Why I am Not A Roman Catholic - The Slow Rise of False Traditions

I think it's very appropriate for you to know why the Bible teaches that I could never be a Roman Catholic and you biblically should never be a Roman Catholic person I'd like to start in our study tonight and then review where we've been by going to 2nd Corinthians chapter 11 one of our army officers gave me this article out of the US News & World Report that's March 29th I always think that's interesting it's tomorrow's and he gave it to me a week ago that's an amazing phenomenon that they can publish stuff into the future but it's it's called the weeping Madonna and I read this through several times just to share with you something that's very current as current is tomorrow about where people are in relation to this whole concept of Romanism and the worship of as as portrayed there but looking second Corinthians chapter 11 and I'm going to show you verse 3 for 13 and 14 and this is the Apostle Paul and he is talking to group people he loved deeply he's really baring his heart to them because he had seen them through their birth into Christ and his missionary journeys he'd seen them grow in Christ he'd rebuke them he disciplined people and committed them to Satan for the destruction their flesh seen them come back to Christ he dealt with their lawsuits he dealt with their immorality he dealt with their terrible gross activity at the Lord's table being drunk and fighting over the food people that were babbling some of them under demonic type influences and calling Christ accursed and I'm just terrible stuff and now he's kind of coming to the end of two great letters and and much ministry to them and much as a father would talk to that son or daughter going out maybe just before they get married maybe when they're going out to that first big trip in the military or whatever that that time when you kind of pass on your your Father's heart this is what he says he says I wish that you would verse 1 bear with me a little foolishness but indeed you are bearing with me for I am jealous for you with a godly jealousy for I betrothed you to one husband that to Christ I might present you as a pure virgin and again the whole metaphor of the church the Bride of Christ and and all that but look at verse 3 but I'm afraid lest as the serpent deceived Eve by his craftiness your minds should be led astray from the simplicity and purity of devotion to Christ what I'd like to warn you about tonight in my last time talking about the Roman Church is that something happened something tragic happened from this era in the Bible let me just rehearse for you just a thumbnail sketch of where the church was when the apostles were here the church was conquering it was conquering the world not through social activism but through personal renewal and regeneration and supernatural life and when people got saved back then they renounced the world they left it behind they burnt their magic books they left their immoralities they left their occultic ways they renounced paganism and they turned in newness to Christ and they suffered for it and things were really amazing the church was flourishing people were being saved everyday people were living holy lives people were seeing the power of God and the apostles were ministering and they were writing letters and the churches were growing and yes they had problems and they had questions but it was a very simple as he says in verse 3 the simplicity and purity of Christ what was the simplicity well Paul gave his testimony says I delivered unto you that's 1st Corinthians 15 first of all that which I also heard how the Christ died for our sins according to scripture that he was buried and that he rose again the third day according to the scripture in other words the whole gospel was based on the scripture period and it was simple you made a choice between Jesus Christ or eternal damnation in hell it was very simple choice and many people chose both it was a simple gospel well verse for if one comes and preaches another Jesus whom we have not preached or you receive a different spirit which you have not received or a different gospel which you have not accepted you bear with this beautifully you see as a father he's starting to chide them he's saying you're not on your guard and I'm I'm passing off the scene this is 56 he's gonna be around so maybe 62 maybe 64 he's 56 80 he's got maybe 8 more years of ministry but he knew he was getting near the end and he says what if someone preaches you another Jesus not a different and not heteros but but one who is another of the same kind in other words he's not talking about guru Rajneesh so-and-so from India he's not talking about Bhagwan salami he's talking about someone that claims to be the biblical Jesus he says if someone presents you with Jesus that doesn't line up with the Bible and someone presents to you a Holy Spirit that doesn't measure up to the Bible and someone presents you a gospel that you have not accepted that's not simple he said you might go along with it and you know it happened because what happened with the truth was the Apostles passed off the scene and their disciples like Ignatius and Polycarp who knew the Apostles personally and who had been led to Christ by them they powerfully led the church into the second century the 100's ad but something happened and pretty soon the church started giving in to a little formalism here and a little sacramentalism there and a little bit of baptismal regeneration over here and a little bit of hierarchical stuff and letting people rise up to be ruling over the church that Peter warned against and by the time we get to the fourth century of the 300s ad the Roman Church was the church the Roman Empire it was still the Church of Jesus Christ built on the apostles and prophets but it had become religio licit uh the officially recognized Church of the Empire well the Emperor's had to do something about that in 313 ad at the Milvian bridge when Constantine beat his contender for the throne he saw a vision watch out for people to see visions Jeremiah 