So glad to see you today.
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Let's get started.
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The topic is part three,
"Shall we return to Rome?"
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Shall we go back to
the Roman Catholic Church?
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Is the great
Protestant Reformation finished?
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Shall we return to Rome?
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Shall we unite with
the Roman Catholic Church
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for the salvation of the world?
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This is part three
of a four part series.
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Pope Francis is
not an ordinary pope.
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He seems to be genuinely
concerned for people's needs
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whether they be rich or poor,
black, white, Muslim or Jew,
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Catholic or Protestant,
heterosexual or homosexual.
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He also drives a cute
little Fiat motor car.
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So how could you dislike a pope,
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when he drives around
not in a big flashy Mercedes
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but in a little Fiat?
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He also has a wonderful smile.
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I've heard Protestants say
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concerning their church leaders,
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"We wish we had a
leader like the pope,
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he seem so nice."
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He reminds many people of Jesus.
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After all he is called what?
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The Vicar of Christ.
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He seems to want
to bend the rules
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and make the church
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more welcoming
and accommodating.
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He's not one of
the frozen chosen.
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He says, "Who am I to judge?
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I am a sinner."
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When did you ever hear a
pope say that I'm a sinner.
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Adventists have said some very
nice things about Catholics.
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Ellen White, the
Adventist prophet said
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the majority of true Christians
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were found in
the Catholic Church.
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Oh, actually she
said in the Protestant
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and Catholic churches.
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So we love Roman Catholics,
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but huge
doctrinal differences remain
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that cannot be swept just so,
so under the ecumenical carpet.
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We must differentiate between
the teachings and the people.
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Now, tell me here you like this.
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This is from Charles Spurgeon
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who has been described
as the greatest preacher
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since the Great Saint Paul.
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He said this, "A time will come
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when instead of
shepherds feeding the sheep,
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the church will have
clowns entertaining the goats."
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He said instead of
shepherds feeding the sheep,
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the church will have
clowns entertaining the goats.
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Spurgeon believed
that truth was important
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and that is why
Spurgeon disagreed so strongly
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with the teachings of
the Roman Catholic Church.
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Would you please
come in the Bible
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to the words of our Lord,
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John 8:31, 32, dear
hearts and gentle people.
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John 8 and we're so
glad to welcome you today
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and especially our television
audience around the world
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and down there
into Latin America
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and across the
great United States,
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into Australia and beyond.
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John 8:31, 32,
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"Then Jesus said to
those Jews who believed in Him,
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"If you abide in My word,
you are My disciples indeed.
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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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So my friends,
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there is no freedom
apart from the truth.
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We are looking today at some
great Roman Catholic doctrines
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and this doctrine is number
six in the series of doctrines
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we're looking at.
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Here it is, the
Celebration of the Mass
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and the Cross of Christ.
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The mass is the
very, very heart, soul
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and essence of the Vatican
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and the Catholic Church.
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I want to read you
from the Council of Trent.
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What's the Council of Trent?
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That was a part of
the Counter Reformation
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that the Catholics
called to answer the teachings
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of the Protestant reformers.
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Listen,
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the decrees of the Council
of Trent are binding today
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on every pope and
every Roman Catholic,
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don't forget this.
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Council of Trent, it says this,
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"The same Christ who offered
himself once in a bloody manner
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on the altar of the
cross, is present and offered
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in an unbloody
manner in the Mass."
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The Catholic Church
teaches in the Council of Trent
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that the mass is
not a memorial service
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but it is a sacrifice
of propitiation the same
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as the cross of Christ.
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I want to read to you
from a famous Roman Catholic,
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James Joyce,
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an old priest is talking to him,
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wanting him to become a priest,
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"To receive that call
Steven said to priest,
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is the greatest
honor that the Almighty God
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can bestow upon a man,
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no king or emperor on this earth
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has the power of
the priest of God.
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No king or emperor on
this earth has the power
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of the priest of God.
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No angel or archangel in heaven.
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No saint not even the
Blessed Virgin herself
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has the power of
the priest of God,
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the power of the keys,
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the power to bind
and to loose from sin.
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The power of exorcism,
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the power to cast out
from the creatures of God,
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the evil spirits that have
power over them, the power,
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the authority to make
the great God of heaven
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come down up on the altar
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and take the form
of bread and wine,
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what an awful power."
