Now, I want to preach to you on this subject, and the reason that I think that this subject
is so important for me to preach on is because even though it may seem to you a little bit
irrelevant at first, I want to tell you something. I'm preaching against this morning the religion
in this world, the mother of all false religions, the most wicked religion in this world, and
I'm here to tell you that it has influenced the denominations of America, it has influenced
the denominations of the world, it has crept in with its wicked influences into Baptist
churches and independent Baptists, and so I want to expose to you this morning what
the Bible has to say about this mother of all false religions, the Roman Catholic Church,
and that's what I'm preaching on this morning. You say, preach the Bible. There's going to
be a lot of Bible in this sermon, and this sermon is called Catholicism in the Bible,
and I'm going to show you Catholicism throughout the Bible. Now, first of all, I want you to
see in Genesis 11, we started here for a reason, we see this group of people who've
just gotten off the ark, these are the sons of Noah, Shem, Ham, and Japheth, all their
descendants, and they were all of one speech, they were all of one language, and the first
thing they decided to do, they said, we're going to build a tower whose top may reach
unto heaven. Now, everything in the Bible has meaning and significance, and when you
look at them, they're all joined together in one group. God had told them to overspread
the face of the earth, to divide up and to fill the entire earth, but they decided to
all join together and build a tower to reach up to heaven. Now, this represents two things.
Number one, it represents work's salvation. Man thinks that he can build his own way to
heaven, not through the blood of Jesus Christ, not the gift of God's eternal life through
Jesus Christ our Lord, but man thinks that he can build and work his own way to heaven.
He said, I'm going to build a tower that reaches to heaven. I'm going to build my way
to heaven. Now, we say, come on, Pastor Anderson, in 2008, we know science, we know that no
matter how high you build a tower, you're not going to get to heaven. True, very true,
and you know what, it's no more true that no matter how much you go to church, no matter
how much of a good life you live, no matter how many times you get baptized or catechized
or sanctified, you will not get to heaven either. You must be paid for by the blood
of Jesus Christ. And so it's no more silly for these people to think that they can build
a tower to heaven than it is for a person in 2008 to think that they can earn their
own way to heaven, outside of the blood of Jesus Christ, outside of being saved by grace
through faith. Now, there were two things that we saw. Number one, work's salvation.
Number two, a universal religion. We see that they were all bound together, they were all
united. This was not God's will. You see, later on in the chapter, we see, actually,
I'm sorry, go back to chapter 10, right at the end of chapter 10. This is the introduction
to the sermon. Look at Genesis 10. The Bible says in verse number 31, these are the sons
of Shem after their families, after their tongues, in their lands, after their nations.
These are the families of the sons of Noah after their generations, in their nations,
and by these were the nations divided in the earth after the flood. Now, that's extremely
Now, that's explaining that God is going to divide their languages, which He did at the
Tower of Babel, and He's going to divide them into nations and families and separate mankind
into different groups, different nations. Not racist, by the way. You'll never find
the invention of the Bible of race, okay? I'm not a racist. I don't believe in separating
the races. I don't believe that interracial marriage is wrong. I believe that interracial
marriage is fine. There's nothing wrong with it in the Bible. And you'll not find the concept
of three races in the Bible. It's a lie. It's false doctrine. But God did ordain political
units called nations. It has nothing to do with the color of someone's skin, but He did
design political units called nations, and He designed for the world to speak various
languages in different parts of the world. He wanted that separation to exist, these
various groups to exist, not based on the color of your skin, but based on a nation,
based on a political unit. Now, we see at the beginning here, at Babel, a one-world
religion, a one-world government, and a work-salvation type religion. Now, this place, Babel, later,
would become Babylon, okay? The name of the city Babylon comes from Babel. Now, flip over,
if you would, to Jeremiah, and look at chapter 7 of Jeremiah. This is toward the end of the
Testament. You have these three big books, Isaiah, Jeremiah, and Ezekiel. Look at Jeremiah
chapter 7. Now, while you're turning there, let me read this for you. And I'm here to
tell you that Catholicism's influence has crept into all the denominations, and in fact,
most of today's denominations come out of Catholicism. And I'm going to prove that to
you, but listen to this. Who's ever heard of the Apostles' Creed? Put up your hand.
The Apostles' Creed. Okay, I looked up the Apostles' Creed on Wikipedia, which is, you
know, an online encyclopedia. If you're my age, you know what that is. If you're in your
40s or 50s, you know what I'm talking about now. But anyway, it says this under the Apostles'
Creed. It says, the Apostles' Creed is an early statement of Christian belief, a creed
or symbol. It is widely used by a number of Christian denominations for both liturgical
and clinical purposes, most visibly by liturgical churches of Western tradition, including the
right of the Roman Catholic Church, Lutheranism, Anglicanism, Western Orthodoxy, and is also
used by Presbyterians, Methodists, Congregationalists, and many Baptists. Now, let me tell you something
personally. I have heard the Apostles' Creed recited. I refused to quote it when I was
there. But at Victory Christian School in Sacramento, we were taught the Apostles' Creed.
At Sun Valley, it was at Sun Valley or Sun River Baptist Church in Orangeville, California,
I heard the Apostles' Creed recited at a Baptist church. I've heard this about three
or four times in my life in Baptist churches, and they recited this. Listen to the words
of what it says. I believe in God, the Father Almighty, Creator of Heaven and Earth. I believe
in Jesus Christ, His only Son, our Lord. And you know, they chant this. Okay. I believe
in the Father, the Almighty, Creator of Heaven and Earth. I believe in Jesus Christ, His
only Son, our Lord. He was conceived by the power of the Holy Ghost and born of the Virgin
Mary. He suffered under Pontius Pilate, was crucified, died, and was buried. He descended
into Hell. On the third day, He rose again. It's like, okay, duh, we already knew all
this stuff. Wow. You believe that there's a God in Jesus, okay. But wait, you'll see
why they chant this. He ascended into Heaven and is seated at the right hand of the Father.
He will come again to judge the living and the dead. Does anybody need to write this
down? It's all in the Bible, okay. We don't need to chant this. But listen to this. I
believe in the Holy Spirit, the Holy Catholic Church, the communion of saints, the forgiveness
of sins, the resurrection of the body, and the life everlasting. Amen. Now look, I've
sat in a Baptist church and heard a thousand people say, I believe in the Holy Catholic
Church. And I remember, they always gave us this little disclaimer. They said, well, the
word Catholic just means universal. They said, don't let that bother you, that word
Catholic. We're not talking about the Catholics. We're talking about universal, the universal
church. And some of us would even say in prison. But everybody would then chant, we believe
in the Holy Catholic Church. I heard it in Victory Christian School. I heard it in Sun
River Baptist. I heard it in Baptist churches in Sacramento, California. I'm here to tell
you something. I don't believe in the Holy Catholic Church. You say, oh, but that's the
Apostles Creed. Listen to the next statement in this encyclopedia. The name of the creed
comes from the probably 5th century legend. So who knows what the 5th century is? That's
the 400s AD, right? The 5th century legend that under the inspiration of the Holy Spirit
after Pentecost, each of the 12 apostles dictated part of it. So they all went around the table.
