Lord plant my feet on higher ground Lord lift me up and let me stand my faith on
heaven's stable land a higher plane that I have found
Lord plant my feet on higher ground my heart has no desire to stay where doubts
arise and fears dismay though some may dwell where these abound my prayer my
aim is higher ground Lord lift me up and let me stand my faith on heaven's
stable land a higher plane that I have found Lord plant my feet on higher ground
I want to live
for faith has got the joyful sound the song of saints on higher ground
Lord lift me up and let me stand my faith on heaven's stable land a higher
plane that I have found Lord plant my feet on higher ground I want to scale
the utmost height and catch a gleam of glory bright but still I pray till
heaven I found Lord lead me on to higher ground Lord lift me up and let me stand
my faith on heaven's stable land a higher plane that I have found Lord plant my feet on higher
ground. Amen wonderful singing let's start our service with a word of prayer dear God
and my father we thank you so much for God for bringing us back to your house
Lord God safely Lord God and I do pray that you please Lord God again just bless
our service with God this evening I pray that you please just be with the
singing unto you Lord God and I pray that most of all that you please bless
the preaching of your word I pray that you would please bless pastor Lord God
fill him with your Holy Spirit guide him again through the scriptures Lord God
and I pray that we would be edified Lord God tonight as a congregation and leave
here the doctrinally sound Lord God as well who apparently who pray now these
things in Jesus name Amen you may be seated song number 335 if Jesus goes
with me song number 335 song number 335 if Jesus goes with me we'll see you on
that first verse it may be in the valley where countless dangers hide it
may be in the sunshine that I in peace abide but this one thing I know if it be
dark or fair if Jesus goes with me I'll go if Jesus goes with me
his habit to me wherever I may be if he is there I counted a privilege here his
cross to bear if Jesus goes with me I'll go
where it may be I must carry the blessed word of life across a burning desert to
those in sinful strife and though it be my lot to bear my colors there if Jesus
goes with me I'll go
and he where is heaven to me where ever I may be if he is there I counted a
privilege here his cross to bear if Jesus goes with me I'll go
where but if it be my portion to bear my cross at home while others bear their
burdens beyond the bellows fall I'll prove my faith in him confess his
judgments there and if he stays with me I'll go if Jesus goes with me go
where does heaven to me where ever I may be if he is there I counted a
privilege here his cross to bear if Jesus goes with me I'll go Oh
where see on that last verse it is time to send the judgments of my Lord it is
but mine to follow the leadings of his word but if to go or stay or whether
here or there I'll be with my Savior content and if Jesus goes with me go
and he where is heaven to me where ever I may be if he is there I counted a
privilege here his cross to bear if Jesus goes with me I'll go
where
all right great singing thank you for being here this evening just a few
announcements here before we sing our next song excuse me which will be 296
follow on if you want to get that ready 296 our services are as follows Sunday
morning is at 1030 Sunday evening at 5 p.m. and a Thursday night Bible study at
7 o'clock and of course as I mentioned this morning the back room for the
mother-baby rooms is closed temporarily until further notice and so the
fellowship hall is converted into fellowship hall slash mother-baby room
so ladies you can use that just make sure that no one is going into the back
of the room there so make sure you supervise your children so they're not
doing so if you look at the bottom there you see the list of expecting mothers
congratulations once again to miss Rhea and brother Chevy on their pregnancy and
so pray for them that they she would have a safe pregnancy and a healthy
delivery that all would go well with that you see the important reminders
there at the bottom and of course the upcoming church events Saturday March
18th is the ladies tea party you can see my wife for details about that all the
activities at our church of course are free and so feel free to come by invite
your family to that but just make sure you are as VP with my wife and then
Easter Sunday is coming up on the April 9th Sunday April 9th we'll have a
breakfast potluck and Easter egg hunt for the children and it's a great time
just to invite a lot of people to church we want to break attendance on that
Sunday and so I want to encourage you to invite your family friends co-workers
neighbors on that day don't worry it's not gonna be some crazy sermon about
reprobates or anything I'm like I won't scare off your family members but just
make sure they don't show up on Sunday night though I'm just kidding because I
can't promise that on Sunday night and so invite them I'm gonna we'll preach
the gospel to them we'll try to get them saved and so Lord willing we'll have a
great Sunday that day we'll break attendance and so keep that in mind then
of course the ladies prayer breakfast is coming up Saturday April 1st and you
can see miss Janelle Gonzalez for more details on that you see the regular
reminders there at the bottom please make sure you silence your phones during
the preaching so as to not be a distraction during the service it's
going to take some so many numbers from this past week salvation is from Monday
to Thursday salvation is from Monday to Thursday we had two in Barstow and then
what about Friday and Saturday yes two okay anybody else this afternoon
salvations for this afternoon one brother Ulysses team one for brother
Cody's team one for brother you lead our Marcos's team six for brother Maurice
team one for brother Glenn's team I'm missing anybody else okay going once
going twice keep up the great work on so winning let's go to see our next song
296 follow on song number 296
song number 296 song number 296 follow on see it on that first verse down in
the valley with my Savior
where the flowers are blooming and the sweet water's flow everywhere he leads
me I would follow
walking in his footsteps to the crown be one follow follow I would follow
Jesus anywhere everywhere I would follow on follow follow I would follow Jesus
everywhere he leads me I would follow on down in the valley with my Savior I
with this and to leave me I will never never fear danger cannot frighten me as
my Lord is near follow follow I would follow I would follow follow follow I
would follow Jesus everywhere he leads me I would follow on down in the valley
or up on the mountain sea close beside my Savior would my soul ever keep he will
be me safely in the path that he has brought up to where they gather on the
hill of God follow follow I would follow Jesus everywhere everywhere I would
follow on follow follow I would follow Jesus everywhere he leads me I would
follow on amen wonderful singing at this time our
we'll be receiving the offering
you
good evening tonight we're in Acts chapter 11 Acts chapter 11 Acts chapter
11 in the Bible reads the apostles and brethren that were in Judea heard that
the Gentiles had also received the Word of God and when Peter was come up to
Jerusalem they that were of the circumcision contended with him saying
that when it's into went into men uncircumcised and dis eat with them but
Peter rehearsed the matter from the beginning and expounded it by order
unto them saying I was in the city of Joppa praying and in a trance I saw
vision a certain vessel descend as it had been a great sheet let down from
heaven by four corners and it came even to me upon the which when I had fastened
my eyes mine eyes I considered and saw four-footed beasts of the earth and
wild beasts and creeping things and fowls of the air and I heard a voice
saying unto me arise Peter slay and eat but I said not so Lord for nothing
common or unclean hath at any time entered into my mouth but the voice
answered me again from heaven what God hath cleansed that call not thou common
and this was done three times and all were drawn up again into heaven and
behold immediately there were three men already come into the house where I
was sent from Caesarea unto me and the Spirit bade me to go with them nothing
doubting moreover the six brethren accompanying me and we entered into the
man's house and he showed us how he had seen an angel in his house which stood
and said unto him send men to Joppa and call for Simon whose surname is Peter
who shall tell thee words whereby thou and all thy house shall be saved and as
I began to speak the Holy Spirit fell on them as on on us at the beginning then
remembered I at the word of the Lord how that he said John indeed baptized
with water but ye shall be baptized with the Holy Ghost for as much then as God
gave them the light gift as he did unto us who believed on the Lord Jesus Christ
what was I that I could withstand God when they heard these things they held
their peace and glorified God saying then hath God also to the Gentiles
granted repentance unto life now they which were scattered abroad upon this
persecution that arose out about Stephen traveled as far as Phineas and
Cyprus and Antioch preaching the word to none but unto the Jews only and some of
them were men of Cyprus and Cyrene which when they were come to Antioch spake
unto the Gratians preaching the Lord Jesus and the hand of the Lord was with
