to your name spirit in Jesus name for the next song onto the next page 424 424
church everyone if you need a bullet and the usher will get you one front we got
the Bible memory verse there for the kiddos they say it on Wednesdays to get
a free ice cream and then on the inside we have the service times someone in
time so great job on someone there keep up the good work and then we have the
ladies the expecting ladies there so make sure to keep them in prayer I
believe the Connors miss Carrie is in labor so if you could pray for her that
would be great and then we have the prayer list that we go through on
Wednesdays so try to pray for those during the week and then on the back we
have some Christmas events coming up so we had to create the ladies Christmas
party on Friday I know my wife had a great time there the children's
Christmas music recital recital everyone's invited to attend December
16th from 2 to 4 p.m. and then we have Christmas Caroling I know Brother
Dylan sent out an email for that the location if you didn't get the email you
can go ahead and email the church and that is tomorrow night at 6 p.m.
congratulations on the Weathers family on the birth of their baby girl Emma
Grace Weathers so congratulations to them so she was born on December 8th at
542 a.m. weighing 7 pounds 6.2 ounces and 18 inches long all right so that's all
for announcements and brother Alberto come lead us so for the third song we're
gonna get our white handouts or you could turn to your Bible so Psalm 149
Psalm 149 149 this morning it would be 1st Corinthians chapter 1 1st
Corinthians chapter 1 as the offer play goes around as Corinthians chapter 1
will read the entire chapter as is our custom starting in verse number 1 the
Bible reads Paul called to be an Apostle of Jesus Christ through the will of God
and Sosthenes our brother under the Church of God which is at Corinth to
them that are sanctified in Christ Jesus called to be Saints with all that in
every place call upon the name of Jesus Christ our Lord both theirs and ours
grace be unto you and peace from God our Father and from the Lord Jesus Christ I
thank my God always on your behalf for the grace of God which has given you by
Jesus Christ that in everything you are enriched by him in all utterance and in
all knowledge even as the testimony of Christ was confirmed in you so that ye
come behind in no gift waiting for the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ who
shall also confirm you unto the end that you may be blameless in the day of our
Lord Jesus Christ God is faithful by whom you were called unto the fellowship
of his son Jesus Christ our Lord now I beseech you brethren by the name of our
Lord Jesus Christ that you all speak the same thing and that there be no
divisions among you but that you be perfectly joined together in the same
mind and in the same judgment for it had been declared unto me of you my
brethren by them which are of the house of Chloe that there are contentions
among you now this I say that every one of you say it I am of Paul and I of a
Paulist and I have Cephas and I have Christ is Christ divided was Paul
crucified for you or were he baptized in the name of Paul I thank God that I
baptized none of you but Crispus and Gaius lest any should say that I had
baptized in mine own name and I baptized also the household of Stefanus
besides I know not whether I baptized any other for Christ sent me not to
baptize but to preach the gospel not with wisdom of words lest the cross of
Christ should be made of none effect for the preaching of the cross is to them
that perish foolishness but unto us which are saved it is the power of God
for it is written I will destroy the wisdom of the wise and will bring to
nothing the understanding of the prudent where is the wise where is the scribe
where is the disputer of this world hath not God made foolish the wisdom of this
world for after that in the wisdom of God the world by wisdom knew not God it
pleased God by the foolishness of preaching to save them that believe for
the Jews require a sign and the Greeks seek after wisdom but we preach Christ
crucified under the Jews a stumbling block and under the Greeks foolishness
but under them which are called both Jews and Greeks Christ the power of God
and the wisdom of God because the foolishness of God is wiser than men and
the weakness of God is stronger than men for he see your calling brethren how
that not many wise men after the flesh not many mighty not many noble are called
but God hath chosen the foolish things of the world to confound the wise and
God hath chosen the weak things of the world to confound the things which are
mighty and base things of the world and things which are despised hath God
chosen yea and things which are not to bring to not things that are that no
flesh should glory in his presence but of him are ye in Christ Jesus who of
God is made unto us wisdom and righteousness and sanctification and
redemption that according as it is written he that glory it let him glory
in the Lord let's bow our heads for a word of prayer father in heaven we thank
you so much Lord for our morning service and also our evening service coming up
at 530 and I just prayed father that you would fill brother Joe with the Holy
Ghost now and just enable him to preach the sermon that you've laid on his heart
with clarity of mind and also help us to receive it give us ears to hear so that
we may apply this message to our lives and glorify you better we love you and
in Jesus name I pray amen amen I want to thank pastor Shelley for giving me the
opportunity to preach it's always an honor to preach the Word of God you're
there in 1st Corinthians 1 look at verse 14 the Bible says there I thank God that
I baptized none of you but Crispus and Gaius thus any should say that I had
baptized in my own name and I baptized also the household of Stephanus besides
I know not whether I baptized any other for Christ sent me not to baptize but to
preach the gospel not with wisdom of words lest the cross of Christ should be
made of none effect for the preaching of the cross is to them that perish
foolishness but unto us which are saved it is the power of God and the title my
sermon today is the Orthodox Church exposed the Orthodox Church exposed now
a lot of us know about the Catholic Church and their beliefs and how their
beliefs don't line up with the Bible but I feel like a lot of people don't know
about the Orthodox Church or at least they sometimes they get a pass right
the Orthodox Church where we don't know how close to Catholicism they really are
and so I'm gonna preach against the Orthodox Church today and just to give
you a little history about the Orthodox Church it says here that in 1054 so in
the year 1054 there was a division or a split in the Roman Catholic Church in
Europe this is called the East West Schism or the Great Schism and the
resulting split divided the Catholic Church into two major branches so today
you have the Western Roman Catholic Church and then you have the Eastern
Orthodox Church but the Orthodox Church has a lot of the same doctrines just
like Catholicism okay and we're gonna get into some of these today also
Orthodoxy is the third largest Christian religion in the world so you
have Catholicism then you have Protestantism they kind of group us into
Protestantism in this particular website and then you have Orthodoxy and so there
are about 300 million Orthodox Christians in the world 300 million that's
a big chunk of people right and there are even countries where pretty much the
whole population is Orthodox so I looked it up here it says that Armenia has a
