The Ten Great Heresies, Part 1

Thank you for that presentation, Sam. Appreciate the first message as well. It's always good to talk about life experiences and the lessons we can derive from them.

As I mentioned in the announcement, we are all looking forward to the autumn feasts coming up next month. Now, one of the great principles a person comes across when they start attending church—it happened in my case, just like it does with anyone who comes—they come across this great principle that for every truth that is given in the Bible, that there is a corresponding false teaching as a counterfeit to what God gives. That is a general principle, that for every truth you're going to have something that looks similar, but that is a lie.

And God knows that most people are not going to face the truth and stick with it. It's much easier to go along with the crowd, to go along with the lies.

For instance, with these false fall feasts that are coming, Satan has two great feasts, one before the feasts of God and one afterward. They replace so people will not feel there's a vacuum, that there's something missing. So Satan came up with two different holidays, one before the feasts in the autumn and the other one right after. What are those two feasts? First one is Halloween, which comes before the Feast of Tabernacles, and then after the Feast of Tabernacle comes Christmas. It's not too long before we start getting bombarded with Halloween. Commercials. And you start seeing all of the props and the stores coming up with it. And then after the Feast of Tabernacles, what do we get? We get all the props and all of the commercials for Christmas. Those are substitutes for God's feasts. Notice about Halloween. I'll just comment here briefly about it. You can look it up in a Wikipedia article.

This term Halloween means hallowed evening. And in the Scottish term, evening was abbreviated into een. So it was halloween, and where we get Halloween. And this is the day before All Saints Day, which is a holiday in the Protestant and Catholic worlds. The Wikipedia says these three days, which are from November 1st to the 3rd, are collectively referred to as allahallowtide, in our time for honoring the saints and praying for the recently departed souls who have yet to reach heaven. I don't know if they're on a slow train or what happened to them, but they haven't made it all the way up. Well, this is because of the Catholic idea of purgatory. So there's a time to purge the people's sins in this waiting house, this halfway house between the earth and heaven. And so this is a time that is dedicated to focusing on this. It says, All Saints was introduced in the year 609, but was originally celebrated on May 13th, the same day as Lemuria, an ancient Roman festival of the dead. Oh, the coincidence! The Romans had their day to pray for the dead. And all of a sudden, now the church has a day for the dead, and they moved it from the Roman holiday over to November 1st. That's to cover their tracks. So it won't be so apparent that they took it from the pagan Roman holiday. And notice the last sentence in this encyclopedia article. It says, in 1835, it was officially switched to November 1st, the same date as Sam Hain, at the behest of Pope Gregory IV. So it was a pope that established this all-hollows day that is celebrated today.

Now, that is a substitute to one of God's feasts.

Before God's fall feasts, we have Halloween. What do we have afterwards? Christmas!

Now, I once heard from a former member, and I knew him well, who left the church, joined the Protestant world, and he claimed that we had been fed a bucket of lies. Well, I told him, you have swallowed a bucket of lies.

And, okay, so you have to study the Bible. And who has that bucket of lies? You think keeping Halloween and Christmas is something that is biblical? Well, they're doing it! They're doing it! And that's part of the bucket of lies that they're pawning off on people.

So, on further study, I would like to cover the bucket of lies that traditional Christianity has fed the masses. Now, you be the judge. Let's look at the evidence from the Bible. You judge and see where are the lies and where are the truths. So, I'm going to give you a series here of two Sabbaths. This is the first one, titled The Ten Great Heresies. The Ten Great Heresies that are taught by traditional Christianity. The bucket of lies people have been led to believe.

And remember, as we study this first part, that for every truth that God has given in the Bible, men under the influence of Satan have come up with a falsehood to substitute it. Notice in Revelation 12, verse 9, the Bible warns us of how clever Satan is. Revelation 12, verse 9, it says, So the great dragon was cast out, that serpent of old, called the devil and Satan, who deceives the whole world. He was cast to the earth, and his angels were cast out with him.