them and a great number believed and turned to unto the Lord then tidings of
these things came into the ears of the church which was in Jerusalem and they
sent forth Barnabas that he should go as far as Antioch who when he came and
had seen the grace of God was glad and exhorted them all that with purpose of
heart they should cleave unto the Lord for he was a good man and full of the
Holy Ghost and of faith and much people was added unto the Lord then departed
Barnabas to Tarsus for to seek Saul and when he had found him he brought him
unto Antioch and it came to pass that a whole year they assembled themselves
with the with the church and taught much people and the disciples were called
Christians first in Antioch and in these days came prophets from Jerusalem unto
Antioch and there stood up one of them called named Agabus and signified by the
spirit that there should be a great dearth throughout all the world which
came to pass in the days of Claudius Caesar then the disciples every man
according to his ability determined to send relief unto the brethren which
dwelt in Judea which also they did and sent it to the elders by the hands of
Barnabas and Saul let's pray dear Lord God thank you for salvation first and
foremost and thank you Lord that going to heaven is as easy as believing on
Jesus Christ by faith alone Lord and just thank you for the Bible we thank
you for pastors well Lord we pray that you bless him right now and fill him with
the Spirit Lord as he preaches your word Lord and that's the congregation here we
could be edified by the preaching Lord and we go away learning new truths out
of your word Lord we pray this all in Jesus name Amen
okay we're in Acts chapter 11 this evening and I'm gonna continue my
sermon from this morning on Catholicism the bastardization of Christianity this
is part two we're gonna take a break from the series that we've been going
through on Sunday nights entitled drama at the church at Corinth because we kind
of want to get on Catholicism a little more and there's a lot more to say of
course of why Catholicism is the bastardization of Christianity and how
they essentially degraded Christianity and took it adopted a lot of its
teachings and essentially amalgamated it with polytheism and paganism and so
we're gonna go through some of those things this morning now look at our this
evening excuse me look at Acts chapter 11 verse 25 it says then departed
Barnabas to Tarsus for to seek Saul and when he had found him he brought him
into Antioch and it came to pass that a whole year they assembled themselves
with the church and taught much people and the disciples were called Christians
first in Antioch now this is a pretty significant scripture here because of
the fact that Catholicism really rests on this historical viewpoint that the
reason you know they're in Rome and the reason the Vatican's in Rome is because
of the fact that the Apostle Peter was a pastor or a bishop in Rome now no one's
gonna argue the fact that he was a pastor at Rome and in fact we see him
first and second Peter that he's writing from Rome which he called Babylon but
obviously Catholics either obviously Catholics just in general are ignorant
of the scriptures but those who are in charge are essentially you know you know
they're basically depending on the ignorance of the congregants to not know
what's going on because of the fact that the church at Rome didn't get started to
wait later okay you have Peter getting ordained as the first Pope supposedly in
Matthew chapter 16 but he doesn't become the Bishop of Rome the pastor of
Rome until way later and in fact the church at Rome doesn't really get started
until Paul's third missionary journey okay so you say were the churches then
in Jerusalem they were in Antioch they were in Asia Minor okay many of the
churches they were started on this first and second missionary journey that's
where they were and of course the main church the first church was in Jerusalem
and so Peter didn't become a pastor he didn't start pastoring that church until
or at Rome until way later in his life until many of the churches were already
started he said then why do they make such a big deal of the fact that Peter
was in Rome and that's where the Vatican is it's because of the fact that that is
essentially the centerpiece for the union of church and state because they
want political power so they want to couple that with the scriptures so they
can have some sort of authority as to why they do the things that they do
understand and so here we see the disciples are first called Christians in
Antioch not in Rome and even then it doesn't mean that that's where
Christianity started Christianity has always existed obviously was labeled
this in Acts chapter 11 but the beliefs of Christians the beliefs of the
believers of Christ have always existed men began to call upon the name of the
Lord all the way from all the way back to Genesis chapter number four there
have always been believers in the Word of God and in the Bible this is
essentially what they're referring to as someone labeling them as Christians
little Christ's okay people who are representing Jesus Christ because of
their beliefs okay and so let me go through a couple things here go to Acts
chapter 8 if you would you're in Acts chapter 11 go to Acts chapter 8 of
course this morning I talked about the bastardization of salvation how they
twist salvation they take what the Bible says and put their own pagan spin on it
we also talked about the bastardization of the final authority for all faith
matters of faith and practice their final authority is not God's Word okay
our final authority is of course God's Word and any bishop or pastor church
leader that deviates from the doctrines of Christ meaning the Word of God you
know as far as that which is essential to doctrine salvation the Trinity the
Godhead they're excommunicated from a local assembly okay and but here's the
thing is that the Pope they according to the Catholicism he possesses
infallibility and they'll say that doesn't mean he's perfect but what
they're referring to is the fact that he could just come up with his own doctrines
if he wants to and it's basically taken as gospel it has divine authority and
Catholics are expected to essentially submit to it by faith not to submit to
the Word of God by faith but to submit to the Pope's teaching by faith whatever
it is that he says okay and then I mentioned how they bastardize the office
of a bishop as well and you know they don't necessarily have bishops but the
the the main culprits of each congregation so to speak are priests and
of course the priesthood was an office of the Old Testament okay it was
essentially the person of the tribe of Levi who people would go to to make
intercessions for them via the sacrifices and so forth but that office
doesn't even exist anymore in the New Testament and in fact the Bible
specifically says that all believers are a part of the royal priesthood okay the
spiritual household of God anybody who's a believer in Christ is essentially
considered a priest of God because of the fact that we can go to God ourselves
right we can come before the throne of grace to obtain mercy to help in the
time of need the Bible says we don't need to go to Aaron or Aaron sons we
don't need to make a sacrifice to have him atone through a daily sacrifice or
intercede for us through prayer we can pray to God ourselves and of course they
had that liberty in the Old Testament but they were under that Levitical law
and so priests don't exist anymore okay and let me say this the priests in the
Old Testament were married how do you know that because it's called the tribe
of Levi the house of Aaron and the way you produce a house and the way you
produce a tribe is by getting married and having children having descendants
you see that priesthood in order for it to exist they had to propagate and have
more children and so they were obviously supposed to have children this isn't you
know what the Catholics believe that they're wearing some sort of bandit
backwards collar band-aid collar or whatever and they're just celibate their
entire lives that doesn't exist in the Word of God and in fact the Bible says
that that is a doctrine of Devils okay when they're forbidding to marry
commanding to abstain from meats and I just really find it funny that
everything that the Catholic Church does the vast majority of what it does there's
like a clear scripture against it it's like crazy it's just like you know some
of these other religion false religions you know you can get secondary
applications from the Bible to refute it obviously the Word of God has everything
that pertains to life and godliness but it's almost as if the Catholics went to
1st Timothy 4 and we're like they're like forbidding to marry command abstain
from meats sounds good to me let's teach that and so you know that's why it's so
easy to refute Catholicism okay but you know they do have a stronghold though in
this world they have a stronghold in communities I mean I remember and I
mentioned this morning the Catholics are very much open to the gospel but there
are parts and locations where they're very much hard into the gospel as well
okay where they're not necessarily as receptive as your backslidden lukewarm
Catholic which is the ones we want to win to the Lord amen but I remember
being in the bus ministry back at our old church the church we I got saved at
and I had a bus ministry to a city called Wilmington okay and in Wilmington
there is like a huge Catholic Church there and man it was so hard to win
