And the title of my sermon this morning is the Pope in hell the Pope in hell now
I believe that some Pope or other has died in the last few days. I'm not sure when exactly
But let me just tell you something. He's in hell right now
Okay, and guess who's in hell with him every single Pope that has ever presided over the Roman Catholic Church
Is also in hell every last one
Now you say why you know why talk about this why make a big deal about this because the Roman Catholic Church is a false
Religion it's the biggest
apostate false Christian Church that is literally sending millions and millions and millions of people to hell and
The person who is running that institution is one of the most wicked people on this planet
And he's not of God and he's not following Jesus Christ at all
And I'm gonna prove to you that from scripture this morning
But today we live in this ecumenical time
When everybody just wants to kind of join hands and sing Kumbaya and say well
We're all kind of worshipping the same God and Muslims aren't that different and you know Roman Catholicism
And Protestants and Baptists and hey Mormons. Why not?
You know, we're all kind of Christian and we all got to join together folks. That is wrong
Okay, the Bible warns us there's another Jesus another gospel another spirit and
Let me tell you something. The Pope is not in heaven right now
Okay, and people were posting on social media a quote from him where he kind of said some stuff where it sound like hey
I'm kind of relying on Jesus to get me to heaven
So what you know false prophets will often say things that sound good or they you know
They're wolves in sheep's clothing my friend
That's the sheep's clothing when they mention something like they're kind of relying on Christ to get to heaven
They don't mean the same thing by that that you and I mean, you know
When we say that we're relying on Jesus Christ to get to heaven we mean that we're sinners
We have come short of the glory of God
We do not deserve salvation
but that Jesus Christ died on the cross for our sins and was buried and rose again the third day and because we
Trust in him we're going to heaven because we believe in him because of our faith in Jesus Christ
We're going to heaven folks. Is that what the Roman Catholic Church teaches? No way
They teach that you have to go to church
You have to confess your sins to the priest you have to do the sacraments. You have to do good works
You have to keep the commandments you have to repent of your sins
You have to do all these things and then you could be saved and you could lose your salvation
And you could get it back and he could lose it again and
Folks the reason that we know this is because we go out and talk to Roman Catholics every single week
When we're out knocking doors soul-winning and they virtually every single time give the wrong answer about salvation
They tell you they're going to heaven because they live a good life
Because they go to church be a good person do good things half the time. They don't even mention Jesus about why they're going to heaven
But even if they do it's another Jesus
It's another gospel. It's not the same. Now. Let's look at some scriptures this morning go to Romans chapter number 11
Romans chapter number 11 the Bible says for by grace
Are you saved through faith and that not of yourselves? It is the gift of God not of works
Lest any man should boast and any man includes the Pope is not of works
Salvation is by grace through faith now you say well is both
No, it's not both the Bible said you're saved by faith not of works
Well faith kind of includes the works. Okay, let's back up
By grace are you saved through faith not of works?
Yes, you're saved by faith. No, you're not saved by works. So how can they both be the same thing? They can't
If it's yes, you're saved by faith and no you're not saved by works
These are two very different things, aren't they?
In fact, look what the Bible says in Romans chapter 11 verse 6 and if by grace then is it no more of works
Otherwise grace is no more grace
But if it be of works, then is it no more grace?
Otherwise work is no more work and you can see that these two things are not compatible
Works and grace are not compatible. You're either saved by grace or you're saved by your works
You can't be saved by both because if it's grace, it's no more works
And if it's works, it's no more grace
Right because it has to be one or the other flip back a few pages if you would to Romans chapter number three
While you're turning to Romans chapter number three, I'll read for you from Romans 4 but to him that worketh not
But believeth on him that justifieth the ungodly his faith is counted for righteousness now notice
Is it possible to work not but yet believe?
It's what the Bible says
But Tim that worketh not
But believeth on him that justifieth the ungodly his faith is counted for righteousness
Even as David also describes the blessedness of the man unto him God and puteth righteousness without works
Look what the Bible says in Romans 3 23 for all have sinned and come short of the glory of God
being justified
Freely by his grace through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus whom God has set forth to be a propitiation
Through faith in his blood
To declare his righteousness for the remission of sins that are passed through the forbearance of God to declare I say at this time
His righteousness that he might be just and the justifier of him which believeth in Jesus
Where is boasting then it is excluded by what law of works? No, nay, but by the law of faith
Therefore we conclude that a man is justified by faith
Without the deeds of the law very clear, isn't it? Now if you would flip over to Galatians chapter 5
Galatians is a book that is warning people about
Getting sucked into another gospel that involves doing the works of the law that involves the you know doing
Good deeds or or getting circumcised or some kind of a ritual
Observance of this that or the other in order to be saved adding works to faith in order to be saved and
Really the whole book is about that and you can read the whole book of Galatians to get that but especially in chapter 5 verse 1
I want to point out in Galatians 5 when it says stand fast therefore in the Liberty
Wherewith Christ have made us free and be not entangled again with the yoke of bondage behold
I Paul saying to you that if you be circumcised Christ shall profit you
Nothing. Now. What does this mean if you be circumcised Christ shall profit you nothing. Well, someone might think to themselves
Well, I believe in Jesus
But I also believe I have to do works to go to heaven
But as long as I'm believing in Jesus, I'm still saved even if I'm trusting in my works
But that's not the way it works
Trusting in Jesus means not trusting in your works
Okay, some people just think well, I'll just do both to be safe
Folks that's not the way it works and you see there could be
Mentality in Galatia that would say well, maybe you have to get circumcised to get saved
So I'm just gonna get circumcised just to be covered. You know, I believe in Jesus and I'm just gonna get circumcised
Just into the bargain just to make sure or what, you know, what's Paul saying?
