How about the Virgin Mary?
I mean, is Mary really emphasized in the Bible?
Is Paul and his epistles just going on and on, hey, you better make sure to venerate
Mary.
Don't forget to worship Mary.
Don't forget to make that shrine to Mary.
Don't forget to light a candle for Mary.
You read through the New Testament and Mary is barely mentioned.
We believe that Mary was a great lady.
We believe she was a virgin.
She gave birth to the Lord Jesus Christ.
We're thankful for her life and testimony, but she is not emphasized.
But you know what?
If you go to Mexico today, you would swear that Mary's God.
That's who they're bowing down to.
That's who they have an altar to.
That's who they say their prayers to.
That's who they emphasize today.
We had a guy today, we were out soul winning today.
We talked to a guy who's a Roman Catholic and he told us, he said, well, you know, as
a human being, our mother's way more important than our father.
What?
And I said to him, I said, well, are you implying that Mary is more important than God, the
father?
And he just said, well, I mean, yeah.
Right?
I mean, he's just like, well, I mean, yeah, that's how we feel.
He's not alone.
There's one billion other people just like him.
The Roman Catholics say, even if they don't admit it, like this guy just admitted it.
Hey, Mary's more important than Jesus.
Mary's more important than God, the father.
You know, don't let it bother you that the Lord Jehovah God is mentioned by name over
7,000 times in the Old Testament.
And the name of Jesus is on every page in the New Testament.
You know, little kids, they get a Bible and they just highlight every time it says Jesus,
Jesus, Jesus, Jesus, right?
It's everywhere.
It's every page.
Mary's not on every page, but you'd think she was when you drove by the houses of Catholics
and just see Mary, Mary, the Pope, the Pope.
Hey, the Bible didn't emphasize Mary.
I'm not going to emphasize Mary.
You shouldn't emphasize Mary and a religion that emphasizes Mary is a false religion.
We need to emphasize what God emphasizes.
We need to emphasize who God emphasizes.
God emphasizes Jesus.