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Welcome back to Anchor Baptist Church.
It is time to go ahead and get started.
If you would grab a hymnal and turn to our first hymn,
number 194,
since Jesus came into my heart.
194,
194, since Jesus came into my heart.
We'll sing there right on the first.
No change in my life
Heavenly Father, we thank you for this day,
and the opportunity to go out in your stead
and preach the gospel this afternoon.
I pray that you would just be with those
that seeds would be planted
and that you would water and give the increase.
Lord, I also pray that everything would be done
for this service decently and in order,
that you would just have your hand of protection
and blessing on this service.
These things we pray in Jesus' name, amen.
All right, for our next hymn this evening, number 405.
405, the banner of the cross.
405, 405, we'll sing their starting right on the first.
24 so we've got this week and we'll have a grace week after that
So you still have two full weeks to learn this chapter if you have not and then we'll be excited to start a new chapter on the inside
Our service times are listed Sunday morning at 10 30 Sunday evening at 4 30 and our Wednesday Bible study at 7 o'clock
Below that we do have all of our soul winning times listed and all of those meet here at the church building
And then below, I'm really excited about our church stats for the year 738 so far.
Keep being faithful to soul winning, the Lord is definitely blessing this year greatly.
Also, upcoming events, of course, this evening, after the service, we will have pizza, root
beer floats, Coke floats, games, just hanging out.
So Brother Cameron, if you'll pray right after you're done with the last song for the food.
And then if I could have the men set up some tables, ladies, you're welcome to just start
getting pizza, start loading up the kids' plates, all that fun stuff.
And then we'll have a great evening.
Next Sunday night is the men's preaching night. There's a sign-up sheet in the back. You'd like to
Participate I think we got three guys signed up. So right now the time limit will be 20 minutes for each guy
So just keep that in mind
June 28th, that's the tinker air show coming up real soon June 29th
Brother Ben Naim preaching for us and August 27th is the fire breathing Baptist fellowship at steadfast Baptist Church
October 6th is the Bahamas mission trip on the right. We do have our prayer list if you have any prayer requests
Please do give us an update one update that I know is not reflected on here yet
Is that brother Alex did end up getting the job? He's praying for so praise the Lord for that's good news
Prayer definitely is effectual. So keep that in mind throughout the week
We also have some information for visitors and our online giving if you'd like to do that.
But that's going to be it for announcements this evening. We'll go ahead and go to our third song.
Alright, our third song this evening, number 329. Take time to be holy.
329. Take time to be holy. We'll sing there starting right on the first.
Take time to be holy.
plates are being passed. Turn, if you would, to Ephesians chapter number four. Ephesians chapter number
Ephesians for the Bible reads,
I therefore the prisoner of the Lord beseech you
that you walk worthy of the vocation we're with,
you're called, with all lowliness and meekness,
with longsuffering, for bearing one another in love,
endeavoring to keep the unity of the spirit
in the bond of peace.
There is one body and one spirit, even as ye are called in one hope of your calling,
one Lord, one faith, one baptism, one God and Father of all who is above all and through all
and in you all. But unto every one of us is given grace according to the measure of the gift of
Christ, wherefore he saith when he ascended up on high, he led captivity captive and gave gifts
What is it, but that he also descended first into the lower parts of the earth he that
Descended is the same also that ascended up far above all heavens that he might fill all things
And he gave some apostles and some prophets and some evangelists and some pastors and some teachers
for the perfecting of the saints, for the work of the ministry, for the edifying of the body of Christ
till we all come in the unity of the faith and of the knowledge of the Son of God
unto a perfect man unto the measure of the stature of the fullness of Christ
Tossed to and fro and carried about with every wind of doctrine
By the slight of men and cunning craftiness whereby they lie and wait to deceive
But speaking the truth in love may grow up into him and all things
Which is the head even Christ
From whom the whole body fitly joined together and compacted by that which every joint supplyth according to the effectual working in the measure of
Every part maketh increase of the body unto the edifying of itself in love
This I say therefore and testify in the Lord that ye henceforth walk not as other Gentiles walk in the vanity of their mind
having the understanding
darkened, being alienated from the life of God through the ignorance that is in them
because of the blindness of their heart, who, being past feeling, have given themselves
over unto lasciviousness to work
All uncleanness with greediness, but ye have not so learned Christ if so be
You have heard him and have been taught by him as the truth is in Jesus
That you put off concerning the former conversation the old man
Which is corrupt according to this deceitful lusts and be renewed in the spirit of your mind and
That you put on the new man
which after God is created in righteousness and true holiness,
wherefore, putting away lying, speak every man truth with his neighbor,
for we are members one of another.
Be ye angry and sin not. Let not the sun go down upon your wrath.
Neither give place to the devil. Let him that stole still know more.
But rather let him labor working with his hands the thing which is good that he may give to him
That needeth let no corrupt communication proceed out of your mouth
But that which is good to the use of edifying that it may minister grace unto the hearers and
Grieve not the Holy Spirit of God whereby you're sealed into the day of redemption
Let all bitterness and wrath and clamor and evil speaking be put away from you with all malice, and be kind one to another, tenderhearted, forgiving one another, even as God, for Christ's sake, hath forgiven you.
That's about our heads for prayer. Father in heaven, we thank you for this day, and we thank you for our salvation.
And the title of this article is this,
young people are converting to Catholicism in mass,
driven by pandemic, internet, and lax alternatives.
Cindy Johnson grew up in a non-denominational
Christian household.
But now the Upper West Side Millennial is a devout Catholic.
And there's a quote from her, she says,
there's just something so beautiful and transcendent
about the rituals and the ancient history
and the Catholic mass that's been preserved.
Johnson, age 30, told the post.
The church really communicates a degree of reverence
that I did not find in the more liberal,
laissez-faire approach of non-denominational churches.
So this article basically is just saying that,
hey, Catholicism is on the rise with young people.
And really just to summarize this article,
for you and I agree with what this
article is saying. It's being driven
by a desire of people to return
to traditional values and conservatism,
and I've been noticing this for a long time.
I've been saying this for a while.
that people are dying for conservatism right now.
They are just hungering and thirsting
after the fundamentals, after traditional values,
after conservatism, so much so that I tell you,
you know, I go out in public with my family
and I don't even have a lot of kids,
but people just see like a bunch of girls
wearing skirts and dresses and they comment on that.
They're like, wow, this is beautiful.
Wow, you have a great family.
They don't know anything about us,
but they could just tell that we're conservative
and they like that, they want that.
They're thirsting for that.
And this is a good desire that people are having.
Don't get me wrong,
that they're wanting to get back to traditionalism.
But here's the thing,
we don't wanna just throw out the new evangelical movement
to replace it with Catholicism, right?
Yes, I'm all for rejecting these fun center churches.
It's garbage, it's fake Christianity.
I don't wanna go to a church that is a rock concert
or a TED talk.
I want the unfiltered raw truth.
I want the King James Bible.
And that's why I love being a Baptist
is because we believe as Baptist
that this is the authority.
You know, if you are a Baptist,
it means that the Bible is your boss, right?
Now, here's the thing.
People are getting this right idea like,
hey, let's get away from the fun center.
I'm not learning, I'm not growing.
And so they think, well, the Catholic Church is based.
I mean, the Catholic Church is conservative.
Like this is what you'll see on X
is a huge swing of people returning
to the Catholic Church, especially millennials and Gen Z.
Because this age group is like one of the most
conservative generations for its age ever.
I mean and that's kind of a good sign, but we want to make sure that we reach people with
biblical Christianity, not allow them to get sucked in to this cult that is the Catholic Church.
And here's the thing, I've preached many, many sermons before against the Catholic Church,
but I will and I will continue to do that in my entire ministry, but I want to focus on one
aspect this evening. And so the title of my sermon is this, Baptist Pastors versus Catholic Priests.
That's what I really wanna focus on
because we could talk a lot about doctrine
and we will definitely do that.
But let's just focus on one difference
between Catholics and Christians, Baptists,
and that is the clergy, the ministers, okay?
So we're in Ephesians 4, notice what it says in verse 11, it says,
And He gave some apostles and some prophets and some evangelists and some pastors and teachers.
So these positions in ministry, these men of God, they are gifts that God has given to men
for a specific purpose, it says in verse 12, for the perfecting of the saints,
for the work of the ministry, for the edifying of the body of Christ,
and of the knowledge of the Son of God unto a perfect man,
unto the measure of the stature and fullness of Christ.
So overall, the job of a pastor or a spiritual leader in general
is to help people become better Christians.
That's really the job.
And of course, there's many ways that pastors do this.
They can do it by preaching sermons, by counseling people,
preaching the gospel to the lost by serving in administering communion, administering weddings,
funerals. There's all sorts of different ways that pastors serve God's people,
but the overall goal is the perfecting of the saints, right? To help the saints
become better Christians. And so I want to look at a couple major differences this evening between
Baptist pastors and Catholic priests, and we'll see which one's biblical. Number one,
celibacy. Okay, abstaining from marriage or the physical
relationship. There's this guy on YouTube. He's very, very
popular and he's a Catholic priest and he's pretty young. I
think he's like 32 years old.
And his name is David Michael Moses.
Man, I mean, I'm for the Bible names,
but I mean, that's quite a mouthful.
David Michael Moses, and of course,
he calls himself Father because, you know,
this is the Catholic priest tradition.
