This is a
special welcome to you,
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our great television audience,
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you're in our television studio,
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in Moorpark, in
southern California.
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Just on the outskirts of
the great city of Los Angeles.
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I'm just so glad that
you've joined us today.
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And I want you to know that
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we so much
appreciate every one of you.
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The topic today is huge topic.
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Shall we, shall we
Protestants, now return to Rome?
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Shall we go back to the
Roman Catholic churches?
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Many people say, yes.
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The Protestant churches left
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to the great
Roman Catholic Church,
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just on 500 years ago.
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The great issue was
the authority of scripture,
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the truths of the gospel.
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Just on 500 years
ago Martin Luther,
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who was a Roman Catholic Priest,
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nailed up the 99
theses to the door
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of the village church
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and he started a movement
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which is still reverberating
around the world today.
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But the question is,
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is it time to go
home to the mother church?
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Is the Protestant revolt over?
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To understand why
Martin Luther did what he did,
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you've got to get an idea of
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what was going on
inside the Catholic Church.
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Catholic historians and
other historians tell us
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that the church of Rome
at this time in history,
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was almost totally corrupt.
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One of the popes in
the days of Martin Luther,
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when he was young man was a man
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by the name of Pope Alexander.
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Goodness me he had so
many different lady friends,
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mistresses.
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He fathered at
least seven children.
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He was one of the
famous Borgia family,
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that you've seen on television.
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The Borgia's came from Spain.
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The story of the papacy
in these days was a story
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of incense and incest.
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It was a story of lying, murder,
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simony, nepotism,
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and sex orgies in the Vatican.
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But most of them say, and
you can check this online,
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go and read about the Borgia's.
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But most say
those days are over,
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and therefore
Protestantism is over too,
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and as the time come
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when we should return
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to the great
Roman Catholic Church.
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Millions of people think so,
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including
thousands and thousands
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of Protestant ministers.
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And I will give
you these reasons,
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they said, "Let's face it.
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We're surrounded
with perils on every side.
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We have terrorism
at home and abroad.
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We have Muslim extremism,
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which seems to be
taking over Europe.
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We have collapsing morality,
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a sense of meaninglessness
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among millions and
millions of people.
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A lots of purpose
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and also we have our rising
menace in the form of China,
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the Russia, North
Korea with the bomb,
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and Iran."
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Is it not time
my friends tell me,
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is it not time to
unite under the Pope
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who seems like a prince of peace
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and a defender of morality.
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And what is more,
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my friends tell me
isn't he such a nice guy?
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Bless you had anybody
who can drive a little Fiat
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instead of some great big
Limo he's got to be a nice guy,
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so people say
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he is the greatest
spiritual leader in the world.
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I want to start with
a text out of the Bible,
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would you come
with me to 2 Timothy 4
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and verses 1 down to 4,
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2 Timothy 4:1 down to 4,
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the Bible says, Paul says,
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"I charge you therefore before
God and the Lord Jesus Christ,
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who will judge the living
and the dead at his appearing
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and his
kingdom: Preach the word!
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Be ready in
season and out of season.
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Convince, rebuke, exhort,
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with all
longsuffering and teaching.
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For the time will come
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when they will not
endure sound doctrine,
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but according to
their own desires,
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because they have itching ears,
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they will heap up
for themselves teachers,
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and they will turn their
ears away from the truth,
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and be turned aside to fables.
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And listen carefully to this.
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I say this to my Protestant,
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my Adventist and
my catholic friends.
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Listen to this,
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truth has never been popular.
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And it cannot be swept aside
because it is inconvenient.
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We believe with all our
hearts in the right to discuss,
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we believe in the
right to discuss, issues,
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debate issues without fear.
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We believe in the right
to respectfully disagree
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while refusing to
engage in hate speech.
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But we believe we
have the right to be heard.
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In America here
we have thank God,
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the First Amendment
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that guarantees
freedom of speech
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which we no longer
have on the great campuses
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of the great
American Universities.
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We refuse to be intimidated
by the thought police,
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the guardians of
political correctness
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from the far left
and the far right.
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Let me point
out as a Protestant,
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God has many children in
the Roman Catholic Church
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as in the other churches.
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In the book of Revelation
you read a text that says,
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"Come out of her, my people",
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and so the vast
majority of God's people
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are in the Roman Catholic Church
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and in some other churches.
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I have great respect
for the Roman Catholics
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they have produced
some notable saints.
