Are we gleaming in colors streaming?
We're riding loving things today.
The fight is on, but be not weary.
He's stronger than his final grasp.
With God before us, he's better for us.
We'll sing the victor's song and laugh.
Sweetly, Lord, e'er we heard thee calling,
Come, follow me.
Then we see where the good friends calling
Lead us to thee.
Good friends of Jesus,
That make the path we go,
We will call the prince of Jesus,
Where e'er they go,
Though they lead o'er the cold,
Dark mountains seeking his sheep.
Lord, along thy soul comes mountains
Helping the weak.
Good friends of Jesus,
That make the path we go,
We will call the prince of Jesus,
Where e'er they go,
Though they lead o'er the cold,
Dark mountains seeking his sheep.
At the time of ringing,
We shall come rejoicing,
Ringing in the sheaves,
We shall come rejoicing,
Ringing in the sheaves,
We shall come rejoicing,
Ringing in the sheaves.
Heart is the shepherd's voice, my dear,
Out in the desert, dark and clear,
Calling the sheep who've gone astray,
Far from the shepherds all away.
Bring them in, bring them in,
Bring them in from the fields of sin,
Bring them in, bring them in,
Bring the wandering ones to Jesus,
Who'll go and help this shepherd find,
Help with the wandering ones to find,
Who'll bring the lost ones to the cold,
Where they'll be sheltered from the cold.
Bring them in, bring them in,
Bring them in from the fields of sin,
Bring them in, bring them in,
Bring the wandering ones to Jesus,
Out in the desert, hear them cry,
Out of the mountains, wild and high,
Heart is the master's speech to thee,
Go find thy sheep, wherever they be,
Bring them in, bring them in,
All God is bringing are the restless slaves,
Send the light, send the light,
There are souls to rescue, there are souls to save,
Send the light, send the light,
Send the light, the blessed gospel light,
Let it shine, the joy is sure,
Send the light, the blessed gospel light,
Let it shine, forevermore,
We have heard the mass and only call today,
Send the light, send the light,
Here we go again, offering at the cross we lay,
Send the light, send the light,
Send the light, the blessed gospel light,
Let it shine, the joy is sure,
Send the light, the blessed gospel light,
Let it shine, forevermore,
Let the trade and the grace be everywhere around,
Send the light, send the light,
And the Christ's light spirit everywhere it becomes,
Send the light, send the light,
Send the light, the blessed gospel light,
Let it shine, the joy is sure,
Send the light, the blessed gospel light,
Let it shine, forevermore,
Let us not grow weary in the work of God,
Send the light, send the light,
Let us gather far away,
The noise of strife upon my ear is calling,
Then I know the sins of earth he said on every hand,
Doubt and fear and pains of earth in vain to me are calling,
None of these shall move me from you alone,
I'm living on the mountain underneath the cloudless sky,
I'm drinking at the mountain that never shall run dry,
Oh yes, I'm mixing all the manna from the bountiful supply,
For I am dwelling in you, the land,
Far below the storm of doubt upon the world,
This day, wonderful grace of Jesus,
Bringing to you all of us, life and heaven come,
Let's please find our seats and open your blue hymn books, page 196.
Page 196 in your blue hymn books, follow on.
Page 196, follow on.
How loud on the first?
Down in the valley with my Savior I would go,
Where the flowers are blooming and the sweet waters flow,
Everywhere He leads me I would follow, follow on,
Walking in His footsteps till the crown be won,
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 would go,
Where the storms are sweeping and the dark waters flow,
With His hand to lead me I will never, never fear,
Danger cannot fright me if my Lord is near,
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 or upon the mountain steep,
Close beside my Savior would my soul ever keep,
He will lead me safely in the path that He has trod,
Up to where they gather on the hills of God,
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,
Great singing this evening.
Brother Mikey, you want to open us up with a word of prayer?
Thank you, Lord, for bringing us all back together
to be here to preach again this evening.
And thank you for all those souls that we have won today.
And thank you for the souls that have been saved everywhere else in the world.
Amen. Let's turn to page 523 for our second song,
My Savior First of All.
Page 523.
My Savior First of All.
Sing it out loud on the first.
When my life work is ended and I cross a swelling tide,
When the bright and glorious morning I shall see,
I shall know my Redeemer when I reach the other side,
And His smile will be the first to welcome me.
I shall know Him, I shall know Him,
And redeemed by His side I shall stand,
I shall know Him, I shall know Him,
By the print of the nails in His hand.
O the soul thrilling rapture when I view His blessed face,
In the lustre of His kindly beaming eye,
How my full heart will praise Him for the mercy, love, and grace,
That prepare for me a mansion in the sky.
I shall know Him, I shall know Him,
And redeemed by His side I shall stand,
I shall know Him, I shall know Him,
By the print of the nails in His hand.
O the dear ones in glory how they beckon me to come,
And are parting at the river I recall.
To the sweet veils of Eden they will sing my welcome home,
But I long to be my Savior first of all.
I shall know Him, I shall know Him,
And redeemed by His side I shall stand,
I shall know Him, I shall know Him,
By the print of the nails in His hand.
Through the gates to the city in a robe of spotless white,
He will lead me where no tears will ever fall.
In the glad song of ages I shall mingle with delight,
But I long to be my Savior first of all.
I shall know Him, I shall know Him,
And redeemed by His side I shall stand,
I shall know Him, I shall know Him,
By the print of the nails in His hand.
All right, good afternoon everybody.
Welcome back to Sure Foundation Baptist Church.
Let's take our bulletins and go through some announcements.
Does anybody need a bulletin?
Just lift up your hand.
One of the ushers will bring you a bulletin.
Anybody?
All right.
On our front cover we have our verse of the week.
It says,
Of old hast thou laid the foundation of the earth,
And the heavens are the work of thy hands.
Psalm chapter 102 verse 25.
On our inside page there we have our service times,
10 30 a.m. for our preaching service.
Sunday evening service, 3 30 p.m.
And Thursday Bible study, 6 30 p.m.
Our sowing times are listed below.
We had sowing today at one o'clock.
Did we have salvations out there?
One there.
I heard there was a few.
Are we missing people?
Gabe, so that's three.
Is there anybody else?
Are we missing people?
Are people just like out?
Okay.
So we might have some more people.
Okay.
So right now the count is three so far.
All right.
Well, praise the Lord for people getting saved out.
The praise report.
You can see the salvation totals, baptism.
We had a baptism last Sunday.
And the attendance totals from last week.
Our events upcoming this coming week is the Chicago Soul Waning
preaching event.
That will be Friday, Saturday.
And we're going to be preaching in Gary, Indiana,
for the Soul Waning at one o'clock on Friday.
And then there will be a preaching service in Indiana.
That will be me and Pastor Shelley preaching at six o'clock.
And then Saturday is Soul Waning in Cicero.
And all the meetup spots and everything is in the itinerary.
And you can get that if you just e-mail sfbcindi at gmail.com
if you're planning on going.
We're not disclosing the locations because people try to
call and get that stuff blown up.
Of course, you all know that.
But if you are going and you need the schedule,
you can either talk to me or e-mail brother Justin Zong
at sfbcindi at gmail.com.
So then in a couple weeks after that,
a few weeks after that, we're going to have the ordination
of Brother Jim Wiebe.
And he's our evangelist in Winnipeg.
And he's going to be ordained on the Sunday morning service at 1030.
But on Friday, we're going to have Pastor Berzins preaching for us there on Friday night.
And we'll have Soul Waning a marathon on Saturday.
So men's shooting event is coming up in June, June 15th.
See Brother Sean Harrington for details on that.
And we always have a good time.
And then Father's Day service.
We'll have a special day for the dads.
And we'll have a gift for each dad in service.
Lunch will be provided after the service.
We'll have a men's preaching night for the evening service.
So any man is able to get up and preach.
Just make sure you're wearing a shirt and tie.
King James Bible only.
And don't preach any heresy.
That's the three big ones, all right?
So yeah, no heresy.
If you have a doctrine that nobody else believes except for you,
you might want to run that past me before you get up here to preach it.
Because I will embarrass you, all right, in front of God and everybody and YouTube.
So the Red Hot Preaching Conference is also coming up in June.
That's June 20th through 23rd.
That's in Sacramento, California.
If you're like, what is this Red Hot Preaching Conference?
Just the best conference of the year, that's all.
It's a pretty great conference.
Pastor Jimenez has been putting it on.
This will be the ninth Red Hot Preaching Conference.