So he's Father David Michael Moses,
and he has this video that was really sad to watch.
The video is called My Journey to Priesthood.
And this is what he said.
He said as an altar server growing up sometimes people would say oh you'd be such a cute little priest and I'd say
I like girls
Now that's pretty normal for a little kid
He's thinking like you know little kid grows up and he realizes hey I like girls
I want to get married someday and so he's thinking like no
I'm not gonna be a priest someday because I desire to marry and guess what that's every normal dude has that desire and
So you know he said that as a little kid
And I honestly thought that because I wanted to end up getting married and I knew priests couldn't get married,
that meant I was not supposed to be a priest.
Now, go to 1 Corinthians chapter number seven.
The Catholic Church forbids its priests from being married.
Now Catholics will lie to you and say,
oh, the Catholic Church doesn't forbid anyone from marrying.
And it's like, okay, yeah, that's true.
They're not gonna force you to become a priest.
But if you want to be a priest, you can't get married.
Now, what is it?
Where do they go in the Bible to prove this?
Where do they even twist this from?
And they'll go to 1st Corinthians chapter number seven.
Verse one, the Bible says this.
Paul says now concerning the things
where have you wrote on to me?
It is good for a man not to touch a woman.
Nevertheless, to avoid fornication, let every man have his own wife, and let every woman have her own husband.
The touching there is obviously in the context of fornication, because he says, hey, it's good not to touch a woman.
Why? Hey, to avoid fornication, you should get married, right?
Let every man have his own wife, let every wife have her own husband.
This is why people get married, okay, is to avoid fornication.
It says, let the husband render unto the wife due benevolence.
and likewise also the wife unto the husband the wife hath not power over her own body
but the husband and likewise also the husband hath not power of his own body but the wife
Defraud ye not one the other, except it be with consent for a time that you may give yourselves to fasting and prayer and come together again that Satan attempt you not for your incontinency.
So if you are married, there's some rules within marriage and that is that you must give your spouse due benevolence and that if you do not, what you're doing is you're defrauding.
your spouse. It says that hey,
the wife does not even have power
over her own body when it comes to marriage.
Her body belongs to her husband and vice versa.
The husband's body does not belong to himself.
Belongs to his wife and that do that do benevolence.
It has that important word there do.
It's something that is owed to your spouse.
It's not something that's earned by good behavior
or something like that.
It's owed, but then he says this.
But I speak this by permission and not of commandment, for I would, so he's saying my personal opinion, my own desire, I would, that all men were even as I myself.
But every man hath his proper gift of God, one after this manner, and another after that.
So he's saying, look.
But I would, I wish that everyone had this gift that I have of not requiring this relationship,
not, you know, being able to live without it.
And so Paul, he has this gift.
He doesn't need to get married.
And he's saying, hey, my personal opinion is that other people would be like me.
So here's the thing.
It's not like the Bible says you have to get married or that you have to abstain from marriage.
You must give due benevolence.
Like that is a rule.
But he says, but I speak this by permission and not
of commandment, for I would that all men were even as I myself.
Verse eight, I say therefore to the unmarried and widows,
it is good for them if they abide even as I.
So he's saying my opinion is if you're unmarried
or you're widowed, my personal opinion
is that if you can abstain from that relationship
that you should, you know, not get married again.
And again, that's Paul's opinion.
That's his own view.
But notice verse nine, he has a caveat with this.
But if they cannot contain, let them marry.
to marry than to burn.
So if you have that desire, then you should get married.
And you know, I hear people sometimes saying like,
oh, I think I'm gonna be like Paul.
I think that I'm not supposed to get married.
And I just ask this person like,
do you ever desire this in your life?
Yes.
It's not you man. Okay? And here's the thing. Just realize 99.99999% of men are going to
fall into the category of where they should get married.
The Apostle Paul is a rare bird, my friends.
That's why, hey, to avoid fornication,
let every man have his own wife.
Right? Adam was created.
God said, hey, it's not good that the man's alone.
He created and helped meet for him in Eve.
You know, this is the natural order of things.
This is how it is for most people.
But then he says this in verse 10,
and unto the married I command,
yet not I, but the Lord.
Let not the wife depart from her husband.
So he's like, enough with my opinion,
here's what God's saying,
if you are married, don't divorce.
If you are married,
don't let the wife depart from her husband.
That's not his opinion anymore.
That's God's opinion.
Then he says in verse 32,
would have you without carefulness.
So his view, his idea is that I would have you
without carefulness, meaning full of care,
full of giving mind, giving attention to things.
He that is unmarried, careth for the things
that belong to the Lord, how he may please the Lord.
But he that is married, careth not for the things
that are of the.
carat for the things that are of the world, how he may please his wife.
So here's the thing, theoretically, if you're not burning in your lust,
if you're not struggling with this, theoretically, if you were unmarried,
if you were single, you'd be able to give more attention and more time
and more of your effort and energy to the things of God.
Now, the caveat is that is only true if you're like the Apostle Paul.
because it's better to marry than to burn.
You're not gonna be giving the Lord
more of your attention, time, and care
if you're struggling in that area constantly,
but you're just abstaining anyways.
Go ahead and pick it up, okay?
Pick it up, Bethany.
Come on.
Look at verse number.
34, he says this, there is difference also between a wife and a virgin.
I always laugh when I read that because I'm like, yeah, a single guy definitely wrote this.
Like, yeah, no duh.
There is a difference also between a wife and a virgin.
The unmarried woman caret for the things of the Lord
that she may be holy both in body and in spirit,
but she that is married caret for the things of the world,
how she may please her husband.
Again, this is only
True, theoretically, if a woman is just able to go through her whole life and not struggle in this area and not desire a man.
Yeah, she could give more of herself and of her time and of her energy to God.
But if she's married, she's going to have to divide some of that energy and time to pleasing her husband.
Now, some people take this and say like, you know, single people are the ones that are doing the most for God and you're going to be able to have the best.
possible spiritual life if you are celibate and single but you know what's funny is that reality
doesn't really match that because when I think of men that I look up to as being very spiritual
great pastors you know what's funny is that they're all married and what's funny is that they all
have a bunch of kids which you know what that does that takes a lot of time
That takes a lot of care.
And you think like, well, if you have no wife and you have no kids,
you would just be some spiritual rock star
and you'd be able to just give so much of your time to the Lord,
yet in reality, we don't see that.
We see that Paul is the exception to the rule.
And if, which is a big if, you don't desire a wife, or you're a woman, and if you don't
desire a husband, you can theoretically give more of your time to the Lord.
But let me tell you something, if you desire that physical relationship, that is not you.
And so this Catholic priest who said that when he was a boy, he desired to get married
someday, let me tell you, Father David Michael Moses, it's not you.
You're not the Apostle Paul.
Be celibate, it is not good, and let me tell you something, it is not good for you spiritually.
Because what he just told us is, hey, I like women, and guess what? Every man does.
And so what that tells me is he's going through his ministry struggling in this area of life every single day.
Because let me tell you something, God doesn't just push a button and it's like,
oh, you know, I'm spiritual and so I don't struggle in this area.
No, this is why God gave you a wife.
This is why God gave you ladies, a husband,
is because this is a natural need that we all have that should be satisfied a godly way through marriage.
And you are going to be a messed up person in your mind when you do desire this relationship and you just never have it.
It's a recipe for disaster.
It's a bad idea.
Verse 36 says, or I'm sorry, look at verse 35,
and this, I speak for your own profit,
not that I may cast a snare upon you,
but for that which is comely,
and that you may attend upon the Lord without distraction.
So notice, God's not, you know,
the Apostle Paul's not trying to cast a snare upon people,
saying like, you have to be like me,
whether you desire this relationship or not,
you know, that would be casting a snare on people.
And I would say that this father David Michael Moses, he fell into a trap.
He fell into a snare of the Catholic Church where he thought maybe before, you know, he was becoming a false prophet.
He's just some little boy that maybe had some sort of desire to do right.
He thought like, oh, if I serve God in the highest way possible, then I have to give up marriage.
And maybe he even in his heart thought like he was doing something valiant and something good.
But let me tell you, you fell into a trap because Paul said, I did not write this to snare you.
And if you're saying, I desire a wife, but you're purposely not doing it.
You're in a trap, you're in a snare, snare.
Verse 36,
But hath power over his own will and hath so decreed in his heart that he will keep his virgin doeth well
So then he that giveth her in marriage doeth well, but he that giveth her not in marriage doeth better
So again, hey, there's nothing wrong with getting married.
Marriage is a blessing from God.
The Bible says that the marriage bed is undefiled, right?
So it's a blessing from God.
But here's the thing, you don't have to get married.
You don't have to abstain from marriage.
If you desire that activity, you should get married.
If you are a rare bird and you don't,
and you just want to give as much of your time, energy and effort to God as possible,
You don't have to get married.
No one's going to force you to get married,
but it is God's will for the vast majority of humanity
to get married.
Now.
I say all that to say this, go to Titus chapter number one.
The Catholic Church, Catholic priests have a doctrine
that Catholic priests are not allowed to get married.
It doesn't matter if they want to or not,
they just cannot get married.
So we saw what Paul was teaching in 1 Corinthians 7,
but when it comes to pastors, when it comes to clergy,
God has a different rule for clergy.