people to Christ there because they were so just enveloped and deceived by the
Catholic Church they want nothing to do with Baptist or anything outside of the
Catholic doctrine and so they can become hardened to Christianity and I even
remember going with my bus captain one time we're preaching the gospel and my
bus captain he's witnessing to this guy he's a Catholic and he's kind of going
back and forth with him on Catholic doctrine and you know he's just like you
know one thing I don't respect about you guys is that you guys don't respect the
Virgin Mary right and you know we're trying to tread lightly because we want
the guy to be saved obviously you know so we're trying to be wise as serpents
harmless as doves we're trying to answer with meekness and fear because we're not
trying to scare the person away but we got to show him that that's wrong right
so he's showing them scriptures about Mary and we'll go over that just a bit
but you know he tells them you know Jesus you know or Mary doesn't have any
divinity you know and here's the proof is that Jesus rebuked his own mom
you know those instances where he kind of like corrected his mother and he
rhetorically asks the guy thinking that the guy would agree he's just like I
mean do you think like Jesus sinned for doing that and the guy was just like yes
that was wrong for him to do he should have never rebuked his own mother Virgin
Mary and then my bus captain was floored I mean we were just like whoa and he the
guy didn't bat an eye on it he was just like that was wrong for him and my bus
captain was like all right well we're done here you know it's like what else
can we do when someone literally degrades Jesus Christ and blasphemes and
says that he sinned because he rebuked the Virgin Mary it's like well the
Catholic Church doesn't teach that the Catholic Church provides enough
heretical foundation to produce a person who will say something like that right
and so you know they obviously when you look at Catholic Catholic theology
Catholic doctrine is very easy to be debunked but it's important that we go
over these things and teach these things no matter how simple they are in our
minds none of us in here will ever be converted to Catholicism none of us
will ever be deceived by Catholicism but we need to keep it on the forefront of
our minds because the Bible says to have no fellowship with the unfulfilled
works of darkness but rather reprove them the Bible says till I come give
attendance to reading to exhortation to doctrine right and he says meditate upon
these things give thyself holy unto them for in doing so thou shalt both save thyself
and them that hear thee so the Bible seems to indicate that we as Christians
need to continuously take in a diet of Scripture and doctrine even in things
that we already know about we need to make sure we stir our pure minds by way
of remembrance right and remind ourselves how wicked the Catholic Church
really is because what happens is when churches don't do that and they begin to
get soft on the Catholics then they start saying well maybe some Catholics
are saved and some Catholics are going to heaven and there's popes that are in
heaven maybe Catholicism is Christian and then they start making stupid movies
which influences a bunch of lukewarm Christians who don't read the Bible
because at face value when you talk to Catholics they're not going to disagree
with you on what you believe they'll tell you to believe in Jesus they're
like I believe on Jesus for salvation they'll say I believe in the Bible they
say they believe in the Trinity but you know we gotta dig a little deeper though
you know when we get the sword of God's Word one little prick is not good enough
we need to put it all the way in because when you put it all the way in then you
realize oh okay you lied you just lied to me because it's not just believing on
Jesus this is like you got to keep the sacraments and then they're
sacramentals and then you have to believe in transubstantiation you also
have to pray to the Virgin Mary I mean all these things that they add to it and
so we need to make sure we stay fresh up on our Catholic doctrine per se so we
know how to refute it and and you don't get tripped up by some Catholic you know
someone in our church told me last week that they that Catholics were knocking
on their door trying to evangelize trying to proselytize them which is
crazy I've never even heard of such a thing how many you've ever had a Catholic
knock on your door trying to proselytize you
Marcos Wow you just have to be that one person huh you just gotta ruin the
illustration don't you Marcos but you know he said he had someone knock on his
door and there are Catholics and he just like rebuke them and he's just like we
have no interest in this and he just closed the door on him but you know
there's if this is what like a common thing now where there's actually
starting to go out and try to proselytize obviously that poses a big
problem and that's that's why we need to make sure that we educate ourselves and
know what the Bible says about these things okay so let's talk about a couple
other things that they teach that obviously goes contrary to the Word of
God now I'm gonna leave a lot of the silly stuff out because there's so much
silliness in the Catholic Church like holy water for example you know and it's
they're very Catholics are very superstitious and you can see why because
you know if they've amalgamated with these pagan paganism and polytheism
that's where they kind of adopt those things from right and when you when you
ask Catholic answers about superstition like we're not superstitious no that's
bad that's really bad you know superstitious is the demonic we believe
that these have supernatural abilities that you just did that superstition and
holy waters one of them now here's the thing is that holy water is actually
mentioned in the Bible did you know that it's only mentioned once I think it's
like a number chapter 5 but it's not something that's being sprinkled on
people to keep vampires away and you know to cross yourself with or whatever
in number chapter 5 it's used to determine if a person has committed
adultery you know they mix it with dirt and it's you know if the spirit of
jealousy come upon the husband she used to drink of that holy water and if it
becomes bitter in her belly and her thigh begins to rot you know what I mean
then you know she's guilty or whatever but here's the thing is that and let me
say this is that if you were to drink some some of that holy water from the
Catholic Church your belly would probably get bitter and your thigh
probably would rot just because it's so filthy and disgusting and everyone's
putting their hands in there and stuff you know but they really view that water
as being divine and and they even have rules regarding holy water that you
cannot use it for unsanctioned you know what do you call it a unsanctioned
practices of keeping spirits away or Devils away or zombies away because one
of the things is is that they believe like what typically in the Catholic
Church if someone dies for example and they'd have a Catholic funeral they'll
sprinkle holy water on the body and that originally came from the fact that they
believe that this potential this person can become a zombie that was like a
belief back in the days okay you know but has anybody seen Mother Teresa walk
around as of recently it looks like that ain't you know what I mean that doesn't
really help her because she's burning in hell okay but you know they use that for
that so it's just like yeah you can't have it for unsanctioned practices of
zombies and vampires or whatever you know obviously that's silly that's
easily refuted you can't find that in the Word of God and well let's get right
into it so let's talk about indulgences and penance right the bastardization of
the payment for sin okay now this is a very hot topic when it comes to
Catholicism because it is a blotch on Catholicism due to the fact that they're
basically saying you can pay money to have your sins forgiven now remember
what I said in the beginning this morning I said they'll try to gaslight
you and they'll say no we don't believe you have to do that we don't believe you
could pay for your sins to be forgiven because Jesus paid for you so they'll
say something like that and then they'll say but you can't give charity a
charitable offering some sort of monetary gift as a form of penance to
receive absolvement of sin okay you just said the same thing so it's like we
don't believe you could pay for your sins using money but we do believe you
can pay for your sins to be forgiven though because that's what they believe
now let me read this it says you can do it for yourself or someone who's dead
you can't buy one because the church outlawed the sale of indulgences in 1567
okay so 1567 they're like oh man how could we have let this go on for so long
oh you just in 1567 when the when the Catholic Church has became filthy rich
already from thousands of years of just collecting money from people they're
like oh this is outlawed but charitable contributions combined with other
acts can help you earn one so it's just like man this stuff is expensive cuz
they're like you can buy one I mean you could you could give I mean you can give
a charitable contribution but you also got to do other things and maybe you can
earn one at that point there is a limit of one plenary indulgence per sinner per
day though so don't as I say so don't don't go thinking you can take advantage
of this you know this sale this is a blue light special they're just like you