Can you believe that?
It's been nine years.
So this will be the ninth.
And the next year, of course, will be the Big Ten.
So hopefully there will be a big celebration for that one too.
But it's got a good lineup of preachers here.
And so all the schedule is out online.
You just go to the Verity website to look at all that.
All the other information there, the rules and stuff,
turn off your cell phones, the family integrated stuff,
all that's there for you underneath.
And the tithes and offerings, we're saying happy birthday to Eli
who's going to be nine years old on the 23rd, which is what day?
Thursday.
So you'll probably get another birthday song sang to you on Thursday.
So if you're at church, all right, your dad can get up here and sing it.
Anyway, that's all we have for announcements.
Let's go ahead and sing another song.
We'll receive the offer.
All right, let's open up to page 90 in our Blue Hymn books.
And we'll receive our offering.
Page 90, Blessed Redeemer.
Sing it with me on the first.
Up Calvary's mountain, one dreadful morn,
What Christ my Savior, weary and worn,
Facing for sinners, death on the cross,
That He might save them from endless loss.
Blessed Redeemer, precious Redeemer,
Seems now I see Him on Calvary's tree,
Wounded and bleeding, for sinners pleading,
Blind and unheeding, dying for me.
Father, forgive them, thus did He pray,
Then while His lifeblood flowed past away,
Praying for sinners while in such woe,
No one but Jesus ever loved so.
Blessed Redeemer, precious Redeemer,
Seems now I see Him on Calvary's tree,
Wounded and bleeding, for sinners pleading,
Blind and unheeding, dying for me.
Oh, how I love Him, Savior and Friend,
How can my praises ever find end,
Through years unnumbered, on heaven's shore,
My tongue shall praise Him forevermore.
Blessed Redeemer, precious Redeemer,
Seems now I see Him on Calvary's tree,
Wounded and bleeding, for sinners pleading,
Blind and unheeding, dying for me.
Thank you for singing with us.
At this time, we'll receive our offering.
And Brother Alex, can you bless that for us, please?
Dear Father, thank you for our church here, Father.
We thank you for all the brothers and sisters that have come.
We ask you to bless this offering, Father, that we can use it to further your kingdom.
In Jesus' name we pray, Amen.
Amen.
All right, we're going to open your Bibles to John chapter 2.
John chapter number 2, if you don't have a Bible, there should be a Bible under the seat in front of you.
It should be in John chapter 2.
John 2, the Bible reads,
In the third day there was a marriage in Cana of Galilee, and the mother of Jesus was there,
and both Jesus was called and His disciples to the marriage.
And when they wanted wine, the mother of Jesus saith unto him,
They have no wine, Jesus saith unto her,
Woman, what have I to do with thee?
Mine hour is not yet come.
His mother saith unto the servants,
Whatsoever He saith unto you, do it.
And there were said there six waterpots of stone,
after the manner of the purifying of the Jews,
containing two or three firkins apiece.
Jesus saith unto them,
Fill the waterpots with water, and they filled them up to the brim.
And He saith unto them, Draw out now, and bear unto the governor of the feast.
And they bare it.
When the ruler of the feast had tasted the water that was made wine,
and knew not whence it was, but the servants which drew the water knew,
the governor of the feast called the bridegroom, and saith unto him,
Every man at the beginning doth set forth good wine,
and when men have well drunk, then that which is worse,
but thou hast kept the good wine until now.
This beginning of miracles did Jesus in Cana of Galilee,
and manifested forth His glory, and His disciples believed on Him.
After this He went down to Capernaum,
He and His mother, and His brethren, and His disciples,
and they continued there not many days.
And the Jews' Passover was at hand,
and Jesus went up to Jerusalem,
and found in the temple those that sold oxen and sheep,
and doves, and the changers of money sitting.
And when He had made a scourge of small cords,
He drove them all out of the temple,
and the sheep, and the oxen, and poured out the changers' money,
and overthrew the tables,
and said unto them that sold doves,
Take these things hence, make not My Father's house,
and house of merchandise.
And His disciples remembered that it was written,
The zeal of thine house hath eaten me up.
Then answered the Jews, and said unto him,
What sign showest thou unto us, seeing that thou doest these things?
Jesus answered and said unto them, Destroy this temple,
and in three days I will raise it up.
Then said the Jews, Forty and six years was this temple in building,
and wilt thou rear it up in three days?
But He spake of the temple of His body.
When therefore He was risen from the dead,
His disciples remembered that He had said this unto them,
and they believed the scripture, and the word which Jesus had said.
Now when He was in Jerusalem at the Passover,
in the feast day, many believed in His name,
when they saw the miracles which He did.
But Jesus did not commit Himself unto them,
because He knew all men,
and needed not that any should testify of man,
for He knew what was in man.
Brother Robert, will you pray for us while He's gone?
Brother Sean, will you pray for us?
Alright, let's look down at our chapter there, verse number one.
The Bible says,
In the third day there was a marriage in Cana of Galilee,
and the mother of Jesus was there,
and both Jesus was called and His disciples to the marriage.
When they wanted wine, the mother of Jesus saith unto Him,
They have no wine.
Jesus saith unto her, Woman, what have I to do with Thee?
Mine hour has not yet come.
His mother saith unto the servants,
Whatsoever He saith unto you, do it.
The title of my sermon tonight is,
Catholics Do What Mary Commands.
Let's pray.
Lord, we thank you so much for this beautiful day outside,
and for the people that got saved.
We pray that you just bless this sermon as it's preached, Lord.
And, Lord, I pray I would preach this with grace also.
And, Lord, we really do want to see Catholics saved,
but my prayer is that this sermon might help people
that are trapped in the Catholic religion,
but also help our people to understand some of the things
that Catholics believe.
Maybe there's some things in here that they might not have thought about,
or maybe they've forgotten about that might help them
when they're in a conversation trying to lead someone to Christ
that would help them and be helpful to them.
In Jesus' name we pray. Amen.
All right, so Catholics Do What Mary Commands.
So you have this passage here, and Jesus does this miracle,
but he said his time is not yet, but he does do this miracle,
and it seems like he kind of doesn't want to do it.
And so that's why he's like,
Woman, what have I to do with thee?
You know, Jesus Christ is the son of God,
and he is the son of Mary,
but what he is transcends human relationships.
I mean, she is his mother, but also his Lord.
And I believe Mary is saved, obviously,
so it's obviously a very different relationship
because she is the human mother of Jesus,
and she bore him and fed him and raised him
and picked him up when he fell on the ground.
Obviously there's some weird things that people teach.
The Hindus and Indians believe a lot of weird things about Jesus
and he struck people dead,
and Catholics believe some weird stuff about him
when he was little,
but Muslims teach that Jesus talked when he was an infant,
weird stuff like that that the Bible doesn't say.
I don't think that Jesus talked while he was an infant,
maybe when he was two or one,
but when he was newborn? No, I don't think so.
But they have all kinds of weird extra biblical accounts
where Jesus kills a whole bunch of people on accident
and just all kinds of crazy stuff.
But what I wanted to point out to you though here
is that his mother saith unto the servants
whatsoever he saith unto you, do it.
Here's the problem that Catholics have
is that they believe that Mary,
they'll say that they don't believe this,
but they really do.
They venerate Mary a lot of times over Jesus,
even in the Lord's Prayer,
or not the Lord's Prayer, but when they do the,
or they count the beads, what's that called?
The rosary, when they pray the rosary,
they say more Hail Marys than they say Our Fathers.
So that just shows you what position they really have.
And in reality, the Catholic religion,
they just took the Old Testament saints
and the saints that have died since then
and the angels and they replaced their pantheon with those.
And really, the Catholic religion is a pagan religion.
It's not really Christianity.
And they'll even tell you that
when you talk to them at the door,
these died in the wool, Catholics will say,
we'll ask them, are you a Christian?
They'll say, I'm Catholic.
The reason why they say that
is because they don't consider themselves to be Christian.
They consider themselves to be Catholic,
which is, you know, it's really kind of,
it's a very oppressive religion
and it's very superstitious.
There's a lot of idolatry that goes on.
There's a lot of bowing down to idols.
There's a lot of bowing down to saints.
There's like praying to saints,
praying to Mary specifically.
They have multiple prayers that they pray to Mary,
which is bizarre because the last time I checked,
we were supposed to pray to God the Father
through Jesus Christ the Son.
There's no verse in the Bible
that teaches us to pray to saints at all.
There's no verse in the Bible
that teaches us to pray to Mary,
who's the mother of Jesus.