Now, he has deceived the whole world, and I'm not talking, nor is it talking here, about physical knowledge. He hasn't deceived the world over learning mathematics. Mathematics is something truthful. It works. It works. He's not deceiving the world with false chemistry. No, he is deceiving the world with religious knowledge. That's his specialty. How to deceive people religiously. That's what he's talking about. Notice in 2 Corinthians 11, verse 13, how he cleverly disguises himself as he teaches these false beliefs. 2 Corinthians 11. Of course, they are going to look similar to what the Bible says. Let's start in verse 13. It says, And will be according to their works. So they appear to be righteous. They appear to follow God. But the Bible warns us that there is a deceit going on. There's something that is fooling people.

Satan wants to be seen as an angel of light. In other words, an angel of truth. So what, then, are these 10 great heresies? Now, remember the term heresy means a false teaching according to the Bible. It is not found taught in the Bible.

And this is only part one, so we're going to cover the first five of these great heresies. Now, one thing is to know them, but another thing is to be able to explain them in a clear, logical way. So, yes, some people say, well, I know these things. I've read them. But another thing is to understand them and to be able to explain them in a clear and logical way. That's what I am attempting to do today, to give you these tools.

Now, what is the heresy number one? To me, it is the greatest of heresies in the Bible. Now, of course, some will have their own idea, but I'll explain to you why I believe this is the greatest of heresies, and that is that God's laws have been replaced by man's church laws. In other words, what we find as the laws in the Bible have been replaced now by men in authority who put themselves and establish what true doctrine is. They give their own version of it, but it's basically man's laws. It's based on the idea that God's laws have been done away, that this law has been nailed to the cross, that we are now under grace and not under law. Have you heard all of these things? Basically, they have stripped the biblical body of its backbone. And so now it's this gelatin that they can transform and move around because it doesn't have the structure. So to me, this is the first in the bucket of lies that Satan has perpetrated and pawned off to humanity. It's important for Satan to remove God's laws in order to replace God's laws. As long as you have God's laws, it's very hard to veer people off. You have 10 great principles, and those are the ones that are steadfast, so he wants to get rid of them, so then he can start replacing them with something else.

In the Roman Catholic Church, they admit that they don't follow the Bible as such because they feel the Pope has the right, the authority, to establish doctrine, and throughout their history, Popes have established, just like we saw. They established the day which is All Saints Day, because they think that you can pray to the dead Saints and that they will do you favors. And to this day, that's why they have their statues of their Saints, and people go and they pray to Saint Bartholomew or Saint Mark or whoever. They all have different professions, and so you go to ask a favor of them. Now, in the Protestant world, they need to remove these 10 commandments in order to replace them with their leaders' laws. They claim it's biblical, but for instance, what is Luther's church called? The Lutheran church. Why? Because they follow Luther's teaching.

In a sense, he became the Pope of the Lutheran church. He has his whole body of teachings that people that follow the Lutheran church have established. So you see, it's not not having any laws. You have God's laws or you have man's laws, and you got to pick. And so a person that's Lutheran does not have a right to pick and choose. They have to choose what Luther said was the truth. But then you have other groups like the Calvinists. Who do they follow? Well, they follow John Calvin, and he said, well, Luther didn't get it right. We got it right. So if you're a Calvinist, where a lot of these other groups came out of, the Puritans came out of the Calvinist ideas. Also, the Scottish church came out of that Lutheran, I mean the Calvinist idea. And so they follow Calvinists' teaching. And guess what? If you go to a Lutheran seminary, what are you going to learn? Luther's teaching. Do you have a right to question it? No. And if you go to a Calvinist seminary to become a minister, you learn Calvinist teaching.

This is why, to me, it's so insidious, this first heresy, to remove God's laws, and then you see they can replace Saturday with Sunday, replace the feast days in the Bible with Christmas Easter. They can replace the teachings about God the Father and God the Son with the Trinity, the immortality of the soul, idea of one's saved. See, all of these are church teachings. So you go to those churches, they're not interested in what the Bible says. They're interested in what Luther said was right, or Calvin, or the Pope.

