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So, actually my sermon is called Abominations of the Catholic Church. So when we have the first, what we see here, actually a lot of this chapter is dealing with other things, but the thing to look at is verse 16. Verse 16, it says, These six things that the Lord hate, yea, seven, are an abomination unto him, a proud look, a lying tongue, and hands that shed innocent blood, and heart that deceiveth wicked imaginations, feet that be swift and running to mischief, a false witness that speaketh lies, and he that soweth discord among brethren. So seven of these things, I believe that's just a phrase, I believe he hates them all. Abomination just means something you detest. So that's just another way of saying hate. But God hates these seven things, right? And I'll submit to you that I believe the Catholic Church is guilty of all seven. Now I don't have time to go through every single point as far as where they break these or where God would say he hates this part about the Catholic Church. But the Catholic Church, the reason why you say, why are you bringing this up? Why are you so mean to it as the Catholic Church? First of all, I grew up Catholic. And so you could say, well, you hate something you don't understand. Now I understand. I've been there, okay? And I don't need to be in it. It's kind of like one of those things where you don't need to put your head underneath a semi truck and know you're not going to like it. And you don't need to go into something or into a cult or into some wicked religion in order to understand what it's about and what they teach and what they do. But I happen to have firsthand knowledge as far as the Catholic Church, as far as just what their doctrines are, okay? Now what I want to first go into is the fact of, okay, why do I even bring this up? Well, because the Catholic Church has 1.2 billion followers, 1.2 billion. So if you look at, okay, if you look at a population map as far as like the different religions in the world, there's about seven or eight billion people in the world. And they'll say, well, 2.4 billion claim to be Christian. So Christian would be like the number one religion as far as percentage of the population of the world. But half of that is Catholic, okay? And so I want to go into what does the Catholic Church teach? Where do they come from? Because a lot of, there's a lot of misconceptions. And actually Brother Anthony, he knows where I'm coming from because he grew up Catholic. And he actually preached a little sermon on our preaching night that kind of was like a little abridged version. But you know what? I could be here, I could do a whole series on the things that are wrong with the Catholic Church. But I first want to get out some misconceptions because what they teach, what the Catholic Church teaches is that they have been since Peter, since the very first church with Christ on the rock. And that the Catholic Church is the one true church that's always been there and that, you know, that's the unbroken chain, so to speak. But truthfully, that's not the case. Obviously, we don't believe that Peter was the first pope, I'll get into that. But the thing is is that the Catholic Church, what you have to understand is the Roman Catholic Church, and when they say 1.2 billion, that's what they're talking about is the Roman Catholic Church. The Roman Catholic Church didn't start until 380 AD. So 380 AD, there was an emperor of Rome called Theodosius, which you don't need to know that, but you know, if you want to look up the history of this. He made that the state religion, okay? So at 380 AD, he made that the universal church, the Catholic Church, and they used that as a signifier, you know, for their church as far as the church. And a lot of times you'll see it as like capital C Church, but Catholic means universal. That's what the word means. And so they say it's the all-encompassing church, which we reject, we believe in local churches, and we don't believe in this all-encompassing church that like the church, even the churches I love and hold to and the church I was sent out from in Morgantown, we're not a part of their church. Because church means congregation, and if you can tell me that I'm congregated with that church right now, I'll call you crazy, because we're not a congregation. And so we're all saved, right? You know, we could have different people that are in different churches that are saved, but it wouldn't be a congregation. And so that's one big point as far as why Catholic Church is wrong. But 380 AD is when it was made a state religion, meaning that Rome, that was their, you know, you look at the Middle East and they have like their state religion of Islam, right? Whereas that's what the state recognizes as their religion. And so Rome had a state religion of 380 AD, starting in 380 AD. Now before that, you ever heard of Constantine the Great? You probably heard of this guy that, you know, he put on his shields like crosses. He had like this vision, where, you know, God told him, you know, put crosses on your shields and you're going to win this victory and win this battle, right? Well, so he, you know, had this vision and all this stuff, and I don't believe he was saved, okay? Look, if you read the writings of Constantine right before he died and all this stuff, you would not, if you believe in salvation by grace through faith, you would say this guy's lost, okay? But this guy made Christianity, if you know history, after the fall of Jerusalem and all that stuff, the Roman Empire really started to persecute Christians. And you probably heard of the stories of where they threw them into like into the Colosseum with the lions and all that stuff. And so Christians were being persecuted by Rome, and Constantine came in and made Christianity legal, okay? So basically it wasn't like, you know, you were breaking the law, punishable by death, all that stuff. So Constantine made it legal in 313. And he grabbed on to these bishops and these people that were a part of this, I'll say an apostate Christianity that was there at the time, okay? And have you ever heard the Council of Nicaea? The reason I bring this stuff up is because when I go out soul winning, this is what I hear, is the Catholics gave us our Bible, Council of Nicaea, right? Is that this big council where they got together and they said, okay, Matthew, Mark, Luke and John, that's in the Bible, this is in the Bible, this is in the Bible, this isn't in the Bible, and that's just a complete lie, okay? So what's the Council of Nicaea? The Council of Nicaea is something that Constantine put together where he invited like a thousand or so bishops of churches to come together and decide on certain doctrines, okay? And so this was in 325. So in 313 he made it legal so you're not going to be like thrown into a den of lions for being a Christian, okay? But then in 325 he organized this council, it's called the First Council of Nicaea. And so it was just in the Bethanyan city of Nicaea, that's why it's called that. And so he invited 1800 bishops and they were in the Roman Empire, okay? Now think about this. What if we, what if the President of the United States today said, we're going to have the Council of America, or the Council of Washington, D.C., and he invited all the bishops and all the pastors of America. Does that sound like it's a good idea? Think about it. Just in today's age, do you think that's a good idea? Do you think you're going to get some good doctrine out of that? Who are the first people that are going to invite? Joel Osteen, you know, like all these, you know, what's the guy from Brokeback, I mean Saddleback Church, what's his name? Rick Warren, they'll invite Rick Warren and all these other like big names, and I can't think Charles Stanley, all these other people that are like big name preachers out there, T.D. Jakes, you know, like all these people, these compromises, these unsaved, you know, false prophets out there, and they're going to invite them obviously first because they're most well known, but then they're going to invite all these other people from