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Welcome to First Works Bath and Church, you could go in and please stand with me turn the song number
262
262 the light of the world is Jesus
The light of the world is Jesus song number 262
On that first verse the whole world was lost in the darkness of sin
And that new day, this glory shone in
the light when
The light of the world is Jesus.
The wash and his bidding, the light will arise.
The light of the world is Jesus.
Come to the light, it's shining for thee.
Sweetly the light has dawned upon me.
Once I was born.
service the word of prayer. I think this wonderful and beautiful night that
you're giving us. Thank you for allowing us to be able to have the soul-winning
marathon Pomona and the people to God save Lord. That's awesome and amazing.
Be able to come back and hear your word preach. I do pray for your Holy Spirit
upon the preacher and may our singing glorify you. We love you in Jesus' name.
Amen. Song number 237, The Cleansing Wave.
song number 237 the cleansing wave on the first verse oh now I see the crimson
wave the fountain deep and wide Jesus my lord mighty to say points to his wounded
side the cleansing stream I see I see I plunge in
rise. I hear the speaking blood. It speaks polluted nature dies. Six feet of cleansing
flood. The cleansing stream I see, I see. I plunge in. Oh, it cleanses me. Oh, praise
rise to walk in Heaven's own life above the world and sin.
With heart made pure and garments white,
and Christ is thrown within.
The cleansing stream I see, I see.
I plunge in, oh, it cleanses me.
Oh, praise the Lord, it cleanses me.
only Jesus know my Jesus crucified the cleansing stream I see I see high
plunge in oh it cleansed me oh praise the Lord it cleansed me it cleansed me
yes cleansed me great singing
All right, great singing.
Welcome to First Works Baptist Church.
Just a few announcements here
before we see our next song,
which will be They That Wait on the Lord.
The handout, if you did not get a handout,
go ahead and raise your hand.
One of the others can get one for you.
Of course, we welcome you to come back
to our Thursday evening service.
at 7 p.m. That's our Bible study as we continue with the book of John. We will be in chapter 2
this coming Thursday. You have the soul winning times and teams listed there in the middle,
the list of expecting mothers if you can keep them in prayer. Stats for Salvation and Baptisms
for the month of June. Great month there and on the right hand side is the upcoming church events.
We had our soul winning marathon this afternoon. Great afternoon and it was a total of 24
And brother Lucas got his first salvation today. Amen. That was exciting
It was great, so I was excited to hear that news. It's always great when a
Person gets their first salvation. Amen. And so praise God for that. And then we have the TJ mission strip coming up on Saturday, July 26th
Leaving the building at 9 15 a.m. You can coordinate with brother Hernandez for more details beach bonfire will be on Friday August 1st
And then the ladies prayer breakfast is on Saturday August 9th meeting at the building at 10 a.m. Now
We didn't have anything planned for next Sunday
but someone is going to cater Mediterranean food next Sunday night. Amen. And so don't
miss next Sunday night. Someone's going to be catering that in for us. And so we're excited
about that as well. Please make sure you silence your phones during the preaching so as to not
be a distraction during the service. And that is it for our announcements. Go ahead and pull out
the sheet there. Data, wait upon the board.
We will sing it's one verse we'll sing it twice on that first
they that wait upon the lord shall renew their strafe they should mount up with wings as he
They should run and not be weary.
They should walk and not bathe.
Teach me, Lord, teach me, Lord, to wait.
They that wait upon the Lord shall renew.
They should mount up with wings as eagles.
They should run and not be weary.
They should walk and not faint.
As the ushers come forward for the offering, please turn your bibles to Matthew chapter 1.
Matthew chapter 1.
Good evening. Tonight we're in Matthew chapter one. Matthew chapter one, the Bible reads,
the book of the generation of Jesus Christ, the son of David, the son of Abraham.
Abraham begat Isaac, and Isaac begat Jacob, and Jacob begat Judas and his brethren,
and Judas begat Phares and Zara of Tamar, and Phares begat Ezra, and Ezra begat Aram.
And Aaron begat Aminadab, and Aminadab begat Nathason, and Ahason begat Salmon, and Salmon begat Bose, of Rakhab, and Bose begat Obed of Ruth, and Obed begat Jesse, and Jesse begat David the King, and David the King begat Solomon, of her, that had been the wife of Uriahus.
And Solomon begat Roboam, and Roboam begat Abaya, and Abaya begat Asa.
And Asa begat Josephat, and Josephat began Joram, and Joram begat Osaius.
And Osaius begat Jorotham, and Jorotham begat Achaz, and Achaz begat Ezekaius.
And Ezekaius begat Manassas, and Manassas begat Ammon, and Ammon begat Josaius.
And Josaius begat Jechanius, and his brethren, about the time they were carried away to Babylon.
And after they were brought to Babylon, Jechiniah's begat Salatheel, and Salatheel begat Zerobabel,
and Zerobabel begat Abaihud, and Abaihud begat Eliakim, and Eliakim begat Azor, and Azor begat Zadok,
and Zadok begat Akim, and Akim begat Eliahud, and Eliahud begat Eleazar, and Eleazar begat Mathan,
and Mathan begat Jacob, and Jacob begat Joseph, the husband of Mary, whom was born Jesus, who was called Christ.
So all the generations from Abraham to David are 14 generations, from David until the carrying away into Babylon are 14 generations.
From the carrying away into Babylon unto Christ are 14 generations.
Now the birth of Jesus Christ was on this wise, when as his mother Mary was espoused to Joseph, before they came together, she was found with child of the Holy Ghost.
Then Joseph, her husband, being a just man, and not willing to make her a public example,
was minded to put her away privily.
But while he thought on these things, behold, the angel of the Lord appeared unto him in a dream,
saying, Joseph, thou son of David, fear not to take unto thee, marry thy wife,
for that which is conceived in her is of the Holy Ghost.
And she shall bring forth the Son, and thou shall call his name Jesus,
for he shall save his people from their sins.
Now all this was done, that it might be fulfilled, which was spoken of the Lord by the prophet, saying,
Behold, a virgin shall be with child, and shall bring forth a son,
and they shall call his name Immanuel, which being interpreted is God with us.
Then Joseph, being raised from sleep, did as the angel of the Lord had bitten him, and took unto him his wife,
and knew her not until she had brought forth her firstborn son, and he called his name Jesus.
Let's pray dear Lord God just thank you for your word Lord and all the truths that we find in it Lord
And we thank you for pastor and pray that you bless him right now Lord and fill him with the Holy Spirit as he preaches
Under us your word Lord. We pray this all in Jesus name. Amen. Amen
All right, we're in Matthew chapter one this evening.
The time of my sermon tonight is heresies about Mary,
heresies about Mary.
And of course, I'm specifically referring
to the heresies that are put forth
by the Eastern Orthodox Church
and namely the Roman Catholic Church
and their teachings about Mariology,
their worship and veneration of Mary.
