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I'm John Carter.
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Today on the Carter Report,
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Pastor Carter brings us
the triumph of Protestantism.
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I'm just so glad to welcome
you today to the Carter Report.
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The topic is an exciting one,
the triumph of Protestantism.
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Just a little
over 500 years ago,
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Martin Luther put his 95 theses
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up on the door of a
Roman Catholic Church
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and shook the world.
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We're gonna talk
about that today,
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the triumph of Protestantism.
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I get every week
The Economist magazine,
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it's published in the
United States of America,
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but it's edited and
written basically in England.
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It's an amazing magazine.
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And The Economist magazine
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tells a story of a
little town in Guatemala.
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Now this is not a
religious magazine,
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this is now put
out by the Far-right,
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this is not evangelical,
this is completely secular.
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And it talks about Martin Luther
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and the triumph
of Protestantism.
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And this secular magazine
starts by telling the story
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of a little town in Guatemala
which is called Almolonga.
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It says this,
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"Once upon a time
it was full of crime,
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and drugs, and prostitutes.
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It was just a terrible place.
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In the summer of 1974,
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a 26-year-old Mayan villager
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lay drunk in a town square
in the highlands of Guatemala.
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Suddenly he heard a voice
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that was to change
the course of his life
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and that of his
home town, Almolonga.
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Almolonga.
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"I was lying there
and I saw Jesus saying,
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'I love you and I
want you to serve me,'"
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says the man.
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He dusted himself down,
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sobered up and
soon started preaching,
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establishing a Protestant
congregation in a room
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not far from the town's
ancient Catholic Church.
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The magazine goes on says that
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this town was about as
bad as you can imagine,
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full of
prostitutes, full of drugs,
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the people were dreadfully poor.
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But then the
Economist magazine said,
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"When
Protestantism came to town,
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there was a
tremendous revolution
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and the druggies went away
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and the prostitutes
were out of business."
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It is now the
most prosperous part
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of this land of Guatemala.
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I discovered today
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and this is
really sort of funny.
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You see the
carrots here on the screen.
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Well, I'm told they're about
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the biggest
carrots in the world.
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It seems as though God just
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put His blessing upon that town
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that for hundreds and
hundreds and hundreds of years
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had been steeped in the
religion of another church.
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So we're gonna talk today
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about the
triumph of Protestantism.
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I think I'll show you
another statement over here too
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in The Economist
magazine that says,
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"Changed lives change places.
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Almolonga's
Pentecostal believers
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have brought new
energy to their town.
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Where once the prison was full
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and drunks
slumped in the streets,
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there is now a buzz of activity.
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A secondary
school opened in 2003,
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it sends some of its graduates,
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all members of the
indigenous K'iche people,
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to national universities.
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'We want one of our students
to work at NASA,' says Oscar,
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who chairs the school board."
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You know, it's
almost too hard to believe
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that this place had
been such a poverty place,
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but then the
gospel of Martin Luther,
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more correctly the
gospel of the Bible
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came to this town.
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Now let me ask you...
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Let me ask this question,
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and I don't say this to
offend our Catholic friends,
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but I'm gonna say just the same
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because it's the truth.
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What is so
different about Protestantism?
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Why is the Protestant movement
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so different to the
Roman Catholic movement?
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And here it is.
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In the Roman Catholic Church,
the emphasis is on the church,
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and on earthly priests,
and on the pope himself,
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but in the Protestant Church,
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the emphasis is
not on the church,
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the emphasis is on
the Lord Jesus Christ.
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And so they have a
saying, as you know,
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I'm gonna talk
about this as we go along,
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they have a
saying "Sola Christus"
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which means only Christ.
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Now I want you
to open your Bibles
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and come over here with me
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to John 14:60, friends,
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where Jesus is
talking, John 14:60,
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"Jesus said to him,
'I am the way, the truth,
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and the life.
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No one comes to the
Father except through Me."
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So the Bible
teaches that the only way
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that you can be saved
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and the only way
that you can enjoy
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life to the full is
not through the hierarchy
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but through the
Lord Jesus Christ.
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And Protestants believe this
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and I'm proud
to be a Protestant.