So why I titled the sermon Catholics Do What Mary Commands
because what's Mary commanding them to do?
To listen to what Jesus says to do,
not what she says to do, right?
So she said,
whatsoever he saith unto you, do it.
And so in the Catholic religion,
they'll call Mary the mediatrix
that she intercedes on our behalf to Jesus
so that he doesn't get mad and destroy us.
But the Bible nowhere teaches that.
And so in reality though,
Mary was a good woman.
I believe she was saved.
She was chosen to bear the Lord Jesus Christ.
And she's not the mother of God though.
That's what they'll say.
They'll give her this title the mother of God.
God was before Mary.
So how is she the mother of God?
Maybe she's the mother of God manifest in the flesh
and he's also human.
I'll give you that,
but she's not the mother of God.
Jesus existed before Mary.
So she's not the mother of God.
And she's definitely not sinless.
Nobody is sinless.
But also the Catholics will say
that Mary is sinless
and that she also is sinless
and that she has also remained
a perpetual virgin after Jesus was born.
And anybody that's just casually read the Bible,
even just one time,
knows that Jesus had brothers and sisters.
Jesus had other brothers and sisters
that would be his half brothers and sisters
because God the Father
is the Father of the Lord Jesus Christ.
But she was married to a guy named Joseph
and Joseph, you know,
to think that Joseph just never
had those relations with Mary
is just bizarre, number one.
I'm sure that he intended on having
that marital relationship with her,
but the Bible actually specifically says
that he had brothers and sisters
and some of them became apostles
later on and wrote books of the Bible.
So let's jump over to
Matthew chapter 12 verse 46 with me.
Matthew chapter 12 verse 46.
Let's just put that to bed right now.
Matthew chapter 12 verse 46.
The Bible says,
while he yet talked to the people,
behold, his mother and his brethren
stood without.
Now let's talk about his brothers
and sisters' brethren stood without
desiring to speak with him.
So he's in there preaching
and they're standing outside
and they want to talk to Jesus.
Maybe they think he's beside himself.
I don't know why they're not in the service.
Maybe they just didn't want to crowd it out
or I don't know what's going on here.
But it says,
then once said unto him,
behold, thy mother and thy brethren
stand without desiring to speak with thee.
So someone actually comes up
and tells him this.
So if he didn't have brothers and sisters,
then how is this verse true?
Of course it's true.
He had brothers and sisters
and his mom was with them.
What a bizarre way to think.
Now turn to Matthew chapter 13 verse 55.
Matthew 13 verse 55.
And you're like,
well, this could just be talking about
his brothers in Christ.
Okay.
Well, if you want to be an ignorant
Bible idiot, then go ahead and believe that.
But let's look at chapter 13 verse 55
and then let other people's lips
tell you the same truth.
It says in verse 55,
is not this the carpenter's son?
Is not his mother called Mary
and his brethren?
Now it's going to name them.
James and Joses and Simon and Judas
and his sisters,
are they not all with us?
Whence then hath this man all these things?
So they start,
they literally name his physical brothers
and then say he has sisters.
That's plural, isn't it?
So more than one sister.
That's at least two, isn't it?
If there's an S at the end of that,
that's more than one sister.
So to say that Mary was a perpetual virgin
is just bizarre beyond belief
and Catholics will just,
here's the thing about the Roman Catholics,
they'll say,
well, the scriptures will say these things
and they'll point to some scriptures
and they have nothing to do
with that passage.
I don't really know
how they try to explain themselves
out of this one,
but the Bible should be
where we get our information from.
Not the church fathers,
not Pope Gregory or Pope Pius
or any other pope from the past.
They are not a good source.
The Catholic,
the annals of all the Catholic history,
that stuff means nothing to us.
What really matters is what the Bible says.
So Catholics honor or venerate
the Blessed Mother.
I got this from some web page.
They honor or venerate the Blessed Mother.
That's what they call her,
the Blessed Mother.
They do not worship her.
So the Catechism of the Catholic Church,
the official teaching of the Church
teaches that the worship or adoration
is meant for God alone.
Catholics as well as the Orthodox
and some older Protestant groups
venerate Mary and the saints.
Source, the Diocese of Brooklyn.
Let me just tell you some synonyms
of the word venerate.
Worship.
What does venerate mean?
Worship.
We don't worship Mary.
Yes, you do.
A synonym means a word that means
exactly the same thing.
Revere, reverence, honor, admire,
adore, respect, praise.
Are we supposed to praise anybody
like we praise God?
Absolutely not.
Are we supposed to worship
anybody besides God?
Absolutely not.
So this afternoon I just want to preach
this sermon for Catholics
from Mary's point of view
of what she would actually want them to do.
And for our church, again,
to edify them and again,
maybe teach you something
you already didn't know
or remind you of something
you may have forgotten.
And here's the thing,
Mary is probably upset
about how her name is used
by the Catholic Church.
I mean, because Mary's still alive.
Mary's saved,
so she knows that these things
are being said about her.
She knows that people
are actually praying to her
and she probably hates it.
So I'm not trying to put words
in her mouth, but I think that
if she could say something
to Catholics today,
that she'd probably say
the things that I'm going to make
in these points.
So number one,
Mary would say,
Catholics, listen to Jesus.
He's the only way to heaven.
Look at John chapter 14 verse 6.
John chapter 14 verse 6.
Some of these passages,
I've used quite a few
of these lately,
but look, Jesus is the only way
to get to heaven.
Period.
There's no other way.
There's no other way to get in
besides that one way.
And the Bible says,
Jesus saith unto him,
I am the way, the truth,
and the life.
No man cometh unto the Father,
but by me.
There's no way to get to heaven,
there's no way to get to God the Father,
but by Jesus.
So praying to Mary
is just a bizarre thing to do
because you can't even get
to God the Father through Mary at all.
You can't get to
God the Father, but by Jesus only.
And what it's talking about
is that you have to have
faith in him and believe in him.
Now turn to Matthew chapter 7 verse 13.
Matthew chapter 7 verse 13.
But there's specifically,
it's not just that you, I mean,
the only way to be saved is to believe in Jesus,
but he is the only way to be saved.
That's very clear.
So what do you mean, Pastor Thompson?
All the other religions of the world are just wrong?
Yeah.
That's exactly what he said.
On the way. On the truth.
On the life.
No man cometh to the Father, but by me.
He's being very specific here.
He's the only way.
Look at what he says in Matthew 7, 13.
He says,
Enter ye in at the straight gate,
for wide is the gate,
and broad is the way,
that leadeth to destruction,
and many there be,
And you know what?
They're going on a bobsled to hell,
straight into hell.
There's no, I talked about this earlier,
there's no salvation
inside the Catholic Church.
What do I mean by that?
They're not accidentally getting people saved.
There's no,
they'll say there's no salvation
outside the Catholic Church,
but I'll tell you this,
there's no salvation inside the Catholic Church.
And Jesus says,
and broad is the way.
There's a billion Catholics,
but do you think that there's a billion Baptists?
Probably not.
So what is Jesus teaching here?
He's teaching that there's not as many people
that say they're saved that are actually going to heaven.
There's a lot of people today
that aren't even Catholic at all
that still would say they're Christian
and still are not going to heaven.
Because to get there,
you have to do it His way
and His way alone.
People will teach.
But look what verse 14 says,
because straight is the gate
and narrow is the way
which leadeth unto life
and few there be that find it.
So if you took,
so few, that's three, right?
So we do a lot of statistics like
how many out of a hundred.
So if few be saved,
would that be about three out of a hundred then?
Would you say that's probably a good statistic?
I would say that probably about three percent
of the population is saved.
Now give or take differences
in where you're at,
what kind of, what place you're born in.
Now in Utah,
I would say that's a very,
that percentage goes way down.
Because you've got a bunch of Mormons there.
Maybe it's half that.
Maybe it's one percent. I don't know.
But depending on where you live,
what kind of background you have,
what kind of religion is being taught in that area,
but overall,
I think that Jesus is making the point
that there's just a few
out of a hundred
or a thousand that are saved.
So,
and Mary would probably throw this next verse in
for good measure. Look at verse 15.
Beware of false prophets,
Catholics,
which come to you in sheep's clothing,
but inwardly they are revening
wolves.
So they like to look good on the outside,
but on the inside they're really
after your soul. They want to eat you.
They want to eat your soul.
They want you to go to hell.
Ye shall know them by their fruits.
Do men gather grapes of thorns
or figs of thistles?