A lot of the unbiblical things that they talk about
when it comes to the subject
or the biblical character of Mary.
It says in chapter one of verse 16
and Jacob Begat Joseph, the husband of Mary,
of whom was born Jesus, who is called...
Christ. Now let me start off by saying that Mary is a prominent character in the Bible and in fact
we would say we love Mary, right? She was a sister in Christ. She was used mightily of God
to give birth to the Lord Jesus Christ. She was a godly woman well-favored as the Bible puts it
and a great example for future Christians that want to be like a godly woman like Mary and we know
but at the end of the day Mary was a sinner like everyone else okay and yes
she was used to give birth to the Lord Jesus Christ but it stops there because
at the end of the day even she needed to be saved she had to believe on her own
son for salvation she does not get a free pass
just because she gave birth to the Christ,
and she doesn't get a free pass into heaven.
She doesn't get a free pass as being sinless.
She was a corruptible human being
like everyone else in this world.
And so we wanna make sure that we have a biblical perspective
on this character, Mary,
and never place her on a pedestal
like the Roman Catholics do.
Now this is important because, you know,
there's a major trend right now on social media
where a lot of Gen Zers, a lot of young people
persuaded into going into the Roman Catholic Church and convert into Catholicism and believing
all this nonsense that the Roman Catholic Church teaches.
And this is a major talking point amongst Catholics and Christians is the subject of
Mary.
Now, the funny thing is, is that Mary is in heaven right now.
and you know we don't really know if she even knows that there's this entire
myriad of false doctrines that are being taught using her as the subject matter right now obviously
people are dying and saying hey you know just want to let you know that this is a religion
called Roman Catholicism and they worship you down there she's probably like what in the world
because obviously it's very unbiblical what they do and at the end of the day they place her almost
on the same pedestal as Jesus Christ,
and in some instances even higher than Jesus Christ.
And in fact, I'll never forget the day
that I was at my old church
and we were serving in the bus ministry
and we're going soul-winning in these neighborhoods
in Wilmington.
And I remember I was going so many with my bus captain
and we knocked on the door.
My bus captain began to witness to this guy
and he said that he was a Roman Catholic
and he was a staunch Roman Catholic.
And you know, this is what we believe about Mary
and this is what we believe that the Bible says
and she's sinless and all this other nonsense.
So my, you know, my bus captain has just given him scripture
and he's showing him like, hey, Jesus Christ
is the way, the truth and the life.
He's the one that died on the cross to pay for your sins.
And he's just like, no, we believe that Mary is sinless as well, blah, blah, blah.
So, you know, they keep going back and forth in the subject of Mary.
And, you know, he's like, I think you guys do a disservice, not worshiping or venerating Mary, you know.
He's like, you guys aren't good Christians if you don't, you know, pray to Mary because she is the mother of God, you know.
And, you know, my bus captain said, you know, there's a story in the Bible where Jesus rebukes his brother, Mary, you know, and he, you know, there's obviously you have the wedding at Cana of Galilee where he says, hey, woman, right?
But then there's other instances where he talks to both of his, or he talks to Mary and his stepfather, and, you know, he answers them sharply.
He said, absolutely, because he shouldn't have talked about that regarding Mary the mother of God.
And at that point my bus captain was like, all right, well, the conversation is over, you know, how do you even move on from that?
How can we even have a conversation when you literally believe you worship Mary so much
that you literally are willing to say that Jesus Christ sinned by rebuking his own mother?
I mean, it's absolute nonsense. It's heretical. It's crazy.
Okay, but we obviously see that the Bible does teach a lot about Mary.
Not a whole lot, but a good amount for us to extrapolate principles from her life.
The Bible says in Luke chapter 1, you don't have to turn there, go to John chapter 1 if you would.
Luke chapter 1 verse 46 says, and Mary said,
My soul doth magnify the Lord, not the other way around.
And my spirit hath rejoiced in God, my Savior.
For he hath regarded the lowest state of his handmaiden, for behold, from henceforth all generations shall call me blessed."
And truly, we have called Mary blessed, because again, she was used greatly of God to give birth to the Christ,
but at the end of the day, let's just be honest, Jesus or God could have used anybody to bring Jesus Christ into this world.
Okay.
The miracle is not necessarily that he chose Mary the miracle is that the word of God was made flesh and dwelt among us
That's the miracle now look folks
You know I give you that example of that of my bus captain talking to that Catholic about that
But you know Catholics today do the same exact thing
You have this one Catholic who's you know found that to be a pervert now a big surprise
You know he had a video about it two months ago or something like that where he's like talking
He's like when I get to heaven. He's I just really hope that you know when Jesus comes up to me
He just said you know my mom talked a lot about you
You know he doesn't want to hear well done thou good and faithful servant
He doesn't want to hear anything about Jesus. He wants to hear Jesus say you know my mom talked a lot about you
What kind of nonsense is that?
And he's like crying and what not.
And it's just like, it's an absolute joke.
And you know, Catholics eat that up with fork and spoon.
Oh man, that's so golly.
No, it's absolute idolatry.
It's embarrassing.
And it's not biblical at all.
It's not Christianity.
And you know, I've come to the conclusion
that obviously Catholics are either delusional.
Their major liars are just both, okay?
And I'm talking about these online Catholics.
I'll be honest with you, I would put Catholics into two camps.
One can't be the social media apologetic type Catholics who are very hard into the Gospel.
They want to believe a lie.
You can show them clear scriptures.
If anybody's ever had a conversation with these Catholics online, you've left that conversation
very frustrated.
Angered because of the fact that they just ignore what the Bible literally says
and they're willing to believe the traditions of man more than anything else.
They try to gaslight you, they're very manipulative
and they're very stubborn and arrogant people online.
That's one category, but then the other category is the people we just want to Christ a little over an hour ago.
Right? These are the people who are Catholics, but they're not really hardcore Catholics.
They believe in the Bible, and quite frankly, the vast majority of them don't even agree with everything that the Roman Catholic Church teaches.
And I've had a lot of Catholics after I want them to cry say, you know, I don't even agree with a lot of stuff that the Roman Catholic Church does.
I don't believe in praying to saints. I don't believe in praying to Mary.
We just kind of go along with it because my grandma was Catholic.
It's more like they're Catholic just because that's part of their culture.
They don't really have a strong conviction about being a Catholic.
They're just Catholic because their family was Catholic, their grandmother was Catholic.
They were raised in a Catholic home.
Something like you guys were, right?
I was raised in a Catholic home.
I considered myself to be Catholic at one point.
I went to a Roman Catholic school.
But quite frankly, there was no deep conviction about it.
I didn't agree with a lot that was going on in there.
and that's pretty much the vast majority of Roman Catholics.
This is why it's important for us not to waste our time
with the so-called apologist online
and invest more time on the low hanging fruit
door to door witnessing to the Catholics out there.
And you know, I tell this to Catholics online all the time and they hate, they're like,
oh, why don't you just debate?