population of 3 million and it's 97% Orthodox in Armenia Greece has a
population of about 11 million and it's 90% Greek Orthodox so you have Armenia
97% Greece 90% you have Romania population of 19 million 86% Orthodox
Christians you have Ukraine population 44 million 72% Orthodox you have Russia
population of 143 million 43% Orthodox so and these are just some of the
countries around the world but it's a pretty you know big following here 300
million some of these countries are like 90 something percent Orthodox but even
right here in America I looked up this reference here online the Orthodox
Church is in America there's 800,000 members of the Orthodox Church here in
the US about 200,000 regular church attendees weekly and I even looked at
right here in this area there are Orthodox churches all over Dallas Fort
Worth Ulysses Irving Carrollton there's actually an Orthodox Church right here
in Dallas and it's called St. Seraphim Orthodox Church St. Seraphim now that
just shows you the lack of Bible knowledge they have because seraphims
aren't saints they're not even human in the Bible you know pastor Shelley talked
about these in Revelation they're the creatures in heaven that they're full of
eyes they have six wings it mentions them in Isaiah but they have a church
here called St. Seraphim Orthodox Church some of their false doctrines I'm just
gonna name list some of their false doctrines they believe in workspace
salvation they believe that the sacraments they have sacraments just
like the Catholic Church they believe that the sacraments are required for
salvation the Eucharist we'll talk about that the baptism is required they have
confession to a priest infant baptism so that they baptize babies just like the
Catholic Church baptismal regeneration all their priests and their popes they
wear long robes just like the Catholics now in the Orthodox Church they have
several different popes so they'll have a pope for the Russian Orthodox a pope
for the Greek sometimes they call them the patriarch but same thing they call
them father they wear a dress just like the Catholic Church they reject
scripture alone and they say that their traditions is equal to the Word of God
they reject eternal security they reject faith alone they worship icons now they
don't have statues like the Catholics but they have icons that they worship
pictures that they worship idols they have the strange doctrine about relics
we'll get into they worship Mary they say that they don't worship Mary they
say they venerate her but I'm gonna read to you prayers that they pray to
Mary and it's obvious that they do worship Mary and the Saints they have
vain repetitive prayers just like the Catholics do and they have required
fastings so they forbid meat certain days of the week all right and so I'm
gonna be quoting to you two books by the Orthodox Pope this Pope's name is
Pope Shenouda he's in hell right now because he's dead but he wrote two books
that I'm gonna quote to you from the first book he wrote in 2005 it's called
salvation in the Orthodox concept so I'm gonna quote to you word from word from
his writing okay and then he wrote another book in 1991 this book is titled
the heresy of salvation in a moment that's the title of his book written by
Pope Shenouda of the Coptic Orthodox Church the heresy of salvation in a moment
this whole book is about how you can't get saved in a moment that salvation is
your whole life and so that's the title of his book so I'm gonna read you word
for word from his writing so this is straight out of the horse's mouth all
right so point number one the Orthodox Church is wrong on salvation they believe
that salvation is by works according to this Pope of the Orthodox Church he says
that there are prerequisites or conditions for salvation and he says
that they are faith sacraments and by the sacraments he means that you have to
come to his church and get these sacraments by his priests the sacraments
include baptism the Eucharist and you have to confess to an Orthodox priest
to get saved and then they also believe that good works are required for
salvation all right so I'm gonna read to you some quotes word for word from this
Pope here the Orthodox Pope it says here hence we seek salvation from the
punishment of sin all our life and take its path and do not say that we have
attained salvation in a moment this is page 92 in his book the heresy of
salvation in a moment so he says that they seek salvation all their life and
he's attacking salvation a moment that basically salvation is a story of your
whole life and we know the Bible doesn't say that another quote here he
says from these verses we conclude that there are three matters necessary for
being saved from the penalty of sin and they do not happen in a moment they are
faith repentance and baptism page 90 in his book he also says to be saved from
a punishment of sin a person needs to repent continually all his life for
every sin he commits in fact we sin every day and there's a punishment for
our sins which we need repentance on our part so he says that in order to be
saved you have to repent from every sin well I'd like to know if Pope this Pope
repented of all his sins of every sin that he committed if he's repented from
all those sins because that's impossible for anybody to do but yet he says that
this is required for salvation he says also that salvation is a story of the
whole life as st. Paul said in 1st Corinthians 118 okay well let's see what
st. Paul said in 1st Corinthians 118 so he quotes from the new King James this
Pope here and or actually he quotes the new American Standard Bible the NASB and
it says you're looking down in the real Bible in 1st Corinthians 118 I'll reach
you from the NASB it says for the word of the cross is foolishness to those who
are perishing but to us who are being saved it is the power of God so in the
NASB it says to us who are being saved what does the real Bible say in 1st
Corinthians 118 it says for their preaching of the cross is to them that
perish foolishness but unto us which are saved it is the power of God so in the
real Bible in the King James it says we are saved you got a D at the end of
saved that means it's past tense I'm already saved right I've done been
saved I'm already saved I'm saved from the danger of hell I have salvation I'm
not being saved but he uses this false Bible version the NASB to say that
salvation is a whole process all right another quote from this guy is according
to the heresy of salvation in a moment baptism so he's saying that salvation in
a moment is heresy according to the heresy of salvation a moment baptism
has no role in attaining salvation because baptism is not performed in a
moment thus they believe that salvation can be attained through faith alone so
you know reading these books was like reading reading the mind of a reprobate
because this guy has no clue what the Bible says so his all his whole idea is
that salvation can't be in a moment because you can't get baptized in a
moment so how is salvation in a moment so the Bible just goes over this guy's
head the reason why baptism isn't part of salvation because baptism is a work
and salvation is by faith alone but he doesn't get that he's like in another
quote he says right here the main cause for our refutation of the heresy of
salvation a moment is the impossibility of performing all the church sacraments
necessary for salvation in a moment it is impossible for a person to believe
and be baptized in a moment or to repent confess and get absolution and partake
of the Holy Communion in a moment so just this guy's just just an idiot right