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We believe that we
don't need an earthly priest.
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We do not believe
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that we need to go and
confess our sins to a priest
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because we believe
that Jesus is the way,
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the truth, and the life.
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Now I want you to come over here
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in the Bible to
the Book of Hebrews 4
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over here in the New Testament,
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and these texts of
course have been used
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over and over by our
Protestant brothers and sisters.
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Hebrews 4:
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14 to 16,
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here it is.
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"Seeing then that we
have a great High Priest
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who has passed
through the heavens,
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Jesus the Son of God,
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let us hold fast our confession.
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For we do not have a High Priest
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who cannot
sympathize with our weaknesses,
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but was all
points tempted as we are,
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yet without sin.
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Let us therefore come
boldly to the throne of grace
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that we may obtain mercy
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and find grace to
help in time of need."
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Because I'm a Protestant,
because I believe the Bible,
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I believe that I don't
need to go through a priest.
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The Bible tells me,
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I can come boldly to
God through Jesus Christ.
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And the Bible
says, not just come,
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the Bible says, I can come.
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What does it say,
boldly with confidence.
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I want you to come over the page
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now to Hebrews 6:19 and 20,
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Hebrews 6:19 and 20.
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It says, "This hope we
have as an anchor of the soul,
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both sure and steadfast,
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and which enters the
Presence behind the veil,
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where the
forerunner has entered for us,
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even Jesus, having
become High Priest forever
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according to the
order of Melchizedek."
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Now, when this doctrine
got into the hearts of people
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that you don't
need an earthly priest,
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and you don't
need a pope in Rome,
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it was a tremendous
liberating influence.
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I'm a child of God,
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I don't have to confess my sins
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to some other
sinful human being.
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The Bible says,
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I can go right in to
the very presence of God.
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I was thinking
about this the other night
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as I was concentrating on
what I was going to say today,
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and I thought of
Amazon and the mall.
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Everybody in America
used to go to the mall,
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a lot of people
still go to the mall,
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but the mall is
starting to lose out to Amazon.
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You all know this.
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This is where the
shopping is going on.
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You go to the mall to meet
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and to greet but to
Amazon to do business, you see?
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You go to the mall
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because you like the
glitz and the glamour.
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The miracles, the
mystery, and the authority,
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that's why you go to the mall.
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You like the
glitz and the glamour,
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but if you want
to do a good bargain.
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A lot of people no
longer go to the mall,
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they go to Amazon
because there is no middleman.
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Now the Protestants
and the Martin Luther,
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I'm going back
before Martin Luther,
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they discovered that they
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didn't have to go to the
mall anymore to be saved.
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They could go
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straight to the
Lord Jesus Christ
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and there was no middleman.
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So the mall is a
little bit like the Vatican,
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but Amazon is
like Protestantism,
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and it is based
on the great truth
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and I want you to
learn these Latin words.
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One of the great hindrances
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to the advancement of
knowledge and progress
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is just old fashioned ignorance.
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And the Protestants,
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they glorified in
these Latin words,
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and the first one
was Sola Christus.
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Sola Christus, it simply means,
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all I need is the
Lord Jesus Christ.
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And if all I need is
the Lord Jesus Christ,
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then I am a
freeman and I am saved,
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and I'm going home to glory.
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Now just listen to what this
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secular magazine
says if you don't mind.
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It says this, "At the heart
of this Protestant faith were,
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and are, three beliefs resting
on the Latin word for "alone,"
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and just try to
remember this stuff, folks.
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"Sola fide, that people are
saved by faith in Jesus alone,
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not by anything they can do."
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This is secular magazine.
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"Sola gratia, that this
faith is given by grace alone,
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and cannot be earned.
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And Sola scriptura,
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that it is based on the
authority of the Bible alone,
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and not on the
tradition or the church."
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And I don't care
what church it is,
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our authority
is the Word of God,
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not the church, you see?
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"In a way that complemented
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the broader themes
of the Renaissance,
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Luther wanted
Christians to go back to the
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'pristine Gospel':
The teachings of Jesus
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and the apostles.
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This return offered
a new sort of freedom,
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one centered on the individual,
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which helped pave
the way for modernity."