Why don't you just debate? Why would I debate you if I'm not going to win you over?
Why would I debate you if the Bible specifically says
that you're a heretic since you're not receiving the first and second admonition?
Bible commands me to go to people who are receptive to the gospel and so yeah
You know the online Catholics might be winning over Protestants to their Roman Catholic religion and people are converting to Roman Catholicism
But at the end of the day many of them are not even safe to begin with
There's no one who is saved who becomes a Roman Catholic. It doesn't exist and if someone who claims to be saved
Converts to be in a Roman Catholic to go back home to mama or whatever they want to call it
Just mark it down that person was never safe to begin with they are what the Bible considers to be a Judas who did not believe from the beginning
They believed in vain. They have apostasized. That is literally what's taking place. Okay
But you know if you're online you see this stuff a lot
And you see a lot of the young generation, Gen Z,
just loving the Roman Catholic church, the ortho church,
and buying an internet hook, lion and sinker,
and using a lot of the same talking points with,
and I'm talking about not just on Instagram, on X as well,
to a lesser degree on YouTube, and what's that,
boomer app, oh yeah, Facebook, okay.
You know, you see a lot, but mainly it is on X.
And on Instagram, do you see a lot of this stuff taking place?
Okay, so let's get into it.
I'm going to give you four heresies that the Roman Catholic Church teaches regarding Mary.
Heresy number one is that Mary is the mother of God.
Now, here's the thing, folks, is that obviously.
If you were to look at who Mary is and Jesus is, and because Mary gave birth to Jesus, and because Jesus is God,
technically you can say that Mary is the mother of God, right?
We can come to that conclusion, but let's just be honest, that's not necessarily what they mean, okay?
Now let me give you a couple things here before we get into the scripture.
If you have talked to anybody online regarding this particular point,
They'll often say, oh, so you are a Nestorian, right?
This is what they often say.
This is their accusation against us.
And the Nestorian heresy is the belief that asserts
that there was a disunity of the divine nature
of Jesus Christ and the human nature of Jesus Christ.
You say, what does that mean?
Well, let me put it to you in new IFP terms,
a God par and a human par, okay?
Nestorian heresy is what, what's that guy's name?
Manly Perry believed he believed that Jesus Christ that there is a God part, but there's also a human part
So when Jesus Christ died because God can't die
You know it was the huge that the human part died, but God part did not die. No when Jesus Christ died he died
Okay, and yes, God died. It's not unbiblical to say that God died
2000 years ago when he was crucified on the cross that is a very biblical statement
The Nestorian heresy is the belief that there's a disunity within the nature of Christ and the human nature of Jesus Christ as well.
The correct description of the nature of Christ is that the Bible teaches that he is a hundred percent man and a hundred percent God.
He's a hundred percent man, a hundred percent God.
Here is a biblical way to explain it.
The Word of God was made flesh and yet he still retained, listen to this, his divinity.
So, just because he was made flesh and dwelt among us and subjected himself under the same
limitations that man had, he did not, you know, forego his divine nature.
He was still God.
Okay?
100% God, 100% man.
So you have this Nestorian heresy that came about.
So then you have what's known as the council at Ephesus, and I'm not for these councils
I'm not for the church fathers you understand my position on that
I'm just kind of telling you where this is coming from the council at Ephesus stated
In response to the Nestorian heresy, he says not that the nature of the word or his divinity received the beginning of its existence from Mary,
but the whole body, the holy body, animated by a rational soul which the word of God united to himself was born from Mary.
So they came up with this phrase theotokos, which is Greek for God-bearer.
And they said, Mary was the God-bearer.
And when they explain or expound it upon, what does that mean?
They're basically saying it means that Mary gave birth to the Christ.
So it's a basically, it's a complicated way of explaining that the Word of God, the incarnation of Christ, okay?
So, in AD 451, the Council of Calcedon declared that Mary was that God-bearer, okay?
Clarifying that it had nothing to do with his divinity,
but simply referring to the fact that Mary gave birth to the humanity of Jesus Christ.
And when we think about that, we're like, okay, that makes sense, right?
She did give birth to the humanity of Jesus Christ.
The Word of God was made flesh in the womb of Mary.
That's 100% accurate, right?
This is true.
So if we were to take the original definition of Theotokos as Mary being the mother of God,
meaning that she bore the humanity of Jesus Christ, then that would be correct.
Because it's a term to describe the incarnation.
However, because Mary, the mother of God, isn't explicitly mentioned in the Bible, we shouldn't use it!
Right because that's not necessarily a title given by God to Mary
It's not a theological term that we find in the word of God number one. We shouldn't use it, okay?
Because it will confuse people but secondly the reason why we shouldn't use it is because people have used this for them for hundreds of years as
an excuse to venerate and worship Mary
So even though this was
proposed in the beginning as a means to describe the fact that Mary bore the humanity of Jesus Christ in her womb,
basically saying that, you know, it started off with good intentions,
the result of allowing this term to kind of flourish within Christianity and Catholicism as Mary being the mother of God
is not pushing people to worship Jesus Christ.
It's pushing people to worship Mary.
Okay?
It's become rank idolatry.
you know, it evolved from focusing on the incarnation of Jesus to the veneration of Mary, all right?
And of course, it's made way for a myriad of false doctrines concerning Mary to the point that, again, she's placed on the same pedestal as the Godhead.
And so, we don't say that Mary is the mother of God, because at the end of the day, you know, to say that Mary is the mother of God would also imply that she's the originator of God.
But God is from everlasting. How can Mary be the originator of God if God there is no
Beginning with God you understand he has always been he is the I am that I am she is the originator of the Christ
Right the word of God that was made flesh who was birthed through her womb
And look when you talk to people about this and like hey for you to say that mother that Mary is the mother of God is idolatry
This is what they respond. Why do you hate the mother of God?
Have you ever heard that people always say they're like hey, why do you hate the mother of God? You know I?
Hate your false God okay, and Mary agrees with me
You know Mary is not the originator of God
God pre-existed, Mary, God pre-existed, everything, okay?
Now look at John chapter one, verse number one.
It says, in the beginning was the word
and the word was with God and the word was God.
Now the word is referring to Jesus Christ.
And it says here that he was with God.
He is God and it says in verse number two the same was in the beginning with God
All things were made by him and without him was not anything made that was made
Showing us that he pre-exists everything including Mary herself look at verse 14
The word was made flesh and dwelt among us and we beheld this glory as of the glory of the only begotten of the father
And I want you to notice this full of grace and truth now
I'll cover this later, but you know what they have this heresy of what hail Mary full of grace
But you won't find that verse in the Bible.
Who do we find full of grace?
Jesus is full of grace according to the Bible.