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All of my father's family were
Roman Catholics from Ireland,
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would you believe?
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I have warm
affection to all of them
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especially my Aunt Madge
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and her priest father Tom.
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Listen to this we
have many things in common
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with the Roman Catholic Church,
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the Bible.
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The Roman Catholic
Church venerates the Bible.
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the Roman Catholic
Church preserves the Bible
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in her monasteries
for hundreds of years.
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The Roman Catholic
Church believes in the tirnity,
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in the father, the
son and the Holy Spirit.
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I'm Trinitarian.
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I believe in the trinity
like the Catholic Church.
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The Catholic Church for
claims the divinity of Christ
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that he is not
only the son of man,
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but he is the son of God,
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and they're right.
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The Catholic Church teaches
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the resurrection of
Christ from the dead.
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I believe in the
resurrection of Christ.
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The Roman
Catholic Church teaches
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that Christ died for
the sins of the world.
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Greatest of all truths.
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The Roman
Catholic Church up holds
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the 10
commandments of God unlike
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many other Protestant churches.
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I believe in
the 10 commandments,
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the Catholic Church teaches
that Christ will come again
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to judge the quick and the dead.
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They believe in
the second coming,
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so I do to.
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The Roman Catholic Church unlike
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so many
Protestant ministers teaches
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that marriage is
between a man and a woman.
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And the Pope
stands like a bulwark
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against the
erosion of family values.
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I also believe in
helping people through schools,
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I have this great
Christian network of schools,
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and a vast array of hospitals,
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and so do we to a lesser extent.
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We have the largest Protestant
school system in the world
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and one of the largest church
hospital systems in the world.
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And so, we have some things
in common never forget it.
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But please notice this
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we believe in the
authority of Holy Scripture
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above the church
including my own church.
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Some folks won't
like that, they say,
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"No, no we believe in
the authority of scripture
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except when it
pertains to our church."
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No, no, no.
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we believe in the authority
of scripture above the church,
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every church.
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And come over here
to John 8: 32, John 8.
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Now that has got me in trouble
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with some
members of my own church,
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can you believe it?
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Because I believe in
the authority of scripture.
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John 8: 32, Jesus said,
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"And you shall know the truth,
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and the truth
shall make you free."
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Now come over
here to John 17: 17
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and it tells you,
where you find the truth.
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John 17: 17, Jesus said,
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"Sanctify them by your truth."
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What did he say?
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You word tell me,
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your word, your
word is the truth.
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Therefore listen to this,
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when the papacy
differs with the scriptures
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we will differ with the papacy.
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And that's all right,
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that's what
Protestantism stands for.
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We will not compromise
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so as to look good.
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Now the papacy with
the help of the Protestants
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especially in the United
States of America is growing
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in prestige and power.
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The Pope, no, Protestant leader,
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the Pope is now
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the acknowledged
spiritual leader of the world
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as when he goes to
the United Nations.
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As when he went and spoke
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to the
Americans in the congress,
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and received an
audience befitting a great Pope.
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They called him the
vicar of the son of God,
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the Holy Father.
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Sitting behind him we
have two distinguished
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and wonderful Roman Catholics.
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On the left we
have the vice president
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of the United States of America
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who unlike the Pope
promotes same sex marriage.
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But then you
also have the speaker
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who is totally
opposed to abortion
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and same sex marriage,
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and so within the Roman
Catholic Church in America,
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there are many
different view points,
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and Roman Catholics feel
free to disagree with the Pope
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when they think so.
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They called him, they called him
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and he went to
speak to congress,
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the Holy Father,
our Holy Father is here.
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I want you to come to a text
here in John 17: 11 my friends,
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John 17: 11
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and this is the great
prayer of our blessed Lord.
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John 17: 11 he says,
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"Now I am no
longer in the world,
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but these are in the
world, and I come to you."
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He is talking to almighty God.
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"Holy Father, keep through your
name those you have given me,
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that they may be one."
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We want to be one with
every church in the world,
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but that oneness can only
come through the Holy Father
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who is in heaven,
not a man in Rome.
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And so the term Holy Father
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in scripture is never
given to a mortal sinner
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as the Pope
confesses himself to be,
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he says, "Who am I
to judge I am a sinner."
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Many say it's time to
unite under the Pope of Rome.
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And to answer that challenge
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we need to look at
the great teachings
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and traditions of
the Roman Catholic Church
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and compare them
to the Holy Bible
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in love and sincerity.