The Bible teaches that clergy pastors
must be married.
It's not a question of, oh, if you desire this or not,
no, no, no, pastors must be married.
There are two places in the Bible
that have pastoral qualifications.
Titus chapter one, first Timothy chapter three.
Look at Titus one, it says this.
Verse 5, For this cause, left I thee in Crete, that thou shouldest set in order the things
that are wanting, and ordain elders in every city, as I had appointed thee.
That word elder, it's interchangeable with bishop, pastor, elder, and elder is just a
pastor.
He's saying, I want you to ordain elders, and it says, if any, be blameless.
Notice this, the husband of one wife.
So, he's saying, hey Titus, when you're going to ordain elders, this is what I want you
to look at.
If you're going to ordain someone to be a pastor, hey, they've got to be blameless.
And it says, the husband of one wife.
You say, oh, that's just an isolated passage.
Okay, flip a few pages to 1st Timothy chapter 3.
I'll show you this is not an isolated passage.
This is a requirement to be a pastor.
Verse one, this is a true saying.
If a man desired the office of a bishop,
right, so talking about being a pastor,
the office of a bishop, he desired the good work.
A bishop then must be blameless.
Here's another qualification, the husband of one wife.
vigilant, sober of good behavior, given to hospitality, apt to teach.
This is not unclear in the Bible, folks.
This is very obvious.
This is very simple.
But the Catholic Church just loves to do the opposite of what the Bible says.
And, you know, we've talked about this many times.
It's like the Catholic Church is just so satanic.
Anything, any commandment that God gives, they just want to flip it on its head.
Hey, don't worship idols.
Let's bow down to idols.
Let's worship Mary.
You know, hey, how about pastors have to be married?
Oh, pastors can't be married.
Priests can't be married.
It's like, hey, when you're fasting,
don't disfigure your face.
Hey, let's put ash on our face,
letting everybody know that we're fasting.
It's like, this is the Catholic Church.
It's a clown show.
And so, yes, please, let's reject the modern,
fake rock and roll churches,
but let's not go to this institution
that has zero respect for the Bible.
Zero respect for the office of a bishop when the Bible says a bishop must be blamed or sorry must be the husband of one wife
And I've heard some Catholics say this
They want to just completely erase all of the qualifications of the of a bishop because they'll say this well
It says he must be blameless and no one's perfect
That's not what that means, okay?
Blameless means that there's not some glaring major issue
that's standing out in someone's life.
Like, hey, this guy's a pastor and he's a convicted murderer.
Like, oh, this person's not blameless, right?
Or how about this?
This person has committed adultery on his wife.
Yeah, this person is not blameless, right?
It does not mean that you have to be perfect or sinless.
I mean, why would God put that in the Bible?
Do you think this is a joke?
Do you think God just laying out these qualifications
are just to be ignored and disregarded?
No, it's in there for a reason,
and it says that he's supposed to be the husband of one wife.
So let me tell you something, every single Catholic clergy member is unqualified for the office.
First of all, because they're unsaved.
I mean, that's kind of the main issue,
is that they believe salvation is by works instead of grace through faith.
But also, they don't even meet the carnal requirement of being married.
Now, why does God have this requirement?
Why is this important to God?
Well, look at verse 3.
Not given to wine, no striker, not greedy of filthy lucre, but patient, not a brawler, not covetous.
Verse 4, one that ruleeth well his own house, having his 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?
See, the reason why you've got to have a wife,
you have to be the husband of one wife,
and you have to have faithful children,
not accused of riot or unruly,
is because the home is kind of your proving ground
for spiritual leadership.
What do we preach about this morning?
Spiritual leadership in the home.
If you cannot do that,
if you cannot succeed as a spiritual leader,
as the pastor of your home,
you're dead sure not,
you don't have a chance in the house of God.
Like if you can't get your wife to follow you,
and believe what you believe and get on your program.
If you can't get your kids to do that,
okay, you're not gonna be able to do that
to grown adults, grown men and women in church.
And so it makes no sense.
You got all these priests that have zero life experience.
I mean, they have no clue.
They're going to go and give counsel and advice
to married people about married issues.
They're going to go give counsel and advice
to people with child-rearing issues.
They've never raised a child.
They've never had kids.
They are not qualified to do the job that they're doing.
The Bible says, hey, if a man know not how
to rule his own house.
How shall he take care of the church of God?
What do you do with that, Catholics?
What do you do with that verse?
Verse number five of 1 Timothy, chapter number three.
What do you do with it?
I'll tell you what they do. They ignore it.
They just completely ignore it,
just like they do with every single part of the Bible
that they don't like.
That's why they have their little Dewey Reem's Bible version that only Catholics use.
That's a complete joke of a version and they love to mock the King James Bible.
I'll tell you why, because the reason the King James Bible came into existence is because
the Catholic Church was forbidding the people to read the Bible for hundreds and thousands
of years.
It's called the Dark Ages.
And it's like, why is it that William Tyndale had to start translating into English on the
run?
Why was he on the run?
Because the Catholic Church was trying to kill him for translating the Bible and ended
up burning him at the stake for it.
And it's just like, still today, Catholics, you know what they hate?
They hate the Word of God.
They hate the Bible.
They are a man made religion
that's based on man's creeds,
man's traditions, all these rituals,
all these fancy buildings,
but it's not based on what the Bible says.
Because if it was, their priests
would be married.
They would not be celibate.
Not only that.
First Timothy chapter number four.
By the way,
of the chapter 4 verse 1 notice what this says now the spirit speaketh expressly that in the latter times
Some shall depart from the faith, giving heed to seducing spirits and doctrines of devils."
So the Bible says, hey, in the last times, in the latter days,
there's going to be people giving heed to doctrines of devils.
What are those doctrines of devils?
Speaking lies and hypocrisy, having their conscience seared with a hot iron,
forbidding to marry!
and commanding to abstain from meats,
which God have created to be received
with thanksgiving of them which believe and know the truth.
I mean, the Bible just explicitly spells out for you
some of the doctrines that people are going to be receiving
in the last days, and one of those things
are gonna be a doctrine that forbids to marry.
And that's exactly what this doctrine is from the Catholic Church.
It is from Satan himself.
And let me tell you something.
Being a Catholic and especially being a Catholic priest is like a punishment from God.
It's like God is punishing you for being so stupid and foolish
and not hearkening to what the Bible says that he's going to withhold from you
like two of the greatest reasons to live.
Meet and marriage!
It's like, these are some of the greatest pleasures that God's ever created.
And it's like, okay, if you're just going to despise my word and reject the qualifications,
well, then you could just enjoy your terrible life of celibacy.
Because guess what? That's not fun, folks.
It's like a punishment for being an idiot,
for being someone that wants to follow Satan rather than what the Bible says.
So number one, hey, big difference between Baptist pastors and Catholic priests is that we don't believe this celibate junk
It is a doctrine of devils and my Bible says that the bishops the pastors must be married
Not that they must not be married. Here's the second difference between us
secular work two different philosophies when it comes to secular work when it be when it comes to a Baptist pastor versus a Catholic priest
So this quote
is from the Catholic Diocese of Lincoln,
and it's answering a question, it's like a Q and A.
Here's the question.
Can a priest have a part-time job?
Okay?
Here's the answer from the Catholic Church.
The church, in her wisdom,
has established legal restrictions on priests
participating in activities that are unbecoming
or foreign to the clerical state.
While our minds might jump immediately
to actions that are sinful,
In this context, foreign doesn't mean activity that is sinful.
While not strictly forbidden, the church establishes that unless they receive permission from the church,
clerics are prohibited from conducting business or trade personally or through others for their advantage or that of others.
A priest would not be able to work a part-time job even if he were to donate his salary to a worthy cause.
This means that everything a priest does should be in the spirit of fulfilling his ministry and working at Chick-fil-A or Home Depot
does not do this okay so they've kind of got this aristocratic view that their clergy cannot
work a secular job and that if they work a secular job they have to get like special
written permission from the church even if they were like wanting to donate all of their salary
like they still can't do it they have to get written permission now go to Acts chapter number 18
Acts chapter number 18, and let me just say this, here's the thing.
The Bible does allow ministers to be paid full time for their ministerial labor.
The Bible does allow that, and I would even say that that's great, and I would even say
that that might be an ideal situation, but here's the thing, the Bible does not forbid
The Bible does not forbid pastors from being full-time pastors or deacons or church staff, and also working a job on the side.
And you know, the reason I even bring this up is because we don't want to get this attitude where we would despise or look down on a pastor who works two jobs, whether by choice or by necessity.
I mean, there's some pastors where they just by choice want to do both their whole life. That is okay.
And there's some pastors that are going to be full-time in the ministry their whole life.
That's great. That's wonderful.
But look what the Bible says. Acts 18 verse 1.
After these things, Paul departed from Athens and came to Corinth
and found a certain Jew named Aquila, born in Pontus,
lately come from Italy with his wife Priscilla,
because that Claudius had commanded all Jews to depart from Rome
and came unto them.
And because he was of the same craft,
he abode with them and wrought, for by their occupation,
they were tent makers.
So notice, the Apostle Paul, he's tearing it up in the ministry.
I mean, he's turning the world upside down.
He's starting churches everywhere,
yet he also is a tent maker by occupation.
And guess what?
There's nothing wrong with that.