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And so a priest must
have something to sacrifice
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or else he's not a priest.
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And through the
doctrine of transubstantiation
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that was reinforced
in the Council of Trent
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and that is
believed by Pope Francis,
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every pope has the authority
to bring Almighty God down
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from heaven and
put him on the cross.
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Let me read on to you.
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This is the doctrine of
course of transubstantiation
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but before we go any further,
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I want you to
notice Matthew 26:26-28
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because on this text they based
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the doctrine of
transubstantiation.
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Matthew 26:26-28, Matthew 26,
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"And as they were
eating, Jesus took bread,
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blessed and broke it,
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and gave it to the
disciples and said,
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"Take, eat, this is My body."
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Then he took the cup,
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and gave thanks,
and gave it to them,
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saying, "Drink
from it, all of you.
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For this is My
blood of the new covenant,
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which is shed for many
for the remission of sins."
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Therefore the
Catholic Church says that
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when the priest takes the
bread and the wine and say,
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"This is my body,
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this is my blood."
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It is actually transformed
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through the doctrine
of transubstantiation
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into the body and
the blood of Christ
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and the priest offers
this up as a propitiation
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to turn away the
wrath of God in the mass.
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Did you know this?
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But the Bible is a
book of symbolic language.
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Jesus said, "I am the door."
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Do we take that literally,
He said, "I am the vine."
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Jesus was talking
symbolic language.
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The Council of
Trent in 1562 said this,
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"If anyone says that in the mass
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a true and proper sacrifice
is not offered to God...
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let him be anathema."
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Let him be cursed.
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And then the council
goes on to say, 1562,
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"If anyone saith that
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the sacrifice of the mass
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is only a sacrifice of praise...
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or that it is a bare
commemoration of the sacrifice
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consummated on the cross,
not a propitiatory sacrifice...
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let him be anathema."
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I don't know if
you understand this,
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if you're getting this.
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A sacrifice of
propitiation is what
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God and Christ
did on the cross...
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where the wrath
of God is turned away
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because of the sacrifice.
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So when the priest
says, "This is my body.
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This is my blood."
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And holds it up, that's
when the people bow down
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because the very
presence of God is in it
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and he offers up
Christ again on the cross.
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And this of course goes
against everything in scripture.
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And this is why
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the Church of Rome has never,
never been big in scripture,
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and this is why
Roman Catholic people
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that we love very
much are not encouraged
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to read the Bible.
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Look at Hebrews 7:26, 27
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Hebrews 7:26, 27.
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The Bible says,
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"For such a High
Priest was fitting for us,
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who is holy,
harmless, undefiled,
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separate from sinners,
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and has become
higher than the heavens,
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who does not need
daily, as those high priests,
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to offer up sacrifices,
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first for His own sins
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and then for the
people's, for this He did,
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look at the words,
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once for all when
He offered up Himself."
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The Bible tells me that
Christ is our High Priest
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and His
sacrifice, never forget it,
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was once and for all time.
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This is the
teaching of the word.
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Then if you come
to Hebrews 10:10-14,
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Hebrews 10:10-14.
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"By that will we
have been sanctified
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through the offering of
the body of Jesus Christ
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once it says, once for all.
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And every priest
stands ministering daily
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and offering
repeatedly the same sacrifices,
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which can never take away sins."
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This is talking about
the Old Testament priest,
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"But this Man,
after He had offered
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one sacrifice for sins forever,
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sat down at the
right hand of God,
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from that time waiting
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till His enemies
are made His footstool.
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For by one offering
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He is perfected forever
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those who are being sanctified."
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The Bible teaches
that the work of Christ
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on the cross was
once and for all,
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and to say that the
sacrifice of the mass
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is offering up
Christ again is a blasphemy
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in the face of God.
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This is why we don't believe it.
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The Lord sacrifice is a
memorial not a sacrifice.
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Come to 1
Corinthians 11:23 and onwards,
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1 Corinthians 11:23
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and onwards in the word of God.
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Paul says, "For I
received from the Lord
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that which I
also deliver to you:
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that the Lord Jesus
on the same night in
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which He was
betrayed took bread,
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and when He had given
thanks, He broke it and said,
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"Take, eat, this is My body
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which is broken for
you, this do in, " What?