Paul says if you be circumcised Christ shall profit you nothing
Now a little bit later look at verse number six. It says for in Jesus Christ neither circumcision availed anything
nor uncircumcision
But faith which worketh by love. So what's going on with these two verses? How come in verse six?
It doesn't matter whether you're circumcised or uncircumcised doesn't matter
But then in verse two, it's like if you be circumcised Christ shall profit you nothing what's going on? What's the deal?
Here's the deal
You know, some of us are just circumcised because we just grew up in that time in America when they just circumcised dudes in America
Okay, God's not saying hey, sorry, you can't be saved because you were circumcised as a baby
Because of some Jewish conspiracy in the u.s. Okay, but here's the thing about that, okay
What he's saying is look circumcision or uncircumcision doesn't really matter in the end
It's about whether you have faith in Christ
It says in verse 6
But the reason he says in verse 2 that if you be circumcised Christ shall profit you nothing
Here's what he's saying
If you go out and get circumcised because you think that that's part of your salvation
Then Christ shall profit you nothing and then he explains why that is
He says if you be circumcised Christ shall profit you nothing, but look at verse 3
For I testify again to every man that is circumcised that he's a debtor to do the whole law
So what he's saying is if you think that going on and getting circumcised is part of your salvation
Well, then you have to do everything. You can't just pick and choose. I mean if you're gonna be saved by works
Then you're gonna have to do everything if you're gonna be saved by the deeds of the law
then you're gonna have to do the whole law and
So if you go out and get circumcised well, then you're basically saying well, I'm not
Looking to go to heaven by faith in Jesus. I'm looking to go to heaven through my works. Well circumcision is just a start then
Now have fun keeping the entire law for the rest of your life. You're a debtor now to do the whole law
Okay, and of course that's impossible because as we saw in Romans 3 all have sinned and come short of the glory of God
Okay, and then he goes on to say in verse 3 for I testify again to every man that is circumcised that he's a debtor
To do the whole law Christ is become of no effect unto you. Does it sound like these people are going to heaven? I
Mean if it says Christ has become of no effect unto you, you're not going to heaven
Because that's the main effect of Christ is that he saves you that he gets you to heaven
Christ has become of no effect unto you
Whosoever of you are justified by the law ye are fallen from grace
You see how these two things can't mix the people who are claiming to be justified by their deeds by their works by the deeds
Of the law the Bible says Christ is of no effect unto them
Instead they're debtors to do the whole law if that's what I think is gonna save them and then it says for we through the spirit
Wait for the hope of righteousness by faith for in Jesus Christ neither circumcision avails anything nor uncircumcision
But faith which worketh by love now
Here's another great verse that kind of goes along these same lines in James chapter 2 and of course the work
Salvationists love to twist James chapter 2 and use it to teach their false doctrine
That's a whole nother sermon, but here's a verse that they missed from James 2
It says for whosoever shall keep the whole law and yet offend in one point. He's guilty of all
So the Bible says if you're circumcised you're dead or to do the whole law
but then elsewhere he says that if you keep the whole law and yet offend in one point, you're guilty of all and
So therefore it's impossible for anyone to be justified by their works because the Bible says that all our
Righteousnesses are as filthy rags before God. So how could we be justified by our works? It's impossible
Go if you would to first John chapter 5
First John chapter 5 and then I'm gonna move on to some stuff specifically about the Pope
But right now I'm just showing you that if you try to mix faith and works
you're not saved you have to put all your faith in Jesus and
Trust what he did on the cross not your own deeds your own works. The Bible says in 1st John chapter 5
Verse 9 it says if we receive the witness of men the witness of God is greater
For this is the witness of God which he had testified of his son
He that believeth on the Son of God hath to witness in himself he that believeth not God hath made him a liar
Because he believeth not the record that God gave of his son and so the Bible is saying there's two kinds of people in this
World there's those who believe God and there's those who have made God a liar
Okay, because if I told you something and you don't believe me you're basically calling me a liar, right?