And you know, I've preached before,
we don't want to get this aristocratic,
holier-than-now mentality where we look down on people
for doing jobs that you might consider blue-collar,
or menial, or not that important.
Notice what the Catholic Church says there.
Oh, being a priest, we wouldn't want them doing anything unbecoming or foreign,
like working at Home Depot.
Oh, so terrible.
It's like, what's wrong with people that work at Home Depot?
Like, should we just hate people, should we just clown on and make fun of people that
work at Home Depot?
Is that really a Christian attitude?
Like, you really think that's cool?
No, it is not, folks.
It's absolutely not.
It's garbage.
And hey, the same people that would make fun of someone for working at Home Depot are
probably the same people that would make fun of the Apostle Paul for making tents.
Oh, you think you're a real man of God?
Oh, you think you're hot stuff, Paul?
Then why are you making tents, huh?
It doesn't seem very clerical.
doesn't seem very priestly.
Hey, I'd rather have a pastor that makes tents
than have these weirdo creeps and long robes
that aren't married speaking Latin to me in the service.
You know what I mean?
But again, the Catholic Church, it's all about the flesh.
Man, that's what it is.
It's all about carnality and what appeals to the flesh,
the big beautiful buildings, and the nice stained glass
windows, and the very pressed robes and uniforms
and everything that they got.
Why do they have all that stuff?
because they're empty and dead spiritually.
They can't preach a hard sermon,
they have to preach a homily.
Right? They can't preach sermons,
they have homilies that last like 10 or 15 minutes.
Why? And here's the thing,
these homilies often come from some,
I'm thinking of the wrong word,
it's like a concordance, but it's something else.
But oftentimes in Catholic churches,
they're not even coming up with their own homilies.
There's being like, this is the homily for this Sunday.
Why do they do that stuff?
Because they're of the world.
Because they're appealing to the flesh because they're not safe because they can't appeal to the spirit really quick
Go to 1 Corinthians chapter 9 and let's look at this doctrine in the Bible here
First Corinthians 9 verse 3 the apostle Paul said this mine answer to them that examined me is this have we not power
to eat and to drink.
Have we not power to lead about a sister, a wife,
as well as other apostles
and the brethren of the Lord and Cephas?
Or I only in Barnabas.
Have we, have not we power to forbear working?
So notice Paul is acknowledging
he has power to not work a secular job.
Paul does not have to be bivocational.
And what I say is, hey, pastors and ministers,
they do not have to be bivocational.
If the church can pay staff full-time, that's great.
My own personal preference is that's probably ideal because then they're going to be able to give more of their time and effort and energy into the house of God.
That's probably the best case scenario.
And he's acknowledging that he has that power.
He goes on to elaborate in verse seven,
who goeth to warfare any time at his own charges?
Who planted the vineyard and eateth not of the fruit thereof?
Or who feedeth the flock and eateth not
of the milk of the flock?
So it's like, there's kind of two extremes out there
in this world.
People who think it's wrong for pastors to be paid.
And then people who think like pastors have to be paid
and they can't work a secular job.
And right now he's kind of refuting that first group.
He's saying like, hey, what soldier goes out on his own dime?
What soldier buys his own gun and his own, you know, armor?
That's ridiculous.
Who's going to plant a vineyard and not eat the fruit thereof?
You know, who's going to raise a flock and not get the milk from that cow, right?
So, hey, those that preach the gospel are going to live of the gospel, that just makes sense.
I don't know why people think like being an electrician is a job, being a lawyer is a job,
being a doctor is a job, but being a pastor is not a job.
It's like, why don't you try it for a week and tell me it's not a job?
No, it's a lot of work and he's saying like, look, we should be able to get paid for this.
Thou shalt not muzzle the mouth of the ox that treadeth out the corn.
Doth God take care for oxen?
He's like, hey, if there's this ox that's working in your field,
why would you muzzle its mouth so that it can't eat?
It needs to eat to keep working for you, right?
It needs to get nutrients and food and water so it can keep producing for you.
He's saying, did God really even say this for oxen though?
Verse 10, or say it altogether for our sakes.
For our sakes, no doubt this is written.
that he that ploweth should plow in hope,
and he that thresheth in hope
should be partaker of his hope.
If we have sown unto you spiritual things,
is it a great thing that we shall reap your carnal things?
If others be partakers of this power over you,
are not we rather?
Nevertheless, notice, we have not used this power,
but suffer all things,
lest we should hinder the gospel of Christ.
So Paul, he says all that to say this,
hey, I can take a paycheck if I want to.
I can receive money of the work that I'm doing
if I want to, but he's saying,
hey, I'm choosing not to use this power
lest we should hinder the gospel of Christ.
So there may be different churches,
different ministers that are in different situations
where they may choose to take no salary
or take a partial salary or take a full-time salary.
And guess what?
All of those are totally okay.
If a pastor wants to work two jobs, whether of necessity or just he desires to,
he's just like, hey, this is a hard economy, and I just want to do both.
That's totally okay.
You shouldn't despise a pastor for doing that.
He's worthy of his meat.
So all that to say this, hey, the Catholic doctrine that clergy cannot work a secular job is just not biblical.
And at the end of the day, what we should base our beliefs on is not traditions, man's opinions.
It's the Bible.
Go to 1 Timothy 1.
Number three, let's talk about another difference between Baptist pastors and Catholic priests.
Number three, that is the title of Father.
This is obviously a big difference.
I do not take the title of Father.
Not only do I not want that, I would never allow someone to call me that because it is wicked.
And I will prove that to you from the Bible.
But first, let me show you how they try to justify this.
I've seen a lot of Catholics talk about this doctrine.
Here's how they justify this.
Paul, an Apostle of Jesus Christ by the commandment of God our Savior and Lord Jesus Christ, which is our hope
unto Timothy notice these words my own son in the faith
Grace mercy and peace from God our Father and Jesus Christ our Lord
So Paul calls Timothy his son in the faith and some people think this means different things
Oftentimes in the Bible this could be referring to someone getting someone else saved like you've begotten them in the gospel
I don't really think that's the case when it comes to Timothy.
I think that the Apostle Paul is more of a father to him in the sense that he helped him to grow
and to develop spiritually. Everything good over there?
Okay.
Kids fall asleep, folks.
There's another difference between Baptists and Catholics.
We're family integrated.
And sometimes, you know, the kids are going to fall off their chair and cry in the middle of the sermon.
But hey, at least they're safe from pedophiles unlike the Catholic Church.
All right, sometimes you just have to go off the notes, all right, but here's the thing
Timothy, my own son in the faith.
I don't think that the Apostle Paul got Timothy saved.
Because elsewhere he talks about, hey, you know,
I know the faith that was in your grandmother
and your mother.
So it seems to me that Timothy probably got saved
by his grandmother or mother,
but Timothy is kind of like Paul's protege.
He's kind of like investing in him,
taking him under his wing, helping him develop spiritually.
So that's why I think he's saying
he's like my son in the faith.
Now, go to, if you will,
1 Corinthians 4, 1 Corinthians chapter number 4.
Now here's the thing, there's a big difference between
The Apostle Paul being like a father to Timothy, or us being like a father to people that we get saved or ministered unto,
then receiving the title of Father.
Here's what you see in the Bible.
You see Paul saying like, hey, this is like my son, so you could say Paul's like a father.
But you know what you never see?
You never, ever, ever see a man of God receiving the title of Father.
You never see anyone go up to Paul and say, Father Paul, how are you doing?
Father Peter, excuse me, Father James, Father John.
Like you don't hear these titles, they don't exist.
Why?
Because this is a man-made idea that's wicked
saying that ministers should be called Father.
Look at 1 Corinthians 4, verse 15.
For though you have 10,000 instructors in Christ,
yet have ye not many fathers?
For, in Christ Jesus, I have begotten you through the Gospel, wherefore I beseech you be ye followers of me."
So he's saying, look, you have 10,000 instructors.
Yet, have you not many fathers? Why? Because he's the one that begot them through the gospel.
He's the one that got them saved. There's only one human individual, usually, that's involved in getting you saved, right?
Sometimes there's multiple people that plant and water and stuff like that, but when I go out soul-winning,
hey, sometimes I knock on the door, I preach them the whole gospel, I call upon the name of the Lord of them,
and through the power of Jesus Christ, through the power of the gospel, I've begotten them into the faith.
So I'm like a father under that person, but I'm not Father Oz.
They're not going to start saying Father Oz. No, no, no, I'm still Pastor Oz.
And you, whoever you are out there that get people saved, you're still brother so-and-so or sister so-and-so.
You did not suddenly become a father. Think about this idea.
Paul is saying this, you have 10,000 instructors in Christ.
Meaning there's all these different people that are spiritual leadership, that are investing spiritually.
But he's saying you have one person who got you saved.
If this is a license to call minister's father this wouldn't make any sense because he's saying like there's only one, it's just me.
So if Paul's going to take the title of father, then it would have to be like only Paul, like father Paul, but all these other people are what? The 10,000 instructors.
So why does the Catholic Church say, oh, all the 10,000 instructors are called father? See how that makes no sense?
Like every parish, every Catholic Church, they all have all these fathers.
When Paul's saying, look, there's 10,000 instructors, but you don't have many fathers.
You have one, the person who preached you the gospel and begot you again through the gospel.
So again, even when they try to use this to justify, if anything, if you took their logic,
you'd have to say like, only the person that got you saved would have this title.
