the Sabbath to Friday in half the world. 

44.)	“Unless the Lord Shall build the House”—we only sing two verses because that keeps it right on track with the two verses: that’s why the original hymnal was so much more powerful, powerful than the newer version. So “Unless the Lord Shall Build the House;” here’s your chance to praise Father.

45.)	Amen to that. When I was a band leader we tried to get the audience to participate but if they didn’t sing loud enough or speak back loud enough, we’d make them do it again. So there is a lesson here, we are going to sing the hymn again to make up for the third verse. So all together, “Unless the Lord Shall Build the House,” but this time louder and with more power.

46.)	Amen to that. You sang out the words “Unless the Lord Shall Build the House” and you sang it over twice. Hope it fits in; hope it sinks in; hope it penetrates into your psyche that is following God’s Words that are in the Bible and that is part of the sermon today. 

47.)	The only thing is that you follow; it is very important for you to sing out and do it well and get it right. It reminds me of an opera singer who was singing an encore and he was singing a difficult piece. After the fifth encore he came back a sixth time on the stage and said thank you, thank you, thank you, I’ll sing it again. 

48.)	Then a voice in the back of the room pipes up, Yeah, you’ll keep singing until you get it right. We want to tell you that in jest because we don’t like to make it too heavy. We always put in a little humor here and there, sprinkle it with salt and sprinkle it with humor. 

49.)	Unless the Lord shall build the house; until you get it right, you can keep singing it. All right. Hang in there. We are all one team; I want you to be successful. The only way that can happen is if you follow every jot and title of the Bible and not start moving God’s Holy Days around. Therefore, you shall flourish.

50.)	What happens to the disobedient? What does Deuteronomy 8:20 say? That you all will be in the Kingdom and it will all just be wonderful as long as your heart is right? “as long as your heart is right?” As long as you are trying to do your best, everything will work out just fine. 

51.)	Go to Deuteronomy 8 and see what verse 20 says. “You shall perish because you would not be obedient.” And if you ministers think you are going to say you shall not perish while you are moving the Sabbath Day to the sixth-day in half of the world, you are liars, “liars, liars.” You will perish!

52.)	Because it says “you shall perish because you would not be obedient.” Your time is running out and you could die at any second. Any of us could die at any second but some of you older ministers could “kick the bucket” at any second. They better repent before they perish.

53.)	Meredith is in frail health; he was in frail health after his heart attack last year, so he had better follow Deuteronomy 8, verse 20 and follow the truths of The Obedient Church of God. While you are right there remember we just showed you last week that you are supposed to give the blessing after you have eaten the meal, Deuteronomy 8:10.

54.)	“When you have eaten and are full, then you shall bless the Lord your God for the good land which He has given you.” (for the good food of the land when you have eaten, after, not before.) If you want to give a blessing before, then you are being disobedient. God did not say to give a blessing before, but to give a blessing afterward.    

55.)	If you want to be disobedient, then be disobedient to your own detriment then. Why don’t you say a blessing a day before, or two days before. Why don’t you say three or four blessings? What does the Bible say? [Give a blessing] after you have eaten when you are full bless the Lord, thank the Lord.

56.)	It doesn’t say before. It doesn’t say two times. It doesn’t say five times.  So if you are at a dinner what is going to happen? If I invite you over here to the hill, what are you going to do? Are you going to say a blessing before when everyone else is eating? Get it right. Everyone is of the same mind according to the Bible. You are not going to be allowed to give a blessing before the meal while everyone else is eating. You are going to do it the way the Bible says, whether you like it or not.

57.)	I John 2:5, “Whoever keeps His Word, the love of God is perfected in him, whereby we know that we are in Him.” “He who says he abides in Him ought to walk himself just as He walked (exactly).”

58.)	If you come over here to the holy hill and you give a blessing when the rest of us are eating, that isn’t going to look very good on God’s record because of your breaking Deuteronomy 8:10 by your willful disobedience. Remember what happened to the guy who touched the Ark when it was falling; he was struck dead because everyone was told not to touch the Ark.

59.)	How are we going to perfect the saints? Do you have a pure thought? Do you have a fear of Deuteronomy 8:10 where it says you shall bless after you are full? You say no, I’m going to bless before I’m full. I’m going to do the exact opposite just like the Devil that does the exact opposite. I’m going to bless before I’m full. Give your head a shake.

60.)	He who says I know Him and doesn’t keep the commandments, is a liar. I John 2:4. We in The Obedient Church of God are not going to have 4,000 different people all doing different things in The Obedient Church of God; they are all going to be doing the same thing according to the Bible. The same way that I do, the same way that Jesus did, the same way Paul did. There are not going to be any “loose cannons rolling around the deck”—[people] doing things their way.

61.)	So you want to be found with no deceit, Revelation 14:5 and in your mouth when you give the blessing there is no deceit for they are without fault. So in your mouth, that’s when you are giving the blessing, by your mouth there will be found no deceit. You say you are going to give the blessing before the meal starts. Well, that is deceitful.

62.)	You want to give the blessing after the meal is over or after you are full, whether you think so or not. We are not going to have a whole bunch of members giving a blessing before the meal and another bunch of members giving the blessing after the meal, and another bunch of members giving the blessing before and after the meal.

63.)	It is all going to be done one way united.

64.)	Now we The Obedient Church of God do this out of love to God. Those who go into captivity are those don’t follow the Bible. It’s very simple. And these apply to the weightier matters of the law with love and the rest of it. 

65.)	We’ve got part of the sermon here on forgiving our enemies, which is a tough one; that is a real tough one. We’ll see if there is time for that. 

66.)	Now The Obedient Church of God has over 20 rediscovered truths; Armstrong only had 18. One of our rediscovered truths is you should give the blessing after the meal, but that you must celebrate New Moon Day because Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, David, and indeed Paul, and Jesus—Yeshua—did.

67.)	 The gates of the temple were open on New Moon Day coming up on the 16th or the 17th this week, either on Tuesday or Wednesday. And that is when the gates will be open, so obviously you attend services, and there shall be no work on New Moon Day. If you have any workers you tell them sorry, you can’t come in, “you can’t come in,” because you can’t do any work on New Moon Day; you can’t work in my house on New Moon Day. 