Even so, every good tree bringeth forth
good fruit, but a corrupt
tree bringeth forth evil fruit.
So, people that are saved
bring forth more people that are saved.
You get someone saved,
they're saved. Now,
a corrupt tree, someone that's an evil
wicked false prophet,
they're going to bring forth more evil
wicked false prophets or more
evil wicked fruit is going to come from
them.
An evil wicked corrupt tree
cannot bring forth
good fruit. Isn't that what it's saying?
A good tree
cannot bring forth evil fruit.
Neither can a corrupt tree bring forth
good fruit. So, again,
no salvation inside the
Catholic Church. Why? Because
they're teaching a workspace salvation.
They're teaching a system of prayers
and baptism
and good works
and doing all these
weird different things
saying that they're literally eating
the real flesh
and drinking the real blood of Christ
every single
time they do the mass
that they pray this prayer and hocus pocus
and ta-da
it's the literal blood
of Jesus and the literal
body of Christ. Look at verse
19. Every tree that bringeth forth
not good fruit is hewn down
and cast into the
fire. Every single pope
from history
is roasting in hell
along with Mother Teresa and
all their cardinals and all their
supposed saints and, you know,
I'm sure there's people that have been
saved that accidentally were
in the Catholic Church. I'm sure there's
people today that are accidentally saved and they're
inside the Catholic Church but they didn't get
saved from the Catholic Church.
Does that make sense?
So, you know,
so it says the Bible says right here whereby
by their fruits
you shall know them.
Well, how about this? What are
their fruits? Being
having the biggest pedophile ring ever
discovered and, you
know, just completely moving them from place to
place. Finding just all these
perverts and just
moving them around and keeping them in the church and
not firing them over and over
and over again. All the bodies
of innocent babies that they found
in these places that they've,
you know, selling indulgences,
offering to
sell time out of purgatory or
follow the pope or whatever and you get time off.
The Inquisition,
the torture and murder of millions
of Christians over the years
in this Inquisition
style stuff that they do.
The raping and pillaging of
millions of people.
All these different native cultures in
South America and Mexico
and the United States
and Canada just
murdering, raping,
taking their resources.
You know, obviously God is judging
those places but
they're wicked too for doing it.
So, Christian,
last time I checked, Jesus didn't say go and
kill everybody that doesn't
accept me as their savior.
That's not how you win nations over.
You go preach the gospel to them and you
win them over that way. You don't go
oh, you don't want
to accept them? Okay, well die and give me
all your gold. I mean, they just use
that so they could go and plunder
nations.
Listen, you know,
other than that though, they're
pretty good religion. I mean, after, you know,
they're pretty good besides all that.
I mean, what other
wicked things do they need to
do to show you that they have wicked fruit?
There's nothing redeeming
about that religion at all.
And to think that that's
the original church that Jesus started,
you're crazy if you actually think that.
That is nothing like the church that
Jesus started. Jesus is
the door. Jesus is the good shepherd.
Jesus is the water of life.
Jesus is the bread of life.
And, you know, there's no other
way to be saved. Not Mary,
not baptism, not catechism,
not veneration of the saints,
not praying the rosary,
not reciting prayers, or
saying the last rites. None of that stuff's
going to save you from hell,
Catholics. You have to
go to the only source you can
and they'll say, well yeah, we already believe in Jesus.
But that's not all you believe, is it?
And the Jesus that
they believe in is a long-haired
hippie that gets told
what to do by his mom.
That's not the Jesus I believe in.
And I don't bow down and worship a
statue of a long-haired hippie,
skinny hippie with a little bit of blood trickling
out of his arms. Okay?
That's not the Jesus I believe in.
Number two, Mary would say
also
to Catholics that
faith in the Son of God is the only kind of
faith that can save.
Faith in the Son of God is the only kind of faith
that can save.
Turn to John chapter 3.
John chapter 3.
Verse 15.
Of course we know this passage really well.
This will be a quick point, but
it's got to be put in there.
This is what Mary would say.
Hey, listen to what Jesus has to say.
Not the pope,
not your cardinals,
or any other kind of bird that you have
in your,
what do they call them, fathers or
their priests supposedly?
He says
in John 3.15 it says
that whosoever believeth in him should not perish
but have eternal life. Believe in who?
Jesus.
For God so loved the world that he gave his only begotten
Son, that whosoever believeth in him,
not Mary, should not
perish but have everlasting life.
For God sent not the Son into
the world to condemn the world, but that the
world through him might be saved.
He that believeth on him
is not condemned, but he that believeth
not is condemned already.
It's real simple.
You either believe in him, and you're not
condemned, or you don't believe in him
and you're already condemned anyway.
Your works are not going to get you
there. All you can do
is believe on the Son of God to be saved
because he hath not believed
in the name of the only begotten
Son of God. That's why people die and go
to hell, because they don't believe.
Now, John 3.36
says, he that believeth on the Son hath
everlasting life, and he that
believeth not the Son of God
shall not see life,
but the wrath of God abideth
on him.
God made it real simple. He wrote
a whole book called John that has the
word believe over a hundred times in it.
Not one time does it say repent
of your sins. Not one time in the book of John
does it say repent. It doesn't even say
repent. And it's not that repent
isn't a good Bible word, but I think that God
just wanted to make sure that nobody could use that
and try to say, see, the
book of John says you've got to repent.
No, the book that's written so
that people might believe does not
have that word in it. You think
that's an accident? I don't think that's an accident.
So, you
have to have faith in the Son of God
to be saved, not faith in Mary
or any Catholic system.
Number three, Mary would
also tell Catholics works
are not part of salvation.
Works are not part of salvation.
Not before,
not during, not after.
So, your works that you
did before salvation
don't count at all.
You can't combine
your works with your
belief to get salvation.
And you don't have to do works
after salvation to
continue to stay saved.
Now, turn to Ephesians
chapter 2, verse 8.
Ephesians chapter 2, verse 8.
Of course, this is another
very familiar passage, but the
most clear passage in the whole Bible
that tells
us that salvation is by
faith without works.
Okay? Ephesians
chapter 2, verse 8.
For by grace are ye saved through
faith, and that
not of yourselves it is the gift of
God. So, is it of yourselves?
No, it's not of yourselves.
It's the gift of God, and it's by grace.
And it's through faith.
It says, not of works lest any
man should boast.
So, no man on the earth is ever going to be able to boast
and say, I did it with
Jesus. I did enough good works
and he did, you know, he died, he did
his part, but I did my part also.
Uh-uh. God's never going to allow
that. He's never going to allow someone else
to boast, because what? What is boasting?
It's being proud, isn't it?
It's being proud of your own accomplishments.
It's not human accomplishment
that's going to get anybody to heaven.
And God wants us to make sure that we
understand that.
Not of works lest any man should boast, for
we are his workmanship
created in Christ Jesus
on two good works.
We're like, well, I'm confused.
It says we're supposed to do good works. Yeah, we are.
But that's not what saves us.
It just said that in the last couple passages,
right, which God
hath before ordained that we should walk
in them. Yeah, we should walk
in them, but if we don't,
we're still saved.
We don't have to do good works to be saved.
Let's prove it even more. Romans chapter 4.
And this is a very
powerful passage. I would say
that this is probably the second
most powerful passage when it comes to
not having to do works to be
saved. I think it's
very powerful.
So, of course, Abraham
is the father of the faithful. Look at
Romans chapter 4 verse 2.
It says, For if Abraham
were justified by works,
he hath whereof to glory.
So Abraham
did good works. Does anybody dispute that at all?
No, Abraham had good works.
But it says,
but not before God.
Abraham could not go up and, you know,
he was a great man, did great works.
He was the father of the faithful.
But his good works were not good enough
to get him to God.
Right? But not before God.
For what saith the Scripture?
And you know what? That's what Catholics need
to ask themselves, too. What does the
Bible actually say?
Instead of reading your stupid prayer books
and listening to your pope and your
cardinal and your bishop and, you know,
whatever parakeet you want to listen to,
you know, you need to listen to what the Bible says
and not your stupid duet reams
bad translation from the
wicked, you know,
versions that they tried to
change and translate things from.
You know, they want to change things so they can
change it into a works of salvation.
They want to change the Ten Commandments so they can still
worship their idols.
They want to change and combine them into one so
they can still bow down and worship those idols.
Because idolatry is a heavy
part of what they do.
And God hates, and I mean
hates idolatry,
doesn't he?
So, it says,
For what saith the scripture?