Go to Jeremiah chapter 7 Jeremiah chapter 7 the Bible also says in Colossians 1 17
And he is before all things and by by him all things
Consists Micah 5 to says but thou Bethlehem Ephrata
Though thou be little among the thousands of Judah yet out of these shall he come forth unto me that is to be ruler in Israel
Whose goings forth have been from of old from everlasting implying that Jesus Christ
God the Father and the Holy Spirit, their origins, they don't really have origins, they are from everlasting, they're from eternity past, is what we would say, okay?
They've always existed, Mary did not bring God into existence, she brought the Word of God that was made flesh through her womb, okay?
Now, what's another heresy that is a result of this teaching?
Well, how about this? They literally say that Mary, now brace yourself, is the Queen of Heaven.
And look folks, it's almost like it's a joke sometimes.
When you look at what Roman Catholics believe,
you can literally just scour the Bible
and see that everything they believe
is against everything that's clearly stated
in the Word of God.
And it's almost as if they're intentionally
making a mockery of the Bible, right?
Because like, you would think that if you're a false prophet,
You want to stray away from actual statements in the Bible that talk about false prophets and devils and demons
and not associate yourself with that in order to deceive people,
but they literally call Mary the Queen of Heaven.
You say, what's the big deal with that?
Look at Jeremiah 7, 18.
The children gather wood and the fathers kindle the fire
and the women need their dough to make cakes to the Queen of Heaven
and to pour out drink offerings unto other gods that they may provoke me to anger.
So, literally, he's just like, no, Mary is the Queen of Heaven because Jesus Christ is the King.
Therefore, his mother is the Queen.
Folks, the Queen of Heaven in the Bible is a false God.
But they try to manipulate, gaslight their audience into thinking,
no, it's not the same thing.
She's just the Queen of Heaven because Jesus Christ is the King.
Wrong. Not in the Bible.
And look, folks, this is why Catholics, whenever you talk to a Catholic,
they don't want to just talk about the Bible.
In order for them to make a substantial argument regarding their doctrines, they need their traditions.
They need them.
The magisterium and the traditions in conjunction with the Bible. Why? Because the Bible is completely against what they believe.
Completely against what they teach.
They cannot argue with you. They cannot debate you only using the Bible.
Why? Because the Bible literally goes against what they say, and they'll admit to you,
oh yeah, this concept is not really found in the Bible.
But if you search the traditions, the traditions,
and because we gave you the Bible, you should listen to our interpretation of the Bible.
Why would I listen to your interpretation if your interpretation is heresy?
And look, folks, you know, certain things in the Bible have to be interpreted, right?
Like we have to interpret it, comparing scripture with scripture, but would you agree that there
are certain things in the Bible that don't need interpretation?
It's just like clearly said, right?
He that believed in the Son hath everlasting life.
I talked to a Catholic today, okay, and she ended up getting saved.
And I said this, you know, I said, interpret this verse for me.
John 3 36 he that believe it was on the Sun hath everlasting life
He that believe it's not the Sun shall not see life, but the wrath of God abideth in him
Can you please interpret that for me? She's like it means that if you're not if you don't believe on Jesus Christ, you're going to hell
Got it and what happens if you do believe all it means you have everlasting life
Yeah, yeah, it's pretty much it you don't need a theological degree
You for sure don't need the traditions of the Roman Catholic Church to interpret that verse
Because even the babes understand, right?
The young babes in Christ can understand what the Bible means by that.
And so, here we see that the Queen of Heaven,
according to Jeremiah 7, 18 is a false God,
yet they have no problem giving that title and that label to Mary,
which is outright rank heresy, okay?
Not only that, go to 1 Timothy 2, if you would, 1 Timothy 2.
Now let me just say this a lot of what they teach about Mary is simply things that they're inferring into the passage
What I mean by that well the Bible doesn't say that she's the Queen of heaven
But they're inferring that based upon the fact that her earthly son Jesus is the king
So it's like, oh, well, because the Bible says that Jesus is the king, ergo, she must be the queen.
Even though the Bible doesn't say that, they're kind of putting that into the text and coming to that conclusion,
not because the Bible says it, but because they're actually putting it into the Bible, okay?
It's just like, where's purgatory? Well, the Bible doesn't talk about purgatory,
but if you take these verses and these scriptures, obviously purgatory must exist.
It's just like, if it doesn't say it, don't infer it into it.
Now, here's another example of this.
They say, well, because Mary is the mother of God, that would have to mean that Mary is
the co-redemptrix, the co-mediator.
In other words, because Mary is the mother of Jesus who is God, therefore, she also participates
in the redemption of all mankind, meaning you need Mary to be saved.
No, does the Bible teach that?
No.
Is there any clear statement of the Bible in that regard?
Absolutely not.
Where did they get it from?
They inferred into the text based upon, well, her son is Jesus, Jesus is the Redeemer, therefore
the mother also must be a Redeemer as well.
It's a crazy conclusion, but that's what they believe.
So she aids in the redemption of the loss with Jesus Christ.
Grace is only granted by Jesus through Mary, according to them, and prayers have to go
Now this is something you see a lot too
Well, they'll say yeah, well, you know, if you really want to get to the Sun
Right, you got to get to the bomb
and
Nowhere in the Bible does it say this because you can ask people like you know
Why do you pray to saints or to Mary if there's literally no example in the Bible of?
Anybody in the New Testament praying to anybody in heaven
We have examples of saints in heaven praying for themselves
Under the altar, the souls of them that were slain for the word of God and for the testimony which they held.
But there's zero examples of anybody on earth as a believer praying to saints.
And I had this one guy, the same predator, say this,
Well, you know, the Bible does say that we should make intercessions for all men.
And that's literally their text verse,
to justify praying to saints, praying to Mary.
It's like, oh man, I didn't think about that.
Yeah, make intercessions for all men.
That means we should pray to saints.
But hold on a second, if that were true,
then why don't we see that in the Bible?
Why don't we see the disciples and the apostles
and believers making prayers and intercessions to the saints?
I'll tell you why, cause it doesn't exist.
Look at 1 Timothy 2 verse 5 says for there is one God and two mediators
There's one God and one mediator between God and men the man Christ Jesus
Well, I could see how you could come to that conclusion based upon that verse
But really if you really think about it, you know because she's the mother of God
Therefore you actually do need to think about it, bro
Bro, think about bro, please
Think about it if you want to get to the Sun if you want if you if you want your best friend to come out and play
You got to ask mom
You got to go through the mom first
You know, that's a great example. Wait. No, that's not a great example. That's a stupid example
That's a stupid. That's a stupid illustration to use
And it's not found in the Word of God
The only examples we want to use are those that coincide with clear scriptures in the Bible
And the Bible tells us that neither is there salvation in any other
For there is none other name under heaven given among men, whereby we must be saved.
So how can we say that we need Mary as a redeemer, that she redeems the world along with Jesus
Christ when the Bible literally says that there is no other name, whereby we must be
saved.
Mary is not a name that you need to be saved.
And this is why they also give this caveat because they'll ask like, hey, do you think
non-Catholics will go to heaven?