All of these have to be believed when you become a church member. If you're a Lutheran, you can go and you can see exactly what Luther said was the plain truth about things. And Calvin said, well, no, this is my truth. And so you have all of these groups with their man-made laws.

The Catholics have seven sacraments, which they consider holy, and that they are mortal sin if you break any of these seven sacraments. Again, what is this based on? Well, the popes established it in their councils as holy law. So why is this so insidious? Because it goes back to the Garden of Eden with the first lie, where Satan told Adam and Eve that they were not going to die, that once they took of the fruit, they would be like God. In other words, that they would have an immortal soul. You don't have to worry about that. God said you're going to die, but no, He really wants to keep you from gaining all this knowledge, and you have an immortal soul. Guess what? Adam and Eve did die. So who lied? It wasn't God. It was Satan. And of course, then you had the tree of life, which God was going to guide man through those laws that He would give. And then you'd have the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, which would be man's laws, their religious ideas, which would cover the earth. God's commandments are the great principles that give life the 10 great principles of God's truths. They define what is God. That's the first commandment. How to worship Him. Commandments two and three. When to worship God? Commandment four.

What is man and his relationship with his neighbor? That goes from commandment five all the way to commandment ten. It shows us how to love God and man, but God's way, not man's way. Notice Psalm 119 verse 97, and I'd like to ask you a question after we read this. Psalm 119 verse 97.

This was written by David. It's a Psalm of David.

He said in verse 97, O how I love your law, it is my meditation all the day. You, through your commandments, make me wiser than my enemies, for they are ever with me. I have more understanding than all my teachers, for your testimonies are my meditation. I understand more than the ancients, because I keep your precepts. My question is, was David wrong?

Should we tell David, oh come on, David, this law is going to be done away. What are you doing meditating on it all day long? I mean, you're ancient. That's obsolete. Was David wrong? Oh, we read in the Bible and also in the New Testament, David was a man after God's own heart.

David is going to be resurrected and be placed over the 12 tribes of Israel when Christ establishes his kingdom. Just read Jeremiah 30 verse 9, Ezekiel 34, 23, and Ezekiel 37, 24, where it says David is going to be brought up. He's going to be placed over God's people. And then what? He's going to be told, well, David, now you can't meditate on this law because it's been done away by my son. Don't you know that we shouldn't do this anymore? And that doesn't make sense. How about Romans 7 verses 12 and 14? Romans chapter 7, verse 12 and 14. Paul says here, therefore the law is holy and the commandment holy and just and good. He's not doing away with it. He recognizes it is holy. Holy means it's separated by God. Man can't touch that. It is also just. It is fair. It is truthful. And it is good for you. It doesn't do you any harm. How about verse 14? It says, for we know that the law is spiritual, but I am carnal.

Sold under sin. Yeah, the problem is human nature, not God's law. Let's not blame the law for our shortcomings. We should recognize it's our carnal mentality that has a problem. God's law is holy, just, and good. Notice the litmus test given in the Bible to find out if you're really a Christian or not. If you are in the faith, if you are where the truth is, 1 John chapter 2 verses 3 and 4. This is the litmus test. When we took chemistry classes, we had litmus. And whether it was acid or alkaline, it would turn different colors. You knew if this was alkaline, it would turn a different color than acid. Well, here's the acid test. 1 John chapter 2 verses 3 and 4.

It says, now by this we know that we know Him, that we know God, that we know Christ. If we keep His commandments, He who says, I know Him and does not keep His commandments, is a liar. And the truth is not in Him. So if you have a church that doesn't keep God's commandments, they are lying to you. I don't care if they say, I know He's my Lord and my Savior. The Bible says, check it out. Are they keeping God's commandments or are they keeping man's commandments? Verse 5, but whoever keeps His word, truly the love of God is perfected in Him. By this we know that we are in Him. So it talks about God here, talking about God the Father and His commandments. So there is no discrepancy. There is no irregularity when we talk about putting God's commandments first. Notice also, in Revelation 12 verse 17, Revelation 12 verse 17, these are the two places in the Bible where Christians are defined. They're described. What do they do? Notice Revelation 12 verse 17.