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"In remembrance of Me."
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In the same manner He also took
the cup after supper, saying,
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"This cup is the new
covenant in My blood.
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This do, as
often as you drink it,
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in remembrance of Me."
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For as often as
you eat this bread
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and drink this cup,
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you proclaim the
Lord's death till He comes."
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The Lord's supper
is not a sacrifice,
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it is a
memorial of the sacrifice
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that was once for all.
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On the cross,
listen Jesus on the cross
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made an atoning sacrifice
for the sins of the world,
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He said, "It is finished,"
He didn't say it started.
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He paid the price,
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redeemed the
world, took our place,
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satisfied
through a propitiation,
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the justice of God
and nothing can add to
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or subtract from that work.
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"Once for all."
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"Never to be repeated,"
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It was determined dead and done.
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Therefore, the
mass is unscriptural
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and is a counterfeit Calvary.
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It is blasphemy.
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It is a grose
distortion of Holy Scripture.
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Now here is some good news
for Catholics and Protestants,
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"As a repentant sinner
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I can come to
Christ now in faith
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and accept His
death for my sin now.
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I can be forgiven and saved
now without an earthly priest
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and without the mass
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which is man's
way not God's way."
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Now doctrine number seven,
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The Priesthood and the Pope.
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There are no popes
mentioned in the Bible.
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Peter was a married man
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and Peter was not the pope.
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There is no historian
except a Roman Catholic person
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employed by the
church who says this.
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Jesus said in Matthew 23:9,
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"Do not call anyone
on earth your father."
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He's talking about
in a spiritual sense.
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"But One is your
Father, He who is in heaven."
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The Bible says, "Don't
call any person your father."
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And then if you come
to John 17:11, John 17:11,
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now Jesus said, "I'm
no longer in the world,
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but these are in the
world, and I come to You.
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Holy Father..."
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There is one Holy
Father, that is God,
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there is no Holy
Father on this earth.
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Pope Francis says,
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"We are a race of sinners, amen.
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Who am I to
judge, I am a sinner."
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But wait on,
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we will be judged
by the word of God.
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Who am I to judge?
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No, not the pope,
but the word of God,
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and the word of God has spoken,
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"No spiritual leader
should accept the title
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that belongs
only to God in heaven.
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That's very close to blasphemy."
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There is no
legitimate God ordained
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priesthood on this earth
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since the Old Testament
Jewish system of priests
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and animal sacrifices
were abolished at the cross.
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None at all, none at all.
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No priesthood on this
earth that is legitimate.
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Hebrews 7:12,
Hebrews 7:12, 22-27,
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"For the
priesthood being changed..."
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Did you hear this?
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When Jesus died, "the
priesthood was changed,
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of necessity there is
also a change of the law.
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By so much more
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Jesus has become a
surety of a better covenant."
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There were many
priests back then,
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because they were
prevented from by death
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from continuing in their work.
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"But He, because
He continues forever,
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has an unchangeable priesthood.
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Therefore He is able
to save to the uttermost
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those who come
to God through Him,
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since He always lives to
make intercession for them.
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For such a High
Priest was fitting for us,
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who is holy,
harmless, undefiled,
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separate from sinners,
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and has become
higher than the heavens,
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who does not need
daily, as those high priests,
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to offer up sacrifices,
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first for His own sins
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and then for the people's,
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for this He did once for
all when He offered up Himself."
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So the Bible teaches
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there are no, no,
no earthly priests.
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That's the
teaching of the Bible.
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That's the word
of God, Hebrews 8:1,
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Hebrews 8:1 the Bible says,
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"Now this is the main point
of the things we are saying:
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We have such a High Priest,
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who is seated at the
right hand of the throne."
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This is not
talking about the pope.
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It is talking about
our Lord Jesus Christ
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because He is our priest.
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Hebrews 10:11-14,
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Hebrews 10:11-14, Hebrews 10,
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"And every priest
stands ministering daily..."
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This is the Old Testament.
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"And offering
repeatedly the same sacrifices,
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which can never take away sins.
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But this Man,
after He had offered
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one sacrifice for sins forever,
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sat down of the
right hand of God,
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from that time waiting
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till His enemies
are made His footstool.