23 says they there are a bunch of prophets running around that preach a vision that's not from the Lord and things haven't changed much they're still around usually they involve your pocketbook you know they always have a vision for your money but he had a vision and he saw a big flaming Red Cross on a blue background and he saw the words in hoax Cigna is in shape and that interesting it was in Latin and he understood Latin and he saw that and Constantine concurred at the Milvian bridge by painting red crosses and all the shields of his warriors ah red cross Christ Christianity and so he said that must be what happened so he became a Christian in quotes well what did he do with the state Church they had the pantheon of hadrian they had all the priests of Dagon in the priests of mardukan the priests of Phoenicia star T and Bale and what do you do with Isis and Horus and all that game from Egypt and what do you do with Semih Ramis and Tammuz won't you do with all the the deities coming in from Persia miss Ross thinks who I have an idea it's religion let's just all work together well the church didn't like that too much but they accommodated the influx of paganism now up until that time the church was just what you see in the New Testament they read the Bible they broke bread they baptized people after they were saved they didn't have anything to do with baptizing infants they didn't have anything to do with prayers for the dead they didn't have anything to do with mass mass doesn't come around for 12 centuries it was just simple house churches breaking bread fellowshipping baptizing people confessing Christ preaching the Bible praying and loving Jesus Christ but here came all these religious priests of a pantheon of religions in 3 team ad and they brought in their sensors that's incense burners and they brought in their robes and they brought in all their candles and they brought in all of their various beads that the pagans used remember Christ said in chapter 6 of Matthew don't pray mindless wrote prayers repeating the same thing endlessly over and over again thinking God's gonna hear you and bless you because of that that's the first few verses of chapter 6 we here come the pagans with their prayer beads here they came with their cutting their hair in certain places bald spots on top of their heads which was a part of paganism here they came with their feast to the Sun God here they came with their feast to the loved God they came with their feast of worshipping the death and resurrection in 40 days of bail and they were confronted with what do we do with all this stuff and he said well that was close to Christmas we'll put that one by Christmas that was close to Easter we'll put that by Easter that one's over here we'll put that there and gradually paganism seeped in and the Apostles Peter Paul John the early church the simplicity verse 3 that was in Christ started to get complex and it started evolving and tradition became as powerful as Scripture and then it was more powerful than Scripture and the church got to the point that by the 12th century AD they were so confused that they believed they had to crucify Christ over again every day and that has persisted for centuries and so when I talk about the Roman Catholic Church I'm talking about the church today that believes all of that syncretism you know syncretism is religious and chrétien is when you blend together the best of everything New Age ideas a couple of Hindu ideas get a couple of Jewish ideas and throw in a little sprinkling of Christianity and you don't want to offend anybody and that's why the Rhode Island National Council of Churches which buys into that sends out letters to clergy like they did to me that says if you ever pray in public don't offend people mentioning Jesus Christ he is very offensive talk about the supreme power the deity that they can worship at the Masonic Lodge or at AAA or down at the Baha'i temple but don't bring up Jesus Christ that's offensive do you know why because the preaching of the Cross is to those that perish foolishness and it offends them it says in 1st Corinthians 1 and Paul said I'm not ashamed of the gospel of Christ it's the power of God and the only power of God unto salvation but that's been muddled over the years so I would say this that there are seven reasons and this is the last time you'll hear me say this but there are seven reasons why I am NOT a Roman Catholic number 1 the first biblical reason why I can't ever be a Roman Catholic is because of the mass and if you want to understand that look at Hebrews chapter 9 Hebrews chapter 9 repeatedly says that Jesus Christ was offered now if you've been here for 3 weeks and this is the fourth week how many times once for all in any language it counts once he was offered and the scriptures say that the Old Covenant the Old Testament the Levitical system Mosaic law Jesus Christ was prefigured in the constant sacrifices of the animals but that was only a picture to point to Christ now let me ask you I mean even the youngest person would know this which is better the picture or the person which would you marry a picture or a person well in our perverted society probably people do marry pictures but I'm talking about in reality the person is more important than the picture and if you can sit and Google at your girlfriend's picture on your desk or actually have her there the person all of the sacrifices the Old Testament were pictures pointing to Christ it says in acts 10 43 to him all the prophets bear witness that Jesus Christ is the only one that can wash away sins and every time they had the meal offering the burnt offering the trespass offering the peace offering every time they had the Old Testament sacrificial system it was pointing to the fact that it was an inefficient impossible to cover sins sacrifice but it was just kind of holding things back until Jesus would come but the news is that he came in Hebrews once said that Jesus Christ came and once for all offered a sacrifice for sin in any sat down the Roman Catholic Church teaches in Vatican 2 in the 60s