he just doesn't get the Bible he says that the reason why salvation can't
happen in a moment is you can't you can't do all these things in a moment
you know the Bible says salvation is in a moment it's the moment that you believe
on Christ that's when you get saved and none of these things have anything to
do with salvation baptism confession repentance because they're all works and
salvation is by faith alone but he doesn't get that he's fixated on the
moment well let's see what the Bible says let's let's go through some verses
in the Bible so go if you were to John chapter 3 John chapter 3 and I'll read
to you from John 3 36 so John chapter 3 look at verse 36 he that believeth on
the Son hath everlasting life and he that believeth not the Son shall not see
life but the wrath of God abideth on him so the word hath there he that
believeth on the Son hath everlasting life hath is just the old version of
has okay he that believeth on the Son has right now you have everlasting life so
the Bible does teach that salvation is in the moment it's the moment that you
believe on Christ the moment that you believe on him you have everlasting life
it's not the story of your whole life salvation is not a process it's not
something that you work for your whole life it's something that you get the
moment that you believe on Christ look at John 5 look at verse 24 John 5 24
verily verily I say to you he that he that heareth my word and believeth on him
that sent me hath again you have everlasting life shall not come into
condemnation but is passed from death unto life so the Bible says when you
believe on the Lord Jesus Christ you have right now everlasting life in the
present you won't be condemned in the future and you've already passed from
death unto life so the Bible couldn't be any clearer that salvation happens
the moment that you believe on Christ and you'll never lose it but this God
the Orthodox Pope he doesn't believe that look at John 6 47 look at another
clear verse in the Bible John 6 47 says verily verily I say to you he that
believeth on me hath everlasting life it's that simple let's look at some
examples in the Bible where people believe in a moment because this guy
this Pope is saying that believing doesn't happen in a moment you know that
happens throughout your whole life well let's look at some examples in the Bible
go through with the John chapter 9 John chapter 9 and look at verse 35 I'm gonna
reach you from Acts 8 ok this is Philip with the Ethiopian eunuch Acts chapter
8 verse 36 you don't have to turn there you go to John 9 but Acts 8 36 says as
they went on their way they came on to a certain water and the eunuch said see
here is water what doth hinder me to be baptized and Philip said if thou
believest with all my heart thou mayest and he answered and said I believe that
Jesus Christ is the Son of God so the Ethiopian eunuch here Philip gave him the
gospel he got saved in a moment and then he got baptized because he said that he
believed on Jesus Christ you're in John 9 look at verse 35 Jesus heard that they
had cast him out and when he had found him he said unto him thus thou believe
on a Son of God this is the blind man that Jesus Christ had healed him and
gave him sight he answered and said who is he Lord that I might believe on him
verse 37 and Jesus said unto him that has both seen him and it is he that
walketh with thee and he said Lord I believe and he worshiped here he
worshiped him so we have another example of a person in the Bible that believes
on Jesus Christ in a moment it doesn't take his own life to believe on Christ
let me read to you some more quotes from this Pope here of the Orthodox Church
he says but we say that salvation is not attained through good works yet it is
not attained without them okay here's another quote good works do not save us
but we are not saved without them so compare that to what we just read in
John how clear is the Word of God John chapter 3 John chapter 5 right very
clear believe the Bible says but to him that worketh not but believeth on him
just fighting God that his faith is kind of for righteousness the Bible
says that it's not of works not of works of righteousness which we have done but
according to his mercy he saved us but this guy is speaking out of both sides
of his mouth he's a devil he's a false prophet here's another quote they tell
them he's talking about us they tell them salvation is not difficult to
attain it can be attained in a moment but the Lord Jesus Christ did not do
the same he said expressly to us because narrow is the gate and difficult
is the way which leads to life and there are few that find it now that's not what
the Bible says again he's using the New King James and NIV and NASB that's not
what the Bible says the Bible says in Matthew 7 14 you can go ahead and turn
there Matthew 7 and look at verse 14 Matthew 7 14 I'll start reading the
Bible says there because straight is the gate and narrow is the way which
leadeth on to life and few there be that find it so the Bible says it's not
saying that salvation is difficult you know Jesus Christ did the difficult part
he was born of a virgin he lived a perfect life that none of us could live
he died on the cross for our sins he went to hell for us you know he rose
again he did all the difficult stuff salvation for us it's easy it's just
believing on Christ so the Bible says that few people are saved it says that
straight is the gate straight means narrow few people are saved he's quoting
from a false Bible version that says difficult is the way it's not difficult
it's easy for us to get saved but you know what's funny look at the next
verse because this verse applies to this guy verse 15 beware of false prophets
prophets which come to you in sheep's clothing but inwardly they are
rabbiting wolf and that's what this Pope is of the Orthodox Church he's a false
prophet he's a wolf you know false prophets make salvation difficult the
Bible says salvation is easy all right I'll read to you another quote here and
this is right from his book he says the sacrament of repentance is also known in
in the Orthodox Church as the sacrament of confession for you need to come to
the priest to confess your sins in order to have absolution from him and
have them forgiven this is page 55 from salvation the Orthodox concept so he's
saying that you have to come to his church and confess your sins to his
Orthodox priest to get them absolved to get absolution from your sins that's
not what the Bible says Bible does not say we have to go to a priest some guy
in a dress to forgive us of our sins the Bible says that we have redemption
through his blood the forgiveness of sins so the only way we can get
forgiven of our sins is by the blood of Christ and you can see that this guy is
literally an antichrist he's putting himself in the place of Christ he wants
you to go to his church confess your sins to his priest just like the
Catholics I mean in some cases these Orthodox are just worse than the
Catholics you know but some people today want to give them a pass and say that
these are Christians that they're saved these people are not saved the religion
of Orthodox has very little to do with the Bible I mean they mix in a lot of
Eastern mysticism and paganism and heathen into their doctrines and it's
really nothing to do with the Bible you know they mix in some doctrines of the
Bible with all their strange and weird practices but they're wrong on salvation
he's got another quote here right from his book page 18 says but
do Protestants believe that people attain salvation through baptism no they