And they'll say, if they do, it's because of the Roman Catholic Church.
So it's just like, so why even become a Catholic then?
Oh cool, I don't have to become a Catholic then.
You know?
But the reason they have to say this
is because the beliefs of the Roman Catholic Church
are so stupid that anybody with two brain cells
to rub together can see through the nonsense
and the fluff and all the heresy.
And look, I've had unsafe people tell me why
they don't agree with the Catholic Church doctrinally
and they're spot on, they're not even saved.
Cause it doesn't take much to see why they're wrong, right?
And so to them, she is the co-redemptrix, the co-mediatrix, you know, but at the end of the day there is only one mediator and that is Jesus Christ.
So when you look at what Roman Catholics believe about Mary being the mother of God, you see a lot of it is propped up in order to replace Jesus, right?
A lot of it is meant to devalue Jesus Christ and elevate Mary.
Why? Because they're idolaters, that's why. That's what idolaters do.
And so heresy number one is that she's the mother of God.
And I don't think we should use that phrase.
I do not believe we should use that phrase.
You know, that's their little checkmate.
Oh, do you believe Jesus is God?
Yes.
Okay, then you would have to concede to the fact
that Mary gave birth to God.
No, I don't have to concede to that
because God would also include God the Father
and God the Holy Spirit.
So are you saying that Mary gave birth to God the Father?
Are you saying that Mary gave birth
to God the Holy Spirit?
No.
So the accurate assessment would be that Mary gave birth to the Christ
When the word of God was made flesh because that is accurate
Christ don't don't go so whatever you call it
That would be the accurate statement to put forth to say that she gave birth to Jesus Christ in the flesh
She did not give birth to the Godhead because if you're gonna say God you have to include God the father and God the son
Or God the Holy Spirit because it's the Trinity that we're referring to here. Okay?
And so do not say that Mary is the mother of God.
I just say Mary is the mother of Jesus, right?
And she gave birth to Jesus Christ.
That's how the word of God was made flesh.
Turn with me if you would to, let's see here,
go to Romans chapter three, Romans chapter three.
So heresy number one regarding Mary
is that she is the mother of God.
And although
The inception of that phrase started off with fighting off another heresy,
known as the Nestorian heresy, at the end of the day it ended up evolving into
a devaluing of the incarnation of Christ and becoming the veneration and worship of Mary,
which is more heresy.
So they can say, well, no, no, we're not talking about that, we're just talking about the incarnation of Christ.
Yeah, then why do so many of you worship Mary?
You know, you have these statutes, you're bowing down to her, you're violating Exodus
chapter 20, you're treating her as a god, okay?
Heresy number two, immaculate conception.
What is that?
We're not talking about the immaculate conception of Jesus.
The Roman Catholic Church teaches, because immaculate conception means sinless conception.
Because Jesus was sinless, right?
Is sinless?
We're talking about the belief that Mary is sinless.
This is a doctrine within the Roman Catholic Church
about Mary is that she was born without sin,
which is absolutely absurd.
Now, is this somewhere in the, is there a verse?
Is there even a verse that they can twist?
Is there even something that maybe they can,
you know, rest a little bit?
Nothing, there's nothing like that in the Bible.
There's more against that teaching than there is something that could even hint at a particular heresy because you and I both know
There's certain verses in the Bible. This is like yeah a false prophet can twist this to mean something else
You know work out your own salvation with fear and trembling
You can see how a false prophet would use that to teach a workspace salvation, but there's absolutely nothing
To even hint at or indicate that Mary it was immaculate sinless without flaw. Okay
And this is the argument that they'll say,
because you kind of come to me like,
do you seriously believe this?
And this is what they respond with,
show me a verse in the Bible
where it says that Mary was a sinner.
That's their go-to, I promise you this.
Like, oh yeah, show me a verse.
Because you know, they're all,
we're all about, they know that we're all about,
hey, what does the Bible say?
So they're just like, well show me a verse then
that says that Mary was a sinner.
Which is an absolute stupid conclusion and argument because I could say well show me a verse in the Bible
This is Daniel was a sinner
Show me a verse in the Bible where Joseph was a sinner
But they would come to the conclusion that these men were sinners
But we if we were to use their same logic their same argument
We can conclude that those men were also immaculate
Because the Bible doesn't say that they're sinners see what kind of stupidity is out there in this regard
And this is what they'll say, and it's a super cheesy thing
that they like to put forth regarding Mary.
They'll say, you know, Mary was the second ark
of the covenant, who carried the author of the New Testament.
She said, you have the ark of the covenant
of the Old Testament that had the tablets of stone
and the bread and errands wrought.
Well, in the New Testament, Mary was that ark
who carried the author of the New Testament.
Yeah, real romantic, but it's not biblical at all
Okay, Mary was a woman who had a womb that God used
To birth the Christ, but you know what? No one in the Bible does it call her the Ark?
It's weird
Did anybody carry her? You know anybody died when they touched her?
It's like nonsense and here's the text verse that they'll use to try to teach Immaculate Conception
Genesis 3 verse 15 let me read it to you says I will put enmity
Between thee and the woman, and between thy seed and her seed, it shall bruise thy head, and thou shall bruise his heel."
So if you ask them for scriptural evidence as to why they believe in the Immaculate Conception of Mary,
they'll point to Genesis 3.15 and say, it's right there.
And she'll say, wait, hold on, I was like, what?
And when they explain how is it that Genesis 3.15 teaches the Immaculate Conception of Mary, this is what they'll say.
Because the conflict is between the serpent and the woman, which is Mary,
And because that conflict is the same conflict between the serpent and the seed, which is Jesus, ergo, Mary must have been as sinless as Jesus.
So because the serpent is fighting against the seed, which is Jesus, and we know that he's sinless.
And because the verse also says that the serpent is fighting against the woman, which we know to be Mary.
Oh, the reasonable conclusion, of course.
is that Mary must be immaculate and sinless as well.
Because Satan is fighting against a woman
as she's fighting against the seed.
But hold on a second.
Revelation chapter 12 also says
that Satan goes after the seed
referring to Christians as well.
Are we sinless?
Absolutely not.
It's nonsense. Okay, and again, they talk about Hail Mary full of grace and they'll point to Luke 1
28 as a proof text to say this, but it doesn't say anything in that regard just says that she's highly favored
I mean folks know I found grace in the eyes of the Lord
Doesn't mean he was sinless means he was a righteous person
Okay, and John 1 14 specifically tells us that Jesus was full of grace and truth
Look at Romans 3 verse 10 now our text verse to prove that Mary was a sinner that she wasn't immaculate is
The general description that God gives for all of humanity with no exceptions other than Jesus Christ who is God
Romans 3 10 says as it is written there is none righteous no not one except for Mary of course
There is none that understand it of course except for Mary there is none that seek it after God of course except for Mary
They're all gone out of the way. There are together become unprofitable unprofitable
There is none that do with good no not one of course except Mary no exceptions here look at verse 23
For all have sin and come short of the glory of God and yes all really means on includes Mary
Go to chapter 5 if you would chapter 5
So, heresy number one is this belief that Mary is the mother of God, essentially implying
that Mary has the same divinity divine status as Jesus Christ because she bore the Christ.