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Now, this is quite astounding
from a secular magazine.
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"The separation of
powers, toleration,
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freedom of conscience,
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these are all Protestant ideas."
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You want to know
why America became
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the greatest
nation in the world.
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It is because
America was founded
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by Protestants
who believed in Christ
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and who believed that
they could go to Amazon
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and didn't have
to go to the mall.
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No, it's true.
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Now who started
the Protestant Church?
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I want you think about that.
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Who started this
Protestant Church?
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Lot of you folks are gonna say,
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"It was that German theologian,
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that German monk,
priest, Martin Luther."
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But I would suggest to you
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that Martin Luther did not
start the Protestant Church,
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but the
Protestant Church was started
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by the Lord Jesus Christ.
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Now, I'll prove it to you.
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Come over here with me to
Matthew 16:12 and onwards.
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Matthew 16 and versus onwards
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in the Bible
where it talks about
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the foundation of the church.
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"Then they understood
that He did not tell them
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to beware of
the leaven of bread,
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but of the
doctrine of the Pharisees
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and the Sadducees."
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Jesus said,
beware of bad teaching.
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"When Jesus came into the
region 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, 'But
who do you say that I am?'
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Simon Peter answered
and said," never forget it,
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"'You are the Christ,
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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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Peter, "for flesh and blood
is 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 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 now on earth
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will be bound in heaven,
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whatever you loose on
earth will be loosed in heaven."
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It is very plain
here that the true church
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is built upon the rock.
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Our beloved Roman
Catholic friends say
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that Peter is the rock.
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If this is so, we are all lost.
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We are all lost if
the church is built upon
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a sinful human being.
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Peter was a stone.
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At the most he
was a little rock.
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Have you heard the
expression, "He petered out"?
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Have you heard that
expression, he petered out?
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I would not want to
build a church upon a man
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who had the
reputation for petering out.
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But the Bible
teaches very plainly
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that the true church
was never built upon Peter
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who is now dead
and buried and asleep,
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but the true church was
built upon the Rock of Ages
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who is the Lord Jesus Christ
and I will prove it to you,
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I will prove it to you.
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We will come to
1 Corinthians 10:4,
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dear hearts and gentle people.
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1 Corinthians 10:4 says,
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"And all drank that
same spiritual drink.
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For they drank of
that spiritual Rock
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that followed
them," what does it say?
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"That..." What does it say?
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"That Rock was Christ."
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How plain can it get?
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The Bible says
that rock was Peter,
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no, that Rock was Christ.
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And don't get upset with me
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because I'm
reading from the Bible.
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1 Corinthians 3:11 says,
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"For no other
foundation can anyone lay
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than that which is
laid, which is Jesus Christ."
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The Bible says there
is no other foundation
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for the church than
the Lord Jesus Christ.
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God has laid the foundation.
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The church was
not built upon Peter,
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it was built
upon Christ the Rock.
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Now come back with
me to the Old Testament
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to the Book of
Deuteronomy 32:3 and 4,
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Deuteronomy 32:
00:17:29.91\00:17:32.51
3 and 4.
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Deuteronomy 32:3
and 4, the Bible says,
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"He is the Rock,
His work is perfect.
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For all his ways are justice,
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A God of truth
and without injustice,
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righteous and upright is He."
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The Bible says
that we have our Rock,
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and the Bible says
that Rock is a God of truth
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and without injustice.
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And so the Protestant Church
or the true Christian Church
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was never built upon a man.
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Man's church was
built upon a man,
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but God's church
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was built upon
the Lord Jesus Christ.
00:18:17.86\00:18:22.00
And so this is why
the Protestant reformers
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preached not only Sola scriptura
00:18:24.97\00:18:28.17
but they preached Sola Christus.
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Christ alone, Christ alone,
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Christ our High
Priest and this has
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a tremendous liberating
influence upon the soul.
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Now listen, but
after the apostles,
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they came a falling
away in the Christian church.