And so God has declared certain things in his word. And if we don't believe them, we're making him a liar
and it says that we make him a liar because
He believeth not the record that God gave of his son that's why this person makes God a liar and
Then it gives us what the record is in verse 11
And this is the record that God has given to us eternal life in this life is in his son
So therefore a person who doesn't believe that record that God gave of his son
Is making God a liar and is not one of the he that believeth people
He's one of the he that had made God a liar people
What's the record that God has given us eternal life in this life is in his son
Let's break that down into its three major components
The first thing is that God has given to us eternal life
Not that God has rewarded us with eternal life
Not that God has granted us eternal life due to our deeds and our works. No, no, it's the gift of God
Not of works unless any man should boast God has given to us eternal life
And then the second thing I want to point out is that God has given to us eternal life
Not temporary life until our next screw-up in our next confessional booth
experience but eternal life
Because once you're saved nothing can separate you from the love of God
Which is in Christ Jesus our Lord and the Bible says that of those that are unsaved. He said depart from me
I never knew you because once you're saved you're saved forever
And so God has given to us eternal life and this life is in his son and
It's got to be it's a gift. It's eternal and it's in Jesus not in a church
Not in the priests not in the Pope
It's in Jesus and then it says he that hath the son
Hath life verse 12 and he that hath not the Son of God hath not life
These things have I written unto you that believe on the name of the Son of God
That you may know that you have eternal life and that you may believe on the name of the Son of God now go
If you would to Matthew chapter 23 Matthew chapter 23
Let me start out by saying that the office of the Pope
Even the position called Pope is totally unbiblical and shouldn't exist. Where is the Pope in the Bible? He doesn't exist
Now, what does the word Pope mean? Where does it come from? It means father?
It's in fact in Spanish. He's called el
Papa
Okay, not la papa because that would be the potato
but he's el papa and
That you know it Pope comes from the same
Root word as if we said hey pop right papa daddy pop Pope
Okay, it doesn't it's not related to the word poop
Although that is what he's full of but it's it's like dad right pop papa the Pope. Okay, and
so
What does the Bible say about this? Well look down if you would at Matthew chapter 23, the Bible reads in verse 6 and
Love the uppermost rooms at feasts and the chief seats in the synagogues
He's talking about hypocrites Pharisees the scribes of these these bad people and they love the greetings in the markets verse 7 and
To be called of men
rabbi rabbi
But be not ye called rabbi for one is your master even Christ
And all ye are brethren and call no man your father upon the earth for one is your father
Which is in heaven neither be ye called masters for one is your master even Christ
So what is the Bible saying? He's saying look don't be called rabbi
Don't be called father and don't be called master
Now the Roman Catholics will respond to this and say well, you know, did you call your dad father? Hmm?
But here's the thing about that is that my dad actually is my father
That celibate whatever over in Rome isn't my dad
You know, it's funny. I heard a preacher tell a story one time
He's on a train and and he's sitting on the train and a crossman with some Catholic priest and the guy's like
Excuse me, my son, you know, cuz he's reading his Bible. He's like, excuse me, my son
And he just ignored the guy and he's like, excuse me, my son and then he elbowed the guy
Hey, your dad's talking to you, you know the guy next to him
No, I'm talking to you. Hey, you're not my dad
Okay
You're not anybody's dad you don't even have kids unless it's some bastard child that you're supposed to be celibate celibate
Celibate
But obviously the context here when it says be not ye called rabbi call no man father
Don't be called master. He's obviously talking in the context of a religious title
You know, he's saying look you guys are apostles. You guys are preachers
You guys are religious leaders that people are gonna look to but I don't want you to be like these people that go around being
Rabbi or father or master don't be called those things. Okay now there could be other
Situations where the word master is appropriate because the Bible talks about servants obeying their masters
Well, that guy really is their master
Right if you have a slave and he has a boss that he's working for that really is his master
You know, my dad really is my dad
But you know what the pastor of the church is not your dad and he's not your slave master and he's not a rabbi
Everybody see the difference. We're talking about a religious term here
You don't call the preacher you don't call the religious leader father or rabbi or master
Those are titles that should be reserved for God, you know, God is the father
Christ is our master and that's what we need to stick to one is your father which is in heaven now
Look, how can someone claim to be following Christ and then call themselves father and all of these Catholic priests
Call themselves father. They're just ignoring scripture because they don't care what the Bible says
They have their own
pagan
Idolatrous false religion that is not Christianity and this is why they call themselves father when the Bible specifically
I don't understand how anybody can look at this verse and say the Roman Catholic Church is legitimate
It's like don't be called rabbi. Don't be called father and and what's with these messianic Jews calling themselves rabbi
They're not following Christ either
They don't care what Christ said either but let's keep going let's look at Mark chapter 12
So first of all, the Bible specifically said not to be called father
Let's talk about the Pope's funny outfit. Is that in Scripture? His name's not in Scripture
What about his funny outfit because if people only know a few things about the Pope they know that he is
Called father and that he wears a funny hat
Am I right? Those are the two big facts about him that you should know as an American
Look at Mark chapter 12 verse 38. He said unto them in his doctrine beware of the scribes
Which love to go in long clothing
Look watch out for these people who claim to be teaching you the Bible. They claim to be ministers of the gospel
They claim to be preachers of the Word of God, but they love to go in long clothing. Watch out for those guys
No, is that is that what your Bible says or not? I mean look down at your Bible
Beware of the scribes which love to go in long clothing and love salutations in the market places because here's the thing
When the Pope goes to the market
When the priest goes the more when every Catholic priest goes the market, what does everybody know immediately about him? Oh
He's a priest right because he can't go to the airport
He can't go to the bowling alley without
Wearing his stupid outfit where everybody looks at that long clothing and then he gets all these challenges. Oh, hello. Holy Father, right?