It says, and the woman was enraged with a woman, and he went to make war with the rest of her offspring, who keep the commandments of God and have the testimony of Jesus Christ. You need both. You have the testimony of Jesus Christ that He is there, He knows you are following Him, and that you are obeying God's commandments. Notice the second right across the page, Revelation 14.12. It says, here is the patience of the saints, those who have God's spirit. Here are those who keep the commandments of God and the faith of Jesus. Again, the two requirements. So if you have a Christian who says, oh, the law has been done away, no, I don't keep the commandments, now I'm under grace, well, that person is lying to you, according to what the Bible says. And I guess the clincher here is what happens in the future when Jesus Christ comes back in His kingdom, when He establishes it. Is it going to be established upon His laws, the Ten Commandments, or is it going to be established under some nondescript grace? Notice in Isaiah chapter 2 verse 3, this is the description of the kingdom of God once Jesus Christ comes back. Going to Isaiah chapter 2 verse 3.

It says, and many people shall come and say, come and let us go up to the mountain of the Lord, to the house of the God of Jacob. He will teach us His ways, and we shall walk in His paths, for out of Zion shall go forth the law and the word of the Lord from Jerusalem. So the law of God is going to be going out of there. There are not going to be any changes. It's going to be based on the same respect to God and man. People are going to go there. They're not coming now, are they? But one day in God's kingdom, they will recognize their mistakes and have to come and be taught, be re-educated about God's law, that it isn't bad, or that something's been done away. But that is something in the future. Right now, we have to face this first great heresy and ask ourselves, do we understand that God's law is what Satan wants to remove from this earth more than anything else? Because then he can replace. See, if we come up and say, sorry, this room is occupied. You've got the Ten Commandments. Oh, sorry, I can't replace any of them. You don't give me any wiggle room to fit some of my teachings in here. No, sorry, it's already taken. God already has taken this space. And so that is the first great antidote to these great heresies, and that is keep God's commandments in the forefront, follow them faithfully, don't let anybody deceive you about them.

Let's go to heresy number two, the second great heresy, and that is the heresy of Sunday replacing the Sabbath as the weekly holy day. Now, you can't do number two until you get people to accept number one, because if you're keeping all of the commandments, you're keeping the fourth. You're not going to be fooled. But if you pawn that off that, oh, it's been done away, then all of a sudden there's all this space available to fill it with other teachings. So you can't replace the Sabbath with Sunday until you abolish the Ten Commandments. So heresy number one allows you to replace the fourth commandment with the heresy number two. Now you can replace the fourth commandment with man's commandment, which is the first day of the week becomes holy. Nowhere in the Bible do we see that the first day of the week is holy. The seventh is throughout. Now, why is this so important? Because the fourth commandment is the only one that is called a sign between you and God. It is an identifying sign. It doesn't say anything about the other commandments being identifying signs. Why? Because some of them are quite common. Honor your father or mother. People do that. Chinese do it. Indians do it.

Cannibals do it. It doesn't tell you anything about whether you're part of God's people or not. But the fourth commandment is an identifying sign. Satan wants to remove that marker. He wants to remove that. He hates the Sabbath day. He knows that's when God completed his work with man, and he rested, and his plan started then. Notice in Exodus chapter 31, Exodus chapter 31, verse 16.

Verse 16 says, Therefore the children of Israel shall keep the Sabbath, to observe the Sabbath throughout their generations as a perpetual covenant. It's not a temporary covenant. It's a perpetual covenant. It is a sign between me and the children of Israel forever. For in six days the Lord made the heavens and the earth, and on the seventh day he rested and was refreshed. And when he had made an end of speaking with him on Mount Sinai, he gave Moses two tablets of the testimony, tablets of stone, written with the finger of God. God wrote this for his commandment with his own finger. And so he established it, but some will say, well that's between God and the children of Israel.