affirmed once and for all that the church hasn't budged on the mass and the mass is a continual offering of Jesus Christ to wash away sins and that is totally against the scriptures now again I remind you I'm not talking about your friend that's a Roman Catholic I'm talking about the monolithic structure of the church and yes there are born-again Christians in the Roman Catholic Church I know some you know some that does not excuse the error the anti-biblical unscriptural heretical teaching of the mass secondly the role of Mary and I'd like to read you from US News and World Report tomorrow's edition called the weeping Madonna and it's very interesting it says on page 48 that even the Roman Catholic Church which has recognized 14 virgin sightings and weeping statue episodes in the past two centuries in the past two centuries mary has reappeared around the world at least fourteen official times what happens when she appears well it says that there are unexplained healings that the Sun spins backwards and lights are starting to change all over Washington DC but this is even more bizarre it says father Jim and that's this man you probably read about in the paper that has stigmata he has blood coming out of his arm in in wounds like like nail wounds I'm not sure if they're here or in his poems he also every time he walks into a Roman Church all of the statues of Mary tears start running down their faces and if it's not enough for tears blood comes out of their eyes - and not just little ones they have a 30-foot tall one in one of the churches and that one it says had so many tears coming out of it that made the carpet wet but what does that do well it says inside and this is when she's weeping the question of miracles cause the bishop to look ridiculous but if he discourages the faithful from believing he risk driving away the thousands who believe in the miracles and so on March 1st the big fiberglass Madonna of st. Elizabeth's Church began to weep before the 500 parishioners as father Jim said the mass now listen here's what happened inside people fell to their knees before the Madonna weeping praying out loud and straining for a glimpse of the tears the miracle had begun anyone know I don't have any doubts that that statue was crying I just ensure God didn't do it I want you to look for just a minute at Revelation chapter 19 because I want you to see what happens when when the supernatural event takes place in a Christians life and I'm only picking the last book of the Bible because the last book of the Bible is compendium of the whole Bible and this happens repeatedly from the first book of the Bible to the last book of the Bible and it's a repeated occurrence that whenever anyone comes into the presence of God or of an angelic being that there's a profound effect that is not worshipping of people look at revelation 19:10 this is John giving his testimony the Apostle John the last living apostle he's on Patmos he's writing this revelation and it says this angels talking to him and he reveals all these things about the Lamb of God then here's John's testimony and I fell at his feet to worship him and he said to me don't do that now anybody should get worship an angel should right angels are better than people this angels right from God's presence this angel has never sinned ever Mary sinned so did the Apostles and so have you and I but but that angel never had sinned and that angels talking to John and when John sees that angel he falls down on his face and he starts to to hold his feet and we worship Him and look what the angel says don't worship me don't do that I'm a fellow servant of yours and of your brethren who hold to the testimony of Jesus worship God don't worship Saints you what this article this article is so sad no it says that all these crying statues did you've made everybody go out and buy more of them and it says they all came to church clutching their statues and their crucifixes and their rosaries and they look to see if there's would cry too I don't mean to prolong this and I'm not mocking what I'm saying is that is blatant gross idolatry there's no other word for it that's idolatry do what God says he says idolatry is that is the offense against the holy God he said in the Old Testament Stoneham kill them if they'll bow down to idols do you think in the New Testament God appreciates idolatry I am the Lord I changed not he said over and over again don't be so severe on on Mary something's going on there isn't it well I'm going to show you another verse and that's revelation 13 I want you not to doubt that there are miracles going on around the world there is no doubt that there are miracles I have met missionaries that have seen people levitate walk across razor sharp knives walk across red-hot flames there was even the group in Rhode Island teaching people how to walk across hot coals there are people that that do all kinds of things they not only levitate themselves they can levitate others there's no doubt that there are miracles going on at Lourdes at meddra gory and everywhere else there's no doubt about that but the problem is God is not doing signs and wonders in the planet today do you know why he said I am doing signs and wonders to affirm the scriptures after that watch out signs and wonders are in Satan's Court did you know that watch out for people that are raising the dead Healing lawnmowers and washing machines and walking on the water today it's not doing that look at revelation 13 verses 13 and 14 and he performed great science this is a false prophet at the end of the Tribulation Period so that even he even makes fire come down out of heaven to the earth in the presence of men he deceives those who dwell on the earth because of the signs it was given to him to perform in the presence of the Beast telling those who dwell on the earth to make an image to the Beast and image to the Beast an image of a person that sounds awful if that's what Satan is doing it would be awful if Christians are involved in that today there is no place for images there's no place for crucifixes there's no