can only do it once you know cuz you know people are just I've committed so
many sins I don't pay for a bunch of them or whatever they got one per day
you know so let me read this it says indulgences the very word stirs up more
misconceptions than perhaps any other teaching in Catholic theology yeah I
wonder why those who attack the church for its use of indulgences rely upon and
take advantage of the ignorance of both Catholics and non Catholics what is an
indulgence the church explains quote an indulgence is a remission before God of
the temporal punishment due to sins whose guilt has already been forgiven
so why do you have to pay for it which the faithful Christian who is duly
disposed gains under the certain defined conditions through the church's help
when as a minister of redemption she dispenses and applies with authority the
treasury of the sanctifications won by Christ and the Saints let me just
consolidate that okay what that means is this you just pay for your sins to be
forgiven that's basically what they're saying that's that's the summary of the
whole entire thing they put a bunch of words in there and a bunch of statements
to chubby like okay so it's not you're not really paying for you you are paying
they give a couple myths regarding indulgences okay there's seven myths
they say about indulgences that people teach like people like us okay now I'm
gonna read the myths okay but just replace myth with fact okay myth number
one fact number one a person can buy his way out of hell with indulgences that's
what they believe but they say it's a myth since indulgences remit only
temporal penalties they cannot remit the eternal penalty of hell once a person is
in hell no amount of indulgences will ever change that fact I doubt that you
know I'm pretty sure some millionaire came to me like hey million dollars you
keep me out of hell Catholic should be like say less give more say less myth
number two fact number two a person can buy indulgences for sins not yet
committed that's a myth you can't do that yeah now what is it what is what
do they what do they mean they're basically saying hey you can't pay for
future sins why cuz they keep what they want you to keep making payments that's
why so it's just like why are we gonna have a make a once and for all payment
for all their sins when we can just have them keep coming back and paying more
the church has always taught that indulgences do not apply to sins not yet
committed the Catholic Encyclopedia notes and indulgence is not permission
to commit sin nor a part in a future sin neither could be granted by any power so
don't you think you can just pay some crazy amount of money for your future
sins you got to take care of those on their own in the future okay fact number
three a person can buy forgiveness with indulgences the definition of
indulgences presupposes that forgiveness has already taken place so like you're
already forgiven but you need to like you know little something something you
know and indulgences a remission before God of the temporal punishment due to
sins blah blah blah whose guilt has already been forgiven how do people read
this and not think to themselves this is a bunch of horse crap because you would
read this and be like well if I'm already forgiven then why would I need
to pay to be forgiven fact number four indulgences were invented as a means for
the church to raise money just know this when churches like this lie to you
whatever they're lying to you about that's that's actually the truth there
we're not it's like we're not trying to take your money indulgences developed
from reflection on the sacrament of reconciliation there are a way of
shortening the penance of sacramental discipline and we're in use centuries
before money related problems appear to like this existed way before all that of
course because you know back in the day they just give cattle or something like
that fact number five an indulgence will shorten your time in purgatory by a fixed
number of days that sucks the number of days which used to be attached to
indulgences were references to a period of penance one might undergo during life
on earth the Catholic Church does not claim to know anything about how long or
sure purgatory is in general much less than a specific person's case so one
person can give $10 another person can give a hundred another person can give
10,000 and they're just like I don't know how much this is paying for though
you know you're just kind of rolling the dice on that it's like they have that
little roller thing they're like so it doesn't matter how much money you give I
mean it does matter how much money you give to them but they can't promise you
how long or how short your stay is is going to be in purgatory okay a person
fact number six a person can buy indulgences the Council of Trent
instituted severe reforms in the practice of granting indulgences and
because of prior abuses in 1567 Pope Pius canceled all grants of indulgences
involving any fees or any financial transactions oh how noble so what they
did is basically said hey we're not we can't do this this is bad so instead of
saying you can buy indulgences just say it's a charitable contribution so just
like can I make a charitable contribution yes but you can't you can't
pay for it but you can give money for it though that's basically what they're
saying it's like faith and Christ saves you but faith alone can't save it's like
one of those things right it's like salvation is by grace or faith but faith
without works is dead right so if you don't do the works you're not really
saved but works can't save you though but if you don't do the works you're not
saved you guys understand what I'm saying and look you said why is it so
similar because it's the same devil who created these religions he's like let's
wrap this up in a different way which by the way Calvinism is the bastard child
of Catholicism they basically believe the same exact thing like yeah but they
don't believe in purgatory they believe in Abraham's bosom which is Christian
purgatory fact number seven a person used to be able to buy indulgences
notice that this is a reoccurring thing here okay one never could buy
indulgences they put in quotes the financial scandal surrounding
indulgences that gave Martin Luther an excuse for his paper involved
indulgences in which the giving of alms to some charitable fund or foundation
was used as the occasion to grant indulgences it's the same thing now let
me read to you from Ephesians chapter 1 verse number 6 okay because it's sad
that this is still going on today there's individuals members of the
Catholic Church that part of their penance in order to receive indulgence
is they give some sort of charitable contribution to the Catholic Church and
I'm sure there's a lot of rich people in the Catholic Church and then they give a
lot of their money in hopes that they can be forgiven of their sins but the
Bible says in verse number 6 of Ephesians 1 to the praise of the glory
of his grace wherein he hath made us accept them in the beloved and whom we
have redemption through his blood the forgiveness of sins according to the
riches of the congregants no according to the riches of his grace wherein he
hath abounded toward us in all wisdom and prudence so the Bible says that we
receive redemption the forgiveness of sins not according to our riches not
according to our monetary possessions our wealth or lack thereof it's based
upon the wealth of God you know the Bible talks about that he you know that
he was rich and he made himself poor that we through his poverty might become
rich spiritually speaking right because salvation is that's why it has to be a
gift salvation is something that the highest amount of money the most amount
of money can never purchase the only thing that is capable of purchasing
salvation is the blood of Jesus Christ okay look at Acts chapter 8 let's look
at an example of this acts 8 verse 14 it says now when the apostles which were at
Jerusalem heard that Samaria had received the Word of God they sent unto
them Peter and John who when they were come down prayed for them that they might
receive the Holy Ghost for as yet he was not a falling upon none of them
referring to the Holy Ghost only they were baptized in the name of the Lord
Jesus then laid they their hands on them and they received the Holy Ghost and
when Simon who by the way was formerly a sorcerer saw that through the laying on
the on the Apostles hands the Holy Ghost was given he offered them money he's like
dude this is a cool power they lay hands on them and they received the Holy Ghost
how much you know that one little real like he's like how much he offered them
money saying give me also this power that on whomsoever I lay hands he may
receive the Holy Ghost he's like how much do I have to pay for this awesome
ability this authority because of the fact that he was a once considered a
great one amongst the society there but that was obviously stripped from him
when the real deal showed up and the Apostles came and they preached the Word
of God people were actually getting saved he was kind of demoted as being a
great one okay so he wants to be considered a great one again so he's
just like well how much do I got to pay but Peter said unto him thy money perish
with thee because thou hast thought that the gift of God may be purchased with
money he's like your money is gonna die with you you can't pay the power of God
with money you can't pay salvation with money you can't pay the forgiveness and