I believe in the Father, you know, and then one on the five. I believe in the Son, you
know. I believe in the Holy Catholic Church. No. Let me tell you something. Do we really
know that the apostles wrote this? In fact, I'll tell you, they didn't write it. Because
if they would have been speaking this under the inspiration of the Holy Ghost, guess where
it could be? In the Bible, wouldn't it? I mean, if this was something that God wanted
us to have, if this was something that the apostles spake by the inspiration of the Holy
Ghost, if they were holy men of God being moved by the Holy Ghost to speak those words,
they would be found between the two covers of your Bible. It's a fraud. It's a fraud
that was made hundreds of years later. And then hundreds of years after that, they said,
oh, by the way, this was spoken by the apostles. Just because you call something the apostles
creed, it has nothing more to do with the apostles than the apostolic church that's
down the street, first apostolic church of the deep freeze of Tempe that believes you
can lose your salvation, just because you call it the apostles creed, it has nothing
to do with the apostles. And I'm going to tell you something, I don't believe in the
universal church. You say, well, that's not kind of... Sure it is, because the Methodists
believe in the universal church. The Presbyterians believe in the universal church. And let me
tell you something, most Baptists believe in the universal church. They'll tell you
that the church consists of all believers in the whole world. Who's ever heard that
before? Put up your hand. They'll teach you that the church, quote unquote, consists of
all believers everywhere in this world. They believe in the universal church. I'm here
to tell you something, it's a lie. And I'm here to tell you also that the United Methodists
also believe that you can, that you, you know, works as part of salvation. I'm here to tell
you that the Presbyterians believe that works as part of salvation. I'm here to tell you,
you say, no, they're Calvinists. Yeah, and they believe in the perseverance of the saints,
that you must live the good life in order to be saved. I'm here to tell you that the
Lutherans believe in works as salvation. All these denominations believe, and so I'm going
to tell you something. A United Methodist is a Catholic. A Presbyterian is a Catholic.
A Southern Baptist is a Catholic. Are you listening to me? I don't care what they put
on the sign. They can call it Southern Baptist, they can call it Episcopalian, they can call
it African Methodist Episcopalian design, they can call it Church of Christ, Church
of God in Christ. To me, they're all Catholic because they believe in the two things that
Catholicism has always stood for, work, salvation, and a universal church. Are you listening
to me? That's what Catholicism is. Work, salvation, and a universal church, and that's what they
believe in. Now look if you would in your Bible at Hebrews chapter number two. We're
going to look at a lot of Bibles this morning. You say, why are you preaching against Catholicism?
I'm not just preaching against Catholicism, I'm preaching against Catholicism and all
of her Protestant children who are not called Catholic, but they really are on the inside
of a Catholic church. If I walk into a church and the preaching is work, salvation, and
the preaching is a universal church, you're in a Catholic church. I don't care what the
sign says. Now look down at your Bible at Hebrews chapter two verse twelve. The Bible
says, saying I will declare thy name unto my brethren. In the midst of the church will
I sing praise unto thee. Now notice that term, in the midst of the church will I sing
praise unto thee. Now the Psalm twenty-two, twenty-two. Keep your finger there, flip back
to Psalm twenty-two, twenty-two. While you're turning there, let me tell you this. The word
churches, with an ES on the end, is used thirty-seven times in the Bible. Now let me ask you something.
If there's one universal church, why does God use the word churches thirty-seven times
and every one of those thirty-seven times is a positive mention? He's being positive
about the fact that there are many churches. I mean, this is one church, right? Across
town there's another church, across the country there are many other churches. Why? Because
you're about to see what a church is. Look at Psalm twenty-two, twenty-two. It says I
will declare thy name unto my brethren in the midst of the congregation will I praise
thee. What did it say, flip back to Hebrews two twelve? Saying I will declare thy name
unto my brethren in the midst of the church will I sing praise unto thee. So what does
that mean? Church and congregation are the same word, right? He's quoting congregation
in Greek in the New Testament as church. And so a church is when people congregate. It's
when people assemble. It's the group that's here right now. Let me tell you something.
We are not assembled with every believer in the entire world. So therefore there is no
universal church. There is no universal assembly. There are churches. Thirty-seven times God
said churches and then he also went on to tell us about the church which is at Ephesus,
the church at Smyrna, the church at Pergamos, the church at Thyatira, the church at Sardis,
the church at Philadelphia, the church of Laodicea, the church in this particular town.
Because there are many local assemblies, local congregations, local churches. There is no
Catholic church. There is no universal church found in the Bible. Yet the Southern Baptists
in their statement of faith believe in a universal church. Yet the United Methodists in their
statement of faith believe in a universal church. He said they don't believe that. Look,
the United Methodists, 10% of their preachers are queers. Don't even try to defend the United
Methodist Church to me, brother. They got a dyke and a faggot down in the pulpit. If
you don't like that word, then go find another church. Go find one of these queer churches
and they'll put the faggot down in the pulpit. I'll stand behind the pulpit and call him
the faggot that he is. And if you don't like that kind of preaching, nobody forced you
to be here this morning. I'm here to preach the Bible and I'm sick of that. Hey, let me
tell you something. Our country is run by faggots. You know who wrote this $700 billion
bailout bill? You know who was the man who was the architect of the bailout? His name
was Barney Franks. He's a pedophile. He's been arrested for interacting with boys that
are in their teenage years when he's in his 50s. It's in the news. He's been arrested
for it. He is a pedophile. He is a homosexual. He is stood up in the floor of the sacred
halls of justice in this country and said, I am gay. I'm a sodomite. That's Barney
Franks. That's who just sold our country into fascism. That's who just sold our corporations
to the government. That's who sold out our country a faggot. And I'm here to tell you
something. I'm not going to stand by and let a faggot run the church. It's bad enough
that we've got a bunch of faggots running the government. You think I'm going to stand
by and let some faggot run the church? See, I don't like that word. Why don't you like
it? What word do you like? Gay? Gay means happy. Gay means joyful. I'm happy. I'm
joyful. He's a faggot. 1 Corinthians 12. Can you turn there please? See, I don't like
this church. You know what? This church goes out every single day and wins people to Christ.
This church goes out every day and knocks the doors of this city. This church is going
to knock every door in the valley. You say you don't love people? We're knocking 4 million
doors in this valley. We knock the doors. We win the souls to Christ. And when you come
here on Sunday morning and Sunday night and Wednesday night, you're going to hear the
truth preached out of the Bible. I'm going to tell you something. I haven't preached
in this church. I haven't given 2 years and 9 months of my life to see this church come
to pass, to back down now, to tone it down now. Hey, this church is not changing. And
if you didn't like the preaching 2 years ago when we were meeting in my living room
and I was kicking my kitchen counter and screaming the same thing, I'm screaming right now, then
you probably don't like it right now. And if you don't like it today, you probably won't
like it tomorrow. 1 Corinthians 12. Now this is where the universal church crowd, this
is their one verse that they go to to try to prove their false doctrine. They go to
1 Corinthians 12.13. Look down at the one that says, For by one spirit are we all baptized
into one body, whether we be Jews or Gentiles, whether we be bond or free, and have been
all made to drink into one spirit. Now they look at this and they say, well wait a minute.
See, we're all baptized into one body. One church, right? We're all baptized into one
church. Well think about this though. Keep your finger there and look at Ephesians 5.
Look at Ephesians 5. Keep your finger on 1 Corinthians 12.13. Look over at Ephesians
5. Look at verse 23. So they say, well, we're all baptized into one spirit and one body,
so there's one universal church. And this is kind of their one verse that they hang
their whole doctrine on. Because the whole rest of the Bible teaches churches with a
physical location. It teaches that it's a congregation of people. Look at Ephesians
5.23. The Bible says, For the husband is the head of the wife, even as Christ is the head
of the church, and he is the savior of the body. Now they'll say, wait a minute. See?