place for prayer beads there's no place for pictures of saints and pictures of Christ to be used in adoration and worship and prayer there's no place for that it's against the Word of God and it says they make an image to the Beast who had the wound with a sword and he came to life well back up to Matthew 24 because I want you to see that Christ warned that this was going to happen and I want to maybe get a concept across that you might have not thought about before but the concept is this that the Scriptures tell us that in the last times false Christ's are going to appear now I repeat what I said at the beginning a false Christ is not this this guy that went up to Oregon remember and had all the people dancing around with the bells and acting crazy and trances and he was very large and wore a big turban and rode around and his 14 Rolls Royces that's not a false Christ that's a false person that says they're a messiah but we're not talking about that jesus said in Matthew 24 in starting in verse 11 and many false prophets will arise and will mislead many now if a prophet gets up and says worship Buddha do you think that will fool anybody would it fool you if it says worship taou the great spirits of the departed worship Confucius in his ancient wisdom worship the great gods of Egypt with that really get any of you no but if they said worship Jesus Christ this way we've our ears would perk up we'd say what and if they'd say yeah I'll show you what I can do and fire comes down from heaven you'd go WOW maybe they do have something to say and look what it says and many false prophets verse 11 will arise and mislead many now cut across to verse 23 then if anyone says to you behold here is the Christ or there he is did you know in California among those great California live oaks that there's a group up in Big Sur that has seen Christ his face in an oak tree hmm what's that how about the lady in Chicago that was baking a tortilla in a low-income housing you know how they do that they put him on the burner we're from California we used to do that too it's kind of fun if your burners clean you just bake them on the burner it's quick they get hot and you eat them just put her tortilla on the burner lifted it up to a face of Jesus thousands of people have gone there it's become an official shrine Jesus of the tortilla look what it says in verse 23 if anyone says he's here there's the Christ don't believe him he's over there don't believe him verse 24 for false Christ's and false prophets will arise and will show great signs and wonders so as to mislead if possible even the elect not just the people that profess to be Christians but the really saved ones might get led astray why because it'll be so believable if I came up and was holding red money and says come on I'll sell these hundred dollar bills for twenty-five dollars would any of you buy him but if they were green and had who's on one hundred dollar bill let's see Jefferson or Lincoln or whoever Franklin if I held up one they had Ben Franklin on it and Independence Hall in the back and it was beautifully engraved and I said there twenty five bucks you might buy one if it look like a hundred dollar bill do you realize that false christs are not these Eastern mystic people there people that arise with the church and try and teach people to falsely worship the true christ and they try and lead them subtly away from the truth rat poisoning is not a hundred percent strychnine it's 99 percent good green just a drop of poison for false Christ's will arise they'll mislead many verse 25 behold I've told you in advance if therefore they say to you behold he's out in the wilderness or he's not that big Serena in an oak tree don't believe him behold he's in the inner room don't believe them why because just as lightning flashes from the east even to the west so shall the coming of the man of the Son of Man be what's he saying he's saying that Jesus Christ will return with incontrovertible I mean no false prophet can fake it nobody can can have Christ hiding out in the wilderness and only the super super Saints will find him Jesus Christ said stop watching the signs and wonders and follow the word you know that's what the Bible's always said you know it says in Deuteronomy 18 if someone does come and does make a prophecy and does perform a miracle and if that person's words don't match up with what Moses told you kill them now we're not under that economy don't be like the abortion clinic guy and shoot people that was murder that was wrong no matter how many people that abortionist murdered it was wrong for that fella to shoot him for whatever purpose but the lesson is this Jesus Christ said watch out for false Christ's the worship of Mary in Roman doctrine elevating her to comedia tricks with Jesus Christ his false worship it's against the Bible to say as the Roman Church says that she mediates and and makes up what Christ's sacrifice couldn't do is wrong that's why it's very difficult you know there are some great religion programs at Catholic universities I have been challenged many times by articles from the Catholic biblical quarterly I have learned much from Catholic scholars but I could go to a Catholic school and go to school you know why I wouldn't want to be desensitized to the false religion they teach I wouldn't want to start liking them so that I would say that they are believers and what they're teaching is true you need to be careful you need to be careful because you live beside and work beside and and have close friends who believe error you need to lovingly always have your guard up number one because of the mass number two because of Mary number three because of their tradition over scripture there are no priests in the New Testament there are no scapulars there are no orders of monks there are no nuns there are no bishops in the sense of the Catholic Church and there's definitely not I'm an article episcopate there's no hope in the Bible but tradition developed that there are no candles there's no Lent there's no holy water there are no sacraments there's no