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I would point out to you
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that we live in
an age of great light
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and great darkness.
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And the light
comes from scripture
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and today we
shall turn to scripture.
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The first truth,
of the first idea
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that we are going to consider
today is this number one,
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the Pope, Peter,
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the keys, and the rock,
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and the question of authority.
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Because the Pope will tell you
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he is the
successor of Saint Peter
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and that the church is
founded upon Saint Peter,
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the rock.
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I want you to notice
in the Bible a great text,
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this is great
text, text on authority.
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Matthew 16: 13-19,
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Matthew 16: 13 and onwards,
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Matthew 16: 13
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and onwards it says,
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we got at Matthew 16
and here it is it says,
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"When Jesus came into the region
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of Caesarea Philippi,
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He asked His disciples, saying,
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"Who do men say that
I, the Son of Man, am?"
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So they said, "Some say
John the Baptist, some Elijah,
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and others Jeremiah
or one of the prophets."
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He said to them,
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"But who do you say that I am?"
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Simon Peter answered and said,"
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Here it is the great confession,
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the mighty confession.
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You are the Christ,
the Son of the living God."
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Jesus answered and said to him,
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"Blessed are
you, Simon Bar-Jonah,
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for flesh and blood has
not revealed this to you,
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but my Father who is in heaven.
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And I also say to
you that you are Peter,
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and on this rock I
will build my church,
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and the gates of hell or Hades
shall not prevail against it.
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And I will give you the
keys of the kingdom of heaven,
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and whatever you bind on
earth will be bound in heaven,
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and whatever you loose on
earth will be loosed in heaven."
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" This is the great text
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that has been used
with such power by the Pope,
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the Pontiffs, and the clergy
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of the Roman Catholic Church.
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The question is who
or what is the rock?
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The Pope says it is Saint Peter.
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In the Greek language
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in which the New
Testament is written,
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the word Peter is
a Greek word Petros,
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and it means a stone,
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even a big stone,
even a rock, a boulder.
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Then there is another
word and that word is Petra,
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and that is a great immovable
rock or a Rock of Gibraltor.
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Remember Peter's confession,
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you are the Christ
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the son of the living God.
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The true church
is built upon Christ,
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the son of the living God.
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It is not built upon
Peter, because Peter was a stone
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and Peter was a rolling
stone and Peter is dead.
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Now I will prove it
to you from scripture.
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Would you come over here
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to 1 Corinthians 10 and verse 4,
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1 Corinthians
10:4 the Bible says,
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"And all drank of
the same spiritual drink.
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For they drank of
that spiritual Rock that
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followed them, and
that rock was Christ."
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The Bible tells me,
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my friend this is not
the voice of the theologian
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the Bible says the
rock is Christ, not Peter.
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Now would you to
come to another text
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come back here to
the book of Psalms,
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Psalm 18: 31,
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this is taught all the
way through Holy Scripture.
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The Bible says, "And who is God,
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except the Lord?
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And who is a
rock, except our God?"
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God in Christ is the rock
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upon which
Christ built his church.
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Would you come to
another text 1 Corinthians 3:11,
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1 Corinthians my friend,
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this is a great
and almighty truth.
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1 Corinthians 3:11
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this is the word
of the living God,
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1 Corinthians
3:11 the Bible says,
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"For no other foundation
can anyone lay than that
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which is laid,
which is Jesus Christ."
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The foundation of
the church is not Peter,
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it is Christ.
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The true church is built upon
a living rock, a living Christ.
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The counterfeit
church is built upon a man.
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Years ago I think it was
1991 I was in the Kremlin.
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Communism was falling down.
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I went into the place
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where Lenin was
placed there he is.
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Was that Lenin? We think so.
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Communism my friend failed.
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Listen to this, communism failed
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because it was not
built upon a living man,
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but was built upon a dead man,
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so it failed.
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The church in Russia
was bitterly persecuted
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but the church
in Russia prevailed.
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Why did it prevail?
00:20:02.16\00:20:04.40
Why did communism
fail in the Soviet Union?
00:20:04.43\00:20:07.27
It failed because it
was built upon a dead man
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but the true church
is built upon this man,
00:20:10.84\00:20:13.04
a living Christ, you see.
00:20:13.07\00:20:17.11
So the Pope's
great ideal is that
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he is the
successor of Saint Peter.