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For by one offering
He is perfected forever
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those who are being sanctified."
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So does the church
need a priest today?
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I asked the question,
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does the church
need a priest today?
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Yes.
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Christ.
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Christ is the priest.
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The system of
earthly priests was abolished
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and nailed to the cross.
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We have a great high
priest, we go directly to Him.
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We don't need mediators.
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we have direct access.
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I've got other
texts, I can put in here
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but I just don't
have time like Hebrews 4,
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I'm not going to put it in,
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1 Timothy 2 tells
us, it tells us that,
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"There's only one
God and only one God
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and there's only one
Mediator between us and God
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and that is the
Man Christ Jesus."
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I want you to know this.
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We've got a priest
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and the church
does need a priest,
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Christ.
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I think when I
was running meetings
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in the Roman Catholic
country of the Philippines,
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I was there in Manila...
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By the way it's my
old friend Graeme Bradford
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and the guy with the
curly hair over there,
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that was what I used to be.
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This was actually on death row.
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We are baptizing young men
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who were being
sent to their deaths,
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because they were terrorists.
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But I told them Christ had
borne the price of their sin
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and they could come directly
to God through Jesus Christ
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who is our priest.
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And that's true
for every one of you.
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The other system is
a counterfeit system.
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Now, I love John
and Charles Wesley,
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also love John Newton
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who gave us the
hymn Amazing Grace.
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I want to read to
you from Charles Wesley,
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this great preacher.
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You see, the Wesleys
led John Newton to Christ
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and John Newton
gave us Amazing Grace.
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Charles Wesley, he wrote,
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"He left His
Father's throne above,
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So free, so infinite His grace,
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Emptied Himself of all but love,
00:19:16.62\00:19:19.12
And bled for
Adam's helpless race
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"Tis mercy all,
Immense and free,
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For, O my God, it found out me.
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Long my imprisoned
spirit lay fast bound in sin
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and nature's night,
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Thine eye
diffused a quickening ray,
00:19:34.80\00:19:37.31
I woke, the
dungeon flame with light,
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My chains fell
off, my heart was free,
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I rose, went
forth, and followed thee."
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Don't need a pope for that.
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Don't need an
earthly priest for that.
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What I'm talking today is the
heart of the Protestant faith.
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"No condemnation now I dread,
Jesus, and all in Him, is mine!
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Alive in Him, my living Head,
00:20:05.07\00:20:07.84
And clothed in
righteousness Divine,
00:20:07.87\00:20:11.67
Bold I approach
the eternal throne,
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And claim the crown,
through Christ my own."
00:20:15.48\00:20:18.71
Bold I approach
the eternal throne,
00:20:18.75\00:20:21.48
And claim the crown,
through Christ my own.
00:20:21.52\00:20:25.19
This is the good news.
00:20:25.22\00:20:27.49
I can come to Christ today,
00:20:27.52\00:20:29.72
I can be free today
because of Amazing Grace.
00:20:29.76\00:20:34.23
So I reject categorically
the doctrine of the priesthood,
00:20:34.26\00:20:37.27
the earthly priesthood
00:20:37.30\00:20:38.70
and the doctrine of the mass
on the authority of scripture.
00:20:38.73\00:20:44.74
Now, the Lord God,
00:20:44.77\00:20:46.91
all mainstream churches
teach the Ten Commandments,
00:20:46.94\00:20:50.31
Church of Rome, Baptist Church,
00:20:50.35\00:20:52.18
Methodist Church,
Church of England.
00:20:52.21\00:20:54.62
James 2:10-12.
00:20:54.65\00:20:57.49
James 2, "For whatever,
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whoever shall
keep the whole law,
00:20:59.82\00:21:01.96
and yet stumble in one
point, he is guilty of all.
00:21:01.99\00:21:05.16
That He who said,
"Do not commit adultery,"
00:21:05.19\00:21:07.10
also said, "Do not murder,"
00:21:07.13\00:21:09.73
Now if you do
not commit adultery,
00:21:09.76\00:21:11.13
but if you do murder,
00:21:11.17\00:21:12.50
you have become a
transgressor of the law.
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So speak and so do
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as those who are going to be
judged by the law of liberty."
00:21:15.64\00:21:19.47
Every mainstream church
00:21:19.51\00:21:23.65
believes in the Commandments.