extreme unction none of that is in the scripture tradition and if you want to hear more about them that's in the second tape we went over all the traditions fourthly there's a veneration and worship of images and we don't need to go over that this whole article is about that and that's the fourth reason why their own Catholic Church is wrong they venerate which is a polite way of saying worship images what do you mean I mean the state so and so things on your dashboard they're supposed to help you keep out of accidents in the Saints on something around your neck they're supposed to keep you safe that's not biblical that is idolatry that's paganism put a rabbit's foot around your neck before you put some Saint there equal no saint can help you no saint can help me they're sinners just like us and when they died they went to Christ's presence and they're not omnipresent they can't be here to help you they're not omniscient they don't know when you pray and they're not omnipotent they couldn't help you if they did know that's wrong there should not be images and crucifixes that's wrong that's a religious object you shouldn't have a crucifix you shouldn't even if your great-grandmother give it to you this sterling silver it's wrong it's an object of false worship and it's wrong biblically wrong Sicily the sacraments and we went through this in depth but the Scriptures tell us that grace is dispensed by faith in Jesus Christ alone not by the church we do not dispense grace up here when I baptized someone I'm not dispensing grace when we serve the lord's table from that table in front once a month we are not dispensing grace humans can't dispense grace Jesus Christ through his Holy Spirit in the plan of God dispenses grace sacrament sacramentalism means the dispensing of grace that's not in the scriptures nowhere it's by faith in Jesus Christ six leave purgatory purgatory is not in the Bible you know what's in the Bible to be absent from the body second Corinthians five were present with the Lord as soon as we die we're in the presence of the Lord if we know him Paul said in Philippians 1 I desire to depart and to be with Christ which is far better it says in Luke 16 that that when the rich man died he went immediately to Hades and when the Lazarus died he went into Abraham's bosom there's an instantaneous conscious existence beyond here either in bliss or in torture and you can't change that when you get there that's an awful lie to put on people to tell them that if they will well what what set off Martin Luther I was reading a biography of him again this week because he's one of my favorite characters in history and in Martin Luther's time if you would go through the Elector of Wittenberg that was a political leader in Germany in the late 1400s and early 1500s if you'd go through his castle he had collected 30,000 relics he actually had a piece of the burning bush he had a piece of the Ark he had a piece of Noah's Ark he had everything I mean this guy really had a collection which I don't think he really had it but he thought he did but if you would walk all the way through his castle and pay an admission you would get 1 million 9 a thousand years out of purgatory how long is it if you can get two million years out by going through up a shrine you say well that's Martin Luther's time the church has changed no it hasn't we just came back from the Holy Land a few months ago there's a gigantic brass door in the Vatican today that has a plaque on it that says and the year of Jubilee every 50 years those doors will open and they're opening them more often now they've changed now I think it's every 25 years but when they open every time you walk through that door you get several hundred years out of purgatory where did that come from it comes from human religion it comes from us trying to accommodate people and get them to heaven it comes from a heart that's compassionate but not grounded on the Bible well the last reason is and this is where I want you to go with me on a history lesson we've gone to many scriptures but in these past few weeks but tonight I'm going to take you just a few Old Testament passages and if you want to start in the book of Genesis chapter 4 verse 8 we're gonna go on a biblical journey to see how the Roman Catholic Church merged with paganism and long before there was any Roman Church paganism began in the fourth chapter of Genesis in the eighth verse the Satan's first convert and his first convert was named Cain it says in 4:8 and Cain told Abel his brother and it came about when they were in the field Cain rose up against Abel his brother and killed him quiet because Cain offered his own works to God and God didn't accept it you can read the first part of chapter 4 and Abel offered what God asked for which was a bloody sacrifice and God accepted it and thus became the great division of history with the very first descendants of Adam and Eve between those who were going to do it their way and have works and have religion and chapter 4 is the birth of religion and by the way I'm not involved in religion I don't claim to be involved with religion religion is a set of manmade rules to approach some deity out there I'm involved with Revelation everything that I know did not get invented by humans by religion it all came down by revelation from God every bit of this book came by the direct revelation through inspiration of God to people they didn't think it up they weren't clever they weren't these gifted people that had these high lofty thoughts it was directly received from God that's what Jesus believed and taught that's what the early church believed and taught that's what Israel believed as receiving the Oracles of God and that's what all who believed the truth of the gospel believed that this is a supernatural book and by the way it's historically and scientifically accurate you cannot say that about the Book of Mormon you cannot say that about the writings of Joseph Smith or Mary Baker glower Patterson Frye Eddy or any of the other cults for this world you can't say that you can't say that about