But again, I don't think that you ever see anyone taking this title.
It's just like, hey, I'm like a father unto you because I got you saved.
I'm like a father unto you because I raised you up in the ministry and I trained you and I taught you but you don't see
Father Peter you don't see Father Paul now
Why go to Matthew chapter number 23 Matthew chapter number 23
Here's what you have to understand when you base your doctrine you need to base your doctrine off of clear
statements in the Bible not stories
Even if you did see a story, which doesn't exist, by the way,
but even if you did see a story in the Bible where someone calls Peter, Father Peter, or Father Paul,
you realize that that doesn't make it right?
You know that the Bible records accurate stories of people doing wrong and it's still recorded in the Bible, okay?
When you base your doctrine, it has to be clear statements from the narrator of the Bible,
or from Jesus Christ, or from God.
You know, that is actually where you base your doctrine.
Notice what Matthew 23, verse 9 says.
This is Jesus Christ.
You can't just say you're going to be like, well, you know, Paul says he's like a father
into someone because he got them saved or because he trained Timothy, therefore, let's
just ignore what Jesus said.
Like, that's what Catholics do.
When you show them this verse of, hey, call no man your father upon the earth, what they'll
say is, well, Paul was called father.
Okay, so you're just ignoring Jesus.
Like okay, let's just forget about what Jesus says first of all
I don't even grant you that Peter or Paul or any of these guys were called father so-and-so
But even if they were listen even if they were that would be wrong
You want to know why because Jesus who is God in the flesh said no
It's like, who are you going to listen to?
A story of someone doing something?
Or Jesus clearly telling you, don't do this.
Call no man your father.
But what does the Catholic Church do?
They don't give a rip about Jesus Christ.
They don't care about His words.
They don't care that He specifically said, call no man Father.
Call no man Rabbi.
And what do they do?
I'm Father David Michael Moses.
No, you're not.
No, you're not because that title goes to God alone. Happy Father's Day. Call no man father, right?
And it's like, well, you call your dad dad. Yeah, cuz he's my dad
Right, but this title this spiritual title belongs to God
Yes, you could be like a father unto someone because you got them saved.
You could be like a father unto someone because you raised them up in the ministry.
You could be a literal father to someone by beginning them physically.
But you know what?
The title of father in a spiritual sense belongs to one and that's God the Father.
And anyone taking that upon themselves is blaspheming God.
And the Catholic Church is a religion that blasphemes Christ.
And every time some Catholic goes in and says,
Oh, Father, forgive me.
Oh, Father, this, Father, that.
They're just spinning in the face of Jesus Christ.
They're just saying, oh, Matthew 23, just rip it out of the Bible.
It's wicked.
Here's some titles that are scriptural.
Pastor.
Bishop, Elder, Deacon, Evangelist, Apostle, now Apostles are done away with, but that was a spiritual title in the beginning of the New Testament.
You know, these titles are okay, but what is not okay is Father. What's not okay is Pope. That is not okay.
That is not something you see in the Bible. But again, realize Catholicism is not a biblical based religion.
It is based on man's ideas, man's traditions mixed with Roman paganism.
Roman mythology, Greek mythology, go to Mark chapter number 12, Mark chapter number 12.
Here's another big difference between Baptist pastors and Catholic priests, and that is the physical garments that we wear.
You'll notice this evening I am dressed like a normal person in the United States.
You know, I work in downtown Oklahoma City and I'll go walk around and I often see men at business at work dressed exactly how I'm dressed right now.
You go just to nice places in America,
people wearing their Sunday best,
they're gonna be dressed like this.
There's nothing extravagant or flamboyant
about what I'm wearing.
This is just normal attire.
Now, of course, the Catholics, the priests,
they wear the backwards collar
and you could see them from a mile away.
You could just see this person say like,
this is a Catholic priest, we know he is.
Why?
Cause he's got the backwards collar
or sometimes they'll have the robes,
the really long flowing garments
and they're just making a show to everyone like I'm clergy.
I'm a minister.
What's funny is I go out and about throughout my life,
and unless you know me, unless you personally know me,
or seen me on the news or whatever,
you don't know I'm a pastor.
You just like, this is just a normal guy
with a normal family.
And that's because I am just a normal guy.
That's because pastors are just normal guys, normal men that meet the qualifications that have the ability to do what we do, but we're not special.
We're not in some elevated aristocratic class above the regular people.
That's the dichotomy though that happens in the Catholic church is like the clergy are just these elevated worship special men.
And let me tell you something. They're not.
They're not special. Look at Mark chapter 12 verse 38, and he said unto them and his doctrine,
Beware of the scribes, which love to go in long clothing, and love salutations in the marketplaces.
So notice, Jesus specifically warns about a group of false prophets that are known for doing something.
What? Going around in long clothing. Isn't it funny how everyone wants to tell you that Jesus wore a dress?
Oh, yeah, you know, everybody in the Bible was just walking around wearing a dress.
Then why is Jesus singling out a group of people saying watch out for the guys that
are going around in long clothing?
Man, that's good advice at any time period.
And today in this weird, tranny world that we're living in, if you see a guy walking
around in long clothing, beware of that person.
And you know what?
Same thing applies for all the ministers of the Catholic Church.
Beware of the scribes that go around in long clothing.
And why do they do that?
It says, and love salutations in the marketplace.
You know what they just love?
They love it.
When people see a Catholic minister and recognize,
wow, this is a Catholic minister.
Oh, Father, so great to see you.
Oh, God bless you.
You know what's funny?
That doesn't happen to me everywhere I go
because no one knows I'm a pastor.
Unless you come to Anchor Baptist Church
or watch the news,
that's the only way you'll know.
And so I don't constantly have people coming up to me like, you know, these veterans that
walk around wearing their military attires, just like, oh, thank you for your service.
Thank you for your service.
It's like, why does that happen?
Because they're wearing a uniform and it's recognizable that they're in the military.
Why do these false prophets love to go around in their long robes and their backwards collar?
It's because they want to get recognized and get the praise of man
Because let me explain something to you false prophets are not in the ministry for people because they're false prophets
They're in it for themselves. They love the glory for themselves
So they wear these long clothing to get the salutations in the marketplace and the chief seats in the synagogues
and the uppermost rooms at feast.
Here's the thing, sometimes if people do know your clergy,
they will treat you better oftentimes.
They will.
give you special privilege and treat you nice.
And look, if you know that about someone,
there's nothing wrong with that.
You know, passers are supposed to be given double honor.
That's great, that's fine.
But it's like, you shouldn't be trying
to draw attention to yourself.
Did you know I'm a passer?
Hey, by the way, I'm a passer.
Hey, did you know I'm a passer?
Hey, I'm at the grocery store.
Hey, I'm a passer.
It's like, that's just ridiculous.
That's just prideful at that point.
Hey, if someone just finds out or someone asks,
no worries, tell them that's fine.
But you shouldn't be wearing a sign
that says at all times, I'm a pastor.
I'm a priest, I'm a bishop.
Why, because we're just normal men.
But these people, they're not normal men
because look at verse 40, which devour widow's houses.
And for a pretense, make long prayers.
These shall receive the greater damnation.
So notice they're devouring widows' houses.
They're not sincerely praying to God.
It's for a pretense.
You know what that means?
It's for a show.
When these people are praying to the Lord,
they're not sincerely speaking to Him in their heart.
They're not asking for anything.
They're just saying these long prayers
so that they could put on a show.
And boy, does the Catholic Church love their long prayers.
Isn't that funny?
And it's just like, they love to just repeat the same prayers
over and over and over again.
Jesus even says that He gives an example of the Lord's prayer
as an example prayer.
And the Catholic Church loves to repeat that
over and over and over again.
Look at this, verse number 37, it says of Mark 12,
David therefore called himself Lord
and whence is he then his son?
Notice this, and the common people heard him gladly.
You know what I love about being a Baptist, and about being a Baptist pastor, is that I'm just around common people.
I'm just around the common man.
The everyday, you know, regular people that are in our country, those are the type of people that Jesus attracted, was the common man.
The common man heard Jesus, and he just liked him.
It wasn't like he was a part of this aristocratic class
and only people that were really into the fancy religion
and the traditions and the stained glass windows like Jesus.
There was nothing special about Jesus' appearance.
Why? Because he was attracted to the common man.
Even when Jesus was betrayed,
he had to get betrayed with a kiss.
Why? Because he just looked like everyone else.
And you know, if me and you and all of our church,
we go out to eat tonight, you know what?
I'm just going to look like everyone else.
Because we're wearing the same clothes, we're just Baptists here, right?
But boy, if a Catholic priest goes somewhere, it's very obvious.
They love to stand out.
They're not a part of the common man, right?
They're this elevated special class.
You know what?
That's not how Jesus was.
Go to Ephesians chapter number one.
Here's number five, another difference between Baptist pastors
and Catholic priests is the administration of communion.
And the Catholics call this the Eucharist, we just call it Communion.
This priest, David Michael Moses, in his video, My Journey to Priesthood, he said this,
I fell in love with what a priest could do for people, specifically to literally give them Jesus in the Eucharist through the Mass and to forgive their sins.
the person of Jesus Christ. You want to know a big difference between Baptist
pastors and Catholic priests is that when I'm administering communion at Easter,
I do not think that I'm giving you the literal body and blood of Jesus Christ,
but Catholic priests do. It's called transubstantiation. And this guy is saying
you know what attracted me to being a priest is literally giving people Jesus
Christ.
through the Eucharist and by forgiving their sins.