Let me ask you a question. Who is a child of Israel? Let's see what the Bible answer is. Let's go to Romans chapter 2.

Romans chapter 2 verse 26.

This is a very encouraging scripture because he says here in verse 26, Therefore, if an uncircumcised man keeps the righteous requirements of the law, if he's keeping the Ten Commandments, will not his uncircumcision be counted as circumcision?

In other words, a Gentile that's obeying God's commandments, he says, doesn't have to be circumcised. He says, and will not the physically uncircumcised, if he fulfills the law, judge you, who even with your written code and circumcision are a transgressor of the law. For he is not a Jew who is one outwardly, nor is circumcision that which is outward in the flesh. But he who is a Jew, yes, a child of Israel, who is one inwardly, and circumcision is that of the heart, in the spirit, not in the letter, whose praise is not from men, but from God. In other words, a person that's converted and submits to God and follows him, he becomes a spiritual Israelite.

And we continue with that identifying sign. Yes, we take up the baton of faith. Now, here is the main sign or marker where God's people are. Where do you want to find them? They're going to be keeping the Sabbath day. So 98% of traditional Christianity is breaking the fourth commandment. They don't have that sign. And Christ said, He is the Lord not of Sunday. He said He is the Lord of the Sabbath. Notice in Mark chapter 2, Mark chapter 2, somehow when He says He is the Lord or the owner or He who administrates the Sabbath, something that's something negative.

It's not. Notice what it says here in Romans 2 verse 26. It says, I'm sorry, I said Mark. I should say, let's see, I got Mark 2.24. That's what I want. Mark 2.24 says, and the Pharisees said to him, Look, why do they do what is not lawful on the Sabbath, according to their own manmade commandments? But he said to them, Have you never read what David did when he was in need and hungry? He and those with him? How he went into the house of God in the days of Bionthar, the high priest, and ate the showbread, which is not lawful to eat except for the priests, and also gave some to those who were with him.

And he said to them, The Sabbath was made for man and not man for the Sabbath. The Sabbath was made as a help to man. But man was not created because he has to first the Sabbath was created, and then you had to put man so he could keep it. So it's just a matter of putting priorities. God made the Sabbath as a pleasure and a rest to man. He says, verse 28, Therefore, the Son of man is also Lord of the Sabbath. He is the master teacher. He was telling these Pharisees they were teaching the Sabbath wrongly.

They were teaching it in such harsh terms that somebody that was hungry couldn't even go out and eat some grain in the field. So he is the Lord of the Sabbath, not of Sunday. And then we have this great truth found in Hebrews chapter 4 9 through 10. Hebrews chapter 4 verses 9 through 10. We've recently, in our Bible studies, gone in depth into this Hebrews chapter 4. I've learned new things about it. Hebrews chapter 4. Starting in verse 9. Unfortunately, our New King James Bible doesn't really give it a good translation.

It says, verse 9, There remains therefore a rest for the people of God. At least in the old King James, they used to have a little margin which said a Sabbath keeping, but they've left that out. I want to read it to you in the Bible in basic English version. It says, So that there is still a Sabbath keeping for the people of God. For the man who comes into his rest has had rest from his works, as God did from his. David Stern in the Jewish New Testament commentary says, Christians often assume that the New Testament does not require God's people to observe the Sabbath and go on to claim that Sunday has replaced Saturday as the church's day of worship.

But this passage, and in particular verse 9, shows that Sabbath observance is expected of believers. And as verse 10 explains, Sabbath keeping expected of God's people consists in resting from one's own works as God did from his. It consists in trusting and being faithful to God. So it's not only Hebrews 4.9, it is also Hebrews 4.10, because it's talking there that a person that keeps the Sabbath is resting from his works as God did when he rested from his works in that creation week.