Hinduism you can't say that about the Quran they all are historically inaccurate scientifically inaccurate and they're just plain ridiculous you know what the Hindu Bible says it says the earth is suspended on the back of four elephants and earthquakes are when they twitch when the Flies are biting them that's a good one isn't it maybe it's good to two-year-olds but it's not true you know the Bible says says the earth hangs on nothing it rotates on an axis and it revolves and the I mean it scientifically it talks about hydrology geodesy talks about the whole scientific world none of those false writings teach truth they might mimic some biblical truth but this is the Word of God revealed from heaven well there's where religion started and basically religion is twofold you can either have the religion of human achievement that is I'm gonna give God my best and we'll try my hardest and hope I make it that's human achievement that's Cain bringing his great fruit and his pumpkins to God or you can have divine accomplishment that Jesus Christ paid it all and when Abel offered a sacrifice of a lamb he was pointing forward to the Lamb of God and every Old Testament sacrifice pointed forward was the shedding of blood and Jesus Christ finally came on the cross and he offered his own body for our sins on the cross shedding his blood there's nothing I can do I cannot achieve and God already accomplished it for me if I will accept it by faith that is the revelation come down from God if a bunch of humans wrote the Bible they wrote a bad book because it's too hard because God says we all fail humans wouldn't write that even the Greek mythology always wrote in a way for the people to make it with all of their errors and all their sins they could achieve God says you all fail only by faith can you come to Christ well you keep going to chapter 11 of Genesis and I want you to hasten on because we got to cover the whole Bible quickly eleven one through nine talks about organized religion and that was around a place called Babel as in babble on and babble the Tower of Babel and that comes from the the gibberish when God confused their languages they built one big ziggurat at all kind of thing with worship to the to the gods of the stars and the Sun and the moon and they were organizing this type of worship and God went down and confounded him and basically that's why in every civilization in the world you find the same foundational false religions they all have some type of Sun worship they all have some type of mother Sun deity and it all started at the Tower of Babel and when God dispersed the nations of the world they took with them their false religion and you can read about that in 11 1 through 9 in chapter 10 8 through 10 it talks about Noah's wicked apostate grants and his name was Nimrod if you take out your history books the shop Hertzog encyclopedia or Encyclopedia Britannica you'll find out that this fellow married a woman named cemre amis Nimrods wife cemre amis started this mother-son cult which surrounds this planet and is in 200 cultures around the world this idea of a mother with a deity son and the mother is Co deity with him sounds kind of like the Madonna Marian Christ doesn't it and the first thing I remember when I went to the Vatican Museum is a young person many years ago my first time to Europe I couldn't wait to go the Vatican Museum I always remember the first exhibit inside the or once you get in through all the beautiful paintings and go into the museum the first exhibit is all of the mother-son deities of all the cultures of the world that's an indictment on that church that they don't realize that what they're doing is what all of the false religions have believes throughout the centuries well this concept builds and builds and builds that went from Babylon after the dispersion to Phoenicia and they named the mother Ashtaroth and they caused this they called the Sun Tammuz it went from Phoenicia to Pergamus and in Pergamus it became an official religion you can read about that in revelation 3 the church was still battling with it in the New Testament era it went to Egypt and it was known as Isis and Horus the mother-son deity it went from Babel into Greece and it became Aphrodite and eros Aphrodite the goddess of love and eros her son and went to Rome and it became Venus and Cupid cupid Valentine's Day Cupid the little fat guy with the arrow is a part of pagan mythology and is the son of the mother God you know you have to watch out even the cartoons nowadays are blatantly filled with paganism well dr. Dwight Pentecost many years ago was in Mexico City and I quote to you from his book prophecy for today on page 133 he said this several years ago I visited an archaeological museum in Mexico City a recent find had just been put on display which the Mexican archaeologists had authenticated as belonging to the period 200 years BC 200 years before Christ 200 years before the establishment of the church 200 years before Mary bore Christ into this world okay you know what it was the object was the center of a religious worship among some of the early Indians in Mexico to my amazement Pentecost says it was an image of a mother with a child in her arms the Babylonian religion had spread abroad to become the religion of the world you know what the religion of Babylon was the mother goddess do you know where our planet is going you know where all the mainline churches are going they're changing hymnbooks instead of saying our Father which art in heaven you know what they're saying our mother which art in heaven this whole concept of the mother God you know even look at it in the the commercials shows how long it's been since I watch TV there used to be one about something and it would go don't mess with mother nature remember that one that whole concept of the earth as our mother as part of Satan's religion that we came out of the womb of the earth protect the earth the earth is a female deity well Simar amis herself remember chapter 10 of Genesis had a son and after she had her son she called herself the Queen of Heaven