Look at Luke chapter 20 verse 46. This is not even one scripture
the Bible says beware of the scribes which love to go in long clothing and
By the way, quit drawing pictures of Jesus with long clothing
Jesus rebuked the false prophets who went around in long clothing
He didn't wear long clothing
He didn't wear these flowing long robes and things
Not scriptural look at Luke chapter 20 verse 46 beware of the scribes
which desire to walk in long robes and
Love greetings in the markets and the highest seats in the synagogues and the chief rooms at feast
And so what we saw in Matthew 23 in the context of not being called father right before saying don't be called father
He said oh man these people they love the greetings in the marketplace. They love the chief seats
They love to be called rabbi. Don't be called rabbi. Don't call them father. Don't be called master
That's a parallel passage in that sense because in Matthew
He brings up the greetings and the seats and the being called father and then in Mark and Luke
He brings up the greetings and the seats
But instead of talking about how they love to be called rabbi or father he instead talks about they love to go in long clothing
So you can see that being called father and wearing long clothing go hand in hand
Because they're both what the false teachers do who don't care what Jesus said
They don't wake up in the morning and read the Bible and see what Jesus said and say, oh, I'm not supposed to be called father
Oh, I shouldn't be going around in long clothing. Oh
Jesus doesn't want me to be called rabbi. That's not where they're getting their marching orders. They're getting the marching orders from Satan
Not from the Word of God
Because the Word of God would have told them what I'm showing you right now what you can see in the Bible
That's in your lap right now right in front of your face how clear it is
Now go if you would to the book of Mark chapter 1
Now you say we don't Baptist all know this
Don't Baptist all realize this. Well, the reason the Baptist know this is because of sermons like this and
If you don't have sermons like this then Baptist won't necessarily know this
My mom is here this morning and here's a story about my mom
You know, we spent like five years going to liberal churches when I was a teenager
We'd been going to an independent fundamental Baptist Church and the church
Had split up and had problems and we were having trouble finding somewhere to go
So we kind of just threw up our hands and started going to these liberal Baptist churches
They're still Baptist
But they had the NIV and the rock band and they were just kind of the the more watered-down
Liberal fun center type churches, but they were conservative as far as those churches go
They're still Baptist and and you know on paper. They were doctrinally sound in a lot of ways
but we're going to this church and
my mom and dad are in a Sunday school class and
It wasn't like a big church service
It was just like a little Sunday school class with like what ten people in it or something
This is like a little small group Bible study class thing or whatever and they're going through this and
for some reason the teacher is talking about how you know, he was given something about church history and
He said, you know
In fact that the Roman Catholic Church was so corrupt at that time that many of the popes weren't even saved
during that time
and so
my mom raised her hand and
Said wait a minute. Are you saying that any Pope has ever been saved?
Because
He's like, yeah
You know this was a time when the church had become so corrupt that some of the Pope's weren't even safe
And this is what he said and you can verify this with my mom after the service
Hopefully she'll back me up on this now. I'm just case you will
Then when my mom says are you saying that any Pope has ever been saved the guy said well
I think that the Pope we have right now is saved who was John Paul the second which what kind of a bizarre?
Wording is that the Pope that we have
We don't have a pope. We're Baptist
But he literally used like a first-person pronoun like our Pope we have right now
You know, he thought that Pope John Paul the second was saved
Now, why did he think that Pope John Paul the second was saved?
Why not other popes throughout history? They've all believed the same garbage
They're all part of the same church with the same apostasy the same works based salvation
Why did he think?