declare that salvation can only be attained through faith according to this
heresy so he's saying salvation by faith is heresy people can attain eternal
salvation through a spiritual life away from the work of the church and the
priesthood and away from the church authority yeah you got that right buddy
I don't need to come to your church to get saved I don't need to confess my
sins to your priest to get saved all I have to do is just believe on Christ
that's what the Bible says and I want to expose this Orthodox religion today and
I'm just want to read you straight from his mouth what he wrote in his book and
these books remember they take their tradition their writings equal even
sometimes above the Word of God so in these churches they read his books and
and they treat his words like just like doctrine he's got another verse here it
says as long as we are in the flesh we cannot say that we have conquered and
attained salvation that's what he says as long as basically as long as you're
alive you can't say that you're saved you know but what does the Bible say go
ahead and turn to 1st John 5 does the Bible say that we can know that we're
saved look at 1st John 5 because according to this Pope here Pope
Shenouda you can never know if you're saved but look what the Bible says in
1st John 5 look at verse 13 these things have I read on to you that believe on
the name of the Son of God that she may know that you have eternal life and that
she may believe on the name of the Son of God so the Bible is very clear you can
know for sure that you're saved you can have that confidence that you believed
on Christ that you're saved that you're going to heaven but these people here
they live in fear because they don't know if they're saved or not because
they're focusing on themselves their works their sacraments that they do
their church attendance the Bible says you can know for sure if you're putting
all your faith on Christ so the Orthodox Church they're wrong on
salvation I mean I read to you right from this horse's mouth right from this
Pope's mouth this Orthodox Pope they believe in works salvation very he
doesn't even hide it he doesn't hide the fact that salvation is by works he
just he just admits that salvation is by works you need faith you need works
you need baptism you need confession so they're wrong on salvation not only are
they wrong on salvation but they're also wrong on baptism they're wrong on
baptism now chapter 2 in this book the title for chapter 2 is baptism and
repentance and their necessity for salvation so that's the title the whole
chapter he goes through why you have to get baptized to be saved now the
Catholic Church they baptize you by sprinkling you you know the priest kind
of spits on you and he says you know proclaims you baptized the Orthodox
Church they go to the extreme end and they baptize you they dunk you in the water
but they dunk you three times they take a baby and there's videos on YouTube of
them an Orthodox priest baptizing just a poor baby and you can see the baby is
just being traumatized but they take this poor baby and the guy dunks them
the father the son the Holy Ghost three times and so you know this is what
happens when the unnatural when a natural man reads the Word of God you
have the Catholics which on this end they just kind of sprinkle you and then
you have the Orthodox priest on this end where they just dunk you three times and
this is actually how I was baptized as a baby because I grew up Orthodox and
obviously I don't remember my parents showed me pictures of them standing next
to an Orthodox priest and and you know he baptized me the same way they dunk
you three times. Now where does the Bible say that? Where does the Bible say that
you have to dunk someone three times in the name of the Father, Son, and Holy? The Bible
never says that but let me read to you here a quote from this Pope this
Orthodox Pope. He says this means that baptism is necessary for one's
salvation for through baptism sins are forgiven and one is made capable of
receiving the Holy Spirit. Undoubtedly then baptism is necessary for
salvation since it brings about the remission of sins. Okay here's another
quote, "If man is saved through faith alone, what is the value of baptism? Then
since man is saved without it, what also is the meaning of the Lord's words? He
who believes and is baptized will be saved." And he references Mark 16-16. This
verse finds no response within those who believe salvation in the moment. Now this
lying devil, he quotes Mark 16-16 13 times in both books. So I counted how
many times he quotes them. 13 times he quotes Mark 16-16, but he never one time
quotes the whole verse. He just takes this first part and quotes it as if
that's the whole verse. Let's look in our Bible and see what the whole verse is
here. So Mark 16-16. Go to verse 15. So Mark 16, chapter 15. I'm sorry, Mark
chapter 16, verse 15. Mark 16-15. So the Bible says there, Mark 16-15, and he said
unto them, "Go ye into all the world and preach the gospel to every creature." So
what's the emphasis here? It's on preaching the gospel, because that's what
gets people saved is the gospel, not baptism. "He that believeth and is
baptized shall be saved, but he that believeth not shall be damned." So what
damn somebody? What sends someone to hell? Is it them not being baptized or is it
them not believing? It's them that don't believe. So the Bible is very clear. "He
that believeth not shall be damned." Okay, yeah, it says, "He that believeth and is
baptized shall be saved." Yeah, if you believe, you're saved regardless of what
else you do or don't do, right? But what damns you is not believing on Christ. But
he leaves the second part out. Look at verse 17. "And these signs shall follow
them that believe. In my name shall they cast out devils, they shall speak with
new tongues, they shall take up serpents. If they drink any deadly thing it shall
not hurt them. They shall lay hands on the sick and they shall recover." So notice
here the emphasis is on preaching the gospel, believing on Christ, and what
damns you is not believing. But this guy wants you to come to his church, get
baptized by his priest in order to get saved. And go back to 1st Corinthians 1.
This is the chapter that we read here. It's a great chapter. Go to 1st
Corinthians 1 and look at verse 14. 1st Corinthians 1, look at verse 14. It
says, "This is Paul speaking. I thank God that I baptized none of you." So it
didn't seem like Paul was really concerned with baptizing people. You know,
he was concerned with getting people saved by preaching the gospel. Obviously,
you know, the whole commission is to go out, get them saved, then get them
baptized, teach them all things. But you know, Paul said, "Hey, I wanted to get
people saved." And he says, "I didn't baptize none of you but Crispus and Gaius,
lest any should say that I had baptized in my own name. And I baptized also the
household of Stephanus. Besides, I know not whether I baptized any other. For
Christ sent me not to baptize, but to preach the gospel. Not with wisdom of
words, lest the cross of Christ should be made of none effect." And so what was more
important to Paul was preaching the gospel, was getting people saved. And how
is baptism part of the gospel if he says in verse 17, "For Christ sent me not to
baptize, but to preach the gospel." So they want to make baptism part of the
gospel, part of salvation, but that's not what the Bible teaches, okay? Not only
that, but they, like I said, they baptize babies. Orthodox, just like the Catholics,
the Orthodox Church baptizes babies, and this is a quote from the same Pope here.