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Spoken by the mouth of God
written with the finger of God.
00:21:27.12\00:21:32.02
Listen, the papacy
claims the authority to change
00:21:32.05\00:21:37.89
the holy law of God.
00:21:37.93\00:21:39.69
You say, no, no, no, no.
00:21:39.73\00:21:41.06
Yes, I'll give it to
you from the Church of Rome,
00:21:41.10\00:21:44.53
Peter Gelermann.
00:21:44.57\00:21:45.90
The Convert's
Catechism of Catholic Doctrine:
00:21:45.93\00:21:51.31
Which is the Sabbath day?
00:21:51.34\00:21:52.94
Answer: Saturday
is the Sabbath day.
00:21:52.97\00:21:55.88
Question: Why do we observe
Sunday instead of Saturday?
00:21:55.91\00:21:58.98
Answer: We observe
Sunday instead of Saturday,
00:21:59.01\00:22:01.48
because the Catholic Church
00:22:01.52\00:22:02.85
transferred the solemnity
from Saturday to Sunday.
00:22:02.88\00:22:07.09
And this work received
00:22:07.12\00:22:08.46
the apostolic
blessing of Pope Pius X.
00:22:08.49\00:22:10.99
Stephen Keenan, A
Doctrinal Catechism.
00:22:11.03\00:22:14.70
Question: Have you
any other way of proving
00:22:14.73\00:22:17.27
that the church has power
00:22:17.30\00:22:18.63
to institute
festivals of precept?
00:22:18.67\00:22:21.20
Answer: Had she not such power,
00:22:21.24\00:22:23.71
she could not have done that
00:22:23.74\00:22:25.07
in which all modern
religionists agree with her,
00:22:25.11\00:22:27.48
she could not have substituted
00:22:27.51\00:22:29.21
the observance of
Saturday the seventh day,
00:22:29.24\00:22:32.71
a change for which
00:22:32.75\00:22:34.15
there is no
Scriptural authority.
00:22:34.18\00:22:39.09
Then The Catholic
Mirrors, September 23, 1893,
00:22:39.12\00:22:43.59
the voice of the Vatican,
00:22:43.63\00:22:45.53
"The Catholic Church
for over one thousand years
00:22:45.56\00:22:48.96
before the
existence of a Protestant,
00:22:49.00\00:22:51.67
by virtue of her divine mission,
00:22:51.70\00:22:54.64
changed the day
from Saturday to Sunday."
00:22:54.67\00:23:00.64
So it comes down.
00:23:00.68\00:23:02.04
It's very easy if
you've got an open mind,
00:23:02.08\00:23:06.15
and if you're honest to God.
00:23:06.18\00:23:10.32
He choose very easy,
shall I follow the Word of God
00:23:10.35\00:23:14.19
or shall I follow
the Word of the Church?
00:23:14.22\00:23:19.43
And the Devil is
still on the march on us.
00:23:19.46\00:23:21.80
He's got people to think
in ten second sound bites
00:23:21.83\00:23:28.00
and know nothing about
00:23:28.04\00:23:30.11
what it is
written in Holy Scripture,
00:23:30.14\00:23:34.84
and that is why that
great church has discouraged
00:23:34.88\00:23:38.78
for hundreds of years
the reading of the Bible.
00:23:38.81\00:23:45.19
Listen,
00:23:45.22\00:23:47.39
here it is, a
question of the authority.
00:23:47.42\00:23:50.26
The voice of a
very fallible church
00:23:50.29\00:23:54.36
or the voice of
an infallible Bible,
00:23:54.40\00:23:59.60
the word of God
00:23:59.63\00:24:01.64
or the word of man.
00:24:01.67\00:24:06.61
Shall we return to Rome,
00:24:06.64\00:24:09.61
the Rome of
tradition and of false gospel?
00:24:09.64\00:24:12.91
Now I've got a fair
bit of British blood in me,
00:24:16.69\00:24:19.99
and I can remember the
words of Prime Minister
00:24:20.02\00:24:23.19
Winston Spencer Churchill
00:24:23.22\00:24:26.36
when confronted by the
destruction of Great Britain
00:24:26.39\00:24:29.70
and the triumph of the Nazis.