68.)	I worked for one minister and of all days on Passover, the First Day of Unleavened Bread; it was the Sabbath Day on Saturday, and he has the workers coming in working on the apartment underneath the floor of the service. 

69.)	There was all this banging and hammering going on so I said what is going on, this is the Sabbath. The minister said, oh, it was the only time the worker had available. I said, that doesn’t matter; make him stop. Unbelievable. Now that was a minister. 

70.)	Now if you come into The Obedient Church of God so that someone has some common sense, then someone has to do the work of straightening out this mess on planet earth and getting all of the Churches of God in line. We have to stop the Churches of God from participating in Mother-goddess Day, which is a spring festival of mortal gods; and not to partake in Sky Father’s Day, leading up to the longest day of the year; just like Christmas is the shortest day of the year. 

71.)	We are not to partake in Turkey-god Day, which was the goose that gave its life for its young, and [the Cosmic Goose] that laid the egg that Ra-Osiris sprang from. The turkey is even pardoned by the President of the United States on Harvest Home Festival when people put the kern babies on the pews of the churches.

72.)	When all day long it is on radio: Harvest Home. Look up Harvest Home in the encyclopedia; it goes back 4,000 years. You can’t celebrate to God on Hitler’s birthday; that is an abomination, whether you say so or not. And it is Harvest Home Festival coming up in November so get it through your head you are not to use that day in honor of God.    

73.)	This is just a side bar on using the devil’s days; you’ve got so many Churches of God that are meeting in devil’s halls, in Masonic Halls where people worship the Devil in their Masonic Halls. And you want to worship God from a Devil’s church? Give your head a shake.

74.)	Now I told one of the ministers that years ago that you can’t be meeting in Masonic Halls; he said, oh, God protects us. That’s not the point. The point is doing honor to your Father. You are supposed to do your best and use the best hall that you can afford, not a Devil’s hall. 

75.)	If you can’t afford a hall, then meet in homes like the Christians did before and put the broadcast on the Internet. And in each home you have a worship service, just like we are having a worship service right now across the world. You don’t meet in devil’s halls. What’s the matter with you ministers?

76.)	Can you imagine meeting in Hitler’s Headquarters and praising God? Going into Hitler’s Headquarters and praising God? You are going into the devil’s headquarters when all in North America you meet in Masonic Halls, especially in Eugene, Oregon they meet in a Masonic Hall.

77.)	Herbert Armstrong was never converted; he had 18 points, but he was raping his daughter for ten years. You can’t be converted and be raping your daughter for ten years.

78.)	That’s impossible. And he never denied it, “he never denied it.” He said in answer in the court room when cornered he said, “Sometimes I wasn’t as close to God as I should be.” Now if you were accused of raping your daughter for ten years, you would say; I know I would say I never did any such thing, you liars. I’m going to sue you and take you to court. 

79.)	Well, Armstrong’s organization lost the case in court against Robinson’s book “The Tangled Web.” You can’t be raping your daughter for ten years and say that you are converted. It doesn’t happen.

80.)	Armstrong was used like Cyrus; Cyrus was unconverted and was used by God. Cyrus laid the foundation of the Temple [in Jerusalem], but Cyrus never completed the Temple. Armstrong laid the foundation of the Temple, but Armstrong never completed the Temple because Revelation says that you have to be spotless, “spotless” to appear before God.

81.)	It says clearly in Revelation 21:27, “Nothing enters that causes a lie.” Armstrong celebrated the Sabbath in half the world on Friday. Armstrong moved all the Holy Days one day early, two days late; two days early, one day late by using a phony Hillel II calendar and he was causing lies. 

82.)	Nothing enters that causes lies, and this goes against the members too. Revelation 22:15 says, “Outside are those who practice a lie, ‘who practice a lie.’ ” Is that clear enough? If you practice a lie you won’t be in the Kingdom. 

83.)	Armstrong will have to be in the second resurrection to teach him to stop raping his daughter, because after his daughter was grown up he said to his daughter, as reported by witnesses that he said to Dorothy, we can continue our special relationship, even though she was married.  

84.)	Dorothy’s husband came into Armstrong’s office with a gun; Dorothy’s husband was going to kill Armstrong. Pretty serious. That’s a fact. In order to pacify the matter, Armstrong was a talker and gave Dorothy’s husband a job. Armstrong also bought Dorothy’s house for her and paid for it with church funds in order to shut her up or else she would lose the house.

85.)	That is the kind of man we are dealing with. Whether you like it or not, those are the facts, “those are the facts.” 

86.)	So we The Obedient Church of God are now putting everything into order. No Mother-goddess Day, no Sky Father’s Day, no Turkey-god Day, no moving the Sabbath in half of the world to Friday, no averaging God’s Holy Days, no hiring and putting people to work in a restaurant on the Sabbath Day. They should tell the people in the restaurants to get out of the restaurant and come to services.

87.)	We are telling you Deuteronomy 16:16 there are three time a year you should appear before God; you had better get ready to come down here on the Feast of Unleavened Bread because if you read Deuteronomy 16:16, it says three times a year.

88.)	And there are only three offerings a year, not seven. If you want to have seven offerings, well, you are a liar; you are breaking God’s law. And if you want to twist it around by trying to say in the presence of God you shouldn’t appear empty-handed, well then flee because you shouldn’t be giving an offering to God, because you are in the presence of God. Give your head a shake.

89.)	Only The Obedient Church of God has got the brains to sort this all out, and the “proof is in the pudding.” And I’ve give you the correct third tithe years in a seven year period; it is not from your baptism. The third tithe year is the third year after the year of release; you don’t pay third tithe the first year; you don’t pay third tithe the second year; you pay it the third year after the year of release.

90.)	You wait two more years until the sixth year, and then you have the year of release, the seventh year. And then you have the third tithe year two years after the year of release. That means there are three years between tithes and two years between tithes.  

91.)	We’ve told you that the Last Dinner [of Jesus Christ] was not the Passover of God, and we The Obedient Church of God have the foot washing three times a year: one on the first night of the Feast of Unleavened Bread; one at the first night of Pentecost; and one at the first night at the Feast of Tabernacles.