Methodist, from the Episcopalians, from the Apostolics, to the Catholics. Do you think that's going to be a good idea? Do you think that's where we should get our doctrine from? Do you think it was any different back there in 325 A.D. to get all these pastors and bishops together? It's called ecumenicalism, okay? This was like one of the first like, you know, recorded, so to speak, of like an ecumenical council where they're bringing all these churches together and pastors. What's funny about this is he invited the 18 bishops and just about 300 showed up, okay? So you obviously didn't get, can you imagine, you know, if they called a council today, do you think they're going to call me up? Do you think they're going to call Pastor Anderson up? Do you think they're going to call the people up that they can't stand? And so, you think the Baptists back then were invited to this council? And let's say they were invited, do you think they'd show up to this? I mean, not unless I'm going to go and throw down on them, you know, and like tell them where they're just wrong on something. But I don't want to be involved in that. And so, it's just an ecumenical movement and the Council of Nicaea, okay, so what they did there? You say, well, what was it all about? Well, they basically had certain subjects that they wanted to get across or wanted to nail down, right? And it says its main accomplishments were settlement of the Christological issue of divine nature of God, the Son and his relationship with the Father, so the Trinity. I'll say this, the Catholic Church got that right, okay? So you know, when you're going through these canons in this Council of Nicaea where they come up with these canons, so to speak, or these doctrines of the church, some of them are okay. They were against Calvinism and I was like, well, amen, you know, like there's certain things, I mean, a blind squirrel finds a nut every once in a while, but one thing the Catholic Church did get right is the Trinity and, you know, God's eternal, you know, Jesus Christ is God and he's eternal and that he didn't have a beginning. So they were settling that. The construction of the first part of the Council of Nicaea, the Nicaean Creed, okay, and what's interesting about this is this is a Catholic thing, you know, where they'd say we believe in the Father and the Son and the Holy Ghost and, you know, and it goes through this whole thing and we believe in the one holy apostolic Catholic Church. Now that was something said in the Catholic Church, but you know what, I sat in a Methodist church one time where they said that. I'm like, I thought you were a Methodist, didn't you have a Reformation, right? And so the Nicaean Creed, okay, that's where this came from, where they, it's like, okay, of course we believe in the Father and the Son and the Holy Ghost, did they go around the table and be like, all right, do we believe in the Father? Yes, we believe in the Father, all right, write that one down. Do we believe in the Son? Yes, we believe in the Son, write that one down. So they had this Creed and obviously I'm against the Catholic Church part of it, but obviously I believe in the Father, Son and the Holy Ghost. So they had that Creed, that was one thing that they accomplished and it says establishing uniform observance of the date of Easter, okay, so they were trying to figure out when do we have Easter. That's a big deal, that's not a big deal, okay, so I don't really care, if we celebrate Easter on the same Sunday or same day every year, I wouldn't care, because it's really about, it's like Christmas, do we really know when Jesus was born? Probably not December 25th, but I'll say this, you got a one in 365 day chance that it is December 25th, so there is a chance, it was on there, but it's not the point, right, it's not about like, wow, this is definitely the day, it's the fact that you're remembering it and you're celebrating it and all that stuff, so. So he invites all these people, only 300 showed up, but the one part where people are really trying to say, well, this is where they made the Bible, and if you're reading and you don't really understand what they're saying with it, you'd maybe say that, it says the promulgation of early canon law. Now when you think of canon, okay, that's when you usually think of the canon of the Bible. Canon means something that's like set in stone, it's basically like that's what it is, right, and it's legitimate. And so when we say the canon of the 66 books of the Bible, we mean that that's scripture, everything else is not, right. Now what people will take from that and say, well, this is where they decided, okay, Genesis is in the Bible, Leviticus is in the Bible, you know, Numbers is in the Bible, and you know, the gospel according to Thomas is not in the Bible, you know, I'm just throwing out, you know, that's what they think this is about, but actually, they talk about what they were even doing with that. It says the council promulgated 20 new church laws called canons. It says though the exact number is subject to debate, that is unchanging rules of discipline. So when it says that they established canons of law, that's what they're talking about, like basically how they're going to do certain things in the church, okay. And actually, I'll show you because there's another council I'm going to bring up, the Council of Trent, where I'm going to show you some of their canons, okay, so it's like their statement, it's almost like a statement of faith, right. You know, I have a statement of faith, you know, if you go on the website, statement of faith, we believe the King James Bible was the inspired, preserved word of God in the English language. We believe that salvation is by faith alone, without works. We believe, you know, that we believe in the Father, Son, and the Holy Ghost, these three are one, and there's this whole statement of faith, right. That's not scripture, it's not like I, you know, I'm inspired by God when I wrote that on my website, right, but that's what you would call a canon of law or a statement of faith. And so these canons are more like statements of faith, this is how we do things, right. This is what we believe. And so, but, you know, their idea is the fact that, okay, we started from the beginning, you know, the Catholic Church is from the very beginning. Well, go to 2 Peter chapter 2, 2 Peter chapter 2. Did you know that there was false teachers back in Jesus' day? Did you know there was false teachers and false religions before Jesus' day? Do you know there's always been false religions? And so the idea, as far as like there's this apostate Christianity, you know that's in the Bible, you know that's in scriptures, where there were people that were false apostles, there were people that believed that the resurrection had passed already, there's all these things that Paul and the other apostles and all those that are writing in the Bible are saying stay away from these people, they are teaching a false gospel, they're perverting the gospel, they're teaching you got to be circumcised, all this stuff, right. And so this was back in their days, so to think that, okay, well, there's this church that's apostate now, we would say, right, the Catholic Church, to say, well, that was all the way back, it could have been. I'm not against that, but to say that it's the true church, you know, it's completely against scripture, obviously. But 2 Peter chapter 2, and just remember this, in verse 1 it says, but there were false prophets also among the people, even as there shall be false teachers among you, who privily shall bring in damnable heresies, even denying the Lord that bought them, and bring upon themselves with destruction. You know, it's no different, today we have the same thing, we have wolves coming in, we have people teaching false doctrines, damnable heresies, and it was the same back then. Do you know they were corrupting the word of God back then? That's why Paul said we are not as many as corrupt the word of God. So you find that with the Latin Vulgate, which is what the Catholic Church used, and that's where they got their Dewey Reems