sins with money it means nothing in the eyes of God but not according to the
Catholic Church I need forgiveness of sin how much you got how much is in the
bank layaway but I mean they don't do layaway plans and put it on I'm sure
they take credit cards you can probably go in debt to try to pay for your sins
but guess what you will still be in debt thereafter neither hast thou part nor
law in this matter for thy heart is not right in the sight of God repent
therefore of this thy wickedness and pray God if perhaps the thought of thine
heart may be forgiven thee for I perceive the dollar in the gall of
bitterness in the bond of iniquity go to Hebrews chapter 9 if you would Hebrew
chapter number 9 Acts chapter 20 verse 28 says take heed therefore unto
yourselves and to all the flock over the which the Holy Ghost have made you
overseers to feed the Church of God which he hath purchased with his own
blood the only way to purchase salvation is with the blood of Jesus Christ which
by the way you see that in the Old Testament the figurative symbolic
representation of the bullocks the goats the sheep that are sacrificed without
the shedding of blood the Bible says there is no remission of sin that's what
the Bible specifically says it doesn't say without you cutting out a check
without you making a payment plan without you giving of your resources and
possessions there is no remission of senses without the shedding of blood and
by the way the shedding of the animal sack the setting of the blood of the
animal sacrifices in the Old Testament still wasn't sufficient to take away the
plenary of sin that only atoned for daily sins that people committed but the
totality of sin was completely covered through Jesus Christ how if he hadn't
been born and hadn't died because Jesus Christ has always existed in you a
sacrifice he's the Lamb of God who was sacrificed before the foundation of the
world because he comes from eternity past and eternity past spans past
present and future my friends that's why when we read Revelation chapter 7 for
example where the rapture has already taken place John sees every nation and
tongue you know a great multitude which no man can number and let me just let
you know you're in that group so when John in the first century AD he sees
that vision of all believers in heaven guess what he saw you and I maybe he
might have looked at you and I at one point why because it's something that's
taking place in eternity that's not measured by time okay so Jesus Christ
yes physically had to breach time to come here to be born to die but you know
what when it comes to the vastness of eternity it's as if he already did it
okay and so he purchased it with his own blood not with your money now with your
possessions they mean nothing to God and it's almost making God look like he's
greedy a filthy lucre or something right it's just like oh yeah you you want
forgiveness you want eternal life pay up Hebrews chapter 9 verse 24 says for
Christ is not entered into the holy places made up with hands which are the
figures of the true but into heaven itself now to appear in the presence of
God for us nor yet that he should offer himself often as the high priest
entereth into the holy place every year with blood of others for then must he
have he often have suffered since the foundation of the world but now once in
the end of the world has he appeared to put away sin by the sacrifice of himself
verse 28 sir Christ was once offered to bear the sins of many and unto them that
look for him shall he appear the second time without sin unto salvation so he's
referring to the people who have believed on Jesus Christ the sacrifice
that he made for him it's that he made for them it says here that they're gonna
see him without sin unto salvation but according to the Catholics that's not
true because even when Catholics die according to their theology they die
would still venial sins so when that's why they have to go to purgatory that's
why the Pope still go to purgatory because even though they may have you
know for their sins forgiven and they have paid for their sins everyone still
needs to go to the process of purification and purgatory because not
everyone is completely cleansed whereas the Bible says that we will see Jesus
Christ without sin unto salvation in other words we will be without sin okay
look at chapter 10 verse 10 go to chapter 10 in verse number 10 it says by
the witch will we are sanctified through the offering of the body of Jesus once
and for all and every priest standeth daily ministering and offering often
times the same sacrifices which can never take away sins but this man after
he had offered one sacrifice for sins forever sat down on the right hand of
God and you know what this teaching that you have to pay money and give
charitable offerings in order to be forgiven of sins it's wicked as hell and
you know what it only shows that the Catholic Church is greedy a filthy
lucre they're making merchandise off of the flock of God over just regular
people who are supporting them who are attending their congregation and you
know what they're gonna split hell wide open for that it's such an evil and
wicked thing to take advantage of innocent people duping them into thinking
that they somehow will receive the forgiveness of their sins and you know
what the people who give some of them I'm sure really sincere they're
probably devastated over the fact that they have sins and they're like well
this is what my Catholic Church is teaching therefore I'm gonna give and
hopefully I'll be forgiven of him and it's a rude awakening when they go when
they die like wow you know purgatory sure feels a lot like hell and so in
indulgences and penance is made with the purpose of just making the Catholic
Church rich and the Catholic Church is very wealthy to say the least okay I
mean I've never been to Rome but I heard that Cathedral out there is decked out
okay and you know the Pope is decked out all the bishops and deacons or whatever
they're all decked out because they're a bunch of false prophets all right let's
move on here we're gonna talk about the bastardization of the doctrine of hell
and let me let me read to you what they said in their website here it says the
catechism of the Catholic Church defines purgatory as a purification so as to
achieve the holiness necessary to enter the joy of heaven which is experienced
by those who die in God's grace and friendship but still imperfectly
purified it notes that this final purification of the elect is entirely
different from the punishment of the damned the purification is necessary
because as scripture teaches nothing unclean will enter into the presence of
God revelation 2127 and while we may die with our mortal sins forgiven there can
still be many impurities in us specifically venial sins and the
temporary temporal punishment due to sins already forgiven so basically they
created this imaginary place that when someone dies and even if they have their
sins forgiven they go to purgatory to be purified of their sins this is why
people make prayers for the dead this is another reason why Catholics teach
necromancy which is something that's explicitly taught in the Bible not to do
right what is necromancy it is the abominable act of communicating with the
dead which is why they the dead they do that because it's a conglomerate of
paganism and Catholicism which is a conglomerate of Christianity and
paganism so they think they're communicating with the dead this is why
I remember when we went to when I was a kid I was in Guatemala and one of our
relatives passed away and they were Catholic and they would have vigils okay
we're basically like for like five six days straight you just show up at
someone's house they have candles and the picture and all that and you
literally like pray the rosary I don't know a billion times or something like
that because you're trying to get them out of purgatory you know and it's just
like they and it's just like it's like it's you think like Eminem's there or
something praying somewhere you know just singing one of the songs or whatever
but they're just that's what they do for like an hour and it's actually kind of
creepy especially as a child I'm just like the picture of this dead person is
right there and then they're all in unison you know you said what does it
sound like you know kind of like a vain repetition that's basically what it is
oh wait that's in the Bible oh that's right because they always disobey Jesus
when he says to do not do something specifically like say less I'll do it
tell me what not to do and I'll do it because what it is it's a vain
repetition and what they're trying to do is get that soul out of purgatory sooner
than later okay but it's not gonna happen my friends because perfect they
can call it purgatory all they want but it's just called hell and they're not
being purified they're just being burned for all of eternity it says it is no
wonder then that those who deny the existence of purgatory tend to touch
upon only briefly the history of the belief they prefer to claim that the
Bible speaks of only heaven and hell you know that Bible with all those facts
wrong that's what I say wrong it speaks plainly of the third condition commonly
called the limbo of the fathers commonly where where is this commonly called the
limbo of the fathers that sounds like some freaking pedophile island or
something like that the limbo of the fathers where the just who had died
before the redemption were waiting for heaven to be open to them so this is why