92.)	I always wondered why it seemed so empty on the first night of Tabernacles. The answer is that is when you are supposed to be doing the foot washing. That’s when you are supposed to be taking the elements because that is when you are together three times a year. This is another truth from The Obedient Church of God for you.

93.)	The Passover bread and wine is supposed to be taken standing up, Exodus 12:11, and it is taken in haste; it is not taken in a leisurely meal. The leisurely meal was the Kiddush that describes Yeshua’s dinner, not His Passover. 

94.)	And there are Jewish postponements where you can postpone God’s true holy days; and you don’t celebrate Pentecost on a Sunday or a Monday—it is Sivan 5, 6, or 7 just like Armstrong did from 1934 to 1937 before Armstrong “fell off the rails.”

95.)	And you count seven weeks [after the Feast of Unleavened Bread Holy Day] to Pentecost and not seven Sabbaths. It is the Feast of Weeks [49 days], not Seven Sabbaths 

96.)	And we have shown your there are two groups of 144,000 clearly; and the first groups comprises a mixed-multitude of Israelites and Gentiles, such as Rahab the harlot. That is from the time of Adam to the Seventh Trumpet when Yeshua arrives. 

97.)	So therefore there are a lot of people who have died since the time of Adam and they are going into the Kingdom, all of the Patriarchs, and you are going to be raised with them when they are raised up out of the earth. 

98.)	If you divide 6,000 years into 144,000, you get 24 people a year; that’s not very many. So the place of safety which is different from the people who are raised in the first resurrection, go to a place of safety. You might only have 24 people or a hundred people; or 4 times 24 which is 96 people.   

99.)	The second group [of 144,000 is 12,000 of each] of the 12 tribes of Israelites; they go through the tribulation; they wash their robes in the tribulation. All the Jews wash their robes in the tribulation [they are only one tribe of the Israelites]. 

100.)	Watch out for the Jews. You think the Jews are such a wonderful people; I’ve seen where some of the Jews have said that if Christ comes back, we will kill him again, “we will kill him again.” We want the true God; we don’t want Yeshua. So if He comes back, we’ll kill Him again. 

101.)	Stick with The Obedient Church of God who knows what is going on here. Remember I told you that you are not supposed to let any minister beat you over the head with keeping the elements on Passover, because it is the manner in which you take the elements, not the manner of you being worthy.

102.)	It is the manner in which you take the elements, not the manner of you being worthy, or else no one including myself would be worthy to take the Passover because I’m not worthy. 
103.)	Don’t let any minister beat you over the head with I Corinthians 11:27 where it tells the manner in which you are taking the elements. The word “unworthily” is not a  noun but an adverb, and therefore “unworthily” does not describe the person. 
104.)	 “Unworthily” describes the way the person is taking the elements: whether his mind is on Yeshua’s blood, or if his mind is on the taste of the wine as he is imbibing it, or if his mind is on how dry his matza bread is; then he is taking it unworthily. It is the manner of partaking.

105.)	We here at The Obedient Church of God want to tell you that there has to be two witnesses sighting the new moon and there isn’t any “potential visibility,” and that you must celebrate New Moon Day, Ezekiel 46:3. 

106.)	And the Jews don’t have the right to change God’s laws; they are just the clerks of the existing laws. 

107.)	We have told you that if you are using an averaging calendar, you are working on God’s holy days. 

108.)	We are up to 34 points, but Armstrong had only 20 points, “only 20 points.” 

109.)	Let me tell you other things that are interesting, that are necessary for your understanding such as, the two witnesses are the two bears that will tear the world apart for mocking God’s way of life, just as the two bears tore apart the 42 youths for mocking [Elisha and] God’s way of life.

110.)	We’ve told you that the Khazars were the Jews were of the synagogue of Satan who were grafted in to the tribe of Judah who are the Jews who are not converted. That is who is really running Israel. Watch out because they are going to chop- up Jerusalem. 

111.)	Another “tid bit” here: Armstrong didn’t help the weak sheep of the congregation; Armstrong threw out the weak sheep of the congregation. 

112.)	I want to say that as long as you are learning, as long as you are trying to apply these things, you are not going to be thrown out of The Obedient Church of God. But if you blatantly disobey, you’ll be suspended. It is that simple. 

113.)	And I don’t like firing people or suspending people, and I’ve had to do it in business. And sometimes people had the comment that they would never go to lunch with me because I would buy them a dinner and I’d fire them at the dinner. And I’d say okay, you get the afternoon off; just pack up your desk. 

114.)	The point of all this is The Obedient Church of God knows how to manage, it knows how to manage the disobedient ministers; we know how to use this sharp two-edged sword that is behind me, which is the Word of God that is sharper than a two-edged sword. It is going to cut all of the Churches of God to pieces because of their disobedience. It is not our fault. It is their fault for being disobedient.

115.)	If they want to have Turkey-god Day, they are going to be cut up continually and they are going to look like fools in front of their membership for celebrating a pagan day.

116.)	We have shown you that the Living Church of God is the fulfillment of Revelation in John’s letter to the Church of Sardis. It says that you have a name that you are alive, a name the “Living Church of God,” but you are dead, “dead, dead.” Why? God found you depicted in the Sardis Church.

117.)	 You Living Church of God move the Sabbath to Friday in half the world. You don’t wait for the sun to set, and you refuse to change; you are dead. God says He has not found your deeds completed in the sight of my God, John said in Revelation 3, which was inspired by Yeshua writing Revelation. John was just repeating the inspiration. 

118.)	   The Living Church of God refuses to repent of their sins like truths that I’ve numbered off, over twenty. They are missing the mark, “they are missing the mark.”
They are missing the mark and they won’t be in the Kingdom. Sad! “Sad!” But what can we do? “What can we do?”
  
119.)	We can only keep on preaching the truth. We’ve got the restored doctrines of God. Armstrong only had eighteen. We’ve got over thirty, and 130 when you go into our other understandings that none of the other churches have. Well, it is the understandings of the world.

120.)	A man shouldn’t wear a prayer shawl because a man speaks to God face to face. 

121.)	And we have the understanding that you have to get right with God and keep growing and [a person] can’t wait for the Ten Days of Awe to repent in, which one minister preaches and it is a lie because you are raised from the dead on Trumpets. By the time of At-one-ment after the Ten Days of Awe, it is too late.