00:24:29.73\00:24:32.20
Churchill said, "Never give up.
00:24:32.23\00:24:38.01
Never give up.
00:24:38.04\00:24:41.04
Never give up."
00:24:41.08\00:24:42.74
He was not a namby-pamby.
00:24:42.78\00:24:49.48
He had a backbone
00:24:49.52\00:24:53.36
and he had
Protestantism in his soul.
00:24:53.39\00:24:59.79
Never give up, he said.
00:24:59.83\00:25:02.96
Never give up.
00:25:03.00\00:25:06.20
Never give up.
00:25:06.23\00:25:07.57
And they didn't
00:25:07.60\00:25:08.94
and they beat the
great Nazi war machine.
00:25:08.97\00:25:13.68
The boys who went up
in the Spitfire 17 and 18
00:25:13.71\00:25:17.81
took on the world's greatest
00:25:17.85\00:25:21.22
and completely defeated them,
00:25:21.25\00:25:22.98
ignominiously
they were defeated.
00:25:23.02\00:25:25.65
Never give up.
00:25:25.69\00:25:27.02
Shall we return to Rome?
00:25:27.06\00:25:30.06
Here is the answer.
00:25:30.09\00:25:31.59
Never, never, never
00:25:31.63\00:25:36.97
until Rome returns to God
00:25:37.00\00:25:42.44
and the God of the Bible.
00:25:42.47\00:25:46.68
Never, never, never
00:25:46.71\00:25:53.15
but more amazing truths
00:25:53.18\00:25:56.02
just moments
away for an instance.
00:25:56.05\00:26:00.26
What does Bible prophecy
teach about the Vatican?
00:26:00.29\00:26:06.63
Stay with us.
00:26:06.66\00:26:08.00
Hi there, I'm John
Carter in Havana, Cuba.
00:26:19.07\00:26:21.98
This communist fortress,
00:26:22.01\00:26:23.85
we're here to preach
00:26:23.88\00:26:25.21
the gospel of
Christ to the public,
00:26:25.25\00:26:27.58
but more than this,
00:26:27.62\00:26:28.95
we are running a
school of evangelism
00:26:28.98\00:26:31.39
and biblical studies
for the Cuban pastors,
00:26:31.42\00:26:36.06
140 pastors coming from right
across this wonderful island
00:26:36.09\00:26:42.06
and they're coming to
join with us to study how best
00:26:42.10\00:26:45.57
we can meet the
needs of the Cuban people.
00:26:45.60\00:26:49.60
The Cuban people are just
the most wonderful people,
00:26:49.64\00:26:52.64
they're warm, friendly,
00:26:52.67\00:26:54.84
but I'm amazed that in
the meetings every night
00:26:54.88\00:26:57.18
that we are taking
00:26:57.21\00:26:58.71
that I think most of the
people there are young people.
00:26:58.75\00:27:03.02
Now, of course
when I say young people,
00:27:03.05\00:27:04.69
I mean people up to
say 35 years of age.
00:27:04.72\00:27:08.92
They're young to me,
00:27:08.96\00:27:10.56
but they're so warm
and they're receptive
00:27:10.59\00:27:13.96
and when they come forward
night by night to accept Jesus,
00:27:14.00\00:27:17.60
they come with
tremendous sincerity.
00:27:17.63\00:27:20.30
So what a
privilege it is to be here
00:27:20.34\00:27:22.30
in the land of Cuba.
00:27:22.34\00:27:24.94
But remember to
pray for the pastors.
00:27:24.97\00:27:28.08
One hundred and forty pastors
are coming from Guantanamo Bay
00:27:28.11\00:27:33.05
and other places right
across this island nation.
00:27:33.08\00:27:36.45
They're coming to
join forces with us.
00:27:36.48\00:27:38.85
Think of this, they're
coming from Guantanamo Bay
00:27:38.89\00:27:42.52
and everywhere.
00:27:42.56\00:27:43.89
We're going to meet
with them, study with them,
00:27:43.93\00:27:46.09
pray with them,
00:27:46.13\00:27:47.46
to devise the best
means of reaching this nation
00:27:47.50\00:27:52.10
for the Lord Jesus Christ,
00:27:52.13\00:27:54.10
and thank you for
being my special partner.
00:27:54.14\00:27:57.17
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