Specifically that Pope John Paul the second was saved
I'll tell you why because of all of John Paul the second's wonderful deeds all of his wonderful works
Because John Paul the second is on the cover of Time magazine for doing all kinds of cool stuff
I don't know what he did, but he did stuff
He did a bunch of stuff
I don't know and I don't care what it was
But he was on magazine covers and he was doing stuff and people liked the stuff that he did
But guess what? That means nothing to God. God's not a respecter of persons. You don't just automatically get to go to heaven because you're famous
Because you did charitable work or whatever. He supposedly did or didn't do I don't really care
But around the exact same time at the same church
So so my mom asked that question at Sunday school class around the exact same time at the same church
I'm at a youth Bible study
Okay, and it was called pool and devotions because we went swimming and then had a Bible lesson, okay, and
So we're at pool and devotions and this girl gets out of the pool and she puts a towel over her head
you know like, you know, you're drying off or whatever she has a towel over her head and
Somebody said hey, it's Mother Teresa
because she looked like some kind of a nun or whatever with this funny headgear and
I said to my friends. I said, hey, I've got a Mother Teresa impression
And I went like this
And
They're like, oh man. Yeah, how do you that's so disrespectful. That's rude. I said, oh you don't like that one
I got a better Mother Teresa impression for you. I
Say cuz she's burning in hell right now
And they were just so everybody was so mad at me and everybody was like, you're such a jerk like how can you say that?
Why would you do that? Like you're you're sick and people were mad at me
and
I was like I said
Isn't she in hell though
She's a Roman Catholic
She doesn't believe the gospel of Jesus Christ and they're like, no she's in heaven and everybody at this pool party
Just swore that she's in heaven
They're all just like she's in heaven. I said, okay. I said you believe she's in heaven. I believe she's in hell. I
Said I'm not I'm not saying that my joke was necessarily in good taste, but I'm not saying it wasn't either. But anyway
You know, I
Said to them I said, okay. Well, give me one reason why she's in in heaven
I said have you heard her say anything?
Like can you give me a statement that Mother Teresa has ever made and no one at this party could give me one sentence of
Mother Teresa's words and I said, okay. What language does Mother Teresa even speak because she's I don't think she's American
So I'm like what language is she was me like, how could you even hear her talk?
You don't even speak her language. Like if you ever even listen to her if you ever even
Heard her say what she believes or speak the gospel of Jesus Christ or anything
So I said, what do you know about Mother Teresa? I
said, you know two things about Mother Teresa, you know that she was a Roman Catholic and
That she's loved by this world for doing so many good deeds. Those are the two things, you know
You know, she's Catholic and you know that she did charity. I said, is that what you think it takes to get to heaven?
and
And and you know in the course of that conversation I started to realize that a lot of my friends weren't even saved
they literally didn't even confess faith in Christ alone as their way to heaven and
They basically, you know had all kinds of different beliefs
And I was kind of blown away by that because I just assumed we're in a Baptist Church everybody
Believes that salvation is by faith and we all know that like I just assumed that because I was a teenager and here's thing
You know when you're a teenager, maybe it's not necessarily the most spiritual time in your life
And so I wasn't necessarily talking about the Bible with my friends
This is maybe like the first time I'd really gone deep on salvation with my friends and all of a sudden
I'm finding out that some of them weren't even saved
And it was just amazing to me how they were all just sure that Mother Teresa is in heaven because of doing charity
But what did the Bible say that many will say to him in that day?
Lord Lord have we not prophesied in thy name and in thy name of cast out devils and in thy name done many
Wonderful works and then will I profess unto them. I never knew you
Depart from me that work iniquity
Folks the works of the Roman Catholics are works of iniquity
even if they're good works or works on in the name of Christ their works of iniquity because they're spreading damnation and lies and a
false gospel and
helping old ladies across the street or giving a turkey to a poor person on Thanksgiving is not
Going to earn your salvation because no matter what good deeds you do. They're nothing compared to the blood of Jesus Christ
The blood of Jesus Christ is what pays for our sins you can't pay for them with a filthy rag called your righteousnesses
it's not gonna be enough and so that's why this kind of a sermon needs to be preached because there's a
Baptist Church that was considered as
things go on the conservative end of Baptist churches and yet my mom in Sunday school is getting hit with
Pope John Paul's saved and lots of popes have been saved and then I'm getting hit at the pool party with
Mother Teresa's in heaven. How dare you say that Roman Catholics aren't saved, you know
It just goes to show you what's out there my friend and that was one of the more conservative
Baptist churches this is why we need this kind of preaching to and maybe maybe it's not pleasant
Maybe it's not what you want to hear, but it's the truth
Okay, and we don't want to get sucked in to this ecumenical
One-world religion mentality that just says that everybody who vaguely talks about Jesus is all worshipping the same God
Roman Catholicism is wicked
Okay, and you know what?