You know what another delusion that I am not under?
Is that I realize that I have no power to forgive
your sins in the place of God.
Only God can forgive sins.
Look at Ephesians chapter 1 verse 7.
in whom, that means in him, in Christ,
in whom we have redemption through his blood,
the forgiveness of sins, according to the riches of his grace.
So notice it's in Christ that we receive the forgiveness
of sins, it's not in a Catholic priest.
There's one person that can forgive sins, that's God.
Go to Mark chapter number two.
Mark chapter number two.
Mark chapter 2 verse 5, when Jesus saw their faith,
he said unto the sick of the palsy,
Son, thy sins be forgiven thee.
Now that's a bold statement.
You know, if I walked up to someone and said,
son, thy sins, be forgiven thee,
I hope you would be a little freaked out.
I'd be like, what did he just say?
That's weird.
But if it's God in the flesh,
that makes perfect sense, right?
And that's what Jesus is.
Jesus is God in the flesh.
And so, hey, he can forgive sins all day long.
Verse 6.
But there was certain of the scribes sitting there and reasoning in their hearts.
Why did this man speak blasphemies?
Who can forgive sins but God only?
And here's the thing.
If Jesus was not God, they would have a point, but Jesus is God.
So they're wrong here.
And immediately when Jesus perceived in his spirit that they so reasoned within themselves,
he said unto them, Why, reason ye these things in your heart?
Whether is it easier to say to the sick of the palsy, Thy sins be forgiven thee?
Or to say, Rise and take up thy bed and walk?
But that ye may know that the Son of man hath power on earth to forgive sins.
He saith to the sick of the palsy.
So notice the son of man
Has the power to forgive sins. I am not under some weird delusion tonight thinking that I can forgive you of your sins
Now if you trespass against me personally, I can forgive you of the wrong that you did to me
We could forgive each other God commands us to forgive each other
But I cannot absolve you of your sins before God
You know how you get your sins forgiven you believe on the Lord Jesus Christ and then God forgives you of your sins
Not father so-and-so
not Baptist pastor so-and-so. No, God forgives you of your sins by believing Him.
And here's the thing, once you're forgiven of your sins, once you've believed in Jesus Christ,
you're forgiven of all your sins past, present, and future. You don't have to keep confessing your
sins to be saved. Salvation is a one-time event, putting all your faith in Christ. Once you do
that, you're saved for forever. David Michael Moses said this.
Obviously, at every single Catholic mass, something extraordinary happens.
which is that the bread and wine actually change into the body and blood of Jesus Christ.
Look, this is not an obscure thing that just a couple of crazy Catholics believe.
This is universal in the Catholic Church.
Every single Catholic priest believes that when they administer communion,
or what they call the Eucharist, that the cracker that you receive
turns into the flesh of Jesus Christ, the human flesh of Christ,
and you drink it, it becomes the blood of Jesus Christ.
This is what the Catholics believe.
He says this, by transubstantiation, of course we mean
the substance, what they actually are changes.
So he's not saying like, hey, this is metaphorical,
this is spiritual, no, no, he's saying like
the substance of the bread and of the wine
turns into the body and blood of Jesus Christ.
I am not straw manning here.
This is what Catholics believe.
And when Catholic priests get up and administer communion,
this is what they believe they're doing for people,
for giving their sins and giving them the flesh of Jesus Christ and the blood of Christ.
Now, there's a couple of reasons why this is stupid and blasphemous and false.
Go to Hebrews chapter 10, Hebrews chapter 10, and I should say cannibalistic as well.
Literally cannibalistic.
Hebrews chapter 10 verse 8.
Above, when he said, sacrifice and offering, and burnt offerings, and offering for sin,
thou wouldst not.
Neither haths the pleasure therein, which are offered by the law.
Then he said, lo, I come to do thy will, O God.
He takeeth away the first, that he may establish the second, by the which will we are sanctified
through the offering of the body of Jesus Christ once for all.
You know how many times the body of Jesus Christ was sacrificed one time?
You know how many times his blood was spilled one time?
There's no Catholic drinking the blood of Christ today.
There's no Catholic eating the flesh of Jesus Christ today.
This is just some sick, demonic, twisted, false doctrine
that denies what the Bible says, that Jesus was offered once.
His body was broken once.
And when we do communion, it is a ritual.
It is a symbol.
It is a picture of the broken body of Christ, right?
We take that piece of bread and we crumple it up.
We crush it to show like Christ's body was broken.
right? We pour that pure 100% grape juice. We pour that before the people to show the pouring of
the blood of Christ, that he shed his blood for us. Go to 1 Corinthians 11, 1 Corinthians chapter
number 11. I'll show you that this is symbolic when we do the communion, not literal. 1 Corinthians 11
verse 23, for I've received of the Lord that which I also delivered unto you, that the Lord Jesus
Notice, Jesus took bread, he didn't like cut off his finger, right?
Here's my, you know, here's my finger.
No, that's not how it worked.
He took bread, and when he had given thanks, he break it and said,
take, eat, this is my body.
Now, that sounds literal, but we know that he just took bread.
He took bread and he said, this is my body.
Now, is that Jesus' flesh or is that bread?
It's bread.
Thank you.
Some Baptists can use their brains, unlike Catholics.
It's bread.
He's saying this is symbolically my body.
He says this, which is broken for you, this do in remembrance of me.
He's saying like, look, this is a memorial.
This is a ritual.
This is a picture.
You are not eating his finger.
You are not eating his toe.
You are not, you know, drinking his blood.
That is disgusting.
Notice verse 25, after the same manner also, he took the cup when he had sucked saying,
This do ye as oft as you drink it notice in remembrance of me highlighting again
The fact that this is a memorial service for as often as he eat this bread and drink this cup
You do show the Lord's death till he come say oh, but it says that this cup was his blood
Oh, it said that the bread was his body. We got to take him at his word. That's exactly what it says
Okay, you know what else Jesus said Jesus said I am the door
Okay, Catholics
You have to believe that Jesus is the door all right everybody you have to walk through that door to go to heaven
That's the level of retardation
You'd have to have to be a Catholic and to be a Catholic priest. You know what else Jesus said that he is the bread of life
He's literal piece of bread guys, you know what else Jesus you know what else John said of Jesus Christ
Behold the lamb of God
Jesus is a literal lamb.
No, you're a literal idiot.
You are a literal retard to believe that you are eating the flesh of Jesus Christ
and drinking the blood of Jesus Christ.
You might as well put a lamb at your church and say,
This is Jesus!
The Bible says that he's the word of life, that he's the word of God.
This paper and ink is not Jesus Christ.
But he is the word of God.
Settled forever in heaven.
You know what else the Bible says?
He's the vine.
Well, let's find a vineyard.
We got to get the vine to find Jesus.
No, folks, there are some things that are symbolic in the Bible.
And look, I believe that when something, unless something's obviously symbolic,
we should just take it as literal.
But let me tell you something.
No one's eating Jesus today.
No one's drinking his blood today.
It is symbolic.
It's a memorial of Christ.
It's insane.
I'll go to 1st Timothy 2.
Jesus said this in John 6, 63.
It is the spirit that quickeneth.
The flesh profiteth nothing.
The words that I speak unto you, they are spirit and they are life.
Look, putting Jesus' physical body and blood into your body
is not going to do anything for you,
even if you were doing that, which no one's doing that.
No one's ever done that.
But even if you were, that doesn't profit you
because the flesh profits nothing.
You know what profits you is by eating the Son of God, eating that bread of life metaphorically by trusting in Him.
Hey, walking through the door by trusting in Him. Partaking of the water of life by metaphorically drinking of Him by trusting in Him.
Lastly, another big difference between Baptist pastors and Catholic priests.
Last one, I know the pizza's here, and that's this thing of confession.
Now, this is a big difference between us and something I feel very, very strongly about.
Catholic priests partake of this ritual called confession, where you go into some locked booth,
some locked area with a Catholic priest, and you just dump your deepest, darkest secrets
and your worst sins that you've ever committed, and he listens, and he forgives you, right?
He forgives you of your sin, and he gives you some advice maybe, and then he's not allowed
to tell anyone about it, supposedly.
Now, notice what 1st Timothy chapter 2 verse 5 says,
for there is one God and one mediator
between God and men, the man, Christ Jesus.
You do not have to go to a priest to approach God the Father, okay?
I'll read for you Hebrews 4-14, it says this,
seeing then that we have a great high priest
that is passed into the heavens,
Jesus, the Son of God, let us hold fast our profession.
For we have not in high priest, which cannot be touched with the feelings of our infirmities,
but was in all points tempted like as we are, yet without sin,
let us therefore come boldly unto the throne of grace,
that we may obtain mercy and find grace to help in time of need."
The Bible says, hey.
Jesus Christ is our high priest and we don't have a high priest that cannot be
touched with the feelings of our infirmities. You know our high priest
knows what we're going through, he knows what we're feeling, he cares about our
issues and our problems and we get to go straight to God the Father through
Jesus Christ the Son.
And you know, the Bible teaches that we ourselves are kings and priests, right?