He's the head of the church singular. He's the savior of the body singular. But wait
a minute. Look at the first part of that verse. The husband is the head of the wife. Is there
only one husband? Is there only one wife in this whole world? No. What is he saying? He's
saying every husband is the head of his wife. And Christ is the head of every church. He's
talking about an institution here, right? The institution of marriage. The husband is
the head of the wife. How many husbands and wives are there in this world? Millions. How
many different churches are there in this world? Thousands. Millions. And Christ is
the head of this church? Christ should be the head of every church in the world. That's
all he's saying. And so look back at 1 Corinthians 12.13. Look at the context. He says, For by
one spirit are we all baptized into one body. Now if we stop right there, that would be
one thing, but let's keep reading. Whether we be Jews or Gentiles. Do you see the point
he's trying to make here is not that there's only one body or one church. The point he's
trying to make is that, hey, whether you're a Jew or a Gentile, whether you're white or
black or Chinese, you're still baptized in the same church that I'm baptized in. God
said his house, we call it a house of prayer for all nations. Now do you see that? That's
the context. He says whether we be Jews or Gentiles, whether we be bond or free, whatever
your financial standing is, when you're in the church, it's equality. Doesn't matter
if you're raised, your financial status, that's what he's saying here. And so there is no
universal church. There are churches, congregations of people, and if you're not congregated,
it's not a church. That's what church means. And so there is no universal church. It's
a false teaching. And by the way, this building is not a church. You'll notice that we never
call this building the church. I never tell people, meet me down at the church. I usually
say, well, meet me down at the building. We'll see you at the church building. Well, meet
me at the building. Why? Because this isn't a church. This is not an assembly of people.
This is just a building. And so a church is a congregation of people. Now I had a church
in Jeremiah 7 and I forgot to go into that. Go back if you were there. Maybe you're still
there if you have any fingers on your hand. You might have a finger in pretty much every
book in the Bible by now. But Jeremiah chapter 7, look at verse 18. Now remember, the place
where this Catholicism, this universalism, this one world religion, this universal church
work salvation religion began was at Babel. I mean, they got off the ark and right away
they started this false religion at the Tower of Babel. Remember, that place Babel later
became known as Babylon, the city, okay? Well, look at Jeremiah 7. We'll see a Babylonian
religion described that the children of Israel were beginning to worship. Look at Jeremiah
7, 18. It says, the children gather wood and the fathers kindle the fire and the women
eat their dough to make cakes to the queen of heaven. You see that? To make cakes to
the queen of heaven and to pour out drink offerings unto other gods that they may provoke
me to anger. Now look at Jeremiah 44. You're in chapter 7, flip over to 44. You see, baking
cakes to the queen of heaven is something that's going on today in Tempe, Arizona. I've
seen in this city, in Phoenix, Arizona, a church called Queen of Heaven Catholic Church.
I've been in Sacramento, California and saw a cemetery that was called Queen of Heaven
Cemetery. It was a Catholic cemetery. They are worshiping the queen of heaven. They have
a little wafer. You say, that's communion. That's not communion. You say, that's the
Lord's Supper. That's not the Lord's Supper. You say, prove it. I'll prove it to you right
now. When Jesus had, he break, when he had prayed, he break the bread and gave it unto
them, okay? Are they breaking bread down at the Catholic Church? No. They're baking a
little wafer. They're baking a little unleavened bread. They're baking a round little unleavened
cake that you put in your mouth and that is a cake that they're baking to Mary, who is
really the queen of heaven that they're worshiping, a false goddess that we see all the way back
in Jeremiah that the Babylonians are worshiping. And so, look, when we take communion, we break
the bread. We break unleavened bread because Jesus said, this is my body which is broken
for you. We don't bake some little cake that you put on your tongue and say, okay, this
is communion. This is the communion of the broken body of Jesus Christ. It's not. Look
at Jeremiah 44 16. It says, as for the word that thou has spoken unto us in the name of
the Lord, we will not hearken unto thee, but we will certainly do whatsoever thing going
forth out of our own mouth to burn incense unto the queen of heaven and to pour out drink
offerings unto her as we have done we and our fathers, our kings and our princes in
the cities of Judah and in the streets of Jerusalem for then had we plenty of piddles
and were wells on a wheel. So here, they're burning incense to the queen of heaven. They're
doing it down the street in the Catholic church right now, burning incense, eating cakes that
they baked to the queen of heaven. Verse 18, but since we left off to burn incense to the
queen of heaven and to pour out drink offerings unto her, we have wanted all things that have
been consumed by the sword and by the famine. And when we burned incense to the queen of
heaven and poured out drink offerings unto her, did we make her cakes to worship her
and pour out drink offerings unto her without our men? And I can keep reading, it just keeps
going on and on about the worshiping the queen of heaven, worshiping the queen of heaven.
Now look at Luke chapter one, if you would, in the New Testament, Matthew, Mark, Luke.
Look at Luke chapter one. I'm going to show you what the Bible teaches about Mary, the
mother of Jesus. You see, the Catholic church, this universal religion, this one world religion,
this religion of we're all part of this great big universal Catholic church, the body of
Christ or whatever you want to call it. This religion that teaches a worse salvation, yes
they do, you must live a good life, you must be baptized, you must join the church, you
must confess to the priest. They also worship the queen of heaven. We saw that in Jeremiah.
They worship, they call it Mary, the Bible calls it the queen of heaven, they call it
the queen of heaven. And the Bible calls it the false god. Look at Luke chapter one, verse
46. The Bible says, and Mary said, my soul that magnified the Lord and my spirit had
rejoiced in God my savior. And you say, what made you think of preaching this sermon? This
is what made me think of preaching this sermon. I was sitting on an airplane on Thursday.
I was on my way to Lubbock, Texas, and I sat next to a very nice young man, he was a clean
cut young guy, and he was a dyed in the wool Roman Catholic. I mean, this guy was, you
could tell that he was a Catholic from birth. And he really, you know, most Catholics, well
I'm Catholic, but they don't really go to Catholic church. They're not really that devout.
But this guy was very devout. He attends religiously, he's always there as a young guy. And I asked
him, I said, do you believe that Mary never sinned? And he said, Mary never sinned. That's
what he told me. I said, do you believe that Mary is the mother of God? He said, yes, we
believe that Mary is the mother of God and that she never sinned. So here's where I took
him, look it up. It says in verse 47, my spirit has rejoiced in God my savior. Let me ask
you something. If Mary never sinned, why does she need to be saved? Why does she need a
savior? Because you say, what does that mean? Jesus came to save his people from their sins.
His name shall be called Jesus for he shall save his people from their sins. So what was
he saving Mary from if it was not her sins? She said that God's her savior. Look at chapter
11 of Luke. Look over to chapter 11. The book of Luke is a great chapter for defeating this
false doctrine of worshipping Mary. Look at Luke chapter 11 verse 27. The Bible reads,
and it came to pass as he's faith. So here Jesus is in the middle of teaching. This woman
interrupts him mid-sentence while he's preaching. Has that ever happened to you brother Dave
and the rest of the couple? It says, it came to pass as he spanked these things. It happened
to Alberta last week. A certain woman of the company lifted up her voice and said unto
him, so here's this woman just pipes up from the crowd, blessed is the womb that bear thee
and the past which thou has suck. So who's she blessing? Mary. She's saying, blessed be
the womb that gave birth to you. And basically the past is talking about the breast that
gave him suck as a child. And so she said, blessed be Mary, is what this woman yells
out. Watch Jesus rebuke her. But he said, yea rather, he's saying more so, rather, blessed
are they that hear the word of God and keep it. You know what? If you hear God's word
and keep it, you'll be more blessed than Mary. Did you hear that? That's what Jesus said.