Bible, and they get all these weird doctrines from that. So obviously they were corrupting the word of God even back then, and there was an apostate Christianity back then. That's why he, I warned you night and day with tears about these people back then. Now let's touch on Peter being the first Pope, okay? So go to Matthew chapter 16, this is where they're going to get this from, okay? Now Pope, you know what Pope means? It comes from the Greek word like papal or papas, which means father. So Pope is, they call the Pope, another way to say it in English is they say Holy Father, and he's the Bishop of Rome, okay? So that's the office, the Bishop of Rome, and he's called the Pope, okay? So Rome is kind of like their headquarters, the Vatican, right? And so he's the Bishop of Rome, and he's called the Pope or Father. And so we're going to get into that, but Matthew 16 verse 15, this is where they're going to get this from as far as Peter being the first Pope, or being the first leader of the church so to speak. Verse 15 it says, he saith unto them, but whom say ye that I am? And Simon Peter answered and said, Thou art the Christ, the Son of the living God. And Jesus answered and said unto him, Blessed art thou, Simon Barjona, for flesh and blood hath not revealed it unto thee, but my Father which is in heaven. And I say also unto thee, that thou art Peter, and upon this rock I will build my church, and the gates of hell shall not prevail against it. And I will give unto thee the keys of the kingdom of heaven, and whatsoever thou shalt bind on earth shall be bound in heaven, and whatsoever thou shalt loose on earth shall be loosed in heaven. And so this is where you're going to get this, is that basically God or Jesus gave these keys to Peter alone, and says you have the ability to bind and loose things on heaven and earth, meaning that you have this all encompassing authority to basically state whether someone's saved or not, or whether this is true or this is wrong. And so this is where they get it from, and they say well see Peter is the rock. Well Peter doesn't mean rock, it means stone first of all, and this is where if you get to do Urim's Bible, then they're going to change it to rock, but Peter, you can think about Peter or petro, you know like you think of oil, like the petrodollar, or the pet, you know petroleum, you know petroleum engineer or something like that, that means rock. So petroleum, you know or, what do they do, they frack, what do they do, and they're going into the rock or into the stone in order to get that out of there. So first of all, you don't have to turn there, you can go to Matthew chapter 18, so you're going to go to Matthew 16, go to Matthew chapter 18, but the Bible defines what his name means, and so it says in John 1 42, and it says, and he brought him to Jesus, and when Jesus beheld him, he said, thou art Simon the son of Jonah, thou shalt be called Cephas, which is by interpretation a stone. And so, every word of God is pure, and if God wanted it to say rock, it would say rock, okay, first of all, but what's being said there first of all is the fact that he said thou art the Christ, the son of the living God, and Jesus said upon this rock. So he's almost kind of like saying, hey, your name even means stone, it's kind of like, it's almost like a coincidence that you're saying the doctrine that the church stands on, which is that Jesus Christ is the son of God. That's the foundation. Whosoever believeth that Jesus is the Christ is born of God. You know, that's the foundation, you know, when we were talking about baptism today, it says what doth hinder me to be baptized, and Philip said, if thou believeth with all thine heart thou mayest, and the Ethiopian eunuch said, I believe that Jesus Christ is the son of God. That's the foundation to salvation. That's the foundation to the church. What's the foundation? There's no other foundation which is laid, and that is laid, and it's Jesus Christ. He is the rock. He is the foundation. He's the head of the church. Not Peter. I'm not the head of the church. I'm the pastor. I'm a bishop, but I'm not the head of this church. I'm a member just like you, and I basically am an under shepherd of the true shepherd. I'm an under overseer of the overseer, but in Matthew chapter 18 it clarifies this because that whole idea of what's bound in heaven, what you bind here on earth will be bound here in heaven, right? Well, it's singular tense with Peter, but notice what it says in Matthew 18. Matthew 18 verse 15, it says, Moreover, if thy brother shall trespass against thee, go and tell him his fault between thee and him alone. If he shall hear thee, thou hast gained thy brother. But if he will not hear thee, then take with thee one or two more, that in the mouth of two or three witnesses every word may be established, and if he shall neglect to hear them, tell it unto the church. But if he neglect to hear the church, let him be unto thee as an heathen man and a publican. Verily I say unto you, Whatsoever ye shall bind on earth shall be bound in heaven, and whatsoever ye shall loose on earth shall be loosed in heaven. Again, I say unto you, that if two of you shall agree on earth as touching anything that they shall ask, it shall be done for thee 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. So this is talking about a church matter, and notice here it's plural. It's not just Peter. Because anybody in the church has this, you know what this shows you is the authority of the church to basically throw someone out, okay? Or to forgive sin, right? So basically what it's saying, go to John chapter 20 because it's going to say it in a little different manner, is that here at the church, if someone were to sin, and there are certain sins that you can commit to where church discipline takes the case. First Corinthians 15 talks about fornication, a covetous person, an extortioner, and stuff like that. There are certain lists, and obviously we're all sinners, but there are certain sins that are a little worse than others, and so those sins we can take disciplinary action. But it's also our authority, what he's saying is I'm putting it into your hands to determine when you can forgive them or when you can cast them out, right? Because in Revelation chapter 2, dealing with Thyatira, he told the woman Jezebel that was committing adultery and fornication with all these people, he said, I gave her a space to repent. So God gave her a space to repent, and it's in the church's hands to say, okay, how much space are we going to give this person to be able to get this right before we throw them out? Or how much space out there do we give them before we bring them back in? It's dealing with the flesh here. We're dealing with things that are here in this life and dealing with forgiving people in the church. And so Matthew 16 and 18 is dealing with that issue. We're talking about the church. We're talking about the administration of the church. But John 20, and even in that Matthew 18, it's talking about if thy brother trespass against thee. We're not talking about heaven and hell here. We're talking about someone sinned against you. They rammed into your car or they stole money from you or something like that, right? And so that's what we're dealing with. John chapter 20 verse 21, it says, then said Jesus, so verse 21, then said Jesus to them again, peace be unto you as my father has sent me, even so send I you. And when he had said this, he breathed on them and said, said unto them, receive ye the Holy Ghost whosoever sends you remit, they were remitted unto them and whosoever sends you retain, they are retained. See how it makes sense when you're dealing with the church and you're dealing with disputes within the church and how that power is given into the members of the church to say, okay, we're going to forgive you or we're going to cast you out for a little bit until you get that right. And this isn't saying that I go out and I'm like, my son, your sins be remitted, okay? You're absolved of all your sins. And so that's what they're trying to say with Peter. And they'll say, well, Peter, Peter