People who are in that religion and and are trusting in their works to go to heaven and have no clue about the gospel
You know, they're gonna be they're gonna be angry about the Roman Catholic Church for the rest of eternity
You know and it's better that they figure it out now that it's a crock
They should figure that out now instead of when it's too late
But you know
It's interesting is that the Bible said in first John 5 when it talked about believing the record that God gave a son
It said these things have I written unto you that believe on the name of the Son of God
That you may know that you have eternal life and that you may believe on the name of the Son of God
But you know that to the Roman Catholics it's a sin to say that you know that you have eternal life
They call it the sin of presumption
Now here's the thing if I thought that I were going to heaven because I was a good person that would be presumptuous indeed
Wouldn't it?
But that goes to show what they're trusting doesn't it? They're trusting themselves. So if they say well, I know I'm going to heaven
It's like oh what a prideful statement
You see if you believed in work salvation and somebody said well, I know I'm going to heaven you'd say like whoa, buddy
You'd be a little prideful there. Like you just know you're that good
Whereas if a fundamentalist Baptist says to you, hey, I know I'm going to heaven
Nobody for one second thinks you're prideful
Nobody for one second thinks you're presumptuous because we just think well this guy realizes that it's not about him at all
This guy realizes it's all about the finished work of Christ on the cross
And since nothing can change what Christ did on the cross this guy's totally confident that the blood of Jesus Christ
Has him covered
He's totally confident. And so he has no doubt because he's not trusting in himself the people who say well
I don't know, you know, are you do you know for sure you're gonna heaven? I hope so
Why because they're hoping in themselves and you know what? That's a that's a shaky ground indeed
That's a shifting sand of well, maybe this week. I'm going maybe next week
I'm not and
Again in that liberal youth group. I remember riding in the car another time and this girl saying to me and one of my friends
You know, yeah, I got really backslidden last summer
In fact, I was I was so backslidden if I would have died during that time
I don't even think I would have gone to heaven
and
I'm like, excuse me. Like do you know what it means to be saved and
Not have to go back and forth from summer to summer depending on how bad the summer was
But the Bible I you know
I guess you go back to Christian school in the fall and get it all straightened out and
Then you head out for the summer and be a heathen or whatever
But folks once you're saved, it's it's a done deal
Look if you would at what would I have you turn
Mark chapter 1 look at Mark chapter 1 verse 29
Just I'm just showing you the Pope's not even biblical. He's not saved because he teaches a false gospel
He's the head of the biggest false apostate fake Christian Church
Which is idolatry, but he's not even biblical because his name isn't biblical
His position isn't biblical his clothing isn't biblical. Okay, and now that his celibacy isn't biblical
You know if he's even celibate, but he claims to be celibate
It says in verse 29 and forthwith when they were come out of the synagogue
They entered into the house of Simon and Andrew with James and John
Simon by the way is also known as Peter
But Simon's wife's mother
Lays sick of a fever and anon they tell him of her and he came and took her by the hand and lifted her up
And immediately the fever left her and she ministered unto them now according the Roman Catholics Peter is the first Pope
But yet here we see that one of the miracles of Jesus one of the early miracles of Jesus is that Jesus heals
Peter's wife's mother
Peter's mother-in-law
Okay. Now nobody just signs up to have a mother-in-law without having the wife to go with it
Okay, and so Peter's wife's mother
his his wife's mother that means Peter was married and
in fact
same story is told in Luke chapter 4 verse 38 and he rose out of the synagogue and entered into Simon's house and
Simon's wife's mother was taken with a great fever go through would the first Timothy chapter 3
Simon's wife's mother was healed by Jesus
in fact, according to the Apostle Paul all of the Apostles had wives and
Families except for Paul and Barnabas Paul and Barnabas were the two that were an exception the rest of the Apostles all
Were married including Peter himself who had a wife even before he started even following Jesus
He already had the mother-in-law whenever he started to follow Jesus. Look at 1st Timothy chapter 3 verse 1
Here's another verse that Roman Catholics ignore and don't believe this is a true saying if a man desire the office of a bishop
He desireth a good work a bishop then must be blameless
The husband of one wife now the Bible teaches that a bishop
Must be a husband
He must be a husband. He must be the husband of one wife
so that's the exact opposite of the Roman Catholic Church because the Roman Catholic Church has a bunch of bishops and
Not one of them has a wife
They have all these bishops
I don't know how many thousands and thousands of bishops they have or however many they have. None of them has a wife
Not even one
So it's like don't be called father
Called father don't go in long clothing puts on long clothing. You must be the husband or wife. No wife
I mean is this guy just making fun of the New Testament or what?