Listen ladies, but you know, Mary blessed art thou among women. You could be more blessed
than Mary in 2008. If you hear God's word and keep it, you could be more blessed than
Mary. That's what the Bible says. But notice the rebuke. Look if you would at Matthew chapter
12, go back to those two books in the Bible, Matthew chapter 12 verse 46. And while you're
turning there, I'll read you something else. John 2, because I'm in a hurry, I have so
much in this sermon. John chapter 2 says this, you're turning to Matthew 12. And the third
day there was a marriage in Cana of Galilee, and the mother of Jesus was there. And both
Jesus was called and his disciples to the marriage. And when they wanted wine, the mother
of Jesus saith unto him, they have no wine. Jesus saith unto her, watch what he says to
his mother, woman, what have I to do with thee? Are you listening to this? Boy, he's
really bowing down and worshipping mom, isn't he? Woman, what have I to do with thee? Mine
shower is not yet come. Now watch Mary's response to him rebuking her. His mother saith
unto the servants, whatsoever he saith unto you, do it. Did you hear that? Mary defers
to Jesus and says, whatever he says to you, do it. Okay? Look down at the Bible, Matthew
12, 46. While he yet talked to the people, behold, his mother and his brothers, Mary
and his half-brothers, stood without desiring to speak with them. Then one said unto him,
behold, thy mother and thy brethren stand without desiring to speak with you. But he
answered and said unto him that told him, who is my mother? Wow, he really has a huge
amount of reverence for the mother of God, doesn't he? Who is my mother? He said, and
who are my brethren? And he stretched forth his hand toward his disciples and said, behold
my mother and my brethren, for whosoever shall do the will of my father which is in heaven,
the same is my brother and sister and mother. Did you hear that? If you do the will of God,
you're Jesus' brother. Did you hear that? The Bible calls him the first among many brothers.
He's our elder brother, Jesus Christ. Did you know that you could be Jesus' sister if
you serve God with your life? If you're saved and serving God, you could be even called
his mother. That's what it says. I mean, he said, look, if you do the will of my father
which is in heaven, you're my brother, you're my sister, you're my mother. Notice he doesn't
mention father, obviously, but he mentions mother, brother, sister. Nothing special about
that. Look at Matthew 22.41. You're in Matthew 12. Look at Matthew 22.41. Now while you're
turning there, I'll read you this scripture. This is another scripture that I showed to
the young man on the airplane. I showed him this scripture. I showed him Hebrew 7.3 where
the Bible says of Jesus, without father, without mother, without descent, having neither beginning
of days, so did Jesus ever have a beginning? No, nor end of life, but made like unto the
Son of God, abideth the priest continually. So Jesus had no father, no mother, no descent,
no beginning of days, nor anybody. He's always been. He's God. Now look at Matthew 22, and
this will help you interpret Hebrew 7.3. It says, while the Pharisees were gathered together,
Jesus asked them, saying, What think ye of Christ? Whose son is he? They say unto him,
I am the son of David. He saith unto them, How then did David and Spirit call him Lord?
Saying, The Lord said unto my Lord, Sit thou on my right hand till I make thine enemies
thy footstool. If David then calleth him Lord, how is he his son? And no man was able to
answer him a word. Neither durst any man from that day forth ask him any more questions.
So look, he's saying, How is he the son of David if David calls him Lord? Now look, was
Jesus physically descended from David? Yes, he was. Was Jesus physically descended from
Mary? Yes, he was. But is Mary the mother of God? No. Is Mary the mother of Christ?
No. Mary's the mother of the man, Jesus, who was God in the flesh? Yes. But let me tell
you something. Jesus created Mary. How is he Mary's son? Jesus created David. I mean,
he's preaching this to Mary. How can you say that Christ is the son of David when he created
David, when David calls him Lord? Okay, do you see what I'm saying here? And so yes,
Jesus' mother physically was married, but is she the mother of God? Absolutely not.
And so it's blasphemy to call Mary the mother of God, or the mother of Christ. That's not
what the Bible teaches. Now look down if you would at, actually look over to 1 Timothy
chapter 2, toward the end of the New Testament. I know we're looking at a lot of the Bible
this morning, and really this sermon is still long, there's no way I'm ever going to finish
it, because I just, I would get started on each point, and I just had like 100 Bible
preface to prove that one point, about how unscriptural Catholicism is. But look down
if you would at 1 Timothy, and uh, 1 Timothy chapter 2 verse 5. Now this doesn't just go
for Mary, this goes for a lot of things, but look down at this, it says, For there is one
God, and one mediator between God and men, the man Christ Jesus. So a mediator is someone
who goes between. Let's say, uh, Brother Wilson and I, we're having some kind of dispute.
We're angry with each other, we're having a fight, and uh, there's some kind of a financial
thing, and uh, we're just, every time we get together, we just, we just start swinging,
you know, because we're both so mad, we can't control, ugh, you know. Okay, we need a mediator,
right? We need somebody to sit down and say, okay, let's go ahead and talk this out, and
somebody has kind of a go-between, right? Now, how does Jesus harm a mediator? Well,
not in the same way, but that, I'm trying to use a modern term, that's what it's called
when you need mediation in a lawsuit or a mediator, okay? But Jesus is, is basically
the go-between, because he said, No man cometh unto the Father, but by me, right? So basically
our path to heaven, our communication with God the Father is open through the man Jesus
Christ. I mean, we come to the Father through Jesus the Son. Now, there's only one mediator
between God and man, the man Christ Jesus. Now, did you know that the Catholic Church
calls Mary the mediator? Which is the female version of the word mediator. Mediator is
masculine, mediator is feminine, they call her Mary the mediator. No, there's one mediator.
And not only that, but this young man on the plane told me, and I preached him the gospel,
he didn't receive it, but I preached it to him, and he told me, he said, when we go to
the priest, they're a person who goes between us and God, basically. Because I said, can
that priest forgive your sins, or is it God forgiving the sins? And he said, well, he
forgives the sins, he's acting as Jesus, he's a go-between between us and Jesus. I said,
there's one mediator between God and man, the man Christ Jesus. It's not the mediatrix,
it's not Father, it's not the Pope, it's not the priest, it's Jesus Christ. That's why
we should come boldly to the throne of grace, that we may find mercy and obtain help in
time of need. We don't need to go through the priest, we don't need to go through Mary,
we go to the Father through Jesus the Son, and give Him the glory of great things He
has done, as the psalm goes. But look if you would at Exodus chapter 4. Deuteronomy 4,
the 5th book of the Old Testament. Deuteronomy 4. And by the way, while we're on the subject
of the priests, listen to this verse. This is a true saying, if a man desires the office
of a bishop, he desires the good work, a bishop then must be blameless, the husband of one
wife. The Bible commands a bishop to be married. Did you hear that? It says, vigilant, sober,
sober. Did you hear that, you drunk priest? Sober, a good behavior, given to hospitality.
Act to teach, to teach the Bible. Not to stand up and chant, not to quote a bunch of stuff
in another language, Latin. Not to get up and sprinkle dust, poofoo dust everywhere,
and put a cracker in somebody's mouth, and say a bunch of meaningless mumbo jumbo, to
get up and teach the Bible, is what God has called the bishop to do. That's what God called
the preacher to do. He says, the husband of one wife, vigilant, sober, a good behavior,
given to hospitality, act to teach, not given to wine. And not giving out wine, we could
say. And by the way, my wife said that when she grew up in the, in the wicked Roman Catholic
religion, that's what it is, over in Germany, she said she went to church, nobody drank
a wine except the priest. He'd give you a cracker, he'd take a swig of wine. He'd give
out the next cracker, he'd take another swig of wine. He'd give out the next cracker, the
guy was an alcoholic. I talked to another Baptist pastor, he told me he went to visit
some of the people in his church, they were shocked, because he went over to their house
and he abstained from alcohol. Because they said, when the priest comes over, we get out
our best bottles of hard liquor. They get out brandy, they get out scotch, is this the
truth? They get out the hardest liquor and operate to the priest. And he sits around,
talking to people in their house, sitting on the couch, drinking from house to house.