was the first Pope. He was the first Bishop of the church. It's inconsistent with a whole bunch of scriptures because how about this? Peter had a wife and he had to have children because he was a Bishop. Go to Matthew chapter 8, you're in Matthew, or you're in John, I'm sorry, but Matthew chapter 8, Peter was married. I personally believe that Mark was his son because in 1 Peter, at the end of 1 Peter it says, so doth Mark as my son. He's talking about saluting the churches that is at Babylon and so doth Mark as my son. And I believe he had children and Mark was there from the beginning because obviously he's with his dad, Peter, and that's my personal belief on that. Now it could be a son in faith, meaning like he won him to Christ, but I personally believe that was one of his sons. But either way, notice what it says in Matthew 8 verse 14, it says, and when Jesus was come into Peter's house, he saw his wife's mother laid in sick of a fever. So he has a mother-in-law, he better have a wife somewhere in there, right? So it's his wife's mother, right? And another place that talks about his mother-in-law, right? And so he has a wife, and it's in present tense that it says that, go to Titus chapter 1. The qualifications to be a bishop is you must be married, you must be the husband of one wife and have faithful children. You know, I wanted to pastor for a long time, but I wasn't qualified. I have two little girls now, but I didn't start pastoring until I had children, until I was married and had children, right? And so I don't believe in pastoring a church without meeting those qualifications. I believe there's a reason for those qualifications. And so in Titus 1, and I'm going to show you, because I want to show you a correlation. Elder, pastor, bishop, these are all three terms that represent the same office. And they're all three terms that mean something a little different. Pastor means like a shepherd of the flock, bishop means overseer, and elder means like an elder as far as not a novice, right? Someone who's elder as far as spiritual understanding, right? They don't have to be old, right? They don't have to be like, you know, so I'm 33 years old. I don't consider myself old, I don't consider, I wouldn't say, you know, don't put an elder badge on me over here and say, you know, I, you know, I'm not like old, but spiritually speaking, you don't send someone out that doesn't know anything about the Bible, okay? And so, but in Titus chapter 1 verse 5, it says, for this cause, left I be in Crete, that thou shouldest set in order the things that are wanting and ordain elders in every city as I had appointed thee. If any be blameless, the husband of one wife, having faithful children, not accused of riot or unruly. Notice verse 7, for a bishop must be blameless as the steward of God, not self-willed, not soon angry, not given a wine, and no striker, not greedy of filthy lucre, but a lover of hospitality, a lover of good men, sober, just, holy, temperate, holding fast the faithful word as he hath been taught that he may be able by sound doctor both to exhort and convince the gainsayers. That's one passage, but then you have 1 Timothy chapter 3 where it says the same exact thing, and it says, if you know not how to rule your own house, how shall you take care of the church of God? That's the prerequisite for being a pastor is the fact that you're taking care of your own house first. And it's like this training ground to get you ready for the house of God. And so, tell me again that Peter was the first pope when he had children and he was an elder. And you say, well, where does it say that he's an elder or whatever? First Peter chapter 5. Go to First Peter chapter 5 and verse 1. So either he's illegitimate as far as meeting the qualifications or he actually had a wife and children. Okay? And I say this because all the priests in the Catholic church, the Roman Catholic church, they can't have a wife, they can't have children. You know why they do that, by the way? Because then they can't own anything. They don't have any property. And basically, if they were to leave that, they don't have any attachments to it, right? The overall arcing elites of that church wanted to be that way for that reason. Not to mention, you know, we're going to get into the abominations. I call this the abominations of the Catholic church. We haven't got there yet. I'm just giving you the information at hand here as far as where this church came from. And first of all, this fallacy that Peter's the first pope. By the way, saying he's a pope is blasphemous. But 1 Peter 5, verse 1, it says, The elders which are among you I exhort, who am also an elder, and a witness of the sufferings of Christ, and also a partaker of the glory that shall be revealed. Feed the flock of God which is among you, taking the oversight thereof, not by constraint, but willingly, not for filthy lucre, but of a ready mind, neither as being lords over God's heritage, but being in samples to the flock. And when the chief shepherd shall appear, you shall receive a crown of glory that fadeth not away. So Peter is saying, hey, I'm exhorting you elders who am also an elder. He's saying I'm also an elder. And so I'm exhorting you as well. So Peter was a bishop. He was a bishop of a church. And I believe John also was an elder because in 2 John and 3 John it says the elder unto the well-beloved sister or the well-beloved Gaius. And so he called himself an elder. Not because he was just old, okay? He was calling himself an elder because he was a pastor, he was a bishop, okay? Now when it comes to the abominations, go to Ezekiel chapter 8. Ezekiel chapter 8. If I were to think about the Catholic church, when I read Ezekiel chapter 8, that's automatically what I'm thinking of, okay? Because the Catholic church has the most beautiful buildings out there, okay? I've been in the Catholic churches, okay? And all these stone cathedrals and just beautiful buildings. And you know, there's the stained, I was never really in the stained glass, okay? But you know, they have the stained glass windows and they have all these nice things. Everything is just marble, stone, precious metals, all this stuff. And so it's this very nice building. So those people out there that are looking for nice buildings, go be a Catholic because that's the best place for you, okay? As far as if you're just looking for a good building to be in, that's where you want to go. But Ezekiel chapter 8, this is a passage, okay, where God is showing him the inner parts of the people that were leading Israel. Because on the outside they look good. Remember the Pharisee says you're white in sepulchres, on the outside you look good, but inside you're dead men's bones. And so the Catholic church on the outside when you look at it and everybody looks pristine, the building looks pristine, everything looked beautiful. Everything when it comes to their doctrines is wickedness, it's filthiness, it's abomination. In verse 5 here, so Ezekiel 8, actually verse 1 just to get context, it says, And it came to pass in the sixth year, in the sixth month, in the fifth day of the month, as I sat in mine house, and the elders of Judah sat before me, that the hand of the Lord God fell there upon me. So notice God's coming and he brings them up by the lock of his head to show them this vision, okay? And verse 5, notice what it says, It says, Then said he unto me, Son of man, lift up thine eyes now the way toward the north. So I lifted up mine eyes the way toward the north, and behold, northward at the gate of the altar, this image of jealousy in the entry. And he said furthermore unto me, Son of man, seest thou what they do? Even the great abominations that the house of Israel committeth here, that I should go far off from my sanctuary? But turn thee yet again, and thou shalt see greater abominations. And he brought me to the door of the court, and when I looked, behold, a hole in the wall. Then said he unto me, Son of man, dig now in the wall. And when I had digged in the wall, behold a door. And he said unto me, Go in and behold the wicked abominations that they do here. And so it