Abraham believed God, and it was counted
unto him for righteousness. So how was Abraham
saved? He believed God,
and it was counted unto him for
righteousness. So these
people that try to say, yeah, in the book of
James it says that Abraham was saved by his works.
Well, people
saw Abraham's works, and
they knew that he was saved.
But those works didn't actually save
his soul, because
that would contradict what's being said right here,
right? The Bible clearly says it
over and over again, Abraham believed God,
and it was counted unto him for
righteousness. Now to him that worketh
is the reward not reckoned of grace,
but of debt.
Look, if you want to work for your salvation, go
ahead, but guess what? You're never
going to make it, because if you've even sinned
one time, you're just not going to be good
enough. That's why Jesus
didn't have to, you know,
Jesus was, he had to
keep the law in order to redeem
us. So,
he kept
the whole law. It says, but to him
that worketh not, but believeth
on him that justifieth the ungodly,
his faith is counted
for righteousness.
So, let me read that again.
But to him that worketh not,
so do you have to work for it? No.
To him that worketh not, but believeth on him
that justifieth the ungodly. Who's that?
That's Jesus.
His faith is counted for righteousness.
What's the Bible say? What
sayeth the scripture? It says your faith
is counted for righteousness. That's what it says.
Even as David also
described the blessedness of the man
unto whom God imputeth
righteousness without works.
So, David
speaks of this, and
says, men are
blessed when they
are imputed righteousness without works.
It's saying blessed
are they whose iniquities are forgiven
and whose sins are covered.
Blessed is the man
to whom the Lord will not impute sin.
For the promise that
he should be the heir of the world
sorry, skip
down to verse 13. For the promise that he should
be the heir of the world was not
to Abraham, or to his seed
through the law, but through the righteousness
of faith. So, did
his seed get it from the law?
Did the people in
Exodus, Leviticus,
Numbers, Deuteronomy, did they get it through
the law? No.
Because that's his seed, right?
They still got saved by
faith too. But
for if they which are
of the law be heirs
faith is made void
and the promise made of none effect.
There's never been a time
there never will be a time
when salvation is by keeping the law.
That's just not what the law
was for. The law was put in place
for transgressions and for us to
understand our sinful
condition. Now turn to Galatians chapter 2
verse 16. Galatians chapter 2
verse 16.
Galatians chapter 2 verse 16.
I've seen people read this verse
to people that couldn't get this works
thing and I'm just like how do you
listen to that and still think
that salvation is somehow by works?
Look what it says.
This is a very powerful passage here.
Knowing that a man is not justified by the
works of the law.
Any works of salvation person should just be able to
be oh yeah.
Man is not justified by the works of the law.
Period. End of story.
There's a comma there isn't there?
But by the faith of Jesus Christ
even we
have believed in Jesus Christ
that we might be justified
by the faith of Christ
and not by the works of the law
for by the works of the law
shall no flesh
be justified.
No flesh.
Nobody.
You're not justified by the
works of the law.
You're justified by Christ.
Look at verse 20.
I am crucified. This is Paul speaking.
Christ nevertheless I live.
Yet not I
but Christ liveth in me.
And the life which I now live in the flesh
I live by the faith of the
son of God who loved me
and gave himself for me.
I do not frustrate
the grace of God
for if righteousness come by the law
then Christ is dead in vain.
I mean that's really what
it all boils down to right?
If we could get saved somehow by our good
works or by keeping the law
then Christ would be dead in vain.
Why did he have to die?
If we could just do it ourselves.
If it was a combination or whatever.
It's never been
able to be accomplished by the law except for by
Christ.
And you know what it says? I live by the
faith of the son of God who loved me
and gave himself for me. You know who never
loved me and gave themselves for me?
Mary.
Mary never loved me. She might love me
now. I don't know.
But she didn't love me to die for
me. She couldn't.
She was a sinner herself.
You know who loved me?
Jesus loved me.
You know who loves you? Jesus loves you.
And Mary might love us in the
sense that we're brethren or whatever.
But Mary never loved me. She never
died for me. Jesus died for me. Jesus
loved me. Jesus is my Savior.
And he says we don't have to work for salvation.
We just have to believe in him.
And we have to believe he's the only way.
Number four.
Mary would
also want to tell the Catholics
that faith comes by hearing
the word of God not by
repeating prayers over and over again.
Faith comes by
hearing the word of God
not by repeating prayers over
and over again. Turn to Matthew
chapter six.
Jesus specifically taught
against vain repetitions.
Repeating prayers
over and over again. This is what the Catholics
do though. They have like these
set prayers that they repeat
that are not from the heart.
They're from somebody else's heart.
Two people that they shouldn't be
to. And like
a lot of these high churches do these things too.
I mean this is something the Church of England
fought over things about.
It's like they might as well have been Catholic
themselves. They're fighting over all
these prayer books and stuff.
With the Calvinists
in Scotland and things like that.
I mean that's a lot of the things that they
fought about is what kind
of furniture, what kind of
musical instruments and things like that.
How could you believe that we're not
supposed to have musical instruments in the church?
It's like there's a whole
book that tells us what musical
instruments we should have in church.
It's called the Book of Psalms.
There's many different types of stringed instruments all
throughout the Bible and we're supposed to
sing unto God
and that's our way of praising
and worshiping him through stringed instruments.
Right? But there's
people out there, the Church of
Christ is one of them, but
are there different types of
denominations that would say you're
not allowed because the Bible doesn't mention
musical instruments in the
New Testament that we shouldn't use them in the New Testament.
It's like that's
idiotic. Why would you have to bring
something up that's already brought up in the
Old Testament? You wouldn't.
Anyway, you're in Matthew chapter 6, look at verse 5.
It says, And when thou prayest,
thou should not be as the hypocrites
are. Let me just tell you something about hypocrites.
Now there's different kinds of hypocrites.
There's a hypocrite that says they believe
something, they say that they believe something
and they do the opposite thing.
That is a hypocrite. But the
hypocrite that Jesus is talking about here,
he's talking about people that pretend that they're
saved and they're really not.
And then they put on a show
to pretend like they're
saved. That's what the true
hypocrite is. That's why if you just do a study
on hypocrites in the Bible,
the true hypocrite is an
unsaved person. They're pretending, they're playing
a role that they're actually saved when
they're really not and they know they're not.
That's what he's talking about.
But it says, And when thou prayest, thou
shall not be as the hypocrites are,
for they love to pray standing in the
synagogues, and in the corners
of the streets, that they may be
seen of men. Verily I
say unto you, they have their
reward. But that when thou
prayest, enter into thy closet,
and when thou hast shut thy door,
pray to the Father which is in secret.
Does it say pray to Mary? No, it says
pray to the Father which is in secret.
Does it say pray to the saints? No,
it says pray to the Father which is
in secret. Does it say pray to
angels? Does it say pray to Gabriel or
Michael or any of those people? No, it says
pray to the Father which is in
secret, and thy Father which
seeth in secret shall reward
thee openly. But when you
pray, use not vain
repetitions. What is that?
Repeating things over and over again
that mean nothing. That's really
what it is. You're repeating a
prayer over and over and over again
like Hail Mary Full of Grace
or Our Father
you know the Our Father repetitions
this is what Catholics do. This
is what Orthodox do. This is
what Lutherans do. This is what a lot
of different Protestants do sometimes
is they do this repeating
of prayers, the
Lord's Prayer, which
God, the Lord's Prayer was an example
for us to follow, not
that he wanted us to continue to, you know it's like
these people don't understand, he's saying
don't repeat, just repeat prayers
in vain, you know
this is how you should do it and then they repeat
that prayer in vain over and over again.
It's like, okay,
weird, but it says
use not vain repetitions as the
heathen do, for they think
that they shall be heard for their much
speaking. Saying something
over and over again, they're not going to be heard.
Be not ye therefore
like unto them
for your Father knoweth what things you have
need of before you ask him.
After this manner therefore pray
ye, Our Father which art in
heaven, hallowed be thy name.
Not Mary, not
the saints, thy kingdom come
thy will be done
in earth as it is in heaven.
Give us this day our daily bread
and forgive us our debts as we
forgive our debtors. And lead us
not into temptation but deliver us
from evil for thine is the kingdom
and the power and the glory
forever, amen. For if you
forgive men their trespasses, your heavenly
Father will also
forgive you. You know, and some of these
prayers to Mary, they're like, Mary
pray for us
so that we
won't go to hell.