It's a mockery of the Word of God a
Bishop must be blameless the husband over my wife and then people will try to say well that just means he can't have two
But that's not what it says. It says he must be the husband of one wife
It doesn't say, you know, he can only have maximum one wife
It just says he needs to have one wife. And here's the proof if you keep reading the context it says
In verse 4 one that ruleth well his own house having his children in subjection with all gravity
How can you do that if you're not married?
How can you rule your house if you don't even have a house?
It doesn't say ruling the other effeminate dudes in his cloister. Well
Is that what it says?
It doesn't say ruling his queer buddies at the monastery
Well as they brew beer together and and
Chant all day. No, it says one that ruleth well his own house in order to rule well your own house
you have to have a house and a house here in the context is a wife and children and
So if you rule well your own house having children in subjection with all gravity
For if a man know not how to rule his own house, how shall he take care of the Church of God?
So how can the Pope take care of the Church of God when he has zero experience ruling his own house?
How can any bishop any priest any cardinal or
Whatever other positions they have how can they do it when they haven't ruled well their own house?
That's the prerequisite first you get married
Then you have kids you have a family and having a family is practice for being a minister
And so once you've had a family then you can become a bishop
And by the way in the Bible the words bishop elder and pastor are interchangeable
Whereas for the Catholics a bishop is like a special priest. That's one click up
You know, you got the priest you got the bishop you got the Archbishop
You got the Cardinals and the Blue Jays and then you have the Pope at the top
Okay, but but here's the thing about that
There aren't any priests in the New Testament
okay, now the Bible metaphorically speaks of all Christians as a
Priesthood of believers a nation of priests a royal priesthood, but nowhere. Do you see a certain person?
like Peter or John or Paul or Steven or
Philip you never see a person as well. This guy's a priest
Or hey, we got to go confess to this priest or oh this priest can absolve us
We got to get him to a priest or whatever that doesn't exist in the Bible. That's not a thing now
It's funny because in the Old Testament we have lots of talk about priests. Oh, we
All kinds of talk about priests in the Old Testament, but then in the New Testament, what do we have?
We have bishops elders pastors and deacons and there's a specific qualification
Here's the qualification for an elder and the qualification for the elder and bishop are identical because it's the same person
They're used interchangeably in Titus chapter 1 first Timothy chapter 3
So you have the bishop
Pastor slash elder who has to be married with kids. You don't have this guy who's a priest who?
Absolves you and you go to a confessional booth with him. None of that exists. Where's a monk in the Bible?
Show me the word monk one time in the Bible
Show me the nuns in the Bible. Show me a monastery in the Bible
Show me the Pope in the Bible. Show me Cardinals in the Bible
None of these things exist my friend. It's not a biblical religion. It's a made-up
pagan
Idolatrous false religion where you walk into a building and you've got all of these idolatrous
long-haired long garment
Jesus's all over and you've got them worshipping a woman the Virgin Mary
You've got them bowing down before
Saints and Mary and graven images and molten images and going through all this ritual
That's never described in the Bible with a priest that is never described in the Bible
Following a pope who is never mentioned in the Bible and he everything about him is unbiblical
It's a wrong gospel. And then you look I've talked to many Catholic priests, right? I've been a pastor for
17 years
Even before that I talked to priests. Okay, I go out soul winning every week
I'm out in this world. I talked to priests every single priest that I've ever talked to you said
Oh, well, you know the Bible is written by men
The Bible has things in it that aren't right
We have all the church
You know, well the Bible says if we receive the witness of men the witness of God is greater
You know
The Word of God is our final authority for all matters of faith and practice
The Roman Catholic Church does not follow the Word of God
And if you actually talk to the priest he'll even tell you that the Word of God is not
perfect
That is not you know
He might tell you it's inspired by God like it's inspired like Shakespeare is inspired or like a painting is inspired or something
But he doesn't believe that the words of the Bible are God breathed
He doesn't believe that God gave the word but that it's you know that it has man's
Interpretation or spin on it and
That's why they reject so much that's in the Word of God. And by the way baptizing babies isn't in the Word of God
It's not a single baby
Baptized of course the baby baptized will be like well this guy's household was baptized, you know, really does it say babies though?
No, you're making that up because you're so desperate
you're so grasping at straws to find a baby baptized that you have to
Basically manufacture one by saying oh, well this guy's household who who here lives in a house without a baby in it
Put up your hand if you live in a house without a baby in it, right look around folks
These are all the households that don't have a baby in them
So if these whole households got baptized no babies would be baptized
But they want to just read things in look if you want to just start reading things into the Bible that aren't there
Well, you can put all kinds of crazy things into the Bible that aren't there
But show me an actual baby being baptized you can't
Because it doesn't exist because the Bible says if thou believe is with all thine heart thou mayest be baptized, right?