goes through all this stuff in verse 10 there, it says, So I went in and saw, and behold, every form of creeping things, and abominable beasts, and all the idols of the house of Israel portrayed upon the wall round about. And there stood before them seventy men of the ancients of the house of Israel, and in the midst of them stood Jazaniah, the son of Shaphan, with every man his censer in his hand, and a thick cloud of incense went up. Now when you think of the Catholic church, anybody that's been in there, incense, that's the first thing that hits you when you come into that building. Then said he unto me, Son of man, hast thou seen what the ancients of the house of Israel do in the dark? Every man in the chambers of his imagery? For they say, The Lord seeth us not. The Lord hath forsaken the earth. He said also unto me, Turn thee yet again, and thou shalt see greater abominations that they do. And he goes on and on, and forsaken time, I don't want to go through this whole chapter. For your homework, read Ezekiel chapter 8. And so, but he just keeps going, I'll show you more, I'll show you more. And basically what he says, he goes up to this wall, and he says, Dig into the wall and see what they're doing in there. And when it comes to the Catholic church, on the outside they look good, on the outside they're flowery. They don't sound like me. They don't have that leathery lung type of preaching, but on the inside they're dead men's bones and they're out to kill you. I mean they're out for your destruction. They promise you liberty, but they themselves are the servants of bondage. And so, the Catholic church inside, when you go into those walls, and here's the thing, I don't want to go into their walls. It's a shame to even speak of those things which are done of them in secret. But God Ezekiel, if you know the story of Ezekiel, I mean this is a prophet I don't want to be. If you know the story of as far as what God had him do, at the very beginning of the book and throughout the book, his wife died and he said you can't mourn for her. He had to lay on his side for over a year. He had to eat dung mixed with his bread. I don't want to be Ezekiel. When I think about like a prophet I want to be like Isaiah, that's a good one, Elijah, right? Ezekiel? No, I'll pass on that one. I just want to shake his hand when I get into heaven and be like thank you brother for doing what you did, but I'm glad I didn't have to do that. But he does all this stuff and he goes in and looks at all this wickedness, these abominations that they're doing, because on the outside they look like they're religious. They look like they're following the Bible. They look like they're of God, but inside they're worshipping devils. And that's what I think of when I think of the Catholic Church. And you say, well what are you talking about, pedophilia? The number one thing when you think of Catholic priests, what do you think of? Molesting children. I mean it's out in the open, it's constantly, that's what the constant battle is talking about is the fact of what are we going to do about these priests? What are we going to do about the pedophilia? What are we going to do about them molesting children? Stone with stones, that's what you should do instead of just allowing this to happen over and over and over again. But it's no surprise because when you read 2 Peter chapter 2, when you're dealing with false prophets and false religion, what are they talking about? Beguiling unstable souls, they're cursed children, and it says they cannot cease from sin. And when you think about reprobation, you think about the fact that usually when you're talking about people that are rejected by God, they knew the truth and they glorified them not as God. They held the truth of God in unrighteousness and became vain in their imaginations and their foolish heart was darkened. The people that are going to be the most evil are usually the closest to religion, closest to what the truth is. And so on the outside it looks okay, you know, they believe in the Trinity. They believe in the death, burial, and resurrection. And so it's something that you're just like on the outside it looks okay, it looks like not that bad. But that's actually some of the worst stuff. Rat poison is not mostly poison. It's mostly good food with a little bit of poison in there. That's the worst. You know, if someone came up and they said, hey, I want to come out with a satanic, you know, Bible, I'd be like, go for it, whatever you want to do. I mean, like, good luck trying to find someone to read that. The worst is when they take it and say it's the Holy Bible and it's the same as what it's always been, we just, you know, changed a little bit in it. We just made it easier to understand. That's worse. Do you see how that's more deceiving? And so the Catholic church is in there with that. How about sodomy? How about a lot of their priests are open homosexuals? How about the fact that they have a false gospel? I'm going to show you that. And you'll be like, well, you know, is that really true? Well, if you've ever gone out soul winning, you'll know that's true, okay? Now here's the thing. I don't hate Catholic people, because then I would have to hate myself. I would have had to hate myself, okay? Because I love Catholic people, and actually Catholic people are some of the easiest people to win to Christ, because they have that foundation as far as that Jesus is God and that he rose again the third day. They just need to understand that he paid for their sins, and they don't have to go to a priest to get it done. They don't have to trust in their church to get it done. But there's all these blasphemies. When you read about the great whore of Babylon and, you know, the mother of harlots, obviously there's a lot of key things that go into that. But you think about this, blasphemies that they commit. How about the fact that the pope is called the vicar of Christ? How about he's called the holy father? How about the fact that he, you know, basically, as a pope, there's called the papal infallibility, meaning that he can't make an error. He's sinless. And that whatever he says as far as doctrine and creeds is gospel truth. And so, you know, people want to assume that we're in a cult, you know, and I have members here in the church that are like, my family thinks I'm in a cult. Listen, we believe the Bible is our final authority. Not me. Okay? You need not that any man teach you, but as the same anointing teaches you of all things and is truth and is no lie, and even as it hath taught you, you shall abide in him. You do not need me to teach you the Bible. But the word of God has been manifested through preaching. That's why I become the church. Because if someone already figured out something, I want to probably hear what they have to say. But then I'm going to go to the Bible myself with the Holy Ghost inside of me and discern whether that's right. You know what a cult is? It's where you follow a man, you know, above God's word. And that's what the Catholic Church does. They don't want to usually admit that. But in their own dogma, in their own creed, the Catholic Church's doctrine trumps, they make the interpretation. You can't. That's been their dogma since the beginning. What do you think the Dark Ages were about? Why do you think they burned people at the stake before having an English Bible? Do you know it was around 10,000 people that were burned alive or burned at the stake or they were strangled, then burned, for just having the Bible in English, for trying to translate it in English? Why? They wanted to keep you ignorant about what the Bible actually said and they wanted you just to go off their authority. That's a cult. A cult is where you're following a man and whatever he says is true. Listen, if I ever say anything that's not in the Bible or you're saying that completely contradicts the Bible, then don't listen to me. You know, show it to me. This is not Pastor Jason's doctrine church. This is supposed to be Christ is the head. I'm the under shepherd and if I'm wrong I need to be reproved. And so that's a cult. Now there's other