the Protestants hold to the doctrine of Abraham's bosom this is where
dispensationalism gets Abraham's bosom so you know what those guys can't talk
any crap to the Catholics because they essentially evolved from them even in
their theology and doctrine so you know the Catholics got one on them right so
when the Catholics like well you believe in Abraham's bosom you know
they're right about that but if they tell a fundamental Baptist who actually
believes the Bible they can say I'm like yeah I believe in Abraham's bosom his
chest cavity for sure because we all got one after his death and before his
resurrection Christ visited those experiencing limbo of the fathers and
preached to them the good news that heaven would now be open to them this is
what dispensationalism teaches these people thus were not in heaven but
neither were they experiencing the torments of hell so they have one up on
the Protestants for sure on that one because that's exactly what they teach
and we don't believe in this second compartment of hell known as Abraham's
bosom where Old Testament Saints went to be to wait or whatever for the the
coming of Christ because they're not going to say they're there to be
purified of their sins because that's too Catholic they need to clean it up a
little bit and this is what they say Christ refers to the sinner who will not
be forgiven neither in this age nor in the age to come suggesting that one can
be freed after death of the consequences of one sin so what he's saying is like
they take when Jesus said when someone blasphemes the Holy Ghost that they have
not forgiveness in this life nor in the world to come they're like oh so you're
saying there is a chance you guys are seeing I know I'm bringing up memes but
there's such a good way to communicate this the dumb and dumber me it's like so
there is a chance it's like no there isn't Jesus said they have never
forgiveness never means it's not gonna happen and what he's teaching there is
that people because you know when we get saved we can we can be forgiven of our
sins here and if someone's not saved they can be forgiven of their sins
totally when they believe on Jesus Christ what this is saying is that when
a person commits the act of blaspheming the Holy Ghost essentially what happens
is they essentially relinquish their privilege or the the opportunity should
I say to be saved in this world because now they will never have forgiveness
ever again he's just being he's just kind of using hyperbole to say like it's
never never never never gonna happen okay but they're like well if he says
they're not gonna have forgiveness in the world to come that means there's a
possibility to have forgiveness in the world well you just keep believing that
you stupid priest you know you just keep believing that you drunk in Catholic bag
you know just giving wine to children and all this nonsense and molesting
children you go ahead and keep believing that because you know what you deserve
that strong delusion and then he says similarly Paul tells us that when we are
judged every man's work will be tried and what happens if a righteous man's
work fails the test he will suffer loss though he himself will be saved but only
as through fire so you can see how they twist those scriptures but what is
1st Corinthians 3 actually teaching it's teaching the doctrine of the judgment
seat of Christ for our works and it doesn't say people are being tried in
the fire it says their works shall be tried of what sort it is it doesn't say
the people will be tried which by the way Tyler Doka was teaching that
basically Christians will go to the lake of fire and he used this verse to teach
that exactly what the Catholics teach then of course there is the Bible's
approval of prayers for the dead of what do you mean there's of course he
says then of course there is the Bible's approval of prayers for the dead when I
read that I was just like shut up what are you what verse are you gonna pull
out to try to justify and I was thinking maybe first Corinthians 15 right being
baptized for the dead or something I was like that's the only thing I could think
of that they would take out of context or something so let me read you the
verse that they quote okay it says in doing this he acted in a very excellent
and noble way in as much as he had the resurrection of the dead in view for if
he were not expecting the dead to rise again it would be it would have been
useless and foolish to pray for them in death but if he did this with a view to
the splendid rewards that awaits those who had gone to rest in godliness it was
a holy and pious thought thus he made atonement for the dead that they might
be freed from this sin now how many know where that portion of scripture is
in the Bible raise your hand if you know where that is you guys don't know where
that's from oh that's right cuz it's not in the Bible where is it from second
Maccabees chapter 12 verse 43 through 45 so in order for them to have any
evidence to prove this ridiculous notion that God approves of necromancy
they're like they're like can you find that there's just like that's too much
in here man let's just go to Maccabees let's go to the apocryphal you know
apocryphal books maybe we'll get something there and so they obviously
can't use they can't use the Word of God because the Word of God wouldn't teach
us a stupid thing so they have to go to second Maccabees this uninspired trash
that might be good for toilet paper but I don't know I don't even think it's
good for that I would not wipe myself with this with second Maccabees because
it's not good enough and then it would even provide two-ply it's not even like
two-ply prayers are not needed by those in heaven and no one can help those in
hell this verse so clearly illustrates the existence of purgatory that at the
time of the Reformation Protestants had to cut the book of Maccabees out of
their Bibles in order to avoid accepting the doctrine Catholic theology takes
seriously the notion that nothing unclean shall enter heaven yeah because
they won't from this it is inferred that that a less than cleansed soul isn't fit
for heaven and needs to be cleansed or purge of its remaining imperfections
sanctification is thus not an option something that may or may not happen
before one gets into heaven it is an absolute requirement as Hebrews 12 14
states that we must strive for the holiness without which no one will see
the Lord but what people fail to understand is that our salvation is only
based upon the righteousness of Jesus Christ because this is implying that we
can exercise our own righteousness coupled with the righteousness of Jesus
Christ for heaven because then they're not going to tell you or we're denying
the righteousness of Jesus they're saying that we have to couple our
righteousness with his righteousness in order to be admitted into heaven but the
Bible tells us that that we're made the righteousness of God in him he had
made him to be sin who knew no sin that we might be made the righteousness of
God in him and the Bible says that salvation is by grace through faith not
of yourselves it is the gift of God not of works as any man should boast and if
by grace then it is no more of works otherwise grace is no more grace so the
Bible makes it very clear the salvation cannot be added to once you add to
salvation your works your righteousness your good deeds you've made the gift of
God null and void or as Galatians put it puts it the grace of God is in vain in
your life because those in Galatians at the church of churches at Galatia they
were adding the law to it and so essentially they made the gift of God
null and void the sacrifice of Christ was was insufficient for them because of
the fact that they were adding the law okay and so purgatory is a stupid
doctrine but you know it's sad though because you know what many people have
died believing in that doctrine and thinking that that's where they were
going to go making arrangements for their family to pray for them I mean
talk about a rude awakening and look I'm not just talking about Catholics
obviously this applies to the Orthodox Church as well right go to go to John
chapter 6 John chapter 6 we're almost done how many more bastardizations do I
have in here all right talk about the bastardization of the Lord's Supper okay
that's a big one or what they like to call transubstantiation okay now what is
transubstantiation it's cannibalism that's what it is it's the justification
for cannibalism because it's the belief what they teach is the Eucharist right
that they consume for the Lord's Supper literally becomes the flesh and the wine
becomes the blood of Jesus Christ not symbolically because you know people
try to excuse us and say well no they don't really believe it becomes the
flesh and the blood of Jesus they just believe it's it represents it no they
believe transubstantiation means when you eat the cracker and you drink the
wine it literally becomes the flesh and the blood of Jesus Christ and in fact
they believe it's so hard that heresy to them is consubstantiation because the
Lutherans when they protested the Catholic Church they're like
transubstantiation that's weird yeah yeah it is ha ha so they're like well
you know we need to keep practicing the the Lord's Supper and observing it and
so we're you know the Catholic Church labeled as consubstantiation because
consubstantiation is basically saying like when we take the bread and the wine
you know it's just symbolically representing that we're eating the flesh
and drinking the blood but it's not really that well the Catholic Church is