The second heresy is that the immaculate conception asserting that Mary is sinless because she
bore the Christ.
But we see that that's not, that doesn't jive with Scripture.
Look at Romans chapter 5 verse 14, it says,
Nevertheless, death reigned from Adam to Moses,
even over them that had not sinned after the similitude of Adam's transgression,
who was the figure of him that was to come.
But not as the offense, so also as the free gift.
For if through the offense of one many be dead,
much more the grace of God and the gift by grace, which is by one man,
Jesus Christ hath abounded unto many.
Go down to verse number 19.
It says, for as by one man's disobedience, many were made sinners, so by the obedience
of one shall many be made righteous.
Moreover the law entered that the offense might abound, but were sin abounded, grace
did much more abound."
What do we see here?
We see that Adam affected all of humanity because of his sin.
We are sinners because of Adam, and guess what?
Mary comes from Adam, therefore she also inherited that sin gene.
Proof beyond a shadow of a doubt that Mary is a sinner.
She died.
Go and prove it.
Why? Because the reason we die is because we're sinners.
She had a corruptible flesh.
And look, Jesus Christ died willingly to pay for our sins.
Right?
That's what the Bible teaches.
The reason he died is because he allowed them to kill him.
And he bore the sins of the whole world, including Mary's.
That's why he died, but Mary died because she's a human being and the reason she died is because she's a sinner
Because that's what happens to sinners. They die. This is the reason we can't live forever in this corruptible flesh
Because it's subject to death that is a hundred percent proof that Mary was a sinner and that's because she died
Okay
And we see here, she is a descendant of Adam showing us that she inherited that sin gene and she cannot escape that.
Turn with me, if you would, to Matthew chapter 12, Matthew chapter 12.
We're talking about the heresies regarding Mary, that she's the mother of God, no, she's the mother of the Christ.
Immaculate conception, no, she's the sinner like everyone else who needed salvation.
And let me just say this, if Mary did not believe on her son,
she would have gone to hell.
Plain and simple, that's a fact, okay?
Heresy number three, which is the main reason
why I'm preaching this sermon tonight,
and that is the nonsensical teaching of perpetual virginity.
Because they call her the Virgin Mary.
Now obviously she was a virgin
when she had Jesus Christ.
That is the miracle, right?
But because she was married to Joseph, she did not remain a virgin
Now I don't know honestly. I personally don't know why Catholics are so hard on this
They want her to just remain a virgin
It's probably because they view the physical act between a man and a woman within marriage as being something dirty
Which is why their priests don't marry or something like that. They're really weird about that stuff
So to them, it's just like, well, she has to remain a virgin because in order for her to be pure and holy and righteous,
you know, she has to be a virgin.
But, folks, you can be married and be holy, pure and godly and well-favored in the eyes of God as well.
But they believe that after Mary had Jesus, she no longer had any children at all. Okay?
Look at Matthew. What a happy turn to you.
Matthew 12, I'm going to read to you from Matthew chapter 1 in verse 23,
And here's the key verse here, verse 25,
and knew her not.
Now, what does it mean to know her or to know her not?
That knowing is referring to the sexual act in marriage, right?
The Bible's very explicit when it comes
to this particular phrase when dealing
with married individuals.
It's talking about, it's referring to the fact
that they did not come together, okay?
He knew her not, meaning they did not come together.
He knew her not forevermore
No, it says he knew her not till now that is an important word there
Okay
Till she had brought forth her firstborn son, and he called his name Jesus. Okay, so what does the till mean?
It means that he didn't know her until
Jesus Christ came implying that after Jesus Christ came after she gave birth that not knowing her part was no longer a thing
Till is another way of saying until.
So not coming together with her
until she brought forth Jesus,
implying that after she brought forth Jesus,
he didn't know her.
Okay.
Now Catholics do lose their minds
when we bring up this verse.
But let me just make a statement here
that I rarely hear.
here being stated in defense of our position.
And that is, if Mary, if it were true
that Mary did not come together with Joseph,
after they bore Jesus, she would be sinning.
And so would Joseph.
Why?
Because it's a sin not to come together in marriage
in God's eyes.
Because the purpose of marriage is to come together and that's beautiful in God's eyes.
They would be doing wrong according to 1 Corinthians chapter 7.
She would not be rendering due benevolence to her husband,
and he would not be rendering due benevolence to his wife.
That's what the Bible teaches.
So it's like, oh, there goes your immaculate conception,
because according to the Bible, Mary and Joseph would be involved in sin
if they did not consummate the marriage and come together eventually.
Because that is the purpose of marriage and they're not the exception to be fruitful and multiply
Okay, and it literally says that people don't come together then Satan tempts you for incontinency
So the Bible says
So, you know, the Bible is against fortification, it's against adultery, but it's pro-coming
together after marriage as much as possible, you know, fulfilling the needs of the husband,
fulfilling the needs of the wife, and this is righteous in the eyes of God, okay?
It's what God intended.
The bed is undefiled, the Bible says, okay?
And so, you know, if you want to hold to that position that Mary literally remained a virgin,
From coming together with his wife. I mean, what kind of dude is Joseph? What is that? Oh?
Man, it's just crazy was Joseph the first priest or something
He's in forbidding to marry command to abstain from eats, you know
He's just it's nonsensical the Bible specifically teaches and first Corinthians 7 does not give the caveat that unless this is of course Mary and Joseph
Okay, this is for anybody who gets married.
It's wicked to abstain from the physical act
within marriage in God's eyes.
Okay, let me read to you another verse here,
John chapter seven and verse number three.
So what's the point that I'm making?
The point that I'm making is that after Jesus was born,
she did not remain a virgin
because she ended up having kids thereafter.
Okay.
And this is probably one of the most,
I mean, I think they're all crazy,
but this one just kind of blows my mind sometimes.
Specifically within recent times,
because right now in social media,
a lot of people, a lot of Catholics
are defending this right now.
You had some idiot Catholic who's like a big politician,
commentator or whatever,
saying like Jesus didn't have any siblings.
And it's just, what are you talking about?
Like the Bible literally says
that he had brothers and sisters.
Look what it says.
I'm going to read to you from John 7.
You're in Matthew 12.
John 7, verse 3 says,
His brethren therefore sent unto him, depart hence, and go into Judea, that thy disciples
also may see the works that thou doest, for there is no man to do with anything in secret,
and he himself seeketh to be known openly, if thou do these things, show thyself to the
world, for neither did his brethren believe in him.
Now, I do believe that when it says his brethren, it's referring to his brothers and sisters.