And it's just like, why would you have to pray
to Mary for that when you can just pray to your heavenly Father
and he will forgive you. Like
why do you need Mary to forgive you? Why do
you need Mary to pray for you?
It doesn't make sense. Why do the saints need
to pray for you? The saints are in heaven.
The saints aren't,
you know, and maybe they will pray for you, I don't know.
But that's not what the Bible tells
us to do, folks. That's a
Catholic hocus pocus
garbage religion.
But if you forgive not men their
trespasses, neither will your
Father forgive your trespasses.
Turn to Romans chapter 10, or
actually turn to John chapter 10 verse 27
and I'm going to read Romans
10, 17.
Romans 10, 17 says,
so then faith cometh by hearing
and hearing by
the word of God. That's what the Bible says.
We hear the word of God and
we believe because we
hear the word of God preached unto
us.
And Jesus says this
in John chapter 10
verse 27. We went through 28 and
29 earlier,
but listen to what it says in verse 27.
My sheep hear
my voice.
They don't hear the voice of Mary, folks.
They hear his voice, the voice of the shepherd,
the voice of Jesus Christ in the Bible.
It says that I know
them and they follow me.
And you know what? He gives them eternal life
and no man is able
to pluck them from his hands. But
the point is, is that faith
comes by hearing and hearing by the word
of God. My sheep hear
my voice. Turn to
1 Peter chapter 1 verse 23.
Faith doesn't come from repeating
prayers.
Your blessings don't come from
just repeating vain repetitions over
and over again and holding beads
in your hand and counting how many
beads you've held and all this other stuff.
I mean I've been to a Catholic church twice.
And both times they didn't speak English
in the services so I had no idea
what they were saying.
And it was like a Polish
it was like Polish or
something. I don't know if they were speaking Latin. I don't know what
language they were speaking.
But all I know is that I was just
told to kneel down and stand up and kneel down
and stand up and kneel down. They have like these little
you know they have benches. They have pews.
And then they have like these little bars
that flip down or whatever. And that's where you're supposed
to kneel down and stand
up or whatever. I'm just like okay.
But like what did I
get out of that service?
Absolutely zero zilch. I had no idea
what they were even talking about. There's guys
carrying stuff around.
I don't know. But
I wasn't allowed to hang out with them
unless I went to mass with them or something.
I didn't eat the wafers.
I don't think I was allowed to.
So, but
it made no sense to me.
You know what sense
does it make to go to a church service where you
can't even understand anything that they're saying to you?
It makes zero sense.
1 Peter chapter 1 verse 23.
Being born again, not of corruptible
seed, but of incorruptible.
By the what?
The word of God.
Which liveth and
abideth forever.
Look at verse 25.
But the word of the Lord
endureth forever.
And this is the word
by which the gospel is
preached unto you.
We take the Bible and we preach
the gospel with it.
We get people saved with it.
Because that is the gospel
that was preached. That's what
Peter's saying. He's saying hey the word of
God is what gets people saved. Not the
corruptible seed. Not the Catholic
version. Not the corrupted version.
But the incorruptible version.
The actual real word of God.
And it liveth
and abideth forever. The real
word of God is
indestructible. It's unable
to be destroyed because God promised to
preserve it for this generation and forever.
Forever in heaven
is His word settled forever.
Forever.
And He left the Bible
for us to be able to preach
and to teach
and it endures forever and it's the
word by which the gospel is preached
unto you.
Now if the Catholics would just listen to the word
of God and allow someone
to preach the word of God unto them
instead of just repeating vain prayers
a lot more of them would get saved.
And you know what's great about Catholics that are
kind of backslidden Catholics
that don't actually go to mass and all this stuff
that are not the dyed in the wool kind
they will get saved. They get
saved on a regular basis.
They're easy to get saved in
comparison to like Mormons and
Jehovah's Witnesses and Seventh-day
Adventists and all these other people
because they have a solid
base but they're not
totally indoctrinated. Now
there are Catholics that are definitely
you know too far
gone to reach. You know when you
knock those doors like Yakima it has like a little
picture of Mary on the door.
You know what I'm talking about? And it says
something along the lines of this is
a Catholic house don't bother
knocking or something. I don't know what it says in
Spanish exactly but who knows what I'm talking
about. They have them like
on their doors. You know those
are the hardcore ones. But still
knock them anyway because that might be grandma
saying that or something. That might be
you know somebody else saying it but
you know sometimes those people will get saved.
So
in 431 AD
at the Council of Ephesus the worship
of Mary as the Mother of God, Queen of Heaven
was put into place. At least
that's kind of what I read up on.
And
I went to this other website and I
just typed in like why do you Catholics
pray to Mary? And
the answer
is for Catholics there are
different types of Marian prayer
that reflect different intentions.
Reciting the
Magnificat for example
is a way to praise God
as Mary did. By reciting
the Angelus
you commemorate an event
in salvation history.
One in which Mary had a major role.
I think having birthed
Jesus or something. Such commemorations
are also made by the
entire church in the
liturgical cycle at
Christmas for example the faithful recall
Mary as Mary's
role in the birth of Christ.
Prayers invoking Mary's intercession
for your own personal intentions
are in a separate
class. Arousing controversy
since the time of the
Reformation in the 16th and 17th centuries.
The practice of invoking
saintly people
for their intercession before God
in union with Jesus has its
roots in sacred
scripture.
Has its roots in
sacred scripture.
In this regard Matthew 18
go ahead and turn to Matthew chapter 18
refers to saints
on earth. Revelation 18
20 refers to saints in heaven
and in the early
centuries of the church
veneration
and invocation was
offered to those martyred for Christ.
The practice derives
from the doctrine that the
saints are united with Jesus
in one mystical body
from Romans chapter 12 verse 5.
So they are saying
that invoking saintly
people for intercession
before God
has its roots in sacred
scripture. Let's just test what it
says. Let's just test
the spirits and see whether they are of God.
Matthew chapter 18
verse 19 says
Again I say unto you that if two
of you shall agree on earth
as touching any thing that they shall
ask it shall be done for them
of my Father which is in heaven.
For where two or three
are gathered together in my name
there am I in the midst of them.
Is that talking about praying to saints?
Is that what that's saying?
No it's just saying
you can pray together. I mean
here's the thing. They think
that saints are somebody that has to do all these
great feats and they have to
do like I'm not sure if they have to
specifically do a miracle that's
like I can't
remember what they have the criteria
for actually being a saint is
but I think that they have to do all these great works
and like a bonafide miracle
of some sort but that's not what
the Bible calls saints. Saints are
just people that are saved. That's all it
means. It's not
like they'll say Mother Teresa is
a saint. Is she sainted?
Does anybody know if Mother Teresa is actually
sainted? Somebody look it up real quick.
Come on. Does anybody
know? Is Mother Teresa a saint?
Just type it in Google real quick.
So it says
for where two or three are gathered together in my name
there I am in the midst of them. It's just talking about
people asking God for something
and it could be just talking about people
you know they're asking
in church for something
to be done of their father
but this is not talking about praying to
dead saints. It's not talking about
praying to Mary. There's
nowhere in there that says that.
Huh?
Mother Teresa is a saint? When did
she get sainted?
2016 she became
a saint.
So see the Catholic definitions
of things are different too. Look at
Revelation chapter 18 verse 20.
So these are the passages that they said.
Did the first one say that we're supposed to pray to saints?
Did you guys catch that in there?
Anybody?
Alright. Revelation 18
20 says rejoice over
her thou heaven and ye holy apostles
and prophets for God hath
avenged you on her.
Does that say
that you're supposed to pray
to saints anywhere there?
That's the verse that they gave right?
Romans 12 5.
What's it
say?
Romans 12
5.
So we being many are one body
in Christ and everyone members
one of another. Oh there it is
right there. Pray to Mary.
Pray to the saints.
You see what I mean? Like they say
stuff and then
they act like it's in scripture
and most people looking at that would go oh
yeah well it says in scripture it must be true.
But none of those verses
said anything about praying to saints
or having them intercede for us
for any reason whatsoever.
None of that matches
what the word of God says.
But yet I mean to me that's just
false prophet written all over it.
If they're actually saying that that's what it says
that's just a lie straight out of the pit of hell.
That's not what those verses are saying.
It's just false.
So none of
those verses
would you guys agree that none of those verses
teach that we're supposed to pray to the saints or to Mary?
I agree with you.
So the practice of
calling on
Mary for aid
also appears to be very old in the Catholic
Church. An ancient testimony
of confidence in Mary
is the prayer sub-tum.