And so how do they wiggle out of explaining this one away? It's very hard.

And then our final scripture. I always want to go into the future. Well, how about in the Kingdom of God? Is Sunday going to be kept or the Sabbath day? Is there any way we can ascertain that or not? Well, we can. Let's go to Isaiah 66, the last chapter in Isaiah. Isaiah 66, verse 22 and 23.

It's describing the coming Kingdom of God.

God is revealing this to Isaiah. And you can see it's God speaking in verse 21. It says the Lord, verse 22, For as the new heavens and the new earth, which I will make, shall remain before me, says the Lord, so shall your descendants and your name remain. And it shall come to pass that from one new moon to another. And from one Sabbath to another, all flesh shall come to worship before me, says the Lord.

And so we see here there's going to be a new pattern set up, a new system of worship, where people will be going from Sabbath to Sabbath. And yes, from the one new month to the next, we will also assemble to glorify God. Not that it's a Sabbath day, but people are going to have the mindset of wanting to worship God. And so he says from Sabbath to Sabbath, they will come to worship me. Now, if God knew that he was going to abolish the Sabbath day, and he was going to replace it with Sunday, why didn't he put down here that, well, from the first day of the first day to another first day, which is the equivalent of Sunday, all flesh will come to worship me. It doesn't say that. So again, either the Bible is lying, or people are lying that say that Sunday is the new Sabbath day to keep. Let's go to the Great Heresy number three, which also follow the same pattern, which has to do with Christianized pagan days replacing God's holy days. So you see how this is a pattern. First, you get rid of the law of God, then you can replace the fourth commandment about the Sabbath, but you also are going to replace the annual Sabbaths, the God's holy days that are also based on the fourth commandment. That's the next thing you want to get rid of. It was prophesied that these things would happen, that there would be this movement to change God's holy days for man's holidays. Notice in Daniel chapter 7 verse 25, Daniel chapter 7 verse 25, I'm going to read it from the Holman Christian Standard Bible. The Holman Christian Standard Bible. I found it to be the most accurate of Daniel 7.25. It says, he will speak words against the Most High and oppress the holy ones of the Most High. He will intend to change religious festivals and laws, and the holy ones will be handed over to him for a time, times, and a half a time. Well, this is the persecuting false church with its civil government that is going to enforce by the point of the lance and the sword. They will impose the way of doing things, but it said here that he will intend to change religious festivals. In the Hebrew, it comes from the word, zeman, which means an appointed time or season or feast time. You can look that up in the complete word dictionary. It says there that it is an appointed time or season and a feast time that he will intend to change the religious festivals. The first one, which was attempted to change, was the Passover from what we know in history. There was a great controversy that raged for, oh, I'd say from basically at the end of the first century when the apostles died, and then the second generation took over. There was a big struggle because part of the group that was not with God guiding them, they wanted to switch over and get rid of what they called the Jewish feast days, which of course were not created by the Jews. They were created by God. They never were looked down on either in the Old or the New Testament. Jesus Christ only kept the Holy Days. He never disparaged them. It was during that time there was a great controversy. Those Christians that kept the Passover and the Holy Days were called the quartodessiments, which means the 14th observers, because it had to do with the day of the 14th, observing the Passover on that day.

And the Passover was finally changed over to Easter in the Nicaean Council at 325 A.D. that was backed by the emperor Constantine. Now he imposed this upon the whole empire, that now Christians were not to keep the Passover, but they were to keep Easter, which was a different date. It had a different symbolism, and he imposed it with the pain of death if he wanted to defy it. So the church had to flee. And we basically consider that from 325 A.D. was the beginning of the great persecution of the true church by the Roman Empire with the Roman Church writing it. And it lasted 1260 years, with the woman had to flee 1260 years. And when it appears back in the year 1585 was when the Spanish Armada was being prepared and the Spanish crown was attacking Queen Elizabeth's England, who did not want to go Catholic. And so three years later, in 1588, the great Armada, they said it had a thousand ships came over to England to impose Catholicism and to break the back of any Protestant movement. And all of a sudden, this hurricane-like force hit that thousand vessel fleet and dispersed them. And then the British with their fire ships finished the job. But England became the first, the great bastion, that was able to avoid the powers of Catholicism. And the church begins to raise her head up. It was in England where she had the religious freedom to be able to start keeping the Sabbath, persecuted, but not like the Catholic Church with the Inquisition and with the torture and the dungeons and the stake. It was no longer that way. So anyways, that's just part of history. But here, Easter was imposed upon with pain of death.