Because they would take something like, this is like, oh, you don't understand, brethren in the New Testament can refer to just like his kinsmen, those of Israel, his relatives, but this actually wouldn't fit the context.
Because previously this, he's talking to his kinsmen, right? He's talking to kinsmen who are rejecting him, he leaves and then his brethren show up thereafter and they don't believe on him.
Okay, now if that's not proof enough look at Matthew chapter 12 and verse 46
While he was while he yet talked to the people behold his mother and his brethren
Stood without desire to speak with him now
Again, who are his brethren?
I believe it's referring to his literal brothers and sisters
This can't be referring to his kinsmen because he's preaching to his kinsmen at this moment
His mother and his brethren implies that it's those who are related to him referring to his mom and brothers
It says then one said unto him behold thy mother and thy brethren stand without
Desire to speak with thee but he answered and said unto him that told him who is my mother and who are my brethren?
And he stressed forth his hands towards his disciples and said,
Behold, my mother and my brethren, for whosoever shall do the will of my father, which is in heaven,
the same as my brother and sister and mother.
So, if you want to interpret brethren to mean kinsmen, or even distant relative,
It wouldn't fit the context since his answer in verse 50 talks about brother and sister
and mother.
Now, you can say Adelphos could be referring to relatives or cousins, but you cannot say
the same thing for sister.
Sister just means sister.
Unless, of course, you're referring to a sister in Christ, okay?
Go to Matthew chapter 13.
Matthew chapter 13.
Now if I just had those two passages, I'd be sold on it. If I had Matthew chapter one is like oh until okay
You know for sure. She's not a virgin
You know what I mean? Let's say we only had Matthew one is like, okay
I can't tell you if he had brothers and sisters, but for sure for sure. She did not remain a virgin
Because Joseph, you know, he had to wait and then you know, he's not just like hey
You know, I'm cool with just having a platonic relationship or something purely platonic
But we also see that he talks about his brother sister and mother and even esteems by the way
Those who do the will of his father more than his mother and sister and brother by the way
Okay, showing us that we should not exalt Mary to some crazy divine status if Jesus Christ himself
Just completely ignored his mother and his brothers and sisters and is paying more attention to
Invested more time into those who are actually serving God
Look at Matthew 13 verse 53.
Pastor, those are his cousins.
Verse 56, and his sisters,
are they not all with us?
Whence then hath this man all these things?
Go to Mark six, Mark six.
So he says there is not his mother called Mary.
and his brethren, James and Joseph and Simon and Judas.
Now, here's the common rebuttal to this,
is they'll say, Adelphos, which is the Greek word for brother,
can also refer to cousins.
Just letting you know, you know,
kinsmen, cousins, you know, it could be referring to that,
but here's the thing, folks,
is that there's also a Greek word for cousins.
Now, I'm not going to tell you what it is, because it wouldn't mean anything to you.
But in Colossians chapter 4, it uses the term cousin, so there should be no reason why cousin
wouldn't be used in the New Testament.
Okay?
Now, how do we know that James and Joseph and Judas and Simon are referring to his actual
The son of Mary so here's the conversation that I have with someone because they said well
This is you know, it's referring to just like his kinsmen is referring to his cousins
It's more symbolic when it says brethren. It's just kind of saying like it's his brother and I said his son of Mary symbolic, too
Because you would have to within the context you have to use that same argument
If you're going to say that James, Joseph, and Simon are all just symbolically representing his brother,
then you would also have to apply the fact that him being the son of Mary is also symbolic.
But the reason it says son of Mary and it names all the brothers is because it's referring to his actual family.
Okay?
Now look at another example, verse 49, or I'm sorry, Mark 6, verse 3.
is not this the carpenter, the son of Mary, the brother of James.
So in Matthew chapter 13, it says it's not his mother called Mary and his brethren, James and Joseph, Simon and Judas,
whereas in Mark it says that he's the brother of James, not cousin, brother.
Brother of James and Joseph and of Judah and Simon and are not his sisters here with us and they were offended at him.
So, yeah, okay, you can use the brethren argument, their cousin argument, but here it actually says that that's his brother.
And you can scour the Bible all you want. Anytime you see someone being referred to as someone's brother, it's referring to their actual blood brother.
In this type of context, in this type of way, oh, that's his brother, it's referring to his actual brother.
Now, we obviously understand that this is his half-brother.
Okay, right. So by the way, if you only grew up with half brothers, you're in good company because Jesus only had half brothers
Right. I grew up with only half brothers. Go to Galatians chapter one
Galatians chapter one
I only have half brothers only half sisters, but that's okay. I'm in good company
Jesus Christ only had half brothers and half sisters now. He was the oldest obviously
And I personally believe that it's possible that James probably had some semblance of the physical features of Jesus
because they both come from the same mom.
And this is possibly why he was so esteemed at the church of Jerusalem, possibly because he looked like Jesus.
So he might have, you know, used that a little to his advantage, and he wasn't the best leader anyways.
But, you know, he got saved later on and he's probably using the fact that he's related to the Lord to push that around.
Look at Galatians 1, verse 18.
Now, I give this verse a lot to Catholics, and they always ignore it. They just never answer this.
They always bring up something else.
I'm like, can you answer this?
Can you answer it?
They just never do.
Because it's very damning to their position.
It says in verse 18, then after three years,
I went up to Jerusalem to see Peter
and abode with him 15 days.
But other of the apostles saw I none,
saved James, the Lord's brother.
Not the Lord's kinsman.
Not the Lord's family.
It just says the Lord's brother.
Now, let me point out the hypocrisy and Catholicism, if I just haven't done so already.
And that is, they'll say, this is symbolic.
And I'll tell them, I'll tell, I'll tell them this.
I say, it literally says that though.
It literally says that James is the Lord's brother.
That's literally there.
And they'll say, no, it's symbolic.
Oh yeah, but when we go to John chapter 6, where Jesus is being symbolic, somehow that's literal.
So it's funny how that works, huh?
So, you know, the guy that I was talking to, we're going back and forth and I'm just trying to show him these scriptures.
I said it literally says this, he goes, it's not literally there, it's just symbolic.
And I say, okay, so do you only believe things?
So you're saying that it literally has to say
that Jesus Christ had brothers and sisters,
they were physically, it literally has to say,
yeah, it literally has to say,
I said, so you only believe something
if it's literally in the Bible.
And he's a bull, not all the time.
And I said, oh, how convenient.
Because you know where I was going with this,
because John chapter six is something
that it is clearly symbolic,
but they take it as being literal.
Okay.
And so, you know, this should show you the stubbornness of the Roman Catholic when, in spite of the fact that the Bible...
And look, this is what they often tell me. I have literally dozens and dozens of unopened messages right now.
I'm not going to open them. They go to the phantom zone because I just see the first part.
And this is what they say. I see what you're saying.
I get how you come to that conclusion.
I get how you can get confused on this particular part.