He says, "Some sects," so he refers to us as sects, "some sects prevent children
from being baptized under the context that they still do not have conscious
faith. They wait till they grow up in order to be baptized." What is the end of
those children who do not receive baptism? Would we leave them to perish?
Now this guy believes that as a baby you get baptized to wash away the
original sin. So they have this doctrine called the original sin where they
basically believe that we are punished for Adam's sin because Adam and Eve sinned.
You know we're born sinners and that's why the Catholics and the Orthodox
that's why they baptize babies to wash away that original sin. But that's not
what the Bible teaches. The Bible teaches for all have sinned. We don't get
punished from Adam's sin. We get punished for our own sin. Now you know Adam and
Eve brought sin into the world but we don't get punished for Adam's sin. We
get punished for our own sin. And then he says you know what would happen to
these children. Well the Bible teaches that children you know when they're one
two three and the age could be different for different kids they don't have the
understanding of sin and good and evil and salvation and so when children die
they go straight to heaven because they're innocent. They're not born
sinners. I'll show an example of this look at second Samuel chapter 12 second
Samuel chapter 12 and he says that the reason why we don't baptize babies
because they don't believe yet and that's what the Bible teaches. The Bible
teaches that you have to believe first and then get baptized. We just read Acts
8. Let me read it to you there where the Ethiopian eunuch says to Philip what
does hinder me to be baptized? So the Ethiopian eunuch is asking Philip you
know what's stopping me from getting baptized. Is there anything that stops me
from getting baptized? And Philip basically says yeah there is you have to
believe first. Do you believe on Jesus Christ? And he says yeah I believe and
then they baptize him. So there is something that hinders someone from
getting baptized. You got to believe on Christ first. You have to be saved first
and then you get baptized. But you're in 2nd Samuel. Look at 2nd Samuel chapter
12. So this story is about David and the child that he had with Bathsheba. It
says here 2nd Samuel chapter 12 verse 22. 2nd Samuel 12 22. And he said while
the child was yet alive I fasted and wept. This is David talking. For I said
who can tell whether God will be gracious to me that the child may live.
Look at verse 23. But now he is dead. Wherefore should I fast? Can I bring him
back again? I shall go to him but he shall not return to me. So David is saying
here and David obviously was saved. He's the sweet psalmist of God. He wrote a
lot of the psalms. He's going to heaven and David said when the child died
after the child died David was gonna go to him. So when David died he was
gonna go to heaven and see that child in heaven. So this is an example of when
babies die when they're under that age where they don't understand the concept
of salvation or sin they're innocent when they die they're gonna go straight
to heaven they don't need to get baptized that has nothing to do with
salvation okay. Not only that but they believe in what's called holy water holy
water so just like the Catholics do if anyone was was Catholic at one point you
go to the Catholic Church usually have like a little fountain there with holy
water okay and so let me read to you what the Orthodox they have the same
thing let me read to you what they believe about holy water so it says holy
water is water that has been blessed by a bishop or priest for use in the rights
of the Orthodox Church including baptism blessing persons places and
objects or as a means of repelling evil probably attracts evil is what it does
but then he says it is not just plain water in which people are dipped in
baptism but it contains the oil of the Holy Chrism I'm not really sure what
that is the atonement of the Holy Spirit through prayers water takes a new nature
so that any person born of it may be born of water and spirit so they believe in
in like just mysticism just magic just that they pray over this water and it
turns into holy water and I've seen this in my family and friends where when
Orthodox when they buy a new car when they buy a new house they'll call over
the Orthodox priest and he'll come with his little little water bottle and he'll
spray the car you know with water and just and just mumble a bunch of stuff
and he'll spray the house he'll throw they'll throw water at you in church
when you're in an Orthodox church he'll go around and spray you with holy water
and so they believe in just mysticism you know that this water where's holy
water in the Bible where does the Bible ever mention anything about holy water
it doesn't it says your holy water is meant to be consumed in simple ways it
is known that Orthodox Christians may bless themselves with holy water by
drinking it it can also be sprinkled on items that are necessary for spiritual
growth shelter and stability the place we reside can be home to many spiritual
powers yeah the place where he resides probably all filled with demons you know
holy water through the blessing of a house by a priest as a means of
cleansing a house from evil spirits okay and I got the prayer right from
this guy the Orthodox prayer that they pray on holy water to you know make it
holy or whatever so this is the prayer that they pray that these waters may be
sanctified by the power and effectual operation and descent of the Holy
Spirit that there may descend upon these waters the cleansing operation of the
super substantial Trinity that Satan may speedily be crushed under our feet and
that every evil counsel directed against us may be brought to naught that the
Lord our God will send down a blessing of Jordan and sanctify these waters
that this water may be unto the bestowing of sanctification and the
remission of sins unto the healing of soul and body. I don't want to read the
rest of this garbage but this prayer goes on and on about how they pray on
the water and it turns into holy water and they could use it to just
repel demons and things like that. You know what's funny is that I looked up
this practice and this practice was done by Buddhists. Buddhist monks, Buddhism
had this belief about holy water 500 years before orthodoxy and so you could
see how orthodoxy got these doctrines from because you had the Roman Catholic
Church based in Rome and then you had the Eastern Orthodox. They were
further to the east so they were closer to India and Tibet and they got a lot of
their beliefs from Buddhism and Hinduism. So I found a source online here that
says some Thai Buddhists have ceremonial uses of water. Water is purified by monks
by Buddhist monks reciting specific chants just like the Orthodox Church.
This holy water is used in blessing, in blessings for birthdays, anniversaries,
and marriage ceremonies. So the Buddhists do it. Buddhist monks use holy water to
bless, you know, certain people, certain events, and Orthodox do the same thing.