blasphemies. How about the fact that they call Mary the Queen of Heaven? The Queen of Heaven. I think I remember reading that. And go to Jeremiah chapter 7. Jeremiah chapter 7. You say, well, that's a myth, you know. That's just what people are. It's like this conspiracy. I just looked it up. There's a Queen of Heaven Catholic Church in Uniontown, Ohio. If you want to go visit it, go visit it, right? And there's a Queen of Heaven. This isn't something that's in a corner as far as this exists. And they openly call her, I'm getting ahead of myself, but she's the mediatrix. She's the cooperation of being the redeemer. So I didn't have this one written down. I was actually, my problem was my sermon was already long as it was and then I had extra time this morning and wrote down some other stuff. So Jeremiah 7 and verse 17. I just want you to see that this is in the Bible, the Queen of Heaven. So verse 17, it says, Seeest thou not what they do in the cities of Judah and in the streets of Jerusalem? The children gather wood and the fathers kindle the fire and the women knead 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. Now, there's nothing new under the sun, right? And you say, well, Mary, we don't worship Mary. We venerate Mary. Tomato's a motto. Listen, I went to Catholic church. As soon as you walk in, they have what they call the Madonna, which is a picture of Mary. And they have a statue too, a picture of so-called Mary, even though they will even say that that goes back before even Christ. And I believe it's a Babylonian thing. And so, and it's supposed to be like Mary holding Jesus, the baby Jesus. They have candles up there and you kneel down, light a candle and pray. Now anybody looking at that, if you took away the fact that that's called a Catholic church and you just put that out there and saw someone do that, what would you say? This guy's, you know, like bowing down to some idol or some image, right? And so it's, you know, you could say, well, we have idols here, but we don't bow down to them. Listen, I've been there. I've been there. Okay. Now I didn't kiss any idol and I didn't like, you know, do anything like that, but there's idols throughout all the, there's these graven images throughout all the church there. And this isn't something that was just at that church. And so there's all these abominations. Mary, I would say is the number one when you think about what they, what they do with Mary. Okay. And you know, think about this is the funny part was, is that when I would you know, you confess your sins to the priest or something like that. And they tell you to say like five Our Fathers and five Hail Marys. I never knew the Hail Mary. Okay. I knew the beginning, but I never knew the end. I knew the Our Father because they would say that every single service or every mass or whatever. But notice what it says, Hail Mary, full of grace. Well, that's first strike. The Lord is with thee. The Lord is with thou among women and blessed is the fruit of thy womb, Jesus. Okay, well, that's okay. Holy Mary, Mother of God. Okay, now we got a problem. Because did she bring God into existence or the man Christ Jesus? Pray for us sinners now and at the hour of our death. Amen. So now he's, she's a mediatrix. They call her the mediatrix. They say that she's the ladder to Jesus. How about the fact that when Jacob saw the ladder, remember when he's in Bethel and he saw the ladder and he saw the angels ascending and descending upon the ladder? What did Jesus say in John chapter one? It says hereafter you shall see angels, the angels ascending and descending upon the Son of Man. So who's the ladder? Mary or Jesus? How about in the very next chapter he says, woman, what have I to do with thee? Mine hour is not yet come. What did he, what did Jesus, you know, as far as reverencing Mary, did he reverence Mary? Now obviously he was subject unto her as her son, as it's, you know, her son in the flesh. But you know, this whole idea of this veneration of Mary. Now this is something actually that the Council of Trent. So we had the Council of Nicaea, which kind of started the Roman Catholic Church, so to speak, right? Because right before it was the Roman Catholic Church, a state religion, they had this Council of Nicaea. Well, if you remember the Protestant Reformation, you know, Martin Luther around 1517, he nailed the 95 Thesis on the wall of like some Catholic Church. By the way, Martin Luther was a Catholic priest, okay? And so a lot of these churches that, you know, you look at as far as apostolics, Presbyterians, the Lutherans, obviously, and the Methodists and all this stuff, they all come out of the Catholic Church and they all keep pieces of that church with them. And so Baptists, we're independent Baptists, we did not come out of the Catholic Church. You know, there was always a true believing Baptist Church. And when I read these canons to you, okay, so remember we were talking about how the canons of law and how they, when they had that first Council of Nicaea, they had these canons of law? Well, they had canons of law in this Council of Trent, where they were basically like the anti-Reformation Council or something, it's kind of like this combating the Reformation, so to speak. And so this happened in about 1545, 1563, and if you remember, this is when around the time that Tyndale wrote his New Testament, and 1611 is when the King James came out and there was different, you know, English versions, so you know that this is definitely the time where there's a lot of upheaval coming out of the Catholic Church and resisting it. But canon number seven, so under justification, these different things as far as like, okay, what are we covering? Well, justification is what we want to see, is what do they think about salvation? So, canon number seven out of justification under the Council of Trent, it says, If anyone said that justifying faith is nothing else but confidence in the divine mercy which remits sin for Christ's sake, or that this confidence alone is that whereby we are justified, let it be anathema. I don't know if you know this, but we believe in salvation by faith alone, and that it isn't just the confidence of what Jesus did for us, anathema means accursed. It's a Greek transliteration for the word accursed, and it's actually in the Bible, that word anathema where it was transliterated, but it's also used and translated as accursed, so it just means accursed. So they're saying, let them be accursed. If you believe that salvation is by faith alone, then they're saying, be accursed. Notice in canon number 20, it says, If anyone said that the man who is justified and how perfect so ever is not bound to observe the commandments of God of the church, but only to believe, as if indeed the gospel were a bare and absolute promise of eternal life without the condition of observing the commandments, let him be anathema. I mean, that's completely against what we believe. And they're saying, as if the gospel were just an absolute promise of eternal life. How about the fact that this is the promise that he had promised us, even eternal life. He that believeth on the Son hath everlasting life. Very verily I say unto you, he that hears my word and believeth on him that sent me hath everlasting life and shall not come to the condemnation, but is passed from death unto life. It's just completely against the Bible. But when you have people that can't read, they can't read Latin, and then you make these decrees and they can't read it in the Bible themselves, you say, man, that's crazy. How did they not see that in the Bible? Well, that's why they were keeping them in the dark. That's what it's called, the dark ages. Now this is another canon. This is an interesting one because you say, well, do they believe in purgatory? Well, in canon 30 of that same justification says, if anyone said that after the grace of justification has been received to every penitent and sinner, the guilt is remitted and the debt of eternal punishment is blotted out in such wise that there remains not any debt of temporal punishment to be discharged either in this world or in the