But we have that high priest to mediate between us, to go to the Father.
And even the Holy Ghost is involved in this because he's able to translate our prayers to God, the Father,
with groanings that cannot be uttered to help our spirit pray to God.
You know, you don't need a man to help you pray.
Now look, corporate prayer is biblical. We do it. We pray with people at the door. We pray as a church.
But you do not need any man to pray to God.
You do not need to confess your sins to any man.
You can confess your sins to God.
And you know who can forgive you?
God can forgive you.
And obviously if you're saved, he's already forgiven you of all your sins
from a standpoint of you don't have any sin remaining that gets you to heaven.
You're saved, you're sealed, you're sanctified.
But of course, you could ask God for your forgiveness of sin
to renew your relationship with him.
to have a good walk with him.
Hey, God, you know, I said this today.
I lied today. I shouldn't have done that.
God, will you just forgive me?
I want to please you.
I want our relationship to be clear and clean
and I want to be restored, right?
You do that to God.
You don't come to me.
You don't come to anyone else and tell them,
oh, I did this really deep, dark, twisted thing.
I don't want to hear it.
And that is like that must be a big difference between a Baptist pastor and a Catholic priest is I don't want to hear it
I don't want to hear the darkest most nastiest sins that are ever committed in this world now now
Let me be very clear what I'm saying
I'm not saying that you can't get help if you're in a bad situation.
I want to help you.
And let me say this, nothing will shock me.
I will never judge you if you come to me for anything other than a crime, a pedophilia
or something like that.
I am committed to helping you.
I love you.
But do not think that you would need to confess your sins to me or that you need to spill
out your darkest, deepest secrets.
That is weird.
It's not biblical.
We have a high priest that could do that.
Now, why bring this up is because I saw David Michael Moses,
he made a video saying,
what if someone confesses murder in the confessional?
And I was just like, huh, that's a good question.
What would a Catholic priest do
if they're in the confessional
and someone says, Father, forgive me,
for I murdered someone today?
What would you do?
Okay, so here's what he says.
This question is referencing the seal of confession,
which basically means that if you come to confession,
the priest can't repeat what you say.
The priests can't go around saying,
hey, did you hear so and so did this?
Now, so far, so good.
I agree with this principle of,
hey, you should be able to go to your pastor
and you should be able to trust the information
that, hey, if you're asking for help with something,
he's not gonna go around blowing his mouth.
Hey, do you know my church member's into this?
My church member's marriage is like this.
That would be inappropriate and gross and wrong and terrible.
That is wicked.
And so obviously I agree that if someone confides in
spiritual leader that that should stay with that person, right? Now, he says this,
let me give you three scenarios to illustrate this point.
First, if you come to meet with me in my office,
not confession, we're just talking. So he wants to make it really clear. This is not confession.
This is just in my office. We're talking.
then that's what we call privileged information.
I'm not bound to strict secrecy,
but if I went around saying,
Sally told me that her husband Joe
has a real gambling problem,
that would be inappropriate.
So far, so good.
I'm okay with that, okay?
Hey, you go into the pastor's office,
you talk to him in private,
hey, I'm struggling with this,
hey, this is where I'm at with my marriage,
can you help me?
That's great.
Proverbs 11, 13 says this,
a tail bearer revealeth secrets,
but he that is of a faithful spirit,
concealeth the matter so far so good. No problem with that. He says this here's another scenario
if someone is in my office again not confession. He keeps making that clear this is going to be
important in a minute. If someone came into my office again not confession tells me that they
poisoned all the water in the city then I'm obviously going to do something about it.
They don't have the right to keep me in secrecy just because we spoke inside my office.
Now, I would hope so.
I would hope if someone came to you and told you that they were going to poison the water in the city
that you would do something about that, but why do you have to say not confession?
Like, I would just say, hey, period, if you tell me you're going to poison the city in the water,
I'm going to do something about that.
Hey, I'm thinking about going to a school later and shooting it up.
Uh, no, we're going to stop you, right?
Oh, confession, not confession, office, my office, house, you know,
I don't care if it's in a house or with a mouse or on a boat.
I don't care where it is, you know, we're going to deal with that issue.
If you're planning on murdering people, right?
But he says, again, if someone comes to my office, not confession
and tells me that, well, then we're going to deal with that issue.
He says this, if someone tells me outside of confession.
Even in private, that they're going to harm themselves or someone else.
That there is a grave danger that either of those things might happen.
I am bound by love and often the law to act on that information. Yeah, no crap.
But hold on. Again, why are you highlighting if it's not in confession?
Like if someone tells you they're going to go murder someone, that's kind of a big deal.
whether it's in confession or not.
But he's like, hey, if it's not in confession
and someone tells me that they're going to kill someone of themselves,
I'm bound by love and often the law to act on that information.
So I guess you're only bound by love when it's not in confession.
But when it is in confession, you're somehow not bound by that.
You say you're straw manning him.
Okay, let's keep reading his quotes here.
He says, but by contrast.
That's a big but.
But.
By contrast, if you come to confession, we're clearly in the sacrament of confession.
We're going through the ritual.
Then whatever you say in confession, I cannot repeat under any circumstances.
So, he's like, hey, if you're going to poison the water and we're not in confession, I'll
act on that.
If you're going to kill someone or yourself and we're not in confession, I'll act on
that.
But if we're in confession, I cannot break the seal of confession under any circumstances.
You know what he's saying?
If you told me you're going to kill everyone, you're going to poison the water, or you're
going to kill someone, or you're going to kill yourself and it's in confession, I'm
not going to do anything about it.
I'm not going to say anything to anyone about it.
That's crazy town, folks.
That's insane! How can you say that you're motivated by love if, oh, as long as it's in confession, you tell me you're going to go murder people, I won't warn anyone?
I thought spiritual leaders were supposed to be the watchmen that warn when the evil comes.
I thought you were supposed to be the pastor that warns when the wolf comes, right, when the danger is coming for your flock.
Nope, not in confession. He says we call it the seal of confession, because the sins are sealed in secrecy, no matter what sins are said in confession.
Yeah, that's real safe to have a real secret place with a celibate man where you could talk about the darkest deepest stuff in your life
I wonder why there's so many pedophiles in the Catholic Church
Wonder why there's so many people to get molested in the confessional booth
The priest cannot say or do anything about them
He can't even treat the person differently outwards afterwards.
So it's like, oh, is that the guy that told me he was going to poison the whole city?
It's like, ah, I can't treat you any differently afterwards.
Who among us hasn't, you know, once or twice poisoned the water table of Oklahoma City?
He's like, what?
This is insane.
He says, this is extremely serious.
Yeah, it is.
If a priest directly breaks the seal,
meaning if they tell someone that a specific person
committed a specific sin,
then that priest is automatically excommunicated
or kicked out of the church.
So it's like, you know, a terrorist comes in your booth
and says, hey, you know, I did this terrorist attack.
Well, you can't tell anyone about it.
Don't tell the FBI.
Don't tell the governing authorities.
You know, the higher powers that God ordained
for the punishment of evil doers.
Oh, I thought you're bound by love and the law.
Well, not in confession.
or you'll be kicked out of the Catholic Church.
I wish everyone was kicked out of the Catholic Church.
I wish the Catholic Church didn't exist.
He says, what if the person confesses something really big like murder?
What do I do?
You call the police, idiot.
That's what you do.
He says, well, here's the thing to understand.
The sins I hear and confession, they don't belong to me.
I am acting in persona Christi,
or in the person of Christ.
The sins belong to God.
I do have a chance as a spiritual father to offer some advice.
Really, the confessional is the only place where you could bring your deepest, darkest things
and know that it's going to stay there.
My son, let me give you some advice on poisoning the entire city.
This is bad.
And we at the Catholic Church are against things that are bad
and for things that are good.
Like, that's what you're going to do.
And it's like, I'm not making up these wild scenarios of poisoning the city.
This is the example you gave!
You gave the murder example!
You gave the poisoning example!
You're insane!
Sins belong to God.
So he says this,
So if someone comes to me in confession and confesses that they murdered someone, what do I do?
Well, I forgive them in the person of Christ.
So, if someone confesses to a Catholic priest, murder, child molestation, rape, kidnapping,
you know what the Catholic priest will do?
Nothing!
Nothing is what he'll do.
He'll sit there and he'll forgive you and the person of Christ, and maybe give you some
advice about how raping kids is wrong, and about how murdering people is wrong, and about
how poisoning the water table is wrong, but you know what, God forbid, he calls the police.
God forbid he tells anyone about it
because that's breaking the secrecy of confession.
This is satanic. This is so crazy.
It's not even funny.
And I'm going to show you from the Bible now
why this is unbiblical in this specific example that he gave.
Go to Deuteronomy chapter 21.
The Bible gives us what we should do
in the case of an unsolved murder.
Because think about it, if someone came to a Catholic priest and confessed a murder,
that implies like, hey, there was this unsolved case.
There's this who done it going around and someone just told you who did it.
Look at Deuteronomy chapter 21 verse 1.
And I'm sure no Catholics ever read this because Catholics don't really care about the Bible.
But look at Deuteronomy 21 verse 1.
It says, if one be found slain in the land, which the Lord thy God give it thee to possess it,
lying in the field, notice this.
and it be not known who hath slain him, right?
So there's an unsolved murder that's just gone down.
No one knows who killed this guy.