So we see that Orthodox, they're wrong on salvation, they're wrong on baptism,
they're wrong on, you know, also another thing they're wrong on is the Lord's
Supper. So they call it the Eucharist, okay? And they believe just like
Catholics in what's called transubstantiation, where they believe that
the the juice and the bread that they take during the Lord's Supper, they call
the Eucharist, they believe that it literally turns into the blood and flesh
of Christ. Not symbolic, not figurative, but that when the priest prays over it
that it physically becomes the blood, basically you're drinking the blood of
Jesus and you're eating the flesh of Jesus, that's what they believe, okay? So here's
some quotes from Pope Shenouda here on the Eucharist. "But people usually sin
after being baptized." Oh, oh thank you, thank you for letting me know that. "But
people usually sin after being baptized and need to be delivered of the
punishment of these sins. Here the church offers them the sacraments of
repentance and Eucharist for the remission of their sins. This is done by
means of the authority given to the church by the Lord Jesus Christ." So if
anyone asks, "Is salvation possible without the Holy Communion?" I say no. This
is impossible because the flesh of the Lord is given for us for salvation and
remission of sins and eternal life for whoever partakes of it. He also says, "When
you partake of the body and blood of the Lord you get salvation." In the Divine
Mass we say about the Holy Communion given for our salvation, remission of
sins, and eternal life. Perhaps this is based on the promise of the Lord Jesus
Christ when he said, "Whoever eats my flesh and drinks my blood has eternal
life." And then he quotes John chapter 6. So they take John chapter 6, they twist
it, they take it literally. Let's go to John chapter 6 and then rightly divide
what John chapter 6 is saying. So go to John chapter 6 and go to verse 53. John 6
and go to verse 53. So we got the Orthodox Church, they're wrong on
salvation, they believe salvation is by works, they reject faith alone, they
reject eternal security, they're wrong on baptism, they baptize babies, they
dunk them three times, they say baptism is part of salvation, okay. And then
they're wrong on the Lord's Supper. Look at John chapter 6, look at verse 53.
We'll see what the Bible says there. John 6, 53, "Then Jesus said unto them, Verily
verily I say unto you, Except ye eat the flesh of the Son of man, and drink his
blood, ye have no life in you. Whoso eateth my flesh, and drinketh my blood,
hath eternal life, and I raise him up at the last day. For my flesh is meat indeed,
and my blood is drink indeed. He that eateth my flesh, and drinketh my blood,
dwelleth in me, and I in him. As the living Father has sent me, and I live by
the Father, so that he, so he that eateth me, even he shall live by me. Look at
verse 58. This is that bread which came not from heaven, not as your fathers did
eat manna, and are dead. He that eateth of this bread shall live forever. These
things saith he, said he in the synagogue, as he taught in Capernaum. Many therefore
of his disciples, when they heard this, said, "This is a hard saying. Who can hear
it?" When Jesus knew in himself that his disciples murmured at it, he said out to
them, "Doth this offend you? What? And if you shall see the Son of Man ascend up
where he was before." Now verse 63 on Onward, Jesus Christ explains what he
means when he spoke those verses prior. Look at verse 63, "It is the
spirit that quickeneth, the flesh profiteth nothing. The words that I speak
unto you, they are spirit, they are life." So Jesus Christ is emphasizing the words,
right, spiritual things. He's given them just an example, a symbol, a figure of
his flesh and blood, but then he says, "Hey, the flesh profits nothing." Okay, it's
the words that give you eternal life. Look at verse 64, "But there are some of
you that believe not, for Jesus knew from the beginning who they were that
believed not, and who should betray him." So again the emphasis is on believing.
Look at verse 65, "And he said therefore said I unto you, that no man could come
unto me except that were given unto him of my father. From that time many of
disciples went back and walked no more with him. Then said Jesus unto the twelve,
will ye also go away?" Now look at Peter's answer. You can tell from verse 68
that Peter understood what Jesus Christ was talking about. Look at verse 68, "Then
Simon Peter answered him, Lord to whom shall we go? Thou hast the words of
eternal life." So it's not the physical, it's not physical blood and physical
flesh. Jesus Christ is talking spiritually. Hey, it's the words that give you eternal
life. Look at verse 69, "And we believe and are sure that thou art the Christ, the
Son of the living God." So when Christ is talking about his flesh and blood,
he's saying, "Hey, I'm gonna die for the sins of the whole world. I'm gonna be
buried. I'm gonna rise again." And the words that I gave you, the gospel, you
know, faith comes by hearing and hearing by the Word of God. The Bible
says we're born again by the incorruptible Word of God. And so it's
the Word of God that gives us eternal life, right? But this Pope, Shenuta here,
doesn't believe that. He says, "Every day you sin, you need the flesh of Christ
sacrificed on your behalf. You need the holy sacrifice and atonement for your
sins." And listen to this, this is what he says, "In fact, the Holy Eucharist is a
continuation of the sacrifice of Christ. Therefore, you cannot be saved of your
sins without it." So he says that the Eucharist, the Lord's Supper, that that is
a continuation of what Jesus Christ did for us on the cross. That every time you
partake of their mass, the orthodox mass, it is as if Jesus Christ is dying again
every week. Now that's blasphemy because the Bible says in Hebrews that Jesus
Christ died once and for all. But this guy wants you to come to his church and
take his magical, mystical, you know, wine. A lot of them use real alcoholic
wine in the Lord's Supper and they say that this is as if Jesus Christ is
being sacrificed all over again, continually. But look at what the Bible
says. You go to Hebrews 10. I'm gonna read to you from Hebrews 9. You go to
Hebrews chapter 10. Hebrews 9 says, "For Christ is not entered into the holy
places made with hands, which are the figures of the true, but into
heaven itself now to appear in the presence of God for us, nor yet that he
should offer himself often as the high priest entereth into the holy
place every year with the blood of others. For then must he often have
suffered since the foundation of the world, but now once in the end of the
world hath he appeared to put away sin by the sacrifice of himself. Verse 28 in
Hebrews 9 says, "So Christ was once offered to bear the sins of many." And so
the Bible makes it clear that just Christ died one time and that one death, that
one burial, that one resurrection is enough to save us from our sins. He
doesn't need to continually die over and over again and the Lord's Supper is not
a continuation of what Christ did for us like the Orthodox Church wants you to
believe. Look at Hebrews 10, look at verse 10, "By the which will we are
sanctified through the offering of the body of Jesus Christ once for all and
every priest standing daily ministering and offering sometimes the same
sacrifice which can never take away sins." So he's talking about the Old
Testament how the priest had to continually you know do the animal
sacrifices and all that but he says, "But this man, after he had offered one
sacrifice for sins forever, sat down at the right hand of God," talking about
Jesus Christ, "from henceforth expecting till his enemies be made his footstool
for by one offering he hath perfected forever them that are sanctified." So it
says once for all, one offering, one sacrifice. So the Catholic Church, they're
wrong on salvation, they believe in salvation by works, they're wrong on
baptism, they attach that to salvation, they're wrong on the Lord's Supper, they
make it this magical, mystical thing. And you know, why do we perform the
Lord's Supper? Just like the Bible said, Jesus Christ said what? "Do this in
remembrance of me," right? So we do this to honor Christ, to remember what he did
for us when he died, was buried and rose again, right? And he said, "Do this in
remembrance of me until he comes." And that's why we do it, you know, because we
want to remember what Christ did for us. But it's just a symbol. It's just
figurative. It's not the literal blood and body of Christ. And you know, I know
that goes without saying. But not only that, they're also wrong on prayer. They
have vain repetitions, just like the Catholics do, just like the heathens do.