122.)	We are the ones who have the total understanding of the world. God, willing, He gives us more and more understanding of the world, such as I watched Obama on one of His campaigns. Obama is coming on stage for the opening and in front of his audience he goes like this with his hands and sweeps the room. 

123.)	A lot of people thought he was just being humorous and he was just looking through his hands at us taking a picture. No. He was not. Obama was casting a curse on the room through the demons, and the demons broadcast, “demons broadcast.” Satan deceives the whole world; he deceives it by broadcasting. 

124.)	Now you have to resist the demons broadcasting with the Word of God. That is the only way you can resist them because that is what Christ did; he quoted scripture. When I tell you something, I quote scripture. You have got to resist the broadcasts.

125.)	So Obama called on the demons to put the thoughts into the people’s minds, to make their minds like putty, “to make their minds like putty.” I am the only one who knew what was going on. None of the other ministers of the Churches of God who watched that broadcast have a clue as to what Obama was doing. 

126.)	We want you to know that we The Obedient Church of God are becoming the CEO of all the Churches of God. We try to have someone in charge of all the departments of the corporation because we can’t have them all preaching something different, doing something different—showing up on different days. We have to get them all together.

127.)	Elisha restores all things; your Bible says so. Watch out for the minister who says Yeshua will restore all things while he crosses out the scripture, Surely, Elisha will restore all things. Now let’s look up the scripture: type in Elisha shall restore all things.
Look up the scripture, “Surely, Elisha will restore all things.” It is an important scripture.

128.)	It talks about Elijah in Malachi, but here in Matthew 17:11, “Surely, Elias comes, and restore all things.”  So I’ve got all of these things restored; all I’ve got to do is hand the piece of paper to Elisha and say to him, here you are partner, take over, “take over.” I’ve done my best. Now take over Elisha. I’ve done my best.

129.)	English Standard Version, “He answered (that’s Jesus answering), “Elijah is coming and will restore all things.” 

130.)	And Jesus said unto them, “Elias truly shall first come, and restore all things,” for all you King James fans out there.  I’ll be happy to hand over the reins to Elijah-Elisha both. I’m not going to get into a discussion about the mantles of the different prophets, because Elisha wanted to be more politically correct.

131.)	So we The Obedient Church of God are giving you a chance not to be thrown into the Lake of Fire by doing the work that is to restore all things that no one else is doing, right down to giving thanks after you are full according to the Bible. Is God going to be the potter, or are you going to be the potter? 

132.)	Let me tell you on why I’m keeping on preaching, because I know about these things from way back on University-college courses on psychology, philosophy. To the point: there are six stages to new understanding, “there are six stages to new understanding.” 

133.)	The first stage, “the first stage” is avoidance [of new understanding]: the person will bash the messenger and avoid the topic and won’t even discuss the topic; the person won’t even discuss that the Sabbath Day is moved to Friday in Australia.

134.)	The second stage in learning how to convince a person, is you have to expect resistance, “resistance” against it. Person will turn around and say I have the love of God in my heart and that’s all I need.

135.)	The third stage is apathy; person doesn’t care [about the understanding]. Person has stopped giving resistance.

136.)	The fourth stage is when the person starts thinking about it. Right now we are entering the period of apathy of the ministers. After they think about it, then comes the fifth stage, which is acceptance. 

137.)	Then comes the sixth stage, which is preparation to implement it [the new understanding] by telling their members or covertly have their members wait for the crescent moon after they have said they believed in “potential visibility,” but then covertly they start telling the members to look for the crescent moon, “look for the crescent moon.” 

138.)	Then comes the actual application of the rediscovered truth.

139.)	Now I’m not disheartened that they are so slow, that all the other congregations are so slow because I understand the philosophy and the psychology involved; now there is also God’s Spirit involved. And it is going to be rocking you. That’s why God has to allow the tribulation; that’s why God has to pour out the bowls—the plagues on the earth

140.)	That is why the two witnesses strike the earth with drought as they want to, and that is a way to get people’s attention. 

141.)	Now of the Churches of God, 99.99999, except for The Obedient Church of God, are totally ignorant of God’s ways. Oh, they’ve got 50% of the doctrines; okay, then why did God put that in the Bible that 50% of the virgins (they were virgins), 50% of the Churches of God are going to be locked out. 

142.)	So my hope is that I’m going to reach these 50% of the Churches of God, which would be 3 Churches of God, “three Churches of God,” or two if I counted the other way, counting ourselves and two other churches; and that will comprise the five virgins because it is 50% of the seven churches of Revelation.

143.)	And there is only one Philadelphia Church in Revelation so that is three. Let’s do it another way with the math. There are six that aren’t in line in Revelation, and there are 50% of the virgins. So, therefore, I predict that three Churches of God will come in harmony to The Obedient Church of God teachings. 

144.)	Bear Note: We are dealing with Churches of God that are “wayfaring strangers;” they are just wandering around not following the truths of God. So we are going to call through God we’re going to call three of them back into the fold—three of them, three of the six churches: we are the Philadelphia Church: the proof is we are obedient and spotless. 

145.)	Whether you say so or not you are spotted; we’ve listed 20 or 30 things you are spotted with: Mother-goddess Day, Sky Father’s Day, Turkey-god Day, moving the Sabbath Day to the sixth-day-Friday- in half of the world, average God’s holy days, not celebrating New Moon Day, not celebrating Pentecost on the proper day; we don’t have to go through them all again. You are all spotted in one way or another. You are all wayfaring members, you are all wandering members. 

146.)	So let’s think about this, which is a virgin of a wayfaring stranger and is very powerful for Johnny Cash. We have all types of music, “all types of music.” So sit back and listen to “Wayfaring Stranger” and wonder if you are a “wayfaring stranger?” Does this apply to you?

147.)	Yes indeed, you want to be in the Kingdom? Better start getting obedient, better start some responsibility.  Do you even know what responsibility is? I’ll give you a little lesson in poetic grammar. What is responsibility? Well, let’s break it down.

148.)	Bear Note: What is the first word? Response, “response.” R e s p o n s e, r e s p o n s e, response.” Ability, so you have got to have the ability to respond. Responsibility. Response ability. What does that spell? Response ability; that is what it means to be responsible. Have the ability to respond. Could that be any clearer?