You can't just you know Baptist and by the way baptized means immersion
underwater
Folks nothing about the Catholic Church is biblical
Nothing about it is right and I don't care what the Pope has said about how oh, you know
I have I don't have a lot of reason to hope I don't have the quote in front of me
But it's something like, you know, I look back over my life and I see all these sinful things that would you know
They would cause me not to hope in Christ
But that you know, but then I think about Jesus and you know
I have hope of that. He doesn't say notice what he doesn't say. I know for sure I'm going to heaven
And
And by the way when he has you know, hope of heaven through Christ
It's because he confessed his sins to some pedophile priest
That told him that he's forgiven
Not because he put his faith and trust in Jesus and called upon the name of the Lord to be saved
but because he daily and weekly is
chanting and
eating a cracker and
drinking juice and signing himself and crossing himself and emptying a dust buster and
You know confessing to some guy in a dress they because because I mean these guys they'd confess to each other
You know what I mean like
Even the priest he's got to confess to someone else because they can't get to heaven just by believing in Jesus
It's not enough according to them. They have to get absolved by a priest and
So he you know just because they say the word Jesus or just because they say
Faith or just because they say, you know salvation. They don't mean what the Bible means
Just like when they say Bishop, they don't mean what the Bible means
It's not biblical. It's not right. And here's the thing
I hope I'm not breaking your heart this morning with my sermon by telling you that the Pope is in hell because he's just one person
There are billions of people in hell. So why are y'all worried about one guy?
That you don't even know that you've never even met why are y'all offended that he's in hell
He's not alone
It's not like it's his mother Teresa and Joseph Ratzinger and John Paul and the three of them are just kind of like oh crap
You know, how did we get here?
Folks there's billions of people in hell
Okay, so why are you so worried about that? Why are you so well, but hey, you know, you know why I'll tell you
Why because our world today?
Lifts up and exalts certain people as celebrities and we give them more respect than they deserve
When in reality God's not a respect our persons God looks nice. He's all the same
Like whether we have money or don't have money. He sees us the same red yellow black and white. He sees us the same
You know
Intellectual simple he looks down family just sees us. He sees us the same. He doesn't say like oh well
You know, I was gonna send you to hell Michael Jackson, but I mean you're Michael Jackson
So you're going to heaven
Because some people be real disappointed if they get to heaven and you're not here
You know, oh, well, I mean the Pope John Paul. Well, yeah, I mean, I'll make an exception for him
He's on the cover of Time magazine
Him and Adolf Hitler, you know
and so
The point is God doesn't make exceptions for people. We don't need to make exceptions either
We need to look at things the way God looks at them and understand that it's not about
being
famous or a
Religious hero a saint a great religious leader man of God. God doesn't think about any of that
You know, it's just are you saved or you not saved?
you know every little Baptist boy and girl who believes in Jesus in their heart is on their way to heaven and the Pope's in
Hell and the current Pope is on his way to hell, too
And I don't even know who the next Pope is gonna be
But I can already tell you that he will go to hell when he dies and the Pope after him will go to hell
I can tell the future
Every Pope will go to hell
Okay, because it just like every Hindus on their way to hell just like Muslims are on their way to hell
Just like Jews are on their way to hell because Jesus is the way the truth in the life
No man cometh unto the Father but by him and it's not Mary. It's Jesus. It's not the church. It's Jesus
It's not the Pope it's Jesus and a gospel that mixes in works isn't the gospel at all
The Bible calls it another gospel
which is not another but it's a corruption or twisting or perversion of the gospel of Jesus Christ and so
Don't fall into this trap of thinking that well
famous preachers and famous
Men of God somehow get a pass
No, my friend it's based on whether or not they have faith in Jesus alone for salvation
It's the same rules as everybody else. And you know what? Let's go out there this year in 2023
Let's get some Catholics saved because they're all unsaved
All of them are unsaved. So guess what? The fields are white unto harvest. Let's go out and get them saved and
By the way, there's some of the easiest people to get saved and we win Catholics to the Lord constantly and you know
No, thanks to the Pope
Who is the vicar of hell on earth
No, thanks to him we get Catholics saved by preaching them the what the Bible actually says let's buy a word of prayer father
We thank you so much for your word Lord and and Lord
Thank you for warning us about all the counterfeits that are out there Lord
Of course
We know the devil is not stupid and so he doesn't go around with horns and a pitchfork
But rather he goes around in a long white robe and a funny hat
because Lord he's transformed into an angel of light and
Lord God help us not to be deceived and help us to with love in our hearts and a tear in the eye
Help us to go out and reach those Catholics who are deceived and tell them the true gospel of Jesus Christ before it's eternally too
Late and it's in his name. We pray men