Has anybody ever heard of that?
Who's been in a Catholic Church before?
Did you pray sub-tum?
Am I saying that right?
Sub-tum?
Have you heard of that before?
Oh, okay.
She's embarrassed.
Alright, she can't talk.
She can't talk. She's silenced right now.
Yeah, I don't know what that is.
I've never heard of that before, but sub-tum
apparently is a thing.
T-U-U-M
which historians place in the third
century. So this heresy goes
back to the third century and basically that's kind of
when the Catholic Church really started.
And it says
we fly to your patronage
O holy mother
of God, despise not our petitions
in our necessities, but
deliver us always from all dangers
O glorious and blessed virgin.
Even though she's not a virgin anymore.
So they
do pray to Mary, don't they?
That's a prayer invoking
Mary specifically.
And here's the other one.
This is the most famous one, I think.
Or one of the more famous ones.
Hail Mary, hail Mary
full of grace. The Lord is with you.
Blessed art thou
among women and blessed is the fruit of
thy womb, Jesus. Holy Mary
mother of God, pray for
us sinners now and at the hour
of our death. Amen.
So that's the Hail Mary
prayer, right? And it's
also a play in football
where you throw the ball really deep in the last seconds
and try to score.
Hail Mary, like you're going
deep for one last shot at the
end zone, right? But
my grandpa, it's funny, he
I didn't know anything about the Catholic religion, but my grandpa
used to say this one. It's
Hail Mary full of grace, swing those beads
all over the place, swing them high, swing them low,
swing them Mary, go, go, go.
And like he always used to laugh when he would say that,
but my grandma would always be like,
Mary, you know, she'd be like, stop.
But they were Lutherans, so
you know,
but I always thought it was really funny when he would say it, but
you know, that's
kind of a diss or whatever, but to a Catholic
that's probably highly offensive, I guess, but
cause they take that stuff really seriously.
But it seems like they venerate
Mary more than they actually do Jesus
in reality.
So, here's another prayer
to Mary. Hail Holy
Queen, Mother
of Mercy. Our life, our
sweetness, and our hope.
To thee do we cry, poor
banished children of Eve. To thee
do we send up our sighs,
mourning and weeping in this valley
of tears. Turn then, most
gracious advocate.
I thought Jesus was our advocate. Anyway,
thine eyes of mercy toward
us, and after this our exile.
Show unto us the blessed
fruit of thy womb, Jesus.
O Clement, O loving,
O sweet Virgin Mary.
So, they have just a
number of these prayers. There's more than that, but
that's all I have the stomach to actually
read, so. Now,
I want you to turn to Jeremiah chapter 17,
or Jeremiah chapter 7,
and the Bible
kind of makes mention of
another Queen of Heaven,
which I think is the actual
Queen of Heaven that the Catholic
Church is really invoking.
Because the real Mary
is not a virgin anymore.
She's not the Queen of Heaven.
She never has been the Queen of Heaven.
These are titles that they're pronouncing
upon Mary, and
she's not a perpetual virgin. She's
still not a virgin today. She's had multiple
children, and she's
not sinless,
like they say, and we can't pray
to her for anything, because
the only advocate we have is Jesus Christ.
But,
look at Jeremiah chapter 7,
verse 17, it says,
Seest thou not what they do
in the cities of Judah, in the streets
of Jerusalem? The children gather
wood, and the fathers kindle the fire,
and the women need
their dough to make cakes
to the Queen of Heaven.
See, the Queen of Heaven's been around a long time,
but the real Queen of Heaven
that the Catholics
are actually praying to is a demon.
It's a devil.
It's not Mary. They can call her
Mary all they want, but this Queen
of Heaven, see, they're calling
Mary the Queen of Heaven, but they're just really
invoking this other Queen
of Heaven who's an actual demon.
Because anyone, any devil,
any god or any other person
that they're praying to that's not
the Father through the Lord Jesus Christ,
they're praying to a devil.
That's what the New Testament teaches.
That they're serving and worshiping
other gods, they're devils.
Okay? And so,
what's God say? They make cakes to the Queen of Heaven
and to pour out drink
offerings unto other gods
that they may provoke me
to anger. So, how does God feel about
it? When you pray to some
other god, or you serve some
other god, or you make
cakes for the Queen of Heaven,
well, it says it provokes God to anger.
And then what's God do when he's angry?
About things like this, look at verse 19.
Do they provoke me to anger, saith the Lord?
Do they not provoke themselves to the
confusion of their own faces?
Like, these people that say that they love
the Lord, or they're believers in God,
and they're actually praying to
demons? Praying to devils?
I mean,
talk about confusing.
You're saying that you believe in God,
but you're praying to something that you're not supposed
to be praying to? You're praying
to saints, supposedly, but those are devils
too!
And you're like, well, Pastor Thompson, that's ridiculous.
They're saints!
No, they're not. Mother Teresa
is roasting in hell, folks.
She's not saved.
Just do some research
on her little hospital in Calcutta
and how she really was,
and all the wicked things that were done under
her watch.
You know,
just check it out for yourself.
There's a lot of wicked things that were going on
with that whole deal. Anyway, verse 20.
Therefore, thus saith the Lord, behold
mine anger and 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 it
shall burn, and shall not
be quenched. What's the fire that shall
not be quenched? It's hell, isn't it?
You want to pray to Mary?
Well, you know where you're going to end up? You're going to
end up in hell.
You're going to end up in hell.
Look, we don't want people to go to hell. We want Catholics
to go to heaven. But they need to know
what they're
believing in is wrong.
So, I mean, obviously, if you're going to
get people saved, you don't have to
deliver it like this. As a matter of fact, you
should be nice to Catholics, and I wouldn't
bring all this stuff up until the end.
Give them the Catholic ending or whatever,
and just let them know, hey,
you know that what I
just taught you is different than
what they're teaching at your church.
I've even had someone, after I got
them saved, said, but I'm still
Catholic, though.
Well, if you just got saved, you're not still Catholic. You might
think you are, but you're not.
So, but to some people,
it's not just
a religion, it's also a way of
life. Some religion
and family
and tradition are tied together
very deeply in the roots
of these people, and
the Catholic religion is just part of
who they are. And they don't
see it
for what it really is, just
wickedness. They're like, well, I'm Mexican. Well, you know
what, I'm also Catholic.
And, you know,
whatever religion that just, there's some
nationalities that are just drawn
like Spain is just like a
stronghold for Catholicism.
France is a stronghold
for Catholicism.
Obviously, Mexico
is a stronghold for Catholicism.
I think Canada is a
stronghold for Catholicism. I don't even know if they're
anything anymore, but
lots of different places.
Brazil, I think,
is a stronghold for Catholicism.
But it's definitely
lost its hold that it used to have.
And all this wickedness has come out.
But it's interesting in the Book of Revelation
how it talks about this woman
that
says she's
a virgin, and really
she's the mother of harlots and abominations of the earth.
It's pretty interesting, isn't it?
But she says
she sits as a
queen.
I mean, there's definitely some ties
to the Roman Catholic Church
with the end time religion
of the Babylon religion.
So, but anyway, let me move on here.
In 375 AD
veneration of angels and dead
saints kind of came into play
is the history that I have found.
I'm not sure if that's, you know,
people are going to be like, oh, that's not what this
book says or whatever. That's just what I
found, okay? So,
recently, I watched a video
that was posted in our SFBC
Seattle group, and I
think, yeah, it got posted by one of
the brothers up there, but it was
a little short video about
Saint Jude's arm
being on display in
Orange County, California. Did anybody watch that?
Anybody see that?
So, Saint Jude is what they're
calling the Apostle Jude, which was
the Lord's brother,
after, no, his brother didn't
believe on him until after
the resurrection. And so,
but anyway, in the
video, there's lines of
people, thousands of people lined up in Orange
County, California, which is in past when he is
neck of the woods,
and so they have this arm
bone. It's like a forearm,
like right here. It's just like a piece of forearm,
so it has the two bones that are here,
and it's encased in
like a, it's in like a gold
case with a golden
hand, and like it has see-through glass
right here, but it's encased in glass, too, and you can just
see the bone, and it's like doing
the crypt sign or whatever, you know,
like this. I think that's the Catholic
sign or whatever, I don't know. I call it a
crypt sign, but
it's encased in that, and then it's encased
in glass, and you have all these people walking
up, and everybody gets to take their turn to walk up,
and like in the video, it showed this
lady walk up with her phone,
and then her
prayer card or whatever it was,
and she bowed down on her knees,
and cried and prayed or whatever
for this golden arm
bone
encased in gold or whatever,
and I just thought, how
bizarre is that? I mean,
and then you got these
reporters, they're like all, they're all excited
about it. All these thousands of people
there, so there's so many thousands of people that were having to turn people
away, because this is the first time St.