next in purgatory before the entrance to the kingdom of heaven can be opened to him, let him be anathema. So they're saying, if you say that once you're saved, any sins that you commit after that, that you don't have to go to purgatory for that, then you need to be accursed. So that's what they believed back then. And you know what? That's still in their dogma today. One of their dogmas, if you look up just Catholic Church, and actually brother Anthony was helping me out with this, there's a site where you can kind of just look up Christian doctrine dogma, and it's not a hit piece on them. This is what they believe, right? This is like for their source, right? And then under justification, number 17, it says, the grace by which we are justified may be lost and is lost by every grievous sin. There's a Catholic Church just saying, yes, you can lose your salvation. And so, yes, the Catholic Church is against us. But how about the fact that they say that we're accursed for believing that? I say they're accursed for their false gospel they've been preaching for centuries and yay millennia. Go to Galatians chapter 1, and I'm going to take you through a tour de force of Galatians. But you know, when you think of the word anathema, they use that word anathema, that's actually in the Bible. You don't have to turn there, but 1 Corinthians chapter 16 verse 22, it says, if any man love not the Lord Jesus Christ, let him be anathema maranatha. And that's what I have to say, especially about the elites of the Catholic Church. I'm not talking about every single person that's in the Catholic Church that's sitting in the pews. I'm talking about the religion. That religion, you know what I have to say about the religion of the Catholic Church? Let him be anathema maranatha, let him be accursed. In Galatians chapter 6, or verse 1, I mean chapter 1 verse 6, chapter 1 verse 6, it says, I marvel that you are so soon removed from him that called you into the grace of Christ unto another gospel, which is not another. But there be some that trouble you and would pervert the gospel of Christ. But though we are an angel from heaven, preach any other gospel unto you than that which we have preached unto you, let him be accursed. As we said before, so say I now again, if any man preach any other gospel unto you than that you have received, let him be accursed. You may say, well, what did Paul preach? Well, let's go through Galatians and see what he had to say about how you were saved and what the gospel was. He also wrote in 1 Corinthians chapter 15 what the gospel was, which is that Jesus died for our sins according to the scriptures and was buried and rose again the third day according to the scriptures. That's what the Bible teaches the gospel is, and by faith we stand in that. But Galatians chapter 2 verse 16, Galatians chapter 2 verse 16, it says, knowing that a man is not justified by the works of the law 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 there shall no flesh be justified. Verse 21, I do not frustrate the grace of God, for if righteous come by the law then Christ is dead in vain. Go to Galatians chapter 3, Galatians chapter 3. Let's see if Paul's confusing about this, about what the gospel is. How are you saved? Galatians chapter 3 verse 11, it says, but that no man is justified by the law on the side of God, it is evident for the just shall live by faith. Go down to verse 21, is the law then against the promises of God? God forbid, for if there had been a law given which could have given life, verily righteousness should have been by the law, but the scripture has concluded all under sin that the promises by faith of Jesus Christ might be given to them that believe. Galatians chapter 5, Galatians chapter 5, you say we get it, I know, but I'm still going to go a little further here because the fact is that that's where they're getting that phrase from, let them be anathema, is from Galatians chapter 1. And that whole book annihilates their false gospel. And so it just shows you the devils that they are. And with these people that were at the Council of Trent, there were a bunch of devils trying to deceive people and they wanted their high authority, just like the Pharisees hated and despised Jesus because they loved the upper rooms and those seats in the synagogues, they loved all the greetings, they loved all the accolades, they loved the authority that they had and they knew that if they followed Jesus, they would lose it all. And that's the same thing you see with the Catholic Church. When the Reformation was going on, they were just afraid that they were going to lose their authority because the Catholic Church used to be, the Pope used to be the supreme leader. He's the one that would crown the kings back into the day. And they would want nothing more than that to be the case again. Galatians chapter 5 verse 1, it says, Stand fast therefore in the liberty wherewith Christ hath made us free and be not entangled again with the yoke of bondage. Behold, I Paul say unto you that if ye be circumcised, Christ shall profit you nothing. For I testify again to every man that is circumcised that he is a debtor to do the whole law. Christ is become of no effect unto you, whosoever you are justified by law, ye are fallen from grace for we through the Spirit wait for the hope of righteousness by faith. You know, the whole list of these canons were under justification. Justification, it says that Christ is become of no effect unto you, whosoever you are justified by the law. And in that canon they say, if you say that it's just by faith and it is not by keeping the law, let him be anathema. And so they're completely against what the Bible says. So there's other passages and, you know, as far as, you know, vain repetitions. You know, we think about that. You know, it says in Matthew 6, you don't have to turn to Matthew 6, verse 7, it says, but when you pray, use not vain repetitions as the heathen do, for they think that they shall be heard for their much speaking. And then it goes on and says pray like this, it gives the model of prayer, our Father, which art in heaven, hallowed be thy name. Isn't it interesting that when you're in the Catholic church, when you confess your sins, what do they tell you? You need to repeat this prayer over and over and over and over and over again. In the Bible, right before, it's like, you ever see those memes where, you know, I talked about this, where you have the face palm and the palm goes through your head. I mean, you almost got to think that God's like, good night, it's like right before that, that whole prayer, that he said vain repetitions, don't do it. And what do they do? You need to vainly repeat this, right, over and over and over again. It says call no man father upon the earth. When I was growing up, I remember, if there was one thing I remember my dad telling me, is that the Bible says not to call any man your father on the earth, and talk about religious leaders, right? And it says in Matthew 23 and verse 1, it says, Matthew 23 and verse 9, it says, and call no man your father upon earth, for one is your father, which is in heaven. And they'll say, well, does that mean that you can't call your dad father? I'll say this, I'd rather not call my dad father than break the commandment of God to call some priest a father. And this is where it comes down to that they reject and make void, make of no effect the law of God and the word of God through their traditions. They literally say, well, we have this tradition that we call priest father, so therefore, that commandment doesn't even matter. When would you never, when would you ever not call someone father then? If you can call a priest a father, you can call your dad a father. And obviously, he's talking about religious because he's talking about rabbis, so religious leaders. You're not, don't ever call me father, okay, unless it's my children, okay? My children can call me that. And we're not from Britain, so they're not like, father, can we have a drink of water? They usually call me dad or your dada, right? But also, you know, what do you think about when you think