And then, of course, Christmas came along, All Saints Day, Halloween, and that's what has been kept up to today. Is this the legacy you want to keep? People that hounded God's people for keeping the Holy Days instead of these paganized holidays? In 1 Corinthians 5 verse 7, 1 Corinthians 5 verse 7, what did Paul teach the church to keep? 1 Corinthians 5 verse 7, it says, therefore, purge out the old leaven that you may be a new lump since you truly are unleavened, for indeed Christ our Passover was sacrificed for us. Therefore, let us keep the feast, not with old leaven, nor with the leaven of malice and wickedness, but with the unleavened bread of sincerity and truth. There are two feasts talked about there, the first two Holy Days of God, the Passover and then the Days of Unleavened Bread. They're all described in Leviticus 23. Tell me where in the Bible, what verse and chapter you find Christmas or Easter? You can't find it. It's not there. Who is feeding who? The bucket of lies.

So we go to the last of the great heresies. Well, let me, no, I'm in number three. Number four, that's the fourth great heresy. Once the commandments were replaced, now you have the Sunday, you have the pagan holidays. The focus is on a false version of salvation. That is heresy number four, teaching about once saved, always saved. And that goes along with a false sense of what grace is. This relieves people of thinking obedience is a necessity. In other words, you don't have to work out your salvation with fear and trembling, like it tells us in Philippians 2.12. And this heresy was also prophesied to be spread. Notice Jude verse four.

Jude verse four only has one chapter. I'm going to read it from the Weymouth New Testament. Again, a bit more accurate. It says, for certain persons have crept in unnoticed. Men spoken of in ancient writings as predestined to this condemnation. This was prophesied. This was going to happen. Ungodly men who pervert the grace of our God into an excuse for immorality and disown Jesus Christ, our own only sovereign and Lord. So, again, they're teaching that grace is a way to don't obey God. You don't need it. You're already saved. If you break the commandments, it's okay. Christ died for you and you don't have to do anything else. Just believe and trust and Christ will pay all the penalty. It's like a blank check that even if you break all the dishes every day, He covers it. So you don't have to do anything about it. Well, it's not that way. It isn't grace without law, because grace without law is licensed to sin. But law without grace leads to self-righteousness. This thing of pulling yourself up by your own bootstraps. I can do it. I can obey God by myself. I can do it. No, that's not going to work either. You're going to become very self-righteous. It is actually law plus grace, not law minus grace, nor grace minus law. That's math for you. It's law plus grace. You need both. That takes us to the last that we're going to cover today, the great heresy number five, which is where the Trinity replaces God the Father and God the Son as a growing family. This idea that, well, God is just this one being, but there are three persons in this being. These beings all have a personality, but there's only one will, not three wills. This idea that it's just one being. Well, it reminds me, I'm going to give you the same version that Daniel Webster. I remember studying him in high school. He was a famous lawyer of the 19th century. He was known for how intelligent and witty he was. In one case, they had an accident where some person had been hit by this cart that had gone crazy, had been loosened, and he got hit. The owner of the cart got a lawyer, and he was trying to say that, look, this cart really couldn't have hurt the person. They claimed to be that it actually was something else that hit the person. Daniel Webster came, and he brought the cart. He said, here is what happened. The cart hit the person in this place. This is where the person got hit. The jury looked, and they said, well, all of these convoluted arguments that they were trying to throw with the cart in front of you, you don't have to have all of these clever arguments. You can just see it for yourself. So I want, the Bible tells us, see it for ourselves. Do we see a trinity in the Bible? There are five places where we actually get a glimpse of the throne of God. Who are there? One is in Daniel chapter 7 verse 13. I'll just refer to it. Remember how it says that he came before the ancient of days, and there was one like the son of man that came, and he received the kingdom. So the first time here we get this glimpse of what's going on, Daniel is describing it. What do we see? We see the ancient of days who would be God the Father, and then we have the Son of God receiving the kingdom. Where's the Holy Spirit? They left them out! If there are three, you would not have two that are present. Now in the New Testament, we have Stephen in Acts 7 verse 56. Let's go there. Acts 7 verse 56. Stephen was being here stoned, pelted with rocks, and he said, look, I see the heavens opened and the Son of Man standing at the right hand of God.