They just repeat the same prayer over and over again. And again, this is right
from the horse's mouth, right from this book by Pope Canuta of the Orthodox
Church. Let me read to you some of these Orthodox prayers. They say these
prayers daily, weekly. They have prayers for different times of the day. And so
it says here, you pray every day the Vespers. This is what they call this
particular prayer. This is the 11th hour prayer at five o'clock p.m. And so this
is the prayer. This is right from his book. If the righteous is hardly saved,
where shall I a sinner appear? Count me, O God, among those of the 11th hour.
Listen to this. I have spent my life in pleasures and desires. The time is
running out. I practiced evil with diligence and enthusiasm. With earnestness
and keenness, I committed every sin. For this, I deserve suffering and
condemnation. Wow. Sounds like a reprobate. Sounds like this guy's a
pervert. Who says that? Who says I practiced every evil? I committed every
sin with diligence and enthusiasm. You know what the Bible says, out of the
abundance of the heart, the mouth speaketh. That's why this guy's praying
a prayer like that. I thought popes and monks and these priests were supposed to
be like celibate, living an aesthetic life. This guy's saying that he spent his
life in pleasures. All right, here's another prayer. This is called the
complying. They pray this at the 12th hour. It says, behold, I'm about to stand
before the just judge in fear because of my numerous sins for the life that is
spent in pleasures deserves condemnation. Repent therefore, oh my soul, so long as
you will dwell on earth. Then you'll reproach yourself saying if your wicked
deeds and nasty evils are revealed before the just judge, what answer would
you give while you are lying on the bed of sin and slackening in the
vanquishing of your body? You know what does the Bible say? The Bible says, but
when you pray use not vain repetition as the heathen do for they think that they
shall be heard for their must for their much speaking. Be not ye therefore like
unto them for your father knoweth what things you have need of before you ask
him. You know God wants us to pray from the heart. God doesn't want us to be like
a bunch of zombies like these heathen. We're just repeating and chanting things
that we don't it's not coming from the heart. You know the Bible says about
Moses how Moses spake to God like a like a man talketh it was friend. You know we
ought to pray to God from the heart you know and sometimes you know we can get
into a habit of like say you're praying before your food or you're praying
before bedtime we kind of just kind of get chant things and just you know say
the same thing over and over again. We got to be careful that when we pray to
God we pray from the heart you know really mean it and we kind of think
about what we're saying what we're praying to God because God hears us right
we're saved God's our Father and when we pray God hears us God already knows
what we're gonna ask for you know so we gotta make sure we're praying to God
from the heart not like these bunch of heathens here that just chant all the
strange prayers not only that but they also pray to Mary now they say they
don't worship Mary they say they venerate her well I'm gonna read you
some prayers that they pray to Mary and then and then you decide whether they're
worshipping Mary or not so this is this is what the pray they have a whole
prayers dedicated to Mary and they believe that Mary was sinless and I'll
read that to you from here so it says rejoice Mary birth-giver of God version
full of grace the Lord is with thee blessed art thou among women and
blessed is the fruit of thy womb for thou has borne the Savior of our souls
it is truly me to glorify thee O birth-giver of God ever blessed and all
undefiled the mother of God now the Bible never says that Mary is the mother
of God the Bible never uses that phrase okay it says about Mary more honorable
than the cherubim and beyond compare more glorious than the seraphim thou who
without stain this heat this bear the word of God true birth-giver of God we
magnify thee now how do how do they know what a cherubim or what a seraphim
look like who are they they're kind of just talking about things they don't
understand they don't even know and they're saying that Mary is more
glorious than these creatures in heaven and they're just kind of putting her up
on a pedestal now the Bible says she was a godly woman but you know Mary was a
sinner just like all of us all right and she needed to be saved here's another
prayed her Mary Oh gracious mother of the gracious God almost pure and blessed
Mary the mother of God poor the mercy of thy son and our God upon my
impassioned soul and with thine intercessions set me on to good works
that I may pass the rest of my life without blemish and with thine aid
attain heaven so they're praying to Mary and saying with your help Mary I want to
attain heaven and they're calling her the intercession you know Bible says
there's only one intercessor between God and man the man Christ Jesus you know
the Bible never teaches us to pray to anyone they pray to saints they pray to
Mary the Bible never teaches us to do that it says here Oh Virgin Mary mother
of God the faithful intercessor of the human race intercede for us in front of
Christ whom you have born that he may bestow upon us the forgiveness of our
sins now it sounds like they're worshipping Mary sounds like they're
not just venerating her they're literally praying to her they're saying
that she's gonna help them get to heaven it says O most holy mistress the
Theotokos who are far more honorable than the angels and archangels
cherubim and seraphim and far more holy than all the saints O virgin mother of
God save me thy humble and sinful servant for thou knowest all merciful
lady that after God I place all my hope in thee and that I have no other refuge
of salvation but thee but thou O compassionate mother thou haven of
passionlessness direct and save me O hope of the hopeless and mediatris of my
salvation this is not Christianity folks Orthodox are not Christians they're not
saved they're praying to Mary they're praying to us saints they're praying to
just people when the Bible says we have to pray to God worship God not worship
Mary you know Mary said in my spirit path and my spirit have rejoiced in God
my Savior if Mary was supposedly sinless and this perfect person why
would she need a Savior you know Mary said she needed a Savior I found an
article online called the sinlessness of Mary this is by the Orthodox Churches
of America it was on their website on their website OCA.org this is their
priest I can say in short that the Orthodox Church believes that Mary as a
human being could indeed have sinned but chose not to so according to them Mary
could have sinned but she didn't you know where's that in the Bible Bible
never says that and so you can see they have a lot of the same doctrines as
Catholicism they have a lot of the same false teachings really they have not
much to do with Christianity alone I mean they believe in the Trinity they