We just got this body, who did it, what do we do?
The Bible tells us what we do.
Then thy elders and thy judges shall come forth, and they shall measure unto the cities which are round about him that is slain.
And it shall be that the city which is next unto the slain man,
even the elders of that city shall take in heifer, which hath not been wrought with, and which hath not drawn in the yoke,
and the elders of that city shall bring down the heifer unto a rough valley,
which is neither eared nor sown, and shall strike off the heifer's neck there in the valley."
So,
There's an unsolved murder, the elders of the city, jurisdiction where it took place.
They measure, they find out what is the nearest municipality, what is the nearest city to
us.
Then they take those out of the land and they do this sacrifice.
They do this appeasement here.
And this says in verse five, in the priests, the sons of Levi shall come near.
For them, the Lord thy God hath chosen to minister unto him, and to bless in the name of the Lord, and by their word
shall every controversy and every stroke be tried. And all the elders of that city that are next unto the slain man
shall wash their hands over the heifer that is beheaded in the valley, and they shall answer and say,
our hands have not shed this blood,
neither have our eyes seen it."
Be merciful, O Lord, unto thy people Israel, whom thou has redeemed, and lay not innocent blood unto thy people of Israel's charge, and the blood shall be forgiven them."
Notice, they're washing their hands over this sacrifice to imply saying, hey, look, we didn't do this murder, not only that, we didn't see it.
We don't know who did this because if they did know, what's the implication? They should say something.
They should tell people, and the only way God is going to forgive them
and not lay this blood to their charge is if it is innocent.
If that these people are innocent, they really don't know.
And look, this happens to this day.
There's tons and tons of unsolved murders that happen every single year in America.
And it's like, hey, if you don't know, obviously you're not guilty.
But what about if you know?
What about if you do know who did it you know what you should have done you should have spoken out
You should have said something and you know you claimed Father David Michael Moses to be motivated by love
Okay, what about loving your neighbor as yourself?
What about treating other people the way that you want to be treated like the golden rule of Christianity?
You know if your daughter well your celibates you will never have a daughter
You know if your sister was murdered by someone and someone knew who did it and they decided not to tell when that piss you off
Wouldn't you be angry?
I'd be furious.
I mean, that is so disgusting to think like you could have information on a murder, but
you don't care about the families of the victim.
You don't care about justice being done because of your stupid Catholic confessional booth
that's garbage.
The Bible says here that these men were supposed to come over the sacrifice and say, hey, we
didn't do it and we don't know who did it.
Now what about if they did know?
Go to Leviticus chapter five.
You gotta realize that government is ordained by God.
Government is a God-ordained institution.
Government is not just inherently bad.
Romans 13 says that government is instituted
for the punishment of evil doers.
So one of the most important functions of government
is to punish criminals.
You know, why would we sit here and not tell them
if someone's committed a murder?
Leviticus 5 verse one,
and if a soul sin and hear the voice of swearing
and is a witness,
Whether he has seen or known of it, seen or known of it, if he do not utter it, then he beareth the iniquity.
You know what? You've got a Catholic priest today that hears someone tell him,
oh, Father, I did this to this little boy, to this little girl, or I killed this person.
You know what? If that person knows that information and keeps it to himself and does not say anything,
God is also holding that Catholic priest responsible.
And when that Catholic priest dies and goes to hell,
not only is their hell going to be super hot from their demonic false religion
and their false doctrine and their own sins that they've been committing,
but also the sins that they've been hiding and harboring for other people.
You know what I will do if someone tells me that they murdered someone?
I will call the police.
If someone commits any sin worthy of death,
I will turn you in to the police immediately.
We're not interested in harboring pedophiles at this church.
We're not interested in sweeping things under the rug,
like rape and murder and incest and kidnapping and pedophilia.
No, no, no. We're going to call the police.
Why? Because that's actually what being motivated by love looks like.
How is it loving to know information on a murder and keep it to yourself?
It's bull crap. It's wicked.
Go to Ephesians 2 Matthew 7 12 Jesus said all things therefore. I'm sorry. They're for all things
whatsoever you would that men should do to you do you even so to them
For this is the law and the prophets, you know, just think about yourself in the pew right now
God forbid. What if someone you love and cared about was a victim of a horrific crime?
What if someone you think of someone right now that you love and care about and they were raped and murdered?
someone knew who did it and kept it to themselves. How would that make you feel?
You know, well, there's Catholic priests all over the world that know that kind of stuff and they keep it to themselves.
Woe unto those people. Woe unto the Catholic priests. Woe unto this whole entire religion because it's wicked as hell.
Ephesians chapter number two.
You know, at the end of the day, there's all these differences between Baptist pastors. We'll get to Ephesians 2 just a second. I missed one thing.
There's all these differences between Baptist pastors and Catholic priests right and they're very important differences
But here's the most important difference is what we preach about salvation
And I'm telling you right now Catholics are not Christians
You want to know how I know that because I go out soul winning and I ask people all the time
Hey, do you go to church anywhere? Are you a Christian? And we'll say oh, no, I'm a Catholic
I'm not a Christian. I'm a Catholic.
Those of you who go soul-wining know what I'm saying is true.
All the time they'll correct us. No, we're not Christians. We're Catholics.
That says thou rightly. That is very true. You're not a Christian.
And you want to know why you're not a Christian?
Why you're not saved is because the Catholic Church teaches that salvation is by works.
That salvation is by confessing your sins to the priest and taking the Eucharist
and thinking that you're eating the body and blood of Jesus Christ
and doing all these rituals and rites and repeating and chanting these prayers
and getting down on your knees before statues of Mary and of dead saints.
Let me tell you something, it's just a pagan false religion.
It's not Christian and if you are a Catholic,
unless you repent and believe on Jesus Christ, you will spend eternity in hell.
You will die and go to hell and that's why we need to reach this next generation
Before they go into Catholicism
Why because Ephesians 2 8 9 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. It's not of works
Getting to heaven is not of
repenting of your sins
Confessing your sins to a priest
Praying kneeling before an altar doing rituals. It's not of works. It's by grace. What does that mean?
It means that we don't deserve it if we receive grace. It means that we didn't deserve it. That's what great
Yeah, exactly. That's what grace is right, so what do we deserve? We deserve hell
for all of sin and come short of the glory of God, for the wages of sin is death.
We've sinned, we deserve hell, Jesus Christ came to this earth,
he's God in the flesh, he lived a perfect life, he never sinned,
he died on the cross for our sins, he was buried, he spent three days in hell,
he rose again from the dead, and what do we have to do to believe or to be saved?
We have to believe in Jesus Christ. We have to trust in him, it's not of works.
So you know, Catholic priests are false prophets.
And here's the thing, you know, maybe there's Catholic priests out there who
initially had some good intentions, who initially thought that they were doing
something good. But I'm telling you, people that stay in that, people that
teach these doctrines, people like David Michael Moses, these are false
prophets. These are reprobates. These are people that are turning people to
fold more of the children of hell. And you know, I preach all this to say
this.
Us as Christians, I don't have to worry about you being a Catholic.
It's so stupid. It's such a stupid religion.
I would be insulting you if I even thought it was possible for you to become a Catholic.
You're saved. You have the Holy Spirit of God.
But here's the truth is that a bunch of Gen Zers out there
and a bunch of millennials out there are sick and tired of liberal, garbage, watered-down preaching.
Rock and Roll churches, the Fun Center churches, and they're looking for something, they're looking for conservatism,
they're looking for traditional Christianity, and you know what we need to do?
We need to point them to that through the Word of God.
Before this evil satanic cult snatches them up and brings them to hell with it.
Let's go out and let's preach the gospel to Catholics. I love Catholics
I want them to be saved
but I hate the lies that they're being told and I hate the liars that are at the top of their religion that are sending people to hell
I hated Pope Francis. You know what? I hate Pope Leo as well. Oh, we got the first American Pope
That's so wait. No, that's terrible
That's like such a disgrace to our nation and I'm not one of these people that just like look for every excuse
I can to hate America, but I'm telling you right now. That is a shame on our country
That is not a go USA moment.
It's like, I wish we could have lived
our whole country's existence
without ever having this distinct dishonor upon us.
Just like Pope Francis is burning in hell someday,
Pope Leo will also burn in hell someday.
And you know what, so will every Catholic priest.
But what we wanna do is reach people who can be reached,
people who are still hanging in the balance.
We wanna preach them the gospel of Jesus Christ.
Let's pray, Lord, we thank you for.
your word. And God, I just pray that you would destroy the Catholic Church.
I pray that you would destroy the influence that they have. I pray that they would not
deceive any young people right now who are yearning
and desiring for conservatism and traditional values. I pray that people
would
soften their hearts and sincerely pray to you to be shown the truth. And I pray
that you would lead
the soul winners that are in this room to the doors
and young people who are still undecided. I pray that you'd help Anchor Baptist Church to be a
bulwark in this community against the Satanic religion. In Jesus' name we pray. Amen.
abide with me 106 we'll sing their starting right on the first
If the men would please help me just prepare a place that we can all sit down eat and enjoy the fellowship
So at this time, I will pray feel bow your heads with me. Heavenly father
We thank you again for the service this evening at this time
We pray that you would bless our fellowship and the food to the edification and nourishment of our bodies
Keep us safe as we go our separate ways these things we pray in Jesus name amen