149.)	Remember Hezekiah? In II Chronicles 29:15 they found out the truth; the brethren sanctified themselves according to the commandment, “the commandment” of the king according to the words of the Lord to cleanse the House of the Lord. I’m going to have to replay that sermonette that I gave on “Cleansing the House of the Lord” back in 2007 or 2008, somewhere in there, because that was so poignant.

150.)	Chapter 29:16, “the priests went into the inner part of the house of the Lord to cleanse it, and brought out all the debris that they found in the Temple. We The Obedient Church of God are tearing out all of your debris, all of your false doctrines, all of your falsehoods, all of them; we are tearing them out of the House of the Lord.

151.)	We are cleansing the House of the Lord. Do you want to be a “wayfaring stranger” who never reaches the Kingdom? There is only one way to do it. One of the classics is John 14:15, “If you love me, keep the commandments.” Keep that Sabbath Day on the seventh-day in all of the world, including Australia. 

152.)	Now we don’t want any “wayfaring strangers” to be lost. How can you know the way if someone doesn’t teach you? Then you compare it with the Bible, “compare it with the Bible” and you will know what to do. You want to be following God, and not the broadcasting of Satan, “not the broadcasting of Satan.”

153.)	Satan is broadcasting. So when he does just pick up your Bible and you read Deuteronomy 12:32, you are not supposed to add anything, “you are not supposed to add anything.” You are not to add a Turkey-god Day, whether you say so or not, you can’t do it because not one of God’s commandments is done away with. 

154.)	There is more law, “there is more law,” because now you can’t even think of killing your neighbor. Before a person could think of killing his neighbor, but if you didn’t kill him, you weren’t guilty. We should tell you a little about repentance if we can, if we have time here. 

155.)	We have so much material; we are just “swimming in the piles.” We want to take time to tell you about things we didn’t have time to tells you about in the feast. Let’s tell you what forgiveness is. Forgiveness is a decision. Forgiveness isn’t just a theoretical thing. Forgiveness is a decision that you make. 

156.)	You know what Jesus said in Matthew 6:14-15, “If you forgive others their trespasses, your heavenly Father will also forgive you.” If you don’t forgive others, will God then forgive you? Forgiveness is a decision, not something ethereal.  You can’t just talk about it. Let’s make it clear for you.

157.)	Bear Note: Forgiveness is important because everybody has someone in his life who has really hurt him. You have to choose to forgive him or chose not to forgive him. You have to be choosing to forgive [the offender] or choosing not to forgive [the offender]. This is your most powerful Bear Note yet.

158.)	If you choose not to forgive [the offender], oops, Father won’t forgive you. To make that even clearer, let’s turn this around on you. You are choosing not to forgive [the offender]; therefore, God will not forgive you. Write it in your Bible in the top margin. If you choose not to forgive [the offender], oops, God will not forgive you. 

159.)	See how important it is when you phrase it psychologically that way? Then you are choosing not to forgive them [the offenders], you can have sad feelings, you can have hurt, but you can still forgive them.

160.)	There are people who have had their family members murdered and they choose to forgive others [even while] they still hurt and are still grieving and are still sad, but they have chosen to forgive the other person. That means praying for the other person that he would come to repentance, and praying the best for the other person. When you do that, in truth you have chosen to forgive him.

161.)	If you choose not to forgive [the offender], then Father will not forgive you. You have to have your heart right. Remember I told you 50% of you heart is made up of neurons and that you think with your heart and you also think with your brain.    

162.)	If your brain and your heart have a big argument, your heart better win. Your heart is not just made up of muscle; 60% of your heart is made up on neurons. You’ll be amazed by that; we’ve taught you that before. 

163.)	The terms “heart and mind” in Hebrew; the heart describes the emotions and the motive. The head is the place of thinking; that is why David said look at my heart and my mind with all penetrating eyes and sees that I am whole and holy, “holy, holy.” You’ve got to be holy. Very clear.

164.)	Now we want you to forgive your enemy so that you can be in the Kingdom with us, and we want you to cry out to God for help if you are having trouble forgiving them. And that calling out to God is your only hope if you have hardened your heart.

165.)	God has a strict standard. His strict standard is if you don’t forgive them, He is not going to forgive you. I you choose not to forgive them, then God is not going to forgive you because you chose, “you chose” not to forgive them. 

166.)	Now this is the first sermon after the feast so we are giving you something to help you for your next year on solving problems that I’ve noted in the Churches of God that I’m immediately associated with or in the past been associated with. 

167.)	Now if you have forgiven everybody, there is another point here regarding your heart that you have to have purity in your worship. This is very important. In Psalm 26:6-7 David is speaking these Words of God here; they are mostly all psalms here, “I will wash my hands of innocence so I’ll go about your altar that I may proclaim with the voice of thanksgiving all your wonderful works, et cetera, et cetera,”

168.)	In verse 6 he says that he washed his hands, so therefore in terms of his heart, having the right feeling with his whole heart, he washed his hands. So he put away his hatred of his enemies when he washed his hands.

169.)	In verse 8 of Psalm 26 David said he was a devoted worshipper; he said, “I have loved the habitation of your house and the place where your glory dwells.” So it is a combination of two things: it is a combination of washing your hands and also having a love as a devoted worshipper. David was a devoted worshipper who loves God, and was a correct Sabbath keeper.

170.)	David was devoted, “devoted.” You don’t move the Sabbath to Friday in half the world. And as you read along in David’s Psalms here, it is important to notice in Psalm 40:1-2 that David waited patiently for the Lord and He inclined to David and He brought David up out of a horrible pit, but he had to wait, “he had to wait.” 

171.)	So if your life is in chaos and confusion and you don’t know which denomination to follow and what to do, just wait patiently just like David did, and the Lord will incline his ear to you. And that’s important for you to wait. If you don’t, that means that you are hardening your heart.

172.)	    You want to have God on your side. We could turn this around in Psalm 43, Vindicate me, O God, plead my cause against the ungodly churches, the ungodly nations or deliver me from the unjust and ungodly churches for you are the God of my strength. 