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No, no, no,
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the true church is
not built upon Peter,
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it is built upon Christ.
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And what about the keys?
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Jesus said to the disciples,
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"I'm gonna give you
the keys of the kingdom."
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We'll turn to Matthew 16: 19,
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Matthew 16: 19 my friends,
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and remember this
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we love our beloved
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Roman Catholic
brothers and sisters,
00:20:52.78\00:20:54.72
but we say to them
read the scriptures
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because we're all going to
be judged by the word of God.
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Jesus said, "I will give
you the keys of the kingdom."
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And what are the keys?
00:21:06.16\00:21:07.50
Come over now to Luke 11:52,
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Luke 11:52
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the Bible explains itself,
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"Woe to you lawyers" He
was talking to the people,
00:21:18.17\00:21:21.44
who studied the
law of God in his day.
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"For you have taken
away the key of knowledge,
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the key of knowledge.
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You did not enter in yourselves,
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and those who were
entering in you hindered."
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What are the keys?
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The knowledge of
the kingdom of God,
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listen to this,
00:21:41.86\00:21:44.63
the Pope believes and teaches,
00:21:44.67\00:21:47.74
that Christ gave to
Saint Peter and hints to him
00:21:47.77\00:21:50.97
as Peter's successor
the keys of the kingdom,
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what power.
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The apostolic
authority of the church to open
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or shut the doors to paradise.
00:22:00.12\00:22:04.05
That's if you are excommunicated
00:22:04.09\00:22:06.05
by the Roman Catholic
Church, you go straight to hell,
00:22:06.09\00:22:10.39
and during the dark ages
00:22:10.43\00:22:11.76
when the papacy ruled Europe
00:22:11.79\00:22:13.60
people trembled at the
prospect of offending the Pope
00:22:13.63\00:22:16.80
and spending eternity in hell.
00:22:16.83\00:22:21.90
So Jesus said,
00:22:21.94\00:22:23.27
I'm going to give you
the keys of the kingdom
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I will open the doors of hell,
00:22:27.48\00:22:30.71
and I will open
the doors of paradise.
00:22:30.75\00:22:34.82
What are these keys?
00:22:34.85\00:22:36.18
Jesus told us,
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you don't have to think twice
he said it's the knowledge,
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it's the knowledge
of the kingdom of God.
00:22:42.49\00:22:44.89
Would you come over here with me
00:22:44.93\00:22:46.66
to Matthew 13: 11 dear friends,
00:22:46.70\00:22:51.97
Mathew 13:11,
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"He answered and said to them,
00:22:55.94\00:22:57.57
"Because it has
been given to you
00:22:57.61\00:23:00.98
to know the mysteries
of the kingdom of heaven,
00:23:01.01\00:23:04.81
but to them it
has not been given."
00:23:04.85\00:23:08.05
" Now look at me, not
everybody has the key,
00:23:08.08\00:23:12.25
Jesus said that.
00:23:12.29\00:23:13.62
He said it's been
given to you to know
00:23:13.66\00:23:16.96
the mysteries of
the kingdom of heaven.
00:23:16.99\00:23:21.90
What is the key?
00:23:21.93\00:23:24.10
The key is the
knowledge of the gospel
00:23:24.13\00:23:29.80
of the blood of Christ.
00:23:29.84\00:23:33.78
We have the keys of this blood,
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the knowledge of the mysteries,
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I can give you other
text, I don't have time.
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It is the knowledge of
the mysteries of the gospel.
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What is the gospel?
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Listen carefully.
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God in Jesus became a man.
00:23:51.03\00:23:56.43
He died on the
cross for our sins,
00:23:56.46\00:24:00.07
forgiveness is free.
00:24:00.10\00:24:02.74
You can come into
the very presence of God
00:24:02.77\00:24:05.21
without an earthly priest.
00:24:05.24\00:24:08.78
Christ will live in
you and transform you
00:24:08.81\00:24:11.18
and you can have
a mansion in glory.
00:24:11.21\00:24:14.55
When that true
gospel is preached
00:24:14.58\00:24:18.12
the doors of
paradise are flung open.
00:24:18.15\00:24:22.69
When the true
gospel is rejected,
00:24:22.72\00:24:25.53
the doors of heaven are closed,
00:24:25.56\00:24:27.36
by keeping the true
gospel from the people
00:24:27.40\00:24:30.37
the Protestant said that
00:24:30.40\00:24:31.77
Rome had taken away
like the Jewish leaders
00:24:31.80\00:24:35.24
the key of knowledge.