now now I want you to start turning to the Book of Jeremiah real quickly we're gonna fast for Jeremiah 7 if you don't know where Jeremiah is go to the middle of the Bible that solves proverbs Ecclesiastes Song of Solomon Isaiah Jeremiah chapter 7 because that title that Semiramis called herself the Queen of Heaven shows up repeatedly throughout the centuries in this religion of Babylon and it shows up in the Bible too in a very bad sense Jeremiah 7 and verse 18 it says this and this is an indictment Jeremiah's standing at the temple gate he's talking about the false religion that's ruining the worship of the true God in Israel and this is what he says in 718 and the children gather wood and the father's Kindle the fire and the woman need dough to make cakes for the Queen of Heaven what it's the queen of heaven that's idolatry that's this mother goddess this is Nimrods wife cemre a mice's title she took upon herself and and you know what after she called herself the queen of heaven you can read Encyclopedia Britannica do you know what Nimrod called himself the pond effects Maximus do you know who on this planet today has that title mm-hmm the leader of the Roman Church do you know what they call Mary do you know the Queen of Heaven keep reading in Jeremiah 7 I mean keep reading Jeremiah and go to chapter 44 Jeremiah 44 keep going through Jeremiah 44 and verse 25 thus says the Lord of hosts the God of Israel as follows as for you and your wives you have spoken with your mouths and fulfilled it with your hands saying we will certainly perform our vows that we have vowed and we will burn sacrifices to the clean of heaven and pour out libations to her go ahead and confirm your vows and certainly perform your vows this was apostate religion of the true God and do you know what the worship of the true God had devolved to what did it degenerated to instead of worshiping with the infinite holy uncreated Eternal Spirit God they were worshipping the Queen of Heaven baking cakes and pouring out incense and offerings to her do you know why God destroyed Israel do you know why they were ransacked and wiped out by the Babylonians because they were worshipping the goddess of the Babylonians keep turning to Ezekiel chapter 8 that's Isaiah Jeremiah lamentations Ezekiel so it's only two books away chapter 8 and we could do this all night but I don't want to bore you I just want to show you that it's very biblical this false worship a blond was exporting it's very biblical concept it's very unbiblical worship Ezekiel 8:14 and he brought me to the entrance of the gate of the Lord's house which was toward the north and behold women were sitting there weeping for Tammuz who is Tammuz that's Ashtaroth what was that all about well let me share with you because simmer amis back to the history books had a son named Tim moose Tim lose this is historic this is a mythology Tammuz was killed by wild boars you know big pigs with tusks they they gored him to death and so she had a period of mourning for him and after he'd been slain on this hunting trip she had a period of mourning for him and she put him on this pyre and did a lot of pagan stuff and after 40 days he rose from the dead and after he rose from 40 days she declared that from that time onward every year they would celebrate Tim losses death and resurrection do you know what the worship of Bale was in the Old Testament it was a worship of the death and resurrection of Bale the son of Astarte Ashtaroth poles and they would mourn for forty days his death and then have an orgy and celebrate his resurrection well after the forty day fast they had a joyful feast for his resurrection called Ishtar does it sound familiar Easter you can look in your encyclopedia you can look in your dictionary Easter Ishtar at this feast colored eggs were exchanged and eaten as a symbol of Resurrection life an evergreen tree was brought in and burned and then everyone ate cakes inscribed with the initial of Tammuz not saying it's wrong to have colored Easter eggs and this thing is wrong to have Christmas trees or to even let Easter slip out of your mouth we're not superstitious but I hope you realize that if you buy into the Easter Bunny Easter Egg 40 days of Lent saying it's paganism do you know what Mardi Gras and and Ash Wednesday and all that do you know what all that is Carnival Carney is meat carnival is all the meat you want you have a carnival on Mardi Gras which is called Fat Tuesday why because Ash Wednesday starts the period of 40 days of fasting where did that come from it's not from God it's not from the Bible that's paganism it's wrong and it shouldn't be in the church if that church is Christian well you see that the religion of Babylon spread all over the world but didn't just spread around the world it went right into Israel you saw that in Jeremiah saw that Ezekiel and that's why God destroyed him well that worship continued on unabated in an ear 3:13 there was a merging of the streams the early church fought off paganism right left remember the Apostle Paul said our citizenship is in heaven that's where we're looking for Christ we have no continuing city on earth we worship God in the spirit we rejoice in Christ Jesus remember all those verses what the New Testament church taught but in the 4th century paganism was injected by Constantine and though the church fought for centuries to stave off that false worship in 593 the Roman Catholic Church declared as Dogma purgatory where did purgatory come from it came from the ancient eastern religions of the Canaanites and of their forefathers in bail worship where is that from that's from Satan the whole concept of purgatory is that you can work your way to God if you didn't do the right thing on earth you get a second chance that's what's wrong and that's why we had books removed from our bookstore by a fellow named Curzon II do you know that's his doctrine he teaches you get a second chance did you know that's antithetical ii diametrically opposed to jesus christ it doesn't matter if he is i'm the best-selling christian author list he's not teaching