00:18:47.12\00:18:52.03
Please turn to 2
Thessalonians 2:3 and 4,
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2 Thessalonians 2:3
and 4, the Bible says,
00:18:56.43\00:19:02.07
"That no one
deceive you by any means,
00:19:02.10\00:19:04.21
for that Day will not come
00:19:04.24\00:19:05.94
unless the
falling away comes first,"
00:19:05.97\00:19:08.04
the falling away
the Great Apostasy.
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"And the man of sin is revealed,
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the son of perdition,
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who opposes and exalts himself
above all that is called God
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or that is worshiped,
00:19:18.29\00:19:19.75
so that he sits as
God in the temple of God,
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showing himself that he is God."
00:19:22.79\00:19:25.83
The Bible prophet Paul
00:19:25.86\00:19:29.63
said that after his departure,
00:19:29.66\00:19:33.30
and the departure
of the Holy Apostles,
00:19:33.34\00:19:37.64
they would come falling away
00:19:37.67\00:19:41.31
from the truth of God.
00:19:41.34\00:19:46.18
And he specifically said
that this would give birth
00:19:46.21\00:19:51.82
or give rise to a man of sin
who sat in the Church of God.
00:19:51.85\00:19:58.43
Now, let me...
00:20:03.90\00:20:06.60
tell you some history.
00:20:06.63\00:20:11.24
After the apostles,
00:20:11.27\00:20:14.04
the truth was lost
and the light went out.
00:20:14.08\00:20:20.15
Not only did the
church conquer Rome,
00:20:20.18\00:20:25.42
but Rome conquered the church.
00:20:25.45\00:20:30.23
And pagan Roman
teachings invaded the church,
00:20:30.26\00:20:36.16
that is why she is called
00:20:36.20\00:20:39.90
the Roman church,
00:20:39.93\00:20:43.54
because her
teachings came from Rome.
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You didn't know that.
00:20:50.11\00:20:53.92
I've written down
25 distinct heresies
00:20:53.95\00:20:58.35
that invaded the church,
00:20:58.39\00:21:00.72
Roman
teachings, pagan teachings.
00:21:00.76\00:21:04.16
Number one, purgatory.
00:21:04.19\00:21:07.26
Martin Luther said,
00:21:07.30\00:21:09.86
"It is the doctrine of the devil
00:21:09.90\00:21:14.30
because the
saints are unconscious,
00:21:14.34\00:21:18.71
so how can the saints
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be tormented after their death?"
00:21:21.08\00:21:26.68
And you won't read a purgatory
in the Bible, it is a heresy.
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Indulgences, whereby a person
00:21:31.15\00:21:34.92
could be relieved of
the temporal punishment
00:21:34.96\00:21:37.76
for his sins by an
offering to the church.
00:21:37.79\00:21:41.36
Relics, the keeping of
the bones of the saints,
00:21:41.40\00:21:46.23
even the bones of the apostles
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and portions of
the cross of Christ
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all pious frauds.
00:21:52.37\00:21:56.78
The sprinkling of babies,
00:21:56.81\00:21:58.81
when the Bible speaks
about the immersion of adults.
00:21:58.85\00:22:04.79
"Sun"-day keeping
the day of the sun
00:22:04.82\00:22:08.56
honored by Rome.
00:22:08.59\00:22:12.59
The doctrine of eternal torment
00:22:12.63\00:22:15.10
that God will burn
people for trillions of years
00:22:15.13\00:22:18.57
which made God the
terrorist in chief.
00:22:18.60\00:22:24.37
The immortality of the soul
00:22:24.41\00:22:26.57
that Martin Luther rejected
00:22:26.61\00:22:29.68
an earthly priesthood.
00:22:29.71\00:22:33.68
Whereby people were taught
to go and confess their sins
00:22:33.72\00:22:37.92
to earthly human beings
00:22:37.95\00:22:40.02
whose lives are often more
stained and sinned than this.
00:22:40.06\00:22:45.03
The confessional, celibacy,
00:22:45.06\00:22:49.23
and of course
Peter was a married man
00:22:49.26\00:22:51.23
and they tell me,
he was the first pope
00:22:51.27\00:22:53.20
which of course is a fraud.
00:22:53.23\00:22:56.14
Papal infallibility
that when the Holy Father
00:22:56.17\00:23:00.18
spoke in His official capacity,
00:23:00.21\00:23:02.91
His utterances were
as the voice of God,
00:23:02.94\00:23:06.25
still believe today.