He's a drunk. And then this pastor said that his people were impressed, because when I
was with this Baptist pastor, we worked 70 hours a week by the sweat of our face, building
a building. And they said, wow, a preacher who works, we're used to the one who just
drinks. He's a wino. But it says here, not given wine, no striker, not greedy, a filthy
lucre, a patient, not a brawler, not covetous, one that ruled well his own house, having
his children in subjection with all gravity. His children, did you hear that? Now, they
usually do have children, they just don't have wives. They just have bastard children
with all the women that they're fornicating with, these priests. And that's when they're
not fornicating with little boys and other men, the pervert sodomites that they are.
If you haven't noticed how these Catholic priests are a bunch of pedophiles and sodomites,
I wish you'd wake up and open your eyes and smell the coffee of what the Catholic religion
is about. You say, well, priests are celibate. You call that celibacy. But he says in Deuteronomy
chapter 4, the Bible says that the false prophet has his eyes full of adultery and that he
cannot cease from sin. The Bible says that the false prophet in 2 Peter 2 and in Jude,
he defiles the flesh like them and Sodom and Gomorrah defile the flesh. That's what it
says in Jude and 2 Peter chapter 2. So the Bible, I already knew that they were queers
before the news media exposed to us that these pedophile priests were a Jew. But look at
Deuteronomy chapter 4. The Bible says in verse number 12, and the Lord spake unto you out
of the midst of the fire, ye heard the voice of the words. Okay, so God spoke them, but
watch this, but saw no similitude. They didn't see an image. Only he heard a voice. And he
declared unto you his covenant, which he commanded you to perform, even 10 commandments. And
he wrote them upon two tables of stone. And the Lord commanded me at that time to teach
you statutes and judgments that you might do them in the land whither you go over to
possess it. Take ye therefore good heed unto yourselves, for you saw no manner of similitude
on the day that the Lord spake unto you in the midst of the fire. Lest ye corrupt yourselves,
watch this, and make you a graven image. What's a graven image? Carved image. Carving
something, engraving out of stone. He says, a graven image, verse 16, the similitude of
any figure, the likeness of male or female. The likeness of male or female. Don't grave
it. You say, oh Pastor Anderson, we like you so much. After you die, we're going to
make a statue of you. That's idolatry. That's idolatry. I mean, look, I love Dr. Hiles.
You know, I mean, I grew up listening to a lot of Dr. Hiles preaching, but you know,
the first time I ever walked into Hiles Anderson College, what did I find? But a molten image
of Dr. Hiles at the front door of Hiles Anderson that's lifelike, life size, bigger than me.
A molten image of Dr. Hiles. Now look, hey, great preacher, okay, wonderful. But should
we make a molten image of him? No. He said, well the Bible just says not to worship molten
images. That's not what I just read. Let's read it again. Lest ye corrupt yourselves
and make you a graven image. The similitude of any figure. The likeness of male, that's
Jesus. That's, you know, the longer guy that they say is Jesus. That's the saints. That
could be Dr. Hiles. That could be Mary, the female version of that. Don't make it, he
says. The likeness of any beast that is on the earth. The likeness of any winged fowl
that flies in the air. The likeness of anything that creepeth on the ground. The likeness
of any fish, that's the metal fish that's on the back of your car. The likeness of any
fish that is in the waters beneath the earth. And, and, and, and, lest thou lift up thine
eyes unto heaven. And when thou seest the sun, and the moon, and the stars, even all
the hosts of heaven, shouldest be driven to worship them. Who? The stars, the sun, and
the moon. Which the Lord hath divided unto all nations under heaven. Show me in that
passage where it says anything about worshipping the graven image. It doesn't say anything
about worshipping it. It says don't make it. Read it again. Don't make it. Don't grave
it. Don't melt it. Don't make statues of human beings and animals. He says they're idols.
And I'm going to tell you something. The metal fish on the back of the car that supposedly
represents Jesus is an idol. The metal little dove on the back of the car is an idol. The
statue of Dr. Hyles in front of Hyles Anderson College is an idol. The statue of Jesus hanging
on the cross in the Roman Catholic Church is idolatry. The statue of Mary that's bobbing
on the dashboard of your car like some kind of a chihuahua from Taco Bell that came in
a happy meal that bobs around that you think is your good luck charm. Let me tell you something.
It's an idol. It's idolatry. Ask the Roman Catholic if they worship statues. What will
they tell you? No. Ask them if they worship a statue of Mary. They'll tell you no. Ask
them if they worship a statue of Jesus. They'll tell you no. And yet what do they do? They
get on their knees right in front of a statue and they pray to Jesus and they look at an
image of Jesus. Read the Bible. Judges 17 where Micah the prophet builds a graven image
to the Lord and worships it and it's condemned by the Bible. It doesn't matter whether the
image is to Jesus, to Mary, to a great preacher, to some kind of anybody. It just says don't
make them. Don't make them and don't bow down to them. Two different commands in two different
factors. And of course Exodus 20 gives us the ten commandments. The second commandment
is thou shalt not make unto thee any graven image. He could have just said don't worship
a graven image if that's what he meant. But what he meant was not to make it. He didn't
say don't worship. He said don't make it. And then later he said don't worship it. Titus
1.5. Actually I'm sorry. Go to Matthew 6. I'll just read for you Titus 1.5 to save time.
This is Titus 1.5. The Bible reads for this cause left I thee in Crete that thou should
have said in order the things that are wanting and ordain elders in every city as I have
appointed thee. So what's he ordaining in every city? Elders. Right? If any be blameless,
the husband of one wife having faithful children. So does the elder need to be the husband of
one wife? Yes. Does he need to have faithful children? Yes. Having faithful children not
accused of riot or unruly for a bishop must be blameless. So what do we see there? Elder
and bishop or synonymous? Because now all of a sudden you use the word bishop. For a
bishop must be blameless as the steward of God. Not self willed. Not soon angry. Not
given the wine. Did you hear that? No striker. Not given to filthy loser. You say wait a
minute past marriage and you sound angry this morning. Are you soon angry? I've been
getting angry for like the last 20 years. This isn't soon angry. I was angry about this
10 years ago. Let me tell you something. Before I joined an independent fundamental Baptist
church in Sacramento California, me and my family quit two churches. You want to know
why we quit those two churches? Because in the first church the Sunday school teacher
got up and said that many of the popes throughout history were actually saint born again Christians.
The pope. Did you hear that? And then the second church we went to and these were both
Baptist churches and they said they were both conservative. We went to the second Baptist
church and this is what he said. I told him the story. I said yeah we quit the church
because the guy said the popes were saved. He said well I think pope John Paul II is
saved. He said I think our current pope is saved. That's why we quit the church my friend
and 10 years later maybe somebody will quit the church for the opposite reason. Wouldn't
that be poetic justice? Because somebody is getting up and telling you that the Roman
Catholic church is straight out of hell. It's the most. You say why do you hate the Roman
Catholic church? Maybe because they murdered 60 million people throughout the dark ages.