like that's heresy heresy so they're not they're not backing down on it they
believe in this okay all right let me read a couple verses here do I have the
article here yeah I have a little bit okay so what do they use it to
substantiate this or to try to substantiate it look at John 6 verse 51 I
am the living bread which came down from heaven if any man eat of this bread he
shall live forever and the bread that I will give is my flesh which I will give
for the life of the world the Jews therefore strove among themselves saying
how can this man give us his flesh to eat now I want you to notice that the
Catholics are in right standings with the Jews here like they agree with one
another but I also want you to notice that the Jews here are the antagonists
of the story they're the ones who are in the wrong right does everyone get that
so the Catholics are like man these Jews are on to something verse 53 then Jesus
said unto them verily verily I say unto you except ye eat the flesh of the Son of
man and drink his blood ye have no life in you who so eateth my flesh and drink
it my blood hath eternal life and I will raise him up at the last day my flesh is
me indeed and my blood is drink indeed he that eateth my flesh and drinketh my
blood dwelleth in me and I in him as the living father has sent me and I live
by the father so he that eateth me even he shall live by me this is that bread
which came down from heaven that is your father's that eat man and are dead he
that eateth of this bread shall live forever these things said he in the
synagogue as he taught in Capernaum many therefore of his disciples when they
heard this said this is a hard saying who can hear so they were offended at
this because they're just like how are you gonna give us your flesh to eat your
blood to drink why cuz they're taking this overly literal interpretation of
what he's saying even though he's explaining in his sermon what he means
because if you're gonna say that the flesh and the blood of Jesus Christ is
necessary to consume for salvation you would have to say that Jesus is a
literal tree you would have to say that Jesus is a literal door you would have
to say that he's literally bread you would have to say that you have to
literally get going to your mom's womb like Nicodemus thought and I come back
out again because it isn't didn't Nicodemus also had this overly literal
interpretation of what he's saying why because the natural man receive it's not
the things of the Spirit of God neither can he known for their spiritually
discerned and let me say this unsaved people have the natural propensity to
want to partake in their salvation everyone does okay every unsafe person
thinks that they have to do something on their part to be saved as well so these
self-righteous arrogant spiritual leaders here the Jews they think to
themselves okay so that's what we have to do but obviously they didn't esteem
Jesus Christ as being anybody other than the carpenter son or as the Catholics
they're just like easy we'll just couple this with the Lord's
Supper and it just transubstantiation just becomes the flesh and the blood of
Jesus Christ and by the way that's how you get saved you cannot be saved if you
don't first of all partake of the Lord's Supper in the Catholic Church and by the
way you have to believe it's not just a matter of like doing it you have to
believe that it becomes the flesh and the blood of Jesus Christ in your body
you have to believe it it's not like you can't pay lip service to it just like
well I'm just gonna do it no according to their theology you literally have to
believe you cannot believe that it's symbolic okay now here's the funny thing
okay because they get on this consubstantiation right like it's not
symbolic it's not symbolic it becomes the the flesh and the blood and they're
really staunch on them but then someone asked what about like vegetarians though
because I'm gonna ask that and this is the response well while it is true that
the bread and wine are transubstantiated into the body and blood of Christ the
appearances of bread and wine remain all that is perceptible to the senses are
what is called the accidents of bread and wine that means that we are not
consuming Christ in such a manner that a vegetarian could not receive the
Eucharist so what are they saying well if it's symbolic that's what they're
saying look it's the body and blood of Jesus Christ what about the millionaire
vegetarian over there it's symbolic right hey don't worry for you symbolic
right bunch of compromises look if you're gonna believe something believe
it all the way okay what does the Bible say the Bible says in 1st Corinthians 8
8 but meat commendeth us not to God for neither if we eat are we the better
neither if we not are we the worse Romans 14 7 says for the kingdom of God
is not meat and drink but righteousness and peace and joy of the Holy Ghost why
did Jesus Christ use such a crazy example to illustrate salvation well
because of the fact that he's simply illustrating that he's gonna give his
body his body was necessary to be sacrificed in order to pay for the for
the sins of the world and you would think that these Jews would understand
this why because for thousands of years they were doing what animal sacrifices
and they would partake of that animal sacrifice and eat of that animal
sacrifice and consume it with the symbolic representation of knowing that
Jesus Christ would one day do this for me and I would eat of him just a man
like the manna and eating not literally just for me just essentially believing
on Jesus Christ okay and in fact look at a verse number 61 it says when Jesus
knew in himself that the disciples murmured at it he said unto them did this
offend you what and if you shall see the Son of man is sent up to where he was
before so I like this he's like are you guys offended and he just doubles down
more but good it is the spirit that quickeneth the flesh profiteth nothing
so let's just pretend for a minute pretend for a second that the cracker
does turn into Jesus's flesh in our body we know it's not true but let's just
pretend for a minute that it does he literally says the flesh profits nothing
the words that I speak unto you they are spirit and they are life but there are
some of you that what believe not for Jesus knew from the beginning who they
were that believed not and who should betray them so we see here that this
doctrine of transubstantiation is cannibalistic and they even they even
reference that like some people say this is a cannibalistic view yeah because
you're saying you're eating his flesh and is drinking his blood how else do
you expect people to react to this and like well Jesus Christ said it and
Matthew 26 but yeah but then he says I will no longer drink of the fruit of the
vine right he says in verse number 29 but I say to you I will not drink
henceforth of this fruit of the vine until the day when I drink it anew with
you and my father's King he's literally telling them it's the juice and by the
way you know why is it the Catholic Church has to use alcohol to represent
Jesus blood I'll tell you why because Catholicism is a contaminated religion
just as the fruit of the vine is contaminated with them when they add
alcohol to it and the same thing with the bread they're literally telling
people they're they're a contaminated religion based upon their practices now
I was a Catholic and when I was a kid I tried to go take communion that that
was kind of cool those dumb little kid but they never let me I would go up
there and they're just like I had to like go like this or something and then
they would like bless me or something like that I'm like man you guys are
lame but I remember I literally remember kids going up drinking out of the that
fancy little cup that they have and like and then the priest like pulling it back
because he you know in his mind he's like hey leave some for me because I
went to a Catholic school when I was uh was it a seventh grade I went to a
Catholic school it was called st. Barnabas okay and I was exposed to a lot
of that stuff and I remember one particular instance because you had to
go to Mass at least once a week and we would go to Mass and by the way like
Catholic Mass is just depressing it's cold like it creaks it's just like
there's there's like a corpse hanging you know like right behind the priest
it's not Jesus that's not sacrilegious or blasphemous because that's not Jesus
that's like that's that's Cesar Borgia hanging there this is like this
corpse just hanging right there but I remember this one instance we were there
and and they were doing the whole communion where they break he breaks the
bread and normally party you speak to someone who's right you guys know what
I'm talking about have you ever been to a Catholic Mass all right so he's just
like he does all that and then he drinks the wine right and he just kills that
thing the guy killed and I don't remember what his name was his Monsignor
something some Irish dude and he kills the thing right and he grabs a little
thing and he cleans it out and there's a bunch of people in the Mass he just
walks off stage and he leaves you know why he's drunk the guy is drunk and then
we're just because you know you're supposed to like conclude the Mass and I
don't remember what else you know they have like their their order of service
right he's like well my deed is done you know that cleans it out and he's just
like and after about I don't know like 10 minutes people are like I think Mass
is over and everyone just starts like getting up and like walking out like he