Jude's arm has ever been to the United States, as
far as anybody knows.
They came all the way from Italy,
it's making its way on a tour around
the nation, and there's literally thousands
of people lining up to look
at this bone from this person's
arm that they say is St.
Jude. How do they know it's St. Jude? I don't know
if there's a certificate of authenticity
on it or what.
Here, you know, here was Jude or whatever.
It's probably actually the bone of a
Baptist they killed in the Inquisition in reality,
or some, you know,
they just, one of the basements that they
hid their bodies in or something,
and they're just, you know, this is the
kind of stuff that they've done for years that
you know, this is why the Reformation
happened, folks, is that all these little
indulgences and all this weird stuff
that the Roman Catholics did,
but
the reporter says,
yeah, the, you know, he's
St. Jude, one of the twelve apostles,
da-da-da-da-da, and
I was like, wait a second,
Jude isn't one of the apostles?
Like, what are you talking about?
And I was just like, am I wrong about this? So I looked it up,
and of course I should have known I was
right about this, but
look at Matthew chapter ten,
Matthew chapter ten, and
it's going to list the apostles for us, there's a few places
in the Scriptures where you're going to find the list of the
apostles, but I just went to the first one
I could find, and the funny thing is
that the Catholic priest that
was being interviewed by this reporter
doesn't, he doesn't correct
him, he doesn't say, oh no,
he wasn't one of the twelve apostles,
he agrees with them,
just acts like, yeah, yeah, you're
right, you know, he is one of the twelve apostles or whatever.
Look at what Matthew ten two says,
now the names of the twelve apostles are these,
the first Simon, who is called Peter,
and Andrew, and his brother James,
and the son of Zebedee, and John,
his brother Philip, and Bartholomew, Thomas,
and Matthew the publican, James the
son of Alphaeus, and
Lebaaeus, whose surname is
Thaddeus, Simon the Canaanite,
and Judas Iscariot, who also
betrayed him. Did you catch Jude in there
anywhere? Did you all catch
Jude there? You know why you didn't
catch Jude in there?
Because he's not one of the twelve apostles.
That's why.
He's not one of the twelve apostles, so
you've got thousands of people lining
up to look at this
golden arm that's throwing up the crypt sign
in Anaheim, California,
you know,
praying and bowing
down to a bone from somebody's
arm. This
is the ridiculousness
of the Catholic religion.
Superstition and foolishness,
and this
guy, you know what he's talking about? He's saying,
well, one time this guy got
lowered down in
second kings, lowered down on
Elisha's bones, and he came back to life.
And so this bone might
be able to put some blessings
upon people's lives.
It's like,
like, the napkin
of Paul healed people
in the New Testament, and
Peter's shadow cast upon people
healed them. It's like, yeah, those are special
miracles that were done by the apostles.
But it doesn't say to travel
around with a bone
from their arm, and
have people bow down to
an arm made out of gold,
and pray to that arm.
Pray to Saint Jude's
arm that blessings
will happen in your life.
You know, we've got, what, fifty,
sixty people in here tonight, and
they've got thousands of people lining up
to worship this superstitious
piece of bone.
And, you know,
it's like, well, yeah, because
no, it's because people hate the truth.
They love lies.
They love being lied to.
But it's important for us to
reach the Catholics.
And, you know, again, a hard sermon like this
might not be the best one to play for them,
but we need to be equipped
on how to reach them, and to know what they
believe, so that we can counter the things
that, you know, we don't have to be the
world's best apologist
against Roman Catholicism, but to
know some of the things that they believe is
important for us, at least a little bit,
especially because it's a huge religion
in the United States, and in
other places you'll go. The last thing
I want to bring up is
that, you know, Mary wants
to, for Catholics, Mary wants
you to call upon Jesus along to save you.
So, you know,
Catholics have all these different ways of being saved,
but the Bible just has one way of being saved.
Once you get to the point where you
have faith, you call upon him to
save you. Turn to Acts chapter 4, but
Romans chapter 10 verse 13, I'm not going to have you
turn there for sake of time,
but Romans chapter 10, 13
says, for whosoever shall call upon
the name of the Lord shall be saved.
Now,
what's the name of the Lord?
Is it Mary? Is it
Jude's golden arm?
No, it's not.
Look at Acts chapter 4 verse 10, it says,
Be it known unto you all
and to all the people
of Israel, that by the name of Jesus
Christ of Nazareth, whom you
crucified, whom God raised
from the dead, even by him
doth this man stand
here before you whole.
This is the stone which was set at naught
of you builders, which has become the head
of the corner. Neither is there
salvation in any other,
for there is none other name under
heaven given among men whereby
we must be saved.
The only name that we are saved by
on this earth,
in the New Testament, is what?
Jesus Christ.
So when we, and look, this is real important folks,
when you're out preaching the
gospel, you
lead them in a prayer, you're
helping them call
upon Jesus for salvation.
Okay? Now obviously
Jesus,
God the Father, the Holy Spirit,
are all God,
but what does the Bible say
the name is that you're supposed to
get saved by? Jesus, right?
So it's not
Mary. It's not
anybody else. It's nobody
that the Catholics think you should be calling
upon. It's just Jesus.
First Timothy chapter 2 verse 5
is the last place I'll have you turn and we'll be done.
First Timothy chapter 2
verse 5.
And this is, you know, something that the
Catholics really need to get straight.
Because
they'll say that Mary is the mediatrix.
They'll say that we need to go
to her so Jesus doesn't get mad and slap
us around or whatever. And
we need to ask her for
her tender mercies and to pray for us
when we're about to die or whatever.
And I didn't put
the rosary prayer in here because it was just too long.
But they'll like
teach you how to pray the rosary
where you count certain beads and all this other stuff.
And like they give more
credence to Mary's
you know, Hail Mary prayers
than to God the Father himself.
Just shows that they put the queen of heaven
above God.
And above Jesus.
First Timothy chapter 2 verse 5
the Bible says, for there is one
God and one mediator
between God and men
Mary the mother of Jesus.
Is that what it says?
No, it says the man Christ Jesus.
He's our high priest.
He's our mediator. He's our go-between
between God the Father
and we go to
God the Father but we pray
through Jesus the Son.
It says, who gave himself a ransom
for all to be testified
in due time where unto
I am ordained a preacher
and an apostle I speak the truth in Christ
and lie not a teacher
of the Gentiles in faith and
verity.
Mary has a message for
all Catholics today. Listen
to whatever Jesus says.
Let's pray. Lord we thank you so much
for the Scriptures tonight.
I pray that you just help us
to reach many Catholics Lord
and even today they're still confused
about many things.
And this whole St. Jude's arms
stuff. Lord I pray that you just help
us to be a light to the Catholics
that need to be saved Lord
and help us to
be ready to deal with them and
understand a little bit about what they believe.
Help us to teach
them that they shouldn't be praying to
anybody else besides Jesus.
They can't be saved by anybody else
but Jesus the only way to be saved
is through Jesus and
by having faith in him
and that works will never save them
and Lord we pray all these things
in Jesus' precious name. Amen.
...
Since the Savior found me
pardon all my sin
I have had
the joy and living
hope within
gone is all the shame
and sorrow of the
past there underneath
the precious blood of
Christ at last
saved, saved,
saved I'm happy
on the way
saved, saved, saved
I love him more each day
saved, saved,
saved I know
he's mine each hour
he saves and keeps and
sanctifies me by his
power
since the Savior found me
all to him I owe
for his precious
blood has washed
me white as snow
now no condemnation
happy as can be
I'm glad
that Jesus justifies
and sets me free
saved, saved,
saved I'm happy
on the way
saved, saved,
saved I love him more
each day
saved, saved,
saved I know he's mine each hour
he saves and keeps
and sanctifies me by
his power
since the Savior found me
I have perfect
rest
living in the realms
of joy and happiness
leaning on
my Savior
looking for that day
when he shall come to
catch his waiting bright
away
saved, saved, saved
I'm happy on the way
saved, saved,
saved I love
him more each day
saved, saved, saved
I know he's mine
each hour
he saves and keeps
and sanctifies me by
his power
thank you for joining us this Sunday
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