173.)	Why do you cast me off? Why do I go on mourning because of the oppression of the ungodly churches? Now what is the conclusion? No conclusion at all as long if you follow every Word of the Father. 

174.)	Psalm 127 now. The watchman stays awake in vain for you to rise up early and to stay up late; you eat the bread of sorrows, but He gives to His beloved sleep. Children are a heritage from God. And remember we sang we are the arrows in the hand of the warrior. So you are one of God’s children from your youth.

175.)	And the only way you can be happy, here’s the point, is that your quiver is full of His arrows of truth, not of arrows of deceit and lies.

176.)	 We are helping to get you into the truth. We are the only ones who are raising up our voices against all the other Churches of God. The other ones are just going along their own merry way. They are not examining the Churches of God. We are trying to get you to have some responsibility, which is your ability to respond. 

177.)	We are telling you God’s Bible; you are not arguing with me, you are arguing with God’s Bible. Now in Amos 8:11it says there will be a famine of God’s Word, so there will come a time when you won’t be able to hear the words of The Obedient Church of God. It says so in Amos 8, verse 11.  

178.)	Right now we are being mocked by one minister, and he is going to have to learn the hard way, “the hard way.” He is going to have to get his conduct in line with God’s Bible.

179.)	We want to read Psalm 119. We are going to start you off on the right foot for the new civil year now. We go by God’s holy day calendar and the sacred year starts in the spring when all the animals are born; but we are into a civil year now after the harvest is in and all the work is done in the fields, and people could relax a little bit for the winter.

180.)	In Satan’s system you never relax, you work double time. But let’s assume that we are in the Kingdom when the harvest is in; we just celebrated the Feast of Ingathering. And we don’t celebrate another feast of ingathering on Turkey-god Day because we just celebrated the Feast of Ingathering [for seven days]. 

181.)	So let’s think of our next year coming up. Psalm 119 and we’ll see if we can squeeze in some more information for you about the pre-Adamic creation. We’ll save that and the Illuminati method, the set-up of the Illuminati; and the pyramid is an electrical generator. It always has been.

182.)	All right. Let’s go on to the spiritual now. Psalm 119:1 “Blessed are the undefiled,” that is who is blessed. By the way this Psalm is an acrostic, “an acrostic,” which means that the first eight verses all apply to aleph, the first letter of the Hebrew alphabet.

183.)	“Blessed are” the who? “the undefiled in the way, who walk in the law of the Lord.”  

184.)	Verse 2, “Blessed,” who else is blessed? “are those who keep His testimonies,” and “that seek Him” how? “with the whole heart.”

185.)	Verse 3, “They also do” not walk in Turkey-god Day and Mother-goddess Day, and Sky Father’s Day. “They also do no iniquity: they walk in His ways,” the Feast of Tabernacles, not the Gentiles feast of Thanksgiving.

186.)	 Verse 4, “You have commanded us to keep your precepts” how? “diligently.” He didn’t just say to keep the precepts, he said diligently.

187.)	Verses 5-6, “Oh that my ways were directed to keep your statutes. Then I would not be ashamed.” Then you Churches of God, all you Churches of God, would not be ashamed, “you would not be ashamed.” 

188.)	But right now if your members confront you on why you move the Sabbath Day to Friday [in Australia], you are ashamed. 

189.)	If your members confront you on why you are buying and selling in restaurants [on the Sabbath Day], allowing the members to go to restaurants and buy hot food and hire four people—the waitress, the cook, the cashier, and the hostess—well, you want your ways to be pure? Do you want to keep the precepts so you don’t have to be ashamed, verse 6?

190.)	Verses 6-8, “When I look into all your commandments, I will praise you with humbleness of heart. When I learn of your righteous judgments,” as you are doing right now, “I will keep your statutes.” You are learning them now. “Oh do not forsake me utterly.”

191.)	 Therefore now we can go into Beth, [the second alphabet letter of the Hebrew language]. Continuing the acrostic, start out with verse 9, “How can a young man cleanse his way? by taking heed according to your word, ‘according to it.’ ”

192.)	Verse 10, “With my whole heart (remember we explained about the heart having an argument with the mind, you have to listen to your heart and let your heart rule because you want to obey every joy and title of Father’s ways) have I sought you.”

193.)	Remember for verse 10 we played “Wayfaring Stranger.” Verse 10, “With my whole heart have I sought you. O let me not wander from your commandments.” That is so clear. “Let me not wander from your commandments.”  Look around and see which church is keeping the commandments of God and which churches aren’t. 

194.)	It is a no brainer. Why would you be part of a church that is not following the commandments of God? Why would you? Ask yourself that. Well, that is Psalm 119.

195.)	Verse 11, “Your word have I hidden in my heart that I might not sin against you,” ‘that I might not sin against you.’ First, you are sinning against God. 

196.)	Verse 12, “Blessed are you, O Lord, teach me your statutes.” Why would you go to a church that refuses to teach you the statutes? 

197.)	Verse 13, “With my lips have I declared all the judgment of your mouth.” 

198.)	Verse 14, “I rejoice in the way of your testimonies, as much as in all riches.” The Obedient Church of God is giving you riches of the testimonies and the precepts. 

199.)	Verse 15-16, “I will meditate on your precepts and contemplate your way. I will delight myself in your statutes. I will not forget your word.”  Are you seeing the pattern here of a true Christian? A true Christian doesn’t argue with God’s Word. You are not arguing with The Obedient Church of God, you are arguing with God’s Word.

200.)	In the acrostic the Hebrew letter gimmel is used for the next eight verses.

201.)	Verse 17, “Deal bountifully with your servant that I might live and keep your Word,” ‘keep your Word, keep your Word.’

202.)	 So now pray this if you are not in The Obedient Church of God. Verse 18, Pray this: “Open my eyes that I may see the wondrous things from your law.” That’s pretty clear. Pray that the Lord will open my eyes that I may see the wondrous things from your law. That will be a project for you for the coming six months till the Passover Day comes

203.)	Verse 19, “I am a stranger in the earth;” why are we strangers in the earth? We can’t fit in with the other people in the earth because we are following God’s laws. The other people in the earth don’t want to have anything to do with someone who is following God’s law so therefore you become a stranger in the earth. “Do not hide your commandments from me.” Remember you are praying that along with open my eyes. 