said why would he do that because the guy is a drunk like every Catholic
priest you say you think he just got drunk after that that cup of wine he was
drinking that stuff before service he was just topping himself off
all right I must hasten here that last scripture go go to Jeremiah chapter 7 if
you would Jeremiah chapter 7 we'll go to Jeremiah chapter 7 in Acts 17 and then
we're done okay they bastardize Mary and look you know they want to claim we
don't respect Mary we respect her as a believer someone of great faith someone
who God used right in a great way but let me just let me just give everyone a
reminder here Mary had to be saved Mary needed salvation even though she gave
birth to Jesus Christ right she was used of God in a great way if she didn't
believe on Jesus Christ she'd be in hell today bottom line if she depended on the
fact that she gave birth to Jesus Christ for salvation she was split hell
wide open as soon as she died because God is no respecter of people and it
doesn't matter how close you were to the Lord folks even his brothers and his
sisters had to get saved and look here's proof Judas was with them for three and
a half years living with him three and a half years in his ministry he split with
hell wide open why because he didn't believe on the Lord so it doesn't matter
what role you played in Jesus's life if you didn't believe on him for salvation
they went to hell and the same would have been for Mary if she did it but
thank God she did you know why because she wasn't Catholic that's why she
didn't buy into that nonsense she understood that she needed to believe on
the Lord for salvation but they bastardize her they they essentially
give her divinity and infallibility she's the co-redemptrix that's what they
call her in other words in order to be redeemed you not only need Jesus you
need her as well let me read this by the way remember how I said that like
Catholics will look at a doctrine in the Bible and they'll look at something the
Bible tells you not to do they're just like that's what we're gonna do this is
probably the most truest and when it comes to this particular teaching here
because you know what they call Mary car the queen of heaven it says Mary as
queen of heaven is an ancient address to Mary used in prayers that dates back to
that least a fourth century the imagery of Mary as queen of heaven was very
popular in the Middle Ages the theological basis derives from the
notion of Jesus as King New Testament uses the image of a king to describe
Jesus well thank you for telling me that in Israel the mother of the king held
the role of Queen mother in essence she held a role of great prominence in the
court and the king would usually acquiescence to her wish to her wishes
acquiesce excuse me to her wishes in first and second Kings the Kings are
almost always listed with their mothers and are depicted as advising their sons
as Jesus is king that makes Mary his Queen mother according to Jewish
tradition getting to the king through the Queen mother is a natural thought
and spurred Christian to ask Mary to intercede with Jesus on their behalf
Mary's queenship is a share in Jesus's queenship so their justification is like
well when there's a king he's gonna have a mom and they call her the queen so
Mary's the queen of Jesus now look at Jeremiah 7 17 it says cease thou not
what they do in the cities of Judah and the streets of Jerusalem the children
gather wood and the father's kindle the fire and the women need their dough to
make cakes to the queen of heaven and to pour out drink offerings and to other
gods that they may provoke me to anger so the Bible actually says that this
pisses God off so when the Catholic Church refers to Mary as being the queen
of heaven that pisses God off how do you know because it says here you're
provoking me to anger why because there is no queen of heaven there's only a
king I don't care what some earthly kings did you know show me a verse in
the Bible that states that Mary was the mother of God you're not gonna find it
why because she's the mother of Jesus and Jesus existed prior to his birth on
this earth do they provoke me to anger saith the Lord do they not provoke
themselves to the confusion of their own faces therefore thus saith the Lord God
behold my anger my fury shall be poured out upon this place upon man upon beast
and upon the trees of the field and upon the fruit of the ground and shall burn
and shall not be quenched it doesn't sound like he's happy about that so
here's the thing you know Catholics are like queen of heaven let's let's just
call her queen of heaven because I'm sure they look for it in the Bible they're
like I found it just the same thing with holy water right like I found it what
does it say I don't know but it's there though we can use it and here's the thing
you know why they can use stuff like this verses like this in the Bible out
of context because back in the day the Bible was in Latin and no one can read
the Bible so they can keep their congregates in obscurity so they can
teach the most ridiculous doctrines take verses completely out of context why
because no one was able to necessarily read the Bible in the Catholic Church
because it was in Latin whereas the Christians the Bible believers they're
just like queen of heaven that's a false God and you know what you know what
Mary's doing in heaven just facepalming she's just like unbelievable that she's
being just her name is just being abused to just teach false doctrine the Bible
says in first Timothy chapter 5 chapter 2 excuse me go to Acts chapter 17 first
Timothy 2 5 says for there's one God and one mediator between God and man the man
Christ Jesus who gave himself a ransom for all to be testified in due time I
don't have time to read it but you can write this down Matthew 12 verse 48
explain who his mother and his brethren are and you know what she's not a
perpetual virgin either after Jesus Christ was born Joseph went in unto her
and they had more children after that in fact James who is a prominent
character in the book of Acts who pastored the church at Jerusalem is his
half brother look well back in those days they would just call people their
brother it says it was his literal brethren though here's a verse to
summarize the Catholics okay look at Acts 17 verse 22 then Paul stood in the
midst of Mars Hills and said he men of Athens I perceive that in all things you
are too superstitious you know when you think of Catholics it's just like you
guys are just way too superstitious you know you think holy water could save you
you think the indulgences can save you you think may doing penance can save you
you think Jesus Christ flesh and his blood is going into your body when you
eat the cracker and and the wine you think that like these priests are you
know the Bible claims that they had their day they shouldn't marry stay
celibate all the days of their life you think that there's a purgatory I mean
it's just like you guys are too superstitious you think that there's no
salvation outside of the Catholic Church ye are too superstitious but let me just
close with this as as wicked and as vile as the Catholic Church is you know we
still got to get them safe amen and we still got to preach the gospel to them
they are still savable now I have zero interest in preaching the gospel to a
priest to a bishop or to the Pope I hope they get what's coming to them and they
are they denied the Lord God that bought them okay they're the reason why you
know the way of truth is being evil spoken of because in America when people
talk about Christianity Catholicism is lumped into that but at the end of the
day we need to get Catholic saved we need to give them the gospel get them
saved and and and show them hey you don't have to pay for your sins Jesus
Christ has already paid for it once and for all let's pray father we thank you
so much for your word Lord thank you for the clarity and thank you for the fact
that the Catholic religion is theology is so blatantly stupid that we can
simply just point to just simple verses in the Bible to refute it and and if
anybody doesn't like this essentially what they're saying is they just don't
agree with the goat with the Word of God our authority is God's Word it's not
some encyclopedia it's not some council it's not bishops popes or deacons it's
the Bible and so I pray and ask that you'd help us Lord to keep that as the
final authority in our lives and that we may win hundreds of thousands of
Catholics to you Lord we love you we thank you pray these things in Jesus
name amen
amen song number 336 constantly abiding song for 336 song number 336 as our
last song song number 336 singing on that first verse there's a peace in my
heart that the world never gave a piece it can not take
though the trials of life may surround my god cloud I've a piece that has come
there to stay
Oh simply abiding Jesus is my constantly abiding rapture divine
never leaves me lonely whispers are so kind never leave Jesus is all the world
seemed to see of a Savior and King when peace came to my heart troubles all fled
away and my night turned to day blessed Jesus
still the abiding Jesus is mine
cause in the abiding rapture divine he never leaves me lonely whispers are so
God Jesus is this treasure I have in a temple of clay well here on his foot
stole my body's coming to take me some glorious day over there to my
Oh
the abiding Jesus is my
still the abiding rapture divine he never leaves me lonely
whispers are so high I will never leave thee Jesus is my
amen wonderful singing you are dismissed