Then they cried out with a loud voice, stopped their ears, and ran at him with one accord, because they didn't want to admit that Jesus Christ was there. But how many do you count there? Is there somebody at the left hand? Would you have to have the Holy Spirit sitting at the left hand if there is a being such as this? So again, here we have the evidence, the description of what Stephen saw. We also have Revelation 5.7. This is what John saw. He was allowed to glimpse at the throne of God. Revelation 5.7, it says, then, talking about the Son of God, who hears the Lamb, then he came and took the scroll out of the right hand of him who sat on the throne. Now here we have God, the Father, and he has a scroll, and the only one that can come and take it from him is the Lamb of God. Well, can't the Holy Spirit do something? And where is that Holy Spirit? Why isn't he being described there? Again, is the Bible truthful? Are we missing somebody in the picture that, well, sorry, God kind of made a mistake here. He forgot to draw in the person on the left hand. No, this is an accurate picture of who we worship. Then you go to Revelation 21, verse 22.

Revelation 21, verse 22.

John is looking at that New Jerusalem, and he says, but I saw no temple in it. For the Lord God Almighty and the Lamb are its temple. Again, where's the third person? He's missing. Missing in action. He's missing throughout the entire Bible.

And then you look at Revelation 21, 22. Well, we read that. Revelation 22, verse 3. It says, and there shall be no more curse, but the throne of God and of the Lamb shall be in it, and his servants shall serve him. And so again, there's a throne of God, there's a throne of Jesus Christ. Where's the other one? So forgive me if I don't believe that lie about the Trinity, because I believe that these were real revelations. They were truthful visions of what's up there.

So now you know these five great heresies. And of course, I'll begin God willing next week with the next five. God is a family. He is a growing family. I want to go into that a little. I've got one scripture we can cover. Romans 829. Romans 829, before we finish. Notice what it talks here about. He says in verse 29, For whom he foreknew, talking about God, preparing and planning, he also predestined to be conformed to the image of his Son, that he might be the firstborn among many brethren. Doesn't that make sense? He's the firstborn among many brethren. Now, I'm the firstborn of several brethren. I've got two sisters and one brother that are younger than I. Now, if I'm a brother, these are brothers too. And Jesus Christ is the firstborn. He is our elder brother. But guess what? We're going to be part of that family. We're going to be sitting there with God the Father and Jesus Christ. He's preparing thrones. We're going to be able to sit one day with them. Of course, they will always have the glory and honor, but we are going to be part of this growing family. And so these then are the five great truths that we have, that the law of God has not been done away, that the Sabbath is still the fourth commandment to keep, that the holy days are still picturing the future coming kingdom, that we are saved, but we can also lose that salvation. And fifthly, that we are a growing family. We don't have to worry about these five great heresies, that the law has been done away, that the Sabbath has been done away, that the holy days have been done away, that grace is sufficient. You don't have to obey God anymore. That heresy about once saved always saved, and the final heresy about the Trinity. Brethren, we have so much to give thanks to God, and we should always stick with the truth.