You think that could have something to do with it? Maybe because they tortured people
to death, pulled them apart in four pieces, put them on the rack, tortured them to try
to get them to confess. The man who invented the printing press that prints books today
was burned at the stake. The man who invented the movable type printing press, Johann Gutenberg,
where you can move the letters around and print a different page, he was burned at the
stake by the Roman Catholic church for printing the Bible. William Tyndale, the man who translated
the Bible into English, that our King James Bible is literally a revision of Tyndale's
Bible, literally derived from Tyndale's work, did not finish his translation because he
was burned at the stake by the Roman Catholic murdering church. Did you hear that? Don't
tell me that Roman Catholics are Christians. Don't tell me that Jesus Christ is found in
a Roman Catholic church. Don't tell me that the Pope is saved. The Pope is an anti-Christ
and every Pope that has ever lived has been an anti-Christ and put himself in the place
of Jesus Christ. Every priest in America is an anti-Christ. Did you hear me? And you know
what? You say, do you hate the Catholic people? No, many of them are just a seed. That's why
I'm going to be out knocking at their doors. I hope you're with me this afternoon. We'll
go get some Catholic saved. See my wife in the back row? She was praised Catholic. I
got her saved. That's how much I love Catholics. She's still a Catholic on their mind. She's
still on the roll down there in Germany. You have to pay like 400 bucks to get your name
taken off the Catholic roll. So I'm married to a Roman Catholic. Obviously she's not anything
to do with the Roman Catholic church, but you know, they'll tell you that they have
all these members that don't even go to their church. You know, she's been a Baptist now.
She's been saved for what? Over eight years and been a Baptist and, and you know, I'm
sure she's probably been excommunicated that they knew, you know, what she believed and
did with her life. But I'm going to tell you something. The Roman Catholic church is wicked.
No bones about it. There's no bones about it with this preacher that the Roman Catholic
church is wicked. Don't have, don't tell me to soften up on the Catholics. Don't tell
me that the Catholics are saved. We need to go out and tell these people the truth so
that they can be saved. I talked to this young man on the airplane and I said to him how
all these things I showed, all the things I just showed you, I showed this young man
all these things. He did not have an answer for one of them. This was his answer after
I just showed him again and again. I showed him Matthew 23 where Jesus said not to call
anybody Rabbi, not to call anybody Father, not to call anybody Master. Those are terms
that are reserved for Jesus Christ. Rabbi, Father and Master, only Jesus is the only
one that takes those titles. And I showed him this and he said this, he said well wait
a minute, but you privately interpret the Bible, don't you? I said I don't interpret
the Bible at all. I said I just take it for what it says. I didn't believe what it says.
I said it says right here not to call anybody Rabbi, I'm not going to call anybody Rabbi.
It says right here not to call anybody Father, I'm not going to call anybody Father. I said
I don't interpret it at all. And he said well you privately interpreted, the Church
interprets the Bible for me. I said do you think the Church is infallible? He said yes.
He said God leads the Church, God leads the Pope and the priest into what the truth is
because he said everybody can read the Bible, get totally different ideas from it, so we
got to have one person leading which is the Roman Catholic Church and the Pope and the
priest. That's who's going to interpret it for us. Well you know he's right, we do need
one person to interpret it for us. It's the Holy Spirit. And if you're saved, the Holy
Spirit is inside you. And I showed him in 1 John 2 where it says ye need not that any
man teach you, but as the same anointing, which referring to the Holy Spirit of New
Australia, the same anointing teacheth you of all things, it is the truth and is no lie.
And even as it hath taught you, ye shall abide in him. And so I showed him this and here
was the ironic thing about this young man. He said he was a traditional Catholic, part
of the order of Pope Pius X. And he told me this, I said what does that mean? He said
well we reject a lot of the Vatican's decisions they made in 1960, there was this big Vatican
council in 1960, we don't accept those changes. And I sat there and said wait a minute, I
thought the Pope's infallible. I thought the Church is infallible. I said who do you think
you are to privately interpret the Bible and decide what that 1960 stuff is about?
I said isn't that a little bit, I mean are you picking and choosing? Yeah, that's a little
bit hypocritical. I mean I thought the Church can do no wrong. I thought the Pope is the
vicar of Christ on earth. If he says 1960, if he says jump, you better ask him how high
on the way up. And he's like yeah, I kind of see what you're saying. But you know, I'll
have to study, I'll have to look at this. And then I told him, I said hey, and I showed
him in the Bible where the Bible says that it's a shame for a man to have long hair.
I said why do they have a long hair of Jesus? I said that's not in the Bible. And I said
while we're on that subject, I said why are all the paintings of these men from the Roman
Catholic Church in the Sistine Chapel nude? I said those paintings going to Roman Catholic
Church is filled with nude men and women. Have you ever been to a Catholic Church in
Europe? All the walls are covered in nude men and women. Go to a castle in Germany,
you'll see paintings of nude men and women. Go to the Sistine Chapel in Rome, St. Peter's
Basilica. It's covered in paintings of nude men and women and statues of nude men and
statues of nude women. I asked him this, I said are you comfortable with Playboy magazine,
Penthouse magazine? I said are you a subscriber? He said no. I said what's the difference?
He said well, those are, you know, sensual. These paintings aren't for sensual purposes.
It's just showing a nude woman, nude man, just for granted I guess. I don't know what
the purpose is. And I said okay, I said would you show your two young boys, would you show
them a TV program that showed a nude woman that was not sensual at all just for education
purposes? He said no, of course not. And I said then explain to me why the Catholic
Church promotes all this nudity and all this pornography. Explain to me why it's okay for
the Catholic Church to paint their walls with pornography. He had no answer. Because there
is no answer. Because it's wrong. Are you listening to me? I mean, in Bob Jones University,
man I love naming names. Bob Jones University in Greenville, South Carolina has a bunch
of naked paintings in their art gallery. Check it out. They've been there since the
1960s and they're still there to this day. Go to Bob Jones University, Greenville, South
Carolina. You say why? Because of exactly what I'm telling you. Because guess what Bob
Jones was? A Methodist. Guess where the Methodists came from? The Episcopales. Guess where the
Episcopales came from? The Roman Catholic Church. Did you hear me? That's why they have
their bishops and archbishops and their boards and their councils and their denominations.
That's why they have all their nude paintings everywhere. That's why they have all their
idols everywhere. That's why they have chanting everywhere. Let me tell you something. If
you go to a church where you chant the Lord's Prayer, that is not a scriptural church. That's
blasphemous. Turn to Matthew 6. You go to a church that says,
Our Father, who art in heaven, hallowed be thy name. Thy kingdom come, thy will be done.
And if this isn't heaven, give me this air. That's false. You're going to a descendant
of the mother whore Catholic Church. That's where you're going. You may not like me saying
that, but I'm just here to tell you the truth this morning. Look at Matthew 6. Look at this.
He says in verse number 7 of Matthew 6, he says, But when ye pray, use not vain repetitions.