00:24:35.27\00:24:37.71
Now I say this
humbly to the glory of God.
00:24:37.74\00:24:41.54
When I preached in
Russia, Ukraine, El Salvador,
00:24:41.58\00:24:46.85
the Sydney opera
house, around the world,
00:24:46.88\00:24:51.42
I talk to people
00:24:51.45\00:24:52.79
who did not have the
knowledge of the kingdom.
00:24:52.82\00:24:55.29
As people listen, believed
00:24:55.32\00:24:56.83
and accepted the key
was given to the church,
00:24:56.86\00:25:00.43
that key that was
given to the church
00:25:00.46\00:25:02.73
opened the doors of paradise.
00:25:02.76\00:25:07.60
When Protestants took
that knowledge to the people,
00:25:07.64\00:25:11.07
there was a
transformation of society.
00:25:11.11\00:25:14.98
The most prosperous
countries were the ones,
00:25:15.01\00:25:18.41
who accepted the
Protestant reformation.
00:25:18.45\00:25:25.35
Yeah, so what are the keys?
00:25:25.39\00:25:31.79
The keys, the great
truths of the gospel.
00:25:31.83\00:25:36.56
When the gospel is preached
00:25:41.80\00:25:45.01
and received people are saved,
00:25:45.04\00:25:50.98
and I come to have a
personal experience in Christ
00:25:51.01\00:25:56.32
and they are delivered.
00:25:56.35\00:26:00.39
Now, more amazing truths
00:26:00.42\00:26:05.53
about return to Rome,
00:26:05.56\00:26:09.13
just moments away, stay with us.
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Hi, there I'm John
Carter in Havana, Cuba,
00:26:24.31\00:26:27.25
this communist fortress.
00:26:27.28\00:26:29.38
We're here to
preach the gospel of Christ
00:26:29.42\00:26:31.42
to the public,
00:26:31.45\00:26:32.79
but more than this
00:26:32.82\00:26:34.16
we are running a
school of evangelism
00:26:34.19\00:26:36.59
and Biblical studies
for the Cuban pastors.
00:26:36.62\00:26:41.26
One hundred and forty pastors
00:26:41.30\00:26:43.23
coming right across
this wonderful island,
00:26:43.26\00:26:47.27
and they're
coming to join with us
00:26:47.30\00:26:48.90
to study how best
00:26:48.94\00:26:50.81
we can meet the
needs of the Cuban people.
00:26:50.84\00:26:54.91
The Cuban people are just
the most wonderful people,
00:26:54.94\00:26:57.88
they're warm, friendly,
00:26:57.91\00:26:59.85
and I'm amazed
that in the meetings
00:26:59.88\00:27:01.48
every night that we're taking,
00:27:01.52\00:27:03.95
that I think most of the
people there are young people.
00:27:03.99\00:27:08.29
Now, of course
when I say young people
00:27:08.32\00:27:09.86
I mean people up to say,
00:27:09.89\00:27:11.93
35 years of age,
they are young to me.
00:27:11.96\00:27:15.73
But they're so warm.
00:27:15.76\00:27:17.10
And they're so receptive.
00:27:17.13\00:27:19.17
And when they come forward
night by night to accept Jesus,
00:27:19.20\00:27:22.80
they come with
tremendous sincerity.
00:27:22.84\00:27:25.44
So what a
privilege it is to be here
00:27:25.47\00:27:27.54
in the land of Cuba.
00:27:27.58\00:27:29.94
But remember to
pray for the pastors,
00:27:29.98\00:27:33.25
140 pastors are
coming from Guantanamo Bay
00:27:33.28\00:27:37.95
and other places,
00:27:37.99\00:27:39.39
right across this island nation.
00:27:39.42\00:27:41.92
They're coming to
join forces with us,
00:27:41.96\00:27:44.06
think of this they're
coming from Guantanamo Bay
00:27:44.09\00:27:47.60
and everywhere.
00:27:47.63\00:27:49.03
We're going to meet
with them study with them
00:27:49.06\00:27:51.10
pray with them
00:27:51.13\00:27:52.47
to device the best
means are reaching this nation
00:27:52.50\00:27:57.31
for the Lord Jesus Christ.
00:27:57.34\00:27:59.31
And thank you for
being my special partner.
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