204.)	Verse 20, “My soul breaks (my heart breaks) for the longing for your judgments at all times.”

205.)	Verse 21, “You have rebuked the proud that are cursed, who strayed from your commandments.” This is a reason not to be straying from the commandments for God is going to rebuke the people who do.

206.)	Verse 22, “Remove me from reproach and contempt for I have kept your testimonies.”

207.)	Verse 23-24, “Princes,” princes are leaders, ‘princes are leaders’ and they speak against The Obedient Churches of God. “But your servant meditates on your statutes, and your testimonies are my delight and my counselors.”

208.)	The acrostic style continues with the Hebrew letter Daleth for verses 25-32.

209.)	Verses 25-26 “My soul clings to dust; quicken me according to your Word. I have declared my ways and you heard me: teach me your statutes.” Then verse 27 goes on to say, “Make me understand the way of your precepts,” ‘make me understand the way of your precepts,’ your praise. 

210.)	I’ll make it simple; I want you to pray this Psalm during the year, make me understand the way of your precepts. Even if The Obedient Church of God beat you over the head, “over the head:” “bam, bam, bam,” that won’t get the job done unless you pray Psalm 119. Then it will be God calling you into His first resurrection. 

211.)	Remember that 50% of the virgins, 50% of the virgin churches that aren’t going into the Kingdom. If you count The Obedient Church of God as the Philadelphia Church, which by the facts it is, therefore you’ve got six churches, three of them (50% of them) are not going to be saved by God; they are going into the Tribulation, if in fact they are virgins at all. 

212.)	But I want to give some hope and get them to repent and become the 50% so they will fill up their lamps with oil, the Word of God that The Obedient Church of God is giving you. 

213.)	Verse 28, “My souls melts for heaviness; strengthen me according to your Word.” Verse 29, “Remove from me the way of lying” and that applies to all the ministers of the Churches of God because they are lying about Herbert Armstrong’s incest with Dorothy.
They are bearing false witness. So you ministers listening, “Remove from me the way of lying.” 
214.)	 And also for one minister out there, remove from me the way of lying about The Obedient Church of God, casting dispersions on The Obedient Church of God when he knows full well that The Obedient Church of God is more devout than he is and that is proven by the facts and the history of The Obedient Church of God.

215.)	 Verse 30, “I have chosen the way of truth; your judgments I have laid before me.” Verse 31, “I have clung, ‘clung.’ Do you know what clung means? 

216.)	Have you ever been in a capsized boat? I have. Have you ever been in a storm in a capsized boat? I have. Have you ever been in a storm at night in a capsized boat? I have. Now you know what clinging to something is, because if you lose hold of that boat, you are going to drown. 

217.)	When it is totally dark at night in a storm (that’s why it is dark) and you can’t see the shore and you don’t know which direction the shore is, you could end up swimming out to the middle of the lake and drowning, no matter how good a swimmer you are because you can’t even see the shore. 

218.)	We The Obedient Church of God are showing you the shore where you are supposed to be heading to. And we are showing you to cling to the testimonies that we are giving to you every week on the truth of God to which you better cling to by your fingernails.

219.)	I had to cling on to that boat because I knew if I let go I was going to die; and if you don’t cling to the Word of God, you are going to die. “I’ll cling to your testimonies. O Lord, do not put me to shame,” verse 31. 

220.)	Verse 32, “I will run in the course of your commandments.” It doesn’t say “walk,” it says “run.” That means you strive with all of your ability. For then God shall enlarge my brain? No. 

221.)	Bear Note: Do you want your heart enlarged? Run to His commandments; cling to God’s testimonies just like you would if you were in a capsized boat. Then what’s going to happen? God is going to enlarge your heart. 

222.)	We go to the next acrostic, He letter of the Hebrew alphabet, verse 33. “Teach me, O Lord, the way of your statutes, and I shall keep it to the end.” Verse 34, “Give me understanding,” so you are praying again for understanding, “and I shall keep your law, and indeed I shall observe it with my whole heart.” 

223.)	Where is your whole heart now? Verse 32 said He shall enlarge your heart, so now you’ve got an even bigger heart, “a bigger heart” to observe it, and you agree that your heart is larger, but now I shall observe it with my whole heart, “whole heart, whole heart.” The word “my” is in italics which means it isn’t in the original, which indeed, you shall observe it with whole heart. 

224.)	Verse 35, “Make me walk in the path of your commandment, for I delight in it.”

225.)	Verse 36, “Incline my” what? “heart to your testimonies.” See that it not brain, head knowledge?   Because there are a lot of ministers out there with head knowledge, but they haven’t got their hearts inclined.

226.)	Understand the heart is involved big time here, because without your heart being involved, you will not come to a full knowledge of God’s ways. You will just be a “walking contradiction,” partly truth and partly fiction, in every wrong direction on your lonely way back home.

227.)	You will only be a “walking contradiction”  because you will have some things right, but you will have some things wrong. Then you will start obeying some things and then you will stop obeying them, like “potential visibility.”  You’ll start obeying “potential visibility,” which you shouldn’t and then you’ll stop using “potential visibility” which is right for you to stop.

228.)	“He is a walking contradiction, partly truth and partly fiction;                                                                         he takes every wrong direction on his lonely way back home.”

229.)	Think of that song; you don’t want to be a walking contradiction, always changing your mind. You want to get into the truth with all of your heart so you don’t end-up as a walking contradiction. You have got to hear God and not have your own ideas. 

230.)	Verse 36, “Incline my heart,” here is the heart again, “to your testimonies, and not to covetousness,” not to plagiarism. Verses 37-38, “Keep my eyes from looking at worthless things; imbibe me in your way. Establish your word to your servant who is devoted, ‘devoted, devoted’ to fearing God.” 

231.)	That is pretty serious when you are devoted to the girl that you marry and no one else, and no other way. So you’ve got to be devoted to fearing God. 

232.)	Verse 39-40, “Turn away my reproach, which I dread for your judgments are good. Behold I long for your precepts; revive me in your righteousness.” Righteousness is keeping the commandments of God. 