You see that? Repeating the same thing again and again. That's praying the rosary. That's
praying in Our Father and then praying. Look, are you going to tell me that a Protestant
church just happens to chant the Lord's Prayer and that just also happens to be what the
Catholics pray on the rosary beads? Oh, that's a coincidence, right? Give me a break. The
Catholics have been chanting that thing for hundreds of years. Over a thousand years they've
had their beads and chanted the Lord's Prayer and the Hail Mary. Every other bead, one of
them is a Hail Mary, one of them is an Our Father. One of them is a Hail Mary, one of
them is an Our Father. But you know what? You're going to a church that's half Catholic
because you're going in and saying a bunch of Our Fathers. Look at the Bible. Use not
vain repetitions as the heathen do. What are Catholics? Heathens. For they think that they
shall be heard for their much speaking. Be not ye therefore like unto them. For your
Father knoweth what things ye have need of before he asketh. After this manner, therefore
pray ye. He's saying pray like this. Pray in this way. Pray in this manner. Our Father,
which art in heaven. He says, don't chant. Don't repeat things. Pray like this. And then
people say, oh, let's chant them. What? I mean, how insane can you be to read a verse
where he says, don't repeat. Don't chant. Don't go on and on. Pray like this. He gives
an example, and then they chant the example. I mean, Jesus must be ready to pull out his
hair. I know it's not long hair. I mean, good night. How could the scripture be any more
clear? But you see, the Catholic has a veil over his eyes. He doesn't care what the Bible
says. I could show him on that plane a hundred scriptures that said, this is wrong, this
is wrong, this is wrong. And you know what I did before I went into any of that with
him? The first thing I showed him was the wrong throat. You know, I went through for
all of sin. The ways of sin is dead. Before I even mentioned Catholicism, I went through
the ways of sin is dead. I showed him hell. I showed him Jesus died for our sins. He even
stopped me at that point. He said, well, I'm not really sure about that part. I said, do
you believe Jesus was being punished for our sins? He said, no. He said, not really. Well,
he died. He said, well, he died, you know, to basically make a way for us to be redeemed.
You know, he opened the door for redemption for us. But was he punished for our sins?
He said, I don't think that's exactly what we believe. That's what he said. Well, the
memory verse this week in Bolton says he was, or last week he was bruised for our sins.
Okay. So we know that he was punished for our sins. He himself bare our sins in his
own body on the tree. Okay. And so he didn't quite believe that, but he said, that's okay,
we can go on, you know. So I keep going and showing him. And I get to the place where
I showed him, believe on the Lord Jesus Christ and I shall be saved. I didn't make any comment.
I just read the verse through. And he started to interrupt me and I just went straight to
John 3.16. Before he could interrupt, I read John 3.16. He started to interrupt me again
and I said, wait a minute, you know, you can't just believe. Keep in mind, I have not
made any commentary. All I did was read the verse. I read John 3.18. Wait a minute, you
can't just believe, you can't just believe and not live the life and not do the works
or whatever. And then I just, I flipped over to Romans 4. I started reading Romans 4. But
to him that worketh not, but believeth on him. And I'm starting to read the verse and
he just keeps saying to me before I said anything, he's just, you can't just, I don't believe
that. You can't just believe. It's not just believe. There's more to it than that. And
I said, wait a minute, I haven't even, I said, I didn't tell you. He's like, are you
telling me this? I said, I didn't tell you that. I said, all I did was read you five
verses. I said, I'm not the one that told you that. The Bible just told you that. And
you're pointing at the Bible saying I don't agree with that. You see, the Catholic has
a veil over his eyes. It doesn't matter what the Bible says. It doesn't matter what the
truth is. It only matters what the church says. That's a cult, my friend. When you're
blindly following a man, when you got out and worship a man, that's a cult. And let
me tell you something, Roman Catholicism is the biggest cult in the world. One man at
the top saying, follow me. What I say goes, I speak for God. That's a cult. And they are
a cult. And I'm going to tell you something, this guy, I mean, I showed him and I showed
him and I showed him and I showed him and showed him and he would not believe it. He
did not. And he had no, he never had one response for any of the arguments that I just gave.
All these arguments that I just gave you are the same ones that I gave him. He did
not have one. And let me, let me tell you something. Are you preaching against the
Catholics? Yes. I think that Catholicism is the most wicked religion on the face of
this earth. I think that they murdered God's people. They murdered Christians throughout
the dark ages. They executed them. They tortured them to death. Read any history book
you want. You pick any history book you want. They murdered, they've slain, they've
tortured, they've abused. Right now they're keeping people in a psychological bondage
and captivity. Go to the Philippines today where people are carrying crosses on their
back in the Philippines trying to earn their way to heaven. People in the Philippines
that are die hard Roman Catholics literally crawl on their knees. You've heard the
expression, crawling on your knees through broken glass. They literally crawl on their
knees through broken glass. They do. They crawl up a hill in the asphalt in the broken
glass. They crawl up the hill on their knees. They crucify themselves once a year. They
don't die though. They're taken down before they're dead. But they hang on the cross
to try to experience what Jesus did to try to earn their way into heaven. Go to South
America today where the biggest idol in the world is an idol of a long haired Jesus
above Rio de Janeiro on the hillside with his arms out like this. Look at the Roman
Catholic nations of this world. Look at the Roman Catholic Adolf Hitler sanctioned by
the Pope. Nazi Germany, devout Roman Catholic Adolf Hitler. Or how about his devout Roman
Catholic buddy, Benito Wesley. Remember him? There was a day in this country literally
when Roman Catholicism was illegal. Did you hear me? In the 13 original colonies of this
country, Roman Catholicism, illegal. Look it up in the history books. They said, some
of the framers of our country said, we believe in religious freedom for all religions except
Roman Catholicism. That's what they said. I'm not saying that I agree with them or disagree
with them. I'm just telling you what they said. I mean, there was a day when Roman
Catholicism, you know why most people did not want Canada to become the 14th colony
during the American Revolution. Canada didn't want to join. Some people were trying to get
them to join up as the 14th colony. Canada didn't want to join. But most people in the
United States did not want them to join. And the people in New England and Massachusetts
and Connecticut and Rhode Island said, we don't want those bunch of Packists, meaning
Pope followers, we don't want them to be part of our nation. We don't want that Catholic
Canada being a part of the United States. We came here to get away from that. And many
of the people who did come to the United States to get away from that influence of
the Roman Catholic Church and their persecution and their falsity. The dark ages is called
the dark ages because of the Roman Catholic influence where they burned books. The Bible
was chained to the pulpit. People were killed for having copies of the Bible, for translating
the Bible into a language people don't understand and out of Latin, for teaching people how
to read and write so that they couldn't be abused by the power of the darkness of the
Roman Catholic Church that took over Europe and held the kings of Europe under its sway
for almost a thousand years. And civilization in Europe went backward. People were living
in their own filth and in their own excrement because they were so dumbed down that they
literally did not even know that what goes in the bathroom needs to be taken out of the
city. It can't just lie in the street so you're going to get a disease and die. And they lived
in the filth, they lived in the plague, they lived in darkness, spiritual darkness, mental
darkness for a thousand years because of that wicked religion. And then we in the United
States tolerate Roman Catholicism and say, well, there are Christians too. Well, many
of them are saved. Well, there's a lot of similarities. Let's focus on what's similar.
Listen to me. In my lifetime, I have watched it go from the Christian bookstore, used to
have books condemning Roman Catholicism. Are you listening? And today, you will go to the
Christian bookstore. You can go to Amazing Grace bookstore down in Chandler. You can
go to what's the other one called? Berean Christian bookstore out on Stapley and 60.
You can go to those. You will find rosary beads in a Christian bookstore. You will find
the deuterocanonicals. You will find the apocrypha. You will find the dress that the Catholic
priest wears because he's a cross-dressing queer when he stands in the pulpit in a dress
and combat boots instead of a pair of pants like a man wears. And you will find all that
stuff in a Christian bookstore because I'm telling you something, the Tower of Babel
is here once again. And one day, there's going to be another Tower of Babel when all the
religions and nations of the world join together and instead of Nimrod, it's going to be the
Antichrist this time at its head. It's coming. I'm not going to be a part of it. And you
say, well, you know, I'm not a Catholic. I don't know any Catholics. I don't believe
Catholics are saved. You know what? The Protestants are nothing more than a Catholic in sheep's
clothing. Did you hear me? I'm not going to stand up here and lie to you. Every Protestant
religion was started by a Catholic. Who started the Presbyterians? John Knox? John Calvin?