00:23:06.28\00:23:07.62
Tradition instead of the
word salvation by good works,
00:23:07.65\00:23:13.12
done by the aid
of the Holy Spirit.
00:23:13.15\00:23:16.22
The intercession
of the dead saints
00:23:16.26\00:23:18.96
that the dead saints
can intercede for us.
00:23:18.99\00:23:21.60
The veneration of
Mary, the Mother of God.
00:23:21.63\00:23:26.17
The veneration of images,
the persecution of heretics,
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tens of millions put
to death by the church.
00:23:32.14\00:23:36.48
The church is the
interpreter of the Word of God.
00:23:36.51\00:23:40.22
You cannot understand it
00:23:40.25\00:23:41.58
because you're a lay
person and you are too dumb.
00:23:41.62\00:23:43.89
The Union of Church and State
00:23:47.02\00:23:49.42
rule the world
for a thousand years
00:23:49.46\00:23:51.83
and caused the great Dark Ages.
00:23:51.86\00:23:56.13
The Immaculate Conception,
which means that Mary's mother
00:23:56.16\00:24:02.54
was conceived immaculately
00:24:02.57\00:24:06.98
and purged of all original sin.
00:24:07.01\00:24:10.11
Praise for the dead that
you can pray for dead people
00:24:10.15\00:24:14.72
to get their
souls out of purgatory.
00:24:14.75\00:24:17.52
The mass, we buy
the bread and the wine
00:24:17.55\00:24:22.19
became the actual body
and the blood of Christ
00:24:22.22\00:24:27.26
and the priest was
given the awesome power
00:24:27.30\00:24:31.20
to offer up God upon the altar.
00:24:31.23\00:24:35.84
What a blasphemy?
00:24:35.87\00:24:39.91
Monasteries where every
type of sin was committed.
00:24:39.94\00:24:45.91
Blind obedience, and the coming
of a new "Pontifex Maximus."
00:24:45.95\00:24:51.29
Now I'm afraid to say
00:24:51.32\00:24:54.42
most people don't
even know these things,
00:24:54.46\00:24:57.46
but the official title
of the Caesar was Caesar,
00:24:57.49\00:25:01.60
he's divine,
Augustus, Pontifex Maximus,
00:25:01.63\00:25:06.67
that is the name of the Caesar.
00:25:06.70\00:25:09.00
And then you come to the name
00:25:09.04\00:25:10.64
of the leader of
the church Sixtus
00:25:10.67\00:25:14.51
or the present
Pope Pontifex Maximus.
00:25:14.54\00:25:19.41
And in all they
are in inscriptions
00:25:19.45\00:25:21.28
like Gregory, Pontifex Maximus,
00:25:21.32\00:25:25.72
and so after the
apostles had been laid to rest,
00:25:25.75\00:25:30.19
there came a falling away
00:25:30.23\00:25:32.73
and the church went into
the blackness of the Dark Ages.
00:25:32.76\00:25:37.07
This spiritual
system of deception
00:25:37.10\00:25:42.40
plunged the world into darkness
00:25:42.44\00:25:45.14
that historians
call the Dark Ages.
00:25:45.17\00:25:49.74
And that is why the great
British scholar Dr. Wiley said,
00:25:49.78\00:25:55.72
"The noonday of the papacy
00:25:55.75\00:26:00.46
was the midnight of the world,
00:26:00.49\00:26:04.89
hence the need
for Protestantism."
00:26:04.93\00:26:09.40
More to come in just
a moment, stay with us.
00:26:09.43\00:26:13.23
The antichrist is
in the temple of God.
00:26:27.45\00:26:32.99
I read you the actual words
00:26:33.02\00:26:35.39
of the great
Roman Catholic Church.
00:26:35.42\00:26:40.00
More than a billion
people pray to the dead.
00:26:40.03\00:26:45.50
But the Bible
talks very plainly about
00:26:45.53\00:26:47.57
good angels and bad angels.
00:26:47.60\00:26:53.44
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00:26:53.48\00:26:55.58
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