named the name of Christ but this is not true biblical Christianity at all if
someone's Orthodox and they actually believe what their church teaches they're
not saved they're not saved at all and we need to go give them the gospel you
know get them saved but this church let it be accursed let this guy be this guy's
already dead he's in hell but there's another pope in charge and these guys
you know these popes these leaders of the Orthodox Church are sending people
to hell not only that but I'll close with this they have this weird strange
doctrine about relics relics and I remember growing up in Orthodox Church
they would do this at the church that I grew up in and they have a an obsession
with the body parts of dead people okay they call them saints and so that what
they would do is they would some saint they would bring his bones or it could
be a skull or a piece of their body a hand a foot a finger a fingernail and
they would pass it around all the all the houses would pass it around they
would bow down they would worship it they would kiss it they would have it in
the church in the altar so look what it says here all the remains of the friends
of God so they call supposedly Christians they call them friends of God
all the remains of the friends of God the righteous strugglers were referred to
as relics and then he tells us what these relics could be bones heads skulls
hair hands feet and sometimes entire bodies if they were preserved through
which the Lord God is glorified by mysterious wonders and then he says the
Protestants and the Lutherans and all the sectarians reject the veneration of
the holy remains of Christian strugglers and like the heretics so so we're
heretics of times past laugh at this pious custom and scoff at Orthodox
Christians who call upon the friends of God in their prayers to him the
sectarians without any serious proof maintain that it is nowhere proclaimed
in the Bible that we should honor the friends of God to reverence the remains
of the holy martyrs and aesthetics and to glorify in sacred hymns those who
have suffered for Christ shedding their blood and then he puts the reference for
John 15 14 and so supposedly John 15 14 is telling us to worship the body parts
of dead people okay well let's see what John 15 14 says let's go ahead and turn
it John so he says all this and then he references he doesn't quote it he just
puts the reference down John 15 14 okay let's see what John 15 14 says so John
chapter 15 verse 14 so it says there John 15 14 you are my friends if you do
whatsoever I command you so there you go you know when when your sweet old me Ma
dies you know take that big toe and just bow down to it or something like
that now and actually you laugh but you know a lot of Christians do this and
it's called cremation if you think about it right what is cremation where a loved
one dies you know they get what they burn the body they have that that the
ash whatever is left over and they put it on the altar or the mantle in the
fireplace and you know they just just have it there now cremation is not
biblical you know we should not cremate our loved ones or our family members
when they pass away you know burial is actually biblical you know it
represents the gospel you know the death burial resurrection when we bury our
loved ones we're saying that one day they're gonna rise again we're gonna
get our glorified bodies and we're gonna rise again so I know it gets
expensive you know funeral costs and things like that and that's probably why
the main reason why people do them because unfortunately nowadays it's so
expensive for a funeral but you know what we should try our best for our
loved ones to bury them not to cremate them that's not biblical that's you know
has to do with a Hinduism Buddhism Orthodoxy and it's not biblical we should
do our best to try to bury our loved ones you know the but you know why these
people are obsessed with dead people and body parts and skulls and they'll have
skulls passed around I've been to an orthodox church as a kid where they
brought in the bones of some supposed saint and they had it wrapped up in some
red cloth and I remember literally bowing down to the bones of some dead
person just because my dad did it and I was just my dad told me to do it and I
did it you know and we know what the Bible says all they hate me love death
that's what the Bible says that's why these people love death because they
hate God you know these Orthodox popes the priests the bishops they hate God
that's why they love death that's where they glorify death that's where they
want to hold on to people's body parts and skulls so today I read for you just
word-for-word quotes from the Orthodox Pope he had two books that that I read
here I quoted from the heresy of salvation a moment you can look them up
online or PDFs 1991 and then he wrote another book in 2005 salvation Orthodox
concept so the Orthodox Church they're wrong on salvation they're wrong on
baptism they're wrong on the Lord's Supper they prayed at Mary they
worshiped the Saints they're obsessed with death and they're not saved you
know the Orthodox religion is nowhere near Christianity in some cases even
worse than that worse than the Catholicism and so how can we apply this
in our life today well you know we need to when we run into them we need to give
them the gospel they're not saved Orthodox Christians are not saved when
you run into them at the door you need to give them the gospel and you need to
point out that hey listen your church the Orthodox Church does not believe
the Bible on salvation they believe that salvation is by works and they need to
understand the difference between what the Bible teaches on salvation and what
their church believes because if an Orthodox Christian believes what their
church believes there's no way they're saved they can't be saved you know there
was a family that left faithful word and and went to an Orthodox Church they're
not saved they're for sure not saved you know and also how else can we apply
this well I listed to you countries whole countries that are Orthodox
Armenia 97% Greece 90% Romania 86% you know what to God one day maybe we can
go there we can send out missionaries from this church can go to these
countries and give them the gospel get them saved because the Orthodox Church
is sure as hell not getting them saved and so a lot of these countries speak
English maybe one day we can go there planet a mission strip or send someone
there to give them the gospel because the Orthodox Church is sending them to
hell you know and I don't hate Orthodox people I got a lot of families and
friends that are Orthodox I want to get them saved I want to preach in the
gospel but I do hate this Pope I do hate the religion and I do hate the leaders
because the Bible says I hate every false way and so when you run into them out
so winning let's just try to give them the gospel lovingly and try to get them
saved let's pray thank you Lord for this church Lord thank you for everyone here
I pray that you would bless us so winning later and in Jesus name I pray
amen final song song number 421 421 the first Noel song number 421 first Noel
421.