Guess what John Calvin was? A Catholic priest who broke off and said, well, I'm going to
agree with everything. But he didn't sure agree with a lot because they got a lot of
the same teaching, a lot of the same doctrine. You say prove it. Well, the Presbyterians
sprinkle babies in many cases. When was the last time you saw the Presbyterians dip somebody
under water? When you were growing up, did they baptize people? Did they dip them under
water? They didn't baptize people. You say, oh, but you know, well, I know the Methodists.
They're just like Baptists. Methodists aren't like Baptists. Methodists believe you can
lose your salvation. That's what the church believes. You say, well, my Methodist church
isn't like that. Well, if it's a United Methodist church, it sounds like they're all connected
to me. It sounds like it's connected to the one in Tempe on University Avenue that has
a rainbow flag at the bottom that says First United Methodist Church of Tempe with a rainbow
because the pastor is a lesbian. Now, if you want to be united with that, go ahead. You
want to be united with the mother whore Catholic church and all her harlot children? Then go
right ahead. This church is independent and this church is Baptist. And let me tell you
something. Baptist was named the man who started the Baptist. You can't. I mean, I can tell
you who started the Methodists. It was John Wesley. I can tell you the man who started
all these different religions, but you can't tell me who started Baptist because the Baptists
were named Baptist because they were the people who during the dark ages refused to bow down
to the Catholic church. They were known as Baptists or Anabaptists, rebaptizers because
they would take somebody who had already been baptized by the Catholic church, win
them to Christ, and then dump them under water, which was punishable by the death penalty.
And they were known as Anabaptists for baptizing converts. It wasn't one organization. It wasn't
one group. It was anybody who was in opposition to the Roman Catholic church, who was preaching
salvation by grace through faith, who would not bow down to the Pope and the mother whore
Catholic church. That's who was a Baptist. And that's why I'm a Baptist. And I'm an independent
Baptist. I'm not going to join in a denomination like the Catholics with archbishops. See,
the Southern Baptists don't have archbishops and bishops and cardinals. They just have
the president of the Southern Baptist convention. He's their Pope. It's true. And then they
just have the board of directors and the treasurer and the secretary. They just call it by different
names. Let me tell you something. That Protestant church looks like a duck and quacks like a
duck. It's a Catholic church. These Protestant churches, they're not teaching by grace through
faith. They might pay lip service to it, but they're teaching, may Jesus, the Lord
of your life, turn from your sins, make a commitment to Christ, turn over a new life
with Jesus, accept Jesus as the Lord of your life. They're teaching universal church. If
you show me a Protestant church in America, it does not believe in the universal church.
I'd love for you to show me. You can't. Every Protestant church in America believes in the
universal church, whether they be Presbyterian, Methodist, Episcopalian, they believe in it.
Why? Because they got it from their mom. They got it from the Catholic church. And I'm going
to tell you something. The Catholic church and all of its followers, all the little quasi
Catholic churches, all the little halfway Catholic churches in this world, they have
nothing to do with the Gospel. They have nothing to do with Jesus Christ. They're worshipping
another Jesus. You walk in, you see a bunch of stained glass windows, you see a long-haired
Jesus. Tell me, where did they get that long-haired Jesus from? Don't tell me they got it from
the Bible. They got it from mom. Where did they get it from? Where did they get the little
wafer from, mom? Where did they get the long hair from, mom? Where did they get the changing
the Lord's Prayer from, mom? Where did they get the Catholic, and by the way, the NIV
is a Catholic version. Yes, it is. That's why the NIV takes out where it says he brought
forth his firstborn son. Mary brought forth her firstborn son. Takes out the word firstborn,
which shows that if you have a firstborn, you have a second born, because she had other
children. I'm trying to say that Mary is still a virgin to this day, when the Bible says
she had seven other children. And it even gives us their names. The NIV is a Catholic
version. That's why it takes out the verse that says, before you're baptized, if they'll
believe us with all thy heart thou mayest. Act 837, it's gone from the NIV, gone from
the New American Standard, gone from the RSV, gone from the Living Bible. Why? Because they're
Catholic Bibles, because they're churches that came out of the Catholic Church, they're
Catholic in sheep's clothing, if it looks like a duck, it quacks like a duck, it's a
duck. It's a Catholic Bible, it's a Catholic religion, it's a Catholic Church, and it's
wicked. And I'm going to tell you something. This Church will stand tall and proud against
Catholicism and all of her children. Period. All of their Bibles, all of their teachings,
all of their doctrines, and I'm not going to look like a Catholic, I don't want to act
like a Catholic, I don't want to talk like a Catholic, I am a Baptist from the top of
my head to the bottom of my feet. And if you think that we are accepting of all religions,
accepting of all denominations, accepting of Catholics and Protestants, we're not. We're
not. Somebody said to me, well what if somebody's baptized in a Protestant church, should they
get re-baptized when they come to a Baptist church? I said, number one, Protestant churches
don't baptize people, number one. Number two, if they do baptize people, the person that
baptizes is probably not saved. Because anybody who goes solo and he knows that 90% of the
people who we run into who say, yes, I'm saved, I know for sure I'm going to heaven because
I believe on Jesus Christ is a Baptist or got saved in a Baptist church earlier in life,
almost every single time. You know, they might go to a non-denom church now, but they started
out Baptist nine times out of ten, it's a fact. I've never one time in my ministry had
the question of whether to re-baptize somebody, because most of the people that are in these
Protestant churches aren't even saved anyway. Of course they need to be baptized. They haven't
even been saved back then. And so listen, we need to come out from London to be separate
and say to the Lord, that's not the unclean thing. If your church stinks of Catholicism,
get out. And this church is not going to let Catholicism creep in. We're going to stay
Baptist and Bible believing in this church until doomsday or as long as I'm a pastor.
And there's a strong push right now for unity. You know it's out there. You know there's
a strong push toward uniting Baptists, Pentecostals, Lutherans, Presbyterians, Anglicans. Let's
put aside our differences. Let's put aside our doctrine. Let's focus on the things we
have in common. Not this preacher. I'm not putting anything in common with them. I want
to get as far away from them as I can. Can we go out? Should we despise these other religions?
Yes. Should we hate Catholicism? Yes. Should we hate the Catholic? No. Let's go win them
to Christ. Let's go win the Protestant to Christ this afternoon. Let's go get them the
true glorious gospel of Jesus Christ who seems safe. Let's bow our heads and have a word
of prayer. Father, I pray that you would help everyone who's here to understand that Pastor
Anderson is not being too harsh to a church that plasters their walls with pornography.
Pastor Anderson is not being too harsh to a religion that puts a sodomite and a pervert
and a pedophile behind the pulpit. Pastor Anderson is not being too harsh to a religion
that takes someone who would defile a young children and puts them behind the pulpit or
puts them in the Congress of the United States. God help us in this country to grow a backbone
and to grow a spine against this kind of filth and to stand up for what's right, dear God.
Help everyone who's here, dear God, to comprehend the sermon. Help no one to go away mad, but
to go away understanding that the Bible teaches that this is truly a wicked, satanic religion
and that we should have nothing to do with it. We love you and thank you for everything
you've done for us, dear God, and I thank you so much that I'm not a Catholic and that
I worship the true God through Jesus Christ and that I'm saved, once saved, always saved
through the blood of Jesus Christ.