true you should be careful no matter who says they're Christian to make sure what they're teaching lines up with the Bible well from 593 to 1100 not much went on in the church until they started charging money for masses in 1100 AD historic fact their own Catholic Church says you pay us money will offer a mass for you for your sins to be done away with remember how Peter said silver and gold have I not but that which I have I give you in the name of Jesus Christ rise up and walk the pope's today could not say silver and gold have i not neither can they make people walk today the gospel is being obscured by purgatory money for masses 1198 they started selling indulgences you didn't even need a mess if you would do something good you would get an indulgence to get you or a friend out of purgatory in 1215 they started transubstantiation which is the transmutation of plain bread and plain wine into the body and blood of Christ which the Bible never propounded or taught as doctrine in 1226 mirror 11 years later they started holding up the host after the transubstantiation and they would say we worship you O God the hosts of mass they still do that today that's been going on for seven hundred and sixty-six years in 1229 the Bible is officially put on the index by the council of toledo toledo not ohio toledo spain and you could not read the Bible it was against the church against the church's teaching to read the Bible to keep people in darkness that's why they're stained-glass windows and that's why all those things are carved into the ancient churches and I've toured medieval cathedrals all over Europe and you can see the Gospel message as those churchmen were trying to give people the message because they couldn't read the Bible so they tried to show it to them in stone in the year 1545 the council of trent turns finally from the authority of god's word to the authority of tradition tradition was made equal as the authority of the bible and justification by faith was 125 times can as damnable you know what the Bible says look at Ephesians 2:8 and 9 you should have a big box around this in your Bible but I want to remind you this Ephesians 2 verses 8 and 9 for by grace you have been saved through faith not through mass is not through candles not through the Meritorious supply the overage of the saints totally by faith in the grace of God only that was declared damnable heresy in 1545 ad that was reaffirmed in 1962 that was the first thing they took care of at the Vatican - they said we are reaffirm the Anathem upon those that say salvation does not come through the sacraments the church of john paul ii is the church that denies the scriptures that salvation is by grace through faith in jesus christ alone in the earth' 1854 they invented the doctrine of the Immaculate Conception of Mary that means that she was sinless when she was born then in 1870 because people didn't like that 16 years later the church said you don't like that the Pope is infallible did you know that didn't happen until 1870 he didn't sit up in that chair ex cathedra and and pontificate that's become an adjective now grab things pontificate he didn't do that until 1870 do you see how this has grown it should be alarming to you if you have any vestiges of trust in the Roman Church the fact that that what I believe the Apostle Paul believed because I believe what he wrote what you believe Jesus taught because you read it what 900 million Roman Catholics believe has been growing for 1600 years purgatory came in 593 money from asses eleven hundred indulgences eleven ninety transubstantiation twelve fifteen adoration of the host twelve twenty six the Bible's off-limits 1229 justification by faith is damnable heresies in 1545 Mary was sinlessly conceived in 1854 the Pope is infallible in 1870 what happened to all the other popes why weren't they infallible there's a lot of questions and finally most recently in 1950 1950 six years before I was born the Roman Church discovered that Mary had been bodily assumed into heaven did you know that I don't think she knew that I don't think the Apostles knew that what does all this mean it means you know this is the last verse look at the book of Jude Jude was the brother of Jesus Christ the half-brother and Jude was a marvelous zealous fervent follower of Jesus Christ and this is what Jude says beloved verse 3 when I was making every effort to write to you about our common salvation I felt the necessity to write to you appealing that you contend earnestly for the faith which was once for all delivered to the Saints what does that mean it means in the first century people were creeping in and defiling the simplicity of Christ and I tell you in 1993 they're still here and they're still robbing people of the knowledge of the simplicity of Jesus Christ what is that acts 4:12 neither is there salvation in any other for there is none other name under heaven given among men whereby we must be saved one name one Savior one gospel one book no tradition one blood shed for the sins of many one blessed hope when we die not of purgatory but of heaven the Apostle Paul wrote a verse in 2nd Timothy 1:12 it says for I know whom I have believed it and I am persuaded that he's able to keep that which I've committed unto him against that day I want you to know that salvation is by grace salvation is by faith salvation is once and for all delivered to us that no one is going to add to it no one's going to enlarge upon it no one's going to correct it no one's going to give you a new revelation it's established and if someone tells you that Jesus Christ is off in the desert or in a tree or in a tortilla or his mother's appearing in Yugoslavia somewhere don't believe him but lovingly point them to the truth now unto you that are able to keep us from falling and to present us faultless before your presence with exceeding joy to the only wise God to whom be glory and Majesty Dominion and power both now and evermore amen [Music]

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Length: 55min 51sec (3351 seconds)

Published: Wed Jan 15 2020