about priests? They're long robes and dresses that they wear, okay? In Luke chapter 20 and verse 46, it says, beware of the scribes which desire to walk in long robes. And so, it talks about they make broad their phylacteries and increase the border of their garments. They want you to see this long flowing garment and it's like this, like we were talking about with the saints and stuff like that. They want you to think, you know, that like the people of the Bible and like Paul the apostle was like this angelic being that floated around, you know, he just kind of floated around in the room and he's some god man, okay? And that's what they want you to think with the priests and obviously with the Pope because the Pope with that papal infallibility, they're saying that he is basically like Christ sitting there on his throne. And when they go up to kiss the toe of the Pope, it's as if you're kissing the toe of Christ. And that's why they call him the vicar of Christ, the holy father, and it's blasphemy. It's disgusting. And even religion, when that Pope comes over here to America and you say, well, you know, our country is not completely Catholic, why did everybody in our Congress give him a standing ovation when he came in there? But how about this? The fact is that most people that are elites and rich are Catholic or Jewish. And I already covered Judaism, okay? And so those are your two elite religions. Look at Hollywood. Look at the actors. They're either Jewish or they're Catholic or they're atheist, right? But there's two religions that are going to be these high elite religions. And there's a lot of similarities to the rabbitic Judaism that's today and the Catholicism that is today. And that's why when they come together and they're all going to want to come together and make this one world religion, that's how you can see all this stuff can happen. And some people have said, well, maybe the Pope's going to be the false prophet. I can see it happening. I think the Antichrist will probably be like some, you know, Jewish Antichrist and then the false prophet can come out of the Catholic Church. They all come together, sing Kumbaya. And it's already in their name, Universal Church. That's what Catholic means. But the Pope, he makes void the law through his tradition. If you're going to talk about the Catholic Church, so what's their biggest abomination? I would say lying. Lying about what the Bible says. Lying to all these people, to 1.2 billion followers. He's lying to them. And that Council of Trent, you know they were lying straight out of their teeth to use a passage in Galatians to say that that's a false gospel to believe that you have to, you know, that it's only by faith when that's only, I mean, Galatians is like the number one book that I would go to besides Romans as far as showing you salvation by faith alone. And it just demolishes that. But it says that they, it says, they make void the law. It says, thus have you made the commandment of God of none effect by your traditions. And they're teaching for doctrines, the commandments of men. That's what was said about the Pharisees. That's what we see about them today. And you know in Proverbs chapter six, when you have these six things that the Lord hates, he hates having an abomination, two of them are lying. So what do you think God has to say about lying? You know, one's a lying tongue and another is a mouth that, I'm sorry, it's a false witness that speaketh lies. So you have those two things and if I had, you know, besides the evil imaginations and all these different things that are in there, I would say that and you say, well, why did you preach a whole sermon against the Catholic Church? Because I hate every false way. And you say, well, you've only preached on the Church of Christ and Judaism and the Catholic Church. I've just started, my friends. It's been September since I started this church or since we've been here. So obviously I'm going to go down the line and get all the rest of them. But the Catholic Church is one of the, besides Islam, and yes, I'll get Islam too, it's the biggest religion that's out there. 1.2 billion. I think it's 1.8 billion for the Muslims. And so why do I hate it? Do I hate the people in it? Do I hate the Muslims? Do I hate the Catholics? Do I hate the Jews? No, I want them to get saved and I hate every false way that's going to deceive them and send them to hell. Go to Psalm chapter 119. Psalm chapter 119. This is where we'll end. We're done with this. Psalm 119, obviously it's all about the word of God, but as you're turning there, go to verse 104. So Psalm 119 verse 104, but I'll read Proverbs 8 verse 13. It says, the fear of the Lord is the hate evil, pride and arrogance, and the evil way in the forward mouth do I hate. And you say, well, I can't believe you say you hate something. Well, that's the beginning of knowledge. Where you at? That's the beginning of knowledge is the fear of the Lord and it is the hate evil, the hate the evil way. And notice the sweet psalmist of Israel, the man for God's own heart in Psalm 119. Verse 104 says, through thy precepts I get understanding, therefore I hate every false way. Verse 128. Go down a little further there. Verse 128. 128 says, therefore I esteem all thy precepts concerning all things to be right and I hate every false way. Whenever the Bible repeats itself, you should probably listen to it. I hate every false way, so of course I'm going to hate the Catholic Church religion. I don't hate the people in it, unless it's like the Pope. The Pope's a reprobate. The Bible says I hate them, I hate the Lord, and so obviously I hate the Pope, but I don't hate all the people in it. And actually, I'll say this, when I go out soul winning and I run into a Catholic, I'd say 50% of the time they get saved, 50% of the time. They're actually usually pretty open to it unless you have the dye in the wool Catholic that's just like, I was born Catholic, I'm going to die Catholic, that's what my whole family was, and they're not going to get saved at the doorstep kind of thing, right? But Catholic people are some of the easiest people to get saved. One because it's not like the Church of Christ where they think they know what they're talking about. Because the Catholic Church, you could be ingrained into the Catholic Church, into their doctrines, but when you start opening up the Bible, it's real apparent that they don't know the Bible very well. And listen, I was there. I didn't know the Ten Commandments, I didn't know anything about the Bible. And I went to Catholic Church, but I was open to it. I went to a Baptist revival and heard a leathery lung preacher tell me that if I believed I could lose my salvation, then I wasn't saved. And I believed it. I understood it. And I grew up Catholic, but it's not like Catholic people are anathema to me, okay? The Church religion is anathema to me. And I hate that religion because of what it does. As much as I hate every other religion, that would be against the Gospel. So that's the abominations of the Catholic Church. We just scratched the surface on there and obviously I could do like a whole series on all the stuff that they've done throughout history and what they're still doing today. The Pope is coming out and talking about the fact that if you're a homo, then he's not against you and that's fine and all this stuff. And then there was something else. Oh, he said hell. One person said that he said that hell, basically you don't go to hell. You just disappear or something like that. So I mean, he's just coming out and just basically trying to be accepting of all the world. And they're getting liberal and so you can definitely see the times coming to where they're going to try to get this ecumenical type of movement going here. But let's end with the word of prayer. Dear Heavenly Father, we thank you for today and Lord, we just pray that you'd be with us as we sing one last song, but also as we get to the baptism. And Lord, we just pray that you'd be with us as we go out soloing later on, but also just with the fellowship. Lord, we love you in prayer. In Jesus Christ's name. Amen.