233.)	We are going to be telling Father, we started out in verse 33, “Teach me, O Lord, the way of your statutes.” We in The Obedient Church of God humbly are teaching you the correct statutes because the other Churches of God are not being obedient to them. 

234.)	We are going to have to speed it up here because we are running out of time; we’ll jump to 52 of Psalm 119. How can you say you don’t turn aside from the law?
Verse 51, “Yet I do not turn aside from your law,” when in Deuteronomy 12:32 it says don’t add a day, “don’ add a day.” And you add a day.

235.)	So if you say you have not turned aside from the law, and the law of Deuteronomy 12:32 says don’t add a day, then you are a liar. 

236.)	Verse 57, “…I have said…I would keep your words.” Verse 58 is the key, “I entreated your favor with my whole heart.” So that means you are going to be crying out to God, and all these ministers are going to be crying out to God for understanding and you are going to be entreating God with your whole heart.

237.)	 The Obedient Church of God has laid down the tenant for you to follow God. We are the sword of the Word; we can’t help that but no one else is doing it. No one else is telling their members not to eat in restaurants and hire people [on the Sabbath Days]; no one else is telling their members not to celebrate the days of the heathen.

238.)	Churches of God are not to celebrate Mother-goddess Day, Sky Father’s Day, Turkey-god Day: nobody else is telling you that; nobody else is telling you not to move the Sabbath Day to Friday in half the world. And the other 130 points of understanding is 30 points of God’s doctrine, including New Moon Day. So by the precepts that you keep, God knows your heart and your faithfulness. 

239.)	So if you want to perish read verses 92-93 of Psalm 119, “Unless your law had been my delight,” not just by reading but actual delight, “I should then have perished in my affliction. I will never forget thy precepts for by them you have given me life.” 

240.)	 You want to pray, “I am yours,” verse 94, “save me.” You want to say to Father, pray out to Him for Him to save you,” because apparently you Churches of God can’t do it on your own; you can’t do it on your own, so you have got to call out to Father to save you because the fruit of your track record is that you are not going to be able to do it unless Father saves you.

241.)	And it is not ecumenicalism, let’s get that straight. Billy Graham will not be in the Kingdom; neither will the disobedient churches of God. It is that simple. You have got to be a Philadelphian and you can’t be running over trying to trash The Obedient Church of God by your saying that you are going to destroy the messenger of The Obedient Church of God who is telling you not to have the Devil’s pagan days.

242.)	It is going to be a lot rougher in the future. I’ll give you a rediscovered truth. When it says “buy and sell,” where do you get your water from right now? Where do you get your drinking water from? You buy it from the store. You think okay, so the store won’t sell me water.

243.)	So let’s try this. You won’t even have water for your toilet, because you have got to buy water from the city to be flushing your toilet. Think about it. You won’t even have water in your house. Not only will you not be able to get water from the store, you won’t be able to buy water from the city water department, because you will not be able to buy and sell.

244.)	I’m telling you folks there is going to be a time of trouble worse than it is ever been and ever shall be again. It is worse than you think. So we The Obedient Church of God are trying to get you into God’s ways so that you will not be eternally lost. It is bad enough that you are going to be physically lost, but now you could be eternally lost because you are not keeping God’s Sabbath Days. 

245.)	I can give you some statistics here. Ninety-six % of all Americans are believers in God, when you come right down to it. Well, if 96% are believers in God, and they are not following the precepts of God that we just read from Psalm 119, then we’ve got a bit problem going on. The ninety-six % are going to be in the Tribulation. 

246.)	  I’ll give you a “buzz-word” here. 

247.)	Bear Note: It is not fellowship with God, it is followship with God. It is not just fellowship where you are yapping to God, praying to God during the day; it is followship. There are so many people in the Churches of God who are so confident of their salvation, but they have no evidence of following God. That means they are lying snakes, “they are lying snakes.” They are just like Satan, a lying snake.

248.)	They are prideful that they are going to be in the Kingdom. No, they’re not. You have got to have followship, not just fellowship. You must choose to repent, the same as I taught you today: you must choose to forgive your enemies.

249.)	And when you choose to repent, and you are not choosing to repent when you have Mother-goddess Day, Sky Father’s Day, Turkey-god Day, moving the Sabbath to Friday; you are choosing not to repent. So you’ve got to start a life of repentance. 

250.)	You have to have the attributes to show that you have repented. Repentance is simply old-fashioned obedience, to obey, “to obey.” Do you have any questions on obedience? You can’t say you are obedient when you are disobeying; it is a contradiction. So stop deceiving yourself. 

251.)	Let’s turn to John 14:10, some scripture to start our civil year. “Do you not believe; don’t you believe I am in the Father and the Father is in me. These words that I speak to you I do not speak of my own, but the Father dwells in me does the works.”

252.)	That’s what it is all about; these words that I’ve given you are God’s words. They are not my words; they are not The Obedient Church of God’s words. I read the Psalms and how important it is for you to diligently, with all your heart, which God will enlarge your heart so that you can have even more obedience as He enlarges your heart. That’s what it means.  And we are just doing what Father did with Yeshua. We are merely repeating the words of the Father. 

253.)	Verse 15 [of John 14], “If you love me, keep my commandments.” Keep Deuteronomy 12:32 and don’t add a day. Verse 21 [of John 14], “He who has my commandments and keeps them, he it is who loves me.” The converse to that is, if you don’t keep his commandments, you don’t love God. Selah. Think on that. 

254.)	Let’s go on here in verse 23, “If any man love me he will keep my word;” verse 24 in conclusion, “He who does not love me does not keep my word.” Could it be any clearer?  We are here not to break the seventh-day commandment in half the world. We are going to keep hammering on that one and we’ll be hammering on Turkey-god Day.

255.)	We hammer on things so that you can know that you have the ability to be repentant; and for you to be a follower in followship, and not just saying that you have fellowship, because you have got to have followship to make it succinct. You have to be a follower of Yeshua. Hopes this sermon strengthens you for this week, and indeed strengthen you for the coming civil year up till Passover in the spring.

256.)	That’s the service for today.

257.)	“Save Me by Thy Great Name” is the closing hymn on page 43, and page 44 in other hymnals. Save me by your limited time to repent in followed by the closing prayer.

258.)	Closing music: “Change My Heart O God, May I be like you.”