Yeah, you're really gonna school me who's a pastor
and you're some online Catholic
who watch apologetics online or something like that.
All right, I see how you're just really confused about this.
However, you're just unsaved.
And look, folks, again, babes and sucklings.
Can interpret, save James the Lord's brother as referring to the fact that James is the brother of Jesus.
It's what it literally means. Go to 1 Corinthians 15. 1 Corinthians 15.
Why would we be against Mary having kids?
Why would we be against Jesus Christ having half brothers and sisters?
It isn't that a isn't that part of God's plan to be fruitful and to multiply and to have many?
I mean put it this way, you know, you say that Mary is so blessed. Well, wouldn't that equate having a lot of children?
Doesn't the Bible equate blessing with having a lot of children?
How is that? How is having one child a blessing?
You know, God is obviously blessing Mary because she's godly, because she's well-favored, and he's blessing Joseph
for waiting and
giving them a bunch of kids. Why not? I think that's great. I think it matches up with what the Bible actually teaches about having families.
God's original plan for mankind is to have for for for married couples to have children if it's in his will and to have many children
You know those who have a quiverful but somehow marries the exception to that. It's nonsense. Okay?
And so, it's not symbolic.
He literally had brothers and sisters.
And that doesn't take away from his divinity,
nor does it take away from the fact
that Mary is still favored,
and she was a wonderful, godly lady.
I even heard this.
They were like, well, if it was his brothers and sisters,
they're like stepbrothers.
It was from Joseph's old marriage.
I literally had someone tell me that.
Well, that's probably from his old marriage, actually.
Yeah, because he was actually married before,
but he got divorced and then he married Mary.
And he says, you won't find it in the Bible,
but that's actually in the Magisterium though.
You wanna be like Nehemiah and just like tear out the hair,
you know what I mean?
That's literally what the guy said.
I'm like, are you seriously trying to tell him,
and you think you favor Mary?
You're saying that Mary married a divorced person, right?
And that's actually sin in the Bible.
They're not even thinking about this stuff. It's like it's a sin to marry a divorced person
But you're claiming that Mary actually married a divorced person and that's where the other kids come from or something
It's like a blended family or something. It's crazy
But yes, she's still immaculate or so folks they had kids
Having kids is not a dirty thing
Having a lot of kids is not a dirty thing
You know if you look at a family they have a bunch of kids and you're like, oh, that's weird. How's that weird?
That's the byproduct of marriage
It's weird if it's weird if they don't want to have kids
That's weird
All right
Here's the last heresy and this one. I'm not gonna spend a whole lot of time on because it's pretty
Just stupid and
There's not much to say about it, but it's called the assumption of Mary
Because they value Mary so much that they want Mary to like be raptured as well
So they believe that when Mary died there her body and soul were assumed into heaven
you know and
You know of course she was assumed in perfection
Because remember she's immaculate
Which is heresy
Because let's just, let's just pretend for a second that they believe that, you know, she was assumed up into heaven in a glorified state that would be absolutely heretical.
Because look at 1 Corinthians 15-20 says, but now it's Christ risen from the dead and become the first fruits of them that slept.
Look at verse 23, but every man in his own order cries the first fruits afterward, they that are Christ at his coming. The resurrection had not passed already.
Yes, was Enoch assumed them into heaven?
Yes, was Elijah assumed them into heaven?
Absolutely.
However, they are still in their corruptible bodies.
And so to say that she died and that resurrected in perfection,
number one is a contradiction to them because
if she's perfect, she shouldn't have died.
Because if you're perfect, you can't die.
Okay, because you're sinless.
Sin is what makes the body die.
You understand?
So why does she die if she's sinless?
Number two, if you're saying she rose in incorruption, you're basically misplacing the resurrection
which actually takes place at the end of the world.
It's not yet taken place.
So this is obviously a dumb heresy
that she was assumed into heaven.
Her body went into the grave,
rotted and decomposed.
It's still in the grave today
and she shall be resurrected along with all of us
in the end times.
Mary is currently in heaven.
She's not sitting at the right hand of Jesus.
She's with every other believer worshiping Jesus.
And you know what?
And you know what? James is blessed too.
Joseph was blessed too.
I mean, folks, this is a pretty incredible thing, you know, to have your brother,
your half-brother be Jesus, the Messiah.
That's pretty incredible.
And look, James obviously didn't come to that realization until like way later.
But Joseph, you know, he came to that realization. He knew that. He was a godly man
There's nothing in the Bible that says he was an ungodly individual or anything
I believe he was a righteous person. In fact God said of Joseph that he was a righteous person
He's a righteous and just man, which is why he minded to put her away privily because he thought she had committed fornication
But even then God doesn't exalt him
You know why because at the end of the day the human vessels that God uses aren't necessarily anything all glory goes to God
And what the Roman Catholic Church is doing is committing what they do best, which is idolatry.
And so, let's believe the right doctrines about Mary.
And don't allow yourself to be carried about with every stupid wind of doctrine that's put out by the Roman Catholic Church.
The bio is pretty clear. And I've always said this, Roman Catholicism is low hanging fruit.
for those who are trying to seek to debunk these things used in the Bible because it's just so
against what the Bible actually says. Let's pray. Father, we thank you so much for your word.
Thank you for the example of Mary. Lord, we love Mary just like we love Joseph,
just like we love Elizabeth, just like we love James,
But they like us are sinners. There's nothing significant and innately special about them
You selected people in the Bible in spite of their flaws
Not because they were perfect because there's none
There's not a just man upon earth that do with good and sin if not pray that you'd help us Lord to not be carried about with
Every wind of doctrine
Help us to reinforce the right doctrines and we love you. We thank you. Pray this things in Jesus name. Amen
song number 379 bringing in the sheets song number 379
song number 379 on that first verse
sowing in the morning sowing seeds of kindness sowing in the new tide and the new weep
Waiting for the harvest and the time of reaping.
We shall come rejoicing, bringing in the sheaves.
Bringing in the sheaves, bringing in the sheaves.
We shall come rejoicing, bringing in the sheaves.
Bringing in the sheaves, bringing in the sheaves.
We shall come rejoicing, bringing in the sheaves.
sowing in the sunshine, sowing in the shadows,
hearing neither clouds nor winter's chilling breeze,
by and by the harvest and the labor's ended,
we shall come rejoicing, bringing in the sheaves,
bringing in the sheaves, bringing in the sheaves,
we shall come rejoicing, bringing in the sheaves,
bringing in the sheaths. We shall come rejoicing, bringing in the sheaths.
Going forth and weeping, sewing for the master.
our spirit of the griefs.
When the weeping's over, he will bid us welcome.
We shall come rejoicing, bringing in the sheaths,
bringing in the sheaths, bringing in the sheaths.
We shall come rejoicing, bringing in the sheaths,
bringing in the sheaths, bringing in the sheaths.
We shall come rejoicing, bringing in the sheaths.
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